Compute This 12-22-2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Shrock Innovations presents the midwest number one independent computer repair
company with service centers and Lincoln oah Maha Papillion des
Moines and across the country via the Shrock Desk. This
is Compute This.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning, folks, and welcome into compute. This the final
compute this before Christmas. Tell you what snuck up on you?
Didn't it? Like the other day yesterday? You know, I
told the guys. I'm like, guys, you know, we have
to build like, you know, ten of these holiday specials
a day, get them out the door, you know, so
we're done before the end of the year. And everyone's like, yeah,
oh yeah, right whatever. I'm like, no, you don't. You

(00:37):
don't understand, like by them by Monday, Like you come
in on Monday morning and it's the twenty third. The
twenty fourth is Tuesday. If you can't do the math,
that's one day later, and that's Christmas Eve aka Christmas
Eve aka the day before Christmas aka we close early
that day. The you know the twenty fifth, well that's

(01:01):
that's obviously Christmas. We're closed that day. So literally, like
if you were going to come in and purchase a
holiday special or purchase a core upgrade, and you wanted
to do that as a Christmas gift before Christmas, well
you pretty much got tomorrow, you know. And my staff
just looks at me and like, wait, wait, wait to

(01:21):
cheer us all up? Thor So, no, I said. I
posted some pictures to Facebook, Facebook dot com slash Shrock
Innovations of all the Santa's Little elves building tech toys
for the good girls and boys of the Omaha and
Des Moines metro areas and Lincoln Metro areas. Just getting
it all done. I mean it was all hands on deck.
I mean we had we had folding table set up.
I mean it looked like a kid's Thanksgiving. There was

(01:42):
stuff everywhere and computers getting built all over the place.
And you know, Jeff thor I need those ten menus
for my Shock business client. Like we're trying, Jeff, We're
getting there. We got people who ordered holidays. I know,
Thor I know, so I'll come in and help build
and You're like, oh gosh, no please, we got it,
We got it, got it. So it was just it's
been a very very busy week over at Shock. So

(02:04):
thanks for your patience with us getting these computers out.
Out the door to you. We're making sure that we
get them done right and get them built correctly. And
you maybe saw some of the magnitude there in the
in the photos at Facebook dot com slash Shrock Innovations.
In fact, real quick, before we get started, I want
to remind everybody if you missed last week's program. We
went into the core upgrade and what it is, and
the holiday special and what it is you know, the

(02:25):
day before the end of the sale. Essentially, I'm not
going to you know, hammer it over your head for
half an hour. If you want to hear all that,
you can go back and listen to the show last week.
If at Shrockannovations dot com, just click on radio show
up there at the top of the page and you'll
be able to see all of the all the videos,
the normal shows, the aftershocks, everything is posted there and

(02:46):
you can check it out and watch them at your leisure.
Also want to welcome everybody who is watching at Facebook
dot com slash Shock Innovations where we are live this morning.
And I did do the audio check before I started, Winston,
and I really appreciate you double checking me. Thank you
for that, because I'm classic in that regard. But if
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or rumble, welcome there, please click like and subscribe. We

(03:07):
appreciate your viewing us there as well. All right, so
first off, we are live today. So four zero two
five five eight eleven ten is the number to join
us on the program. And hold on just a second.
I got an audio double double double double coming here,
because yeah, maybe that's it. I know it's the Facebook
tab over here. I got too many there we go
remute it now. This this monitor apparently has speakers built

(03:29):
into it. Love that, Yeah, don't you just love surprises radio?
Oh golly, yeah, I just just bragged about my audio
check too. I mean, come on, you know, can you
get it right? Thorge? Just one time? One time before
the show. You know, it's been a few weeks since
I've had like a perfect audio launch of the program.
I'm really doing my bench. I got a checklist now,
you know, I'm so smart? Oh golly. Four zero two

(03:52):
five five, eight eleven ten is the number to join
us on the program. If you're outside of the Metro area,
you can always give us a call toll free at
eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine one.
Last week on the show, we did tell you about
some critical patches for your Windows operating system. So if
you're running Windows ten or Windows eleven, doesn't matter which one.
There were seventy critical patches this or seventy patches this month,

(04:14):
and one of them was absolutely critical. It was being
exploited in the wild, could give an attack or complete
access of your computer. Super important that if you have
a computer in the closet, or a computer that you
only fire up once or twice a month for some reason,
you might want to fire that up and do its
updates and get it restarted. Make sure and if your
computer's asking you to restart, you're rapidly approaching the point
where it's just going to reboot on you. So try

(04:36):
to get that to a safe place where you can
reboot it and get those patches finalized in your computer. Also,
we told you a story about how these Securities and
Exchange Commission, the sec with Gary Gensler over there is
trying to squeeze elon Musk before the new administration comes in,
get a bunch of dough out of him, essentially in
a settlement that he doesn't need to rush into that
they can't even force him to rush into that. They're
all empty threats. And he basically just posted Gary against

(05:00):
letter on Twitter and laughed at him. So I guess
you know that's I don't really care about you, Gary Ginsler.
Here you go. And so then we also told you
about why TikTok creators were rapidly discovering the joys of substack,
which seems really we're substack. You think it's like, this
is where you know, serious journalists go to write articles

(05:20):
about important things. And you know, TikTok is where people
you know dance for fun or eat tidepods. You know,
I mean, this is this is, this is TikTok. This
is TikTok. And now TikTok influencers are realizing we don't
actually own our own distribution network. So if this does
get banned on January nineteenth, we are out of business.

