Episode 4 – Every Horse They Rode In On
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Friends with beer!
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Peter I need this beer more than you will ever know right now
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I think you need that beer more than I need this beer and I could really use this beer
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The technology rage is building inside of me. Technology can’t even but we have established that on a previous no longer existent podcast
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That’s right. So let’s talk about our beers. You go first because your beer was probably ready first.
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I am going tonight.
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Going tonight. Going to drink tonight. Good night. Going tonight a Golden Road Brewing
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mango cart
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mango wheat ale. That looks very good. I had this this past weekend and
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was good enough that I looked it up and found it in a local store and
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and bought a 15 pack.
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You and I are definitely in the summer of fun mood because once again, I’ve got something
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a little fruity.
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I’ve got the Ex Novo.
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Ex Novo.
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It’s called the Cactus Wins the Lottery and it is a I can’t read that.
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It’s very dark in here.
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Sour ale with prickly pear.
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Excellent.
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A fruity summery beer.
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Oh, that sounds delicious.
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Oh, I just got I’m gonna watch out, I’m gonna lick my pop filter here.
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That’s gross.
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Okay.
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Probably is.
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If a man can’t lick his pop filter, what can he lick?
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I don’t even.
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Oh, are you asking me to stop?
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Cheers everybody.
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Cheers.
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That first sip, right?
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Let’s yeah.
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Ding.
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Let’s hope our day, your day at least gets better from here.
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It will.
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It already is.
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So that was the most easily fixed of the technology problems that I’ve had lately.
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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I didn’t actually turn it off, but I did reboot it.
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Well functionally, that’s pretty much the same.
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What the hell happened?
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So listener, what you don’t know is that the call, the FaceTime call with Scott right now
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just hung up as I’m saying this.
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So I’m going to try calling him back and see what happens.
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It’s ringing.
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That was interesting.
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Still ringing on his side.
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And now it says that Scott’s FaceTime is unavailable.
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I guess I’ll just sip my beer.
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Oh, now he’s calling.
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Oh, hi Scott.
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back. You’re still recording right? I’m still recording. I’m gonna have to edit
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out some swear words. All of a sudden my… what happened to you? Did your light go out on
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purpose? I think that my lady in the tube just heard me give a command which I did
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not give. Alexa turn on third floor lights. My screen went black and I
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thought oh my god I can’t believe it because I’ve replaced the power supply
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in this Mac and I haven’t had any power off issues ever since and that was I
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don’t know what months ago a year ago whatever mm-hmm over a year ago now I
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I guess and all of a sudden my screen went black and I lost my FaceTime call, but everything else was running
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So I think I don’t know for me the call just died and I figured that you either got
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Frustrated and hung up or that you can hit by a meteor
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Why not both if I get hit by a meteor Peter?
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I am gonna be frustrated and I really frustrated up and you may hang up. Yes
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Turn on lights
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we were talking about our beers and I was talking about how I have a
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mango cart beer which I had first this
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thing was Saturday after a 10k run with my buddy Greg and
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We both liked it. And so, you know, I immediately bought myself a 15-pack
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So this is like the third or fourth fourth time. I think I’ve had this beer now wait, and it’s really good earlier
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or didn’t you say a 10 pack?
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And then it was a 12 pack and now it’s 15 pack.
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You keep increasing.
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No, it was a 15 pack.
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Okay.
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And once again, I have Cactus Wins the Lottery,
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Sour Ale with Prickly Pear by Ex Novo,
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and it is a sour ale and it’s quite good.
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I like it.
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Well, I’m glad that they didn’t lie about that
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’cause I would hate to like take a big swig
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of what you thought was a sour ale
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and find out it was a Belgian quad or something.
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Yeah, no danger of that.
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Ah.
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So how are you?
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So, I’m okay.
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I’m all right.
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I hope you’re doing better than me, technologically speaking.
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I mean, that’s hit or miss, really.
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You know, I took a meeting today,
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took a meeting while out on the trail running,
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so that was fun.
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So you were heavy breathing into your meeting.
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I didn’t have anything to say the entire time.
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Well, no, about 35 minutes into it,
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they said some things that I had to say.
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Wait, no, not accurate, not safe.
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Oh, I thought they were like,
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”Peter, what should our business strategy be?”
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And he says,
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make trillions when we could make billions? That’s pretty, that sounds kind of like them, yeah.
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No, it was more like, hey, you know what, the security team, we need, you know, you guys have
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grown to a point where we need to have you on call because someone called me out specifically, said,
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we had, you know, during this outage last week when like this entire hospital was offline,
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Peter Nikolaidis was very helpful. So the chief health information officer for the hospital,
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which is my largest engagement, said, “Yeah, we should have him on call pretty much effectively 24/7.”
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And I was just like, “Hahahaha, we need to talk more money.”
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[Clears throat]
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Because they thought that I would just do this as part of my existing contract, and I was like, “Yeah, no.”
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But doesn’t your boss have a say in this?
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He said, “We’ll talk about it.”
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To you or to them?
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Us. And then he talked about it, and he said that he’s planning on not doing anything and hoping that it just blows over.
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Are these people that have the ability to tell him what to do?
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Yeah.
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And/or to pressure him into quitting and leaving the country?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Oh yeah. But then I would just say, “Okay, well, my work is done here. Goodbye.”
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Yes. I’ve done everything I could, which apparently is nothing.
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Yeah, pretty much. Quantum et demonstratum.
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So not just technology, but you were having a little bit of a fit with technology before this,
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too. Like yesterday.
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Yesterday, yeah.
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It had something to do with horses that they rode in on.
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Every horse, I think, if I recall.
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Every horse they rode in on.
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Yeah. Well, who are you going to do to these horses and why?
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I said them and every horse they rode in on.
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Got it. Shouldn’t our bleep sound be the sound of a can opening?
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It should be and I will get one.
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OK, just making sure.
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Maybe we could record our own.
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We could we can rehearse that a few times.
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That’s a good idea.
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It may need many takes.
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We maybe we should do that now.
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Maybe we should go through your 15 pack trying to get the right sound.
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Awesome.
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So what was up? What was technology frustrating you last few days?
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I have an external heart rate monitor for when I exercise
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and it is a armband heart rate monitor.
