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.
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Welcome to this week's show.
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And if you missed this last week again
happy 2026.
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May this be a wonderful year
for everybody.
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It'll be interesting for us.
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We've got some exciting new things
coming this year for user friendly.
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You're just gonna have to wait
and see what they are,
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and we'll talk about them as the year goes
by. Bill.
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Gretchen, welcome. Hello, there. Hello.
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So since last week's show
was obviously recorded before the first.
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Just because we were off that week.
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I'm going to ask you, since we're going
live now, how is your New Year's?
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Very good. Pretty well.
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Quiet.
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And it was great for me, too,
except for the noisy people outside.
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Well, that's because you live in the
middle of a war zone.
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Yeah.
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Seems like
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it looks normal during the daytime,
you know?
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But then all the people come home
and they're really noisy.
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Well, if the time comes that we can fly
the jets, we'll be able to take off
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and land in your neighborhood because
nobody will, you know, and can notice.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, well, on into 2026,
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we're going to be covering two things
this week.
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After the news,
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we're going to be talking about
what's going on with CBS now as we record.
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CBS is actively going on. It's Wednesday.
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When you hear this it will have included.
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So there might be some additional news.
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And if there is anything
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major that comes after today,
we'll pick that up next week for you.
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But there's been some exciting things
announced and some generally just,
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unusual, some unexpected, some
that are expected.
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And spoiler alert, AI, is it everything?
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We'll talk about that after the news.
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Second segment we're going
to be talking about arcade one up.
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James Sherwood, the host of The Vault,
is going to be joining me on that.
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And anybody that doesn't know Arcade
one up is a company that manufactures
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replica, stand up arcade machines of a
lot of the classics and different things.
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There are three quarter size.
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They're meant for the house.
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I have one for old knacks
and another one for team and team.
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I like them.
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You would never put them in an arcade
or anything
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because they wouldn't
stand up for your game room.
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It was an inexpensive way to get something
that I think was really cool.
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Well, unfortunately, the company is,
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I want to say, ceasing operations,
although at this point
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the website is still up
and you can still order,
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but we're going to be talking about
the details
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of what's going on
with that in the next segment
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and what's going to happen
if you have a cabinet
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that requires online connectivity,
like their infinity table
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or number of other things,
and what's going to happen
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if the servers get shut down
and even if that's going to happen.
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So stay tuned for that.
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In the meantime, let's go ahead
and jump into our news first of 2026.
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All right.
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There is an update to Kennedy
leaving Lucasfilm sort of.
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So we're covering this
because this has been
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a lot of questions from you on
what's going on here.
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And for anybody that doesn't know,
Kathleen Kennedy is the,
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president or CEO, one of those titles
of Lucasfilm at Disney.
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He's been running it
for a number of years,
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and he's had bright spots
and not so bright spots.
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Not quite anyway, but, Oh, yeah.
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Sorry.
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And he had stated earlier last year
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that, she was going to be stepping down
at the end of 2025.
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Now, as we are in 2026.
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She still is not stepping down, but
according to reports that are out there.
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So this is a little bit of a rumor line,
but they are coming up with an exit plan,
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which would seem to substantiate
that this is going to happen.
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She's now expected
to step down as president.
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That was her title of Lucasfilm
in the next couple of weeks.
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And they're talking about having Dave
Filoni take over.
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And when when Brennan
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also taking a lead role as the air cooled
presidents or, something of that nature.
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And again, we don't know
what officially is going up yet.
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There has been no official press release
or anything like that at this point,
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but it does look like this is around
the corner, so we'll keep being there.
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Any security people, you know,
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wearing suits and glasses
and carrying an empty box for her?
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Not. Not yet.
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Oh, yeah.
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That was an interesting video.
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Just at the president's desk.
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Okay, fill your box and we're out. Yeah.
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Sorry, I just told do that.
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Maybe Wells Fargo, but anyway, so,
I don't know, they just lock the door
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and just tell you
you can't come in and ever again.
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I mean, you know,
what a way to do it anyway.
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So that's a whole nother topic for a whole
nother time.
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But this is the information
we have on this right now.
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And there's a number of different outlets
that are reporting different things,
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but that seems to be what's going on
that is being agreed upon.
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Her contract expired at the end of 2025,
according to sources
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that have the rest of this.
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So what's going on right now
is probably hopefully making a decision.
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She's run the company for a long time.
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Some love her, some don't.
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But it's definitely good to
sometimes make a change in the personnel,
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maybe picked a little different direction.
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Warner Brothers tells shareholders
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that Larry Ellison's
wealth isn't enough to best a Netflix bid.
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Okay, so that's a mouthful,
but basically what's going on
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here is Warner Brothers and Discovery.
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For anybody that doesn't know,
that tied up a number of years ago.
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They were spun off,
by one of the cell phone
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or cell phone communication carriers.
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That for some reason bought that company,
and then it didn't seem like
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they knew how to run it.
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So they spun it off
and it became Warner Brothers discovery.
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And the two are divorcing, amicably.
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From what I understand, where
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Discovery Networks and Warner Brothers
each come their own thing again.
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And Warner Brothers,
that part of it was set up to be sold
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to Netflix, and Netflix had come in
and offered a tidy sum.
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Let's just say I mean, you know,
I say it's a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
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This would be like 4 or 5.
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And, you know, I'm the kind
with the fluffy stuff on the top.
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You would have the police,
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We can have Weird
Al talked about that one.
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But, at the end of the day,
the concern here is
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this will make a giant, giant media empire
because Netflix would then own
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Warner Brothers catalog and studios
and some other things.
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They were not originally
taking the networks.
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So like Discovery Network and TNT
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television days are still out there,
but they are waning.
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Just say, you know, as everything
goes to new media and streaming,
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that kind of broadcast is definitely
something that has become obsolete.
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It still exists and there are still people
that subscribe to it.
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And if you're one of those people,
please check how much you're paying
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because there's a number of other ways
you can get your
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what would have been cable
for a lot less money.
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But at the end of the day,
these type of things are on the back end
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and eventually will shut down.
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Or they'll do something else
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along the lines with that,
this again, was a concern.
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So Paramount came in
and tried to make a bid or a takeover,
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not amicably,
and came in with a lot more money.
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But there's a huge debt position
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And that's something that knocks
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a lot of these companies out
at the end of the day,
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as they merge
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and then they can't pay the debt
when something goes wrong.
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So at this point, they are saying that
this is not going to be an option.
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They're going to stick
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maybe things will stabilize
and they will, but we'll see what happens.
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I wouldn't be a bit
surprised to see antitrust concern,
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from the government on this either
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just because of what it will end up
creating is going to be a monster.
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Are you sure it's going to be a monster?
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Well, how about a powerhouse?
That might be a better our house.
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Okay, because a monster implies, you know,
trashing things and destroying stuff.
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You know, Godzilla type, you know,
that's where, you know, maybe I don't know
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if they have the rights to the old video
game rampage, but maybe that.
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NASA's Hubble spots
a stellar wake inside Beetlejuice.
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And I'm pretty sure that's Beetlejuice.
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Like,
you know that, say, three times, right?
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Have a problem?
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All right.
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Now, this is, not the movie.
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It is a thing that exists in space and
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companion star. Wait.
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Okay, so let's talk about what
that is very quickly.
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Beetlejuice is a red giant, and
it is something that we've known about.
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And it would bubble.
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And if we have a lot of the new
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imaging technology we have,
science has been learning a lot about it.
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And one of the things that was postulated
is that there's a second star
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that orbits Beetlejuice, probably.
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Oh, and this was always a theory.
Until now.
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They've proven the existence of this
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and the way that they've done
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they can actually see
when the small star goes through the light
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created by the Beetlejuice star,
it creates a different wavelength.
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So you will, just as a red
giant is red and the other one
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emits more of a blue light.
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And then the new one, it's a newer one.
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It would be.
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And, so in any event,
that's what's going on there.
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And I just thought this was interesting.
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We have a lot of, you that are interested
in space, and the three of us are too.
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So sometimes it's kind of fun to see,
you know, substantial things
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or when our new technology really
is allowing us to discover things
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a lot faster than we ever
would have been able to in the past.
