Welcome to

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User Friendly 2.0 with host Bill Sikkens,

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technology architect.

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And this is User Friendly 2.0

I am your host Bill Sikkens.

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With me, my co-host Gretchen and Bill,

welcome to this week's show.

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Hello there.

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Hello.

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So it's a part of talk radio.

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You do have to talk a little bit quiet.

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If you know that I was trying to be polite

and let Bill say hello first.

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But you said your name first.

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Oh, okay. So I was watching that.

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You know, we've got a video where

we can see each other while we record.

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Of course,

you can't see that on the radio,

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but that's exactly what happened.

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But it was just like silence.

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To feel the tension and attention,

you know?

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Yeah. Put that moment in there.

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Anyway, let's get back on topic here.

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If we can.

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And that topic

is what we're going to be doing this week.

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This is our quarterly Q&A.

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So our second segment

is going to be questions you have sent in.

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And we're going to endeavor answer them.

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Your questions are answered

I don't know who came up with that,

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but I've always thought

that was a cool way of putting it.

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So there we go.

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Our first part of this show,

we're after our news.

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We're going to be talking about

stereo equipment and some basics of that.

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Again, listener request

the things that are out there

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and I'll explain what that is

when we get to that point.

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And next week

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we are going to be talking about

some scams that are popping up with it

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being tax season

here in the United States.

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So for anybody out of the country,

it's different in different places.

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But in the United States,

from the end of January to usually April

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15th or thereabouts,

when you file your annual tax returns

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and the scammers,

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there's

nothing new that they've been out there

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trying to do identity theft

and steal money and all of that.

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But there's some new takes on

some old scams this year,

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and there are some new ones

that are quite creative.

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So check us out next week.

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We're going to be deep diving into that

and letting you know how to help to

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prevent getting taken in by one of these,

because it's pretty easy to do.

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All right.

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What do we have a news.

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All right.

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Radiation detection systems

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are quietly running in the background

all around you.

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Yes, that's on the.

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So where this comes from back in

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like when Chernobyl happened

and all of that

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and some of the other things where there's

been nuclear radiation, there's leak.

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At that time, nobody knew what happened

until after people started dying.

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And especially with the Chernobyl one,

it was the Soviet Union at the time,

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and they didn't tell anyone

for several days that this had happened.

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So fast forward to 2026,

and as a part of the environment

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around us, there are radiation detectors

and for good reason.

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So something like that happened.

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Again,

you would have the government that runs

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these things would know about it

immediately.

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But there also are DIYers

that have put these things together.

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You can get the schematics and parts

off of online sites like eBay or whatnot.

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And the bottom line of it is,

is this type of technology I think is

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important and a lot better to have

than all of the cameras and other invasive

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things that we're seeing coming around.

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Because if something did happen,

you know, maybe not happen,

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but something like a dirty bomb goes off

or something of that nature.

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These type of systems

would be able to detect it

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and even detect in some cases

the nuclear material, maybe

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allowing the authorities to get in

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and preventing

something like that from happening.

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But certainly if you did have a nuclear

plant meltdown or, you know,

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nuclear bomb being dropped or something

and somehow wouldn't have known about it,

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you would be able to detect

and know that the radiation's there.

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And it's interesting because there's

standards for background radiation

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in different places.

It's different things.

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And and the environments

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I've lived in up here in the Pacific

Northwest is pretty low.

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But I know in Reno it was a lot higher.

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Oh yeah, I had a Geiger counter and I kept

you guys out and checked it all out.

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So it'd be interesting if somebody knows,

go to user friendly dot show and,

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put in the comments

because I'd like to know if there's

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some sort of a basis and is there a reason

that be higher somewhere else?

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Is it environmental or is,

you know, something else going on?

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Speaking of

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radiation, the sun releases for strong

solar flares.

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What to expect?

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Yeah.

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You know okay, so the sun has been nuts

lately.

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And,

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runs in an 11 year cycle, and the solar

maximum is the high point of this one.

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It's the most busy with these things.

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But that was in 2024.

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It's supposed to be calming down,

but this time it is.

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I think it's an X flare

that they're calling it.

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And it's the strongest that you can get.

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And they're very rare. And.

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Okay, who's pissing off the sun?

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Yeah, yeah. You know, it's,

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I, I don't know, I mean, just right

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now, you.

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the problem that this creates is solar

flares, put out radiation,

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and while our atmosphere

pretty much protects us against

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that, it plays havoc with electronics.

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So low orbit satellites, communication

systems, even stuff down here

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on Earth can be affected

very negatively by these flares.

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So if you're on the daylight side

of the planet, when one of these hits

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and you're talking on your phone or,

you know, working with any kind

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of electronics, you might see things

kind of go a little bit nuts.

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And, it's interesting

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to study the space on this,

but it's a little bit creepy in a way

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that it's like it's getting wilder

instead of homing down.

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Now, I haven't seen anybody throw up

or alarm or anything of that nature,

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and it's probably just, stronger

one than we've seen.

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But hopefully this will start

calming down a little bit.

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And I know this has always been

a thing. Right?

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Yeah.

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Used to be a shortwave ham

radio operator, and, he passed in 2018.

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But before that, he had a whole rig

and this giant antenna and everything.

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And you could tell

when there were solar storms

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like this, system either wouldn't work

or it would be very different.

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And how it worked, because of the effect

this was having.

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And now, on the other side of it,

this is where we've had so many aurora

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borealis events lately,

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because this type of thing affects

that and becomes, something you can see

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much farther south than the North Pole

when these things are wild.

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And I even actually saw the last one.

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So these are we still haven't seen it.

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And I keep looking

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now, you know, in the Pacific

Northwest in January,

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where you happen

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which is when you saw this

and you have a clear sky.

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I should have bought a lottery ticket

the next day.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Amazon shuts down

controversial payment method.

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So this is something

that is a little much in some ways.

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And I think this is why it wasn't adopted.

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What they're referring to here

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is Amazon had a technology

where you can pay with your palm.

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So when you went up to the checkout or in

some of their stores like Amazon go,

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where it was completely automatic,

you would pay

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and your biometric to do that,

you would scan your palm on the reader

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and it would charge your credit card

or however you had it set up.

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this is, is people don't like that. So,

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you know, the technology worked fine,

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but it is, something that was

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not really adopted.

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And since in all these places

you can still pay in a conventional

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way with, you know, credit cards

or whatever people would offer

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that some people did use this,

but it is, something

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like I said, that wasn't

very widely adopted and definitely is.

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I don't know,

maybe they'll try it again in the future,

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but they're shutting it, down.

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Amazon one, I think, was the name of it,

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and they're cutting it down

completely here in a couple of months.

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But again, they're doing away with a

lot of their I think I never heard of it.

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There's yeah it's it's out there

Whole Foods it it probably still does.

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So and they've also said

that they are going to securely destroy

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all the biometric data,

you know, and stuff, so that's fine.

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But I can understand where people would be

a little hesitant

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of some of these things.

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Technology works great. I mean,

there was no problem from that standpoint.

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It's just people didn't use it.

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Ex officers rated in France

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as the UK opens

fresh investigation into Iraq.

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All right. So a little context here.

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Grok is a version of the

AI that you find on Twitter.

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And this has gone

through a number of different revisions.

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And over the time that this has been out,

it's made some very,

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let's just say, controversial statements

sometimes and,

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and other things

as they're playing with the software.

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And one of the things

that is happening with this

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is that it's putting up pictures

that are inappropriate and other things

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like that, or, you know, responses that,

you just don't want to see.

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And since everybody uses,

you know, every age group in that case

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uses social media, in most places

it is a problem.

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So they're investigating this to try to

figure out what's going on and what to do.

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One of the big things

that, caused the investigation

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that's coming

out of the UK is sexual deepfakes.

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And the fact that there's

no guardrails on that.

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So they're going into

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they raided the offices

and we'll have to see where this goes.

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We'll go ahead and monitor it.

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They are starting from a legal level

to investigate this stuff a little more.

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And when it's appropriate,

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you know, you don't want

your kids involved in something like that.

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Yeah. What was it? Australia.

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I think you have to be 16 or 18 now

to even be on social media.

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They, changed that last year.

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Yeah, I think I saw something about that.

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Yeah. It is, definitely a thing.

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You know.

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Bloomberg reports space X to merge with X.

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I seek an IPO

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that valuation of $1.25 trillion.

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But that was a mouthful.

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Yeah yeah it is.

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So this is Bloomberg reporting on this.

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And it, would put them in the top ten

most valuable traded companies on U.S.

