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You Call This Archaeology LIVE from April 19, 2020 - Ep 89
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Welcome to another presentation of the Facebook Live recording of The Archaeology Show called “You Call This Archaeology”. Chris Webster is joined by Richie Cruz and we talk about all things archaeology and NOT archaeology. Enjoy this random, rambling, episode :)
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Introduction and Sponsorship
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Episode Overview
00:00:27
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Hello and welcome to the Archaeology Podcast, Episode 89. I'm Chris Webster. This is another recording for the Facebook Live show, You Call This Archaeology, from April 19th, 2020. Let's dig a little deeper.
00:00:43
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Hey everybody, Chris Webster jumping in just to tell you a little bit more about what this show is about. You're going to hear us starting off our discussion talking about some iPad video editing software, which has nothing to do with archaeology. But that's the whole point of the show. It's two archaeologists talking about the things that we're doing normally. And sometimes that doesn't have anything to do with archaeology.
Current Projects and Tools Discussion
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That's why the show is called You Call This Archaeology. Right now, a lot of people are working from home.
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doing different things and we are doing our best to you know get our hobbies and our side hustles in order and it's good to just talk about those things so if you're not interested in this type of show feel free to just fast forward on to the next one but otherwise it's just myself and Richie Cruz talking about things that we're doing and sometimes we talk about archaeology and sometimes we don't enjoy the show
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Cool. So yeah, man. It's been another, another busy week, just doing a bunch of podcast editing and, and, uh, working with done safe and, and keeping everything rolling. So, um, Oh, before I forget, how have you been liking, um, LumaFusion?
00:01:49
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Well, it's not bad. It's got some idiosyncrasies that are a little bit frustrating sometimes. For example, I had an 11-minute drone clip that I was editing for the video that we put out today, actually.
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I wanted to start the video. I don't know if you saw the video or not, but I started it with this expanding shot of Mono Lake. Really, that was a shock in the other direction, but I didn't have that. I wanted it to go this way, so I took that seven seconds and I just wanted to reverse it, right? Yeah. Well, if I do that in, say, ScreenFlow or any other audio editing program, it basically
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It basically just reversed that clip. Like if I chop it out of the 10 minute overall clip, it'll reverse that one clip right there and be done with it. But LumaFusion wanted to basically take the entire clip and make it reversible in order for me to reverse any portion of it. Now this is a one time thing. So anytime I want to reverse another section of that clip for some reason, I can do it instantaneously, right? It doesn't need to process it. But it wanted to process the entire 11 minute clip and it took probably 30 minutes to do that.
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like I'm probably not going to reverse any
Historical Insights and Video Challenges
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more of this. And what if I had like an hour long clip or something like that? And I mean, most video pros are probably going to have a whole bunch of more shorter clips rather than longer clips, but still, you know, it was just irritating that I had to do that in order to get it to work. Oh, you can just duplicate it. Duplicate the, so clip it first and then duplicate the clip.
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Yeah. You know, just like, you know, just hit cop copy and paste and then, you know, like name it, like, you know, reverse. Yeah. That might've worked. Um, I don't know if it would have, if it would have made the seven second clip its own, its own thing and then reverse that. That is a good point. I could try that next time. Yeah. You know, it's someone who's like worked with like regular, um, video editing. It's like, you know, you just figure out all the ways to like get around everything eventually, hopefully. Yeah.
00:03:59
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Well, you know, I'll have to I know that I'm gonna get more into it I ended up having to abandon editing that video on Luma fusion There's really two reasons one I just procrastinated all week and I wanted to have our video out for today and I ended up you know getting it posted by 1130 last night and And it's just easier for me to work on my computer or screen flow because I know that app better But I know I'm gonna want to get into Luma fusion a bit more. I just need more time also
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on ScreenFlow, I have, um, I have templates set up and I'd have to set these templates up on LumaFusion or, you know, cause I was thinking, I was thinking I could get the whole thing edited together and then export it and then bring it into ScreenFlow for the final like music and text and all that stuff, just because I had templates for all that. Um, but that wasn't going to work because I time, I always time the first like
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30 to 40 seconds of the video, I time it to the music and I have different clips coming in on the downbeat, almost like a trailer for the, um, you know, for that episode. And I just, I didn't have that music. I didn't have any of that in LumaFusion. So I need to, I need to figure out a way to bring all that in and see if LumaFusion will work off a template first of all. And, um, because I couldn't see, it's also.
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It was a hair confusing in me at first to figure out even how to start a second video when I was already messing with the first one just as a trial. And then I started messing with the second one. I was like, how the heck do I see my library to make a new video? And that just was not intuitive. And even when I came in to switch back to the one that I was working on, I still couldn't find it. Look it up and then figure out where it was and get there.
00:05:39
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But I think, I mean, I think overall as an iPad app, I mean, it's pretty functional and it's pretty great. It's got a lot of really neat tools. It's just, I need more time. I need more time with it to get proficient with it because right now I don't have the time to just sit there and kind of like mess around with it. Like I'm, I'm always behind on everything I'm doing from a video editing standpoint, as you well know. And, uh, and it's just, you know, it's just something that I need to, um, uh, I need to just practice more with. So.
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But it's different enough to ScreenFlow that if I'm using both and going back and forth, it's going to be confusing. So I just got to figure out how I'm going to do it. You know, it's interesting, you know, you've been having video editing issues and I've been having audio recording issues because the video I am creating for August was going to be a bunch of B-roll and the me narrating.
00:06:30
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And so, you know, not any issues with the software. I just spend using Audacity, which is like so pared down. It's just like, you know, super easy to figure out eventually. Right. The thing is like, when you're trying to like do narration, everything you realize how noisy your apartment can be.
00:06:49
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like last you know because obviously everyone's at home now and you know since no one's really going to work you know i have to wait for everyone to like you know to like go to sleep and for my apartment to get quiet and then you know i was listening last night i was like recording and then playing it back and i'm like oh crap i can hear my fridge so then i had to wait at the time it between like my fridge going turning and closing and then when a car would drive by i'd have to like you know i'd have to like pause
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a lot of just like blank of, um, you know, blank spaces. I mean, you've got, you've got a pretty decent microphone. I would think that if you're close up on the microphone and you turn the game down, that it would pick up less of those things and turn your compression down too. Yeah, I did that too. But, um, you know, it like, um, today, like right before we went live, I was actually looking at sound blankets, not sound blankets, but, um, moving blankets. And I know that that supposedly works just as well.
00:07:42
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Yeah. And then I was thinking, man, maybe I can build myself like a little closure or maybe God, if I had more closets, I could just like use a closet, but you know, I've got stuff in them. Well, you know, the, uh, the hack, the quick hack to that, which I've done in hotel rooms before I've recorded many podcasts in hotel rooms is, uh, is really just, uh, uh, and if I didn't have a heavy jacket, I used the, um, because it was summertime or something, I'd use the comforter on the hotel bed and I would just write it over myself and the computer and the microphone because when I.
00:08:12
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I haven't, I mean, I've recorded since I got my age six and, you know, better microphones and that helps. Um, but also back when I was using my H four and zoom, uh, to, to do my recording, that's a dynamic microphone. And that thing is, um, or no, it's, um, what is that? It's a con, uh, yeah, I know what you're talking about. Like it's, um, you know, it's got a very wide pattern, even if you like, uh, even if you point them, even if you point them, yes.
00:08:39
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Yeah. Well, it's a, it's a condenser microphone. That's what it is. And condenser mics like the Yeti and stuff like that, that people try to use, they pick up every tiny little pin drop sound in the room because they're designed to. And so if you don't have a sound dead environment, it's not going to work. So the age four stereo mics on the end is what I was using for a long time. Um, that's a condenser microphone and it just picks up everything and makes your voice all teeny, picks up everything. So I would have to like, cause you know, hotel rooms always got some kind of a hum or noise or something, right? Um, I mean, it's just impossible to record in there.
00:09:09
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But sometimes I would just call it out to and be like hey, I'm in my hotel room trying to get the noise cover down So yeah, but if you're doing like narration over other video, yeah, you can't really call that out
00:09:20
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You got to make sure that audio is clear and good. You know what's interesting? Now that I've been doing this walking tour, narrowing this walking tour of Midtown, I learned so much about Reno. Stuff I didn't know before. I didn't realize because I've been going around. Obviously, I've lived in Reno a long time. I always wondered, why is every building here brick?
