January 27, 2025 • 38 mins
DJI Flip thoughts start at 26:30. The bulk of this episode is stream of consciousness on the beautiful shock of a geeky introvert raising kids :)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to the Geek Therapy radio podcast that's not actually
on the radio anymore as of recording this, at least
it's been it's been a minute since I've uploaded a
new episode. Yes, I am in the car right now.
I am not driving. I am just in the parking lot.
My mother in law sometimes is my is my conscience
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or she is the reverb the echo of my conscience.
I did a couple episodes while I was driving, you know,
between dropping off my son at daycare and coming into work,
and it's all fine. It's I mean, the driving was
obviously the priority, but yeah, there's a better place to
do it, if anything, just for even audio quality, that
(00:52):
it's better to be sitting still somewhere than driving. That way,
the noise canceling doesn't have to work at hard work
as hard, but yeah, driving and recording as it's probably
just not the best in general. So anyways, I am
sitting in the car. We do have noise canceling going on,
because I do hear some ambiance in the parking garage here,
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even though I've got the doors closed and I've got
the heater on in the car too. On the lowest level,
the noise floor is high, so I'm gonna do some
noise canceling, all right, pedantic nerds speak out of the way.
Like I mentioned, it's been a little while since I've
since I've uploaded an episode, it's probably been a few
weeks at least. I feel like that's where geek Therapy
Radio is right now. If you follow me for a
(01:35):
long time, and I know I've had the show since
twenty seventeen, which is crazy to think about. It's twenty
twenty five and I've had the show for eight years.
In spring, it'll be eight years of geek Therapy Radio.
Absolutely wild. But I think when you go back, like
if we're listening to geek there Py Radio, you know,
fifteen twenty years from now, hopefully I'll keep it going,
(01:57):
We'll see that will be like, oh yeah, twenty twenty five,
twenty four, that's when things kind of slowed down a
little bit. That's when the pace of release kind of
slowed down a little bit for Geek the Appy Radio.
My second son was born. Everything has been great, I
will say, before we move on to kind of nerd subjects,
skieky subjects here that especially for other fathers out there,
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I don't know what it was about the second child
to have this theory. And let me just get this
theory out of the way. First child, it's all nervous excitement.
It's all, you know, anxiety, but it's overridden by this
kind of but by overwhelming love. So there's always this
love there on top of all the anxiety, on top
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of the chaos of having your first kid. Because you
only have your first kid once, you don't have you've
never done it before. You've never had a child before,
you've never raised a child. Your wife has never given
birth before. So everything is a first. You don't know
what to expect. It's all new, but you're very excited.
You feel all sorts of difference emotions inside of you.
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I equated the firstborn, you know, driving my firstborn home
from the hospital rush hour in Houston, five pm. He
was born in October I. When the first child was born,
it felt like an ancient, rusty electrical switch was thrown
deep in my DNA, where I, for some reason, I
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felt deeply connected on a biological evolutionary level to like
lions in the Serengetti or dinosaurs protecting their young, like
there was a very primal primal switch thrown in my
body when my first son was born. That may turn
me into like pop a bear, you know, like protector
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provider mode.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Do I would?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I would not like to play these scenarios out in
my head, but like, yeah, once that switch is thrown,
if somebody you understand, I'll just put it this way.
You understand why mama bears will rip other animals or
people to shreds if they get in between her and
her babies. That's kind of how I felt. That is
how I felt after my first son was born. I
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was in this mode of like, don't even. I hope
nobody even attempts something, because whatever happens after that will
be automatic. Like I won't even. I'll be in a
complete blackout for whatever happens next that I do to
somebody who gets in between me and my son, or
someone who's trying to hurt my kid or something like that.
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Whatever happens into me will be just automatic. It will
be some automatic. It'd be like I'm a like a
sleeper agent for some spiring when something triggers a secret
spy phrase and all of a sudden, I know kung
fu and I'm jumping off buildings and I'm snapping next
and going wild, and then I just snap out of
it and see the carnage and be like, what happened?
(04:50):
I did that? You're saying that I did that. That's
kind of how I felt after my first kid switch
was thrown, and that I would just protect the mode.
Everybody else on the in the world at that moment,
I remember bringing Riker home, my firstborn child home. Everybody
else was like a predator. I don't mean a predator
and like a child predator way. I mean like you're
out on the African serengetti and you're and I'm just
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a monkey up in a tree holding my kid, looking
around at lions, looking in the tall grass for bears,
looking for all There's probably not many bears, and this arengetti.
But you get what I'm saying. Everything was, Everything was
kind of a threat.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I was just trying to get my baby back to
my little fire that I built for us, my little shelter,
and just protect the baby that was the first child,
and again everything over encompassing that was love and excitement.
All the chaos but love and excitement. Second kid was
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emotionally and psychologically awful. I will say obviously that there
was that there is love there as your child, and
I did cry when when Marshall first entered the world.
I was happy, But the weeks after it, I would
say that two to three months for me personally, Sarah
is different, but for me personally, two to three months
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after Marshall was born, possibly into the fourth month, I
was emotionally and psychologically just wasted. It was probably the
worst three months of my life. And it was nothing.
It wasn't Marshall's fault. Marshall has been, thank God, just
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a normal, even keeled baby. He's the sweetest baby in
the world right now, he's eight months old. He's the
sweetest kid. I am madly in love with Marshall and
I'm madly in love with Riker. The love has overwhelmed now.
It is an overwhelming love for my kids. I would
do anything for my kids. I want to be with
my kids right now. I'm recording this podcast. It's nine,
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you know, forty in the morning on a Tuesday. The
kids we just dropped them off in daycare. I want
to go get them back right now and just hug
on them and be sweet on them and hold them forever.
And hold make sure they stay babies forever. Like that's
how I feel right now. Three months, the first three
months of Marshall's life, he was just I'm just gonna
be honest here, he was just a screaming, little gangly
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alien that you're just trying to keep alive. And I know,
you know, maybe a lot of parents don't want to
say that out loud, but that is the truth sometimes
is that, And that's what doctors warn you about. And
that's what like child not child psychologists, but therapists and
things that are kind of preparing parents for having a
baby whatever. It's the reason why they say, don't shake
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the baby. It's a very real thing. Yes, this is
a this is a child that you brought into the
world and that you love. But the frustration and anger
is is peaked, especially when your sleep has been being
broken up, you're out of your schedule again. That's a big,
big part of it why I was so screwed up,
I think, and why I think the second child. In
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my opinion, I don't have three kids, but I could
imagine the third one maybe being easier because you have
been here twice before. You know what I'm saying, Like
you've raised two kids, you know exactly what to expect,
whereas the first kid you go through it, and by
the time the second kid comes around, you kind of
forget how you kind of forget what a warp of
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your routine it is to have a child. The first one,
you're kind of expecting that warp of routine. You don't
know what the warp of routine is going to be
the second one is. It's annoying because you get into
this routine with your first child. You just got this
little trio. It's you, mommy and you're first born, and
then there's like a fourth person kind of that butts
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their way in there, that throws off this routine that
you very carefully surrounded yourself with. And that that adjustment,
that throwing off of your routine took me at least
three months to get over. Yes, I had this underlying
love for Marshall, but it was I was annoyed for
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the first few weeks. And I almost feel bad to
say this. I was annoyed on some level, and I'm
just being honest as a parent. On some level, I
was annoyed that he threw off the rhythm. I was
happy he was here, but he was annoying. A little
tiny baby is annoying.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
All it is.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
They're not cute. You know, I'll say that right right
right now, out loud. Newborn babies. The only reason why
they're cute is because they're so small. But they are
not visually very attractive creatures when they're newborns, like they're
just tiny, little gangly aliens that need constant attention throughout
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the days and nights for the first few months at least.
