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Well, Andrews, it is funny you bring up this question this week. Oh, yeah? Food has been on my mind the last couple of days. It's just been I've been in a mood. I like, last night, we barbecued up some steaks and corn on the cob and Oh, nice. Some shrimp
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salad.
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Oh. Mhmm. Mhmm. Like a cold one? Yeah. Yeah. Like a slaw. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So you asked the question, and I I I know what your answer is, I think. Yeah. I know. Yeah. What is the meal or food item your family makes you bring every single time? Yep.
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And for you, it's deviled eggs. Yes. Yeah. It is. Yeah. It is. And I haven't had to bring them anywhere for actually quite a while,
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you know, because there just really aren't any family events. But They're such a great appetizer snack because sometimes you get there and you're hungry. Yeah. And they provide. Yes.
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And then secondarily,
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my broccoli salad. Like, that's what I've been bringing to, like, friends things. Mhmm. Oh. Is and so just so everybody knows, it's super easy. It's just raw broccoli. Yeah. Right? So uncooked broccoli Okay. Cream cheese,
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dried cranberries,
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red onion. Cranberries are great. Bacon. Yeah. Good bacon too. And small
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pixels as the kids kids would call it. Pixels of cheddar cheese.
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Mix it all together. That's it. No seasonings. You know, bacon technically is a season. Well, the bacon the bacon is a crucial part of it. So and you're doing bacon method on the bacon. Yes. So that's in the oven, 400 cold
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on a sheet, and then, you know, you just cook then you crunch them up. Mhmm. And are you doing dailies? Are you doing a specific bacon? Because it's really usually really good bacon. Oh, I use the Safeway
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Okay. Brand. Jeez. Yeah. The thick The thick cut hickory smoke. That is actually surprisingly good. That or Costco, more cost effective. Right? And I don't know what brand I don't it might be Costco brand. I don't or Kirkland Signature. I don't know.
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But and then the other dish that I'm nailing, which I think I've mentioned in the show before, but not everybody's listened to every show, so I'm gonna go ahead and repeat if I did.
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Peanut butter balls. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. Right? So my mom would make peanut butter balls,
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and I would always ask her to make it at, like, Christmas time.
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And then one year here,
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I decided I'm gonna try to make them.
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And and it's actually pretty simple. The recipe is just two cups of peanut butter, two cups of powdered sugar, two cups of Rice Krispies, two tablespoons of butter Yeah. And then almond bark, chocolate almond bark for the coating. To go over it. Yeah. Yeah. And initially,
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it was what do you call it when you just use your arm
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muscle,
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whatever? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Strong-arm it. Strong-arm's Sure. Mix it. But then my mom got me a mixer. And Now it's a production. I've been using that. Yeah. And I've been able to do it a lot more often. But then I just upgraded my paddle.
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I had I I don't even know what it's called, but it was just metal. A paddle. Oh, for the mixer. Yeah. Yeah. For the mixer. Yeah. But now the paddle has, like, silicone
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scrapers on it. Uh-huh. And it's making these peanut butter balls so moist. So, anyway, at the end of or at the beginning of this year, I made a batch and handed them out to friends. And they were like, these are amazing.
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You could sell them. Buy some? Yeah. You could sell them. You could. Yeah. No. I do. Oh, yeah. That's right. I forgot about that. No. I do. Yeah. I have done holidays,
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weddings,
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birthdays. I love it. I brought a couple bags to karaoke the other night and sold them and got a we're not worthy from, like, four people. Like, I walked up and they were doing that. I'm like, oh my gosh. You gotta stop.
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And then I have another order for tomorrow. So Great thing about a peanut butter ball is kinda like the deviled egg. Is there a little protein in there? Mhmm. Yeah. You know? Then You could justify one to yourself. I stopped measuring a long time ago. So Go by the feel of texture or whatever. When it's two of everything, yes, it is based on texture. But but this new paddle has made it difficult, so I've actually kinda made them a little sweeter than they should be. But better to be more sweet than just taste like peanut butter. Yeah. Right? Just yeah. I've made one bad batch of peanut butter balls, and I shared that one with you. I was like, it just tastes like peanut butter, doesn't it? And you were like, yep. The thing about, like I think where I kind of skew to, you know, proficient to good with my cooking is all barbecue grill based cooking,
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which is not
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a shareable portable thing. Like, you gotta be at the grill in order to really appreciate that. Like, your deviled eggs and peanut butter balls, you can take with you to places. Right. I'm not gonna, like, cook up a New York steak and then take it somewhere. You know? Like, that's just awful. The broccoli salad, I just saw a really cool hack where you get those little plastic cups with lids and put a fork in it in the lid through the lid.
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And and then you just have individual
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servings of That's great. Your salad. Yeah. Yeah. Great for a barbecue. Yeah. I mean, not great for the environment. Wedding, you know, if you're doing Right. Right. You could throw it as you buy my peanut butter balls, and for an upgrade price, you also get broccoli salad. Right.
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Yeah. I was gonna ask. You know, I stopped going to the Fisher family events. Do they have you bring something? And what do you bring? You know? Because I would bring oh, okay. The Fisher family I mean, I love you guys, but just
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I don't know if anybody
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well, I think the best cook in the family is Josette.
