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Speaker 1: CES is upon us. What can we expect? We turned

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Speaker 1: to Mark Saltzman Tech Talk.

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Speaker 2: The machines are getting smarter.

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Speaker 3: This is tech Talk, brought to you by sky Netta.

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Speaker 2: Mark Saltzman joins us.

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Speaker 4: So we talked with Mark Thursdays to talk about the

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Speaker 4: technology and the CES Consumer Electronics Show.

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Speaker 3: What is going on, Mark, Well, it's still a couple

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Speaker 3: of weeks away. This is the annual Tech Palooza, if

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Speaker 3: you will, in Las Vegas, where first week of January,

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Speaker 3: about one hundred and eighty thousand nerds like yours truly

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Speaker 3: descends onto Sin City to see the latest tech that's

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Speaker 3: going to come out that year and following years, because

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Speaker 3: sometimes it does take a few more years.

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Speaker 2: We just see some prototypes if that.

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Speaker 3: And so just prepping, every tech journalist has been on

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Speaker 3: conference calls all day signing a bunch of NDA's embargoes

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Speaker 3: about what we're going to see.

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Speaker 2: Visit the hookers.

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Speaker 1: Oh you mean the technology, I.

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Speaker 2: Say, right, so, yeah, you could see.

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Speaker 3: It's funny because the porn show used to be at

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Speaker 3: the same time as CEES.

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Speaker 2: I forgot what it's called, but yeah, you.

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Speaker 3: Can always tell who's there for which convention, and it's

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Speaker 3: pretty obvious, right.

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Speaker 1: I think there's probably a little bit of come on.

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Speaker 3: Right, but yeah, so yeah, so we're you know, we're

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Speaker 3: expecting again. I'm going to be purposely vague here AI

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Speaker 3: being still the biggest thing since the Internet. But because

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Speaker 3: it's a consumer electronics show, the tech part, the hardware,

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Speaker 3: it's going to be more AI infused TVs and laptops

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Speaker 3: and headphones and you know, tablets. It's going to be

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Speaker 3: AI everything, but really mixed with the hardware. And that's

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Speaker 3: the story, I guess, and it's not that unusual from

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Speaker 3: last year.

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Speaker 2: And then there's also a big automotive element too.

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Speaker 3: We see the latest in self driving cars that you know,

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Speaker 3: autonomous vehicles that are at cees. Sometimes concept for flying cars,

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Speaker 3: which obviously we're nowhere near seeing in the skies. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: jet packs and all this fun stuff. It's a great

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Speaker 3: show to cover. It's exhausting. It's like forty five football fields.

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Speaker 2: We will chat.

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Speaker 3: I think it's the eighth on a Thursday, So I

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Speaker 3: will chat with you if you'll have me, as we

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Speaker 3: do usually every Thursday from Vegas, and I can give

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Speaker 3: you a lot, you know, a big bit of a

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Speaker 3: deeper dive on really, what was the big deal?

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Speaker 4: National Post is where you put together a good list

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Speaker 4: of some of the gadgets that are obviously still available

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Speaker 4: for Christmas and holiday shopping. Let me start with I

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Speaker 4: didn't realize that intent my kids are out of their age.

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Speaker 4: This is out of the age group for them. But

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Speaker 4: the Nintendo Switch costs six hundred bucks.

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Speaker 3: That's Canadian pricing. Oh, National Post is it's four ninety

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Speaker 3: nine in the States. Oh okay, good, and that's with

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Speaker 3: a game that's like a bundle. Okay, So yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Sticker Shock with the price. Hey listen, I'm a Canadian

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Speaker 3: who rights for mostly American magazines and newspapers, so I

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Speaker 3: don't mind the dollar exchange.

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Speaker 2: That benefits little old me.

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Speaker 1: So who's the Canadian Mark Saltzman?

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Speaker 2: Well, I could talk with a little bit more boots,

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Speaker 2: and I just mean, like.

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Speaker 1: Is there a Mark Saltzman in Canada that writes for

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Speaker 1: Canadian publications?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Mark Saltzman, that's me. Oh so you do both?

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Speaker 1: You do both?

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Speaker 2: That's me, Yes, I do both.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that.

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Speaker 3: I know it's ironic that I write for USA Today

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Speaker 3: and I'm a Canadian. My best Games of the Year

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Speaker 3: articles coming out this uh today actually speaking of holiday

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Speaker 3: gift ideas. But yeah, no, I've been fortunate too.

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Speaker 1: Are you worried that you're going to get a call

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Speaker 1: from the President and he's going to say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we need an American tech guy.