It's they don't look good, they don't sound good. The
crimes are annoying, like it's just that's why counselors and
therapists say, don't shake the baby. And I know you're
very excited to have a baby and everything's cool, but
like you're gonna get frustrated. You're gonna get frustrated. Any
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parent that tells you, oh, I was not a frustrated,
they're lying to you. And anybody who hasn't had a
baby yet who's like, oh, I can handle all that,
they're in denial.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You haven't been through it yet.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I'm not saying that I'm some war hero that's been
through battle and it's nothing like that because overall, raising
a kid is amazing. If your kid is otherwise healthy
and everything, it's the It's the best thing I've ever
done in my life, bar none. Nothing else in my
life matters, Nothing else even comes close to the joy
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and love I feel for my kids. But going back
to the when your second one as an infant and
you just bring your second one home, I was annoyed.
And a lot of parents get annoyed and you want
to shut that baby up. That's something there's all so
inside of you, is this kind of like, please shut
up so we can rest. We're frazzle, we can rest.
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But that's why they say, don't shake the baby. You know,
new parents think, oh, I'm never I'm not gonna shake
my baby. Of course, I'm not gonna shake my baby.
You know, thank god, most parents don't shake their babies.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I don't. I've never shaken my baby anything like that.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
But I but I've been in the place where you
where you understand like, oh yeah, I totally understand now
why some parents might get so frustrated that they shake
their kid. You know, maybe it's something that it's unintentional.
I just I understand how they get to that point. Now,
I never do it, but I understood with the second
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child how parents do get to that point where they
shake their own kid. It's crazy to think about, how
could you, how could you harm your own kid. I
would never do it, but you begin to understand, Oh yeah,
this is why therapists and doctors and counselors are so adamant.
Don't shake your baby, because you will get so frustrated.
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And I felt that frustration with the second kid, and
in a warped way, in a very warped way, obviously.
Like I said, now he's eight months old, Riker's four
years old.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Nothing but love.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
This is I want them both to say the same
age forever. It is beautiful. For one thing, Marshall's sleeping
through the night. It's it's wonderful. In a warped way, though,
after my experience the first couple of months having Marshall
in our life, I halfway jest with Sarah about having
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a third baby. You know, you remember, like now that
Marshall's in this cute phase, is like, man, this is
so nice. It's so a warm, snugly, happy baby learning.
He's funny as heck, Riker's funny as heck. They're so
silly they're so warm, they're so goofy, they're so loving.
It's like, yeah, let's have a I ripper, Let's have
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a third baby. Let's have a third one. Let's go
for a girl doda. And I'm sure my parents, you know,
my mom will be thrilled with that idea. I'm sure
my mother in law will be thrilled with that idea.
That's not a reality. We are not having a third kid,
not on purpose anyways. That is just not in our books.
And it's really just a financial thing. I mean not
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just obviously, I don't I'm not undercutting the emotional toll
of it all, but really it's a financial thing. Kids
are expensive. Kids are very expensive, and you never know
what the future holds. Right now, we're fine, we're keeping
our heads above water.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
We don't have to you know, oh, you know, always
look at the bank account before you pump gas. It's
a nice place to be when you don't have to
count the gas station meter. I've been I was there
for most of my life, and I could go back
to that place any minute now. I could walk into
work right now and they could say, all right, yeah,
we're making layoffs and you're you gotta go. That could
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happen right now after the podcast, I don't anticipate it.
Are going very well, just had employee evaluations. Things went
very well. Our YouTube channel, Houston Museum and Natural Science,
we just went over one hundred thousand followers. I'm waiting
for that plaque baby, that's silver play button. So things
are going well at work. But the rug can always
be pulled out. There's probably some of you listening right
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now that we're riding the gravy train and then the
rug gets pulled out, and now you're dipping into savings
and you're struggling to make ends to me, and then
you get back on the gravy train again a few months,
a few years later. Life is not guaranteed if the
financial income is not guaranteed. So that is the biggest
reason why we won't have a third kid. We don't
plan on having a third child. Is mostly I think
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it's mostly financial and also mostly how does the math work.
Emotional obviously too, but yeah, our house isn't big enough
for three kids to begin with. The it's financially, it's
just not it's not a wise thing right now that
if we had a third kid, we'd have to make
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wild changes financially.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But yeah, so that's the kid thing.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And that's what I'm getting at any other dads or
parents listening to this, where the first kid was a
unique experience, second kid was awful from the at least initially,
it was an awful change of a routine, and you're
getting used to it and you're frazzled, and da da da.
I feel like, though, I feel like the third kid
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is like, all right, we've been here before. We know
pretty much exactly, assuming that the kid is healthy, that
the baby's healthy. We've been here before, we know exactly
what to expect. So it's not such a shock, not
such a change to the routine. I will say for me,
and I probably will get onto some geeky stuff here
in the next few minutes, but this is geek therapy.
(15:47):
If you're first time listener to this podcast for some reason,
this is geek therapy for me just as much as
it is geek therapy for you. Yes, I talk about
some tech subjects and things going on with games and
hobbies and things like that, but a lot of the times,
especially more recently, it's just me stream of consciousness therapy.
For myself and hoping that somebody out there can also
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relate to it. And that's what I'm doing right now.
So what was I gonna say? I guess I kind
of forgot where I was going with that whole baby
training though. Yeah, I guess that was it. Just that
the third baby, You've been here before with the first
two babies, you kind of know what to expect, and
assuming the baby's healthy, it's nothing's a surprise anymore. We
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were out of diapers with Riker for like six months
before I getting right back. Riker was potty trained just
a few months before Marshall came into the world, so
we were done with diapers for like a couple of
months and then man, we're back into it. Hundreds of diapers,
baby poops all the time. But uh, it's wonderful. I
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wouldn't change anything. It was so glorious. Oh, I was
gonna mention this, this is what it came back to me.
One of the changes in my life, Like one of
the the obstacles is I'm a very an I am
an introvert. I'm an extroverted introvert obviously because I have
a podcast and at one time I had a radio
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show broadcasting to thousands of people, and I'm on I
run our podcast over in the museum in the museum's
YouTube channel one hundred thousand subscribers. We had like almost
eight million views last twenty eight days alone, Like I
put myself out there, but I am still an introvert.
I can be around people, but I get my energy
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from being alone with my hobbies in my tinkers. Tinkers
is a buzzword around my house. What do you doing, daddy,
I'm tinkering. I like to tinker. And my life was
set up and I got used to this rhythm of
being able to pull out like an old compact desk
pro to eighty six, a computer from like the late
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nineteen eighties, early nineties, whatever, it doesn't matter what it was,
an old ataris he a real to reel tape record
or something, and being able to sit down with it
for like eight or nine hours straight, twelve hours straight,
like for days on a row, Like spend three days,
twelve hours a day intensely focused on a hobby like
soldering something or building something, or just messing around with
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something cassette decks and whatnots overclocking a computer which can
take hours and hours and hours to fine tune and
being able to do that uninterrupted, like that's where I
would draw my energy. I was totally fine being by myself, uninterrupted,
just in my zone, focused on my my activities and hobbies. Kids.
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You can't do that anymore. It's and I'm not saying
that as like, oh, don't have kids you it's because
it's it's very selfish. It's it's really it's okay to
want to be alone and have daddy time and me
time and mommy time. That's very important. It's critical to
have that, obviously, but you when you have kids, you
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understand now it takes a while, and it took a
while for me. They are better than the hobbies. They're
better than the tinkers. They're the ultimate hobby. They're the
ultimate tinker. So yes, I do need some me time
to overclock my computer. My rise in fifty nine fifty
x by the way, that I got on Amazon. That
chip was like nine hundred bucks when it came out.
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It was three hundred dollars recently on Amazon fifty nine
to fifty x sixteen course thirty two for Threid's Freaking Crazy.
So I put together my beast again, and that's my
daddy time. That's me time where I'm tinkering with the computer.
I'm putting it back together. I usually do that when
the kids are in daycare and I've got some alone time.
