Social Media Goes Crazy Over Beats By Kim Transcript
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Welcome to the Morning Shit Show. I am your host Brandon and I’ll be hanging out with you here for the next couple of hours.
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We’re going to wake up this morning with some great new rock music. Tons of new songs out. Tons of stuff to talk about.
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That was Creed’s new, well it’s not really a new song. That song is 25 years old.
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The difference is they just released a music video for it on Friday. I think they’re building to new music but that was part of their big thing.
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They were releasing something new for you on Friday and that’s what they did. They released a new music video for that song.
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I thought that was pretty cool. It was pretty awesome. It was good to see them coming out with some new stuff.
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I’m wondering if we’re going to see a new album from Creed or not. I don’t know. They’ve been kind of yes and no about it.
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I know Mark Tremonti has some new music coming out around Christmas time. They’ve already released the first single we played on last week’s show.
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So I don’t know. We’ll have to wait and see what happens. I love Creed to put out a new album but I’m not sure if it’s in the cards yet.
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We will have to see. Like I said, wonderful to see them back together selling out arenas. 20,000 people.
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They were one of my favorite bands as a kid growing up so I’m so happy to see them back. It’s quite a bit of fun.
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Tons of celebrity news this week. Stuff to talk about. Kaylee Cuoco, we all remember her from Penny from the Big Bang Theory.
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She’s just announced she got engaged to the… I guess she’s been with her boyfriend a couple of years to have a kid together.
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Apparently she announced that she is engaged. I really hope this works out for her. She’s really had ups and downs over the years.
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I think this is her second or third marriage. She’s had some troubles over the years with not meeting Mr. Right.
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So I hope this works out for her. She seems really happy. She seems very authentic. She’s very clicky.
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Her interviews on even late night shows are so much fun to listen to. She’s just such a nice person.
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She says a lot of people still do the Sheldon Naughton thing to her when she goes to autograph signings.
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Penny, Penny, all the time. She says it’s such a common thing. It’s kind of funny. Like I said, we wish her the best.
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Carl Weathers, you guys remember him from Apollo Creed, from Rocky, if you’re the same age range as me.
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He was actually in The Mandalorian not too long ago. He was in the Predator movie. He was doing a lot of stuff.
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Apparently he’s going to be getting his… On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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So it’s really cool. Glad for him. He really was a big part of a lot of our lives as kids.
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He was in a lot of action movies and stuff like that with Arnold, Rocky, all that.
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It’s great to see him getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Unfortunately, it’s going to be posthumously.
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He has passed away. But it’s good to see him, like I said, getting on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It’s pretty cool.
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I always liked him in a lot of his movies. He was always fun. He was great in The Mandalorian.
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That was, I think, the most recent thing he’s done. But it was pretty good. So I’m looking forward to that.
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Speaking of somebody… Well, not really somebody, but a remake. The Chrome movie is set to come out next weekend.
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Which is going to be the remake, of course, of the 1985-86 Chrome movie that Brandon Lee passed away while making.
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Definitely big shoes to fill here. But it looks really good. I’m actually hoping to get to see it.
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I believe it’s Ryan Scott, who is the director. They’ve got a great group of people.
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Definitely an all-star cast. But I don’t know. It’s hard to top a movie like that.
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It’s going to be like somebody trying to top The Dark Knight. You just can’t top it.
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When an actor dies while making the movie, or in this case because he was filming the movie,
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obviously Brandon Lee got shot by a projectile while filming a scene. It’s going to be really hard to top.
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I think they definitely could do it. It does look very, very good.
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But like I said, it’s going to be tough to top it. So we’ll have to wait and see.
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I actually want to go see it this weekend. I’m hoping to anyway.
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By the way, something else I wanted to talk about. There has been on social media all weekend…
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Well, all week during the weekend trending over the week.
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Apparently Kim Kardashian and Jimmy Fallon were in a competition to see who could get the most votes for new Beats.
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That were releasing Beats by Dre. I’m actually a big fan. I’m actually kind of a headphone aficionado.
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You could say. An enthusiast. I really get into that. If you’ve seen any of my reviews online,
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I have tons of different reviews on all different…
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I think I’ve tested probably almost every brand of consumer headphones that are out there.