(05:41):
So it would be really good for us to start
owning our own distribution network. And that's what substack does.
Whether you're making video or audio, or whether you're a
journalist or a writer, you can actually get paid annually
with whatever fee you decide you want to put up.
This is what we should be doing with the aftershock, Bill,
we should make it. No, remind me later. We need

(06:01):
to get on substack with the aftershock and get these
get these shruck villions to pay like a dollar a
year or something to.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Okay, thor I'm scrolling right now and writing, writing, and every.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Guy, we'll tell you afterwards, thank you appreciate that, because
I will. I'll get off on some tangent about core
upgrades or holiday specials, and I'll forget all about it,
and then next week it'll just be free again. So
you know, everyone's like quietly going to call in that
like Bill, don't tell him, Bill, don't tell him. Oh golly,
all right, four zero, two, five, five, eight eleven ten's
the number to join us, guys. Speaking of the holiday
special I mentioned, we're rapidly coming up on the close

(06:33):
of the special here. I don't think we're going to
sell out today. We have about twenty six desktops left
and twenty four laptops left, and then we are we're done.
And so it's timing out just about the same as
it does every year. We're gonna end up pretty much
out or definitely out by the end of the year,
which is kind of where we're where we normally end up,
so we run the holiday special through the end of

(06:54):
the month or until we're sold out the core upgrades.
I have to say, if you miss the store on
what a core upgrade is and everything. To make a
long story short, Kyle and the Lincoln Service Center, you know,
came up with this thought that, you know what, we're
doing these core upgrades for people who purchased previous holiday specials.
And the thought in my mind was, if you have
purchased one of our top of the line computers sometime

(07:17):
in the last ten or twelve years, you've gotten a
decade out of it, You've gotten what you expected from it,
you got more than you paid for essentially, I mean,
it was just an amazing rig. And now you're ready
to recycle it, maybe buy the new holiday special. But
that's always a big pill, right because you know it's
a seventeen ninety nine computer, and maybe you don't really
need the monitor. You already have a nice monitor and

(07:38):
the speakers. You already got good speakers, and you know
you have a nice wireless keyboard and mouse. You don't
need all the trimmings. And so we came up with
this concept that we could just say, well, let's do
a core upgrade where we switch out your motherboard, your brain,
your processor, and the memory sticks in the computer. Use
your same stuff. Everything else, hard drives, power supplies, cases,
all that stays the same. We're just going to switch

(07:59):
that out, and you essentially get the twenty twenty four
holiday special for like eight hundred and fifty dollars or less.
For people who bought last year, it's like six hundred
and fifty dollars because we don't have to change that
many parts because literally, you already have the good motherboard
that the newer grade motherboard. You already have the faster memory.
You just need the new process or that does the
AI stuff and you're good to go. So six point

(08:22):
fifty for you that have a twenty twenty three Holiday special,
the silver Anniversary edition, the best selling holiday special desktop
we've ever done. If you have that one, we can
upgrade it to the current year model for six hundred
and fifty bucks. It's pretty amazing, and then you get
all the AI benefits. It's kind of cool. Laptops, you know,
every year they're new, they're not super upgradeable. Because there
are laptops we can change memory, we can change hard drives.

(08:44):
That's about it. So there's nothing really we can do there.
But on the desktop model, Kyle said, you know, we
have lots of customer store that have modular computers, and
what we're doing is we're replacing the entire core of
the system. So it doesn't really matter if you have
a holiday special or if you have a boundless the
six hundred dollar entry level computer at Shock doesn't really
matter whichever one you've got. If we change out the core,

(09:05):
you essentially have a holiday special. And I'm like, well,
you know, I can't argue with you, Kyle, You're you're right,
you know, he said, so thor why don't we just
why don't we just offer the special for everybody, make
it like eight hundred and fifty bucks to cover the
cost of all the parts, and we just make it
for everybody who's ever bought a modular computer at Shock.
And it was one of those those like knock me
upside the head, like why did I think of that?

(09:27):
But what an awesome way to reward the customers, the people,
the individual families that have supported Schrock over all of
the years, you know, going back in time, going back
twenty six years customers who have supported us. What an
awesome way to show our appreciation to those people by saying, yes,

(09:47):
you want the Holiday special. Everybody wants the Holiday Special.
Not everybody's going to spend you know, seventeen ninety nine
on a new computer though, but you know, eight fifty
that's still a lot of money, but it's not an
insurmountable amount, and it's a reasonable amount to get a
brand new top of the line computer with top of
the line computing technology in it that can do AI,
especially when maybe you have you're going from what was

(10:09):
an ultimate upgrade you paid four hundred and fifty dollars for,
and then for another eight to fifty. You're making it
essentially a holiday special that's cheaper than actually buying the
Holiday special. Maybe we should have priced it a little higher.
I don't know, maybe we should have because we have
out sold. The number of core upgrades that Kyle's Idea
has sold through Shock has surpassed the number of total

(10:31):
holiday specials sold laptop desktop combined. It has been probably
one of the most successful promotions we've ever run. And
it was an afterthought. It was something that Kyle came
up with in the Lincoln Service Center. Just amazing stuff.
Now the guys have to go through and do all
these core upgrades. I had Austin get Austin need to
count on processors. You know, I'm going to make sure

(10:52):
that we have everything ordered so that when we hit
the end of the year, we at least have everything
coming that's supposed to be coming. And he's like, yeah,
we're about sixty processors the hole. Like what these are
like four hundred dollars chips Like what. He's like, yeah,
we're like sixty in the hole. Like, I'm ordering like
ten a day. I mean, this is h we can't
build more than that? What Okay, all right, we'll get