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And then, you know, I learned through my, um, my cross-referencing of this walking tour that Reno had like one of the largest, you know, brick manufacturers in the West. And, you know, any, yeah. And almost any brick building, at least after 1895 that you see in Nevada, basically had bricks from Reno. Geez. That's nice. Yeah. And I also learned that, um, my, this neighborhood, like, you know, the neighborhood here, this used to be like the outskirts of town. Oh yeah. Yeah.
00:10:11
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Yep. Well, that makes sense. I mean, towns were much smaller when they were started and Reno was centered around the river. So yeah, you know, basically built Reno right on top of the old pilots at Paiute settlements. Yeah. I also learned that Nevada was one of the few states to, um, I don't know if it's the only state that ever had like an official state architect.
00:10:32
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Oh, really? Yeah. Um, Frederick J. Jayden Longchamps. He was, um, he basically was, uh, most of the official looking buildings and nice looking buildings and Reno right up to about the, um, 1963, when he retired, basically he designed them. Geez. I didn't know that. That's cool. Yeah. Yeah. I was learning all sorts of things. Like this walking tour is surprisingly cool. You know, I admit the website is pretty bare, but, um, I did a bunch of cross-referencing and, you know, added them to my video.
00:11:01
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Yeah. I also learned that you only need to be a resident of Reno in, um, for, what was it? I want to say six weeks before you hear a divorce and
Gaming and Drone Experiences
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realize gambling at almost the same time, basically 1931.
00:11:17
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Well, I did a, um, yeah, that was, I mean, that's crazy. And I did a, uh, what was it? I had a, was it some presentation thing I did with what group I was with. And I had one of my friends who's a architectural historian come in. She's done work for me on some projects where I needed an architectural historian. And, uh, she came in cause she was very interested in the, um,
00:11:38
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divorce industry it was called back in the 30s. Yeah and when those rules went into effect and there's a lot of houses in the area you live in of Reno that have like extra little you know we pretty much call them like mother-in-law houses or little add-ons now but they were basically rented out to people getting a divorce so they could get their six-week residency. Yeah and that's um like mostly um that's the reason why so many apartment buildings like my apartment's tiny and all these apartments are tiny because they were effectively like extended stay motels.
00:12:06
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Right. Right. Which is like super interesting. Like I didn't, God, I was like going around, like some of these buildings I've been looking at some of these little apartment buildings that are on the tour. Like that's the only reason they exist is to be, um, to be, um, you know, divorce said ones or divorce cottage. Nice. Nice.
00:12:25
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Speaking of speaking of videos so I didn't watch it when it came out but I watched your latest video on what was the latest one you did that wasn't happy archaeology fun time it was on like keeping oh yeah keeping yourself busy during the winter which seemed like a better idea when you know because most of it was like stuff you could do outside and now we can't go outside
00:12:45
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Well, you know, I was going to say it is a good video for, um, you know, I guess keeping busy during quarantine as well. Um, and, uh, and making sure you're, you're still doing stuff because they, you know, there's the crappy thing about the timing of this, of course, is, uh, a lot of archeologists are coming off of a pretty lean winter, like usual, and maybe they saved enough. Maybe they didn't, but either way, they're probably close to being out of money. And then bam, uh, quarantine shuts down the field season for a lot of people.
00:13:12
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Although there are a number of people still working, I see plenty of job posts and different things still happening. Well, the thing is, it makes me think about what Sonia, was it Sonia? Who's mentioned that, you know, when the field season starts, like this year at least, it's gonna hit like a train where like suddenly everyone needs a bunch of people.
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And I think that's what all these postings are for, like getting ready for the field season. Cause I see like a lot of the postings that you normally see in like January and February, looking for field directors and stuff like the crew chiefs, like they're basically popping up now.
00:13:43
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Yeah. Yeah. So, Hey, I just want to mention we keep getting various numbers of people in and I don't know how Facebook runs the live numbers. Like when I see somebody joined down below, some people show up as joined and some people do not. I don't know really how that counts. Um, and then it doesn't tell you when they left either. Um, cause it says Lauren, uh, Huddleston who we know lives in Reno here has joined. And then it also says Carlton gover, uh, most of the, uh, life and ruins podcast, one of the hosts.
00:14:12
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But I don't know if they're still there or not because it says we're down to one viewer now. So I'll just put a message here. Yeah. Let us know you're watching.
00:14:24
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While I'm doing that, if you're listening to this on the archaeology show feed, then be sure to head over to facebook.com forward slash arc pod net A-R-C-H-P-O-D-N-E-T and you can like that page and then get notified when we do go live. We're trying to do it every Sunday and I'm sure until the field season hits, we'll be able to keep this going, especially under quarantine and just keep it rolling.
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But if you're not on Facebook, cause I know a lot of people are not on Facebook, then you can also find it over on Richie's resources. Happy archeology fun time. And then I believe my Twitch channel is the man in the hat, but at least, um, yeah, I think that's how I set it up. Okay. Cool. Cool. Yeah. It's under talk shows and podcast. Nice. Which is really cool. I didn't even realize that, um, that, you know, what you might call it that, um, Twitch did that.
00:15:20
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Oh, interesting. Oh wait, I was about to say there's someone watching now, but that's actually me on Twitch. Nice. Well, speaking of Twitch, uh, I was, we'll bring this up because I think I was talking about it either last time or the time before or a long time ago. You're talking about, um, what you might call it. Oh God. No man's sky. No man's sky. Yeah. Well, I've, I obviously don't have that much time to play it. And sometimes, you know, when I do sit down and play it, it's like four hours later and I'm like, Oh shit, I'm still playing. Um,
00:15:45
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But it is usually late at night because I'm doing stuff during the day and it's just, you know, golf goes nuts. But anyway, I really like, I'm really liking the exploratory aspect of it. And I don't know, I don't know if I'd get old. Like if you really want to play the game, you have to do a lot of mining and a lot of finding of elements to metals to make things.
00:16:06
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And you know, that's okay. But I don't really care that much about upgrading my ship and upgrading my multi-tool mining gun thing and all that other stuff. I mean, I want to upgrade things in order to do more exploration, which I can already tell the, uh, not to get too geeky on this, but the hyperdrive on my ship only has a limited range. So if I want to go to other systems beyond that, um, I think you can probably like jump from shorter system to shorter system, but,
00:16:34
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If I want to continue to explore and see new things, then you got to upgrade. But I really like just like flying around the planet and looking around and seeing where there's settlements and checking things out. And it's really kind of cool. What I wish it was, I wish I was in a world, and I'm not really sure how No Man's Sky works, but I wish I was in a world where there's other people that you could randomly run into.
00:17:00
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Maybe this is like that. Maybe there are other people in there and there's just not that many people playing or the universe is too large. But either way, I haven't found a search tool to find like where other people are. And I was in this one station thing and it seemed like there were other people in there because of it running around all weird. Like you would think an online thing would be like they were glitchy a little bit. Yeah.
00:17:21
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I could interact with them. There was no name. There was no interact with them. There was no talk to them. There was no anything. So I don't really know what was going on there. And then also when you first turn the game on, it says, you know, basically go into your game or it says, join a server. And, uh, you have to, I guess, I don't even know how to share my server. I don't even know what it's called. Um, so I wouldn't know how to join another one, unless somebody gave me the instructions, but well, I mean, I'm not sure how exactly how it works, but if you jump into a server, I think that's just like an open thing. It's just like restricts the number of people in there.
00:17:53
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Okay. Yeah. Well, that's my question. Can a bunch of friends or something just create a single server and go in whenever they want? And if you do that, if you do that, let's say you're standing on the ground and you decide to exit the game, like what is your
00:18:08
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What happens to your things, your spaceship, your stuff while you're out of the game? You know, other people come and do stuff with it. Can they come and mess with your things? And I don't know. So, um, as far as I know, um, God, as far as I know, it's been years since I watched anything on no man's sky, but supposedly it just stays there. Hopefully. Yeah. I was hoping because no man's sky came out right about the time the archive gaming podcast was starting to kick off on, uh, uh, on the archeology podcast network.
GoPro Accessories and Editing Challenges
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And yeah,
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They ended up having a coordination problem and only did a few episodes and then shut it down. I would love to have another host take over the RQ gaming. I mean, I don't mind playing games, but I definitely don't have the the academic credentials and desire to analyze games in the way that they were going to to be able to host that show. So we need to find somebody who does want to do that. But it was I was going to say it was like Mr. Archio thoughts.
