Welcome to We Are Technology’s

User Friendly.

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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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Joining me Bill and Gretchen,

welcome to this week's show.

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Oh hello there.

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So believe it or not,

we are already to this time of year.

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And that time of year

is the annual season of giving.

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And this year, user friendly is

the charity that we're going to support,

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and we are privileged to be able

to support William Temple House.

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They're doing a program for this fall

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to make some money

for covering what they offer.

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And basically what this is,

is an organization that has been around

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for 60 years there in downtown Portland,

which is our home city,

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and it's the only place in Portland

where someone can get low cost counseling,

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whether or not they have insurance, shop

for free groceries,

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and get connected to other resources.

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And with the food insecurity stuff

that's going on right now,

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these kind of things

are extremely important.

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So we will be interviewing

some of the people from this

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great charity next week

and some more details on it.

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And for more information, check out

our website at User Friendly Dot.

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Show.

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All right,

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before we get into the news, I also just

wanted to touch one other thing here.

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We've got a slight scheduling change.

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In the topics.

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This week was going to be our gift

episode.

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We're going to be moving that up

two weeks.

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So if you heard it in the TS, during

the week, you weren't hallucinating.

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There's sometimes things get swapped

around.

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So, we're going to be doing our Q&A

this week,

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and then we'll be doing that in two.

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So all right, that being said,

what do we have in the news?

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All right.

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Peloton issues recall for 833

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bikes over faulty seatpost.

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Well you know

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peloton is not having their best year

lately these last few years.

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And it was only 833.

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It wouldn't be a big deal,

but it is actually 833,000.

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Yeah. Of their bike.

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Did I say it wrong?

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Eight you said 833

I wish I was that small of them.

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Number.

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Oh man.

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But what we've got going on

here is a situation

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that could be fairly unpleasant.

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And what they're having is the seatpost

are breaking in, detaching during use.

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So while you're riding your bike,

your seat breaks and you fall off.

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There have been reports

of these breakages to reports

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of injuries, resulting from the falls.

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These were the bikes sold.

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All the bike

lost between January 2020 and April 2025

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and were manufactured

in Taiwan from 2019 to 2022.

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So take a look at what you have

and check with peloton

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to make sure

that you don't have a recalled model.

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And if you do, you've let them know

and they're sending out

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a free redesigned seatpost replacements

that owners can install themselves.

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So it is fixable.

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But you do want to check this out so that

you don't have a bad day or something.

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Didn't Senator Reed, fall off

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a bike like this and hurt himself

some years ago?

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You know something?

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I, Senator Reed, was the, state senator

for Nevada.

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For anybody that doesn't know

and was in for a long time, you know,

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and I believe

there was something like that.

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I vaguely remember that. So, yeah.

You do want to be careful.

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Usually this stuff is pretty rock solid.

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And, you know, this is an exception,

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not the rule on these things,

but it's still it can happen.

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So, you know, so in this case

definitely if you have one of these bikes

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you get the parts.

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So you just don't want to play with that.

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Always impressed by how

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some parts that have been around for

hundreds of years can be screwed up.

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Experts issue warning of harmful side

effects of windows shut down.

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Here's what's happening.

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Speaking of which.

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Yeah.

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So this is something

that's really starting to ramp up.

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And it's an interesting topic you've seen

and a lot of questions about this, and

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we wanted to hear on some of the numbers

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So in October Windows 10

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was phased out Microsoft started

it was obsolete neighbor of Windows 11.

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And we've been talking

about how you'll lose support

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unless you, you know, stand on your head

and do a dance around

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a fire to get it for another year.

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Or in the alternative, just pay 30 bucks.

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But what's happening here

is they're starting

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to realize the amount of e-waste

that this is creating.

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So what's happened is there's a lot of

computers, laptops, desktops, and so on

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out there that are perfectly capable

of running Windows 11.

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From a speed and memory standpoint.

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But the new operating system

has specific requirements

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for the components

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For technical term, that's TPM 2.0.

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What that's about is it

helps with securing the computer

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and some other things like that,

which is a laughable goal.

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But at the end of the day,

this change has created a situation

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where a lot of equipment's

going to go in the landfill prematurely.

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And, here are some of the numbers.

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There's a significant amount

of salvageable metal and this stuff $2.1

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billion, 1.6 billion pounds worth of gold,

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almost 100 million worth of copper,

33 million of silver.

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So you're looking at 1.8

billion pounds or $2.4

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billion in stuff

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All that is needed

is a way to extract the metal

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through recycling,

which does not exist in a lot of places.

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This is an incredible amount of e-waste,

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and it's creating a situation

where people are quite upset

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looking at this and figuring out, well,

how can we go longer?

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Well,

you can extend your security updates.

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That type of thing is an option,

but you do have to pay an annual fee

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for that, which starts,

I think it's 30 bucks or something

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this year that increases exponentially,

but you can get it up for up to ten years.

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You can tell them you're a business

and get the business version,

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which includes the updates

for the next ten years.

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side thing there, although it will cost

money initially to do that.

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Or you can use another operating system

like Linux or something of that nature.

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So there are some things that you can do

with the older machines.

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But for most people

that just want to turn their laptop on

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and have it boot up

and they do what they need to do without,

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you know, having to worry about these

things, it is creating a problem here.

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Now, there are some ways to be able

to deal with this e-waste.

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If you have that in your area for

recycling these things is a good option.

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The other side of it is what I'm doing

is use them for something else.

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Windows 10 doesn't stop working,

it just stops getting updates.

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So there's still a lot of stuff that

you can do with a computer at that point.

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And one of the things

that I've been hearing from a lot of you

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is giving it to your young kid

to learn how to work the computer,

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take it offline,

you know, so you don't have that issue.

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But it is something where

if they damage it, well,

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it was going to be thrown out anyway. So

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that's just an option of getting creative,

you know, and that kind of thing.

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But I do think it's important,

this being something that kind of has

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call this out, that when things change

and technology does change very quickly,

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but when you do something like this

you can actually create

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a huge negative environmental impact.

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And that seems

to be what's happening here.

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Farewell to the International Space

Station.

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NASA confirms

that it will fall into the sea

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and that they still don't know

who will be its replacement

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or what will be its replacement,

or maybe who is doing the replacing.

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Yeah, yeah,

I think all of the above there.

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Well, this is a huge amount of e-waste

on our previous topic.

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so that it's coming right up.

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It's 2025 now. So five years now.

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A lot can change in five years.

So don't know what's going on.

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But right now, today

that's the decision that's been made.

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And it's like saying don't throw your old

shoes away before you get a new pair.

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You know, you can still use them,

but right now there are no plans,

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no budget or anything like that

to replace the space station.

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So you know, we'll see what actually

happens and where this actually goes.

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Right now.

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That is the plan is by by space station.

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Stem is becoming

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as important as knowing how to read.

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Yeah. And I have to agree with that.

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That headline,

this is something that has been important

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to us, your user-friendly and with my

we are a technology company

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that we've supported openly over the years

and do things

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like working with, local schools

and that type of thing.

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Science, technology, engineering and math

is what that acronym stands for Stem.

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And in today's world,

we are in a situation where

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if you don't know how to use technology,

you're just not going to get very far.

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And this isn't,

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you know, ten,

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15 years ago or so,

can you be a computer programmer

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working in a data center

or something like that?

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You need to understand that.

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But for other things you might not.

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It's pretty much not 100%.

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Pretty much every occupation

now depends on technology for something,

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and even if it isn't the primary thing

you still need to use a computer.

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You still need to know the basics of it.

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You still probably

will need to troubleshoot it.

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Now that's one part of it.

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The other part of it is some numbers

that I thought were very interesting.

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So 24% of the US labor force, that's 36.8

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million workers, works

in some kind of a Stem occupation.

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And that number is projected

to grow by 8.1% by 2034.

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So this is, this is,

you know, a big deal from that standpoint.

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The other one that's interesting here

is if you look at the average wage,

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so the average wage,

when this survey was done,

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which was last year,

so 2024 numbers was 49,500.

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The average wage for Stem

occupations is 103,580.

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And I can tell you it does go much higher

in certain situations.

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So this is something

that's definitely worth looking into,

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but also something

that really needs to be offered

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at, I think, the elementary school level.

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So there's a lot of ocular things

going on in occupations

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that we're just talking about.

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But, different organizations

that hire in these ways,

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they're just starting to get together

and put forth only two ads in education

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where it doesn't exist right now

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and improve upon it

where it needs to be improved upon.

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There's something going forward

that's going to be important always.