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This forgotten the Star
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Wars series is returning to shelves
in 2026.
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Yeah. So, Gretchen,
I'm going to have you weigh in on this.
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But basically what's going on here is
this is a hardcover
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reprint of a comic strip.
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If I understand it correctly.
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And the thing is, is
I think I actually recall seeing it,
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it was printed in the newspapers,
if am I correct?
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Yeah, I remember
that was in the newspapers.
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And, but I mean, I was still,
you know, pretty young at that time
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and I didn't like, collect,
you know, collect the newspaper.
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At least I didn't,
but I do recall seeing it
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and I'm like, oh, hey.
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This is going to be out, and
it's going to be available is one volume.
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I believe it's the first time
it's been published all together.
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It's 1096 pages. So that's a lot.
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And, I believe it's been published
by Dark Horse here in Portland.
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Really? So that's cool.
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Yeah. And just a footnote on all of this.
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And, hats off to George Lucas.
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This is the 50th we're getting to the 50th
anniversary of Star Wars.
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Oh, we've got oh, yeah, you're right.
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86 okay, 2026.
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So yeah, it'll be this year.
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And it's kept its relevance
and everything,
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and it's interesting to look at it
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Lucas had a way of being able
to create stuff
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because obviously technology has changed
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You know,
we talked about that all the time.
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But the way that he did it,
the creative control of it,
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it was done so that it really didn't age.
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okay, you know,
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we probably would have a USB stick
instead of a, you know,
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droid sticking that weird thing
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the concepts still work.
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It's far, far away.
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So it's going to be different technology
anyway.
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It doesn't feel obsolete,
which is something I think is really cool.
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It's really hard to pull that off a lot of
things age badly, and this hasn't.
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Oh, right.
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So daylight savings time
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get ready to spring forward
even earlier this year.
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I wish we would just not do this. Yeah.
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So so editors commentary here. Yeah.
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All right.
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I am of the, of the same opinion.
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And just on the aside on that,
there's been a lot of, attempts
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to end the changing of the clocks,
the Sunshine Act, which was in Congress
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and I believe has been reintroduced,
would make daylight savings permanent.
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There is another school of thought
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that would like to make standard time
permanent.
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It should be standard.
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Yeah,
I agree with the standard time thing,
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but I would support the other one
if that's the way it had to be.
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I really just the changing of the clocks
every year, twice a year is a real hassle,
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and it actually has been found
to cause more traffic accidents
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and things like that because it puts
people out of their normal rhythms
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and in the fall, it's
nice to just get an extra hour sleep.
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But in the spring it isn't so nice
because you lose it. You know?
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I don't like it either way.
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I think they should just leave it
at standard time.
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We're not living in an age
where we have candles, okay?
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We have electricity now.
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We have electricity now we can really.
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Okay, there is that.
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But, so if we need to go outside
and see what's going on with the cows,
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we can turn the lights on or a flashlight.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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I just, you know, and the thing of it
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is that's another argument is, you know,
is daylight saving still relevant?
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Most majority of people
would say it's not.
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Some say it is.
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It would be interesting
because I know up here in the Pacific
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Northwest, it would mean that set up in
the morning would be what like
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during the dark times 9:30 a.m.
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something and then you would have sun
really early in the in the summer
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anyway, depending on which way you shift
weather, which one becomes permanent. So
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anyway, so back to the topic at hand here.
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We are springing forward one day earlier
than last year, so it isn't that bad.
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But it is going to be just the way
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the calendar works out is the earliest
possible date that they can do it.
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Which means if we're still switching
next year, it will be a little bit
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later.
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Scientists can't believe it.
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New spacecraft images
unmask Interstellar Comet three Atlas
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in such unsettling detail,
it doesn't look natural.
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All right,
so this is a story that I wanted to cover
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for, not the reasons you might think
that we would cover a news story.
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Oh, and the reason for
this is we get a lot of questions in on
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how do you figure out what you can
believe?
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Oh, especially with things like science
and that kind of thing.
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Come out.
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This is published by an outlet called
The Pulse.
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I'm not particularly familiar with them.
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Yeah,
but it is one that when I looked at this
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I first thought, oh,
you know, this isn't terribly accurate.
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So we're going to take out of the lineup.
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Some parts are, I think, what
this would qualify as something that's
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sensationalized
would be the best way to put that.
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There are aspects of the article that are
absolutely true and that type of a thing.
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And then there's other stuff in there
that isn't quite the,
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and so just to kind of go over this real
quick, we've talked about this in the past
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three outlets is real
and has been observed by many spacecraft.
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And there are images that do exist,
but not high
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definition movie like pictures,
which the article seems to allude to.
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Oh, really?
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Now that I and I figured that one out
as I tried looking for the pictures.
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Oh, this would be cool
and I couldn't find it.
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And there's none in the article
either, right?
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So I thought that was annoying.
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But I see these articles constantly,
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so I don't know which one is
which one is good and which one is bad.
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And so yeah, I know it makes it hard
because stuff that's presented
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and I wouldn't
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go as far as to say this article is false,
it has accurate information in it,
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but the way it's presented is it's not
accurate as a whole, in my opinion.
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One of the things is
the scientific community do not think that
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three outlets looks unnatural,
which is alluded to in the article.
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It is a comet.
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It has some unique characteristics
according to mainstream
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scientific community,
but they say that there is no artificial
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or unsettling link
that would apply non-natural origins.
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So is it an alien spaceship
and the aliens are going to come down?
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Well, that would have already happened
in December.
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Or, you know, outside of it being maybe
like super smart AI or something,
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it's not going to be the case.
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But at the end of the day, again,
the article would tend to allude
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to different things.
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And we're picking on this one
because it's the one I saw.
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But I'm seeing this, like you say,
Gretchen all over the place.
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Yeah, there are videos on YouTube
that go into, you know,
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well, it's been proven that,
you know, this, that
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and the other thing happened
when in fact you research and it hasn't.
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And NASA and independent studies confirm
the object is a natural object.
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Again, the scientific community reports
this.
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Searches for artificial signals
or technosignatures have not been found
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and alluded to it that so wrapping
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that up, sensational claims online
remain unverified.
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The article talks
about rotating weird shape, but
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they're not used by scientific agencies
and lack verification.
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So I think where we're going with
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this is it's important that you don't
just believe everything you read online.
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It makes sense, you know, and most of us
get our news
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through the internet now
as opposed to conventional news sources.
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But the thing of it is, is,
as we all know,
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anybody can write on the internet
and have a blog, put up a website.
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All these different type of things
does not mean it's accurate, does not mean
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it's inaccurate, but it does require
doing some independent research.
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Going to organizations
like Nassar or the USA
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and seeing what they're
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talking about, and maybe even reaching out
and asking questions.
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There's ways to do that too.
If you have them.
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But again, at the end of the day,
I just wanted to throw this
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in here to talk about
how these things can fool you.
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And it's very easy to do.
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Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot at CES 2026
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I saw this video and I was hoping
what I was seeing was real.
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So I'm assuming
that you've done your CES research
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and it was a really cool looking robot.
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And I'm hoping I hope this guy's real.
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Is he? Yeah.
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From what I've been able to find, the,
videos they're being showed are real.
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And it even looks like the robot's
operating on its own.
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Not having someone in the corner,
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you know, doing it by remote
like some other human.
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Like the Wizard of Oz.
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Yeah, it's actually not working
behind the curtain on.
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And the other thing of videos is Boston
Dynamics is a credible company.
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They support the dog.
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Wish you a lot of seen videos online
and that type of thing.
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So at the end of the day,
I do think that this is fairly accurate.
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And I do think the videos are showing
are accurate.
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I mean, if it comes out,
it's not we'll talk about that.
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But you know, it really it seems like
they've kind of gotten there.
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And if they have, they've got articulation
of the three fingers and other things
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that have been something that has been
somewhat difficult to come up with.
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And speaking of CTS,
I promised that in the opening.
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So let's go ahead and jump into that
a little bit here.
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The show is happening this week.
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It closes.
We're recording on the seventh.
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It closes on the ninth.
So you'll be hearing the show on the 10th.
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So it'll be one day ago that it shut down.
