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        "text": " Hello there, good morning."
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        "text": " Welcome into everyday tech on MPB Think Radio."
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        "text": " I'm your host, Jay White."
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        "text": " It is the week of Black Friday."
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        "text": " That is a big shop and holiday."
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        "text": " I don't know if it was what it once was."
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        "text": " Because everybody does so much online."
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        "text": " But it is a huge, huge week for the consumer technology industry."
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        "text": " It is interesting that a little juxtaposition that this is coming right on the back end of a week where I don't know how many things are going to happen."
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        "text": " So how many 30, 40,000 tech workers were laid off."
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        "text": " There's some, some uninspired irony right there."
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        "text": " But it is interesting that this is happening."
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        "text": " Man, what a terrible time to be laid off right before Thanksgiving going right into the holidays."
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        "text": " I don't know that there's a good time to be laid off."
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        "text": " So that was pretty smart to say, Jay."
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        "text": " Anyway, Jeremy, good morning."
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        "text": " What's going on, man?"
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        "text": " How have things been the past week or so at the shop for you?"
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        "text": " Hey, good morning, Jay."
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        "text": " First off, I want to say that you bring a lot more to the table than just telling who's on the phone."
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        "text": " A lot of times you offer some very good perspective on things and you also your techie, but not so techie that you're lost in the woods."
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        "text": " Can you give us a good outside looking in perspective?"
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        "text": " And we need that, man."
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        "text": " I mean, like that's, that's what that's the heartbeat of this show."
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        "text": " Oh, man."
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        "text": " I get some technical."
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        "text": " People won't know what I'm talking about."
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        "text": " So Jay, you help Ray, me and you're like, all right, let's keep this, you know, let's let's keep this educational from the listeners without."
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        "text": " That's very sweet of you to say."
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        "text": " I'm home trained just about well enough to be dangerous."
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        "text": " That's about that's about what I am."
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        "text": " Thanksgiving week."
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        "text": " And I'm extremely thankful for you and everything you bring to the show."
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        "text": " Well, thank you, man."
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        "text": " Likewise."
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        "text": " I miss Will."
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        "text": " Man, he's been he's been underneath it since he switched jobs and he's working for the county over here and they got him."
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        "text": " They got him doing all all the business."
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        "text": " So, but I hope special guests."
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        "text": " That's right."
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        "text": " I look forward to the next time that we get to have them on the show."
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        "text": " Oh, no, no."
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        "text": " What's been happening, man?"
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        "text": " As things get into the holiday, do things ramp up for you or do they slow down?"
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        "text": " Do you get a whole bunch of people calling with new stuff that they don't know how to work or how does that work for you during the holidays?"
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        "text": " I think it's kind of a mixed bag."
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        "text": " It can be busy and sometimes it can be really slow."
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        "text": " This week, it's been pretty busy."
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        "text": " I have put my location on campus set by appointment only because, you know, if it is slow, I don't want to just be sitting up there to win my thumbs, which I've done."
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        "text": " Plenty of times in the past."
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        "text": " So I've learned to adapt to that."
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        "text": " But I've been working on a gaming rig for a client that's been with me for many years."
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        "text": " His alienware fell victim to a small."
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        "text": " Roach infestation."
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        "text": " So we salvage what we could from it, which was basically just his storage draws in his RAM."
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        "text": " And moved all his stuff over to a new case that is Roach free."
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        "text": " And he tells me that he likes to play flight simulator."
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        "text": " Okay."
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        "text": " And he said, I need this rig to really get down."
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        "text": " He said, I will do 12 hour flights."
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        "text": " So."
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        "text": " And with flight simulator, it's it's it's literal time."
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        "text": " Yeah."
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        "text": " I mean, I you might there might be some mod the speed up or whatever, but like, you know, if you fly from Texas to London, if you can even do that."
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        "text": " Um, it takes as long as it takes."
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        "text": " So."
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        "text": " I, uh, I had to fire this rig up and let it run."
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        "text": " Test for over 12 hours because he said that his previous rig would crash on him."
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        "text": " Not sure if that was due to the Roach infestation or some other issue with his build."
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        "text": " But, um, I was able to run a 12 hour test on it."
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        "text": " Um, pass with flying colors."
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        "text": " This GPU got around 73 C, which is it's pretty warm, but for running for 12 hours, that's also pretty good."
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        "text": " So he will be able to do his flight sims and, uh, he'll be able to do him over the next given break."
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        "text": " So we got everything."