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If you are unable to read,

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if you're illiterate,

that makes it much harder to find a job.

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And we're looking

at the same kind of differential.

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If you don't know how to use technology.

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All right.

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Shield AI has unveiled exFAT,

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the world's first AI piloted fighter jet.

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So tell us about that.

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I can't do that day.

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Okay. Day.

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How that was.

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Yeah. Hell, yeah. Hell yeah.

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I was going to say it's not here, but,

you know, that doesn't work.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So actually, this is kind of cool.

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I just it's a plane run by I.

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It's a fighter jet is the what you said.

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And vertical takeoff and landing.

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And one of the things that I've seen,

there is a feeling that airplanes

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that require runways

and that kind of stuff

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are going to be becoming more and more

a thing of the past.

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So we'll be calling those airplanes.

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A lot of the new technology

that we're seeing

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does have vertical takeoff and landing.

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So it requires less space.

And there's a lot of advantages to that.

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I don't think we're going to be seeing

that on the 730 sevens any time soon.

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But a lot of things you see that out

there, like jet suits, are the same way

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that you just can take off and land.

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So in addition to being able to launch

without runways,

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it's controlled by a system

called Shield Eyes Hivemind Software.

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That's the name.

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It can fly, navigate and coordinate

missions without human input.

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Even when

GPS or communications are jammed.

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The aircraft's

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stealth design includes internal weapon

base, a range of over 2000 nautical miles,

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and a service ceiling of above 50,000ft,

so it's pretty formidable.

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Wow.

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Three giant solar outbursts

explode towards

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Earth, prompting aurora forecasts

across the US.

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Yeah, right.

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I've been told this so many times

we're going to have an aurora

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an hour, but,

I'll believe it when I see it.

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Right. It's.

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Yeah.

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This is, solar storms.

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They caused the aurora borealis,

geomagnetic storms

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and the three eruptions,

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will converge on our planet

almost simultaneously.

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And this will cause the aurora to reach

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lower latitudes

than where they normally are.

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So we should be able to see them up here

in the Oregon area.

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And they're forecasting this

in a lot of different places.

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And these are pretty to look at.

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But they do screw off electronics.

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And it can cause things like radio signals

and other embedded microcontrollers

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and that type of thing to act weird

and malfunction and that kind of thing.

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So if you get to a point

and we saw this last month,

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you were now you're using your computer

or doing whatever you're doing,

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and it feels like the internet is sluggish

or something weird's going on.

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It's just not quite right. It's there,

but it's not.

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Or if you're using if you use

one of the people who still do things

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like ham radio and stuff,

it can interfere with that.

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And having three of them at the same time

could be interesting.

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I don't know,

they're saying there's going to be severe.

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And with that classification,

I think we just

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should be prepared for some interruptions.

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All right.

So that's it for the news this week.

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Next segment

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we're going to be going into the Q&A

and answering some of your questions

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that you have sent.

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And we haven't done one of these

in a while.

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So this is going to be a lot of fun.

So stay tuned for that.

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In the meantime, let's talk pop culture.

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Gretchen, you have a couple of television.

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Well, once a television show

and once a movie, I think. Yeah.

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I can binge watching just stuff

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and I, I used to like Westerns as a kid,

you know, you you know, you.

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I'm a generation X kid,

and we saw Westerns, a lot of them.

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So we kind of grew up on them.

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So I came across

this series called Wild West Chronicles,

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and it was from 2020 to 2024.

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So it was four seasons.

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And the star of this was a fellow

named Jack Elliott.

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And he is Bat Masterson.

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Okay,

so I'd heard of Bat Masterson as a kid

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when they used to advertise those,

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life, Wild West books,

you know, the life series,

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they would do all kinds of different

topics.

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And I believe it was life

that had a Wild West series.

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And they would talk about all these

different, you know, famous individuals.

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Quite a well-known one, too. Oh, yeah.

295

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And, well, anyways, Bat Masterson.

Oh, okay.

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I'll, I'll check it out.

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And I really enjoyed these.

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I think these stories, it says

when I looked it up,

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for the most part,

they are based on reality.

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And, these are recreated using,

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something they called a dramatic docu

drama style.

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So it makes sure that it's entertaining,

you know?

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But it seems like these,

for the most part, are fairly realistic

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and following probably the articles

that he used to write and the actor

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who presents it did a really nice job

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of playing the character of Bat Masterson

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and all of the other

supporting characters and writers.

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Nice, nice settings.

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It's worth if you like Westerns

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and you want to hear something

that's a little more based in reality.

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These were really fun.

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So you get four for four seasons of it,

and it's in color,

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and it looks like it's

probably been filmed

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in California, maybe Arizona.

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You know, a few places like that,

because I do recognize

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some of the landscape,

and it's just good fun.

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Yeah.

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And so you get to hear about characters

like wild Bill Cody,

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Calamity Jane

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and some other unknown ones,

such as some of the black cowboys.

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And there was a black, I think

Texas Ranger, which I had no idea about.

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That was a complete shock.

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So it was like,

kind of cool to hear the stories.

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So then.

325

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All right.

326

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And I'm just going to throw this comment

out here at you because,

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you know, with Western stuff,

we see a lot of things

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that are very sensationalized

and not a period that really needs that.

329

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No, in my opinion,

you know, no, a lot of things that,

330

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you know, that you can go into

and it's very fascinating.

331

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A lot of unsung heroes.

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I mean,

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now think about really who made the stuff

around, like the engineers of the period.

334

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Now time

and all of this existed like it does now.

335

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But all the stories are about,

you know, gunfights

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with cowboys and all this stuff,

and it's not really what it was about.

337

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That kind of stuff happened.

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But that wasn't certainly that was the

339

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you know their other stuff happened

that was a lot more often.

340

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Yeah.

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And so I had watched, started binge

watching Death

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Valley Days which is on a similar vein,

343

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but from what I, read about,

it sounded like their stuff,

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even though it has a very,

authentic feel to it.

345

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They did kind of dramatize some things,

you know, so it's not as realistic

346

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as this set with the Bat Masterson.

347

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So, so where do you find

it is streaming on?

348

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Oh, it's streaming on Amazon.

349

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Yeah, Amazon is Amazon Prime.

350

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So and then okay, so then we switch up to

I'm feeling like watching something else.

351

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And I come across the, Fantastic

Four movie and that's on Disney Plus.

352

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And I kind of both dad

watching the Fantastic Four,

353

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because it just seemed like in years past,

354

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whenever I came across these characters,

355

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there was always this stereotype,

the big guy

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who kind of turns into this kind of rock

type, type creature.

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He's always angry, and the fire guy

is always doing stupid stuff.

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The brother.

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And it just got so repetitive and boring

360

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and I'm like, okay, do I want to do

I want to watch this?

361

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And it's like, okay, I've paid for Disney

Plus, let's watch the movie.

362

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And I was kind of pleasantly surprised.

363

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They they took some direction

that I wasn't really expecting.

364

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And, I, I'd love to hear what our friend

365

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Michael from read the freaking comic,

what he says about this.

366

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Because I know there's lots of,

politics and drama

367

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concerning different versions

of characters like the Silver

368

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Surfer was a girl this time,

and I know the silver Surfer

369

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is supposed to be a guy, but

she was a really fascinating character.

370

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And I'm wondering,

did she stay true to the original one?

371

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I have no idea.

372

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I'm not a comic book person, so I'd love

to hear what Michael's take is on it.

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Do either of you guys know anything

about the Fantastic Four?

374

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I wasn't a fan.

375

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Oh, okay.

376

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I think there's four people in it.

377

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Oh. One of the things was, is

they kind of kept

378

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that 50s retro feel,

which I thought was cool,

379

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though the whole movie is kind of set

in this cool 50s retro.

380

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It's kind of like a George Jetson feel,

so I thought that was clever.

381

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I liked that.

382

00:20:02,968 --> 00:20:04,203

So Bill, did you?

383

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Actually, I haven't seen it.

384

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I haven't seen it yet myself.

So it's interesting to hear this.

385

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I think I would like to now,

I wasn't quite as, optimistic,

386

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but it sounds like they actually maybe

did a nice job. Yeah.

387

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And it wasn't so heavy

based on all of the punching and shooting

388

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and blowing things up,

there was an actual story

389

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with some feelings going on in there,

and it's like, oh, and and they didn't,

390

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you know, shove the angry guy,

you know, the angry guy who got,

391

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you know, changed into a pile of rocks

or the stupid brother story.

392

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And they kept at it.

393

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They kept that like reasonable

394

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and more realistic,

at least in my opinion.

395

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So, I don't know.