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And I is kind of in everything
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we are
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seeing this next gen display, smart home
upgrades, robotics, wearable tech,
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AI powered devices across every category,
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and from PCs to fridges to everything
else.
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So needless to say,
they're talking about AI a lot.
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Hey, hey, you know, spark
used AI on on Star Trek to research,
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an actor
who was thought to be a mass murderer.
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And I just watch this and I'm thinking,
hey, I use AI to research stuff. So.
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And so does Spock.
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And that was in the 60s.
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So. Yeah. So, yeah. And it is true.
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I've been, you know, in artificial
intelligence as an idea is not new.
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I mean, they talked about it in the 80s.
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It's been something that's been out there
now, generative
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AI and some of the direction we're
able to go with it now that is unique
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and something that is definitely
getting involved in everything
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good, bad or otherwise.
We're seeing it all over the place.
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And along that line
there are some interesting
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pieces of technology they show now.
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Samsung unveiled every year.
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They seem to go
see us with the biggest TV this year.
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It was 130 inch,
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micro RGB, ai TV,
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have built in conversational AI
so you can talk to your television.
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How nice. Right. Okay.
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I'm thinking of, Sharon Heights.
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We're 51 and Weird Al's song. And.
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So what's going through my head?
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LG's showing
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a new OLED line up, which are paper thin.
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They're calling them wallpaper OLEDs.
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And again, AI powered picture adjustments.
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So you need a new television.
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There's
going to be some cool stuff out there.
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I don't know how you did
130 inch television through your door,
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but I'm sure there's a way.
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So the other thing that's interesting
is phones, wearable tech.
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This is an area
that usually is covered at CES,
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but Motorola is, distributing or actually
showing off a book style foldable phone,
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so it folds up
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even more than the ones we have now,
which are kind of cool.
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I like the form factor.
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I have one that's a what is it,
a flip Samsung flip that folds in half.
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Yeah, and I know they have a fold
that's two screens
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that go together,
but it's smaller and it's nice size.
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So they're, you know building up on that
which actually makes a lot of sense.
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They would
you look at the different things.
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Wearables are becoming a big deal.
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Eyeglasses and that type of thing
are going to be available
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to regular consumers,
although they still have
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their bugs to get worked out,
but they're there.
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And when you look at these things, it's
kind of fun to see what direction
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this will all go.
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I think one of my favorite things
was a concept laptop
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or the screen unrolls, so when you turn it
on, you can pull it out the side
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you have, like this thing for an immersive
display that you can roll around you.
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And it didn't seem to work as long as
it was really what it was being shown.
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Yeah.
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It was really,
you know, something that's different now.
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Smart home and robotics is another area
that's been a big deal.
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But one of the most unique one was a
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robot
by robo rock company called robot Rock.
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And it's a stair climbing robovac.
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So one
of the limitations about robot vacuums
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and a lot of other robots
is they don't do the stairs.
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They have to be on one floor.
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So now this can climb up the stairs.
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That sounds really like that
wouldn't be scary
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in the middle of the night if you forgot
to turn it off and maybe, so you see it,
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you know?
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So, yeah, I just,
I think I laundry care that.
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That's interesting.
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I was looking at what that's going to be,
and not that our washers and dryers
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aren't complicated enough,
but it's going to get
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even more complicated.
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Another one
that's interesting is air conditioners
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that intelligently adapt to the room
they're in.
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And I can see where
this would be kind of cool
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because it could save electricity
in that type of thing.
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So you know, it's kind of cool
to see where
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all of this is going
and we'll see what else gets debuted here.
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Ikea was even involved.
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And they have a set of Bluetooth speakers.
469
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It can pair in large groups.
470
00:23:17,195 --> 00:23:20,999
So instead of just your one smart speaker,
which one of the things I like
471
00:23:20,999 --> 00:23:22,334
is stereo and surround sound.
472
00:23:22,334 --> 00:23:26,004
And that is something you do lose
with a smart speaker, although the
473
00:23:26,304 --> 00:23:30,008
some of them have been set up where you
can pair two together and put it in place.
474
00:23:30,008 --> 00:23:32,277
But that's not done by a lot of people.
475
00:23:32,277 --> 00:23:34,212
Well, this kind of a situation
actually allows for
476
00:23:34,212 --> 00:23:37,516
preparing your smart speakers for Atmos
if you wanted it.
477
00:23:38,049 --> 00:23:41,753
Or at least five channel surround sound,
seven channel surround sound, you know.
478
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,491
So, that being the case, a lot to see.
479
00:23:46,792 --> 00:23:47,025
All right.
480
00:23:47,025 --> 00:23:47,893
We're going to go ahead and break
481
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and go to our next segment
and we'll be right back.
482
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This is user friendly 3.0.
483
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You see here he's from the future.
484
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He's got a really big computer
485
00:24:00,172 --> 00:24:03,275
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486
00:24:03,675 --> 00:24:08,713
and uses it uses it in every way
I see you sure.
487
00:24:08,713 --> 00:24:12,350
You know, I'm not sure because he uses it.
488
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Welcome back.
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491
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what is happening
492
00:24:19,724 --> 00:24:23,462
with our arcade, one up, a question
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502
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With that I'm
going to welcome the host of the vault.
503
00:24:46,651 --> 00:24:48,553
James Sherwood. Welcome.
504
00:24:48,553 --> 00:24:49,054
Thank you.
505
00:24:49,054 --> 00:24:50,555
Thank you for having me again.
506
00:24:50,555 --> 00:24:51,923
Oh, it's always a pleasure.
507
00:24:51,923 --> 00:24:55,393
But this time we have a topic
that is kind of created
508
00:24:55,393 --> 00:24:57,863
some churn and questions
and that type of a thing.
509
00:24:57,863 --> 00:25:00,465
And that's
what's happening with the arcade one up.
510
00:25:00,465 --> 00:25:02,367
And before we get into that,
just really quick
511
00:25:02,367 --> 00:25:04,035
for anybody that doesn't know, arcade
512
00:25:04,035 --> 00:25:08,073
One up is a company that manufactures
reproductions of stand up arcade games.
513
00:25:08,073 --> 00:25:09,908
There are three quarter
size of the original.
514
00:25:09,908 --> 00:25:11,877
There's some been doing this
for a number of years.
515
00:25:11,877 --> 00:25:14,446
You could buy these at Walmart
and other places like that.
516
00:25:14,446 --> 00:25:18,683
One that we have among us is Golden Ax,
the old Sega game Golden Ax.
517
00:25:18,884 --> 00:25:19,651
So that's one.
518
00:25:19,651 --> 00:25:20,585
But they've done Pac-Man
519
00:25:20,585 --> 00:25:24,089
on a number of other things,
so a lot of people know about them.
520
00:25:24,089 --> 00:25:25,323
And there's a definitely
521
00:25:25,323 --> 00:25:26,191
from some of the comments
522
00:25:26,191 --> 00:25:27,826
we've been getting a love hate
relationship,
523
00:25:27,826 --> 00:25:29,694
but there have been
some developments here.
524
00:25:29,694 --> 00:25:32,130
So James Watson will go ahead
and just take them all on this.
525
00:25:32,130 --> 00:25:32,864
What's happening.
526
00:25:32,864 --> 00:25:36,968
So on December 12th of last year, 2025,
527
00:25:37,102 --> 00:25:40,539
there was a screenshot of an internal
528
00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:43,608
email released from arcade one up.
529
00:25:43,808 --> 00:25:48,647
And that email was indicating that
most of their operation was shutting down
530
00:25:48,647 --> 00:25:54,119
the following Friday and pretty much said,
you know, this will be your last day.
531
00:25:54,719 --> 00:25:57,122
We're we're changing things over.
532
00:25:57,122 --> 00:26:03,128
There has not been too much of
an official response from arcade one up.
533
00:26:03,128 --> 00:26:06,131
There's been a little bit of stuff
on the side.
534
00:26:06,698 --> 00:26:11,336
One of the primary ones
is a lot of their titles
535
00:26:11,336 --> 00:26:14,539
and property are going to be absorbed
by the company.
536
00:26:15,140 --> 00:26:17,576
Basic fun and basic
537
00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:21,580
fun does games and and claw machines.
