Episode 29 – Propofol, the Best Beer of All

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Friends with Brews! You act like you’ve never heard that every time you hear it

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No, it’s not. I’m moving to the music. I’m moving to the melodious music

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There’s no music because the melodious timber of your voice your dulcet tone is no music

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There IS no paper jam because Peter

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Nikolaidis hated everything that I came up with but did not make any effort whatsoever to find something that he could live with

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Have you thought about having an AI generate our theme song?

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No, but I’m sure you have.

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Well now I did.

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Okay, let’s talk about our brews first because both my cup and my beer have been sitting here for a few minutes.

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Well you go first then.

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Well, I’m just having marryin’ berries again.

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This is the same one that I had like three episodes ago.

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See like I go to great lengths to try to have a new beer every single time.

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Peter almost all the time I do.

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Very… I don’t… in fact, I don’t know if I ever have repeated myself. Maybe once before.

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So it’s okay to do that. I will confess that I do repeat the same coffee anytime

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I have a decaf it’s always the same decaf. Right, which I don’t do. So far I have not

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repeated coffees on this show. Fine be that way you and your trade coffee. Look

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at that. Ooh, Powell’s! Hey I was there you took me there. But look at the color yeah

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we talked about that last time. It’s marionberry colored. Uh-huh. People just

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Just for—I should clarify, yes, I’ve had this before, but it is the Ex Novo Brewing

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Marionberries, and it’s a combination of—what is it a combination of, Peter?

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It’s a combination of Marionberries, raspberries, and it’s also got some white wheat flaked

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oats and mosaic, whatever the hell mosaic is.

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It has mosaic.

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I thought it was an old browser of some kind.

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It was.

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It was.

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And most of our listeners—I don’t know.

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Do you think our listeners know what Mosaic is? Based on our survey, our tens of listeners,

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would you think that people know what Mosaic was or don’t know what Mosaic was?

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They probably do because it’s probably old people that listen to us and now I’m going

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to get a lot of hate mail. Actually, I’m not going to get hate mail because I’ve never

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given an email address to this. I’m going to get hate, Moose. Hate Mastodon. Hate Toot.

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So here’s an interesting thing. I’m looking on the website for Golden Road Brewing. Those

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are the makers of two beers that I’ve had on this cast prior. One is the famous Mango

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Cart, which was a thumbs up. And there was also Guava Cart. Well, I have a third beer

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by them today, and I’m not able to find it on their website. They might have discontinued

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Oh my god, what a surprise a beer company that has a website that doesn’t have one of their beers anywhere on it

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but i’m thinking that maybe they’ve discontinued this one because I did buy it last year and it was part of a

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three flavor pack it had mango cart guava cart and

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melon cart

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Now I will say this out of all three. This one is the least distinctive least memorable

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Not my favorite, but…

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Okay, tell us what it is.

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Tell us what this least favorite…

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I am having the same.

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…immemorable or unmemorable…

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Well, it is a watermelon wheat ale with notes of honeydew and cantaloupe.

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What’s the name of it again?

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Melon-cart.

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Oh.

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Not melon-colly, just melon-cart.

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But that said, let me pour.

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That was Peter taking a pee before he pours his beer.

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Here’s Peter drinking the pee.

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[both laugh]

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Ahh.

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It’s good. It’s good.

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You know, if you like watermelon beers, it’s good.

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Actually, you know, I take this back. This, now, today…

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I think it has more flavor than the Guava Cart does.

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Oh, you’ve got to talk about percentages and other…

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I will.

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…significant figures.

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I will talk about significant figures.

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This one is a whopping 4.0 alcohol.

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Mhm.

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4.0% 4% alcohol. So it’s a light one. Yes, they could sell this in Costa Rica without having to go to prison

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now

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What I think is really cool though is that I’ve just noticed now looking at their website for the first time

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They have a number more like when I saw my looked I don’t think they only had a few but they’ve got

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Another one called street cart. Yeah, I saw that which is lime and salt cerveza. They have

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Spicy mango cart. They’ve got right on cart. I guess that one doesn’t say cart. They have a non-alk

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mango cart with no elk

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But they also have they’ve got a blonde ale now

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They’ve got Christmas cart. So I’m guessing that’s gonna be like with spices and they have an Oktoberfest

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So I have to try these

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Because you know so far they’re pretty good

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They also have a bunch of IPAs, which I’m not impressed by.

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It looks like they’ve got something for the Rams.

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Although, correct me if I’m wrong,

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what is that World Champions one for?

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That’s for the Rams, right?

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That looks like a football field in the background

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on that page for that one.

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I’m not sure which one you’re looking at.

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World Champions, it’s called Whose House?

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Champion Champango?

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Oh, Whose House? No, Whose House.

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Okay, Whose House?

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World Champions, and it’s got what looks like a Rams logo.

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And if you click on that beer,

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it has a football field in the background.

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So I’m guessing those are the Rams.

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Did the Rams win something or apparently I don’t know. I don’t follow American.

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It is by the less. Yes, it is a Los Angeles Rams tribute beer. Oh, okay.

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Not to be confused with the Los Angeles Rams tribute band.

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That’s totally different.

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I wish it was a Los Angeles Rams tribute beer in the sense of tribute to one who

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has passed on because who the hell cares about American football, Peter. Anyway,

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Rams. So yeah, they don’t seem to have Mellon cart anymore, dear listener.

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So I’m sorry you can’t enjoy this unless you already have it. I guess.

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I think spicy mango cart sounds pretty good. I think you should find yourself some of that.

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I’m going to go look for it. Real mango and authentic spice with a deliciously subtle finish.

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Wait, what time of year is it? Are we past Christmas or are we headed to Christmas? We’re

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past Christmas. You can’t get the Christmas cart. We are past Christmas, right. But I don’t know

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about spicy mango cart. We’ll find out. We’ll find out. And I also can’t get Oktoberfest for

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a few months either. That’s true, yeah. But anyway, that’s it. Golden Road Brewing,

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They do good stuff. I like their beer. How are we going to link to this?

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I don’t know. I’ll have to, I might have to google. Golden Road Brewing. Watermelon.

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Melon Cart. Oh, Melon Cart, not WaterMelon Cart. Melon Cart. Yeah, so you can find it on things

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like beeradvocate.com. That’s probably the best. Apparently this was Apparently Craft Shack is a

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website. Okay, Craft Shack is a website. Apparently it’s been around for a while though,

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though, because I just found a review on beer advocate and it’s like five years old. So

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yeah, it’s good to advocate for beer. Yeah, it’s good. Ever even a beer needs an advocate.

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Even a beer needs an advocate. Yeah. So I like it. I would drink this. I gotta say it.

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The pictures on the beer advocate website are horrible. So here’s what you can do. Set

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it down on the table, set that can down on the table and take a nice picture of it with

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your iPhone for me. I will use that as the image. I’ll take it right in front of my Macintosh

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I pushed it in my Mac.

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Ooh, even better.

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Bonus!

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Well, actually, if I look on images on the web, there’s a lot of them, but that’s fine.

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I want your image.

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I want it with Peter’s Macintosh-io.

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Very good.

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This is live iphoneography happening, dear listener.

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You can’t beat this.

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You can’t touch this.

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Okay, photos have been taken, Scott.

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You can’t touch this.

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Beautiful.

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You’re a good human being.

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Hey, remember how last time, was it last time we talked when you had an oral care patient

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downstairs?

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Oral care patient.

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Or was it the time before?

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It might have been the time before.

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Somebody had just had mouth surgery.

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Hello.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Now I know what you’re talking about.

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Yes.

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I was thinking about myself because like I, I’ve got a bit of a pain, like a, you know,

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crown thing going on myself.

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So I was like, what is he talking about?

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I haven’t seen the dentist.

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Yes.

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I did have someone who required oral care.

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My wife is downstairs having just had gum surgery today and so now I feel like the roles

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are reversed here.

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We’ve come full circle.

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She also is not allowed to have alcohol for some period of time.

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There we go.

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I told her obviously you’re the beer drinker in this house, I said to her, so you’ll have

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to stop.

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I mean, if she was desperate.

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It was pretty funny though when she came out of there she was pretty out of it loopy because

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of course they gave her sedatives.

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And so she was trying to… they were asking her when she wanted to come back for a follow-up

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And so she gave him a date and then she was tapping on that date on her iPhone calendar furiously and nothing was happening

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And she just kept tapping it over and over and over and over and over and I was just standing there going are you in?

