June 30, 2023 • 41 mins
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Antigua, Armenia, Australia, Shelton, Brazil, Czechnia, Hungary, Ireland,
Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Russia, Slovenia,
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South Africa, United States readings.Then the sentence of Around the World Plan
is once again listening to the technologyshow for generation E. Mc williams.
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Cyberline coming at you around the worldvia the Internet, coast to coast via
satellite in the USA Radio network.I gotta watch myself on that one,
because you know, when we left, it was three other letters in front
of USA, and I had tochange that out. I almost said those
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three letters, watch yourself, watchyourself. Okay. Anyway, So um,
here's what we're telling. Welcome toto our two. Now, those
of you who are used to listeningto us are probably expecting a three hour
show. Now that's not happening.We're doing it too several reasons. One,
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I don't know if I need three. Second, there's something else in
that third that they're quite happy oneto keep their hour. One so since
they have been here, you know, seniority kind of rolls in and and
that person has been here longer thanI have. So I'm like, Okay,
you win, but I don't know. Maybe we might start an hour
early. As things progress me we'llgo to a three. But right now
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it's a two, and that's wherewe're gonna go. So if you if
you tune in, you'll get classicrate theater on some of the stations,
and Whyatt Cox will be doing histhing there we're with Fibruy McGee and Molly
and Jack Benny and all the greatclassics of the golden age of radio.
And be able to catch that ifyou can on your local station, if
they are playing it after us.And so if you go, hey,
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where's the third hour? Who's thisguy? That's why two hour shows a
lot of fun. Yeah, wecan pack a lot into two hours.
So anyway, we were talking aboutback in the day, and one of
the things that kind of started allthis stuff with cord cutting before you started
hearing the word cord cutting was AlaHart and Ala cart is cable that people
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were upset in the fact that Iwant to be able to pick and choose
what I watch because I'm paying forall this stuff and half of it I
don't watch, right, and westill, you know, it is so
much better than it was, butthere's still no like, oh I want
to pick this part of cable,in that part of cable. But we're
kind of getting there now. Andthat's what's awesome. We've seen us go
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from to where you couldn't get oh, not that much. But now we
got Netflix, about Hulu, umwe got uh oh gosh, Hbo.
Hbo was even on online nice andand that's that's wonderful. I get I
get to go rent all of thedifferent um you know, buy these services,
put them on my TV, andI get to pick and choose.
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And you know, I don't I'mnot sure if I told you this yet,
but I cut the cord. Yesyou did. Ah well, I
did it about three years ago.And I'm shocked because you had a pretty
pretty hip set up as I did. And I enjoyed it. The uh
I was, you know, hadsatellite dish and I had I had no
satellite dish, and I had uhFiOS at the time and love my FiOS.
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But really what it came down tois I liked the Internet. I
thought that as far as being charged, I wanted to cut the prices of
what I was paying. Yes,And so I did. I got rid
of that. But the key thingthat made me do it, or allowed
me to do it, I guessis I started looking at the at the
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shows that I recorded, all theshows that I watched, wrote are made
out a list, and I wrotedown every single one of them, and
I noticed that half of them werebroadcast half I'm more cable only half I'm
more broadcasts. The ones that werecable only, some of them were available
online on Hulu right, And soI was like, going, Okay,
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I get some of my shows there, I get half of my shows here.
And then I was able to buyan over the air DVR, so
I could actually record all my showson a DVR. They work just like
any other DVR, not a problemat all. It works fantastic, works
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very well. What kind of DVRdid you get? It's called a channel
Master. Oh, you got thechannel Master And there was I ball on
that at one day. It's theDVR plus. Yeah. And the reason
I went with them, there's there'sa number of them out there, and
they're all I've seen good, goodreviews on all of them. However,
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the reason I stuck with the channelMaster was because you get free um TV
guide. Well electronic guide. Okay, yeah, not not the brand and
TV guide, but the you getan electronic cable guide. So that was
a problem with TVO and directing alot of those others is that you had
to pay that subscription to be ableto you know, time out and record
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if you didn't right, And that'swhat I was trying to do. I
was sitting there going, I'm cuttingthe cable. Why would I want to
go back and pay a monthly serviceor a yearly service, whichever it is
a lot cheaper to get the I'veseen it, you know, ten dollars
a month just to get the electronicdata. I'm going, oh, I
don't want to do that. Sothat's why I went with the channel Master.
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I went and looked at the channelMaster, but U Magnavox I went
with. I bought two thousand andeight. I think it was my first
DVR because you know, they werecoming out with the units where you had
a DVD player. Then he hada hard drive recorded, and he had
the tuners, and the tuners werekind of and then they started getting to
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digital and then he had to getone of the digital tuner and an analog
tuner. And that's where I camewhen I got to Phillips still working.
The tuner got a little wongy onme, but it still records and everything.
And it's great problem is is pushingten years and technology had come a
long way. So Phillips doesn't putanything in the brand anymore. They threw
it to Magnavox and FUNI basically alongwith other stuff. They just make it
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for him and slapped the Magna Boxname on it. But I'll tell you
this thing was fantastic. I gotit off of Amazon at the time.
It was running about three ninety nine, and I'd saved up a whole bunch
of Amazon cards over the course ofChristmases and stuff, and I put them
all on and with tax and shippingand everything, I paid seven dollars out
of pocket, so heys to putthose aside. Well the prizes, right,
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but it has two digital tuners.They drop the analog tuners, and
you know, nobody on analog anymore. And it's got two terabyte drive.
It'll do two thousand hours with alot and of course now with HDTV,
the guide's already built in, soit'll pick up the guide, show you
what's on and everything, and goout to about two weeks or so.
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Oh it goes that far. Yeah, And even on the TV. The
Samsung I have now has a gridjust like TiVo Pop seven. It's getting
all that information right off the antennaand I get all the dot channels,
I get everything else. I've gota leaf antenna hooked up to it.
Marvelous reception with it. And thenthe cool thing I like about it is
it's got a plug on the backwhere you can put on a USB portable
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drive. You've got two terabytes sittingalready, and you could put an additional
four terabytes for a total of sixterabytes, and between the drives you have
six thousand hours of recording. Ohboy, that is a lot. Right
now, I'm just using a littlefive hundred gig USB three zero, you
know, connected up to it.But I can bump it up to a
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two gig and I'd like to dothat at some point. They're cheap enough
now, about sixty dollars for atwo gig drive. Yeah. External Now
there are people maybe that don't wantto go a route with the channel Master
and the and the Magna box becauseof price, and of course minds a
year old now, and there's somenewer ones coming out. But you know
that OURCA back in the day whenthe cable converters first came out, Remember
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he had to go get a cableconverter for the old TV, right all
right, And RCA made one,and basically it was a straight converter box
and you can plug it into anold TV and plug it into you know,
to get your channels and everything.They modified it. If you go
online you can get them. Walmartcarries them. You can even r them
for Walmart dot com. The samelooking box, but now it's a DBR
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and you pick up the box andyou use as a cable converter or converter
for your HDTV and still has theold plugs for composite to go to your
older TV, but now it hasan HDMI cable port that you could plug
this thing directly into the back ofyour big screen or you're you know,
anything with an HDMI, which youcouldn't do with the original. But then
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it has a USB three port andyou go out and buy h cheap portable
hard drive. You can get themnow for under one hundred dollars, even
less if you get them on clothesout and you start off with one gigabyte
and go from there and you plugit into the side and you now have
a DVR working unit and the unititself minus the hard drive is forty nine
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bucks. Wow, now you're thinkingto yourself, but wait a minute,
I go get a drive, rightdude. How many hard drives do we
have sitting around doing nothing most time? Yeah, you know, just sitting
there because we had it for someother project. We want something bigger.