538
00:26:21,580 --> 00:26:25,350
They have a whole line of handheld
arcade games, which is kind of fun.
539
00:26:26,284 --> 00:26:30,989
And by handheld arcade games,
I mean, it's, literally
540
00:26:30,989 --> 00:26:34,926
like the size of one of the old Game Boys,
but it's classic
541
00:26:34,926 --> 00:26:39,497
arcade titles with a little joystick
and a couple of little buttons.
542
00:26:39,898 --> 00:26:42,901
But yeah, it looks like arcade
one up is go away.
543
00:26:43,301 --> 00:26:45,537
I did a fair bit to dig in,
544
00:26:46,538 --> 00:26:47,172
and one
545
00:26:47,172 --> 00:26:48,840
of the things I was able to find,
546
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,711
one of the concerns of this out there was
what happens to the game software,
547
00:26:52,711 --> 00:26:57,182
what happens to the online
connectivity and updates and things.
548
00:26:57,616 --> 00:27:00,452
So this is like
if you have one of their cabinets,
549
00:27:00,452 --> 00:27:01,853
or some of their other products
550
00:27:01,853 --> 00:27:04,856
said some other cool stuff
like the infinity Table and things.
551
00:27:05,757 --> 00:27:06,324
Yeah.
552
00:27:06,324 --> 00:27:08,126
I guess what you're saying is
this is going to still work,
553
00:27:08,126 --> 00:27:09,728
because if that's the question,
this is something
554
00:27:09,728 --> 00:27:12,731
that we've had
a lot of requests to find out.
555
00:27:12,731 --> 00:27:16,735
So they have release
that some of the arcade cabinets
556
00:27:16,735 --> 00:27:20,138
are still going
to maintain some connectivity.
557
00:27:21,006 --> 00:27:22,574
I can't remember exactly.
558
00:27:22,574 --> 00:27:24,843
There were four of them
that were listed on the website.
559
00:27:24,843 --> 00:27:27,812
Well, Marvel versus Capcom,
I believe was one of them.
560
00:27:28,446 --> 00:27:30,248
Mortal Kombat was one of them.
561
00:27:31,216 --> 00:27:32,183
There will still be
562
00:27:32,183 --> 00:27:36,154
some online connectivity,
but what it's going to do is remember
563
00:27:36,154 --> 00:27:40,859
the last 100 IP addresses
that you played against.
564
00:27:41,292 --> 00:27:43,194
And when you want to play online, it
565
00:27:43,194 --> 00:27:46,564
pings those 100 and sees
if any one is online.
566
00:27:47,298 --> 00:27:48,033
Okay.
567
00:27:48,033 --> 00:27:52,771
So rather than being an open server
and having full connectivity, it's
568
00:27:52,771 --> 00:27:56,241
going to be a greatly truncated amount.
569
00:27:56,741 --> 00:27:59,144
So does that mean that
if a new person couldn't
570
00:27:59,144 --> 00:28:00,712
I'm trying to understand
how that would work.
571
00:28:00,712 --> 00:28:02,781
So right now if you wanted to go online
572
00:28:02,781 --> 00:28:05,950
with this system or before this change,
I don't know if it's in there yet.
573
00:28:06,718 --> 00:28:09,120
You would be able
to see if there's others online.
574
00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:09,788
So what you're saying
575
00:28:09,788 --> 00:28:13,792
is that restricting it to the last 100
so a new person couldn't join your group.
576
00:28:13,792 --> 00:28:14,492
In other words,
577
00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:18,229
that part hasn't been released.
578
00:28:18,229 --> 00:28:20,331
Okay, okay.
579
00:28:20,331 --> 00:28:23,334
It's kind of this nebulous gray area.
580
00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:27,672
I was able to find two reports on it
that they had come out with.
581
00:28:27,672 --> 00:28:31,209
I cannot find super official releases
582
00:28:31,209 --> 00:28:34,312
from arcade one up or from Basic Fun.
583
00:28:34,312 --> 00:28:37,816
It's all been kind of around the edges.
584
00:28:37,816 --> 00:28:40,285
That was one that they were talking about.
585
00:28:40,285 --> 00:28:43,288
They will still have some connectivity,
586
00:28:43,354 --> 00:28:46,357
but nothing super in-depth with it.
587
00:28:46,357 --> 00:28:49,761
One of the other interesting parts is
there
588
00:28:49,761 --> 00:28:53,665
has been no conversation
about the infinity tables.
589
00:28:54,032 --> 00:28:54,733
Okay.
590
00:28:54,733 --> 00:28:59,571
I cannot find anything on whether or not
those are going to continue to function.
591
00:28:59,604 --> 00:29:02,574
And they have a lot of online
592
00:29:02,574 --> 00:29:04,743
online features.
593
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:07,712
So we just don't know with that.
594
00:29:08,246 --> 00:29:08,379
Okay.
595
00:29:08,379 --> 00:29:11,583
If you could give us a quick rundown
on what the infinity tables are.
596
00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:14,619
We've discussed this a few times, but
I don't think everybody's heard of these.
597
00:29:15,186 --> 00:29:19,424
So the infinity table is a really bad idea
because it is.
598
00:29:20,325 --> 00:29:21,760
There are two versions of it.
599
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:25,463
One is the tabletop
and one is an actual table.
600
00:29:25,964 --> 00:29:31,402
The table is a 32 inch touch screen board
game table.
601
00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:33,204
You can play chess.
602
00:29:33,204 --> 00:29:36,674
You can play, sorry,
you can play Candyland.
603
00:29:36,708 --> 00:29:40,612
They have a collection
of I believe was 170 games
604
00:29:41,746 --> 00:29:43,148
or one
605
00:29:43,148 --> 00:29:46,151
that you could get on and play
606
00:29:46,518 --> 00:29:49,621
right there on a table with touch screen.
607
00:29:50,221 --> 00:29:52,924
Some of them,
there was wizard chess from Harry
608
00:29:52,924 --> 00:29:55,927
Potter, was one of them
that it was on the list,
609
00:29:56,961 --> 00:29:59,931
but it allowed for everybody
610
00:29:59,931 --> 00:30:02,934
to get together for a game night of play.
611
00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:05,403
And this would not be just in your house,
but be remotely.
612
00:30:05,403 --> 00:30:10,441
I would assume that is my understanding
is that there is a remote feature.
613
00:30:10,975 --> 00:30:13,111
I have never played on one myself.
614
00:30:13,111 --> 00:30:17,882
I desperately wanted one,
but the price point was not cheap.
615
00:30:18,550 --> 00:30:21,753
The tables went for around $1,000.
616
00:30:21,986 --> 00:30:26,257
But if you're somebody who hosts a lot,
if you're somebody that really enjoys
617
00:30:26,257 --> 00:30:30,328
their board games, has a lot of friends,
or has a lot of family that you want to do
618
00:30:30,328 --> 00:30:31,996
game night,
619
00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:33,932
it would be fantastic
620
00:30:33,932 --> 00:30:37,068
right up until the company announces
that they're going to shut down
621
00:30:37,068 --> 00:30:40,071
and all of a sudden we don't know
what's going to happen with it.
622
00:30:40,338 --> 00:30:42,640
And, you know, an interesting thing
as of the time of recording.
623
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,643
So this may have changed when this errors
and when you hear it.
624
00:30:45,877 --> 00:30:49,681
But as of the time of our recording,
the arcade one website is still there.
625
00:30:49,681 --> 00:30:53,918
You can go online and you can still buy
product and and some of their vendors.
626
00:30:53,918 --> 00:30:55,053
I went to Home Depot.
627
00:30:55,053 --> 00:30:58,122
It for whatever reason they carry this
and so does Best Buy.
628
00:30:58,556 --> 00:31:00,058
I didn't order anything,
but it seemed like
629
00:31:00,058 --> 00:31:03,061
you could still add it to the cart and,
you know, do the normal bit,
630
00:31:03,628 --> 00:31:05,897
which is interesting
because you could right now,
631
00:31:05,897 --> 00:31:09,067
if you didn't know about all this,
drop $1,000 on something that, in
632
00:31:09,067 --> 00:31:12,070
my opinion,
sounds like a very cool device.