(11:14):
another sixty coming. But yeah, it's been that successful. So
if you do have a modular computer, if you have
one of our desktop computers and you're looking for that
last minute holiday gift, you don't do the whole I'm
gonna go shopping thing. You don't do the you know
that's not you, right. You can go on our website
at Shrockinnovations dot com and you can go to Shop
and Specials, and under that Shop and Special section you

(11:36):
can find the Holiday Special Desktop. The Holiday Special laptop
as well as the core upgrade. Noah, our newest employee.
We said, we need a picture of somebody holding up
a core, and so Austin decided that the newest employee
should get the honor. And so he holds it up
in front of his face, and like, is he hiding
behind the motherboard? Like half of his face is obstructed?
I mean he could he could be wearing a mask

(11:57):
and we wouldn't even know it. And he's like, yeah,
he's hiding a little bit. So it was a really
funny picture, so we just used it anyway. It's like
if you look for the picture of the guy hiding
behind the motherboard, and that's the core upgrade. But essentially
that what you're seeing in that picture, that core is
what we're replacing in your computer, the motherboard, processor, and
hard drive. Now, in some cases, if you have a

(12:18):
holiday special that is as old as the Baby Jesus himself,
or an ultimate upgrade that we built in like nineteen
ninety four. We weren't even in business in nineteen ninety four.
But if you have one, we may need to change
another component or two in there to bring it current spec.
We will tell you about that before we do any work.
So if you say, you know, it was a good idea,
but if I have to replace the hard drive too,

(12:40):
I don't want to do that. We've had two or
three situations where it would be just stupid. I mean,
we're gonna put in this super fast hard or super
fast processor, super fast memory, brand new AM five motherboard,
and then you're going to hook up like a rotating
disc hard drive to that, Like, why would you do that?
That's stupid, Like I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't do

(13:00):
that to a I wouldn't do that to my worst enemy, like,
let alone one of my best customers. It's been with
us for years, and so you know, if we need
a hard drive something, we'll let you know. If you
decide that, hey, I don't want to do it because
of that, that's cool too. But if you wanted to
get in on this, this the Core Upgrade sale is
going to go on through the end of the year.
We will bring back this Core Upgrade concept as Windows

(13:21):
ten begins to expire next year, but it's not going
to be at the Holiday special level. It's going to
be a much less powerful, non AI equipped Core upgrade.
You know, for people who are running a Windows ten
computer and are going to grudgingly do a core upgrade,
you know, because they don't want to buy a new computer.
It's going to have to be cheaper than a regular
new computer, i e. Less than six hundred dollars, So

(13:42):
it's not going to be the holiday special chip in
the future specials. So this is really an opportunity for
you to get in a really amazing deal for a
price that is quite agreeable. You can pick it up
on the website Shockinnovations dot com. Of course, you can
call into any of the service centers and place your
order by phone. We're open Saturdays from ten to eight,
Sundays from new to five. Every other day of the
week we're open from ten until eight. We're gonna close

(14:04):
early on Christmas Eve. We're gonna of course be closed
on Christmas Day, and then New Year's Eve, New Year's Day,
same same system, and then on the thirtieth we're gonna
be closing early as well. For our holiday party. We're
gonna get everybody some well deserved dinner over at the
eighty eight Tacticle at the Founder's Club over there. If

(14:24):
you've never eaten at the Founder's Club. I would recommend
you give it a try. It's it's really, really really
good if you haven't eaten there since they did the remodel.
They remodeled everything, including the menu, and it's really really
really good. Four zero two five five eight eleven ten
eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine one.
Real quick, before we go to break here, let's jump
into the phones. Jim, welcome to the program. How can
I help you and compute this?

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Well?

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Good morning for My name is Jim, as you said,
and I have a huge complain about three of your
employees at the Patoonion store.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
All three of them.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
Yeah. Yeah. Let me start with Melissa. You know, you
call in, she answers the phone, and you can hear
her smile and the twinkle in her eye over the phone.
And when you walk through the door, it's even more obsessive.
I mean smile. She makes you feel like you're you're
coming home from store. Mom's there to give you a

(15:16):
hug and a glass of milk and cookies. And then
there's Noah who comes rushing to the door to help
you carry your stuff through the door. I mean, it's unbelievable.
And then and then and then Parker over the phone,
super nice, super helpful. I mean, it's ridiculous. I don't

(15:36):
know where you hit these guys.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
You know, when somebody calls in Jim and says they
have a complaint, then they tell me it's a complain
about three of my employees. I'm like, row, especially in
the service center with the new guy.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
You know, I needed to get your heart going this.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Well you did, you did, But thank you, Jim. I
really appreciate you taking the time to call you. Guys
have no idea how much it means to the staff
when they hear you guys call into the radio show
like this and compliment them on what they're doing. Because
one of the things that we constantly are talking about
in management meetings and in technician meetings is to us
to you guys, you kind of you know how if

(16:14):
you you see something every day, you kind of become
eyeblind to it, or you smell something every day you
get nose blind to it, and then you walk somebody
new walks in and you're like, why does your computer
repair shop smell like a fish tank? This is weird.
We We actually walked into a we shop Competitors like
one thing we do with our senior text every year
is we send them into competitor service competing service centers,
and we say, okay, how were you treated? Did they

(16:36):
diagnose your problem correctly? Because we broke the computer to
send in, so we knew exactly what was wrong with it.
Did they did? What did they try to sell you? What?
What was the rationale? Why did they say you needed
these things? You know, at the end of the day,
were they taking advantage of you or were they giving
you good service? How did the place look? Was it clean?
How did it smell? All these little things? And so

(16:57):
when you go into somebody else's shop and you look
for those things, you can't help but come back into
your own shop and look for those same things, and
you realize, who, why why do we have little roly
polleys in the corner by the window over there. That's
that's not cool. Let's clean those up, you know, the room,
but can't get into the corner, so we might actually
have to get a human with a broom to do that.
So I mean, it's where do we find these people?

