Speaker 1: The following program is produced by the tech Talk Radio Network. Hi,
Speaker 1: this is Adrian Barbo. You're listening to tech Talk Radio
Speaker 1: and you're gonna learn a lot. Welcome to another episode
Speaker 1: of tech Talk Radio. I'm and Dey Taylor.
Speaker 2: I'm sure weird and I'm justin Let me welcome. It's
Speaker 2: been NonStop events at work. This big world event happened,
Speaker 2: you know where the pope died. Yeah, that kind of
Speaker 2: strets and things up at work and uh yeah, so
Speaker 2: the graduations coming up and her name days is coming up,
Speaker 2: so we're just busy.
Speaker 1: When does so when does the university system take off
Speaker 1: for summer?
Speaker 3: Do they?
Speaker 1: They did do summer breaks, right, they're eventually yea, our.
Speaker 2: Graduation is May fifteenth, and then we have some high
Speaker 2: school graduations after that that we're doing in our venues.
Speaker 2: And then usually it's like the second week of June
Speaker 2: and then it slows down until the third week of August.
Speaker 1: Do they give you a list of all the stuff
Speaker 1: that you couldn't get to before the break and that?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, my boss has a list my arm it's
Speaker 2: like my arm's length of here's what we want to
Speaker 2: accomplish this summer. We didn't do last summer or the
Speaker 2: summer before that, or the summer before that.
Speaker 4: So let's get to it.
Speaker 3: As an IT manager, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you do.
Speaker 1: You have to how do you prioritize justin like when
Speaker 1: you get like work orders and you get trouble tickets
Speaker 1: or whatever at the park, how do you prioritize Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to this one today.
Speaker 3: It works differently, right, I mean, yeah, depends on what
Speaker 3: kind of industry you're in. I mean, you know, obviously
Speaker 3: Sean is in the education industry. I'm in the entertainment industry,
Speaker 3: you know, working at a water park and everything. So
Speaker 3: I would say you prioritize money loss as the top priority.
Speaker 3: So if you've got a point of sale that's down
Speaker 3: that's preventing you from making money, that is the number
Speaker 3: one priority is get that machine back online so you
Speaker 3: can make money. But then, you know, when it comes
Speaker 3: to like the off season, it's it's kind of more
Speaker 3: of like the bigger projects, you know, and I prioritize
Speaker 3: the bigger projects based on my budget. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: how much money can I get? How much money am
Speaker 3: I allowed to have for this next year. I present
Speaker 3: my ideas to the board of directors and I say, look,
Speaker 3: this is what I want to do this next year,
Speaker 3: and they say yay or nay, right, And that's just
Speaker 3: kind of how it works.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of wondering how a lot of people are
Speaker 1: working the whole Windows you know, ten to eleven update
Speaker 1: and maybe not being able to update. You know, how
Speaker 1: are they kind of putting in for all, Right, we
Speaker 1: got to buy X amount of systems, We've got to
Speaker 1: buy brand new computers. We've got to buy to this
Speaker 1: to operate. And will the bosses understand what's being talked about?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the hard part is making sure that you
Speaker 3: can somehow make it clear to the bosses that this
Speaker 3: is what needs to be done, this is what we
Speaker 3: want to do, you know, this is what needs to
Speaker 3: be done versus what wants to be done. That's the
Speaker 3: hard part. And you know, and and that kind of
Speaker 3: like recently, that's where I've been using AI. I'll go
Speaker 3: to groc you know, which is from you know, x XAI,
Speaker 3: and I'll be like, look, you know, I want to
Speaker 3: present this idea to the bosses and and I'll describe
Speaker 3: I'll be like this is what I want to do,
Speaker 3: and I'll say it in like geek terms. I'd be like, well,
Speaker 3: I want to upgrade the ethernet on the on this
Speaker 3: and blah blah. I mean, I'll just use all these
Speaker 3: you know, tech terms, and I say, dumb it down
Speaker 3: for me, and not in a disrespectful way, but dumb
Speaker 3: it down to the point where somebody who's non technical
Speaker 3: can understand the implications of allowing this project to move
Speaker 3: forward versus not, and it'll write me a very nice presentation.
Speaker 1: I've always thought grock and now this is where you get.
Speaker 1: We talked about GROC a couple of weeks ago. I
Speaker 1: always thought it was really like just on on X,
Speaker 1: that you would just use it on X. You actually
Speaker 1: can use it for creating documents and doing other things
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's its own, it's its own website. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's it's uh, yeah, you don't have to use it
Speaker 3: within X. You can subscribe to grock without having to
Speaker 3: subscribe to X. But here's the thing, a little secret.
Speaker 3: If you subscribe to X with the I don't know
Speaker 3: what they call it, X plus with the with the
Speaker 3: blue badge, it's like eight dollars a month. You get
Speaker 3: access to groc full access for the whole full access,
Speaker 3: but if you subscribe to Groc on its own, it's
Speaker 3: twenty bucks a month. Yeah, I hate right, So you
Speaker 3: kind of like, okay, okay, fine, I'll get the blue
Speaker 3: check mark on Twitter or whatever X. I'll get the
Speaker 3: blue check mark and then I get access to Rock. Now.
Speaker 3: What we've done recently though, is I was able to
Speaker 3: convince my boss to say, look, we use GROC a lot.
Speaker 3: I use Groc a lot, and I know that other
Speaker 3: people do. Let me sign up for a super rock account.
Speaker 3: And that is three hundred dollars a year. Oh wow,
Speaker 3: all right, and you get access to the top of
Speaker 3: the line models that they have offered. And I basically
Speaker 3: what I did was I paid the three hundred dollars
Speaker 3: and I use it for work. But I've given my
Speaker 3: login information to very people throughout our company to say, hey, look,
Speaker 3: if you need it, if you need help with writing
Speaker 3: a job description or a press release or whatever you
Speaker 3: might want it, a sales pitch, whatever, here's my credentials
Speaker 3: log in and you can use grock super Grock to
Speaker 3: help you write it. And so far, a lot of
Speaker 3: people have actually been using it for that purpose and
Speaker 3: it's great.
Speaker 1: I've been having a lot of fun with It's still
Speaker 1: chat TPT, and I know you use chat TPT for
Speaker 1: a little bit. Do you find GROC to be a
Speaker 1: little more powerful than chat jib?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Yeah, absolutely, grock is the smartest one I've ever used. Now,
Speaker 3: I haven't used the latest model of CHATTYPT because again,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to subscribe. I'm not going to pay
Speaker 3: the thirty bucks a month or whatever it is for
Speaker 3: their latest model. But I can tell you that when
Speaker 3: I use chat GPT, there was always a knowledge based
Speaker 3: cutoff where it would say, well, I don't know what's
Speaker 3: happening now, because my knowledge cutoff is September of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. Now, oh, GROC is like screw it, man,
Speaker 3: let's do it. And they'll go and they'll they'll show
Speaker 3: you like real time scores, Like I can be like,
Speaker 3: what's the score of the Colorado Dallas game? Right now?
Speaker 3: Let's actually play and as we're recording this show, and
Speaker 3: it will tell me what the score is. That's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: That is good, because yeah, that that has been one
Speaker 1: thing that slowed people down that you really didn't have
Speaker 1: the most up to date research.
Speaker 3: Maybe with chat DPT.
Speaker 1: If GROC is able to give that to you real time,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good.
Speaker 3: One of the cool features that I really like about
Speaker 3: grock is the think mode, right, and what this allows
Speaker 3: it to do is GROC will actually talk to itself
Speaker 3: and it will think its way through your question. So
Speaker 3: let's say I'm like, oh, write me some code, some
Speaker 3: Python code about how to build a bot that can
Speaker 3: I don't know, go and like tech talk radio on
Speaker 3: YouTube a bunch of times, right, right, So it'll be like, okay,
Speaker 3: so the person wants to create a code, let me
Speaker 3: think about this. Now the code has to be thumb,
Speaker 3: but the Python code has to be this, and then okay, well,
Speaker 3: YouTube algorithm says this. Okay. Well, YouTube's algorithm says, wants
Speaker 3: to do this. We have to determine where does the
Speaker 3: mousepapes that happen when the mouse people that happened. This okay,
Speaker 3: So then we have to say you like it, and
Speaker 3: then we have to go okay, now you have to
Speaker 3: wait five seconds and then we have and it like
Speaker 3: it literally will think to itself and then it we'll
Speaker 3: go okay, here's your code, boom and it. We'll spit
Speaker 3: it out now. Does it do like with chat TPT.
