The Season To Scare (Transcript)
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Alright and welcome to the Sunday Sh*t Show. We’ve been doing it on Sundays,
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Sunday night. That’s when people have been listening and that’s when people have been
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on. So it’s I guess I really should do something because it’s not really the Saturday
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Sh*t Show anymore. It’s the Sunday Sh*t Show I guess. I am Brandon Lepani. I am your host.
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I’ll be hanging out with you here for the next hour or two. Playing the music, talking about tech,
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talking about geek, talking about whatever the heck we feel like because it is a sh*t show.
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Lots to talk about today. We’ve got tons of things we got. I got emails from you guys. As always,
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stations are available. Like I said, I got stuff to talk about, stuff to get to you, but first,
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kicking it off, shine down enemies here on Helix Rock Radio. Call me when you’re sober. One of my
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favorite songs. They have quite a few, I mean, big hits that I really enjoy. And of course,
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before that, Blackstone Cherry and Shine Down. A couple of my favorites, kicking it off here
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on this show for today. So a couple of things I want to talk to you about. First of all, a bunch
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of people have messaged me about Microsoft Game Pass. Game Pass going up. Those of you that like
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to hang out online and play games, if you’re part of Game Pass, it’s going to cost you now 30 bucks
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a month. That’s a little steep, man. That’s like ESPN pricing. 30 bucks a month. I can’t believe it.
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And they’re going up with all the other prices too. So one’s going up to $15 and then the other
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one’s going, the one that’s staying the same is essential. That price isn’t going up.
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Even went up with PC Game Pass. It was $9.99, $10.99, something like that. Now it’s going up to $16.99.
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So they went up with all the prices on their games. Microsoft, definitely getting a lot of
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blowback from it. People are a little upset about it, man, especially if you’re a hardcore gamer and
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you paid for the best service. That was the one that went up. PC Game Pass is all the hardcore
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gamers, the PC gamers, that went up. I mean, they kind of went up with all the hardcore gamers,
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but the people that they don’t think they could push around, like the people that just paid for
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the basic, they didn’t go up with. And the mid-tier, they went up with a couple bucks. So it’s kind of
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a mean move, man, by Microsoft. Going up with all of the people that actually want to pay for
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the service, they really enjoy it, the ones that really got hit the most. So I thought that was
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kind of a mean thing to do if you really think about it. I mean, why would you, of all things,
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go after the people that really like the service and are the hardcore gamers? I thought that was
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kind of a bit of a swing at the gamers. I thought that was kind of a mean thing for Microsoft.
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Do I understand they’re business? They got to make money, but I thought it was kind of tough.
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Also to you, by the way, those of you that are fans of Meta, Meta has opened up their orders for
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the new Ray Bands and for the new Oak Lease that are coming out now. If you like those AI glasses,
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which I know a lot of people do because they sell out every time they open it up,
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go ahead and jump in now because they are really going to go fast. I know a lot of people really
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dig that Meta AI glasses stuff. I used it. We tried it out on this show about a year or two ago,
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and it was really good. It keeps getting better over here. Obviously Instagram Live is really
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popular with it now and a bunch of other things. It really is one of those services, man, where
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you know, or one of those pieces of hardware that people really like and are really getting
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behind. So I thought that was, I liked them. I thought they were great. I mean, the fact that
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I can just hit something, I mean, I don’t have to, like, especially if you’re looking at something,
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like I said, I’m like, okay, if there’s a moment, like with one of my kids with that one,
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I’ll capture it real fast. I just quickly touch the top of the glasses, the rim of it, and boom,
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it takes the photo where by the time I get the phone out, by the time I hit the button, by the
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time I get the phone open, the moment could already be over where, okay, these things are on my face.
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Boom, I just hit the button and boom, I got it. You know, just for that sense alone, I think if
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you’re a photographer or somebody that has, or anyway that wants to catch those moments quickly
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while they’re happening, not having to put your phone out, it saves, you know, quite, it does
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save time. And I found myself many times when my daughter was doing something cute that I would
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just quickly hit the glasses and get it where by the time I took my phone out and all that,
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it would, I probably would have lost the moment. So I thought that was, I think they’re really great.
