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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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I am your host Bill Sikkens.

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Gretchen.

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Bill welcome lo there. Hello.

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So got a lot coming up for you this week.

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I'm going to be getting down to do another
episode of training on the jet suit.

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So we're going to talk about that
a little bit coming up here.

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And Bill,
you have a new business venture coming up

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that has to do with running role playing
games.

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We're going to talk about that
also a little bit after the news.

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So let's get to that point.

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What do we have in the news now.

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Right.

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Microsoft asks users to ignore

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anti-virus is turned off errors message.

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Yeah.

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On the topic of having credibility
with your antivirus software,

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can you imagine
having to put out a thing like that?

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If it says there's a problem,
just ignore it.

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Well, how do you know when it's real?

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You know, kind of thing?

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So what this is,
is it's an update that came out,

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on Windows

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Update, and it's causing a situation
for whatever reason.

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It's giving you a message
that the Windows Defender

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has been shut off,
when in fact it is still running properly.

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And you can check in your task manager
and stuff to make sure

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that the service is still there
and is still running if you're concerned.

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But this is a situation where they're

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looking at fixing it
with the next round of updates, hopefully,

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but that's something
you don't really want to mess around with.

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And I tell you one thing,
this is one of those times

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that the bad guys also know what happens
with these kind of things

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and would make an attempt
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So you do want to be careful,
but if you get that message,

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it's probably a situation unless
you turned it off or something changed.

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Most likely it's still working okay.

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It's just Microsoft isn't

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talking about bad guys.

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Valves,

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massive 12 terabyte leak.

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Feeling a decade of steam game files.

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Yeah.

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So for anybody that doesn't know, valve
is a system to where you can digitally

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install games,
and it's been around for a long time.

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It's a lot of gamers use it.

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I use it is a great way,
and they have a huge archive of things

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where a lot of Andy

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developers can get their games to people
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I was able to install SimCity,
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off of that system, you know, stuff
like that as well as new things.

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So there's a lot of use for this.

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It's kind of a cool service.

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It's run pretty well.

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And what they're referring to here is
there are different versions of the system

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that valve uses
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This includes not only new installs,
but updates and stuff like that.

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And what this is referring to is a version
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which was used between 2003
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valve and a quarter

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as far as what caused this situation is
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it's something got left open
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and it was found on the internet
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So they're saying that it was a problem
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that they did something wrong.

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It wasn't that somebody got in.

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So there isn't the risk here, at least
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your valve account or steam account
being compromised in some way, or credit

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card information
getting out or anything like that.

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So one of the things that is interesting
about this is starting to look through

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what actually is contained in ten years
worth of 12TB worth of game files.

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And a lot of information that's out there
kind of sheds lights on things,

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because there's a lot of releases that
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that nature, betas
that we never actually saw, and so on.

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So I'm sure there's going to be a lot of
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what was going on for that
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And the reason that it ended at 2013 is,
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to their current version,
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was not left open.

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All right.

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Earning man 2026 opens with thousands

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pouring into the Nevada desert.

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The Burning Man.

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For anybody that doesn't know

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it's an event that's held in northern
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in which
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and have art installation,
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They create a temporary city,
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they burn the effigy of a man
and then clean up and go away.

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And the idea is to make it look like
nobody was there.

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Now, Bill, you're in that area,
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you live a little bit closer
to that event.

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Can you tell us
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Well, literally a city pops

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up over a weekend and we're talking.

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Oh, 40,000 I think was one of the biggest.

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I'm not sure it might be even bigger
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They had to start cutting it off
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lack of logistical ability to get water

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law enforcement.

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And many ways
this this is an event where anything goes.

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So you do have some challenges
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And on the flip side of it,
so very different from when I first

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heard about it.

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Well, Burning Man started in California
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had something to do with somebody
getting a divorce if memory serves well.

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Yeah, I think that's probably
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But when I heard about it, I was at
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and it was like it was a camping trip

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and it was to do art out in the desert.

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Right.

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And, if I recall,
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and while I was in college
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and it was just
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And I think they were planning to do.

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I think it's called Raku.

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It's where you build a kiln in the dirt,
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and you fire it out, you know, outside

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instead of a, a professional grade kiln.

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Right.

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And so I didn't have anybody to go with,
and I didn't know any of these people

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well enough to go camping,
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So I didn't go, but

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that would have been long time ago.

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So it's really changed.

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Things have changed.

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For one thing, that cost to get in
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They do have different tiers and things,
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bought a ticket and wanted to go out,
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So it's not free anymore.

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And I know there's multiple schools
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Some people love it,
some people hate it kind of thing.

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I, I don't know, I think anything
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I also think that there is a point where
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And just my opinion, it kind of looks like
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I could see where something like
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As far as the event goes.

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Now, me personally, spending any time
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and the sun is not something
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So when they move it to rock.

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Yeah, exactly.

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So when they move it to an air
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maybe I'll check it out.

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I actually did fencing out in the black
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We did a fencing tournament out there.

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For real?

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Yeah, I believe you.

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I have done work in the desert
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I know what it is.

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No, but.

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Oh, yeah.

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No, but this was real fencing. Not.

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Not putting up fences, fencing
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Or. You have a sword. Yes, yes, yes.

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And not selling legal goods.

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Not that kind of fencing.

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Haven't you ever heard that term? Yes.

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Oh, okay. Yeah.

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Anyway, coyote versus Acme

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beat Jacob Elordi, the dog stars.

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So this is an interesting story.

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Coyote versus Acme is a movie.

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Wily coyote from the Roadrunner
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basically gotten fed up
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from Acme not working the way that it's
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And that's the premise of this movie.

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And from what I understand,
they've done a really nice job on it.

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It was one that was being produced
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They had pretty much made the film
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want to release it.

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The rumor is
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So through a long set of circumstances,
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Ketchup Entertainment got the rights
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and it edged out
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first weekend, which is not bad for a film
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Yeah, that's pretty good.

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The return
of Twitter could be a happy ending.

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After the worst rebrand of all time.

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There you go for a headline, right?

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So when I first started hearing
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what is going on? Because,

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you know, there's been the situation
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little Blue Bird, you sent tweets,
very popular social networking site,

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and then it was bought by X,
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and ever since then has been embroiled
in a lot of controversy.

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And that's a story for another time.

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But let's just say that it has certainly

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created some drama over the years.

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So another group is basically come out
and said, well, you've abandoned

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the trademark. So band and trademark.

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And again,
I'm not an attorney or anything,

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but from what I have read on this,
they're making the claim

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and actually have gotten some support
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that since the trademark was abandoned,
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And now they're setting up
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Twitter based on what it was originally
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And I tried to get into this.

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It's not available for public release yet.

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You can get advanced access to it
for 20 bucks or no, I think it was 40

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bucks anyway.

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You pay a small fee,
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I might actually try it,
but when I did, it wasn't working.

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It said, we're down.

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So, you know,
we'll have to see what happens with that.

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But I can assure you that

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if there isn't already,
there's going to be a lawsuit.

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I believe that
that has already been filed.

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The idea of doing something like this,
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I kind of hope they're successful
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what Twitter originally was,
I did like yeah, it was fun.

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It was fun, you know? Yeah, yeah.

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And I don't know
if it's possible to get that back,

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although I am led to understand that
one of the people

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that's driving this was one of the people
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with setting up Twitter back in the day.

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So, you know, it'll be interesting.

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You guys want to see Twitter come back?

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I haven't been so social lately on social
networking anyway, but I don't know, be

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kind of nostalgia standpoint, I guess

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maybe from a nostalgic standpoint, but,

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I just don't do social media
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Yeah, neither do I. Yeah.

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I think about how much time I spent

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on things like Farmville in the day,
and it's, Oh, gosh.

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Oh, I just found stuff from Farmville
is so weird.

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When I'm in, I'm unpacking, you see,
and I found some Farmville, like,

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look like Christmas ornaments,
little stuffed Farmville characters.

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I don't know where Jeremy got these.

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I don't even remember.

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I didn't come from. Yeah.

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actually, it's just, you know,
we have to admit these things.

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Eventually, I actually managed
to wear the paint off the mouse

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clicker
button on my laptop playing Farmville.

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Wow. Yeah.

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So I will admit to the shame of that.

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Well, talking about paint and fun

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has a coloring pages for kids
and perhaps adults to

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science.

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Nasa.gov is where you go to check this out
and they are,

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as the headline says, publishing
or have published

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coloring book pages
based on some scientific topics

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that NASA might be involved
in, including Mars.

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Something called the Nancy Grace
Roman Space Telescope.

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And basically you go on, you get PDFs
of these pages, they're free to get,

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and you can color them
and you can print them out and color them.

