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Speaker 1: It's time for tech Talk. Elm smarter.

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Speaker 2: This is tech Talk rot to you by Skynet.

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Speaker 1: Mark Slaltzman joins us on Thursdays. We talked about the

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Speaker 1: world of technology and as we get close to the

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Speaker 1: end of the year, a lot of our streaming services

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Speaker 1: will tell us the absolute worst music that we have

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Speaker 1: streamed over the course of the last year. And Spotify

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Speaker 1: is out with its new features the twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: wrapped Listener Recap that it tells you how much time

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Speaker 1: you spend listening to Benson Boone.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. It could be cringey when you look back,

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Speaker 2: but your musical taste shouldn't have changed that much within

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Speaker 2: a year. I mean, if it did, then you're, you know,

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Speaker 2: very erratic. But yeah, you know, and it's funny. There's

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Speaker 2: been a couple of new things. Bad Buddy did eke

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Speaker 2: out Taylor Swift worldwide at the number one almost twenty

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Speaker 2: billion streams billion with a B in the US though, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Taylor is still number one, but yeah, there's a you know,

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Speaker 2: you learn things about yourself. That's obviously Spotify's stats. Joe

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Speaker 2: Rogan had the number one podcast of course. Uh top

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Speaker 2: song was Bruno Mars and Lady Gagas died with a smile,

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Speaker 2: So some of that stuff's not too surprising. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: your own stats, you're like, wow, I listened to a

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Speaker 2: lot of Bob Seeger that I'm younger than that as

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Speaker 2: what you might think. And now, funny enough, Spotify has

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Speaker 2: this musical age that they added this year or no, yeah,

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Speaker 2: so it will tell you based on your listening habits

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Speaker 2: and cross reference with the real age of other people

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Speaker 2: who listen to that song, what is your musical age?

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Speaker 2: So people are reacting very finally on TikTok and on Instagram.

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Speaker 2: When they're either middle age but they have a listening

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Speaker 2: age of twenty, they're very proud to share that, but

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Speaker 2: when it's the other way around, they're not.

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Speaker 3: So, you know, it's funny. I did my wrap this

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Speaker 3: morning and it said my listening age was twenty five,

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Speaker 3: and then it said share to your story and I

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Speaker 3: was like, how sad would that be if I did that?

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Speaker 2: That was my first.

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Speaker 3: Thought, Like, how sad if you're like forty five and

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Speaker 3: you're sharing that you're listening ages twenty five? Like look,

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Speaker 3: how young I am? Tragic strategic.

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Speaker 2: It was like a twenty five year old who was

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Speaker 2: almost in tears because their listening age was sixty seven

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Speaker 2: might explain my Bob Seeker thing for me too, But.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Bob Seger is timeless.

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Speaker 2: I'm partial tim now, I've got very eclectic taste. I

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Speaker 2: listened to EDM, I listened to pop, I listened to classical.

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Speaker 2: The number one artist I stream this year is funny

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Speaker 2: because rock is not popular anymore, but I am a

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Speaker 2: closet metal head is a band called Falling in Reverse.

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Speaker 2: Oh hell yeah, yeah, so I'm a fan of these guys,

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Speaker 2: and that was my number one for my Spotify Rapped

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Speaker 2: but yeah not. I mean, they're popular in the genre,

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Speaker 2: but rock is about to make a big comeback, I think,

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Speaker 2: mark my words. So yeah, so a lot of fun

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Speaker 2: and they also add Spotify added a new multiplayer game.

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Speaker 2: So there's always been a solo Spotify Rap trivia game

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Speaker 2: based on your own listening habits, but for the first time,

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Speaker 2: you and nine others can play the Spotify Rapped Party,

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Speaker 2: as it's called, where you compete with again ten people

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Speaker 2: in total, with questions based on your listening habits. It's

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Speaker 2: a multiplayer game through the app only, not through the website.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Spotify is really gamifying this end of year thing.

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Speaker 2: I think they're really trying to outdo YouTube. That also

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Speaker 2: has you know your your your stats from the year,

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Speaker 2: so a lot of fun. Yeah, they have another one

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Speaker 2: called Top Artists Sprint Well. It shows you how quickly

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Speaker 2: your favorite artists, like when did you start streaming them?

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Speaker 2: And then if you like were totally obsessed with like

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Speaker 2: an earworm song, you know, it'll maybe win your Top

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Speaker 2: Artists Sprint on within your own list. So it's fun

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Speaker 2: that little recap. So yeah, just go into the Spotify

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Speaker 2: app if you're listening to this and you want to

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Speaker 2: know what your wrapped looks like, and you'll find the

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Speaker 2: word wrapped. You could just tap that.