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I mean, in the entire family. She makes a killer broccoli salad. A different one with, like, a vinaigrette. That's my dad's my dad's wife. And
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the rest of the family,
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I it it's so bad. Like, when we do, like, a lasagna or anything that's kind of like a tomato based noodle thing that you cook in the oven, I don't I never want them anymore because that's what every family event served.
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They also had, like, some other weird ham
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thing they served. None of them knew how to cook. Yeah. So, like, they didn't even know what to ask to bring. And it was so it always ended up being Roles. Rolls. I knew it. I knew it. And the worst example
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was this was a very, very long time ago. We stayed with the kids. Hadiya and I stayed with the kids in Eastern Washington in a cabin with our friends, Bruce and Carol. Mhmm. And we were driving back from Eastern Washington and going directly to a family event Christmas event at my dad's. Mhmm. And there had been a major accident on the pass. And so the, you know, two hour drive, we were in, like, four and a half hours. The kids were stuck in the car. We were stop and go traffic. People were like, was so bad. People were just getting out of their cars and, like, taking a leak on the side of the road and stuff.
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And so my dad's like, where are you at? Where are you at? I'm like, we'll run late. He's like, well, we need the rolls.
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I'm like, dad, I'm on Highway 2 stuck. I'm gonna be another hour and a half at least. Mhmm. Well, I need you to stop and get the rolls. Like, so
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you you you want me to be even later? Like, I gotta stop by the grocery store too and buy these rolls? Right. Yeah. We need the rolls. Somebody's gotta get the rolls. That's your job. Alright. So I'll get the rolls.
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So, like, we stop after dinner? Yeah. So we stop in, like, Sultan or something, and we get we get the we get the roll we get there way after dinner. Uh-huh. Bring in the bag of rolls, set it on the counter. Nobody ever touches them because everybody was done eating. Did you take them home? I don't think so. I think I left them. That's funny. And I'll never forget that, like, are you serious? So rolls is what I'm known for with that family. Yeah. After
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the divorce. Yeah. Because before that, it was deviled eggs. Deviled eggs. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. Alright. It's your time. Let us know. What's your food? From the web. Keep the show alive
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Also, if there's a food you've recently mastered that you're not yet known for, but maybe you should be, boost in. Because that also happens. You start you know, you get good at something. Oh, yeah. Well, you know what I make is
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cream cheese,
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chopped finely chopped garlic Mhmm. Red onion Mhmm. All raw. And I added olives last night, cheddar
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cheese grated,
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and and then stuff it into peppers, bell peppers. Oh, I thought you were gonna say a mashed So good. I thought you gonna say a mashed potato or something, but that that's That it could. Mhmm. It very well. Feel like a Like a new take on a Twice bake or something. Yes.
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Alright. Well, let's get to some tech.
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Tiny dish. Big blue sky.
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Don't say this lightly. There may not be a person more qualified to review the Starlink Mini than myself. Yeah? Oh, and think about it. I am extremely extensively conversed in mobile data and multiple connectivity options. Mhmm. I have had the Starlink standard dish. Yep. I now have the Starlink performance dish, and I am now testing the Starlink Mini. Is that why the bill went up? No. No. The dish doesn't cause it's just because their prices went up. Oh, well and and this will cost them. Anyways, so this is the Starlink Mini, and it feels like the effing future. So here, Andrews, I'm gonna hand it to you. Oh gosh. Am I gonna get cancer? Nope. It's not on. Oh, okay. But point it right at your face. No. Yeah.
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No. That's it. That's the entire unit. About the size of a laptop maybe, would you say? This. Can I pull it? Yeah. That's just like a it's like a waterproof plug. So that's the Ethernet port. Oh. It's IP 67 or something. I have it in the notes. Yeah. IP 67 rated. Crazy. So it can be out there in the weather. It comes with a little built in kickstand as well. And this kickstand pops out, and when you pop it out, there is accessories
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that can connect in there, which we'll talk about later. I bet. So this I would say this is a process for, like, a house mount. It's it's actually
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side to side, it's smaller than the screen of a 15 inch laptop, and it's slightly taller than a 15 inch laptop. Right. But side to side, it's actually
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It's probably actually 15 inch by 15 inch. Yeah. Isn't that interesting? So, anyways, it's it's and it's just around two pounds. It's quite light too. Mhmm. Yeah. It was. Put it in your backpack, and I don't think you'd have I don't think you'd have any trouble. So that's it's a that's its that's its physical size. It truly is mini, and I like that. And I like that it's water resistant
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if you have a proper cable installed. Mhmm. So and it's rated to operate up to 60 mile per hour wind too and all of that. Oh.
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Now
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you you have to the thing is is when I looked at this because when I got the original Starlink, don't know if you've ever saw these, Ants, but they were motorized. And the disc, they would pivot and point to the sky just No. But I'm not surprised. You know, I grew up in VFE Yeah. And we had satellite. Big ones. Yeah. We had to go manually move. So not with the mini. Now you kinda point it in the right direction, and it uses electronic phased array antennas. Meaning, they can track the signal from the satellites,
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and they can electronically move their receivers inside without actually having to physically repivot
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the disc. Side note, this is not sponsored. No. No. No.
