December 20, 2023 • 25 mins
Ever wondered what it's like to navigate the evolving roads of technology and lifestyle with a Lego train in hand? Grab your conductor's hat and join Matthew Cote and Tech Genius Jay for a riveting journey through Foundation Nation. We're unpacking the joy of DIY holiday projects, like Jay's epic Lego Christmas train expansion, while cruising past the days of gas price worries in our rearview mirror. Jay's switch to an electric Tesla sparks candid tales of road rage and the quirky behaviors of Prius drivers, which makes you realize that on today's roads, it's more than just engines that could use a little electric charge.
Shift into a higher gear as we dissect the seismic shift in work culture, from the return-to-office mandates to the burgeoning realm of virtual collaboration. Boeing's call to rein back remote work ignites a debate on the future of professional connectivity, with a spotlight on the efficiency of tools like Microsoft Teams. We then strap on our VR headsets to envision a workplace where daily commutes are swapped for digital teleportation into immersive, collaborative spaces. It's not just about clocking in anymore; it's about being plugged into a matrix of innovation. Stick with us, and let's navigate this digital terrain together, brought to your ears by the tech wizards at Jay's Technology Solutions.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello and welcome to Foundation Nation.
I'm your host, matthew Cote.
Today on the podcast, we'regoing to talk about some
interesting recent goings-ons inour beautiful state and maybe
even a few things going on inthis amazing round thing we call
home.
Hey, hello.
I'm Matthew Cote, host ofFoundation Nation, and we are
sitting under the SeaTac Airporthaving a little chitchat about
(00:25):
some recent local andinternational stuff, and I'm
here with TechGenius J, with J'sTechnology Solutions and what
you got.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Hi, my name is J Salmi, owner of J's Technology
Solutions.
I provide IT and AV solutionsfor you and your business.
I have the pleasure to co-hoston Foundation Nation today.
Let's start the frivolity, Matt.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay, so let's start with first topic of the day.
What the hell is frivolity,frivolity?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, fun Excitement.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's like it sounds like it should be a drink, Hmm.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That could be a fun drink.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Okay, so it's holiday season.
We have some stuff to talkabout, but I have some things
that I'm curious about.
Okay, I'm interested about it'sChristmas time.
Yes, tis the season.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Tis the season to be jolly La la, la, la la.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So we're writing some things down so I can have some
notes about your superpowers,but we were talking about DIY
project master.
So what is the project thatyou're doing and can you explain
a little bit about what that?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
is so right now, the project that we are working on
is.
It actually started about fiveyears ago with a single
Christmas style train from Legowith a track going around the
tree.
Just one train.
Now this is a multitude ofdifferent Christmas winter
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scenes mini figures, white baseplates, three train tracks.
Wait, white instead of thegreen, exactly Cause it's winter
time.
It's gotta be snow.
There's 126 base plates thatare down on the floor underneath
the Christmas tree and we arealmost done and getting it all
set up, and I will be postingvideo and pictures on my
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Facebook page here Probably bySunday night.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Is that a personal or a company one?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It'll be my personal one.
I was thinking about putting iton the company Facebook page as
well.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Okay.
Well, let us know on the nextepisode.
If you do cause, I'll add alink on the podcast.
That sounds fantastic.
Yeah, just watch it that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Christmas stuff can be really cool.
It's roughly nine feet by eightfeet in size.
Jesus, holy, yeah, that'samazing.
So we've added Lego stylelooking supports for the
elevated train track.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh, okay, so 3D print .
What is the material that the3D printer uses?
What is it called?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's technically it's filament, but it's PLA, abs,
petg PLA plus carbon fiber flexa whole bunch of different
options.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Okay, but more or less plastic yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's plastic.
Yes, correct.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I mean we have some good news going on.
I wanted to start out with somelike kind of good news Gas
prices are falling.
I don't care anymore, you don'tcare anymore.
Why is that?
I drive an electric vehicle.
You drive an electric vehicle.
Yeah, Some people love it, Somepeople hate it.
So tell me about the.
So has anybody flipped you offgoing down the road?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh, I got haters, yes .
Speaker 1 (03:39):
How do they interact like with you?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well, one car got mad at me.
I have no idea.
I know that in fact I mighthave been in Tesla and he tried
he or she, because I wasn'tlooking, tried to tap my side
view mirror with their side viewmirror what we even over and
trying to tap my side viewmirror At least that's what it
appeared to be.
I just looked straight forwardand didn't make eye contact.
Wow, too scary.
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These days People are kooky,lookey.
I had one person that I wasn'teven in the fast lane, as people
call it, the left lane.
I was in the carpool lane withcarpool person.
I was actually able to stay inthere legally, not like some
people do, and person would flyin by and flip me off.
(04:24):
Wow, my passenger looked at meand looked at how fast we were
going because, you know, in theTesla the display is right there
.
Anybody can see it in the carhow fast you're going.
Uh-huh, he looks over, he goes.
Oh, they just hate Teslas.
Oh, geez, I like and thishappens more than it should, you
know in my truck.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I haven't had any issues with Teslas.
I think their sensors just staythe hell away from the truck or
something.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But I've had no issues with but Toyota Prius'
you know, out of all thevehicles in the whole world and
you've seen my truck right, ohyeah, they're constantly cutting
me off.
That's it.