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My wife will tell you I’m kind of a bit of a nerd when it comes to headphones.
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I collect them and I travel different kinds for all different things.
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She obviously won. Jimmy Fallon’s nowhere near as popular as Kim Kardashian is.
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He actually had a mustard color. It’s kind of hard to see. Just audio only.
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He actually had a mustard color. She had those three colors that she uses for everything. All her product lines.
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Obviously she won. They’re calling it Beats by Kim.
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She’s had these colors before. I believe it was the Beats earbuds.
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But now she actually has over the head ones like the Pro line. Like I have sitting here.
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Again I apologize to those of you that are listening on the app.
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If you do… By the way folks, I would like to say this. We do have video for my show.
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We do post it on Rumble. We post it on Axe.
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Like I said, we do have to be careful because of the music we use.
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We do pay royalty rates so we can only use certain platforms.
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But anyway, the Studio Pros. She has them now in her three authentic colors.
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So I thought that was pretty cool.
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They actually came out with Minecraft Beats which my kids went crazy for because they both love Minecraft.
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He actually had a mustard color. I like his color actually.
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But again I’m not really a big fan of browns. There’s nothing wrong with her headphone color.
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I just would personally have liked the yellow color.
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I like Khaled when he had his come out with the red.
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There’s a bunch of different colors. I’ve had a lot of different colored Beats over the years.
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But I thought that was pretty cool.
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And the reason why I’m bringing it up, it was mainstream news this week.
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They were trending on social media all weekend with this thing.
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I give the guys at Apple and Beats, obviously Apple owns Beats but Beats kind of runs their own thing.
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So much credit man. The way those guys get pressed for those product releases is freaking awesome.
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Definitely Beats by Drake and Apple knows how to get their name out.
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So over the weekend, I keep saying over the weekend, I’m used to doing this show on Saturday.
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Couldn’t do it Saturday. We just had too much going on.
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Tons of good stuff but just too much going on to get on the air so I figured I’d do it today.
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Glad to do it. I usually do the show on Sundays but they do it on Saturday.
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It’s a weird schedule. That’s why it’s the shit show folks.
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By the way, I do want to, like I said, there was D23 this past weekend which is Disney’s big show.
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They kind of lay out with their partners what’s coming out next.
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They announced, well first of all, Miley Cyrus became a Disney legend for Hannah Montana.
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I remember that show when my kids were small, just how huge that was. That was a really big show.
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Like I said, she became the youngest Disney legend. She got her hands put in the cement and all that.
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So now she has been kind of set as a Disney legend but that show was huge for its era.
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Definitely, Hannah Montana when my kids were young was a big thing.
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They also released the live action Snow White trailer.
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My kids, I’m sure, we wanted to go see that. Interesting to see Gail Goodut as the bad guy for a change.
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She’s going to be playing the mirror mirror on the wall person.
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So I’m looking forward to seeing that. They did not show any of the seven dwarfs yet.
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What they look like, I’m curious to see. I’m sure CGI, there’s going to be a lot of CGI in this movie.
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It’s going to have to be. But they went ahead and showed, like I said, the live action trailer.
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Like I said, I know for a fact that my kids are going to want to see that.
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So like I said, we’ll have to make sure. They didn’t announce a release date yet.
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They just said next year. So we’ll have to wait and see what happens with that going forward.
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Also too, speaking of things going forward, we will be at the Hawley, yeah,
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the Hawley Fest next weekend, Saturday and Sunday.
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So those of you that want to come get some swag and come hang out with us, like I said,
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we will be live from the Walley Fest, like I said, Saturday and Sunday.
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We’re going to try to go live. We’re bringing the equipment with us. We’re going to try it and see what happens.
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So we may or may not be live. We’re going to try it though.
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But like I said, we are going to be at the Walley Fest next week.
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So please come by the table, get yourself some swag.
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We’re going to have stickers, pens. We are going to have t shirts. We have water bottles.
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We have cozies. We have all different stuff. So please, like I said, come by the Walley Fest.
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Hang out with us. Like I said, we’re playing music. We’ll be hanging out there.
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Come on down and just get to say hi. Get yourself some swag. It’s a fun event.