396

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I'd love to just hear

what other people have to say because

397

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I'm not really a fantastic Four person.

398

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So, let's hear from our our listeners.

399

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Michael is going to be back

400

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with us in a couple of weeks anyway,

401

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so I'll make sure

that this question gets posed

402

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because, like you said,

he would be the one to answer.

403

00:21:04,830 --> 00:21:06,565

I would know more about this.

404

00:21:06,565 --> 00:21:07,833

But now I do have to say one thing,

405

00:21:07,833 --> 00:21:11,203

and I've been someone that knows

that much about this franchise.

406

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But if I got turned into a pile of rocks,

I think I'd be angry.

407

00:21:14,706 --> 00:21:16,742

Yeah.

408

00:21:16,742 --> 00:21:19,711

And but he still has a special abilities

409

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and people still like him.

410

00:21:23,649 --> 00:21:24,416

Yeah, yeah.

411

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I'm not saying they don't. I'm

just kidding. But. Yeah.

412

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Okay. Yeah.

413

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You can see where

that one would come from.

414

00:21:29,087 --> 00:21:32,190

So anyway, so speaking of,

415

00:21:32,190 --> 00:21:35,294

the science fiction,

all that give us an update on Cyber Hawk.

416

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She's in process.

417

00:21:37,796 --> 00:21:38,697

Oh, my gosh.

418

00:21:38,697 --> 00:21:41,700

She's in process with Amazon.

419

00:21:41,733 --> 00:21:47,539

And this has been a never ending battle

of weird little things going wrong

420

00:21:47,539 --> 00:21:51,410

and trying to find this person

and get that straightened out.

421

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And, all of the authors we've had before

who have,

422

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expressed, less than happy

423

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thoughts about the editing process

and the publishing process.

424

00:22:02,587 --> 00:22:03,422

Well, they're right.

425

00:22:04,990 --> 00:22:07,326

They're absolutely right.

426

00:22:07,326 --> 00:22:11,229

Oh. And for the proofs that came back,

it looks like getting closer.

427

00:22:11,229 --> 00:22:13,632

But just some of the specifics,

the cover was backwards.

428

00:22:13,632 --> 00:22:14,232

Oh, yeah.

429

00:22:14,232 --> 00:22:17,636

And for some reason,

the page numbers disappeared.

430

00:22:17,636 --> 00:22:19,571

So we're looking through this

and kind of figuring out

431

00:22:19,571 --> 00:22:23,942

because everything's off one line,

Through the whole book, when it starts

432

00:22:23,942 --> 00:22:27,512

adding up because, you know, you wrote

page two has three lines, right? So.

433

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But that was the Night School Journal,

not cyber.

434

00:22:29,648 --> 00:22:31,049

So we're dealing with two.

435

00:22:31,049 --> 00:22:33,985

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We you a few different books.

436

00:22:33,985 --> 00:22:35,821

Yeah. I called

thank you for that because. Yeah.

437

00:22:35,821 --> 00:22:38,223

Night School

Journal and Cyber Hawks Rise of Heroes.

438

00:22:38,223 --> 00:22:40,959

Those are two separate books

that are coming out at the same time here.

439

00:22:40,959 --> 00:22:43,962

And everything goes right in about a week

will be available to purchase.

440

00:22:44,463 --> 00:22:47,165

But yeah,

it's like finalizing these things.

441

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It looks great.

442

00:22:47,866 --> 00:22:50,502

The rest of it came out well,

so that's all good.

443

00:22:50,502 --> 00:22:55,307

But weird little headings and

you got to pay attention to the details.

444

00:22:55,307 --> 00:22:57,342

You know,

although the cover being backwards

445

00:22:57,342 --> 00:23:00,078

was more than a detail

that was kind of slap in the face.

446

00:23:00,078 --> 00:23:01,246

Hey, I'm backwards, like,

447

00:23:04,683 --> 00:23:05,617

No, but like I say, these

448

00:23:05,617 --> 00:23:08,787

are we're finally getting to that point

and they're going to be available.

449

00:23:08,787 --> 00:23:10,589

Obviously, we'll announce it

here. Where to?

450

00:23:10,589 --> 00:23:12,557

And help plug.

451

00:23:12,557 --> 00:23:16,027

But at the end of the day,

it's been a journey.

452

00:23:16,027 --> 00:23:18,363

And, you don't really understand

until you've gone.

453

00:23:18,363 --> 00:23:20,532

It's a learning experience for authors.

454

00:23:20,532 --> 00:23:21,500

Yeah.

455

00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:23,068

Yeah, it really is.

456

00:23:23,068 --> 00:23:26,004

You know, when it comes down

to looking at these different things.

457

00:23:26,004 --> 00:23:27,639

And I know that you're working on

another one

458

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that's under wraps right now

that will be out next year.

459

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So, you know,

maybe things will go a little bit smoother

460

00:23:32,010 --> 00:23:33,311

now that we've been through the process

461

00:23:33,311 --> 00:23:35,647

a couple of times

and know what to look for already.

462

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464

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You see him? He's from the future.

465

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He's got a really big computer

466

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467

00:23:49,561 --> 00:23:54,599

And he uses it in every way

you want to use it for.

468

00:23:54,599 --> 00:23:58,670

You know, I'm

not that sure because he uses does.

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476

00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:16,855

and you can find links to submit

your questions and your comments.

477

00:24:16,855 --> 00:24:20,492

And you can also find the links

for Tech Wednesday and instructions

478

00:24:20,492 --> 00:24:23,361

on how to include them in your flash

briefing on your smart speaker.

479

00:24:23,361 --> 00:24:24,396

I will leave it smart speaker

480

00:24:24,396 --> 00:24:27,399

so we don't activate everybody's

smart speaker saying,

481

00:24:27,532 --> 00:24:29,835

but we have these things available.

482

00:24:29,835 --> 00:24:32,103

Check them out

and we want to hear your feedback.

483

00:24:32,103 --> 00:24:34,773

It's the best thing is how we do

our programing.

484

00:24:34,773 --> 00:24:37,375

A user friendly dot show.

485

00:24:37,375 --> 00:24:39,211

So we used to do these

a little more often.

486

00:24:39,211 --> 00:24:41,179

I don't know why we kind of not.

487

00:24:41,179 --> 00:24:43,949

And I think there's

there are a lot of fun to do.

488

00:24:43,949 --> 00:24:45,016

And that's the Q and A's.

489

00:24:45,016 --> 00:24:48,587

And a lot of the questions you send

and what we do is we go through them

490

00:24:48,587 --> 00:24:51,656

and kind of vet everything

and then take the top ones

491

00:24:51,656 --> 00:24:55,560

in a given time period

and then come up with the question.

492

00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:56,761

So the questions that we're asking

493

00:24:56,761 --> 00:24:58,997

might not be a direct question,

but they will summarize

494

00:24:58,997 --> 00:25:02,033

a set of direct questions that we're asked

that are of the same topic.

495

00:25:02,701 --> 00:25:05,470

And that's the way that, that we do it.

496

00:25:05,470 --> 00:25:08,473

Now, one of the things that's changed on

this is back when we first started,

497

00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,909

and we had some trouble

getting ten questions today.

498

00:25:10,909 --> 00:25:15,113

We do have to tone them down

or this would be a ten hour show. So

499

00:25:16,681 --> 00:25:19,351

which is a

good thing I'm happy to have that problem.

500

00:25:19,351 --> 00:25:22,888

So with no further

ado, let's jump into our questions.

501

00:25:22,888 --> 00:25:24,723

What do we have?

502

00:25:24,723 --> 00:25:26,958

What are software languages.

503

00:25:26,958 --> 00:25:27,158

Yeah.

504

00:25:27,158 --> 00:25:30,161

And this one

what I'm looking at like what you know,

505

00:25:31,263 --> 00:25:32,631

what are we actually talking about here?

506

00:25:32,631 --> 00:25:37,202

Until I got some context

that there are people that are out there,

507

00:25:37,202 --> 00:25:40,572

and I guess this actually wouldn't be

that unusual if you're not in technology.

508

00:25:41,373 --> 00:25:43,742

But software languages

509

00:25:43,742 --> 00:25:46,845

and spoken

languages are two different things.

510

00:25:47,412 --> 00:25:52,317

So software languages like COBOL or BHP

or C sharp or Rust or something like that,

511

00:25:52,317 --> 00:25:55,987

these are the languages that you use

that are basically a way to interface

512

00:25:55,987 --> 00:26:00,625

with the computer in human language

and have it convert to computer code

513

00:26:01,192 --> 00:26:04,896

versus spoken languages like English,

Spanish, German, that kind of thing.