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But it was a change. When you're an introvert like that,
that is used to spending several hours at a time
in a hobby by yourself, not talking to another living soul.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It's a shift. It's a huge.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Shift in life to have kids and not and just
basically not be able to do whatever you want, whenever
you want. And at first it's an adjustment. It's tough,
but as you go through it, as you get into it,
it takes maybe a few months, maybe a few years,
you realize this is the best thing ever, Like this
is so cool and such a privilege to be able
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to raise kids. And I'm okay spending most of my
time raising my kids and then a less amount of
time on my own hobbies because you know what, Riker's
getting old enough now he can share in those hobbies.
And then that's you know that meme that shows like
the brain increasingly becoming aware and like glowing and eventually,
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like the fourth frame or third frame it reaches complete nirvana.
That last frame of complete nirvana is when I am
able now to share my hobbies and my tinkers with
my son. Like that is reaching nirvana. It is the
coolest thing in the world to be able Red Daddy,
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what are you doing? And have him sit in my
lap while I'm adjusting EDC and TDC of Horizon fifty
nine to fifty X, trying to keep it at two hundred. Watson,
stay cool and dah da da da. It's so cool
that he can inve We played Legos the other day.
We came over church and we went up to his
room and we got his new Lego set out and
we were just building cars and building helicopter monster trucks.
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And I loved Legos growing up. I love playing with Legos,
and now I have an excuse to play Sorry Lego.
The plural of Lego is lego.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
So we were.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Playing Lego, which is one of my favorite things in
the world. Now I get to do it with my
four year old son, and I get to share that
with my boys. Marshall's too young for Lego to go
right in the mouth, but uh yeah. So being able
to share my hobbies and my tinkers, with my kid
now is and with my kids plural eventually when Marshall
gets a little older. That's another that's another realm of
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human existence experience, and it's just simply the best in
the world. So I wanted to touch on I did
touch on this in the Rise in fifty nine fifty X.
I rebuilt my desktop PC. For a while, I had
my graphics card, my RTX thirty ninety had an EGPU mode,
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which is overkill for EGPU except for that VRAM. I
wanted the twenty four gigs of v RAM, so it
wasn't the fastest in gaming, but it was awesome still
for editing in DA Vinci resolved because of all the VRAM,
and so I would connect my various laptops to it
and use that as an external GPU for the extra
horse power graphically. But you know what spurred me to
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rebuild my my desktop, which I call Demon's Whisper because
it's supremely powerful but very quiet, to put the fifty
nine to fifty X in there and the thirty ninety
back in its PCI expressed sixteen slot as God intended,
and just fully unleash everything unleash it all, baby a.
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The fifty nine to fifty X was so cheap. Now
it's like, that's crazy. I'm not ready yet. I don't
think to jump onto AM five or the latest generation
of Intel or RTX five thousand cards, what have you.
But there the impending upcoming the the reviews were saying,
finally of RTX five thousand series that for RTX fifty ninety,
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which is a two thousand dollars card, the cards underneath
fifty ninety are priced way better. They're actually cheaper than
last generation, like fifty bucks cheaper, Like the RTX fifty
seventy is like fifty dollars cheaper, at least the US
dollars cheaper than the forty seventy was. But yeah, the
fifty ninety is two thousand dollars. But I remember paying,
or the museum paying when I first got hired nineteen
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hundred dollars for the RTX thirty ninety. This was twenty
twenty one, in the peak of like demand for GPUs.
They're so hard to get. But anyways, the news of
you know, all the you know incoming reviews and things
of the RTX five thousand series that got my juice
is flowing. Compare also in you know, also with the
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fifty nine fifty X being so cheap, I was like,
you know what, I feel this itch for the five
thousand series of graphics cards, but I've the thirty ninety
is still baller. Let me just unleash that beast and
pair it up with a fifty nine to fifty X
and basically making it one of the most powerful AM
four setups in the world. AM four that's the processor
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socket that AMD motherboards used so AM for So fifty
nine fifty X is the last and most powerful CPU
ever on the AM four socket. AMD has since moved
on to the AM five socket, which uses the seven
thousand series chips and nine thousand series chips. So like
the ninety nine to fifty X or whatever, I'm not
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there yet. I have no plans. That's a whole investment.
That's a whole investment, because the other thing with that
is not just like now I gotta get it new
AM five socket CPU. Now you gotta get a new
AM five motherword, you gotta get a new you gotta
get a new RAM. A lot of times when we
make upgrades, there's this kind of like Goldilocks period every
decade where you can upgrade, but you can take your
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old hardware and upgrade it into your new system. So
for instance, you could you could take DDR four from
system to system, from socket to socket, couple sockets for
a little while. You could you could bring your DDR
four RAM over to the new motherboard or whatever new
new CPU. With AM five, you can't do that. AM
five is now DDR five RAM. Your DDR four RAM
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is incompatible. So it's a if you're upgrading from AM
four to AM five, it's not an upgrade path.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
It is just your upgrading everything.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
You can take your graphics card if you still have
like a four thousand series graphics card to three thousand
series you know Nvidia, And for this case, you can
put any graphics card in there. You can take whatever
graphics card from any generation after AGP slot an any
PCI Express graphics card can go to the next system
that you upgrade to. But it's not true for CPUs
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and it's not true for RAM. Given what point in
the upgrade cycle we are so five thousand series graphics cards.
That's what's got me jones to bring out the most
of my system because I don't want to be spending
thousands of dollars on upgrading the whole desktop. I've already.
I've got enough. I've got enough stuff. I just wanted
to get the most out of what I already had.
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DGI flip is coming out very soon. I saw a
video it's probably gonna is it being announced today? I
think I forget. I'll save that for the next podcast,
because am I gonna get the DGI flip? Probably? Probably?
Even though I saw a video review, there's nothing wrong
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with the drone Like, there's nothing wrong with it. It
looks pretty cool. The concept is cool. It is not
as small as I thought it would be. I think
the reviewer that the video dropped it. They were in
a different time zone, so they didn't, you know, encroach
on any nda or anything like that. But seeing it,
it's it looks pretty big when it's unfolded. When it's
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folded up, it looks like it will slide in the
backpack real nice. Like it's this kind of like this
square pancake thing. It looks like it would pack easily
and then unfold. It's basically the size it looks to
me just looking at this video, like a DJIH Mini.
What is it? I've got the Mini three Pro Many
four Pro like it's there. It's the size of their
Mini series drones, but it folds up better flatter. Maybe
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it's actually the diameter is a bit wider.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I just don't know. There's a part of me that's like,
I don't. I need to look into this more because
I don't know, do I. It's not a case of
like do I need it? Like I'm trying to think
of like what what scenario I need to see, like
footage come out of it?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
What is it? Does it have ten bit? I don't
think it does, But does it? What?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
What other features does it have that makes it me
want to put into my backpack. The good news is
that if I do wind up getting it, I think
it's like four or five hundred bucks something like that,
a little over five hundred. But I already have all
the remote controls for it. I've got the RC and everything,
so I don't need to buy an additional accessories for
it because I've already got it. What's compatible with the
(28:19):
DJI Neo is compatible with the DGI flip, So we'll see,
we'll see. I'll save that for the next podcast. Probably
I might have to flip by that. Sorry, sorry, honey,
if you're listening to this, we'll see if there's money
that whatever it's. I'm on the fence about the flip
a little bit. But I know myself and I know
(28:40):
how I cuck for drones, So don't be a surprise
if I come on here another time you're like, yeah,
I got the flip.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Of course I did. I cannot.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I cannot get out of my own way with drones,
especially when they're not super especially when they're not like
the or thousand dollars. When it's like that five hundred point,
I'm like, h how can I make this work? Maybe
we could have another baby that I didn't buy so
many drones. Thank you for listening to Geek Therapy Radio podcast.