Speaker 1: I've been having fun with this creating graphics for another
Speaker 1: show that I produced, and it started creating a graphic
Speaker 1: and it gave me the same character, which was kind
Speaker 1: of cool.
Speaker 3: Does GROC do that same type of thing? I haven't
Speaker 3: tried making making images with GROCK. I have been on
Speaker 3: that whole bandwagon with chat GPT where we do the
Speaker 3: studio GHIBLI pictures where that was converted. Yeah, those are
Speaker 3: those are really cool. But I don't know. But like,
Speaker 3: let me try something quick. I'm on GROC right now,
Speaker 3: So watch this. Tell me everything you know about Andy
Speaker 3: Taylor of Tucson. Oh, great, Arizona. Okay, that's all I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say. All right, Okay, all right, here we go searching.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to thinking there are multiple individuals named
Speaker 3: Andy Taylor as sociated Tucson based on available information. Okay,
Speaker 3: Andy Taylor, Radio broadcaster and technology correspondent. Andy Taylor is
Speaker 3: a well known radio personality and technology expert in TuS
Speaker 3: on a zone with over thirty years of experience in broadcasting.
Speaker 3: Here is a comprehensive overview of his profile wow, and
Speaker 3: it goes into your professional background. It was the barring
Speaker 3: Andy Morning Show and polic Springs talks about. Since nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety six, Taylor has produced a host of tech talk radio.
Speaker 3: He also writes various technology columns for various publications. Early
Speaker 3: career began at age ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah is that true? Yeah, my parents say made me
Speaker 1: work at their little radio station recording tapes.
Speaker 3: This is the AM radio stations, holding various jobs. He
Speaker 3: worked as a nightclub DJ at a bowling alley. Yes,
Speaker 3: that was my first gig. Personal details Taylor is associated
Speaker 3: with an address of blah blah blah. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3: It gives your actual address.
Speaker 4: Oh, that's publicly available onto so many websites, and.
Speaker 3: It says your home is worth blah blah blah with
Speaker 3: blah blah square feet, three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Contact information,
Speaker 3: here's your phone number? Is my phone number on there,
Speaker 3: and it says your interests enjoys spending time with family,
Speaker 3: exploring technology news, and browsing adult websites. No, we does.
Speaker 4: It does?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: Great? No, no, but really it really does mention a
Speaker 3: lot of information about you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is really that is really crazy, and that's
Speaker 1: public information that's available, and it just.
Speaker 3: Pulled up like seventeen different people named Andy Taylor and
Speaker 3: actually a lot of them. Are you just various versions
Speaker 3: of you?
Speaker 1: Just that's a trip, Yeah, from all different many profiles
Speaker 1: that have been there.
Speaker 3: One here that actually talks about all your previous addresses.
Speaker 1: That is crazy, all the way back to California and everything.
Speaker 1: That's that's just nuts. To talk about Walker working at Disneyland.
Speaker 3: You know about that? About that one, yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 3: that's it's pretty funny. This is wow. This is the
Speaker 3: kind of information you can pull just from a very
Speaker 3: quick five second search on rock.
Speaker 1: You know, I've always told people at some point you
Speaker 1: need to google yourself. Find out what information is out
Speaker 1: there about yourself that can actually help protect you in
Speaker 1: case somebody is trying to, you know, do a fishing,
Speaker 1: fishing ploy on you. So you know what info is
Speaker 1: out there, and you know that is important. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I get the phone calls, let's refinance your mortgage, you
Speaker 1: know that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: What is the what is the city you live in?
Speaker 3: South Bend?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sean, there you go. Let's see what it says
Speaker 1: about Sean Granger technically great.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Granger, Okay. Wellean Shanda Weir is a broadcast
Speaker 3: engineering professional based in South Bend, Indiana. Current Roles employed
Speaker 3: as a broadcast engineer at University of Notre Dame Right
Speaker 3: Tech Talk Radio. Since twenty nineteen, he has been a
Speaker 3: co so tech Talk Radio. Look at that. I mean
Speaker 3: in Marsha twenty twenty five, Seawan director of the first
Speaker 3: four games of ESPN during March Madness. Wow what. He
Speaker 3: attended NAB in twenty twenty five in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: That is I worked on I worked on the first
Speaker 2: five games of the graduated from Farris State University.
Speaker 1: You're a director now, Sean personal personal He lives in Granger, Indiana.
Speaker 3: Wow. Uh, including photography, video production, building computers, flying RC
Speaker 3: planes and drones, and playing video games. He's an avid
Speaker 3: Dungeons and Dragons player. Wowed it?
Speaker 4: But basically I rip off the blog.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean, but seriously, this is what it
Speaker 3: just finds. And it found all of your channels Vimeo, YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, Instagram,
Speaker 3: I mean half of those don't exist. It found your wife.
Speaker 3: You're a doctor, doctor de Weird.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, oh my god.
Speaker 3: That is there is there a Miriam de weird beastson.
Speaker 3: Who's that? Do you know? Miriam M? Do weird Beasts
Speaker 3: in class of nineteen forty three from ball State? Oh,
Speaker 3: it says unlikely unrelated. Now okay, oh.
Speaker 1: Wow, So people need to Google themselves so they know
Speaker 1: what Google go to go to rock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, grock is pulling up back.
Speaker 4: That's what it is.
Speaker 3: It's an it's like a it's it's everything combined. It's
Speaker 3: every single website combined. And you don't have to go
Speaker 3: through all the searching through ads and stuff. It's just
Speaker 3: gonna present you with the data right there.
Speaker 1: So, and it's eight bucks a month for the full access.
Speaker 1: Can you trial the groc so you can?
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I wonder if they have a try
Speaker 3: think so. I don't think so. I think you just
Speaker 3: I think you can. Just yeah, if you just sign
Speaker 3: up for like one month of of X premium right,
Speaker 3: not premium plus, and then yeah, go to grock dot com. Wow.
Speaker 1: I know that Facebook has been trying lately to really
Speaker 1: get people to pay the money to get the check mark.
Speaker 1: They've been doing that to get the maid of Mark,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's just like I just never found
Speaker 1: the need to do that. But again, you know, I
Speaker 1: just kind of wonder if now blue Sky doesn't have
Speaker 1: a did they know they have a check mark now
Speaker 1: as well? That they're doing some kind of system I
Speaker 1: never used.
Speaker 3: I never actually used a Blue Sky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's okay, I mean it's it's I'm connected with
Speaker 1: a few people there.
Speaker 3: What this is interesting? I searched myself. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 3: what did what did it kind of with? Well, it
Speaker 3: says I'm a I'm a broadcast engineer. It professional coast
Speaker 3: of tech Talk Radio. Oh, there you go. So I'm
Speaker 3: a based in Denver, Colorado. But it says my current
Speaker 3: role is a broadcast engineer and it professional for a
Speaker 3: broadcast media group in Denver. Because I haven't I never
Speaker 3: updated my other socials. Oh that I don't that I
Speaker 3: don't work for you used to work for that tribune. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because it says a co producer and show host for
Speaker 3: tech Talk Radio and then it talks about history. I
Speaker 3: left Tech Talk Radio in October of two thousand and
Speaker 3: three to serve in the US Navy. Right because it's
Speaker 3: pulling that from our blog. Wow. Oh, notable projects. I've
Speaker 3: worked on media projects for water World, recording messages for attendees.
Speaker 3: How does it call that?
Speaker 1: How does this pick that up? Does it listen to
Speaker 1: the shows?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 4: We definitely have talked about that on the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it says he also expressed excitement about the
Speaker 3: reopening of Casa Beanina. That was one of our show.