00:19:04
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Yeah, I'm sure he would do it. Um, but he's way into his own YouTube stuff now. So I don't think he has the bandwidth to take something else on. Yeah. Yeah. He's really killing it on, on doing his own thing there, which is pretty cool. Um, I like seeing that, um, especially since he was, uh, you know, he's, he's had some, some health challenges and things like that. And, um, yeah, a little bit. And that's why he was, you know, backing away from the serum, our podcast, cause he was a host on there for a while. Um, but then started doing this YouTube thing and I think he's feeling better and just wants to keep that going. So.
00:19:34
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More power drone. Before I forget, I was going to mention, it seems like you're getting so much more use out of your current DJI mini drone, as opposed to your old big one, even though you take things from the same places.
00:19:50
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There's a huge reason for that. The mini is sitting right here in a box under my feet, whereas the Inspire would have been the entire box under my feet. It would have been like a table. It wasn't that hard to set up. You could still set it up in just a few more minutes.
00:20:08
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which is pretty impressive, but it's just so big. It's just so enormous. And honestly, you can't fly it in that many more circumstances than you can the many because you're getting the same on the same like footage or the same like, you know, you're getting to the same places with it.
00:20:27
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Yeah, pretty much. Um, I would say one of the big differences is the mini really is more susceptible to higher wins. And, uh, as you'll see in one of our future videos, I'm not sure which one it's going to be, but, uh, you know, we drove up to, uh, um, we drove up to an old abandoned mine, uh, down near Carson city a while back.
00:20:45
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And I took the drone up there and right near where the, where the mine is, there's kind of a really tight Valley. And I was trying to get some side scanning shots of the, uh, of the drone, taking a look at the, uh, the mining equipment. And at some point I f I turned it back towards me. So it was just looking, looking back towards us down the Valley where the truck was. And then all of a sudden the drone started just going backwards. And I don't know if it, I actually haven't flown it since then, but I don't know if it, uh, if it glitched out or if it, um,
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Or if it was the wind, I think it was the wind and I couldn't overpower it. Like I tried flying forward and overpowering it and it just wasn't having it. And it stayed at the same altitude and flew back, back, back, back, back until it, because the landscape was increasing in altitude. Luckily for me, if it had gone the other direction, who knows how far it would have gone, right? Um, but it was, it was staying at the same altitude. So it was hitting the ground as it was coming in. And, uh, it, um,
00:21:39
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ran into some bushes and chewed up one of the propellers. So, I mean, I've already fixed them and replaced them because they gave you like, they gave me like four sets of extra propellers. So that's nice. Oh, and then you get the package with the propeller guards? Or am I wrong? Well, I did, but those aren't for flying outside. They're for flying inside. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah.
00:21:58
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Yeah. They're there so you can, you can fly it indoors and run into walls and stuff and not hurting anything. You could fly it outside is like having some training wheels on if you're afraid of burning into stuff, but it does limit the aerodynamics a little bit. You know, it'll limit the functionality a little bit. So, you know, that being said, it would probably make it a little heavier though and have to handle the wind a little better too. So I don't know. Maybe I should bring them.
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00:23:41
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Well, that's the other thing because, you know, my I'm not going to go grab it now since I'd have to like go through the whole thing and putting my headphones back in. But I got my new my new backpack, my new photo backpack, because, you know, I have that big giant gray one that you've seen before.
00:23:56
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But this one I got specifically to carry GoPros and at least one more small camera because I got three GoPros in it right now and one DSLR. That's what I've been going around downtown with because last night I was out filming. God, I forgot. I want to say right in front of the shades and like all these homeless people were wandering around
00:24:19
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It's like me filming here. Yeah. Yeah. That's also why I use my
COVID-19 Impact on Lifestyle and Work
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bicycle as my tripod, even though it's very, very unsteady, like, you know, it's normally very steady, but the wind, the wind yesterday was insane, which is why I'm glad I'm not like, you know, I don't need the audio. Yes. Hey, uh, speaking of that, um, uh, you know, if you're going to be biking around, you ought to just swing by here. I'll, uh, I'll socially distance, give this to you, but, um,
00:24:49
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these uh these things that you gave me the plans for to have them made oh yeah um these gopro mounts so i tried one out i've tried it out yesterday for the first time yeah uh hooked it to a one liter tall um basically smart water bottle and uh uh filled it with filled it about three quarters of the way with water i didn't want to fill it all the way up because yeah
00:25:07
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I didn't want it to be unstable so I filled it to about three quarters of the way up or two thirds of the way up just thinking it would have all the weight on the bottom and honestly I forgot too that I don't have the the nut that goes inside this hole here so
00:25:23
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without that nut, you can't tighten it down, but it's still new enough and the holes are still, um, you know, the holes are, so whoever designed this, designed it perfectly because the holes are just the right size that you still have to, the, the, the typical GoPro screw doesn't screw straight into, it doesn't go straight in. You have to kind of screw it in the first few times just to kind of loosen those
00:25:42
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So because of that, even without a nut on the end, it was tight enough to hold the camera upright. And that's what we used to film the first part of our video where we're sitting out here on our porch talking about sitting next to our fire table. Yeah. You know, the biggest reason for that is, um,
00:25:59
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I had the other GoPro overhead attached to our balcony here. Yeah, that was doing the time lapse and I didn't bother going up and shut it off. That would have been the easy thing to do. So I just let it run the whole time we were down there. Really, I could have gone up and got it because it had our little flexible tripod and I've got another really nice like Manfrotto tripod here. But with all these accessories I've gotten with these two stupid GoPros, I only have one tripod mount.
00:26:25
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So I was just looking on Amazon and it's not an essential piece of gear. So I don't actually even want to order it until we need it, but, um, they even said, we'll send this to you when we can, but I don't want to force somebody to run around a warehouse and buy me, you know, find me some stupid tripod mounts for my GoPro. Um, so I'll wait until this clears up, but you can get like four of them for, for eight bucks. No, it's not bad at all. Um, and there's not,
00:26:50
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There's not a lot of circumstances where we need to use basically two tripods or two tripod mounts, but there are a few of them. And we'd like to get another one of those, like GorillaPod style handheld things. And it's going to require another tripod mount. So we need at least one more. Oh, because I've got them on all my cases.
00:27:11
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I'm sure you do. Yeah. And you know, it's interesting how much I've been able to pare down my, um, my kit since I switched to, um, sometimes I switched to GoPros. I still need like one more camera with like a zoom lens on it, but instead of going for a full size DSLR, I'm going to go for something smaller that'll fit in this backpack, you know, but, um, my God, it's amazing, you know, how much I've been able to pair things down. It's also amazing how much I'm, um, I'm still looking for like to, um, get a new DSLR for video recording.
00:27:42
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Cause it's a long story, but you know, I figured while I'm off doing all of this stuff with these at these places, I may as well, um, get some stock video and, um, you know, try to sell it on, um, Shutterstock, even though that terrible site. What's terrible about it? Um, the terms. Oh, you don't just don't get enough money.
00:28:01
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Well, actually you can. That's the crazy part. Like, um, I've been watching YouTube tutorials where there are people who make their entire careers out of this, you know, they'd like go to these places and they get video. And I'm like, man, some of these places are so cool. Like I should be doing that at the same time, but, um, they don't really accept GoPro footage. You know, so, um, yeah. So I basically got both my backpacks out and I've been ordering, um,
00:28:24
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I don't have been ordering like, you know, bunches of new stuff. I've mostly just been organizing like my big, great backpack. I realized I was looking at it's like, you know, it's two thirds. It's almost two thirds empty, but it feels very cluttered because it's not well organized. So I basically ordered a bunch of stuff to organize it.
00:28:41
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And yesterday, you'll actually be interested in this. Yesterday, I was watching a video where someone had all had this like cable organizer and he said a secret was to get a makeup bag, like a folding travel makeup bag. And then each little compartment, he just puts his like little adapters or his little cables or batteries. And it just like, you know, folds up and then, you know, you throw it in your backpack and it's like, wow, that is the smartest idea I've ever seen. Yeah. Since they're only 10 bucks.
00:29:09
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Well, there's no problem with, uh, you know, um, repurposing something basically, you know, you know, what else is interesting to me about GoPros is the fact that all the batteries are, they're not forwards compatible, but they're all backwards compatible. So I'm ready. Yeah. So I'm ready when I get my GoPro hero eight, hopefully at some point. Yeah. Although man, do I really need four GoPros?