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I wish.
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And so once you properly just kinda point in the right general direction, it can do a lot of the work itself.
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And then the setup is extremely simple. You put it somewhere with a clear view of the sky. Mhmm. You use the kickstand if you want, or you can put on a mount,
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and then you use the Starlink app to see if there's any obstructions.
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Okay. And does it give you, like, a percentage? Yeah. It'll give you actually it gives you a cool visual with, little areas that highlights. Like, I can see it. Something in a little red area right here. There's something in its way. And it comes in the box with a kickstand, a pipe adapter so you can put it on a pole, and a 49 foot DC power cable. We're gonna get into that. Oh. Here's the thing that I don't know people really appreciate is the Starlink Mini
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is the router for Starlink
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and the antenna all in one. It is a WiFi access point as well. You can turn it off, but it comes
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with everything inside this tiny, tiny dish.
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So the WiFi that you need to, like, connect your phone to Starlink is built into it. You literally plug it in and point it at the sky, and you've got space Internet with a Wi Fi access point. And
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that is really nice because it makes it so simple. There's no external router to hook up and configure or anything like that. Although you can A bunch of cables. Right. Yeah. Right. In fact, I'll talk about this, but there, you can use the Mini
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in an entirely cable free setup. You it's just no cables at all, not even power cables.
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And it's totally usable. So I think that's something you really have to really wrap your head around is a two and a half ish pound, 2.4 ish pound little slab talks to space and also then has Wi Fi for your devices. It's Wi Fi five,
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but really since you're talking to space, that's plenty fast.
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And I tested it with different ranges, and we'll talk about that a little bit. It does have an Ethernet port. There is third party PoE kits you can get for it.
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The Ethernet port is not fully weather rated though, so you need to get an Ethernet cable with a weather plug on it, and there's third party ones or direct ones as well. So here's some interesting stuff right off the top. Midday, I was seeing a 145 megabits down on the Mini and 23.3
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megabits up. 145 megabits midday, like noon, pretty usable. And that was with my client at a negative 77 dB on the Wi Fi. So I'm not even rocking the Wi Fi. I was about a 120 feet away.
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And that's really, I think, the thing you need to understand is because the Wi Fi is built in, like I mentioned,
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it's both good and bad. Right? So if you need to put it 300 feet away from you, you're gonna have slightly worse service because your Wi Fi is 300 feet away.
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And
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the all other thing you have to understand is trees are the natural enemy of this thing because the satellites are moving, so it might work for a period of time. But if you get dropouts, it means the satellites have moved in an area
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where you're hitting trees. So that's where the app comes in.
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But I wanna talk about something that I saw a lot of wrong information about online,
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power.
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And I think this is something people don't understand because it's been one of the biggest changes to the Starlink Mini recently.
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And it's kind of gone under the radar because it was a firmware update in January, and it quietly dropped the average power draw of the Starlink Mini by almost 25%.
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So before the update, on average, it was consuming 25 to 40 watts.
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And after the update, it now consumes around 18 to 20 watts, somewhere between thirty and forty watts when it's really, really being pushed, and 45 watts if it's trying to do some handoff or trying to melt snow.
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The
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thing that nobody tells you and that Starlink doesn't tell you is
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the AC adapter wastes power because it's doing an inverter to DC. It's doing a conversion. And what you really wanna use this thing with is USB C PD.
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If you have anything that can do a decent amount of USB C PD, the power delivery protocol for USB
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You can power this mini. There's no inversion happening. It actually uses less power and is more efficient.
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And what that means is there's a lot of options because a lot of things can do USB C PD.
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And it comes with the wall adapter. They also sell a first party first party
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car adapter.
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Oh. But what really makes this thing sing
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is a extremely
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robust
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third party market of batteries,
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some of which they just clip right into the back. Oh, that's handy. Yeah. Some of which you set it on, like, a little the little pole connector.
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Some of them are ginormous
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twelve hour batteries that are completely waterproof, so you can stick it out there in the rain. And another one Does it charge,
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though? What? The battery? Does it like The Starlink itself doesn't have a battery, but these do. Yeah.
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And then I went this route because I think this is really a cool idea, and it's a kickstand
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that is also a battery pack. Telescoping kickstand battery. This has a That is so cool. Eight hour battery in this kickstand. It's got a little button on the bottom that releases the legs, and so then it can go down. Uh-huh. And then there at the top, you just plug in
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the power plug right there. So you can just plug the Starlink in right there. It's got a tiny mini cord. Okay. Starlink just sits right on top of this. Tiny, like, two inch cord plugs in, all weather rated. Mhmm. And this thing can sit outside for eight hours
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Okay. So powering the Starlink Mini. What is your use of this? Is it for when you are traveling?
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Yeah. So the the thing that I really realized at Brent's was if I had this Ah, yes. See, this this is the thing. It's totally wireless. Yeah. You put the StarLink Mini on this. This is the battery pack. You stick it out in a clearing in the field. It's the Wi Fi AP.
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But then you have to go retrieve it to charge it. Yeah. The the battery. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. But
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it charges
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pretty dang quick. It's it's designed to charge over USB c using fast charging. Very charge the sucker pretty darn fast. Yeah.