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        "text": " Yes, 73 Celsius. Is that what you're saying? That's hot, but not hot for, uh, for a mega mega gaming rig."
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        "text": " Well, it's not really hot for processors. In fact, I've noticed that these new Intel EVO processors, they live on thermal throttling."
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        "text": " So it's like, uh, new, the new, the new approaches. All right."
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        "text": " I'm gonna let it get so hot that it tunes itself down and, um, this is how it works. It just gets hot. Yeah."
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        "text": " So 73 C for, uh, your tech is not super hot. Yeah."
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        "text": " And it's not too hot for your GPU. I mean, it is hot. It's hot."
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        "text": " But it's not so hot that the hardware can't handle it now long term."
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        "text": " You know, depending on how many 12 hours since he does over the course of five years, um, he might burn out his graphics card pretty fast."
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        "text": " Yeah, yeah, it's it was it was a lot of fun playing with it. I actually did go download it because if you have Xbox Game Pass you have access to it"
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        "text": " But man it is huge. Oh, yeah, it's a beast. I'm like a 100 plus gigabyte"
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        "text": " That's yeah, that's scary, but also kind of cool at the same time. I mean it can't be scary"
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        "text": " Not kind of I hit you out of nowhere with that one. Yeah, I don't know where and you keep you keep up"
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        "text": " You get tech stuff through I mean you're a tech guy so it's not like you know"
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        "text": " You're out of the tech circle through the year so you get you get cool tech stuff all through the calendar year"
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        "text": " Okay, so"
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        "text": " Actually the answer is yes"
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        "text": " There is something that I have been holding back on for a while. Okay. I have had the same laptop for like six years and"
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        "text": " Like how hot these things get because they I mean they eventually just cook themselves to death. Yeah having said that"
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        "text": " Call and let us know how much you like it because I had to find it to recently upgrade one of these"
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        "text": " I never even seen it and I was blown away because it works really cool"
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        "text": " That's yeah, that would be something good now if you're buying it for a gift for somebody else"
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        "text": " Hey Jay what for Christmas? I don't"
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        "text": " Hangers or something on it, you know, but"
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        "text": " If it's what you want your brain is gonna start running"
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        "text": " I like the keyboard. I like the way the mouth feels or maybe you don't and you want to look at something else"
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        "text": " But you're buying a gift for numero uno on the same way you gotta go get your hands on it"
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        "text": " You gotta get some experience with it because"
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        "text": " Rehorse about it and you're sitting here eyeball on one of these eye pads"
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        "text": " Or one of these surfaces because you didn't quite fulfill what you were looking for I didn't and it's a it's a it's an awesome laptop"
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        "text": " To set it up, I mean it's still like five or six steps right and and I've had many is not you just grab it and there it is"
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        "text": " The battery life on iPads is insanely good"
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        "text": " I mean you can't nothing stacks up to it. It's not it's not surfaces"
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        "text": " Any of the definitely no laptop running windows windows still does not sleep well"
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        "text": " Anything with an apple logo on it that battery life is nuts and if you hit the off button"
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        "text": " I mean it's gonna be the same when you turn it on next. It's not like"
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        "text": " Did my battery die while it was in my bag because that's why that lottery every day"
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        "text": " And that's why the reasons for the reasons battery oh my old laptop with that because I would forget to put windows in"
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    {
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        "text": " To shut it down rather than put it to sleep and then I pull it out and go oh it died"
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    {
        "start": 1113.36,
        "end": 1120.24,
        "text": " Am I supposed to be still the same thing? Yeah, and you totally busted me out because I'm sitting here looking at this page on the verge website the verge.com"
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        "text": " And it's the best black Friday iPad deals and here it is. There's a 2021 iPad mini"
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        "text": " Wi-Fi 64 gig and it's 20% off. It's normally 500 it's 400 right now you can get it at Target or Amazon"
    },
    {
        "start": 1134.56,
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        "text": " Not that's a total ad for that, but there you go, but there's there I mean hey, it's black Friday week"
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        "text": " So there's deals on absolutely everything right now. I feel like we could have talked a whole hour about what we were talking about right there"
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    {
        "start": 1146.32,
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        "text": " So we can dig some other stuff up right here including this. Let me tell you"
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        "text": " Jeremy do you if I asked you what could a car manufacturer"
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        "text": " Locked behind a paywall or what kind of car manufacturer turn into a subscription service"
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        "text": " Think about that for a second and I'll tell you what Mercedes the German auto manufacturer"
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    {
        "start": 1173.92,
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        "text": " I got you thinking I'll be thinking evil thoughts right exactly"
    },
    {
        "start": 1178.48,
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        "text": " We're talking about whatever is going on in your world if something's broken or something's not acting right"