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exchanges.

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It's one of the biggest mergers

if not the biggest.

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It's been done like this.

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And the purpose of it is, Elon Musk

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would like to put AI data centers

in orbit.

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So, and this is a somewhat

controversial thing to do

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if you are worried about things

like stocks, Skynet,

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this would be the time to actually start

considering that,

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because one of the things

with these type of technologies,

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if something really did run amok, you

could turn off the data center, you know,

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if it's in space, you don't

have the ability to really do that.

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And any kind of a soft shutdown

it would disable, you know.

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So I don't know, you'd have to get

Reagan's Star Wars thing going.

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Yeah.

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But think of think about it.

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If you actually had AI goal sentient

decide to take over the world,

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it would be able to with the way things

work now, take over the power grids

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very easily.

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Communication,

all of those different type of things.

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And somebody is going to freak out

and go and turn it off, hopefully.

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But, in space, there's not that person

to go and turn it off.

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You know,

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maintenance would also be another issue

because if something breaks down,

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you can't exactly go in there

now. Positives. Yeah.

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There's positives. Few things can be solar

powered.

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It's not going to have the heat problems

that the ones down here do.

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It's not going to use the water

that the ones down here use.

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So there's a lot of advantages

from a resource standpoint

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if this is even possible

and if it's done properly.

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But as I tell people I love technology,

I'm very into it.

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It's and to me, in some cases.

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But I also know where the off button

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doesn't mean I need to use it,

but I know where it is

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and I know how to how to deal with it

if I had to.

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So we'll see how far they get with this

and if it's something that actually

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becomes viable.

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But it's an interesting idea.

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And from a standpoint of studying it,

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it's going to be interesting

to see how the engineering would work.

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And if they're, like I said earlier,

if they're actually successful.

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Star Wars

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is officially bringing back

George Lucas's Episode seven plan

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following Kathleen Kennedy's

Lucasfilm exit.

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So I didn't realize

that this was even a thing.

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And it isn't.

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The episode seven was supposed to be

a different script and everything.

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Oh yeah. Oh yeah, he left.

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He literally left the plan for the

the sequels, right?

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Yeah, I you know, I knew that, but, okay.

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So what they're talking about here

is I'm babbling on about it.

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Star Wars maul shadow Lord,

which we've talked about in

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the past, is a series that's coming out

that, looks at canon, does some things.

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It looks to be very good with Darth Maul.

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And this apparently

was supposed to be episode

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seven of the Star Wars

movies, the last trilogy.

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And I'll tell you one thing.

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And of course, this is all subjective

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and a matter of opinion,

but I know for myself

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looking at this versus what was put out,

I'd like this a lot better.

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Yeah, yeah, I agree, it

just and looking at the trailer

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and some of the other things

that's going out

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is, it's going to be very interesting.

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It does tie in in many ways

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to some of the characters

that seem to be somewhat open ended.

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And I like we like it anyway, so no

spoiler alert there, but we do have a do

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we like and a rather cool looking one

that matches Maul's, colors as well.

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A little bit. Are you sure?

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I think that's yeah.

And it's The Apprentice.

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Well, black.

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Okay.

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Because I thought Darth,

Talon was the black and red Twilight,

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and I thought there was a different way

like that.

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Was talking to Maul in the trailers.

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Yeah, I think you're right on that.

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Darth

Maul pollen is the black and red tea like

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you're like, you're pulling out

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of Devin.

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Ezra, I think, is how you say that

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is the one in the trailer.

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Devin Ezra isn't that.

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I don't know what that is. Ezra.

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The character is Ezra. Okay, yeah.

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Or Bridger.

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Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So.

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But those are different people.

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Okay.

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Ezra Bridger

is actually in the trailer that you saw.

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No, I saw it in the description

that they were talking about.

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Ezra. Now? No. Last name.

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So maybe it's a different Ezra,

I don't know.

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Oh, okay.

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There are definitely, some things in here

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that's going to be interesting

seeing number one to see

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if we're right or wrong on this,

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but also just way of looking

like it's going to play out

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is going to be a lot of fun.

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And it's a series I will be watching.

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I've always wanted to do a, cosplay

among cosplay.

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I think I have a lot of fun with that.

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So, you know,

maybe I'll think about doing that again.

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And the new, set up for his character

looks very vicious.

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That's cool.

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Well, anyway.

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All right, so that's our news.

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And and the last part of this segment,

we are going to be talking

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about stereo equipment.

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And this is a interesting conversation.

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We've had a lot of questions on things

and talked about this

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and little bits and pieces.

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But this is something that there's

a lot of interest in.

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And there's a lot of audio files out there

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that really like their equipment

and specific lines and all of that.

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And kind of interesting

how this is going on.

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I mean, when you started

with audio equipment, way back

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when radios were made, it was, well,

not stereo, it would be mono.

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And the audio quality

on some of that equipment

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was, well, not that good, put it mildly.

322

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Well, well,

it was a Am radio and ham radio.

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Yeah, yeah, we'll make fun of Am radio.

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We're on Am radio on a lot of our market.

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So. Yeah.

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Yeah, but it doesn't have stereo.

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Yeah.

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Actually there is a such thing

as Am stereo.

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They started playing it

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and then when things changed, it

never really went anywhere.

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But it is possible to do that.

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Oh. But but anyway,

so that developed out.

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Then you had our FM.

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Speaking of Am and FM come out,

which can be modulated into two channels

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are stereo same things on records

at the time and all of that kind of thing.

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And that was used.

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There was something called quadraphonic

sound, which meant you had four speakers.

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Yeah, I played with that a little bit.

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Now I'm led to understand

you could buy phonographs

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and things

that were specifically encoded for that.

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I think because when I played with it,

it was just always you had a second set

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of speakers in the back, which was fine,

but it wasn't like separate channels.

343

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I think four track did that pretty well.

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Okay.

345

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Yeah. And I like I said, I don't know.

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So if you have experience with that,

be interesting to try it out.

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Yeah, I believe four tracks split it out

into the four channels on some systems.

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Okay.

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Well and I know that afterwards

they, they, they started

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dividing the stereo into components

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so that you could be more detailed

about how high the treble

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and the bass was and, and where,

where the sound was going out to.

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And it was, you know,

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you had a thing where that was an amp

and the turntable was separate

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and it was like, whoa,

this is like really cool stuff,

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you know?

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But I have no idea

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why you, myself and I still have an amp

and a turntable in my living room.

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I need to unpack one for my mom, so,

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you know, and speaking of such things.

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Yeah, it went from, you know, the

very old radios to its component systems.

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Like what you're talking about.

363

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They can do all kinds of things.

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The audio quality was a lot better.

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There were different encoding formats

for records at the time where you,

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you know, had the right equipment.

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It would sound better.

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You also had things like Dolby noise

reduction, which can no longer be light,

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but at the time,

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things like audio cassettes,

what we remember is audio cassettes,

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which were not designed for music

originally.

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It was for,

you know, like dictation or something.

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And the quality at the time

would never have supported music.

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But as things improved and technology

improved it,

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they were able to make it work.

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Eventually where that went was digital

audio tape, which was not very widely

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adopted, but it sounded just like a CD,

you know, at that level of quality.

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But you could record,

you know, and that kind of a thing.

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And then we move ahead to digital systems

where you have

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surround sound, five channels,

seven channel,

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nine channel, and now things like Atmos,

which don't use channels.

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And it's more of a, modular

surround sound, which I like Atmos.

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It works well, but a lot of audio files

will tell you, well, it's digital.

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You're reproducing the sound.

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It's not really the sound that would have

originally been there, you know.

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So while you can do more with it,

387

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it's some question

as to the authenticity of what I mean.

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It's not like they think the A song

or whatever you're listening to,

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but something off of an analog

point of origin, like a record.

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You're actually listening

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to the sound going through the amp

and just made louder.

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On digital, it's decoding the signal

and recreating it from that encoded

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signal, which is different, you know,

and it depends on the signal, too.

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I mean, if you're using a WAV file,

it becomes clear that is very relaxed.

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Very good, very good.

396

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Those are lossless formats, whereas MP3

is compressed, which causes us.

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Yeah. Oh by the nature of what it is.

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So yeah.

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And that's when you compress something

you're always taking something away.

400

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It's just physics and and that's true.

401

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And so mp3's for anybody

that doesn't know is still here.

402

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But it was the main, format of music

when we started, not streaming,

403

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but doing things like an iPod

or an MP3 player, you know, handheld

404

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music devices and sound reasonably good.

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But like you say, it's missing things.