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The other cool thing though, besides these kinda like kickstands,
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and this is a real cheap DIY solution,
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Under $30,
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you can find drill battery adapters.
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So if you've got, you know, a pretty common drill and you've got batteries for your drill
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Oh.
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Yeah. They've got adapters that will like, look at this guy.
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That's for any Milwaukee battery. You can take any Milwaukee battery
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and then power the Starlink Mini with that. Nice. So the the third party market around this device is unlike any it's not that the pro dishes and the standard dishes, they don't have anything like this. Carrying cases, ways to power it, all this sort of stuff. And the other the other section that is extremely robust,
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even though they technically say it doesn't support this,
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but people seem to sell a lot of accessories for it, is
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in car suction cup mounts.
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Interesting. Then you just always have Internet. So one of the things when we went up to Brent's is the majority of our highway driving, there was there was no Internet connectivity. So you can't find charging. You can't use the nav. But it would be satellite. There would be satellite. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Even if you only got bits and pieces for the car nav, at least you could, you know, get your map tiles updated and stuff like that. Right. Download a track so you can keep listening to text. Yeah. Or To check if somebody song. Play a song. Yeah. I down I to download my Yeah. So I got screwed on that. I I downloaded the songs. Yeah. And then the app does a DRM check to see if I'm allowed to play them. And if the DRM check fails,
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you know, because it can't cock talk to their servers because there's no Internet, they won't play the damn song. So it downloads the song, but it won't play the song. That It won't play it. I have run into that issue and because I was already not wanting to connect my music or Yeah. Listen to my music over Internet
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So we'll get to price and a few other details, but here's the bit that people aren't telling you about these things. I don't know why because it's not it's not a secret.
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I think maybe it just it goes over the head of most users, but I don't think it's gonna go over the head of our audience. Yeah. There is a sneaky API Oh. That is available on the LAN port of the Starlinks,
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so it turns off at certain hours. But more importantly, I can watch overall bandwidth, ping time, things like that. And I can get an idea of the overall health of this thing. And it's all just using a local gRPC
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even if you use a third party router and you don't use their Wi Fi access point and it's not your router, you can still get access to it. It's really cool. And so you can now watch this for its power draw. You could have it you could do a location change information. You could see if it's in roaming, all of that. There's JSON it can pull from it with a minimal HTML page that it can also render. It's pretty impressive.
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Let's get into that, and then let's get into how it's actually feasible for people that don't even need a dedicated Internet connection. So it does depend on where you live. If you live where Brent lives, they're basically giving them away for free. Oh. Yeah. Sucks. Surprising. Yeah. It was wonderful to see.
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They doubled that recently. It used to be a 50 gig plan. It's now a 100 gig plan. Mhmm.
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Which is perfect for probably what I'm gonna use, occasional camping, working remote. You know? Like, for me, all the kids are over. I'm we'll probably take this, get in the car, and go work somewhere else for a bit because I just can't focus with an RV full of kids.
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That's probably more sense if you're working regularly on this thing or up if you're I was actually uploading shows, for example. Mhmm. And then they have Rome Unlimited, which is a $175
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And then if you need to use it a couple of days later or whatever it might be, a month later, you go back in the app and you unpause it. And within a few minutes, it's up and running again.
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That to me is a massive unlock, especially for me as already a Starlink customer. I I don't always need to. Yeah.
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So to to be able to go in there and pause it like that and then turn it on and off to have space Internet on demand that's mobile like this, that's less that's smaller than a laptop? Is it the same app for all your Starlink? Or Yeah. One app. A specific one? Okay. Mhmm. It's a good question. It's a one app, and you can just you can just toggle through Your devices, just like with Ring. Yeah. Yeah. I also I the first one I got I should mention this just as an as a
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experience point. The first one I got was kinda dinged up and dirty.
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And I was like, this looks like a refurbished unit. I paid the $1.99 price. Right? Like, if I got the free unit Brent's getting offered, I'd understand if it was refurbished, but I paid full price for this thing. It needs to be cleaned. Right. I'm gonna be the one to ding it up. So I open up the Starlink app, go to the support section, and it starts with a Grok chat. I'm like, oh.
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And it comes back, oh, I'm really sorry to hear that. Can you confirm this is your address? Yeah. That's my address. Okay. We're shipping you a replacement unit. Sorry about the trouble. And it arrived in two days. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. And he was like, just ship back the yeah. Just ship the other one Did you? Yes. Well, Adia did. Okay. Right. I didn't. I knew you didn't.
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I don't know what they're doing, you know, whatever they're doing on the Internet. You know? And then they wrap up in the evening. In fact, I think for the Starlink network, in particular, around 10PM Pacific, so whatever that translates to your local time, is really when it the network seems to really drop off. And then it it's pretty calm during the day,
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and it isn't really a big problem. And then I think probably the biggest question,
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instructions? Yep. That's a big one.
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dozens of miles between them. So they're not actually packed together like we see all the time when
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if you've ever if you've ever So creepy. Yeah. Are you talking like the the I've seen the train. The chain of them. Yes.