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wahoo tickr fit? wahoo tickr fit.
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Same one I have.
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That is correct. And it has been it’s just more reliable.
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Like I have an Apple Watch.
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Apple Watch to me is something I can’t have any downtime on for exercising.
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But in terms of heart rate monitor, it’s on your wrist.
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It’s very hard for an optical heart rate sensor to be accurate
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when it’s on your wrist. It’s just not the best.
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That said, let me interrupt you for just a quick second.
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Back when I got my watch, my Apple Watch, it was rated as the most accurate
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when it came for fitness tracking in its class.
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In its class, that’s right.
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But that’s the class of wrist based heart rate monitors.
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Yeah. And it is very accurate for that. It’s quite good.
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It’s just I wanted something a little more accurate.
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And I bought the wahoo tickr fit.
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And when I bought it, it was really reliable.
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I got good results from it over time.
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And I don’t know why, but over time it has started to lowball me seriously.
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I know when I’m doing 109 beats per minute
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and when I’m doing 140 beats per minute, I can tell the difference.
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Mm hmm. I did some math, by the way.
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Let me see.
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140 is greater than 109 if that’s what you’re wondering.
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Yeah, but just in a workout that I did the other day, for example, the heart rate monitor,
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the external heart rate monitor was giving me 6.6 calories per minute if you do the math.
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And the Apple Watch one was calculating me out at 8.8 calories per minute.
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That’s based on heart rate.
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Got it.
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That’s because of the difference in heart rate that it was measuring.
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Got it.
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hour, that equates to external heart rate monitor would say,
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okay, his heart rate was such that he’s burned just under 400
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calories, whereas the Apple watch would say, no, he’s done
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528 now extrapolate that to 90 minutes.
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Yeah.
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Pretty soon I’m putting in an extra half hour to 45 minutes
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to get the same amount of calories burned.
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Yep.
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And it’s frustrating.
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And I don’t want to do that.
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I’m not exercising just for the fun of it.
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I do longer work.
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Like I don’t just work out for 40 minutes or whatever.
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I typically do an hour to 90 minutes, sometimes two hours.
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Yeah, that’s fine.
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But if I’m going to do that, I want to know reliably
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how many calories I’m actually burning.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I don’t know why.
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I don’t know if it was a software update.
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I did see some things on Reddit.
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People were saying the latest firmware update borked them as well.
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All I know is I’ve decided that external optical sensor
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heart rate monitors in me are not friends.
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My Apple Watch, though, the last two days has been pretty good
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and it’s been giving me about what I think should be.
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And but the whole reason I went away from it to begin with was I was getting just because of where it’s positioned
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I would get sweaty. Yep, the bank etc. You know, you know all the reasons why yeah
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So now I’ve ordered a chest strap heart rate monitor and those are not optical, right?
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Those use electrodes. Okay, and so I’m gonna see how that goes
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I have been using the wahoo tickr fit since you told me about it and I love mines great
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Mine used to be great too. But the reason I bought mine was as of watch OS 7
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the Apple watch
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Completely lost its ability to give me accurate heart rate for at least
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Like 15 20 minutes of any running workout it would start out and I can always tell like those days when I have forgotten
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To make sure that the ticker fit is paired with my watch
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because I’ll glance down at the workout and it shows like no heart rate and
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on those days you look at it and you’ll see the heart rate is showing at like
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180 or 190 beats per minute, right? Right, which is not where I’m at
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That’s the problem with optical heart rate monitors and that is the problem in specific with the Apple watch
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Adjusting the band can make a difference sliding it up and down the arm slightly can make a difference. Absolutely
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That’s what I was having with the Wahoo though where I would just barely adjust it and I would get a 20 or 30 beat per
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Minute difference. Yep, and it’s like which is real who knows pick one. So on that note now, here’s the thing for me though
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I’ve had an Apple watch series to a series 4 and it’s now a series 6
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Mm-hmm. I had the same problem with the 4 and the 6 when I’m watch OS 7 came out before
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Completely lost its ability to get an accurate reading early on in my runs
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Have you thought about not getting even numbered watches? Well, the seven should be coming out next month. So sure. Why not?
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Let’s try it. Yep
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So I got the ticker fit and I love it now on that note a year and a half ago last March
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I ran my first
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13.2 miles
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Not part of a race just a personal best longest run ever. Yeah this Sunday
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I ran 13.25. So last year it was actually it was 13.21 and this year I ran 13.25 just on Sunday and
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The times between those two were within like five seconds of each other
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But the heart rate
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Last year was shown as an average of 165 beats per minute
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And this year it was like 135 beats per minute
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Do you believe that 165? That seems awfully high.
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165 is when I’m working pretty hard.
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Yeah, that’s hard work.
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So now I’m starting to question those numbers.
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Although, I will say this year it felt a lot easier than it did last year.
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Oh, I’m sure you’re more fit and I’m sure that you’re more efficient.
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And for the same exercise your heart rate’s not going to be as high.
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But running for 13 miles at 165 beats per minute? I don’t…
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It seems pretty stressed out. I would have been like, you know, like really working hard.
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Yeah, right.
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But that makes me wonder then, that means like basically I have years of heart rate data which is unreliable.
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Maybe.
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Yeah, I mean on that note, I need to move on to beer number two.
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Oh.
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Same one as last time. Yeah, a return appearance is Ithaca Brewing Company’s Apricot Wheat.
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So, I’m going from a mango wheat beer to an apricot wheat beer.
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Now I remember this one. I like the flavor and the taste profile of this.
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You almost said the taste prophylactic.
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I heard you.
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Prophylactic, exactly. No, I mean that taste prophylactic, that’s like a beer that tastes so
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garbage that you just don’t even want to drink it. It keeps you away.
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This one is not as sweet as the mango cart, but it’s got a very, you know,
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nice profound apricot flavor. So, cheers.
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Cheers. I’m still on my first beer. I’m going to go get my second one,
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which will be another one that I haven’t had before.
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Ah, I thought about that too. I actually did think about burning through because I had
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seven new beers in my fridge. Most of them wheat beers and stuff and I thought it was like,
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”Well, I could go through two. Thank you, you’re catching up. Good job.”
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Yeah, I’m out.