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Yeah, exactly.
And it's not limited to kids.

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A lot of adults love doing coloring.

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I saw some of the stuff

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that they're coming up with here,
which is really kind of cool.

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And there seems to be three categories.

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There's the adults that have posted stuff,
there's the kids that have posted stuff,

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and then there's the ones
where they've tried to have AI color them.

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I don't know why I was thinking
about actually doing this for fun.

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You know, I think it would be fun to do it
if actually do it.

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Yeah. Now, I'm not artistic.
I could try it.

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I mean, I can paint by numbers, sort of.

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So I know
maybe I could do something like this, but,

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All right, shopping malls are

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charging for prime parking,
and it's not going well.

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Yeah, I wonder why.

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When I got said that, I honestly thought
this was from The Onion.

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I really did.

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And here it turns out,
if you say today that's reporting on it.

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So now for anybody

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that looks at malls
and kind of tracks this,

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I think it would be pretty safe to say
that the American Mall is a little bit

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in decline
in some places more than others.

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There are a whole John on places
like YouTube dedicated to urban explorers

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that go in and check out abandoned malls
and end up with some creepy things

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from mold filled places, stuff
that's flooded, stuff

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that's just been left to the test of time
to rumor even has at places

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that aliens have invaded.

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I don't know how true that last one is,
but who knows, right?

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Anything.

283
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It looks creepy.

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Regardless, on some of those shows
it's like, oh yeah, what they see

285
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and what they come up with
is really strange.

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And the malls have been in decline.

287
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There's been a lot of reasons behind it.

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The biggest thing that's claimed on that,
and it does contribute to it, is the fact

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that things like Amazon and online retail
has certainly cut into the business.

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I think another part of it is, is
we had way too many malls.

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It was just oversaturated in places. Yeah.

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And then some people bought the malls
and just kind of made them yucky.

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They lost all that cool stuff
that used to be in the mall.

294
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That's always one of the things
that I've had to ask.

295
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The question is these companies
come in, they take them all,

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which was a part of the reason you went
there wasn't necessarily to shop.

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It was like a third space,
you know, a place you would go

298
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that wasn't your home
and wasn't work. Right.

299
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So yeah, would go and you would hang out,
go food court and get some food,

300
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you know, hang out at the arcade,
whatever it is that you like to do,

301
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meet your friends.

302
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And in line with that,
they would have places that were nice

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to do this fountains, conversation
pits, places that were safe to be.

304
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And then it seemed like in the 90s
these companies would come in, strip

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all that out,

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painted gray or beige, and then go,
no one's coming to our mall anymore.

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It's because I'm not sure it takes
a degree in marketing to figure out why.

308
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Yeah.

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Oh, which is too bad.

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And then in line with that, with Sears,
especially with Sears going under,

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I mean, yes, there's still a couple stores
still open that are Sears,

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but a lot of the big mall anchors
like that are gone.

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Even the smaller ones.

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Even companies like forever
21, Radio Shack,

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you know, some of these other things.

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Sam goody, there's still a Sam Goody,

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by the way, in Oregon,
there is one left in a mall.

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Which one of these days
I want to go check out?

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But what Birney house, you know,
and some of these others.

320
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Yeah.

321
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Just gone and it's and and I know here
in Oregon, there's a big mall nearby

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where we all live
in Beaverton and Washington Square Mall.

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I believe it's what it's called.

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And you go there and it's clean

325
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and it's kept nice and everything,
but it does not have the

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or really the draw.

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You go in there and yeah, it's shops
and that's great and fine.

328
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And even a few years ago
you still had things.

329
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There was an Amazon store.

330
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There was a Star Wars store in there
that was really cool.

331
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You know, some specialty
things that seems to all be gone too.

332
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Now. People still go there.

333
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This is not a dead mall
by any stretch of the imagination.

334
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And again, the stuff
that's in there is done.

335
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Well, it's safe as far as I know.

336
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And and the environments kept nice,
but it's just not what it

337
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once was, which is a bummer.

338
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Yeah.

339
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So into rant
I guess we have a news topic here, right?

340
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About parking.
Okay, so what they're doing?

341
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Oh yeah.

342
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We completely forgot that.

343
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Yeah, well I was I was too busy
thinking about, when I used to like mall.

344
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So what they're doing is coming up
with this scheme, as the headline says,

345
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it isn't going over too well where it's
still free parking for the most part.

346
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But if you want the good spots,
you know, like near the door,

347
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those you have to pay for.

348
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So you scan a QR code and you have to
actually pay money to use the spot

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at rates of like two three bucks an hour

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or more, depending on what you're at.

351
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And I just, I couldn't imagine

352
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why people don't like that sarcasm
signed, by the way.

353
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Yeah, yeah.

354
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So anyway, it's it is really too bad.

355
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I, I am seeing
also a lot of places that are attempting

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this are starting to back off on the idea

357
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because people really don't
want to be nickel and dime death anymore.

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And the reality of the situation is, is
you do have to have something

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that attracts
people to go to your location,

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because you do have the choice these days
of going on e-commerce site Amazon,

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you know, or others

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in ordering whatever it is you want
and having to deliver to your mailbox

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versus paying for full time
driving there, getting stuck in traffic,

364
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probably getting there and getting back,
figuring out the park.

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And now you have to either
park in the North 40 or you pay,

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or you could go to someplace,

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that has everything like Ikea
and just wander through there.

368
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Yeah, you know, for a couple of hours
and get food, you know?

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So, yeah,

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I, in an odd way, has the attraction
a little bit of what used to be in malls.

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And like you say, there's the cafeteria

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and there's some unique things
to check out.

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And I love walking through there
and messing with all the stuff.

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00:18:24,837 --> 00:18:28,540
And, you know, it's I don't know, there's
just something about that that's kind of

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fun to do.

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But yeah, the

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uniqueness and stuff of, of the old mall
certainly has gone the neons

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and all the things that would define
that in the, of the plants.

379
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Yeah. Yeah.

380
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So but in any event,
have you guys paid ever to park at a mall.

381
00:18:47,459 --> 00:18:52,131
No, no I, I yeah I think Las
Vegas is figuring out this too.

382
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When you have to pay to park at
the see knows that people don't park.

383
00:18:54,967 --> 00:18:57,603
I wouldn't pay to park at a casino either.

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It was like, what on earth are you doing?

385
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So anyway.

386
00:19:01,173 --> 00:19:02,574
Yeah. Interesting thing.

387
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So okay, end of mall rant.

388
00:19:03,842 --> 00:19:06,812
Why do we have next?

389
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Manchester Airports

390
00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,283
Group says hackers stole travelers data.

391
00:19:11,650 --> 00:19:13,952
Yeah. So final topic that's come out here.

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This is a group that owns
several airports in the UK.

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And what seems to have been stolen
is basically credentials and other things

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related to the use of the Wi-Fi
at these locations.

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00:19:26,331 --> 00:19:28,100
So it isn't a lot of real
personal information

396
00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:32,037
that's gotten out, but something that
they've wanted to kind of get the word out

397
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just so you kind of know what's going on.

398
00:19:34,273 --> 00:19:35,641
And I think a lot of hacking

399
00:19:35,641 --> 00:19:38,844
that's going on in Europe
right now is state sponsored by Russia.

400
00:19:39,211 --> 00:19:42,848
But because we're seeing
that kind of happening all over the place,

401
00:19:43,415 --> 00:19:46,051
but it is just one of those things
to be careful.

402
00:19:46,051 --> 00:19:50,155
If you're using a public network,
don't share financial data,

403
00:19:50,155 --> 00:19:53,325
or even I wouldn't
even go to my bank account, to be honest.

404
00:19:53,525 --> 00:19:56,562
I wouldn't do them or anything
that involves putting in a password.

405
00:19:56,562 --> 00:19:59,565
The apps for the banks
and stuff are safer,

406
00:19:59,731 --> 00:20:02,134
but even if it's not someone hacking

407
00:20:02,134 --> 00:20:05,337
the network, there's things that bad guys
can do where they overpower

408
00:20:05,337 --> 00:20:09,575
the network and can monitor all the stuff
that's going back and forth over it.

409
00:20:09,575 --> 00:20:10,943
And even an encrypted connection,

410
00:20:10,943 --> 00:20:13,912
which is better still,
isn't something that I would necessarily.

411
00:20:14,379 --> 00:20:17,082
I'll wait and, you know, get on someplace
secure to do that.

412
00:20:17,082 --> 00:20:18,884
Now, if you're just going on to browse
and look up the

413
00:20:18,884 --> 00:20:22,087
store hours of somewhere or something
like that, or check into a wait queue,

414
00:20:22,721 --> 00:20:23,622
that's fine.