00:29:33
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Well, I mean, if you get a good deal on one, you may as well have it, you know, even as a backup. True. Two is a good number for us. I think, uh, I think we'd probably want three later on. Um, but I don't know. Well, the thing is GoPro Hero fours are so cheap and you know, they've got the same audio quality as the eight. I don't know what happened to the like, um, five through seven, but basically the four and the eight are the ones that supposedly have the really good mics, but the eight is waterproof and the four is not. So, you know, that's why I'm going to get one that in the rear screen.
00:30:05
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The rear screen. Yeah, totally. Um, some of the videos, like some of the videos, um, that they're not going to be out for a couple of months, but, um, you know, I, I know when the camera's pointed at me, cause I'm just looking at the, um, lens, but when I'm like looking for, when I was pointing them forward, I realized that, um, I was not pointing them in the right direction. Cause I can't see cause my original GoPro is the first two I got don't have a three on the back.
00:30:28
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But they
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00:30:30
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do make up for it in other ways because one of the things I realized yesterday when I was playing around with my new GoPro is the fact that at the point that they made before, they didn't have the processor capacity to have all the same frame rates. So it doesn't make a very good B cam. So without a screen, how do you know what you're shooting at?
00:30:52
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Well, it depends. Like, well, I mean, I was just guessing most of the time. And so sometimes I wasn't actually pointing it. Yeah. So I wasn't actually pointing it when I thought I was pointing it. So some of the video is like, you know, you know, it's like the thing I was holding was like at the very top of the frame or maybe at her frame, which is why I specifically got the hero for silver because that's the one with the screen.
00:31:15
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Yeah. Well, hey, uh, you just reminded me thinking about accessories. Um, because I know, uh, the media mod for the hero eight was supposed to be, um, supposed to be available come end of April. And I actually forgot about looking and I just went and looked on the GoPro website because they're the, about the only ones that have had it, um, even remotely available and it's add to cart. So I just bought it. Oh, cool. Yeah. But it still says that.
00:31:44
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It still says they're experiencing delays in shipping due to the COVID-19 virus, but they're on the way. So at least it's not notify me when they're available. That's what it has been because I actually just purchased it and paid for it. So hopefully I'll get it. And I want to see how this camera works because the biggest thing about the media mod, of course, is that you can attach other stuff like another screen that you can point the other direction. You can attach a light, you can attach other microphones.
00:32:11
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Well, that was the big selling point of the DJI action cameras, the fact that it has on the front. Yeah, I know. I know. It was pretty cool. So anyway, yeah, looking forward to this. Yeah. I think the only real issue I've seen, and it's for people who like record really long clips is the fact that sometimes the, sometimes the audio can get out of sync.
00:32:33
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Oh, really? Yeah. Because, um, because GoPros, I mean, I'm not sure. I mean, I haven't really recorded a very long clip on any of my GoPros, but DJI, they split up the audio clips and sometimes when splitting up the audio, when splitting up the clips, it, um, you know, it basically drops audio for like a second, which I think is all process related.
00:32:54
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That's weird because GoPro splits up the clips too. It splits it at about 10 minutes and, um, and I've never, yeah, I haven't had a problem with it. It might only be when you're shooting 4k, um, because of the processing time or something like that. Cause I haven't actually tried any of the shooting modes. So, um, but it does, uh, it does split up the clips for sure. And it confusingly, I don't like the file naming system that he uses when it does it personally, it's really hard to figure all out, but, um, yeah.
00:33:21
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When it does that, I have run those clips just right next to each other and it's seamless. Like you don't notice it in a transition when you're watching the video, when you put those clips next to each other. Yeah. Maybe that's maybe it's because I only shoot in 2.7 K and it's never split up any of the clips I've had.
00:33:37
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Like I said, it's probably, it's probably a processing thing. Like they're, they're crunching a lot of numbers when it's, um, encoding on the fly. And, uh, and just so you don't lose anything, they, they cut it. It's around eight to 10 minutes. I can't remember exactly what it is. Oh, really? Um, yeah. And then it's, uh, and you don't notice it when you're recording, you only see it when you go to pull your files off and that's it. Um, cause I was like, before I realized what it was doing, cause you know, it, it titles the, um,
00:34:02
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It titles the files like GPR and then one zero and then a consecutive number. And then let's say it's one zero one five one or something like that. Well, the extension of that will be two zero one five one and then three zero one five one four zero one five one. So the number of the extension clip is in the beginning rather than like, you know, one five one dash one or dash two or dash three or something like that. So
00:34:28
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When it first did that, my files all sorted those twos, threes and fours to the ends. Not that I had a four, I've had a three one time, but it sorted them to the ends. And I'm like, where the hell's the rest of my file? I don't even know. And then I thought those were just additional files down there, but instead they were, um, they were the extensions of the other videos. So interesting. God, because, um, maybe they've changed it for the eight, but I know with, um, with the four at least that, um, you can change how it names the file.
00:34:55
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You have to dig around the app, but, um, I haven't really needed to yet. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Well, cross that bridge and I get there. I guess. Hey, any, any luck on, uh, specifically because I was thinking about our video this morning and last night. Um, and then we talked about projects over the summer, but any luck on, uh, either getting ready or trailer or finding a new one camper trailer. Oh, I'm still looking.
00:35:21
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You know, it's interesting like, um, like I've been, I've been looking on Craigslist and ice, you know, there's a dude down the street who's selling his, um, his little RV. It's like, it's, you know, I'm not sure if you have, you probably are familiar with the van again, like the van again, Westphalia pop up top camper. Well, this dude down the street has an Astro van version of that Astro van. Yeah. You know, if you remember those, but, uh, yeah, for sure. The thing is, it seems kind of small.
00:35:48
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Well, I was like, you know, since it's down the street, I just I've been biking by it looking at it. Yeah, for sure. The only problem is that he wants a little too much money for it right now. Yeah. Because right now he wants eleven thousand bucks for it and he's done a lot of work to it. But I'm like, man, eleven thousand bucks. Like I could buy a really nice trailer to tow behind my truck.
00:36:09
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Yeah, I mean, but people that only want one thing, though. I mean, that's the thing that's crazy about conversion bands and all kinds of camper bands. I mean, you see those crazy
00:36:22
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like really kind of the newer ones that are, you know, a bigger van and conversion van with that nice little kitchen dinette inside and all that stuff. I mean, those are like $80,000 used. And I'm like, Jesus, you could buy a 35 foot, 40 year old Class A motor home for that. Why would you buy a van for $80,000? It depends though, because the vans are based on the Mercedes Benz Sprinter. They come with, they have four wheel drive options.
00:36:48
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So you can get basically to all sorts of places, which is what I imagine people are doing. They're just getting to crazy places with them. Yeah. I mean, I suppose when I was thinking about, um, cause I have also been looking at, um, you know, class A's and I'm like, but God, then I'd have to have like a separate vehicle, like maybe a dirt bike or something. I'm like, do I really want like another vehicle to like tow around it?
00:37:09
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And especially since like, you know, some of these places, like I want to like go places and like recorded minds for some of my future videos. And it's like, man, you know, it's going to be like either a long walk, a long bike ride, or, you know, dirt bike.
00:37:23
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, so God, it's also interesting. And I've been like, obviously I started out with the urban exploration videos and now I moved on to some of these, um, videos put out by people who aren't necessarily archeologists, but they have an interest in archeology. And it's like, man, like no one has really been able to pull together, like,
00:37:45
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Good, um, you know, good video editing and good cinematography skills and archeology yet. Cause like the ones I watch where people who are at least interested in archeology, they are the most God awful boring videos I've ever watched in my life. Like there was one, Oh God, he was, um, doing a video near barriers ears.
00:38:04
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and it was an eight minute video and so I clicked on it expecting to see the site he was talking about because he was saying this site's been vandalized blah blah blah and it was basically was it almost six minutes of him talking in his office and then like at the very end he put two minutes of the site and I'm like that's the opposite of what I want to see.
00:38:23
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Yes, and it's like no wonder like these others because like the um At least the urban exploration videos where these dudes don't know anything They mostly just put the site up and they're like narrating as they're going but this dude literally just like you know Was taking b-roll of the site and then like, you know spending the rest of the video just talking in his office and like no don't do that
00:38:43
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I, I don't understand people's aesthetic for video. Sometimes I was looking up some videos on YouTube this, uh, in the last week to do some stuff on my boat, uh, actually my boat trailer and like this
00:38:58
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This guy had like a 10 minute video on how to replace these fender sideboard things that I was looking at. And really only like the last three minutes of it was actually replacing the fender sideboards. The rest of it was him just talking about different things like, oh, these types of trailers have this sort of thing. And I'm like, you titled your video, how to replace these things? Why are you giving me all this BS? Like just show me how to do it. And if I want more information, put that at the end of the video.