Well, the question is the onesyou have sitting around are they are they
portable or not. That's where itkind of gets into I've got I've got
probably a half dozen, um wellinternal hard drives just sitting in my house.
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I keep them the same reason.But as far as the portable ones,
don't have those is just lying aroundas much. If you go to
Walmart and Fries and some of theothers right now, you can find drives
on the cheap because a lot ofthem are doing is with Christmas. They're
buying up stuff for people to buy, and then when you at least expect
it, Christmas is over, andnow they got all that inventory to get
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rid of and they start slashing prices. And I got a Tshiba to test
that out because I gave it todoc and I just wanted to see how
it worked and everything. And Ibought a one terabyte to Shiba for fifty
bucks, and that's a thousand hoursworth of recording. Well, they're they're
they're really handy, and um,you know, I am recording. I'm
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still recording about about the same numberof shows that I was before. And
again, they're all over the air, so I get watching anytime I want.
And then I've also got Hulu thatI'm gonna go ahead and time shift
there. I don't watch hardly anythingto live anymore. I don't either.
I've I've still got to catch that. That's the other problem. I've I
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got to catch up on the Blacklist. I'm catching up on several other shows
on CBS. Have CBS All Access, I have a House of Cards is
in its fourth season. It startedwhat it may. I still haven't watched
it. I got so much goingon that I time shift. But now
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there's so much stuff I gotta watch. I'm having a problem time shifting.
I know what you mean. Therethere are Netflix is coming out with original
series after original series, and there'sso many, uh you know, the
one two three season. They putthem out so quick nowadays that it's easy
to get behind. I mean gotDefenders, They've got you know, all
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those Marble series on there. I'vegot Prime still that Charlie turned me onto
that, right and which is comingdue? And I got all the programs
there. And that's another thing I'vefound too. I have Prime, I
have Netflix. I have Voodoo becausenow I get my DVDs from Walmart and
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I get my flight miles and theyhave a little code in there and you
put it in and now you canwatch it through your Voodo app on any
of the devices going to the TVand be able to do that. And
I was going through and looking atstuff, and I thought about it and
I thought, well, there's somany things I'll do, but I have
I lost the train of thought Ihave. Oh that's what it was pay
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per view. When you want torent a movie, like right now,
they've got all these movies coming out, like The Mountain between Us Sure and
things like that. Well, ifyou go up on Dish, Direct,
Cable everything and you get an HDcopy that you want to rent for twenty
four hours, it's like pushing sixbucks. They are. But if you
got Prime, and you've got theothers, and you start kind of looking
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around Amazon and all these other placeswhere you can rent. You can get
that same movie for a dollar ortwo dollars less than having to go through
there. So I'm actually price shoppinga movie now, you're right. I
like that. And I forgot tomention Prime because I've got it too,
And we'll watch a lot of moviesover there too. Yeah. So and
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there there, there's a surprising numberof movies that come into there and Netflix,
um that that. I'm just kindof surprised that they're out as quick
as they are, that we're justin the theaters. In terms it used
to be it was a year lagbecause I remember Reminions came out, it
was a year four it shows up. Now you're seeing stuff within six months
showing up on Netflix exactly. Ilike that. I'd like to be able
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to watch that and be able todownload it and take it around with me
too. It's not it's nice andhandy to be able to watch it anywhere
you want to watch. Yeah,and you watch it all all the different
things. Have you seen, Rake, guys, I screwed up? I
have not yet. I screwed up. Okay, so is it time for
me to leave? Yeah? Youhad you were clean out. Actually we
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got cut off. We got cutoff. No, you hit the post.
That was my bad, okay becauseI was fixing one thing. Oh
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okay, blame Savene here with you. Um, we got We've still got
some time. You want to getin a call eight four four nine two
seven six six nine one. Youjust say hi. You're a holdover from
the Tech Show with Me and theJones. Definitely love to hear from you.
If you're listening to us on tunein and listening to us office station,
we're on, uh, let's see, we're on here at the at
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the flagship KBEDT here in Dallas elevensixty. You're listening to us in the
radio or on tune in, wewelcome you. And of course we've got
the Nevada Radio Network out there,several of our stations across Nevada listening to
us as well. I think thereare maybe also some other stations KTLR in
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Oklahoma City maybe picking us up.We may have some stations in Minnesota.
Now, normally I do a lotof the monitoring for Charlie to hear the
different stations and stuff that he's on. Unfortunately, I'm not cloned yet,
so I don't have a me listeningto the stations across I can normally do
for Charlie on certain nights, butthat's what we do. I want to
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kind of touch baseball. We cankind of shift gears a little bit.
Let's talk about phones, and let'stalk about insurance. First off, I'm
going to ask you, because Iknow you are probably like me. Your
phone is like your communicator. Itis. And do you have insurance on
your phone? I do not?And why do you not have insurance on
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your phone? I have tried,well, I guess the biggest reason is
because the deductible is usually high enoughthat I'm kind of going well and I
try to make sure that I keepmy that there's other forms of insurance that
I have on my phone, mostnotably a case. Yes, that's a
good start to have, and alot of people have now of course I
have. I don't have the greatestcase. I don't have an unterbox.
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I could do on my iPads,but this is pretty good. Now.
One thing I've learned there are certainphones that get stolen on the most and
The first one is very easy,begins with the letter A as an Apple.
Now I carry an HTC phone,and several reasons. One HTC they
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kind of say, dance with theone that brung you. Well, that's
who HDC is. They're the onesthat built the first Android phones, and
the first Android phone is the TMobile G one, which I still have
my original to this day because Iworch for T Mobile that time. I
was one of the first group totroubleshoot, part of the first group to
troubleshoot Android on phones. And Ialso find out that HTC is not as
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valuable. I don't know if it'sugly or it's not worth much or whatever.
And people tend to don't want tosteal your HTC phone. They'll pick
up your phone, go it's HTC. Never mind. You know, there
was the longest time that Samsung andHTC were fighting head to head. Yeah,
and then HTC seemed to drop offa bit. Yeah, And that
all happened too when when Apple showedup with the iPhone, and then of
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course that sort of changing the wholegame. Android was still in there,
but Samsung, honestly, Samsung atthat time made the most god awfulest phones
when it came to Android, theywere constantly locking up, freezing. I
mean they they've come a long waynow, right, But those original Galaxies,
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you know when you got into likethe Galaxy too, the Galaxy three,
those kind of phones, And therewas a couple of others that were
Android, but weren't even the Galaxiesyet. Those things were horrible, and
that keys would lock up and everything. Because when I started going to leaving
the keypad as when it happened GalaxyS seven Edge. Yeah, and and
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the S seven's a good phone.A S six is too pretty much,
I think damned about to the five. Now, there's one other thing about
that you might not know about thisphone. Check it out, take a
quick look at it. Yeah,and see looks nice, shiny, good
shape everything. Yeah, that's anotherthing. So it's my iPad pro.
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You buy these things and you canlook out there. There's a lot of
good deals that if you buy thereferbs, they're often just as good as
any of the brand new stuff,but you save a few hundred dollars.
Right, And I've bought HTC usedto be in the stores, and the
last two I bought this one Ibought in the AT and T store purely
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out of an emergency, because Ibought by HTC. Before that, I
bought from Egghead or not Egghead.Egg New Egg used to be Egghead,
and I got a sweet deal onit from Taiwan and it was one of
the Desires series and I first gotit and it took me a week to
figure it out because it was inTaiwanese one minute and so I had to
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do that. So you can getphones very cheap in HTC. Of course
now they're doing it direct. Butthe key thing is with insurance. One
of the things you want to watchout for is if you have children and
they're running around with phones, youprobably want insurance. The deductibles are going
to be high, yep. Butyou know how you take care of that.
