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Speaker 1: We have a lot to tech, a lot of tech

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Speaker 1: to get to today on this Thursday, Mark Saltzman is

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Speaker 1: our tech guru, and we're also going to tackle a

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Speaker 1: story that is near and dear to your heart. Gary,

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Speaker 1: you are not a fan of people using the phone

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Speaker 1: in the bathroom?

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Speaker 2: Disgusting. Gross. That's where we start tech talk. The machines

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Speaker 2: are getting smarter. This is tech Talk brought to you

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Speaker 2: by Skynet.

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Speaker 3: I mean they call it doom scrolling right when you

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Speaker 3: just sit there and endlessly go down the whole of

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Speaker 3: social media or some other thing that grabs your attention.

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Speaker 2: They should more appropriately call it poop scrolling.

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Speaker 1: A recent study of kolonoscopy patients reveal that most used

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Speaker 1: their phones on the toilet at least once a week.

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Speaker 1: That's low, and that those phone on the toilet users

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Speaker 1: showed a forty six percent increased risk for hemorrhoids. People,

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Speaker 1: why is that?

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Speaker 2: Mark?

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Speaker 1: What causes a camart? Like? And you doctor what I was.

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Speaker 4: Just going to say, Doctor Saltzman and the yeah, what pause.

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Speaker 1: Is a hemorrhoid that could be connected to phone use such?

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Speaker 4: Well, it's simply because and my you know, funny, my

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Speaker 4: doctor has no he knows my job. I'm obviously, I'm

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Speaker 4: a technology columnist. For years, he's been saying, I hope

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Speaker 4: you've been writing about why you shouldn't be sitting on

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Speaker 4: the toilet with your phone and has less to do

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Speaker 4: with fecal matter getting on your iPhone or android phone

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Speaker 4: screen and more to do with hemorrhoids, because we get

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Speaker 4: so engaged in our content, whether we're playing a little

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Speaker 4: puzzle game or your doom scrolling on social media, and

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Speaker 4: we are sitting on the throne way longer than we

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Speaker 4: should be, even let's keep this clean here, folks mid

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Speaker 4: to poop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, we are.

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Speaker 4: You like you're You're sitting there squatting on your throne,

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Speaker 4: and you are for minutes, many many many minutes, and

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Speaker 4: it should not take that long, and as a result awful.

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Speaker 4: As a result, this can result in hemorrhoids, which I

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Speaker 4: can't even bring it to myself to explain on the

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Speaker 4: air what it is. But I'm sure most of your

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Speaker 4: listeners know what hemorrhoids are.

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Speaker 1: See, I think guys use the bathroom for escape a

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Speaker 1: lot of the time.

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Speaker 3: We hold on second moms do the exact same thing.

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Speaker 3: I specificly not on the toilet.

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Speaker 1: They're not on the They're not on They say they're

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Speaker 1: on the toilet, but they're not. Dudes, they are actually

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Speaker 1: legitimately on the toilet.

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Speaker 4: Or they're they're you know it's number one and not

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Speaker 4: number two, which you know.

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Speaker 1: They're just sitting on the toilet. Site they're sitting.

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Speaker 2: It's still not great. You know you're not sitting right.

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Speaker 4: So this is something that I've been hearing about for

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Speaker 4: a while, even again for my own physician, like begging

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Speaker 4: me almost to warn people to not be on your

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Speaker 4: phones for us or get off the pot.

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Speaker 1: Guys.

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Speaker 4: It's a time literally traditionally right, and again not to

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Speaker 4: mention that you can know there's fecal matter that can

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Speaker 4: get on your hands even when you think you're wiping

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Speaker 4: properly and then transferred to your phone screen. Then you

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Speaker 4: leave the bathroom and there you've got. Now you're spreading

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Speaker 4: it around.

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Speaker 2: I got in.

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Speaker 1: Trouble for underwear earlier. I would just like to say

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Speaker 1: that it was in trouble, kind of got in trouble.

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Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna ask.

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Speaker 4: I want to ask if your listeners have already enjoyed

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Speaker 4: this banter, then I'll have to take it offline and

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Speaker 4: find out what I miss.

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Speaker 1: Mark, do you have lucky underwear?

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Speaker 2: I don't have lucky underwear.

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Speaker 4: I don't have a special pair of boxes or anything

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Speaker 4: or briefs that I do you when I want to

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Speaker 4: get lucky or.

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Speaker 1: Jerry's first question too. No, like superstitious underwear, you know,

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Speaker 1: like when you want.

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Speaker 2: Your I'm really not super sick.

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Speaker 4: Even though the Blue Jays are heading to the World

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Speaker 4: Series for the first time in thirty two years, I'm

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Speaker 4: not going to be wearing a pair of special.

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Speaker 2: Undies for that.

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Speaker 1: Are you a Blue Jays fan?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: I'm not a huge sports guy, but I do love

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Speaker 4: any playoff sports. I love the energy that's amped up,

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Speaker 4: whether it's football or basketball, baseball.