(17:19):
I mean, I'd love to say that we sit down
and just you know, train them from the ground up
to be the most solid human beings ever. But I
can't take credit for their parents. And if we just
we just go out and we probably we're hiring for
the Papillion service and you'll see it on the ticker
here at facebook dot com slash Rock Innovations soon. But
we're hiring again a junior technician in Papillion. And you know,

(17:41):
we'll interview probably we'll get twenty or thirty applicants. We'll
interview six seven people and then you know what, we'll
offer maybe one or two people the job. Uh, and
then we give them a ninety day probationary period. And
it's not for us, it's for them, like ninety days
for you to figure out if you want to hang
with this group, because the expectations are up there and

(18:04):
it's not for everybody, And we totally admit that, totally
understand if it's not for you. We don't need ninety
days to figure out if you're not for us. We
can figure that out in like two weeks. We've been
doing this a while. But if you need the time
to figure out if we're right for you, ninety days
in you can quit with no notice and just say
you know what, I appreciate the opportunity, but it's not
for me. And why do we do that? Because we

(18:25):
don't want to hanging around for two weeks. If you're
not happy, you're not going to make our customers happy.
So thank you for the call, Jim. I will make
sure that the staff hears about that. Parker actually listens
to the show and clips these segments when customers call
in about our specific employees and share them with those employees.
So thanks for that. Gonna take our first break here
on the program, guys when we come back. Supposedly ten
thousand Amazon workers are on strike nationwide. I drove past

(18:47):
the Amazon warehouse and Papillion and I did see like
eight people outside holding up the you have to comply
with the law signs. So what's going on with this
Amazon strike? And how is it that they're striking but
you're still getting your package? Are the teamsters losing the step?
What's going on? We're going to tell you coming up
next on compute this.

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All right, folks, welcome back in to compute this. My
name's Flora Schrock and the owner of the Shock Innovations
computer company with four locations to help you out when
your computer is not doing what you want it to do,
when you're having technology problems in the home, you need
someone to come out and take it, take a look
and check it out and find out why that printer
won't print, or why at prints one day and then
the next day it stops. We every day we have

(21:47):
the same boy. I was asking Noah, know, as one
of our newest employees. I try to take some time
to say, Hey, what do you think like, how are
you feeling? What do you like? What don't you like?
What do you think of Parker? Is he an interesting guy?

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Know?

Speaker 2 (22:00):
I what do you think of your manager? You know?
I just try to step in and make sure that
they that people understand that work for us, that I
care about how they feel about what's going on, and
if something isn't right or isn't comfortable or could be better,
I want to know about it so I have the
opportunity to change it and make it better. And you know,
Noah comes back and he's like, you know, the thing,

(22:20):
the thing he said he loved most about the job
was that every single day is different. Is this isn't
a job where you come into work and you're doing
the same thing every day. Boom boom, boom boom. Every
single day is different. And you know, I was talking
to another person who I was I'm trying to recruit
into the company actually, and and he had the opposite.
He was like, you know, I just I love the customers.

(22:41):
I love I love helping people. I love the tech work.
He goes, I just don't like the phones. I don't
like helping people over the phone. And I'm like, well,
why is that? And well, when he was working for
us before, and he was a junior tech, he got
thrown in on a really tough couple of calls before
he was really ready to and you know, it was
kind of a baptism by fire kind of thing. The
tech senior tech was right there, could have handed off
to him at any moment, but know that he could
so just kind of toughed through it. And it just

(23:02):
really soured his opinion on the phone work. And so
we don't want things like that to happen, so we
try to learn from these mistakes. Right. So anyway, it
was just amazing to have the people working for us
that do work for us and doing the things that
they do for zero two five five eight to eleven
ten eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine
to one. So supposedly ten thousand Amazon workers are on strike.

(23:23):
What's going on? Let me break it down for you
Barney style. All right, So all these Amazon trucks that
you see driving around making deliveries, the battery powered ones,
the gasoline powered ones, the dented ones, the ones that
are labeled Amazon, the ones that are not labeled Amazon
but clearly are Amazon. Do you know that Amazon does

(23:45):
not own any of those vehicles, not a single I'm
not talking about like leasing or something stupid like that.
The company Amazon does not own any of those vehicles.
All these vehicles require a driver. Each of these vehicles
require as a warehouse worker to load them. Of course,
there's lots of things that happen along the way for
those warehouse workers to do things. Amazon employs warehouse workers.

(24:09):
Amazon employs managers. Amazon does not employ delivery drivers. Amazon
literally does not employ any delivery drivers. What they do
is they create another company. In entrepreneurial circles, they call
this the cash flow quadrant, where you create several other
companies and then you pay, you control all the companies,

(24:30):
and then one company pays the other company, and you
treat it like a tax shelter basically, so that you
never make money because if you make too much money
in the warehouse, well, all of a sudden, guess what
your distribution costs went up this year, so you had
to pay for your you had to pay more for
your drivers, and you showed a loss there. And then
next year the drivers are doing great, and then all
of a sudden, well it costs more money that they
lost their contract or something, so all you and then

(24:52):
on top of that, because you're not employing these individual
people directly, you have no employment taxes to deal with,
You have no HR policies and procedures to deal with.
They're contractors. They work for some other company that you
are paying that company to accomplish a task. So if
these employees ever have a problem with their employer, if

(25:12):
there's a systemic problem, if there's a crisis problem, the
whole company could just close the next day. It could
be gone. You could just roll up and then Amazon
would take that contract and give it to some other
company that Amazon happens to own. But you see, Amazon
doesn't employ ant of these guys. Do you see how
this is working. It's like a super slick tax shelter game.
So Amazon controls everything. Amazon's paying for everything. But these