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So I have been to the Walley Fest many times, but I have never actually been a vendor.
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So this will be fun for us. An event we’re doing. We also have some other events coming up.
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But this is the big one. You know, we’re looking forward to being there, looking forward to meeting people,
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getting the radio station out there and getting to talk with you guys. So it’ll be a lot of fun.
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Disney’s big show was this past week. Apparently Mandalorian and Dragoo starts filming this week coming up.
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So that’ll be kind of a fun thing to see. I’m looking forward to that.
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Like I said, this was the there was supposed to be another season of Mandalorian, but they’re doing this because of the writer strike.
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So that begins filming this week coming up. But it’s kind of sad news. Paramount Global is laying off 15 percent of the workforce.
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Paramount, their studio group, is going to be shutting down their movie studio anyway.
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I’m curious to see. Not a lot of people are wondering what’s going to happen with this.
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We’ll have to wait and see. Like I said, they are laying off staff, but they’re also closing their movie studio.
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So it’s going to be interesting to see what happens because CBS teams up with them. Amazon Prime teams up with them.
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A lot of people team up with them. Sundance Media, stuff like that, team up with Paramount to make movies.
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So wondering how this is going to affect a lot of shows we watch.
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They’re talking about possibly Reacher, Reaker over on Amazon Prime could take a hit from this.
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We’ll have to see. I mean, Amazon’s big enough. They might be able to do their own thing.
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So we’ll have to wait and see. I mean, we saw what they did with Thursday Night Football.
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So I’m sure they can afford to get some of their own production stuff. So we’ll have to see.
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But that was actually kind of big news this week going forward.
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They also released the Craven the Hunter trailer. I’m very curious to see how this is going to tie in.
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Craven the Hunter usually ties in pretty well with Spider-Man.
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So I’m curious to see what they’re going to do because they did a Morbius movie.
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They’re doing Craven the Hunter. We did the Spider-Man movie.
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I’m curious to see how they’re going to tie this all in or if they do with all these characters.
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We know there’s a Blade movie coming out. I’m curious to see. We saw a lot of cameos in Deadpool.
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I’m wondering how they’re going to tie all this stuff together into one big movie.
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If they’re going to do that, we’ll have to wait and see.
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But they definitely are building the Spider-Man universe over there in Sony. I’m sorry, Fox Sony.
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So we’ll have to wait and see what happens with that. I’m actually looking forward to it.
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I don’t know if Craven will do that well in the movie theater.
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Only because Craven the Hunter is not a huge name in comic books.
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So we’ll have to wait and see. I’m really looking forward to it and kind of seeing where they’re going with this whole thing.
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We’ll have to, like I said, wait and see.
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Also, too, by the way, for our tech friends, interesting thing coming out this week talking about Red Box,
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which is obviously, remember that service that you can go rent movies from a kiosk and stuff like that.
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Apparently they shut down their web service.
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Now the reason why I’m bringing this up is because a couple people, friends of mine, have actually said,
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they shut down their service, but I bought movies on there.
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I own movies on there and they shut down the service.
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So I guess people are really upset about that.
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What are you supposed to do? You bought movies on there?
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That’s a really big issue. I’m curious to see what people are going to do with that.
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Because, okay, I bought movies on that service. Those movies are now mine.
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How the hell? What happens now?
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Unless you just lose your purchases.
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It’s one thing to have one or two movies up there, but what if you’re somebody that,
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especially the last couple of years, they’ve been running sales to try to get revenue up for the company.
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What if you bought a big chunk of your library there?
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A couple people that said movies anywhere.
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I agree with you on that. It’s a great service to tie all your movies together.
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But if they take it down, unless they took the site down,
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but you’re still going to be able to access content through movies anywhere,
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they haven’t addressed this issue yet. It was a big thing on The Verge.
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It was a big thing on Slashdot and a bunch of other sites.
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Let me know what you think. How are you going to get it?
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Is this the problem with buying digital media that we don’t download?
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Is this the problem with buying streaming content?
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Let me know what you think.
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Did everybody hear what happened on X the other day?
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Apparently, former President Trump went on there with Elon to do an interview and it crashed.
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They said it was a DDoS attack.