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Buy a phone, do your homeworkand buy a phone that's going to
do what you want to do,but not have as big of a deductible.
You know, don't go out andbuy the eight hundred dollar phone,
right Maybe buy a three hundred dollarphone. And even the worst case you
might be getting off of eBay orone used. We'll talk a little bit
about that on the next break andWe're gonna also talk about some other things
as well. If you're listening,Tomick Williams cyberline, we'll be right back.
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Unbelievable, it's an actual, factualrobot Hell. Who would have thought
hell would really exist and that itwould be in New Jersey? Actually,
greetings, Bender, Welcome to robotHell. I'm hallucinating this right, No,
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Pender, robot Hell is quite real. Here's our brochure. But I
don't belong here. I don't likethings that are scary and painful. Sorry,
Bender, you agreed to this whenyou joined our religion. If you
sin, you'll go to robot Hellfor all eternity. Ah hell o rhy
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mean heck, it's all right.You can say that here. We know
all your sins, Bender, andfor each one we've prepared an agonizing and
ironic punishment. Gentlemen, God crap, singing mind. If I smoke scaus
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are evil, you won't miss.We'll find ways to simulate that smell.
What the sorry fellaw frolled up untillike I kind of tell up here on
level one love robot Hell. Gambling'swrong. It so is cheating, so
is bauting phony IOUs. Let's letlady Locke, decide what type of torches
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justified. I'm pit boss here onlevel two deep fried robots, and just
tell me what who's read this?Fifty five pet? There must be robots
worse than eye he checked around.There really are, and when please let
me explain My crimes were merely boyousplaying. You start from boy scots,
nuns and banks. Stop playing meplay my upbringing. Please stop sitting while
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I'm singing standing Bootlet takes his wrong. Musicians need that income to survive.
Paint. Then they're gonna make somenoise. But you're all trying. Crashed
by the beast. Deep boys,that's what you want. You want to
get on me five, I don'tfeel well. It's up to us to
rescue him. Maybe he likes ithere in head it's so tempting him to
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stand. Maybe he's back at themotel. Come on, Fried, don't
be scared. I'm sure it's oneof us. Will be said to just
sit back and do it. Aride. Fencing, diamonds, fixing,
cock fights, publishing and decent magazines. You'll take for every crime me deep
bitter, electric time, fuel,supper, duly, end of time,
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enduring tortios, most of which timetramp bender, Are you all right?
No Ah, they're tormenting me withup tempo singing and dancing. Of course,
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that's just for starter, like William'ssever line with you eight four four
nine two seven six six nine onethe main voyage on the new network.
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We've done pretty good so far.Slight hiccup here or there, but we
knew we were going to scrape paintgoing out the door anyway, So it
is what it is. But enjoyingourselves here video Bob with us. Sure,
it's fun to break in the newyou know, all the equipment you
got to make sure, breaking themicrophone, breaking all the computer equipment,
of bringing everything in. Now,some of you have been asking me about
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Jesse. Where Jesse is. Jessehas actually gotten a different job. He
quit his job as working with hisbrother in law I think it is,
and they do roofing and they've gota contract with FEMA, and so he
sits in his apartment and runs logisticswhile his family member goes out to Houston
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and they are redoing roofs on thedamaged houses from the hurricane coordinator effort.
Yeah, and so we've got togetherWednesday on the confab, you and I
and Jesse was supposed to be there, but he was in Houston. So
in the coming weeks he'll probably beshowing up since he's got a chance to
come in, so he'll be hereas well. But that'll be good to
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see Jesse again. Yeah, andI was thinking about that and everything,
and this about the time that henormally does the space update. But we're
gonna kind of gradually bring that inas we go along, So Space up.
Yeah, So I'm going to askyou, since you are fire and
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I am Roku, what apps haveyou seen recently that are new that have
showed up when you're into the fence. Actually, it's kind of more interesting
what went the other way? Um, there's a tiff going you know Amazon
woop Cell. Oh yeah, I'veheard about that, the Google Mini or
the other Google products that they've gotout there. Yeah, they're competitive,
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they're head they're competitors, so whyyou know, why why help one out?
So just recently, YouTube which Iused to have on you used to
have on the Amazon fire TV.Right it's gone, I think, however,
just as soon as that goes away. There is also Firefox, which
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is a browser and it runs YouTubeperfectly. Don't watch it over there.
I watched the same thing. It'sand it's you know, I just had
to download the Firefox application and itworks well. We had a similar problem
because my first Roku was a Rokutwo and for some reason, YouTube would
not give them a license to beable to have an app. And I
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don't know if it's because Google didn'twant to or Google just laughed at Roku,
or Roku didn't want to pay orwhatever, and so these other people
said, no problem, we'll createan app and be able to be like
a layer to go into YouTube.And there's constant takedowns. Just when you
got an app. Oh look Igo to YouTube, it was gone.
Oh look another app, it wasgone. So finally when Roku three finally
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came out, they just decided,yeay, we get a YouTube app.
And it's been there river since andso I know that feeling. But one
of the things that I've noticed withRoku is I love the fact that it's
a little more open source and peoplecan actually create apps. Like right now,
if we had the manpower, wecould create an app for the show
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and carry stuff and listen to passshows and everything else, which one day
we will get to that point.We were thinking about it at the time
when you know, everything went downto went south, But there's still that
possibility. Some of the apps thatI've run into, you're seeing a lot
more than networks growing up apps.Have you seen comment? No, I
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don't know what that is comment?If well, you're here locally, mister,
mister cord cutter Channel forty seven fortyseven. Dot one is k K
t XD or whatever it is.They're mostly syndicated shows now, but Dot
two is comment. It's a betweenMGM and somebody else and basically runs the
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MGM catalog, the Old Outer Limits, both Old and News, and at
six o'clock in the morning he cancatch Johnny Sucko and his giant robot.
They're running those now, but theynow have an app where because comments not
in a lot of cities, andso they're like, hey, you can
catch the whole feed live. Justdownload this app, which I like because
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normally you got to log in andyou got to be old cable or satellite
in order to watch this channel asthey're trying to keep you from cord cutting
as so that one's in there andyou're seeing a lot of the Scripts Howard
channels that have a lot of thestations like Channel five in Cleveland and several
others. They're revamping their apps andso now you can watch them all live.
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And of course Scripts got bought byDiscover, Discover Communications, Discovery Channel
all that, so Food Network,Cooking Channel, all your stuff that you're
normally watching off a Scripts channel arenow all going to be under the Discovery
Channel. And for some reason,I've been going through and reviewing stuff.
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I've found so far four to sixdifferent channels all dedicated to belly dancing.
Okay, belly dancing seems to bea big to do recently. You see
it all over Facebook. There's womenthat have pages these broadcast channels. Well
they're like videos of people have Likethere's different dancers all over the country and
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all over the world, and theydo shows and videotape them where they'll like
go to a place and there theyhave a big thing with the music and
everything and there's a full I guess, I guess you call it a concert.
Basically, people play music, theydance, and the people you know,
watch them and lap and everything,and they're very dedicated to it.
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You see a lot of people makingtheir own costumes and everything. And there's
some very popular entertainers that are fromall different countries overseas that show up on
these I can see how it wouldbe quite the crazed. Yeah, there's
also an app where you can learnhow to play pool. There's a company
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that sells pool stuff and they showyou like how to properly hold acoue stick
and things like that. There's alsoa poker channel where you can actually learn
about poker. And you remember thebiography channel where they have a biographies of
actors and actresses and musicians and stuff. They have a similar deal, but
it's biography of people who are famousin poker. And there was this one
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lady who made a lot of money. I can't remember her name, but
she's up there. She went througha lot. She had two kidney transplants
and made money and poker to beable to sustain herself. But she couldn't
work you in a normal job becauseof her health and everything, and even
paid for her kidney transplants. Andshe was like a couple several like high
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rolling millionaires that she got to allthe special games where you had to be
invited and stuff, and they hada really nice biography about her life.