(25:36):
employees that drive these vehicles do not work for Amazon Incorporated.
They work for some other company like Amazon Delivery Services
Incorporated or something like that. It's a separate company. Now
the teamsters want to organize the drivers into a union.
The problem is, as soon as one of these smaller

(25:58):
companies gets people into it that are getting organized into
a union, Amazon just cancels their contract. They don't have
to fire anybody. They don't have to union bust. They
just cancel the contract. That company suddenly has no work,
can't employ the people, has to lay off everybody. Company
folds up, Amazon creates a new one, no muzz Sometimes

(26:20):
the employees just get transferred to the new company. It's
pretty amazing how smooth it is. But Amazon doesn't have
to unit. So Amazon's position is, why would we sit
down and negotiate with any of you because you are
not our employees. This would be like asking Target employees
to sit down with Walmart to negotiate their contract. Walmart
doesn't employ Target employees. Why would we negotiate with you?

(26:42):
The teamsters are like you know, they know what's going on.
They know it's kind of a it's a shell game essentially,
and so they're like, no, no, come on, you're gonna
negotiate with us. And Amazon's like, no, we're really We're
really not. You can all be fired tomorrow by us
just canceling your contract. It's not even illegal, just do it.
So this is an annoyance to Amazon. It's not threatening

(27:04):
their delivery. That's why Amazon says it's not going to
impact us at all, because they know they can get
rid of the troublemakers like that. And by troublemakers, I
mean the people who want to unionize, and then they
can just go take the people who want to work
and give them the jobs. It's and I'm not saying
that union people don't want to work. Don't misread because
I purposefully described this in a way that would show
you that Amazon is not a saint here. You know,

(27:27):
this is a business. This is a business tax shelter
technique that Amazon is employing. But those are the two arguments.
So the eight people that I saw protesting outside the
Amazon warehouse are gonna have no impact on deliveries, aside
from the fact that they're physically slowing down the vehicles
getting out of the distribution center. They're physically impeding the vehicles.
They're standing in front of the vehicle. Then they're having
a chit chat with the driver about joining the union

(27:48):
or you know, how can you do this to your brothers,
your workers. You know this company is taking advantage of you.
They slow them down by two, three, four minutes and
then they're on their way again. And but that's enough
to really screw up delivery schedules when you're paid by
the minute, essentially for zero two five five, eight eleven
ten eight eight eight two five zero two zero nine one. Ralph,
Welcome to the program. How can I help you on
compute this today?

Speaker 8 (28:11):
Hi, Thora, thanks for taking my call. I just have
a question. I recently updated my holiday special with the
blue ray drive.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Yeah, and I found.

Speaker 8 (28:21):
Out that VLCP doesn't really work with blue rays without
a lot of work, and I was just wondering to
be heading great alternatives to that.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'm surprised. I've never had a problem with VLC playing
blue rays. You have it, No, never, That's what we
That's what I was about to tell you to do.
I figured you were trying to use Windows Media Player
or something silly. So I tell you to use VLC.
It usually works without a hitch for me. Now there
there could have I haven't played a Blue a Blu
Ray movie on a computer tower in quite some time,

(28:54):
so there could be some changes in the encryption or
the algorithms that that are limiting that. There are obviously
players out there that play Essentially, Blu ray is a
Sony trademark, and so for every program that plays Blu Rays,
Sony wants a nickel. And so that's why Microsoft dropped
support from Windows Media Player for Blu Rays, because Microsoft

(29:15):
doesn't want to give Sony a nickel for every Windows
computer that's sold ever, you know, even if it's not
even if it doesn't have a Blu Ray player, So
it doesn't make any sense. So Microsoft didn't want to
do that, so they dropped support for it. Now VLC
is open source software, so I'm wondering if perhaps Sony
has has pressured them to remove that capability, which would
just require you to install an add on or a

(29:36):
plug in to VLC to make it compatible again. So
did one of my technicians tell you that it takes
a lot of work to get it to be compatible.

Speaker 8 (29:45):
Well, no, I was reading online where you had to
download I think a DLL and you had to download
a config file. Yeah, I did all that, and it
still comes up with the fact that the Blu rays encrypted.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Gotcha? And how long ago did you do your Core
upgrade just out of curiosity or was it just the
Blu ray player.

Speaker 8 (30:07):
Well I did a Core op grape plus the Blu
ray so that was two weeks ago I think.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Okay, so this is perfect because Ralph, when you do
any kind of work like this through shrock, you get
you get a thirty day warranty on all the labor
and essentially you did pay some labor it which is
baked into the package price. So you have a thirty
day warranty on all the work that we did. So
if that Blu ray player is not playing Blu rays,
you know we could sit here and be you know,

(30:33):
technically speaking, mister Ralph, Sir, we installed the Blu ray
player and it's installed properly, and if you can't get
it to work, well, I guess that's your problem, sir.
But as you know, that's not quite how we roll.
So if you call in and say, hey, I paid
you guys to put a Blu ray player in and
I can't watch Blu Ray movies. We're going to make
the logical assumption that you know, when you purchase the

(30:54):
Blu ray player from us, you wanted to watch movies
or maybe burn Blu Ray discs. Maybe, but you want
to watch movies, and if it's not working for you,
you could be sitting there saying to yourself, why did
I pay these schmucks at Shrock to put in a
Blu ray player when it's not going to play movies?
And we don't like to be called schmucks, even in
your quiet mind. So we're gonna make sure that it
plays your Blu Ray movie for you. So why don't