415
00:20:23,622 --> 00:20:26,592
But you know, such that it is.

416
00:20:27,192 --> 00:20:31,530
So let's, let's,
let's talk about Bill's new project.

417
00:20:32,497 --> 00:20:35,334
So, Bill, what are you doing?

418
00:20:35,334 --> 00:20:38,737
Well, I know I've talked about it before,
and maybe I didn't

419
00:20:38,737 --> 00:20:42,441
have the best view of it back then,
but I have begun

420
00:20:43,141 --> 00:20:47,045
my journey as a paid DM,
a professional DM on

421
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start playing games.

422
00:20:50,315 --> 00:20:52,517
So. And that's a little bit
about how that works.

423
00:20:52,517 --> 00:20:54,553
Now I've, you know,
you've run games for us.

424
00:20:54,553 --> 00:20:57,256
So I think if anybody would know
how to do this, it would be you

425
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because you've always done
a really good job.

426
00:20:59,324 --> 00:21:00,292
But what's the difference

427
00:21:00,292 --> 00:21:03,295
between that and doing something
where you're actually paid to do it?

428
00:21:04,563 --> 00:21:06,598
Well,

429
00:21:06,598 --> 00:21:08,100
not much really.

430
00:21:08,100 --> 00:21:10,135
I feel like that. Really.

431
00:21:10,135 --> 00:21:12,271
What I missed
when I was first talking about

432
00:21:12,271 --> 00:21:16,141
this is the understanding
that paying for it, you expect me

433
00:21:16,141 --> 00:21:19,711
to be there on time as the DM, and
I expect you as the players to be there.

434
00:21:20,612 --> 00:21:26,018
So it makes a consistency that may not
happen in more casual games, right?

435
00:21:26,051 --> 00:21:31,056
Yeah, it's yeah, it's that professional
level of you need to be on time.

436
00:21:33,925 --> 00:21:34,259
With it.

437
00:21:34,259 --> 00:21:38,597
I mean I I've bought in modules
and things like that and other aides.

438
00:21:38,597 --> 00:21:44,036
So I mean it's also I know you're expected
to have a lot of resources for players.

439
00:21:44,436 --> 00:21:48,607
And that's what I feel like
it really brings into things.

440
00:21:49,341 --> 00:21:52,044
Well,
and you seem to have a really broad base

441
00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:57,015
of understanding of the game
and the law involved.

442
00:21:57,015 --> 00:22:00,018
And you also do the fun characters,

443
00:22:00,052 --> 00:22:03,422
you know, like some of your crazy
character voices are fun.

444
00:22:03,555 --> 00:22:06,892
So yeah, I do try my voice acting.

445
00:22:09,061 --> 00:22:10,896
No, but it seems like a really cool idea.

446
00:22:10,896 --> 00:22:13,565
And I could see I,
I knew this stuff existed,

447
00:22:13,565 --> 00:22:16,568
but until we started talking about
I hadn't really thought about it much.

448
00:22:16,768 --> 00:22:18,470
But it seems like a player standpoint too.

449
00:22:18,470 --> 00:22:21,406
If you just wanted to jump on a game,
you have someone that you know

450
00:22:21,406 --> 00:22:23,942
knows what they're doing,
which that seems really cool.

451
00:22:25,043 --> 00:22:27,979
And there's a thing, you know,
I had to get reviews.

452
00:22:27,979 --> 00:22:31,583
I check the reviews of your damn.

453
00:22:32,651 --> 00:22:35,454
When you get into a game,
it oftentimes tells you

454
00:22:35,454 --> 00:22:40,359
how many seats have to be filled
before it started, like my current one is.

455
00:22:40,392 --> 00:22:44,863
I want four players minimum
to start the game because it is.

456
00:22:44,930 --> 00:22:49,634
I'm running a campaign
from a crooked moon and

457
00:22:50,702 --> 00:22:53,472
Fact if you want to look it up,
it's called A Time Under the Crooked Moon

458
00:22:53,472 --> 00:22:54,573
and you'll know it's mine.

459
00:22:54,573 --> 00:22:57,676
When you see the DM as Gotham mogul
for indices.

460
00:22:57,676 --> 00:22:59,878
Bill.

461
00:22:59,878 --> 00:23:02,581
Okay.

462
00:23:02,581 --> 00:23:04,616
No, that's what's a goth mogul.

463
00:23:04,616 --> 00:23:05,951
So what's a goth mogul?

464
00:23:05,951 --> 00:23:08,954
So everybody will remember.

465
00:23:09,921 --> 00:23:10,555
Well, mogul

466
00:23:10,555 --> 00:23:13,859
is a creature from Final Fantasy,
and it's been a

467
00:23:14,659 --> 00:23:17,396
one of my favorite creatures
in gaming history.

468
00:23:17,396 --> 00:23:20,232
So I adopted that as my screen name,

469
00:23:21,733 --> 00:23:23,802
the goth mogul.

470
00:23:23,802 --> 00:23:24,603
Cool. That is.

471
00:23:24,603 --> 00:23:25,370
That's too cool.

472
00:23:25,370 --> 00:23:25,637
All right,

473
00:23:25,637 --> 00:23:25,937
so that's

474
00:23:25,937 --> 00:23:28,940
where somebody goes to check this out
if they want to see what you're doing.

475
00:23:29,007 --> 00:23:30,609
Yep. Start playing games.

476
00:23:30,609 --> 00:23:33,979
And again, a Time Under the Crooked
Moon is the name of the campaign.

477
00:23:34,045 --> 00:23:37,582
It'll be running Fridays at 5 p.m.

478
00:23:37,616 --> 00:23:38,950
Pacific time.

479
00:23:38,950 --> 00:23:42,287
And again, look me up as goth mogul

480
00:23:42,888 --> 00:23:45,857
as your dungeon Master,
and you can find it that way.

481
00:23:45,857 --> 00:23:49,928
It's a levels
1 to 14 campaign from the Crooked Moon.

482
00:23:49,995 --> 00:23:52,497
And, should be fun.

483
00:23:52,497 --> 00:23:54,599
Yeah,
I think that's going to be incredible.

484
00:23:54,599 --> 00:23:56,134
All right. This is user friendly 2.0.

485
00:23:56,134 --> 00:23:59,137
We'll be back after the break.

486
00:24:00,672 --> 00:24:03,775
He's got a really big computer

487
00:24:04,342 --> 00:24:09,181
and he uses it uses it every day
and uses it.

488
00:24:09,181 --> 00:24:11,283
Uses it in every way.

489
00:24:11,283 --> 00:24:12,918
What do you do for.

490
00:24:12,918 --> 00:24:17,489
You know, I'm
not that sure because he's here as well.

491
00:24:17,823 --> 00:24:21,693
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492
00:24:21,693 --> 00:24:26,565
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493
00:24:26,598 --> 00:24:30,936
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494
00:24:32,170 --> 00:24:33,672
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495
00:24:33,672 --> 00:24:35,674
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dot show. We'd love to hear from you.

496
00:24:35,674 --> 00:24:39,044
All right, so we've got two things
to talk about in this segment.

497
00:24:39,044 --> 00:24:42,380
And one of them is the headline
of the show, which is going to be

498
00:24:42,414 --> 00:24:46,117
where we are with stereo audio equipment
and that type of a thing.

499
00:24:46,117 --> 00:24:46,918
Before we get into that,

500
00:24:46,918 --> 00:24:49,921
because I didn't get into it
in the first segment, I am going to get to

501
00:24:50,088 --> 00:24:53,658
jump into my third round of flight
training with gravity this week.

502
00:24:53,658 --> 00:24:56,661
Now, Gretchen,
you were with me on that last year.

503
00:24:56,728 --> 00:24:59,364
Yeah, and I think you enjoyed yourself.

504
00:24:59,364 --> 00:25:02,000
Oh, yeah, I wish I could go again.

505
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,536
I really feel we've got to get you
in the suit one of these days, too.

506
00:25:04,536 --> 00:25:07,439
It is a lot of fun. Hopefully
this time I'll be able to hover properly.

507
00:25:07,439 --> 00:25:08,206
That's my goal.

508
00:25:08,206 --> 00:25:12,911
So I did get to that point last time,
just barely at the end of the day.

509
00:25:13,378 --> 00:25:16,248
So, you know, you go through these
different modes of it.

510
00:25:16,248 --> 00:25:17,782
For anybody
that hasn't seen a check it out.

511
00:25:17,782 --> 00:25:21,286
Gravity is the website
and there's a channel on YouTube

512
00:25:21,286 --> 00:25:23,688
and some other things,
but it is absolutely amazing

513
00:25:23,688 --> 00:25:25,257
and it's very hard
to compare it to anything

514
00:25:25,257 --> 00:25:28,460
because you actually are flying an Iron
Man style jet suit.