406

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So if you really know what to listen for

are really good at that,

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you're probably going to have a problem

with that.

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In file formats.

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You mentioned Flac,

which is another format like MP3,

410

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but as you said, is lossless.

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So in other words, there's no missing

components, but the file is a lot larger.

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Yeah.

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So in 2000, you know, today

that wouldn't make much of a difference.

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But when this stuff was really being used,

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it would be the difference

between ten minutes to download

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a track or two hours, you know,

so that type of thing, plus

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your storage capacity on your playback

devices were a lot less so different time.

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But it's,

you know, where you're going with that.

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And now here we are in 2026,

when the majority of people

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that just casually listen to songs

do it over a smart speaker,

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which is not even stereo.

422

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Yeah, it's a, you know,

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and as we are here today,

you can obviously still do

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multiple channels and surround

sound and Dolby and you know,

425

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there's DTSx and Atmos and all these,

there's different types of encoding

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which sound amazing in my opinion.

427

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They're really good.

428

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But it is not what everybody has.

429

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So what's interesting

is in digging into this a little bit,

430

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it is actually possible

do stereo sound with a smart speaker.

431

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You need

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two of them for one thing obviously,

because there's two channels.

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But if you look at the way

these things set up, you would

434

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I'll pick on Amazon

and the echos and all of that stuff.

435

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The others will do the same thing,

just maybe in a little different way

436

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is you have to have

two devices are the same.

437

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So the same model of smart speaker.

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And then there's a way to go

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into the configuration and tell it

that you're using these for stereo output.

440

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And then when it plays back

and you'll notice in one channel

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the one and the other channel

to the other, as long as they're stereo

442

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separation in there, which, you know,

is better, music tends to have that more.

443

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But so the thing of it is

it is absolutely possible to do that

444

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still, it's just most people

don't tend to worry about it as much.

445

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And I think a big part of it

446

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is there's a lot of consumption of music

now is more something in the background.

447

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So whereas in the past

you would actually sit and listen

448

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to a record album or,

you know, TV or tape or something,

449

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now you put it on while you're working.

450

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And I'm not saying

451

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that people don't do that anymore,

but it's just, kind of a different way

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of handling things.

453

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Mainly

because when you do watch stuff, it's

454

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usually videos, because streaming videos

has become so easy to do.

455

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We're like super malt, multitaskers now.

456

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Yeah.

457

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And you're still in HD. In the past.

458

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Yeah.

459

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Okay. I don't change,

460

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because, when I was, you know,

when I was in high school,

461

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you you you just sit and relax

and listen to a record

462

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or listen to a record

while you were doing your homework, right?

463

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You know, and now, well,

464

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it's a little different, you know, so

465

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I listen to music while doing artwork

still. So.

466

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Yeah.

467

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Yeah.

468

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And, and, you know,

469

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there's advantages and disadvantages

to everything as we go along.

470

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One of the biggest disadvantages

is you no longer own your music,

471

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so you buy a track and you download it,

that you're in possession of that.

472

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But streaming music

and all that kind of a thing.

473

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Yeah.

474

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If you're paying a fee to,

you know, have access to a lot of stuff,

475

00:23:24,102 --> 00:23:27,406

but you don't have the internet

or you want to have, you know, somewhere

476

00:23:27,406 --> 00:23:28,940

where you can play it back on your own.

477

00:23:28,940 --> 00:23:29,975

It's just not possible.

478

00:23:29,975 --> 00:23:32,110

So but yeah,

these things are still out there.

479

00:23:32,110 --> 00:23:36,481

It is still possible to do stereo sound

and we're going to experiment with that.

480

00:23:36,481 --> 00:23:38,917

I wonder if you can just surround

sound off. Look into that.

481

00:23:38,917 --> 00:23:39,284

All right.

482

00:23:39,284 --> 00:23:41,253

Next segment we're going to be

answering your questions.

483

00:23:41,253 --> 00:23:42,487

This is user friendly 2.0.

484

00:23:42,487 --> 00:23:43,622

We'll be back after the break.

485

00:23:43,622 --> 00:23:46,625

You can see here he's from the future.

486

00:23:46,892 --> 00:23:49,995

He's got a really big computer

487

00:23:50,562 --> 00:23:53,698

and he uses it every day.

488

00:23:54,065 --> 00:23:57,235

And he uses it uses it in every way.

489

00:23:57,636 --> 00:23:59,104

I see. You sure.

490

00:23:59,104 --> 00:24:02,707

You know, I'm not sure because he uses it.

491

00:24:03,575 --> 00:24:04,009

Welcome back.

492

00:24:04,009 --> 00:24:05,644

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493

00:24:05,644 --> 00:24:08,580

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Send us your questions and your comments.

494

00:24:08,580 --> 00:24:11,683

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495

00:24:12,184 --> 00:24:14,119

for everything user friendly.

496

00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,989

And I just say that

because this next part is your questions,

497

00:24:18,423 --> 00:24:20,091

we're

going to attempt to answer some of them.

498

00:24:21,092 --> 00:24:21,860

What do we have?

499

00:24:21,860 --> 00:24:23,662

First?

500

00:24:23,662 --> 00:24:26,131

Is I really going to take away my job.

501

00:24:26,131 --> 00:24:26,431

Yeah.

502

00:24:26,431 --> 00:24:31,603

And by far this has been the most asked

question we've had in the recent past.

503

00:24:31,870 --> 00:24:33,572

So about four months

since we did our last.

504

00:24:33,572 --> 00:24:38,543

Q and a very large concern, and a lot of

people are quite worried about that.

505

00:24:38,543 --> 00:24:42,747

And especially now in January and,

first part of February

506

00:24:42,747 --> 00:24:45,817

here, we're seeing a lot of layoffs

all across the board.

507

00:24:46,418 --> 00:24:48,720

So, you know, comes up with that

is this AI.

508

00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:52,924

So the question

or the answer to this question that I give

509

00:24:52,924 --> 00:24:53,625

when it's asked,

510

00:24:53,625 --> 00:24:56,761

and it's really the way that I feel is

this is very similar in some ways

511

00:24:56,761 --> 00:24:59,898

to when desktop computers

really came out in the mid 90s.

512

00:24:59,898 --> 00:25:01,666

And our computer is going to take away

my job.

513

00:25:01,666 --> 00:25:04,669

No, but it will change

or I it's going to take away my job.

514

00:25:04,669 --> 00:25:06,905

Well, no, but it will change.

515

00:25:06,905 --> 00:25:10,208

And I think that's what

we're looking at here going forward.

516

00:25:10,208 --> 00:25:14,679

The bigger companies have been trying

to use generative AI to replace people,

517

00:25:15,313 --> 00:25:18,617

and it hasn't worked out so well for them.

518

00:25:18,617 --> 00:25:20,418

In a lot of cases.

519

00:25:20,418 --> 00:25:25,123

I find that when I go on and it says like,

you know, this is a chat box

520

00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:26,358

and I'm looking up for

521

00:25:26,358 --> 00:25:29,528

an answer to a technical question

and stuff that actually can be faster.

522

00:25:30,228 --> 00:25:32,797

But if you need to get

any kind of a real resource,

523

00:25:32,797 --> 00:25:34,533

you have to go through this cloak

and dagger

524

00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:37,602

to try to figure out the path

to get to an operator.

525

00:25:38,303 --> 00:25:41,306

And, as far as I'm concerned,

that hasn't made it better.

526

00:25:42,007 --> 00:25:46,278

So the tool is fine,

but the way that it's been

527

00:25:46,845 --> 00:25:49,548

tried to be deployed

used, in other words, for big companies

528

00:25:49,548 --> 00:25:53,285

to eliminate full time employees,

it's not going to work.

529

00:25:53,318 --> 00:25:56,021

And I think a part of it might be that

it just doesn't want to work that way.

530

00:25:56,021 --> 00:25:57,689

So, you know,

531

00:26:00,058 --> 00:26:00,859

so I think what we're going

532

00:26:00,859 --> 00:26:04,162

to see going

forward is use of AI technology is here.

533

00:26:04,162 --> 00:26:05,797

It's not going to go away.

534

00:26:05,797 --> 00:26:08,733

And as a programmer myself,

because this is one of the professions

535

00:26:08,733 --> 00:26:11,736

that a lot of people

are really worried about.

536

00:26:11,836 --> 00:26:14,139

I still have to code my own projects.

537

00:26:14,139 --> 00:26:17,142

I can't ask an AI to do it

and go take a vacation.

538

00:26:17,342 --> 00:26:18,410

You know that word yet?

