Google Faces Potential Breakup as DOJ Seeks Antitrust Remedies Over Search Monopoly #1815

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Episode Transcript

(00:01):
The lead story
for Monday, April 22, Alphabet
is back in court as a DOJ
pushes to break up Google's
search empire
proposing
diversity
excuse me,
divesture
of Chrome and restrictions on Android and AI

(00:22):
use.
The trial overseen by judge Amit Nitha
is the latest in a series of legal
battles over Google's dominance in online search and
advertising.
Google warns that forced remedies
would hurt consumers,
strifle innovation,
and pose national security risk while the government
compares the case

(00:43):
to pass landmark
antitrust
actions.
Welcome to episode 815.
Well, this is a this is a big
move. We knew this was coming.
And,
the question really be will be,
will the government
have the
have the strength

(01:03):
to
to get this done?
And will the DOJ
throw caution to the wind and will they
will go for the jugular?
You know, these legal problems for Alphabet,
is definitely something that is ongoing. It's big,
but
I I think they're right. I think they're

(01:24):
absolutely
right in the,
in the verdict. I think they're right in
seeking this action.
Search,
which I well know,
is
is definitely one of those situations where Google
has a has a stranglehold
on things.

(01:45):
And,
the
assistant attendee
the assistant
attorney general
who heads the DOJ's antitrust division
said Monday before opening statements that each generation
has called for the DOJ
to challenge
a large company
that's crushed competition. Now in past decades, it

(02:06):
was Standard Oil,
AT and T,
and now it's Google.
I will say that the breakup of AT
and T and
what end up resulting
was good
ultimately for consumers.
There was a period of,
you know, I guess for a better question

(02:26):
questions by consumers.
So a breakup of Google search,
diversification
of or divestiture of Google Chrome,
something to that effect
would probably be good
for consumers
in the wrong one long run.
And, now they want more

(02:49):
more than just the what they're calling divestment
of Google Chrome.
The government wants the judge to force the
company to demand Google from paying
mobile device makers and browser companies for search
distribution.
It also wants to require that Google share
its search query clicks and result data
that left the door open to a possible,

(03:13):
again, divestiture of Google's Android operating system.
So the only flexibility
offered by the prosecutors
concerns
AI.
They scaled back a proposal from,
the former administration that pushed Google to sell
off its AI,

(03:33):
assets or bets.
So we'll see.
Now the DOJ is in its in its
opening statement.
Use Google of repeating the tactics that it's
made in illegal search monopoly
by buying up placements for its, Gemini chatbot
and on Android powered devices.

(03:54):
So
not buying up.
It's their device. So we will see,
where all of this leads.
So that's the lead story for episode 815.
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(07:06):
So hope everyone's doing well. I tell you,
it seems like
and even today. Here we go. I've gotten
everything's been working fantastic.
Stream has been working good.
And all of a sudden, it's just

(07:26):
I don't understand it. Camera locks up,
and I have no idea why the camera
locks up. And it's it's absolutely
annoying to me to no end.
It it's it's it's beyond bizarre.
Let's see if we can get it back.
Yeah. It's back now.

(07:48):
I I don't get
it.
I I've had
it seems I can never
get this rig
to the place I want it to be.
I I I've worked and worked and worked
and worked, and

(08:09):
may maybe just
it's just too much.
And
I ran the camera in a test situation
for hours and hours and hours yesterday.
Those of you listening to the show don't
care.
It's just been driving me
absolutely bonkers.

(08:30):
There was no,
there was no, video for the last show
because I I looked over and I was,
you know, frozen.
And
I I think it's just maybe too many
inputs.
I don't know.
I really don't. I I'm at I'm at
a loss
at this point.