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        "start": 1183.2,
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        "text": " And you need somebody that desperately help you try to work through it Jeremy is here"
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    {
        "start": 1186.96,
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        "text": " I'll also accept your call and I'll be here as well"
    },
    {
        "start": 1189.6,
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        "text": " I'll watch while you'll figure it out and fix it"
    },
    {
        "start": 1192.32,
        "end": 1199.36,
        "text": " Also, you could talk with us about what's on your black Friday list or what's been handed to you mom or dad or grandma or grandpa"
    },
    {
        "start": 1199.4399999999998,
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        "text": " Nana whoever what's been handed to you"
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    {
        "start": 1202.32,
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        "text": " And to go buy for black Friday or for the upcoming holiday this is every day tech on MPB think radio with Jeremy Thompson"
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        "text": " I am Jay white"
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        "text": " Thanks for listening this morning. I gave you a tease about something that an automaker or I said German automaker"
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        "text": " Mercedes is doing"
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        "text": " They've come up with a subscription a paywall concept for part of their"
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        "text": " Their product now they make cars right? So what could what from a car could go behind a paywall and look"
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        "text": " There are other manufacturers in other parts of the world that may have been doing this for a while"
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        "text": " But this is the first time I've seen it in man. I'm like that is evil and a fantastic idea at the same time"
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        "text": " So Jeremy"
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        "text": " The German auto manufacturer Mercedes has locked faster acceleration"
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        "text": " In their cars"
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        "text": " Behind an annual paywall that's $1200"
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        "text": " So you can go fast and Mercedes, but if you want to go Mercedes fast sir"
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        "text": " That'll be a $1200"
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        "text": " Subscription service fee hundred bucks a month they go faster and the grand scheme of things if I've paid money to buy Mercedes"
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        "text": " A hundred bucks a month ain't a big deal if I can really go zoom zoom"
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        "text": " That's that's fair"
    },
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        "text": " I thought that like you were gonna ask me to guess"
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        "start": 1278.1599999999999,
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        "text": " Um, I went dark dystopia with it in my head. I was like, I don't know air conditioning. Yeah, I did"
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        "text": " That would be truly evil, but yeah, I did before the break. I did ask you"
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        "text": " What you thought they might could put in there so I kind of blew that question right there, but holy cow, dude"
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        "text": " Here's here's where we are with cars now. I mean like did the"
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        "text": " The mechanism behind cars is completely changed man. This is a computer thing now. So yeah"
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        "text": " Model of car ownership"
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        "text": " We're not selling a whole bunch of cars so how can we make more money on the cars we are selling"
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        "text": " Living in the battery life in your car if you don't pay out. Oh is that an annual fee also or is that just a payout right?"
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        "text": " What's the split on that with us balls and they were like we didn't think about that and they were like well"
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        "text": " Cuz you know, Apple's got plenty of money to do that um"
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        "text": " I have had a heck of a time explaining to a large number of people that"
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        "text": " The charger on their phone that they used for the last 10 years is now in theory or doesn't charge their phone as well"
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        "text": " It would just be easier if they all use the same cord that way we didn't have to risk"
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        "text": " Messing on devices up or slow charging them or whatever because they'll all be on the same format. So as a repair guy"
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        "text": " Whoo"
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        "start": 1646.3999999999999,
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        "text": " Thank you any you"
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        "text": " You know what's funny is do you ever run into the old like the original Apple like that the long send wide charger that they had from the original phones"
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        "text": " Ever in to that one"
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        "text": " Every once in a blue moon. I haven't seen one in probably about a year. Yeah"
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        "text": " I still got baskets in my house. It's got a couple of those in it that usba uh or the original Android Chargers"
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        "text": " Micro usb. Thank you usba. What am I talking about anyway, but the thing is though is like if you buy"
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        "text": " Man, I'm still I look for chargers for that all the time and uh"
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        "text": " Yep, and a bunch of you know third party stuff still uses that so I still need to have those around so I don't know"
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        "text": " Happy Thanksgiving week to you. What's going on?"
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        "text": " Thank you guys um you just talked about over there updates for cars like Mercedes is doing that's become common"
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        "text": " Over's a subscription type thing. I don't know if I want that to become common or not if I'm going to buy the dang car"
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        "text": " I want the battery with it and not have to worry about and uh, you know 25,000 miles"
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        "text": " Replace in the battery because it's under a contract is that going to become common is that sound weird to you guys too"
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        "text": " Okay, I really don't know that bad does it it really doesn't sound that bad a deal does it?"
