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Speaker 1: welcome to text Stuff. This is Jonathan Strickland, senior writer

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Speaker 1: hearing Chris Pallette's voice during this intro, but we're having

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Speaker 1: co host Matt Frederick of Coolest Stuff on the Planet. Hey, guys, um,

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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be quiet and let Jonathan talk for

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Speaker 1: most of this podcast. If you want to say anything

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Speaker 1: probing questions. So what are we covering today, Well, today

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about my recent visit to the

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Speaker 1: Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. For you know,

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of people jealous of you that

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Speaker 1: you got to go to this. Yeah. There, I get

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Speaker 1: that a lot. I get every time I talk about

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Speaker 1: going to c E S. I have people right in

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Speaker 1: and they say, I really wish I could go. I

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Speaker 1: really want to go. Uh guys, Um, it's a show.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a it's an electronics show.

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Speaker 1: It's a conference in order to show the latest and

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Speaker 1: greatest technology in a way that sounds really cool, but

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Speaker 1: when you dive down into it, it quickly becomes both

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Speaker 1: overwhelming and exhausting. Yeah. At any point are you walking

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Speaker 1: to be here for my job? Yeah? Actually that's I mean,

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Speaker 1: to parties and it would be fun. When you're covering

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Speaker 1: CS has around one point five million square feet of

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Speaker 1: this year was supposedly the biggest year ever for ce S.

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Speaker 1: comments to aim directly at the other reporters who were

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Speaker 1: that the digital camera wasn't like, it wasn't designed to

428
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Speaker 1: take deep space photography. You don't have the hubble sitting

429
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: there on your tripod. But the idea that you could

430
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 1: use this to to star gaze was pretty cool. U.

431
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 1: The in power adjustable reading glasses, Okay, hit me, what

432
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 1: is it? They're reading glasses that have a focus ability

433
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:23,479
Speaker 1: in them. The frames, the frames contract. They actually change

434
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: the the the way that the lenses bend so you

435
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:30,600
Speaker 1: can focus your lenses. I wonder what did Do you

436
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 1: know what they're made out of? Uh, they're made out

437
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,200
Speaker 1: of gorilla glass. No, I don't know. I don't know.

438
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. I saw that. I saw that demonstrated

439
00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 1: by Natalie Morris of seen that. I didn't get a

440
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: chance to get a hands on with that myself, but

441
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 1: it was pretty cool. Um, oh, the razor switchblade. Matt,

442
00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 1: you're gonna like this. I don't like violence. No. No,

443
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:55,199
Speaker 1: it's a gaming device. It's a handheld gaming computer. The

444
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: keys are all programmable and are and will and they're

445
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 1: each a little screen so that you can have specific

446
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,879
Speaker 1: gaming layouts depending on the game you're playing. So it

447
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 1: has a keyboard, Yeah, it's a keyboard. It's a little

448
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 1: handheld uh like think netbook but smaller. Okay, But let's

449
00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,400
Speaker 1: say you want to play World of Warcraft, it will

450
00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 1: give you a customized World of Warcraft keyboard for your experience.

451
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: Or let's say you want to play Quake, or you

452
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,199
Speaker 1: want to play some other first person shooter or a

453
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: third person shooter, it'll give you a keyboard that is

454
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:32,359
Speaker 1: designed specifically for that game. It's pretty cool. Does it

455
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: have any kind of mouse or you just plug a

456
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: mouse into it? I guess or you know. I didn't

457
00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: get a hands on on that one because it was

458
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 1: one of those things where I got to see it

459
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,480
Speaker 1: just for a second and then Jonathan, I need to know. Well,

460
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 1: that's why I'm telling you about so you can go

461
00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,840
Speaker 1: and look into it all right. Um. Motorola had a

462
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 1: couple of really cool devices. The Zoom x O o

463
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Speaker 1: M tablet, which is running Android three point oh Honeycomb,

464
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 1: or will be when it launches. That looked really impressive,

465
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: although um, the first time I picked it up, I

466
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,919
Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to, so the representative got very mad at me.

467
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 1: The second time I was invited to pick it up,

468
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: and it's about a pound and a half so it

469
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 1: felt have felt um sturdy, ten inch screen, beautiful device.

470
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see really what it can do

471
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,440
Speaker 1: once we get closer to launch, once Honeycomb is really

472
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: fully baked, bake that Honeycomb. The Motorola Atrix. It's a

473
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: smartphone that can actually power a laptop like device. It's

474
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Speaker 1: actually a doc so you plug the smartphone in and

475
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 1: the processing power all comes from the smartphone, so you

476
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Speaker 1: can type, you can access your your smartphone apps through

477
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Speaker 1: a laptop interface. When you unplug the phone, it actually

478
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: carries all the data with it, so the laptop does

479
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 1: not hold any data. You can someone steals the laptop,

480
00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:54,359
Speaker 1: They're not going to get your information. It's all stored

481
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: on the phone. Um and that phone, I mean it

482
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 1: was snappy, it looked nice, and the running really really fast.