(08:52):
But one thing is for sure, the instant
instance
instant. The instant I start streaming,
this thing just likes likes to roll over
and, and act dead.
It's beyond me. But, you know, I've got
myself moving again.
We'll see, we'll see if it stays up

(09:13):
and continues.
I've got to after I get the show
recorded today, I've gotta go off and get
the, my visa extended.
And then I need to,
basically, things are you know, I'm wrapping down
here. About
eighteen days or so away from heading home,

(09:34):
which,
which will solve the studio problem.
But, yeah, I look forward to,
to being back in in the original studio
and and and not fighting,
OBS. And maybe OBS is the is the
challenge. I I don't
know. But, one thing's for sure,

(09:56):
one or two too many USB connections
and you try to do too much processor
load, which really isn't even that heavy,
and then things just,
roll over and, fall on their head.
So I hope everyone's doing well. Let's go
ahead and, and get into
the stack here and see if I can

(10:18):
make it through, the show here. The FBI
oh, wanna thank our, our insiders.
We'll do that before we get too far
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(10:41):
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for your ongoing support of the podcast.
Been, looking at what's been going on with
the
streaming sats piece,

(11:03):
and, hopefully, I've got, that fixed. I don't
know. We'll see. So,
I'm I see sats coming in in the
report, but one of the distribution
points was was not working right. So, hopefully,
that
that there is is fixed. We'll do some
test boost to the show to make sure.

(11:24):
Alright. The FBI
is not
calling you to help recover from fraud.
Alright. Just be aware.
The FBI
the FBI is not calling you,
not calling your grandparent,
not calling your parent,
but scammers pretending to be from the FBI's
Internet crime complaint center have been reported more

(11:47):
than a hundred times,
probably a million times,
people from India doing impersonation
scams.
So
scammers may contact fraud victims by phone, email,
or social media.
They offer to help target recovery

(12:08):
of their lost money
or claim they've already
recovered it,
and then ask for payment or personal information
at which the points victim lose more money
and or data to yet another bad actor.
So these are they're calling people that they
have stolen money from

(12:30):
and say, hey. We got your money.
We're gonna help you get it back.
The FBI is not calling you to help
you recover from fraud.
So if you've got a family member that
has been defrauded,
make sure you let them know they will
not be called
to recover money from fraud.
Countries are shoring up their digital defense

(12:53):
as global tensions rise
in the threat of trade wars and everything
else. They move things are moving to cyber
warfare.
And,
we know that there's been attacks on,
municipal water plants that happened before,
but

(13:13):
we know that
people are not happy.
And when people are not happy,
then
these types of cyber warfare activities type
of things ramp up.
And vulnerabilities have grown as,
as people and businesses
are using connected devices

(13:33):
to get to count steps, manage finance, operate
facilities.
Each network and connection is a potential target
for foreign government.
And, again, espionage is one motive,
and, of course, others is to control infrastructure
or just get access
to intellectual property, whatever it may be.

(13:54):
So,
just be aware out there
of what may be happening in the world
and,
and and and, you know, and just, you
know, be advised.
Airbnb is making a change. They're now going
to show the full price of your of
your stay by

(14:16):
default. You'll no longer need to use a
toggle
to see the cost of your stay including
fees,
which is good. This will include
including the cleaning fees,
any taxes, any special stuff that goes on
with the reservation.
So
this is a smart move. And if you
haven't used Airbnb lately or ever at all,

(14:38):
you may not have known this, but they
did. They hid the full price.
And they showed the daily rate, but they
didn't show all the extra taxes and stuff.
Then you went to check out, like, what
is this?
And, have have a big, big surprise here.
Neuroscientists
are racing to turn brainwaves
into speech.

(14:58):
So
researchers, universities across California and companies such as
New York based
Precision Neuroscience
are among those making headway
towards generating natural
speech through a combination of brain implants and
artificial intelligence.
Investment and attention have long been focused on
implants that enable severely disabled people to operate

(15:22):
computer keyboard and so forth.
And some regain some of their
freedom back. But those
that
those that have the inability
to speak.
This is a sector that's being worked on,

(15:43):
in a big, big way.
And,
they're connecting a a variety of probes into
the brain,
which is kinda scary in itself,
and then taking those brainwaves
and converting that to speech.
And,
they it's getting better.
The basically, they've trained

(16:07):
these systems on neural networks,
to speak up to a 24
different words.
There's a bit of a delay, a hundred
to two hundred millisecond gap
in in normal speech.
And,
but they've been able to increase the,
median decoding speed to about 47 and a

(16:27):
half words per minute.
So,
again, as more people
volunteer,
test these systems, the better they will get
over time.
So,
good to see that this type of activity
is happening to help those that are
unable to speak.

(16:48):
This
world is fast fast fast changing.
Multiple top
CISA officials behind Secure by Design have resigned.
In a statement
to Cyber Scoop,
acting director Bridgette Bean said that encouraging the
private sector to build more secure products will
continue to be a priority at the agency.

