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Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with tech stuff from housetk

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, they're in Welcome to tex Staff. I'm

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Scripland. And if you listen to the previous episode,

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Speaker 1: you heard Josh Bark join me to talk about digital immortality.

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Speaker 1: Our conversation became epic, and so now I bring to

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Speaker 1: you part two of digital immortality, and let's rejoin the

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Speaker 1: conversation between myself and Josh Clark. The bigger question, and

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Speaker 1: this is something that like gets left out of all

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Speaker 1: of this stuff, is if you say you could conceivably

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Speaker 1: create a really a great simulation of an individual person's brain,

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Speaker 1: and it started making connections and it became a better

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Speaker 1: version of the organic brain, that's a separate thing. How

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Speaker 1: is it connected to the organic brain so that you

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Speaker 1: don't just have the experience of the organic brain and

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Speaker 1: the experience of the AI brain, right, How are they

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Speaker 1: connected to that they're sharing experience because without that connection,

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Speaker 1: without that shared experience, you have, for all intents and purposes,

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Speaker 1: two separate individuals. It's bringing them together so that we

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Speaker 1: really are translated into a digital version of ourselves. That

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Speaker 1: that is this this step that guys like curse while

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Speaker 1: and everybody else is talking about this just completely walk past. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the the I mean, if you nailed them down and said,

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Speaker 1: can you explain this? I think the explaination would get

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Speaker 1: would be kind of a non explanation, which is that

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Speaker 1: at the time you reach the sophistication, the technological sophistication

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Speaker 1: capable of simulating a brain to the extent that it

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Speaker 1: would be useful in this way, we would have a

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Speaker 1: brain computer interface that would allow for the bidirect sational communication.

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Speaker 1: I realized that you do not curse on this show.

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Speaker 1: We don't curse on my show either. Yes, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: what they call Strickland magical thinking, I would argue. And

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Speaker 1: I realized, I certainly can't go so far as to

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't go so far as to call it magical

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Speaker 1: thinking in the sense that we have brain computer interfaces now,

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Speaker 1: they're just very primitive. So the question is, could we

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Speaker 1: get to a level of sophistication where it was where

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Speaker 1: we shared consciousness, that's what we're talking about here, And

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Speaker 1: and I realized that it would it would be a

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Speaker 1: disadvantage of humanity to nail down the futurists and be like, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: don't you dare make a prediction unless you can exactly

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Speaker 1: lay out how it's going to happen. That's not what

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Speaker 1: they do. So I don't necessarily have a problem with futurists.

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Speaker 1: I have a problem with the people who write about

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Speaker 1: what futurists are saying, as if it's going to happen regardless,

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Speaker 1: because there's there here's one. This drives me crazy. It

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Speaker 1: was a kurtswild prediction, just a random stuff. Like everything

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Speaker 1: that guy says gets pressed right and understandably. So it's

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Speaker 1: an interesting dude, and he has interesting thoughts and interesting visions.

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Speaker 1: But he said recently that um by humans will be cyborgs.

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Speaker 1: Our brains will be jacked into the Internet, will be

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Speaker 1: able to say, we want to think about Wikipedia page,

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Speaker 1: we will be there. It will be in our minds

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Speaker 1: that Wikipedia page. We will have that level of brain

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Speaker 1: computer interface that we are the sum total of human knowledge. Yes, well,

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Speaker 1: somebody did try to nail him down, or he he

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Speaker 1: volunteered it in this talk, whatever it was. I just

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Speaker 1: That that's how it will happen. It's like, well, that

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Speaker 1: if you say that something's gonna happen fifteen years out,

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Speaker 1: just just saying well, DNA nanobots, that's how Like that's

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Speaker 1: before you make definitive statements and predictions, Like neuroscientists will

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Speaker 1: often say things that you know, the physicists may say

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Speaker 1: sort of arrogant prediction on Moore's law. It has as

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Speaker 1: But they have been saying that for a very long time.

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Speaker 1: There's also something where you might you might think I

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Speaker 1: want the ability for this person's final memory of me

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Speaker 1: to be this thing because they mean they mean whatever

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Speaker 1: to me, and I want them to be aware of that.

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Speaker 1: And I like to think of it more on the

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Speaker 1: sweet side than the nasty side, but obviously it would

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Speaker 1: apply to both, and the idea being that, well, I

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Speaker 1: can't guarantee that I won't get hit by a bus tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: and so I want the ability for this thought I'm having, this,

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Speaker 1: this expression to be sent to this person in that event.

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Speaker 1: I have no problem with the death switch service. My

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Speaker 1: problem is the idea of becoming immortal. Digital immortality is

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Speaker 1: a little pathetic and desperate. If you ask me, like,

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Speaker 1: just the whole concept can't die, I can't possibly die.

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Speaker 1: Don't let me die, Okay, so that's part one of it.

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Speaker 1: But then a dumb down, watered down version of it

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Speaker 1: me is is beyond egotistical, because if you think about it,

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Speaker 1: our concept of immortality now strickland is what you leave

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Speaker 1: behind in the form of your work and your memories,

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Speaker 1: and you leave yourself to be judged and appreciated, hated,

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Speaker 1: whatever by the people who who come after you. By

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Speaker 1: the people you've touched, have have who keep you alive

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Speaker 1: with their thoughts. That's immortality. Now it's not. It's up

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Speaker 1: to the people who are left to stay alive to

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Speaker 1: decide how they think of you, or whether they even

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Speaker 1: want to think of you. With this AI version of yourself,

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Speaker 1: you're just insinuating yourself in their lives beyond your own

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Speaker 1: physical death in a way that you're not even getting

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Speaker 1: any sort of satisfaction. Have I ever told you what

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Speaker 1: my plan is after I die? Okay, so this is

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Speaker 1: going to give you a look into my psyche and

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Speaker 1: explain exactly why this kind of service is perfect for me.