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It's that's when they first launched when you see that. That that chain of them is when they're still closely packed together. Interesting. And every now and then, like, if you're somewhere where there's very, very, very little light pollution and there's been a Starlink launch recently,
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we're showing an example in the video version right now, you'll see a string of dotted lights or almost like pixels across the sky, and that is a new fleet of starlings. And that's when they're starting, they orbit closely together, and then they spread out. Cool. It is it does look cool. And I could see the concern. Like, if you thought that's how it was always going to be, like, if they were always that close together and the sky was gonna be full of that Right. I'd be pretty concerned about that as well. So, I mean, I totally get that aspect of it.
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So there is there's sort of, like, a multi angle solution to this. Part of it is some of the newer satellites, like the next generation Starlinks,
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but they already have to do this because gamma rays are a problem. There is radiation from space that is coming in and screwing these photos up all the time. And so they're already kind of solving for problems sort of like this. And then the other last concern around this is, well, when you have this much with this much stuff in space,
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it might start crashing into each other. Mhmm. Yes. They might start colliding. Right? Yes. Yeah.
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other crap in space. They do that today. So and then lastly, they're designed to deorbit during a failure or during retirement. And, you know, five, six years,
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while there's 7,000 now, there could be as many as, you know, 10,001 day. There's gonna be kind of a churning happening where they kind of get burned up into space, and they go away over time.
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It's a very, very, very interesting technology.
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You have space Internet anywhere you wanna go that you can turn on and turn off with the app. Mhmm.
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And it's integrated in such a way where third party batteries and mounts and systems are out there, and it has two different Linux systems running simultaneously
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It's very, very neat. So I think it's very impressive. I think it was the missing piece when we went to BC. It would have made life so much better when I was camping there. Yeah. And I could totally see it for, like, working out on the road, turning it on and off when we're not using it. Don't feel guilty if we don't use it for a while. That kind of stuff is all really great. So I think it's gonna be really a fascinating race when Amazon gets their LEO stuff. That's what they're gonna do a starling competitor called LEO,
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which is cute. Right? Because these are all LEO satellites. Low Earth orbit is what LEO stands for, and these are that's what makes these different
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than the HughesNet and others that have come before is these are all much, much lower. Oh, I see. Also, HughesNet seems to be filing for bankruptcy. Okay. Now you're not able to keep up with used that for Yep. This amount of time. Back in the day. Mhmm. Back in the day. So if you have any questions, feel free to go to boost.jupiterbroadcasting.com
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and let me know. I'd be happy to cover them in a future episode. I think there's probably a lot I couldn't get to, but hopefully talked about some of it for you. But, Andrews, you know what that means.
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Now's the time. It's the song of the week. Remember, you can boost the track.
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They sure like that. Yeah. They do. And this week, it's Mookie. We we've played once before, maybe twice before, and it's a track we've never gotten to. It's called Nevermind.
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Well, I'm just gonna make a quick call to my lunch. I haven't checked in since yesterday.
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Call now. What is going on here?
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What? It's a couple of weeks we get, like, two calls, and then this week, how many voicemails, Andrews? 13.
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13 voicemails. 13. So I think we'll do a half and a half maybe or so. We'll get to, like we'll see how far we get, maybe, like, seven or eight. Yep. And then we'll split them up. Don't worry. We still love you, and we want your calls. Doesn't mean you shouldn't call Right. Because we need to kinda even this thing out. We might even just do an all voice mail Maybe we should. Episode next time if we get just as many You better call. So we give it do us a favor, and you can make the show for us. Call in, and we'll just stack them up. Rosie kicks us off calling
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in. I think the first call, I believe, if Majel is correct. Hey, JB.
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This is Rosie. I've been a listener since you were doing shows with Monday, and
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I've been homeless for the last few years because the clan.
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And I just wanted to at least give you at least one voice mail after, you know, listening to you for over a decade. And now that you have a show, get something that can be called in. And I've been listening to to lunch since it started, but, you know, being homeless is little little more difficult to, you know, send you any support like I have in the past
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because what? The eight years ago, I was paying member for a while. But, you know, it I love the show. I love all of you guys, and I just wanted to pass on my love because I do I do listen to all of your shows now.
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I've never communicated until now, and I am very appreciative
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of the years of laugh and information you have given me.
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Now I am nearly the Boulder, Colorado. I'm still up in the mountains just above Boulder. Wow. But, yeah, love the show. Sorry if this was too long. Feel free to butcher it. Love you guys. No. Everybody take care. Fantastic.
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Under the two minute mark. Amazing.
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You are a champ. Thank you very much, and I'm glad we could bring any kind of brightness. And I hope we get to meet up sometime.
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Beer's on us for being such a long time. Our city penguin calls
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Hello, launch crew. This is the Penguin.
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I had a thought listening to the battery was not the problem. I think I'm behind the one, guess I'm pretty sure I am. That's alright. Not even, like, remotely related to any of the topics. Sure. But you said a thing, and it was about the, like, the agents. I think it was Nick from MacAdore.
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I guess, said to me about the topic. But, basically, Nick from MacAdore said something about updating, and he's like, I've got bad habits. And you were like, man, you should get the agents to do that. I'm like, that's a great idea. And then I'm like, wait a minute. Uh-huh. Out of all this talk of agents Yeah. Has no one thought to, like, I don't know, name one, like, Agent Smith after The Matrix
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or, like, any of the other agents from The Matrix? Like, I feel like we're sleeping on, like, a really Good thing. Really prime opportunity
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early January, opened up a fortune cookie.