But you see so many shows nowadays. They've really gone on the whole reality
genre. That's one of the thingsthat we've seen over the past few years
is I mean, you've got somany shows out there that that whole Duck
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Dynasty thing, when it came out, it was like, what did they
do? They're you know, they'rethere are millionaires of duck calling stuff.
It's like, it is surprising thatyou see something like that. And then
again, there's reality show after realityshow after reality show, and they'll have
they happen for everything that and talentshows and American Idols making a comeback there
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it's going to ABC now and Iguess Ryan Seacrest, I think they announced
he's going to return and host itand everything. Well, that one really
did start the whole craze. Yeah, and you know, when it came
to these talents, and I expectthey did have a couple of them that
didn't really do as well before then, but once American Idol came at,
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everybody tune did yeah, because it'sX Factor originally British and then they desponded
out and went over there, andthen what is at ten twelve years,
how many American idols and they it'sbeen there. Yeah. And speaking of
British one of the things I liketo do with apps because you know a
lot of stuff. Now you're talkingabout cord cutting, you're trying to cut
your costs, but then you haveHulu and you have Netflix and only stuff
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that cost per month, and thenyou start getting all these and you like
them. Then you realize, asyou're looking down at your check book,
gosh, I'm paying all must forall this stuff for about is what I
was for cable. So I tryto tend stay with apps that are yearly,
like Prime for example, you're payingninety nine dollars you get all that
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stuff both one and done right runsout to I think like six something a
year or something like that. Butone of the ones I also get is
for nine a month. Forty ninea year is Acorn Television. If you
like British shows and dramas and comediesand stuff. It's great and one of
these ones, and I'm mad becauseBBC canceled it. Over the summer.
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There's a great show out called CountEarth's Strong, and it's this guy who's
in his forties plays a guy who'slike seventy two years old and was part
of a comedy duo and a guythat meets him because his father was part
of that duo. He dies,and so he goes off to find this
other guy to tell him, youknow, that his dad had died,
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and he's trying to find out moreabout his dad because his dad was always
on the road and meets Count Arthur'sstrong and he's like an eccentric and it's
hilarious the stuff they do. They'vemade three seasons of it. They were
looking to go to a fourth,but BBC canceled And I haven't laughed so
much since I watched Money Python.That's how crazy this show is. And
was this I'm sorry, did yousay it was an older show? Oh?
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This, well, it started.I think they first season came out
like twenty fourteen or twenty fifteen,so it's fairly fairly near yeah, sevent
not for about three or four seasons, And it has a it has a
little he has a little group ofcentric characters and everything, and it's it's
good and I hope maybe it hitsPBS because they're carrying a lot of acorn
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shows now, like uh, AgathaRaisin was on Channel thirteen for a while
and I think Murder is a Deathin Paradise might be part of Acorn.
Well, it's an application that I'llhave to get. Now. At our
house we do tend to watch well, we'll watch murder, she wrote.
There's yeah, there's a lot ofthe shows on the side bands now that
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you can pick up off of youknow, they're on the major broadcast,
but you go to eight dot onedot dot three, um and you see
you see a lot of things thatthey've gone over and they don't pick an
older style genre. Well, meTV and Antenna TV or the two big
ones for that kind of stuff,and ME has gotten into creating other subchannels
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like Decades, which is the dealwith CBS and are using both the CBS
libraries and the BTV libraries. There'salso one called Heroes and Icons, which
is H and I. That's whereyou're looking a lot of your cop shows,
Star treks over there, like allof the series and anything detective,
anything kind of heroic science fiction andkind of thing. And then there's another
(35:30):
group that's running down the Univision networkwhere Journal you go and you find it
Spanish, but you go to thedots. Do you have Grit, which
is a lot of the Western stuff, and then you have Escape, which
is woman themed as mostly about criminalforensics and things like this. I suppose
that this is a woman thing andthat's out there as well, and there's
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countless ones coming together. Okay,we're gonna go take a little right here.
Then we'll come back with our lastsegment for the night, and we're
gonna talk at the round table andwe're gonna dedicate it to Cyberline family member
who's no longer with us. Rightback, okay, with you and video
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Bob here and the Maiden voyage.Um, I ain't gonna give me the
phone number. It's the point forin the last few minutes. Uh,
this is the part where we normallydo it. It is funny you mentioned
the phone number because I started lookingat all the alpha numeric ways that you
could do the phone number. Yeah, I'll tell you what it stands for.
(36:59):
It is an alphama extant. Ohwhat is it? Yeah, it's
eight four to four war now,Yes it is. That was one of
them. That's what it's also Wayneuses for yap now or zapp now.
Oh, I like eight four tofour yap now and warmos. I'm not
sure what that is. It's Wayne'sbaby anyway, all right, Ryan,
table Camelot, Camelot, Camelot,It's only a model table. Table changed
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all the scenes of a fucking bigtable. We die about here off one
second or so, let's not getcamelot. It is a silly place,
right right. Well, some timehas gone by since we last talked,
(37:57):
and a lot of things have happened. And one of the things is that
sadly has happened to us in theCyberline family, is we lost somebody,
and we have lost our dear friendsSequaria at least, And Bob is probably
thinking, who the heck is that, because she didn't go by that name
(38:17):
when she was with us on theair. She went by the name Chat
babe Ah. Yes, And ifyou had been following along, no Sequaria,
because she would be in the roomkeeping everybody in place, because she
monitored our room while we did chat, and she did it pretty much religiously.
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And she had moved from I thinkwas San Diego when her father passed
and took her mother with her andthey moved to India. Outside of Indianapolis,
Indiana, of all places, andmajor change from the snow, from
being in the warmth of San Diegoto the snow. She been pretty busy.
She actually became a writer. Youcan go up on Facebook and go
(39:06):
on Amazon, and she has severalkindle books and I think some regular books
that you can buy, and shewas working on her fourth book over the
summer. One minute, she hadsome stuff happened to her where she was
in the hospital, and thought,well, on, wasn't that big of
a deal. And then one dayI got a thing on Facebook said that
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she had passed. And basically whathappened was they thought she had pneumonia,
but she was on the beginnings oflymphoma and by the time they had caught
it was too late. She leftmom behind, who couldn't for the funerals.
So a bunch of us donated moneyfor the funeral, and she had
her cremated and spread across the oceanthere near the Golden Gate Bridge. I
(39:49):
believe it was, but sadly sheno longer with us. We talked a
lot over Facebook and stuff, evenwhen we weren't doing the show, and
got to read her stuff. AndI can tell you she's going to be
dearly missed, So tonight, asour Maiden Voyage goes out, we dedicate
this show to Sakara and thank herfor being a great friend with us and
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all the many times that we hadeverything from laughs, all the things,
and I watched her knock you guysin the chat room when you got nothing,
which was hilarious of its own.But we miss you and hopefully we'll
see you again to day. Well, that's it, Maiden Voyage is done.
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Next week we're gonna have a wholebunch more topics and talk about things
a little more current, and alsotake your calls as well. Don't forget
cyber Facebook dot com slash cyberline net. That's the Facebook page, so hit
that. And until then, inthe words of the great immortal Arson the
Wells, we remain as always obetingyours. Good night,
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South Africa, United States readings.Then the sentence of Around the World Plan
is once again listening to the technologyshow for generation E. Mc williams.