514

00:26:05,497 --> 00:26:10,001

So it's interesting

because this has come up and something

515

00:26:10,001 --> 00:26:10,835

that I think is important

516

00:26:10,835 --> 00:26:14,973

to put out there, because the context

does make a huge difference.

517

00:26:14,973 --> 00:26:17,976

And it's just important to know

that if you're looking into something

518

00:26:18,376 --> 00:26:21,212

that you're probably going

to be programing in English

519

00:26:21,212 --> 00:26:24,215

as far as a spoken language goes,

if you're in an English speaking country,

520

00:26:24,482 --> 00:26:27,485

your notes and function calls and all that

type of thing, it'll be there.

521

00:26:27,919 --> 00:26:31,456

But the language itself

is whatever the language is,

522

00:26:31,456 --> 00:26:35,093

which is not in any way related

to the spoken language that you're using.

523

00:26:37,362 --> 00:26:39,564

What is a Nixie tube?

524

00:26:39,564 --> 00:26:41,666

Yeah, this questions

come in a couple of times

525

00:26:41,666 --> 00:26:43,768

because we've talked about some of this

this year.

526

00:26:43,768 --> 00:26:46,404

And I have a thing for Nixie tubes.

I don't know why.

527

00:26:46,404 --> 00:26:49,407

I just think they're cool and kind of

industrial looking mid-century.

528

00:26:49,908 --> 00:26:51,876

But basically what it is, is the story on

529

00:26:51,876 --> 00:26:55,080

these goes something like this,

at least from what I've been told,

530

00:26:55,814 --> 00:26:58,316

is that during the Cold War,

531

00:26:58,316 --> 00:27:02,020

we came up with segmented LED displays,

and for a while the,

532

00:27:02,187 --> 00:27:06,024

USSR couldn't replicate them

or didn't for whatever reason.

533

00:27:06,024 --> 00:27:09,060

So they came up with a design for it's

basically a vacuum

534

00:27:09,060 --> 00:27:12,564

tube, or valve, depending on

where you are is what you call them.

535

00:27:12,998 --> 00:27:16,568

And what a vacuum tube did for anybody

that doesn't know is prior

536

00:27:16,568 --> 00:27:20,372

to modern Solid-State circuitry,

you had tubes in your radio, television,

537

00:27:20,372 --> 00:27:21,673

that kind of a thing.

538

00:27:21,673 --> 00:27:24,109

They would warm up and perform

different functions

539

00:27:24,109 --> 00:27:26,811

like the solid state transistors

and stuff. You now.

540

00:27:26,811 --> 00:27:29,814

So what the Russians did is

they took this a step further.

541

00:27:30,081 --> 00:27:32,484

And I think these were created in Ukraine.

542

00:27:32,484 --> 00:27:34,753

If we want to go to the detail on that.

543

00:27:34,753 --> 00:27:35,186

Yeah.

544

00:27:35,186 --> 00:27:37,889

What what they what they did

is they created a vacuum tube.

545

00:27:37,889 --> 00:27:39,624

It lights up

just like any other vacuum tube.

546

00:27:39,624 --> 00:27:42,861

It instead of being a transistor

or something of that nature,

547

00:27:43,261 --> 00:27:47,432

there's a metal wire in it or each number

one, 0 or 9.

548

00:27:48,099 --> 00:27:51,069

And depending on how you send voltage

and what contacts

549

00:27:51,069 --> 00:27:54,873

you engage on, it depends

on which wire set lights up.

550

00:27:54,873 --> 00:27:57,075

So basically it's a counter

like what we would use.

551

00:27:57,075 --> 00:27:58,576

Now they do display four.

552

00:27:58,576 --> 00:28:02,280

And there's a lot of what they would call

new old stock of the stuff out there.

553

00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:03,848

I don't believe they're made anymore

anywhere.

554

00:28:03,848 --> 00:28:06,384

They were sold

in the United States in the early 80s.

555

00:28:06,384 --> 00:28:09,421

I know that because I have a box,

RadioShack that has a few of them

556

00:28:09,421 --> 00:28:13,892

in in the original wrapping,

but the new old stock is quite wonderful.

557

00:28:13,892 --> 00:28:16,294

So they're making clocks

and other things out of it.

558

00:28:16,294 --> 00:28:18,630

Now that you can go buy a new clock,

that's Nikita.

559

00:28:18,630 --> 00:28:21,099

I even have a watch that uses Nixie tubes.

560

00:28:21,099 --> 00:28:22,867

It's really cool because these are.

561

00:28:22,867 --> 00:28:25,970

Yeah, it's cool, you know,

and it just looks almost steampunk.

562

00:28:25,970 --> 00:28:28,273

Kind of. It looks very steampunk.

563

00:28:28,273 --> 00:28:31,309

Yeah, yeah,

maybe that's why I like it, but, but,

564

00:28:31,309 --> 00:28:35,747

yeah, on billboards,

I have a, meter, voltage meter.

565

00:28:36,014 --> 00:28:38,283

That, of all things,

use Nixie tubes in the display.

566

00:28:38,283 --> 00:28:41,720

It was made as a Heath jet in the late

70s, so didn't work when I got it.

567

00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,323

Needless to say, we fixed it up

because I needed to, you know, meter.

568

00:28:45,323 --> 00:28:49,160

I have no idea how accurate this line is,

but it has Nixie tubes, so that's

569

00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,762

all that matters, right? But,

570

00:28:51,896 --> 00:28:53,798

but at the end of the day, it's

something to check out.

571

00:28:53,798 --> 00:28:55,500

If you go search

you can see pictures of them.

572

00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:59,504

There's different styles, different sizes

and just something that the esthetic

573

00:28:59,504 --> 00:29:02,507

is something

that I've always really liked.

574

00:29:03,942 --> 00:29:06,845

Is Windows 11 free?

575

00:29:06,845 --> 00:29:07,045

Yeah.

576

00:29:07,045 --> 00:29:10,248

So this is a comment that I think I made,

and I sort of remember

577

00:29:10,248 --> 00:29:14,853

when along these lines that was

interpreted is Windows 11 is free. And

578

00:29:15,253 --> 00:29:18,623

we got, you know, a lot of you writing in

remind me that that is not true.

579

00:29:19,290 --> 00:29:20,625

So I wanted to give

580

00:29:20,625 --> 00:29:23,828

a little bit of a context of this,

because it actually does make sense

581

00:29:24,596 --> 00:29:26,331

to know how to deal with this.

582

00:29:26,331 --> 00:29:28,366

We talked in the first segment

about Windows 10

583

00:29:28,366 --> 00:29:30,168

and replacing that kind of a thing.

584

00:29:30,168 --> 00:29:31,503

Windows 11 is not great.

585

00:29:31,503 --> 00:29:33,738

If you were putting together

a new computer

586

00:29:33,738 --> 00:29:37,142

and you wanted to run Windows 11

and you would buy a license for it

587

00:29:37,742 --> 00:29:41,179

was, I think 99 bucks for the home

edition, a little bit more for Pro,

588

00:29:41,980 --> 00:29:44,682

but what Microsoft has been doing

589

00:29:44,682 --> 00:29:48,720

is basically,

if you have a valid windows license,

590

00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,023

I know it goes back to at least Windows 7,

if not before that.

591

00:29:52,524 --> 00:29:56,461

That's considered an upgrade path

to a free upgrade to windows 11.

592

00:29:57,362 --> 00:30:00,632

So it's not free exactly, but

593

00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:03,902

it is very close to it in most situations.

594

00:30:04,669 --> 00:30:07,672

And that's where that kind of an idea

came from.

595

00:30:07,672 --> 00:30:10,909

And also this is something to because

I build a few machines where I've needed,

596

00:30:11,075 --> 00:30:14,045

official,

you know, license going forward.

597

00:30:14,045 --> 00:30:17,048

And if you buy it now, there's

a lot of places you can get it back.

598

00:30:17,081 --> 00:30:18,750

You can get, you know, some good prices,

599

00:30:18,750 --> 00:30:20,685

some places like eBay

for legitimate copies.

600

00:30:20,685 --> 00:30:22,987

Just make sure you're

getting a legitimate copy.

601

00:30:22,987 --> 00:30:24,923

But it actually comes with a card

602

00:30:24,923 --> 00:30:27,625

with your serial number on it

and a flash drive.

603

00:30:27,625 --> 00:30:30,628

And that's you have this little tiny box

with those two things in it,

604

00:30:30,962 --> 00:30:32,964

and that's one way to get it.