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But I decided I also have a lot of these apricot wheats here too,
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so I should you know like burn through one of those. So that’s what I’m doing. So…
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So, yeah, I mean unquestionably I still love my Apple Watch but my friend,
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so speaking about our issues with fitness trackers, I think this is like the fitness
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tracker slam episode. So my buddy Greg runs with a Fitbit. I don’t remember which model.
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Let me ask him. What model Fitbit do you have? My dearest Gregory. My dearest Gregory,
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may I make of you an inquiry? So we’ll ask him what happened. It’s not like the super duper top
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of the line latest and greatest. I don’t know what he runs, but he has been having issues with his
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distances. Now he is training for the Bay State Marathon, which is literally, oh it’s two months
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away from today actually. So I have in the past volunteered to just run along with him as long
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as it made sense. For now, again this this weekend, this coming Sunday, I think he’s planning on
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either 14 or 15 miles and stuff and his, you know, it goes up to about that. But it’s mostly he’s
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He’s doing like six miles, three miles, six miles, 15, six, three, six, 16, six, three, six, 14, whatever.
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He’s not doing too many multiple long days in a row. He’s alternating.
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Yeah. So I’ll probably go with him all the way up to, but not including the marathon, so…
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You should include the marathon.
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Eh, eh, it’s not really a… Eh, maybe, I don’t know.
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But anyway, so I’m sort of half-heartedly half-training for a marathon now,
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which includes effectively a half marathon every week.
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You’ve run more than one half marathon unsupported.
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Like the only time I ever ran half marathon distance,
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it was in a supported event.
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So I could run by somebody
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and grab a drink out of their hand or whatever.
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Right, yeah.
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So, you know, anyway, so that’s, that’s what’s fun.
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But he is also having trouble, you know, challenges.
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Cause he uses, he’s a Strava guy.
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So he uses Strava.
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Like me, he will often use footpath to plot a route.
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I like Footpath ‘cause it lets you plot out a route
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and then send it to your Apple Watch
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and it’ll tell you, “Turn left here,” and so.
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And it’s got better support for trails
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than something like Google or Apple Maps.
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Yes.
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So he has his Fitbit
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and he has been getting inconsistent results.
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The GPS just fritzes out.
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And I think that it seems to be just like basing
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or estimating his distance based on step count.
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Now that said, we were almost exactly 5K from my house
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on our way back, just finishing like the last three miles.
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And I told him, you know, no, this is gonna work out
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just perfectly ‘cause from this cemetery back to my house,
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it’s almost exactly, you know, 5K
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’cause I’ve done this bunch of times.
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We did that and we get back to, you know,
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the final turn into my street that I live on
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and I was still a quarter mile short.
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Wow.
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And so I’m like, so I don’t know what’s going on.
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He’s got the Fitbit Versa 3 right now.
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Okay.
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So, just for kicks, a friend of the show, Adam Bell, has the top-rated Fitbit for things
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like CrossFit.
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And Greg and my running coach, Charlie, has the top-of-the-line Garmin, made for people
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who are going to be off the grid for five days in a row.
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Right, right, right.
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And need something that can do that.
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Wait, is this Charlie guy the same guy who was your roommate for a while?
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Yeah, that’s the same.
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The one who, by the way, you can find at run with Charlie dot
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wait, Charlie, dot run, run with run with Charlie dot run, I believe.
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Charlie with beer run.
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Yeah. No, no.
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We’ll find that and put a link in the show.
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I’m pretty sure it’s run with Charlie dot run.
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So it’s like run with Charlie, run, run, Charlie, run.
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By the way, listeners, I don’t know Charlie very well, but I have seen Charlie.
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And if you just by going by looks if you ever want to pick a running coach that guy is the running coach to pick
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Indeed. Yes, if you’re going by looks he looks like a runner code that dude looks freaking fit. Yeah. Yeah
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Yeah, so yes it is. It’s it’s run with Charlie run. Yep. That’s it
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I’m so definitely put a link into the show notes because everyone will forget that by now
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Oh, he’s she picked a new he picked a new theme for his website that’s great
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So anyway, Greg has been having trouble with his Fitbit. And so I told him dude, you got to get a new one, right?
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And I was looking really quickly on Amazon and you know, then I’ve read some reviews like you know
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I think was Tech Target. I read their best running fitness tracker watches for 2021
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And I think Garmin was like the number one and then there was a new brand that neither of us had ever heard of
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Coming in and like the number two had four slots and it was only like 200 bucks compared to the others
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which were all like four or five and six hundred dollars.
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What website was this?
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This was I believe it was TechTarget.
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So we can dig that up.
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Apple watch came in the top ten but it was not you know it was it was like number nine
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on the list as far as runners go.
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But you know as much as a runner that I am I’m more than a runner and I do appreciate
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the integration with my iOS devices and be able to make phone calls and stuff like that
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from the watch.
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Yeah right right right right.
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see that changing for me anytime soon and plus for me I think the metrics are good enough.
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So they are and honestly the Apple Watch is really good as in terms of like I said it’s
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my device that I can’t do with any downtime on. Yeah if my Apple Watch craps out I’m going
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and buying another one that day like it doesn’t matter if I get any money for my old one it
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doesn’t matter if it gets repaired I don’t care I’m going to get one that day. I remember
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what it was like when mine died last year just at the start of COVID. Yeah and I was
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without it for weeks because of the, you know, because of the pandemic. And I remember going
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back to running with a phone for the first time in months and I hated it.
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It sucks.
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Now that said, I’ve been using a running belt by FlipBelt and that changes the game totally.
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I almost forget that I’m carrying anything when I have it on me. So it’s the next best thing. But
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But I generally like on a day like today,
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when I expect to take a call on a meeting,
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I will bring the phone with me, right?
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’Cause it’s hard to dial into a WebEx meeting on a watch.
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But on days when I just need to be able to like
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take a phone call, if someone needs to call me,
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then I just use the watch and I leave the phone.
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And most days I don’t even take water with me.
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If I’m doing like more than 10 miles or it’s really hot,
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I’ll bring water.
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But most days it’s just like me, my watch
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and my running shoes and I’m good.
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See, I… Yeah, I could probably do that. I don’t know, I drink a lot of water.