That's the only problem andthat's why I love driving my
truck, cause I you know it feelsreally safe.
If they crash, they're actuallynot going to hit me, they're
just going to go under it andcome out the other side.
(05:10):
They're not quite that small.
Yeah Well, the the the onlyissues for vehicles just like
who I want to know.
I want to interview a Priusdriver.
Like who are these people Like?
Cause I'm not looking at theirface, it's just they're just out
to get you.
They see a big truck and theyjust want to like circle around
you like a shark and poke at you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, the funny thing is is what I've noticed is it
doesn't matter what kind ofvehicle you got, People are
going to cut you off.
You know, I've seen smart carsget cut off by big trucks.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Vice versa.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, the the road rage is horrible right now.
It's gotten worse and all youhave to do is just look out your
window just to see if you canmove over, and if someone thinks
you're giving them a bad look,they'll get mad at you.
Uh-huh, you know it's, it's in,who knows if it's gas prices,
if it's the pandemic, whichpeople blame the pandemic for
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more than they should have Inthe least, that's my opinion.
Remind, remember people.
These are our opinions, not asactual fact on a lot of this.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
We talk about all.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I do is talk about facts, the fact of your opinion.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I'm going to eat a cookie right now.
Let's see how this sounds onthe radio.
Let me see huh.
Are you able to hear it?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yes, it sound like a cookie, sounds like you're
chewing.
Hmm, interesting.
But in all, in all reality, Ido.
Actually, my wife and I stillhave a gas vehicle.
Okay, it's a 69 Chevelle.
Oh, 69 Chevelle.
Oh, I've seen that, that'sright.
Yeah, we don't fill it up thatoften cause it's not driven very
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much.
So, yes, I go to the gasstation when it gets filled up
and I don't even look at howmuch is going in.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, so okay, look, if you have to, if you have to
fix your your, what Chevelle,yeah, your Chevy.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Chevelle, is it carbureted?
No, I put fuel injection in itmyself.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, so you have a Chevelle, you got fuel injection
, so you can fix that with ascrewdriver.
Now, if you're Tesla, you need27 laptops and a PhD.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, with the warranty on it, I don't care,
just Tesla fixes it and I moveon my day.
Hmm, okay, so the warranty isquite nice.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
The warranty is strong.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I'm the third owner of mine and it's worked out well
.
The warranty is true.
It does transfer with the car,not with the original owner.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Well, that's good.
Well, so right now national gasprice averages are 314.
That's low, it seems low, andthey were at $4.74.
So we're below over a dollar.
You know, about 60% of the gasstations in the country are at
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$3 a gallon and they're gonnasay they're gonna get below
$2.75.
So when gas so I remember like10 years ago we were gonna run
out of gas and it was this bigold thing going on and it was
the end of the world.
So I read an article probablyfive years ago, interesting
article.
This guy, it was a Forddealership.
(08:17):
They had a guy come in have achat with them.
He had a car, a four door sedan.
I think I might've told youthat one time.
No, maybe I don't know.
He comes walking in to Forddealership, four door sedan,
sits down, gives them apresentation.
This car gets 320 miles agallon.
It's a gasoline car, four doorsedan.
(08:38):
How's that even probable?
I don't know, but this was inthe 80s.
Where the hell is that car?
And would we need electric carsif they got 150 miles to the
gallon?
You know, that's what that's.
I was just wondering.
You know how much of a play thebig boys, what do they call
them, the big five, you know the, you know the big manufacturers
.
How much of them?
(08:58):
Because we know.
I know for a fact that long agoa guy invented intermittent
wipers.
He took them to the Forddealership.
This was on a Netflix thing,the documentary.
He took it to the Forddealership and he said this is
what I have, this intermittentwiper thing.
And they're like oh, this isthe dumbest shit I've ever seen.
He walks out like three weekslater they invent it and it's on
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every one of their cars.
So I know that they buy andbury things or they buy, you
know they'll, they're verystrong, they're very competitive
, you know, or in that way, andcontrolling.
So I just wonder how much of it.
You know the electricmanufacturers are having to
battle through with these guys.
You know, right, because I knowthat somehow they like made
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some weird law where you can'teven have electric dealership
kind of thing, right?
So you can only have like anelectric car in a mall, in a
store, but you can't have like afull on, for example, tesla
dealership, like you can have aHonda dealership or a Chevy
dealership.
There's some weirdness going onthere.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That's intriguing because I heard the opposite of
that, that car manufacturerswere upset and basically saying
that Tesla had to have adealership.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So it's amazing.
I don't really know what'sgoing on, but there's some
definitely some big you knowball swing and watermelon size
deals going on out there aboutthat stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And when you look up information, you and I could
type in to look for the samething and we'll both get three
different answers.
Right, right, so it's just theway it is.
And you know, and as far as gasprices and electric cars and
everything, I remember back inhigh school my chemistry teacher
was talking about thetechnology where, literally, you
take the hydrogen out of waterHydrogen Out of water and you
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use that to burn and make amotor, an engine, run and the
byproduct is oxygen.
This technology exists and yetit never actually made it
anywhere.
Early on in the internet, whenyou could actually look up
YouTube videos and you knoweverything was out there and you
could see a lot.
And I remember finding aarticle in a video about a guy I
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don't know if it was Canada orthe US, but it was over on the
East Coast, around the GreatLakes, somewhere.