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There and then finally she realized she needed to go up to the top and tapped a little plus sign and make the event

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So she did that but it was it was enjoyable watching her

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Careful you’re being recorded right now. She

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She, well, first of all, she doesn’t listen to this, and secondly, she’s had time to laugh at me because when I had,

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I think it was my skin cancer surgery, when I had my skin cancer surgery and I had propofol,

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and I was coming out of propofol, I was loopy.

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I, they handed, they said, “Are you thirsty?” and I said, “Yep,” and they said, “Here’s some water,” and they handed me a cup of water

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and I said, “Thanks!” Whoosh, and dumped it right over the edge of the bed.

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Just, no hesitation, no delay, just, “Thanks!” Whoosh.

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Oh my god.

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Oh, wait, how many beers had you had prior to that surgery?

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I had had propofol, the best beer of all.

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Oh my god, I know why Michael Jackson wanted to die at the hands of that stuff.

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Are you going to review that for our next episode?

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I would love to.

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It is the best sleep you’ll ever have.

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You’ll wake up happy, you’ll, oh my god.

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Thanks.

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Thanks.

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I’ll drink to propofol.

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And then the poor nurse was standing there looking at it and I’m just laughing hilariously.

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I will drink to propofol. Oh my god. Yeah, at least I had trained professionals.

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I have a topic, yes. And it does relate to smart homes and stuff.

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There are no smart homes, Peter.

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So for about a year and a half or so, I have been on an ecobee. I switched to them from

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nest two Black Fridays ago. And in general it works. Some of the stuff though, I don’t

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know if I’m just doing it wrong or if they just do it differently. But one thing I used

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to have with my nest was if I would leave, you know, and the geofence would trip, it

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would just turn the heat way down, right? So like, I mean, turn the heat down in the

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summertime it would just turn the AC off, right? So I would say go to Vermont for a

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few days and you know, it would say like, yeah, well we’re going to set the heat to

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45 because there’s no long, no reason to keep it any warmer than that. The reason I got

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rid of the nest is it stopped reliably tracking the geofence. And then one day I was up in

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Vermont during a cold snap for like three days and the heat was blasting here the entire

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time because it never realized that I left and I got frankly, you know, very angry and

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you know, rip the thing out of the wall and replace it with a new one. Okay, great. The

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ecobee when I leave, it’s like, Oh yeah, you’re gone. We’re going to take the temperature

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and drop it from like 72 to 68. So it just drops it just a little bit, but it never really

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goes to the away depth that I would expect it to. And I’m not sure why. I’m not sure

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what I’m doing wrong with that. So that’s one question.

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I don’t know, but one thing I will tell you is if you’re trying to use it with both HomeKit

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and use the Ecobee app and set up triggers inside Ecobee itself, you’re going to meet

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very limited success.

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I’m not currently able to use it with HomeKit at all because the device is not registered.

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No, that’s different. We’ll get to that. Just plain old Ecobee and its app.

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Yeah, I have no idea. I don’t use any of the ecobee functions. But I will tell you this, ecobee does tie into your local electric companies.

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They can get messages about, “Hey, this is a time where you need to save energy.”

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And so, like, during a hot spell when everybody in the universe has their AC on, it might raise your temperature a bit automatically.

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I’ve done that.

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that. And then you’ll just be in your house and all of a sudden you’ll be going like you’re

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irrationally angry and then you look at your ecobee and you realize why. You’re on energy saver mode

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or whatever or it’s pre-conditioning or something. It’s been talking to the electric company and

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they’re like you know this guy looks way too comfortable. No no I’m not saying that’s your

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problem I’m not relating it to that at all I’m just saying it does things like that. That’s the

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only thing that I have where the ecobee is in control. Everything else any triggers any stuff

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that I want to have change on a schedule, any stuff that I want to have change on a

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geofence, it’s all HomeKit.

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Yes.

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All HomeKit.

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Well, hopefully with my new one, which I do now have sitting downstairs, I’ll be able

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to take advantage of these because hopefully it’ll actually work.

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So I guess what I’m saying is, I don’t know.

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I seem to remember though, there’s a way for you to say in this mode, here’s what the temperature

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should be.

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Like you should be able to set a temperature that you want it to drop to.

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I’m assuming that you do have a temperature set that you want it to drop to when you’re

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a home and it never goes there. Is that what you’re saying? Right. The comfort settings.

00:14:05.340 —> 00:14:12.380
Comfort. If I go into it, I’m just curious. Let me go into it right now. My ecobee. More. Settings.

00:14:12.380 —> 00:14:22.700
Comfort settings. Away. So right now, the away desired heat is set. So this would be default

00:14:22.700 —> 00:14:29.820
because I had to reset this thing a while ago. Right now the default away is 64 degrees. I’m

00:14:29.820 —> 00:14:31.180
I’m gonna crank that down.

00:14:31.180 —> 00:14:32.020
I’m gonna make it like—

00:14:32.020 —> 00:14:33.780
Oh, well then it’s working.

00:14:33.780 —> 00:14:35.820
I’m gonna make it like 50.

00:14:35.820 —> 00:14:38.740
All right, I just made it 50.

00:14:38.740 —> 00:14:39.860
And I’m gonna save that.

00:14:39.860 —> 00:14:41.860
We’ll see if that works next time.

00:14:41.860 —> 00:14:43.900
Okay, so wait, I don’t know.

00:14:43.900 —> 00:14:46.380
Can you leave for a little bit?

00:14:46.380 —> 00:14:47.620
Can you go-Now?

00:14:47.620 —> 00:14:49.820
Yeah, you wanted to find out if this works?

00:14:49.820 —> 00:14:52.260
Sure, but you were the one who said

00:14:52.260 —> 00:14:53.180
you were on the time crunch,

00:14:53.180 —> 00:14:55.020
so if you want to just monologue

00:14:55.020 —> 00:14:57.500
for the last half of the show, why not?

00:14:57.500 —> 00:14:58.340
Why not?

00:14:58.340 —> 00:14:59.180
So we’ll see what happens.

00:14:59.180 —> 00:15:01.580
But anyway, after my long saga…

00:15:01.580 —> 00:15:07.260
Yeah, talk about the saga, because it sounds to me like the latest in the steps in order

00:15:07.260 —> 00:15:11.140
to resolve this did not work, which you were thinking it wasn’t going to work.

00:15:11.140 —> 00:15:12.140
Yes, did not work.

00:15:12.140 —> 00:15:15.900
All right, so explain to dear listener, where did you talk about this?

00:15:15.900 —> 00:15:17.660
Did you talk about this on Blurring the Lines?

00:15:17.660 —> 00:15:19.660
Because I’ve heard this story before.

00:15:19.660 —> 00:15:23.020
I know that you’ve said some of it to me already, but I think you guys…

00:15:23.020 —> 00:15:24.980
Yeah, but didn’t you guys talk about it on Blurring the Lines?

00:15:24.980 —> 00:15:25.980
I think we did too.

00:15:25.980 —> 00:15:27.380
I think we discussed it over there.

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I don’t recall at this point, but Google does.

00:15:29.500 —> 00:15:30.340
You have no idea.

00:15:30.340 —> 00:15:32.380
You have no idea.

00:15:32.380 —> 00:15:35.220
Anyway, after many, many, many, many hours

00:15:35.220 —> 00:15:39.260
of troubleshooting, I was able to finally get my ecobee

00:15:39.260 —> 00:15:43.900
to pair with HomeKit, but that’s as far as it would go.

00:15:43.900 —> 00:15:45.440
And like, it would pair it and it was like,

00:15:45.440 —> 00:15:47.220
oh, you’ve got these sensors.

00:15:47.220 —> 00:15:48.780
You have a kitchen door sensor

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and you have an upstairs sensor

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and you have a bedroom sensor.

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Do you want to add all these?

00:15:52.280 —> 00:15:53.700
I was like, yes.

00:15:53.700 —> 00:15:55.020
What room do you want to add it?

00:15:55.020 —> 00:15:56.980
Bedroom, kitchen, living room, dining room.

00:15:56.980 —> 00:15:59.180
Yep, perfect, that’s great.

00:15:59.180 —> 00:16:02.620
Got it all, accessory is not responding.