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So, you know how they have these flip belt Arc water…
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I have one of those. My buddy Greg has the smaller 6 ounce ones. I have the 11 ounce Arc.
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I’ve got a different belt and it’s got bottles about the size of that smaller one.
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Now, the thing that I don’t like about mine, I don’t know how the water bottles touch on this,
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but on mine they have these little plastic holsters that go on the belt that they go into.
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And it looks really stupid and I’m not really a fan of it.
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But anyway, just doing that five mile run I did the other day outside for the first time in a long time doing an outside run, I took one of those little bottles with me and I drank the whole thing.
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I just I drink a lot while I exercise. And I don’t know if I even want to run five miles without water, honestly. Maybe I would, but I don’t know.
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I found back last year when I was running and especially like when I did that 13 miler, the first one, it was a crutch for me.
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I was using it as an excuse to stop and take a sip of water or take a break or something.
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Oh, I never stopped a drink. Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, I would. Otherwise I’d like, you know, start waterboarding myself or something.
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Well, these little bottles, they’ve got a cap that makes it easy to…
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And plus you got to remember, I’m a cycler. You don’t… You just keep going while you eat and
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drink. And same with running. I’ll just keep going. And those little bottles I have, they’ve got a nice
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little cap. You just pull it up with your teeth, take a squirt and then push it right back down.
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You’re good to go. You never stop.
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So, you know, that’s one way to do it. But I found like most days I’m like,
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I don’t need water, you know, so I just leave it behind.
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Do you hydrate like crazy beforehand?
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I try. I’m still working on that because I don’t like having to stop to relieve myself
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of everything that I hydrated like crazy beforehand. But I find that if I need to
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give myself at least half an hour after I pound some water before I leave the door.
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Otherwise it all wants to come out as soon as I start running.
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You know, it’s weird. Running is different, but in general,
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once I start exercising, my biological needs kind of go away.
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However, one big difference between running and biking is the old,
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uh, emergency stop in the woods syndrome,
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but running definitely brings that out way more than biking does.
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Well, you’re shaking, you know what I’m talking about?
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But this, the thing is like, there’s an initial hump that you have to cross.
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You know?
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So that’s it.
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Maybe that’s the whole point of warming up.
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Maybe that’s why you’re supposed to do that.
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But let me say, let me put it this way.
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I’ve never suddenly felt like I had to poop while I was riding a bike, but I have definitely
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had that issue when I’ve been running.
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That’s a thing.
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And in the book, I Hate Running and So Can You, he talks about that on at least two or
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maybe even three times in the book about the number of times you have to stop during a
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run.
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Yeah.
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I was like, that should be something that you could plan for.
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Yeah, I don’t ever want to be running and hear this.
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You pooped your pants!
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That happens a lot to runners apparently.
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So that’s a thing. Hey, I remember watching, oh what was it? I can’t remember where I saw this,
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but this poor bastard who was running like a marathon,
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and he just pooped all down his own leg and everything. I mean it was everywhere,
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and he just was crying and I felt bad for the guy because that’s horrible. That is just horrible.
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Yeah, that is horrible.
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That’s not-
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That’s one of one of the advantages of trail running versus,
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you know, running in the city.
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Yeah. And if it’s trail running, first of all, you’re probably alone
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and there’s places to hide to poop.
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But also, if for some reason you do poop down your leg,
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you can just say you fell in the mud. Perfect.
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And as long as they don’t get too close, they won’t know the difference.
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Gross. I’m just saying that options there.
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Oh, boy. So moving on.
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Yeah, but I still.
00:24:20.500 —> 00:24:22.100
Moving back back to you.
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you talk to the listener about moving back whatever you’re moving back to. I’m I got
00:24:26.580 —> 00:24:31.060
to get my second beer, friend. Oh wow, I thought you already had. No, it’s downstairs in the fridge.
00:24:31.060 —> 00:24:36.340
Go get your beer. I’m waiting. All right. Well, listener, this is the part in the show where where
00:24:36.340 —> 00:24:43.060
I deliberately talk to you alone as if Scott, you know, had like technical difficulties or something.
00:24:43.060 —> 00:24:51.220
So, back to my beer. Once again, Apricot Wheat Beer from Ithaca Brewing Company. It is a wheat
00:24:51.220 —> 00:24:58.100
Sweet ale with natural apricot flavor, just like it was last episode, so that hasn’t changed.
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Tastes just like it.
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So it’s nice.
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It’s not sweet.
00:25:02.000 —> 00:25:06.100
It tastes ever so slightly…
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Do I want to even say hoppier?
00:25:07.460 —> 00:25:09.900
Let me see if that’s the word.
00:25:09.900 —> 00:25:11.940
No, not hoppier.
00:25:11.940 —> 00:25:18.140
It’s just less sweet than the mango cart, but not in a bad way.
00:25:18.140 —> 00:25:23.340
if you want a really sweet beer, this is not the one that you would get. But no, it tastes
00:25:23.340 —> 00:25:27.540
pretty good. And you know, I’m enjoying it because I am a wheat beer kind of guy. So
00:25:27.540 —> 00:25:31.980
that’s the kind of thing I like. So I would check it out. But if you are into a lighter,
00:25:31.980 —> 00:25:39.580
fruitier, sweeter beer, I definitely recommend that you check out Golden Road Mango Cart.
00:25:39.580 —> 00:25:47.260
On that note, I have a rogue. I have a rogue Newport Days D A Z E. It is a hazy pale ale.
00:25:47.260 —> 00:25:48.920
My wife sampled this earlier today.
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It is not an India pale ale.
00:25:51.440 —> 00:25:53.580
Good.
00:25:53.580 —> 00:25:55.040
And this looks like another light.
00:25:55.040 —> 00:25:57.820
So we’ve been doing the light summery beers
00:25:57.820 —> 00:25:58.660
and I kind of like that about this.
00:25:58.660 —> 00:26:00.720
Well, it’s because it’s summery.
00:26:00.720 —> 00:26:01.560
I agree.
00:26:01.560 —> 00:26:02.380
It’s light and summery.
00:26:02.380 —> 00:26:03.540
It’s funny you mentioned that too,
00:26:03.540 —> 00:26:05.220
’cause Sam Adams this year,
00:26:05.220 —> 00:26:09.320
their seasonals are Wicked Easy and Wicked Hazy.
