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This is the launch episode
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for 12/30/2025.
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Streaming from the beautiful Pacific Northwest
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and the mighty American West Coast, we greet you all a good morning, good evening, or whenever your timeline may fall. Time appropriate greetings indeed to one and all. This is the launch, and my name is Chris. And I'm Angela. Hello, Andrews. Hello. Got a big show today, so let's warm everybody up with a few deets.
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Thank you for being on board with us today.
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Well, Andrews,
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it's almost that time of year. Are you cooking up your New Year's plans? Mhmm. You are? Definitely. Also,
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it sounded like you were working on your auctioneer abilities
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there. Yeah. Like or the the fine print at the end of a global commercial. You know? Like Or my micro machines commercial voice if they ever bring micro machines back. That's funny. Okay. Well, so,
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you know, we finished Christmas and the holidays
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are
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I don't know. I don't even know how to describe it. But I have I have something to share with you. Okay.
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And you have to trust me. Alright. You have to lean forward Okay. And close your eyes. Alright. No. Lean forward toward me off mic. Yeah. Okay. Close your eyes. Alright. Hold on. Alright.
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Okay. I'm off mic. Now smell.
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Woah.
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What am I what is that?
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It's the smell of Christmas. Oh.
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Yeah. It is. Wait. Can I see that? Yeah. I gotta bring that in here. Right?
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Okay.
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So I'm allergic It's like some cooking in there, some tree in there. Is it a tree? And soap and tree. Yeah. Pine ish. Like yeah. Okay. So
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I was shopping the Yeah. It's Christmas now. Yeah. Christmas sale. I'm just gonna leave the lid off. Oh,
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for the livestream. Am I on the camera? Yeah. Here we go. There you go. Livestream. Anyway, I'm allergic to candles, so I can't light it. But I smelled this, and I was like, oh my gosh. Only if they burn, so you're okay if they don't burn? Well, so far. Like, certain scents do give me a migraine, but this one does not. It's nice. But if I burn it yeah. Something about burning and then the soy. Right? Soy has nickel.
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And so, yeah, it's just not good to breathe. But Right. Anyway, it is a balsam fir candle,
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village candle. That's pretty cool. I like the color too. Yeah. And all so I carry it with me everywhere ever since I bought it. Really? And the kids come up and they sniff it too,
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because they are all sensory seeking.
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It's so funny. It is so funny. There's a bunch of different things. Small candle. No. It's a it's a jug candle. It's not a light candle either. Yeah. It's I think it's a 12 ounce or something, but, or maybe a little bit more. But they have it in bigger sizes and, like, incense and air fresheners and all kinds of things. Right? Balsam fir. Alright. And it's just so good. Anyway New smell unlocked. Yeah. New smell.
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Anyway. Alright. So but I wanted to talk about New Year's plans. Mhmm.
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So Some some years, I like, I don't know. I don't have any plans. Like, years, I don't plan anything. Some years, we do Right. It's weird. So why is this year, I guess, is a it's a year you make plans.
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Oh, no. I've been making plan I've had plans for the last five years. So first of all, I don't like to stay up. I don't like Right. I don't prefer to stay up for the the changeover, and it's not getting any better with age. So
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but the kids, you know and it's it's less like the kids stay up to midnight. It's it's no big deal now. Right? So but they
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also love New Year's because I started including them in my plans
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three years ago.
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So five years ago, though, 2020.
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Well, I guess it was the end of well, it was five years ago.
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I was watching
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this
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woman on the Internet who had found
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her
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twenty twenty New Year's resolutions.
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And
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she read them out loud in her bathroom while drinking wine. Oh, boy. And and so it was like,
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I can't remember what all of them were, but one of them was like,
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earn more money. Sure. But she got, you know, let go She got laid off. Of COVID. Right. Lose weight. And then she just went
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She she gained some chins. Highlighted her chins. Yeah.
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Be more social.
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Right. That's a hard time to lock down. Travel more.
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Right? That's great. Spend more time with her grandma.
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Uh-oh. Her grandma died.
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Uh-oh. And
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she just she had this infectious laugh as she's, you know, going through all the resolutions that she had that she couldn't do because
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life, you know, for everyone just, you know, trampled The universe laughs at our plans. Yeah. So starting that year at the 2020,
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she began hosting a New Year's
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countdown.
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Right?
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And the cool thing about it so for the first two years, I did it by myself. Right? I just watched it by myself. So it's online and in person
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Or no? Just online? Yeah. It's not in person. No. It's in her wherever she's living. Okay. Because she's she has made it. That was her fifteen minutes to fame, and she has made it. She
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is, you know, a celebrity now.
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But her name is Robin Shaw,
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r o b y n s c h a l l. And she's East Coast,
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which is perfect
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because it starts at 8PM our time. That's great for you. And the and
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the midnight is 09:00.
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Right? So
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it's perfect. So the last couple years,
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specifically the girls, like Dylan bowed out last year, but
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we watched the the comedy special.
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She does a call in game,
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and we've won. No way. Yeah. That's great. That's so great. Yeah. So
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we all me, Abby, and Bella, we all had our phones out, we were calling. And we'd get through, and then they'd, you know, send their phone to me. And so I made it through the first two rounds. And then on the third round, I I think it was the third round,
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Abby googled
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The answer. The answer. Nice. Good girl. And I and so I was able to get it. Anyway, and what I got was just a a planner, like or like a a notebook
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that where she had gotten a giant sticker to put on the top of it with her on it. You know? So cool, though. Like,
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it it was a really fun time. So that's one of the things that we do for New Year's that is our tradition.
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In addition,
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couple years or for the last couple years, I've gotten those confetti cannons.
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Link in the in the show notes. These things are no joke. No. They're big. Yeah. And the confetti's everywhere. And I'll tell you, like, some people really hate glitter. Some people, like, hate sand. Right? Kinetic sand. Like, sensory stuff for kids, stuff that gets everywhere that's hard to clean up. I love finding pieces of confetti in the great room throughout the year. It's like a reminder of a good time. Finding confetti,
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and I love it. It makes me smile every time. Well, that's great. That's really good. Two years ago when we started the confetti cannons, Dylan could not get his two go on. Oh. And he was so frustrated, but I got video of it, and it was super fun. So It comes it comes in a six pack, though. So is there not enough? I mean, you know Oh, well, the ones that I've done I haven't ordered it from Amazon until this year.
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So it's got a 16 foot range. I get them, yeah, I get them from Walmart usually, but I didn't this year. And then I get big balloons with the year and have that up at the back sliding glass door, which is above the kitchen table. And then we look at that for, like, at least, you know, two or three months after the new year. Helps remember to write 2026 on things. Yes.
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And the thing I like about this balloon package is that it has a giant
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champagne glass Yeah. And champagne bottle. That's great. Like and I'm actually thinking about getting a helium tank from Walmart
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to so that they float. Right? Oh, that'd be fun. Yeah. Do they oh, right. Because they don't come prefilled, obviously, you're getting them from Amazon. Yeah. No. So anyway Helium would be a lot of fun. Also, I keep thinking of resolutions.
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Oh, yeah? But I think maybe when we come back next week, we should do that. Like,
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what resolutions did you set and are you which ones have you stopped doing already?
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What if I told you Oh. I don't do resolutions, I do themes.
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Themes? Yearly themes. Mhmm. You know, I've heard people say not resolutions, but goals. Yeah. Yeah.
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Okay. So what describe a theme. A theme a year of of being more frugal. A theme of being more frugal for a year. So not like I'm gonna save x dollars, but Right. A theme of frugality or something. Oh, okay. So you run your decisions through this filter. Yeah. This theme filter. Yeah. Does that match up with my theme? Right. Yeah. So it's it makes kind of goals, but it's a it gives me it gives me room to not
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not have, like, a specific KPI I have to hit and then be really hard on myself when I don't meet my KPI. You know? Like Oh my gosh. Yes. You know what I'm saying? I mean, I'm gonna have a spreadsheet. Yeah.
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Well, I'm curious out there in listener land if you
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are like me and you've kind of I don't not celebrate. Like, I'll turn on the old boob tube and and watch some fireworks or something like that. Oh, we also do
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we each get our own bottle of sparkling cider. That's adorable. Mhmm.
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And, you know yeah. And maybe I'll maybe I'll have maybe a nice dinner, you know. But years ago, I would I would like I would go out Binge drinking? Well, no.
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Not for a while.
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No. Like, Hidea and I years ago would go out and camp,
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and then we'd stay up and it's like light a fire at midnight. Nice. And we'd sit around a fire and kinda talk about our themes or goals for the next year. Mhmm. But even that's kind of faded
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because, again, I'm old and tired. Just like, yeah, 09:30, 10:00. I'm ready to go to bed. I don't know if I'll be able to stay up. We'll see. I'm curious out there in in listener land if you're like me or if you're putting together a big party and gonna celebrate and tell us how it goes to Boost In, great way to start. 2026,
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don't you think?
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Okay. So I'm surprised
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I'm going to actually go down this line of thinking because I consider myself a bit of an AI rationalist.
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I recognize there's useful functions and I also am pretty aware of the limitations of LLM. And so I don't really subscribe to like all of the hype, but I also don't subscribe to all of the doomerism or the people that just write it off.
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So I it's I find it kind of atypical of me to be going down this route, but having explored this over the last week,
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this is the conclusion I've kind of come to. And I don't mean to alarm anybody, and I'm not trying to scare anybody, but I just think this might be a natural direction things go.
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And it started after I read an article
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over on Business Insider.
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Yeah. Business Insider by Lightspeed Ventures partner, Michael Menegul.
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And he started
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Anchor and a few other things back in the day, kind of in the early days of the creator era, in the influencer era, if you will. And he was talking in this interview about how he believes AI generated video is marking the end of the creator as we know it. And I thought that's
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that's so that's hyperbolic.
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Mhmm. That's, you know. Fearmongering? Yeah. Video killed the radio star kind of thing. So
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I was compelled to prove him wrong. And in trying to do so,
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I think I've ended up agreeing with him. Oh, no. Yeah. And I'm Oh, that sucks. I'm gonna make my case today.
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And I've brought some receipts.
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So this conversation has been triggered by many things, but OpenAI's
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Sora two
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can generate
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very believable
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AI videos, and and there's some really interesting ones going around. Like, some of my favorite this holiday season have been Home Alone behind the scenes,
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where it looks like you're watching behind the scenes of Home Alone one even though this is completely AI generated. But it's fun. Weird. Yeah. It's weird. I don't even get the point. Oh, well, I don't know what AI generated I've seen. Right? Because that's part of problem. Exactly. I haven't
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gosh. I hate having to question everything. I know. Just kidding. That's who I am. Scott,
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you're already doing that.
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I'm in my comfort zone. So this guy, he basically he makes a case, and I'm gonna I'm gonna we're gonna just explore it as,
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you know, a steel man that
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the influencer era, especially on the tiny video platforms like TikTok and and Reels,
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these are really what are gonna be impacted by this.
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Because AI is gonna slash the cost of paid influencers for large brands.
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And
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Mhmm. Imagine
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in a world where a this will happen slowly and then suddenly because we're already seeing it experimented with on the edges, on the fringe with shockingly
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good results. I I was really surprised.
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But as a brand,
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you can now create like a brand could be a tech company. It could be Nike, whatever. You can now create what is considered an AI character.
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And this AI character is a persistent
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person with a persistent voice and appearance
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that you can put into
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multiple different types of videos with just a prompt.
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And
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if you think about the companies out there,
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I mean,
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a cloud guru did this, Tailscale does this, a lot of companies do this where they pay someone to run a YouTube channel and be their brand. Yeah. Right? Mhmm. And what inevitably happens with these because I've been in this position, so this is how I know. What inevitably happens is if you get success, say, you know, this happened to me. We're part of a company
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and the shows we produce on behalf of the company to get brand recognition
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become successful.
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What happens is then you, me in this case, become the face of the brand, and the company is very uncomfortable with that. They don't want one particular influencer
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being the face of their brand because if they say something stupid on x, especially, you know, in Yeah. Certain times Right. It can harm and damage the brand.
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So they're gonna have the option now to AI generate the perfect spokesperson for them. Full control. That can generate content on the fly. Yeah. And imagine a world where computers are a little bit faster and we're burning even more energy, and the system knows what you like.
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Right? It knows for example, when I experiment with these, it knows I like Linux. Mhmm. It knows I've been looking into EVs. So guess what it starts doing? When you go on Sora, the app, s o r a, there is a TikTok like video feed. You can just sit there and doomscroll. Mhmm. 100% every single video is AI generated.
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And you wouldn't know necessarily from all of them. And guess what it starts showing me? Linux videos, EV videos. And you could take that to a logical conclusion
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when systems are powerful enough where three videos down the line, it could be generating that video for me. And by the time I get to it, it's completely Oh my gosh. No human was involved. Creation. Knowing all of my interests. Wow. YouTube would be great at this. I mean, are we gonna get more intelligent then? No. Listen, I don't think this is a good thing. I don't think No. I I know you're not. But, like,
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it's going to feed what you're interested in Yeah. So then you can become that mastermind. Assuming it was giving you good information. Right. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. No. Actually, I real quick.
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I there's a prompt that was going around, an AI prompt to have
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well,
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it was it's not limited to women, but it was for me. Okay.
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Wearing a sparkly suit with a candy cane over my shoulder. Right? So I copied the prompt, changed the eye color and the hair style and color. Yeah.
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And uploaded a picture that I thought was
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at the right angle, you know, like kinda match it. Yeah. Didn't show my chins and whatever.
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And what happened is AI knows that I have gained weight. So it added him back for me? And so Here. Let me fix this. This is the image I got.
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Oh my god. Your face. That's a little unfair. So It's a it's a little unfair. Is that is It won't show up. No. It's a little unfair. Oh, it does show up.
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Yes. I am not that big. Like, I I definitely know I'm not that big, but I thought it was interesting.
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Well but then it also got, like, other things accurate. But so crazy. Yes.
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Things that can get right and things that can get wrong is very And then I told it, you know, take off 50 pounds. Yeah. And it couldn't. Well,
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so sorry.
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I think, like, that kind of thing is gonna get better too. Like, they'll get more accurate. Right? They'll get more
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they'll get better at, like, scanning your whole body. Because right now with their they can get your face. Right? But we don't really have the technology to scan your whole body. But you could see an iPhone with an ultra wide lens that you hold right here can make take a picture of your whole body.
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So I wanna go to this this this fellow who found Anchor, and this is kind of his thoughts on how this is gonna impact the quote unquote creator economy,
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which is actually a big part of revenue on the Internet these days. The end of social media, and it was all about this new form of media. Are you talking about a book you wrote? Had called recommendation media. And it was really just kind of the TikTok algorithm and how the TikTok algorithm was sort of the next phase of media. The follower graph was going away, and now the platforms were going to get to decide
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what somebody saw.
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you know, I hate to say it, it's almost like the end of the creator.