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Speaker 1: I've told my wife this. I didn't say this is

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Speaker 1: my plan for after when you die. I got that

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Speaker 1: plan to my plan for when I die. Uh, And

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Speaker 1: I I'm not being genuine when I say this. This

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Speaker 1: was something I told my wife and just but I said,

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Speaker 1: what I want to have happened is I want to

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Speaker 1: be cremated, and then I want us to have part

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Speaker 1: of my part of the stuff I leave behind is

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Speaker 1: going to be a certain amount of money to hire

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Speaker 1: somebody who, for the rest of my wife's life takes

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Speaker 1: the urn of ashes that has me in it hides

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Speaker 1: it somewhere in the house, and she cannot go to

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Speaker 1: bed until after she finds me, because I want to

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Speaker 1: irritate her as much in death as I have in life.

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Speaker 1: And she looked at me, She's like, the scary thing

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Speaker 1: is I could totally see you doing I kind of

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Speaker 1: can't too. Now. Honestly, I would never do that. I

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Speaker 1: plan on donating my body to science. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: supposedly you have to make a note if this kind

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Speaker 1: of thing bothers you that you don't want, um, say,

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Speaker 1: like a rhino plastic practice to be carried down on

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Speaker 1: your I don't care. I don't care. You know whatever,

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Speaker 1: Whatever helps people in the long run. Whether whether that

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Speaker 1: help is is whether you judge it as being superficial,

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Speaker 1: whether you judge it as being really meaningful. Ultimately, my

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Speaker 1: goal is I want I want to I want to

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Speaker 1: leave the world better than it was when I came in.

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Speaker 1: That's that's how my wife approaches that too. She wants

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Speaker 1: to leave her body to science, and I'm like, plastic

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Speaker 1: She's like, I don't, It's fine, Like if I'm leaving

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Speaker 1: it to science, Well, the way I figure, what if

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Speaker 1: there's someone who threw uh, you know, either an inherited

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Speaker 1: defect or yeah, yeah whatever, Yeah they could, they could, truly,

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Speaker 1: their lives could be transformed in that I cannot even conceive, up,

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Speaker 1: I know what you mean. Or there's, of course there's

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Speaker 1: that option. I feel like like put down the dermatologists, like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you saved lives, and she's like, yes, through skin cancer,

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Speaker 1: because skin cancer. I didn't think of it well, Or

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Speaker 1: what about the scenario there's a housewife in Beverly Hills

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Speaker 1: and her nose is just a little too big, you know,

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Speaker 1: actually her nose is a little too big. My nose

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Speaker 1: is the last one in the world to look at.

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Speaker 1: So I can't believe we've both been in here. I know.

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Speaker 1: It's we almost had to build out an alcove in

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Speaker 1: this podcast studio just for the nasal passages. This has

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Speaker 1: been a lot of fun, dude, Thank you for having

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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on. Of course, obviously, beat the

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Speaker 1: heck out of the toilets episode. Yeah right, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: didn't make any puns in that sense, like I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: You know, there there are tons of immortality puns I

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Speaker 1: could have made, but I didn't do it. I I

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Speaker 1: speak for everyone listening. When I say we appreciate that,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure. So of course you can find Josh Clark's

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Speaker 1: work on Stuff you Should Know and all things stuff

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Speaker 1: you should know. Remember, you gotta you gotta check out

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Speaker 1: the podcast. You gotta check out the site also, if

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Speaker 1: you have the opportunity, occasionally, Josh and Chuck do live appearances.

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Speaker 1: You guys just finished a tour, a couple of tours. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we did one in the north West and then in

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Speaker 1: the Northeast, and then we're going to do the northern Midwest,

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Speaker 1: which is the thing I think, but like Chicago, I believe, Detroit, Cleveland, Minneapolis,

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Speaker 1: and either Milwaukee or Madison this this October. So you

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Speaker 1: guys have got to check that out. If that's one

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Speaker 1: of the If you live in one of those areas,

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Speaker 1: are near one of those areas, look into it because

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Speaker 1: the live events are a lot of fun. Thanks a lot.

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Speaker 1: And uh, I mean hopefully we'll be sending you internationally

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Speaker 1: before too long because because Josh sits right next to me.

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Speaker 1: U no, we get along really well. I really appreciate

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Speaker 1: you being on the show. You guys. If you have

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Speaker 1: any suggestions for future episodes of Tech Stuff, you can

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Speaker 1: of course, let me know. Send me an email. You know.

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Speaker 1: It might be a specific type of technology, It might

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Speaker 1: be a profile on a person or a company, or

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Speaker 1: maybe you just have a preference for a particular guest

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Speaker 1: to interview or be guest hosts. Let me know, I'll

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Speaker 1: make it happen. The email addresses tech stuff at how

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Speaker 1: stuff works dot com, or drop me a line on Facebook,

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Speaker 1: Twitter or Tumbler. The handle it all three of those

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Speaker 1: is tech stuff hs W and I'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: again really soon for more on this and thousands of

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Speaker 1: other topic because it has stuff works dot com