515
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,497
You can also see them on Instagram easily
to tons of videos.

516
00:25:32,531 --> 00:25:35,600
Yeah, no, definitely around there
they've held

517
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,970
now a couple of times the jet suit races.

518
00:25:39,437 --> 00:25:43,642
And that's kind of a sci fi thing
just in of itself, which is kind of cool.

519
00:25:43,642 --> 00:25:45,610
Hopefully one day
I'll be able to participate in that.

520
00:25:45,610 --> 00:25:47,078
We'll see. That would be a lot of fun.

521
00:25:48,613 --> 00:25:49,281
But again,

522
00:25:49,281 --> 00:25:53,618
I'm going to go ahead and check this out
and see where we're at.

523
00:25:53,618 --> 00:25:56,121
And it'll be fun to talk about this again,
because it's been a while.

524
00:25:56,121 --> 00:25:57,656
It's been over a year
since I've been in the suits,

525
00:25:57,656 --> 00:26:00,859
so I'm starting to have
or have started a long time ago

526
00:26:00,859 --> 00:26:03,862
having withdrawal from it.

527
00:26:04,729 --> 00:26:05,530
So anyway.

528
00:26:05,530 --> 00:26:09,734
On that note, let's
go ahead and jump into audio file stuff

529
00:26:09,734 --> 00:26:11,803
because we've been having some fun
with this.

530
00:26:11,803 --> 00:26:15,607
This is unofficially been
something we've covered every year, and

531
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,411
we tend to get a lot of great
input from everybody listening

532
00:26:19,444 --> 00:26:22,614
to this, and it's a lot of fun
to check it out and see where it's at.

533
00:26:22,614 --> 00:26:26,751
And being that next year
is going to mark 150 years

534
00:26:26,751 --> 00:26:29,754
since the first recording was ever made.

535
00:26:29,955 --> 00:26:30,822
Really?

536
00:26:30,822 --> 00:26:31,222
Yeah.

537
00:26:31,222 --> 00:26:34,359
When you think about 1877 is
when Thomas Edison made

538
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,763
the first mechanical
recording on the cylinder and, you know,

539
00:26:38,797 --> 00:26:43,101
going from there, it is interesting
to see how much this has changed.

540
00:26:43,969 --> 00:26:47,272
So there's been different
generations of this.

541
00:26:47,272 --> 00:26:50,809
And right now
I think what we would look at is from

542
00:26:51,810 --> 00:26:55,647
a description, the best way to look at it
is that what audio engineers do today

543
00:26:55,647 --> 00:26:59,284
is they're trying to recreate a place,
like actually being in an auditorium,

544
00:26:59,284 --> 00:27:01,920
if that was the place
you were trying to recreate,

545
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,956
which is a little different
from where this began.

546
00:27:05,023 --> 00:27:07,192
So looking back on this a little bit,
just to kind of look

547
00:27:07,192 --> 00:27:11,596
at the history of these things again,
1877 is when the first recorded sound

548
00:27:11,596 --> 00:27:15,166
was ever made, and at that time
you didn't have things like microphones,

549
00:27:15,166 --> 00:27:18,169
amplifiers, certainly digital processing.

550
00:27:18,303 --> 00:27:22,641
And they use sound
to physically move a stylus,

551
00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:25,677
which created a representation
of those vibrations on a cylinder.

552
00:27:25,677 --> 00:27:28,680
And then playback
was just simply the reverse of that.

553
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,483
And it was for the first time
that humans could store sound.

554
00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:33,418
So it's kind of cool
to think about that, you know.

555
00:27:34,853 --> 00:27:35,687
Build out from there.

556
00:27:35,687 --> 00:27:37,656
Next advance was made in 1920.

557
00:27:37,656 --> 00:27:40,358
And that's when they started
using electricity to do recordings.

558
00:27:40,358 --> 00:27:44,262
And in that time you started
having your microphones, amplifiers.

559
00:27:44,262 --> 00:27:48,166
In those days
vacuum tube based loudspeakers and so on.

560
00:27:48,199 --> 00:27:51,336
That would make it sound
a lot more realistic.

561
00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:55,006
So the original sound definitely
had a very, I don't know, tinny aspect.

562
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,341
How would you describe that?

563
00:27:56,341 --> 00:27:59,110
It was a recording, but it wasn't.

564
00:27:59,110 --> 00:28:00,578
Yeah. Hollow. Hollow my.

565
00:28:00,578 --> 00:28:02,881
Yeah, yeah.

566
00:28:02,881 --> 00:28:04,082
Good thing from that.

567
00:28:04,082 --> 00:28:09,254
And then from that you got to the age of
magnetic tape and that changed everything

568
00:28:09,254 --> 00:28:14,059
because your recordings can now be edited,
copied, manipulated and so on.

569
00:28:14,459 --> 00:28:17,962
And then you stepped into
where you're starting to get modern area

570
00:28:17,962 --> 00:28:19,531
instead of recording just one track.

571
00:28:19,531 --> 00:28:21,232
Why not several?

572
00:28:21,232 --> 00:28:22,600
Well, multi-track recording.

573
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,603
So even like with user friendly,
each one of us

574
00:28:25,603 --> 00:28:29,441
and when we have guests on each
guess has their own separate audio track.

575
00:28:30,008 --> 00:28:31,843
And this is a little different
than stereo.

576
00:28:31,843 --> 00:28:35,880
It's the idea that each person
you can mute out everybody else.

577
00:28:36,281 --> 00:28:38,450
And from a standpoint of recording a show

578
00:28:38,450 --> 00:28:40,251
like this,
it helps if you have background noise

579
00:28:40,251 --> 00:28:41,753
on somebody's channel
and they're not talking.

580
00:28:41,753 --> 00:28:44,122
It's easier to clean it
up, stuff like that.

581
00:28:44,122 --> 00:28:47,559
But it is definitely a direction
that was a big change.

582
00:28:47,926 --> 00:28:49,728
Or they would go into that
and where this would have

583
00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:52,363
originally been used
was that you would have had one track.

584
00:28:52,363 --> 00:28:55,600
Let's say you're
recording a musical performance, one

585
00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,603
track would be the drums, one
track would be the guitarist,

586
00:28:58,636 --> 00:29:01,005
one track would be the vocalist.
That kind of a thing, you know?

587
00:29:01,005 --> 00:29:03,374
And then you can later
go in and adjust these things.

588
00:29:04,375 --> 00:29:06,611
Then you step into when we

589
00:29:06,611 --> 00:29:10,882
look at multi-track, the idea of stereo
and of course this is nothing new.

590
00:29:10,915 --> 00:29:13,351
This goes back to last century.

591
00:29:13,351 --> 00:29:16,621
What? It's
the idea that you had a location.

592
00:29:16,621 --> 00:29:18,757
So you have a left and right channel.

593
00:29:18,757 --> 00:29:22,460
And in a lot of cases,
if the mixing was done properly,

594
00:29:22,460 --> 00:29:23,995
your brain would create a central channel.

595
00:29:23,995 --> 00:29:27,398
So you'd have music coming from
front of you, which was mixed in that way.

596
00:29:27,632 --> 00:29:28,099
And then you

597
00:29:28,099 --> 00:29:31,636
had to the left and the right, and they
actually called that a phantom center,

598
00:29:31,970 --> 00:29:36,241
something that actually worked quite
well if the stereo was produced properly.

599
00:29:36,875 --> 00:29:37,842
So that was a thing.

600
00:29:37,842 --> 00:29:39,043
But we're still in a lot.

601
00:29:39,043 --> 00:29:42,046
Right, still recording in that format.

602
00:29:42,046 --> 00:29:46,417
Well, of course, like with everything else
in late 70s early 80s,

603
00:29:46,551 --> 00:29:50,522
we start seeing digital compact
disc arrived commercially in 1982,

604
00:29:50,555 --> 00:29:54,125
which was the first way to distribute
sound in a completely digital format

605
00:29:54,692 --> 00:29:57,462
and be able to recreate things in a way

606
00:29:57,462 --> 00:30:01,299
that sounded supposedly
exactly like the original.

607
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,935
And there's, I'm sure, a lot of debate.

608
00:30:03,935 --> 00:30:05,837
I can already hear the keyboards clicking
well with,

609
00:30:05,837 --> 00:30:07,539
you know, the records actually real sound.

610
00:30:07,539 --> 00:30:10,775
And we'll talk about that in a minute
because there is some truth to that.

611
00:30:11,176 --> 00:30:16,314
But like with anything else, when CDs
first came out and still to this day,

612
00:30:16,314 --> 00:30:20,084
of course, with them is it
isn't just about having a format

613
00:30:20,084 --> 00:30:23,721
that can authentically recreate
sound properly.