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your attention is captured for as long as possible. And that's why the TikTok algorithm is so is so powerful.
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specifically to target you and to capture your attention as long as possible. And,
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unfortunately, like, the individual creator just becomes far, far, far less valuable
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in that dynamic. And so to me, that is the that is the biggest impact of Sora. It marks the end of the creator, unfortunately. And as a as a brand,
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as a business, this thing is way safer than some rando, you know, becoming the face of your business just because they have popular videos.
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Mhmm. So they're, of course, they're gonna do this. And the other thing they're gonna be able to do is not only will they be able to have
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popular influencers likeness.
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Jake Paul has licensed his his likeness or I don't know one of the Pauls. I don't know which one. Has licensed it to OpenAI. So if you wanna go in Sora, you can make a Jake Paul video.
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Oh. You can put Jake Paul in your video. Wow. Yeah. Interesting. I don't know why you would, but you can. Yeah.
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I did the right thing, Ange. Yes. And I created a character for myself. Okay. So I just took a quick selfie thing. You go you look from side to side, and you read three numbers.
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Oh. And that's it. It? Yeah. So it could be better if they sampled better words. Numbers?
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No. It gives you the number parts. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. But so this is an AI generated video of me. I'll play for you, and I'll play for the audience so they can hear it. And I'll link to these in the show notes, listeners, if you'd like to watch them by chance. So it is somehow brought to you by almostfresheggs.com.
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They send you eggs that were almost fresh. Would have been great a week ago, but they're still hanging in there. Use code. I don't know. Code whatever. Nothing happens, but they know I told you. Anyway, thank So there's an ant read for me. It looks like me. Right? It does. It does. It doesn't For the most part. Yes. The voice doesn't No. Match. No. And here's here's another read where the voice is kind of off, but I think it's the likeness is there, you know, and again,
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the voice is not quite Part of the show is brought to you by high performance cigarettes. They're built for people who actually like smoking. Hand packed from whole leaf, no sprayed flavoring, and they burn slow and even so you can focus on the conversation instead of chasing the cherry.
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it made you really angry. It did, didn't it? Like, your eyebrows just pissed. I look really pissed in that one.
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Okay. This one's this one's a little better because I can add my own characters, and so I added my dog Levi to a dog food commercial read. Oh, that's cute. This episode is brought to you by Leftover's Dog Food. You know those nights when the fridge has odds and ends you don't know what to do with? They do. They slow cook the good stuff and turn it into hearty healthy kibble. Packed with real protein, no weird chemicals, and it smells like Sunday.
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like, logos on there, little music in the background, shots of Levi eating the dog food. Yeah. He looks a lot older than that. Well, he's getting up there, but, it's pretty good though. There's
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a shot of Levi talking to the microphone wearing headphones,
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and he's got a little bib on, and the bib has the leftovers dog food brand on it. Mhmm. That's a nice attention to detail. Yeah. And you could be forgiven, especially if you don't really know about these things, for thinking this is real. Now, like you pointed out,
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the the voice isn't great. But if given enough sample data, the voice can be pretty good. Here's an example of that. Well, bless your hearts. Let's just get right back into it. You know, we were talking about Fedora 43,
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and I gotta tell you, the kernel updates this time around, they are smooth. They are slick. I've been running the tests on my home rig, nothing fancy, just reliable hardware folks, reliable.
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wins the day. I see too many of y'all out there chasing the shiny new toy, the ephemeral shell that promises the moon, but you need a foundation. You need that rock solid base that Linux gives you. And when you look at the way the desktop environments are handling Weyland now, well, we're finally getting to a place where we can tell those closed source folks,
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we don't need you anymore. We
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got freedom of performance. Thank you very much.
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That's what this community is built on, folks. Freedom and darn good engineering. Don't let nobody tell you different. Now speaking of getting the right information, I got something important to tell you. If you are serious, and I mean serious,
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about staying ahead of the curve in open source, you gotta know what's coming down the pipe. That's why I'm so excited to tell you about the brand new freshly launched Linux action news. That's right. Every week, they are synthesizing all the critical developments that AI generated Linux action news. So that voice, not perfect,
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but closer. It's not. It's so it almost sounds like you have a cold. Yeah. Yep. There was some digitization.
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It's it's better if you don't listen with headphones. You don't breathe into the microphone like that? Like, I hate that. It drives me crazy that it does that. And that's the real heart of the matter right there. You've got these developers, bless their hearts, are working day and night on plasma Yeah.
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No. It definitely got some of your mannerisms for sure. Like, if you weren't sure if it was you, those would be like, okay, this probably is Chris. Yeah. I,
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Hadiya sent to the kids. So there was that. Four k no cap. I talked to prom that paints the map from a snow cap bridge to a cyberpunk lane. In seconds, it's rendered like magic in the brain. It's breaking in the booth lights low, but the screens glow. Taps are on my phone. Let the visions flow. Cinemath I think that one has the most likeness. Oh my gosh.
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That's funny. Like, visually? Yeah. Don't you think it looks the most Potentially. Yeah. I mean, but obviously the four k. Because sometimes, yeah, the voice is no good. But sometimes my hair I really liked the holding the phone out with you in the background. Yeah. Like, just smiling like, yeah. So what's funny about this is,
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you know, like, it got my side profile really well even though I never quite captured that. That's funny. I just thought that was interesting. I mean, that it's so some of it, you could see it in another even just a year. Mhmm. This is gonna be in a lot better shape.
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We could have a virtual version of me that's just posting to social media. Right. You know, like, ingest feeds from Linux, and it does a quick story. I also created a video of me hitting a deer from inside the cab of my car,
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then an angry version of me doing a value for value pitch, which I think is kinda funny. I'll play that one. But again, it it gets me angry because
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it it kinda goes angry for some reason. So I don't know what that's about, but here's the last one we'll play. And again, I'll have these linked in the show notes if you're curious about them, but
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I I don't know how you start. I should start it over because it starts immediately and it loops, which always drives me crazy. I don't like all the looping.
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Alright. Here we go. This is the value for value AI pitch. Alright. Quick reminder. This show runs on the value for value model. No ads, no pre rolls, nothing like that. If you're getting something out of it, send a boost or hop in as a member. That's literally how it keeps happening. The traditional ad money kinda gone. Alright. Quick. So he's a little he's a little pissed off that the ad money's gone. Yeah. Yeah. He's a little upset about it, which I can understand.
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So it's real Chris.
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and in video in video in general. And that is I think there is a little bit of video fatigue out there. Oh, The Guardian had a piece by Fiona Sturge.
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She put it into words. I think people have been thinking about this for a while and she actually did a good job
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saying, you know, these videos are kind of painful to hear. Mhmm. They rushed into creating video, and it makes for what she says is a dreadful listen.
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what happens is some podcasts that weren't video became video.
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And we've kind of been experimenting with it in this show today is there's more visual stuff we've talked about today as sort of a point. Like, gets to a point where, like, god, can't see this guys. Guys, I can't see this, and it gets annoying after a while.
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and they're creating really poor TV shows and really poor radio shows at the same time. So the listening experience is downgraded because the audio gets treated to secondary. People are referring to things on screen or jokes or even sometimes it's just like looks. Like, I this happens a lot. It's like an inside joke of something that happened in the studio, but if it if you didn't see it on screen, you have no idea what happened. And then the ads now are also typically more video focused. So when they switch to an ad, it's like, I can't see what you're talking about.
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And then people like me who care a lot about audio quality and would like things to be tight and produced well, well, what you're getting is just an output of the livestream.
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I think it's just so much cooler and more interesting to try to be the best audio show rather than the shittiest television show.
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Like, you don't have a you know, unless you're a millionaire, you don't have the budget to do a great video production.
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they didn't ask themselves if they should. They just ask themselves if they could.
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So we did it because thousand nine. It was technically possible. Mhmm. It was like, okay. We'll we'll have a video stream.
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And we did the hell out of that for years, but the reality was 90% of the audience was still listening to the podcast version and not watching the video.
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we started transitioning some of the shows to audio only. Hadn't I I hadn't really pinned it down, so I went back and looked at the back catalog and looked at Lup, and we what we did is we we started transitioning for a while. And by 2017,
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And we did that to create the best listening experience possible so that way when people are remote and there's latency or over over talking and things like that, we could clean that up. And then we can individually adjust and and filter people's tracks so that way it sounds best to their voice, and Drew does a fantastic job with that. And so I think
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the video podcast world is due for a bit of a rethink and ask maybe of themselves if they should, and I think the stronger contenders will survive and and reprioritize
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for their listener base.
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but there aren't algorithms
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and platforms that have business incentives to shove them in front of you. Right? It is in Meta and TikTok and Instagram and X's best interest if they could just generate the content for you. You know what the worst thing about running a platform is? Users. That's the worst thing about running a platform. It's the worst thing about running a network. It's the worst thing about running a server. It's the worst thing about running a website. It's end users. If you could run a website with fewer people that are uploading content and you could just create it directly, you don't have to pay out anybody, you don't have to worry about the bandwidth, the complexity, you just generate the content yourself directly, you become essentially
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I mean, if you could get AI content that these idiots are watching that they love so much, they'll watch it and watch it and watch it. It's already happening.
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that are scoring deals for them. It's it's crazy what's happening right now. Wow. But I think in podcasts,
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because there isn't one central control, one central voice, one central narrative or editor,
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just because I suspect the audio audience that is looking for great content will will seek those out. That's my guess. I don't think it's gonna be like a doomsday for the video content creator world, but I think it will be an economic hit for those content creators who make money by striking brand deals with companies, and then they go whore out the products on their Insta or whatever with barely disclosing it. Instead now, the companies, they're just gonna generate a character to do it. And if their character isn't successful at first, they'll go license a successful character's likeness
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from, you know, some other somebody you know you know what's gonna happen? Is these content creators are gonna create bulk deals with groups like OpenAI and Meta just like
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what is fate what did DePaul did. And and then you'll just you'll just as a company, you'll just sign a service contract with OpenAI,
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and and then you'll just get access to all these characters that OpenAI is licensed. And you'll just pay a a monthly fee as a marketing department, and you'll have somebody on your team that goes in and prompts up your character to go create some slop to put on the Internet to promote your brand.
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And that money is gonna be taken away from original humans that are creating it now. For the better. I mean, is a horrible aspect of the Internet that I hate, and it should have been killed anyways. So
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I'm not pouring one out for these guys. But I do think it will be a big shift, and I'm not particularly looking forward to just watching a bunch of AI content.
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I'm not gonna watch that. I'm not gonna you will. If it's compelling and interesting, you'll watch it. Yeah. I'm grateful when there's a glitch, and I could be like, oh Yeah. It's not real. You know? Right?
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I gotcha. Mhmm. I gotcha. Yeah. I agree with you on that. And so far, we're there. There should be a disclaimer.
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does watermark it, but the professional one tools though?
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how some creators don't get impacted, and also,
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again, how this doesn't have an impact on the advertising economy as well. But we shall see, because, know, we don't know. We don't know. But what we do know is it's time for a track. 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.
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That's right. If you boost during this track, 95% of your stats go to our artists. And we are featuring the retro
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retrograde once again. I think it's their second time on the show. It's a second single, so it's their second time on the show and the second single they've released. How about that?
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This one is titled Closer to Somewhere, and it's off their debut album, That's the Spirit,
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which is under Cannabis Records. This song is about the struggles that we all sometimes feel in our life, so it felt like an appropriate
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You know, the feeling of sometimes being down on your luck, trying your hardest, but just getting closer to nowhere. And so this
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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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That's it. Alright. (774)
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Well, we do have some voicemails to play this week. In fact, I just realized I didn't do a poll right before the show started. So if you called about an hour before the show, I may have missed your voicemail, but I'll play it next week. And we do have a nice batch, so I think we're okay. We got nine voice mails this week, and we start with a very zen, very calm Magnolia Mayhem. Hi there. This is
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Magnolia Meditations.
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their solutions to this terrible problem, but
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my grandmother
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used to tell me
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when she had migraines,
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she would smoke cigarettes. Oh gosh. And it helped me as well. Just
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thought I would
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leave that information with you.
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Thank
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you. I mean, if you're in a lot of pain,
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maybe it's worth a drag. No. No? Mm-mm. Even for a migraine? Not gonna happen. Even for a migraine? No. Would a patchwork? Maybe that.
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I don't wanna smoke. What about nicotine vape? No.
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I
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mean, I'm just saying for a migraine?
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No.
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I I think I would. That
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almost sounded like AI.
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That's what he sounds like when he's calm, I think. I think so. I'm not sure though. You might be right. But I am a week away from Oh this dreaded migraine.
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Will it be on a Tuesday?
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Are you gonna are gonna have a migraine on a Tuesday? You got it down to the minute over there? Yeah. I mean, basically. I don't trust you. That's how we ended up with a third. I don't trust you. Oh, that's funny. That's funny. Alright.
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Kevin from Raleigh calls it. Hey, lunch folks. Chris,
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Angela. Hello. Kevin from Raleigh. Hello. I remember to say my name in the beginning. Mhmm. Regarding the plus signs in emails,
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I have the worst horror story for you. Uh-oh. My wife's first name is hyphenated.
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Many systems don't like that, including our insurance company. And I work for a large company. I hoped my HR team,
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etcetera,
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push on the insurance
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company. Right. But no.
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So
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we fight with them. Her name will never be right because they decided they're not gonna put a hyphen in the first name. We know it's possible. We work in technology. It's what they allow in the form.
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I'll
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the plus sign.
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So
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it could be a lot worse.
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Yes.
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And related to that, I use Google Voice for everything. Nice. And
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occasionally, you try and fill in a form and it won't let you use Google Voice because it sees it as a voice number and it wants a quote real phone number. Yep. That's a lot less annoying than somebody's name being wrong.
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And the way my wife responded
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was,
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no. I'm not changing my damn name because they are too lazy to change their software.
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I'm with her.
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Have a great week. Thanks, Kevin. Yeah. It,
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it I mean, it's also pretty common if people have hyphens in their last name. Yeah.
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It's not too unusual for Christopher to get cut off. To just Christophe. And the ER gets dropped off. Yep. And then the other thing, I guess, I've been on the other side of this. I have to admit,
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when I worked at a bank, you know, seven, eight hundred plus users,
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almost every day, there was one or two last name changes because the ladies, especially the young tellers Mhmm. Were constantly getting married
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and divorced. Yeah.
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Right. Yeah. Was there was like a gal
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twice in one year Oh my gosh. I had to change your name.
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And so by the end and I started getting kinda cantankerous. I just started changing their display name, but they would keep logging in.
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Because it is an absurd amount of work back in the day to change the username. So just changing the display name is one thing, but then you still have would have to log in with yeah. Anyways.
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So I I I kinda see both sides, but the hyphen thing's kinda ridiculous at this point. Yeah. Also, a few more characters so we can get that e r in there. Alright. So Magnolia Mayhem's back, and I think he's got a proposition for Oh.