(31:17):
you give us a call in one of the service enginet.
We're staffed a little bit lighter on Sundays, so you know,
Monday would probably be an ideal time for it. Somethlace.
It's going to require a shock desk session for us
to remote into the computer, install the configurations that you need,
get that movie playing for you. But why don't we
let one of the technicians do that do the lifting
for you, because that's kind of what you pay us
to do. Okay, or what you've what you've already paid

(31:39):
us to do. Yeah, you know, not right at ten
when we open it ten, you know, taking a sip
of your coffee. Oh it's Ralph. I guess we're working
on Blu Ray players, all right, you know, ten thirty
eleven is fine. Anything after that, you know, after six
we staffed down for the evenings. So I would say,
if you're looking for an ideal call, time sometime between
eleven and five, okay, if you're asking now. Of course,

(32:05):
if you said is there a time I shouldn't call,
I'll say no, you can call any time you want, Ralph,
anytime we're here to help.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
All right.

Speaker 8 (32:13):
Well, then I'll just give you, guys a call, probably
between four and five on Monday.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Then that sounds like a plan, Ralph. We'll look forward
to hearing from you then, and we'll get that Blu
Ray thing straightened out for you. We do it all
the time, so it shouldn't be too tough. Thank you
for the call. I appreciate it. We do have you
in the drawing as well for a twenty five dollars
Shock Innovations gift certificate. All right, so guys, we got
to take another quick break here, but when we come back,
what is going on with TP link routers? As you
may or may not know, Shrock Innovations has been selling

(32:40):
TP link routers in all of our service centers for
a decade. I have them on the shelf and there
right now. My staff has been asking me all week
long for what are we gonna do about TP link?
What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?
And I'm like, okay, you know, I'm seeing the articles
and in my head I'm like, okay, right as of
this moment, this is about at the same level as well,

(33:02):
what are we going to do if we ban TikTok.
You know, you do not realize you're talking about banning
sixty eight percent of the routers in the United States,
of the residential routers. If you have a router in
your house, there's a sixty eight percent chance it's a
TP link router, even if it's not branded tp link.
That's how how much they permeate the United States residential

(33:25):
internet industry. And that's the concern. That is the concern.
This is the same question you should be asking yourself. Well,
for I'm using a Lenovo laptop I'm sure that's fine. Well,
if you have a problem with with TikTok, and you
have a problem with TP link routers, the heck, if
you should be using a Lenovo laptop, you may as
well go buy a Whahwei. There's the same thing, literally,

(33:48):
the same thing, made in the same factory by the
same weaker hands. Yes, the slave people make them, so yeah,
I mean it's I'm gonna get sued. It's gonna happen
care Allegedly, the alleged slaved, the alleged organ harvested slave
people make them, yes, alleged, all of that, blah blah blah, allegit.
I'll be like the View, ABC wants me to tell

(34:12):
you that the things that we just said were completely
not true. Yet we said them anyway, and we stand
behind them. All right, coming up next on the View,
All right, before I get in any more trouble, four zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven,
ten is the number to keep me out of trouble.
And then we're gonna take a quick break where I'm
going to regroup, come back and tell you what's going
on with TP link crowders. If you should be worried
about it, and what the plan is that we're going

(34:32):
to do at Shock coming up next on compute this.

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Speaker 2 (37:14):
Alrighty folks. Taking a look through the comments here at
facebook dot com slash Shock Innovations, and he says, this
place is getting wild in here today, Like I don't
know what got into me. Maybe I didn't get a
ton of sleep last night, so maybe I'm just a
little punchy. So stay tuned for the aftershock, because, I mean,
Bill and I are just going back and forth here,
and the Aftershock's going to get rowdy. I mean we're
talking about ABC and Stephanopolis and The View and all
these things happening. And he's like, where where do you

(37:36):
think Trump should build that fifteen million dollar Presidential Library
that ABC is going to pay for, and uh, you know,
it's like kind of like the Mexico Wall. You know,
Mexico's gonna pay for ABC's gonna pay for the Trump Library.
I'm like, he's gonna put up a competitive bid for it.
We might get it in Omaha for all we know.
I mean, it'll be amazing, right, the biggest, beautifulest golden
Trump Library you've ever seen. That would be absolutely wild
if he put it up for bid. Omaha is bidding

(37:58):
with like New York. It's like the College World Series
or the FIFA Cup, except people actually want it, you know.
Do you hear about Saudi Arabia got the FIFA Cup
and everyone's like, but who cares because nobody else bid
four zero two, five, five, eight, eleven ten. Oh my gosh,
we're talking about sports on a computer show. This is bad,
all right? Steve saved me. Man, What can I do

(38:19):
for you on compute this today?

Speaker 4 (38:23):
Oh? Yeah. Every time I get a Windows update and
the computer restarts, the time changes and I had to
go manually re sink it and everything, and it's goodn't
to be a real pain in the ass. This last
up day, we had it did the same thing, and
it was an hour later then, and I don't know

(38:47):
what to do about it.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Well, you know, if they would just ban I heard
the other day that Trump actually is for banning daylight
savings time. And if they do that, then then your
clock will be right. You could just be that you're
just ahead of the game. You know, your computer is
already on the doge train, and it's like, you know,
we're gonna make America. We're gonna make America timely again.
Uh No, Actually, what it sounds like is your computer

(39:10):
is set to not observe daylight savings time at all.
There's actually a setting I believe you can adjust. I've
never actually had turned it on and off because it's
usually by default. Uh So, let me see, I got
time zones here. There's a switch that says set time
zone automatically. So it could be you're in the wrong
time zone.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
And it's still it still doesn't.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Well, my time zone setting is turned off actually to
set it automatically, so I have it off. And then
because I mean I'm in Central Time and if I
if I travel to the West coast or the East coast,
you know I'm not there long enough to adjust my
mental time. You know, I still if I have a
meeting at noon, I still want to be on Central
time for my meeting at noon. So you might try
turning off the time zone settings. Yeah, and then that

(39:53):
and then that way you can set it to Central
automatic and it doesn't try to predict where you're at,
because if you're using a VPN or something like that,
that can screw with your time zone settings.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Oh I'm not. I'm this is my home computer. It
doesn't go anywhere, so that doesn't make sense me.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
But yeah, try turning that off. That that might be
that might take care of the problem for you.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Okay, seven, are you changing the time right now again?