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Speaker 1: Last question for me, do you have any whimsical underwear?

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Speaker 4: Uh? Somebody purchased me Simpsons underwear ones, but I don't

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Speaker 4: wear it because it's not very comfortable.

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Speaker 1: I see.

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Speaker 2: That's probably as whimsical as it gets.

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Speaker 1: It's like you're more of a solid or a plaid guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm no, it's like really basic black or gray.

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Speaker 4: It's really not sexy or exciting. It's very purpose, purpose spilt.

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Speaker 1: Sure, don't you're the Steve jobs of underwear.

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Speaker 2: Don't downplay the plane. Sometimes playing can be just what

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Speaker 2: you need. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And then my wife maybe she was trying to hint

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Speaker 4: at something, but when we got married and she was

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Speaker 4: doing my laundry, she was like, can I ask you

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Speaker 4: why do guys like to wear.

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Speaker 2: White, like tidy.

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Speaker 4: Whities or even boxers, Like, it's not a good idea.

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Speaker 3: Think that just for children maybe, But listen, Mark, I

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Speaker 3: think when we were kids, that was all that was

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Speaker 2: That's all there was. Yeah, yeah, we're dating ourselves exactly.

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Speaker 1: White, tidy white. He buys them in bulk from Lake Arrowhead.

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Speaker 2: Right. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't never thought we were going to get to

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Speaker 4: this kind of stuff on tech Talk, but there you go.

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Speaker 3: Well, you also have a great article. National Post dot

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Speaker 3: com is where other people can check it out. But

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Speaker 3: we've talked about saving you. We talk a lot about

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Speaker 3: smart home stuff that's out there, and one of the

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Speaker 3: things that I found most interesting, just because I've been

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Speaker 3: using a lot of tools lately, is the smarter battery

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Speaker 3: system for power tools and talk about that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think all the big players are doing it,

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Speaker 4: but I focused on works wo r x's it's a

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Speaker 4: tool company that has like over one hundred different kinds

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Speaker 4: of power tools, and they have this power share battery system.

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Speaker 4: So the idea is that you can buy multiple tools,

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Speaker 4: but you just use the same batteries, which saves you

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Speaker 4: money over time. Again, I think other companies like Milwaukee,

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Speaker 4: I think is I can use the same battery, but

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Speaker 4: these are stackable. So for example, if you have like

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Speaker 4: a leaf blower, it may be just a regular twenty

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Speaker 4: volt works battery snapped into the back, but if you

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Speaker 4: need more power, let's say for a chainsaw, then you

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Speaker 4: it's like a lawnmower. So it I liked the modularity

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Speaker 4: of it. So that was one of the products that

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Speaker 4: I wrote about, which was interchangeable batteries. But again I

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Speaker 4: think all the big players do that thought that was

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Speaker 4: kind of cool. I also looked at I would call

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Speaker 4: it like the granddaddy of all robot vack and mops.

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Speaker 4: This is like a fifteen hundred dollars device f from Ecovas,

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Speaker 4: which is a company that has other robots, but they

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Speaker 4: even have window washing robots that we may have talked

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Speaker 3: The path that omni cyclone that because that's a great

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Speaker 3: that's a great name for a robot.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say it even sounds very high to

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Speaker 4: as the X eleven omni cyclone.

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Speaker 4: So it actually washes it's mop with hot water when

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Speaker 4: it goes back to the base, and it also empties

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Speaker 4: the dust and pet hair and debris into a bagless system.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people don't know that when you buy.

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Speaker 4: These robots that have a base station where it goes

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Speaker 4: back and it empties the dust into a larger reservoir,

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Speaker 4: you have to buy these bags that you know, you

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Speaker 4: can buy them inexpensively on places like Timu or Sheen

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Speaker 4: or whatever. But a lot of people don't know that

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Speaker 4: they have to buy something on an ongoing basis with

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Speaker 4: that robot robot vack. But I like that the Ecovas

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Speaker 4: has a bag list system, so it just goes into

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Speaker 4: a thing that you will dump into your trash can

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Speaker 4: and then wash out every two months. But it also

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Speaker 4: contains the dirty water that you'll want it dump out

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Speaker 4: as well. So it's probably the smartest of all robot

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Speaker 4: backs that I've ever reviewed. And it's also ideal for

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Speaker 4: larger homes because it has a four and a half

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Speaker 2: That's a long battery for a robot.

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Speaker 3: VACKS eleven omni cyclone. Yeah, that sounds very cool.

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Speaker 4: You have to say, I like that like a Hollywood

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Speaker 4: trailer voice.

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Speaker 2: Got awesome.

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Speaker 3: Mark, thank you for your patience with us. We appreciate this.

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Speaker 2: You got it. We'll talk soon, all right, Mark Saltsman.

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