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Really? Yeah. And, basically, it's like, you're gonna you're gonna run full bore until August.
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Well, I'm waiting. Yeah. Right. Where's the rest? I'm eleven days in. Where's the rest at? You know, Penguin, I
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I I first of all, I love the transcription first got it's the semi pink one here. That's what our transcription I picked
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don't even know about that. Well,
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we appreciate your call. Thank you very much.
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yes, our next caller comes from Greg the lawyer. Greg the lawyer calling in again. Good. Good. Good. Hey. Greg the lawyer here. I requested calling in from
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my new model y over the Bluetooth
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internal connection to Sounds the quality. Does sound good. My car is driving me to work, so I'm free to talk to you for just a moment.
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Seems to be working great. Love it. I still have the factory,
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I guess you'd call it the LTS software that comes from the factory,
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anxiously awaiting
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getting on the rolling release train and getting the latest stuff, but until then, what it came with seems to work fine.
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I can already sense the car is gonna change my life, and hopefully you guys get a good feel for how this sounds. I will keep you up to date as things progress. Thanks, and keep up the good So I asked Greg I asked Greg because he tweeted me when he bought the car, and I'm like, Greg, call in from the car because I don't know what it sounds like. I'm like, that sounded amazing. It did. Like, was there was he driving? Like, because there was zero background That's
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fantastic. Yeah. So the funny thing and this happened to me too because as tech guys, like, you want the latest software, and you're reading, like, the news on what the new software updates bring. But Tesla does this thing that's probably pretty good is they have, like, this new owner time period. I don't know if it's ninety days or what it is.
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But when you first get the car,
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they don't change anything for a little bit. They don't update it on you to surprise you. So can get used to the car. Right. And then after a period of time, they start introducing you to updates. And now I'm like now I'm like on the frequent train. I'm like, get them all the time.
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But it's you know, with something like self driving, every update is exciting because it usually brings some sort of new capability for parking or something like that. Mhmm. That's so great, Greg. And then he called back.
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Oh, fantastic. Good catch. Hey. Greg Deloire again. I almost forgot the most important part.
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This is a 2026
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Model Y Juniper.
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She is ultra red in color, and her name is Scarlet. Cute. I will keep you posted on the adventures of Scarlet and Greg the lawyer. Nice. You
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know, Greg, something to play with is the because the screen
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has a built in Chromium browser, there are some community resources to get all kinds of streaming services
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and whatnot right there beyond just what comes built in like Netflix and Twitch and YouTube. There's basically every streaming service under the sun, and it's just web pages people have set up that you can load up in the browser. So when you're charging, you want something to watch.
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There you go. Alright. That's great. Super excited for you, Greg. Kevin calls in. You're ready, Andrews? Yep. Hey there, Launch. Hey. Chris and Angela. Hello. Kevin in Raleigh.
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Checking in. Haven't in a little while. Thank you. But a couple of things on the recent episode.
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One is I'm on the
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somewhere between
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early adopter and mainstream. I've
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been burned by buying cheapo stuff or WiFi gear when in fact, you know, Zigbee or Z Wave might serve me better,
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etcetera. So, you know, I want it, but I'm also kinda cheap, so I'm not gonna Mhmm. Earn money on it. Yeah. That too. So there's that. Yep. The other is on your house listing
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where
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there's the woman in there,
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and, you know, the listing says you gotta deal with her. Yeah. When you said the banks don't care, yes. Capitalism doesn't care if you live or die. No. It's unfortunate,
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but it's the reality.
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Have a good one. Yeah. There you know, the the cold reality, the reason why the banks even get in the mortgage business, right, is because if you screw up, they get a great asset. So it's good. They love it. They love it. Alright. Magnolia calls in with our next voice mail.
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Hi. Can I get a McDonald's pizza and McDonald's? Get out of here. Get get get a tux. There's a mini meme over here. Shut my hands. Don't worry. Fuck. Fuck. Woah. Woah. Hey. Your podcast sucks.
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You you don't have anything listed.
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You said you were gonna order food.
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What are you ordering?
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I got a McDonald's pizza. A McDonald's pizza. I want a McDonald's pizza. We don't do that. Extra mustard.
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Extra mister. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. We're first off, this is over.
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Mustard
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first of all, McDonald's Mustard is amazing. Has McDonald's ever done a pizza? Maybe they should. That yeah. I don't know. That's good. I don't know. My fave my most favorite thing is getting a breakfast hash brown and dipping it in hot mustard. Oh. So good. And salt. Know, salt and pepper too. Nothing wrong with that. That was really cute. That was. Alright. The next one, Majel has labeled as string mechanic.
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And if this isn't the person's name, that you should take that. That's a killer nickname. It is. I couldn't have come up with that. String mechanic calls in. Hey, Chris and Andrews. I heard you guys needed calls, so I figured I'd call in. String mechanic here. Hey. Calling you from my car as is tradition, and I wanted to
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ask you guys hopefully a thoughtful question here. When have you taken a tech project or a really kind of project
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just a little bit too far?