00:16:02.620 —> 00:16:05.460
And so, you know, I went through all kinds of troubleshooting

00:16:05.460 —> 00:16:10.340
trying to use my phone as a hotspot, trying to,

00:16:10.340 —> 00:16:13.180
they’re like, oh, reboot your router, reboot your phone.

00:16:13.180 —> 00:16:15.040
What do you mean use your phone as a hotspot?

00:16:15.040 —> 00:16:16.260
Reboot your Eero.

00:16:16.260 —> 00:16:19.380
I use my phone as a hotspot because they’re telling me

00:16:19.380 —> 00:16:21.500
it’s gotta be something wrong with your internet provider,

00:16:21.500 —> 00:16:22.540
your wireless.

00:16:22.540 —> 00:16:25.060
So if you use your phone as a hotspot

00:16:25.060 —> 00:16:30.820
to pair with HomeKit, you’ll be fine. And so I tried that. And of course, it didn’t

00:16:30.820 —> 00:16:35.600
work. Later on, one of their techs said, “Well, no, they have to both be on the same wireless

00:16:35.600 —> 00:16:41.540
network. They have to be on the same Wi-Fi.” I’m like, “Well, my phone is generating Wi-Fi.

00:16:41.540 —> 00:16:47.660
It’s not on Wi-Fi when it’s acting as a hotspot. So that’s not going to happen.” So they just

00:16:47.660 —> 00:16:53.460
had me flailing. They had no idea what they were doing. And then finally, after I took

00:16:53.460 —> 00:16:59.580
a break over, you know, in Costa Rica for a bit and come back. They said, Oh, we, and

00:16:59.580 —> 00:17:06.460
I quote, “changed something on the back end, try again.” And this time trying again, it

00:17:06.460 —> 00:17:10.380
actually would pair. Normally it would just try and try and try. It’s like unable, you

00:17:10.380 —> 00:17:15.140
know, the accessory did not respond, cannot pair. Suddenly one day it just works. Now

00:17:15.140 —> 00:17:22.580
I’m pretty sure to make that happen, I had to use my Verizon Fios routers wireless and

00:17:22.580 —> 00:17:30.420
bypass the Eero altogether. But even then, once that was done, now that it’s paired, it shows up.

00:17:30.420 —> 00:17:36.580
I click on it in HomeKit, but it says no response. The accessory is not responding. And that’s where

00:17:36.580 —> 00:17:43.060
it’s been stuck since it connected. So that’s as far as it’s gone. So they said, for all the

00:17:43.060 —> 00:17:50.660
trouble they were having, they would ship me a new unit. And so they upgraded my Ecobee3 Lite to the

00:17:50.660 —> 00:17:57.620
latest ecobee with the smart assistant. So it’s a significant upgrade. That’s the good news. The

00:17:57.620 —> 00:18:03.300
bad news is it’s physically a different form factor. So I have to rip the whole mounting

00:18:03.300 —> 00:18:09.540
bracket out of the wall and rewire everything again. Which you did already, right? No, I haven’t

00:18:09.540 —> 00:18:15.300
done it yet. Oh, so you don’t know if this will fix it. The last step might fix it. Okay. It might.

00:18:15.300 —> 00:18:20.260
It might. I don’t know yet. But can’t you just let it hang off the wall for now? Can’t you just like

00:18:20.260 —> 00:18:26.360
Well, I still have to pull the old one out and undo all the wires and redo them and stuff.

00:18:26.360 —> 00:18:28.120
The wiring is super easy.

00:18:28.120 —> 00:18:29.120
Just let it hang there.

00:18:29.120 —> 00:18:30.380
I know, but I’ve got other things to do.

00:18:30.380 —> 00:18:34.640
I’ve got other things to do, and number two, the mounting bracket, like the screws where

00:18:34.640 —> 00:18:38.900
it mounts into, they’ve been drilled into and out of so many times.

00:18:38.900 —> 00:18:43.260
It’s very weak and wimpy, and it doesn’t hold very well.

00:18:43.260 —> 00:18:47.820
So I have to have my electrician come back for another small project, and I’m going to

00:18:47.820 —> 00:18:53.220
probably just have him mount a whole new little bracket in there and that way it’ll be firm and safe and

00:18:53.220 —> 00:18:55.140
I won’t screw it up.

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See, just to test if it actually made a difference, I would

00:18:58.100 —> 00:19:02.660
personally, I would just connect the wires and let it hang there and see if it does anything.

00:19:02.660 —> 00:19:08.820
Then once it does or doesn’t, I have to undo it and put the old one back in and mount it back into place and

00:19:08.820 —> 00:19:13.380
Yeah, but it’s just taking three wires out of the back of an ecobee is not…

00:19:13.380 —> 00:19:19.540
No, it’s not. But mounting the damn thing back on so it stays in the wall is.

00:19:19.540 —> 00:19:22.660
And that’s why I don’t want to do it.

00:19:22.660 —> 00:19:24.820
But what I’m saying is if it doesn’t make a difference,

00:19:24.820 —> 00:19:26.580
are you going to keep the new one anyway?

00:19:26.580 —> 00:19:27.300
Yeah, why not?

00:19:27.300 —> 00:19:28.740
Because apparently-

00:19:28.740 —> 00:19:34.340
Supposedly it’ll work withwell, supposedly it’ll work with, um, it’ll be a smart speaker.

00:19:34.340 —> 00:19:39.460
So I can get rid of an A-word, or I can, if it works with HomeKit, I have Siri there.

00:19:39.460 —> 00:19:40.820
So, yeah.

00:19:40.820 —> 00:19:42.820
Or I could turn around and sell it.

00:19:42.820 —> 00:19:50.180
it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Keep the old one. But one other thing. So I have the,

00:19:50.180 —> 00:19:53.780
I have the little remote sensors, the smart sensors. I forget it comes with

00:19:53.780 —> 00:19:57.820
little sensors, right? So I’ve got one upstairs here in my room in my,

00:19:57.820 —> 00:20:03.740
at my third floor room and I have one in the, uh, in the bedroom and they

00:20:03.740 —> 00:20:08.220
participate, right? So you can say this room will participate in your home

00:20:08.220 —> 00:20:15.020
setting or your sleep setting. Right. Last night, and again today, I’m downstairs, or

00:20:15.020 —> 00:20:21.060
I was up here today and I’m like sweltering. It is so freaking hot and I don’t know what’s

00:20:21.060 —> 00:20:26.500
going on. I look at the, you know, the like heat is just blasting out of this thing. Full

00:20:26.500 —> 00:20:30.980
back full, full bore. I look at the ecobee and it’s like, yeah, the temperature in this

00:20:30.980 —> 00:20:35.500
room is 76 and we’re just pumping more heat into it. And I was like, yeah, but I only

00:20:35.500 —> 00:20:43.180
want it to be 71. Well, it was super hot in the room that I was in, but it was cold in another room

00:20:43.180 —> 00:20:51.340
where I wasn’t. Now, I thought that if I left and I wasn’t in that room,

00:20:51.340 —> 00:20:56.700
and it didn’t detect motion, that it would say, “There’s nobody here.”

00:20:56.700 —> 00:21:01.420
I don’t think that’s how it works. I think it just tries to balance the sensors.

00:21:01.420 —> 00:21:07.180
It just tries to balance all the heat and that does not happen very well in a three-story townhouse.

00:21:07.180 —> 00:21:07.900
No it doesn’t.

00:21:07.900 —> 00:21:11.980
And it knows that it’s a three-story townhouse because it asked me during setup,

00:21:11.980 —> 00:21:15.020
”What type of home do you have? Is it an apartment? Is it a condo?”

00:21:15.020 —> 00:21:18.380
It’s a townhouse. So that’s a little frustrating.

00:21:18.380 —> 00:21:25.740
But I also have it integrated with my Flair smart vents, which I still haven’t exactly figured out.

00:21:26.700 —> 00:21:31.420
So the ecobee itself is in the living room and I also have vents in the living room.