00:26:09.320 —> 00:26:13.420
And one of them is a summer IPA
00:26:13.420 —> 00:26:15.500
and the other’s a summer wheat beer.
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So.
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one’s not too bad. I kind of like the other one better but they’ve got a
00:26:19.880 —> 00:26:25.340
little star chart here. Can you see this? Yeah I see the star yes. And then
00:26:25.340 —> 00:26:29.940
they highlight the part of it where so it’s more tropical and more citrusy. It’s
00:26:29.940 —> 00:26:38.780
less malty, less bitter, less… what does that word say? Pine. No no pine. No pine
00:26:38.780 —> 00:26:44.460
intended. So no pine intended. Do not pine. Yeah so I can taste a little bit of the
00:26:44.460 —> 00:26:50.040
hops on this but it is citrusy. If I had to choose between these two beers, I would definitely
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go for the Ex Novo Cactus Beer Sour Ale over this.
00:26:56.460 —> 00:27:00.120
But Rogue is one of my… but I do… there
00:27:00.120 —> 00:27:05.500
are a lot of good Rogue ones that I like and I think in the past I’ve had the Rogue Honey
00:27:05.500 —> 00:27:10.580
Kolsch style ale on this podcast and that one’s really good. This is pretty good. I
00:27:10.580 —> 00:27:15.480
I don’t think I would buy this over their honey coles style ale for sure.
00:27:15.480 —> 00:27:20.760
Okay. Have you had their like rogue dead guy ale or anything like that?
00:27:20.760 —> 00:27:24.680
I’ve had some of those, yeah. I’m not a big fan of those.
00:27:24.680 —> 00:27:26.380
Got it.
00:27:26.380 —> 00:27:27.580
All right, I was just curious.
00:27:27.580 —> 00:27:32.580
Yeah. This is good though. I like it, but I definitely would buy the honey one first.
00:27:32.580 —> 00:27:33.480
Excellent.
00:27:33.480 —> 00:27:35.980
For any listeners out there.
00:27:35.980 —> 00:27:43.980
So I was trying to find the same article on those fitness trackers that I mentioned and somehow I got redirected over to amazon.co.uk
00:27:43.980 —> 00:27:50.580
Well, Tech Radar, I don’t know what it is, but it ain’t a fitness related website.
00:27:50.580 —> 00:27:52.580
This is not Tech Radar, sorry.
00:27:52.580 —> 00:27:55.580
Why did you switch me over?
00:27:55.580 —> 00:28:00.580
You are shopping amazon.co.uk. I know, and that’s the problem.
00:28:00.580 —> 00:28:02.080
Yeah, that is the problem.
00:28:02.080 —> 00:28:03.080
I want to go home.
00:28:03.080 —> 00:28:06.440
Thank you for telling me that thing that I don’t want to do that I’m currently doing
00:28:06.440 —> 00:28:11.380
Technology can’t even we’re having quite a week
00:28:11.380 —> 00:28:18.960
Technology and even you know what here’s what’s happening to us the right malware can corrupt the machines entire system
00:28:18.960 —> 00:28:25.760
It won’t even be able to start it would take decades for them to recode it. Whoa in tech in decades to recode it
00:28:25.760 —> 00:28:29.480
Oh my god over two terabyte over two terabyte of decade
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huh
00:28:31.880 —> 00:28:36.280
That’s hilarious. Can’t make it up. Yeah, I never watched season two of Mr. Robot.
00:28:36.280 —> 00:28:41.880
Season two was definitely different. At first I did not like it as much. When I went back and
00:28:41.880 —> 00:28:45.640
watched some of it again, I realized that it actually was pretty good TV, but it’s definitely
00:28:45.640 —> 00:28:52.360
a different feel. And I can see why it lost some people. But overall, you’ve got to watch the whole
00:28:52.360 —> 00:28:58.600
series. Right. There are some arguments to be made for the ending was disappointing, blah blah blah,
00:28:58.600 —> 00:29:00.840
But overall, it was just a good ride.
00:29:00.840 —> 00:29:05.720
A lot of violence, a lot of characters dying and unexpected in sad ways.
00:29:05.720 —> 00:29:07.720
And cool. Yeah. Wait.
00:29:07.720 —> 00:29:11.440
I really don’t like that when a series I am.
00:29:11.440 —> 00:29:14.360
I have to assume I could easily look this up, but I’m lazy.
00:29:14.360 —> 00:29:19.740
And dear listener, you’re paying absolutely zero dollars for this podcast.
00:29:19.740 —> 00:29:22.080
So you’re getting every cent of your investment back.
00:29:22.080 —> 00:29:28.580
So like, I hate it when a series takes like a 90 degree turn
00:29:28.580 —> 00:29:33.500
in the third or fourth or fifth season or in this case maybe the second season. Like
00:29:33.500 —> 00:29:39.900
I remember so I did not finish the series but I watched the first several years of Vikings
00:29:39.900 —> 00:29:43.700
which I don’t remember was HBO or Showtime I think it was Showtime, I don’t remember.
00:29:43.700 —> 00:29:45.220
That’s why I never heard of it then.
00:29:45.220 —> 00:29:49.700
Yeah, I mean it was you know, it’s like a fictional account of this you know, famous
00:29:49.700 —> 00:29:50.700
Viking and stuff.
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Guys with horns.
00:29:51.700 —> 00:29:54.780
Those guys, yes, the ones with the horns. The horny guys from Iceland.
00:29:54.780 —> 00:29:56.340
I think that’s all the guys from Iceland.
00:29:56.340 —> 00:29:58.940
Yeah, I’ll tell my friend Jacob. I’m sure he’ll agree.
00:29:58.940 —> 00:29:59.440
Okay.
00:29:59.440 —> 00:30:03.940
I watched the first few seasons. I was like, yeah, this is pretty good. I liked it.
00:30:03.940 —> 00:30:09.940
And then they change things. They kill off the main character and they make it instead about his sons.
00:30:09.940 —> 00:30:12.940
And I think what happened was then Amazon picked it up.
