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Listen to Helix Rock Radio anytime on your smartphone with the Helix Rock Radio mobile app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
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Download it for free today.
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So a bunch of you that are listening or watching, the audio is always available on our website, helixrockradio.live.
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We do stream live on both rumble and X every Saturday morning if you want to go ahead and look at the video.
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Which is just me sitting here with my awesome background.
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My wife, we have completely redone over the last couple of weeks the studio.
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I’m so fortunate to have such a wonderful wife, she spent hours on this.
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She completely redid our studio so we have a nice set now.
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She’s really just, I was thinking about just doing a green screen and she’s like no you can’t just do a green screen it’s going to look like crap.
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She’s like you got to do something better so she went ahead and took it amongst herself to put our whole set together here.
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So I am so very grateful to my loving wife, she did a wonderful job and I cannot thank her enough.
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It looks amazing, everybody that’s seen it at the station and all that all says it looks amazing.
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Somebody is asking on the chat why are we only on X and rumble.
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We’re on Twitch as well, I’m sorry we’re on Twitch as well, somebody just pointed that out I forgot about that.
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It’s because I do play music during the show, if we were strictly podcast I could go on YouTube and Facebook.
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But since I like to play music during the show you’re allowed to stream the music and then you just take the stream down on Twitch and X and all that.
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As long as your stream goes down after you’re fine, rumble as well.
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YouTube and Facebook if they even hear music streaming during the show they take the stream down.
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So it kind of stinks but since we do play music during the show it’s kind of fun.
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I enjoy playing good music for you that I enjoy and stuff like that so we have to do it this way for right now anyway.
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But the audio stream is always up and the audio listening is always our biggest portion.
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So very grateful for that and all of our radio listeners.
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Don’t forget tonight the Paranormal Show, those guys are on Saturday and Sunday night.
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That is an amazing show, both of those guys do such a great job.
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Can’t thank them enough.
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Also too some programming lineups.
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Thursday night we do have the Grawlix podcast, those guys are live on our station.
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rockradio.live, please check those guys out.
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Also too Randy’s show, The Abyss, still going to be live Friday nights but it’s going to be a replay now Monday in the afternoon.
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Specifically the Arena Rock show, I know a lot of you guys like that show.
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He has decided he doesn’t want to do the show anymore.
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He has some personal reasons and we wish him the best and stuff like that.
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But he decided he just can’t give the time right now.
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So that’s fine.
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So right now you’re going to do the replay.
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We are looking for possibly an Arena Rock show to replace that.
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But we’ll have to see.
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But right now Randy’s Back to the Abyss is going to move there.
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And that’s a great show.
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Anyway I really enjoy Randy’s show.
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Every show has a theme so no two shows are the same.
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I really like the way he does that.
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So go ahead and check that’s going to be Monday afternoon.
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That’s going to be replacing the Arena Rock show.
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Like I said.
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So a lot of live shows folks.
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We have my show which is live.
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Randy’s show is live.
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JB in the morning during the week is live.
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We’re doing so many live shows.
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I’m so proud of the station.
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We’ve come so far.
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But we have so much more to go.
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But like I said we have so many live shows.
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I can’t thank any of those guys enough.
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Those shows by the way.
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At night, Saturday and Sunday night.
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The Paranormal Show.
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They do stream live on here.
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They have a video element as well.
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Randy doesn’t.
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So does Grawlix.
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They have a video element as well on their YouTube channel.
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So if you want to watch any of that stuff.
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The audio is always live on our station.
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But they sometimes have some video elements of it.
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So they do that.
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And that’s fine.
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The more the merrier.
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Like I said we’re doing that.
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So many live shows and we are so proud of all of our DJs that work here.
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And put on great content for you guys.
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Speaking of the station.
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We have an event coming up.
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Not this.
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Obviously not this Friday.
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Because this Friday just passed.
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This coming Friday and Saturday.
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We will be at the Honesdale Sidewalk Sale.
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Both days we’re going to be there giving out swag.