614
00:30:24,088 --> 00:30:29,294
You now have a situation where the way
that the audio file was mastered matters.

615
00:30:29,294 --> 00:30:32,564
The equipment you use, the room you're in,
the you know, the way it's done,

616
00:30:33,298 --> 00:30:36,301
and you could very easily
have a great system

617
00:30:36,301 --> 00:30:39,571
to distribute the audio
and have a terrible recording,

618
00:30:40,405 --> 00:30:45,610
because now you could hear the problems
better should they exist.

619
00:30:45,643 --> 00:30:47,212
Right? Okay.

620
00:30:48,179 --> 00:30:49,180
So will you think about

621
00:30:49,180 --> 00:30:52,150
it with vinyl records,
which was before CDs,

622
00:30:52,217 --> 00:30:55,820
the most common way of buying an album
or something like that,

623
00:30:55,887 --> 00:30:58,456
there was Surface Noise
and all the rest of that kind of stuff,

624
00:30:58,456 --> 00:31:01,459
so that was just considered
part of the listening experience.

625
00:31:01,559 --> 00:31:05,263
But if you had a bad underlying recording,
sometimes that was hidden a little bit

626
00:31:05,263 --> 00:31:08,233
because you weren't
expecting it to be perfect.

627
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:09,334
Okay.

628
00:31:09,334 --> 00:31:12,537
You know, there wasn't the crystal
clear, crystal clear bit.

629
00:31:12,570 --> 00:31:16,641
So anyway, so that's kind of,
you know, just a real quick

630
00:31:16,641 --> 00:31:18,543
review of the history
of all this kind of stuff.

631
00:31:18,543 --> 00:31:22,380
And then we get into today
and a lot of this that I'm going to be

632
00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:24,249
covering
is based on questions that you've sent in.

633
00:31:24,249 --> 00:31:26,217
So if I'm jumping around a little bit,
that's why.

634
00:31:26,217 --> 00:31:29,821
But one of the things that we get asked
is the whole idea with modern audio,

635
00:31:30,622 --> 00:31:33,958
what is lossy, lossless and what's good
and what's not,

636
00:31:34,325 --> 00:31:38,096
what's high resolution
and that type of a thing.

637
00:31:38,096 --> 00:31:42,634
So if you have a digital recording
that is complete

638
00:31:43,034 --> 00:31:47,272
and has every bit of information
there that is lossless.

639
00:31:47,839 --> 00:31:49,974
So in other words, it's all there.

640
00:31:49,974 --> 00:31:53,444
But this takes up a lot of space,
a tremendous amount of space.

641
00:31:54,178 --> 00:31:59,083
So in line with that, there has been a lot
of work done, some better than others.

642
00:31:59,083 --> 00:32:03,688
I'm being able to compress
the digital signal, but in order to do

643
00:32:03,688 --> 00:32:06,691
that, you have to take something away
by the nature of what it is.

644
00:32:07,392 --> 00:32:11,362
So the advantage to
this is you reduce the file size.

645
00:32:11,362 --> 00:32:13,331
The disadvantage is
if you don't do it right,

646
00:32:13,331 --> 00:32:16,334
you can really tell that you've reduced
the file size.

647
00:32:16,501 --> 00:32:20,371
Most common
method of compression that's used as MP

648
00:32:21,339 --> 00:32:22,640
of course MP3 players.

649
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:27,578
That's where that comes from
is that is a format of compressing audio.

650
00:32:28,012 --> 00:32:29,280
And there's other things out there.

651
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,283
One you may have heard of as Flac,

652
00:32:32,550 --> 00:32:34,285
which is one that's used,

653
00:32:34,285 --> 00:32:37,288
and there's a whole list of these things,

654
00:32:37,322 --> 00:32:40,058
but it is definitely

655
00:32:40,058 --> 00:32:43,995
one of those situations where you're going
to have a lot of different opinions.

656
00:32:43,995 --> 00:32:46,998
Some are good
and some are very obviously bad,

657
00:32:47,031 --> 00:32:48,333
and some of them,

658
00:32:48,333 --> 00:32:49,934
I don't think you could hold a razor next

659
00:32:49,934 --> 00:32:52,170
to the another one
and really know the difference, but

660
00:32:52,170 --> 00:32:56,207
those are out there that seem to be able
to hear that I'm not one of them.

661
00:32:56,607 --> 00:32:59,510
So, you know, and it all kind

662
00:32:59,510 --> 00:33:02,513
of comes down to what you prefer.

663
00:33:02,580 --> 00:33:05,249
Now, the other thing of it
too, is, is when you have a compression

664
00:33:05,249 --> 00:33:08,820
format, again, using MP3 as an example,
it's also possible to change

665
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:10,488
what's called the bitrate.

666
00:33:10,488 --> 00:33:13,358
And that can drastically also reduce
the quality of what you're hearing.

667
00:33:13,358 --> 00:33:14,926
So if you've ever heard it,
where it's sound,

668
00:33:14,926 --> 00:33:18,262
where it's like really tinny,
that's a little bit right usually.

669
00:33:19,998 --> 00:33:22,300
So in any event,

670
00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:25,770
that type of technology
is used to be able to fit things in

671
00:33:25,770 --> 00:33:28,973
something like an MP3 player
now streaming over your phone,

672
00:33:28,973 --> 00:33:33,044
but it's still all the same basis
in technology that goes from there.

673
00:33:33,478 --> 00:33:36,848
And as we move forward
with those type of things, where we are

674
00:33:36,848 --> 00:33:37,648
now, where a lot of us

675
00:33:37,648 --> 00:33:40,651
listen to our music over
Bluetooth speakers and that type of thing,

676
00:33:40,752 --> 00:33:43,755
and that's basically
what's powering all of that.

677
00:33:44,355 --> 00:33:47,358
All right, guys,
have a mortgage to death yet. Or

678
00:33:48,593 --> 00:33:50,695
I mean, I do this on, you know, weekly.

679
00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:53,698
So there you are right. Yeah. Exactly.

680
00:33:53,765 --> 00:33:54,766
Yeah.

681
00:33:54,766 --> 00:33:57,769
He's a sound editor. So yeah. Yeah.

682
00:33:57,769 --> 00:34:01,339
No, you would be the professional among us
on knowing how all that works, right?

683
00:34:01,539 --> 00:34:03,441
You somehow get me to sound good.

684
00:34:03,441 --> 00:34:07,278
So I think you're maybe more of a magician
than an electronics, but,

685
00:34:07,278 --> 00:34:10,581
hey, you know,
so he's using his DM skills.

686
00:34:10,615 --> 00:34:13,251
Yeah. There you go. There you go.

687
00:34:13,251 --> 00:34:17,622
Just don't process me through AI,
and we'll still be able to work together.

688
00:34:20,758 --> 00:34:22,160
So another question that

689
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:25,930
we get asked a lot on this subject
is the whole idea of surround sound.

690
00:34:25,930 --> 00:34:27,098
So we've talked about stereo.

691
00:34:27,098 --> 00:34:30,234
You have a left and right channel
and kind of a footnote to that,

692
00:34:30,234 --> 00:34:32,970
and it really is from history
is something called quadraphonic

693
00:34:32,970 --> 00:34:35,673
that was out for a little while
where you had four channels,

694
00:34:35,673 --> 00:34:38,676
so you'd have a left and right
front and a left and right back.

695
00:34:38,743 --> 00:34:42,380
It never really took off
because the formats to be able to encode

696
00:34:42,380 --> 00:34:44,215
that were never standardized.

697
00:34:44,215 --> 00:34:47,118
So you could have one kind
of a quadraphonic stereo.

698
00:34:47,118 --> 00:34:50,421
And if you bought a record that was meant
for a different kind of wouldn't work.

699
00:34:50,755 --> 00:34:55,393
And there never was really a common
format, you know, between all of that.

700
00:34:55,526 --> 00:34:57,528
So what's Dolby?

701
00:34:57,528 --> 00:35:00,798
Well, we're going to dive into that here
because that is a form of digital

702
00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:02,633
sound sound.

703
00:35:02,633 --> 00:35:05,870
And that's kind of our next topic here
is to go through

704
00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:08,940
what all of those different are because
Dolby is one of many for one thing.

705
00:35:09,407 --> 00:35:09,974
Okay.

706
00:35:09,974 --> 00:35:14,612
So I think one of the things to kind of
preface that in a way, to make it

707
00:35:14,612 --> 00:35:18,216
a little bit more understandable
is the whole idea of home theater.