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And then of course, Alexa, oh, he, oops, I said it, but the Madame A plus released a lot of people,
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including a lot of the influencers, Justine and her sister, and a bunch of people have actually
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said how good it is. Instead of now just doing one line at a time, one line commands, you can
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give it, you know, compound commands and stuff like that that you really want in a device,
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you know, especially like now, instead of saying one time or nine, you can say multiple timers at
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one time, stuff like that. I know some people have said it’s not that great. I have messed with it
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a little bit this week. It is definitely, I think, much better. The only thing I will say is I do
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think that if you want to get the most out of the Madame A plus, you do need a display, one
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with a display on it. It still does it through the speaker, but I do think if you want to get
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the most out of it, you do need the display, especially the stuff with the recipes and setting
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multiple timers, asking you about the traffic, asking you about alternate routes, asking you about
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different things and having it do multiple things at a time like say, hey, I want you to do turn
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the lights on here and start this and all that stuff. I think you really need the, I mean,
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it still works with the speaker, but I really do think you got to get the,
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got to get the visual display if you want to get the full bang for your buck out of the Alexa plus.
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Oops, I said it again. I’m sorry. But like I said, I think I know a lot of people freak out about
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having those things in your house, but if you really do want something that can do everything
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you want it to do, we’ve had good luck with Madame A here in the house. And not to mention,
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our radio station is available on all Madame A enabled devices. One of the big way you guys
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all listen is through the Madame A. So we appreciate that. So, somebody sent me an email,
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I want to point out, somebody had asked me about using their, they don’t like to wear the Apple
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watch. They want to something else. I don’t really like wearing bracelets. Is there something else
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like a buy I want to buy the ORA ring? However, it’s expensive and the subscription is very much.
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So my wife and I, I’m actually a big watch enthusiast personally. I actually wear a ring
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from a company called Ringcon. So there’s actually a newer one out. The one I’m wearing is actually
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a little bit older. They have the new one out and then they have the air out. And what’s really
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neat about this is it’s actually, I like it. It’s just basic. I wear it almost like as a wedding
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ring. But same thing, there’s no, there’s no subscription with it. So yes, you’re paying
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$2.99 for a ring. Same thing as you pay a ORA ring, but there’s no subscription base. They had a
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successful Kickstarter and now they’re on, they’re actually like legit company. They have multiple
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rings out now. This is like their second or third gen that they have out. So I really like it. I’m
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still using the original Ringcon. Like I said, I would recommend them over the ORA ring personally
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if you don’t like to wear the watch. I still think personally that the Apple watch is still the best
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out there as far as fall tracking, all that kind of stuff personally. But like I said, I like to wear
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some of my watch collection. So I actually went with the ring and I’m really enjoying it. A lot
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of speculation if they’re ever Apple will ever come out with a ring. I’m not sure they ever will. I
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don’t, I don’t think that’s something on Apple’s roadmap. A lot of people have said maybe, you know,
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down the road, but I don’t know. I mean, I can’t picture, I mean, I would love Apple to do it
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because I have an iOS device, but that I just can’t picture Apple getting into that space.
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I just think they’re, they’re very laser focused on the watch right now. Like I said, I couldn’t
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picture them getting into the ring, the ring business now, but fitness is a big area for them. So
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maybe those of you that have asked about the ring, if any of you took a look, I reposted it on my X
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account. Somebody actually was wearing their, their Samsung ring and it started, the battery
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started expanding and they actually had to go to the hospital and they actually had to get it off
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in them. I think they had to cut it off. I’m not sure how you cut through a battery, but
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not a really good look for Samsung after all the stuff that happened with the Galaxy Note and the
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airplanes and all that stuff. Definitely not a good look for them with the Samsung ring. Kind of
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concerning to me. I don’t know. I never had a lot of luck with Samsung batteries in general. Not
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even, this is even going back pre before the, the whole note thing. I never really had good luck with
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Samsung batteries. Seems like the batteries, the phone was always great, but the battery would never
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last. I just, like I said, I’ve never had good luck with them with the batteries. The devices
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themselves are fantastic. The screens, the cameras, all that stuff, no complaints with Samsung, but
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I’ve never had good luck with the batteries ever. It’s just always been a nightmare with the batteries.
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I don’t know why. I don’t know why Samsung can’t get it together with the batteries.
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You, you think they could, but they can’t. What a great song. Obviously the original done by, of
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course, Ozzy Osbourne. And I forget who, I think it was Lita Ford was the other one. One of my,
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it’s just a great song. I really enjoy it. Like I said, it’s just a great remake. That was obviously,
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people forget too, like, oh, a couple people have sent me, I played that before. I don’t remember
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that. Yeah, that was when there was, Disturred was on hiatus for a couple years and David Dreyman
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did a solo project called device. I thought it was, you know, really, really good personally, but
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he went back to doing Disturred, which is fine. You know, sometimes people just need to do stuff
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creative and that’s, you know, what he did. Let’s see. So I thought this was kind of interesting.
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Somebody had sent me an email on this the other day and I didn’t even think about it.