633
00:31:12,103 --> 00:31:14,405
And, then find out when you get it,
634
00:31:14,405 --> 00:31:17,442
it doesn't do anything
or I don't know what that would mean.
635
00:31:17,442 --> 00:31:19,410
And, you know, let's talk about that
a little bit,
636
00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:24,215
because when you have a company
that uses online access and an arcade
637
00:31:24,215 --> 00:31:29,020
one up in what we're talking about here,
but this is not it's hardly
638
00:31:29,487 --> 00:31:33,391
just arcade one up that sells products
that have online components.
639
00:31:33,391 --> 00:31:36,761
I mean, pretty much everybody does
now that, you know, comes into,
640
00:31:36,794 --> 00:31:40,131
realm of these things
and it's, a situation
641
00:31:40,131 --> 00:31:45,003
where this can affect,
you know, a lot of different things.
642
00:31:45,003 --> 00:31:47,672
And one of the,
you know, one of the concerns
643
00:31:47,672 --> 00:31:50,642
that a lot of people have about this,
if you buy into a new technology
644
00:31:50,942 --> 00:31:53,945
and then that company goes away,
it can brick your device.
645
00:31:53,945 --> 00:31:55,580
Now, something like the table,
646
00:31:55,580 --> 00:31:56,114
I would assume
647
00:31:56,114 --> 00:31:58,149
you're loading stuff online,
or at least it
648
00:31:58,149 --> 00:32:00,451
probably comes with some stuff
pre-installed.
649
00:32:00,451 --> 00:32:04,022
But the point of it is, is losing
that much of the functionality
650
00:32:04,889 --> 00:32:08,026
with no, you know,
you didn't know that was going to happen
651
00:32:08,026 --> 00:32:10,929
all sorry, you know, kind of thing. Well,
I don't know.
652
00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:14,465
I could see where this could be
very frustrating and very concerning
653
00:32:15,066 --> 00:32:16,968
to a lot of people, I don't know.
654
00:32:16,968 --> 00:32:19,037
How do you feel about that?
655
00:32:19,037 --> 00:32:20,204
So it's a gamble.
656
00:32:20,204 --> 00:32:24,575
And it's one of the concerns I've had
is the thought of modern gaming.
657
00:32:25,276 --> 00:32:29,314
You look at your platforms
like PlayStation and Xbox
658
00:32:29,314 --> 00:32:34,519
and some of these other huge names, and
it's gone so far away from physical media.
659
00:32:35,486 --> 00:32:38,489
And what do you do when it shuts down?
660
00:32:38,823 --> 00:32:39,424
Right.
661
00:32:39,424 --> 00:32:44,329
You have hundreds of thousands of dollars
invested in these sites
662
00:32:44,329 --> 00:32:47,332
that all of a sudden
you have no access to,
663
00:32:47,465 --> 00:32:51,569
even if it's just part of the
functionality, one that comes to my brain.
664
00:32:52,470 --> 00:32:56,607
There was a game on Xbox
called Gears of War II.
665
00:32:56,607 --> 00:32:59,610
Remember that? Yeah, amazingly fun game.
666
00:32:59,644 --> 00:33:02,680
One of the really cool parts was
it had some really fun,
667
00:33:02,947 --> 00:33:05,950
multiplayer online,
668
00:33:06,017 --> 00:33:11,155
online matchmaking and co-op,
and they had PvP arenas
669
00:33:11,155 --> 00:33:13,057
and all sorts of stuff.
670
00:33:13,057 --> 00:33:15,093
And then one night it went away.
671
00:33:15,093 --> 00:33:18,229
You could still play the game,
you could still do the single player,
672
00:33:18,696 --> 00:33:22,100
you could still do the single player
campaign, but all of a sudden
673
00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:26,437
you couldn't even do come up play online
because those servers went away.
674
00:33:26,971 --> 00:33:31,709
So you have that as a real a real risk.
675
00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:35,013
Any time you were relying
completely on internet
676
00:33:35,213 --> 00:33:38,282
or online connection.
677
00:33:38,783 --> 00:33:41,019
You know,
it is interesting to see where the
678
00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:43,321
these companies can reach,
you know, into your stuff.
679
00:33:43,321 --> 00:33:47,725
I know one thing that, has come up in the
past and user friendly and is a concern.
680
00:33:47,725 --> 00:33:51,763
I don't know if Microsoft does this,
but Sony does where they will ban
681
00:33:51,763 --> 00:33:56,567
your device if you violate rules
or something forever from their network.
682
00:33:57,201 --> 00:33:59,103
And one of my issues,
and one of the reasons
683
00:33:59,103 --> 00:34:01,773
I don't have a PlayStation
five or the new Xbox
684
00:34:01,773 --> 00:34:04,776
is because I'm kind of tired
of the subscriptions.
685
00:34:04,976 --> 00:34:07,645
And at least on my PlayStation four,
686
00:34:07,645 --> 00:34:10,782
if you had PlayStation network,
that was great, and it had those features,
687
00:34:10,782 --> 00:34:13,117
but if you didn't,
the system would still work.
688
00:34:13,117 --> 00:34:16,421
It seems like the newer generation
of the stuff I'm sure it turns on.
689
00:34:16,854 --> 00:34:17,889
I'm sure there's a game or two
690
00:34:17,889 --> 00:34:20,124
you can even get for, well,
I don't know if it's a digital one,
691
00:34:20,124 --> 00:34:22,460
if it would even work at all
without the network,
692
00:34:22,460 --> 00:34:25,129
I guess you would know
more about this than I would.
693
00:34:26,130 --> 00:34:28,766
So I can speak mostly the Xbox.
694
00:34:28,766 --> 00:34:31,769
That's my that's my jam.
695
00:34:32,236 --> 00:34:35,706
One of the things with the Xbox is
you have to buy an online membership
696
00:34:35,706 --> 00:34:39,544
to have access to online multiplayer.
697
00:34:40,678 --> 00:34:41,345
Okay?
698
00:34:41,345 --> 00:34:44,348
They range anywhere from $10 to $30.
699
00:34:45,783 --> 00:34:49,720
You can buy the very basic one, which
you don't get a lot of the other perks,
700
00:34:49,720 --> 00:34:52,723
but at least you have that online
online ability
701
00:34:53,624 --> 00:34:56,494
all the way up to the top
702
00:34:56,494 --> 00:34:59,497
tier one,
which I believe is called ultimate,
703
00:34:59,897 --> 00:35:03,901
where you get free games like Game Pass
and all these other things.
704
00:35:03,901 --> 00:35:08,206
So the memberships, rather than what
they used to be with the Xbox
705
00:35:08,206 --> 00:35:11,209
Live, do have value.
706
00:35:11,509 --> 00:35:14,579
You can play day one releases for free.
707
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:20,485
They also allow access to those servers
so you can do the online multiplayer,
708
00:35:20,918 --> 00:35:23,821
but that also means that you're paying,
what,
709
00:35:23,821 --> 00:35:29,160
3 to $600 for the initial unit
and then you're having to pay another,
710
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:33,865
let's say, $100 a year to be able to use
it for part of that function
711
00:35:34,999 --> 00:35:35,433
as well.
712
00:35:35,433 --> 00:35:38,402
After hours from what you were saying,
because it's $10 a month
713
00:35:38,402 --> 00:35:41,672
and a $30
a month, you know, would be, what, 360?
714
00:35:42,173 --> 00:35:46,277
So it you know, it does seem like now,
I don't know,
715
00:35:46,377 --> 00:35:49,447
you know, the people that know me know
some of the games I like.
716
00:35:49,447 --> 00:35:51,983
One of them is cyberpunk,
and it's available on the platforms now.
717
00:35:51,983 --> 00:35:54,085
I don't have to pay a monthly fee.
718
00:35:54,085 --> 00:35:55,720
It works off of my PC.
719
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:58,122
I don't have that restriction.
720
00:35:58,122 --> 00:35:58,456
Yeah.
721
00:35:58,456 --> 00:36:02,059
So, you know, so if I was to do this
on a console, it seems like
722
00:36:02,059 --> 00:36:05,730
I would have less control of the game
because of the controller configuration.