605

00:30:32,964 --> 00:30:34,732

Or of course, you can go to Microsoft's

606

00:30:34,732 --> 00:30:37,735

website and download

a tool that will make a flash drive.

607

00:30:37,869 --> 00:30:41,339

You can install Windows 11

without a license key as well.

608

00:30:41,339 --> 00:30:44,342

There's a button on there that says,

I don't have one right now,

609

00:30:44,609 --> 00:30:47,512

and if you're running it unlicensed,

at least from what I've seen, there's

610

00:30:47,512 --> 00:30:48,746

no depth to it.

611

00:30:48,746 --> 00:30:49,681

It just nags you.

612

00:30:49,681 --> 00:30:50,215

There's a thing

613

00:30:50,215 --> 00:30:54,219

in the bottom of the screen that says,

this is not a license copy of Windows 11,

614

00:30:54,352 --> 00:30:58,189

you know, or something to that effect,

but it doesn't stop operating.

615

00:30:58,189 --> 00:31:02,760

But, but just to kind of clarify

that point a little bit, it's not free

616

00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,331

in the sense of like Linux

or something of that nature,

617

00:31:06,664 --> 00:31:11,069

but Microsoft is just let's say it made it

very easy to have a legal copy of it.

618

00:31:11,669 --> 00:31:15,173

And part of the reason for that,

I think, is going forward is the desktop

619

00:31:15,173 --> 00:31:18,843

operating systems is not,

you know, the cash cow that it once was.

620

00:31:18,843 --> 00:31:21,212

It's a lot of things

are changing these days.

621

00:31:21,212 --> 00:31:22,914

A lot of users use tablets.

622

00:31:22,914 --> 00:31:25,917

There's competitors,

you know, Macintosh which has been there,

623

00:31:26,251 --> 00:31:30,088

but also things like Chromebook

and Linux has kind of come into its own

624

00:31:30,088 --> 00:31:33,958

that you can use one of those systems,

and most computer users

625

00:31:33,958 --> 00:31:36,527

will be just fine

if you're doing what most of us do.

626

00:31:36,527 --> 00:31:40,098

And that's browse the web and watch videos

and, you know, write a document,

627

00:31:40,131 --> 00:31:41,432

those kind of things.

628

00:31:41,432 --> 00:31:44,769

If you get into some specialty stuff like,

say you're working with the Adobe

629

00:31:44,769 --> 00:31:47,071

product suite,

then you would need Windows or Mac.

630

00:31:47,071 --> 00:31:49,474

You don't have that for Linux

or anything else.

631

00:31:49,474 --> 00:31:50,742

So it depends on what you're doing.

632

00:31:50,742 --> 00:31:53,344

But that is a much smaller market share.

633

00:31:53,344 --> 00:31:56,281

And even ten years ago, where

everybody had a desktop and a laptop,

634

00:31:56,281 --> 00:31:59,284

and unless it was Apple,

it pretty much ran on windows.

635

00:31:59,851 --> 00:32:02,954

So the other thing

that's coming from this too,

636

00:32:03,388 --> 00:32:06,391

and I'm going to go ahead and just give

a little bit of a soapbox here.

637

00:32:06,391 --> 00:32:09,360

So I apologize for this in advance.

638

00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,464

I'm starting to see commercials being

pushed into the windows Start button.

639

00:32:14,065 --> 00:32:19,203

And while there are ways to get in there

and more or less shut that down, you're

640

00:32:19,704 --> 00:32:23,107

it's like you try on your computer

and you have an ad, you know, in it.

641

00:32:23,174 --> 00:32:27,312

I consider that to be a little bit

invasive in my opinion, or annoying.

642

00:32:28,246 --> 00:32:30,248

Annoying would be another

another word for it.

643

00:32:30,248 --> 00:32:30,548

Yeah.

644

00:32:30,548 --> 00:32:34,919

I can think of some others,

but we need to be radio friendly here. So.

645

00:32:36,521 --> 00:32:38,623

But that being said,

646

00:32:38,623 --> 00:32:39,691

free is not free.

647

00:32:39,691 --> 00:32:41,192

It just depends on how you pay for it.

648

00:32:41,192 --> 00:32:44,829

So if you don't give money,

you're paying for it through watching ads

649

00:32:44,829 --> 00:32:48,333

or providing personal information

or data or, you know, that kind of thing.

650

00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:51,602

So at the end of the day,

that's kind of what's going on here.

651

00:32:51,602 --> 00:32:55,306

Now, at one time,

Microsoft talked about making windows

652

00:32:55,306 --> 00:32:58,576

a monthly subscription,

which was not accepted very well.

653

00:33:00,445 --> 00:33:03,748

So right now, I don't know,

I think on some of the commercial stuff,

654

00:33:03,748 --> 00:33:07,218

I'd have to look this up

because I've heard of this bits and pieces

655

00:33:07,218 --> 00:33:09,988

and that there may be some

licensing models where they did do that,

656

00:33:09,988 --> 00:33:12,523

but then I couldn't

find anyone to look for them

657

00:33:12,523 --> 00:33:14,258

until you download it, you do that.

658

00:33:14,258 --> 00:33:15,493

So it seems like what they're doing is

659

00:33:15,493 --> 00:33:18,129

they're making it easy

to get to the operating system,

660

00:33:18,129 --> 00:33:21,699

making it easy to install and then sending

some commercials and stuff.

661

00:33:21,699 --> 00:33:24,702

And if you don't have a previous license

and you'd get to pay for it too.

662

00:33:25,303 --> 00:33:27,805

And that's,

you know, kind of where that's going out.

663

00:33:27,805 --> 00:33:32,410

But again, just to confirm,

Windows 11 is not free,

664

00:33:32,877 --> 00:33:37,048

but it's very easy to get a legal copy

in a lot of circumstances

665

00:33:37,048 --> 00:33:38,683

where you're not going to

have to pay more to have it.

666

00:33:40,284 --> 00:33:41,786

All right.

667

00:33:41,786 --> 00:33:46,124

What is a TPM three letters.

668

00:33:47,025 --> 00:33:49,660

Yeah. And means absolutely nothing to me.

669

00:33:49,660 --> 00:33:52,663

So I'm assuming that

you know what that is.

670

00:33:53,464 --> 00:33:54,866

Yeah, I just I'm just kidding here.

671

00:33:54,866 --> 00:33:55,800

But yeah three letters.

672

00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,637

No, this is the thing

the acronym for what has been

673

00:34:00,238 --> 00:34:02,740

causing a lot of the grief of Windows 10.

674

00:34:02,740 --> 00:34:05,209

Oh, well, you've worked in this stuff

a little bit.

675

00:34:05,209 --> 00:34:08,212

I'm just to give a definition that,

as I said, platform module,

676

00:34:08,479 --> 00:34:12,250

this is an item in the computer

that handles, encryption.

677

00:34:12,517 --> 00:34:13,418

And I'm going to ask you,

678

00:34:13,418 --> 00:34:16,421

because I know you've worked with this

a little bit doing your gaming machine.

679

00:34:16,587 --> 00:34:19,357

What is the have you found

this has been a problem for you,

680

00:34:19,357 --> 00:34:22,360

or is it something that kind of

is in the background?

681

00:34:22,393 --> 00:34:24,862

I had to turn it on so I could download

Windows 11.

682

00:34:24,862 --> 00:34:31,169

That's what the real problem is, is the,

TPM is required for Windows 11 installs

683

00:34:32,470 --> 00:34:33,371

for the most part.

684

00:34:33,371 --> 00:34:34,772

Yeah, I guess there's a way around it.

685

00:34:34,772 --> 00:34:38,876

But out of the yeah,

that's a, not that we talk about hacking.

686

00:34:38,876 --> 00:34:44,115

You know, we all love British Telecom,

but, at the end of the day, it is.

687

00:34:44,148 --> 00:34:45,883

There are ways, you know, that you can do

that.

688

00:34:45,883 --> 00:34:47,585

It's not recommended.

689

00:34:47,585 --> 00:34:51,823

And I have a funny feeling Microsoft's

going to lock that down eventually anyway.

690

00:34:52,356 --> 00:34:55,093

But but yeah, it's so basically

what's going on

691

00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:58,096

is the platform modules

part of your hardware.

692

00:34:58,262 --> 00:35:00,331

And there's different versions of it.

693

00:35:00,331 --> 00:35:01,899

So your computer can have a TPM

694

00:35:01,899 --> 00:35:05,069

and still not support Windows 11,

which requires version 2.0.