Like I said, I don't know if itwas Canada or the US, but it
was right around that area andhe had a video where he ran his
car.
He made an adjustment to allthe changes and custom made
whatever he needed and he pouredwater in and the engine ran and
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he could drive it.
It was a hydrogen.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Hydrogen car Okay.
Well here, Jay.
Okay.
Have you ever heard of a gasbomb?
No, yeah, but they have thelargest non-nuclear weapon in
the world as a hydrogen bomb.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But you're talking massive amount of hydrogen in
those.
This is a small amount.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Oh, so it's just a little bomb.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, it's just a little bomb.
You do know that your gas truckthat's sitting right outside
here is a bomb as well.
Right, it can explode.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
All right, okay cool, we're all driving around bombs.
Remember the?
Do you remember the Ford Pinto?
Have you ever?
Have you ever read so FordPinto had they own the record
for the biggest nastiest recallthere ever was.
You rear end the Ford Pinto andit blows up because the gas
tank was right behind the bumper.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, they did the same thing with the Ford
Explorer.
I mean Explorer, Ha ha ha ha,holy shit.
Ford Explorer.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Lord Explorer.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
They had that same issue with that.
They had to change that too,that's interesting.
Most tanks on a lot of cars arebehind the back bumper are 69
Chevelle.
The gas tank is right behindthe bumper.
You actually have to open thelicense plate in order to get to
the fuel fill to put gas in.
So you're literally goingthrough the bumper to fill up
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the gas tank.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Well, my 72 Chevy truck that I drive around the
blue and white one the gas tankis directly behind the seat so
you can smash into the truck allyou want, it's not gonna blow
up.
But you're completely high theentire time you're driving it
from the gas fumes.
So you know it's kind of atrade-off safety and
hallucination.
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Speaker 1 (13:27):
So a big company that we have locally here is Boeing,
and they're kind of heading thetrend to get everybody to go
back to work full-time andstarting January 1st, when
everybody comes back, and youknow, from Christmas vacations
and stuff, they want everybodyback in the office full-time.
And you were just telling meabout how your dad lived in
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Puyallup and worked in Everett.
Correct, there's a lot.
So that's far.
Yes, that's hella far.
Actually, is there a train that?
No, it doesn't go that far.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
No, we're talking.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
This is back in the late 80s or 90s, so I think that
from what I know, there'speople that live even further
than that that work for Boeing.
So you know, because they it'sbeen a few years, maybe more now
, that they've been workingremotely and they've had to, you
know, they want to buy a houseand the houses are expensive.
(14:23):
To close to you get Seattle, sothey got to kind of like go
further away to get a house theycan afford, right.
So now it's like you knowBoeing.
I don't understand, like whatdo you think?
Why do they want everybody backin the office?
What's the deal?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Well, there's two types of employees that we got
to think about here, matt, isthe fact that you have employees
that actually physically workon planes or cars or whatever
the manufacturing process is fora said company, with the office
staff, which is what Boeing istalking about.
Anyone who works in the officeand collaborates on projects, as
far as contracts and designwork and everything like that,
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they can work remotely from homewith the proper setup for
collaborating, especially withlike some people hate it, some
people don't Microsoft Teamsgreat way to collaborate
together.
But when you're in person,physically next to somebody,
you're able to collaborate a lotfaster, a lot quicker and a lot
easier.
So I agree and disagree withgoing back to full-in time for
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employees, because a lot ofthese positions that companies
have, they can have them do itremotely from their own home.
But keep in mind, if a employeedoesn't do their work
efficiently then, yeah, I canunderstand.
They want them to come back tothe office because there's no
distractions you have at home.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Right, you can focus on actually doing what you're
getting paid for in the best wayyou can.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
And there's those that I actually know, people
personally, that work out of thehome.
They have their wife, they havetheir kids, their kids are
homeschooled and for both ofthese people I'm talking about
the husband's, the one thatworks and they are 100% focused
on their job during that time.
Did you say at home?
At home, okay, and they don'tget distracted by their family
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because they know they have theparameter set up.
Right, and as long as you dothat, you can get very good work
out of employees.
Right, and that depends on theemployee and their living
arrangements and how well theywork.
Right, when you we were justtalking about gas prices, get
people off the road and thatreduces congestion, it reduces
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smog, it reduces wear and tearon the roads.
Right, sure, I mean, there's somany benefits to working
remotely.
And even if remotely means hey,we understand that we got like,
let's say, let's say Eatonville, right, we'll just throw
something that's way out.
Hey, eatonville, mike, you know, whatever company, let's say
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Alaska, let's say they got 50people in Eatonville, don't make
them come all the way up toSeattle.
Yeah, yeah, build an office inPuyallup or Graham or Bonnie
Lake, you know something closer.
And there you go, everyone cancollaborate down there.
That would actually enhancethat's probably a good idea A
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real satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, instead of having a giant building with
everybody in it, have smallersatellite offices.
You know around and I thinkthat would probably that would
probably increase your retentiontoo, you know.
So the CEO, david Calhoun Ithink he goes by Dave he had an
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all hands meeting and his quotewas our virtual moment was a
great moment.
It taught all of us, especiallyold timers, that people can
work virtually and he believesthat there are massive benefits
associated.
When people are Together, theydo have to work.
Do they have to work five daysa week?