00:30:12.940 —> 00:30:20.740
And like in one, like between seasons, I don’t remember, six and seven or five and six or whatnot,
00:30:21.340 —> 00:30:30.140
the first new episode opens up with the former main characters, now ex-wife,
00:30:30.140 —> 00:30:35.900
and her wife, and they are training and doing jiu-jitsu.
00:30:35.900 —> 00:30:36.400
Okay.
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These are Vikings.
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Right.
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But like, well, you know what we need to do for the next season?
00:30:41.580 —> 00:30:45.500
We need to make her a lesbian and make them practice jiu-jitsu.
00:30:45.500 —> 00:30:46.000
Right.
00:30:46.000 —> 00:30:50.620
And I was just like, oh, so this is where you guys jump the shark.
00:30:50.620 —> 00:30:52.120
Got it.
00:30:52.120 —> 00:30:54.320
It was like, and I just,
00:30:54.320 —> 00:30:56.960
I think I may have finished out that season,
00:30:56.960 —> 00:30:59.200
but I couldn’t go on to the next one.
00:30:59.200 —> 00:31:01.280
I was like, this is terrible, so.
00:31:01.280 —> 00:31:02.120
Yeah, I would not say
00:31:02.120 —> 00:31:05.480
that Mr. Robot took a hard left turn,
00:31:05.480 —> 00:31:08.180
but I would say that it definitely has a different feel
00:31:08.180 —> 00:31:11.640
the second season, but it’s not out of line with the series
00:31:11.640 —> 00:31:14.040
once you get through it and realize what’s going on.
00:31:14.040 —> 00:31:14.880
Yep.
00:31:14.880 —> 00:31:16.880
It’s not like this makes no sense.
00:31:16.880 —> 00:31:17.800
It does make sense.
00:31:17.800 —> 00:31:22.040
It’s just that I think based on the first few episodes, some people thought,
00:31:22.040 —> 00:31:27.000
oh, this entire thing is only going to be about hacking and it’s just going to be about the leaked computer skills and blah, blah, blah.
00:31:27.000 —> 00:31:29.720
And it’s not. It’s a lot more interesting than that.
00:31:29.720 —> 00:31:35.320
But to be honest, OK, that’s kind of what kept me going was that it wasn’t just that because I’m good with that.
00:31:35.320 —> 00:31:38.520
But I don’t really want to watch a show that doesn’t go any deeper than that.
00:31:38.520 —> 00:31:40.520
Right. There was more to it.
00:31:40.520 —> 00:31:46.760
Another one that comes to my mind when I think of shows that I initially liked and then took -
00:31:46.760 —> 00:31:47.800
Umbridge at?
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A hard right turn.
00:31:49.160 —> 00:31:49.800
Oh, okay.
00:31:49.800 —> 00:31:55.880
Was this is like more than 10 years ago, The Unit. It starred the guy I don’t remember
00:31:55.880 —> 00:32:02.920
his name but he does all the Allstate commercials and it was about a squad it was basically Delta
00:32:02.920 —> 00:32:08.920
Force and you know, like the first episode started off and I was like “dude, this is like G.I. Joe,
00:32:08.920 —> 00:32:14.200
this is awesome!” And you know like there’s some terrorist here and so they send in this guy and he
00:32:14.200 —> 00:32:20.360
you know taps two Rangers and they like air drop in and you know save the day and whatnot.
00:32:20.360 —> 00:32:24.200
And I watched the first couple of seasons I was like “Yeah this is really cool!” And then
00:32:24.200 —> 00:32:28.600
I think it was like the fourth season or something they introduced Robert Patrick
00:32:28.600 —> 00:32:35.640
aka Terminator 2. Oh okay. As like their new commanding officer but where they lost me was
00:32:35.640 —> 00:32:41.240
they decided like, “Well, you know what we, what, you know, Command has decided we have to do is,
00:32:41.240 —> 00:32:48.680
we need to include your wives on your missions now.” On the missions? Yeah. So, like, they would
00:32:48.680 —> 00:32:53.480
be doing these undercover things and all of a sudden their wives are now just put into the
00:32:53.480 —> 00:32:57.400
missions just part of it, just like that, with like no training or anything. Well, I was going
00:32:57.400 —> 00:33:03.480
to say, I have zero issue and in fact would welcome them having women involved as well,
00:33:03.480 —> 00:33:06.120
but those would be people that had trained.
00:33:06.120 —> 00:33:11.800
Those would not just be your wife. If you’re a Delta Force highly trained operative,
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doesn’t mean that suddenly your wife is too. That’s not how it works.
00:33:15.800 —> 00:33:17.000
That is not how it works.
00:33:17.000 —> 00:33:22.280
I mean, G.I. Joe, they had a couple of strong female figures.
00:33:22.280 —> 00:33:28.600
There were, I can think of at least four. That’s like one percent of the whole thing.
00:33:28.600 —> 00:33:32.840
But I just noticed when I was looking at the cast and crew, by the way, whatever happened to IMDB,
00:33:32.840 —> 00:33:36.140
It is a horrible website now. But anyway, Amazon bought it.
00:33:36.140 —> 00:33:41.280
Wes Chatham is in that. He is in The Expanse, and I really like The Expanse.
00:33:41.280 —> 00:33:49.640
Oh, okay. I watched the first… I want to say first episode of The Expanse and could not get into it.
00:33:49.640 —> 00:33:52.540
Oh, yeah, I’ve heard that before, but it gets pretty good.
00:33:52.540 —> 00:33:53.440
I’ve heard that too.
00:33:53.440 —> 00:33:56.840
And they get more nuanced with some of the characters, yeah.
00:33:56.840 —> 00:34:02.640
Like, his character in particular, he’s a bit of a psychopath who just goes around killing anybody that he deems needs killed,
00:34:02.640 —> 00:34:05.120
but there’s actually more to him than that and they kind of get into it.
00:34:05.120 —> 00:34:06.480
They get into why he’s that way.
00:34:06.480 —> 00:34:11.780
They get into him changing a little bit over time, becoming more of a normal person.
00:34:11.780 —> 00:34:12.760
But it’s pretty good.
00:34:12.760 —> 00:34:15.960
I’m not going to say it’s a perfect show, but it’s definitely an enjoyable show.