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Playing music.
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Hanging out with our fans.
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So that is next.
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This coming.
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This coming Friday.
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This coming Friday coming up.
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And Saturday.
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And you can come hang out with us.
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We’re giving away free swag.
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We’re giving away bottles.
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We have stickers.
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We have a bunch of great stuff.
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So come out and check that out.
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We will be there both days.
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Friday and Saturday.
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What that means for Helix Rock Radio.
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That means that the Saturday morning shit show will probably not be live.
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Or I’ll have to tape something.
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We’ll have to see how that works out.
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I don’t know if I’m going to be able to get content ready in time.
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Because I only have four days.
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I only have four days.
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We’ll see what happens.
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You guys just might get a replay or just might get music.
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Usually when I’m doing live events.
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I try to broadcast from the event.
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But there’s going to be so much street noise.
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I don’t know.
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We’ll have to see.
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Plus there’s other bands there and stuff like that.
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So I don’t know if we’ll want to.
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We’ll see what happens.
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We’ll try something.
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But like I said that is this Friday and Saturday.
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Saturday will be great because we’ll have our DJs like Randy and people like that doing
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their shows.
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We’ll have Pyro doing the Rock Monster, Dark Side, all those great shows that will be playing.
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Wallum actually there.
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So that will be a lot of fun as well.
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That was a great album.
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Definitely up there with other music that was coming out.
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I only sold like 7 million copies.
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It was actually considered a huge flop.
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I thought it was a great album personally.
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I’m not the majority of people.
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But like I said I thought it was a great album.
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Really, like I said, Crew really had a tough 90’s.
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I think it was just that whole era of just the grunge era.
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People were kind of getting away from those kind of bands.
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I thought it was a good album.
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So glad to again be with you here this Saturday morning.
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Just wanted to talk about wrestling for a minute.
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Rhea Ripley making her return.
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Can’t wait to see what happens with Dom and Liv Morgan.
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I hope they don’t break up the Judgment Day.
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I really like the Judgment Day.
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They’ve been together quite a few years now.
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So it’s very possible they might break them up.
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But I really hope they don’t.
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I would like to see them stay together.
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I’d really like to see Finn Balor get another push.
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He signed another 5 year deal.
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I’d like to see him get another push.
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But I don’t think it’s going to happen for a while.
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Not over Damian.
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He’s their guy right now.
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We’ll have to see what happens with that.
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TNA obviously has a pay per view coming up.
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I’m actually looking forward to that.
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Slam-a-versary is usually a pretty good pay per view.
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And I really do dig the system.
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I really like that stable.
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Moose and all the other guys that are in there.
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I think it’s actually a really good stable.
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She’s a great antagonist who’s up in the system.
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They just have such a great…
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For a stable of 3 guys and 1 woman, they are definitely dominant.
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They’re very cool.
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And I’ve been definitely starting to watch TNA more because of the system.
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So I hope they keep this stable together.
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I’m wondering if Eddie Edwards and his wife will stay or what they’re going to do.
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So we’ll see.
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Alyssa Edwards, like I said, has been great in the system and stuff like that.
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I’m waiting to see.
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Getting kind of hyped about it.
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I actually haven’t been watching a whole lot of AEW.
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Their last pay per view I thought was “eh”.
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But I’m actually curious to see what’s going to happen now with Britt Baker versus the CEO,
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Mercedes Monroe, Sasha Banks, whatever you want to call her.
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I actually want to see what’s going to happen with this.
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Because Britt Baker versus Sasha Banks is something I’ve actually wanted to see for a while.
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So we’ll have to really watch and see what happens with that.
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I also want to see what’s going to happen going forward with Daniel Bryan and the Owen Hart tournament.
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I wonder if this is going to be a big push for him.
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They might put the belt on him.
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We’ll have to see what happens.
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I’m not really sure.
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We’ll have to watch.
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But overall it’s been really cool to be a wrestling fan.
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A couple of different organizations and all of them have their own little storylines that you get drawn into.