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As I was saying,
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so circa 1995
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by US Arcoff's Colores,
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the
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my mom had a thing that she had to go do. I forget exactly what it was. I was, six years old, but
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my mom leaves me with my dad. Now he had just gotten back from Blockbuster, and he had a a giant statue full of VHS tape. Nice. And he's like, well,
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you wanna watch a movie? And I was like, yeah. Sure.
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And so he gets through it and pulls out this tape and sticks in the VCR,
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and DieHard starts playing.
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Doesn't even get started then. Five minutes later, my mom comes back. She forgot something. And the first words out of her mouth are, my son is not watching that movie. Oh my gosh. So fast forward a good thirty some odd years,
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I still haven't seen Die Hard.
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So my proposition
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is this.
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What if I, at a point neophyte to this,
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watched it for the first time and waited? Now, obviously, this isn't gonna end the argument.
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And I feel like it might actually be
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a
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useful perspective. It's somebody who's never seen this movie before
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watches it, and then I call back or boost in or something and offer
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my
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immediate visual response. Okay. It's not gonna solve the problem. Yeah. But maybe it's an an unaltered,
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un
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whatever the word is, un un
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Unfiltered. Something opinion. Anyway, yep. That's the thing.
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Oh,
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we got distracted. Now before we go, he did call us back and tell us why he got distracted.
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But a a Ron called in. A a Ron.
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And he also has thoughts on If Die Hard is a Christmas movie. So let's play that voicemail real quick, and then we'll come back to Mayhem. K. Hey. This is a a Ron
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in San Antonio,
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Texas.
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I'm calling
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to give my 2¢ about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie or not. Now if it's up to me, I say it is a Christmas movie,
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And solely for the reason that
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whenever Christmas time comes around, it's on all of the different streaming and everything, all the different Christmas playlists.
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Yeah.
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It's being positioned. My
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wife raises a good point. Uh-oh. If
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Die Hard is a Christmas movie,
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then you have to also say that Harry Potter is a Christmas movie.
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I don't know how I feel about that, but,
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you know, I think she's probably right. You know, happy wife, happy life. Am I right? Anyway, love you guys.
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Keep up the good work. I don't know, Ewan. I'm guessing she was sitting next to you. Yeah. When you
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I don't know if I agree with the Harry Potter thing, but so to settle this, the wife and I watched Die Hard over the holiday break
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and
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noted a couple of things that I think squarely put it in the Christmas movie camp. Number one,
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they use holiday Christmas music throughout the beginning of the movie. Sort of like Christmas themed music. Mayhem is listening. Yeah. And we don't know if he's watched it yet. Like, are you sure you wanna Well, we can take his take. We can we can take I want his take still. Okay. And number two,
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they it takes place on Christmas Eve. There's Christmas trees everywhere.
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There's Christmas music. They're having a Christmas
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party.
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Party.
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Right? K. So it's a crisp and she agreed.
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She agreed. See, she was coming from the well, Bruce Willis says it's not. But it so is a Christmas movie. It's ridiculous. It's a total Christmas movie. So but I don't maybe Mayhem could weigh in. And and also, you know, I'd love to hear other people's thoughts of Harry Potter.
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Harry Potter? I don't know about that. Alright. Back to Mayhem. He could he'd get distracted, and he'd let us know why.
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Okay. So I I guess I should explain
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what happened.
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So I I was like, oh, I need to take lunch. So I pulled off to, like, this this side road off in the middle of the woods, and I'm like, oh, by the way, I'm on lunch. I might as well call the lunch.
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And I looked over. There's just a dude in overalls walking out the woods, just middle of nowhere, miles from the nearest house. Just walks out the woods,
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says hi, knocks on the window. Hey. How are you going? Hey. Hey. Nice day. Okay. Hey. Well, at least he was dressed. Yeah. That was my first thought. He probably recognized you. You know? You call into the launch, you become famous. Mhmm. Probably knew you were in Magnolia Mayhem.
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And Mayhem is here today, so he survived this Good. Interaction. Good. Good. Now get to watching Die Hard. Alright. Monty from Philly called. Hey. This is Monty from Philly.
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If Home Alone is a Christmas movie, then Die Hard
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is absolutely
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a Christmas movie. That's what I was thinking. The only reason Kevin McAllister
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is home alone
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is because his family happened to go on
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a vacation Traveling for Christmas. Yep. Yep. And events transpired.
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The only reason John McClain
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runs into the events he does is because he is traveling to visit his family
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over Christmas. Oh. Ouch. He is attending the Christmas
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party. That's true. The McAllister also uses Christmas ornaments Yep. As a way to fend off the bad guys. John McClain Spoiler
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alert. Also uses some Christmas wrapping materials. Yep. Okay. Fend off his bad guys. Uh-huh. I'll say it again. If Home Alone is a Christmas movie Yep. Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie. Yeah. I think that's solid. Yeah.
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That is yeah. Where's your ding? Nicely done. Nicely done. I'm gonna give it a round of applause too. That's a pretty hard lock right there. Thank you, Monty.
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Delma's back. I might be saying that wrong because, you know, me and the names real bad, but he's back, and I love it. Hey. It's Delma of Southern Michigan.
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Last time I called, it sounded like I said Dom, but it's Delma. It was, like, five degrees outside.
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So I
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just guessing that my mouth was probably frozen shut. No. It's me. Anyways,
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Mark,
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I hope you really didn't leave
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that all that venison on the side of the road. You know, that's good jerky right there. So bring it on down here, and we could go ahead and dry it out and have a good old time. Hit me up. I'm on Nostrad Matrix.
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You'll find me. Love it. Another caller had called about
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vitamin d and not getting sick. One of the things I've I've found interesting is that in the Eastern Orthodox Church during the nativity fast, about November and December, there's a lot of fish days.
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When
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we fast, we typically don't eat any fish at all. But fish is actually a really good source of vitamin D. So
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it's been something I've been wondering about lately is just like sort of like the wisdom of of adding more fish into your diet during these shorter days. Well,
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hope you all are doing well, and wish you all a Merry Christmas,
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looking forward to the next episode. Thank you. Alright.
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So the launch connections.
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Mhmm. Nice connecting.
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Alright. Ian from New Hampshire called in. Take it away, Ian. Hey, launch crew. It's Ian from
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New Hampshire.
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For the cat stuff Uh-huh. Definitely check out
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Feely Way.
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It's cat pheromone.
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It it I have plug in diffuser. Yep. And it it makes the cats, like, super calm. Any kind of stressful situation,
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definitely definitely use that because it will help them kinda chill out with each other. And, also, look up, like, Jackson Galaxy's
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videos on how to introduce cats. Mhmm.
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Includes things like, you know, feeding them behind on opposite sides of, like, a closed door Mhmm. So that they can get used to each other's smell and stuff like that. Take like, swap the rooms that they're in so that, you know, they have a chance to
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kinda get used to each other's smells in in, like, a non hostile environment without the other one there. Mhmm. Let them watch each other from distances.
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Yeah. Definitely, you know, keep up the good work. And for Die Hard Mhmm. There's a pretty interesting article that says Die Hard is actually a Hanukkah movie. Oh. Oh my goodness. When you think about it, there's a lot of parallels. John McClean,
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Jeb Maccabee.
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It's the same initials.
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You know, the the villains are German.
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German. You know, the stereotypes fight themselves.
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And,
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also, the you know, he
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Maccabee
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takes the the Roman weapons in the story of Hanukkah.
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John McClain
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takes the German assault rifles, and he has a mission gun.
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And a lot of, well, you know, David and Goliath story.
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Have a good one. Makes you wonder if there's a little inspiration there in the in the story. That was a curveball I did not see coming. Yeah.
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Okay. So I do have that for Ramon.
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I do have an update.
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Abby is is done is over. Having a cat living in a real box in her bedroom. Mhmm. And and I you know, to be honest, I am sick of managing which cat is in, which cat you know? Oh, yes. Know? And letting
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toes out of there.
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So I can feed them a cat gurt,
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and they can be literally Next week. Six inches apart. Yeah. I can you know,
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between the two Swap of boop. Yeah. Like, just back and forth, and they're fine. Once one of them
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steps away,
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that's
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when like, out of sight, that's when the attack happens.
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And Toes got some good chunks of fur out of Gypsy,
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which is funny because Gypsy is the one that I'm worried about killing Toes. Right. But he's big.
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Like Toes gotten big. Yeah. Time is on toe side. Yes.
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So I don't know. I was gonna use this break to just
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let whatever happen happen,
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but I I just chicken out every time. You know, you don't want him to get too hurt. I don't. I I only have one carrier.
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Who's that? One of them will have to bleed out at home while I take the other one to the vet. I don't know.
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I don't know. I just wish that it could be over with and I and I could get the litter box out of Abby's room. Mhmm.
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Toes is so fun. I don't wanna have to rehome him. So I am trying to do everything I can
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and increase their time around each other.
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They are definitely I haven't thought about putting Gypsy in Abby's room.
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So that switching rooms thing is interesting. That is. Because, basically neither Rocky or Gypsy have been in Abby's room,
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you know, since well, I I did catch Rocky eating in there
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a couple weeks ago. Speaking in, getting a snack. Yeah. But
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yeah. Yeah. Swapping rooms. Yeah. I'm surprised it has. It's been a while. I thought by now. Yeah. Well, we got in August. Yeah. You think by now that two cats have worked this out. Yeah. But it's a Well, and I want Blood feud. I wanna let Toes outside.
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But I'm worried that Gypsy will chase him up a tree and we'll never know. You know?
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Yeah. For real. Alright. Our last voice mail, and it's from Tech Geek in Orlando. Hey, guys. This is Tech Geek from Orlando.
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Hope you guys had a good Christmas. Just I was listening to episode 46.
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I'm gonna wanna back up bursaries
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adversaries.
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Whatever his name is. What? The vitamin d. I'm sure he provided some pretty good resources there.
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Well, no. As far as link, I think in his voice mail, he said he sent the link, but I just wanna back him up. I've been taking vitamin d for a while and vitamin c
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for years now, and I rarely get a cold. Matter of fact, I the last time I got sick that was close to, like, a cold was when I had COVID back in 2022
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or no. Sorry. 2023.
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That's the last time I actually had any kind of cold like symptoms. And before that, it's been it had been years since I even had a cold. So That's nice. Yeah. Yep. You have young kids. D, even maybe adding some vitamin c to that. Alright. Happy New Year to you guys. Thank you. I hope you have a good one, and I'm looking forward to 2026.
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More episodes, please.
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Thank you, sir. Wait. Like, more frequency?
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Oh, yeah. I do feel like the kids are getting sick a little bit less. They definitely are.
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In fact, I don't think they can for a while. Yeah. Well, Dylan claims he's sick all the time.
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Yeah. But it is nice because when they were in, you know, younger years, it was a lot. Thank you everybody who called in. We have the number in the show notes. If you would like to give us a ring and don't remember it, you can just go look it up right there and we love it when you give us a call.
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Alright.
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Now it's time for the boost. Thank you everybody who sends a boost into the show and supports us. We love to read your messages. And, of course, these boosts go directly to myself, to Ang, editor Drew,
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and, a little bit goes to the creator of the podcast app. So it's always very much appreciated.
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And our baller booster this week is producer Jeff.
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He came in with 22,222
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sats. He's out looking up for all Macduck.
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And
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PJ just sends us a bunch of rockets,
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which is funny because when I pulled this report, my Netscape my Netscape
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Firefox is not properly rendering emojis. So I thought Jeff sent no message. And then I opened it up down here and I see the rockets. I see. It's nice a little surprise. Thank you, PJ, and happy holidays to you. Mhmm. We appreciate
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you.
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Our next boost comes in from Jasco, and he sent 4,000 sats. Make it so. And Jasco writes, hey, Chris, Ange, and Brent. Brent had joined us just last week.
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Regarding the episode 46 pre show and the Ford Ford hybrid pivot, I have to push back a bit on your criticism of hybrid cars. My mom has a Prius and hasn't had any issues. Oh, yeah. The Prius. Yeah. Mhmm. Of course. Right. Yeah. No. I'm yeah. I agree that Toyota really knows what they're doing. Unlike other ICE cars we've had in the past, it just sips gas. I haven't done much maintenance on it personally besides swapping fluids, but still very much able to be done without needing to take it to the dealership. Oh, that's good.
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Like, you have to do with a lot of EVs. CVTs are a lot gentler on the engine. Not a big CVT fan.
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And makes them less problematic. It depends on the OEM. Right? Like like the Mazda and Nissan experiments with CVTs were kind of disasters. Again,
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Toyota would I think what you have to respect about Toyota is they sort of take a real nice incremental approach for a lot of these types of things. They don't always necessarily
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take big risks.
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Sometimes they do. Sometimes they do, but not so it's they tend to they tend to be very pragmatic in their car design.
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And I think that reflects in their reliability.
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Mhmm.
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And, you know, for example,
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Jasco, to your point,
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the Tesla Model y was the best selling car of 2025
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until the RAV four came out. And then the RAV four for 2026 RAV four just took
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off like a rocket.
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It's very popular.
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Byte Bittens here with 2,412
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Satarunis.
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Coming in hot with the boost.
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I might have ordered myself the Einthor Max as a Christmas gift to myself. What is that? But I'll have to wait till mid January for batch two. Should we look it up? I think it's a Oh, you don't know what it is? I thought Well, I think I do. I think I do. It's a because I was just looking Is it an action figure? No. It's like okay. Okay. I'm Is it a piece of technology? It's a piece of technology, I believe. And like a I I could be wrong on this. So I don't know what I'm talking about necessarily because I
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I'm just guessing. But I think he was talking about these
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handheld,
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almost like it looks like a modern Nintendo three DS. Oh. Flip up screen.
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It's got a Snapdragon CPU in there, and it's got a three point nine three point nine two inch AMOLED screen. It's a current thing. Right? It's not a retro? Right. In fact, it's only in preorder state right now. Oh, okay. It's brand new. It's very fresh. So does it even have games?
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I'm I'm guessing, although, again, I'm not quite sure. I'm guessing you could probably emulate
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Oh. Just about everything.
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Got it. Yeah.
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It does come with a native it looks cool. It actually looks cool. You'll have to call or boost in Tell us about it. An update. Yeah. Thanks, buddy. I wanna know more.
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Dom is here with 2,040
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sats. Oh. Boost. The voice mail. Yeah. I believe so. Yeah. That's how you spell it. I believe so.
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Since Brent had to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, what say y'all?
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Freedom units or Celsius?
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Not just for temp, but in general.
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I like
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I don't mind it for measurements. I think it's weird. Foots are kinda foot. That's weird. And
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I think logically,
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it makes sense that zero is freezing in Celsius because for us, 32 is freezing in Fahrenheit, and that's odd. Weird. But when I say it's 70 degrees outside,
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that just makes to me a lot more sense than say 20 degrees Celsius. Like, for some reason, when you're talking about all the other temperatures and their and their relativeness to comfort,
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90 degrees feels like nine it's just this weird thing. Can't with Fahrenheit, I can't wrap my head around
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minimizing those numbers.