00:39:24
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You know, like I want, I want to click into something and have a step by step, you know? So if you're going to tell me your videos about this, then make your video about that. You know, it's interesting. I feel like that's like a metaphor for like archeology and why people prefer to get their archeology information from non-archaeologist. Right. Yeah.
00:39:45
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You're right. It goes down to science communication. That's always a problem for scientists is actually being able to communicate what they do in a way that people find interesting and will listen to and understand, which, you know, you get those same scientists trying to make YouTube videos and sometimes they're good and sometimes they're not. You know, who's a really, really good example is, um, Oh God, was it the brains group scoop, which I think is run by the, was it the Chicago museum natural history?
00:40:12
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Yeah. Yeah. Their videos are really good. Nice. Nice. Yeah. And oh, God, God, there was something else I was going to mention, but now I totally forget, which is super great for video here for a live stream.
00:40:25
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You know, I also realized last night as I was editing my, um, my narration, I realized how much easier it, because, you know, obviously people might not realize it, but I did do some editing for the, um, for, um, some of the archeology podcast, um, you know, podcast. And last night I was realizing, wow, it's so much easier to edit when you've only got one track.
00:40:46
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Yes. And it's also easier like I realized man it's so much easier to like because on video you can clearly see where someone like you know where someone was talking and then they thought of something better to say so then they cut that in whereas on when you're doing narration you're just doing audio it's much easier to make yourself sound um you know smart. That's why I do a podcast editing all the time. You know it's like you know one of my videos kind of
00:41:11
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I figured out hopefully it's going to come out like in, I think in June, maybe July, where I realized, wow, I fit it in like eight or nine or 10, you knows for like every minute. I'm like, my God, I really need to work on that. So I actually have been working on that. Like when I'm actually like recording video, because like I realized like there are too many words that you lean on.
00:41:33
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and you don't realize that until until um until you're actually watching yourself and the crazy part is i don't do that in real life i just do that on video it's dude everybody does it and it's same with podcasting you you might get somebody who speaks a certain way uh in real life if you're just sitting there having a conversation with them but the minute you put a microphone in front of them they they get all crazy and in fact we talked about this at the podcast editors conference at uh podfest last month yeah and uh
00:42:02
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There were people who are emphatically against editing some people because that's just how they speak. And I'm like, how do you know if this is the first time, if this is an interview guest, let's say, and you've never heard them speak before. You just decided to interview them and contacted them. How do you know how they really are? Like I'm going to take, I'm going to,
00:42:21
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given the benefit of the doubt and i'm going to delete a lot of these vocal crutches because i don't think that's how they are but if they're on if they're like a you know movie star or tv star or radio star or you know they're on they're on something audio or video a lot and maybe this is how people know them and you're like the common example is you wouldn't edit out bob newhart's stutter right because that's bob newhart yeah and
00:42:44
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But other people, you would. And if I don't know you and you don't have a big catalog of things out there where you are speaking, and I can't hear you speak naturally and I don't know you, then I'm going to edit those things down. And people are like, oh, we should keep them all natural. And I'm like, no, that's just lazy editing. So that's what I like about good YouTube videos where, sure, it's great if you have people on camera that know and can speak clearly without
00:43:12
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sounding like they're nervous on the camera. That's great. But sometimes that just doesn't happen or sometimes it doesn't work. So if you can do a narration instead, man, you can really clean it up because it's like you said, it's so much harder to clean the video up because then it gets jumpy. Yeah. Cause you know, you can literally see where you've cut something off. I mean, that's like most of where all the tricks I've learned for editing is just like, um, figuring out how to, um, make myself sound better or at least more like myself.
00:43:39
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I think that's where the current style of, uh, younger, uh, YouTube videos, um, especially younger people where they've got the jump cut style because they, they suck so bad on camera and they just cut it all out, you know? So it turned into a style because they suck so bad. It's just like bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. And it's jump cut after jump cut. And it's weird how it became a style when initially they probably didn't know how to do the fades. They probably didn't know how to do a dissolve. They just like,
00:44:06
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picked up some shitty software or edit it in YouTube studio and just like didn't know what they were doing. So now it's a style and I actually kind of like it. Um, I can't, I can't lie. I like it in certain circumstances, but not every circumstance. You know what I mean? Sometimes I'll even do that. Like for our videos, um, I have, I basically jumped cut in the beginning because I'm cutting on a downbeat on the music and each measure I'm like doing a different thing for the beginning of the video. So that has to be a jump cut. That wouldn't look good as a, as a dissolve.
00:44:36
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But then later on in the video, I do a lot of dissolves. I don't like to do anything stupid or, you know, all these, it's like, it's like too much PowerPoint effects. You know what I mean? Um, I don't like a lot of that, but I will just do quick dissolves and things like that. So, well, that's a good thing that my computer is, um, you know, it's kind of like behind the times because what you might call it. Um, if I try to do any of the fancy dissolves on DaVinci resolve, basically my computer will say graphic cards, Mac, your graphic card is maxed out.
00:45:03
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And God, that's the thing that really sucks right now about everything being closed because right now I can only edit one video at a time on DaVinci Resolve because I don't have enough because of the way DaVinci Resolve handles its file structure. It uses a database. And so when I was using Premiere Pro, my one gigabyte scratch drive, which I only use for like, for, you know, the video editor internal structure, internal file structure. I don't actually put any footage on that file.
00:45:33
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You know, with Premiere Pro, basically it, I still had plenty of room, but with DaVinci Resolve, it literally between DaVinci Resolve and my Windows backup, it takes up a whole gigabyte and there's no footage on that drive at all. So my point is, is that I bought a four gigabyte hard drive off of eBay and now I can't install it. I mean, theoretically I could try to do it myself, but I'm like,
00:45:57
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Oh man, you know, this is like, this, this computer is vital. Like it can't really be down, down. So, you know, I don't want to be screwing around with it for a week. Yes. And so, you know, and it's like one of those things where do I, God, maybe they're open and maybe I bring it in, but do I really want to bring it in right now or do I want to wait?
00:46:19
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Yeah. Chances are people aren't open, but they might be like, I really wish the Apple store was open so I could take this iMac in. I just, man, I've got so many issues with it right now.
00:46:31
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Yeah, I mean the two biggest issues are it keeps randomly restarting and also the Bluetooth will cycle sometimes. Like it just turns off and back on again and I lose the connection to my keyboard, my mouse and my headphones and then it immediately turns back on. Like I don't have to do anything, but then it takes a second to connect all those back in.
00:46:52
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And man, it's that annoying. Yeah. I don't know what's going on. So, I mean, this is a very heavily used, uh, five-year-old, uh, iMac almost. I think it might be six years old, actually. Cause I think I got it in 2014 right before that, uh, China Lake project. Oh, wow. Oh, I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. That was also going to be your last night, Mac.
00:47:13
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It might be my last iMac actually. I mean, I don't know if I'll buy another one. I love the screen real estate, but I would honestly just rather buy a bigger display and hook an iPad into it. You know, something, cause my iPad will take the keyboard and mouse or the track pad and a keyboard. Yeah.
00:47:30
Speaker
And if I can hook a big display up to it, I mean, that is your computer. Oh, I was going to say, God, you know, you can with the new one, not the old one, because, um, I don't, I think it's a restriction with lightning port, but the new iPad pro uses, um, USB-C.
00:47:45
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Yes. Yes, it does. And that's probably what I would get. I mean, this, uh, if I'm going to, I would be willing to bet that if we go, um, we go full time travel, um, I'm going to be upgrading this iPad. Cause my wife, her iPad pro, uh, which is the 10 inch one or nine inch, wherever it is. And, but that one's still like one of the first iPad pros that came out. Cause that replaced her iPad air that she had for awhile. And, uh, and actually we got it used from somebody at my, um,
00:48:12
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my co-working space. He was getting rid of it. He bought it about a year in and just wanted something different. So he got rid of it. So I bought it off him at a really good price and gave it to her to replace her old iPad. And, but now we might, that one's getting kind of bogged down. So we might just replace, you know, give her my 12.1 and I would get a new one with the USB-C so I can plug it into a display. Oh, and I shouldn't mention now because some people might've tried the keyboard and mouse support before.
00:48:42
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But Apple has basically with the newest iOS update has completely restructured the mouse support because before it used to just be like an accessibility toggle and wasn't as good like the new iOS has like real real mouse support now.