You are worthy of love, you're worthy of giving love,
(29:12):
you're worthy of receiving love, and you're worthy of your
own self respect. Thank you so much for listening, and
I'll talk to you'all next time.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Peace. Hey.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Making a little addendum to the end of this podcast
because I've gotten home now and I've been able to
watch a couple full in depth reviews of the new
DGI flip, and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I don't know about it, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
As for me, as for my use case, I don't
know if it's something that I will actually get, which
would be crazy because usually I am very much into
these kinds of innovative drones and things like that, and
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Know after watching reviews if if it's for me.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
For one thing, the price is four hundred and gosh,
four hundred and twenty nine dollars, let me go back
here and see. I think it's the DJI flip is
four hundred and thirty nine dollars, So I was kind
of wrong in my estimate earlier that it would be
around five hundred. It's four to thirty nine, so it's
less than five hundred bucks. And that comes with that
(30:19):
is bundled with the djrc N three, So it's the
drone and remote control for four hundred and thirty nine dollars.
That's not a bad deal at all. But I wish
at some point, and possibly this will happen, that'll be
sold drone only because I, like I mentioned before, I
already have the remote control, and a lot of us
(30:40):
out there probably already have the remote control that can
control the DGI flip, so I wish they come come
out with the drone only model. I would guess that
it would be around three hundred dollars if that were
the case, because the RCN three remote controller is around
one fifty around one thirty to one fifty something like that,
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so I would imagine that the drone only DGI flip
drone only would be around three hundred dollars. So anyways,
I am pleased to see that the censor side is
one over one third inch. It's a bigger sensor than
the DJI EO. You do get ten bit video you
can record in DGI log M, so it is a
more capable sensor. It's the same sensor that is in
(31:24):
the Mini four Pro Mini three Pro.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Marshals in front of me jingling some of his toys.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I don't know if the noise canceling is gonna grab
that or not, but uh yeah, So I'm just so
I have the the Mavic three Pro, which is my
baller drone. That's the big boy, big Boss drone that
I take out to shoots that I need the absolute
top notch quality, no compromises. That's my big Boy Drone.
(31:53):
Then I have my Mini three Pro, which is the
same speck wise as the Mini four Pro. It just
has less option avoidance effectively, So I've got two pro
drones that shoot absolutely fabulous video. The Mini three Pro
travels everywhere. I've got the Neo that has me covered
for just a quick toss around drone that I'm not
(32:14):
really worried about. I'm not as worried about damaging or
flying away as my way more expensive drones. It gets
those quick shots. They look good enough. I wish they'd
be more updates. Maybe there will be more updates for
video codex and video settings in the future. So I'm
struggling to figure out where the DJI Flip fits into
(32:35):
my drone roster, because the other thing is it's it's
bigger than the Neo. It's way bigger than the Neo
and the fully extended. When you flip out the arms
of the Mini three and the Mini four Pro they are,
it's also bigger. The DGI Flip fully extended is bigger
(32:56):
than the Mini three many four fully extended, So it's
actually not a very small drone. It's a little bit
bigger than the Mini series of drones. For some reason,
I was thinking that it was the Flip was going
to be like this pocketable thing, like it was going
to be the size of the Neo. But since it folded,
you could easily just throw it in your pocket, throw
(33:18):
it in a coat pocket, throw it in your back
pocket or your jeans, and be ready to go. That
was super appealing to me. That is really what I
was waiting for with the Flip was a truly pocketable drone. Finally,
a truly pocketable drone that you could have your phone
in one pocket the drone in another pocket and be
able to just whip them out and fly around, get
(33:40):
the shot, put a right back in your pocket. Again,
That's what I thought the Flip was going to be.
That is definitely not it is. It's quite big folded up.
It's a tiny bit bigger than the Mini three, in
the Mini four. It's not as big as the DGI
Air series, thank God or naturally, but it is. It's
bigger than the Mini three and Many four are extended,
(34:02):
and even when it's all folded up, it's still a
chonky boy. And looking at the folded up Many three
and the fold it up DGI Flip, the Flip is bigger,
it takes up more volume. I thought at least it
would be it would fold up into a size I
could easily kind of slide into a photography bag, and
it certainly can. It absolutely can fit in a photography
(34:24):
backpack or a photography bag. But the Mini three and
the Many four fit better inside your photography bag. It
takes up less space. So I don't know if I'll
ever get the Flip I just for me, I don't see.
I don't see a use case now if they ever
came out with a DGI Flip Mini that did fit
(34:46):
in your pocket, I think that's the Goldilocks.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Drone that so many of us are are waiting for.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
We are willing to sacrifice quite a bit of video
options and things like that to have a drone that
fits in your pocket and it is just ready to
go out all times. So far, at least when DJI
is concerned that drone doesn't exist, you can have I
fit my Mini three, my Mini three pro into some
cargo pants extra pockets in my cargo pants, and I'm
(35:14):
sure the Mini the Flip would fit into a big
cargo pants pocket as well. But at the same time,
you got back to the fact again that the Mini
three and the Many four are smaller when fold it up,
so it's I just don't know where the Flip fits
into my roster of drones, and I'm not sure at
(35:38):
this point who I could recommend the Flip two. It
has all the automatic tracking, like you know, the the
quick shots that the Dji neo has. That's really cool.
You can you can set it. You don't need the
usually with a controller. You can just have a look
at you and track you and do some cool shots.
That's really cool, and the shots do look better because
the sensor is bigger. But I struggled to think of
(36:01):
the person who I'd recommend this to, because I feel
like my inclination would be still that my number one
drone to recommend to anybody right off the bat. You
see me walking down the street, you tap me on
the shoulder, and as we're walking past each other, what
drone do you recommend? I would say the Mini four K,
not the Mini four I know it's confusing, but the
(36:23):
Mini four K that sometimes can be found for less
than three hundred dollars including the remote control, and it
takes fantastic footage for what it is. You don't have
obstacle avoidance anything like that. You gotta be careful. But
it's so relatively cheap, and the video quality it takes
is so incredibly.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Good, especially for the price.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
And it folds, and it's smaller than the Mini three,
smaller than the Mani four even slightly. So the Mini
four K is just m I NI, and then four
K is smaller than the Mini three pro, smaller than
the Mini four pro. So it is my number one
recommendation to anybody asking what drone should I get? And
I have one second answer, Many four K, so I
(37:08):
just don't know who'd I could recommend the Flip two.
It's I looked at the specs in the video bit
rate for what it's worth is one hundred and fifty
megabits per second. That's more than twice than what the
DGI Neo is, and the sensor is bigger. It has
really cool infrared radar stereo radar in red radar to
(37:30):
help obstacle avoidance in low light. But it's just front
facing obstacle avoidance. It's not three sixty obstacle avoidance like
in the Many four pro.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
It's I appreciate that DGI tries these things that they
try to innovate and create these kind of new concepts
and designs. What I'm waiting for is a DGI flip
Mini that literally fits in your pocket. That's the drone
I'm waiting for. So DGI Flip really really cool. Maybe
(38:01):
if it sells for drone only and I can find
it for under three hundred bucks, maybe I'll pull the
trigger on it at that point. But then again, I
just where does it fit in? Because I've covered it.
If I want a small compact drone that takes great video,
I've got the Mini three Pro that's smaller than the Flip.
So yeah, it's just it's a weird. It's a weird
slot that the DGI Flip is fitting into. And I
(38:25):
just don't know who I could even recommend it too.
I mean, yeah, so I've covered the basis. Thank you
for listening to geekdap for Radio. All Right, I'm gone
for real now, talk to y'all next time.
Welcome to the Geek Therapy radio podcast that's not actually
on the radio anymore as of recording this, at least
it's been it's been a minute since I've uploaded a
new episode. Yes, I am in the car right now.
I am not driving. I am just in the parking lot.
My mother in law sometimes is my is my conscience
(00:29):
or she is the reverb the echo of my conscience.