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So I don't like it for temperature but I like it for everything else, Celsius and metric.
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You know, and know for like, you know, in some cases,
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I would here's my take on it. I would convert myself personally just to have a standard across the world. Yep. Right? If we were, yeah, standardizing that. I'm I'm pretty well like, I'm learning Spanish. Yeah. I don't need to learn this
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right now. You know? Like, I'm good. Yeah. In fact, does Duolingo have a module for for these conversions? Because Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's run with it. That would be great.
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That's a good good question. Thanks for the boost and the call. Odysee Wester is back with 10,200
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sets.
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Well, this is a back in time boost during our Thanksgiving holiday.
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We ended up qualifying for two turkeys at our local WinCo. Sad part is I didn't realize this till I got back with the item.
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We've we initially forgot. Oh,
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so I had to turn back, grab another frozen turkey. It's still sitting in the freezer to this day. We'll probably cook it for New Year's or Christmas. Mhmm. Anyways, have a happy holidays. I'm about a month behind on my podcast, and I'm still catching up. Before you read the next one. I do like a time travel boost. I ended up with a turkey yesterday. What is going on with the extra turkey this year? Oh. So yeah. Oh. So I gotta get it. Cooked. I think I'm gonna make my first turkey. Nice. I I've never made a turkey myself. You you always do. You should look up the Alton Brown. I mean, it go it works. I don't have a bucket.
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I should have I should have asked you for a bucket. Yeah. I don't think there's one here. No. I know. I should have asked you, like, Yeah. What about what about a cooler? Do you have like a I do, but I don't like the idea of using that cooler for anything else afterwards.
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Like
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I know. We sacrificed a cooler just for turkeys, and now it's like, what do do with this cooler all year? Yeah. I guess You have a cooler stuff. I think I have two coolers. Maybe I have one that's vertical, you know, like, for If keep it if you keep it well chilled, the bacteria shouldn't really grow up. That's true. And then you could really soap it out. That's true. Yeah. I don't know. I'll figure it out, or or I will just raw dog it. Funny It's how many people yeah. You don't necessarily have Or raw turkey. You don't have to necessarily brine it. It's funny how many people are getting extra turkeys this year. Yeah. I've heard that a lot. Yeah. What's going on with that?
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He says, yeah. I have to be careful during the holiday season as well. My little sister is a heart patient, and we have to be vigilant. Unlike last year, she was down for the count for nearly a month, and I think she's also caught pneumonia in the process.
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So, yeah, I understand your vigilance when it comes to making sure you're not getting sick as much as possible Mhmm. Especially with the norovirus. Yes. Anyway, I hope you guys had a good Thanksgiving.
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This is back in time. Thanks. So I'm still catching up. Well, thank you for the time travel boost. Mhmm. I I got back to the, you know, beware of nora or whatever it was. I did get I got glanced by nora, but I think my preparation helped a lot. I was kind of
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down for a day, not feeling great, sort of sleepy.
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And they were like, oh, my stomach's rumbling a lot. But
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compared to what Adia had Yeah. I basically was not sick at all. Right. So that was Well, and it's particularly scary for her because
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of of diabetes. Yeah. It gets to a point where she needs to be able to ingest things to bring her blood sugar up. But she can't. She'll throw it up. And yeah. I just can't even imagine.
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Alright. Now Magnolia Mayhem's over the road. So
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he had called in, and he got cut off. He says, have to admit, I just called and implied I was going to get I was gonna be I was gonna kill off this character because I was tired of it. I'm mumbled, what the hell? And then I never called back. Wouldn't it funny if I deleted the element off my phone and never listened to JB again? It would have been a pretty epic way to kill off a character. Man. Yeah. We would have we would have already been like, where's mayhem today? We'd have to deploy a search party. Right. That cost a ton of sets. We shouldn't be spending our money that way. Yeah. Mayhem. No. We can't do that. Cannot.
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Alright.
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Just pump the brakes. Okay? Just pump the brakes right there. JNV's here with 6,666
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sets. Oh.
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This is a tasty burger. I know what that means.
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Here's from Brisbane in Old Australia. I love the podcast, especially Angela's always beautiful and light on the show. Please keep going. I've been following you since last.
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I was being hosted by Brian Lunduke, and, well, of course, it could only have been getting better since then.
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Yeah. We were pretty rough, especially me. When I went back to listen to when we transitioned to multitrack audio, I'm like, oh, shut up. Oh, god. I hate listening to old me. Mhmm. It is it is rough. Thank you. And thank you for listening for so damn long. Mhmm. That's that is really awesome. Yeah. That is so long ago.
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Southern Friday at Sassafras is here with a row of ducks. Thank you kindly.
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2222
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sats. Callback to the Apple episode. I don't remember if Angela got the watch or not, but I finally upgraded to my from my iPhone 11 to my iPhone 17.
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And wow, is it nice to have my battery life back again. Oh, yeah. Plus the display is noticeably better. Happy New Year's Eve. Yes. I did get a new watch. And I was able to turn off that smart battery charging. Good. So yeah. Does what you want now. Yes.
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Oh gosh. I was just like delaying getting in the shower to try to play games with getting it to let me force the
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full charge. Playing battery games. Yeah.
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Last night, my wife, Adia, upgraded from her iPhone 11 to an iPhone 17.
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Oh. Yeah? We spent the evening, you know, moving her phone over. Wow.
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She made it a long time on that 11 because that 11 was a hand me down for me. So What do I have? Oops.
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You maybe not from fifteen. I had what Abby had.
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Sixteen e? That she dropped on at Earth Cannot remember now. The right. Probably the fifteen. It's a it's a I don't know. It's not quite brand new, but it's still pretty new. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
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Why don't I know?
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You can go I think if you go into settings and then about if you go to settings, general about might tell you. But
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we had some problems with hers.
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It it got hung. First, it wanted to upgrade the OS. So the two OSes were like compatible, I guess, or whatever. Mhmm. And the upgrade hung.
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And we could not get past the screen. So we had to go through the secret, like, secondary route. We rebooted the phone and essentially set it up as, a brand new phone and told it not to transfer anything and had to go all these shenanigans and still had to log in to her account and all this crap. Just so that way, we could then get to the settings, upgrade the OS, and then reset the settings again and then transfer my phone. Gosh. So it took, like, double the time it should have. Oh, okay. So 13 Pro. Oh, 13. Okay. Yeah. And
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watch 11. Yeah.
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I
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I had not imported pictures
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for, like, I don't know, nine or ten months. And I went to do it,
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and and Chris will laugh because
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I don't I don't use the cloud. Right. And I don't like sending it over Wi Fi. So I plug it in. I plug my phone into my computer. Mhmm.
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Well, if I plug it in using the USB C
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Mhmm.
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Lightning Yeah.
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I iPhoto cannot or photos. Really? It cannot detect it. No way. I'm sitting there. I'm like, why is this not detecting? And and I was starting handed. It ships with. I know. And I was like, how the and then and then something occurred to me that I've had this problem before, and I had to switch to an a normal USB two point o or whatever.
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Like a USB a flat plug? Is it a? Yeah. That's what the flat plugs are. Okay. Yeah. Wow. The one the one where you have to flip it. Yeah. They get they get it wrong almost every time. Yeah. Yeah.
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So that that was a thing. And I was able to import pictures, but not before it crapped out and imported but didn't delete. So now it thinks
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so now I don't know.
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Oh, man. It's stupid. It was, like, 7,000 pictures. They're gonna force you to do cloud syncing. I know. I don't want it. I don't want it. I know you don't. I know you don't. And it does make sense too. Like, if you're doing it over the wire, should be fast. Yeah. It should be private. Secure. Mhmm. All the things. It should be. I couldn't even oh, and so the what I did,
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I could access my phone through Finder.
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So I did a backup because I hadn't done a backup forever. Good. But it took forever because there are 7,000 photos on Yeah. So anyway.
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Yeah. Those backups are really the best way to back up the phone too, still doing it over the wired connection.
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Yeah. Yeah. We did the and I hate that they do it this way. Is there like, would you like to save time and transfer from your previous phone? And you're like, that makes a lot of sense. So you do that. Well, yes, it transfers a lot of settings and it transfers your your background and it transfers your layout of your apps, and that's really nice.
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Doesn't transfer the apps themselves and the app and a lot of the app data. So you still have to download all your apps and sign into a bunch of them. How?
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I've never had to do that. It transfers like a
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link to the app, but then it actually downloads the latest version of the app from the App Store when you transfer iPhones.
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It doesn't transfer the actual app itself. Now if you do it with the cord, the wire Oh, okay. Okay. I was gonna say, I'm like, I've never had this problem. You're describing something that doesn't happen to me. Not with yeah. With with the wired with the wired transfer, it actually transfers everything.
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Yeah. But not with the wire they call it a phone phone transfer to phone transfer, but it's like the bones, and then it has so her phone's downloading crap all night long. Because on these new phones, too, there's Apple Intelligence it has to download. There's just all your photos. Store from backup?
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Well well, she transfer we thought if you transfer from phone to phone, it takes thirty minutes. It's it's copying stuff. We thought that would be enough. Yeah. The transfer took thirty minutes. Yeah. Everything else was an overnight job. Pretty much. So yeah. There you go. And happy New Year's Eve to you Southern Fri it's ask for Fras, and I'm glad you got that new phone. It is
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the difference is crazy between the eleven and seventeen because, like, even her settings menu is like, it's
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like glitchy, and I'm like, oh god. I don't know how you've been living Yeah.
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I don't know how she does it.
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And, of course, now that she sees the two, it's, like, obvious, but before she didn't care. Mhmm. Alright. Our next boost and our last boost to rent us out comes from Turd Ferguson. Turd Ferguson.
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18,888
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stats. That's not bad at all. Coming in hot with the boost. Happy New Years to you both. According to my podcast player,
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You've released twenty six hours of the launch this year. I love stats. So you've earned another boost. Thank you. Thank you, turd. Wow. Twenty six hours Of the launch. If you listen Not including one through nine? I don't know. That's a good question.
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Yeah. Because you can't count one Do you have access to count one through nine turds.
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Yeah.
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Alright. Thank you everybody who supported this episode with the boost. We had six of you stream sats as you listened, and you collectively stacked 11,338
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sats. When you combine that with those of you who sent a message, the show stacked a grand total of 82,210
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sets.
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So if you'd like to support the show, can do with a boost. Fountain FM is making it easier and easier every single release. There's also an entire open ecosystem with Albie Hub and lots of podcast apps at newpodcastapps.com.
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You also get transcripts,
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chapters, live streams. You get releases within ninety seconds of us publishing an episode and a bunch of other really great standards that are all open source part of the podcast in 2.o spec at newpodcastapps.com.
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You can also become a member over at jupiterparty.com,
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and you can support us directly that way. And we really do appreciate it. The show has no sponsor, so it is what keeps us going.
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Alright. You asked, and I'm delivering. You said you wanted a place in Washington? Yeah. So I have dug it up for you, Ange. It's, you know, it's in Washington, so it's a little more expensive. $780,000.
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I just clicked on it. Does have three beds, four baths. It's about 1,500 square feet. It was built in 1945.
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It sits on 0.8
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acres. Yes, even for almost $800,000,
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you don't even get a full acre.
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And it is definitely
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one of a kind. So all aboard for the train residents with beach access.
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It is two train cabooses
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which are connected together. They flow into a 1945
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Pullman car blending nostalgic charm with contemporary living. The kitchen, the dining, and living spaces are separated across the cars complete with three bedrooms, two baths, a guest bath, and potential for a private suite. The Pullman dazzles with its curved ceilings, original racks, glowing lights, and a wet bar once serving passengers.
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You can enjoy gas cooking, an air fry range, updated heating and cooling, a detached garage and outbuilding, a gated and fenced grounds,
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and, of course, an easement to the Pacific Ocean. But the most important part, it's a freaking train.
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This is incredible. It's cute. I do want it. I know. It's actually really adorable.
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They've taken, like, the caboose and a passenger car and combine them.
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Wow. So fun. And the interior is actually very classy and modern. And I don't I was I was odd. I was in awe. So I don't know if I heard the whole description that you just did. Well But there's skylights.
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Yes. It a lot of natural light. So bright. And I love the gated in, the fence. Mhmm. It's a nice fence. I love the green. I love everything about this. And you have walkable access to the Pacific Ocean. It
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is an ocean city, so it's on the coast. So it's a bit of a drive from here because you have to go down like past Olympia to get there and whatnot. But And it's not two separate living spaces. No. They've they've conjoined them with like a tunnel. Like a Yeah. Yeah. But like, I mean, like, so there's not a there's not two kitchens. No. That
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would be cool too though. They do have an outhouse. Maybe you can convert that. Two
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garage spaces.
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And it's classic. It's built in 1945.
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Crazy. Right? Isn't that something? I love it. Alright. So and that's here in Washington. Now Yep.
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If you're looking for something a little more budge friendly,
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not
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in Washington,
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but this one just has potential written all over. It's it's a project house in which you can expand on. And to help you visualize it, all of the images that actually make it look like a house are AI generated.
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It's
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in need of finishing.
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But it has a what you could call perhaps a modern design for a $199,900,
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almost $200,000.
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No. It's tucked away on a serene two acre wooded lot, three beds, four baths, This
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first picture is not what it is. Not the house. Nope. Just what it could be. AI generated. Are you putting it? Yeah. I'm gonna let This is not okay. This is so they are selling this property with totally fake images
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because what it really is
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is a pile of shipping containers. Was wondering what you're gonna
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pile of shipping containers. It is. Right? It's just It is. They stack some ship ship There's some structure. I think it's a shed. I think they put it around a shed. That's insane.
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Yeah. They're like, this is what we wanted to make it. And it's a like, the AI version is this beautiful home with nice dark wood touches and a wood frame and a nice nice roof and a chimney.
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And what it actually is is a pile of rusted storage containers.
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That's crazy.
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That is so crazy. I've never seen a rug pull like this before. It is. And it nowhere in the listing does it disclaim that these are AI generated. I went and looked up That's horrible. I went and looked up this listing to try to figure it out. And yeah. Because I couldn't tell what I was putting together here. So, I mean, you know, it depends on your perspective. You know, is it a pile of shipping containers, or is it three beds, four baths, 3,500 square feet? Because if you believe, it can be. They say, what I love too, the heavy lifting has already begun. Electricity in a private rail are in place. That's it. That literally, they lifted the Yeah. The shipping containers. They lifted a couple onto a stack, and they they dug a well, and they did dig a septic that is big. Oh my gosh. That's all the work that's been done. And now they say you take the reins and finish the job to your taste. A rare opportunity for those that are ready to create something truly special. Your contemporary container home, your dream starts so here.
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Stupid. It is not worth $200,000.
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That's the crazy I mean, the land, maybe?
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Maybe? Yes.