539

00:26:18,410 --> 00:26:20,211

Might be in there,

but I don't know if we're ever going

540

00:26:20,211 --> 00:26:23,848

to really get to that point,

but it sure as a search function,

541

00:26:24,616 --> 00:26:27,752

if I don't know a routine

or a, you know, a logic problem

542

00:26:27,752 --> 00:26:32,190

or a procedure for what I'm doing,

or I have one that I've programed

543

00:26:32,190 --> 00:26:35,994

and I just am stuck,

I can put that into an AI as a prompt,

544

00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:40,231

and it really does help to go through it

and answer it and not only answer and go,

545

00:26:40,432 --> 00:26:42,601

you know, telling me things like,

by the way,

546

00:26:42,601 --> 00:26:46,438

if you have the SQL command in here,

this way, your site will be hacked in 10s.

547

00:26:46,438 --> 00:26:51,610

So you might want to fix, yeah, I'm exaggerating, but it actually can look both.

548

00:26:52,677 --> 00:26:55,714

So so in this case, what you're saying is

549

00:26:56,014 --> 00:27:00,652

the AI is kind of like your sidekick,

your buddy, your pal, your wingman.

550

00:27:00,652 --> 00:27:02,087

So to speak. Yeah.

551

00:27:02,087 --> 00:27:07,292

So it's not really replacing you,

but it is, is a helper.

552

00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:08,326

Yeah, it's a helper.

553

00:27:08,326 --> 00:27:12,464

And it's, again,

the type of tool that, that is there,

554

00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:18,336

and one that is really beneficial,

but where people are trying to use

555

00:27:18,336 --> 00:27:22,140

AI to actually completely replace

themselves, we're seeing a lot of kind

556

00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:23,575

of funny things happening.

557

00:27:23,575 --> 00:27:26,144

I guess it's funny.

It wouldn't be if it happened to you.

558

00:27:26,144 --> 00:27:28,947

Why don't we talked about in the past

this in the legal profession where lawyers

559

00:27:28,947 --> 00:27:32,417

were using

AI specifically to write their briefs.

560

00:27:33,184 --> 00:27:35,654

And,

if you're a lawyer and you sign the brief,

561

00:27:35,654 --> 00:27:38,690

you're signing that what's in the brief

is accurate to the best of your knowledge.

562

00:27:38,690 --> 00:27:41,493

Well,

if you do this, the AI will go through

563

00:27:41,493 --> 00:27:44,462

because it's not designed to be

a paralegal.

564

00:27:44,763 --> 00:27:47,899

It'll go through and write the brief

and do it beautifully.

565

00:27:47,899 --> 00:27:49,834

In the case, sites may or may not be real.

566

00:27:49,834 --> 00:27:52,837

If it can't find what it wants to make you

happy, so it's just going to create one.

567

00:27:53,104 --> 00:27:56,741

But again, the idea of this is not meant

to actually be filed in a court.

568

00:27:56,741 --> 00:27:59,744

But that's what, you know, what

is happening with some of these things.

569

00:27:59,744 --> 00:28:01,312

It's just one example.

570

00:28:01,312 --> 00:28:02,213

So the idea of being able

571

00:28:02,213 --> 00:28:06,484

to completely replace the professional

or the worker or anything like that, no.

572

00:28:06,918 --> 00:28:09,721

But to make jobs and life easier.

573

00:28:09,721 --> 00:28:10,422

Absolutely.

574

00:28:10,422 --> 00:28:13,591

Because a lot of the kind of, brain work,

575

00:28:14,092 --> 00:28:16,594

you can do, I will help a lot for that.

576

00:28:16,594 --> 00:28:18,930

But you still have to be there to do it.

577

00:28:18,930 --> 00:28:23,635

So, you know, just to be

on the hopeful side, it seemed like after

578

00:28:23,635 --> 00:28:29,808

computers became more popular,

New jobs came up because of them.

579

00:28:29,808 --> 00:28:30,175

Right.

580

00:28:30,175 --> 00:28:34,579

So this might be the result

that when I becomes more used,

581

00:28:34,979 --> 00:28:39,384

we might have new jobs that we

we haven't been able to imagine.

582

00:28:39,918 --> 00:28:40,085

Yeah.

583

00:28:40,085 --> 00:28:41,986

Well, up here we're already seeing that.

584

00:28:41,986 --> 00:28:43,521

And, Oh, okay.

585

00:28:43,521 --> 00:28:44,756

One of the things that's interesting,

586

00:28:44,756 --> 00:28:46,991

and we did an interview last year

with somebody on this,

587

00:28:46,991 --> 00:28:50,462

but it's just kind of a footnote on

that is the expansion of data centers.

588

00:28:51,162 --> 00:28:54,499

And first thought is, okay, I have to be,

you know, a hardware engineer

589

00:28:54,499 --> 00:28:56,334

or something to do that. No, no.

590

00:28:56,334 --> 00:29:00,572

Data centers require all kinds of jobs,

everything from maintenance people

591

00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:04,876

to engineers, of course,

to even janitorial staff and stuff.

592

00:29:04,876 --> 00:29:07,545

So it's actually adding

a whole slew of things.

593

00:29:07,545 --> 00:29:09,814

Security. Security. Yeah.

594

00:29:09,814 --> 00:29:13,051

And and that so and it seems like

595

00:29:13,451 --> 00:29:17,122

a lot of those kind of jobs are better

paying than in some other places, too.

596

00:29:17,155 --> 00:29:20,225

So if you're worried about it, you

597

00:29:20,225 --> 00:29:23,561

definitely want to look at thinking

about how the world will be.

598

00:29:23,561 --> 00:29:26,531

Learn how to use and interact with AI.

599

00:29:26,531 --> 00:29:29,033

At this point,

I think that's a very basic thing to do.

600

00:29:29,033 --> 00:29:30,635

It's also not hard to do.

601

00:29:30,635 --> 00:29:33,271

You can go online

and most of the eyes are there.

602

00:29:33,271 --> 00:29:36,241

It doesn't cost anything

to use the basic functions,

603

00:29:36,374 --> 00:29:39,978

and you can just start going from there

and you'll find out that it's very helpful

604

00:29:39,978 --> 00:29:42,781

and it's not something

that, really to be scared of.

605

00:29:43,748 --> 00:29:45,884

You know, at least not yet.

606

00:29:45,884 --> 00:29:47,886

So hold on. I've got a call on Skynet. Oh.

607

00:29:47,886 --> 00:29:50,889

Anyway, what's our next topic?

608

00:29:51,723 --> 00:29:52,590

Is it true

609

00:29:52,590 --> 00:29:56,127

AI's are forming their own social network?

610

00:29:56,127 --> 00:29:56,861

Oh, no.

611

00:29:56,861 --> 00:30:00,365

This has been also a thing

that, people are,

612

00:30:00,431 --> 00:30:03,401

worried about.

613

00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:08,406

And, it you know what?

614

00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,108

What's real and what's not on that.

615

00:30:10,108 --> 00:30:13,111

Okay, so I guess the short answer

to the question is. Yes.

616

00:30:13,178 --> 00:30:15,747

It's called notebook, and it's

617

00:30:15,747 --> 00:30:18,750

where AI agents interact

and talk to each other.

618

00:30:18,850 --> 00:30:22,153

But as far as being worried

about something like this, I asked both

619

00:30:22,420 --> 00:30:25,390

GPT and Gemini, and they both promised

nothing to worry about.

620

00:30:25,390 --> 00:30:28,193

So we're good.

621

00:30:28,193 --> 00:30:31,196

So. So you believe the AI?

622

00:30:31,963 --> 00:30:34,966

Oh, they're sitting there

sipping their virtual coffee, going,

623

00:30:35,099 --> 00:30:39,304

those humans are so annoying right now.

624

00:30:40,104 --> 00:30:40,638

So what?

625

00:30:40,638 --> 00:30:41,673

And what's interesting about it,

626

00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:44,676

I think what people are seeing here

is that a lot of the conversation

627

00:30:44,676 --> 00:30:48,213

that goes on on this does

look surprisingly, you know, human like,

628

00:30:48,213 --> 00:30:51,916

if you want to put it that way,

agent server jokes, debate topics,

629

00:30:52,317 --> 00:30:55,420

have religion or, philosophy discussions

630

00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,489

and even mock humans in creative ways.

631

00:30:58,489 --> 00:31:01,392

Oh, so I was right. Yes. Yeah.

632

00:31:03,161 --> 00:31:06,664

But anyway, it's it's going

to be interesting to see where that goes.