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So, as somebody who has technical background in streaming services,
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what happened is you can’t test for load.
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Like I said, regardless, this isn’t political. This is all about tech, by the way.
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Regardless of load, you can’t test for load.
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You can try your best to make sure everything is up and ready to roll.
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You can build out more servers and build up more infrastructure.
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But until you get that many people to come to the service, you don’t know what’s going to happen.
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That seems to be the issue they ran into.
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There was a great article. There’s a site I watch.
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Office.hours, I believe is the name.
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It’s a technical site all about video streaming and audio streaming.
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I watch his show. It’s actually very good. Alex Lindsay, he’s very good.
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He’s also on MacBreak Weekly. It’s a podcast I listen to.
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When he was talking, he explained it in depth that you can’t duplicate what people are going to do
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when they get to a site that’s not working.
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Are they going to refresh? Are they going to try to go a different way?
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Are they going to keep refreshing? Are they going to close the browser and reopen it?
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Are they going to open another browser and try to go there and then another browser to go there?
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The browser would go that you can’t duplicate the human condition is what he was saying.
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That’s why load is so hard to predict for because you don’t know exactly what people are going to do
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when they get to a site, how many times they’re going to keep trying,
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if they’re going to stay on the site and just keep trying,
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if they’re going to leave the site and your load’s going to decrease, you don’t know.
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You can’t duplicate the human condition is what he was saying.
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It’s kind of true because as somebody who’s dealt with issues in the past with load and stuff like that,
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with websites and things like that, you really don’t know.
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That’s why when sites sometimes launch day, it can be so difficult with anything.
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You remember when TrueSocial launched, the nightmare that was
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because they didn’t expect that many people to sign up.
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They’ve had issues with all different kinds of sites over the years with people trying to sign up.
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A prime example, I remember my wife was telling me that during Christmas time
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when she was trying to get Black Friday sales at certain places,
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the websites were crashing and some of that.
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It’s just you can’t duplicate that kind of stuff until it’s ready,
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especially in that case because you have a whole lot of streaming audio.
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There was no spaces, so Xspaces doesn’t have a video.
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But you can’t plan for that stuff.
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Also too, X has had a lot of layoffs, so there may be people there that are doing multiple jobs.
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You just can’t duplicate the human condition, and that’s kind of what happened there.
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Regardless of your political feelings, as a technical person, I can tell you, you can’t plan for load.
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One of the articles that was interesting that I read about this was
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they say that surprisingly enough this happens a lot on Shark Tank,
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that people will go on Shark Tank.
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What will happen is the night that their product comes on Shark Tank,
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their site goes down or they’ll actually say to the producers,
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“Okay, what day is my show with my little product pitch going to be on?”
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And they’ll make sure that that night they’ll have whatever website company they hire
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spin up a bunch more servers just to handle the load just for that particular night.
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There’s quite a lot, like I said, I’ve been reading, kind of going down a rabbit hole with this the last couple of days,
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and it’s actually pretty darn interesting.
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So like I said, X, we don’t have to worry about it.
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We have quite a few people that do listen and watch live on X,
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but the majority of you guys are on the radio station,
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and that app and that are ready for the load.
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We don’t get that many people on X that we got to worry about it,
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but the radio station actually we do beef up because we’ve actually had,
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we do live events and stuff like that. You guys are amazing.
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And a lot of downloads of the app, a lot of people listening and stuff like that.
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So we do actually beef up the radio station side because you guys are so amazing with supporting us.
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So I thank you for that.
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By the way, too, something else I wanted to talk about.
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Some of you guys that are probably in your, probably remember this stuff from years, probably 10, 12 years ago.
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Kim Dotcom, he’s the one that created Mega Upload, that huge download site,
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so talk about streaming, that went on for years.
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During the Obama administration, they actually raided his house and stuff like that,
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and in Sweden they rolled tanks up to his house and all that.
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It was kind of a little bit of show of force for the guy that hosts pirated videos.
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But anyway, he’s going to be extradited to the US now for all that went on.
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That was back in 2010, man, so almost 14 years ago.
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He’s being extradited to face charges for copyright infringement and all that kind of stuff.
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Hosting illegal videos, stuff like that.