00:48:58
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Yeah, it really does. Yeah. Um, the only issue, like I got my keyboard to hook up to it easily enough. Um, but the magic track pad, it, uh, I don't know if I can see it here, the magic track pad. Um, it turns out it will only connect to one device at a time. The keyboard were easily connected to the, to the, to my laptop, my iPad. And then I was able to use it and then I could just disconnect it and connect it back up to my iMac.
00:49:22
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But the mouse I found out or the trackpad I found out has to be physically unpaired, like disconnected permanently from the iMac before I can hook it up to the iPad. Yeah, which is real pain in the ass. I haven't tried it. Interesting. I mean, you could probably get a use keep one.
00:49:39
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Well, I think, um, I think I might be replacing this track pad at some point. And I'm just going to hold off on that. Cause this, this track pad has been having some battery issues lately. I mean, it's also old. It's the same age as this, uh, as this iMac. And I think that battery inside is it's lasting less and less amount of time. It's still good. I mean, it's still the nice thing about these is if you just plug it in with a, with a regular lighting cable in your computer, it works just like a wired mouse. It doesn't need a battery at all. Um,
00:50:05
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but that's still a pain in the ass. And it's about every, I mean, I use these things for, you know, six to six on a light day and 10, 11 hours on a long day. I'm using that track pad pretty much all day long. And it still goes like a week or two before it gives me a battery warning. But it used to go for like months at a time. So, you know. What's the coolest part about the new iPad is, I mean, it's not out yet, but the new, that cool new floating keyboard, if you've seen it.
00:50:34
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Uh, I think so. Yeah. Yeah. I think I have seen what you're talking about. Yeah. Cause, um, I got for people who are on the, um, listening to this on the podcast, basically you, you, your average, um, your average keyboard dog for an iPad. Like it just looks like a, um, like, um, a Microsoft surface, but the new one holds it holds your iPad screen in the air. Nice. And also comes with an integrated, um, track pad. Yeah. Yeah.
00:51:03
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Although it should, considering it cost was it like over 200 bucks, I think. Was that from Apple or who makes that? Yeah, that's the official Apple. That's the new Apple keyboard for the new iPad Pro. And it is cool looking and like it just makes the whole thing look so cool. Because I want to take a look at this because I know I've just I saw it. Yeah, there it is.
00:51:25
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Yeah, it is pretty neat. You know, the one thing I remember now, I remember seeing the keyboard, the one thing I am skeptical about on the keyboard is the real low profile keys, which can be real hard to learn and type on. And then also the trackpad that's built into the keyboard. Yeah. Looks a lot like the one on the Microsoft surface, which is garbage. I hate that trackpad. Now the good thing about this one is it looks like it lays flat on whatever surface you have it on. Whereas the one with the surface,
00:51:54
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So it hooks in magnetically to the backside of the surface and then that's the connection as well, so it's not Bluetooth. But then it kind of just like kickstands up a little bit with the keyboard. And because of that, the keyboard itself and the trackpad are actually floating in air and they're only connected to the ground in two points at the top and the bottom. And I think because of that, you don't have the support behind the trackpad. And because of that, the trackpad is actually garbage.
00:52:20
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So, um, now it is a touchscreen. So if you get used to being a touchscreen, that doesn't really matter if the trackpad is garbage, but true, you know, so, but the thing about the iPad pro is now you can use all the, um, all touch gesture, at least hopefully you can use all the touch gestures. You never know.
00:52:35
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Yeah, that would be cool. That track pad is tiny though on this iPad keyboard. I would be, I'm so much used to a bigger, um, a bigger track pad. Let's see. I mean, I assume that's all, you know, that Apple will be very happy to sell you an accessory track pad for like, um, 200, an extra 200. Did you say the magic keyboard they're calling it was a $200? Yeah. 200 plus, I think actually two 99. Wow. Oh my God. Yeah.
00:53:05
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Wow. Oh my God. This is backlit keys, scissor mechanism, one millimeter travel for quiet, responsive typing. Also, you better really understand how to use that. Um, folds into case to provide front and back protection for the iPad pro. I don't see any pencil storage, which is annoying. Oh wait, I thought it was supposed to have integrated app, um, keyboard, um, pencil storage. I might be wrong. Unless that's what this tube is on the back. I thought that was just a scissor mechanism.
00:53:33
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No, I think that's what it is because most of the people have been mentioning that. I might be wrong. Well, that would be cool. That would be really cool. Yeah. Because that's one of the problems with a lot of cases right now is there's no pencil stars and you're just in the losing the thing. I have a space for mine in my backpack, so I'm not too worried about it. Well, I do too, but mine always just pops out and gets lost and I have to dig around the bottom of the backpack for it. Yeah. But then that might just be because I'm carrying like too much stuff in it.
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00:54:32
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this whole crisis and the way that people are now telecommuting or working from home is like reducing the attractiveness of living in the city. And I was thinking, man, do you think that more people will be like looking to either a move to a smaller city and just commute in now that companies can see that that's possible or maybe they'll even like take up the digital digital nomad lifestyle.
00:54:55
Speaker
I don't know, man. That's pretty hard for a lot of people to do, especially since a lot of these people that are commuting. I mean, I would say more people have kids than don't these days. And that digital nomad lifestyle is probably not impossible, but definitely more challenging with kids. That's true. Cause you've got to be like a full time homeschooler or have some sort of remote way to do that and have constant access to internet. But then also able to do your own work. So, but I could see, I could see people focusing on, um,
00:55:25
Speaker
maybe a different type of living style. Cause maybe their home needs would change if they realized they were spending a lot more time there. You know what I mean? Yeah. I was also thinking, um, man, how many more people cause, um, I'm not sure about your, you know, if you've noticed, if you look outside, cause obviously I'm like right here next to my door and I have been seeing so many people, many more people with their own electric, either their own electric bicycle or, um, their own, um, electric scooter. Yeah.
00:55:54
Speaker
I feel like a lot of people are saying that they don't necessarily need a car. In fact, if business picks up like Costco is actually selling this sit-down electric scooter, it's like, man, I kind of want one. Even though I don't necessarily need two more wheels in this apartment. Yeah, I think you've got enough. You need to pare down before you get some more.
00:56:18
Speaker
I know. The thing is, you know, it was like, man, Costco is selling this two-wheel electric scooter. I think they call it the Jetson. I'm like, I really want that badly. Nice. Yeah. You know what else is interesting? I've been thinking about it. How many people see that they don't need
00:56:37
Speaker
They don't need all the stuff they thought was vital. Like for instance, I've obviously cut down a lot on my smoking, like a lot of it. Now that the Indian, the smart, it was at the, is it Reno Sparks or Sparks Reno, um, Indian colony smoke shop is, um, closed. Yeah. So basically what I've got here is what I've got here. That's like all I'm getting until I'm this whole thing is over. Right. Right. You know, and obviously I also don't go to the coffee shop a lot as much as I used to.
00:57:05
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. But there's still, uh, didn't, I know old world and a few others have actually fully closed down because they got their payment protection plan thing. Um, but it's like coffee bar still serving. Oh yeah. I was just there this morning. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Nice. Yeah. And the one thing I want to try, even though it's sort of stupid when I think about it is, um, they have the drive up service and the house. Can I do that by bicycle? And they're like, yeah, sure. But then I'm, I was there this morning on my bicycle. I was like, it was kind of dumb. I was going to go inside and get my coffee.
00:57:36
Speaker
Yeah, I'm taking a look at this Jetson bolt folding electric scooter on Costco's 300 bucks. Yeah, that's you know, it keeps popping on my Instagram feed and I think and it keeps saying available at Costco come pick it up and I'm like man
00:57:49
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, it says folding, but the only part they show folding is the handlebar folding down. They don't show anything else folding in the diagram. Well, that's what I mean. They're tiny. Cause, um, that's one of the things cause I saw someone writing one by and I'm like, I kind of want that. It's like so tiny. Of course it was also a tiny person writing it. So maybe it might not be big enough for me, but then again, for 300 bucks, if I'm just like writing to them, I'm just writing to a bar and back.
00:58:15
Speaker
I think it'd be fine for you. It says 250 pound maximum weight capacity, which you're well under. And then, uh, uh, motor power is only 250 Watts, which is a third of most electric bikes. Um, but still, you know, either it's going to be slower, which it probably is slower than like 20 miles an hour, or it's going to have lower range. Um, which again.