483
00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: It's got a dual core processor in it, and it actually, yeah,

484
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: dual core processor for a phone. We're starting to see

485
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 1: those now. We're we're still not really seeing a lot

486
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: of applications that take full advantage of it, but they

487
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 1: are coming out. Let's see, uh, Intel is got they

488
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: introduced their Sandy Bridge processor which has graphics processing built

489
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: into it. Meanwhile, Nvidia is introducing CPUs, so we're seeing

490
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: the CPU companies get involved in graphics processing. We're seeing

491
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 1: the graphics cards getting involved in CPUs, so they're gonna

492
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,719
Speaker 1: be going toe to toe in will be pretty exciting.

493
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 1: They're just gonna have a computer in a chip now, Yeah,

494
00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: because it's already got on board memory. You're gonna go

495
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: and go. Uh I saw maker bots thing oh Manic,

496
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 1: which is a three D printer prints three D objects.

497
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: That was really cool. I got to watch it and

498
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 1: I got to watch that go and it was that

499
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,399
Speaker 1: was really cool. It would print line by line of

500
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,120
Speaker 1: plastic and you would end up with your object, so

501
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 1: that Yeah, they had they had bracelets that they were

502
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:13,000
Speaker 1: giving away. I did not pick one up. Let's see

503
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 1: the in power peg kinetic charger. This looks kind of like, um, well,

504
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 1: it kind of look like a rod and you hold

505
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: it a certain way and you carry it with you

506
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: when you're like hiking or or you know, doing power

507
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: walking something like that, and it actually can build up

508
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: a charge so that you can charge your electronic devices

509
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,640
Speaker 1: just based on the kinetic movement. And that was kind

510
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 1: of cool. Um Let's see what else I'm looking at

511
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: my list here of cool stuff. Uh da da da Oh.

512
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: The Microsoft Surface got an update. Now every single pixel

513
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: is a camera. Yeah, the pixels that you see on

514
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 1: the surface are all cameras. They're all able to scan.

515
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,880
Speaker 1: So let's say that you take a piece of paper

516
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Speaker 1: and you've written something on it. You can put that

517
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Speaker 1: face down on on the surface and it can scan

518
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: it and you've got a scanned copy of your piece

519
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:09,560
Speaker 1: of paper with text recognition, it can actually recognize what

520
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 1: you've written. Yeah, talk about the smartest copier in the world.

521
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: You know, seriously, you get into a point where your

522
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: copier can spell check, your pro your your your copy.

523
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: I imagine I can see Google buying like ten of

524
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Speaker 1: those to help out with the Google Books project and

525
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 1: just laying books on top of it. Yeah. You know.

526
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about it, but that totally makes sense. Um. Yeah.

527
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: And the surface, despite the fact that the surface was

528
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: being shown at the keynote for the Consumer Electronics Show,

529
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,040
Speaker 1: it is not a consumer product. This is something that

530
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: you'll see in retail stores things like that, but not

531
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,000
Speaker 1: in people's homes unless you're Bill Gates, which case is

532
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: probably there. I saw people getting tasted. That was exciting

533
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: for fun kind of. It was at the Taser booth.

534
00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: They were showing how effective the taser was by tasting people.

535
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if the people who were volunteering were

536
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: actual volunteers or plants. If they were actual volunteers, dude,

537
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: where are you thinking. I can imagine somebody going to

538
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: CES just like, oh yeah, I'm gonna get taste and

539
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna yell, don't taste me, bro. Yeah. Yeah, that's

540
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: exactly what I think. When I go to c S,

541
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: I think, God, you know what, I'm looking forward to

542
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: getting taste? Uh so yeah, I mean that's kind of

543
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: the rundown. I got to play with the BlackBerry Playbook,

544
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: which was, you know, until c S was pretty much

545
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,280
Speaker 1: behind glass for journalists, So that was kind of fun.

546
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: And that was also a really snappy tablet. I think

547
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: that's a really compelling product. Um what else did I

548
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: play with? There were? Lenovo came back with its U one,

549
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,479
Speaker 1: except it's not called that anymore. That's the notebook computer

550
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: slash tablet device where you detached the screen and it

551
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: becomes a tablet. Um, it's you were excited about that one? Which,

552
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: oh no, that was my favorite from cs INT winning eleven.