00:34:15.960 —> 00:34:18.660
I mean, let’s be honest. Haven’t we all had days like that?
00:34:18.660 —> 00:34:21.100
We have definitely all had days where we felt like, you know what?
00:34:21.100 —> 00:34:22.860
I’ve got to kill some people that need to be killed.
00:34:22.860 —> 00:34:25.540
And by the way, that’s pretty much all of them.
00:34:25.540 —> 00:34:27.440
There you go. What else do we have?
00:34:27.440 —> 00:34:29.000
We’re getting pretty close.
00:34:29.000 —> 00:34:32.240
I was going to talk a little bit about Windows 365.
00:34:32.240 —> 00:34:34.480
Okay, let’s hear about it because I don’t know anything about it.
00:34:34.480 —> 00:34:39.840
Though I use Windows every day at work, I don’t have any…
00:34:39.840 —> 00:34:41.480
Windows is one of those who cares operating.
00:34:41.480 —> 00:34:43.780
There’s nothing exciting about it.
00:34:43.780 —> 00:34:47.020
It says a guy who, you know, is always on a Mac,
00:34:47.020 —> 00:34:49.920
but for 90% of the rest of the world.
00:34:49.920 —> 00:34:51.220
But I mean, it’s a who cares thing.
00:34:51.220 —> 00:34:54.820
It’s not for people that really give a shit about their computing experience.
00:34:54.820 —> 00:34:56.820
I would argue.
00:34:56.820 —> 00:34:57.580
Okay.
00:34:57.580 —> 00:35:00.040
It’s not made for the computing experience.
00:35:00.040 —> 00:35:02.480
It’s made to be a computer operating system.
00:35:02.480 —> 00:35:04.580
It fulfills that duty.
00:35:04.580 —> 00:35:06.280
But I also am not mad at it.
00:35:06.280 —> 00:35:08.560
Like I don’t, it doesn’t enrage me
00:35:08.560 —> 00:35:10.160
that I have to use Windows, for example.
00:35:10.160 —> 00:35:11.000
It’s fine.
00:35:11.000 —> 00:35:11.840
I’ll use it at work.
00:35:11.840 —> 00:35:13.040
It has its uses.
00:35:13.040 —> 00:35:15.880
We use a lot of Windows Server for different things.
00:35:15.880 —> 00:35:17.680
We use a lot of Windows Server for systems
00:35:17.680 —> 00:35:18.720
that have to talk to each other
00:35:18.720 —> 00:35:20.960
and they need tons of multiple incoming
00:35:20.960 —> 00:35:21.920
or outgoing connections.
00:35:21.920 —> 00:35:25.020
And so for that, we use Windows Server.
00:35:25.020 —> 00:35:27.320
And the reason why we use Windows Server
00:35:27.320 —> 00:35:29.560
instead of some Unix or Linux variant for that kind of thing
00:35:29.560 —> 00:35:32.720
is just because it’s easier to find C# programmers apparently
00:35:32.720 —> 00:35:37.080
than it is to find people who, you know, the web would argue otherwise.
00:35:37.080 —> 00:35:39.720
But for applications like ours, apparently that’s the case.
00:35:39.720 —> 00:35:47.160
Yep. Well, the thing with Windows 365 is essentially it is Windows in the cloud.
00:35:47.160 —> 00:35:51.680
So it’s Microsoft hosting a virtual desktop infrastructure for you.
00:35:51.680 —> 00:35:53.200
OK. That’s what it is.
00:35:53.200 —> 00:35:55.520
It’s not going to replace desktop windows, correct?
00:35:55.520 —> 00:35:58.840
Well, it could, but you still need something.
00:35:58.880 —> 00:36:06.400
you need some sort of device to use as the remote desktop client to get to this thing in the cloud.
00:36:06.400 —> 00:36:10.320
Right, but what I mean is Microsoft isn’t going to say, “Everyone’s going to use this model.
00:36:10.320 —> 00:36:12.960
No one’s going to have Windows running locally on their PC.”
00:36:12.960 —> 00:36:18.000
No, no, no. But as more and more places move to virtual desktop infrastructure,
00:36:18.000 —> 00:36:22.960
because it’s more secure, it’s more easily backed up and restored, etc.
00:36:22.960 —> 00:36:25.200
Right, and somebody logs in and they get their profile.
00:36:25.200 —> 00:36:26.080
I mean, it’s…
00:36:26.080 —> 00:36:26.640
Exactly.
00:36:28.320 —> 00:36:31.820
But what I was thinking is like when, knock on wood,
00:36:31.820 —> 00:36:35.800
when this seven year old Intel Core i5 desktop of mine
00:36:35.800 —> 00:36:39.380
finally kicks the bucket and I’ve got a Macintosh again,
00:36:39.380 —> 00:36:43.640
I’ll probably just replace it with a Windows virtual
00:36:43.640 —> 00:36:46.240
desktop in the cloud, either Windows 365
00:36:46.240 —> 00:36:48.240
or maybe I’ll use the Amazon offering.
00:36:48.240 —> 00:36:49.120
Sure.
00:36:49.120 —> 00:36:51.520
But I can see myself not needing
00:36:51.520 —> 00:36:54.560
a physical Windows device anymore.
00:36:54.560 —> 00:36:55.380
That’d be nice.
00:36:55.380 —> 00:36:56.760
Which is kind of liberating.
00:36:58.200 —> 00:37:00.540
You know, because literally I could use it from a tablet.
00:37:00.540 —> 00:37:02.900
You could, I mean, it’s not a pleasant experience,
00:37:02.900 —> 00:37:04.140
but you can do it with a phone.
00:37:04.140 —> 00:37:05.060
Yeah, I wouldn’t.
00:37:05.060 —> 00:37:05.900
I, yeah.
00:37:05.900 —> 00:37:09.020
Tablet, another, you know, Mac, whatever, web browser.
00:37:09.020 —> 00:37:10.820
So, and that’s kind of nice though.
00:37:10.820 —> 00:37:13.040
Like, you know, being able to like always have access,
00:37:13.040 —> 00:37:14.340
anywhere you have internet access,
00:37:14.340 —> 00:37:17.380
you have access to quote unquote, your computer.
00:37:17.380 —> 00:37:18.220
Yeah.