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Two acres? Nah. I mean, yeah.
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What's funny is that they can even list it as a three bedroom, four bath, 3,500 square feet. Or that they yeah.
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There's no there's nothing. I'm guessing maybe they got plans approved for a place that big. Oh. You could maybe permit. Yeah. Yeah. You could build up to that. Yeah. Depending on how you stack the containers and where you cut the holes. No.
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Wow. Really something. Yeah. Somebody's dream. I noticed that the link that I put in Slack isn't on here. The Airbnb.
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Oh, I forgot all about that. Do wanna we'll we'll do it next week Okay. Because the final is it yeah. No. I won't say anything more. Okay. Yeah. But Tease for next week. Yes. Alright. Very good. Tease for next week. Yeah.
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I got when I saw that that container home, oh my god. Is this a second home on this property? Yeah. Also, there's the garbage in the backyard. Yeah. You know, it's that that's it. That's the place. That's the place. What a world. What a world where well, you know, it's just to help you visualize it. We're not trying to rug pull you. We're just trying to help you visualize it. I don't know what your problem is. Alright.
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That's it for us this week. You can find a link to that, the AI videos of me selling high performance cigarettes and dog food, and more in the show notes, including Angie's party favors. Those arrive over at weeklylaunch.rocks,
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and this was episode 48.
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Join us live next Tuesday for a special live edition of the show or catch us in your podcast app Wednesday mornings
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from a beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast. Thanks for listening.
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Well, Andrews,
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it's almost that time of year. Are you cooking up your New Year's plans? Mhmm. You are? Definitely. Also,
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it sounded like you were working on your auctioneer abilities
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there. Yeah. Like or the the fine print at the end of a global commercial. You know? Like Or my micro machines commercial voice if they ever bring micro machines back. That's funny. Okay. Well, so,
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you know, we finished Christmas and the holidays
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are
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I don't know. I don't even know how to describe it. But I have I have something to share with you. Okay.
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And you have to trust me. Alright. You have to lean forward Okay. And close your eyes. Alright. No. Lean forward toward me off mic. Yeah. Okay. Close your eyes. Alright. Hold on. Alright.
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Okay. I'm off mic. Now smell.
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Woah.
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What am I what is that?
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It's the smell of Christmas. Oh.
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Yeah. It is. Wait. Can I see that? Yeah. I gotta bring that in here. Right?
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Okay.
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So I'm allergic It's like some cooking in there, some tree in there. Is it a tree? And soap and tree. Yeah. Pine ish. Like yeah. Okay. So
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I was shopping the Yeah. It's Christmas now. Yeah. Christmas sale. I'm just gonna leave the lid off. Oh,
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for the livestream. Am I on the camera? Yeah. Here we go. There you go. Livestream. Anyway, I'm allergic to candles, so I can't light it. But I smelled this, and I was like, oh my gosh. Only if they burn, so you're okay if they don't burn? Well, so far. Like, certain scents do give me a migraine, but this one does not. It's nice. But if I burn it yeah. Something about burning and then the soy. Right? Soy has nickel.
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And so, yeah, it's just not good to breathe. But Right. Anyway, it is a balsam fir candle,
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village candle. That's pretty cool. I like the color too. Yeah. And all so I carry it with me everywhere ever since I bought it. Really? And the kids come up and they sniff it too,
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because they are all sensory seeking.
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It's so funny. It is so funny. There's a bunch of different things. Small candle. No. It's a it's a jug candle. It's not a light candle either. Yeah. It's I think it's a 12 ounce or something, but, or maybe a little bit more. But they have it in bigger sizes and, like, incense and air fresheners and all kinds of things. Right? Balsam fir. Alright. And it's just so good. Anyway New smell unlocked. Yeah. New smell.
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Anyway. Alright. So but I wanted to talk about New Year's plans. Mhmm.
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So Some some years, I like, I don't know. I don't have any plans. Like, years, I don't plan anything. Some years, we do Right. It's weird. So why is this year, I guess, is a it's a year you make plans.
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Oh, no. I've been making plan I've had plans for the last five years. So first of all, I don't like to stay up. I don't like Right. I don't prefer to stay up for the the changeover, and it's not getting any better with age. So
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but the kids, you know and it's it's less like the kids stay up to midnight. It's it's no big deal now. Right? So but they
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also love New Year's because I started including them in my plans
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three years ago.
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So five years ago, though, 2020.
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Well, I guess it was the end of well, it was five years ago.
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I was watching
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this
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woman on the Internet who had found
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her
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twenty twenty New Year's resolutions.
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she read them out loud in her bathroom while drinking wine. Oh, boy. And and so it was like,
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I can't remember what all of them were, but one of them was like,
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earn more money. Sure. But she got, you know, let go She got laid off. Of COVID. Right. Lose weight. And then she just went
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She she gained some chins. Highlighted her chins. Yeah.
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Be more social.
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Right. That's a hard time to lock down. Travel more.
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Right? That's great. Spend more time with her grandma.
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Uh-oh. Her grandma died.
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she just she had this infectious laugh as she's, you know, going through all the resolutions that she had that she couldn't do because
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life, you know, for everyone just, you know, trampled The universe laughs at our plans. Yeah. So starting that year at the 2020,
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she began hosting a New Year's
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countdown.
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And the cool thing about it so for the first two years, I did it by myself. Right? I just watched it by myself. So it's online and in person
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Or no? Just online? Yeah. It's not in person. No. It's in her wherever she's living. Okay. Because she's she has made it. That was her fifteen minutes to fame, and she has made it. She
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is, you know, a celebrity now.
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r o b y n s c h a l l. And she's East Coast,
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which is perfect
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because it starts at 8PM our time. That's great for you. And the and
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the midnight is 09:00.
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Right? So
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it's perfect. So the last couple years,
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specifically the girls, like Dylan bowed out last year, but
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we watched the the comedy special.
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She does a call in game,
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and we've won. No way. Yeah. That's great. That's so great. Yeah. So
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we all me, Abby, and Bella, we all had our phones out, we were calling. And we'd get through, and then they'd, you know, send their phone to me. And so I made it through the first two rounds. And then on the third round, I I think it was the third round,
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Abby googled
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The answer. The answer. Nice. Good girl. And I and so I was able to get it. Anyway, and what I got was just a a planner, like or like a a notebook
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that where she had gotten a giant sticker to put on the top of it with her on it. You know? So cool, though. Like,
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it it was a really fun time. So that's one of the things that we do for New Year's that is our tradition.
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In addition,
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couple years or for the last couple years, I've gotten those confetti cannons.
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Link in the in the show notes. These things are no joke. No. They're big. Yeah. And the confetti's everywhere. And I'll tell you, like, some people really hate glitter. Some people, like, hate sand. Right? Kinetic sand. Like, sensory stuff for kids, stuff that gets everywhere that's hard to clean up. I love finding pieces of confetti in the great room throughout the year. It's like a reminder of a good time. Finding confetti,
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and I love it. It makes me smile every time. Well, that's great. That's really good. Two years ago when we started the confetti cannons, Dylan could not get his two go on. Oh. And he was so frustrated, but I got video of it, and it was super fun. So It comes it comes in a six pack, though. So is there not enough? I mean, you know Oh, well, the ones that I've done I haven't ordered it from Amazon until this year.
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So it's got a 16 foot range. I get them, yeah, I get them from Walmart usually, but I didn't this year. And then I get big balloons with the year and have that up at the back sliding glass door, which is above the kitchen table. And then we look at that for, like, at least, you know, two or three months after the new year. Helps remember to write 2026 on things. Yes.
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And the thing I like about this balloon package is that it has a giant
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champagne glass Yeah. And champagne bottle. That's great. Like and I'm actually thinking about getting a helium tank from Walmart
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to so that they float. Right? Oh, that'd be fun. Yeah. Do they oh, right. Because they don't come prefilled, obviously, you're getting them from Amazon. Yeah. No. So anyway Helium would be a lot of fun. Also, I keep thinking of resolutions.
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Oh, yeah? But I think maybe when we come back next week, we should do that. Like,
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what resolutions did you set and are you which ones have you stopped doing already?
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What if I told you Oh. I don't do resolutions, I do themes.
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Themes? Yearly themes. Mhmm. You know, I've heard people say not resolutions, but goals. Yeah. Yeah.
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Okay. So what describe a theme. A theme a year of of being more frugal. A theme of being more frugal for a year. So not like I'm gonna save x dollars, but Right. A theme of frugality or something. Oh, okay. So you run your decisions through this filter. Yeah. This theme filter. Yeah. Does that match up with my theme? Right. Yeah. So it's it makes kind of goals, but it's a it gives me it gives me room to not
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not have, like, a specific KPI I have to hit and then be really hard on myself when I don't meet my KPI. You know? Like Oh my gosh. Yes. You know what I'm saying? I mean, I'm gonna have a spreadsheet. Yeah.
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Well, I'm curious out there in listener land if you
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are like me and you've kind of I don't not celebrate. Like, I'll turn on the old boob tube and and watch some fireworks or something like that. Oh, we also do
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we each get our own bottle of sparkling cider. That's adorable. Mhmm.
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And, you know yeah. And maybe I'll maybe I'll have maybe a nice dinner, you know. But years ago, I would I would like I would go out Binge drinking? Well, no.
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Not for a while.
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No. Like, Hidea and I years ago would go out and camp,
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and then we'd stay up and it's like light a fire at midnight. Nice. And we'd sit around a fire and kinda talk about our themes or goals for the next year. Mhmm. But even that's kind of faded
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because, again, I'm old and tired. Just like, yeah, 09:30, 10:00. I'm ready to go to bed. I don't know if I'll be able to stay up. We'll see. I'm curious out there in in listener land if you're like me or if you're putting together a big party and gonna celebrate and tell us how it goes to Boost In, great way to start. 2026,
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don't you think?
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Okay. So I'm surprised
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I'm going to actually go down this line of thinking because I consider myself a bit of an AI rationalist.
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I recognize there's useful functions and I also am pretty aware of the limitations of LLM. And so I don't really subscribe to like all of the hype, but I also don't subscribe to all of the doomerism or the people that just write it off.
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So I it's I find it kind of atypical of me to be going down this route, but having explored this over the last week,
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this is the conclusion I've kind of come to. And I don't mean to alarm anybody, and I'm not trying to scare anybody, but I just think this might be a natural direction things go.
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And it started after I read an article
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over on Business Insider.
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And he started
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Anchor and a few other things back in the day, kind of in the early days of the creator era, in the influencer era, if you will. And he was talking in this interview about how he believes AI generated video is marking the end of the creator as we know it. And I thought that's
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that's so that's hyperbolic.
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Mhmm. That's, you know. Fearmongering? Yeah. Video killed the radio star kind of thing. So
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I was compelled to prove him wrong. And in trying to do so,
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I think I've ended up agreeing with him. Oh, no. Yeah. And I'm Oh, that sucks. I'm gonna make my case today.
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And I've brought some receipts.
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So this conversation has been triggered by many things, but OpenAI's
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Sora two
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can generate
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very believable
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AI videos, and and there's some really interesting ones going around. Like, some of my favorite this holiday season have been Home Alone behind the scenes,
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where it looks like you're watching behind the scenes of Home Alone one even though this is completely AI generated. But it's fun. Weird. Yeah. It's weird. I don't even get the point. Oh, well, I don't know what AI generated I've seen. Right? Because that's part of problem. Exactly. I haven't
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gosh. I hate having to question everything. I know. Just kidding. That's who I am. Scott,
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you're already doing that.
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I'm in my comfort zone. So this guy, he basically he makes a case, and I'm gonna I'm gonna we're gonna just explore it as,
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these are really what are gonna be impacted by this.
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good results. I I was really surprised.
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you can now create like a brand could be a tech company. It could be Nike, whatever. You can now create what is considered an AI character.
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a cloud guru did this, Tailscale does this, a lot of companies do this where they pay someone to run a YouTube channel and be their brand. Yeah. Right? Mhmm. And what inevitably happens with these because I've been in this position, so this is how I know. What inevitably happens is if you get success, say, you know, this happened to me. We're part of a company
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What happens is then you, me in this case, become the face of the brand, and the company is very uncomfortable with that. They don't want one particular influencer
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being the face of their brand because if they say something stupid on x, especially, you know, in Yeah. Certain times Right. It can harm and damage the brand.
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So they're gonna have the option now to AI generate the perfect spokesperson for them. Full control. That can generate content on the fly. Yeah. And imagine a world where computers are a little bit faster and we're burning even more energy, and the system knows what you like.
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Right? It knows for example, when I experiment with these, it knows I like Linux. Mhmm. It knows I've been looking into EVs. So guess what it starts doing? When you go on Sora, the app, s o r a, there is a TikTok like video feed. You can just sit there and doomscroll. Mhmm. 100% every single video is AI generated.
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And you wouldn't know necessarily from all of them. And guess what it starts showing me? Linux videos, EV videos. And you could take that to a logical conclusion
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when systems are powerful enough where three videos down the line, it could be generating that video for me. And by the time I get to it, it's completely Oh my gosh. No human was involved. Creation. Knowing all of my interests. Wow. YouTube would be great at this. I mean, are we gonna get more intelligent then? No. Listen, I don't think this is a good thing. I don't think No. I I know you're not. But, like,
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it's going to feed what you're interested in Yeah. So then you can become that mastermind. Assuming it was giving you good information. Right. Yeah. Of course. Yeah. No. Actually, I real quick.
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it was it's not limited to women, but it was for me. Okay.
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Wearing a sparkly suit with a candy cane over my shoulder. Right? So I copied the prompt, changed the eye color and the hair style and color. Yeah.
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at the right angle, you know, like kinda match it. Yeah. Didn't show my chins and whatever.
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And what happened is AI knows that I have gained weight. So it added him back for me? And so Here. Let me fix this. This is the image I got.
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Oh my god. Your face. That's a little unfair. So It's a it's a little unfair. Is that is It won't show up. No. It's a little unfair. Oh, it does show up.
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Yes. I am not that big. Like, I I definitely know I'm not that big, but I thought it was interesting.
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Well but then it also got, like, other things accurate. But so crazy. Yes.
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Things that can get right and things that can get wrong is very And then I told it, you know, take off 50 pounds. Yeah. And it couldn't. Well,
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I think, like, that kind of thing is gonna get better too. Like, they'll get more accurate. Right? They'll get more
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they'll get better at, like, scanning your whole body. Because right now with their they can get your face. Right? But we don't really have the technology to scan your whole body. But you could see an iPhone with an ultra wide lens that you hold right here can make take a picture of your whole body.
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So I wanna go to this this this fellow who found Anchor, and this is kind of his thoughts on how this is gonna impact the quote unquote creator economy,
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which is actually a big part of revenue on the Internet these days. The end of social media, and it was all about this new form of media. Are you talking about a book you wrote? Had called recommendation media. And it was really just kind of the TikTok algorithm and how the TikTok algorithm was sort of the next phase of media. The follower graph was going away, and now the platforms were going to get to decide
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what somebody saw.