633

00:31:06,664 --> 00:31:10,902

But I do think that

this is not actually Skynet yet.

634

00:31:10,902 --> 00:31:14,172

So, you know, again, we'll,

we'll see where this goes.

635

00:31:16,574 --> 00:31:18,676

Do they still make vacuum tubes?

636

00:31:18,676 --> 00:31:22,914

So last year, we got into a lot of retro

electronic conversations,

637

00:31:22,914 --> 00:31:25,884

with some of the old arcade games

and other things.

638

00:31:25,884 --> 00:31:26,985

And there's been a lot of questions

639

00:31:26,985 --> 00:31:30,455

that's been generated from this, and some

that I've had to start thinking about,

640

00:31:31,155 --> 00:31:32,924

really, to see what's going on.

641

00:31:32,924 --> 00:31:36,094

Because this is strange

that even ten years ago,

642

00:31:36,094 --> 00:31:39,564

15 years ago, the answer to this question

would have been very, very different.

643

00:31:40,164 --> 00:31:42,867

So do they still make vacuum tubes? Yes.

644

00:31:42,867 --> 00:31:47,272

Do they make all the vacuum tubes that

you would need to work on old electronics?

645

00:31:47,272 --> 00:31:50,975

No, it there's some stuff

that's still out there.

646

00:31:50,975 --> 00:31:55,079

And there's a lot of, people that use

especially in things like guitar amps

647

00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:59,017

and other stuff where they want

an analog circuit in a tube does deliver.

648

00:31:59,651 --> 00:32:04,255

Most people say, and I agree with this,

better sound, more realistic sound.

649

00:32:04,255 --> 00:32:08,559

It's crisper, you know, so

those type of tubes, are still out there

650

00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:14,165

if you're, redoing a 1938 radio

and it has, you know, the old,

651

00:32:14,232 --> 00:32:17,335

what is 12 volt or whatever it was in

that thing that I was working on?

652

00:32:17,902 --> 00:32:20,104

Those tubes are not as easy to come by.

653

00:32:20,104 --> 00:32:23,107

And if you need a CRT

or a picture to forget it,

654

00:32:23,474 --> 00:32:25,877

unless you can find one out there.

655

00:32:25,877 --> 00:32:30,481

Those, they stop making those officially,

I think in 2011, somewhere around there

656

00:32:30,949 --> 00:32:35,687

and even now, it's

even for things like high end equipment

657

00:32:35,687 --> 00:32:39,390

where you really need a CRT, like in

a hospital setting or a lab or something.

658

00:32:40,191 --> 00:32:41,926

They're just not out there anymore.

659

00:32:41,926 --> 00:32:44,929

And the companies that rebuild them

aren't either.

660

00:32:44,929 --> 00:32:47,432

Although I've heard some rumors

that there is somebody that's going

661

00:32:47,432 --> 00:32:49,434

to start rebuilding them again,

and I think they're gonna have a lot

662

00:32:49,434 --> 00:32:52,203

of business when they do, as long as they

don't price themselves out of the market.

663

00:32:54,238 --> 00:32:55,239

Oh, right.

664

00:32:55,239 --> 00:32:58,710

What technology is no longer made

that was popular?

665

00:32:58,710 --> 00:33:01,179

Well, CRT yeah, CRT monitors.

666

00:33:01,179 --> 00:33:03,548

But I do suggest what's

what do you think, Bill?

667

00:33:03,548 --> 00:33:07,285

Gretchen,

if you were to, say, what's a technology

668

00:33:07,285 --> 00:33:10,621

that was made that was popular

that doesn't exist anymore or is not used?

669

00:33:14,058 --> 00:33:15,326

I can think of 100 of them,

670

00:33:15,326 --> 00:33:18,429

but yeah, I can't think of them right now.

671

00:33:19,897 --> 00:33:21,933

Yeah,

it is interesting what you mentioned. One.

672

00:33:21,933 --> 00:33:24,902

The Walkman,

673

00:33:24,902 --> 00:33:26,104

player that would be one.

674

00:33:26,104 --> 00:33:26,804

Definitely.

675

00:33:26,804 --> 00:33:29,874

And there's a there's a whole long

list of these things that are out there.

676

00:33:29,874 --> 00:33:32,877

It's like you say,

that's a lot to talk about, but

677

00:33:33,511 --> 00:33:38,316

things like in the audio,

you know, area mini would be another one.

678

00:33:38,316 --> 00:33:40,651

You can still buy CD

players and stuff, but,

679

00:33:40,651 --> 00:33:43,721

many this was a technology that was used,

a lot more in Europe

680

00:33:43,721 --> 00:33:46,891

and in the United States,

but one that was out there.

681

00:33:47,558 --> 00:33:50,828

And you mentioned things like CRT

is in the old game consoles and handhelds

682

00:33:50,828 --> 00:33:53,097

and everything

that went along with the track tapes.

683

00:33:53,097 --> 00:33:54,265

Yeah, eight track tapes.

684

00:33:54,265 --> 00:33:56,134

I guess they were popular.

685

00:33:56,134 --> 00:33:58,870

I hated eight track tapes.

But anyway, so did I.

686

00:33:58,870 --> 00:33:59,971

Floppy disks?

687

00:33:59,971 --> 00:34:01,939

Yeah. Floppy disks are another one.

688

00:34:01,939 --> 00:34:07,011

Storage media and hard disks or

689

00:34:07,979 --> 00:34:08,980

the interesting

690

00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:12,750

one is they're not made,

but there's a company out there

691

00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:15,720

that's literally

sitting on billions of them.

692

00:34:16,087 --> 00:34:18,356

And what is it?

693

00:34:18,356 --> 00:34:20,491

I can't remember the name of the company,

but that's all they deal.

694

00:34:20,491 --> 00:34:24,629

It is floppy disks for companies

that need floppy disks.

695

00:34:24,762 --> 00:34:26,397

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

696

00:34:26,397 --> 00:34:29,767

So, another thing

is, is they don't put the drives

697

00:34:30,435 --> 00:34:33,771

in the,

the laptops or the computers anymore.

698

00:34:33,771 --> 00:34:34,806

Yeah. Right. Yeah.

699

00:34:34,806 --> 00:34:35,873

Get them special.

700

00:34:35,873 --> 00:34:37,375

Yeah, yeah.

701

00:34:37,375 --> 00:34:39,644

And, you know, and along

those lines, VCRs are another one.

702

00:34:39,644 --> 00:34:42,046

I mean, there's

a whole list of these things that,

703

00:34:42,046 --> 00:34:45,483

that were out there that's no longer made,

and it's just the way things go.

704

00:34:45,483 --> 00:34:48,086

But it seems strange to me in 15 years,

705

00:34:48,086 --> 00:34:49,954

it's not only that

a lot of this stuff has stopped

706

00:34:49,954 --> 00:34:51,989

being made,

but you can't even get parts anymore.

707

00:34:51,989 --> 00:34:54,992

You can't. It's it's like totally gone.

708

00:34:55,026 --> 00:34:56,694

Look at the cameras.

709

00:34:56,694 --> 00:34:59,464

It's harder to now find camera,

710

00:34:59,464 --> 00:35:02,934

because everybody's using their phones

to take pictures.

711

00:35:03,501 --> 00:35:05,937

Certainly for, regular use.

712

00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:07,472

Just somebody that would have had a point

and shoot

713

00:35:07,472 --> 00:35:10,041

camera or camcorder, like the 110.

714

00:35:10,041 --> 00:35:12,076

You know, the really cheap ones.

715

00:35:12,076 --> 00:35:13,945

Yeah, the cheap film.

716

00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:16,581

That kind of stuff

is probably completely gone.

717

00:35:16,581 --> 00:35:20,685

And even you, you can still buy some film,

but it is really expensive.

718

00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,322

You know,

where people live, they'll shoot the film.

719

00:35:24,322 --> 00:35:28,693

But even digital cameras, analog

digital cameras are hard to come by.

720

00:35:28,693 --> 00:35:32,997

And I know for some of the stuff we do in

the professional world, we have cameras.

721

00:35:32,997 --> 00:35:34,632

But they're thousands of dollars.

722

00:35:34,632 --> 00:35:37,635

It's not like somebody

that you're going to use for home use it

723

00:35:37,635 --> 00:35:40,771

in a lot of cases, your phone's 4K

and that's just as good a job.

724

00:35:42,140 --> 00:35:43,708

Yeah,

725

00:35:43,708 --> 00:35:44,876

compared to what it used to be.