00:21:31.420 —> 00:21:39.420
And it seems like if I change the temperature on the ecobee, the living room temperature that the

00:21:39.420 —> 00:21:46.540
flare vents are set to tracks that. Sometimes vice versa. Because there’s a separate app for the

00:21:46.540 —> 00:21:53.340
vents and you can set the temperature there. All it does with the vent though is it controls whether

00:21:53.340 —> 00:21:58.380
it’s open or closed. So it’s like, oh, it’s cold in the living room, let’s open the vents and let the

00:21:58.380 —> 00:22:03.420
heat out, right? But there have definitely been conditions where they’re not getting along,

00:22:03.420 —> 00:22:08.860
and like it’s cold in the living room, but and it’s calling for more heat, but the flare has

00:22:08.860 —> 00:22:14.940
been set to close. The vents closed, yeah. Yeah, so honestly, because of these stupid, you know,

00:22:14.940 —> 00:22:19.340
these heat sensors, I’m wondering like, should I just get rid of them? Because they’re not really

00:22:19.340 —> 00:22:25.500
helping and I’m not really clear too. I didn’t even double check if the flares themselves have

00:22:25.500 —> 00:22:31.900
temperature sensors on them as well if the vents do because sometimes it will be showing like,

00:22:31.900 —> 00:22:35.500
”Oh yeah, the temperature is 72 degrees,” but I looked at the ecobee sensor and it’s like,

00:22:35.500 —> 00:22:41.260
”No, it’s 76.” So they seem to have their own idea as to where the temperature comes.

00:22:41.260 —> 00:22:48.380
So I don’t know. It’s been frustrating, but I’ve found that I seem to have the best results

00:22:49.100 —> 00:22:54.540
just doing it manually. I say open the vents on the third floor or close the vents on the third

00:22:54.540 —> 00:23:01.100
floor and turn up the heater turn down the heat and I seem happier with that. Yeah this is why

00:23:01.100 —> 00:23:06.780
I don’t know anything about those flares but I’m guessing they will never be on HomeKit.

00:23:06.780 —> 00:23:13.260
Probably not. They’re there well I mean they’re about they cost about 90 bucks a piece.

00:23:14.460 —> 00:23:18.560
Doesn’t mean anything so well there you can sometimes yeah

00:23:18.560 —> 00:23:24.080
Yeah, I don’t think that they’re they would say if they were homekit compatible

00:23:24.080 —> 00:23:28.100
Yeah, I I was not into that at the time when I bought them

00:23:28.100 —> 00:23:31.340
So I don’t remember but I do have all of their boxes downstairs so I could find out

00:23:31.340 —> 00:23:33.540
I know they’re not there’s no homekit. There’s no

00:23:33.540 —> 00:23:35.420
Yeah

00:23:35.420 —> 00:23:39.560
So you know overall though I do like them they work pretty well

00:23:39.560 —> 00:23:46.060
I don’t like the fact that they are Zigbee, but they require you to buy their proprietary controller, Puck, as well.

00:23:46.060 —> 00:23:48.060
They won’t work with just another controller.

00:23:48.060 —> 00:23:51.060
”Works with Ecobee and your room sensors too.”

00:23:51.060 —> 00:23:57.060
”Your room sensors know what rooms run hot or cold. With Flare, you can finally fix that.”

00:23:57.060 —> 00:24:03.060
Now here’s the thing. What I don’t know is what’ll happen when your Ecobee is on HomeKit.

00:24:03.060 —> 00:24:08.060
It’s still using the sensors though, even if it’s on HomeKit, so in theory it should still work.

00:24:08.060 —> 00:24:13.940
It should. What it should do is it should make it so that you don’t have to worry about your event, but obviously

00:24:13.940 —> 00:24:19.380
You’re saying that’s not your experience so far. It’s not really working. Yeah, I think honestly

00:24:19.380 —> 00:24:25.020
I think I have more problems with the ecobee sensors. So all I did is I just took all of the sensors out

00:24:25.020 —> 00:24:27.420
I’m like don’t participate in any of these settings

00:24:27.420 —> 00:24:34.600
Which makes me wonder why do I even have the sensors? I don’t know. So anyway

00:24:35.140 —> 00:24:39.360
Such is life first world problems my friend first world problems. I’m gonna drink more beer. How about you?

00:24:39.360 —> 00:24:42.780
I am too, but there’s not a whole lot more to drink. There’s this much left

00:24:42.780 —> 00:24:46.780
I also have not a whole lot more to drink, but let’s let’s fix that

00:24:46.780 —> 00:24:50.980
Let’s make it so we have no more to drink your beer. Just got all fuzzy it is

00:24:50.980 —> 00:24:53.580
Cheers, cheers

00:24:53.580 —> 00:24:59.600
So that’s ecobee versus flare. What else is going on heard about any good bank collapses lately

00:24:59.600 —> 00:25:03.860
No, but I will say this I saw some

00:25:04.780 —> 00:25:06.940
screenshots of Jason Calacanis’s tweets.

00:25:06.940 —> 00:25:07.940
[laughter]

00:25:07.940 —> 00:25:12.220
His all-caps tweets telling the government to get their ass in gear and save everybody.

00:25:12.220 —> 00:25:13.220
Right.

00:25:13.220 —> 00:25:14.220
Grab your guns.

00:25:14.220 —> 00:25:15.220
Who’s with me?

00:25:15.220 —> 00:25:22.660
These a$$----s, these guys, they do not want the government to ever be involved in anything.

00:25:22.660 —> 00:25:24.020
They want them to stay out of their way.

00:25:24.020 —> 00:25:28.180
These guys are basically techno-libertarians until they need help.

00:25:28.180 —> 00:25:31.260
And then all of a sudden they want to be part of society.

00:25:31.260 —> 00:25:32.500
And it just pisses me off.

00:25:32.500 —> 00:25:38.180
guys are so bad for society, they’re so bad for the world, they’re so bad for the world of technology.

00:25:38.180 —> 00:25:42.820
This is why when we were talking about Mosaic I was thinking about Egghead. What’s his name? The

00:25:42.820 —> 00:25:48.420
guy with the big round oval head? Andresen. Andresen. Mark Andresen. No, I’m serious,

00:25:48.420 —> 00:25:53.220
he’s got, he looks like an alien skit from Saturn Hat Life. He’s definitely been moving in that

00:25:53.220 —> 00:25:59.060
direction, yes. Yeah, and so he is another one that is just bad for society. He’s just an a**hole.

00:25:59.060 —> 00:26:01.060
He’s just a flat-out a**hole.

00:26:01.060 —> 00:26:03.460
Yep, a lot of popping sounds.

00:26:03.460 —> 00:26:06.260
Even more.

00:26:06.260 —> 00:26:11.100
It just kills me when people don’t want to participate in society. They want to color outside the lines.

00:26:11.100 —> 00:26:14.620
They want to do their own thing. They want to reap the benefits and not share with anyone else.

00:26:14.620 —> 00:26:20.380
But then when it comes time for them to suffer, they don’t want to. They want someone to come bail them out.

00:26:20.380 —> 00:26:24.100
And they’re so transparent about it. Like they don’t even care who sees what they are doing.

00:26:24.900 —> 00:26:30.100
Mm-hmm. Well, they think they’re above the law. Do they care at all? Apparently not.

00:26:30.100 —> 00:26:34.100
I know the answer is no, but I can’t I don’t know how you get to become that kind of person.

00:26:34.100 —> 00:26:40.020
Narcissism? Probably, I guess. They are the main character.

00:26:40.020 —> 00:26:49.620
You seem to be enjoying that. I am. I am. I’m more than I expected to. I’ve actually-

00:26:50.740 —> 00:26:56.740
I’m getting to like, you know, like less strong, I won’t say weak, but I guess relatively speaking,

00:26:56.740 —> 00:27:02.660
weaker beers and I’m okay with them. They do have a benefit. I like being able to drink them and not

00:27:02.660 —> 00:27:08.580
feel anything like, yeah, I don’t get plastered. I mean, I feel something. Yeah, but you can have

00:27:08.580 —> 00:27:12.740
one beer and it’s not going to wreck your day. And like a couple hours later you could even do

00:27:12.740 —> 00:27:18.660
a workout if you wanted to. A couple hours, sure. Today’s a rest day for me though. Yeah, but, but

00:27:18.660 —> 00:27:21.800
But what I mean is if you drink a 9%er,

00:27:21.800 —> 00:27:24.520
you’re probably not gonna feel good during a workout later,

00:27:24.520 —> 00:27:26.520
even if you wait three hours or so.

00:27:26.520 —> 00:27:29.760
Probably not gonna work out the next day with a 9%.

00:27:29.760 —> 00:27:34.440
I’m serious, those things like knock me down.

00:27:34.440 —> 00:27:39.760
Whoo, ah boy, I tell ya.

00:27:39.760 —> 00:27:41.200
Yeah, so that was fun.