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Far more efficient way of content distribution.
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you know, I hate to say it, it's almost like the end of the creator.
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a huge catalog of content,
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your attention is captured for as long as possible. And that's why the TikTok algorithm is so is so powerful.
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specifically to target you and to capture your attention as long as possible. And,
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unfortunately, like, the individual creator just becomes far, far, far less valuable
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in that dynamic. And so to me, that is the that is the biggest impact of Sora. It marks the end of the creator, unfortunately. And as a as a brand,
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as a business, this thing is way safer than some rando, you know, becoming the face of your business just because they have popular videos.
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Mhmm. So they're, of course, they're gonna do this. And the other thing they're gonna be able to do is not only will they be able to have
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Jake Paul has licensed his his likeness or I don't know one of the Pauls. I don't know which one. Has licensed it to OpenAI. So if you wanna go in Sora, you can make a Jake Paul video.
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Oh. You can put Jake Paul in your video. Wow. Yeah. Interesting. I don't know why you would, but you can. Yeah.
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I did the right thing, Ange. Yes. And I created a character for myself. Okay. So I just took a quick selfie thing. You go you look from side to side, and you read three numbers.
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Oh. And that's it. It? Yeah. So it could be better if they sampled better words. Numbers?
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No. It gives you the number parts. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. But so this is an AI generated video of me. I'll play for you, and I'll play for the audience so they can hear it. And I'll link to these in the show notes, listeners, if you'd like to watch them by chance. So it is somehow brought to you by almostfresheggs.com.
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They send you eggs that were almost fresh. Would have been great a week ago, but they're still hanging in there. Use code. I don't know. Code whatever. Nothing happens, but they know I told you. Anyway, thank So there's an ant read for me. It looks like me. Right? It does. It does. It doesn't For the most part. Yes. The voice doesn't No. Match. No. And here's here's another read where the voice is kind of off, but I think it's the likeness is there, you know, and again,
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the voice is not quite Part of the show is brought to you by high performance cigarettes. They're built for people who actually like smoking. Hand packed from whole leaf, no sprayed flavoring, and they burn slow and even so you can focus on the conversation instead of chasing the cherry.
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it made you really angry. It did, didn't it? Like, your eyebrows just pissed. I look really pissed in that one.
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Okay. This one's this one's a little better because I can add my own characters, and so I added my dog Levi to a dog food commercial read. Oh, that's cute. This episode is brought to you by Leftover's Dog Food. You know those nights when the fridge has odds and ends you don't know what to do with? They do. They slow cook the good stuff and turn it into hearty healthy kibble. Packed with real protein, no weird chemicals, and it smells like Sunday.
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like, logos on there, little music in the background, shots of Levi eating the dog food. Yeah. He looks a lot older than that. Well, he's getting up there, but, it's pretty good though. There's
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a shot of Levi talking to the microphone wearing headphones,
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and he's got a little bib on, and the bib has the leftovers dog food brand on it. Mhmm. That's a nice attention to detail. Yeah. And you could be forgiven, especially if you don't really know about these things, for thinking this is real. Now, like you pointed out,
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the the voice isn't great. But if given enough sample data, the voice can be pretty good. Here's an example of that. Well, bless your hearts. Let's just get right back into it. You know, we were talking about Fedora 43,
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and I gotta tell you, the kernel updates this time around, they are smooth. They are slick. I've been running the tests on my home rig, nothing fancy, just reliable hardware folks, reliable.
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wins the day. I see too many of y'all out there chasing the shiny new toy, the ephemeral shell that promises the moon, but you need a foundation. You need that rock solid base that Linux gives you. And when you look at the way the desktop environments are handling Weyland now, well, we're finally getting to a place where we can tell those closed source folks,
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we don't need you anymore. We
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got freedom of performance. Thank you very much.
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That's what this community is built on, folks. Freedom and darn good engineering. Don't let nobody tell you different. Now speaking of getting the right information, I got something important to tell you. If you are serious, and I mean serious,
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about staying ahead of the curve in open source, you gotta know what's coming down the pipe. That's why I'm so excited to tell you about the brand new freshly launched Linux action news. That's right. Every week, they are synthesizing all the critical developments that AI generated Linux action news. So that voice, not perfect,
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but closer. It's not. It's so it almost sounds like you have a cold. Yeah. Yep. There was some digitization.
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It's it's better if you don't listen with headphones. You don't breathe into the microphone like that? Like, I hate that. It drives me crazy that it does that. And that's the real heart of the matter right there. You've got these developers, bless their hearts, are working day and night on plasma Yeah.
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Hadiya sent to the kids. So there was that. Four k no cap. I talked to prom that paints the map from a snow cap bridge to a cyberpunk lane. In seconds, it's rendered like magic in the brain. It's breaking in the booth lights low, but the screens glow. Taps are on my phone. Let the visions flow. Cinemath I think that one has the most likeness. Oh my gosh.
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That's funny. Like, visually? Yeah. Don't you think it looks the most Potentially. Yeah. I mean, but obviously the four k. Because sometimes, yeah, the voice is no good. But sometimes my hair I really liked the holding the phone out with you in the background. Yeah. Like, just smiling like, yeah. So what's funny about this is,
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you know, like, it got my side profile really well even though I never quite captured that. That's funny. I just thought that was interesting. I mean, that it's so some of it, you could see it in another even just a year. Mhmm. This is gonna be in a lot better shape.
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We could have a virtual version of me that's just posting to social media. Right. You know, like, ingest feeds from Linux, and it does a quick story. I also created a video of me hitting a deer from inside the cab of my car,
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then an angry version of me doing a value for value pitch, which I think is kinda funny. I'll play that one. But again, it it gets me angry because
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I I don't know how you start. I should start it over because it starts immediately and it loops, which always drives me crazy. I don't like all the looping.
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Alright. Here we go. This is the value for value AI pitch. Alright. Quick reminder. This show runs on the value for value model. No ads, no pre rolls, nothing like that. If you're getting something out of it, send a boost or hop in as a member. That's literally how it keeps happening. The traditional ad money kinda gone. Alright. Quick. So he's a little he's a little pissed off that the ad money's gone. Yeah. Yeah. He's a little upset about it, which I can understand.
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and in video in video in general. And that is I think there is a little bit of video fatigue out there. Oh, The Guardian had a piece by Fiona Sturge.
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saying, you know, these videos are kind of painful to hear. Mhmm. They rushed into creating video, and it makes for what she says is a dreadful listen.
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what happens is some podcasts that weren't video became video.
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And we've kind of been experimenting with it in this show today is there's more visual stuff we've talked about today as sort of a point. Like, gets to a point where, like, god, can't see this guys. Guys, I can't see this, and it gets annoying after a while.
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and they're creating really poor TV shows and really poor radio shows at the same time. So the listening experience is downgraded because the audio gets treated to secondary. People are referring to things on screen or jokes or even sometimes it's just like looks. Like, I this happens a lot. It's like an inside joke of something that happened in the studio, but if it if you didn't see it on screen, you have no idea what happened. And then the ads now are also typically more video focused. So when they switch to an ad, it's like, I can't see what you're talking about.
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And then people like me who care a lot about audio quality and would like things to be tight and produced well, well, what you're getting is just an output of the livestream.
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I think it's just so much cooler and more interesting to try to be the best audio show rather than the shittiest television show.
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Like, you don't have a you know, unless you're a millionaire, you don't have the budget to do a great video production.
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they didn't ask themselves if they should. They just ask themselves if they could.
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And we did the hell out of that for years, but the reality was 90% of the audience was still listening to the podcast version and not watching the video.
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And we did that to create the best listening experience possible so that way when people are remote and there's latency or over over talking and things like that, we could clean that up. And then we can individually adjust and and filter people's tracks so that way it sounds best to their voice, and Drew does a fantastic job with that. And so I think
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the video podcast world is due for a bit of a rethink and ask maybe of themselves if they should, and I think the stronger contenders will survive and and reprioritize
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for their listener base.
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but there aren't algorithms
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and platforms that have business incentives to shove them in front of you. Right? It is in Meta and TikTok and Instagram and X's best interest if they could just generate the content for you. You know what the worst thing about running a platform is? Users. That's the worst thing about running a platform. It's the worst thing about running a network. It's the worst thing about running a server. It's the worst thing about running a website. It's end users. If you could run a website with fewer people that are uploading content and you could just create it directly, you don't have to pay out anybody, you don't have to worry about the bandwidth, the complexity, you just generate the content yourself directly, you become essentially
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that are scoring deals for them. It's it's crazy what's happening right now. Wow. But I think in podcasts,
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while there is going to be a mass of these things,
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just because I suspect the audio audience that is looking for great content will will seek those out. That's my guess. I don't think it's gonna be like a doomsday for the video content creator world, but I think it will be an economic hit for those content creators who make money by striking brand deals with companies, and then they go whore out the products on their Insta or whatever with barely disclosing it. Instead now, the companies, they're just gonna generate a character to do it. And if their character isn't successful at first, they'll go license a successful character's likeness
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from, you know, some other somebody you know you know what's gonna happen? Is these content creators are gonna create bulk deals with groups like OpenAI and Meta just like
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what is fate what did DePaul did. And and then you'll just you'll just as a company, you'll just sign a service contract with OpenAI,
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and and then you'll just get access to all these characters that OpenAI is licensed. And you'll just pay a a monthly fee as a marketing department, and you'll have somebody on your team that goes in and prompts up your character to go create some slop to put on the Internet to promote your brand.
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And that money is gonna be taken away from original humans that are creating it now. For the better. I mean, is a horrible aspect of the Internet that I hate, and it should have been killed anyways. So
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I'm not pouring one out for these guys. But I do think it will be a big shift, and I'm not particularly looking forward to just watching a bunch of AI content.
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And I think people listening are thinking to themselves,
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I'm not gonna watch that. I'm not gonna you will. If it's compelling and interesting, you'll watch it. Yeah. I'm grateful when there's a glitch, and I could be like, oh Yeah. It's not real. You know? Right?
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I gotcha. Mhmm. I gotcha. Yeah. I agree with you on that. And so far, we're there. There should be a disclaimer.
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Generated content.
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does watermark it, but the professional one tools though?
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No. Because it kinda moves it around during the video. Oh, good. But there are pay tools that do not watermark. I'm sure. Yeah. And yeah. And those are even better than Sora at this point. So it's it's a coming. It's a coming. And
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I don't know.
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I just don't see how
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how some creators don't get impacted, and also,
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again, how this doesn't have an impact on the advertising economy as well. But we shall see, because, know, we don't know. We don't know. But what we do know is it's time for a track. 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.
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That's right. If you boost during this track, 95% of your stats go to our artists. And we are featuring the retro
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retrograde once again. I think it's their second time on the show. It's a second single, so it's their second time on the show and the second single they've released. How about that?
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This one is titled Closer to Somewhere, and it's off their debut album, That's the Spirit,
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which is under Cannabis Records. This song is about the struggles that we all sometimes feel in our life, so it felt like an appropriate
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New Year's
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type song.
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You know, the feeling of sometimes being down on your luck, trying your hardest, but just getting closer to nowhere. And so this
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is Closer to Somewhere.
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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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(774)
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462-5667.
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That's it. Alright. (774)
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462-5667.
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Call now.
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Well, we do have some voicemails to play this week. In fact, I just realized I didn't do a poll right before the show started. So if you called about an hour before the show, I may have missed your voicemail, but I'll play it next week. And we do have a nice batch, so I think we're okay. We got nine voice mails this week, and we start with a very zen, very calm Magnolia Mayhem. Hi there. This is
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Magnolia Meditations.
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Yeah. I would like to call in regarding
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migraines.
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Ah.
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I know several people have already suggested
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their solutions to this terrible problem, but
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my grandmother
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used to tell me
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when she had migraines,
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she would smoke cigarettes. Oh gosh. And it helped me as well. Just
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thought I would
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leave that information with you.
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Thank
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you. I mean, if you're in a lot of pain,
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maybe it's worth a drag. No. No? Mm-mm. Even for a migraine? Not gonna happen. Even for a migraine? No. Would a patchwork? Maybe that.
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I don't wanna smoke. What about nicotine vape? No.
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I
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mean, I'm just saying for a migraine?
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I I think I would. That
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almost sounded like AI.
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That's what he sounds like when he's calm, I think. I think so. I'm not sure though. You might be right. But I am a week away from Oh this dreaded migraine.
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Will it be on a Tuesday?
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Are you gonna are gonna have a migraine on a Tuesday? You got it down to the minute over there? Yeah. I mean, basically. I don't trust you. That's how we ended up with a third. I don't trust you. Oh, that's funny. That's funny. Alright.
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Kevin from Raleigh calls it. Hey, lunch folks. Chris,
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Angela. Hello. Kevin from Raleigh. Hello. I remember to say my name in the beginning. Mhmm. Regarding the plus signs in emails,
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I have the worst horror story for you. Uh-oh. My wife's first name is hyphenated.
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Many systems don't like that, including our insurance company. And I work for a large company. I hoped my HR team,
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etcetera,
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push on the insurance
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company. Right. But no.
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we fight with them. Her name will never be right because they decided they're not gonna put a hyphen in the first name. We know it's possible. We work in technology. It's what they allow in the form.
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I'll
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the plus sign.
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So
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it could be a lot worse.
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Yes.
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And related to that, I use Google Voice for everything. Nice. And
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occasionally, you try and fill in a form and it won't let you use Google Voice because it sees it as a voice number and it wants a quote real phone number. Yep. That's a lot less annoying than somebody's name being wrong.
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And the way my wife responded
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was,
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no. I'm not changing my damn name because they are too lazy to change their software.
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I'm with her.
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Have a great week. Thanks, Kevin. Yeah. It,
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it I mean, it's also pretty common if people have hyphens in their last name. Yeah.
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It's not too unusual for Christopher to get cut off. To just Christophe. And the ER gets dropped off. Yep. And then the other thing, I guess, I've been on the other side of this. I have to admit,
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when I worked at a bank, you know, seven, eight hundred plus users,
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almost every day, there was one or two last name changes because the ladies, especially the young tellers Mhmm. Were constantly getting married
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and divorced. Yeah.
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Right. Yeah. Was there was like a gal
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twice in one year Oh my gosh. I had to change your name.
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And so by the end and I started getting kinda cantankerous. I just started changing their display name, but they would keep logging in.
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Because it is an absurd amount of work back in the day to change the username. So just changing the display name is one thing, but then you still have would have to log in with yeah. Anyways.
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So I I I kinda see both sides, but the hyphen thing's kinda ridiculous at this point. Yeah. Also, a few more characters so we can get that e r in there. Alright. So Magnolia Mayhem's back, and I think he's got a proposition for Oh.