(17:11):
The two top officials
who worked
with the private sector to manufacture
secure products and technology are leaving the agency.
Bob Lord and Laren
Zabrick,
senior advisers were two of the chief architects
behind CISA's
secured by design initiative

(17:31):
and garnered voluntary commitments from major vendors.
Both of them in dueling LinkedIn posts said
they were departing the agency.
Not specifically
why, but the departure definitely does
raise questions
about the state of secure fate of secure
by design.

(17:53):
So more shakeups
or changes
at c I s a.
This is kind of a funny statement.
Verizon consumer
CEO
let me get my water out here. Verizon
consumer
CEO says net neutrality

(18:13):
went literally nowhere. Now think about that statement
for a second.
When this
individual
made this statement,
think about the attempts
in the history of Verizon and others to
aggressively lobby against
net neutrality rules.

(18:34):
I don't know what net neutrality does.
I still don't know what the problem we
are trying to solve with net neutrality.
Well, it was laid out very clearly.
And
it was about having an open free Internet,
no bandwidth restrictions,

(18:54):
all kinds of other things. Yet they fought
against it, but don't understand
what they were trying to solve.
It's a very curious
comment.
It really, really is.
All these years later, you would think
they would know
what would this was in reference to.

(19:18):
There's continued
fallout from,
fake PDF converters.
Fake PDF converters are spreading malware to steal
users and worse.
We've known about this. We talked about this
in a prior show.
Fake PDF converters are tricking users with clone

(19:38):
sites
and fake CAPTCHAs.
Hackers use realistic design and social
engineering to avoid detection.
So most software today,
Google Docs will allow you to save something
in a PDF or import from a doc
and save as a PDF.

(20:01):
You don't often need a special software program
to change something into a PDF.
Most
save as functions
in Word and Snagit and a whole bunch
of other applications
will you allow you will allow you to
save as a PDF
even as your printer. If you want to

(20:22):
print a page,
instead of selecting the printer option,
you can select save as PDF.
So lots of ways
to to convert things. Now if you're trying
to do this on your mobile device,
again, be careful of what you're loading,

(20:44):
and you do not need
a file conversion program to do this.
You really, really don't.
It's it's handled,
what what applications are people having trouble
converting PDFs? That's that's what I would like
to know. You know, where where where in
lies the challenge, and why are people needing

(21:06):
to download a PDF
converter
when so many applications have outputs that allow
you to save as a PDF?
And a little bit of a change of
pace here in science news, and this is
one that I kinda scratch my head on.
Scientists are using fiber optics to spy on

(21:27):
ice quakes. Yes. I said that correctly. Ice
quakes
deep inside a Swiss glacier.
Now
in an environment
where traditional seismic sensors often fail,
researchers from ETH Zurich led by Tom Hudson

(21:47):
and Andreas Fichtner
installed a dense two d fiber optic grid
across a crevice field on
that's called Goronglaster,
Switzerland's largest glacier.
The gull captured elusive
seismic signals of ice quakes caused by crevice
formation.

(22:11):
Now
why
why
are we studying
this? What is what is the importance
of this data?
They say it could assist in modeling
glacier behavior,

(22:32):
quote, unquote, in response to climate change,
to break the speed and scale of melt
driven contributions to sea level rise.
Okay.
We know the glaciers are melting.
Does this really is this really

(22:54):
valuable science?
Sometimes, I, you know, I understand people have
a very interesting
study points, but,
yeah, I I guess whatever whatever floats your
boat,
to be honest with you. I guess people
study paper airplanes too, but
sometimes I just wonder,

(23:14):
really, is this
valid science? But someone's paying for it. The
FTC is suing Uber,
says the company charged for Uber One without
consent.
The regulatory claim that customers are wrongly promised
savings when the when they sign up for
Uber One and the company makes it difficult
to cancel the subscription.