00:27:41.200 —> 00:27:44.560
Yeah, Silicon Valley Bank did not directly affect me yet,

00:27:44.560 —> 00:27:47.720
but we’ll probably all feel it in the form of-

00:27:47.720 —> 00:27:50.840
Hey, you just made me curious. Why would it affect you?

00:27:50.840 —> 00:27:56.880
Well, maybe I invested in firms there or maybe I own shares of Silicon Valley Bank.

00:27:56.880 —> 00:28:00.360
You would know when you, and if you don’t know,

00:28:00.360 —> 00:28:02.520
it would be so diluted that it shouldn’t matter that much.

00:28:02.520 —> 00:28:06.880
No, I know it did not affect me directly. I just said that. I know it did not affect me.

00:28:06.880 —> 00:28:08.480
Right. But you said something to the effect.

00:28:08.480 —> 00:28:11.000
It will affect everybody indirectly.

00:28:11.000 —> 00:28:16.200
Maybe because we’re going to have greater regulation coming down the road and

00:28:16.200 —> 00:28:20.040
And that’s going to require what’s going to cost more.

00:28:20.040 —> 00:28:23.160
Interest rates are going to have to be higher because banks are going to have to absorb

00:28:23.160 —> 00:28:24.160
more money.

00:28:24.160 —> 00:28:26.960
So, oh my God, they’re making so much money.

00:28:26.960 —> 00:28:29.080
The banks don’t have to absorb money.

00:28:29.080 —> 00:28:30.360
They will.

00:28:30.360 —> 00:28:33.520
They don’t have to, but they will.

00:28:33.520 —> 00:28:34.520
Yeah.

00:28:34.520 —> 00:28:36.520
The banks, they’re not suffering.

00:28:36.520 —> 00:28:39.200
I can’t join the bank pity party here.

00:28:39.200 —> 00:28:41.240
Pity party bank.

00:28:41.240 —> 00:28:45.000
So anyway, so I’ve got a marathon coming up.

00:28:45.000 —> 00:28:46.000
Yeah.

00:28:46.000 —> 00:28:56.000
it when that was? About three weeks. Are you on schedule? I am. I’m a little concerned.

00:28:56.000 —> 00:29:01.760
This schedule is… it really seems really light. I’m just afraid. I don’t know if…

00:29:01.760 —> 00:29:05.400
I’m not sure if I feel… Well, that’s what I was wondering. That’s why I was asking,

00:29:05.400 —> 00:29:10.040
because when I look at… I don’t check all your workout notifications, but most of the

00:29:10.040 —> 00:29:13.420
ones I check, it doesn’t look like you’re putting in as much distance yet as I thought

00:29:13.420 —> 00:29:19.960
you would be? I’m not, yeah, but I’m on track with according to the schedule so

00:29:19.960 —> 00:29:24.220
we’ll see I just don’t know I can’t vouch for the efficacy of the schedule so. Who

00:29:24.220 —> 00:29:31.760
wrote this schedule? Mark Andreessen. Mark Cuckoozella. It was a Mark! Does he have a big

00:29:31.760 —> 00:29:38.460
egg-shaped head? A cuckoo mark. He’s a cuckoo bird. He does not he does not have

00:29:38.460 —> 00:29:42.780
an egg-shaped head so yeah well then what can you possibly know about

00:29:42.780 —> 00:29:48.740
marathons Peter I know I mean geez with his tiny little cranium how smart can he

00:29:48.740 —> 00:29:59.460
be okay remind me which marathon this is this is the cheap marathon in Derry

00:29:59.460 —> 00:30:04.700
Hampshire cheap marathon are you serious that’s the name of it oh my god it is

00:30:04.700 —> 00:30:13.340
Mm-hmm. Ah, that is so awesome. The cheap marathon. The cheap marathon. Yep. Oh my god. The cheap marathon.

00:30:13.340 —> 00:30:18.940
It’s on millenniumrunning.com, is that right? Or is millenniumrunning.com just some random… oh, okay.

00:30:18.940 —> 00:30:23.560
That’s the company that puts it on, yeah. Oh my god, that’s hilarious. The cheap marathon.

00:30:23.560 —> 00:30:29.600
You know what that means, they’re gonna take terrible pictures of you. Are they gonna take any?

00:30:29.600 —> 00:30:32.800
Who knows? Oh man.

00:30:32.800 —> 00:30:37.360
It’ll take a picture of you with some 20 year old android phone and it’ll just capture your feet.

00:30:37.360 —> 00:30:39.600
Maybe your shin. That’s pretty cool.

00:30:39.600 —> 00:30:43.040
Yeah, so that’ll be fun.

00:30:43.040 —> 00:30:45.600
Yeah, that looks like fun. It looks like a neat course.

00:30:45.600 —> 00:30:47.840
It looks like you’re running through the woods partially.

00:30:47.840 —> 00:30:51.040
Yeah, it’s a it’s an old rail trail, you know, rails to trails.

00:30:51.040 —> 00:30:51.840
Oh nice.

00:30:51.840 —> 00:30:52.400
Yeah.

00:30:52.400 —> 00:30:58.480
And I got a, um, I got a, uh, words, words.

00:30:58.480 —> 00:31:06.160
The Words. They hard. I got an Airbnb a nine minute walk away from the start of the race.

00:31:06.160 —> 00:31:11.200
Oh, so does the end go back around to the start? I would assume it does. Yes. Okay. Yes. So,

00:31:11.200 —> 00:31:15.360
but after running a marathon, are you going to be able to walk for nine minutes?

00:31:15.360 —> 00:31:19.200
I think I can handle nine more minutes. Yeah. Especially at the rate this one,

00:31:19.200 —> 00:31:23.280
this is going. So yeah, I don’t, you’re going to eat so many M&Ms. You’re going to be sick.

00:31:23.280 —> 00:31:26.400
You’re going to get to the finish line. You’re going to fall over and puke. In which case,

00:31:26.400 —> 00:31:29.760
if you do fall over they’ll get your picture because before they were just taking your feet remember

00:31:29.760 —> 00:31:34.080
Yeah, but you said there won’t be a good picture. So it’ll be no it won’t be a good picture

00:31:34.080 —> 00:31:36.640
Even if they took it even if it was a beautiful picture

00:31:36.640 —> 00:31:39.840
It still won’t be good because it’ll be you laying on the ground puking mms

00:31:39.840 —> 00:31:43.120
and then

00:31:43.120 —> 00:31:44.800
And then you’re gonna have to get up

00:31:44.800 —> 00:31:46.960
Pretend like it didn’t happen and run, you know

00:31:46.960 —> 00:31:52.960
Then you could just be a forest gump and just run straight to the thing. That’s nine minutes away run forest run

00:31:52.960 —> 00:31:56.080
Oh, man, it’ll be great. That’s cool. No, that’s a good idea

00:31:56.240 —> 00:31:59.440
are all two of your, it was two other guys that are doing this with you, right?

00:31:59.440 —> 00:32:06.160
One gal, one guy. Yeah. And the gal, Carola, she is like way more prepared, I think. And she,

00:32:06.160 —> 00:32:10.960
like the other, like last week I ran like 10 miles and she ran like 18. And I’m like, yeah,

00:32:10.960 —> 00:32:15.600
that’s more like what I expected to be doing. But again, given the injury that I’m coming back from,

00:32:15.600 —> 00:32:22.320
I think moderation is probably okay. So I’m still running a freaking marathon.

00:32:22.320 —> 00:32:26.080
How is your body right now? Are you still wearing a brace and all that stuff?

00:32:26.080 —> 00:32:30.640
I wore one yesterday. I did not wear one the day before for my one-hour jog

00:32:30.640 —> 00:32:36.900
So yeah, it’s it’s more proactive stuff. But yeah, that’s good. I’m more and more or less put back together

00:32:36.900 —> 00:32:41.000
So yeah, things are things are looking good. So knock on wood. I

00:32:41.000 —> 00:32:45.540
Just hope that after this one, you don’t have any more stress fractures. What shoes you’re gonna wear. I

00:32:45.540 —> 00:32:52.520
Just ordered my first new pair of running shoes in like a year or so

00:32:52.520 —> 00:32:58.600
So I ordered a pair of the Altra Escalante Racers.

00:32:58.600 —> 00:33:01.680
They should be here day after tomorrow.

00:33:01.680 —> 00:33:09.020
I have been running in the Altra Escalante 2.5s, which my running buddy Carola describes

00:33:09.020 —> 00:33:12.000
as, and I quote her, “slow shoes.”