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It’s been a good time to be a wrestling fan.
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So that’s next week obviously.
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Slamiversary is TNA’s show.
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AEW just had one and WWE has another show coming up fairly soon.
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Also too by the way, talking about sports.
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July 4th through August 24th, Saudi Arabia is having an esports…
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It’s basically going to be like the esports capital of the world with $60 million in prizes.
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It’s called the Esports World Cup.
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Apparently this started.
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It’s going to be every weekend.
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It starts Thursday or Friday and it goes through the weekend.
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It’s the Esports World Cup live from Saudi Arabia.
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It’s on YouTube.
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I’ve been watching it.
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I haven’t found a game they don’t have.
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They even have Halo and stuff like that.
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Older games that maybe aren’t as popular.
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People still play them.
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If you are somebody who’s interested in that, watching that on YouTube.
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It actually is quite entertaining.
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So go ahead and check that out.
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Like I said also too, I want to point out one other thing too that caught my attention.
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Samsung released a bunch of phones this week.
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They released their ring.
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They released all that.
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Not as much hype online as I thought.
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Definitely not the hype I expected.
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Alright, Shinedown.
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They’re another great band.
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They’ve been around for so long.
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They’re one of my favorite bands.
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I think they’re just so freaking awesome.
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So a couple things I wanted to talk about as far as tech news and gaming goes.
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Microsoft announced this week that they are completely changing Game Pass.
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I can’t believe it.
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First of all, they’re bumping the prices.
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So for Game Pass Ultimate, it went from $16.99.
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Now it’s going to $19.99.
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So you’re at co-pilot prices now at $20 a month.
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PC Game Pass is going from $9.99 to $11.99.
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Which is a joke because there’s not really that many games for PC Pass.
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Maybe they’re counting in xCloud, but I’ve had issues with that.
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And then you have Game Pass Core, which is going…
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There’s no monthly.
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You have to pay from $59.99 a year to $74.99 a year.
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They’re discontinuing Xbox.
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They’re discontinuing the One.
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And which is, I guess, Xbox Game Pass Core.
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That’s going away.
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They’re adding another tier now called Xbox Game Pass Standard.
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And if you have Xbox Game Pass Standard, if you want EA game stuff like that, you have to pay $5.99 a month.
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And if you have standard Xbox Game Pass, you don’t get any more day one releases.
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So I’m like, “Wow, that’s kind of a jerk move.”
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But if you have the $19.99 a month one, you get day one releases.
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I don’t know, I’m really disappointed here in Microsoft.
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As you guys know, I do play…
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You guys have to watch me stream and stuff like that.
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I do play quite a few games, Microsoft titles.
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I like Age of Empires, all those kind of things.
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I like Halo, Gears of War, some of that.
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But this is kind of a jerk move.
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What they’re trying to do here is they’re trying to justify that $60 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
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They haven’t brought a single title yet over from there to Xbox Game Pass.
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They’re upping the prices.
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Kind of a jerk move, man.
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They did say Xbox Game Pass was going to get Call of Duty on day one,
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but you’re not really going to get it unless you pay the $20 a month.
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I thought that was kind of a jerk move, and I’m kind of surprised Microsoft did that.
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It would be one thing if they did this after the Call of Duty release,
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but to do it way before, I think it’s kind of…
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They could have really softened the blowup.
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Not really your best move, Microsoft.
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Way to P.O. the Xbox fans.
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Microsoft’s been complaining for years that they’re losing market share to Sony.
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They say Sony sells 2-1, 3-1 compared to Xbox’s.
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The only place Microsoft had some growth was in the PC space.
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They had the cloud gaming. There was quite a bit of growth there.
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But now to do something like this, I think it’s going to hurt them more than help them.
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Also, something else in the tech space I wanted to bring up.
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Kind of sad.
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Physical media has been going away for a while,
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but apparently Redbox announced that they are declaring bankruptcy.
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All those Redbox kiosks discs that are going to go away now.
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No more streaming on Redbox.