00:37:18.220 —> 00:37:19.940
You know, so that is pretty cool.
00:37:19.940 —> 00:37:22.760
It’s like a better RDC experience.
00:37:22.760 —> 00:37:23.600
Uh huh.
00:37:23.600 —> 00:37:25.860
Nice. I’m almost done.
00:37:25.860 —> 00:37:27.900
On that note, I just finished mine.
00:37:27.900 —> 00:37:30.300
I’ll wait for you to catch up.
00:37:30.300 —> 00:37:32.420
What else what else do we got?
00:37:32.420 —> 00:37:34.380
I think we went through everything I wanted to cover.
00:37:34.380 —> 00:37:39.100
Oh, I didn’t talk about yoga and meditation but we can save that till the next episode.
00:37:39.100 —> 00:37:41.700
Well okay.
00:37:41.700 —> 00:37:46.900
My coworker just sent me a picture of the inside of our toolbox and there’s a screwdriver
00:37:46.900 —> 00:37:52.700
in there and it is a Phillips screwdriver and it is severely bent and he says “by the
00:37:52.700 —> 00:37:55.060
way, what kind of people work here anymore?”
00:37:55.060 —> 00:37:58.480
Apparently he’s not pleased with the bent screwdriver.
00:37:58.480 —> 00:38:00.240
I mean it was used as a pry bar.
00:38:00.240 —> 00:38:04.320
It’s pretty obvious.
00:38:04.320 —> 00:38:06.440
Apparently people can’t even.
00:38:06.440 —> 00:38:07.440
Apparently people can’t even.
00:38:07.440 —> 00:38:10.800
On that note, I think we should call this a day.
00:38:10.800 —> 00:38:15.240
Oh, one thing I still have, I haven’t listened yet to that beer size that we did the other
00:38:15.240 —> 00:38:17.920
time that’s like 10 or 15 minutes long.
00:38:17.920 —> 00:38:19.800
It may or may not be released.
00:38:19.800 —> 00:38:20.800
I don’t know.
00:38:20.800 —> 00:38:24.440
I’ll have to, oh, well I was going to say I’ll go back and give it a listen, but apparently
00:38:24.440 —> 00:38:31.400
I can’t. No, not right now. It’s never been released. Well on that note, Scott, if, excuse
00:38:31.400 —> 00:38:34.880
me, if I have to burp, what do I do? Okay. If people want to get in touch with us, what
00:38:34.880 —> 00:38:46.640
do they do? Well, they go to friendswithbeer.com or they can tweet at us at friendswbeerpod.
00:38:46.640 —> 00:38:52.080
Should I use the alias? Why is that so funny? Should I use the alias? I don’t know. It just
00:38:52.080 —> 00:38:58.480
is friends w-beer pod friends w-beer pod should i use that no one will ever use that
00:38:58.480 —> 00:39:06.800
but if you want to please do we want your feedback and i think there’s beer dot tweetback dot us that
00:39:06.800 —> 00:39:16.880
will also lead you to friends w-beer pod us okay friends will be your pod i like that so great
00:39:16.880 —> 00:39:22.480
Great. Excellent. And we do want listeners to talk to us. We do. We like feedback, even if it’s just
00:39:22.480 —> 00:39:27.120
something silly. You know, if you try one of the beers that we have, you know, tell us what beers
00:39:27.120 —> 00:39:33.520
you think we should try. And if they’re IPAs, no, but you can still tell us. That’s right. If they’re
00:39:33.520 —> 00:39:38.240
IPAs, we’ll pretend like we never got your message. Yeah. So I don’t know what happened to that email.
00:39:38.240 —> 00:39:42.800
It did just out in the void somewhere. Well, we never gave them an email address, so it definitely
00:39:42.800 —> 00:39:43.800
will be an email.
00:39:43.800 —> 00:39:48.960
So, where else can people find you, Scott, on the interwebs?
00:39:48.960 —> 00:39:50.240
What else are you up to these days?
00:39:50.240 —> 00:39:55.520
Well, I am part of bubblesort.show, so you can go there.
00:39:55.520 —> 00:39:59.860
I’m crouching inside that website just waiting for someone to contact me.
00:39:59.860 —> 00:40:04.720
BubbleSort also has a bubble sort slack, all the links are on the website and I have a
00:40:04.720 —> 00:40:08.600
website called scottwillsey.com and occasionally I post stuff.
00:40:08.600 —> 00:40:14.260
I’ve been posting a series of how I use drafts for publishing blog posts from my iPad Pro
00:40:14.260 —> 00:40:19.900
using a combination of drafts, actions, and shortcuts.
00:40:19.900 —> 00:40:22.340
And I think I have an SSH series I need to finish.
00:40:22.340 —> 00:40:23.340
I don’t know.
00:40:23.340 —> 00:40:24.340
I just publish stuff.
00:40:24.340 —> 00:40:29.460
I just remembered we had talked about having you come on to blurring the lines and telling
00:40:29.460 —> 00:40:33.020
Adam how to use his iPad.
00:40:33.020 —> 00:40:34.420
Does he really want that?
00:40:34.420 —> 00:40:35.420
He does.
00:40:35.420 —> 00:40:36.780
Oh, okay.
00:40:36.780 —> 00:40:38.180
I think he does.
00:40:38.180 —> 00:40:40.220
Like more than I do for sure.
00:40:40.220 —> 00:40:41.220
Right.
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Right.
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No, he was, I said that on a recent episode though too.
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So yeah, I think he might actually like look at that and like, well, I never thought about
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using it like that before.
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So he doesn’t, that’s, I don’t, he’s from Tennessee, man.
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He sounds like that.
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Trust me.
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Trust me.
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Not exactly like that.
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I’ve had two beers.
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Give me some credit.
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This is what you’ve never heard him after he’s had a few beers.
00:41:05.740 —> 00:41:07.420
Maybe that’s exactly what he sounds.
00:41:07.420 —> 00:41:10.620
That is true. But you’ve got to remember, I’ve been podcasting with Vic a lot.
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Vic is from Kentucky and he will out accent Adam any day.
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Yeah. Well, on that note, I think we should, as we would say on the Blurring
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the Lines podcast, we should probably push the big red button.
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Tell your friends.