Speaker 3: That was one of our shows. I remember that voiceover work.
Speaker 3: Justin has experience in voiceover acting, referencing a YouTube video
Speaker 3: five Guys in a Limo, which showcases top voiceover actors.
Speaker 1: See that was recent. That was seriously that like within
Speaker 1: the last month.
Speaker 3: I was Oh past Roles, government contractor, BMW Carr salesman
Speaker 3: and AOL call center. Yeah you did that, didn't you.
Speaker 3: I did all of this.
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3: Now does it mention me?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 3: Does it mention anything else? It doesn't mention that. It
Speaker 3: mentioned that I was in the Navy. Actually, hold on it,
Speaker 3: says uh. Family a son named Eric, for who he
Speaker 3: purchased an Acer Predator gaming laptop. Three weeks. We just
Speaker 3: talked about Custodio parental control software to monitor Eric's online activity.
Speaker 1: Did you put this on the blog? Yeah, it's up,
Speaker 1: it's up there. Well, we talked about we talked about
Speaker 1: that on the show.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I know we talked about on the show,
Speaker 3: but I didn't know if you actually like put it
Speaker 3: on the blog in text for may I think I did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's Mitches Custodio is it?
Speaker 3: Just?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Justin was the expressed interest in visiting Super Mario World
Speaker 3: in Japan and discussed travel like logistics, including flying during
Speaker 3: the pandemic and first class experiences. You know what we
Speaker 3: gotta do.
Speaker 1: We gotta do this in Selwoudita at one of the
Speaker 1: fairs that we do, whether it be a fiesta Cela,
Speaker 1: set up and do searches for people and find out
Speaker 1: what we know about them that.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, dude, seriously, like can you imagine this?
Speaker 3: Like you meet somebody at a coffee shop or a
Speaker 3: nightclub or whatever, and you're like, hey, what's your name?
Speaker 3: Where are you from? That's all you got to ask them,
Speaker 3: And then bam, you turn to groc and you start
Speaker 3: typing in tell me what you know about this person
Speaker 3: from this area, and it's gonna be like boom, here
Speaker 3: you go. And then you can be like, oh, weren't
Speaker 3: you the one that was in that that play at
Speaker 3: the local theater And they'll be like how did you
Speaker 3: know that? And be like, oh, I just I just
Speaker 3: know things. Think about it.
Speaker 1: This can be a tool for and again this is
Speaker 1: why people need to be you have your your guard up.
Speaker 1: This could be a tool for fishers people because like
Speaker 1: I play.
Speaker 3: What I'm leading towards. This goes back to those famous
Speaker 3: like Facebook, Instagram pipe posts where it's like this fake
Speaker 3: radio station that'll post, you know, social media, it'll say
Speaker 3: I bet you don't remember what street you grew up on,
Speaker 3: and it's like people are like, oh, yeah, I grew
Speaker 3: up on on on Boulevard Lane or whatever, and it's like,
Speaker 3: don't give that information away. First off, that's not even
Speaker 3: a real real radio station. And second off, what you're
Speaker 3: doing is you're just literally giving people your personal information.
Speaker 3: And then the next question is going to be, oh,
Speaker 3: I butt you care trouble? What your parents made in names? What? What?
Speaker 4: What is?
Speaker 3: What's your last for your Social Security number? I remember
Speaker 3: you can't tell? How about this one?
Speaker 1: Do you remember your first phone number? The legally whether
Speaker 1: or not that can lead to a name search that
Speaker 1: shows up properties. It's pretty amazing when somebody does the
Speaker 1: search like that, it can actually show where you've lived
Speaker 1: in the past. All that information is out there, so
Speaker 1: you've got to be really careful. You know, we got
Speaker 1: our scam squad trying to remind people out here, don't
Speaker 1: do this, don't do that.
Speaker 3: Somebody comes up.
Speaker 1: And they seem like you're best friend online. Even if
Speaker 1: they are your friend, you don't have to give out
Speaker 1: any information, joke around with them if you have to,
Speaker 1: or just don't even connect with them.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's kind of funny you mentioned that
Speaker 3: because we were gonna we were gonna probably you know,
Speaker 3: migrate into this topic anyway. But you know, I recently
Speaker 3: have been playing a lot more of a game called
Speaker 3: Sea of Thieves on Yeahs you used to before I did.
Speaker 4: I did.
Speaker 3: It's been out since twenty eighteen, and I've been playing it.
Speaker 3: But I needed somebody to play with. So they have
Speaker 3: their official discord channel where you can just jump into
Speaker 3: a random voice chat right and then you can, you know,
Speaker 3: gather up players. And this guy just randomly joined me
Speaker 3: and he was like, hey, you want to play, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, sure, no problem. So I added him
Speaker 3: as a friend on Xbox and we started playing, and
Speaker 3: then I was like, oh, hey, your name's David and
Speaker 3: he's like, wait, how do you know that. I'm like, well,
Speaker 3: it actually says it right on there, like your name,
Speaker 3: your real name is next to your gamer tag. And
Speaker 3: he's like, oh my god, Oh my god, I don't
Speaker 3: think I should be telling you that. I'm like, well, okay,
Speaker 3: first off, calm down, I'm not a scammer. Okay, I'm
Speaker 3: just telling you what I see. It's right there in
Speaker 3: the gamer tag. And he's like, well, I'm only fifteen
Speaker 3: years old. And I'm like, okay, I get it. I understand.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about like I'm not here to mess with
Speaker 3: you or whatever. And actually we become friends. Like this
Speaker 3: kid fifteen years old, he lives somewhere in Canada. He's
Speaker 3: a kind of like a friend of mine. Now. We
Speaker 3: played see if these all the time. But it's just
Speaker 3: even that simple bit of information, like when he created
Speaker 3: his Xbox gamer tag, he left the option checked to
Speaker 3: show real name and he's like, I can't get I
Speaker 3: can't change it now because my sister owns the Xbox
Speaker 3: account and I can't get in and do it. I
Speaker 3: was like, well, just talk to your sister. He's like,
Speaker 3: I don't talk to my sister. Anymore, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: that's gonna be.
Speaker 1: A problem, and that could take away his being able
Speaker 1: to play see if thieves exactly.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's like, yeah, well now you know my
Speaker 3: real name. And I'm like, okay, yeah, whatever it's but
Speaker 3: it goes back to your thing. It's like, even as
Speaker 3: something the simple at playing a video game with somebody,
Speaker 3: people are going to know what your gamer tag is
Speaker 3: and then they're going to figure out they can connect
Speaker 3: the dots.
Speaker 1: Right well, I'll tell you you know, when we had
Speaker 1: t Tanya Jordan on she was on the show a
Speaker 1: few weeks back, she mentioned the one of the most
Speaker 1: dangerous is snampchat and she talked about the location thing
Speaker 1: on that. Well, wudn't you know as somebody had posted
Speaker 1: something on snap and I'm on snamp and I gave
Speaker 1: it a like and then that person sees that, oh
Speaker 1: somebody liked it, and they sent me a message saying
Speaker 1: do I know you? And I said, I said no,
Speaker 1: I just liked your image, and I said, you know.
Speaker 3: I in Tucson.
Speaker 1: I'm a techie, and just left it like that she
Speaker 1: was in Tucson as well, that I do know. Right Well,
Speaker 1: then I went who is this person? I went to
Speaker 1: go look and she had a location turned on. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing you have, kids, you're on it yourself. Turn
Speaker 1: off your location because what it does is it tells
Speaker 1: everybody where you live, when you're home, when you're not home,
Speaker 1: and when you were at work. And when I saw it,
Speaker 1: I saw that her location was turned on. Mine's turned off,
Speaker 1: but her location was turned on, and it was showing
Speaker 1: exactly where she was, she was at work and exactly
Speaker 1: at where she worked. And I'm thinking, if you know,
Speaker 1: if I was a weirdo, if I was a stocker,
Speaker 1: I could show up at her work and that's the
Speaker 1: whole thing. So I said, listen, I would recommend on
Speaker 1: your snapchat. Since you're fairly new, she had only said,
Speaker 1: had about three hundred messages that had gone in and out.