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already solved the problem you set out to solve, and you're just going now because it's cool, right? You just get lost in the sauce. I've been playing with local AI recently. Oh, well, yeah. And I've been building out an LLM Wiki, and the AI kinda manages just about everything. And I just got to the point where I can just shovel knowledge into it. And I started with just adding my personal files and my personal markdown stuff, then moved on to downloading documentation for Unraid or Tailscale or whatever, and Sure. Adding that Knowledge base. And now I'm reprocessing
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my personal book collection to markdown
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to be able to shovel those in as well.
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I was looking at physical book scanners to add my physical books as well, and my wife saw my screen, and she went, you know, maybe you're taking this a little too So
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wanted to get your thoughts. Let me know. Oh, you're asking the wrong guy. I was literally joking in the pre pre show before I started recording that I wouldn't mind scanning my books and ingesting them in my AI. That's funny. You're asking the wrong guy. Right. I you know, I'm pretty good at, like, identifying the 80% solution when I can with the 90% solution.
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However, just recently,
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I you know, I've I mean, for how long have I had voice tubes like the, you know, the Amazon VoiceTubes, the Google VoiceTubes, the the HomePod VoiceTube? Way longer than me. Long, long time. Since they have been products, I've always been kinda curious about it.
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full on everything that I ever had from any of the commercial tubes, but I can have it do what I want. So when I say, hey, Lor, what's the weather?
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He's checking my local weather station. Instead of going out to, like, some random API, he's checking my local weather. Right. Or I can say, hey, Lor, play Magnum, and he knows, I mean, Magnum PI on Jellyfin and play the most recent unwatched episode.
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And he'll then he'll turn the TV on, he'll set up the Apple TV, and he'll play it. It's all local. It's so great. And so I've just been nerding out on that and going way too far. So that's probably my most recent. Do you have a thing where you've just nerded out way too far? Sort of. It's like it's tangentially related. Uh-huh. So I'm an overachiever. Mhmm. Yeah. Right? So anything that I set out to do,
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it is going to naturally be above average and way more than it needed to be.
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At least you're honest. That's good. And then I find that with my sewing projects too. Sure. Yeah. Or yeah. We have always choose the hardest
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things, the hardest fabrics to work with and the worst patterns. Like, it's so annoying. Like, I just wanna sew on cotton, but I never do.
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Could've it's gonna go you know, you could you could just go easy. I if I yeah. But yeah. I just percent. Yeah. Yeah. There's it's tough. Alright. Think this will be our last one because the next are either of a theme or or some of the same people calling back. So I think it'll be this will be our last one for this week. We do have if you don't hear your voice mail, we still have more, and we need more now to round it all out. It's a complicated thing.
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But this next one,
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this is oh, you know, I wonder if this isn't Where is A. A. Ron right now? I think this might be A. A. Ron calling in. A. A. Ron. Take it away. Hey, Chris and Angela. This is A. A. Ron. Hello. A little update about a local
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county here in Texas,
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Guadalupe County.
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The commissioner just canceled the flux contract that they had because
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vandalism was costing more to replace the cameras Yep. Than it was to just cancel the contract outright.
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I guess little victories.
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Thanks for the show, guys. Y'all are doing great. Keep it up. You know what? Hey, Ron. You just cracked it. Mhmm. The the capitalist solution to the flock problem is make it more expensive to maintain them than than to buy them and run them. Mhmm. That's pretty good. Thank you for that update. I saw a reel the other day that's on the AA run thing. They gave him a list of football players' names, and the first one he named was LaDidi
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Lad. Yeah. And and now the whole football team oh, you've seen it? Oh, yeah. Yeah. The whole football team calls him LaDidi.
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The original Key and Peele skit of a oh, Scott Scott. It's so funny.
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So so okay. Please do calls. Give us a ring. We're gonna stack those for this week. We still have a few more, but that's it for now. So do
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do now. Come on out. Give us a call. You know what to do. I don't have to tell you about it. We'll put the number in the in the show notes if you forget. But with that, we're gonna cover some boost. It's your time to shine.
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Oh, it was gonna be bad, Andrews. Oh, yeah? We were coming into an emergency show situation
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this morning. As I entered into the studio, I thought this may be one of the very last episodes because the support was at 10,000 sets. Oh.
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10,000 sets. Yes.
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And that was after we cranked out an extra episode when we got back from the trip and all that. Well, it wasn't an extra episode. Well, it was an episode. It was an off off. It felt like an extra one. Let me tell you what. It felt extra. That's for sure. Okay. So we do have some boost,
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And check this out. Now it is time for Le Bouche. Saving the show, making it so Making it so. Daja comes in with 77,203
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sets. Savin'
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the day. He says, got some extra overtime from the side gig. Figure I'd send it to my friends at the launch. Nice. Thank you, sir.
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And thank you for being the pillar of this week's tent.
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We really appreciate it, Daja. Thank you for being our baller booster. I hoard that which your kind covet.
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Magnolia Mayhem comes in with 4,422
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sats spread across two McDuck boosts.
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And we have the the Rooster Protection Weapons Fund. Thank you. And godsavepodcasting2.o.
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I agree. Amen to that.