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        "text": " I mean you buy the car and release the battery over the life of the car and never know then when it runs out of power"
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        "text": " If they just take it in they would place it for the fee you've been paying"
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        "text": " For some people and I'm not judging it all but for some people that's a status symbol type of car right and so"
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        "text": " Since we started since my first since I first introduced the story talking about how terrible it is"
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        "text": " Right"
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        "text": " Well, you know what I was reading about this thing and it just sounds like the Vietnamese have come up with an extremely clever"
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        "text": " Way to leverage against the life of the the electric vehicle and they're starting to sell these things in California right now"
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        "text": " And they said it's extremely well made, but I just thought it was intriguing to think that that might be a possibility that you buy your car"
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        "text": " But leash the battery for the life of the time that you own the car and then selects such a bad deal right"
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        "text": " Unless you get like a lemon car and it keeps your ruining batteries"
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        "text": " Then I guess they'll they'll figure out a way to fix that real quick"
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        "start": 1957.92,
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        "text": " Well there the program says that they will replace your battery once it drops below 70% efficiency"
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        "text": " Interesting, so I don't know if robots gonna show up on your driveway"
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        "text": " Let's put your car and pull your battery out or if you're gonna have to take it into a"
    },
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        "text": " Facility and have a change or somebody's gonna come do it there. It's your house"
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        "start": 1978.08,
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        "text": " I'm curious to see how they do this and how they service it. This could be a really"
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        "text": " I've seen now because because they're a foreign car maker and they don't have a bunch of dealerships over here or any maybe"
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        "text": " That's that's where they got to work out a deal with like a minikeer or something like that one of these"
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        "text": " You know franchise shops over here"
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        "start": 1997.52,
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        "text": " Yeah, you got to work out a deal where you know they're getting paid for"
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        "start": 2001.04,
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        "text": " You know sending their cars into that that shop to get that work done. I see now making money on both sides for them"
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        "text": " I've been reading about them. They said there they have blanketed Vietnam with these cars and they're selling them like mad in"
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        "text": " Southeast Asia and they've already built dealerships in California and they their intention is to spread all across the country"
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        "text": " And I kind of like the idea. I've been living in a little electric car anyway"
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        "text": " But to get one where you have this kind of a guarantee that there's a battery once out"
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        "text": " You're going to get a replacement battery for the feed that you've been paying and not have to worry about going and spending"
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        "text": " $25,000 for new battery"
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        "text": " So I it's kind of an intriguing thing"
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        "text": " Absolutely. Hey Mike. Thanks for calling us this morning and bringing that to our attention"
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    {
        "start": 2045.1999999999998,
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        "text": " You betcha all right have a happy thanks given holiday later this week all the best black Friday to you"
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        "text": " I the one thing I haven't asked is if people are going to go out in black Friday shop or if they're going to do it all online"
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        "text": " Like instead of going on on Friday morning at like four o'clock in the morning like I don't know you could go this afternoon if you wanted to"
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        "text": " Or the day after Christmas right that's the that's the big return date December 26"
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        "text": " For the battery. So they're just kind of saving you that cost on the battery or not saving you but"
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        "text": " Wow, that's a good that then the the higher end model is 185 for the battery and I say let me like"
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        "text": " I don't know. I'm trying to think"
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        "text": " Like a like a 15,000 dollar upcharge for this battery"
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        "text": " Those will look better and people will be complaining about them as much. Yeah"
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        "text": " This did not turn out how I thought it was gonna turn out. I've all I've done is is"
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        "text": " Egregious behavior from these car dealerships and I totally didn't think that's how this was gonna play out today"
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        "text": " I'm totally I'm totally the wrestling bad guy of this year's show. Let's go back to the phones"
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        "text": " Let's go to Dave who's called us from Bethel Springs, Tennessee. Dave. What's going on good morning?"
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        "start": 2247.84,
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        "text": " Yes, sir. Good morning. Hope you guys got some turkey lined up for tomorrow. Try and to yes, sir. How about you still?"
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        "text": " Well, I'm gonna eat more than I need to"
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        "text": " But that's normal right I caught two months back and I'm the guy that complained about the poor internet service"
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        "text": " I'm gonna try to narrow it down to less than that but"
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        "text": " And what that means is that you can be subject to parrologists with your internet. It could drop your connection"
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        "text": " It could be streaming real slow but not"
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        "text": " You know what's all involved with that, but I have a question on the speed test"
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        "text": " Is the speed test that it shows up? Is that what you have available?"