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I used to stream on there once in a while because you can get good deals on older movies.
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No more of that.
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Redbox kind of going away.
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Redbox actually was…
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They were never part of Netflix, but somebody that worked there left and started it.
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It did really well for a while, but just like mailing DVDs went away,
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Redbox hung out a little bit longer.
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But I think this is going to be the last bastion of renting physical media.
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I think now if you’re going to want that movie on DVD,
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which I don’t know how many people do anymore,
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you’re going to have to actually just go buy it.
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Walmart and Target still sell CDs, but that area is getting smaller and smaller,
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while the vinyl area is getting bigger and bigger.
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So I thought that was an interesting thing as well.
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Also too, some other things that I thought were rather interesting as far as tech news goes,
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is you have the EU now is apparently saying that Apple quietly,
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to avoid any kind of issue with the EU, allowed Epic to finally put their store up in the EU.
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Still not here in America by the way, but over in the EU.
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So if you are somebody who listens over at EU,
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you can now finally get Fortnite on your iPhone through Epic’s own store.
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So I thought that was pretty cool.
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I’m waiting to see what’s going to happen with that.
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It’s been a slow burn for Epic to try to win this thing against Apple.
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Apple is even getting a little yelled at now.
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They’re saying, “Hey guys.”
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The EU is kind of saying to them, “Hey guys, we told you you had to allow third party stores,
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but you’re making it extremely difficult for the people that want to do it.”
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Apple did make the third party stores, but they have made it incredibly difficult.
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I asked somebody with a programming background,
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let me tell you the arbitrary rules they have for that are just unbelievable.
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I have a technical background and it’s very, very confusing.
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I can’t even imagine just…
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Apple is making the experience completely horrible.
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This way people don’t do the third party stores.
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I’m an Apple fanboy and I still can’t believe how horrible they’ve made the experience.
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Pretty crazy.
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A couple things I wanted to talk about as well on the show today.
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Some, I don’t want to say celebrity gossip, but celebrity news that was in the page six today.
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Eddie Murphy getting married over the weekend, again, just so you know, it’s again, it’s not the first time.
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He’s been married a bunch of times, he’s got like 10 kids, but yes, he is married again.
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So good for Eddie, man. I have not watched his movie on Netflix yet, The New Beverly Hills Cop.
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My wife and I may watch that over the weekend.
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The original one’s on there, and I still think that’s the best one, but his new one looks pretty darn good.
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We’ll watch that over the weekend, I’m sure.
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Oh, by the way, Margot Robbie, she played obviously Harley Quinn, she was in Wolf of Wall Street and all that.
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She’s having a baby with her husband. They were spotted the other day, I guess, in France.
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I guess they’re going there to check out the stuff for the Olympics.
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And she was spotted, I guess she’s pregnant, she hasn’t really talked much about it, but that was in the news.
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So good for her, man. She’s a fabulous actress. Loved her as Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad, Joker, Wolf of Wall Street.
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She’s been in so many great things, she’s an amazing actress. She’s really great.
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I love her acting, almost everything she’s in, she’s just so great. I just think she’s hysterical.
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She was in Barbie too, and she really got range for an actress, so good for her.
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The one movie I did watch during the week with my wife was that dumb money movie that was on Netflix.
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It’s about the short squeeze of GameStop.
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I know it sounds a little boring, but it actually is more of a biopic kind of movie.
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It’s not really a documentary, it’s a biopic kind of movie.
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But it actually was very good.
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And just showing you how… I hate to say it, but it’s crazy to see how it’s that old saying, “We’re too big to fail.”
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How these companies that manage to work with other companies and the government to get them to pause trading so people can get their money out.
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I hate to say corruption, but it’s such a crazy thing because it’s like, “Well, if you or me put money in the stock market, and we were about to lose, nobody’s going to stop the market for us to get our money out.”
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And it’s always under the guise of, “Oh, this is people’s pensions, these are people’s things.”