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Good job. The roosters, yeah,
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they're dumb. You know, the chickens are so dumb. They keep wandering over to an area where the coyotes are sleeping at night, and I don't they could be there during the day. Yeah. Oh, I wanna go over here. I wanna go over here. It's unbelievable. Every time. It's like they're suicidal.
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Thank you. You should find a chicken deterrent. Like, there's gotta be, like, a herb or something that they don't like that you could throw out there. Loud noises. Oh.
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A lot of people this week told me to get a gun.
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A lot of people said get a gun. In in real life, in the chat room, people said get a gun. Yep. I don't have a gun yet, but
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the thing is is
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they're either, like, right up next to you, like, where maybe, like, a shotgun or something would be useful, because I don't know. I'm not a good shot. They're like, know, you stumble upon them, you're like, oh, crap. That's a coyote. Right? Or it's, hey.
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Way over there, like, 400 feet away. I think that's a coyote. Like, those are the two scenarios in which I see the coyotes. And I am definitely not a shot at 300, 400 feet away. That ain't me. So I don't know what to do about that.
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But thank you for the boost. I do appreciate it very much. Pappy comes in with 7,469
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sets.
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Oh, we got time travel boosts in here, Andrew. Buckle up.
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Currently
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time traveling in the hospital after a small nose surgery. So time to catch up on JP. Mhmm. In the episode, you asked about hoarding. For me, it's mostly nonperishable foods like pasta and soy sauce. Can't pass a good deal when there's one of the things I need to buy again anyway.
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That, of all things to hoard, is probably not bad ones. Yep. That was from episode 56.
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Also, I am probably having a small nose surgery this week. Really? Yeah. What are you doing? Yeah.
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Well, you know, not
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let's see. What is it called? Not plastic surgery. Rid of the roundness. No. Just kidding.
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I have a calcium deposit right here underneath my glasses, and and it's just super annoying. You gotta go up there and scrape it out? No. I think they're gonna cut it and pull it out and then stitch it, like, one or two stitches. Yeah. Too bad they can't, like, sonic blast it or something. You know? Yeah. Wouldn't that be cool?
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I don't know because then it would just be broken up inside my under my skin. Then they vacuum it out. Oh, gross. I know. They still need to cut a hole to get it out. Yeah. That makes sense. That makes sense. My doc crashed, so I'm waiting for my doc to load. Do you see the next boost in my I do. It's from Eric the magician. Hello. It's a member free boost. Hello, Eric. Thank you very much. Free member boost. Yeah. There you go.
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Hi, Chris and Angela.
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I have thoughts about the diffusion of innovation, and I used the contact form on the weekly lunch.rocks for sending a longer form message. Did we see that come in? I didn't. I saw it though when I was in today adjusting things. I saw that we have a dedicated form, but I don't think it's going to me.
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Okay. I'll I'll look into that. I thought Yeah. It should be. No. I see where it call it was. Yeah. I don't think I I don't think I
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no. I haven't seen anything. Okay. So we so we need to be looking for a email from Eric. Alright. Yeah. I will. Alright. I yeah. We will look for that. Thank you, Eric. I actually just set up on jupiterbroadcasting.com.
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The launch is now one of the drop downs in in the list. You can tell the real ones know we're not great with email.
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Yeah. No. It's me. No. No. Me. No. Not bad. It's me. I get all the email. Yeah. Yeah. I am well, that problem is I get all the emails. That's the problem. Let me tell you. I have, since 08:50AM,
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received 10 emails that I have yet to read, and those are just the ones I have yet to read. I've read several of them, and it's been just a guy 10 emails, and those and I had a batch yesterday. At that rate, I can't keep up. And and and 10 emails even that much, and I can't keep up. I can't keep up. Alright. Do you wanna do the big investments, or do you wanna save these for the next show? What? Oh, we could if we need to wrap up. I could let me say let me thank everybody who boosted in and all the members as well.
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We had one person stream sats. You stacked a 840
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sats for us. Thank you very much. You bring it all together, that brings us to 89,094
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Satoshis.
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Thank you very much for supporting the launchboost.jupiterbroadcasting.com.
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Keep
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us going. Do you want me to save these for
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Possibly. Yeah. Yeah. I have gotta think. I have a I do have a thing. You gotta think. Didn't didn't you have Another helpful PSA.
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You told me during the song there was something you wanted to mention at the end. You mentioned Posho, but we can mention it now. Yeah. Tomorrow,
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August 12,
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is National Middle Child's Day. Yeah. When this episode comes out. And I am a middle child. I bet many people out there are. Yes. So FYI.
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So I don't know what I don't I don't really have any plans. But Make yourself a treat. Something non carby. Well, I actually, you know what? I think the peanut butter balls are non carby, but and I have to make them anyway. There you go. So Alright. We gotta run, but that's it for this week. And we already have stuff for the next episode. How about that? And, of course, we want your call. So give us a ring. It's in the show notes. Links to what we talked about are over at a weekly launch.rogs.
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Live's the way to jive Tuesday,
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k b live.tv, or catch us in your podcast app Wednesday morning after Mr. Drew is all done with that edit. Or if you're a bootleg member, you're going to get the show in about twenty minutes. All right. From the beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty West Coast. Thank you so much for joining us on this year episode of the Launch 79,
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and we will see you right back here for the big episode
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next week.