723
00:36:06,297 --> 00:36:09,300
And then I'd have to pay for the privilege
of using the game that I bought.
724
00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:12,303
I can see why people have a problem
with that.
725
00:36:12,537 --> 00:36:13,070
It is.
726
00:36:13,070 --> 00:36:16,073
And PlayStation
727
00:36:16,073 --> 00:36:19,177
I believe was PlayStation
three even started where
728
00:36:19,177 --> 00:36:23,314
if you buy physical media,
it wasn't the game.
729
00:36:23,714 --> 00:36:26,150
Yeah, yeah. Zero day download.
730
00:36:26,150 --> 00:36:26,551
Yeah.
731
00:36:26,551 --> 00:36:28,753
You'd have to put the disk in the disk.
732
00:36:28,753 --> 00:36:33,324
Was your activation key and would download
the game from their network.
733
00:36:33,891 --> 00:36:37,461
So getting back to it
a little bit, their servers
734
00:36:37,461 --> 00:36:40,531
go down, their service goes away.
735
00:36:40,531 --> 00:36:43,534
Whatever
it may be. You're bricked up. Yeah.
736
00:36:44,602 --> 00:36:47,438
Because so many of the games now
737
00:36:47,438 --> 00:36:51,475
even if you buy them,
it has to have an online component
738
00:36:51,475 --> 00:36:55,046
so that it can make sure
that you have a valid license
739
00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:58,049
for that game,
even if it's physical media.
740
00:36:58,883 --> 00:36:59,317
Yeah.
741
00:36:59,317 --> 00:36:59,517
Well,
742
00:36:59,517 --> 00:37:01,485
the other part of it too
is it sounds like the disk
743
00:37:01,485 --> 00:37:03,321
doesn't really contain the game.
744
00:37:03,321 --> 00:37:03,888
Yeah.
745
00:37:03,888 --> 00:37:07,458
You know, at the end of the day and,
if you go on download
746
00:37:07,458 --> 00:37:09,393
and you know, there's
different parts of again,
747
00:37:09,393 --> 00:37:12,396
you know, talking about cyberpunk,
when I bought it, it came in a box
748
00:37:12,530 --> 00:37:13,764
and there was a disc in the box.
749
00:37:13,764 --> 00:37:15,666
I'm kind of looking at this going,
is this actually on
750
00:37:15,666 --> 00:37:17,501
a, you know, DVD or Blu ray or something?
751
00:37:17,501 --> 00:37:20,504
No, it's a CD with music and
752
00:37:20,538 --> 00:37:24,475
a box is a card with a link of
where you download the game.
753
00:37:24,475 --> 00:37:28,112
And now
this is like a gigabyte or something.
754
00:37:28,112 --> 00:37:31,582
So trying to fit that on any kind of
physical media would be difficult.
755
00:37:31,582 --> 00:37:33,551
You'd probably put on a flash drive,
I would think,
756
00:37:33,551 --> 00:37:36,520
if you were going to do that,
but that wasn't the case here.
757
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,657
And then the other part of videos is
I noticed with not just that, but
758
00:37:39,657 --> 00:37:43,628
with a lot of them,
you also have updates, you
759
00:37:43,628 --> 00:37:46,631
know, downloadable
content that you buy is one thing.
760
00:37:46,631 --> 00:37:49,634
But even if you choose not to do that,
to keep the game functioning,
761
00:37:50,401 --> 00:37:51,902
there still seems to be updates.
762
00:37:51,902 --> 00:37:54,272
And if you didn't have access
to the online thing, no.
763
00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:58,009
So so let me ask you this on the PC again,
I can download those updates
764
00:37:58,009 --> 00:38:00,311
even if it's if I want to buy DLC.
Of course that too.
765
00:38:00,311 --> 00:38:02,380
But even the stuff
that's just maintenance.
766
00:38:02,380 --> 00:38:06,517
If I was on the Xbox
and didn't have the network and presumably
767
00:38:06,517 --> 00:38:10,588
the same thing for the PlayStation,
could I even download the updates? Yes.
768
00:38:11,255 --> 00:38:12,156
Okay. That's good.
769
00:38:12,156 --> 00:38:17,862
My understanding is as long as you have
internet connection,
770
00:38:17,862 --> 00:38:21,632
you can download patches,
you can do that kind of update
771
00:38:22,767 --> 00:38:26,037
the online connection.
772
00:38:26,771 --> 00:38:31,042
The multiplayer is the primary thing
that we have to do.
773
00:38:31,742 --> 00:38:33,411
Watch out for that.
774
00:38:33,411 --> 00:38:38,582
That connectivity is what goes away
or what you're paying for the most, right?
775
00:38:39,183 --> 00:38:42,353
It gets into kind of this gray area,
though, and
776
00:38:42,386 --> 00:38:47,325
and you'd know better than I would
how much data even a Blu ray can store.
777
00:38:48,059 --> 00:38:51,662
Yeah, but I just downloaded a game
that the base game
778
00:38:51,662 --> 00:38:57,134
without patches, without DLC,
without anything else, was 148 bytes.
779
00:38:57,301 --> 00:38:59,770
Yeah, that's and that's not unusual.
780
00:38:59,770 --> 00:39:02,373
So, it really isn't, you know.
781
00:39:02,373 --> 00:39:02,640
Yeah.
782
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,676
Cyberpunk I believe, was around 80GB.
783
00:39:06,143 --> 00:39:07,511
And when it first came out
784
00:39:07,511 --> 00:39:09,413
and then when it actually worked,
it was more like a hundred.
785
00:39:09,413 --> 00:39:13,150
But yeah, I guess that missing 20GB
was the what caused that
786
00:39:13,451 --> 00:39:16,587
for anybody that doesn't know
when that game came out, it was a disaster
787
00:39:16,987 --> 00:39:18,556
for about the first three months.
788
00:39:18,556 --> 00:39:18,723
Yeah.
789
00:39:18,723 --> 00:39:22,293
And the PC version would actually run.
790
00:39:22,293 --> 00:39:24,695
I mean, you know, I was able to get on it
and stuff, but,
791
00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:27,164
you'd go through to your character
creation and stuff and, you know,
792
00:39:27,164 --> 00:39:29,367
it was a roll of the dice
whether or not it corrupted it.
793
00:39:29,367 --> 00:39:31,369
And you have to do it again
and lose all of your things.
794
00:39:31,369 --> 00:39:33,604
Now, my understanding is on the consoles.
795
00:39:33,604 --> 00:39:34,939
It didn't work at all.
796
00:39:34,939 --> 00:39:38,342
Yeah, you bought it and, you know, they
they actually had a warning
797
00:39:38,342 --> 00:39:41,545
you can buy I think you one of them
I know took it down completely.
798
00:39:41,579 --> 00:39:42,680
The other one was like,
799
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:44,982
oh yeah you can buy this game,
but you know it's not going to work.
800
00:39:44,982 --> 00:39:48,953
Click here to make sure you acknowledge
that in X-Box.
801
00:39:49,487 --> 00:39:53,891
Yeah, yeah, Xbox had a warning
saying this game does not function.
802
00:39:54,558 --> 00:39:58,329
But if you buy into it now, when it does
function, you'll have a great game.
803
00:39:58,562 --> 00:40:00,097
Yeah. And that's exactly what happened.
804
00:40:01,198 --> 00:40:04,135
CB Red did fix it and did a very nice job.
805
00:40:04,135 --> 00:40:06,003
And once they got the bugs worked out,
806
00:40:06,003 --> 00:40:08,072
it's been a great game
and it's been very stable.
807
00:40:08,072 --> 00:40:10,574
There
hasn't been a problem like that since,
808
00:40:10,574 --> 00:40:14,545
but it's very different than the days of,
you know, you get your Nintendo cartridge
809
00:40:14,545 --> 00:40:16,680
and you put it in. First of all,
you'd have to have the game done.
810
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,449
I don't even think
some of these games are finished
811
00:40:18,449 --> 00:40:22,086
when they start being distributed,
because they don't have to, you know?
812
00:40:22,486 --> 00:40:25,389
Yeah, well, that's kind
813
00:40:25,389 --> 00:40:28,526
of an interesting aspect of modern gaming.