00:58:38
Speaker
Yeah, you only need about 10 miles to get around town and back for you to charge it. Yeah, even that I mean Yeah, one of those things I realized I forgot if I mentioned this in last week or this week, but people vastly they overestimate everything like not just electric bicycles not to jump back and forth but um,
00:58:56
Speaker
Um, so many people have bought like I was thinking about this so many people have bought eight lifetimes worth of hand sanitizer Because i'm not kidding with you like i'm still using the same bottle that I had I basically am using the same tiny little bottle like I don't even know what the it's not in front of me But it's like the little tiny travel size ones i've had that like for over a year and i've been using it for a year
00:59:20
Speaker
And it's still not over, it's still not, it's still not empty, even though I've been using it a lot more during this whole crisis. Right. And I even ran into like another one I had just like randomly stashed around in one of my other backpacks.
00:59:33
Speaker
Yeah. And it's the same thing for toilet paper. I remember you mentioned, I forget, you said you get the like the big Costco packs and that like last you a while. Last a long time for us. Cause we have a bidet. So, you know, you use way less toilet paper. And I'm still using the same pack of toilet paper I had before this whole thing started.
00:59:53
Speaker
And I didn't, I don't get the giant one. I just get the one that could fit underneath the vanity in my, um, in my bathroom. And I'm like, man, like people literally filled up their whole truck. It's like, what the hell? They got to do all this stuff when it's over. Yeah. We've used, uh, yeah, we've used actually way less, um,
01:00:11
Speaker
way less hand sanitized than everybody else too. We never bought any because when it came out, there was like none available. So we had some, we had like a small bottle, but honestly we're in the house a lot. You know, people talking about washing their hands all the time. I mean, I wash my hands the same amount of times I normally would because my house is not filled with coronavirus. So, um, you know, I don't need to wash them more often than I normally would. It's just the normal amount of times. Um,
01:00:36
Speaker
I mean, obviously if we go outside or if we get a delivery or something like that, then we'll, um, you know, we'll wipe off the stuff from delivery and then wash our hands after, before we serve ourselves. Um, but that's just, you know, standard stuff. So, Oh my God. You know, I just had the craziest thought just right now. I was thinking, cause you know,
01:00:54
Speaker
Like since the whole thing started and we've been doing the live stream like remotely from each other, even though we're like what, like six blocks away from each other. You know, the thing is, is that we've been saying that this part time is like a good time to like train yourself on stuff and like do home and like self-improvement. And I was thinking about all the people who are protesting and like wanting to recall the governor and everything.
01:01:18
Speaker
And I was realizing these are the people who literally don't want to change a single thing. Like they're perfectly happy with their life as it is right now and they don't want to improve anything. And it's just like, man, like these are the people who are really protesting so hard to go everything to go back to normal. I'm like, man, like, I literally just don't understand that mentality of not wanting to improve yourself.
01:01:42
Speaker
I think it's, it's, uh, for a lot of the people protesting, it really doesn't have anything to do with that. It just comes down to, it's the same group of people that anytime the government tries to tell them what to do, uh, they resist it. So I'm sure they all cashed their $1,200 stimulus checks or spent that money. Um, but you know, either way, um, did you get yours yet? Of course. Direct deposit. Yeah. We haven't gotten one yet. So, wait, really? You get yours? I'm sent to you.
01:02:11
Speaker
I don't know. I don't know. I'm getting the payment status not available online and I don't know what the deal is because we haven't actually received a refund since I started my business because you don't receive a refund when you own a business. You pay your taxes at the end of the day. That being said, I get my VA disability check every month so that somebody has my direct deposit.
01:02:34
Speaker
But they also said it was based on your 2018 taxes unless you filed 2019. And one thing that we did was our accountant filed our 2019 taxes about a week and a half before these checks started coming out. So I think
01:02:49
Speaker
I think it just hasn't been processed yet because 2019 was probably marked as received. They have to analyze it before they can send us the check and they just don't have the people to stay on top of that. So they'll either send us a paper check later on or I know they have the direct deposit info, but I just don't think it's going to happen for a while because like I said, they've got to take a look at our taxes. So I'm not too worried about it. Still getting paid, but you know, whatever.
01:03:16
Speaker
You know, not to get too political, but I'm surprised that our president didn't just stop with putting his name in those checks. I'm not, I'm kind of surprised he didn't put like his big smiling photo on it. Like I was thinking, man, I wonder when he's going to start, like maybe he'll take George Washington off the $1 bill or something and put his face on it. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway. All right, man. Well, I think we should probably call it. I got more podcast editing and video editing today today. So.
01:03:45
Speaker
uh doing a oh you know before we go anything interesting on the apm this week well uh let's see i think we've got another crm arc podcast coming out on wednesday the dirt pod is coming out tomorrow if you're listening to this in real time on the 21st course that comes out every monday so check that out um the let's see are they still doing this um take a look at the archaeology podcast network twitter feed from
01:04:12
Speaker
I guess it's Monday the 13th to today. I think tomorrow is the last day. The Pictish Memes, Pictish Memes is a, I don't know, it's a Pictish Memes, it's a Twitter account. And our co-founder Tristan has been talking to them and we gave them access to our Twitter feed for a week. And they have been posting memes on our behalf.
01:04:39
Speaker
And, uh, they've been pretty good. Uh, honestly, some of them are a little deep and I, I probably don't understand them, which is fine, but, um, but some of them are pretty funny. So, Oh, I'm looking at that. I'll get it right now. Yeah. Take a look, take a look. So, um, yeah. And then, uh, let's see again, if you're listening to this in real time, Sierra Mark 188 on Wednesday, all about wearing headphones in the field and, and how the, uh, archeology in the UK has been handling the shutdown. Yeah. Um,
01:05:09
Speaker
And then, uh, this show will release on Saturday. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. How have we been talking about headphones for like, what, 10 years now? I mean, shouldn't that just not be a thing anymore?
01:05:22
Speaker
Dude, I'll tell you what, um, it shouldn't be a thing, but it always is a thing because people never have any clear policies around it. Like one of our hosts, they, they hadn't really, she said they hadn't really thought about having a headphone policy, um, for their company. And she never really thinks about it because they do a lot of excavation. And she said, you know, a lot of times they'll just have like a speaker or somebody will be playing music or something like that. And I was like, yeah, I mean, excavations, you got to kind of just play it by ear, no pun intended. But I said for field survey,
01:05:49
Speaker
I almost prefer headphones because I used the example of the project we were last on and I said three of us had headphones and the capability of listening to stuff and one person did not. And when that person is getting chatty and it's windy out you have to turn your head to hear what they're saying and when you turn your head to hear what they're saying you're not looking at the ground. Yeah so that's true. I would almost I would almost just rather somebody had headphones in and and was able to
01:06:15
Speaker
I was able to do that. That reminded me too, most of the time, in fact, all the time, I should say, I'll only wear one headphone, right? Just cause you need to have an ear out. That is one downside to these Bose frames because I cannot shut one ear off.
01:06:30
Speaker
I mean, they're both on all the time. But you can still hear a lot of stuff because you're open to the outside. So I'm not sure that it matters that much. I'm interested to use these in a fieldwork environment. And I haven't been able to do that yet, obviously. And God, someone might correct me, but I want to say because obviously Apple AirPods have this too, where it passes through
01:06:51
Speaker
It passes through ambient noise or to people talking. Yeah, that's the newer AirPods. Yeah, but the Samsung ones, they also amplify what people are saying, as far as I know. I might be wrong about that.
01:07:03
Speaker
Yeah. So, I mean, they probably do because Apple, like my current set of headphones will do that. Um, my AirPods, but the newer AirPods have what Apple calls transparency mode where it basically does just let in the outside sounds. And, uh, but the, the amplification thing it's actually, it's probably different the way Samsung does it because Apple has a different thing where it basically.
01:07:25
Speaker
It doesn't necessarily amplify. And this might be a different feature that I'm talking about, but they have a feature where you can basically take the, um, you basically turn your iPhone into a microphone. So, um, anything that's coming in through your iPhone microphone and the use case for that is somebody is sitting in the living room and they have their hard of hearing, but they don't have hearing aids so they can wear the AirPods and stick their phone near the TV. So they don't have to correct it.
01:07:50
Speaker
their phone is picking up that audio and bringing it to their AirPods, but you know what people are probably really using this for. They're just leaving the phone in a room where someone's talking about them and then listening to that conversation on their AirPods.
COVID-19 Observations and Safety Concerns
01:08:03
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Well, thankfully Samsung does it differently. Basically the earbuds basically amplify the noise. As far as I know, they amplify the noise. That way, supposedly, if you're outside and surveying next to someone, you don't have to necessarily lean in. They hear them. You just hear them. Yeah.