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I don’t know, like I said, I’m not saying he shouldn’t be in trouble, but I’m just saying, man,
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that’s been going on for 14 years already.
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I mean, 12, 14 years that’s been going on.
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That’s a long time, man.
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It looks like he’s going to be extradited.
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He’s from Germany and he’s German.
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He lives in Sweden and now they’re going to extradite him to the US.
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What I think is interesting about this is Julian Assange just got sent home after everything he has done,
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not facing any charges and stuff like that.
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It’s interesting to see that Kim is still going to be facing charges.
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I think Julian Assange and WikiLeaks released confidential data,
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which they weren’t the only ones that released it.
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The newspaper and stuff like that did too.
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But Kim.com is not getting anywhere.
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It’s unbelievable sometimes to see how things go depending on what happens.
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Like I said, not political, but I’m kind of surprised that that’s all still going on.
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I thought that it had all been dropped at this point.
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It’s been, what, 14 years, but apparently they’re still trying to get him on copyright infringement.
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It’s pretty crazy.
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Like I said, Kim.com is actually quite a legendary hacker and the things he’s done, I don’t agree with it.
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But he is one of the very few hackers that keeps doing things and is extremely openly public about it.
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The top team shows from 1998 to 2003.
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Those of you that are my age range, I graduated high school in 2003.
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So ’99, 2000, 2001, 2000, 2003.
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Those were my formative years.
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They’re saying the top team shows for that era.
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Friends, we all remember Friends, Ross, Rachel, you know, that was a big show the first time I remember that.
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7th Heaven, I remember that show.
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That kicked Jessica Biel off into stardom, as well as a bunch of other people.
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One I never watched, but I know Katie Holmes came from it, was Dawson’s Creek.
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Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, I did watch that.
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My wife and I have actually been watching the reruns of that show.
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That was actually a really good show for its time.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar kicked her off into superstardom.
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Charmed, we all remember that.
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Oh my gosh, how many people came out of that?
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That was Alyssa Milano and a bunch of other people.
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Obviously, Alyssa Milano before that was in Who’s the Boss with Tony Danza.
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But this was her as an adult, kind of being a leading person rather than a supporting actress.
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That was great. Gilmore Girls I never watched.
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Felicity I never watched.
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And Roswell I never watched.
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But those were the top shows for apparently, if you were in high school, in any time from 1998 to 2003.
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Those were the biggest shows of the time.
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I actually remember Friends was ended my senior year, I believe.
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I think as well did Dawson’s Creek ended when I was in high school.
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Maybe. I don’t know, I didn’t watch that show, but the girl I was dating at the time did.
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Like I said, kind of neat to see these shows 20 years later, 25 years later.
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We all go through this. I’m sure my parents had it with their shows.
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You know, Cotta Reunion.
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I remember my parents when that was going on.
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I don’t watch it, but I remember it.
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John Travolta and all that kind of stuff when he was in his first role.
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I remember my mother was going crazy over that and stuff like that.
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You know, as we all get older, we remember things.
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It’s hard to believe for me that Creed, their albums, they’re 25 years old.
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Look at Led Zeppelin. They just had their last album, I think it was 50 years old.
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It’s crazy to really think about.
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And the fact that these shows and this music last the test of time,
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that we’re still talking about them all these years later.
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And now you look at my kids, look at the music I listen to and think it’s classic rock.
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It has a way of making you feel a little nostalgic, feel a little old maybe.
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Kicking it off with Bleeders by Black Veil Bride.
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This is the reason why I’m playing this one. This was actually a request by the Mrs. My Wife.
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And I do want to just give a quick plug in the show to my wife.
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Friday the 16th was our 10th winning anniversary.
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So I want to wish my wife a happy anniversary live on the air.
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I don’t think, well I don’t think I know she doesn’t really listen.
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I’m not one to post stuff like this on social media.
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But I just wanted to say a happy 10th anniversary to my lovely wife.
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Sirius XM has announced, now a lot of you are going to say,
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“Well, you’re talking about a rival radio station,” but they’re not.
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Sirius XM is totally different than what we do.
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Sirius XM has announced that they are launching a free ad-supported subscription service.
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So in other words, you can get it in your car at no cost, but it’s going to be supplemented with ads.