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Six, I don’t know. They had sent me, don’t forget to mention possible Apple event in October. So
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we’re just talking about Apple. And I totally forgot a lot of people speculating that there
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will be an Apple event in October. Now it’s not a wild thing to say because Apple has had events
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in October before. What the hell now to the heck knows, but it’s very possible. I don’t,
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I don’t know if we’re going to see new Max, maybe, maybe an iPad air tag.
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Somebody said maybe a Vision Pro. I doubt that, but I appreciate you guys keeping me,
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keeping me on my toes, reminding me of to mention things. But yeah, I mean, it’s not uncommon to,
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you know, to, for them to have an event in October. So we’ll have to see what happens with that.
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Also too, I wanted to point out, I thought this is kind of interesting. So Snapchat, which has
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for years had free memory storage. Apparently now is capping it. The paid plans are going to
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sort of $199 a month for 100 gigs. The reason why I know this is because a lot of both my kids
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have Snapchat and they were like, you know, going, oh my gosh, the five, they’re limiting storage and
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I have to buy more storage stuff. I mean, I kind of figured Snapchat was eventually going to do this.
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They’ve been looking for ways to monetize. They tried Snapchat plus that didn’t really work out too
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well. I don’t believe they’ve tried advertising, which has been, I think their biggest revenue,
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but it hasn’t really, I mean, it’s been good revenue for them, but it hasn’t been their biggest
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revenue. They tried a bunch of different things to really monetize. So I think this is going to be
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the next thing to try. Snapchat’s in a very tough spot because they have a good, they have an audience,
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but their audience is on the younger side, which makes it harder to generate large sums of revenue.
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So it’s a tough spot, but I’m sure they’ll make out, but this is the latest thing with storage now.
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I don’t blame them. I mean, it wasn’t, you know, just like anything else. If you remember when
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Google Workspace is first started, they said it’d be free forever. I know a lot of people,
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and I said that years ago on the old show, people were like, oh, it’s not going to be free forever.
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And I said it wasn’t going to be, you know, anything, you know, just like, you know, the
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service is a business. You got to make money on it. So, but I knew Snapchat was going to do it.
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They’ve been struggling really to try to find other revenue sources. So I kind of figured they
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credits by mentioning Helix Rock radio. Again, you guys are always keeping me honest. Somebody had
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sent me a message letting me know that Microsoft is about to launch a free Xbox cloud gaming,
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you know, tier with ads, same thing like Netflix and Hulu and others have done. So
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I thought that was interesting. Come to find out when I started digging into this a little bit.
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Apparently, PlayStation has already had one that was ad supported. Microsoft was kind of
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a holdout without the ad supported version. So apparently, yes, Microsoft is going to be
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launching another tier that will be free, but it will be ad supported. So that is something that
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apparently is going to be coming around here soon. So if you don’t want to pay at all, you can just
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use the version with ads. So that’ll be great. I’ve always liked Metallica even though what they
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did to the whole Napster thing. But so I want to talk about Cup Thing that we, you know, we can’t
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go a whole radio show without talking about wrestling. You know that, right? Crown Jewel
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coming up this week. Cody Rose versus Seth Rollins for the Crown Jewel Championship.
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Curious to see where they’re going to go. Cody already has the ring. Wondering if they’re going
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to put Seth Rollins over here. We’ll have to see what happens with that. Either way,
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it’s for the Crown Jewel Championship, which really only makes a difference when they’re in
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Saudi Arabia. Women’s Championship, same thing. Stratton versus Stephanie Vanker. Van
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Vacura. Thank you. That’s coming. I think the match is more interesting is, of course, AJ Styles,
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John Cena, since Cena’s running, you know, coming down the wire with his career. And of course,
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as we all know in WWE, we all know that in retirement doesn’t mean, I mean, how many times
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did Shawn Michaels retire in his career? So I wouldn’t get too darn worked up about John Cena
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never coming back. Then of course, we have the tag match Ripley, you know, EO Sky versus
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Sane and Azuka. That actually should be a pretty good match, too, as well as Sami Zayn and solo
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Sokoa. Like I said, it’s going to be pretty good. Obviously ESPN, FDF ESPN to watch it live. And two,
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just notice that’s right. It’s in Saudi Arabia. So the I think it starts like two o’clock.
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Check your check your check your your man. I would check your
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app or their website to see when it’s going to start in America. I think it’s two o’clock
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because they’re overseas. So yeah, there’s that. So I don’t know. I don’t know. So kind of what
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happens in Saudi Arabia kind of stays in Saudi Arabia. If you haven’t noticed, I’m not it’s I mean,
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they put on a good card when they go over there because they’re getting paid big money to go over
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there. I think it’s definitely a better card than Russell, Paul, Russell, Palooza, whatever it was.
