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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology with

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello there, everyone,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Poette,

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Speaker 1: and I am the tech editor here at how stuff

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Speaker 1: works dot com. Sitting across from me, as usual, is

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Speaker 1: senior writer Jonathan Strickland. I predict this will be an

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Speaker 1: awesome episode. I predict you said something nearly the same

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Speaker 1: thing last week. I think I predicted it was going

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Speaker 1: to be the best episode ever. All right, well, let's

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Speaker 1: start this off with a little listener mail. This listener

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Speaker 1: mail comes from Kyle, who is and I quote, our

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Speaker 1: biggest seventh grade fan, so perhaps he's nine ft tall.

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Speaker 1: Because Hi, guys, I recently subscribed to the tech Stuff podcast,

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Speaker 1: and of the other two I've subscrip right too, this

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Speaker 1: is my absolute favorite. Thanks Kyle. This morning and over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, I was listening to some podcasts and listen

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Speaker 1: to your tech predictions for two thousand nine. I was

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Speaker 1: wondering if you, guys, like you said in the podcast,

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Speaker 1: could update your list and say what happened and did

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Speaker 1: not happen keep up the great work. And Kyle's from

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Speaker 1: conquered California, and so we already did o our rundown

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Speaker 1: where uh, somehow you ended up with all these chech Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was crazy. I'm hoping that maybe maybe this year,

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Speaker 1: we since we already went through what our predictions were

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Speaker 1: Now when we're recording this, it is still two thousand nine.

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Speaker 1: because we do record these ahead of time, and uh,

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Speaker 1: as we did last year, we we took some that

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Speaker 1: and I might come up with That's not a criticism

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Speaker 1: to you, Bullett. Know what I'm in What mean to

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Speaker 1: I have one more? One more? Okay, so well I'll

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Speaker 1: will be a guest on that show sometime in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and ten. I have absolutely an interesting, full full disclosure.

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Speaker 1: I have no leads on this. Leo Laporte, as far

431
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Speaker 1: as I know, has no knowledge of my existence. I'm

432
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Speaker 1: sure he knows of the website, I mean, how stuff works.

433
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Speaker 1: I'm sure he knows how stuff works. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he knows who I am, UM, but I have high

435
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Speaker 1: hopes that sometime in two thousand and ten I will

436
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Speaker 1: be invited to be a guest on This Weekend Tech.

437
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Speaker 1: It's a show that I actually, I really enjoy um

438
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Speaker 1: and as a format that goes long enough for me

439
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Speaker 1: to talk as much as I want to the point

440
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 1: where I'm hoarse and can no longer talk anymore, because

441
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Speaker 1: those shows are long. If you have not listened to

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Speaker 1: This Weekend Tech, Leo Report gets a round table of

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Speaker 1: various tech journalists and and movers and shakers in the

444
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Speaker 1: technology world. They're not all just journalists. Some of them

445
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 1: are uh, you know, entrepreneurs, and they talk about the

446
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: big news stories that happened that week. And UM, it's

447
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: a good format. Leo Reports a great host and he

448
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: leads a very engaging conversation and they can get really

449
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Speaker 1: deep into some of these subjects too. So yeah, it's

450
00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,960
Speaker 1: it's more than just covering the surface of the story.

451
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Speaker 1: They try to dig down into what does this really mean?

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Speaker 1: What are the consequences, how could it affect other things

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Speaker 1: within the industry. Um, it's a really in depth conversation,

454
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Speaker 1: but they keep it very accessible, so even if you

455
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Speaker 1: are not a you know, technology guru, it's pretty easy

456
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Speaker 1: to follow along. So um, I mean occasionally they can

457
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: get bogged down into into technical details, but that's that's

458
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Speaker 1: the exception rather than the rule. And uh and he

459
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Speaker 1: consistently has some of the most intelligent and interesting guests

460
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Speaker 1: on that show. So granted, that's a very high bar

461
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Speaker 1: for me to reach. But um, I figure if we

462
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Speaker 1: can con him into thinking that I know what I'm

463
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Speaker 1: talking about, I have a shot. I might need your help,

464
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Speaker 1: oh tech stuff listeners to to get Leo's attention. All right, then,

465
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Speaker 1: all right, that was my last predict. I actually have more.

466
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Speaker 1: But because you know you're out there, you can you

467
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: can throw them out there. You could throw them out there.

468
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Speaker 1: Some of them are gimmey's. Like, I expect we'll see

469
00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 1: a rise in three D entertainment. We saw that, we

470
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Speaker 1: saw that increased steadily through two thousand nine. I think

471
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Speaker 1: two thousand and ten will continue that trend um, especially

472
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Speaker 1: since I think Avatar, Uh you know what, I was

473
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Speaker 1: a naysayer on Avatar early on. I didn't think it

474
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Speaker 1: was gonna the movie Avatar, Yeah, the James Cameron movie.

475
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Speaker 1: I was kind of a NASA aer. I didn't think

476
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Speaker 1: it was gonna be very good, but people I really

477
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: really respect who have seen that movie have been very

478
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Speaker 1: positive about it. And so I am willing to eat

479
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Speaker 1: crow and say, you know what, Uh, James Cameron proved

480
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Speaker 1: me wrong. Man. I'm I'm eager to see a fun

481
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Speaker 1: science fiction film. And I think that if he really

482
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Speaker 1: has managed to completely changed the way movies are made,

483
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Speaker 1: that's awesome. So and if it disappoints you, where your

484
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: heart go on? Uh yeah, yeah, exactly. So. Well, That's

485
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Speaker 1: the other thing is that James Cameron has a history

486
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Speaker 1: of making these incredibly expensive movies that everyone thought there's

487
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Speaker 1: no way this film could ever recapture the cost it