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Well, your job is to protect that money, and if you’ve messed up…
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If you’re into that kind of stuff, check it out. It actually is a good show.
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Billions is another show that I watched quite a bit of, and it’s on Showtime, it’s actually really good.
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That’s a show, but I will tell you that. That’s like another Game of Thrones show.
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You’ve got to really pay attention when you’re watching that show because there’s a lot that goes on.
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And even me, who has a little bit of a background in finance, I was even at some point like, “What the hell is he doing?”
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But like I said, it actually was a pretty cool movie. I kind of liked it.
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Like I said, feel free to check it out. It’s on Netflix. If you have it, it’s free to watch. So check it out, it’s pretty cool.
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Also, too, I would like to point out as well, the Captain America trailer dropped the other day.
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Got our first look at Red Hulk. Like I said, take a look, check it out. It actually does look pretty good.
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I can see myself going to the movies to see this one.
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Seven Human Beings. Again, 90s song from a very 80s band. I think it was one of their best songs, personally. I love it.
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I can put that song anytime on when I’m driving and just jam out to it. It’s such a great song.
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Twisters make… I know they can’t because a lot of the guys… Eddie’s gone now, but I would love to see them use another Van Halen song for the theme.
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They didn’t, but that would have been truly awesome.
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By the way, this was an interesting article somebody had sent me.
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Although it’s just kind of interesting from a friend of mine. He’s very into space and aviation, those sorts of things.
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Apparently, NASA is going to be hiring SpaceX to help clean up a bunch of the space junk and space debris that apparently is falling out of orbit and landing.
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Luckily, it hasn’t killed anybody yet, but it has put holes in people’s roofs. It destroyed, I guess, somebody’s camper.
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Apparently, this space stuff is just falling from the sky. Apparently, NASA has hired SpaceX to go ahead and clean up some of the debris.
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I thought that was interesting. Thank goodness they said the majority of it has landed in the ocean because obviously we have a lot more ocean than land.
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Apparently, some of it has landed in somebody’s yard. There’s actually some really interesting pictures if you’re curious to look it up.
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Apparently, NASA is hiring SpaceX to clean up the junk. SpaceX is part of the problem with the junk too.
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We have a Tesla orbiting the world. There’s a Tesla out in orbit that SpaceX launched. They launched a Tesla and it’s been going into orbit for years now.
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I’m wondering how that’s going to work. If they’re going to take the Tesla, is that considered junk if it’s orbiting? I don’t know.
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We’ll have to see. I can’t picture SpaceX taking their own Tesla out of orbit, but we’ll see what happens.
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I know there is a Tesla in orbit. You can actually find it on the website. If you look for orbiting Tesla, there’s a company that just follows it round and round and round.
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It’s pretty funny. So go ahead and look that up. It’s rather interesting. Also too, if you are on AT&T, one other thing I wanted to bring up.
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AT&T had a security breach. Nearly all phone and text records were released out into the world.
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If you have any text or something that you don’t want people to see, what I’m particularly worried about is people that text each other passwords and usernames.
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That’s where this is going to get really dangerous. People text each other their password. Like a wife may text her husband and say, “Hey, what’s the password to our bank account? What’s the username? What’s the account number?”
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Stuff like that that goes back and forth via text. This is actually pretty big. AT&T is going to try to clean it up, but once that gets out there, there’s no putting it back in the bottle.
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Apparently they’re saying an American hacker in Turkey is linked to the massive AT&T breach. So we’ll have to see what happens with that.
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If you are somebody that’s on AT&T and you know you’ve texted passwords to people, I strongly recommend that you change your passwords.
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One thing I will say, if you did use iMessage, that’s a little bit different. If you’re on an iPhone, use iMessage. That’s a little bit different.
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Because iMessage is encrypted end to end. Or if you use Facebook chat or WhatsApp, all that’s different. This is just their text and phone records.
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It’s going to be interesting to see what comes out of this. This is going to be a pretty big deal. Plus you have people that don’t want people to know who they’re talking to.