Speaker 8 (40:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (40:26):
Good time, I decided.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
I'll wait for you to tell me what to do here, gotcha? Okay,
all right, we shouldn't have to change the time. If
it was the time zone setting when you disabled that
and set it to Central, it should just be correct.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
If it's not, then then we got something else going on.
We got to take a look at.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Okay, well, that's the right time right now.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
All right. If it screws up again, you let me
know and we'll start talking about seamoss batteries and all
kinds of fun stuff.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
Oh wonderful.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Okay, thank you, thank you, Steve. Have a great Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you, buddy for zero two, five, five,
eight eleven tens the number to join us on the program.
So these TP link routers, guys, what's going on with
this deal? Trucks sold TP link routers for a very
long time. TP link routers are good routers, they're powerful routers.
If you get a router from you know, Cox or

(41:12):
from Comcast or Centralink, do those all and one things
where it's the modem and the router together inside that
box usually is a TP link router. Now, the reason
we say those are garbage compared to the tp links
that we sell is the ones that we sell you
actually have control over. You actually can post updates to it.
You know what the life cycle is on them. So,

(41:34):
in other words, if tp link drops support for a
certain model of router, you know when it's gonna happen.
You can go on their website and look at their
end of life schedule and it'll tell you when it's happening.
But if you have it all baked into one unit,
you never know when it's gonna end. You're not in
control of the security updates. Yet you're relying on Cox
or somebody else to do that for you, and they
may or may not do that for you, depending on
the consequences of the security update. And then there's the

(41:56):
fact that most of them don't have external antennas that
are worth a darn at all in some case, so
you don't get as grade of a transmission radius with
those all in one routers as you do with a
router that is separate and has actual antennas. So all
these things come together into like one great, big, happy
tp link sandwich. And that's why sixty eight percent of Americans.
American households have tp link routers installed. Now, most businesses

(42:21):
do not use tp link routers. Shock business will install
a tp link in a business temporarily if they have
something that goes down, we'll throw a router in there
just to get them up and running again. But then
we're going to replace it with a higher end router
or something that's more business grade. So then the question
becomes what's the problem with tp link. Well, TP link
routers are manufactured in China. Because of that, we're literally

(42:44):
saying sixty eight percent of American households route their Internet
through a Chinese device. And what we're seeing now is
increasingly attention being given to the fact that when we
don't make things in America, when we don't have an
option to buy at any price something made in America,
that there are some inherent security risks in that. So,

(43:07):
for example, what would happen if China went to TP
link and said, starting tomorrow, you're going to aggregate all traffic.
You're gonna put out an update for all TP link
routers and it's going to aggregate all the traffic going
through all the routers and send reports back to China
on what everyone in America is looking at. And if
someone in America goes to a website that is for

(43:30):
Chinese dissidents, for example, perhaps they get redirected to the
CCP intelligence website instead and they'll get the memo if
you know what I mean. And yeah, so that could
totally happen. Now, the problem is everybody would know it's
happening because when these updates come out for these routers.
If anything, TP link has been accused of being slow

(43:51):
with their security updates, but when a security update comes
out with these routers. It's not like people just blindly installed.
There are whole organizations that analyze the update, figure out
what it does, exactly what it does, break down the code,
and then see what it's doing to the router. In fact,
TP link routers can be loaded with open source firmware
that's not made in China, which gives us a degree

(44:13):
of separation. That's like saying, if the hardware is made
in China but the software is not, We're okay. You
can still put a chip in there that does whatever
you want it to do if you were going to
be But again, that's something that if you're going to
do that to sixty eight percent of the United States routers,
someone's gonna notice. You're gonna find the chip in there.
This isn't like intercepting a shipment of del PCs going

(44:33):
to Iran and putting a custom firmware chip in there
to make their centrifuges spin at different speeds and then
they can't figure out where virus is at because they
keep wiping the hardwab and it won't go away. It's
because it's in a chip inside the computer. This isn't
like that. This isn't something that you can get away
with on ten twenty thirty fifty one hundred computers. We're
talking about millions of router devices, so there are no

(44:58):
made in America alternatives. So my first action when my
staff asks me, what are we going to do about this?
My first reaction is what can we do about it?
There are no made at any price. Even the Cisco
stuff isn't made in America, So what are you gonna do? Well?
The next best thing that we can do is we

(45:18):
can friend suore, which is where you purchase from a
friendly country were things are manufactured. And it's logical. We're
big supporters and proponents of Asus technology. All of our
solid state laptops start off as a SUS unibody. Is
the Holiday special, if at all possible, always starts with

(45:38):
an Asus unibody. A SUS makes routers too, In fact,
they make some of the best routers in the business.
The reason I'm running an Asus in my home instead
of a TPE link is because of the parental control
settings that are built into it. I can time schedule
the devices. I can shut down the internet connection to
the kids iPads at a certain time of day and
they don't come back on until at a certain time
next day. If kids get grounded, you can block devices