708
00:35:18,850 --> 00:35:22,720
So if you go right now to a big box store,

709
00:35:22,854 --> 00:35:27,658
look online and want to buy a amplifier,
it's most likely going to say

710
00:35:27,658 --> 00:35:33,831
something where it has numbers
after it, like 5.1, 7.1, 7.2 okay.

711
00:35:35,333 --> 00:35:37,435
And these
type of things are ratings of what it is.

712
00:35:37,435 --> 00:35:39,637
And that what that has to do with surround
sound.

713
00:35:39,637 --> 00:35:41,038
So most common are 2.0.

714
00:35:41,038 --> 00:35:42,607
That's stereo right.

715
00:35:42,607 --> 00:35:45,076
Two two speakers 2.1.

716
00:35:45,076 --> 00:35:48,846
The number after the decimal point
is your subwoofer or low frequency

717
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,283
bass channels
which is usually a subwoofer.

718
00:35:52,683 --> 00:35:56,487
So 2.1 would mean stereo
with a subwoofer 5.1, which was one of the

719
00:35:56,487 --> 00:36:00,958
most common ones in the early 2000,
meant that you had five channels.

720
00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:04,061
So a center channel, front, left
and right, rear left

721
00:36:04,061 --> 00:36:05,997
and right, and a subwoofer.

722
00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:09,534
Then you had 7.1, which is seven speakers

723
00:36:09,534 --> 00:36:13,604
with one subwoofer,
and then real modern stuff, 7.1.4.

724
00:36:13,638 --> 00:36:14,639
They've got four.

725
00:36:14,639 --> 00:36:18,176
The third number has to do with height
speakers or overhead

726
00:36:18,276 --> 00:36:22,613
so that you can get sound from up down
as well as from just around you.

727
00:36:23,047 --> 00:36:26,050
So that's what all those numbers mean.

728
00:36:26,117 --> 00:36:30,888
So if you had like 7.2, that would
essentially mean you had two subwoofers.

729
00:36:31,289 --> 00:36:32,423
And that's all that is.

730
00:36:33,791 --> 00:36:36,794
So Gretchen, you're asking about

731
00:36:36,861 --> 00:36:39,564
technologies and encoding like Dolby.

732
00:36:39,564 --> 00:36:42,133
So let's talk about
one of the most current versions of that,

733
00:36:42,133 --> 00:36:44,168
which is Dolby Atmos. Okay.

734
00:36:44,168 --> 00:36:47,438
And I know you guys have heard me mention
this because I do like my Dolby Atmos.

735
00:36:47,471 --> 00:36:48,739
Right.

736
00:36:48,739 --> 00:36:52,910
And this is a format of surround sound
that came out in 2012.

737
00:36:52,977 --> 00:36:53,411
Initially.

738
00:36:53,411 --> 00:36:56,414
It's gone through a few generations
since then.

739
00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:00,051
And what we were just talking about
was the number of channels

740
00:37:00,451 --> 00:37:01,219
that you would have.

741
00:37:01,219 --> 00:37:03,054
So 5.1 was five speakers.

742
00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:05,723
So that's five different channels, right?

743
00:37:05,723 --> 00:37:09,493
And as technologies have progressed, Atmos
and some of these other ones

744
00:37:09,493 --> 00:37:12,096
that have come out, Dolby
being the company that created it.

745
00:37:12,096 --> 00:37:15,299
So the answer Gretchen at 10,000ft

746
00:37:15,299 --> 00:37:20,238
view to your question is
Dolby is a company that creates surround

747
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:23,841
sound codecs or technologies
to distribute surround sound.

748
00:37:24,075 --> 00:37:27,245
And then there's different types of Dolby
of which Atmos is one.

749
00:37:27,812 --> 00:37:29,247
Okay, okay.

750
00:37:29,247 --> 00:37:31,249
Hopefully that makes sense.

751
00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:33,651
So what they've done with
this is they've started mapping sound.

752
00:37:33,651 --> 00:37:36,320
And that's the biggest difference
that Atmos brought to the table here.

753
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,791
So instead of being channel based
you have an engineer with channels

754
00:37:40,791 --> 00:37:44,362
saying this sound goes to the left speaker
or that that one to the right and so on.

755
00:37:44,729 --> 00:37:46,697
Atmos treats the sound as an object.

756
00:37:46,697 --> 00:37:48,566
So let's say it's a helicopter.

757
00:37:48,566 --> 00:37:53,004
So instead of encoding where it should be
on a speaker, it is encoded as to

758
00:37:53,037 --> 00:37:57,775
where it you should hear it in the room
that you're sitting in okay okay, okay.

759
00:37:57,808 --> 00:37:59,677
That that that changes. Yeah.

760
00:37:59,677 --> 00:38:00,845
That makes it different.

761
00:38:00,845 --> 00:38:03,314
So is this what they use in the movie
theaters?

762
00:38:03,314 --> 00:38:05,216
Oh yeah. Big time.

763
00:38:05,216 --> 00:38:05,783
Big time.

764
00:38:05,783 --> 00:38:09,687
And with these systems being set up right
now, that was another big thing too,

765
00:38:09,687 --> 00:38:11,889
because it used to be
we're going to get into T.H.

766
00:38:11,889 --> 00:38:14,892
and George Lucas's answer to this,
which was one of the very first

767
00:38:14,892 --> 00:38:17,695
hearing that that THX thing in my head.

768
00:38:17,695 --> 00:38:20,164
And I'm like, what was that talk about?

769
00:38:20,164 --> 00:38:21,599
And we'll talk about that in a minute.

770
00:38:21,599 --> 00:38:25,436
But basically what you had going on there
is exactly what you're talking about.

771
00:38:25,436 --> 00:38:28,839
So you had something that was engineered
for a movie theater with channels.

772
00:38:28,939 --> 00:38:30,241
It would work great,

773
00:38:30,241 --> 00:38:33,110
but if the home theater system
had the speakers in a different spot

774
00:38:33,110 --> 00:38:35,513
in the room or something,
it wouldn't sound right because of that.

775
00:38:35,513 --> 00:38:35,913
Yeah,

776
00:38:35,913 --> 00:38:38,449
but if you haven't,
where it can say, well,

777
00:38:38,449 --> 00:38:40,084
the helicopter is supposed
to go over your head

778
00:38:40,084 --> 00:38:40,551
and whatever

779
00:38:40,551 --> 00:38:43,554
your speaker format is, that's
where it's going to appear to come from.

780
00:38:43,688 --> 00:38:46,390
That's
what something like Atmos does. Okay.

781
00:38:47,925 --> 00:38:50,294
So it's
a completely different way of encoding

782
00:38:50,294 --> 00:38:54,298
and that type of a thing,
but it is one that made a huge change.

783
00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:56,100
And what basically you're doing with

784
00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:58,135
that is you're creating
something called a sound field.

785
00:38:58,135 --> 00:38:59,670
Okay.

786
00:38:59,670 --> 00:39:01,439
So there's competitors of that.

787
00:39:01,439 --> 00:39:05,142
Another one that you may have seen
the letters for is DTS or DTS X.

788
00:39:05,976 --> 00:39:08,179
And if you haven't it's out there.

789
00:39:08,179 --> 00:39:12,616
And it's basically a enhanced sound system
that uses a similar

790
00:39:12,650 --> 00:39:16,354
object based philosophy,
just using a different method of doing it.

791
00:39:16,354 --> 00:39:18,055
So think back to quadraphonic.

792
00:39:18,055 --> 00:39:20,524
Now we have two competing technologies,
right?

793
00:39:20,524 --> 00:39:24,161
The difference being with a digital
amplifier you can support more than one.

794
00:39:24,161 --> 00:39:29,500
So it makes it not a problem like it used
to be with that type of a thing. But

795
00:39:30,701 --> 00:39:33,037
there
I you know, really as far as immersive

796
00:39:33,037 --> 00:39:36,040
audio goes, I think both of them
do about the same thing.

797
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,442
DTS if you've ever been to an Imax movie,

798
00:39:38,442 --> 00:39:41,445
that's the system it uses there.

799
00:39:41,445 --> 00:39:43,647
For being able to do this,
although I have seen Atmos

800
00:39:43,647 --> 00:39:47,752
with Emax as well, but primarily DTS
is used in that kind of environment.

801
00:39:48,652 --> 00:39:51,722
And Gretchen
so you were asking about George Lucas and.

802
00:39:52,289 --> 00:39:53,257
Right.

803
00:39:53,257 --> 00:39:53,924
Yeah.

804
00:39:53,924 --> 00:39:56,894
Well, believe it or not,

805
00:39:56,894 --> 00:39:59,997
t h is something more than 15 seconds
you see, in

806
00:39:59,997 --> 00:40:03,000
front of a movie that's really loud
with a really strange tone.