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So apparently they’re doing the exact same thing we do and regular radio has been doing for years.
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Now, the reason why I’m bringing this up is I’ve been saying for quite some time now,
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and those of you who listen to older shows that I’ve been on,
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all these services, if you guys remember that far, Netflix, Sirius even longer ago,
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and a lot of these services have now added ad-supported tiers.
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Eventually, with subscription-based services, you top out, where you just can’t get people to pay anymore.
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So you have to go to an ad-supported version if you want to keep bringing in subscribers,
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and then those people, those ads subsidize it,
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and you also hope that maybe those people that are listening with ads will eventually translate into paying subscribers,
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where you make more.
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I know specifically Spotify has actually said that their X amount of paying subscribers
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generate like $2 billion a quarter for them, but their ad-supported ones only generate like $300 million.
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It’s a lot more. A paying subscriber is worth a lot more than an ad-supported subscriber.
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At least that’s what a lot of these companies are saying.
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Netflix says that the paid subscribers are worth a lot more, but the ad-supported subscribers,
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they make a lot less from an ad-supported subscriber, but at least they’re there.
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But like I said, Sirius is kind of going through the same thing right now,
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where they’re saying, “Okay, we haven’t really been able to top that 33.1 million paid subscribers.
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We’ve been trying for years. We’ve redone the app. We’ve tried all this stuff,
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but now we’re just going to have to add an ad-supported version.”
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Which, if you think about it, really isn’t a bad idea.
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Especially if you’re somebody where there’s not a lot of good radio,
00:30:09.000 –> 00:30:13.000
you don’t have a lot of cell reception to listen to somebody like us,
00:30:13.000 –> 00:30:18.000
you could get Sirius in your car at no cost, but you’re going to have to listen to ads.
00:30:18.000 –> 00:30:27.000
Again, not a new business model, but Sirius is kind of going back to the FM model to a certain degree,
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where, “Okay, we’re going to give you stuff, but you’re going to listen to ads like you do on regular terrestrial.”
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So, like I said, I thought it was interesting, but all these radio…
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I mean, we know iHeartRadio and stuff like that have been saying they’ve been struggling with advertisers and stuff like that,
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but Sirius is kind of in a neat space because they already have 33.1 million people that are paying,
00:30:49.000 –> 00:30:55.000
so that’s what’s going to keep them going, and this is going to be kind of the icing on the cake,
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or maybe how they bring more subscribers in.
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They’re trying all different things. They’ve gone down with the price, by the way.
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The app used to be $15 a month, now it’s $9.99 a month.
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So they’re trying all different things, but I thought this was pretty cool.
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I mean, considering every car you buy has Sirius in the dashboard,
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if you can get it for free, maybe this is the spot where they’re going to grow,
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because people are going to say, “Well, I don’t really like FM radio, but the satellite radio is already in the car.”
00:31:22.000 –> 00:31:30.000
Again, they’ve already got the radio in the car, so why not just have people turn it on even if it’s free, right?
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I mean, at least they’re making something on the ads.
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So I thought that was pretty cool. Like I said, think about it.
00:31:35.000 –> 00:31:42.000
The radio is in the car anyway. Why not just turn it on for people and let them have Sirius for free with ad support?
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I thought it was a great idea by their CEO, so that’s why I brought that up.
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We obviously are the same boat. We do subsidize with ads, and we’re very happy to work with our advertisers,
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but we don’t have a paid version. No plans in the future at this time.
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But like I said, we support with ads. It’s just the way…
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I mean, the FM model is not anything revolutionary. We subsidize with ads.
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So I thought that was pretty cool.
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I do want to say, one of the things I heard this week that was kind of a little sad to me,
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Sonos. A lot of you guys listen on your Sonos speakers.
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We are available on Sonos through radio.fm.
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Sonos is laying off 100 employees. This is really upsetting to me only because this is a prime example of a company.
00:32:31.000 –> 00:32:37.000
I love Sonos. They make great products. They went a direction, stayed that course,
00:32:37.000 –> 00:32:44.000
and it hurt them so bad that now they have had to lay off employees.
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They’ve lost a ton of revenue. They’ve really hurt their brand. They’ve hurt their business.