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As I was saying,
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so circa 1995
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by US Arcoff's Colores,
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the
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my mom had a thing that she had to go do. I forget exactly what it was. I was, six years old, but
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my mom leaves me with my dad. Now he had just gotten back from Blockbuster, and he had a a giant statue full of VHS tape. Nice. And he's like, well,
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you wanna watch a movie? And I was like, yeah. Sure.
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And so he gets through it and pulls out this tape and sticks in the VCR,
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and DieHard starts playing.
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Doesn't even get started then. Five minutes later, my mom comes back. She forgot something. And the first words out of her mouth are, my son is not watching that movie. Oh my gosh. So fast forward a good thirty some odd years,
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I still haven't seen Die Hard.
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So my proposition
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is this.
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What if I, at a point neophyte to this,
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watched it for the first time and waited? Now, obviously, this isn't gonna end the argument.
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And I feel like it might actually be
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a
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useful perspective. It's somebody who's never seen this movie before
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watches it, and then I call back or boost in or something and offer
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my
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immediate visual response. Okay. It's not gonna solve the problem. Yeah. But maybe it's an an unaltered,
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un
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whatever the word is, un un
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Unfiltered. Something opinion. Anyway, yep. That's the thing.
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Oh,
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we got distracted. Now before we go, he did call us back and tell us why he got distracted.
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But a a Ron called in. A a Ron.
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And he also has thoughts on If Die Hard is a Christmas movie. So let's play that voicemail real quick, and then we'll come back to Mayhem. K. Hey. This is a a Ron
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in San Antonio,
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Texas.
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I'm calling
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to give my 2¢ about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie or not. Now if it's up to me, I say it is a Christmas movie,
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And solely for the reason that
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whenever Christmas time comes around, it's on all of the different streaming and everything, all the different Christmas playlists.
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Yeah.
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It's being positioned. My
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wife raises a good point. Uh-oh. If
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Die Hard is a Christmas movie,
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then you have to also say that Harry Potter is a Christmas movie.
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I don't know how I feel about that, but,
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you know, I think she's probably right. You know, happy wife, happy life. Am I right? Anyway, love you guys.
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Keep up the good work. I don't know, Ewan. I'm guessing she was sitting next to you. Yeah. When you
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I don't know if I agree with the Harry Potter thing, but so to settle this, the wife and I watched Die Hard over the holiday break
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and
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noted a couple of things that I think squarely put it in the Christmas movie camp. Number one,
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they use holiday Christmas music throughout the beginning of the movie. Sort of like Christmas themed music. Mayhem is listening. Yeah. And we don't know if he's watched it yet. Like, are you sure you wanna Well, we can take his take. We can we can take I want his take still. Okay. And number two,
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they it takes place on Christmas Eve. There's Christmas trees everywhere.
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There's Christmas music. They're having a Christmas
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party.
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Party.
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Right? K. So it's a crisp and she agreed.
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She agreed. See, she was coming from the well, Bruce Willis says it's not. But it so is a Christmas movie. It's ridiculous. It's a total Christmas movie. So but I don't maybe Mayhem could weigh in. And and also, you know, I'd love to hear other people's thoughts of Harry Potter.
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Harry Potter? I don't know about that. Alright. Back to Mayhem. He could he'd get distracted, and he'd let us know why.
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Okay. So I I guess I should explain
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what happened.
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So I I was like, oh, I need to take lunch. So I pulled off to, like, this this side road off in the middle of the woods, and I'm like, oh, by the way, I'm on lunch. I might as well call the lunch.
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And I looked over. There's just a dude in overalls walking out the woods, just middle of nowhere, miles from the nearest house. Just walks out the woods,
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says hi, knocks on the window. Hey. How are you going? Hey. Hey. Nice day. Okay. Hey. Well, at least he was dressed. Yeah. That was my first thought. He probably recognized you. You know? You call into the launch, you become famous. Mhmm. Probably knew you were in Magnolia Mayhem.
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And Mayhem is here today, so he survived this Good. Interaction. Good. Good. Now get to watching Die Hard. Alright. Monty from Philly called. Hey. This is Monty from Philly.
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If Home Alone is a Christmas movie, then Die Hard
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is absolutely
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a Christmas movie. That's what I was thinking. The only reason Kevin McAllister
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is home alone
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is because his family happened to go on
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a vacation Traveling for Christmas. Yep. Yep. And events transpired.
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The only reason John McClain
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runs into the events he does is because he is traveling to visit his family
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over Christmas. Oh. Ouch. He is attending the Christmas
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party. That's true. The McAllister also uses Christmas ornaments Yep. As a way to fend off the bad guys. John McClain Spoiler
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alert. Also uses some Christmas wrapping materials. Yep. Okay. Fend off his bad guys. Uh-huh. I'll say it again. If Home Alone is a Christmas movie Yep. Die Hard is absolutely a Christmas movie. Yeah. I think that's solid. Yeah.
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That is yeah. Where's your ding? Nicely done. Nicely done. I'm gonna give it a round of applause too. That's a pretty hard lock right there. Thank you, Monty.
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Delma's back. I might be saying that wrong because, you know, me and the names real bad, but he's back, and I love it. Hey. It's Delma of Southern Michigan.
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Last time I called, it sounded like I said Dom, but it's Delma. It was, like, five degrees outside.
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So I
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just guessing that my mouth was probably frozen shut. No. It's me. Anyways,
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Mark,
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I hope you really didn't leave
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that all that venison on the side of the road. You know, that's good jerky right there. So bring it on down here, and we could go ahead and dry it out and have a good old time. Hit me up. I'm on Nostrad Matrix.
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You'll find me. Love it. Another caller had called about
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vitamin d and not getting sick. One of the things I've I've found interesting is that in the Eastern Orthodox Church during the nativity fast, about November and December, there's a lot of fish days.
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we fast, we typically don't eat any fish at all. But fish is actually a really good source of vitamin D. So
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it's been something I've been wondering about lately is just like sort of like the wisdom of of adding more fish into your diet during these shorter days. Well,
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hope you all are doing well, and wish you all a Merry Christmas,
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looking forward to the next episode. Thank you. Alright.
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So the launch connections.
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Mhmm. Nice connecting.
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Alright. Ian from New Hampshire called in. Take it away, Ian. Hey, launch crew. It's Ian from
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New Hampshire.
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For the cat stuff Uh-huh. Definitely check out
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Feely Way.
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It's cat pheromone.
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It it I have plug in diffuser. Yep. And it it makes the cats, like, super calm. Any kind of stressful situation,
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definitely definitely use that because it will help them kinda chill out with each other. And, also, look up, like, Jackson Galaxy's
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videos on how to introduce cats. Mhmm.
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Includes things like, you know, feeding them behind on opposite sides of, like, a closed door Mhmm. So that they can get used to each other's smell and stuff like that. Take like, swap the rooms that they're in so that, you know, they have a chance to
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kinda get used to each other's smells in in, like, a non hostile environment without the other one there. Mhmm. Let them watch each other from distances.
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Yeah. Definitely, you know, keep up the good work. And for Die Hard Mhmm. There's a pretty interesting article that says Die Hard is actually a Hanukkah movie. Oh. Oh my goodness. When you think about it, there's a lot of parallels. John McClean,
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Jeb Maccabee.
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It's the same initials.
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You know, the the villains are German.
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German. You know, the stereotypes fight themselves.
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also, the you know, he
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Maccabee
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takes the the Roman weapons in the story of Hanukkah.
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John McClain
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takes the German assault rifles, and he has a mission gun.
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And a lot of, well, you know, David and Goliath story.
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Have a good one. Makes you wonder if there's a little inspiration there in the in the story. That was a curveball I did not see coming. Yeah.
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Okay. So I do have that for Ramon.
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I do have an update.
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Abby is is done is over. Having a cat living in a real box in her bedroom. Mhmm. And and I you know, to be honest, I am sick of managing which cat is in, which cat you know? Oh, yes. Know? And letting
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toes out of there.
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So I can feed them a cat gurt,
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and they can be literally Next week. Six inches apart. Yeah. I can you know,
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between the two Swap of boop. Yeah. Like, just back and forth, and they're fine. Once one of them
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steps away,
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that's
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when like, out of sight, that's when the attack happens.
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And Toes got some good chunks of fur out of Gypsy,
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which is funny because Gypsy is the one that I'm worried about killing Toes. Right. But he's big.
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Like Toes gotten big. Yeah. Time is on toe side. Yes.
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So I don't know. I was gonna use this break to just
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let whatever happen happen,
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but I I just chicken out every time. You know, you don't want him to get too hurt. I don't. I I only have one carrier.
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Who's that? One of them will have to bleed out at home while I take the other one to the vet. I don't know.
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I don't know. I just wish that it could be over with and I and I could get the litter box out of Abby's room. Mhmm.
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Toes is so fun. I don't wanna have to rehome him. So I am trying to do everything I can
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and increase their time around each other.
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They are definitely I haven't thought about putting Gypsy in Abby's room.
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So that switching rooms thing is interesting. That is. Because, basically neither Rocky or Gypsy have been in Abby's room,
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you know, since well, I I did catch Rocky eating in there
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a couple weeks ago. Speaking in, getting a snack. Yeah. But
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yeah. Yeah. Swapping rooms. Yeah. I'm surprised it has. It's been a while. I thought by now. Yeah. Well, we got in August. Yeah. You think by now that two cats have worked this out. Yeah. But it's a Well, and I want Blood feud. I wanna let Toes outside.
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But I'm worried that Gypsy will chase him up a tree and we'll never know. You know?
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Yeah. For real. Alright. Our last voice mail, and it's from Tech Geek in Orlando. Hey, guys. This is Tech Geek from Orlando.
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Hope you guys had a good Christmas. Just I was listening to episode 46.
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I'm gonna wanna back up bursaries
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adversaries.
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Whatever his name is. What? The vitamin d. I'm sure he provided some pretty good resources there.
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Well, no. As far as link, I think in his voice mail, he said he sent the link, but I just wanna back him up. I've been taking vitamin d for a while and vitamin c
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for years now, and I rarely get a cold. Matter of fact, I the last time I got sick that was close to, like, a cold was when I had COVID back in 2022
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or no. Sorry. 2023.
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That's the last time I actually had any kind of cold like symptoms. And before that, it's been it had been years since I even had a cold. So That's nice. Yeah. Yep. You have young kids. D, even maybe adding some vitamin c to that. Alright. Happy New Year to you guys. Thank you. I hope you have a good one, and I'm looking forward to 2026.
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More episodes, please.
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Thank you, sir. Wait. Like, more frequency?
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Oh, yeah. I do feel like the kids are getting sick a little bit less. They definitely are.
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In fact, I don't think they can for a while. Yeah. Well, Dylan claims he's sick all the time.
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Yeah. But it is nice because when they were in, you know, younger years, it was a lot. Thank you everybody who called in. We have the number in the show notes. If you would like to give us a ring and don't remember it, you can just go look it up right there and we love it when you give us a call.
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Alright.
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Now it's time for the boost. Thank you everybody who sends a boost into the show and supports us. We love to read your messages. And, of course, these boosts go directly to myself, to Ang, editor Drew,
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and, a little bit goes to the creator of the podcast app. So it's always very much appreciated.
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And our baller booster this week is producer Jeff.
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He came in with 22,222
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sats. He's out looking up for all Macduck.
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And
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PJ just sends us a bunch of rockets,
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which is funny because when I pulled this report, my Netscape my Netscape
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Firefox is not properly rendering emojis. So I thought Jeff sent no message. And then I opened it up down here and I see the rockets. I see. It's nice a little surprise. Thank you, PJ, and happy holidays to you. Mhmm. We appreciate
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you.
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Our next boost comes in from Jasco, and he sent 4,000 sats. Make it so. And Jasco writes, hey, Chris, Ange, and Brent. Brent had joined us just last week.
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Regarding the episode 46 pre show and the Ford Ford hybrid pivot, I have to push back a bit on your criticism of hybrid cars. My mom has a Prius and hasn't had any issues. Oh, yeah. The Prius. Yeah. Mhmm. Of course. Right. Yeah. No. I'm yeah. I agree that Toyota really knows what they're doing. Unlike other ICE cars we've had in the past, it just sips gas. I haven't done much maintenance on it personally besides swapping fluids, but still very much able to be done without needing to take it to the dealership. Oh, that's good.
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Like, you have to do with a lot of EVs. CVTs are a lot gentler on the engine. Not a big CVT fan.
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And makes them less problematic. It depends on the OEM. Right? Like like the Mazda and Nissan experiments with CVTs were kind of disasters. Again,
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Toyota would I think what you have to respect about Toyota is they sort of take a real nice incremental approach for a lot of these types of things. They don't always necessarily
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take big risks.
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Sometimes they do. Sometimes they do, but not so it's they tend to they tend to be very pragmatic in their car design.
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And I think that reflects in their reliability.
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Mhmm.
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And, you know, for example,
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Jasco, to your point,
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the Tesla Model y was the best selling car of 2025
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until the RAV four came out. And then the RAV four for 2026 RAV four just took
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off like a rocket.
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It's very popular.
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Byte Bittens here with 2,412
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Satarunis.
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Coming in hot with the boost.
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I might have ordered myself the Einthor Max as a Christmas gift to myself. What is that? But I'll have to wait till mid January for batch two. Should we look it up? I think it's a Oh, you don't know what it is? I thought Well, I think I do. I think I do. It's a because I was just looking Is it an action figure? No. It's like okay. Okay. I'm Is it a piece of technology? It's a piece of technology, I believe. And like a I I could be wrong on this. So I don't know what I'm talking about necessarily because I
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I'm just guessing. But I think he was talking about these
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handheld,
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almost like it looks like a modern Nintendo three DS. Oh. Flip up screen.
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It's got a Snapdragon CPU in there, and it's got a three point nine three point nine two inch AMOLED screen. It's a current thing. Right? It's not a retro? Right. In fact, it's only in preorder state right now. Oh, okay. It's brand new. It's very fresh. So does it even have games?
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I'm I'm guessing, although, again, I'm not quite sure. I'm guessing you could probably emulate
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Oh. Just about everything.
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Got it. Yeah.
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It does come with a native it looks cool. It actually looks cool. You'll have to call or boost in Tell us about it. An update. Yeah. Thanks, buddy. I wanna know more.
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Dom is here with 2,040
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sats. Oh. Boost. The voice mail. Yeah. I believe so. Yeah. That's how you spell it. I believe so.
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Since Brent had to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, what say y'all?
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Freedom units or Celsius?
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Not just for temp, but in general.
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I like
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I don't mind it for measurements. I think it's weird. Foots are kinda foot. That's weird. And
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I think logically,
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it makes sense that zero is freezing in Celsius because for us, 32 is freezing in Fahrenheit, and that's odd. Weird. But when I say it's 70 degrees outside,
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that just makes to me a lot more sense than say 20 degrees Celsius. Like, for some reason, when you're talking about all the other temperatures and their and their relativeness to comfort,
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90 degrees feels like nine it's just this weird thing. Can't with Fahrenheit, I can't wrap my head around
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minimizing those numbers.