I did a couple episodes while I was driving, you know,
between dropping off my son at daycare and coming into work,
and it's all fine. It's I mean, the driving was
obviously the priority, but yeah, there's a better place to
do it, if anything, just for even audio quality, that
(00:52):
it's better to be sitting still somewhere than driving. That way,
the noise canceling doesn't have to work at hard work
as hard, but yeah, driving and recording as it's probably
just not the best in general. So anyways, I am
sitting in the car. We do have noise canceling going on,
because I do hear some ambiance in the parking garage here,
(01:12):
even though I've got the doors closed and I've got
the heater on in the car too. On the lowest level,
the noise floor is high, so I'm gonna do some
noise canceling, all right, pedantic nerds speak out of the way.
Like I mentioned, it's been a little while since I've
since I've uploaded an episode, it's probably been a few
weeks at least. I feel like that's where geek Therapy
Radio is right now. If you follow me for a
(01:35):
long time, and I know I've had the show since
twenty seventeen, which is crazy to think about. It's twenty
twenty five and I've had the show for eight years.
In spring, it'll be eight years of geek Therapy Radio.
Absolutely wild. But I think when you go back, like
if we're listening to geek there Py Radio, you know,
fifteen twenty years from now, hopefully I'll keep it going,
(01:57):
We'll see that will be like, oh yeah, twenty twenty five,
twenty four, that's when things kind of slowed down a
little bit. That's when the pace of release kind of
slowed down a little bit for Geek the Appy Radio.
My second son was born. Everything has been great, I
will say, before we move on to kind of nerd subjects,
skieky subjects here that especially for other fathers out there,
(02:19):
I don't know what it was about the second child
to have this theory. And let me just get this
theory out of the way. First child, it's all nervous excitement.
It's all, you know, anxiety, but it's overridden by this
kind of but by overwhelming love. So there's always this
love there on top of all the anxiety, on top
(02:39):
of the chaos of having your first kid. Because you
only have your first kid once, you don't have you've
never done it before. You've never had a child before,
you've never raised a child. Your wife has never given
birth before. So everything is a first. You don't know
what to expect. It's all new, but you're very excited.
You feel all sorts of difference emotions inside of you.
(03:01):
I equated the firstborn, you know, driving my firstborn home
from the hospital rush hour in Houston, five pm. He
was born in October I. When the first child was born,
it felt like an ancient, rusty electrical switch was thrown
deep in my DNA, where I, for some reason, I
(03:22):
felt deeply connected on a biological evolutionary level to like
lions in the Serengetti or dinosaurs protecting their young, like
there was a very primal primal switch thrown in my
body when my first son was born. That may turn
me into like pop a bear, you know, like protector
(03:44):
provider mode.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Do I would?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I would not like to play these scenarios out in
my head, but like, yeah, once that switch is thrown,
if somebody you understand, I'll just put it this way.
You understand why mama bears will rip other animals or
people to shreds if they get in between her and
her babies. That's kind of how I felt. That is
how I felt after my first son was born. I
(04:09):
was in this mode of like, don't even. I hope
nobody even attempts something, because whatever happens after that will
be automatic. Like I won't even. I'll be in a
complete blackout for whatever happens next that I do to
somebody who gets in between me and my son, or
someone who's trying to hurt my kid or something like that.
(04:29):
Whatever happens into me will be just automatic. It will
be some automatic. It'd be like I'm a like a
sleeper agent for some spiring when something triggers a secret
spy phrase and all of a sudden, I know kung
fu and I'm jumping off buildings and I'm snapping next
and going wild, and then I just snap out of
it and see the carnage and be like, what happened?
(04:50):
I did that? You're saying that I did that. That's
kind of how I felt after my first kid switch
was thrown, and that I would just protect the mode.
Everybody else on the in the world at that moment,
I remember bringing Riker home, my firstborn child home. Everybody
else was like a predator. I don't mean a predator
and like a child predator way. I mean like you're
out on the African serengetti and you're and I'm just
(05:14):
a monkey up in a tree holding my kid, looking
around at lions, looking in the tall grass for bears,
looking for all There's probably not many bears, and this arengetti.
But you get what I'm saying. Everything was, Everything was
kind of a threat.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I was just trying to get my baby back to
my little fire that I built for us, my little shelter,
and just protect the baby that was the first child,
and again everything over encompassing that was love and excitement.
All the chaos but love and excitement. Second kid was
(05:49):
emotionally and psychologically awful. I will say obviously that there
was that there is love there as your child, and
I did cry when when Marshall first entered the world.
I was happy, But the weeks after it, I would
say that two to three months for me personally, Sarah
is different, but for me personally, two to three months
(06:11):
after Marshall was born, possibly into the fourth month, I
was emotionally and psychologically just wasted. It was probably the
worst three months of my life. And it was nothing.
It wasn't Marshall's fault. Marshall has been, thank God, just
(06:33):
a normal, even keeled baby. He's the sweetest baby in
the world right now, he's eight months old. He's the
sweetest kid. I am madly in love with Marshall and
I'm madly in love with Riker. The love has overwhelmed now.
It is an overwhelming love for my kids. I would
do anything for my kids. I want to be with
my kids right now. I'm recording this podcast. It's nine,
(06:54):
you know, forty in the morning on a Tuesday. The
kids we just dropped them off in daycare. I want
to go get them back right now and just hug
on them and be sweet on them and hold them forever.
And hold make sure they stay babies forever. Like that's
how I feel right now. Three months, the first three
months of Marshall's life, he was just I'm just gonna
be honest here, he was just a screaming, little gangly
(07:18):
alien that you're just trying to keep alive. And I know,
you know, maybe a lot of parents don't want to
say that out loud, but that is the truth sometimes
is that, And that's what doctors warn you about. And
that's what like child not child psychologists, but therapists and
things that are kind of preparing parents for having a
baby whatever. It's the reason why they say, don't shake
(07:39):
the baby. It's a very real thing. Yes, this is
a this is a child that you brought into the
world and that you love. But the frustration and anger
is is peaked, especially when your sleep has been being
broken up, you're out of your schedule again. That's a big,
big part of it why I was so screwed up,
I think, and why I think the second child. In
(08:00):
my opinion, I don't have three kids, but I could
imagine the third one maybe being easier because you have
been here twice before. You know what I'm saying, Like
you've raised two kids, you know exactly what to expect,
whereas the first kid you go through it, and by
the time the second kid comes around, you kind of
forget how you kind of forget what a warp of
(08:22):
your routine it is to have a child. The first one,
you're kind of expecting that warp of routine. You don't
know what the warp of routine is going to be
the second one is. It's annoying because you get into
this routine with your first child. You just got this
little trio. It's you, mommy and you're first born, and
then there's like a fourth person kind of that butts
(08:43):
their way in there, that throws off this routine that
you very carefully surrounded yourself with. And that that adjustment,
that throwing off of your routine took me at least
three months to get over. Yes, I had this underlying
love for Marshall, but it was I was annoyed for
(09:07):
the first few weeks. And I almost feel bad to
say this. I was annoyed on some level, and I'm
just being honest as a parent. On some level, I
was annoyed that he threw off the rhythm. I was
happy he was here, but he was annoying. A little
tiny baby is annoying.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
All it is.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
They're not cute. You know, I'll say that right right
right now, out loud. Newborn babies. The only reason why
they're cute is because they're so small. But they are
not visually very attractive creatures when they're newborns, like they're
just tiny, little gangly aliens that need constant attention throughout
(09:50):
the days and nights for the first few months at least.