He's not sure, but he I thinkhe's driving the main theme here
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, which is he sees a Benefit ineverybody being together, kind
of working as a tribe in oneplace at one.
So so, if that's the case, ifyou're trying to so, if, if
you're Want you know.
So I see two kind of two, twothings here.
One is the worker being a goodworker and doing their job, and
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then also they.
There's a lot more benefits tothem all being together, working
together.
So I do see that, and I thinkthat's what they're doing is
they just want everybodytogether, working together as a
team, right, you know, andhaving that camaraderie, and
even satellite offices orwhatever, I don't think you can.
You can get that so well, thatis true.
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What is the rest of the worlddoing is this?
Is this remote shit, the youknow is just in the United
States, or is it?
Is the world doing this?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I don't know.
I actually have not been payingattention to rest of the world,
but I do know the rest of theworld in the United States are
not hand-in-hand.
No, so many things.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I feel like I my guess is Everybody's, you know
working together, you know, in aclose way to get things done.
I know that a Good friend ofmine he has a sister that works
for a company in Ukraine andthey make Prescript per
prescription glasses andsunglass frames out of recycling
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, out of plastic.
They mold them and they makethem out of plastic.
They don't make the lensesright, but they make the frames
for sunglasses and prescriptionglasses in Ukraine out of scrap
plastic.
And it's like you know they'renot a super big company, I think
they're like 50 people orsomething like that, whatever.
But they owe their Success toeverybody in one place working
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together.
And the way they did it waslike the fact.
It's like imagine a big, giantsquare, a warehouse, and On the
all the outside edge of thewarehouse, all the way around
the outside edge, is all theoffice cubicles and spaces to
work and in the middle is afactory, and and so every, I
mean they're intertwined to thenext level.
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You know, right, they spinaround their chair and they're
looking directly in the factory.
I thought that was a geniusIdea, you know, yeah, to be
involved in.
Like you know, you're rightthere.
You know, imagine, imagineworking in a, in a bread factory
.
You know, make a really good.
Well, what's your favorite food?
Pizza, pizza, okay.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I, because I was got pretty common, for my mind too.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
So, okay, so we're.
Imagine that we're like youknow, we're both like the CEOs
of a present of pizza company,okay, and all our workers are
there, and so it's same scenario, right, we're in the office,
but the office is around theoutside edge and in the middle
is a giant pizza factory cookingand making pizzas.
You know well, probably we'd beEither constantly hungry,
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constantly full, or so goddamnfat we wouldn't even be able to
work.
There'd be couches all the wayaround.
I don't know, but it wouldreally, you know, you'd be in it
.
You'd go home Smelling likepizza sauce, like when I worked
at Pizza Hut.
Yeah, yeah, the best.
That's the best pizza pizza.
It's the best pizza.
Papa John's pizza, john.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I like Brewery City Pizza, the best Brewery City.
Where's a brewery City pizza?
There's three locations downthe Lacy in Olympia area.
Oh, brewery is.
That is that kind of a Chicagostyle deep dish thing, or, you
know, I'm not very good atknowing the different styles but
I don't know.
No, this is more likehand-tossed.
Oh, okay, oh okay, second bestfor me is round table, round
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table.
Yeah, they have good pizza,that's right yeah so when you're
bringing up these fact of theseemployees Working around the
warehouse, yeah right, yeah.
So in this day and age with AIand virtual reality, there are
other options that are comingvery much to the forefront.
Of course, you have theMicrosoft Holo lens.
You can work in 3d, in virtualand real reality at the same
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time with multiple people.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So you're all in like a virtual room.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Right, you have the Holo lens on and you're looking
and you could have like thatmake people sick.
The Holo lens is a see-throughlens, oh, okay you can see your
surroundings as well as what isbeing projected in in real time.
And then you got the AppleProvision Coming out early in
the year, okay, and that istechnically closed, but because
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of all the cameras and thetechnology that Apple uses, you
see what's around you in realtime, hmm, and it takes away
Based on their studies, they'resaying it takes away from that
feeling vertical, of feelingdizzy.
Okay, and you know, awesome toeliminate.
And then if someone, if youstart talking to someone that
came up to you and they'retalking to you and you're
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talking to them, the front ofthe Provision, uh-huh, the, the
lens on it is actually like a TV, a little tiny TV screen,
uh-huh, and it'll show your eyesand in that main part of your
face so they could see youlooking at them.
Yeah, and then when you stoptalking with them, it goes back
to just a blank screen andeveryone knows you're immersed
in whatever you're doing.
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Okay, but the Provision, youcan work in that real time and
virtual reality and collaborateon stuff in.
You can have an object thereand all of you can add and
subtract stuff to it and andwork together to create
something.
Oh, okay, an object, yeahinteresting imagine being inside
a video game where you caninteract with it and add and
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take yeah like record.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Ralph, yeah, exactly, yeah, going in there fighting
bids.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You know, I mean it's going to bring a whole new
meaning to um A TV monitor.
Oh, right, right, you canliterally have a TV here.
You can have your face timehere, you have your zoom call
here and inner, inner, innerTwine between all of them, right
, right.
So I would not suggest having aface time and a zoom call at
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the same time.
That would really get confusing.
But you could be on a zoom calland have your power point up
and see it.
Right, everything is as largeor small as you need it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Well, I'm gonna wrap this up.