(23:37):
Well, we know that making it hard to
cancel subscription
is now
underneath the radar of the FTC.
So the agency claims Uber violate FTC act
and restore online shoppers confidence acts by providing
misleading information
about its Uber One subscription service, failing to

(23:57):
provide a simple way for users to cancel
and charging them without their consent.
They say Americans are getting tired of signing
up for unwanted subscriptions that seem impossible to
cancel.
So
the FTC is fighting back
on behalf of the American people. I do
say some of this stuff is a bit

(24:18):
ridiculous.
I got a few reoccurring charges that I
had to hunt and hunt and hunt to
find the way to cancel. It's often been
elusive.
You don't wanna get to the point where
you call your credit card company, but sometimes
they make it that difficult.
Blue Sky is getting blue check marks and

(24:40):
an official verification system.
Similar to x.
So, again, Blue Sky is adopting the official
verification
system that changes NobleShift
for the platform,
which previously registered the idea of centralized verification
up to now. The company has relied on
domain based verification system, which allow users to
change their handles to match domain

(25:04):
associated with, but that approach was criticized
for being often overcomplicated.
These critiques have only amplified as blue sky
and has grown in popularity.
So under this new system, the company will
proactively
verify certain accounts and add prominent blue check
marks
to their profile.

(25:26):
It's not clear what criteria Blue Sky will
use for these badges. Sound like x?
It it sure does, doesn't it?
Meta
is using its AI detection tech to shuffle
more young users into teen accounts.
Lying about a birth year may not be
enough to evade
detection.

(25:47):
So if this actually works, this will be
a good thing.
The company says it's taken steps to ensure
that age detection tech is accurate.
But in case it makes a stake, users
that the EI suspected being a teen have
an option to change their settings and stick
with adult content. Well, why don't we just
ask for some sort of verification?

(26:08):
If you say I'm if the person says
they're 18 and they're 16
and the system says,
I think you're 16. You can change it
back to 18. What what does that
do?
Makes all their work mute point. It really,
really does.

(26:29):
We know that made a debut teen accounts
in Instagram
last fall,
and, of course, they've expanded them to Facebook
and and Messenger.
Now this is a wild one.
Archaeologists
have uncovered 317
skeletons underneath the department store.

(26:50):
So
arch archaeologists
archaeologists
working I I can't speak this morning.
Working at two separate sites in Europe have
made strikingly similar discoveries.
A total of 317
skeletons were uncovered at both locations, one in
Paris beneath the monoprint store and other

(27:10):
in in England beneath what was once
a a Devon's department
store. Turns out that
one was a medieval
hospital and one was a forgotten
church.
So, of course, you can understand why bodies
may have been found

(27:31):
underneath the location of a previous hospital.
And what's interesting about how the bodies were
laid out was
rows and rows
of humans carefully
laid side by side
and then layered, which is even more kind
of interesting.
And,
they basically

(27:52):
used a repeated use of a burial grounds
deep
and medium and shallow.
So,
and, of course, the same thing has happened
in England,
near a church,
which was, more than likely,
very close
to a cemetery, which,

(28:12):
you know, it was pretty common even in
The United States.
A lot of, cemeteries were right next to,
to, to churches.
Google has released Gemini 2.5 Flash with hybrid
reasoning and and is boasting faster speeds.
This new AMI model, which it seems like

(28:33):
we're getting a new AI model every week,
it's called the high bring reasoning.
Developers can able or disable the thinking process
maintaining speed while improving accuracy.
The new model claims to be faster, and
the Gemini 2.5
flash also, quote, unquote,
outperforms competing AI models. That's, of course, always

(28:57):
the headline.
Mine's faster. Mine's better. Mine's faster. Mine's better.
Mine faster. Mine's faster. Mine's better.
It just
never ends.
Again,
I'm just putting a warning out here so
that you can warn your loved ones scammers
exploiting Google and PayPal tools, create fake emails

(29:18):
that pass security
checks.
Attackers are sending phishing emails
that appear to be from
[e-mail],
presented as an urgent subpoena
alert
about law enforcement seeking information from the target's
Google Google
account.

(29:39):
Again, scam, scam, scam.
Google is aware of this issue
and,
rolled out protections
to shut down this avenue for abuse. In
the meantime, we encourage user adopt two factor
authentication
and passkey, which provides strong protection against these
kinds of phishing campaigns. Well, your login doesn't

(30:01):
affect
you getting an email
from what appears to be Google or PayPal.
Just be aware again.
At the same time, Windows seems to be
borking up updates.
April's Window 11
update is borking some PCs that run CrowdStrike.