It's they don't look good, they don't sound good. The
crimes are annoying, like it's just that's why counselors and
therapists say, don't shake the baby. And I know you're
very excited to have a baby and everything's cool, but
like you're gonna get frustrated. You're gonna get frustrated. Any
(10:12):
parent that tells you, oh, I was not a frustrated,
they're lying to you. And anybody who hasn't had a
baby yet who's like, oh, I can handle all that,
they're in denial.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You haven't been through it yet.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
I'm not saying that I'm some war hero that's been
through battle and it's nothing like that because overall, raising
a kid is amazing. If your kid is otherwise healthy
and everything, it's the It's the best thing I've ever
done in my life, bar none. Nothing else in my
life matters, Nothing else even comes close to the joy
(10:44):
and love I feel for my kids. But going back
to the when your second one as an infant and
you just bring your second one home, I was annoyed.
And a lot of parents get annoyed and you want
to shut that baby up. That's something there's all so
inside of you, is this kind of like, please shut
up so we can rest. We're frazzle, we can rest.
(11:04):
But that's why they say, don't shake the baby. You know,
new parents think, oh, I'm never I'm not gonna shake
my baby. Of course, I'm not gonna shake my baby.
You know, thank god, most parents don't shake their babies.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I don't. I've never shaken my baby anything like that.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
But I but I've been in the place where you
where you understand like, oh yeah, I totally understand now
why some parents might get so frustrated that they shake
their kid. You know, maybe it's something that it's unintentional.
I just I understand how they get to that point. Now,
I never do it, but I understood with the second
(11:40):
child how parents do get to that point where they
shake their own kid. It's crazy to think about, how
could you, how could you harm your own kid. I
would never do it, but you begin to understand, Oh yeah,
this is why therapists and doctors and counselors are so adamant.
Don't shake your baby, because you will get so frustrated.
(12:01):
And I felt that frustration with the second kid, and
in a warped way, in a very warped way, obviously.
Like I said, now he's eight months old, Riker's four
years old.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Nothing but love.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
This is I want them both to say the same
age forever. It is beautiful. For one thing, Marshall's sleeping
through the night. It's it's wonderful. In a warped way, though,
after my experience the first couple of months having Marshall
in our life, I halfway jest with Sarah about having
(12:35):
a third baby. You know, you remember, like now that
Marshall's in this cute phase, is like, man, this is
so nice. It's so a warm, snugly, happy baby learning.
He's funny as heck, Riker's funny as heck. They're so
silly they're so warm, they're so goofy, they're so loving.
It's like, yeah, let's have a I ripper, Let's have
(12:55):
a third baby. Let's have a third one. Let's go
for a girl doda. And I'm sure my parents, you know,
my mom will be thrilled with that idea. I'm sure
my mother in law will be thrilled with that idea.
That's not a reality. We are not having a third kid,
not on purpose anyways. That is just not in our books.
And it's really just a financial thing. I mean not
(13:15):
just obviously, I don't I'm not undercutting the emotional toll
of it all, but really it's a financial thing. Kids
are expensive. Kids are very expensive, and you never know
what the future holds. Right now, we're fine, we're keeping
our heads above water.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
We don't have to you know, oh, you know, always
look at the bank account before you pump gas. It's
a nice place to be when you don't have to
count the gas station meter. I've been I was there
for most of my life, and I could go back
to that place any minute now. I could walk into
work right now and they could say, all right, yeah,
we're making layoffs and you're you gotta go. That could
(13:55):
happen right now after the podcast, I don't anticipate it.
Are going very well, just had employee evaluations. Things went
very well. Our YouTube channel, Houston Museum and Natural Science,
we just went over one hundred thousand followers. I'm waiting
for that plaque baby, that's silver play button. So things
are going well at work. But the rug can always
be pulled out. There's probably some of you listening right
(14:16):
now that we're riding the gravy train and then the
rug gets pulled out, and now you're dipping into savings
and you're struggling to make ends to me, and then
you get back on the gravy train again a few months,
a few years later. Life is not guaranteed if the
financial income is not guaranteed. So that is the biggest
reason why we won't have a third kid. We don't
plan on having a third child. Is mostly I think
(14:39):
it's mostly financial and also mostly how does the math work.
Emotional obviously too, but yeah, our house isn't big enough
for three kids to begin with. The it's financially, it's
just not it's not a wise thing right now that
if we had a third kid, we'd have to make
(14:59):
wild changes financially.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
But yeah, so that's the kid thing.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
And that's what I'm getting at any other dads or
parents listening to this, where the first kid was a
unique experience, second kid was awful from the at least initially,
it was an awful change of a routine, and you're
getting used to it and you're frazzled, and da da da.
I feel like, though, I feel like the third kid
(15:26):
is like, all right, we've been here before. We know
pretty much exactly, assuming that the kid is healthy, that
the baby's healthy. We've been here before, we know exactly
what to expect. So it's not such a shock, not
such a change to the routine. I will say for me,
and I probably will get onto some geeky stuff here
in the next few minutes, but this is geek therapy.
(15:47):
If you're first time listener to this podcast for some reason,
this is geek therapy for me just as much as
it is geek therapy for you. Yes, I talk about
some tech subjects and things going on with games and
hobbies and things like that, but a lot of the times,
especially more recently, it's just me stream of consciousness therapy.
For myself and hoping that somebody out there can also
(16:07):
relate to it. And that's what I'm doing right now.
So what was I gonna say? I guess I kind
of forgot where I was going with that whole baby
training though. Yeah, I guess that was it. Just that
the third baby, You've been here before with the first
two babies, you kind of know what to expect, and
assuming the baby's healthy, it's nothing's a surprise anymore. We
(16:30):
were out of diapers with Riker for like six months
before I getting right back. Riker was potty trained just
a few months before Marshall came into the world, so
we were done with diapers for like a couple of
months and then man, we're back into it. Hundreds of diapers,
baby poops all the time. But uh, it's wonderful. I
(16:50):
wouldn't change anything. It was so glorious. Oh, I was
gonna mention this, this is what it came back to me.
One of the changes in my life, Like one of
the the obstacles is I'm a very an I am
an introvert. I'm an extroverted introvert obviously because I have
a podcast and at one time I had a radio
(17:12):
show broadcasting to thousands of people, and I'm on I
run our podcast over in the museum in the museum's
YouTube channel one hundred thousand subscribers. We had like almost
eight million views last twenty eight days alone, Like I
put myself out there, but I am still an introvert.
I can be around people, but I get my energy
(17:34):
from being alone with my hobbies in my tinkers. Tinkers
is a buzzword around my house. What do you doing, daddy,
I'm tinkering. I like to tinker. And my life was
set up and I got used to this rhythm of
being able to pull out like an old compact desk
pro to eighty six, a computer from like the late
(17:55):
nineteen eighties, early nineties, whatever, it doesn't matter what it was,
an old ataris he a real to reel tape record
or something, and being able to sit down with it
for like eight or nine hours straight, twelve hours straight,
like for days on a row, Like spend three days,
twelve hours a day intensely focused on a hobby like
soldering something or building something, or just messing around with
(18:17):
something cassette decks and whatnots overclocking a computer which can
take hours and hours and hours to fine tune and
being able to do that uninterrupted, like that's where I
would draw my energy. I was totally fine being by myself, uninterrupted,
just in my zone, focused on my my activities and hobbies. Kids.
(18:38):
You can't do that anymore. It's and I'm not saying
that as like, oh, don't have kids you it's because
it's it's very selfish. It's it's really it's okay to
want to be alone and have daddy time and me
time and mommy time. That's very important. It's critical to
have that, obviously, but you when you have kids, you
(19:00):
understand now it takes a while, and it took a
while for me. They are better than the hobbies. They're
better than the tinkers. They're the ultimate hobby. They're the
ultimate tinker. So yes, I do need some me time
to overclock my computer. My rise in fifty nine fifty
x by the way, that I got on Amazon. That
chip was like nine hundred bucks when it came out.
(19:23):
It was three hundred dollars recently on Amazon fifty nine
to fifty x sixteen course thirty two for Threid's Freaking Crazy.
So I put together my beast again, and that's my
daddy time. That's me time where I'm tinkering with the computer.