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It’s a big privacy issue. Let’s put it that way.
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Also too, something else I thought that was kind of interesting, regardless of your political feelings.
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CNN announced that they’re making more layoffs, but apparently they’re going to try to create an online service.
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Now they’ve tried this a few times and it didn’t really turn out too well. So I’m curious to see what they’re going to do.
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CNN’s really struggled getting onto the cloud. Fox was able to do it. Some other ones, MSNBC and some of them were able to get out on the web and stay going.
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CNN’s really struggled. They’ve tried this a few times and it didn’t work. I’m curious to see what they’re going to do.
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They actually partnered with Max to release a lot of their content on there. I think that was a way of them making some money on their content.
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But I’m curious to see what they’re going to do. One of the things that’s very difficult when you’re making content, WWE found this out.
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I think Disney is going through this now as well. If you make the content, do you also want to be the one who delivers it?
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Prime example, WWE makes great content, but they weren’t so good at taking care of a service where Peacock now takes care of the service and WWE just delivers the content.
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Same thing with Netflix. Netflix is going to deliver Monday Night Raw. WWE just creates the content.
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That’s happening with a lot of companies. Same thing with a bunch of podcast networks that just merged because the podcasters want to focus on creating content, not necessarily worry about hosting and stuff like that.
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It’s like I said, it’s one of those things. Do you want to create the content and host it or do you just want to create the content and let somebody else distribute it?
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It can go both ways. It really depends on what you want to do. I thought that was an interesting thing.
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They’re talking about doing something online or partnering with somebody else online, but it’s a very difficult thing.
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I know Disney has struggled with this too. They were saying we have over 200 million users, but our original content isn’t drawing in a bunch of new subscribers.
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I think Disney expected just to keep growing, growing, growing, growing, but just like anything else, you hit that cap.
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Netflix next year said they’re not even going to report user numbers because they said just because their subscriber numbers are down doesn’t mean they’re not making more money.
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It’s an interesting thing. You’ve got to look at when it comes to creating content. Do you want to just create content or do you want to be the distribution channel or do you want somebody else to distribute it and you just create the content.
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It’s a really weird time we’re in right now with all this kind of stuff.
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Before that, Nick kicked it off with Fuel Hard, one of their newer songs from 2001. They have a new one from 2002 called Two Hearts, but that was a single. They haven’t released another album in a while.
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Obviously they have a new lead singer, Brett Scallons, who’s kind of doing his own thing, but like I said, a great band. One of my favorites.
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Let’s see. So a couple things I want to talk about. About that AT&T breach. Somebody pointed out to me too that Google’s dark web monitoring service will be available free for all.
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It used to be part of Google One. Now it’s going to be free for everybody who has a Google account. So if you are worried about any of that, if you go check that out, Google actually has dark web services that you can sign up for.
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They’ll keep an eye out for accounts and stuff like that. So take a look at that. That’s something that might interest you if you’re concerned.
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Also too, one other thing that I wanted to point out. Google, which I’m really surprised from this, Google has added to Google Photos something called Library Out, which allows you to take all your Google photos and send them over to iCloud.
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I’m really surprised Google did this. You would think that Google would make breaking up hard to do, but apparently not.
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So if you’re thinking about moving from Android to iPhone, you can now move your whole photo library over fairly easily. Kind of surprised, I really am.
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Something else that was important to me that I wanted to bring up. HP announced that they are kind of doing away with their DRM protected HP.
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So in other words, if you buy an HP printer, if you don’t use their authentic ink cartridges or their subscription based ink service, you can’t print.
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They’re doing away with it, but only on the laser printers, not on the inkjet printers. I get more calls about these sorts of things than anything else about people that, you know, their printer won’t print.
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I go there, it’s because their credit card ran out on their HP ink subscription. It’s the stupidest thing in the world.
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Now they’re doing away with it, but only on the lasers. But not on the inkjets, because the inkjets are where they make a lot of their money.
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And most people buy inkjets for their home, not laser printers. So it’s a real kind of chamois, scammy kind of thing.