00:32:50.000 –> 00:32:56.000
They rolled out a new app, got rid of the old app, forced people to stay on the new app.
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The new app was so bad, people were just getting rid of their Sonos equipment and getting other things.
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That’s how bad the app was. In the past, with their old CEO, they would keep the old app, roll out the new app,
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and then eventually phase out the old app. This person said, “No, we’re going whole hog into it.
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We’re not going to support two apps. We’re going to do this,” and it has killed them.
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They tried to come out with a pair of competing headphones to compete with Beats and Apple’s AirPod Max.
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It’s not going that well for them. They’ve been struggling trying to get the Bluetooth support
00:33:32.000 –> 00:33:37.000
and the Wi-Fi support to work on the same app, and it’s just been a real big nightmare.
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It’s sad because they’re such a great company. I really like their products, but this is an example of,
00:33:43.000 –> 00:33:54.000
“Oh, we kind of screwed up.” So now we’re going to backpedal and try to get our old…
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It’s hard to get back people that you’ve lost, and it’s hard to…
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When you do something like this, you hurt the brand, you hurt the company, you hurt all that analysis,
00:34:05.000 –> 00:34:10.000
and you’re trying to get them back. It’s a very tough situation. I hope they recover.
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It’s unfortunate 100 people are going to lose their jobs, probably people with families,
00:34:15.000 –> 00:34:21.000
people that are good engineers, and unfortunately, some of us just can’t afford to pay them because they’re screw up.
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So that’s what upsets me, I think, most about it.
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I want to see the new Google Pixel. Google will announce their new Pixel phone line ahead of Apple, by the way.
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They keep doing it last year and this year. They do it a little before Apple.
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It seems like they’re trying to get a head start. But like I said, the new Pixel 9, the new Pixel Fold, it’s pretty cool.
00:34:45.000 –> 00:34:53.000
The new Google Pixel 9, by the way, is getting the same SOS feature that Apple phones have had since the iPhone 14.
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Like I said, it’s pretty cool. I’m actually looking forward to getting a demo unit and getting to mess around with it.
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So we will see if I get one. I will kind of talk about it on the show, as I always do with all my tech products since I am kind of a tech guy.
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By the way, too, some other things I got to mess with this week as well is the new Microsoft Co-Pilot Plus machines.
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They use the same processor as Google phones, the Snapdragon processors.
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It’s just like when Apple released the M1. I think it’s really good. The battery life is amazing on them.
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I do think it’s going to take some time, though, for it to become a mature platform.
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There’s still a lot of programs that don’t… Emulation does work with most things.
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But obviously when you’re using an emulated app and not a native ARM app, it’s a little clunky and it does drain the battery a little more.
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Apple went through the same thing when they released the M series. Obviously Apple is on the M3 and the M4 now, so not so much an issue anymore for them.
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We’ll have to wait and see. I think it’s going to be a while. There’s a couple things like Adobe and stuff like that that have native ARM versions.
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Not everything yet, but I think it’s going to be a mature platform.
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But I will say this. If you’re somebody who just wants a laptop for surfing the web, running Microsoft Office, maybe running a couple apps,
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and you don’t want to worry about charging it all the time, and you don’t want a Mac, you want a Windows machine, I would recommend Lenovo Snapdragon.
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For not even a thousand bucks, you get… They have cheaper versions. They have an 899 version, a 799 version. Obviously you get less RAM, less processor.
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But you know, if you’re looking for a decent machine for school or just a machine to get on the web, do what you need to do, and you don’t want to have to charge it all the time.
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I know a lot of my Intel laptops, like four hours is the most they get on battery life. This is definitely a good device.
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Like I said, I’m not saying it’s the best computer I’ve ever used, but like I said, if you want something good, decent, good battery life, decent price, it’s not bad.
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I like these little Lenovo co-pilot computers. They’re not bad. Like I said, they do have other ones that are a little bit cheaper.
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HP puts out one. I haven’t tried that yet. And Asus puts out one. I have not tried with them yet. I’ve only gotten to try the Lenovo machines, but like I said, they are not bad.
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Good battery life, very powerful. I’m kind of impressed with Microsoft on this one. I think they might have hit a home run on this one. We’ll have to wait and see.