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But I don’t know. Again, there’s no real again, the titles aren’t online. It’s the Crown Jewel
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title matches. So they don’t really count except for over there. So Cody Rose is obviously the crown
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jewel champion. He hasn’t even had he wanted that belt on his shoulder until he gets over there
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because it’s still over in that museum place where only they you know, it’s a weird situation over
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there. It really is. I like it. I think they put on a great card over there. They get a lot of money
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to go over there. So they, you know, they put their best foot forward. But it’s just it’s really weird
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over there. All right, that was like a woman can a new song by Hellstorm. One of my favorite ones
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that they’ve off the new album. I really love the new album. If you haven’t go go to Apple Music
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Spotify or wherever you get your music from, download it. It’s freaking amazing. Speaking
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of music, I just want to bring something up. A couple people have asked me recently about not
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on this show as well as personally, but all the problems I have with their Sonos device,
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not so much with the devices, but the app itself, there’s an app called click CLIC.
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By the way, we don’t we’re not affiliated with them or anything. They do an affiliate program,
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but we’re not even connected with it. I just bring this up because it’s a really great app.
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It’s about 10 bucks for a year for the first year. And it basically is it’s better than
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that. Everything I hate to say is what the Sonos app used to be. It’s really good. It’s first Sonos.
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It’s really great. I really like it. Like I said, it’s better than the Sonos app. It works with Apple
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Sonos library, Plex, Spotify, Tidal, tune in, SoundCloud, all that stuff. Works on all Apple
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platforms. It’s just I think it’s a much better solution really than than the real regular. So I
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don’t know what’s so damn wrong with the Sonos app, but I mean, they just can’t get it fixed. It’s
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really bad. So many people, especially with the older units and stuff. It’s really annoying,
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especially with somebody like me who’s been recommending Sonos for so many years now.
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People have it like like me. I have like like probably what one, two, three, five, five or six
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Sonos speakers in the house alone plus the soundbar for the TV. I mean, it’s really upsetting because
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I mean, you have all these devices in your home. You want whole house audio. They made it super easy.
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Then they just screwed up their app and they can’t go back for some. But this is a good
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replacement. So click. I mean, I know it’s a paid app. You got to pay like 10 bucks for a year,
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but it definitely is worth it. It’s what I use here. And it really, like I said, it really works
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well. I’ve actually used it myself and paid for it. So I really like it.
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By the way, too, I want to point out it is spooky season right now.
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Charlie Huntingham, that new series, monster series he’s involved with on the Netflix. Ready
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received a ton of awards and stuff like that. It just dropped the other day. I have not watched
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it yet, but a bunch of people have been recommending it to me since it is spooky season. So go ahead
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and check that out. I have not watched it yet, but my wife and I will eventually get to it.
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I’m currently still on a peacemaker right now. We just watched the most recent episode. I don’t
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want to spoil it for you, but we just finished that the other day. We got one episode left.
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Really looking forward to it. It’s really been a really good show. I really enjoy it.
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Unfortunately, James Gunn has already come forward and said on the Howard Stern show that
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the last episode is not going to set up a third season. So we’ll have to see,
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have to wait and see what happens. I mean, we know next year there’s a Supergirl movie coming out.
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And we have to be at Superman this summer. I’m very curious to see where they’re going to go with
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this for the fans like us that really want to see this stuff. But it is spooky season.
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So if you are looking forward to seeing anything, I know, I mean, on all surfaces on HBO,
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we use HBO a lot or Max now it’s HBO Max, but there’s a lot already. You have all the spooky
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shows on the Netflix, added all their stuff. It’s that time of year. It’s the season to scare folks.
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I really like, I really am digging Daughtry lately. I don’t know why some of his newer music over the
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last couple of years have been a little heavier, a little bit harder, a little less poppy. Really
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awesome. I’m really digging it. One thing you guys for hanging out with me, I am going to head
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out here on this Sunday. As always, thanks for hanging out with me. You can catch Helix Rock Radio.
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in every place where radio is available. I want to thank you all, like I said, again for hanging
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out with me and we will see you next week on the Sunday SHIT Show. Do you want to help support
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your favorite rockstation? Go to rockradio.live and click the donate link. Anything you can give
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is appreciated and helps keep us on the air. If you can’t afford to donate, please support us
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by spreading the word about Helix Rock Radio. Thank you for listening and keep enjoying Northeast
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Pennsylvania’s online rock station.