(46:01):
by the Mac address, say this device can't connect to
the Wi Fi anymore. Gone. It gets a little trickier
when they get cell phones because then they they have
Wi Fi and cellular. But for the littles, I mean,
this is beautiful. I can block out TVs, I can
do all kinds of things. But you can't do that
with a TPE link router. That kind of advanced capability,
isn't there there are in the service centers. We don't

(46:21):
run TPE link routers. We run ACEUS routers because they
have the ability to block denial of service attacks that
come in against our phone systems and things like that.
So it's another added layer of protection on top of
our routers and everything and our firewalls. So wouldn't it
make sense that we offer an a SOUSSE router. So
we're looking into doing this right now. Guys. It's all
about price at this point, because a SUS routers are

(46:43):
more expensive to purchase, and you know, honestly, there's a
ceiling to what people can pay. So we're working on
what we're gonna do. Should you throw away your TPE
link router. There is no immediate threat requiring you to
throw away your TPE link router. There's no more threat
yesterday than today than there will be tomorrow. However, if
there ever was a situation where a conflict would break out,

(47:03):
this would be an area of concern for the United
States population, because you Cox isn't gonna change what they're
doing for routers, and Central Link and Comcast and Allo
they're not gonna change what they're doing for routers. But
if you have a separate router, you have the ability
to choose what you're gonna run. So we're gonna be
giving you some choices. We'll have more about that incoming programs,
but I just wanted everyone to know there's no need
to freak out about the TV link stuff. They're good routers.

(47:26):
They are still good routers. They were good routers yesterday,
they'll be good routers tomorrow. It's just that they're made
in China. And if our objective here is to offshore
to onshore or friendshore everything that we can, routers would
be a great place to start. Four zero, two, five, five, eight, eleven, ten.
You got to take our final break of the program here.
But Paul Monica, Gordon Scott, and Bob We're gonna try

(47:47):
to get to as many calls as we can. Coming
up next on Compute This.

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handle your computing needs from just checking the email to
running a complex business. Modular desktops are engineered to be

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easily repaired with widely available industry standard parts. Every component
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It is not uncommon for a short customer to be
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Modular PCs are the most popular custom computers in the
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stop in to check out the Modular lifestyle or shop.

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Online at Shockinnovations dot com.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
All righty, guys, welcome back. In final segment of the program,
we will be doing an aftershock after the program today,
so stay tuned for that. Coming up. On the aftershock,
we're going to do a bitcoin update the continuing resolution.
We're going to tell you kind of what what happened there,
what was this all about? And then I took an
amazing call from a place. It was one of those Hey,
I want to buy Shock Innovations companies. I get three

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contacts a week. Guys, literally everybody wants to buy MSP
technology companies right now. And I'm not interested in punching
my ticket or anything, and you know, sell it out,
so but I still talk to these people because you
never know, people want a Grand Island service center. As
a guy in here on the Facebook page, now asking
for a Columbus service center. So, I mean, you got
to have some financial backers to do this kind of stuff.

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So maybe these guys are financial backers. You know, maybe
maybe you give up a little piece and then you know,
all of a sudden, your company becomes three times bigger. Right,
So you have these conversations. But I had a really
interesting one that I just got to I don't know,
I thought i'd share with you because you know, you
hear these venture capital people are all a bunch of vultures,
and this guy was really, really, really nice, just a
good guy, all right. So I'm gonna get as many
of these calls in as we can here before we

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hit the end of the program. Guys, so let's jump
back into it. Paul, Welcome to the program. How can
I help you on compute this?

Speaker 9 (51:38):
Good morning? Soa thanks for taking my call.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Good morning.

Speaker 9 (51:42):
I'm probably going to get one of your venture PCs
in January after this saw Holiday Man, this is over with.
I'm wondering in the Venture, since it's a little bit
of an older computer, can the Venture be given a
car upgrade to make it about equivalent as the Holiday
Special desktop with the processor and father board.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
My god, Paul, you are a smart man. I'm doing
the math in my head here. I'm like, you buy
a venture, you add eight fifty to it, you're spending
about the same as a holiday special, and you're getting
essentially a holiday special, except you're getting a DVD drive
and a card reader, which everybody wants but nobody puts
in computers anymore. Yeah, yeah, Paul, that could work. That

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could work a lout.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
Now.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
The only challenge is we won't be offering the core
upgrade for the holiday special processor in January, so that
will be the only limitation there because it's on special
pricing right now. So what I would do to make
this happen If you don't want to buy the computer
until January, this is super, super weird. Buy the core
upgrade on the website now, and then when we call

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you and say hey, when do you want to schedule this, say, well,
let's do it in January when things slow down a
little bit, and then you can come in and buy
a venture in January and then use your core upgrade
that you've already paid for on the venture. It's brilliant, Paul.
All right, Hey, thank you for the call. Paul, I
really appreciate. I've never that's a first. I've never had
that question before, and I've been doing this for like
twenty plus years. Guys, that's amazing. All right, everybody else, Monica, Gordon, Scott,

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and Bob stay on the line. I will take your
calls off the air. For those of you waiting for
the aftershock. Give me a few minutes. We've got some
calls to take and then I'll be jumping in. Give
me till about ten after or so. Today's winner twenty
five dollars Shock Innovations Give certificate is Steve. Steve. Congratulations,
we've got you there. Your incorrect time settings may have
just earned you twenty five dollars. So who says you
don't get paid for your time? All right? Dad? Dad

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jokes there? All right, guys, So stay tuned for the aftershock.
We have one more Compute This before the end of
the year, and then it's over for twenty twenty four
and we have to start all over again in twenty
twenty five. We'll see you next week for the final
edition of Compute This