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Cyberline coming at you around the worldvia the Internet, coast to coast via
satellite in the USA Radio network.I gotta watch myself on that one,
because you know, when we left, it was three other letters in front
of USA, and I had tochange that out. I almost said those
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three letters, watch yourself, watchyourself. Okay. Anyway, So um,
here's what we're telling. Welcome toto our two. Now, those
of you who are used to listeningto us are probably expecting a three hour
show. Now that's not happening.We're doing it too several reasons. One,
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I don't know if I need three. Second, there's something else in
that third that they're quite happy oneto keep their hour. One so since
they have been here, you know, seniority kind of rolls in and and
that person has been here longer thanI have. So I'm like, Okay,
you win, but I don't know. Maybe we might start an hour
early. As things progress me we'llgo to a three. But right now
(01:55):
it's a two, and that's wherewe're gonna go. So if you if
you tune in, you'll get classicrate theater on some of the stations,
and Whyatt Cox will be doing histhing there we're with Fibruy McGee and Molly
and Jack Benny and all the greatclassics of the golden age of radio.
And be able to catch that ifyou can on your local station, if
they are playing it after us.And so if you go, hey,
(02:15):
where's the third hour? Who's thisguy? That's why two hour shows a
lot of fun. Yeah, wecan pack a lot into two hours.
So anyway, we were talking aboutback in the day, and one of
the things that kind of started allthis stuff with cord cutting before you started
hearing the word cord cutting was AlaHart and Ala cart is cable that people
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were upset in the fact that Iwant to be able to pick and choose
what I watch because I'm paying forall this stuff and half of it I
don't watch, right, and westill, you know, it is so
much better than it was, butthere's still no like, oh I want
to pick this part of cable,in that part of cable. But we're
kind of getting there now. Andthat's what's awesome. We've seen us go
(02:59):
from to where you couldn't get oh, not that much. But now we
got Netflix, about Hulu, umwe got uh oh gosh, Hbo.
Hbo was even on online nice andand that's that's wonderful. I get I
get to go rent all of thedifferent um you know, buy these services,
put them on my TV, andI get to pick and choose.
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And you know, I don't I'mnot sure if I told you this yet,
but I cut the cord. Yesyou did. Ah well, I
did it about three years ago.And I'm shocked because you had a pretty
pretty hip set up as I did. And I enjoyed it. The uh
I was, you know, hadsatellite dish and I had I had no
satellite dish, and I had uhFiOS at the time and love my FiOS.
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But really what it came down tois I liked the Internet. I
thought that as far as being charged, I wanted to cut the prices of
what I was paying. Yes,And so I did. I got rid
of that. But the key thingthat made me do it, or allowed
me to do it, I guessis I started looking at the at the
(04:09):
shows that I recorded, all theshows that I watched, wrote are made
out a list, and I wrotedown every single one of them, and
I noticed that half of them werebroadcast half I'm more cable only half I'm
more broadcasts. The ones that werecable only, some of them were available
online on Hulu right, And soI was like, going, Okay,
(04:30):
I get some of my shows there, I get half of my shows here.
And then I was able to buyan over the air DVR, so
I could actually record all my showson a DVR. They work just like
any other DVR, not a problemat all. It works fantastic, works
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very well. What kind of DVRdid you get? It's called a channel
Master. Oh, you got thechannel Master And there was I ball on
that at one day. It's theDVR plus. Yeah. And the reason
I went with them, there's there'sa number of them out there, and
they're all I've seen good, goodreviews on all of them. However,
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the reason I stuck with the channelMaster was because you get free um TV
guide. Well electronic guide. Okay, yeah, not not the brand and
TV guide, but the you getan electronic cable guide. So that was
a problem with TVO and directing alot of those others is that you had
to pay that subscription to be ableto you know, time out and record
(05:33):
if you didn't right, And that'swhat I was trying to do. I
was sitting there going, I'm cuttingthe cable. Why would I want to
go back and pay a monthly serviceor a yearly service, whichever it is
a lot cheaper to get the I'veseen it, you know, ten dollars
a month just to get the electronicdata. I'm going, oh, I
don't want to do that. Sothat's why I went with the channel Master.
(05:55):
I went and looked at the channelMaster, but U Magnavox I went
with. I bought two thousand andeight. I think it was my first
DVR because you know, they werecoming out with the units where you had
a DVD player. Then he hada hard drive recorded, and he had
the tuners, and the tuners werekind of and then they started getting to
(06:15):
digital and then he had to getone of the digital tuner and an analog
tuner. And that's where I camewhen I got to Phillips still working.
The tuner got a little wongy onme, but it still records and everything.
And it's great problem is is pushingten years and technology had come a
long way. So Phillips doesn't putanything in the brand anymore. They threw
it to Magnavox and FUNI basically alongwith other stuff. They just make it
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for him and slapped the Magna Boxname on it. But I'll tell you
this thing was fantastic. I gotit off of Amazon at the time.
It was running about three ninety nine, and I'd saved up a whole bunch
of Amazon cards over the course ofChristmases and stuff, and I put them
all on and with tax and shippingand everything, I paid seven dollars out
of pocket, so heys to putthose aside. Well the prizes, right,
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but it has two digital tuners.They drop the analog tuners, and
you know, nobody on analog anymore. And it's got two terabyte drive.
It'll do two thousand hours with alot and of course now with HDTV,
the guide's already built in, soit'll pick up the guide, show you
what's on and everything, and goout to about two weeks or so.
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Oh it goes that far. Yeah, And even on the TV. The
Samsung I have now has a gridjust like TiVo Pop seven. It's getting
all that information right off the antennaand I get all the dot channels,
I get everything else. I've gota leaf antenna hooked up to it.
Marvelous reception with it. And thenthe cool thing I like about it is
it's got a plug on the backwhere you can put on a USB portable
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drive. You've got two terabytes sittingalready, and you could put an additional
four terabytes for a total of sixterabytes, and between the drives you have
six thousand hours of recording. Ohboy, that is a lot. Right
now, I'm just using a littlefive hundred gig USB three zero, you
know, connected up to it.But I can bump it up to a
(08:09):
two gig and I'd like to dothat at some point. They're cheap enough
now, about sixty dollars for atwo gig drive. Yeah. External Now
there are people maybe that don't wantto go a route with the channel Master
and the and the Magna box becauseof price, and of course minds a
year old now, and there's somenewer ones coming out. But you know
that OURCA back in the day whenthe cable converters first came out, Remember
(08:31):
he had to go get a cableconverter for the old TV, right all
right, And RCA made one,and basically it was a straight converter box
and you can plug it into anold TV and plug it into you know,
to get your channels and everything.They modified it. If you go
online you can get them. Walmartcarries them. You can even r them
for Walmart dot com. The samelooking box, but now it's a DBR
(08:54):
and you pick up the box andyou use as a cable converter or converter
for your HDTV and still has theold plugs for composite to go to your
older TV, but now it hasan HDMI cable port that you could plug
this thing directly into the back ofyour big screen or you're you know,
anything with an HDMI, which youcouldn't do with the original. But then
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it has a USB three port andyou go out and buy h cheap portable
hard drive. You can get themnow for under one hundred dollars, even
less if you get them on clothesout and you start off with one gigabyte
and go from there and you plugit into the side and you now have
a DVR working unit and the unititself minus the hard drive is forty nine
(09:41):
bucks. Wow, now you're thinkingto yourself, but wait a minute,
I go get a drive, rightdude. How many hard drives do we
have sitting around doing nothing most time? Yeah, you know, just sitting
there because we had it for someother project. We want something bigger.
Well, the question is the onesyou have sitting around are they are they
portable or not. That's where itkind of gets into I've got I've got
probably a half dozen, um wellinternal hard drives just sitting in my house.