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Speaker 3: I'm totally with you and rock making a comeback because

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Speaker 3: it has not been very mainstream for a while, and

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Speaker 3: it's kind of like doing that cool grassroots basement type,

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Speaker 3: small band, small venue resurgence, which means we're on tap

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Speaker 3: for something really good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, there are sorry, there are festivals as well, obviously, right,

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Speaker 2: and Ozzie's passing as sad and tragic as that was,

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Speaker 2: I mean, there were a lot of hard rock bands

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Speaker 2: playing at his tribute, you know, and of course Metallica

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Speaker 2: is timeless and all that, but I like these these

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Speaker 2: these newer bands, even though bands like Falling in Reverse

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Speaker 2: are not new but new to many. They're also doing

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Speaker 2: collapse with famous people like Jelly Roll and stuff, so

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Speaker 2: they're gaining new audiences, which is cool. Yeah. And if

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Speaker 2: speaking of smartphones, if you are trying to access your

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Speaker 2: Spotify unwrapped, you may have a much larger device in

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Speaker 2: your hands next year at this time. My cheesy segue to.

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Speaker 1: The news, Yeah, I'm I'm glad we're bringing this up

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Speaker 1: because I see this as one of those offshoots of

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Speaker 1: technology where yes, it's possible that we can do this,

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Speaker 1: but do we really need it or should we? Should

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Speaker 1: we really do it? The Galaxy Z trifold phone.

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Speaker 2: Right, so we've seen this design overseas with brands like Huawei,

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Speaker 2: which is banned in the US. But this is a

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Speaker 2: what looks like a smartphone at first glance, but then

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Speaker 2: you pull it apart to become a tablet and not

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Speaker 2: just a dual fold that they have now with a

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Speaker 2: Z fold as it's called, but a trifold, as the

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Speaker 2: name suggests, has three screens. Well, it's really one screen

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Speaker 2: that's foldable and then you unfold it twice, kind of

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Speaker 2: like you know, like a front cover, and then you

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Speaker 2: pull back the back cover if you will, as if

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Speaker 2: you were holding a book, and it does turn into

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Speaker 2: a ten inch tablet. It's the largest screen ever on

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Speaker 2: a Samsung device. The idea is that you don't need

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Speaker 2: both a phone and a tablet when you've got two

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Speaker 2: in one and allegedly super thin. I haven't seen it yet.

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Speaker 2: I will at the Consumer Electronics Show in a month

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Speaker 2: a month from today, I'll be going, yeah, but it's

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Speaker 2: like under four millimeters thin, and then yeah, it unfolds

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Speaker 2: twice to become a ten inch tablet. But I hear

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Speaker 2: what you're saying. Just because they can't do it doesn't

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Speaker 2: mean they should. Because Samsung has had issues in the

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Speaker 2: past with foldable devices with the screen all that wear

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Speaker 2: and tear, but they do rigorously test it. I can

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Speaker 2: tell you I've been to their head offices in Seoul,

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Speaker 2: South Korea, and they're really trying to turn that you know,

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Speaker 2: negative press around and really try to deliver something that

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Speaker 2: can withstand you know, five or eight years of folding

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Speaker 2: by simulating that kind of that you know, abuse on

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Speaker 2: the phone so yeah, I mean it looks cool. The

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Speaker 2: social media has it's very polarized. Some are saying, you know,

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Speaker 2: been there, done that, this is not new. They're copying

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Speaker 2: the Chinese company companies that are doing this, and then

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Speaker 2: others are like, sign me up, I want it. You know,

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Speaker 2: I'm sold. Whereas you know, here's my money. But speaking

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Speaker 2: of which it will be anywhere. It could be up

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Speaker 2: to three thousand dollars for this phone is still yeah,

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Speaker 2: and the listeners saying, but twenty five hundred and three grand,

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Speaker 2: which is a lot, so we will see. But yeah, well,

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Speaker 2: the press here on this side of the pond, we're

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Speaker 2: going to get our hands on this. Come uh uh

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Speaker 2: January at the big consumer electronics show in sin City,

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Speaker 2: which is yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's close. You should stop buying.

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Speaker 2: Say hi, yeah, I just got back from Vegas last night.

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Speaker 2: Was there for an Amazon?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Amazon thing?

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Speaker 3: A lot of hookers.

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Speaker 2: No, not at this convention. It's eighty thousand nerds.

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Speaker 1: I mean in Vegas generally, yes, but I should know,

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Speaker 1: the only.

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Speaker 2: Protection these guys are wearing. These guys, the only protection

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Speaker 2: these guys had, our pocket protectors.

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Speaker 3: Wait to take out of it.

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Speaker 1: Mark Saltzman, thank you.

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Speaker 2: As always, nerds needs, they need love to thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: That's why, that's why we have a chat about that.

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