I'm putting it back together. I usually do that when
the kids are in daycare and I've got some alone time.
(19:43):
But it was a change. When you're an introvert like that,
that is used to spending several hours at a time
in a hobby by yourself, not talking to another living soul.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
It's a shift. It's a huge.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Shift in life to have kids and not and just
basically not be able to do whatever you want, whenever
you want. And at first it's an adjustment. It's tough,
but as you go through it, as you get into it,
it takes maybe a few months, maybe a few years,
you realize this is the best thing ever, Like this
is so cool and such a privilege to be able
(20:17):
to raise kids. And I'm okay spending most of my
time raising my kids and then a less amount of
time on my own hobbies because you know what, Riker's
getting old enough now he can share in those hobbies.
And then that's you know that meme that shows like
the brain increasingly becoming aware and like glowing and eventually,
(20:39):
like the fourth frame or third frame it reaches complete nirvana.
That last frame of complete nirvana is when I am
able now to share my hobbies and my tinkers with
my son. Like that is reaching nirvana. It is the
coolest thing in the world to be able Red Daddy,
(21:02):
what are you doing? And have him sit in my
lap while I'm adjusting EDC and TDC of Horizon fifty
nine to fifty X, trying to keep it at two hundred. Watson,
stay cool and dah da da da. It's so cool
that he can inve We played Legos the other day.
We came over church and we went up to his
room and we got his new Lego set out and
we were just building cars and building helicopter monster trucks.
(21:24):
And I loved Legos growing up. I love playing with Legos,
and now I have an excuse to play Sorry Lego.
The plural of Lego is lego.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
So we were.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Playing Lego, which is one of my favorite things in
the world. Now I get to do it with my
four year old son, and I get to share that
with my boys. Marshall's too young for Lego to go
right in the mouth, but uh yeah. So being able
to share my hobbies and my tinkers, with my kid
now is and with my kids plural eventually when Marshall
gets a little older. That's another that's another realm of
(21:58):
human existence experience, and it's just simply the best in
the world. So I wanted to touch on I did
touch on this in the Rise in fifty nine fifty X.
I rebuilt my desktop PC. For a while, I had
my graphics card, my RTX thirty ninety had an EGPU mode,
(22:21):
which is overkill for EGPU except for that VRAM. I
wanted the twenty four gigs of v RAM, so it
wasn't the fastest in gaming, but it was awesome still
for editing in DA Vinci resolved because of all the VRAM,
and so I would connect my various laptops to it
and use that as an external GPU for the extra
horse power graphically. But you know what spurred me to
(22:42):
rebuild my my desktop, which I call Demon's Whisper because
it's supremely powerful but very quiet, to put the fifty
nine to fifty X in there and the thirty ninety
back in its PCI expressed sixteen slot as God intended,
and just fully unleash everything unleash it all, baby a.
(23:03):
The fifty nine to fifty X was so cheap. Now
it's like, that's crazy. I'm not ready yet. I don't
think to jump onto AM five or the latest generation
of Intel or RTX five thousand cards, what have you.
But there the impending upcoming the the reviews were saying,
finally of RTX five thousand series that for RTX fifty ninety,
(23:26):
which is a two thousand dollars card, the cards underneath
fifty ninety are priced way better. They're actually cheaper than
last generation, like fifty bucks cheaper, Like the RTX fifty
seventy is like fifty dollars cheaper, at least the US
dollars cheaper than the forty seventy was. But yeah, the
fifty ninety is two thousand dollars. But I remember paying,
or the museum paying when I first got hired nineteen
(23:49):
hundred dollars for the RTX thirty ninety. This was twenty
twenty one, in the peak of like demand for GPUs.
They're so hard to get. But anyways, the news of
you know, all the you know incoming reviews and things
of the RTX five thousand series that got my juice
is flowing. Compare also in you know, also with the
(24:10):
fifty nine fifty X being so cheap, I was like,
you know what, I feel this itch for the five
thousand series of graphics cards, but I've the thirty ninety
is still baller. Let me just unleash that beast and
pair it up with a fifty nine to fifty X
and basically making it one of the most powerful AM
four setups in the world. AM four that's the processor
(24:31):
socket that AMD motherboards used so AM for So fifty
nine fifty X is the last and most powerful CPU
ever on the AM four socket. AMD has since moved
on to the AM five socket, which uses the seven
thousand series chips and nine thousand series chips. So like
the ninety nine to fifty X or whatever, I'm not
(24:52):
there yet. I have no plans. That's a whole investment.
That's a whole investment, because the other thing with that
is not just like now I gotta get it new
AM five socket CPU. Now you gotta get a new
AM five motherword, you gotta get a new you gotta
get a new RAM. A lot of times when we
make upgrades, there's this kind of like Goldilocks period every
decade where you can upgrade, but you can take your
(25:15):
old hardware and upgrade it into your new system. So
for instance, you could you could take DDR four from
system to system, from socket to socket, couple sockets for
a little while. You could you could bring your DDR
four RAM over to the new motherboard or whatever new
new CPU. With AM five, you can't do that. AM
five is now DDR five RAM. Your DDR four RAM
(25:38):
is incompatible. So it's a if you're upgrading from AM
four to AM five, it's not an upgrade path.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
It is just your upgrading everything.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
You can take your graphics card if you still have
like a four thousand series graphics card to three thousand
series you know Nvidia, And for this case, you can
put any graphics card in there. You can take whatever
graphics card from any generation after AGP slot an any
PCI Express graphics card can go to the next system
that you upgrade to. But it's not true for CPUs
(26:08):
and it's not true for RAM. Given what point in
the upgrade cycle we are so five thousand series graphics cards.
That's what's got me jones to bring out the most
of my system because I don't want to be spending
thousands of dollars on upgrading the whole desktop. I've already.
I've got enough. I've got enough stuff. I just wanted
to get the most out of what I already had.
(26:31):
DGI flip is coming out very soon. I saw a
video it's probably gonna is it being announced today? I
think I forget. I'll save that for the next podcast,
because am I gonna get the DGI flip? Probably? Probably?
Even though I saw a video review, there's nothing wrong
(26:51):
with the drone Like, there's nothing wrong with it. It
looks pretty cool. The concept is cool. It is not
as small as I thought it would be. I think
the reviewer that the video dropped it. They were in
a different time zone, so they didn't, you know, encroach
on any nda or anything like that. But seeing it,
it's it looks pretty big when it's unfolded. When it's
(27:12):
folded up, it looks like it will slide in the
backpack real nice. Like it's this kind of like this
square pancake thing. It looks like it would pack easily
and then unfold. It's basically the size it looks to
me just looking at this video, like a DJIH Mini.
What is it? I've got the Mini three Pro Many
four Pro like it's there. It's the size of their
Mini series drones, but it folds up better flatter. Maybe
(27:35):
it's actually the diameter is a bit wider.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
I just don't know. There's a part of me that's like,
I don't. I need to look into this more because
I don't know, do I. It's not a case of
like do I need it? Like I'm trying to think
of like what what scenario I need to see, like
footage come out of it?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
What is it? Does it have ten bit? I don't
think it does, But does it? What?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
What other features does it have that makes it me
want to put into my backpack. The good news is
that if I do wind up getting it, I think
it's like four or five hundred bucks something like that,
a little over five hundred. But I already have all
the remote controls for it. I've got the RC and everything,
so I don't need to buy an additional accessories for
it because I've already got it. What's compatible with the
(28:19):
DJI Neo is compatible with the DGI flip, So we'll see,
we'll see. I'll save that for the next podcast. Probably
I might have to flip by that. Sorry, sorry, honey,
if you're listening to this, we'll see if there's money
that whatever it's. I'm on the fence about the flip
a little bit. But I know myself and I know
(28:40):
how I cuck for drones, So don't be a surprise
if I come on here another time you're like, yeah,
I got the flip.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Of course I did. I cannot.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I cannot get out of my own way with drones,
especially when they're not super especially when they're not like
the or thousand dollars. When it's like that five hundred point,
I'm like, h how can I make this work? Maybe
we could have another baby that I didn't buy so
many drones. Thank you for listening to Geek Therapy Radio podcast.