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I keep them the same reason.But as far as the portable ones,
don't have those is just lying aroundas much. If you go to
Walmart and Fries and some of theothers right now, you can find drives
on the cheap because a lot ofthem are doing is with Christmas. They're
buying up stuff for people to buy, and then when you at least expect
it, Christmas is over, andnow they got all that inventory to get
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rid of and they start slashing prices. And I got a Tshiba to test
that out because I gave it todoc and I just wanted to see how
it worked and everything. And Ibought a one terabyte to Shiba for fifty
bucks, and that's a thousand hoursworth of recording. Well, they're they're
they're really handy, and um,you know, I am recording. I'm
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still recording about about the same numberof shows that I was before. And
again, they're all over the air, so I get watching anytime I want.
And then I've also got Hulu thatI'm gonna go ahead and time shift
there. I don't watch hardly anythingto live anymore. I don't either.
I've I've still got to catch that. That's the other problem. I've I
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got to catch up on the Blacklist. I'm catching up on several other shows
on CBS. Have CBS All Access, I have a House of Cards is
in its fourth season. It startedwhat it may. I still haven't watched
it. I got so much goingon that I time shift. But now
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there's so much stuff I gotta watch. I'm having a problem time shifting.
I know what you mean. Therethere are Netflix is coming out with original
series after original series, and there'sso many, uh you know, the
one two three season. They putthem out so quick nowadays that it's easy
to get behind. I mean gotDefenders, They've got you know, all
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those Marble series on there. I'vegot Prime still that Charlie turned me onto
that, right and which is comingdue? And I got all the programs
there. And that's another thing I'vefound too. I have Prime, I
have Netflix. I have Voodoo becausenow I get my DVDs from Walmart and
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I get my flight miles and theyhave a little code in there and you
put it in and now you canwatch it through your Voodo app on any
of the devices going to the TVand be able to do that. And
I was going through and looking atstuff, and I thought about it and
I thought, well, there's somany things I'll do, but I have
I lost the train of thought Ihave. Oh that's what it was pay
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per view. When you want torent a movie, like right now,
they've got all these movies coming out, like The Mountain between Us Sure and
things like that. Well, ifyou go up on Dish, Direct,
Cable everything and you get an HDcopy that you want to rent for twenty
four hours, it's like pushing sixbucks. They are. But if you
got Prime, and you've got theothers, and you start kind of looking
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around Amazon and all these other placeswhere you can rent. You can get
that same movie for a dollar ortwo dollars less than having to go through
there. So I'm actually price shoppinga movie now, you're right. I
like that. And I forgot tomention Prime because I've got it too,
And we'll watch a lot of moviesover there too. Yeah. So and
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there there, there's a surprising numberof movies that come into there and Netflix,
um that that. I'm just kindof surprised that they're out as quick
as they are, that we're justin the theaters. In terms it used
to be it was a year lagbecause I remember Reminions came out, it
was a year four it shows up. Now you're seeing stuff within six months
showing up on Netflix exactly. Ilike that. I'd like to be able
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to watch that and be able todownload it and take it around with me
too. It's not it's nice andhandy to be able to watch it anywhere
you want to watch. Yeah,and you watch it all all the different
things. Have you seen, Rake, guys, I screwed up? I
have not yet. I screwed up. Okay, so is it time for
me to leave? Yeah? Youhad you were clean out. Actually we
(14:13):
got cut off. We got cutoff. No, you hit the post.
That was my bad, okay becauseI was fixing one thing. Oh
(14:35):
okay, blame Savene here with you. Um, we got We've still got
some time. You want to getin a call eight four four nine two
seven six six nine one. Youjust say hi. You're a holdover from
the Tech Show with Me and theJones. Definitely love to hear from you.
If you're listening to us on tunein and listening to us office station,
we're on, uh, let's see, we're on here at the at
(15:00):
the flagship KBEDT here in Dallas elevensixty. You're listening to us in the
radio or on tune in, wewelcome you. And of course we've got
the Nevada Radio Network out there,several of our stations across Nevada listening to
us as well. I think thereare maybe also some other stations KTLR in
(15:20):
Oklahoma City maybe picking us up.We may have some stations in Minnesota.
Now, normally I do a lotof the monitoring for Charlie to hear the
different stations and stuff that he's on. Unfortunately, I'm not cloned yet,
so I don't have a me listeningto the stations across I can normally do
for Charlie on certain nights, butthat's what we do. I want to
(15:43):
kind of touch baseball. We cankind of shift gears a little bit.
Let's talk about phones, and let'stalk about insurance. First off, I'm
going to ask you, because Iknow you are probably like me. Your
phone is like your communicator. Itis. And do you have insurance on
your phone? I do not?And why do you not have insurance on
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your phone? I have tried,well, I guess the biggest reason is
because the deductible is usually high enoughthat I'm kind of going well and I
try to make sure that I keepmy that there's other forms of insurance that
I have on my phone, mostnotably a case. Yes, that's a
good start to have, and alot of people have now of course I
have. I don't have the greatestcase. I don't have an unterbox.
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I could do on my iPads,but this is pretty good. Now.
One thing I've learned there are certainphones that get stolen on the most and
The first one is very easy,begins with the letter A as an Apple.
Now I carry an HTC phone,and several reasons. One HTC they
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kind of say, dance with theone that brung you. Well, that's
who HDC is. They're the onesthat built the first Android phones, and
the first Android phone is the TMobile G one, which I still have
my original to this day because Iworch for T Mobile that time. I
was one of the first group totroubleshoot, part of the first group to
troubleshoot Android on phones. And Ialso find out that HTC is not as
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valuable. I don't know if it'sugly or it's not worth much or whatever.
And people tend to don't want tosteal your HTC phone. They'll pick
up your phone, go it's HTC. Never mind. You know, there
was the longest time that Samsung andHTC were fighting head to head. Yeah,
and then HTC seemed to drop offa bit. Yeah, And that
all happened too when when Apple showedup with the iPhone, and then of
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course that sort of changing the wholegame. Android was still in there,
but Samsung, honestly, Samsung atthat time made the most god awfulest phones
when it came to Android, theywere constantly locking up, freezing. I
mean they they've come a long waynow, right, But those original Galaxies,
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you know when you got into likethe Galaxy too, the Galaxy three,
those kind of phones, And therewas a couple of others that were
Android, but weren't even the Galaxiesyet. Those things were horrible, and
that keys would lock up and everything. Because when I started going to leaving
the keypad as when it happened GalaxyS seven Edge. Yeah, and and
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the S seven's a good phone.A S six is too pretty much,
I think damned about to the five. Now, there's one other thing about
that you might not know about thisphone. Check it out, take a
quick look at it. Yeah,and see looks nice, shiny, good
shape everything. Yeah, that's anotherthing. So it's my iPad pro.
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You buy these things and you canlook out there. There's a lot of
good deals that if you buy thereferbs, they're often just as good as
any of the brand new stuff,but you save a few hundred dollars.
Right, And I've bought HTC usedto be in the stores, and the
last two I bought this one Ibought in the AT and T store purely
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out of an emergency, because Ibought by HTC. Before that, I
bought from Egghead or not Egghead.Egg New Egg used to be Egghead,
and I got a sweet deal onit from Taiwan and it was one of
the Desires series and I first gotit and it took me a week to
figure it out because it was inTaiwanese one minute and so I had to
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do that. So you can getphones very cheap in HTC. Of course
now they're doing it direct. Butthe key thing is with insurance. One
of the things you want to watchout for is if you have children and
they're running around with phones, youprobably want insurance. The deductibles are going
to be high, yep. Butyou know how you take care of that.
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Buy a phone, do your homeworkand buy a phone that's going to
do what you want to do,but not have as big of a deductible.