488
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Speaker 1: made to create the film, especially with things like Titanic,

489
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Speaker 1: which had so many problems in the production sequence. A

490
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: lot of people had a sinking feeling about that. Exactly yeah,

491
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: spoiler alert, the boat sinks. But the the the film

492
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Speaker 1: made well more than what it costs to produce. And so,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Cameron, he just consistently amazes me. So I'm

494
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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to being amazed again. But um, I

495
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Speaker 1: think we're gonna see a rise in telecommuting in companies

496
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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see more and more companies, especially

497
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Speaker 1: new companies, start with a model where they move away

498
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Speaker 1: from the geographically centered office and they do more teleconferencing

499
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Speaker 1: and teleworking. UM. I think we're gonna see a lot

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Speaker 1: more Internet ready televisions that can tap into the Internet

501
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Speaker 1: directly without the need for an additional box like a

502
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Speaker 1: Roku or an Apple TV. People are actually going to

503
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Speaker 1: buy them. I think that they're going to them. Yeah,

504
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: they've had them, but I think that it's always been

505
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: like the high end televisions, and you hardly ever see

506
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: them in stores. I think, yeah, when you walk into

507
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Speaker 1: the Yes, I think when you walk into the instead

508
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Speaker 1: of just to the Internet, they will be accessible to people.

509
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Speaker 1: When you walk into an electronic store, I think you

510
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: will see them for sale. UM. I think virtualization is

511
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: going to be huge in two thousands ten, you're gonna

512
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 1: see a lot more companies moving to virtual computers as

513
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: opposed to UM to regular computers because it's usually less expensive,

514
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: easier to maintain UM, easier to keep control of everything.

515
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about your employee getting upset,

516
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Speaker 1: taking his or her computer home, going and then showing

517
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Speaker 1: up at a competitor and handing all the information over.

518
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: I mean, there are a lot of reasons why virtualization

519
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:59,160
Speaker 1: is is attractive. Um, then let's see I'm already said

520
00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: that one If I said that one, oh, and we're

521
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot more newspapers actually attempt what Murdoch

522
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,320
Speaker 1: was saying and get behind a paywall, d list from Google,

523
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 1: or at least work with Google to no longer have

524
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: their uh their information freely accessible through Google. And then

525
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna see all these other smaller newspapers and blogs

526
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: Russian to fill that niche, and those big newspapers are

527
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: gonna say, darn, we want our we want our ball back,

528
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna and we're gonna see them abandoned that

529
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Speaker 1: that business model. Yeah, but I don't know that you'll

530
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Speaker 1: see I'm abandoned it into They might, they might last

531
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Speaker 1: a year or two. They might try and hold a

532
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Speaker 1: year or two. But I don't think that the subscription

533
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Speaker 1: based service is going to bring them the massive amount

534
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: of money they think they're going to get. Uh that

535
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 1: if it's gonna if if it brings the money, I

536
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be uh for more or less equivalent

537
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Speaker 1: to the money they make in web advertising, it's not

538
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you might make up for it in uh

539
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: in the amount of money each individual person is willing

540
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Speaker 1: to pay, but you're gonna lose a lot of potential subscribers,

541
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: that is, all of them. So there we go. There

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00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: are all of our predictions, which means that at the

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Speaker 1: end of two thousand ten, we will once again listen

544
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: to this podcast and start to pull all of those

545
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: predictions together and see how we did. Hopefully I'll get

546
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: some time. The cool thing is that no matter what

547
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: we try to predict, there's always going to be stuff

548
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: that happens that neither of us could have ever guessed at.

549
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, like, can you believe that Apple

550
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,239
Speaker 1: bought Microsoft? Who saw that coming? You know, something like that?

551
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: Something insane and you know we joke about it, but crazy.

552
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: I mean, two thousand nine was a year of mergers.

553
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: It's crazy. You know. I never thought i'd see Yahoo

554
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: and Microsoft shake hands over a search deal, but they have.

555
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Speaker 1: So whether that deal pans out, we still have to

556
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Speaker 1: wait and see. So if any of you have any

557
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Speaker 1: comments you'd like to, Oh wait, before I do that,

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Speaker 1: I totally forgot I have one more listener mail and

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Speaker 1: listen listening comes from Reese, and what Reese has to

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Speaker 1: say impacts directly our predictions. Reese says, Dear Chris and Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: one of my mother's friends works for Apple. I had

562
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: just recently listened to your podcast on the Apple tablet

563
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: and asked her about it. I was shocked to hear

564
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,200
Speaker 1: her answer. The Apple tablet is indeed just a myth.

565
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: It was, however, an idea within the Apple realm. However,

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Speaker 1: they will be making many new products, just not this tablet. Sincerely, Reese,

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Speaker 1: Age eleven. So, folks, if we are wrong, it's Reese's fault. No,

568
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,840
Speaker 1: just kidding, Reese, just kidding, Reese. Uh. We're we're betting

569
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Speaker 1: that the rumors are true. Um and if they If

570
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Speaker 1: we are wrong, we will give you kudos at the

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Speaker 1: end of two thousand ten. And Frank G Can tell

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Speaker 1: you how much those kudos are worth. If any of

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Speaker 1: you have any predictions you'd like us to know about,

574
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Speaker 1: or any other kind of comments, questions that sort of thing,

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Speaker 1: send us an email. Our address is tech Stuff at

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Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. Remember we do have a

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Speaker 1: live show every Tuesday one pm. Over at the blogs.

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Speaker 1: You can go to how stuff works dot com. Just

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Speaker 1: look at the blogs on the right hand side. Click

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Speaker 1: link to our our handy dandy show where we give

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Speaker 1: technology news with a smile and sometimes a little dance.

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Speaker 1: soon for more on this and thousands of other topics.

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