695

00:35:05,703 --> 00:35:08,272

So if you have a laptop

that's 4 or 5 years old

696

00:35:08,272 --> 00:35:10,675

or maybe a little bit older,

it might be on one point something.

697

00:35:10,675 --> 00:35:14,312

And that won't work with Windows

11 officially, as it doesn't have

698

00:35:14,312 --> 00:35:19,383

the graphic capability that they are

wanting in the operating system. And

699

00:35:20,518 --> 00:35:20,985

there.

700

00:35:20,985 --> 00:35:21,919

This isn't all bad.

701

00:35:21,919 --> 00:35:23,821

I know this has taken a lot of hits

702

00:35:23,821 --> 00:35:27,024

just because of the situations

created with Windows 10,

703

00:35:27,658 --> 00:35:30,528

but there is also, I would argue,

a good reason for it to be there,

704

00:35:30,528 --> 00:35:33,931

and it has to do with helping

to stop hacking and things like viruses.

705

00:35:34,499 --> 00:35:37,001

So it manages keys, private keys

706

00:35:37,001 --> 00:35:40,238

used for encryption, dismal

digital signatures, that kind of thing.

707

00:35:40,771 --> 00:35:44,075

Records the state of the system

during the boot process.

708

00:35:44,342 --> 00:35:46,644

And this is one thing that it does do

pretty well.

709

00:35:46,644 --> 00:35:48,479

A lot of viruses

710

00:35:48,479 --> 00:35:52,350

back in the day would come in

and get into your boot startup sequence.

711

00:35:52,350 --> 00:35:54,752

So when you booted the computer,

it would load the virus.

712

00:35:54,752 --> 00:35:58,156

And the TPM running properly

will effectively stop that.

713

00:35:58,156 --> 00:36:01,659

Because what it does

is it knows what the digital signature

714

00:36:01,692 --> 00:36:04,595

fingerprint of your operating system

is supposed to be.

715

00:36:04,595 --> 00:36:05,363

And if your computer

716

00:36:05,363 --> 00:36:08,566

starts and it's changed in some way,

it will either fix it or stop it

717

00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:12,870

saying that you know something's

wrong here and you need to, check it out.

718

00:36:13,804 --> 00:36:14,038

It can

719

00:36:14,038 --> 00:36:17,041

also be used to create things

like virtual smartcards,

720

00:36:17,074 --> 00:36:20,178

things like multifactor authentication

methods, fingerprint reading,

721

00:36:20,211 --> 00:36:23,147

all those kind of things.

So there is a place for it.

722

00:36:23,147 --> 00:36:25,550

And it's not a bad thing

because it comes off this way.

723

00:36:25,550 --> 00:36:26,350

I know being that

724

00:36:26,350 --> 00:36:29,854

because it's causing the problem

with requiring a newer version of it

725

00:36:30,388 --> 00:36:31,889

that windows is doing.

726

00:36:31,889 --> 00:36:35,359

But I would argue that, like with

everything else, it would have been better

727

00:36:35,359 --> 00:36:38,663

to phase out the old version

and give a little bit more time,

728

00:36:39,297 --> 00:36:42,066

for people to be able to upgrade

even another year or two would have made

729

00:36:42,066 --> 00:36:46,837

a huge difference to, you know,

have this balance out a little bit more.

730

00:36:47,305 --> 00:36:51,142

But when you hear that acronym, that's

what they are talking about is a actual

731

00:36:51,142 --> 00:36:55,046

physical piece of hardware that exists

in your desktop or laptop computer.

732

00:36:55,546 --> 00:36:59,250

It has to be of a certain revision level

to be able to run Windows 11.

733

00:36:59,951 --> 00:37:02,253

So you build you want to throw

anything else in on that?

734

00:37:02,253 --> 00:37:07,158

I mean, well,

I know that Intel has an Intel Boards chip

735

00:37:07,558 --> 00:37:11,062

that's actually on there

and an AMD it's actually part of the CPU.

736

00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:14,532

Yeah, yeah.

737

00:37:14,532 --> 00:37:16,834

So and actually that's a good question

that I'm

738

00:37:16,834 --> 00:37:19,837

sure is asked

is can you upgrade an older TPM.

739

00:37:20,438 --> 00:37:22,473

So theoretically yes.

740

00:37:22,473 --> 00:37:28,212

But I would argue that that probably

wouldn't be a value consideration,

741

00:37:28,713 --> 00:37:30,815

because by the time

you would figure out how to do it

742

00:37:30,815 --> 00:37:33,818

and swap the hardware,

if that's even possible on what you have,

743

00:37:34,218 --> 00:37:37,121

you're probably going to spend

just as much as replacing the computer.

744

00:37:37,121 --> 00:37:39,123

And that's that's what they're looking at

from that standpoint.

745

00:37:39,123 --> 00:37:42,493

Now, if you have a something

like a desktop and you know how to do it,

746

00:37:42,493 --> 00:37:46,597

you could potentially swap the motherboard

and keep the rest of the components.

747

00:37:46,597 --> 00:37:48,633

And the motherboard supports

the new version.

748

00:37:48,633 --> 00:37:51,235

That would work,

you know, and save the rest of the unit.

749

00:37:51,235 --> 00:37:53,604

So there's some stuff like that

that you can do.

750

00:37:53,604 --> 00:37:54,872

But one of the things to hear is

751

00:37:54,872 --> 00:37:57,908

the cost of computers has come down

so much in recent years.

752

00:37:57,908 --> 00:38:00,077

I mean, we just upgraded my mom's laptop.

753

00:38:00,077 --> 00:38:03,080

The new one was under $100 for a Windows

11 machine.

754

00:38:03,247 --> 00:38:06,217

Oh, so yeah, you know,

at the end of the day, it's kind of like,

755

00:38:06,217 --> 00:38:09,220

well, do I spend $100

and get a whole new computer

756

00:38:09,420 --> 00:38:12,089

or do I mess around with an old one

that's a couple of years old?

757

00:38:12,089 --> 00:38:16,060

And that's, I think, what Microsoft

is trying to, to at least play off

758

00:38:16,060 --> 00:38:20,164

of in their, you know, justification

for doing this as early as they did.

759

00:38:25,403 --> 00:38:26,070

What would you

760

00:38:26,070 --> 00:38:29,140

consider

to be the weirdest game of the 1980s?

761

00:38:30,741 --> 00:38:33,377

So we've been talking retro games

and stuff here a lot.

762

00:38:33,377 --> 00:38:35,046

And this is one question

763

00:38:35,046 --> 00:38:37,081

that does keep popping up,

which I thought was kind of interesting.

764

00:38:37,081 --> 00:38:39,817

Obviously, this is a subjective answer,

765

00:38:39,817 --> 00:38:42,653

and we talked about this a little bit

before we started recording.

766

00:38:42,653 --> 00:38:44,689

So I'm going to

just throw the ball to you guys and like

767

00:38:44,689 --> 00:38:48,459

tell us what you think

is the strangest game of the 80s.

768

00:38:48,459 --> 00:38:49,527

And then I'll give you my opinion.

769

00:38:49,527 --> 00:38:51,595

Bill, do you want to start?

770

00:38:51,595 --> 00:38:53,130

Sure, I'll go with it.

771

00:38:53,130 --> 00:38:54,999

Which didn't really make it to market,

772

00:38:54,999 --> 00:38:59,103

but it was a very strange game

for what it was it.

773

00:38:59,103 --> 00:39:00,237

Okay, so E.T.

774

00:39:00,237 --> 00:39:05,643

is a big story of the era happened

right before the 1984 North American video

775

00:39:05,643 --> 00:39:09,780

game crash, and it was, in my opinion,

a terrible game.

776

00:39:09,780 --> 00:39:12,750

Now, it actually did make it out

on the Atari 2600.

777

00:39:12,950 --> 00:39:16,387

You could buy it at the store

for a while, but.

778

00:39:16,921 --> 00:39:17,888

Well, Bill, you know this.

779

00:39:17,888 --> 00:39:19,657

Why is the game not like the movie?

780

00:39:21,559 --> 00:39:22,593

According to the story that

781

00:39:22,593 --> 00:39:25,563

I heard is that the producers

didn't even watch the movie,

782

00:39:25,563 --> 00:39:29,900

and they just created a game,

pretty much over a weekend or something

783

00:39:31,469 --> 00:39:32,103

to get it out.

784

00:39:32,103 --> 00:39:34,939

It sounds like the way they wrote

Star Wars nine, but,

785

00:39:34,939 --> 00:39:37,908

you know, that is the story I've heard.

786

00:39:37,908 --> 00:39:40,878

There's a lot of kind of war

that goes along with this, too.