807
00:40:03,567 --> 00:40:07,304
And it sounded kind of cool and
impressive, but okay, cool and impressive.

808
00:40:07,538 --> 00:40:09,206
There's actually people
that that terrifies.

809
00:40:09,206 --> 00:40:12,176
There is actually a phobia of the sound.

810
00:40:12,176 --> 00:40:12,643
Really.

811
00:40:12,643 --> 00:40:14,845
It really is a thing.
Yeah, I didn't know that, you

812
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:16,881
know, but

813
00:40:16,881 --> 00:40:20,418
this was a little different approach
when Lucasfilm came up with this,

814
00:40:20,418 --> 00:40:24,288
what they were aiming to do was actually
creating a set of standards, not a format.

815
00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:26,323
So t h is actually not a format.

816
00:40:26,323 --> 00:40:28,926
It's standards that formats are based on.

817
00:40:28,926 --> 00:40:29,160
Okay.

818
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:33,397
And George Lucas and creating Star Wars
and his other films as well.

819
00:40:33,397 --> 00:40:35,966
But primarily Star Wars had a situation.

820
00:40:35,966 --> 00:40:38,769
In order to experience a Star Wars
film properly,

821
00:40:38,769 --> 00:40:41,605
it had to be able to be reproduced
in the way that he wanted it to be,

822
00:40:41,605 --> 00:40:44,542
which means sound in the right place,
video in the right place.

823
00:40:44,542 --> 00:40:48,479
And at that time, late 70s movie
theaters really didn't do that

824
00:40:48,479 --> 00:40:50,881
because there wasn't
really a way to do it, to set it up

825
00:40:50,881 --> 00:40:53,751
and this is going to work
or that isn't going to work.

826
00:40:53,751 --> 00:40:54,084
Right.

827
00:40:54,084 --> 00:40:57,955
So what he did is he created standards,

828
00:40:58,489 --> 00:41:01,926
and the standards were designed
that if you met these standards,

829
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:06,897
you would end up with the sound
being the way that it's supposed to,

830
00:41:06,931 --> 00:41:09,733
but it would still if you had speakers
in the wrong spot or something like that,

831
00:41:09,733 --> 00:41:11,735
it wouldn't sound quite right.

832
00:41:11,735 --> 00:41:16,207
They also have a thing called
spatial audio, which is a technology

833
00:41:16,207 --> 00:41:19,610
belonging to t h that does take beyond
just the certification.

834
00:41:20,277 --> 00:41:23,314
So one of the things that's interesting
to you,

835
00:41:23,380 --> 00:41:25,716
and Lucas tends
to be on top of the technology

836
00:41:25,716 --> 00:41:27,952
when it comes to this stuff,
which is really kind of cool.

837
00:41:27,952 --> 00:41:32,156
And I did not know this existed,
but one of the things with spatial audio

838
00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:33,057
and with H.

839
00:41:33,057 --> 00:41:35,326
And I just got a new amplifier,
so I'm gonna have to try this out

840
00:41:35,326 --> 00:41:38,329
as the headphones
track your head movement.

841
00:41:38,462 --> 00:41:40,965
So when you move your head,
it moves the sound

842
00:41:40,965 --> 00:41:43,100
based on where you're looking in the room.

843
00:41:43,100 --> 00:41:45,369
Really? Yeah. Oh.

844
00:41:45,369 --> 00:41:49,273
Oh. And I would have a lot of questions
about that working properly.

845
00:41:49,273 --> 00:41:53,010
But I also know that stuff that comes from
Lucasfilm, it'll work properly.

846
00:41:53,010 --> 00:41:55,145
He wouldn't have released it
if it didn't. Yeah.

847
00:41:55,145 --> 00:41:57,681
So you know, what is it?

848
00:41:57,681 --> 00:42:03,053
It's Skywalker sound
you see often at the end of of movies,

849
00:42:03,087 --> 00:42:06,657
you know that Skywalker Sound
worked on the project, right?

850
00:42:06,957 --> 00:42:07,558
Yeah.

851
00:42:07,558 --> 00:42:09,159
And that means
it's going to have good sound.

852
00:42:09,159 --> 00:42:13,297
And these technologies, by the way,
are being incorporated, are not being

853
00:42:13,297 --> 00:42:16,400
have been for a while
and a lot more than just simply

854
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,404
movies, video games
that use Atmos and, and other formats,

855
00:42:21,839 --> 00:42:25,276
spatial in this sense and other formats
correctly.

856
00:42:25,276 --> 00:42:27,478
It really adds to the game experience.

857
00:42:27,478 --> 00:42:29,947
I mean, you know, you are immersed, right?

858
00:42:29,947 --> 00:42:33,250
So it makes a huge, huge difference.

859
00:42:33,551 --> 00:42:36,320
And some of the other things that go
along with this are quite interesting.

860
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:37,821
Like I said,
I just bought a new amplifier.

861
00:42:37,821 --> 00:42:40,958
My old upmost amp,
which was a previous generation, died.

862
00:42:41,158 --> 00:42:43,127
Oh, about two months ago.

863
00:42:43,127 --> 00:42:46,330
And then I started
looking into buying a replacement.

864
00:42:46,330 --> 00:42:48,399
And then I found out how much they cost,

865
00:42:48,399 --> 00:42:51,602
had an appointment with my cardiologist,
and after recovering from that.

866
00:42:52,336 --> 00:42:55,172
Managed to, stuff's not cheap.

867
00:42:55,172 --> 00:42:58,242
Although one thing I have noticed
that most certified stuff.

868
00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:01,579
You can get some audio equipment
that's not

869
00:43:02,079 --> 00:43:04,615
totally wallet breaking,
and it still sounds pretty good.

870
00:43:04,615 --> 00:43:06,817
So that that actually is a thing.

871
00:43:06,817 --> 00:43:08,419
But this is my primary home theater.

872
00:43:08,419 --> 00:43:11,755
I love working with this stuff,
so I did end up getting a good quality

873
00:43:12,122 --> 00:43:16,093
amplifier
that does Atmos, does the standards, does

874
00:43:16,694 --> 00:43:19,330
you know, all these other formats
and doesn't quite well.

875
00:43:19,330 --> 00:43:21,565
And Gretchen,
I know the first time you were listening

876
00:43:21,565 --> 00:43:24,702
to it, your comment to me was the voices
are coming from the back of the room.

877
00:43:28,005 --> 00:43:30,407
So one of the things about this

878
00:43:30,407 --> 00:43:34,511
that really kind of impressed me
is going through the setup process.

879
00:43:35,512 --> 00:43:37,781
And in this,

880
00:43:37,781 --> 00:43:41,118
the stereo system itself
came with a microphone,

881
00:43:41,552 --> 00:43:44,288
and you put the microphone
in your listening position

882
00:43:44,288 --> 00:43:46,690
where you're going to sit in the room,
and then it runs through a test setup

883
00:43:46,690 --> 00:43:50,194
and it automatically
through the use of AI, determines

884
00:43:50,194 --> 00:43:53,230
what's going to sound
best for your position in the room.

885
00:43:53,831 --> 00:43:54,198
Okay.

886
00:43:54,198 --> 00:43:57,101
So if you're Sheldon, you get it.

887
00:43:57,101 --> 00:44:03,040
It's it's set for your spot and
everybody else gets stuck with a bad spot.

888
00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:06,577
Well, okay, it would be primarily Sheldon

889
00:44:06,577 --> 00:44:09,580
big bang reference for anybody
that doesn't know Big Bang Theory.

890
00:44:10,381 --> 00:44:12,616
For your position in the room,
it would be best.

891
00:44:12,616 --> 00:44:13,751
But let's just put it this way.

892
00:44:13,751 --> 00:44:16,820
I have not had anybody complain
about other spots in the room.

893
00:44:17,254 --> 00:44:19,690
Okay, so it is. It is very good.

894
00:44:19,690 --> 00:44:22,126
But your primary spot
would be basically what it's

895
00:44:23,127 --> 00:44:23,694
set up

896
00:44:23,694 --> 00:44:26,697
that that's the location
where it's going to be audio nirvana.

897
00:44:26,797 --> 00:44:27,297
Right.

898
00:44:27,297 --> 00:44:30,300
Okay. So.

899
00:44:30,901 --> 00:44:34,238
So you know and this technology's continue
to grow here.

900
00:44:34,238 --> 00:44:37,374
It's kind of gone full circle
because there was a time

901
00:44:37,408 --> 00:44:41,111
with audio equipment, 80s and 90s
that you had this

902
00:44:41,111 --> 00:44:43,213
big giant stereo
and showed it off to everybody.