814
00:40:28,726 --> 00:40:31,862
So a lot of them now do ground
815
00:40:31,862 --> 00:40:34,832
level kind of a beta test.
816
00:40:34,999 --> 00:40:38,202
One that comes to mind that
people know about is Baldur's Gate three.
817
00:40:38,702 --> 00:40:43,941
I bought into that
about two years before it was released,
818
00:40:45,242 --> 00:40:46,177
so I got to
819
00:40:46,177 --> 00:40:49,380
see the entire evolution of this game
820
00:40:49,380 --> 00:40:53,250
from the fact that it barely worked
when it first came out.
821
00:40:53,250 --> 00:40:57,955
It had almost no character classes
all the way up to the finished product,
822
00:40:57,955 --> 00:41:01,826
which is now released
and and is amazingly fun.
823
00:41:02,193 --> 00:41:04,695
But I got to see all the steps
going through.
824
00:41:04,695 --> 00:41:07,331
Ark survival was another one
that did that.
825
00:41:07,331 --> 00:41:09,467
You part in on like a prerelease,
826
00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:12,636
and you actually got to go in
and play the game and see the evolution.
827
00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:17,308
Some of that's okay,
but if you're selling me a complete game
828
00:41:17,308 --> 00:41:21,212
without that aspect,
I expect it to be playable
829
00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:25,816
and they've gone away from that
with some of the games that that cyberpunk
830
00:41:25,816 --> 00:41:30,187
is one of the most illustrative examples
831
00:41:31,021 --> 00:41:33,524
because it literally didn't function,
832
00:41:33,524 --> 00:41:37,027
but they released it
as a game on physical media online.
833
00:41:37,628 --> 00:41:41,499
And they did take, I believe it was around
two months, three months
834
00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:44,502
to get to the point where it was
stable enough to actually play.
835
00:41:44,869 --> 00:41:46,670
And so then again, at the end of the day,
they fixed it.
836
00:41:46,670 --> 00:41:48,472
I think in the old days
they might have just waited
837
00:41:48,472 --> 00:41:50,641
to make sure the game was done
before they released it.
838
00:41:50,641 --> 00:41:51,775
But yeah.
839
00:41:51,775 --> 00:41:53,878
Because,
you know, it's somewhat of more difficult
840
00:41:53,878 --> 00:41:57,548
to change the ROM in a cartridge
that's already been made. Yes.
841
00:41:58,516 --> 00:41:58,949
Yeah.
842
00:41:58,949 --> 00:42:01,051
What is this?
843
00:42:01,051 --> 00:42:04,755
And, although modern stuff,
I have a, console called an advocate,
844
00:42:04,755 --> 00:42:07,958
and it takes cartridges and,
you know, works like the old stuff. But
845
00:42:08,158 --> 00:42:11,328
it's interesting because it is connected
and it can update the cartridges.
846
00:42:11,328 --> 00:42:15,366
So just so presumably there flash
or something, you know, but,
847
00:42:15,366 --> 00:42:19,904
even that is, kind of bridging,
you know, the two different things.
848
00:42:20,404 --> 00:42:23,807
But, you know, on a broader scale here,
let's just kind of circle back to servers
849
00:42:23,807 --> 00:42:24,141
and things.
850
00:42:24,141 --> 00:42:27,511
I know that there's been
there's been a lot of information
851
00:42:28,145 --> 00:42:30,347
that has come out in recent years.
852
00:42:30,347 --> 00:42:33,684
I have one of these things
and it's these smart devices
853
00:42:34,184 --> 00:42:36,754
because, you know, we're talking about
arcade one up in cabinets.
854
00:42:36,754 --> 00:42:39,123
But the thing of videos
is that's basically a smart device.
855
00:42:39,123 --> 00:42:42,159
And at the end of the day,
if that just vendor distributor
856
00:42:42,159 --> 00:42:45,963
goes away, you've lost access
to something that you've paid for.
857
00:42:45,963 --> 00:42:47,698
You can't, you know, deal with.
858
00:42:47,698 --> 00:42:50,701
In my case, it was a holiday light thing
that you could program and,
859
00:42:51,001 --> 00:42:52,236
you know, do all this stuff with it.
860
00:42:52,236 --> 00:42:54,271
Now it's still turned on this year
and it's still work.
861
00:42:54,271 --> 00:42:55,472
The last mode, I had it set in,
862
00:42:55,472 --> 00:42:59,610
but you can't get in and change anything,
you know, so that part of it's done.
863
00:42:59,610 --> 00:43:03,280
And another big one is some of these
new digital ink picture frames.
864
00:43:03,914 --> 00:43:06,116
And, it's kind of a cool concept.
865
00:43:06,116 --> 00:43:07,251
You have a picture frame on the wall.
866
00:43:07,251 --> 00:43:10,120
It uses the same kind of technology
that's in an e-reader.
867
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,924
So when you've put a picture, photograph
or whatever in it, it doesn't use power
868
00:43:13,924 --> 00:43:16,060
and it's just sits there
and you look at it.
869
00:43:16,060 --> 00:43:18,128
And then if you want to change it,
you can.
870
00:43:18,128 --> 00:43:20,864
And when these originally came out,
they were in some cases
871
00:43:20,864 --> 00:43:23,867
for the bigger ones for $500 or more.
872
00:43:23,968 --> 00:43:26,971
And the first company or not
first company, but the company that had
873
00:43:27,104 --> 00:43:28,772
distributed
some of these, there were different
874
00:43:28,772 --> 00:43:32,643
vendors and the others are still around,
but they ended up in a situation
875
00:43:32,643 --> 00:43:36,013
where they went bankrupt
about six months later.
876
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,149
And as long as you're happy
with the photograph that's in the frame
877
00:43:39,149 --> 00:43:41,018
and you better be, because that's
what's going to be there forever.
878
00:43:41,018 --> 00:43:43,787
You can't change it anymore.
So you've paid for something.
879
00:43:43,787 --> 00:43:45,923
And and to me, it's a little bit weird.
880
00:43:45,923 --> 00:43:50,127
If I bought something
and I want to be able to use it,
881
00:43:50,127 --> 00:43:52,963
but I'm not able to, but I purchased it,
you know, how does that work?
882
00:43:52,963 --> 00:43:56,166
And that plays back into some of the other
things, like the BMW heated seats, like,
883
00:43:56,333 --> 00:43:59,570
so you ride a car and the seats
are in the car and the hardware is there,
884
00:43:59,770 --> 00:44:02,373
but you have to have a subscription
to be able to turn it on.
885
00:44:02,373 --> 00:44:05,976
Now, I would have figured out a way to
bypass and hotwire a man, but that's me.
886
00:44:06,343 --> 00:44:08,345
Probably would void the warranty.
887
00:44:08,345 --> 00:44:11,515
But the question becomes from that too,
and this is another aspect of
888
00:44:11,515 --> 00:44:12,783
these things is okay.
889
00:44:12,783 --> 00:44:14,952
And that set of circumstances,
890
00:44:14,952 --> 00:44:18,122
how I paid for the heated seats
and the price of the car.
891
00:44:18,122 --> 00:44:19,690
And if I have, why can't I use them?
892
00:44:19,690 --> 00:44:22,226
And if I haven't, how does it work?
893
00:44:22,226 --> 00:44:25,629
Because let's say I,
you know, by my subscriptions
894
00:44:25,629 --> 00:44:28,732
for my heated seats and heated steering
wheel, that was the other one, by the way.
895
00:44:28,732 --> 00:44:29,833
That's had a lot of pushback.
896
00:44:29,833 --> 00:44:32,836
And they've kind of stopped doing this
for the moment at least.
897
00:44:33,337 --> 00:44:36,073
But let's say I have a two year
warranty on my car.
898
00:44:36,073 --> 00:44:39,076
My brand new car has two warranties now
or a two year warranty now.
899
00:44:39,543 --> 00:44:42,579
I make two years of one month,
and the heated seats break.
900
00:44:42,846 --> 00:44:45,382
Well, whose responsibility
am I running them from?
901
00:44:45,382 --> 00:44:47,251
BMW because I'm paying for them. Are they?
902
00:44:47,251 --> 00:44:48,085
I can assure you.