You know, don't go out andbuy the eight hundred dollar phone,
right Maybe buy a three hundred dollarphone. And even the worst case you
might be getting off of eBay orone used. We'll talk a little bit
about that on the next break andWe're gonna also talk about some other things
as well. If you're listening,Tomick Williams cyberline, we'll be right back.
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Unbelievable, it's an actual, factualrobot Hell. Who would have thought
hell would really exist and that itwould be in New Jersey? Actually,
greetings, Bender, Welcome to robotHell. I'm hallucinating this right, No,
(20:59):
Pender, robot Hell is quite real. Here's our brochure. But I
don't belong here. I don't likethings that are scary and painful. Sorry,
Bender, you agreed to this whenyou joined our religion. If you
sin, you'll go to robot Hellfor all eternity. Ah hell o rhy
(21:21):
mean heck, it's all right.You can say that here. We know
all your sins, Bender, andfor each one we've prepared an agonizing and
ironic punishment. Gentlemen, God crap, singing mind. If I smoke scaus
(21:42):
are evil, you won't miss.We'll find ways to simulate that smell.
What the sorry fellaw frolled up untillike I kind of tell up here on
level one love robot Hell. Gambling'swrong. It so is cheating, so
is bauting phony IOUs. Let's letlady Locke, decide what type of torches
(22:06):
justified. I'm pit boss here onlevel two deep fried robots, and just
tell me what who's read this?Fifty five pet? There must be robots
worse than eye he checked around.There really are, and when please let
me explain My crimes were merely boyousplaying. You start from boy scots,
nuns and banks. Stop playing meplay my upbringing. Please stop sitting while
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I'm singing standing Bootlet takes his wrong. Musicians need that income to survive.
Paint. Then they're gonna make somenoise. But you're all trying. Crashed
by the beast. Deep boys,that's what you want. You want to
get on me five, I don'tfeel well. It's up to us to
rescue him. Maybe he likes ithere in head it's so tempting him to
(22:55):
stand. Maybe he's back at themotel. Come on, Fried, don't
be scared. I'm sure it's oneof us. Will be said to just
sit back and do it. Aride. Fencing, diamonds, fixing,
cock fights, publishing and decent magazines. You'll take for every crime me deep
bitter, electric time, fuel,supper, duly, end of time,
(23:15):
enduring tortios, most of which timetramp bender, Are you all right?
No Ah, they're tormenting me withup tempo singing and dancing. Of course,
(23:37):
that's just for starter, like William'ssever line with you eight four four
nine two seven six six nine onethe main voyage on the new network.
(24:00):
We've done pretty good so far.Slight hiccup here or there, but we
knew we were going to scrape paintgoing out the door anyway, So it
is what it is. But enjoyingourselves here video Bob with us. Sure,
it's fun to break in the newyou know, all the equipment you
got to make sure, breaking themicrophone, breaking all the computer equipment,
of bringing everything in. Now,some of you have been asking me about
(24:23):
Jesse. Where Jesse is. Jessehas actually gotten a different job. He
quit his job as working with hisbrother in law I think it is,
and they do roofing and they've gota contract with FEMA, and so he
sits in his apartment and runs logisticswhile his family member goes out to Houston
(24:44):
and they are redoing roofs on thedamaged houses from the hurricane coordinator effort.
Yeah, and so we've got togetherWednesday on the confab, you and I
and Jesse was supposed to be there, but he was in Houston. So
in the coming weeks he'll probably beshowing up since he's got a chance to
come in, so he'll be hereas well. But that'll be good to
(25:04):
see Jesse again. Yeah, andI was thinking about that and everything,
and this about the time that henormally does the space update. But we're
gonna kind of gradually bring that inas we go along, So Space up.
Yeah, So I'm going to askyou, since you are fire and
(25:26):
I am Roku, what apps haveyou seen recently that are new that have
showed up when you're into the fence. Actually, it's kind of more interesting
what went the other way? Um, there's a tiff going you know Amazon
woop Cell. Oh yeah, I'veheard about that, the Google Mini or
the other Google products that they've gotout there. Yeah, they're competitive,
(25:49):
they're head they're competitors, so whyyou know, why why help one out?
So just recently, YouTube which Iused to have on you used to
have on the Amazon fire TV.Right it's gone, I think, however,
just as soon as that goes away. There is also Firefox, which
(26:11):
is a browser and it runs YouTubeperfectly. Don't watch it over there.
I watched the same thing. It'sand it's you know, I just had
to download the Firefox application and itworks well. We had a similar problem
because my first Roku was a Rokutwo and for some reason, YouTube would
not give them a license to beable to have an app. And I
(26:34):
don't know if it's because Google didn'twant to or Google just laughed at Roku,
or Roku didn't want to pay orwhatever, and so these other people
said, no problem, we'll createan app and be able to be like
a layer to go into YouTube.And there's constant takedowns. Just when you
got an app. Oh look Igo to YouTube, it was gone.
Oh look another app, it wasgone. So finally when Roku three finally
(26:57):
came out, they just decided,yeay, we get a YouTube app.
And it's been there river since andso I know that feeling. But one
of the things that I've noticed withRoku is I love the fact that it's
a little more open source and peoplecan actually create apps. Like right now,
if we had the manpower, wecould create an app for the show
(27:22):
and carry stuff and listen to passshows and everything else, which one day
we will get to that point.We were thinking about it at the time
when you know, everything went downto went south, But there's still that
possibility. Some of the apps thatI've run into, you're seeing a lot
more than networks growing up apps.Have you seen comment? No, I
(27:45):
don't know what that is comment?If well, you're here locally, mister,
mister cord cutter Channel forty seven fortyseven. Dot one is k K
t XD or whatever it is.They're mostly syndicated shows now, but Dot
two is comment. It's a betweenMGM and somebody else and basically runs the
(28:07):
MGM catalog, the Old Outer Limits, both Old and News, and at
six o'clock in the morning he cancatch Johnny Sucko and his giant robot.
They're running those now, but theynow have an app where because comments not
in a lot of cities, andso they're like, hey, you can
catch the whole feed live. Justdownload this app, which I like because
(28:27):
normally you got to log in andyou got to be old cable or satellite
in order to watch this channel asthey're trying to keep you from cord cutting
as so that one's in there andyou're seeing a lot of the Scripts Howard
channels that have a lot of thestations like Channel five in Cleveland and several
others. They're revamping their apps andso now you can watch them all live.
(28:48):
And of course Scripts got bought byDiscover, Discover Communications, Discovery Channel
all that, so Food Network,Cooking Channel, all your stuff that you're
normally watching off a Scripts channel arenow all going to be under the Discovery
Channel. And for some reason,I've been going through and reviewing stuff.
(29:10):
I've found so far four to sixdifferent channels all dedicated to belly dancing.
Okay, belly dancing seems to bea big to do recently. You see
it all over Facebook. There's womenthat have pages these broadcast channels. Well
they're like videos of people have Likethere's different dancers all over the country and
(29:36):
all over the world, and theydo shows and videotape them where they'll like
go to a place and there theyhave a big thing with the music and
everything and there's a full I guess, I guess you call it a concert.
Basically, people play music, theydance, and the people you know,
watch them and lap and everything,and they're very dedicated to it.
(29:57):
You see a lot of people makingtheir own costumes and everything. And there's
some very popular entertainers that are fromall different countries overseas that show up on
these I can see how it wouldbe quite the crazed. Yeah, there's
also an app where you can learnhow to play pool. There's a company
(30:18):
that sells pool stuff and they showyou like how to properly hold acoue stick
and things like that. There's alsoa poker channel where you can actually learn
about poker. And you remember thebiography channel where they have a biographies of
actors and actresses and musicians and stuff. They have a similar deal, but
it's biography of people who are famousin poker. And there was this one
(30:40):
lady who made a lot of money. I can't remember her name, but
she's up there. She went througha lot. She had two kidney transplants
and made money and poker to beable to sustain herself. But she couldn't
work you in a normal job becauseof her health and everything, and even
paid for her kidney transplants. Andshe was like a couple several like high
(31:02):
rolling millionaires that she got to allthe special games where you had to be
invited and stuff, and they hada really nice biography about her life.