You are worthy of love, you're worthy of giving love,
(29:12):
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I'll talk to you'all next time.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Peace. Hey.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Making a little addendum to the end of this podcast
because I've gotten home now and I've been able to
watch a couple full in depth reviews of the new
DGI flip, and I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I don't know about it, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
As for me, as for my use case, I don't
know if it's something that I will actually get, which
would be crazy because usually I am very much into
these kinds of innovative drones and things like that, and
I just don't.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Know after watching reviews if if it's for me.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
For one thing, the price is four hundred and gosh,
four hundred and twenty nine dollars, let me go back
here and see. I think it's the DJI flip is
four hundred and thirty nine dollars, So I was kind
of wrong in my estimate earlier that it would be
around five hundred. It's four to thirty nine, so it's
less than five hundred bucks. And that comes with that
(30:19):
is bundled with the djrc N three, So it's the
drone and remote control for four hundred and thirty nine dollars.
That's not a bad deal at all. But I wish
at some point, and possibly this will happen, that'll be
sold drone only because I, like I mentioned before, I
already have the remote control, and a lot of us
(30:40):
out there probably already have the remote control that can
control the DGI flip, so I wish they come come
out with the drone only model. I would guess that
it would be around three hundred dollars if that were
the case, because the RCN three remote controller is around
one fifty around one thirty to one fifty something like that,
(31:03):
so I would imagine that the drone only DGI flip
drone only would be around three hundred dollars. So anyways,
I am pleased to see that the censor side is
one over one third inch. It's a bigger sensor than
the DJI EO. You do get ten bit video you
can record in DGI log M, so it is a
more capable sensor. It's the same sensor that is in
(31:24):
the Mini four Pro Mini three Pro.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Marshals in front of me jingling some of his toys.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I don't know if the noise canceling is gonna grab
that or not, but uh yeah, So I'm just so
I have the the Mavic three Pro, which is my
baller drone. That's the big boy, big Boss drone that
I take out to shoots that I need the absolute
top notch quality, no compromises. That's my big Boy Drone.
(31:53):
Then I have my Mini three Pro, which is the
same speck wise as the Mini four Pro. It just
has less option avoidance effectively, So I've got two pro
drones that shoot absolutely fabulous video. The Mini three Pro
travels everywhere. I've got the Neo that has me covered
for just a quick toss around drone that I'm not
(32:14):
really worried about. I'm not as worried about damaging or
flying away as my way more expensive drones. It gets
those quick shots. They look good enough. I wish they'd
be more updates. Maybe there will be more updates for
video codex and video settings in the future. So I'm
struggling to figure out where the DJI Flip fits into
(32:35):
my drone roster, because the other thing is it's it's
bigger than the Neo. It's way bigger than the Neo
and the fully extended. When you flip out the arms
of the Mini three and the Mini four Pro they are,
it's also bigger. The DGI Flip fully extended is bigger
(32:56):
than the Mini three many four fully extended, So it's
actually not a very small drone. It's a little bit
bigger than the Mini series of drones. For some reason,
I was thinking that it was the Flip was going
to be like this pocketable thing, like it was going
to be the size of the Neo. But since it folded,
you could easily just throw it in your pocket, throw
(33:18):
it in a coat pocket, throw it in your back
pocket or your jeans, and be ready to go. That
was super appealing to me. That is really what I
was waiting for with the Flip was a truly pocketable drone. Finally,
a truly pocketable drone that you could have your phone
in one pocket the drone in another pocket and be
able to just whip them out and fly around, get
(33:40):
the shot, put a right back in your pocket. Again,
That's what I thought the Flip was going to be.
That is definitely not it is. It's quite big folded up.
It's a tiny bit bigger than the Mini three, in
the Mini four. It's not as big as the DGI
Air series, thank God or naturally, but it is. It's
bigger than the Mini three and Many four are extended,
(34:02):
and even when it's all folded up, it's still a
chonky boy. And looking at the folded up Many three
and the fold it up DGI Flip, the Flip is bigger,
it takes up more volume. I thought at least it
would be it would fold up into a size I
could easily kind of slide into a photography bag, and
it certainly can. It absolutely can fit in a photography
(34:24):
backpack or a photography bag. But the Mini three and
the Many four fit better inside your photography bag. It
takes up less space. So I don't know if I'll
ever get the Flip I just for me, I don't see.
I don't see a use case now if they ever
came out with a DGI Flip Mini that did fit
(34:46):
in your pocket, I think that's the Goldilocks.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Drone that so many of us are are waiting for.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
We are willing to sacrifice quite a bit of video
options and things like that to have a drone that
fits in your pocket and it is just ready to
go out all times. So far, at least when DJI
is concerned that drone doesn't exist, you can have I
fit my Mini three, my Mini three pro into some
cargo pants extra pockets in my cargo pants, and I'm
(35:14):
sure the Mini the Flip would fit into a big
cargo pants pocket as well. But at the same time,
you got back to the fact again that the Mini
three and the Many four are smaller when fold it up,
so it's I just don't know where the Flip fits
into my roster of drones, and I'm not sure at
(35:38):
this point who I could recommend the Flip two. It
has all the automatic tracking, like you know, the the
quick shots that the Dji neo has. That's really cool.
You can you can set it. You don't need the
usually with a controller. You can just have a look
at you and track you and do some cool shots.
That's really cool, and the shots do look better because
the sensor is bigger. But I struggled to think of
(36:01):
the person who I'd recommend this to, because I feel
like my inclination would be still that my number one
drone to recommend to anybody right off the bat. You
see me walking down the street, you tap me on
the shoulder, and as we're walking past each other, what
drone do you recommend? I would say the Mini four K,
not the Mini four I know it's confusing, but the
(36:23):
Mini four K that sometimes can be found for less
than three hundred dollars including the remote control, and it
takes fantastic footage for what it is. You don't have
obstacle avoidance anything like that. You gotta be careful. But
it's so relatively cheap, and the video quality it takes
is so incredibly.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Good, especially for the price.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
And it folds, and it's smaller than the Mini three,
smaller than the Mani four even slightly. So the Mini
four K is just m I NI, and then four
K is smaller than the Mini three pro, smaller than
the Mini four pro. So it is my number one
recommendation to anybody asking what drone should I get? And
I have one second answer, Many four K, so I
(37:08):
just don't know who'd I could recommend the Flip two.
It's I looked at the specs in the video bit
rate for what it's worth is one hundred and fifty
megabits per second. That's more than twice than what the
DGI Neo is, and the sensor is bigger. It has
really cool infrared radar stereo radar in red radar to
(37:30):
help obstacle avoidance in low light. But it's just front
facing obstacle avoidance. It's not three sixty obstacle avoidance like
in the Many four pro.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
It's I appreciate that DGI tries these things that they
try to innovate and create these kind of new concepts
and designs. What I'm waiting for is a DGI flip
Mini that literally fits in your pocket. That's the drone
I'm waiting for. So DGI Flip really really cool. Maybe
(38:01):
if it sells for drone only and I can find
it for under three hundred bucks, maybe I'll pull the
trigger on it at that point. But then again, I
just where does it fit in? Because I've covered it.
If I want a small compact drone that takes great video,
I've got the Mini three Pro that's smaller than the Flip.
So yeah, it's just it's a weird. It's a weird
slot that the DGI Flip is fitting into. And I
(38:25):
just don't know who I could even recommend it too.
I mean, yeah, so I've covered the basis. Thank you
for listening to geekdap for Radio. All Right, I'm gone
for real now, talk to y'all next time.
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