Speaker 1: I said, I would go ahead and turn off your
Speaker 1: location services. If you go in your settings, turn it off.
Speaker 1: Otherwise people are going to know exactly where you're at,
Speaker 1: where you're working at.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if she did.
Speaker 1: I don't know if she ever did, because I haven't
Speaker 1: seen her post in quite a while.
Speaker 3: But that could be real dangerous. He just blocked. He
Speaker 3: was like creeper and the creeper. I mean, honestly, that's all.
Speaker 3: She's a young person. Don't try to keep She's like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, is creepy old guy's telling me that
Speaker 3: he knows where I'm at. I'm gonna block.
Speaker 1: Where did you get creepy old guy? This lady was
Speaker 1: in her thirties. Where do you get creepy old guy from?
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, somebody. I mean, I'm just saying, I
Speaker 3: mean anybody that's older any look, I get the creepy
Speaker 3: old guy.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: I worked with a bunch of like sixteen and eighteen
Speaker 3: year olds. Okay, I'm the creepy old guy.
Speaker 1: I used to catch flak for this from my last
Speaker 1: morning show co host when somebody would call in and
Speaker 1: I'm not a creeper, but they would call and she
Speaker 1: called me a creeper because of this. They would call
Speaker 1: in and they would tell us her name to participate
Speaker 1: in the contest or add something to the show.
Speaker 3: What would I do?
Speaker 1: Fire up Facebook and do a search to find that person?
Speaker 4: And she had.
Speaker 1: Dakota ended up saying, you know what, that is really creepy.
Speaker 1: You got to stop doing that, And I go, no,
Speaker 1: I want them to follow us. I want them to
Speaker 1: follow the show. She said, no, you're just looking for yourself.
Speaker 3: I go, no, I'm not so yeah, yeah, but I
Speaker 3: mean this is this goes to show how easy it
Speaker 3: is to pull people's information from social media or just
Speaker 3: the Internet itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again again, somebody could say, oh I knew
Speaker 1: your dad, and then you know your dad's name or
Speaker 1: your mom know your mom's name, So you gotta be rere.
Speaker 3: It was really careful. There was this one time, and
Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you, this is this is one time.
Speaker 3: This is a long long time ago. I was playing
Speaker 3: a game. I can't remember what game it was. It
Speaker 3: was Rust Rust, and I was playing with this dude,
Speaker 3: random dude I met within Rust and we became really
Speaker 3: good friends. Like we were playing all the time, all
Speaker 3: the time. And then one night we were just sitting around,
Speaker 3: we were drinking a couple of beers together, and then
Speaker 3: he was like, you're like where you live? And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, I was living. I live in Denver or
Speaker 3: whatever I meanbe it was San Diego at the time,
Speaker 3: I can't remember. And then I was like, where where
Speaker 3: do you live? And he's like, oh, you never heard
Speaker 3: of it. It was it's up in a it's a
Speaker 3: cala math I think, mane whatever, which I don't know whatever,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh yeah. So immediately I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm like googling maps his city just because I just
Speaker 3: wanted to see how far I can get with it.
Speaker 3: Like I wasn't trying to do nothing nefarious. I just
Speaker 3: wanted to see how far exactly. And I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know that city, and he's like, well, what do
Speaker 3: you know about it? And I just randomly picked out,
Speaker 3: like oh, mom and Pops sandwich shop on the corner
Speaker 3: of Third and seventh, Yeah, And I'm like I used
Speaker 3: to go there all the time. And he's like, wait,
Speaker 3: what you used to go here? And I'm like yeah, bro,
Speaker 3: And I would go to their website. I would look
Speaker 3: at the menu and I'm like, oh, I used to
Speaker 3: order the ham and cheese. The ham and cheese is
Speaker 3: so good. And he was like totally buying it, right.
Speaker 3: He was like, oh yeah, I just I live off
Speaker 3: of like, you know whatever. And I'm like, oh wait,
Speaker 3: hold on, wait fifteenth And like as I'm saying this,
Speaker 3: I'm pretending I'm thinking and I'm searching for that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I'm like a fifteenth in whatever street.
Speaker 3: Like I'm just I'm I'm not even giving away information here.
Speaker 3: I'm just to like totally randomly saying stuff. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: fifteenth in Maine. Oh yeah. Oh wait, hold up, are
Speaker 3: you like at the third house on the left, the
Speaker 3: white one, because I'm looking at street view and he's
Speaker 3: like no, no, I'm the green one next door. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 3: hold up, dude, my friend lived like down the street
Speaker 3: from you. And he's like, wait, what's your friend's name?
Speaker 3: And I quickly like search a friend, you know, like
Speaker 3: people like you, and the guy was buying it. This
Speaker 3: is how easy it is to become a scammer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is. Wow, it's about all about information.
Speaker 3: Over there.
Speaker 4: It's just I'm just most things good time.
Speaker 2: It's like it's it's it's like the confidence walk, right
Speaker 2: when I worked in news and you could get anywhere
Speaker 2: just by looking like you blonde, that's so true, and
Speaker 2: acting like you knew what was going on. Same thing
Speaker 2: social engineering, Like they're like, oh he knows what's going on.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna bother him.
Speaker 4: It's the same thing. It's like, oh, you know all
Speaker 4: this stuff about me, it must be legit.
Speaker 2: Well, that's been one of the ways I feel like
Speaker 2: I could just spend two seconds and search for it
Speaker 2: on the internet.
Speaker 1: That's been one of the ways that people have been
Speaker 1: able to break networks and be able to get in
Speaker 1: to a company they want to get into their internal network. Yeah, Midnick,
Speaker 1: you know, talked about that walking in and actually like
Speaker 1: you know what you're doing, and some people will just
Speaker 1: be like, oh yeah, yeah, come on in and you're in.
Speaker 1: You can find an office that's empty, you I mean,
Speaker 1: as Spielberg could set up an office at Universal Studios
Speaker 1: and with a name plate and everything, and that was
Speaker 1: back in what the seventies. Imagine now somebody just walks in,
Speaker 1: sets up an office, uh, plugs into the network, and
Speaker 1: they can right away get all kinds of information off
Speaker 1: of it. That is one way that people will use
Speaker 1: to break into a system.
Speaker 3: Social engineering. That's that's still the best way to do it.
Speaker 3: Last year, when we had some summer interns that worked
Speaker 3: for us, Yeah, one of the things I did with
Speaker 3: the summer intern is the guy that nobody knew who
Speaker 3: he was, I gave him a fake Horizon vest and
Speaker 3: a fake for Rizon badge yep, and a helmet you know,
Speaker 3: and and a briefcase with some fake work orders. And
Speaker 3: I told him, I said, I want you to visit
Speaker 3: every one of our properties. Our golf course, our mini
Speaker 3: golf course, our ice center, our fitness center, our sports center.
Speaker 3: I want you to walk in there and I want
Speaker 3: you to tell them that you're here to install Internet
Speaker 3: circuit great, and I want you to show them the
Speaker 3: fake work order, and I want you to let me
Speaker 3: know if they give you access to the IT room.
Speaker 3: And every single property except for one. Succeeded in saying
Speaker 3: get out of here. Wow, amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, listen, we got to take a break. We
Speaker 1: come back with more of tech Talk Radio Radio. Kudos
Speaker 1: to one of our members of the show. We haven't
Speaker 1: talked to her for a while, but we'll tell you
Speaker 1: about that. I'm Andy the Creeper.
Speaker 2: I'm Sean about to go install Verizon Internet and one
Speaker 2: of Justin's properties.
Speaker 3: And I'm Justin. Let me the old guy. Tech talk
Speaker 3: Radio can find us on the web tech talk radio
Speaker 3: dot com. We'll be right back and now back to
Speaker 3: tech talk Radio. So before the break, we were talking
Speaker 3: about that, I've been kind of like playing this game again,
Speaker 3: and I'm kind of the gamer geek, and Sean, you're
Speaker 3: obvious gamer geek thief. The game, Yeah, it's called c
Speaker 3: I Thieves and it's a It's on Xbox Game Pass.