We'll save the other articlesand stuff for another time, but
I'm going to spend some time andbring some more technology
conversations from the table.
That's gonna be really cool andthat's gonna be one of them on
the next show.
So I wanted to thank techgenius j for uh co-host in and
joining us for some time and andI'm Matthew Cote, this is
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foundation nation.
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Hello and welcome to Foundation Nation.
I'm your host, matthew Cote.
Today on the podcast, we'regoing to talk about some
interesting recent goings-ons inour beautiful state and maybe
even a few things going on inthis amazing round thing we call
home.
Hey, hello.
I'm Matthew Cote, host ofFoundation Nation, and we are
sitting under the SeaTac Airporthaving a little chitchat about
(00:25):
some recent local andinternational stuff, and I'm
here with TechGenius J, with J'sTechnology Solutions and what
you got.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Hi, my name is J Salmi, owner of J's Technology
Solutions.
I provide IT and AV solutionsfor you and your business.
I have the pleasure to co-hoston Foundation Nation today.
Let's start the frivolity, Matt.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay, so let's start with first topic of the day.
What the hell is frivolity,frivolity?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, fun Excitement.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's like it sounds like it should be a drink, Hmm.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That could be a fun drink.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Okay, so it's holiday season.
We have some stuff to talkabout, but I have some things
that I'm curious about.
Okay, I'm interested about it'sChristmas time.
Yes, tis the season.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Tis the season to be jolly La la, la, la la.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
So we're writing some things down so I can have some
notes about your superpowers,but we were talking about DIY
project master.
So what is the project thatyou're doing and can you explain
a little bit about what that?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
is so right now, the project that we are working on
is.
It actually started about fiveyears ago with a single
Christmas style train from Legowith a track going around the
tree.
Just one train.
Now this is a multitude ofdifferent Christmas winter
(01:58):
scenes mini figures, white baseplates, three train tracks.
Wait, white instead of thegreen, exactly Cause it's winter
time.
It's gotta be snow.
There's 126 base plates thatare down on the floor underneath
the Christmas tree and we arealmost done and getting it all
set up, and I will be postingvideo and pictures on my
(02:20):
Facebook page here Probably bySunday night.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Is that a personal or a company one?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It'll be my personal one.
I was thinking about putting iton the company Facebook page as
well.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Okay.
Well, let us know on the nextepisode.
If you do cause, I'll add alink on the podcast.
That sounds fantastic.
Yeah, just watch it that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Christmas stuff can be really cool.
It's roughly nine feet by eightfeet in size.
Jesus, holy, yeah, that'samazing.
So we've added Lego stylelooking supports for the
elevated train track.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh, okay, so 3D print .
What is the material that the3D printer uses?
What is it called?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
It's technically it's filament, but it's PLA, abs,
petg PLA plus carbon fiber flexa whole bunch of different
options.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Okay, but more or less plastic yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's plastic.
Yes, correct.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I mean we have some good news going on.
I wanted to start out with somelike kind of good news Gas
prices are falling.
I don't care anymore, you don'tcare anymore.
Why is that?
I drive an electric vehicle.
You drive an electric vehicle.
Yeah, Some people love it, Somepeople hate it.
So tell me about the.
So has anybody flipped you offgoing down the road?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh, I got haters, yes .
Speaker 1 (03:39):
How do they interact like with you?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Well, one car got mad at me.
I have no idea.
I know that in fact I mighthave been in Tesla and he tried
he or she, because I wasn'tlooking, tried to tap my side
view mirror with their side viewmirror what we even over and
trying to tap my side viewmirror At least that's what it
appeared to be.
I just looked straight forwardand didn't make eye contact.
Wow, too scary.
(04:04):
These days People are kooky,lookey.
I had one person that I wasn'teven in the fast lane, as people
call it, the left lane.
I was in the carpool lane withcarpool person.
I was actually able to stay inthere legally, not like some
people do, and person would flyin by and flip me off.
(04:24):
Wow, my passenger looked at meand looked at how fast we were
going because, you know, in theTesla the display is right there
.
Anybody can see it in the carhow fast you're going.
Uh-huh, he looks over, he goes.
Oh, they just hate Teslas.
Oh, geez, I like and thishappens more than it should, you
know in my truck.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
I haven't had any issues with Teslas.
I think their sensors just staythe hell away from the truck or
something.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
But I've had no issues with but Toyota Prius'
you know, out of all thevehicles in the whole world and
you've seen my truck right, ohyeah, they're constantly cutting
me off.
That's it.
That's the only problem andthat's why I love driving my
truck, cause I you know it feelsreally safe.
If they crash, they're actuallynot going to hit me, they're
just going to go under it andcome out the other side.
(05:10):
They're not quite that small.
Yeah Well, the the the onlyissues for vehicles just like
who I want to know.
I want to interview a Priusdriver.
Like who are these people Like?
Cause I'm not looking at theirface, it's just they're just out
to get you.
They see a big truck and theyjust want to like circle around
you like a shark and poke at you.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, the funny thing is is what I've noticed is it
doesn't matter what kind ofvehicle you got, People are
going to cut you off.
You know, I've seen smart carsget cut off by big trucks.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Vice versa.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, the the road rage is horrible right now.
It's gotten worse and all youhave to do is just look out your
window just to see if you canmove over, and if someone thinks
you're giving them a bad look,they'll get mad at you.