903
00:44:48,085 --> 00:44:49,953
Or they're going to say,
oh, you have to pay to have that repaired
904
00:44:49,953 --> 00:44:51,422
even though you're running them.
905
00:44:51,422 --> 00:44:54,124
I mean, you know, you have some issues,
situations like this.
906
00:44:54,124 --> 00:44:57,127
And I can understand
why people get frustrated with this stuff.
907
00:44:57,361 --> 00:45:01,965
And do you even look at,
some of the subscription based service?
908
00:45:01,965 --> 00:45:07,871
And one that comes to mind
is something like, MMO, RPG.
909
00:45:07,971 --> 00:45:11,442
I'm more familiar with the video games
and some of the other technology.
910
00:45:11,709 --> 00:45:15,546
You look at some of those,
there's one right now, a new world.
911
00:45:17,581 --> 00:45:19,483
That has been out for several years.
912
00:45:19,483 --> 00:45:20,818
It's an MMO, RPG.
913
00:45:20,818 --> 00:45:23,620
You can buy it on Xbox,
you can play it online.
914
00:45:23,620 --> 00:45:26,890
It's supposed to have some
cross-play features, which is really neat.
915
00:45:27,758 --> 00:45:30,194
And then they announced a little while ago
that the servers
916
00:45:30,194 --> 00:45:34,031
are shutting down this year,
but that's not broadcast widely.
917
00:45:34,031 --> 00:45:38,368
So you can still go on Xbox Marketplace
and buy this game
918
00:45:38,969 --> 00:45:41,972
for it's 60 or $70.
919
00:45:42,439 --> 00:45:45,843
And if you're not paying attention
and I believe
920
00:45:45,843 --> 00:45:49,079
that's March or something like that,
it goes away.
921
00:45:49,646 --> 00:45:52,649
So where's the accountability for that?
922
00:45:52,683 --> 00:45:56,887
You know, you charged me money
for something that is only online.
923
00:45:56,887 --> 00:45:59,656
That is only a subscription.
924
00:45:59,656 --> 00:46:02,192
It's free to play once I play the game,
925
00:46:02,192 --> 00:46:05,863
but then you break it 2 or 3 months
after I buy it.
926
00:46:06,563 --> 00:46:08,699
Yeah.
And right now it's let the buyer beware.
927
00:46:08,699 --> 00:46:11,702
I've heard some rumors
that the government is getting involved.
928
00:46:11,702 --> 00:46:14,004
I'm sure that will fix
all this immediately.
929
00:46:14,004 --> 00:46:16,607
And wanting to pass some legislation
dealing with these things
930
00:46:16,607 --> 00:46:20,310
that, would affect,
you know, how that would be handled.
931
00:46:20,310 --> 00:46:22,980
But, you know, again,
at the end of the day,
932
00:46:22,980 --> 00:46:26,550
it really what it comes down to
is that you're not buying it.
933
00:46:26,550 --> 00:46:28,752
You're renting it out.
934
00:46:28,752 --> 00:46:31,922
Because if there's no guarantee
you continue to use it was always say
935
00:46:32,222 --> 00:46:33,390
you bought a software, you're
936
00:46:33,390 --> 00:46:36,660
not buying the intellectual property
by a license to use it, but
937
00:46:37,161 --> 00:46:38,796
you would be able to use it
as long as you want to.
938
00:46:38,796 --> 00:46:41,031
If you need an upgrade,
than you would buy a new version.
939
00:46:41,031 --> 00:46:43,333
And that model is pretty much gone now.
940
00:46:43,333 --> 00:46:47,137
Most software sells with a subscription
model, and most of the time
941
00:46:47,137 --> 00:46:50,474
if you stop paying the subscription,
you lose access completely.
942
00:46:50,474 --> 00:46:53,477
One of the biggest ones with
this is the Adobe product suite.
943
00:46:53,777 --> 00:46:55,279
You know, a lot of other ones
might leave it
944
00:46:55,279 --> 00:46:57,347
where you can still edit and,
you know, things like that.
945
00:46:57,347 --> 00:47:00,684
But no, they your files
that you've created will not be accessible
946
00:47:00,684 --> 00:47:03,053
if you don't continue
to pay the subscription.
947
00:47:03,053 --> 00:47:07,257
And there is a lot of people
that are not happy with that.
948
00:47:07,257 --> 00:47:08,258
I mean, you know,
949
00:47:08,258 --> 00:47:10,727
I don't know, where do you think
this is all going, do you think?
950
00:47:10,727 --> 00:47:13,230
I'm sure the subscription model
is here to stay at least
951
00:47:13,230 --> 00:47:14,998
as long as they can allow it?
952
00:47:14,998 --> 00:47:18,302
I don't know,
I think it's going on a trajectory
953
00:47:18,302 --> 00:47:23,173
that you need to be very certain
that whatever you're buying is stable.
954
00:47:23,373 --> 00:47:26,210
If I want to do something online, I'm
955
00:47:26,210 --> 00:47:29,947
going to look for Adobe's a good example.
956
00:47:29,947 --> 00:47:32,883
If I'm going to have to pay for that
subscription, I want to pay for it.
957
00:47:32,883 --> 00:47:36,720
For someone like Adobe, where I know that
958
00:47:36,954 --> 00:47:40,557
five years down
the line, it's still going to exist.
959
00:47:41,491 --> 00:47:42,492
Because so many of
960
00:47:42,492 --> 00:47:46,697
these I,
I use a different PDF program than Adobe
961
00:47:46,697 --> 00:47:50,133
because I was able to go online and buy
962
00:47:50,367 --> 00:47:53,437
a permanent license for that program.
963
00:47:53,637 --> 00:47:56,139
But for me,
I didn't want that subscription.
964
00:47:56,139 --> 00:48:01,245
I wanted to own something that I could
utilize as I needed to.
965
00:48:01,545 --> 00:48:04,514
That's becoming less and less prevalent.
966
00:48:04,514 --> 00:48:08,986
It's kind of the downside
of this gift of technology to me.
967
00:48:08,986 --> 00:48:13,657
They give it is if there is connectivity
968
00:48:13,657 --> 00:48:16,660
like that,
there is a way to hold it ransom.
969
00:48:16,660 --> 00:48:19,830
And that's, you know, and I think that's
where this is held up to see what happens.
970
00:48:19,830 --> 00:48:22,833
For all that, may I have permission
to ask you a question?
971
00:48:23,066 --> 00:48:24,468
Sure.
972
00:48:24,468 --> 00:48:27,604
I understand The vault is becoming
a standalone show pretty soon.
973
00:48:27,604 --> 00:48:29,640
Can you tell us about
what's happening there?
974
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,109
It appears that people
like what they're hearing.
975
00:48:32,109 --> 00:48:34,278
When I come on the air and talk.
976
00:48:34,278 --> 00:48:38,482
So we are looking,
turning it into a podcast.
977
00:48:38,949 --> 00:48:42,219
We don't know entirely
what that's going to look like as of yet,
978
00:48:42,219 --> 00:48:45,956
but you'll be able to access past content
that I've done on user friendly.
979
00:48:45,956 --> 00:48:50,727
I'll be doing drops a couple of times
a month, put it out on.
980
00:48:50,994 --> 00:48:52,562
You'll be able to access it on the vault.
981
00:48:52,562 --> 00:48:56,333
That show will put it out on
on some other platforms as well,
982
00:48:56,333 --> 00:49:00,337
and kind of give people a chance
to look into what we're doing.
983
00:49:00,604 --> 00:49:01,672
We're coming back to you both.
984
00:49:01,672 --> 00:49:04,675
On User Friendly and on The Vault
with updates on all of this.
985
00:49:04,942 --> 00:49:05,909
Anyway, James, thank you.
986
00:49:05,909 --> 00:49:06,710
And until next week,
987
00:49:06,710 --> 00:49:11,615
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988
00:49:11,615 --> 00:49:14,751
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989
00:49:14,985 --> 00:49:18,088
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990
00:49:18,722 --> 00:49:20,324
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991
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992
00:49:24,027 --> 00:49:27,998
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993
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994
00:49:32,836 --> 00:49:35,772
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