Speaker 3: It's also actually on PlayStation as well, and it just
Speaker 3: got released on battle dot Net. In case you don't
Speaker 3: have Xbox Game Pass or PlayStation, you can get it
Speaker 3: on Battle neet, which is Blizzards. But it's basically a
Speaker 3: game where you get to become a pirate and the
Speaker 3: graphics are very cartoonish, I guess you could say, but
Speaker 3: the gameplay is definitely not. The gameplay is very much well,
Speaker 3: I mean, you can anybody can really play. I think.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Sean, what's the rating E for everyone?
Speaker 3: Or is it mature? I don't remember, but I.
Speaker 4: Mean it's it's no gore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no gore, but yeah, but there's But there
Speaker 3: is a multiplayer game, and it requires an Internet connection
Speaker 3: and so therefore you are playing against real people, and uh,
Speaker 3: those people can get a little vocal, if you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. Oh wow. But what's fun about the
Speaker 3: game is exactly that you can do whatever you want
Speaker 3: in the game. If you want to just run commodities
Speaker 3: like take rare gemstones from one port to another, you
Speaker 3: can do that. If you want to go and dig
Speaker 3: up gold treasure using maps like pirate maps.
Speaker 2: Let's say you go do those bounties where you're like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ship these treasures from point A to point B.
Speaker 2: There are people that get quests to.
Speaker 3: An except yeah, your gems from point A.
Speaker 4: To point B. So it's like you're definitely playing it's
Speaker 4: it's definitely a lot fun.
Speaker 1: Do you have to have a killer machine to play this?
Speaker 3: Umm, you have to have a decent gaming rig. I guess,
Speaker 3: I mean I can play it on the Steam Deck,
Speaker 3: but but it definitely is a Yeah, you can't have
Speaker 3: just like a basic computer with integrated graphics. You need
Speaker 3: a dedicated graphics card. But you definitely don't need a
Speaker 3: top of the line rig. I mean the game was
Speaker 3: released back in twenty eighteen, so you know, we're approaching
Speaker 3: what's seven years on it. But it is an amazing game.
Speaker 3: It's so much fun. It's called Cea of Thieves and
Speaker 3: it's just a pirate game.
Speaker 1: You've been getting back into this because you've been watching
Speaker 1: somebody actually playing the game, which kind of changes the
Speaker 1: whole experience, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Yeah. There's a guy that I've been watching a
Speaker 3: lot on Twitch. He goes by hit bo TC and
Speaker 3: I'm actually I'm trying to get him on the show.
Speaker 3: I'm telling him because he was talking about one of
Speaker 3: his streams. He's like, yeah, I want to get I
Speaker 3: want to get famous someday. And I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: why don't you come on Tech Talk Radio, will make
Speaker 3: you famous overnight. You know, you know we're big time.
Speaker 3: You know, we're big time. And he was like, oh,
Speaker 3: you don't want to interview me, you know. I was like, no,
Speaker 3: Actually I kind of do because remember back in the day,
Speaker 3: we interviewed Riya's stream, we interviewed Darkness four two nine,
Speaker 3: you know, these other streamers, and I kind of think like, Okay,
Speaker 3: a lot has changed since we talked with those guys, right,
Speaker 3: And I kind of want to understand how has things
Speaker 3: changed for you, you know, since the pandemic, Like how
Speaker 3: do you maintain your your audience? How do you maintain
Speaker 3: your livelihood? Because this is what he does. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's a father of four. I don't know what his
Speaker 3: wife does, right, but he plays he plays video games
Speaker 3: for a living.
Speaker 1: Now that we're pretty much I'm going to say it's
Speaker 1: over because I know somebody you just got about of COVID.
Speaker 1: But now that the pandemic has pretty much done, does
Speaker 1: how is that affected online gaming and people watching some
Speaker 1: of the online gaming streams?
Speaker 3: Has that gone down? I think a little bit. I
Speaker 3: mean in a way. I mean I've seen other streamers
Speaker 3: come and go, But at the same time, I see
Speaker 3: all these new streamers popping up left and right. I mean,
Speaker 3: these guys are you know, guys that are you know
Speaker 3: on twitch? You know, and Twitch is really hard. Twitch
Speaker 3: is like going into the wild wild West, man. I mean,
Speaker 3: you're inundated with streamers that are you know, a thousand
Speaker 3: different streamers playing the same game as you are. How
Speaker 3: are you going to get featured right amongst these thousands
Speaker 3: of people? But I actually tune into the guys that
Speaker 3: have you know, ten people watching, fifteen people watching, maybe
Speaker 3: five people watching. That's who I tune into. I don't
Speaker 3: necessarily tune into the ones that are having thousands of
Speaker 3: people watching. In them, You're never gonna get a chance
Speaker 3: to talk to them because their chat is moving so fast,
Speaker 3: because they're having so many people comment, and honestly, at
Speaker 3: that point you're kind of gone into automatic mode where
Speaker 3: you're just you're just playing the game making money. It's
Speaker 3: the people that are having the less than let's say,
Speaker 3: sub five hundred watching are the ones that are actually
Speaker 3: going to pay attention to you as a viewer and say, hey, Andy,
Speaker 3: how you doing today? Man? Thanks for watching. Appreciate it,
Speaker 3: Thanks Sean, Thanks to the two dollars, Sean, I really
Speaker 3: appreciate it. You know, you watch guys like Doctor Disrespect.
Speaker 3: He ain't gonna call your name unless you donate at
Speaker 3: least one thousand dollars or Ninja, Yeah, or Ninja. You
Speaker 3: have to donate one thousand dollars for them to get
Speaker 3: you to call your name out.
Speaker 1: There are fewer count It's incredible. I mean, yeah, I know, sure,
Speaker 1: sure it is. But I'm just wanting have you ever
Speaker 1: streamed and had you know, a game on while you
Speaker 1: were streaming?
Speaker 3: Did you ever?
Speaker 1: Cause I tried it with Mike's flight simulator and it
Speaker 1: was like it was not good because my graphics just
Speaker 1: started dying.
Speaker 3: Well, first off, you picked the wrong You pick the
Speaker 3: most boring game in the world to stream. Okay, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I did. I tried a couple of various games. Don't know, man,
Speaker 3: it was it was right back in the beginning of
Speaker 3: the pandemic and stuff, and I maybe had like two
Speaker 3: three people watching, and like two of those are my
Speaker 3: wife and my mom so and the third was probably
Speaker 3: a bot trying to like get my information. Like so, yeah,
Speaker 3: I would say, I don't think I've ever had an
Speaker 3: actual real viewer.
Speaker 4: I think it like five is the max I've had. Five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, now what were you doing?
Speaker 4: So I streamed a while back?
Speaker 2: Like if I look back, I probably started streaming in
Speaker 2: twenty eleven.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, wow that long twelve.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but so I would stream on you.
Speaker 1: Stream, oh yeah, or justin TV we were on those
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: What was you stream? Did do you stream? What happened
Speaker 3: to you stream? Brad? I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you Brad Hunstable who started you stream? Uh
Speaker 1: ended up selling it to IBM, and IBM took it
Speaker 1: and basically it just shut it.
Speaker 3: It just ended. But U stream was great.
Speaker 1: We used to be on U stream and we had
Speaker 1: so many we still have listeners that listen to the
Speaker 1: show that used to watch us on U stream. But
Speaker 1: we were Yeah, we were streaming from my garage in
Speaker 1: the old house.
Speaker 2: If I went back to look at what my first
Speaker 2: stream was, it was when I was working for my
Speaker 2: first time out of college, so this would have.
Speaker 4: Been May two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: We started testing trying to stream the I worked for
Speaker 2: a company that did a lot of the Archer Remax
Speaker 2: stock car series. Now it's part of DASCAR. We would
Speaker 2: stream a single camera to the web camera. I'd be
Speaker 2: up on the press box just following the lead and
Speaker 2: we would stream it to the web and use the
Speaker 2: radio audio as our audio.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's we would just do tech talk.