Uh-huh, you know it's, it's in,who knows if it's gas prices,
if it's the pandemic, whichpeople blame the pandemic for
(06:03):
more than they should have Inthe least, that's my opinion.
Remind, remember people.
These are our opinions, not asactual fact on a lot of this.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
We talk about all.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
I do is talk about facts, the fact of your opinion.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I'm going to eat a cookie right now.
Let's see how this sounds onthe radio.
Let me see huh.
Are you able to hear it?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yes, it sound like a cookie, sounds like you're
chewing.
Hmm, interesting.
But in all, in all reality, Ido.
Actually, my wife and I stillhave a gas vehicle.
Okay, it's a 69 Chevelle.
Oh, 69 Chevelle.
Oh, I've seen that, that'sright.
Yeah, we don't fill it up thatoften cause it's not driven very
(06:44):
much.
So, yes, I go to the gasstation when it gets filled up
and I don't even look at howmuch is going in.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Well, so okay, look, if you have to, if you have to
fix your your, what Chevelle,yeah, your Chevy.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Chevelle, is it carbureted?
No, I put fuel injection in itmyself.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Okay, so you have a Chevelle, you got fuel injection
, so you can fix that with ascrewdriver.
Now, if you're Tesla, you need27 laptops and a PhD.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, with the warranty on it, I don't care,
just Tesla fixes it and I moveon my day.
Hmm, okay, so the warranty isquite nice.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
The warranty is strong.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I'm the third owner of mine and it's worked out well
.
The warranty is true.
It does transfer with the car,not with the original owner.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Well, that's good.
Well, so right now national gasprice averages are 314.
That's low, it seems low, andthey were at $4.74.
So we're below over a dollar.
You know, about 60% of the gasstations in the country are at
(07:53):
$3 a gallon and they're gonnasay they're gonna get below
$2.75.
So when gas so I remember like10 years ago we were gonna run
out of gas and it was this bigold thing going on and it was
the end of the world.
So I read an article probablyfive years ago, interesting
article.
This guy, it was a Forddealership.
(08:17):
They had a guy come in have achat with them.
He had a car, a four door sedan.
I think I might've told youthat one time.
No, maybe I don't know.
He comes walking in to Forddealership, four door sedan,
sits down, gives them apresentation.
This car gets 320 miles agallon.
It's a gasoline car, four doorsedan.
(08:38):
How's that even probable?
I don't know, but this was inthe 80s.
Where the hell is that car?
And would we need electric carsif they got 150 miles to the
gallon?
You know, that's what that's.
I was just wondering.
You know how much of a play thebig boys, what do they call
them, the big five, you know the, you know the big manufacturers
.
How much of them?
(08:58):
Because we know.
I know for a fact that long agoa guy invented intermittent
wipers.
He took them to the Forddealership.
This was on a Netflix thing,the documentary.
He took it to the Forddealership and he said this is
what I have, this intermittentwiper thing.
And they're like oh, this isthe dumbest shit I've ever seen.
He walks out like three weekslater they invent it and it's on
(09:20):
every one of their cars.
So I know that they buy andbury things or they buy, you
know they'll, they're verystrong, they're very competitive
, you know, or in that way, andcontrolling.
So I just wonder how much of it.
You know the electricmanufacturers are having to
battle through with these guys.
You know, right, because I knowthat somehow they like made
(09:41):
some weird law where you can'teven have electric dealership
kind of thing, right?
So you can only have like anelectric car in a mall, in a
store, but you can't have like afull on, for example, tesla
dealership, like you can have aHonda dealership or a Chevy
dealership.
There's some weirdness going onthere.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That's intriguing because I heard the opposite of
that, that car manufacturerswere upset and basically saying
that Tesla had to have adealership.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So it's amazing.
I don't really know what'sgoing on, but there's some
definitely some big you knowball swing and watermelon size
deals going on out there aboutthat stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And when you look up information, you and I could
type in to look for the samething and we'll both get three
different answers.
Right, right, so it's just theway it is.
And you know, and as far as gasprices and electric cars and
everything, I remember back inhigh school my chemistry teacher
was talking about thetechnology where, literally, you
take the hydrogen out of waterHydrogen Out of water and you
(10:41):
use that to burn and make amotor, an engine, run and the
byproduct is oxygen.
This technology exists and yetit never actually made it
anywhere.
Early on in the internet, whenyou could actually look up
YouTube videos and you knoweverything was out there and you
could see a lot.
And I remember finding aarticle in a video about a guy I
(11:06):
don't know if it was Canada orthe US, but it was over on the
East Coast, around the GreatLakes, somewhere.
Like I said, I don't know if itwas Canada or the US, but it
was right around that area andhe had a video where he ran his
car.
He made an adjustment to allthe changes and custom made
whatever he needed and he pouredwater in and the engine ran and
(11:27):
he could drive it.
It was a hydrogen.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Hydrogen car Okay.
Well here, Jay.
Okay.
Have you ever heard of a gasbomb?
No, yeah, but they have thelargest non-nuclear weapon in
the world as a hydrogen bomb.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But you're talking massive amount of hydrogen in
those.
This is a small amount.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Oh, so it's just a little bomb.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, it's just a little bomb.
You do know that your gas truckthat's sitting right outside
here is a bomb as well.
Right, it can explode.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
All right, okay cool, we're all driving around bombs.