01:08:19
Speaker
Yeah, but can you imagine wind noise? Well, hopefully, Samsung's taking care of that, but then they say they take care of a lot of things and they don't.
01:08:28
Speaker
Right. Oh, one thing I did want to mention before we go out is that, um, let's see, last month was, you know, was my, um, episode zero field, field archeology adventures, but that wasn't like the real sort of episode that was just sort of like, you know, it just happened, you know? And so that's what I put up. But, um, see next week, this Wednesday at 8 a.m. will be my first real show where I, um, was walking around Ransburg.
01:08:54
Speaker
Nice. Yeah. It's not the greatest episode since I was still figuring out these first two episodes. I was still figuring out what I was doing and how I wanted to do it. But yeah, it's not that bad.
01:09:05
Speaker
Nice, nice. Yeah. Our, our very quick Ransburg segment will be on our next video next week as well. It's mostly the Toronto Pinnacles, but then, uh, basically we just filmed us driving through Ransburg and I'll probably just put some narration over that. We didn't even get out of the truck. So, uh, yeah, yeah, it was just, I felt bad about it because there were, there were a number of people in town, not a number of people, but there was like that one bar that was open and there was people inside and I was like,
01:09:31
Speaker
You know, with the virus and all that stuff, I'm just like, let's just stay in the truck. I don't want to freak these people out and get out and start walking around their town. So, um, so we just stayed in the truck for that one and kept on moving. Plus we were, um, you know, off a full day out of Toronto. So we're just like, let's go home. You know, it's interesting. I was wondering, you know, um, when like you were Rachel, go to the grocery store before we leave, do you wear a mask at all? Uh, yeah, yeah, we do now, but we haven't gone to the grocery store in weeks. So yeah. And then, you know, when I was doing it, I was going to do Rayleigh's, but I was going to have them deliver.
01:10:01
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, we weren't, we weren't using a mask the first, um, like in the latter part of March. And I think maybe even the first few days of April, because it really hadn't come out that you should yet. And, uh, uh, but I was in, I had to go to Lowe's on, um, Friday and, uh, yeah, for some stuff for my boat. Cause we need some, I needed some parts for it so we can get it. And, um,
01:10:25
Speaker
I wear my mask, a full mask in there. And there was probably about, there wasn't that many people in there, but probably half the people in there were wearing masks. And, uh, uh, my favorite where I saw at least two guys wearing like the full, um, like desert headscarf kind of thing, except not over their head. It was just over their face. And I was like, dude, you know, that's not actually keeping out or in any sort of virus, right? Like you can sneeze right through that and you can suck in virus through that. I just, yeah.
01:10:49
Speaker
Well, I think it's most alarming, at least for the mask that you get off Etsy. It's mostly just to keep you from affecting someone else.
01:10:57
Speaker
Yes, but they've also said that the aerosols that you can sneeze out of a mask, which is really the problem are still going through the air and penetrating the mask. So it's like, I guess if it makes you feel better, sure. But I don't know that it's actually doing anything. So, I mean, I, I mean, I, the one reason I bring that up is because I've been carrying my mask in my pocket just in case I have to go into someplace. But you know, if I'm just biking around, I usually, you know, don't bother. And more importantly, I definitely like make sure to zoom around, zoom away from anyone. Mm-hmm.
01:11:26
Speaker
Yeah we've walked around the lake here a couple times and I wore a mask the first time and then haven't the last few times and you know the paths are wide enough and stuff you can just give people a wide berth. Oh god this morning I was listening to someone at coffee bar they were talking they were chatting up the person who was manning the outside drive-thru station and they're saying they did a 10 they basically did 10 miles walking around that lake.
01:11:50
Speaker
Geez. Yeah. Yesterday. I'm like, wow. Cause I've walked around that lake before too. And that's, um, that's slightly less than a mile to go all the way around. So they, yeah, it's just under. Yeah. So I'm like, man, that's like, wow, you're really bored. Like you need to do something to, um, do something else to improve your life. Yeah. That's like 11 laps, which would probably take about two and a half hours. Yeah.
01:12:11
Speaker
Oh, more importantly, um, I'm not sure. Well, obviously you just said you haven't gone to like a restaurant lately, but, um, all most of the restaurants here in town have gotten like much more stringent. I'm not sure if you've noticed like, um, you're not going against, you can't go inside.
01:12:26
Speaker
Yeah. That's the thing. Like, um, uh, I went to my favorite Chinese restaurant the other day and was it, I went to the last, I went there two weeks ago and they basically had their fun. They had the dining room walled off, but you could still walk up to like the register register and like pick up your stuff. Whereas now they have moved the register all the way to the door and then there's only room there for like 1% of time. Oh geez. Yeah. But still doesn't people keep people from being stupid. Like, um, like, Oh my God. Like I was there and I was at the register.
01:12:55
Speaker
waiting for someone to come and like give me my order because they were super swamped and there was someone behind me and then someone comes up and like is trying to like literally like like right on the shoulder the person behind me and like trying to push their way in and this lady is getting freaked out the one right behind me because he's like I can't go in anymore there's like no more room and then this woman's like my god just go you know and it's just like it and this is it occurred to me as I was standing there this is the reason why this hasn't like gone away yet
01:13:24
Speaker
Yeah. Although the reason it's not going to go away when we lift all the restrictions. Yeah. Although I will say, though, that at least I'm not sure if you've been paying attention to the news reports. One last thing to close out on is that most of the projections say we've already hit the peak or past it. And I think was it Thursday or Friday? It was the first day where the new infections actually dropped in the state.
01:13:48
Speaker
Jeez, that's good. Although the deaths have gone up, the deaths went up, but the new infections went down, which is a good thing. Hopefully we can get back to field at some point. Still over half a million people infected that were tested and many more that have not been tested that were probably infected. And it remains to see what's going to happen to them. So, you know, there could still be a lot more people die from this and if they don't figure out a way to get them through it. Well, true, especially if all these protesters keep standing next to each other as they're like saying that there's no such thing.
01:14:17
Speaker
And you know, some of them have it. So, you know, like statistically, but then again, you know, I was thinking, I was telling a neighbor this yesterday once, I mean, not a good thing to end up on, but I'm like, man, we, it's like, is it any wonder whether we're like the country that burned, which is at the stake? I mean, how many people have like, you know, how many people are hashtagging fire Fauci now, even though without him, you know, we'd have, um, you know, we'd have our fearless leader, like, you know, leading us over the cliff.
01:14:46
Speaker
Yeah. If we had any other president then Fauci would be getting like a, you know, congressional medal of honor or whatever the civilian equivalent is at the end of this thing. So, Oh, and God, one last thing I didn't want to close out on since, um, since windows 10 just reminded me, I'm not sure if you've noticed, but, um, like I have been getting so many, like people are getting like these online scammers that are getting so much more desperate. Like I
Cybersecurity Awareness
01:15:10
Speaker
have been seeing some crazy good, um, crazy good, um, phishing emails.
01:15:15
Speaker
Like one yesterday, when was it yesterday or the day before? Like, um, pretended that they knew my email and then unless I gave them $2,000 in Bitcoin, that they were going to like spread all these photos of me all over the internet. I'm like, God, I'd rather have you do that than give you 2000 bucks. But a lot of people are having their, um, their Facebook hack. So just be like for everyone out there, just be like a lot more vigilant and don't, you know, don't,
01:15:42
Speaker
click on any email you don't know from. And more importantly, don't just click on an email just because it looks like it's legit. Double check, you know, click the header at the top and make sure that the sender is the real sender and not some fake email address because that's, you know, a lot of people count on you not checking the header.
01:15:59
Speaker
Right. Yeah. Well, that is a, that is a good point to end on. And you're totally right. Every time I see a weird email, I look at where's the sending address coming from or on my Apple. I don't know how you do it on a, um, on a windows machine, but on, on Apple iOS, not iOS, but OS, if I just hover over the, uh, send to address or some link in the email, it'll usually, you know, it says, it looks like it's coming from best buy, but it's actually going to click on my ads.com. And, uh, you know, so just check those things.
01:16:29
Speaker
Yeah. So, hey, I'll just mention
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01:16:31
Speaker
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01:16:56
Speaker
Facebook and on the man the hat on Twitch Excellent. So all right. Well, thanks everybody Richard
01:17:11
Speaker
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01:17:40
Speaker
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Speaker
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