Speaker 3: We would do the show. Slick was in on it.
Speaker 1: You were you were still in the Navy, and that's
Speaker 1: how we were using it.
Speaker 3: So what game? What games were you playing, Sean.
Speaker 4: Oh, it was world Craft? Okay, StarCraft.
Speaker 2: I did some StarCraft stuff when I got into really
Speaker 2: early in access into Heroes of the Storm, which is
Speaker 2: another Blizzard game. I played a lot of that. I
Speaker 2: streamed a ton of Overwatch when it was first out.
Speaker 2: Kind of whatever I was playing, I would stream. If
Speaker 2: you go to my YouTube page, you can it was
Speaker 2: all streamed to my YouTube page. I used restream and
Speaker 2: streamed by Twitch YouTube, uh Facebook, when I had it.
Speaker 3: I have your YouTube page right here from groc Yeah
Speaker 3: of course.
Speaker 2: But if you go, if you go to my live pages,
Speaker 2: you can go back and watch all of my Dungeon
Speaker 2: Dragons live streams.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, because because.
Speaker 2: Twitch after inactivity for a while, it only archived so
Speaker 2: many and they don't tell you. And then you go
Speaker 2: back and you're like, I want to look at my
Speaker 2: clips from three years ago, and then like to.
Speaker 3: Con, I'm sorry, I have to say the number one
Speaker 3: video that it popped up on your page, the weird
Speaker 3: sizzle reel. Wait, what the heck does that mean? It's
Speaker 3: so a.
Speaker 2: Sizzle reel and Andy you can like it's reel in
Speaker 2: the industry is just like your your hot clips, Like
Speaker 2: it's like a collection of your hot clips from.
Speaker 3: You know, this is actually kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's like a demo reel, but it's
Speaker 2: called a sizzle reel instead of a it's only a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: Well, the thumbnail doesn't do a justice because it's like
Speaker 3: you in a flight suit in a cockpit of an
Speaker 3: airplane or something like that.
Speaker 4: That's not yea, Well, I don't sure that. No, we did.
Speaker 2: We did some stuff that that that thumbnail specifically is
Speaker 2: from the Thunderbirds came and flew at the Field of
Speaker 2: Flight in Battle Creek and we did a story with
Speaker 2: them and they took one of our reports.
Speaker 3: A famous video on here too.
Speaker 1: Yes, your video has probably not because it kept getting
Speaker 1: taken down because I didn't know the rights to it.
Speaker 4: And oh but it's it's not in my sizzle reel
Speaker 4: if that makes.
Speaker 1: Sense, right, yeah it does. Oh that's so cool. All right, listen,
Speaker 1: we got it. We got it. Take a break, but
Speaker 1: we got to do a week shout out to Amanda.
Speaker 1: You know Amanda from tech Talk Radio, one of our
Speaker 1: one of our hosts. She's been a while, she's been
Speaker 1: on because she is been embedded in education. She's been
Speaker 1: named one of the top thirty it K through twelve
Speaker 1: Influencers to Follow for this year. Pretty cool stuff she's
Speaker 1: and the write up that she was given an ed
Speaker 1: tech magazine. Was an instructional coach at Fontana Unified School
Speaker 1: District in California. Amanda is a advocate for game based learning.
Speaker 1: She also helped establish the esports team in her district
Speaker 1: and is always looking for ways to promote impactful curriculum,
Speaker 1: equitable opportunities, and student voices.
Speaker 3: She's also a part time.
Speaker 1: Co host on the tech talk radio show So One Influencer.
Speaker 3: So big applause to Amanda. Good job, Amanda.
Speaker 1: I talked to her and I said, you got to
Speaker 1: come back on the show. She said she wants to.
Speaker 1: So we're thinking maybe June show'll stop in and do
Speaker 1: a show with us, because.
Speaker 3: It has been a while. But yeah, very very cool.
Speaker 1: And she's been one of those that was watching us
Speaker 1: on U stream way back when and then we just
Speaker 1: connected with her and you know, she ended up doing
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 3: With us, So that's very cool. Yeah, that's awesome. All Right,
Speaker 3: we'll take another break on.
Speaker 1: We will be back with more of tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 1: I'm Andy the Creeper.
Speaker 2: I'm Sean Instain Internet in Justin's locations, and I'm Justin
Speaker 2: the old guy.
Speaker 3: Find us on facebooks, the facebooks, dot com, Ford Slash
Speaker 3: tech Talkers. Find us on my Space, Yes, find us
Speaker 3: on Fortram. Now back to tech talk Radio. This is
Speaker 3: Stephen right, you know listening to tech talk Radio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some alung that line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that was it.
Speaker 3: Alright, let's go with it. I love it.
Speaker 4: I'll say it anyway.
Speaker 2: Alright, this is Stephen right, and you're listening to tech
Speaker 2: Talk radio.
Speaker 1: But you know I've already been saying that.
Speaker 3: I love you, Steven killing Man.
Speaker 4: All Right, we have a listener question from Dave Tucson.
Speaker 2: Uh wait in Tucson, David Tucson.
Speaker 4: Grammar is a for so I know that it's.
Speaker 3: Tucson.
Speaker 2: So this question of Dave is I have been wanting
Speaker 2: to record video files off my over the air TV.
Speaker 2: I know with the tv O this is possible, at
Speaker 2: least it used to be where I could download the clip.
Speaker 2: I don't want to have to get the cable. Is
Speaker 2: there a solution that can allow me to record over
Speaker 2: the air without this cable? So we talked about this
Speaker 2: question during the break. I suggested something like win TV.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, anybody remember what that is?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 3: Sean, your agent, your age is showing.
Speaker 2: I had one growing up, and we recorded clips off
Speaker 2: the TV. It was basically a p C I I
Speaker 2: was even PC Express at that point, and I remember
Speaker 2: what it was a GP but it was basically it
Speaker 2: basically was an analog and tennant tuner that you could
Speaker 2: plug into your your computer and you could record using
Speaker 2: a media player or something.
Speaker 1: Some of the companies Hog made one, and I also
Speaker 1: had the I remembered this one, the a t I
Speaker 1: all in Wonder which had a TV on it. Yeah
Speaker 1: remember that one. Oh yeah, but yeah.
Speaker 4: There were several PC Express cards. They still make some.
Speaker 4: But Justin then said HD home Run, Yeah, that is
Speaker 4: the product. You want to get. Plug it into the antenna.
Speaker 2: You plug it into your computer network with a Cat
Speaker 2: five cable or Cat six whatever, and you can then
Speaker 2: navigate to it on your computer and record.
Speaker 3: So so to expand upon that, the little HD home
Speaker 3: Run is a very tiny little box. I mean, it's
Speaker 3: probably the size of your hand. Okay, you're gonna plug
Speaker 3: in your over the air antenna tuner into it. Now,
Speaker 3: when you plug this device into your network, like just
Speaker 3: plug it into your router or your switch whatever, you're
Speaker 3: gonna have to find out there's instructions on it. It'll
Speaker 3: tell you the instructions, but you basically have to figure
Speaker 3: out what the IP address that it pulls from your network.
Speaker 3: Let's say one nine, six eight dot zero dot fifteen, Okay, whatever,
Speaker 3: You're gonna navigate to that website zero dot fifteen it's
Speaker 3: gonna bring it to the HD home Run page. You're
Speaker 3: gonna set it up, you're gonna tell it what ZIP
Speaker 3: code you live in. It's going to download the data
Speaker 3: for all the channels with the names and the guide.
Speaker 1: The program You have to pay for the program guide.
Speaker 3: Well some of them you do, so I don't know
Speaker 3: how it works recently. I haven't used it in a
Speaker 3: couple of years. I know there are some paid program guides.
Speaker 3: I think I think the HD home Run will download
Speaker 3: the channel data, not the programming data. I think you
Speaker 3: do have to pay a very small monthly fee if
Speaker 3: you want the programming data. But then what you do
Speaker 3: is you get a program on your computer like VLC
Speaker 3: media Player, which is free, and within vl VLC media Player,
Speaker 3: you're going to file open network stream and you're gonna
Speaker 3: type in the IP address of your HD home Run
Speaker 3: and you hit enter, and it's going to pull up
Speaker 3: all the channels.