00:33:12.000 —> 00:33:16.800
So I’m hoping that by upgrading to the Racers that I’ll gain a little speed.

00:33:16.800 —> 00:33:19.400
Okay, these definitely have more cushion.

00:33:19.400 —> 00:33:20.520
These actually look pretty good.

00:33:20.520 —> 00:33:22.000
I like these.

00:33:22.000 —> 00:33:28.840
I’m thinking that what I really want is something slightly thicker than my Merrell Vapor Glows.

00:33:28.840 —> 00:33:32.400
Okay, so yeah, well, that’s not hard to do.

00:33:32.400 —> 00:33:34.360
Right, that’s what I mean.

00:33:34.360 —> 00:33:36.320
They’re so minimal, there’s almost nothing there.

00:33:36.320 —> 00:33:40.800
So the Ultra-Eraser is fairly minimal, but it is not a minimalist shoe.

00:33:40.800 —> 00:33:44.180
It is a zero-drop shoe, but it’s not a minimalist shoe.

00:33:44.180 —> 00:33:46.060
And that might be enough for me.

00:33:46.060 —> 00:33:48.040
Zero-drop might be all I really need.

00:33:48.040 —> 00:33:54.640
Now I have had a lot of fun though running in my zero speed forces again

00:33:54.640 —> 00:33:58.820
Oh got those out two or three times this past week

00:33:58.820 —> 00:34:04.260
Those are like super minimalists. They’re like even thinner than the vapor gloves

00:34:04.260 —> 00:34:09.820
Oh, I don’t know if I want that then yeah, but they feel really good and I was pretty fast with them

00:34:09.820 —> 00:34:13.820
So but I would not move in that direction. One thing I will say though is they do

00:34:13.820 —> 00:34:17.160
seem to provide

00:34:17.160 —> 00:34:19.160
Not more support

00:34:19.160 —> 00:34:25.880
But they provide more protection against like rocks and pebbles and stuff than the vapor gloves do yeah

00:34:25.880 —> 00:34:30.240
Yeah, yeah, the vapor gloves have nothing. Yeah, so that’s my plan there and then

00:34:30.240 —> 00:34:36.760
Let’s see. I’m curious you are I wanted to ask you about this. You are an Apple TV plus subscriber, correct?

00:34:36.760 —> 00:34:42.240
That is correct. Hey, no, wait, do you just do Apple one? Yeah, you do the whole thing. Yeah, you’re full

00:34:42.240 —> 00:34:45.840
Okay, so you get news you get TV you get health or workouts?

00:34:46.680 —> 00:34:52.140
Fitness fitness plus right? Yeah, you know, okay. I almost never look at this stupid news up though

00:34:52.140 —> 00:34:58.440
Well, I have like three months of the free, you know of the news app and I just I haven’t touched it

00:34:58.440 —> 00:35:03.960
I haven’t really done anything with it. It’s a downer. It’s not something you should read it. Look at if you want your mouth intact

00:35:03.960 —> 00:35:09.000
Yeah, well, that’s a I haven’t been so I’m like great. I’ve got this free for three months and so far

00:35:09.000 —> 00:35:14.180
I like I used it once and I was like, yeah, this is why I don’t do that. Yeah

00:35:14.180 —> 00:35:16.580
Yeah, this is why I don’t do that.

00:35:16.580 —> 00:35:17.580
Anyway.

00:35:17.580 —> 00:35:21.140
But Apple TV+, are you watching Ted Lasso?

00:35:21.140 —> 00:35:22.140
I did.

00:35:22.140 —> 00:35:24.420
So far, there’s only been one new episode, but I did watch it.

00:35:24.420 —> 00:35:25.420
Okay.

00:35:25.420 —> 00:35:26.420
I’m not there yet.

00:35:26.420 —> 00:35:28.780
So I have not resubscribed.

00:35:28.780 —> 00:35:31.540
I’d call you a big dummy poo-poo face if you didn’t.

00:35:31.540 —> 00:35:35.180
You’re a big dummy poo-poo face if you don’t, Peter.

00:35:35.180 —> 00:35:40.100
So I have not yet resubscribed to watch Ted Lasso or any others.

00:35:40.100 —> 00:35:41.980
I’ve been hearing good things, though.

00:35:41.980 —> 00:35:48.040
I’ve been hearing in my echo chamber more good things about Apple TV Plus, and it’s

00:35:48.040 —> 00:35:53.380
the cheapest out of all the services, Netflix, HBO, Disney, or whatnot.

00:35:53.380 —> 00:35:55.460
They have a lot of good shows on there right now.

00:35:55.460 —> 00:35:56.460
That’s what I’m hearing.

00:35:56.460 —> 00:35:57.460
That’s what I’m hearing.

00:35:57.460 —> 00:36:00.240
The other one that I’ve been watching is called Shrinking with…

00:36:00.240 —> 00:36:01.900
I heard good things about that.

00:36:01.900 —> 00:36:03.900
Yeah, a different Jason.

00:36:03.900 —> 00:36:04.900
Yep.

00:36:04.900 —> 00:36:06.300
Not Jason Calacanis, either of those.

00:36:06.300 —> 00:36:07.300
Not Calacanis.

00:36:07.300 —> 00:36:08.300
No, no, no.

00:36:08.300 —> 00:36:10.280
I wouldn’t watch a show about him.

00:36:10.280 —> 00:36:15.000
not all caps tweeting the government to bail them out. Although I am watching Silicon Valley again,

00:36:15.000 —> 00:36:22.120
which has a Jason Calacanis-like character in it. Isn’t that on HBO? Yeah. See, I don’t want to

00:36:22.120 —> 00:36:25.960
watch that because why would I watch that? It’s just too close to reality. It’s just…

00:36:25.960 —> 00:36:33.640
It is, and it’s freaking hilarious. That’s why. That’s why you would watch it. It is hilarious.

00:36:33.640 —> 00:36:41.400
It is so well done. Almost every single episode is just like, it’s just one step away from

00:36:41.400 —> 00:36:45.400
absolute reality, but it’s also hilarious.

00:36:45.400 —> 00:36:52.520
Yeah, I just, I hate modern Silicon Valley so bad. Silicon Valley is a pox on society right now.

00:36:52.520 —> 00:36:53.800
It’s a cancer.

00:36:53.800 —> 00:37:00.440
It definitely could be doing more harm than good, but I don’t know. Some days. To some people,

00:37:00.440 —> 00:37:02.280
it’s definitely doing more harm than good.

00:37:02.280 —> 00:37:05.880
And it’s not even silicon. There’s nothing silicon about it. It’s venture capitalists

00:37:05.880 —> 00:37:11.480
and people writing software. It has nothing… What people call Silicon Valley now, it has nothing to

00:37:11.480 —> 00:37:16.600
do with Silicon Valley. And the actual places where they make silicon aren’t in San Francisco.

00:37:16.600 —> 00:37:18.600
Not anymore.

00:37:18.600 —> 00:37:19.880
Oh boy.

00:37:19.880 —> 00:37:24.360
No, they never were. They were always in San Jose, in Santa Clara, and the other Sans,

00:37:24.360 —> 00:37:25.320
but not the San Francisco.

00:37:25.320 —> 00:37:26.040
San Jose.

00:37:27.480 —> 00:37:33.800
I doubt that you could put a fav in San Francisco. So, uh, you should get Apple TV. You could get

00:37:33.800 —> 00:37:38.040
Apple TV Plus. I could. You could watch Ted Lasso. I want you to because I want to know

00:37:38.040 —> 00:37:43.320
what you think of it. I will, but I’ll probably wait. I’ll probably wait a month or so.

00:37:43.320 —> 00:37:49.320
How many episodes are going to be in this final season? I don’t know. Well, all right. I am

00:37:49.320 —> 00:37:55.160
watching The Mandalorian. I did just finish watching The Last of Us. How is The Mandalorian?

00:37:55.160 —> 00:37:59.080
because I’ve only watched part of one episode. But then my wife was watching it the other day,

00:37:59.080 —> 00:38:03.400
and I looked over and I saw that he was back on, is it Tatooine where that lady who fixes his ship

00:38:03.400 —> 00:38:07.400
is always… And I just saw her again and I’m like, they’re just doing the same old hits over

00:38:07.400 —> 00:38:10.600
and over again. Is it better than that? They definitely have a lot of repeats.