787

00:39:40,878 --> 00:39:43,514

But, you basically

788

00:39:43,514 --> 00:39:46,751

and again, Atari

2600 was a very early video game console,

789

00:39:46,751 --> 00:39:49,754

so the graphics are already blocky

and all this kind of stuff.

790

00:39:49,987 --> 00:39:53,424

But the game was basically different

screens with different color backgrounds

791

00:39:53,424 --> 00:39:56,494

where you moved your E.T around

and did something.

792

00:39:57,094 --> 00:40:00,698

And the something is what a lot of people

to this day can't answer.

793

00:40:02,533 --> 00:40:03,667

You know what is actually the goal?

794

00:40:03,667 --> 00:40:06,904

It did come with instructions

and had some of that stuff documented, but

795

00:40:06,971 --> 00:40:10,441

it's like one thing in there

you do make a phone call, E.T.

796

00:40:10,441 --> 00:40:11,609

phone's home, but it's not E.T.

797

00:40:11,609 --> 00:40:13,210

making the phone call, and I didn't know

that's

798

00:40:13,210 --> 00:40:15,813

what it even was until I read about it

later.

799

00:40:15,813 --> 00:40:19,350

So, you know, that's, definitely one.

800

00:40:19,350 --> 00:40:22,052

And just kind of a footnote

to that of anybody

801

00:40:22,052 --> 00:40:25,055

that's in the retro games

probably knows this, but it was so bad

802

00:40:25,055 --> 00:40:28,058

after the fact that Atari dumped

the unsold copies.

803

00:40:28,125 --> 00:40:32,630

This in a landfill

and poured from concrete on top of them.

804

00:40:33,130 --> 00:40:36,300

And I don't know,

this is also something that's in the lore,

805

00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:39,937

but it is claimed that they actually,

for whatever reason, manufactured

806

00:40:40,337 --> 00:40:44,275

more copies of the game than there were

Atari consoles in existence at the time.

807

00:40:44,942 --> 00:40:47,111

So you know what?

808

00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:50,114

People are going to want two copies,

you know, back up the frame on the wall

809

00:40:50,114 --> 00:40:51,115

or something.

810

00:40:52,750 --> 00:40:53,984

Yeah.

811

00:40:53,984 --> 00:40:55,186

But, but.

812

00:40:55,186 --> 00:40:55,653

Yeah. Okay.

813

00:40:55,653 --> 00:40:58,622

Gretchen,

what would you have to pick? Okay.

814

00:40:58,656 --> 00:41:03,661

I really had to give this some thought

because I, I don't really recall

815

00:41:03,661 --> 00:41:08,432

any video games or board games

that were really weird,

816

00:41:08,432 --> 00:41:11,402

but I do remember a game

817

00:41:11,802 --> 00:41:14,705

that, usually it was males.

818

00:41:14,705 --> 00:41:17,641

Not not

the girls would be playing this game.

819

00:41:17,641 --> 00:41:20,444

The guys would,

820

00:41:20,444 --> 00:41:24,181

make a strange it's

a particular hand gesture,

821

00:41:24,915 --> 00:41:28,185

and they would,

put the put the hand gesture

822

00:41:28,185 --> 00:41:31,188

in a place

where they would try and get their friends

823

00:41:31,288 --> 00:41:35,759

to, like, turn

and look down or see the hand gesture.

824

00:41:36,227 --> 00:41:39,230

If you looked at the hand gesture,

825

00:41:39,864 --> 00:41:42,199

the guy gets to punch you.

826

00:41:42,199 --> 00:41:47,171

This was a game that the guys would play

and I think it was weird.

827

00:41:47,304 --> 00:41:51,909

I don't really understand

why they were playing it, but they did.

828

00:41:52,309 --> 00:41:54,044

So it was this weird take off.

829

00:41:54,044 --> 00:42:00,284

I know it's a weird punching game,

and I saw like, a couple of years ago,

830

00:42:00,584 --> 00:42:03,587

somebody was saying,

oh no, that's a racial thing.

831

00:42:04,321 --> 00:42:06,690

No, it's not a racial gesture at all.

832

00:42:06,690 --> 00:42:08,559

It's the punching game.

833

00:42:08,559 --> 00:42:10,995

You know, the guy's making this gesture.

834

00:42:10,995 --> 00:42:15,132

And if you look at the at the gesture,

he gets to punch you.

835

00:42:16,333 --> 00:42:17,568

So don't ask me.

836

00:42:17,568 --> 00:42:20,538

I don't understand it. Kind of. Well,

I missed that one.

837

00:42:20,538 --> 00:42:24,375

And then like I was saying, that sounds

like a tick tock their video or something.

838

00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:26,710

I guess it would have been to talk,

but that's idea.

839

00:42:26,710 --> 00:42:28,078

Wow. Okay.

840

00:42:28,078 --> 00:42:31,382

Yeah, that I think you might have

just taken the cake on the weirdest game.

841

00:42:31,382 --> 00:42:34,351

Mine's weird, but not that weird.

842

00:42:35,653 --> 00:42:39,757

So I'm going to circle back on mine

to the, video game

843

00:42:39,757 --> 00:42:43,594

era, and I'm going to talk about a game

called bubbles.

844

00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:48,566

Okay, that sounds strangely familiar.

845

00:42:48,699 --> 00:42:49,800

Yeah, it was in the arcades.

846

00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,002

I don't know

if this ever came out on consoles or not.

847

00:42:52,002 --> 00:42:52,436

It might.

848

00:42:52,436 --> 00:42:56,140

If the premise of the game is

you were cleaning things in a sink.

849

00:42:58,142 --> 00:43:02,947

Oh, you were cleaning things in the sink

and you would go through.

850

00:43:02,947 --> 00:43:05,816

And when you got enough stuff cleaned out,

if I remember correctly,

851

00:43:05,816 --> 00:43:07,952

you went down the drain

and that took you to the next level.

852

00:43:07,952 --> 00:43:11,121

I think it's been about 15 years

since I've seen this.

853

00:43:11,121 --> 00:43:13,557

I couldn't even find it on, online.

854

00:43:13,557 --> 00:43:16,594

I'm sure there's some gameplay

footage, but, it was just

855

00:43:16,594 --> 00:43:19,630

a very strange concept, in my opinion.

856

00:43:19,630 --> 00:43:21,432

For a video game.

857

00:43:21,432 --> 00:43:21,732

Yeah.

858

00:43:21,732 --> 00:43:24,868

You know, so they trying to encourage

859

00:43:24,868 --> 00:43:28,172

house cleaning or the Tidy Bowl Manor?

860

00:43:28,172 --> 00:43:31,609

Well, that's,

you know, that's, Well, you know what?

861

00:43:31,609 --> 00:43:33,344

I would,

862

00:43:33,344 --> 00:43:34,845

I don't know, it's,

863

00:43:34,845 --> 00:43:38,616

there's a scene in The Simpsons

where they're trying to get Bart to go out

864

00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:41,852

and mow the lawn, and he has a a Game Boy

or that kind of a system.

865

00:43:41,852 --> 00:43:45,422

And he's playing virtual gardening

on the Gameboy where he's mowing the lawn.

866

00:43:45,422 --> 00:43:47,324

You know,

that's what this made me think of.

867

00:43:47,324 --> 00:43:48,525

But it is a real game.

868

00:43:48,525 --> 00:43:50,794

And if you look out, you can find it.

869

00:43:50,794 --> 00:43:53,330

Over time. Arcade,

I know you did a piece on it on YouTube.

870

00:43:53,330 --> 00:43:54,531

There's a YouTube channel that covers

871

00:43:54,531 --> 00:43:58,636

some of the stuff and,

it's just a weird thing,

872

00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:03,007

but I think the punching game takes

take in my opinion here today.

873

00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:06,810

I'm still to this day wondering,

why were they playing that?

874

00:44:07,011 --> 00:44:08,812

You know, I wouldn't want to play that.

875

00:44:08,812 --> 00:44:10,581

And I'm not volunteering to play it.

876

00:44:10,581 --> 00:44:13,651

So don't hit me like, right.

877

00:44:17,087 --> 00:44:18,122

Oh my goodness.

878

00:44:18,122 --> 00:44:21,058

Oh my goodness. Okay.

So it looks like I'm next.

879

00:44:21,058 --> 00:44:26,263

So what happened to calm decks

is the next question.

880

00:44:26,730 --> 00:44:28,666

And I feel the same way about this.

881

00:44:28,666 --> 00:44:29,266

Yeah.