Speaker 2: But they actually have their own they actually have their
Speaker 2: own application now too.
Speaker 3: Oh they do good, okay, okay, So then and it has.
Speaker 2: Support for play mb, Jellyfinn, so you can just tie
Speaker 2: it into those like just your normal streaming apps. Your
Speaker 2: it has an app for TVs. So if you have it,
Speaker 2: it's on your network, you can probably see it. You
Speaker 2: can stream to your computer, your iPad, your phone, uh,
Speaker 2: your computer, et cetera. They have three different versions, home
Speaker 2: run Flex Duo which allows you to have two separate
Speaker 2: tuners going at the same time, the Flex Squattro four streams,
Speaker 2: and then the home run Flex HD.
Speaker 3: Yeah. How much is that one?
Speaker 4: Two D bucks?
Speaker 2: But that gives you four tuners, but it allows you
Speaker 2: to decode ATSC three point zero.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a big thing, all right.
Speaker 4: So that's the big one.
Speaker 2: So you can get newer stations that are running ATSD
Speaker 2: three point zero instead of getting their other channels that
Speaker 2: are only ATSD two point zero or one.
Speaker 1: Now, the company that makes it is called Silicon Dust
Speaker 1: dot Com. I guess you can find out on the
Speaker 1: website there if you want to buy it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a little investment. But that's what we paid for
Speaker 1: for a HE one than a TVO. Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: And then you have paid TVO. I think you pay
Speaker 1: a monthly with TVO, don't you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and you don't have to pay that with
Speaker 3: this unless you want the Electronic Programming Guide.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's actually a pretty good idea. That'd be
Speaker 1: a way to if you don't want to, you know,
Speaker 1: if you want to cut cable. You know, I was
Speaker 1: so close to cutting cable and I ended up getting it.
Speaker 1: I've called them up to say, hey, listen, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm really I'm not liking the bill. It was going
Speaker 1: to go up again and I'm already at two seventy, right.
Speaker 1: I thought that's just too much. Yeah, So I told her,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm paying for this. It's of what TLC, Hallmark,
Speaker 1: Hallmark Plus. So I'm paying for this thing called Blast.
Speaker 1: And I was told a couple of years ago that
Speaker 1: that wasn't even needed anymore because I'm already getting the
Speaker 1: higher speeds. But it was me following through. It's my
Speaker 1: own fault. So she says to me right off the bat, well,
Speaker 1: I can rework this and save you about one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty dollars. She did, one hundred twenty bucks a month.
Speaker 1: I'm saving it.
Speaker 3: This is an actual Comcast representative.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so get in the same internet speeds. They're actually
Speaker 1: saving you money, saving me money. And she then said
Speaker 1: I can do something better for you. Who is your
Speaker 1: phone service provided through? And I told her, and she said, well,
Speaker 1: we can bring you over to our mobile service and
Speaker 1: I can give you this. This is why Exfinity is
Speaker 1: trying really hard to keep its customers, because there's been
Speaker 1: kind of an exodus recently. Yeah, she says, I can
Speaker 1: give you free mobile service for a year. Wait what Yeah,
Speaker 1: considering I've been paying ninety dollars a month, that adds
Speaker 1: up to quite a bit. Then after the year's up,
Speaker 1: I'll pay forty four dollars. So who does Exfinity write
Speaker 1: off of though?
Speaker 3: What towers? They write off?
Speaker 1: Horizon woo, So at least that's what I've been led
Speaker 1: to believe. So ok, And I thought, let's see, and
Speaker 1: I have had no problems traveling between Marie and Green Valley,
Speaker 1: being on my device in Green Valley, it's been great.
Speaker 1: So your device shows that you're on Comcast. Yes, it
Speaker 1: says Infinity Mobile my carrier. And then I said, well,
Speaker 1: what if I want to what if I want to
Speaker 1: do a second line from my business since our Skype
Speaker 1: number is going to be going away, And she said
Speaker 1: it's twenty dollars extra, that's it per month.
Speaker 3: That's actually not too bad. I mean, they have really
Speaker 3: been making some changes honestly with comcasts, because you're right,
Speaker 3: it's been an exodus. I mean with the streaming culture, right, Sean,
Speaker 3: do you have cable? No? You have YouTube TV though, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we share, so we piggyback off of Kalon's are
Speaker 2: my loss with YouTube TV?
Speaker 3: All right? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Because and because they moved to Kalamazoo, you no longer
Speaker 2: have to pay extra because that's within the distance.
Speaker 1: How about the bringing the signal in far as the internet?
Speaker 1: How are you getting that high speed connection?
Speaker 4: So fiber?
Speaker 3: So it's fiber, so it's pretty good delivery.
Speaker 4: We have we have, we have Metronet fiber. We're here,
Speaker 4: and I get gig up, gigged down.
Speaker 3: I think I paid me too, not eighty bucks a month.
Speaker 3: I think I've got quantum, which is Century Link lumen,
Speaker 3: and I get about I get I think mine's seventy
Speaker 3: five and yeah, well I about eighty bucks, right, and
Speaker 3: then I get gig up and down.
Speaker 2: But I mean it's it's crazy. I mean, I really
Speaker 2: enjoy our Internet. It's been good. And because it's fiber,
Speaker 2: it's not down when the power went out, right, So
Speaker 2: all I did was just plugged in my modem. The
Speaker 2: modem in my router or in my TV into my
Speaker 2: DJA power box and often running me were so Maxican
Speaker 2: watches YouTube and not be grabby about it.
Speaker 1: But all right, So now have you guys heard about
Speaker 1: MOCA and coffee.
Speaker 3: No, it's MCAA.
Speaker 1: I have just been looking into this recently, and I've
Speaker 1: been kind of surprised. When I had my house built
Speaker 1: the other part of Tucson, we had it built with
Speaker 1: Cat five throughout the home, so each room at CAT
Speaker 1: five connection, and there was a head in in our closet,
Speaker 1: and I had a god one of the really good firewalls,
Speaker 1: a hardware firewall we had. It was really a really
Speaker 1: well done system. But also also I ran the server
Speaker 1: for Gloria's business. She did medical building at the time,
Speaker 1: and you know, we had to buy the software and
Speaker 1: the whole bit, and I loved it.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know, we moved and the house that
Speaker 1: I'm in did not have that, and I missed that.
Speaker 4: So I have.
Speaker 1: Tried doing the one line connection from Tepee Link and
Speaker 1: that was okay, it wasn't as reliable as I had
Speaker 1: hoped for. What we've been using is a tepee Link
Speaker 1: now wireless connection, which is a kind of a wireless
Speaker 1: bridge to our studio.
Speaker 3: That's okay.
Speaker 1: But now I've heard about Mocha and what it is
Speaker 1: is Internet over coacts. Now, if you think about so
Speaker 1: many homes now are doing doing the streaming via a
Speaker 1: router in their home. A lot of homes are wired
Speaker 1: already for co acts, and apparently what it does is
Speaker 1: you have one device at one near your router and
Speaker 1: the other device near your other room or whatever, and
Speaker 1: you can actually do Internet over coacts. I don't know
Speaker 1: how fast it is yet. Trend net as US, there's
Speaker 1: some other companies that have these devices. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: get my hands on one of these so I could
Speaker 1: give it a test and see. But think about that,
Speaker 1: so many people have had their homes wired for co acts,
Speaker 1: they're not even using the co acts now, So this
Speaker 1: would be one way to expand the network throughout your
Speaker 1: home via.
Speaker 3: The coax connections.
Speaker 1: And it's called Moca and might be something to try out.
Speaker 1: Not too expensive too, but two hundred bucks I think.
Speaker 2: Or one dred and fifty hundred and ninety bucks and
Speaker 2: they're saying it can do two.
Speaker 4: And a half gig.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's two that's so that's two connections. So
Speaker 1: imagine in my situation where we have a we have
Speaker 1: a switch, or we have a hub in our studio.