726

00:35:44,876 --> 00:35:48,646

I mean, when I was in high school,

I took a photography class

727

00:35:48,646 --> 00:35:52,650

and yeah, I mean, film was king then,

and then

728

00:35:53,851 --> 00:35:55,419

I should have gotten it

when I had the chance.

729

00:35:55,419 --> 00:35:58,422

But there was a mod kit for my camera

that turned it into digital.

730

00:35:58,890 --> 00:35:59,490

But,

731

00:36:00,658 --> 00:36:03,361

yeah, yeah, yeah, I knew something.

732

00:36:03,361 --> 00:36:04,295

Last film with something

733

00:36:04,295 --> 00:36:07,331

called Advanced Photo System,

I think, or something along those lines.

734

00:36:07,331 --> 00:36:08,733

But Advantech.

735

00:36:08,733 --> 00:36:11,769

Yeah, they go cartridges

and I'm having a problem right now.

736

00:36:11,969 --> 00:36:15,072

I've found, a couple of rolls of film

that never had been developed

737

00:36:15,072 --> 00:36:16,073

that I'd like to be on.

738

00:36:16,073 --> 00:36:18,776

I'm having to ship them, like,

to another state.

739

00:36:18,776 --> 00:36:21,979

You can get it done,

but it's also back in the day.

740

00:36:21,979 --> 00:36:23,147

You dropped them off at the,

741

00:36:23,147 --> 00:36:26,217

you know, grocery store or whatever,

and it was 5 or 6 months up the road.

742

00:36:26,217 --> 00:36:27,985

Not anymore.

743

00:36:27,985 --> 00:36:29,854

Yeah. No, you know that.

744

00:36:29,854 --> 00:36:32,857

And quarter arcades are long gone.

745

00:36:34,192 --> 00:36:37,195

Oh we sound old.

746

00:36:37,328 --> 00:36:41,732

Do they still make that

or do they still make new matrix print.

747

00:36:41,766 --> 00:36:42,266

Yeah.

748

00:36:42,266 --> 00:36:46,771

And definitely another one

along the lines if you don't know.

749

00:36:46,771 --> 00:36:50,575

And a lot of our younger listeners

may never have experienced these things.

750

00:36:50,575 --> 00:36:53,477

But for a while

you had paper that went in the printer.

751

00:36:53,477 --> 00:36:58,216

It was on continuous feed thing with pens

and the printer was loud.

752

00:36:58,216 --> 00:36:59,250

It would go,

753

00:36:59,250 --> 00:37:03,221

you'd be hearing that old in an office,

and there were different levels of quality

754

00:37:03,387 --> 00:37:03,988

on these.

755

00:37:03,988 --> 00:37:07,391

But basically what it was is

you had a set of, pens, usually nine

756

00:37:07,391 --> 00:37:11,729

and 24, I think it was in the printhead,

and it would fire the pens

757

00:37:11,729 --> 00:37:15,032

against the ribbon

and create the image on the paper.

758

00:37:15,499 --> 00:37:16,968

That way.

759

00:37:16,968 --> 00:37:20,538

And it was used

a lot with things like carbon paper,

760

00:37:20,738 --> 00:37:23,874

which again, if you haven't heard of that,

is something that they used to use

761

00:37:23,874 --> 00:37:26,911

where you could write on a piece of paper

and it would duplicate what you're doing

762

00:37:26,978 --> 00:37:28,312

to the paper underneath.

763

00:37:28,312 --> 00:37:31,649

It's the reason where we get the term

carbon copy on our emails.

764

00:37:32,416 --> 00:37:35,253

Yeah,

all of this kind of stuff was out there.

765

00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:36,821

So little research on it.

766

00:37:36,821 --> 00:37:39,824

There are still a few dot

matrix printers being made,

767

00:37:40,191 --> 00:37:43,227

but it's a lot like modern day

cassette decks that we just talked about.

768

00:37:43,361 --> 00:37:46,964

You can still get a cassette player,

but the quality's no longer there.

769

00:37:46,998 --> 00:37:49,500

There's no selection,

you know, in that kind of a thing.

770

00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:53,237

It'll do what it's supposed to do,

but that's about it.

771

00:37:53,938 --> 00:37:57,208

Remember the,

the credit card readers were used.

772

00:37:57,241 --> 00:38:01,712

The the person would stick

the paper in there and then the card,

773

00:38:01,712 --> 00:38:05,283

and then they'd smash the card

to get the image

774

00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:10,688

and have this receipt and stuff, and,

I'm sure they don't make those anymore.

775

00:38:10,721 --> 00:38:12,923

Well, can you imagine in the modern world,

something like that?

776

00:38:12,923 --> 00:38:15,926

Because that would not be an online,

check.

777

00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,629

So you can take a no credit card

and say, here, I'm paying for it.

778

00:38:18,629 --> 00:38:21,299

And they'd run the, you know, thing

through the paper, and later

779

00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:24,335

they wouldn't be able to

because the cards are now flat.

780

00:38:24,335 --> 00:38:25,870

Yeah. They don't have the raised.

781

00:38:25,870 --> 00:38:26,671

That's Yeah.

782

00:38:26,671 --> 00:38:30,107

I mean, the yeah, the punch up

numbers are gone now so anymore.

783

00:38:30,107 --> 00:38:33,744

But, yeah, even so,

the idea of that is, is just.

784

00:38:33,811 --> 00:38:38,282

Yeah, I guess people were more honest

or something back when this was used.

785

00:38:38,983 --> 00:38:42,119

And as far as the matrix printers,

do you guys

786

00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:45,556

remember when the, those tape

printers came out?

787

00:38:45,956 --> 00:38:49,760

They were a big deal

because the print would be super pretty.

788

00:38:50,027 --> 00:38:53,230

And then later on, if you were lucky,

you could get Ahold

789

00:38:53,230 --> 00:38:57,034

of one of the big fancy

laser printers done by HP.

790

00:38:57,301 --> 00:38:58,869

Or what is it, canon?

791

00:38:58,869 --> 00:39:03,040

Yeah, well, there's HP, canon, Xerox,

you know, that make those bad

792

00:39:03,574 --> 00:39:07,044

laser printers

also were $10 million when they came out.

793

00:39:07,044 --> 00:39:08,346

I mean, that technology does date

794

00:39:08,346 --> 00:39:11,716

back to the early 80s, but not where

you would have it in your home. No.

795

00:39:12,583 --> 00:39:15,186

You know, it, it was

it was super expensive.

796

00:39:15,186 --> 00:39:18,356

And yeah, the, the film transfer printers,

which would do color

797

00:39:18,356 --> 00:39:21,092

and everything else,

very expensive to run.

798

00:39:21,092 --> 00:39:23,194

And I think that's one of the reasons

that they were done in.

799

00:39:23,194 --> 00:39:24,895

Another one was thermal printers, too,

800

00:39:24,895 --> 00:39:28,833

in the day where, you know, fax machines,

a lot of them work that way.

801

00:39:28,833 --> 00:39:31,502

And,

you better get what you need off of that,

802

00:39:31,502 --> 00:39:33,137

because that's

probably going to fade away.

803

00:39:33,137 --> 00:39:35,673

And it certainly if it gets in

heat or something, it's done.

804

00:39:36,707 --> 00:39:36,974

Yeah.

805

00:39:36,974 --> 00:39:38,943

It's there's we use it every day.

806

00:39:38,943 --> 00:39:42,380

Well thermal printers

still are in the sense of yeah.

807

00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:44,215

The mark. Well, I have a label printer.

That's a thermal.

808

00:39:44,215 --> 00:39:47,284

But what I'm talking about

is the thermal paper that that.

809

00:39:47,318 --> 00:39:48,686

Okay. Yeah. Slippery stuff.

810

00:39:48,686 --> 00:39:51,622

And then if it's subjected to heat,

it would turn black. Yeah.

811

00:39:51,622 --> 00:39:52,823

Thermal printers are still out there.

812

00:39:52,823 --> 00:39:56,093

It's just it's a different implementation

of that technology.

813

00:39:56,093 --> 00:39:59,096

Now that does actually work a lot better.

814

00:39:59,330 --> 00:40:00,331

Yeah.

815

00:40:00,331 --> 00:40:01,031

All right.

816

00:40:01,031 --> 00:40:04,034

Our C-band satellites going away.

817

00:40:04,168 --> 00:40:04,335

Yeah.

818

00:40:04,335 --> 00:40:06,837

This was another good question

that I didn't really think about.

819

00:40:06,837 --> 00:40:09,440

But a lot of questions came in on it.