553
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: The biggest changes that instead of running Lennox on the tablet,

554
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: it's now going to run Android three point out. They

555
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: didn't have a launch date. They said that that will

556
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: fully depend upon when Google comes out with Honeycomb for

557
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: for tablets, but that um it should be coming out

558
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: sometime this year. So um it runs Windows seven when

559
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: it's in notebook form and Android three point out when

560
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: it's in tablet form, and I can't wait to play

561
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: with that some more. I got to hold it this

562
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: time because there was a guy showing on camera how

563
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: the device worked and he needed somebody. You need an

564
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: extra set of hands, so he grabbed me, so I

565
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: was in the right place at the right time. I

566
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: got to play with it. Um, So that was really cool.

567
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:49,360
Speaker 1: The uh gosh, what else? So much stuff? Really, I

568
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: have to say that for me, the best part I

569
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,239
Speaker 1: was kind of talking the tech over with some of

570
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: my peers. UM. Chatting with them about the technology and

571
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: getting their perspectives really helped. It's really helpful because you know,

572
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: when you go in you have your own personal bias,

573
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: no matter what. It's not until you actually can sit

574
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: down with other people and talk to them about their

575
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: experiences before you really see what's going on. So I

576
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: was excited. Uh, it seemed like a very optimistic year

577
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: this year. The economic downturn stuff seems to be behind us. Uh.

578
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: There were way more people than have been there in

579
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:26,239
Speaker 1: years past. And uh, I think the general feeling, at

580
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: least from the the buzz I was getting on the

581
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: floor is that is gonna be huge, Like it's just

582
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: gonna be a breakthrough year as far as electronics goes

583
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: and uh and the and the market in general. Yeah,

584
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: it is exciting, um and I'm really curious to see

585
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: if in if we're just going to get yet another

586
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: iteration of what we saw this year, because again all

587
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: of the big themes were carryovers from last year or

588
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:59,320
Speaker 1: two years ago, even just expansions. I'm curious to see

589
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: if will be the same or if we'll have some

590
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: brand new I think the ecosystem idea, the idea of

591
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: being able to port your experiences between different platforms in

592
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: a sort of steamless way, I think that will be

593
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: even bigger. In like if three D and tablets or

594
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: anything to judge by where you know, you started seeing

595
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: them about two or three years ago and then each

596
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: year it's gotten bigger. I think if that's an indication,

597
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: then we should see more of that in Well, that

598
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: sums it up. I've got a whole bunch of blog

599
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: posts about this, So if you want to go to

600
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: the House Stuff Works blogs, you can read up all

601
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: about my experiences at c e S. You can watch

602
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: the tech news today I was on, which was the

603
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: twit dot tv. UM they keep all of their their

604
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: old archived episodes. So Tech News Today do a search

605
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: on it. Look for C E s C. Gosh, what

606
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: day was that? I'm gonna say it's Thursday. I want

607
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: to say Thursday. I'm gonna say Thursday that I showed

608
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: up on on Tech News Today, and uh so look

609
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: for the Thursday episode during C E s UM. I

610
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: can't even tell you what day that is anymore because

611
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: my brain is scrambled. Oh, Jonathan, looks like we have

612
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: some some questions that have come in. Please hit me

613
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: with the questions. We'll finish up with those. Thanks for those, guys,

614
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: Thanks for sending in your questions. Um, what kind of

615
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: shoes did you wear? Hang on one second, let's see

616
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: I was wearing, um these right here? Oh those are

617
00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: good shoes. Yeah yeah, oh wait, we don't do a

618
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: video podcast doing. I was I was wearing like mall

619
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: walker type shoes. They these are loafers without you know,

620
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: they don't have any laces. Makes it easy to take

621
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Speaker 1: them on and off of the airport. Um, good shoes. Support? Yeah,

622
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: I felt I felt that they supported me. Well, well,

623
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Speaker 1: that was kind of a strange question. I don't know

624
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: why they were wondering about that. I get think they're

625
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: worried about your well being. Your I appreciate that of

626
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: your listeners are great. Uh. What what was the best

627
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: food you ate? Oh? My god, best food? All right.

628
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: I didn't eat lunch any of the days. Um Press

629
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: does get free lunch if you bring your little coupon,

630
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: but it is a mad house to get those free lunches,

631
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: so I skipped it. But at dinner, Uh, I went

632
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: to a place called m the House of Lords. It's

633
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: in the Sahara Casino. Actually, I did not expect it

634
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: to be this good. It's an old school steakhouse, so

635
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: in other words, you go in and all the booths

636
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: have that half booth where you all sit on one

637
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: side of the table. Um. I had Pacific Shark, which

638
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: was topped with salmon, shrimp and artichoke carts with a

639
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: sauce overtop, served with a loaded baked potato with sour cream,

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