Speaker 1: It's all I need being able to come off that line.
Speaker 1: So it is really cool. I might just give it
Speaker 1: a try and see what we think about it. She
Speaker 1: just heard about this, and when I did, it was
Speaker 1: kind of like, whoa wait, you could do that? You know,
Speaker 1: that would solve a lot of problems because my next
Speaker 1: solution was actually going to be to bring a contractor
Speaker 1: in and have them wire the house with Cat six
Speaker 1: and go that rip route. Everybody's telling me your nuts
Speaker 1: just to wireless, but just my experience with wired has
Speaker 1: always just been so good. All right, now, justin you
Speaker 1: have Google TV, So I wanted to ask you about
Speaker 1: the home panel. It's something you haven't seen yet though, right,
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 3: I personally haven't seen it. Yeah, this thing about Google's
Speaker 3: home panel where you can control your lights and thermostat
Speaker 3: and see your doorbell. I mean I am in a
Speaker 3: Google household. Everything I have. I have Google speakers, I
Speaker 3: have the Google Nest, I have the Google doorbell. I
Speaker 3: mean I have the Google four K streamer on multiple TVs.
Speaker 3: I have not seen this Google Home panel. I don't
Speaker 3: know what it's about, though, there's talk about this now.
Speaker 1: So you'd be watching your Google TV and you would
Speaker 1: be able to to actually bring up the home panel,
Speaker 1: and with the home panel, see what your thermostat is
Speaker 1: set for, get a doorbell ring, see what the doorbell,
Speaker 1: who's at the door, or again, anything else that you'd
Speaker 1: want to do. You'd be able to check that out
Speaker 1: again with the home panel. And apparently now they're saying
Speaker 1: it's rolled out and expanding to actually chrome Cast devices
Speaker 1: because now it's Google TV. Chrome Cast has kind of
Speaker 1: gone away, but if you have a chrome Cast device,
Speaker 1: you'd be able to utilize that with the chrome Cast device.
Speaker 1: So either way, it's something to look for, justin I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna look that up and see if you
Speaker 1: can get that.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at right now. I'm trying to search for
Speaker 3: it on the TV right all right? Cool? Well, I've
Speaker 3: never seen it though, I don't know. This is interesting
Speaker 3: because I would love to be able to see who
Speaker 3: is at my door when somebody comes ringing my doorbell,
Speaker 3: or you know, change up. Sorry about that, Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: it doesn't it doesn't have it. I don't see it Android,
Speaker 3: I see serious exam Google play games, I see buttons.
Speaker 1: Is there a play store that maybe you have to
Speaker 1: download this?
Speaker 3: This is the play store?
Speaker 1: Oh well, I just don't see it right, the home
Speaker 1: pack don't see it unless it's only for TVs that
Speaker 1: have Google TVs.
Speaker 3: Well, maybe it's for the TV em bed. But this
Speaker 3: is the this is their most expensive Google streamer. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is the four K Google streamer. I feel like
Speaker 3: I feel like we should have this on the most
Speaker 3: expensive thing.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll look more into this and maybe we'll
Speaker 1: have some more info next week. I've got a question.
Speaker 1: I know that justin you saw the movie Minecraft. You
Speaker 1: took your son go see it, Sean, have you seen
Speaker 1: that one yet?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I have not. I just know there's something to do
Speaker 4: with chickens.
Speaker 3: Chicken chicken Jockey.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what the heck is with that? They're destroying theaters, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a it's a it's kind of it's a
Speaker 3: social media thing. In the movie, there's a scene where
Speaker 3: Jack Black has to face off against a child looking
Speaker 3: zombie who's writing a chicken and they call him the
Speaker 3: chicken Jockey, and Jack Black gets his butt kicked by
Speaker 3: this chicken jockey.
Speaker 4: Anyway.
Speaker 3: But yeah, kids and even adults now they go to
Speaker 3: a movie theater. There was even this one situation where
Speaker 3: somebody actually smuggled in a live chicken into a theater. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: And when that scene came out, they released the chicken
Speaker 3: into the theater and the chicken was flopping all around
Speaker 3: the theater and people are throwing popcorn everywhere and just
Speaker 3: basically destroying the theater. It got to the point where
Speaker 3: Jack Black himself showed up to a Los Angeles area
Speaker 3: theater and before the movie started, he came out with
Speaker 3: nobody knowing who it was him right, and was like,
Speaker 3: it's time for the Minecraft movie. And then like he
Speaker 3: was like, and keep in mind, no chicken jockies, and
Speaker 3: I am Steve. That's his character, nilty, And everybody went
Speaker 3: nuts when they saw Jack Black in the theater. But yeah, anyway,
Speaker 3: Minecraft movie actually really really good. All right.
Speaker 1: This new one that came out last couple of weeks ago, Thunderbolts,
Speaker 1: which is anybody seeing that one yet?
Speaker 3: No? Nope, nope. It's part of the Marvel series. I
Speaker 3: guess Marvel. Marvel is just getting it's just getting.
Speaker 2: But I haven't had time to do anything at home
Speaker 2: or anything for myself in the last month.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to the movies. You're not gonna go
Speaker 3: to the movies. You should just take a moment and say,
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm going out tonight. I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: watch a movie by myself. There you go. I like
Speaker 3: my life, I know, but you like your mental health too.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you just need that chance.
Speaker 1: All right, we gotta take another quick break. We come
Speaker 1: back with more of tech Talk Radio.
Speaker 3: I'm Andy Taylor, I'm Sean de Weird, and I'm justin.
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Speaker 3: I'm like one trip shy of a free trip, and
Speaker 3: I just think it and I may say that a
Speaker 3: lot about you. A couple of weeks ago, I took
Speaker 3: Eric to the local hobby shop and we just stumbled
Speaker 3: across BattleBots, right live BattleBots happening at the hobby store,
Speaker 3: except these were miniature BattleBots. However, they did have one
Speaker 3: of the actual big BattleBots from the actual show. I
Speaker 3: can't remember the name of it though, but it was
Speaker 3: one of them anyway, but it was there. There's a
Speaker 3: website called bot rumble dot com. Oh, it's a page.
Speaker 3: I think it started in Denver, Colorado, but it is okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: see my phone is going off on it page rumble. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Based in Colorado. Bought Rumble is a combat robotics organization,
Speaker 3: but they're trying to spread around. However, even if bot
Speaker 3: rumble dot com isn't the site for you, there is
Speaker 3: a massive influx of people going and trying out these
Speaker 3: miniature battle bots and you can you can buy these
Speaker 3: kits that include like the servos and the motors, and
Speaker 3: they come in two different styles. You can do like
Speaker 3: you can do combat bots, which are actually with weapons,
Speaker 3: or you can do pushbots, which are just gonna kind
Speaker 3: of push you in the corner. But these miniature bots
Speaker 3: are amazing and kids love this kind of stuff. You
Speaker 3: can build your own robots. It gets you into like
Speaker 3: thinking about three D printing, because you're gonna print the
Speaker 3: cases for them, and then you're just gonna put yeah,
Speaker 3: you're just gonna put all the electronics inside, and then
Speaker 3: you take them to your local hobby stores. And again,
Speaker 3: bot Rumble is something local to Colorado, but I guarantee
Speaker 3: you there's gonna be plenty of these different sites around
Speaker 3: that are doing this. But kids love this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: When I took Eric there, there were so many kids
Speaker 3: of his age, eight, nine, ten, eleven years old, and
Speaker 3: then there was the adults, you know, thirty forty whatever
Speaker 3: years old, and everybody was having such a good time.
Speaker 3: Everybody was helping each other out, diagnosing problems with the robots.
Speaker 3: It's such a cool thing. Man, give us a website.
Speaker 3: Youd dressed once again. Well this one was bot rumbled,
Speaker 3: but all right. In over fact, it's just like, look,
Speaker 3: look up, look up your local hobby store, see if
Speaker 3: they have any battle bots type of organizations in your area.
Speaker 3: All right, I love it.
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