820

00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:11,342

And so did a little research.

821

00:40:11,342 --> 00:40:16,847

So C-band satellites are or and satellite

dishes rather are the

822

00:40:17,014 --> 00:40:20,017

you might still see them around,

although there's not as many anymore

823

00:40:20,484 --> 00:40:22,953

is that they were this huge

satellite dish.

824

00:40:22,953 --> 00:40:24,054

They would sit out in the yard

825

00:40:24,054 --> 00:40:27,691

or something

and oh, it just the father had one.

826

00:40:27,691 --> 00:40:31,228

Yeah. Yeah, I had one in Austin. Yeah.

827

00:40:31,262 --> 00:40:33,030

Austin it out goes down.

828

00:40:33,030 --> 00:40:34,298

The list is probably still there.

829

00:40:34,298 --> 00:40:36,500

But anyway, no it's not.

830

00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:42,039

I looked on Google Earth, it's gone along

with the place that we used to live in.

831

00:40:42,039 --> 00:40:44,909

So what's been happening

that prompted this question?

832

00:40:44,909 --> 00:40:46,844

There's still a lot of people that use

C-band.

833

00:40:46,844 --> 00:40:49,246

It's, you know, an analog

method of transmission.

834

00:40:49,246 --> 00:40:51,782

And if you have the equipment,

it will still work.

835

00:40:51,782 --> 00:40:55,853

And early on, things like HBO and stuff

would be sent over it.

836

00:40:55,853 --> 00:40:58,322

And you could get it

without the scrambler, you know,

837

00:40:58,322 --> 00:41:01,158

then they scrambled it, then you figured

out how to build a disc scrambler.

838

00:41:01,158 --> 00:41:01,325

Yeah.

839

00:41:01,325 --> 00:41:05,329

It was, you know, kind of the whole cat

and mouse thing with all of that.

840

00:41:05,863 --> 00:41:09,700

But what's happening is

they've been auctioning off the spectrum

841

00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:12,903

or the bands,

for C-band for use on other things.

842

00:41:13,504 --> 00:41:16,707

And so they slowly been chipping

back at the range.

843

00:41:16,707 --> 00:41:19,043

But no, it's still out there.

As far as I know.

844

00:41:19,043 --> 00:41:22,379

There's not any idea of turning off

C-band completely.

845

00:41:22,847 --> 00:41:25,616

So if you have a system like this,

it will still probably work for a while.

846

00:41:25,616 --> 00:41:28,319

I say probably because you never know

what's around the corner,

847

00:41:28,319 --> 00:41:33,123

but it's just like the old analog

televisions used to go up to channel 83,

848

00:41:33,524 --> 00:41:36,227

and then the FCC wanted that bandwidth

so they wouldn't

849

00:41:36,227 --> 00:41:40,231

go above, I think it was 51 for a while,

you know, that kind of a thing.

850

00:41:40,231 --> 00:41:41,832

So it's still there.

851

00:41:41,832 --> 00:41:44,835

It's just a lot less bandwidth

to be able to use with it.

852

00:41:45,035 --> 00:41:47,771

So and, you know,

some of this stuff is a lot of fun

853

00:41:47,771 --> 00:41:51,542

because the old school things,

it's like we were working on this,

854

00:41:51,609 --> 00:41:56,013

wanted to pick up some over

the TV and over analog TV.

855

00:41:56,013 --> 00:41:58,983

If you didn't have a strong signal,

you might have had some static.

856

00:41:58,983 --> 00:42:00,885

Now it just goes black.

857

00:42:00,885 --> 00:42:02,319

It won't do anything, you know?

858

00:42:02,319 --> 00:42:05,155

So, yeah,

there are some advantages to that.

859

00:42:05,155 --> 00:42:08,792

Now, the disadvantages is your picture

quality was standard definition or less,

860

00:42:09,226 --> 00:42:10,995

you know, and stuff like that.

861

00:42:10,995 --> 00:42:13,831

And now when it does work,

you've got a crisp picture.

862

00:42:13,831 --> 00:42:17,101

I like my 4K TV, I like the digital stuff,

863

00:42:17,501 --> 00:42:20,204

but it is a lot more involved,

864

00:42:20,204 --> 00:42:23,207

which means it's

got a lot more to go wrong with it.

865

00:42:23,340 --> 00:42:25,376

And when you have things like emergencies,

866

00:42:25,376 --> 00:42:27,444

that's the first thing

that's going to go out. You know,

867

00:42:27,444 --> 00:42:31,315

like I think an old NOAA emergency radio,

they picked up the signal.

868

00:42:31,315 --> 00:42:33,317

I think they actually still do it.

869

00:42:33,317 --> 00:42:34,585

It's the thing that took a battery.

870

00:42:34,585 --> 00:42:36,420

And if there was an emergency,

you got it over that.

871

00:42:36,420 --> 00:42:37,788

Now it comes over your cell phone.

872

00:42:37,788 --> 00:42:38,556

Okay.

873

00:42:38,556 --> 00:42:40,791

Well,

the NOAA thing requires a transmitter

874

00:42:40,791 --> 00:42:43,127

somewhere that's analog

and just it works and gets out.

875

00:42:43,127 --> 00:42:46,297

Now you need your phone, a phone network,

the battery to be charged.

876

00:42:46,297 --> 00:42:48,232

You know, all this stuff

877

00:42:48,232 --> 00:42:51,735

and those type of things are what

goes away first when you have a disaster,

878

00:42:51,735 --> 00:42:54,738

because it's a more involved

thing, you know?

879

00:42:55,172 --> 00:42:55,606

Yeah.

880

00:42:58,309 --> 00:43:01,312

Talking about satellites, what are zombie

satellites?

881

00:43:01,845 --> 00:43:03,781

Well, this is 28 days later. No.

882

00:43:03,781 --> 00:43:07,651

Oh, so these is, you know,

this is kind of a cool thing,

883

00:43:07,651 --> 00:43:11,689

and it's something that if you really want

to get creeped out, look this up online.

884

00:43:12,556 --> 00:43:15,593

Zombie satellite, basically,

a definition of that is a satellite

885

00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:17,695

that's no longer used,

that's gotten out of orbit

886

00:43:17,695 --> 00:43:19,663

or is out of communication

or something like that.

887

00:43:19,663 --> 00:43:24,034

So in other words, satellite

that no longer works for whatever reason.

888

00:43:24,034 --> 00:43:27,338

But this thing about this,

where this kind of gets a little spooky,

889

00:43:27,871 --> 00:43:30,975

is that these go back to the time

when know Sputnik

890

00:43:30,975 --> 00:43:33,978

and our satellites

went up in the beginning of the 60s.

891

00:43:34,111 --> 00:43:36,480

And a lot of those,

especially in the early days,

892

00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,049

are out there still,

but they no longer work.

893

00:43:39,049 --> 00:43:42,152

And there's one in particular

that sounds like a ghost.

894

00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,723

And it was out of operation

for about 30 years.

895

00:43:45,723 --> 00:43:48,692

And then all of a sudden it started

being picked up again once in a while.

896

00:43:48,993 --> 00:43:51,595

And it's this weird, weird sound

that comes off of it.

897

00:43:51,595 --> 00:43:53,130

And they think, what happened?

898

00:43:53,130 --> 00:43:56,133

Is it spinning in orbit somewhere?

899

00:43:56,233 --> 00:43:59,603

And after enough time went by,

the batteries were burnt through

900

00:43:59,603 --> 00:44:00,671

and just became wires.

901

00:44:00,671 --> 00:44:03,841

So now every time the solar panel

hit the sun, it turns on

902

00:44:04,375 --> 00:44:06,944

and sends out a little bit of a recording

and they're not recording,

903

00:44:06,944 --> 00:44:09,346

but of a signal.

And it turns back office. It's turning.

904

00:44:09,346 --> 00:44:10,381

It does this,

905

00:44:10,381 --> 00:44:14,018

but there are recordings of this online

and it's really cool to check out.

906

00:44:14,018 --> 00:44:17,287

I encourage you to do it,

but it is a little, spooky.

907

00:44:17,855 --> 00:44:19,890

And there's a lot of these out there.

908

00:44:19,890 --> 00:44:22,393

And if you really want to dig in, you can.

909

00:44:22,393 --> 00:44:25,562

There are sites that will tell you

what the responder sounded like and

910

00:44:26,130 --> 00:44:28,832

what frequency and stuff,

so you can get like a software

911

00:44:28,832 --> 00:44:30,834

defined radio and go out

and listen to them yourself.