00:38:10.600 —> 00:38:14.200
Oh, it’s definitely better than that too. No, yeah. No, they’re bringing a lot of recurring

00:38:14.200 —> 00:38:19.400
characters in, but that’s not a bad thing. It’s not just 100% fan service and no…

00:38:19.400 —> 00:38:25.360
No, not 100. There’s a lot of fan service and apparently I had no way of I did not

00:38:25.360 —> 00:38:32.280
know this. I’m not that much of a Star Wars geek. But apparently, like every scene has

00:38:32.280 —> 00:38:40.880
some kind of Easter eggs that if you watched all the shows, read the books, read the comics,

00:38:40.880 —> 00:38:48.000
played the games, etc. There’s tons of fan service payoffs that I don’t know. And you

00:38:48.000 —> 00:38:53.920
when I was a kid, I loved Star Wars. I was never super all into Star Wars, though.

00:38:53.920 —> 00:38:58.160
Yeah, you didn’t read all the third party books and all that other horse poop.

00:38:58.160 —> 00:39:04.560
No. I don’t think I even ever bought one because Dark Horse Comics used to publish the Star Wars

00:39:04.560 —> 00:39:09.600
comics. I don’t think I ever even bought a single one of those. I had a bunch of the toys, but then

00:39:09.600 —> 00:39:15.600
shortly thereafter, I found out about G.I. Joe and I promptly migrated. And, you know, so that’s

00:39:15.600 —> 00:39:21.440
where I was. But you know, I saw all the movies. I enjoyed them. Well, okay, the last two, pretty

00:39:21.440 —> 00:39:26.960
lame. But you know, I liked them. But out of all of those things, as far as cinematics or TV goes

00:39:26.960 —> 00:39:35.680
and stuff, I still think Mandalorian is the best of all of those. I think that, uh, oh my god,

00:39:35.680 —> 00:39:41.440
what was it called? The one where, the one where they went to get the Death Star plans. Rogue One.

00:39:42.400 —> 00:39:46.400
Yeah, I thought that was the best. That was my favorite Star Wars movie of all.

00:39:46.400 —> 00:39:48.640
It was good. I liked The Mandalorian better.

00:39:48.640 —> 00:39:49.780
Yeah.

00:39:49.780 —> 00:39:50.820
Yep.

00:39:50.820 —> 00:39:57.680
I guess the problem with The Mandalorian is it has the normal problem of TV, which is TV budgets

00:39:57.680 —> 00:40:03.040
are inherently going to be smaller. And so if you have something go on for long enough, you can see

00:40:03.040 —> 00:40:07.440
where they did spend the budget and where they didn’t spend the budget. And that leaves a very

00:40:07.440 —> 00:40:09.360
uneven taste that I’m not a giant fan of.

00:40:10.160 —> 00:40:16.480
But then again, if you watch the movies that came out in the late 90s and early 2000s or the ones

00:40:16.480 —> 00:40:23.360
that came out in the late teens versus the ones that came out in 1977, you can also see an absence

00:40:23.360 —> 00:40:30.720
of budget and an absence of special effects capabilities. Right, but at least the early

00:40:30.720 —> 00:40:37.680
movies are consistent within themselves. Fair, yes. Yeah, I get that. There have been a couple

00:40:37.680 —> 00:40:44.560
of episodes where it didn’t feel to me like they were skimping on budget as much as just like

00:40:44.560 —> 00:40:50.320
they just the director the direction was lacking a little bit i was like you really could have done

00:40:50.320 —> 00:40:56.160
better than this yeah they’re just like oh let’s go home pretty much but that doesn’t but you’re

00:40:56.160 —> 00:40:59.840
right that does not happen very often in mandalorian it’s pretty good and i and i don’t

00:40:59.840 —> 00:41:04.080
know what their budget is but whatever resources they have they seem to do a pretty amazing job

00:41:04.080 —> 00:41:09.920
with him. Yep. Yeah. No, I’m enjoying it. I like it. It beats the hell out of the Boba Fett one.

00:41:09.920 —> 00:41:17.040
Oh, you mean Mandalorian season 2.5? Yeah. Boba Fett was just sad. It was just sad. It’s like,

00:41:17.040 —> 00:41:22.000
I don’t know why people liked Boba Fett to begin with, but whatever, whoever liked him

00:41:22.000 —> 00:41:27.360
can’t like him anymore because like they just lame-o’d him out of existence. No, they did lame-o

00:41:27.360 —> 00:41:31.520
Boba Fett. I don’t know what the hell they were thinking there. He definitely got lame-o’d.

00:41:32.400 —> 00:41:36.880
They took this guy who was supposed to be a badass bounty hunter and they turned him into a guy who

00:41:36.880 —> 00:41:39.920
just wants to sit on a throne and have people pay homage to him. I’m like, “What? Are you kidding me?”

00:41:39.920 —> 00:41:45.280
Yeah, but he wants to do so diplomatically and be a nice guy though. He’s not just sitting there

00:41:45.280 —> 00:41:48.960
like a hut. He’s like, “Oh, there’s problems. Well, let’s go out and see what we can do. Let’s

00:41:48.960 —> 00:41:53.280
go.” And, “Oh, well, we shouldn’t just kill this guy. Let’s hear him out.” All of a sudden,

00:41:53.280 —> 00:41:59.840
he’s a nice guy. I was like, “What the hell happened?” Anyway. But in addition to that,

00:41:59.840 —> 00:42:05.440
though. Speaking of Pedro Pascal, I also finished watching The Last of Us. Well, yes, The Hot Wings

00:42:05.440 —> 00:42:11.360
also. I saw that too. That was entertaining. But The Last of Us was even better than The Last of

00:42:11.360 —> 00:42:16.480
the Hot Wings. They should have named that episode The Last of Us Hot Wings. The Last of Us. That

00:42:16.480 —> 00:42:20.400
would be pretty funny. So I watched the whole first season of The Last of Us, which is the

00:42:20.400 —> 00:42:26.080
only season right now. I don’t think that’s an HBO thing, right? Yes, it is. Yeah, it was good.

00:42:26.080 —> 00:42:34.320
It was good. I did like it. It’s definitely a new twist on post-apocalyptic zombie movie or series.

00:42:34.320 —> 00:42:35.760
Was it written by Chad Chibitie?

00:42:35.760 —> 00:42:42.480
It was not. It’s not as gross as, say, The Walking Dead. Not as much gratuitous gore.

00:42:42.480 —> 00:42:44.080
What was your preacher’s name?

00:42:44.080 —> 00:42:52.000
Jeremiah Strong. But no, I liked The Last of Us. So, minor spoiler alert, which they pretty much

00:42:52.000 —> 00:43:00.320
give away in the first scene. The premise is that mushrooms evolve to take over humans.

00:43:00.320 —> 00:43:04.480
Okay. Anybody who’s done mushrooms could probably see where that came from.

00:43:04.480 —> 00:43:10.160
Well, I do this mushroom every day. This is the funny part. I regularly take Cordyceps

00:43:10.160 —> 00:43:16.880
militaris for increased focus and energy. And the funny thing is, the precept for this movie

00:43:16.880 —> 00:43:23.600
is that Cordyceps militaris evolves to a point where it can survive in human beings.

00:43:23.600 —> 00:43:26.960
Oh, so this is literally the exact mushroom that you’re…

00:43:26.960 —> 00:43:31.760
It is literally… If I had my bottle, I would hold up the label and show you it is the exact

00:43:31.760 —> 00:43:37.760
mushroom that I eat. Oh my god, there’s a website called mushroomrevival.com. I’m not kidding.

00:43:37.760 —> 00:43:42.480
And that’s where I buy mine from. That’s where I get mine from. Now, mushroom revival is where I

00:43:42.480 —> 00:43:46.400
get some. If you’re interested in, I’ll send you a referral code. Highly recommended. Anyway,

00:43:46.400 —> 00:43:48.560
I definitely liked The Last of Us.

00:43:48.560 —> 00:43:50.200
It got a little extreme, you know,

00:43:50.200 —> 00:43:52.280
a little bit graphic at times,

00:43:52.280 —> 00:43:54.080
but I overall enjoyed it.

00:43:54.080 —> 00:43:55.420
So it was pretty good.

00:43:55.420 —> 00:43:58.120
I installed a browser.

00:43:58.120 —> 00:44:00.000
Is it a browser extension?