(30:25):
So after selling k b five zero five,
five five two three,
PCs with CrowdStrike,
Falcon sensor
maybe running into problems with their system.
So, again, a few bugs for business users,

(30:46):
may and cause your computer
to be unstable, stuff not even run,
apps may crash.
So when you have so many software packages
out there
across so many different operating systems, I'm just
surprised this doesn't happen,
more and more.
Samsung is on the hunt looking for iPad

(31:07):
technology for new automotive OLED
screens.
You know, this is one thing about computer
screens in cars. They have to be much,
much brighter,
And o l e d seems
the way ahead.
So we'll see what,

(31:27):
what Samsung comes up with in this regard.
A lot of you are taking your kids
to see the Minecraft movie.
Minecraft movie has topped the box office. Of
course, with the lack of movies out there
right now, it it doesn't come
as a surprise.
The fancy adventure comedy film earned 6,520,000.00

(31:50):
on its second Thursday,
making it the third biggest second Thursday among
April releases
with a strong fourteen day total of $303,320,000.
And this becomes the first film in 2025
to earn over 300,000,000.
Of course, who knows how much

(32:10):
it it costs to create it.
But,
anyway,
just people are not.
Just seems like the movies
are are pretty boring. I I went to
look to go to a movie
on Sunday, and the lineup was just horrible.
It was horror films
and Minecraft. That was it.

(32:32):
Nothing
nothing really super interesting.
Nvidia took another hit today.
Nvidia stock,
did drop as chowing as Chinese Huawei
is reportedly boosting AI chip production
after export ban.
So,

(32:54):
apparently, Chinese tech giant Huawei is set to
begin shipping advanced AI chips as soon as
next month,
probably all stole from Nvidia.
And,
rep
reportedly, Huawei's nine one zero c chips
are competitive with Nvidia's h 100
AI chips. We're two generations behind its latest

(33:17):
Blackwell chips.
So
the the I guess this doesn't come as
surprise.
They've had a little bit of time to,
reverse engineer,
the NVIDIA chips and, you know, give them
a little chance. They'll they'll they'll catch up
here.
If you use Webex, make sure you update
your version of a Webex.

(33:38):
A Cisco Webex security flaw could let hackers
hijack your system via meeting invite.
So, again, make sure you update Webex if
you're using Webex.
The only people I meet with that use
Webex,
I think, is Apple.
I think Apple uses Webex.

(34:00):
I might be incorrect,
but
there's only one company I meet with ever
that
I have this, have to use that particular
meeting software.
Apple was gonna probably have a problem bringing
back manufacturing to beat the the tariffs. I
just you know, this is not gonna happen

(34:20):
that quickly.
They're calling it, there's a word for it.
And I don't know who
who come up with this term.
But
what happens and let me explain it here
first according to this article.
What happens is you start to build on

(34:41):
build at a certain place, and then the
plastic companies is built where
near where you are, then the resistor company,
and then the display company.
So formal
Intel CEO, Pat Glessinger, said on Yahoo.
So what happens is these other elements of
the supply chain start to aggregate

(35:02):
around the core element of the supply chain.
So this they sediment into those locations and
where they become fixed.
And that sediment
or sedimentation
takes decades
to happen. And then to move things
just doesn't happen very quickly. Well,
you know, I've been seeing articles here where

(35:23):
Foxconn
is just rolling into factories with forklifts,
loading workstations
up, putting them on trucks and just
moving stuff.
So
I I'm not so sure
that things can't move
quickly.
All you need is a building

(35:44):
and people
and the equipment.
Now if you're bringing stuff back to The
US, you know, that's gonna take a little
time.
But if you're moving to another country,
maybe not so,
especially if you bring the team over to
train the team.

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You know, there might be a bit of
a slowdown. Now some stuff won't move as
quick,
AKA the supporting stuff.
So but but time will tell.
Have you all heard about this thing with
this Blue Origin space flight being mocked?

(36:25):
I guess people are just
you you know, I I I don't know
what the problem is.
I you know, they took a ride in
a Blue Origin spacecraft.
They
did something that
most people would consider dangerous.
They
went to a certain altitude.