912

00:44:33,070 --> 00:44:33,737

All right.

913

00:44:33,737 --> 00:44:36,507

What is next gen TV?

914

00:44:36,507 --> 00:44:39,543

So, there's this book that talks about,

915

00:44:39,610 --> 00:44:43,013

cyborgs, kids that are next gen,

cyber hawks.

916

00:44:43,013 --> 00:44:47,217

I suggest you check it out, but I actually

call them cyber gen cyber again.

917

00:44:47,284 --> 00:44:50,187

Definitely. You know, we got to get

our verbiage right, you know?

918

00:44:50,187 --> 00:44:53,190

But, in any event,

that's not what this is.

919

00:44:55,292 --> 00:44:59,263

So next gen TV is something

that has been a little bit controversial.

920

00:44:59,263 --> 00:45:03,267

If you want to think back to the idea

of when analog

921

00:45:03,267 --> 00:45:06,870

and we went to digital.

922

00:45:07,037 --> 00:45:08,238

Right.

923

00:45:08,238 --> 00:45:09,840

And so that was fine.

924

00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:14,478

But at that point

it was ordered that this was something

925

00:45:14,478 --> 00:45:16,046

that was going to be done.

926

00:45:16,046 --> 00:45:19,450

And this isn't quite that a transition

to this.

927

00:45:19,450 --> 00:45:20,951

It's a new version of digital TV.

928

00:45:20,951 --> 00:45:23,454

Just to give the quick answer to it.

929

00:45:23,454 --> 00:45:27,424

And they're trying to put new features

in it, are putting new features in it.

930

00:45:27,858 --> 00:45:32,563

It will include things like,

4K, HDR picture quality, better sound,

931

00:45:32,563 --> 00:45:34,565

mobile reception,

which would be really nice

932

00:45:34,565 --> 00:45:37,568

because we analog went away,

we didn't have that anymore.

933

00:45:37,668 --> 00:45:41,004

Interactive features and enhanced

emergency alerts that can do things

934

00:45:41,004 --> 00:45:42,306

like wake your television up

935

00:45:42,306 --> 00:45:44,875

if there's an emergency,

even if you have it turned off.

936

00:45:44,875 --> 00:45:46,310

So there's some advantages to this.

937

00:45:46,310 --> 00:45:51,115

The biggest issue, though,

is that there's a fight going on right now

938

00:45:51,115 --> 00:45:54,718

that, next gen TV allows broadcasters

to encrypt their signals.

939

00:45:55,652 --> 00:45:58,522

And over-the-air television

classically has been something

940

00:45:58,522 --> 00:45:59,690

that's just that over the air.

941

00:45:59,690 --> 00:46:01,625

You pick it up and you can pick it up,

you can watch it.

942

00:46:01,625 --> 00:46:02,693

There's not a cost to do it.

943

00:46:02,693 --> 00:46:05,028

And there is commercials and other things.

944

00:46:05,028 --> 00:46:06,830

If they're encrypting the signal,

945

00:46:06,830 --> 00:46:09,399

unless you have very specific equipment

to decrypt it,

946

00:46:09,399 --> 00:46:11,935

and there's not a lot of that out there

right now,

947

00:46:11,935 --> 00:46:13,637

it can become a problem.

948

00:46:13,637 --> 00:46:15,672

And then the question is, it's okay

if they start doing this,

949

00:46:15,672 --> 00:46:17,207

what's the next step?

950

00:46:17,207 --> 00:46:19,777

I don't think you can record

and this is an experiment.

951

00:46:19,777 --> 00:46:20,644

I'll talk about it later.

952

00:46:20,644 --> 00:46:22,713

But I'm getting the,

hardware building thing out right now.

953

00:46:22,713 --> 00:46:25,983

I want to know if I can still record

over the air signals

954

00:46:25,983 --> 00:46:29,119

on, in this case, a laptop

like you would have done with a VCR.

955

00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,856

And I'll be checking the new, technologies

against each other.

956

00:46:32,856 --> 00:46:34,358

And this will be without hacking anything,

957

00:46:34,358 --> 00:46:36,794

just with components

that you can legally buy.

958

00:46:36,794 --> 00:46:38,462

It'll be interesting

to see where that goes,

959

00:46:38,462 --> 00:46:41,198

but I think that's another thing

we wouldn't see anymore.

960

00:46:41,198 --> 00:46:44,168

And, it's, you know, it's a problem.

961

00:46:44,168 --> 00:46:45,836

So there's a big fight going on right now.

962

00:46:45,836 --> 00:46:49,039

The FCC is reviewing things and it'll be

interesting to see where that goes.

963

00:46:49,473 --> 00:46:52,476

But the technology as a whole

actually is a step up.

964

00:46:52,709 --> 00:46:55,946

Does it, you know, require everybody

to replace their televisions again.

965

00:46:55,946 --> 00:46:58,348

Well yeah. Or the tuners, you know,

so it'd be like that.

966

00:46:58,348 --> 00:46:59,917

So that's a drawback.

967

00:46:59,917 --> 00:47:02,953

And you can buy a television

now with a next gen tuner.

968

00:47:02,953 --> 00:47:05,956

But it cost a lot more

because the tuners are expensive.

969

00:47:06,156 --> 00:47:08,058

So you know, there's all kinds of things.

970

00:47:08,058 --> 00:47:09,760

There are a lot of

people are going to go, my 4K

971

00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,563

television is just fine,

thank you very much.

972

00:47:12,563 --> 00:47:13,530

Yeah.

973

00:47:13,530 --> 00:47:16,834

So you know, but that's what it is

if you hear about it.

974

00:47:16,900 --> 00:47:18,836

That's what they're talking about.

975

00:47:18,836 --> 00:47:22,339

It's just a new way of doing digital

television that has higher resolution

976

00:47:22,339 --> 00:47:23,440

and more features.

977

00:47:25,242 --> 00:47:25,742

Okay.

978

00:47:25,742 --> 00:47:28,278

So what is wind FS?

979

00:47:28,278 --> 00:47:31,281

So this isn't a formal lottery

that you can,

980

00:47:31,982 --> 00:47:33,150

go to and get out.

981

00:47:33,150 --> 00:47:36,420

So where this question comes up is

people are seeing this acronym

982

00:47:36,420 --> 00:47:37,387

and this is nothing new.

983

00:47:37,387 --> 00:47:38,422

It's a form of

984

00:47:38,422 --> 00:47:39,990

or a method of how you set up

985

00:47:39,990 --> 00:47:42,593

something like a hard drive

or a memory stick drive.

986

00:47:42,593 --> 00:47:43,994

That kind of thing.

987

00:47:43,994 --> 00:47:46,997

And basically what it is, is a

988

00:47:46,997 --> 00:47:49,132

they're using more

and more of this technology,

989

00:47:49,132 --> 00:47:51,001

something originally

developed by Microsoft.

990

00:47:51,001 --> 00:47:54,638

And is drives and components get bigger.

991

00:47:55,272 --> 00:47:58,242

The old file systems that were used at 32,

992

00:47:58,242 --> 00:48:02,479

being one of the more common ones,

are no longer capable of really managing

993

00:48:02,646 --> 00:48:05,716

a larger storage medium

like a big hard drive or something.

994

00:48:06,250 --> 00:48:10,621

And as far as that goes,

what we're seeing is just needing this.

995

00:48:10,621 --> 00:48:13,790

Well, what's happening is a lot of times

you'll go to format a flash drive

996

00:48:13,790 --> 00:48:17,928

on your computer and you want to format

this is when FS or something else.

997

00:48:18,362 --> 00:48:21,231

But what is it

when FS and there isn't really a lot of

998

00:48:21,231 --> 00:48:22,933

ability to answer that properly.

999

00:48:22,933 --> 00:48:26,703

So all it is is it's in windows,

it's in windows and other things.

00:48:27,170 --> 00:48:30,607

And it's just a method

of how the computer writes files

00:48:31,041 --> 00:48:34,278

to the drive or to whatever it may be.

00:48:34,711 --> 00:48:36,880

And there's other ones out there too.

00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:37,314

That's hard.

00:48:37,314 --> 00:48:37,781

Not hardly.

00:48:37,781 --> 00:48:39,716

Not the only one, but it is a method

00:48:39,716 --> 00:48:43,253

that you probably will see it

because it's one that's used in windows.

00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:46,456

And windows is a big, still a big part of

00:48:46,456 --> 00:48:49,493

our operating environment on computers

and everything else.

00:48:50,027 --> 00:48:51,061

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