00:44:00.000 —> 00:44:01.100
It is a browser extension.

00:44:01.100 —> 00:44:04.520
I installed a browser extension called the Magic Highlighter.

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The Magic Highlighter.

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But here’s the thing.

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So like if you do a normal search on a website, right?

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Just do a normal search in the search bar

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or the search/URL bar.

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whatever terms you search for,

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it will highlight those terms on the page

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that you go to from the search results.

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Oh, that’s nice.

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Can’t decide if I like it or not because it doesn’t,

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it always defaults to yellow.

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And if I want a different color,

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I have to do the Command + Shift + F

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to bring up that extensions pop-up,

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and then I can select a different color.

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I don’t want to do that.

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I want to…

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Is this a Safari extension?

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Yeah, it’s in the Mac App Store, I just said.

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I just said.

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Sorry, I missed that part.

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I’ve had a beer.

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Back off.

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No, you haven’t.

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You’ve had a 4%.

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That’s not a beer.

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That’s a beer.

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It’s a weak beer, but it’s a beer.

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Yeah, so anyway, I can’t decide if I like it

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’cause it’s kind of cool that all the,

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so you type in some search terms,

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you click on one of the results,

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and then on that page it highlights all the terms

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that you searched for.

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Okay.

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But like I said, I want to be able to pick a color

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and have it stick to that color from then on

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instead of having it always pop up in yellow

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’cause I just hate the yellow highlighting.

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The other thing too is when it highlights some phrases on a webpage,

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you can do Command-Shift-F to open the options for the Magic Highlighter,

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and you can unclick, or you can click on one of the terms to make it go away

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so that it’s only highlighting specific terms that you want.

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But I don’t want that.

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I would like a way to be able—

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I would like something that you can click on that says,

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”Stop highlighting any of them.”

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Hmm. Okay.

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Because I want to do that sometimes,

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but most of the time I just find it bloody distracting.

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Like most of the time when I do search terms,

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I don’t want those specific words on the page.

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I want the article.

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I want the information about the topic

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and not where on the page are those specific words.

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So sometimes it is super handy, but a lot of times it’s not.

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And so I haven’t decided what I’m going to do with this.

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But anyway, there it is.

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Use it as you will.

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It sounds cool.

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I generally try to install as few extensions in my browser as I can.

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So I’m not sure if I think it sounds cool enough for me to actually install it.

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I don’t even know what I, I think I have 1Password installed in Safari.

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That might be the only extension I have.

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Yeah, I’ve got 1Password.

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I’ve got 1Blocker, which is good.

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I’ve got save to good links, which I like to be able to save stuff to good links.

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I’ve got homecoming for Mastodon, which allows you to open Mastodon

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URLs in your own instance.

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So like if you get someone’s Mastodon URL or something,

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you can use this to automatically go to your instance

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and then you can follow that person or something like that.

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Yep.

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I’ve got a, believe it or not,

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I’ve got a kaleidoscope dev tool thing in there,

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which will diff web pages for me.

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It’s a full featured app,

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but it also has a Safari thing so that I can diff web pages,

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which comes in nice when you’re doing development work,

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for example.

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So I have the Magic Highlighter, I’ve got Subscribe to Feed so that I can dump websites right into

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NetNewswire, which is what I use for my RSS.

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I’ve got Noir, which allows you to, for websites that don’t have a dark mode,

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if you’re in dark mode, it will, if you’re in dark mode on the Mac, it will make the webpage dark for you

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so that you’re not blasted in the middle.

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How is that?

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How is that?

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It’s okay. It’s not bad.

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The good news is, first of all, you can set custom themes so you can decide how the dark

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web page is going to look, but you can also do…

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Oh, what are the shortcuts?

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Oh my God.

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Apparently there is a competing browser extension called turnoffthelights.com.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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There’s several of these.

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And they are bad mouthing the Noir extension.

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Yeah, I don’t…

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I don’t…

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Anybody that bad mouth somebody else, I automatically am prejudiced against the person doing the

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bad mouth.

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It’s not a good look.

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Anyway, there’s a keyboard shortcut for Noir that you can do and so you can toggle through

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auto, off, or on.

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So if you go to a website and for some reason it’s screwing up the legibility you can just

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real quick do a keyboard shortcut to turn it off for that site and so then your webpage

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is legible again.

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That’s one thing I do like about it.

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I have a plugin for Raindrop which is what I keep all my bookmarks in.

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Raindrop.io.

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And then I’ve got a couple for cleaning stuff up like Super Agent for Safari which fills

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out cookies so you never get the cookie pop-ups and vinegar which replaces the

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YouTube player with a minimal HTML player and it also hmm does vinegar

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block YouTube ads I don’t think it does but something I have installed does

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block YouTube ads I think it’s the it might be 1Blocker that I’m using that

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blocks the YouTube ads anyway I’ve got something that blocks YouTube ads so

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when it when a YouTube video is playing it just skips right over the ads for me

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Okay, well there you go. Yeah, so I have a few, I have a few, but they’re all useful.

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They’re all good stuff. Cool. I definitely don’t install, I certainly wouldn’t just

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install random stuff from the Chrome extension store, no. And I’m pretty

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careful about installing extensions in who I hear about them from or are they

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already part of apps that I already use and trust? I don’t. Like 1Password for instance.

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Like 1Password good links, you know people that I know who those people are net news wire guy Brent Simmons

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He’s written a lot of stuff. In fact, he he’s written several of the scripts that I use

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He’s is he wrote the bunch app that I use. He’s got a lot of good Mac

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Automation tools so no good. So there you go. I don’t know how we got down that rabbit hole

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I don’t either but I think that’s about all I have at the moment

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Yeah, I think it’s all I have to by the way in the time we’ve been podcasting. It’s gone from

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um, looking like a sunny, cheerful morning in your apartment, in your condo, in your

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townhouse.

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Sorry, I got it wrong.

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I want to make sure that I match what you told EkoB.

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It’s gone from that to looking like you’re about to hold some kind of black magic ceremony.

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Well that’s because the sun went down.

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Is Alistair Crawley coming over to your house right now?

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Probably.

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The house, the house, the house did go down.

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Peter, your house went down.

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The house just went down.

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The sun did go down really rapidly because it pretty much went down while I was looking

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at my Safari extensions. It was that fast. Yeah, well, the sun did go down and, you know,

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it happens quick around here, but luckily I can say things like, “Hey Siri, turn on

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all the lights.” And now lights turn on. Amazing. The one thing about HomeKit that bothers me,

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and I know that this is a hard problem to solve, but it’s the variability with timing.

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Sometimes I’ll say turn on my bedroom lamp or whatever and bam, it is on. And other times

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I’ve already stumbled around the dark, tripped over some things and made it to the side of

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my bed by the time it turns on the bloody lamp.

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Mine tends to be more on the trip over the side of the bed stumbling timeframe.

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And that’s one place where I’ll definitely tell you that A-word, the lady in the tube

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from our friends from Bezos and other world domination.

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From Spy World Incorporated.

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They have that beat like no one’s business.

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So I definitely like there’ll be times when I’ll be waiting for Apple.

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And while I’m waiting, I’ll just tell the lady in the tube to do it.

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And she does it before Apple is just like, “Sorry, something went wrong.”

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Let’s put it this way.

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Jeff Bezos already knows what lights you’re turning on and where you are in your house

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before Siri can even process your command.

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Oh yeah.

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Yeah, he definitely does.

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Yeah, no question.

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He’s definitely concerned about that.

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He doesn’t have anything else on his mind.

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So if people want to get ahold of us…

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I have no idea.

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Do they know how to?

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Well, I’ll be downstairs in just a minute, checking on my wife.

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So if you need to get ahold of us, you can go downstairs and check on Scott and his wife.

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Go downstairs to my house, yeah.

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Yes, perfect.

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FriendsWithBrews.com.

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It has all of the episodes.

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It has more transcripts every day, Peter.

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In fact, I just finished transcribing episode two, although I haven’t quite posted that yet.

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And it has all the brews. It has a wonderful search feature so that you can search for

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things that we’ve drunk or things that have made us drunk. And it also has the friends page,

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I think it’s called, and that gives links to our websites and our Mastodon,

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or elephant-sized instances that we’re part of.

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No? Too soon?

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Elephant-sized instances.

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Oh boy.

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Oh boy.

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Yeah, I got nothing.

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You have a big red button.

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I’m gonna push it.