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So I don't like it for temperature but I like it for everything else, Celsius and metric.
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You know, and know for like, you know, in some cases,
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I would here's my take on it. I would convert myself personally just to have a standard across the world. Yep. Right? If we were, yeah, standardizing that. I'm I'm pretty well like, I'm learning Spanish. Yeah. I don't need to learn this
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right now. You know? Like, I'm good. Yeah. In fact, does Duolingo have a module for for these conversions? Because Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's run with it. That would be great.
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That's a good good question. Thanks for the boost and the call. Odysee Wester is back with 10,200
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sets.
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Well, this is a back in time boost during our Thanksgiving holiday.
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We ended up qualifying for two turkeys at our local WinCo. Sad part is I didn't realize this till I got back with the item.
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We've we initially forgot. Oh,
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so I had to turn back, grab another frozen turkey. It's still sitting in the freezer to this day. We'll probably cook it for New Year's or Christmas. Mhmm. Anyways, have a happy holidays. I'm about a month behind on my podcast, and I'm still catching up. Before you read the next one. I do like a time travel boost. I ended up with a turkey yesterday. What is going on with the extra turkey this year? Oh. So yeah. Oh. So I gotta get it. Cooked. I think I'm gonna make my first turkey. Nice. I I've never made a turkey myself. You you always do. You should look up the Alton Brown. I mean, it go it works. I don't have a bucket.
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I should have I should have asked you for a bucket. Yeah. I don't think there's one here. No. I know. I should have asked you, like, Yeah. What about what about a cooler? Do you have like a I do, but I don't like the idea of using that cooler for anything else afterwards.
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Like
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I know. We sacrificed a cooler just for turkeys, and now it's like, what do do with this cooler all year? Yeah. I guess You have a cooler stuff. I think I have two coolers. Maybe I have one that's vertical, you know, like, for If keep it if you keep it well chilled, the bacteria shouldn't really grow up. That's true. And then you could really soap it out. That's true. Yeah. I don't know. I'll figure it out, or or I will just raw dog it. Funny It's how many people yeah. You don't necessarily have Or raw turkey. You don't have to necessarily brine it. It's funny how many people are getting extra turkeys this year. Yeah. I've heard that a lot. Yeah. What's going on with that?
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He says, yeah. I have to be careful during the holiday season as well. My little sister is a heart patient, and we have to be vigilant. Unlike last year, she was down for the count for nearly a month, and I think she's also caught pneumonia in the process.
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So, yeah, I understand your vigilance when it comes to making sure you're not getting sick as much as possible Mhmm. Especially with the norovirus. Yes. Anyway, I hope you guys had a good Thanksgiving.
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This is back in time. Thanks. So I'm still catching up. Well, thank you for the time travel boost. Mhmm. I I got back to the, you know, beware of nora or whatever it was. I did get I got glanced by nora, but I think my preparation helped a lot. I was kind of
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down for a day, not feeling great, sort of sleepy.
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And they were like, oh, my stomach's rumbling a lot. But
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compared to what Adia had Yeah. I basically was not sick at all. Right. So that was Well, and it's particularly scary for her because
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of of diabetes. Yeah. It gets to a point where she needs to be able to ingest things to bring her blood sugar up. But she can't. She'll throw it up. And yeah. I just can't even imagine.
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Alright. Now Magnolia Mayhem's over the road. So
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he had called in, and he got cut off. He says, have to admit, I just called and implied I was going to get I was gonna be I was gonna kill off this character because I was tired of it. I'm mumbled, what the hell? And then I never called back. Wouldn't it funny if I deleted the element off my phone and never listened to JB again? It would have been a pretty epic way to kill off a character. Man. Yeah. We would have we would have already been like, where's mayhem today? We'd have to deploy a search party. Right. That cost a ton of sets. We shouldn't be spending our money that way. Yeah. Mayhem. No. We can't do that. Cannot.
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Alright.
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Just pump the brakes. Okay? Just pump the brakes right there. JNV's here with 6,666
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sets. Oh.
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This is a tasty burger. I know what that means.
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Here's from Brisbane in Old Australia. I love the podcast, especially Angela's always beautiful and light on the show. Please keep going. I've been following you since last.
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I was being hosted by Brian Lunduke, and, well, of course, it could only have been getting better since then.
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Yeah. We were pretty rough, especially me. When I went back to listen to when we transitioned to multitrack audio, I'm like, oh, shut up. Oh, god. I hate listening to old me. Mhmm. It is it is rough. Thank you. And thank you for listening for so damn long. Mhmm. That's that is really awesome. Yeah. That is so long ago.
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Southern Friday at Sassafras is here with a row of ducks. Thank you kindly.
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2222
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sats. Callback to the Apple episode. I don't remember if Angela got the watch or not, but I finally upgraded to my from my iPhone 11 to my iPhone 17.
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And wow, is it nice to have my battery life back again. Oh, yeah. Plus the display is noticeably better. Happy New Year's Eve. Yes. I did get a new watch. And I was able to turn off that smart battery charging. Good. So yeah. Does what you want now. Yes.
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Oh gosh. I was just like delaying getting in the shower to try to play games with getting it to let me force the
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full charge. Playing battery games. Yeah.
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Last night, my wife, Adia, upgraded from her iPhone 11 to an iPhone 17.
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Oh. Yeah? We spent the evening, you know, moving her phone over. Wow.
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She made it a long time on that 11 because that 11 was a hand me down for me. So What do I have? Oops.
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You maybe not from fifteen. I had what Abby had.
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Sixteen e? That she dropped on at Earth Cannot remember now. The right. Probably the fifteen. It's a it's a I don't know. It's not quite brand new, but it's still pretty new. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
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Why don't I know?
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You can go I think if you go into settings and then about if you go to settings, general about might tell you. But
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we had some problems with hers.
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It it got hung. First, it wanted to upgrade the OS. So the two OSes were like compatible, I guess, or whatever. Mhmm. And the upgrade hung.
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And we could not get past the screen. So we had to go through the secret, like, secondary route. We rebooted the phone and essentially set it up as, a brand new phone and told it not to transfer anything and had to go all these shenanigans and still had to log in to her account and all this crap. Just so that way, we could then get to the settings, upgrade the OS, and then reset the settings again and then transfer my phone. Gosh. So it took, like, double the time it should have. Oh, okay. So 13 Pro. Oh, 13. Okay. Yeah. And
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watch 11. Yeah.
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I
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I had not imported pictures
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for, like, I don't know, nine or ten months. And I went to do it,
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and and Chris will laugh because
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I don't I don't use the cloud. Right. And I don't like sending it over Wi Fi. So I plug it in. I plug my phone into my computer. Mhmm.
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Well, if I plug it in using the USB C
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Mhmm.
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Lightning Yeah.
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I iPhoto cannot or photos. Really? It cannot detect it. No way. I'm sitting there. I'm like, why is this not detecting? And and I was starting handed. It ships with. I know. And I was like, how the and then and then something occurred to me that I've had this problem before, and I had to switch to an a normal USB two point o or whatever.
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Like a USB a flat plug? Is it a? Yeah. That's what the flat plugs are. Okay. Yeah. Wow. The one the one where you have to flip it. Yeah. They get they get it wrong almost every time. Yeah. Yeah.
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So that that was a thing. And I was able to import pictures, but not before it crapped out and imported but didn't delete. So now it thinks
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so now I don't know.
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Oh, man. It's stupid. It was, like, 7,000 pictures. They're gonna force you to do cloud syncing. I know. I don't want it. I don't want it. I know you don't. I know you don't. And it does make sense too. Like, if you're doing it over the wire, should be fast. Yeah. It should be private. Secure. Mhmm. All the things. It should be. I couldn't even oh, and so the what I did,
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I could access my phone through Finder.
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So I did a backup because I hadn't done a backup forever. Good. But it took forever because there are 7,000 photos on Yeah. So anyway.
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Yeah. Those backups are really the best way to back up the phone too, still doing it over the wired connection.
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Yeah. Yeah. We did the and I hate that they do it this way. Is there like, would you like to save time and transfer from your previous phone? And you're like, that makes a lot of sense. So you do that. Well, yes, it transfers a lot of settings and it transfers your your background and it transfers your layout of your apps, and that's really nice.
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Doesn't transfer the apps themselves and the app and a lot of the app data. So you still have to download all your apps and sign into a bunch of them. How?
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I've never had to do that. It transfers like a
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link to the app, but then it actually downloads the latest version of the app from the App Store when you transfer iPhones.
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It doesn't transfer the actual app itself. Now if you do it with the cord, the wire Oh, okay. Okay. I was gonna say, I'm like, I've never had this problem. You're describing something that doesn't happen to me. Not with yeah. With with the wired with the wired transfer, it actually transfers everything.
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Yeah. But not with the wire they call it a phone phone transfer to phone transfer, but it's like the bones, and then it has so her phone's downloading crap all night long. Because on these new phones, too, there's Apple Intelligence it has to download. There's just all your photos. Store from backup?
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Well well, she transfer we thought if you transfer from phone to phone, it takes thirty minutes. It's it's copying stuff. We thought that would be enough. Yeah. The transfer took thirty minutes. Yeah. Everything else was an overnight job. Pretty much. So yeah. There you go. And happy New Year's Eve to you Southern Fri it's ask for Fras, and I'm glad you got that new phone. It is
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the difference is crazy between the eleven and seventeen because, like, even her settings menu is like, it's
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like glitchy, and I'm like, oh god. I don't know how you've been living Yeah.
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I don't know how she does it.
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Alright. You asked, and I'm delivering. You said you wanted a place in Washington? Yeah. So I have dug it up for you, Ange. It's, you know, it's in Washington, so it's a little more expensive. $780,000.
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I just clicked on it. Does have three beds, four baths. It's about 1,500 square feet. It was built in 1945.
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It sits on 0.8
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acres. Yes, even for almost $800,000,
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you don't even get a full acre.
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And it is definitely
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one of a kind. So all aboard for the train residents with beach access.
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It is two train cabooses
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which are connected together. They flow into a 1945
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Pullman car blending nostalgic charm with contemporary living. The kitchen, the dining, and living spaces are separated across the cars complete with three bedrooms, two baths, a guest bath, and potential for a private suite. The Pullman dazzles with its curved ceilings, original racks, glowing lights, and a wet bar once serving passengers.
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You can enjoy gas cooking, an air fry range, updated heating and cooling, a detached garage and outbuilding, a gated and fenced grounds,
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and, of course, an easement to the Pacific Ocean. But the most important part, it's a freaking train.
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This is incredible. It's cute. I do want it. I know. It's actually really adorable.
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They've taken, like, the caboose and a passenger car and combine them.
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Wow. So fun. And the interior is actually very classy and modern. And I don't I was I was odd. I was in awe. So I don't know if I heard the whole description that you just did. Well But there's skylights.
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Yes. It a lot of natural light. So bright. And I love the gated in, the fence. Mhmm. It's a nice fence. I love the green. I love everything about this. And you have walkable access to the Pacific Ocean. It
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is an ocean city, so it's on the coast. So it's a bit of a drive from here because you have to go down like past Olympia to get there and whatnot. But And it's not two separate living spaces. No. They've they've conjoined them with like a tunnel. Like a Yeah. Yeah. But like, I mean, like, so there's not a there's not two kitchens. No. That
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would be cool too though. They do have an outhouse. Maybe you can convert that. Two
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garage spaces.
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And it's classic. It's built in 1945.
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Crazy. Right? Isn't that something? I love it. Alright. So and that's here in Washington. Now Yep.
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If you're looking for something a little more budge friendly,
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not
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in Washington,
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but this one just has potential written all over. It's it's a project house in which you can expand on. And to help you visualize it, all of the images that actually make it look like a house are AI generated.
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It's
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in need of finishing.
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But it has a what you could call perhaps a modern design for a $199,900,
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almost $200,000.
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No. It's tucked away on a serene two acre wooded lot, three beds, four baths, This
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first picture is not what it is. Not the house. Nope. Just what it could be. AI generated. Are you putting it? Yeah. I'm gonna let This is not okay. This is so they are selling this property with totally fake images
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because what it really is
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is a pile of shipping containers. Was wondering what you're gonna
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pile of shipping containers. It is. Right? It's just It is. They stack some ship ship There's some structure. I think it's a shed. I think they put it around a shed. That's insane.
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Yeah. They're like, this is what we wanted to make it. And it's a like, the AI version is this beautiful home with nice dark wood touches and a wood frame and a nice nice roof and a chimney.
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And what it actually is is a pile of rusted storage containers.
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That's crazy.
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That is so crazy. I've never seen a rug pull like this before. It is. And it nowhere in the listing does it disclaim that these are AI generated. I went and looked up That's horrible. I went and looked up this listing to try to figure it out. And yeah. Because I couldn't tell what I was putting together here. So, I mean, you know, it depends on your perspective. You know, is it a pile of shipping containers, or is it three beds, four baths, 3,500 square feet? Because if you believe, it can be. They say, what I love too, the heavy lifting has already begun. Electricity in a private rail are in place. That's it. That literally, they lifted the Yeah. The shipping containers. They lifted a couple onto a stack, and they they dug a well, and they did dig a septic that is big. Oh my gosh. That's all the work that's been done. And now they say you take the reins and finish the job to your taste. A rare opportunity for those that are ready to create something truly special. Your contemporary container home, your dream starts so here.
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Stupid. It is not worth $200,000.
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That's the crazy I mean, the land, maybe?
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Maybe? Yes.
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Two acres? Nah. I mean, yeah.
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What's funny is that they can even list it as a three bedroom, four bath, 3,500 square feet. Or that they yeah.
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There's no there's nothing. I'm guessing maybe they got plans approved for a place that big. Oh. You could maybe permit. Yeah. Yeah. You could build up to that. Yeah. Depending on how you stack the containers and where you cut the holes. No.
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Wow. Really something. Yeah. Somebody's dream. I noticed that the link that I put in Slack isn't on here. The Airbnb.
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Oh, I forgot all about that. Do wanna we'll we'll do it next week Okay. Because the final is it yeah. No. I won't say anything more. Okay. Yeah. But Tease for next week. Yes. Alright. Very good. Tease for next week. Yeah.
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I got when I saw that that container home, oh my god. Is this a second home on this property? Yeah. Also, there's the garbage in the backyard. Yeah. You know, it's that that's it. That's the place. That's the place. What a world. What a world where well, you know, it's just to help you visualize it. We're not trying to rug pull you. We're just trying to help you visualize it. I don't know what your problem is. Alright.
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That's it for us this week. You can find a link to that, the AI videos of me selling high performance cigarettes and dog food, and more in the show notes, including Angie's party favors. Those arrive over at weeklylaunch.rocks,
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and this was episode 48.
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Join us live next Tuesday for a special live edition of the show or catch us in your podcast app Wednesday mornings
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from a beautiful Pacific Northwest and the mighty American West Coast. Thanks for listening.
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See you next week.