Remember the?
Do you remember the Ford Pinto?
Have you ever?
Have you ever read so FordPinto had they own the record
for the biggest nastiest recallthere ever was.
You rear end the Ford Pinto andit blows up because the gas
tank was right behind the bumper.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, they did the same thing with the Ford
Explorer.
I mean Explorer, Ha ha ha ha,holy shit.
Ford Explorer.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Lord Explorer.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
They had that same issue with that.
They had to change that too,that's interesting.
Most tanks on a lot of cars arebehind the back bumper are 69
Chevelle.
The gas tank is right behindthe bumper.
You actually have to open thelicense plate in order to get to
the fuel fill to put gas in.
So you're literally goingthrough the bumper to fill up
(12:48):
the gas tank.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Well, my 72 Chevy truck that I drive around the
blue and white one the gas tankis directly behind the seat so
you can smash into the truck allyou want, it's not gonna blow
up.
But you're completely high theentire time you're driving it
from the gas fumes.
So you know it's kind of atrade-off safety and
hallucination.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
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Speaker 1 (13:27):
So a big company that we have locally here is Boeing,
and they're kind of heading thetrend to get everybody to go
back to work full-time andstarting January 1st, when
everybody comes back, and youknow, from Christmas vacations
and stuff, they want everybodyback in the office full-time.
And you were just telling meabout how your dad lived in
(13:50):
Puyallup and worked in Everett.
Correct, there's a lot.
So that's far.
Yes, that's hella far.
Actually, is there a train that?
No, it doesn't go that far.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
No, we're talking.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
This is back in the late 80s or 90s, so I think that
from what I know, there'speople that live even further
than that that work for Boeing.
So you know, because they it'sbeen a few years, maybe more now
, that they've been workingremotely and they've had to, you
know, they want to buy a houseand the houses are expensive.
(14:23):
To close to you get Seattle, sothey got to kind of like go
further away to get a house theycan afford, right.
So now it's like you knowBoeing.
I don't understand, like whatdo you think?
Why do they want everybody backin the office?
What's the deal?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Well, there's two types of employees that we got
to think about here, matt, isthe fact that you have employees
that actually physically workon planes or cars or whatever
the manufacturing process is fora said company, with the office
staff, which is what Boeing istalking about.
Anyone who works in the officeand collaborates on projects, as
far as contracts and designwork and everything like that,
(15:04):
they can work remotely from homewith the proper setup for
collaborating, especially withlike some people hate it, some
people don't Microsoft Teamsgreat way to collaborate
together.
But when you're in person,physically next to somebody,
you're able to collaborate a lotfaster, a lot quicker and a lot
easier.
So I agree and disagree withgoing back to full-in time for
(15:27):
employees, because a lot ofthese positions that companies
have, they can have them do itremotely from their own home.
But keep in mind, if a employeedoesn't do their work
efficiently then, yeah, I canunderstand.
They want them to come back tothe office because there's no
distractions you have at home.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Right, you can focus on actually doing what you're
getting paid for in the best wayyou can.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
And there's those that I actually know, people
personally, that work out of thehome.
They have their wife, they havetheir kids, their kids are
homeschooled and for both ofthese people I'm talking about
the husband's, the one thatworks and they are 100% focused
on their job during that time.
Did you say at home?
At home, okay, and they don'tget distracted by their family
(16:17):
because they know they have theparameter set up.
Right, and as long as you dothat, you can get very good work
out of employees.
Right, and that depends on theemployee and their living
arrangements and how well theywork.
Right, when you we were justtalking about gas prices, get
people off the road and thatreduces congestion, it reduces
(16:39):
smog, it reduces wear and tearon the roads.
Right, sure, I mean, there's somany benefits to working
remotely.
And even if remotely means hey,we understand that we got like,
let's say, let's say Eatonville, right, we'll just throw
something that's way out.
Hey, eatonville, mike, you know, whatever company, let's say
(17:02):
Alaska, let's say they got 50people in Eatonville, don't make
them come all the way up toSeattle.
Yeah, yeah, build an office inPuyallup or Graham or Bonnie
Lake, you know something closer.
And there you go, everyone cancollaborate down there.
That would actually enhancethat's probably a good idea A
(17:24):
real satisfaction.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yeah, instead of having a giant building with
everybody in it, have smallersatellite offices.
You know around and I thinkthat would probably that would
probably increase your retentiontoo, you know.
So the CEO, david Calhoun Ithink he goes by Dave he had an
(17:46):
all hands meeting and his quotewas our virtual moment was a
great moment.
It taught all of us, especiallyold timers, that people can
work virtually and he believesthat there are massive benefits
associated.
When people are Together, theydo have to work.
Do they have to work five daysa week?
He's not sure, but he I thinkhe's driving the main theme here
(18:12):
, which is he sees a Benefit ineverybody being together, kind
of working as a tribe in oneplace at one.
So so, if that's the case, ifyou're trying to so, if, if
you're Want you know.
So I see two kind of two, twothings here.
One is the worker being a goodworker and doing their job, and
(18:33):
then also they.
There's a lot more benefits tothem all being together, working
together.
So I do see that, and I thinkthat's what they're doing is
they just want everybodytogether, working together as a
team, right, you know, andhaving that camaraderie, and
even satellite offices orwhatever, I don't think you can.