882

00:44:29,266 --> 00:44:32,202

Decks is a computer show

or was a computer show that was like

883

00:44:32,202 --> 00:44:35,406

the place to be to feature

new computer equipment.

884

00:44:35,572 --> 00:44:38,042

Yeah, it was a big deal.

It was in Vegas, wasn't it?

885

00:44:38,042 --> 00:44:38,876

It was in Vegas.

886

00:44:38,876 --> 00:44:39,643

It was a big deal.

887

00:44:39,643 --> 00:44:42,046

It was before it

cost $1 million to go to Las Vegas.

888

00:44:42,046 --> 00:44:45,649

You know, you can go to the show and,

you know, hang out and see the stuff.

889

00:44:45,649 --> 00:44:46,216

You were supposed

890

00:44:46,216 --> 00:44:50,154

to get all kinds of cool swag

when you went to these and you did it.

891

00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,490

I was to a couple of those and,

it was a cool show.

892

00:44:53,490 --> 00:44:56,460

The last, it was produced was 2003,

893

00:44:56,860 --> 00:44:59,563

and basically two things happened.

894

00:44:59,563 --> 00:45:00,431

One of them

895

00:45:00,431 --> 00:45:02,166

and these are

the claims that are made, by the way,

896

00:45:02,166 --> 00:45:05,035

I have not interviewed anyone on this

because I couldn't find anyone

897

00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:05,436

to interview.

898

00:45:05,436 --> 00:45:08,205

This still seems to exist

or will admit to it.

899

00:45:08,205 --> 00:45:08,472

Yeah.

900

00:45:08,472 --> 00:45:12,342

So the claims that have been out there

generally accepted reasons is, number one,

901

00:45:12,342 --> 00:45:15,279

bad management. Things got screwed up.

902

00:45:15,279 --> 00:45:18,515

But the other part of it

too, is we still have another show

903

00:45:18,515 --> 00:45:19,783

that was kind of the opposite

904

00:45:19,783 --> 00:45:23,520

of the Consumer Electronics Show

or CBS still going very strong.

905

00:45:24,154 --> 00:45:27,157

But when we got into the early 2000,

906

00:45:27,458 --> 00:45:29,960

computers

really started to become a commodity.

907

00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,363

So you weren't showing off as much anymore

or the latest periphery or the latest

908

00:45:33,363 --> 00:45:37,167

board or, you know, the new memory upgrade

or whatever the case may be.

909

00:45:37,468 --> 00:45:39,670

It was a lot of what Palm Decks was.

910

00:45:39,670 --> 00:45:42,339

So in some ways

it just kind of became obsolete.

911

00:45:42,339 --> 00:45:46,176

They canceled the 2004, originally

with the idea of bringing it back

912

00:45:46,243 --> 00:45:49,980

next year, and then it was eventually

officially canceled for good in 2005.

913

00:45:50,481 --> 00:45:52,883

This is a question that comes up a lot,

because I know a lot of people,

914

00:45:52,883 --> 00:45:56,386

especially that worked during that era,

remember it because it's what you went to.

915

00:45:56,386 --> 00:45:59,389

If you were in computers at all,

you went to Comdex

916

00:45:59,723 --> 00:46:00,924

and it was a lot of fun.

917

00:46:00,924 --> 00:46:01,725

And Gretchen, like you said,

918

00:46:01,725 --> 00:46:05,729

you got a lot of swag in that

kind of thing, but that's where it went.

919

00:46:09,099 --> 00:46:12,102

Is it possible to print from your phone?

920

00:46:12,603 --> 00:46:13,904

So I think to

921

00:46:13,904 --> 00:46:16,874

what does this phone tablet,

that kind of a thing.

922

00:46:16,874 --> 00:46:19,877

And the answer to

this is yes, actually they do support it

923

00:46:20,010 --> 00:46:24,214

depending on the version of your phone

iPhone, Android and then what version

924

00:46:24,214 --> 00:46:28,252

of Android, the way that you would set up

and do this may vary a little bit.

925

00:46:28,652 --> 00:46:30,287

So I will tell you how I did it online.

926

00:46:30,287 --> 00:46:33,423

I have a Samsung, Android phone

927

00:46:34,057 --> 00:46:38,095

and I got I have an HP printer

and I was able to get an app that just

928

00:46:38,128 --> 00:46:41,198

went in there and basically set up

what I would call a printer driver.

929

00:46:41,899 --> 00:46:43,433

It works over the network.

930

00:46:43,433 --> 00:46:45,169

You're not plugging into the printer,

anything.

931

00:46:45,169 --> 00:46:48,172

So you have to have a printer

that worked on a network for this work.

932

00:46:48,572 --> 00:46:51,175

But, I set it up that way.

933

00:46:51,175 --> 00:46:53,377

And yeah, I could just print off my phone

just like I would.

934

00:46:53,377 --> 00:46:56,280

My computer was actually very easy to do.

935

00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:57,147

I would recommend

936

00:46:57,147 --> 00:47:00,450

if you want to set this up,

look at the manufacturer of your printer,

937

00:47:00,450 --> 00:47:03,420

because they're most likely going to have

the software for it, because I found

938

00:47:03,420 --> 00:47:06,723

there was a ton of third party

apps that claimed to do this.

939

00:47:06,723 --> 00:47:10,194

And they're a little bit,

sketchy in some cases.

940

00:47:10,194 --> 00:47:11,795

I'm sure there's some good ones,

but if you

941

00:47:11,795 --> 00:47:15,465

get one that's from your brand of printer

like HP or canon or whatever,

942

00:47:15,699 --> 00:47:17,000

it's a little bit safer way to go.

943

00:47:18,902 --> 00:47:20,137

All right.

944

00:47:20,137 --> 00:47:23,974

Do we really

have to put everything on the cloud?

945

00:47:25,175 --> 00:47:26,210

What does this make me think of?

946

00:47:26,210 --> 00:47:27,344

Valley girl from the 80s?

947

00:47:27,344 --> 00:47:29,479

I don't know how many people even

we get that right now.

948

00:47:29,479 --> 00:47:32,950

Like, oh my God, do we really have

to put everything on the cloud?

949

00:47:33,150 --> 00:47:35,219

Yeah. Is that better?

950

00:47:35,219 --> 00:47:36,987

Yeah. That's a that's better.

You know? Okay.

951

00:47:36,987 --> 00:47:38,822

Just thinking

when we, when, when we were in Bakersfield

952

00:47:38,822 --> 00:47:42,359

doing the last round of a jet pack,

we drove by that mall, Valley Fair.

953

00:47:42,359 --> 00:47:45,128

I think it's all or something. Yeah. Yes.

954

00:47:45,128 --> 00:47:47,431

And how are you

now? North. So, you know. Yeah.

955

00:47:47,431 --> 00:47:52,669

As long as it didn't turn in the fires,

it's still there.

956

00:47:52,669 --> 00:47:54,371

As far as I know, it's still there.

957

00:47:54,371 --> 00:47:57,374

I leave in the comments

if it's not or if I have that, or

958

00:47:57,374 --> 00:47:59,409

that would be the Galleria. Right?

959

00:48:00,477 --> 00:48:01,144

It was a gallery.

960

00:48:01,144 --> 00:48:05,048

I might have the name wrong,

but I know we drove by it and and.

961

00:48:05,048 --> 00:48:05,282

Yeah.

962

00:48:05,282 --> 00:48:08,252

So, but anyway,

to get back to the topic here,

963

00:48:09,253 --> 00:48:11,622

this came up

because the last couple of weeks

964

00:48:11,622 --> 00:48:13,891

we've had some pretty substantial internet

outages.

965

00:48:13,891 --> 00:48:16,927

And one of them, there's a YouTube channel

where he has a teleprompter

966

00:48:16,927 --> 00:48:18,328

that wouldn't work

because the internet was down.

967

00:48:18,328 --> 00:48:22,900

Question why do we need to have

a teleprompter that works on the cloud?

968

00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:25,502

But the answer to this is no, you don't.

969

00:48:25,502 --> 00:48:27,838

But most stuff is going that way

because it's more cost

970

00:48:27,838 --> 00:48:30,207

effective for businesses

developing these platforms.

971

00:48:30,207 --> 00:48:31,775

I just hope

972

00:48:31,775 --> 00:48:34,878

that they figure out how to do backup

a little bit better than this last time.

973

00:48:34,878 --> 00:48:37,581

So we don't see the problem

that we have. Yep.

974

00:48:37,581 --> 00:48:39,483

Well that's it for this week.

Until next week.

975

00:48:39,483 --> 00:48:44,755

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