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So I thought that was interesting. HP, come on, you can do better than this. You really can.
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So just when you think Microsoft can’t innovate anymore with AI, they come up with something.
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Microsoft announced they are rolling out Spellcheck and Autocorrect to Notepad.
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I don’t know why Notepad, after 30 some odd years, needed this. I mean, Notepad, even more than that. Almost 40 years. 19, more than that.
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41 years ago, apparently Notepad was created. 1983. And it’s getting Spellcheck and Autocorrect now.
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I don’t know why it needed it. It’s been fine for all these years, but apparently Microsoft decided it needed it.
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But I thought that was kind of funny, made news. So they’re rolling out Spellcheck and Autocorrect to Notepad.
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I’m surprised more people aren’t excited about that. I don’t know.
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So also too, Spotify announced that they are rolling out a comment stall podcast.
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I’m curious to see this. Anytime you turn comments on a blog, YouTube video, anything like that,
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I really, really hope Spotify has a good way of monitoring it because I know there are quite a few websites I’ve worked with with friends and stuff that had WordPress and they had comments on.
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And the spam used to be nuts. The moderation was a nightmare.
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So I just hope Spotify has a really, really good way of monitoring that because that could end up really being a nightmare rather quickly for those guys.
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It really could be. Also too, one of the things I also, somebody pointed out to me in the chat, apparently the ARM laptops,
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Microsoft obviously, Windows on ARM, much cheaper over at Lenovo, a fully loaded ARM Lenovo laptop with a gig, I’m sorry, a terabyte of storage, 32 gigs of RAM,
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like only 1300 bucks with the OLED screen and everything. I don’t know if Lenovo is making those bad boys cheaper so that we all go out and buy them or what,
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but that is, if you have a kid that’s going back to school or if you needed a laptop, 32 gigs of RAM, one terabyte, the ARM Snapdragon X,
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I mean that is an amazing deal for, I mean really, for 1300 bucks. That would be almost a $2,000 computer if you bought it with an Intel in it.
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I’m wondering if anybody could try it. I’ve reached out to see if I can get a demo unit. I don’t know. Lenovo’s been kind of tough getting demo units from them
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because everybody wants one because of the new architecture. But I mean really, if you have somebody that’s going to college and you need a laptop,
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I’d be willing to try it for 1300 bucks. That’s not bad at all. That one’s a little bit different than their normal style. I like it definitely a lot heavier,
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but like I said, it’s a little bit different. I wanted to clear out the mailbag here before the end of the show.
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So we have, let’s see, Dave wonders if he can, what do I recommend for converting drives from a Mac to Windows?
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I mean honestly, if you’re from Windows to Mac. So I already reached back out to him, but apparently with the new Apple file system,
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you can use NTFS. Back in the day, you couldn’t. You could only use FAT32, but with the new APFS, you could read NTFS.
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So if you take those drives out of a Windows machine, you could hook them up to your Mac and copy the data off.
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So you should be okay on that. Check that out, but that should be fine. You should be good to go with that.
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Like I said, if you’re just converting from Windows machine to a Mac, it’s not that bad. The other direction is a lot harder
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because NTFS, I don’t believe, reads Apple file systems. So I already talked to him, but that was a good question.
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I thought it was good for our tech portion of the show. Our entire, well, our whole show is tech and news and all that stuff.
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Somebody asked me what recommendations for using a home media server is. I mean, honestly, I mean, if you wanted to go with a NAS,
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you could go with, it’s like a 300-some-odd-dollar Western Digital NAS network attached storage. You can go with a Synology NAS.
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I mean, honestly, you could put it on, if you have, I mean, a Windows machine or a Mac or anything, I mean, you can install Plex on pretty much anything
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and turn it into a media server, Mac, Linux, Windows, even your home computer, if you just want to install Plex on it and use that to dish out your media files,
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you could do that. It doesn’t take up a lot of resources or anything like that. It should be good. Just, like I said, anything will run Plex,
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as long as you have the content there. So, like I said, you could get a NAS or you could just use your home computer if you wanted to,
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if you wanted to host those media files. So I would say just use Plex and that’ll be fine for you.