You can get that so well, thatis true.
(18:53):
What is the rest of the worlddoing is this?
Is this remote shit, the youknow is just in the United
States, or is it?
Is the world doing this?
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I don't know.
I actually have not been payingattention to rest of the world,
but I do know the rest of theworld in the United States are
not hand-in-hand.
No, so many things.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
I feel like I my guess is Everybody's, you know
working together, you know, in aclose way to get things done.
I know that a Good friend ofmine he has a sister that works
for a company in Ukraine andthey make Prescript per
prescription glasses andsunglass frames out of recycling
(19:30):
, out of plastic.
They mold them and they makethem out of plastic.
They don't make the lensesright, but they make the frames
for sunglasses and prescriptionglasses in Ukraine out of scrap
plastic.
And it's like you know they'renot a super big company, I think
they're like 50 people orsomething like that, whatever.
But they owe their Success toeverybody in one place working
(19:54):
together.
And the way they did it waslike the fact.
It's like imagine a big, giantsquare, a warehouse, and On the
all the outside edge of thewarehouse, all the way around
the outside edge, is all theoffice cubicles and spaces to
work and in the middle is afactory, and and so every, I
mean they're intertwined to thenext level.
(20:16):
You know, right, they spinaround their chair and they're
looking directly in the factory.
I thought that was a geniusIdea, you know, yeah, to be
involved in.
Like you know, you're rightthere.
You know, imagine, imagineworking in a, in a bread factory
.
You know, make a really good.
Well, what's your favorite food?
Pizza, pizza, okay.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I, because I was got pretty common, for my mind too.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
So, okay, so we're.
Imagine that we're like youknow, we're both like the CEOs
of a present of pizza company,okay, and all our workers are
there, and so it's same scenario, right, we're in the office,
but the office is around theoutside edge and in the middle
is a giant pizza factory cookingand making pizzas.
You know well, probably we'd beEither constantly hungry,
(21:04):
constantly full, or so goddamnfat we wouldn't even be able to
work.
There'd be couches all the wayaround.
I don't know, but it wouldreally, you know, you'd be in it
.
You'd go home Smelling likepizza sauce, like when I worked
at Pizza Hut.
Yeah, yeah, the best.
That's the best pizza pizza.
It's the best pizza.
Papa John's pizza, john.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
I like Brewery City Pizza, the best Brewery City.
Where's a brewery City pizza?
There's three locations downthe Lacy in Olympia area.
Oh, brewery is.
That is that kind of a Chicagostyle deep dish thing, or, you
know, I'm not very good atknowing the different styles but
I don't know.
No, this is more likehand-tossed.
Oh, okay, oh okay, second bestfor me is round table, round
(21:43):
table.
Yeah, they have good pizza,that's right yeah so when you're
bringing up these fact of theseemployees Working around the
warehouse, yeah right, yeah.
So in this day and age with AIand virtual reality, there are
other options that are comingvery much to the forefront.
Of course, you have theMicrosoft Holo lens.
You can work in 3d, in virtualand real reality at the same
(22:05):
time with multiple people.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So you're all in like a virtual room.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Right, you have the Holo lens on and you're looking
and you could have like thatmake people sick.
The Holo lens is a see-throughlens, oh, okay you can see your
surroundings as well as what isbeing projected in in real time.
And then you got the AppleProvision Coming out early in
the year, okay, and that istechnically closed, but because
(22:30):
of all the cameras and thetechnology that Apple uses, you
see what's around you in realtime, hmm, and it takes away
Based on their studies, they'resaying it takes away from that
feeling vertical, of feelingdizzy.
Okay, and you know, awesome toeliminate.
And then if someone, if youstart talking to someone that
came up to you and they'retalking to you and you're
(22:51):
talking to them, the front ofthe Provision, uh-huh, the, the
lens on it is actually like a TV, a little tiny TV screen,
uh-huh, and it'll show your eyesand in that main part of your
face so they could see youlooking at them.
Yeah, and then when you stoptalking with them, it goes back
to just a blank screen andeveryone knows you're immersed
in whatever you're doing.
(23:12):
Okay, but the Provision, youcan work in that real time and
virtual reality and collaborateon stuff in.
You can have an object thereand all of you can add and
subtract stuff to it and andwork together to create
something.
Oh, okay, an object, yeahinteresting imagine being inside
a video game where you caninteract with it and add and
(23:33):
take yeah like record.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Ralph, yeah, exactly, yeah, going in there fighting
bids.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
You know, I mean it's going to bring a whole new
meaning to um A TV monitor.
Oh, right, right, you canliterally have a TV here.
You can have your face timehere, you have your zoom call
here and inner, inner, innerTwine between all of them, right
, right.
So I would not suggest having aface time and a zoom call at
(24:00):
the same time.
That would really get confusing.
But you could be on a zoom calland have your power point up
and see it.
Right, everything is as largeor small as you need it.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Well, I'm gonna wrap this up.
We'll save the other articlesand stuff for another time, but
I'm going to spend some time andbring some more technology
conversations from the table.
That's gonna be really cool andthat's gonna be one of them on
the next show.
So I wanted to thank techgenius j for uh co-host in and
joining us for some time and andI'm Matthew Cote, this is
(24:33):
foundation nation.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Is jay's salami or jay's technology solutions?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
and we'll catch you on the flip side.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
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