(36:46):
Whatever the US government
classifies in space.
They were there for a short period of
time.
And, no, there wasn't science done per se.
It was, you know, it was definitely a
publicity
stunt, but they were able to,
you know, be weightless.
I think it's a lot of us would

(37:07):
like to do that,
but everything revolves around this door opening
and how they weren't supposed to open it
from the inside.
So
a little bit of a, you know,
dramatics.
I think we can all agree

(37:29):
that even on
the
SpaceX vehicle,
the astronauts have the capability of opening the
door from the inside.
It's probably not the way they want them
to open.
They want them to stay in their seats.
They wanna come in and get them.
Whereas Blue Origin might be, you know, obviously,

(37:51):
they this is only takes a few minutes.
But just a lot of people are, you
know, making a mockery of it.
So,
again, I I just
it is what it is. I I woulda
went.
Would you? I I I think I woulda

(38:13):
went. So I I guess I just don't
understand
all the mockery.
You know?
Would you get strap yourself to a rocket?
NASA's curiosity
finds a major clue
that Mars was once

(38:34):
habitable.
And this is not necessarily
something new,
but it is an ongoing
clue.
Carbonate
material
was found
and,
a large deposit of carbon locked away
in carbonate minerals
and may sound a little dry,

(38:55):
a little pun there at first,
but and this is not the first time
carbonate has been detected,
but it was a very big deposit and,
has made the news headline here. So,
I think we can pretty much
be sure that some distance passed, there was
something significant

(39:16):
and some form of life that was on
Mars.
Us going there will be the only way
to really figure out exactly,
the depth of that or getting samples back
from a region that,
may have had something living in it or
on it.
Big changes for Apple iPhone 17,

(39:37):
what to expect devices. Expect to have an
a 19,
pro three
nanometer processor,
include a 48 megabook pixel camera to replace
the current 12 megapixel
rear camera.
You see the Apple c series five g
modems.
Of course, we know that there's going to

(39:59):
be,
challenges with production in a sense if they
don't get the rare earth
minerals they need to make components could slow
things down.
I think I'm okay with my current phone
for a bit. There we go again. I
froze again. How come?

(40:20):
How come I froze?
I don't get
it. As I froze, so we may have
to stick with
the screenshots for the rest of the show.
SpaceX has launched this the thirty second resupply
mission,
So,
they sent an uncrewed

(40:41):
Dragon
cargo,
to the International Space Station.
So nice job on that.
And,
let's see if I can unplug this thing
and plug it back in if that will
fix
it. Maybe.
No. No.
Let's see if that'll do it. Let me
see if I get my image back.

(41:05):
So, anyway, thirty second resupply mission. Okay. I
am back.
Now the question will be, will I be
back on the other screen?
Yeah. There we go.
I don't know what's going on with this
stupid thing.
The cargo cargo dragon mission dubbed commercial resupply

(41:27):
took 6,700
pounds to the ISS.
A judge has stroke down strike down at
Ohio law limiting kids use of social media
as unconstitutional.
So US District Court judge Allegan
Marbley decision came in a lawsuit filed by
NetChoice, a group,
a trade group organization

(41:49):
representing TikTok, Snapchat, and many others.
The organization's complaint argued that law the
law
unconstitutionally
impedes free speech
and is overly
broad and
vague.
So,
not surprising there.

(42:09):
So
people are being asked to not whole hoard
old tech.
And I've got old tech. I've got old
laptops.
I've got
old old
cell phones.
37%
of people
only 37%
of people trade in their old devices

(42:29):
while a quarter sell them.
So if you have old tech is cluttering
your home, you might be sitting on some
cash.
So
might be time to recycle.
So
there's trade
ins. We also give away. You know, oftentimes,

(42:50):
we give stuff to
family and friends.
You can use a recycling service. You can
sell.
A lot of people throw stuff away, probably
not the best idea with batteries in,
donate to a charity.
And, again, 31%
don't know what to do with them.
And I think this is the case in

(43:11):
in where I live is what what do
I do with this stuff?
So
what do you do with your old tech?
I'd love to hear
love to hear from you on on what
you do
with your old old old tech.
Alright, ladies and gentlemen. It's gonna bring us
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I'll be back with you on Thursday for
another edition of the podcast.
I wanna thank you for being here and
and hanging out with me. It's been my
pleasure to bring you the show. And,

(43:55):
I can see when I brought the camera
back that,
white balance is completely off and I'm washed
out.
But,
better to be
moving than be a, you know, a frozen
image on the screen.
Thanks, Arin, for, for hanging out with me.
Take care, and we'll see you next time

(44:17):
on the Geeked Essential Podcast. Take care. Bye
bye.