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        "text": " Okay, so if somebody is streaming something while you're doing a speed test that absolutely affects the quality of the speed test"
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        "text": " I'm trying to kill it, but it just won't die. Okay, so"
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        "text": " I do"
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        "text": " You know look getting Wi-Fi so I've got that pretty fairly worked out so far"
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        "text": " Oh"
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        "text": " A hundred and ten dollars. I'm limited"
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        "text": " Well, and he named the company. He said they got most of the money because they're doing it in rural areas"
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        "text": " And there's seven houses on our road. We're three miles outside the city limits and what you figure the odds are that we're going to get"
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        "text": " You know fiber optic strung out there"
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        "text": " But he just laughed he said I he told me the figure it's something like 55,000 dollars a mile or something to string it some kind of real high figure"
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        "text": " What what are the odds that we're going to get that with seven houses on the road and of those seven a lot of them are old"
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        "text": " timers like myself that probably don't even have the internet to start out with we don't have a lot of school kids or anything so"
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        "text": " We're not going to get it, but like I said, I just want to give you an update on that because it's going to get better"
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        "text": " They're saying and they're telling you not to buy it because they can't guarantee it, but I'm telling you"
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        "text": " I'm not in their zone where they're telling you it's supposed to be, you know, ready to go yet"
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        "text": " If you look at their map, but I'm telling you it's working great for me and I"
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        "text": " Hope it gets better, you know"
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        "text": " Absolutely and Dave thanks for calling us and giving us an update on that we really appreciate it"
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        "text": " Very much"
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        "text": " Answer my 200 plus questions and the speed test one because I've got a notebook"
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        "text": " Probably 10 pages of speed test different times a day different router location. Oh, well that"
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        "text": " For this out so I appreciate your help. Thank you very much. And you're all your show"
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        "text": " Thank you, Dave"
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        "text": " Likewise, we appreciate it very much. Man, what do you think about that? That's good news to hear awesome"
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        "text": " Yeah, we've been we've been ragging on Elon Musk"
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        "text": " But it seems like Starlink is doing what it's designed to do and I am happy here that um this is"
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        "text": " One reason that all the other stuff that's going on had me banging my head against the wall like what are you doing?"
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        "text": " You were doing so good you're like public, you know, you got Tesla you got Starlink you got space X you"
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        "text": " You're doing things and now"
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        "text": " Anyways, I'm glad we haven't talked about that much it is fantastic to hear the Starlink works well for Dave"
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        "text": " And I hope that we hear more reports of the performance improving and other colors calling in a let us know how it does for them"
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        "text": " Yeah, and um the thing is I"
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        "text": " You know who lives in those houses or even like how much money they make or the fact that they don't have kids or whatever"
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        "text": " it's going to be"
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        "text": " Is responsible for that area"
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        "text": " uh, you know getting"
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        "text": " Wired high speed internet to that area eventually and it's just about"
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        "text": " How much it'll cost basically it's it's cost effectiveness"
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        "text": " It's not about anybody who lives in any of those houses or anything like that. It's about how much"
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        "text": " Will it cost to build the infrastructure to get that wiring to those seven houses on that street?"
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        "text": " Versus what they can make back from it"
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        "text": " Until we get to a point where something like that is basically instituted and and they have to do it"
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        "text": " Which is what we're getting close to and it's awesome that we have something like Starlink that can fill in that gap"
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        "text": " until"
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        "text": " Utilities in the state"
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        "text": " Have the money to build out the infrastructure because that is not"
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        "text": " especially in a place as rural"
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        "text": " As Mississippi is in 98% of the state"
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        "text": " That's just going to be a ridiculously expensive build out it will happen eventually"
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        "text": " But it's I mean it's going to be like like oh like old folks like me getting out of the bed all creaky and moaning and"
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        "text": " Give you an earful while they're doing it but eventually they'll get around to doing it"
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        "text": " Why pass me to full clothes? It's kind of how that will work out"
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        "text": " Starlink with our hell marry for the rural internet community and it looks like it's working while we're still waiting for power company to get there"
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        "text": " So yep, that's the news, but they are"
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        "text": " There are utilities locally that are doing work. I was trying to find a story about something that just happened in Northeast Mississippi"
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        "text": " We'll update that the next time we're on this is everyday tech don't think radio"
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