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You don’t necessarily need another device if you wanted to. You can create a media server, which would be a fun little project, but you don’t have to.
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Plex will run on pretty much anything. It’s not super heavy either. Somebody had said, “My husband has AirTags. I would love an AirTag, but I’m running Android.”
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Yeah, so that’s kind of an issue. My wife has an Android phone. I have an iPhone. We actually have something called Tile, which is, I don’t think, as good as AirTags,
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but a Tile works pretty well for Android and iOS. Like I said, it’s not as good as AirTags, but it is good.
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So if you’re into an Android, go ahead and look up Tile. They’re actually a pretty good company. Like I said, not as good as AirTags, but it’ll definitely get the job done.
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I’ve used it many a times to help my wife find her keys. So like I said, it’s called Tile. Go ahead and check them out. They’re actually a really great company and I think maybe a little more affordable than the AirTags.
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Somebody said in the chat, “Poor man’s AirTag.” No, not really, because they’re still good. They were out way before Apple’s AirTags. They’ve been out way before Apple’s AirTags.
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Apple kind of was late to the game with that, but yeah, like I said, it’ll be fine. Use those. It’s fine.
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I actually have a card I put in my wallet. It’s actually a tile and you put it in your wallet. It works like a debit card. You put it in your wallet and then, I mean, it’s not really a debit card, but it’s actually a tracker, so if you lose your wallet or something like that, you can actually find it.
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It goes right in one of the other cards. It’s actually pretty neat, pretty fancy. I like it. They have ones for your keychain and stuff, but I like the one in my wallet, so I can find my wallet if I lose it.
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I think that’s something where I’m wondering if Apple would do something like that. Make a wallet with a card that you put in your wallet. I don’t think they will, but that’s one place where Tile has a little bit of an edge, especially if you’re a guy or a woman and you’re worried about losing your wallet.
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It’s like a $20 card. You slide it in and then it’s good. You change the battery once a year. It actually is pretty good. I use it all the time.
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Luckily, I haven’t lost my wallet in a while, but I have used it once or twice in the past.
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All right, folks, I want to bring a couple quick updates. First of all, if you are listening on the app, we do have a big app update out now for Android. Please go download it.
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I know you’re saying, “Well, can I put in my app just to update?” But no, we have a brand new app, brand new framework. It’s much, much better. Please go ahead and download the latest app.
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You can find it for Android right now. Go to the site and click on it. Also, too, if you are on iPhone, the new app is coming. It’s in review process right now.
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We’re hoping it’s going to be out in a few days. But like I said, please go ahead and check out the apps. We are working on it. The new apps are much better. I know there’s a lot of complaints about the apps the last couple of months.
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We have got the new apps out. We’re working on it. They’re much, much better. So please go ahead and download the new app. You’ll see it. Like I said, new framework, all that. It’s much, much better.
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Also, too, like I said, if you are tuning in late, but that’s okay, Friday and Saturday coming this Friday and Saturday will be at the Honesdale Sidewalk Sale. We’ll be having a great time, hanging out, having a good time, playing music, giving out swag and all that. So please come and check us out.
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Let’s see. Anything else on the programming agenda? Also, too, we will be — somebody asked about the Wally Fest. We will be actually at the Wally Fest as well, but that’s not until August. But yes, we will be at that as well. Somebody had emailed us and asked about that. We are already going to be at the Wally Fest for those two days.
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I believe that is everything. So I want to thank you as always for coming and hanging out with me, waking up with me in the morning. I really do appreciate it. One of my favorite things to do on Saturday is to wake up with you guys.
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We’re going to kick it off with one last song now, “What If” by Creed. Thank you very much and we will see you on the next episode. Also, I do just want to point out one thing. If you enjoy the show, you can go subscribe to our podcast as well up on the website rockradio.live.
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