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Speaker 2: That's true, that's true. That's true.

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Speaker 3: There's no shortage of amazing tech journalists. You have on

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Speaker 3: your station, the very fine Rich DeMuro. Oh yeah, Rich

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Speaker 3: is great. Yeah, he's awesome. He's on KTLA as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I see him. I see him at all the

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Speaker 2: tech events.

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Speaker 1: He seems like a nice guy.

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Speaker 3: He really, you know, he genuinely is a really nice guy.

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Speaker 3: What you see is what you get.

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Speaker 1: Who's a monster? Is there a monster in the tech world?

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Speaker 2: No, I can't say there is. There's some introverts.

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Speaker 3: Again I'm playing up the stereotype, but there are some

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Speaker 3: Rich is not like that. He's very personable. Most people

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Speaker 3: get We all get along. There's enough work for all

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Speaker 3: of us. It's not cutthroat or anything like that. There's

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Speaker 3: social media influencer side. Some are more pure you know reporters.

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Speaker 3: Some do like broadcast only TV radio, what have you.

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Speaker 3: So it's all good. Yeah, Rich is on KFI and

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Speaker 3: I'm on the sister station, the Patriot, and other stations

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Speaker 3: we were often guests on each other's shows too.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, so look national posts. Of course.

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Speaker 3: I called out Nintendo Switch hottest game system. Of course,

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Speaker 3: not just for kids. I know you said, Gary little

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Speaker 3: out of the age of your kids, but there are

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Speaker 3: adults that play this as well. There are some emirated games.

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Speaker 3: In fact, yeah, a kid can't buy that unless they Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Around it, but yeah, I threw in a laptop that

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Speaker 3: has thirty two hours of battery life. I thought that

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Speaker 3: Thirty two hours AirPods, of course, that was a big

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Speaker 2: More ideal for iPhone users.

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Speaker 3: It will work with Android, but you won't get all

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Speaker 3: the bells and whistles like all this series support.

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Speaker 2: In the real time language translation.

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Speaker 4: We talk about the stand by Me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is a cool TV. I'm always looking

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Speaker 3: for something a bit unique. So LG is best known

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Speaker 2: One is it's a smaller TV.

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Speaker 3: It's a touchscreen twenty seven inch TV on a stand that.

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Speaker 2: You can wheel around your home.

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Speaker 3: So you're barbecuing, you're out on your porch and you're grilling,

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Speaker 3: And then you can actually tilt the TV between vertical

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Speaker 3: you're making dinner in the kitchen, that's sounds dangerous.

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Speaker 2: Or if you want to follow along with.

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Speaker 3: So that's kind of neat. That's called the LG stand

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Speaker 3: by me too. It's about eight ninety nine.

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Speaker 2: I want to say to me, that would replace.

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Speaker 4: I'll take my MacBook into a different room with me

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Speaker 4: if I want to continue watching TV. I can you

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Speaker 4: know my cable company.

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Speaker 2: I can wheel it. You can just wheel it in.

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Speaker 4: Good because carrying the MacBook was really difficult for me.

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Speaker 2: There you go. I'm not judging. Are some people where

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Speaker 2: it would be uncomfortable?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's no shortage of great gadgets.

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Speaker 3: I picked some for as low as twenty five bucks,

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Speaker 3: like one of those coffee mugs that heat up if.

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Speaker 2: You work from home and you want something like that.

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Speaker 3: All the way up to that TV was probably the

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Speaker 3: most expensive in my article some smart displays.

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Speaker 2: If you want to read it, just google my name.

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Speaker 3: Mark Saltsman, Mark with a C, Saltsman with the Z

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Speaker 3: and just type give the gift of gadgets and you'll

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Speaker 3: see the list there.

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Speaker 1: Mark, Thank you so much y'all do Christmas up there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we do.

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Speaker 1: Well, you have a merry Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Shannon, Thank to you. And box out

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Speaker 3: your snow. Without your snow, it's not the same. Oh good,

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Speaker 3: nice shout out for Boxing Day.

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Speaker 2: Welcome. What is that? What's going to.

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Speaker 4: Denver's eighty four degrees today?

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Speaker 1: Mark that he was making a Jaronish like, we don't

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Speaker 1: have snow. I know there is snow in other parts

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Speaker 1: Not real snow though. Yeah, it's like Child's Place snow.

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Speaker 3: Well, if we're going to chat next week, I'll talk

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Speaker 3: to your producers.

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Speaker 2: But always a pleasure guy with Christmas, I think. But

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Speaker 2: I see what's happen on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, sounds good.

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Speaker 2: Best Merry Christmas, Mark, you two