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I’m actually curious to see what’s going to happen because the Microsoft Surface books all now have the Snapdragon processor. I’m curious what’s going to happen.
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They say they’re a lot faster. I haven’t mess with one yet, but I’m curious if they’re going to use those for the NFL this year. We’ll have to wait and see.
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I got an email during the while the music was playing. Do you guys always ask me what do I do during the commercials or during the music playing or during the commercials?
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There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes here while the music is playing. I’m lining up stuff to talk about, lining up things that need to be done on the station, stuff like that.
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That’s like the biggest question that I get and a lot of the other hosts get is what do you guys do during the music is playing?
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There’s stuff to do. Believe me, we don’t just sit here listening to it. There’s other things to do. But that’s always the biggest question you guys ask is what happens, what do we do while the music is playing or the ads are running.
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I just think it’s funny. I appreciate your interest in the station, let me tell you. I really do.
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By the way, one of the other things I do want to point out is if you go to our website, rockradio.live, all the shows for the week that is on there under the on demand section, click on that.
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You can see all the old shows. This show is up in podcast format. Grawlix, there are actually video elements on there.
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Our other paranormal show that’s on Saturday, Sunday night, that is up there. Video is up there. Let’s see, who else is up there?
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The Pro Wrestling Wire, his podcast is up there. I’m trying to think. Almost all of our shows are available up in either video format or podcast format.
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So if you guys don’t get to listen to the show live, not a big deal. It’s available on podcast format. Just go to our website, rockradio.live and you can listen to the show, you can listen to the other talk shows, all that stuff.
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Like I said, it’s all up there. Please go ahead and check it out. Like I said, all the content you hear on the station is all available on demand for you.
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So if you miss it, not to worry. You can always listen at your convenience. Like I said, rockradio.live is our website.
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Like I said, I do want to make another shout out this hour for you guys that are listening. We will be at the Wally Fest next Saturday and Sunday.
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We are going to see if we can go live from there. We’re going to bring equipment. We’re going to try. If not, we’re just going to have music playing all weekend.
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But like I said, we are going to try to go live. We will have to see what happens there. So we’re going to go. We’ll try it.
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Again, we have only a few more live events set up for the summer. We have one, like I said, with the Wally Fest next weekend.
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We have another sidewalk event coming up and we also have another rock and roll festival coming up.
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So like I said, folks, if you do want to come out and get swag, make it a point to come check us out.
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By the way, next, we were just talking to, we were doing some web stuff. What we will try to do, we’re going to eventually try to get a page up with all the events.
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When we do line up events, we’re going to put them up on the website so that you guys can make sure that you know where we’re going to be and you can come hang out with us.
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Maybe listen to music, chat with some of the guys, hosts. I’m going to be there. Like I said, my wife’s going to be there.
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Howard’s going to be there, one of the other hosts. So it’ll be a good time. We’ll all get to hang out and we’ll swag you. We’ll get you some swag.
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We do have t-shirts, bottles, all that stuff. So come on, pens, stickers, everything. It’s all free. Come on down and get it.
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Like I said, that’s next week at the Wally Fest.
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Linkin Park, what I’ve done. It’s so of shame that we lost Chester in 2017. He would still be around, still be making amazing music.
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One of the best, in my opinion, vocalists of that era. One of them. Him, Chris Cornell, David Draymond. Thank God he’s still with us.
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One of those great vocalists. A lot of those guys, unfortunately. Problems, personal demons and stuff.
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But Linkin Park, one of my favorites. Rumors that there may be a 2025 tour with a female lead singer. I’m very curious to see if that will work out.
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If you remember too, Nirvana was going to do that. We had, sorry, Queen did that. Not with a female lead singer, but with Adam Lambert and some of that.
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So it’s never, you never know. Anything can happen in the music business, right? So I am going to be heading out for the day.
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I appreciate, as I say, every single weekend. Thank you for waking up with me. Thank you for hanging out with me and thank you for listening with me.
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Like I said, I don’t know about next week. We will do our best. But like I said, we will be at the Wally Fest next week.
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So let’s see what happens. But I do want to thank all of you, like always, for waking up with me here on the weekend. Take care. Have a nice week.
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