But you see so many shows nowadays. They've really gone on the whole reality
genre. That's one of the thingsthat we've seen over the past few years
is I mean, you've got somany shows out there that that whole Duck
(31:22):
Dynasty thing, when it came out, it was like, what did they
do? They're you know, they'rethere are millionaires of duck calling stuff.
It's like, it is surprising thatyou see something like that. And then
again, there's reality show after realityshow after reality show, and they'll have
they happen for everything that and talentshows and American Idols making a comeback there
(31:48):
it's going to ABC now and Iguess Ryan Seacrest, I think they announced
he's going to return and host itand everything. Well, that one really
did start the whole craze. Yeah, and you know, when it came
to these talents, and I expectthey did have a couple of them that
didn't really do as well before then, but once American Idol came at,
(32:09):
everybody tune did yeah, because it'sX Factor originally British and then they desponded
out and went over there, andthen what is at ten twelve years,
how many American idols and they it'sbeen there. Yeah. And speaking of
British one of the things I liketo do with apps because you know a
lot of stuff. Now you're talkingabout cord cutting, you're trying to cut
your costs, but then you haveHulu and you have Netflix and only stuff
(32:31):
that cost per month, and thenyou start getting all these and you like
them. Then you realize, asyou're looking down at your check book,
gosh, I'm paying all must forall this stuff for about is what I
was for cable. So I tryto tend stay with apps that are yearly,
like Prime for example, you're payingninety nine dollars you get all that
(32:51):
stuff both one and done right runsout to I think like six something a
year or something like that. Butone of the ones I also get is
for nine a month. Forty ninea year is Acorn Television. If you
like British shows and dramas and comediesand stuff. It's great and one of
these ones, and I'm mad becauseBBC canceled it. Over the summer.
(33:15):
There's a great show out called CountEarth's Strong, and it's this guy who's
in his forties plays a guy who'slike seventy two years old and was part
of a comedy duo and a guythat meets him because his father was part
of that duo. He dies,and so he goes off to find this
other guy to tell him, youknow, that his dad had died,
(33:37):
and he's trying to find out moreabout his dad because his dad was always
on the road and meets Count Arthur'sstrong and he's like an eccentric and it's
hilarious the stuff they do. They'vemade three seasons of it. They were
looking to go to a fourth,but BBC canceled And I haven't laughed so
much since I watched Money Python.That's how crazy this show is. And
was this I'm sorry, did yousay it was an older show? Oh?
(34:00):
This, well, it started.I think they first season came out
like twenty fourteen or twenty fifteen,so it's fairly fairly near yeah, sevent
not for about three or four seasons, And it has a it has a
little he has a little group ofcentric characters and everything, and it's it's
good and I hope maybe it hitsPBS because they're carrying a lot of acorn
(34:20):
shows now, like uh, AgathaRaisin was on Channel thirteen for a while
and I think Murder is a Deathin Paradise might be part of Acorn.
Well, it's an application that I'llhave to get. Now. At our
house we do tend to watch well, we'll watch murder, she wrote.
There's yeah, there's a lot ofthe shows on the side bands now that
(34:43):
you can pick up off of youknow, they're on the major broadcast,
but you go to eight dot onedot dot three, um and you see
you see a lot of things thatthey've gone over and they don't pick an
older style genre. Well, meTV and Antenna TV or the two big
ones for that kind of stuff,and ME has gotten into creating other subchannels
(35:06):
like Decades, which is the dealwith CBS and are using both the CBS
libraries and the BTV libraries. There'salso one called Heroes and Icons, which
is H and I. That's whereyou're looking a lot of your cop shows,
Star treks over there, like allof the series and anything detective,
anything kind of heroic science fiction andkind of thing. And then there's another
(35:30):
group that's running down the Univision networkwhere Journal you go and you find it
Spanish, but you go to thedots. Do you have Grit, which
is a lot of the Western stuff, and then you have Escape, which
is woman themed as mostly about criminalforensics and things like this. I suppose
that this is a woman thing andthat's out there as well, and there's
(35:54):
countless ones coming together. Okay,we're gonna go take a little right here.
Then we'll come back with our lastsegment for the night, and we're
gonna talk at the round table andwe're gonna dedicate it to Cyberline family member
who's no longer with us. Rightback, okay, with you and video
(36:36):
Bob here and the Maiden voyage.Um, I ain't gonna give me the
phone number. It's the point forin the last few minutes. Uh,
this is the part where we normallydo it. It is funny you mentioned
the phone number because I started lookingat all the alpha numeric ways that you
could do the phone number. Yeah, I'll tell you what it stands for.
(36:59):
It is an alphama extant. Ohwhat is it? Yeah, it's
eight four to four war now,Yes it is. That was one of
them. That's what it's also Wayneuses for yap now or zapp now.
Oh, I like eight four tofour yap now and warmos. I'm not
sure what that is. It's Wayne'sbaby anyway, all right, Ryan,
table Camelot, Camelot, Camelot,It's only a model table. Table changed
(37:32):
all the scenes of a fucking bigtable. We die about here off one
second or so, let's not getcamelot. It is a silly place,
right right. Well, some timehas gone by since we last talked,
(37:57):
and a lot of things have happened. And one of the things is that
sadly has happened to us in theCyberline family, is we lost somebody,
and we have lost our dear friendsSequaria at least, And Bob is probably
thinking, who the heck is that, because she didn't go by that name
(38:17):
when she was with us on theair. She went by the name Chat
babe Ah. Yes, And ifyou had been following along, no Sequaria,
because she would be in the roomkeeping everybody in place, because she
monitored our room while we did chat, and she did it pretty much religiously.
(38:42):
And she had moved from I thinkwas San Diego when her father passed
and took her mother with her andthey moved to India. Outside of Indianapolis,
Indiana, of all places, andmajor change from the snow, from
being in the warmth of San Diegoto the snow. She been pretty busy.
She actually became a writer. Youcan go up on Facebook and go
(39:06):
on Amazon, and she has severalkindle books and I think some regular books
that you can buy, and shewas working on her fourth book over the
summer. One minute, she hadsome stuff happened to her where she was
in the hospital, and thought,well, on, wasn't that big of
a deal. And then one dayI got a thing on Facebook said that
(39:27):
she had passed. And basically whathappened was they thought she had pneumonia,
but she was on the beginnings oflymphoma and by the time they had caught
it was too late. She leftmom behind, who couldn't for the funerals.
So a bunch of us donated moneyfor the funeral, and she had
her cremated and spread across the oceanthere near the Golden Gate Bridge. I
(39:49):
believe it was, but sadly sheno longer with us. We talked a
lot over Facebook and stuff, evenwhen we weren't doing the show, and
got to read her stuff. AndI can tell you she's going to be
dearly missed, So tonight, asour Maiden Voyage goes out, we dedicate
this show to Sakara and thank herfor being a great friend with us and
(40:15):
all the many times that we hadeverything from laughs, all the things,
and I watched her knock you guysin the chat room when you got nothing,
which was hilarious of its own.But we miss you and hopefully we'll
see you again to day. Well, that's it, Maiden Voyage is done.
(40:37):
Next week we're gonna have a wholebunch more topics and talk about things
a little more current, and alsotake your calls as well. Don't forget
cyber Facebook dot com slash cyberline net. That's the Facebook page, so hit
that. And until then, inthe words of the great immortal Arson the
Wells, we remain as always obetingyours. Good night,
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