903
00:44:43,213 --> 00:44:46,417
The speakers were the height of the room
sometimes and that kind of thing.

904
00:44:46,717 --> 00:44:48,619
And now it's almost like, in a way,

905
00:44:48,619 --> 00:44:51,722
except for the weirdos like us
that are into retro electronics,

906
00:44:51,922 --> 00:44:54,925
that you don't want to see the technology,
you just want to hear it.

907
00:44:55,325 --> 00:44:57,761
And, you know, that's
kind of where it's coming through here.

908
00:44:57,761 --> 00:45:01,598
There's a thing called Aurora cars
now that actually leverages

909
00:45:01,832 --> 00:45:04,802
Bluetooth to make like radio broadcasting.

910
00:45:04,802 --> 00:45:07,538
So anybody that has a device
that's compatible with this can go

911
00:45:07,538 --> 00:45:11,442
into a situation on their personal device
here, what's being sent out.

912
00:45:11,575 --> 00:45:16,613
So think about you go to a museum and
you have your own headset on your phone.

913
00:45:16,613 --> 00:45:18,716
So your earbuds whatever. Right.

914
00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:22,352
And you have the setup when you walk
into the appropriate room and the museum,

915
00:45:22,352 --> 00:45:25,456
you can hear whatever it is they're doing
over your Bluetooth connection

916
00:45:26,557 --> 00:45:28,592
are okay.

917
00:45:28,592 --> 00:45:31,595
So, you know, that's a step
that's kind of a new thing.

918
00:45:31,762 --> 00:45:34,565
I haven't heard of this much

919
00:45:34,565 --> 00:45:37,768
until earlier this year when I saw it
for the first time somewhere.

920
00:45:37,768 --> 00:45:42,072
So it's definitely brand new
and it uses low power

921
00:45:42,272 --> 00:45:45,275
Bluetooth low power,
I believe is what it's called.

922
00:45:46,009 --> 00:45:50,514
And from that standpoint, it's able
to, you know, do that kind of a thing.

923
00:45:50,514 --> 00:45:52,483
So what in the old days
was a radio station?

924
00:45:52,483 --> 00:45:53,484
Now you would pick it up,

925
00:45:53,484 --> 00:45:55,686
I think where I'm going to leverage this
as my holiday lights.

926
00:45:55,686 --> 00:45:58,856
We're going to be talking about that
technology up here in a couple of weeks.

927
00:45:59,056 --> 00:45:59,423
But you know,

928
00:45:59,423 --> 00:46:00,924
you have to do the audio broadcast to go

929
00:46:00,924 --> 00:46:03,360
along with
what's going on with the lights.

930
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,662
And I'm going to be doing that
for the first time this year.

931
00:46:05,662 --> 00:46:09,399
I'm sure my age
is going to love me for that, but oh well.

932
00:46:09,633 --> 00:46:12,102
And I'm going to be trying out
Aurora cast.

933
00:46:12,102 --> 00:46:14,204
I'm still going to have a transmitter

934
00:46:14,204 --> 00:46:17,641
with my hacker RF radio
that will do the FM broadcast as well,

935
00:46:17,941 --> 00:46:21,245
but most modern cars
have Bluetooth capability in them already,

936
00:46:21,245 --> 00:46:23,380
so it should work with that.
So we'll see what happens.

937
00:46:25,682 --> 00:46:28,252
So anyway,
my girlfriend teases me about this

938
00:46:28,252 --> 00:46:29,553
because the whole retro tech thing.

939
00:46:29,553 --> 00:46:32,422
So I've got an Atmos THX setup.

940
00:46:32,422 --> 00:46:35,559
And the other thing I have
is Dolby Vision, which among other things,

941
00:46:35,559 --> 00:46:39,530
is really clear clarity
on the screen and the backlit.

942
00:46:39,530 --> 00:46:41,899
So the lights behind the television match,

943
00:46:41,899 --> 00:46:44,001
what's on the screen,
all this kind of stuff.

944
00:46:44,001 --> 00:46:46,336
And it works
really well for playing Pac-Man.

945
00:46:46,336 --> 00:46:51,875
I just haven't been able
to get that into stereo yet. Oh.

946
00:46:53,310 --> 00:46:55,579
Oh man, I had to do some weird things.

947
00:46:55,579 --> 00:46:58,816
I got my, a Sega Genesis set up,
and I found out it doesn't

948
00:46:58,849 --> 00:47:01,885
actually output stereo sound
except through the headphone jack on it,

949
00:47:01,885 --> 00:47:04,822
so I rewired it so the headphone
jack is now what's going out?

950
00:47:04,822 --> 00:47:07,324
The audio output
on the back of the thing. It worked.

951
00:47:07,324 --> 00:47:09,693
You know, so I don't know.

952
00:47:09,693 --> 00:47:10,327
What do you guys think?

953
00:47:10,327 --> 00:47:12,262
Still Bluetooth speaker, do you?

954
00:47:12,262 --> 00:47:14,364
Gretchen,
I know we just rebuilt your Kenwood system

955
00:47:14,364 --> 00:47:17,100
from the early 80s,
which was a lot of fun. Yeah.

956
00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:20,037
And we still need to probably reorganize

957
00:47:20,037 --> 00:47:24,208
all of the pieces
before we can really get into it.

958
00:47:25,409 --> 00:47:27,044
But yeah, I'm excited about it.

959
00:47:27,044 --> 00:47:28,011
So Gretchen has.

960
00:47:28,011 --> 00:47:31,014
And I will not give the address
where this is so that,

961
00:47:32,883 --> 00:47:34,685
in original

962
00:47:34,685 --> 00:47:38,088
serial number
matched Kenwood component system,

963
00:47:38,088 --> 00:47:41,525
including the cabinet with the Kenwood
logo on the door and everything.

964
00:47:41,792 --> 00:47:45,762
It's in pristine condition, and
it had been in storage for a long time.

965
00:47:45,762 --> 00:47:46,597
So we've been going through

966
00:47:46,597 --> 00:47:48,732
changing belts, changing caps
where necessary,

967
00:47:48,732 --> 00:47:50,701
that kind of a thing,
and getting the system up and running.

968
00:47:50,701 --> 00:47:55,172
And to this point, well,
apparently my dad turned it up

969
00:47:55,172 --> 00:47:58,175
way too loud while my mom was away and,

970
00:47:59,343 --> 00:48:00,844
blew the amp.

971
00:48:00,844 --> 00:48:02,246
Yeah,

972
00:48:02,246 --> 00:48:05,449
he blew out
one of the power packs in the amplifier.

973
00:48:05,482 --> 00:48:09,486
Getting that fixed was pretty
straightforward, but the belts were,

974
00:48:09,519 --> 00:48:09,820
you know,

975
00:48:09,820 --> 00:48:11,889
getting to a point
where they were starting to turn to mush,

976
00:48:11,889 --> 00:48:14,925
which I'm glad we got at the point we did,
because that's incredibly difficult to

977
00:48:14,958 --> 00:48:16,293
clean up when that happens.

978
00:48:17,995 --> 00:48:21,164
Belts and old
systems will turn into kind of like a goo.

979
00:48:21,431 --> 00:48:24,434
Don't forget, your trash cans

980
00:48:24,635 --> 00:48:27,638
will turn into a goo,
and when that happens,

981
00:48:27,838 --> 00:48:31,975
you end up with a situation that
in addition to taking out your trash cans,

982
00:48:32,242 --> 00:48:35,612
you have a situation that trying to clean
it up can be very difficult.

983
00:48:35,612 --> 00:48:38,215
And you go through a lot of Q-tips,
among other things.

984
00:48:38,215 --> 00:48:40,350
So really? Yeah.

985
00:48:40,350 --> 00:48:42,552
Wow. Doesn't sound like a lot of fun.

986
00:48:42,552 --> 00:48:43,720
No it's not.

987
00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:47,190
And I'm kind of dreading
that I have a original sharp,

988
00:48:48,158 --> 00:48:50,360
I think it's a 1000 boom box.

989
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,129
It has a full vertical record player

990
00:48:52,129 --> 00:48:53,730
in it, among other things,
that has that problem.

991
00:48:53,730 --> 00:48:57,567
I'm going to restoring that this winter,
and I'm prepared for a lot of that.

992
00:48:57,567 --> 00:49:00,938
So let us know what you think about audio
and if there's any other questions

993
00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:03,006
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994
00:49:03,006 --> 00:49:04,141
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995
00:49:04,141 --> 00:49:06,076
There's not enough time
to go through all of this stuff,

996
00:49:06,076 --> 00:49:09,846
but it's still fun to talk about
and definitely something that I know

997
00:49:09,846 --> 00:49:13,817
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998
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