Episode 4 – Every Horse They Rode In On

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We drink a couple beers each and ponder business meetings, training, and TV shows. Then we talk about Windows 365 for at least two minutes, which is probably more time than it deserves.
Transcript

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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,

00:13:23.060 —> 00:13:25.940
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,

00:13:57.140 —> 00:14:00.500
so speaking about our issues with fitness trackers, I think this is like the fitness

00:14:00.500 —> 00:14:06.340
tracker slam episode. So my buddy Greg runs with a Fitbit. I don’t remember which model.

00:14:06.340 —> 00:14:15.300
Let me ask him. What model Fitbit do you have? My dearest Gregory. My dearest Gregory,

00:14:15.300 —> 00:14:22.580
may I make of you an inquiry? So we’ll ask him what happened. It’s not like the super duper top

00:14:22.580 —> 00:14:28.980
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

00:14:44.020 —> 00:14:49.700
as it made sense. For now, again this this weekend, this coming Sunday, I think he’s planning on

00:14:49.700 —> 00:14:55.380
either 14 or 15 miles and stuff and his, you know, it goes up to about that. But it’s mostly he’s

00:14:55.380 —> 00:15:04.100
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…

00:15:14.180 —> 00:15:15.540
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

00:18:02.060 —> 00:18:06.980
Yeah, so yes it is. It’s it’s run with Charlie run. Yep. That’s it

00:18:06.980 —> 00:18:10.540
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

00:19:07.060 —> 00:19:11.640
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.

00:19:18.040 —> 00:19:23.340
So they are and honestly the Apple Watch is really good as in terms of like I said it’s

00:19:23.340 —> 00:19:28.360
my device that I can’t do with any downtime on. Yeah if my Apple Watch craps out I’m going

00:19:28.360 —> 00:19:33.020
and buying another one that day like it doesn’t matter if I get any money for my old one it

00:19:33.020 —> 00:19:37.220
doesn’t matter if it gets repaired I don’t care I’m going to get one that day. I remember

00:19:37.220 —> 00:19:42.380
what it was like when mine died last year just at the start of COVID. Yeah and I was

00:19:42.380 —> 00:19:47.660
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.

00:20:39.380 —> 00:20:41.980
So, you know how they have these flip belt Arc water…

00:20:41.980 —> 00:20:48.580
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.

00:20:52.980 —> 00:20:56.580
Now, the thing that I don’t like about mine, I don’t know how the water bottles touch on this,

00:20:56.580 —> 00:21:01.680
but on mine they have these little plastic holsters that go on the belt that they go into.

00:21:01.680 —> 00:21:04.280
And it looks really stupid and I’m not really a fan of it.

00:21:04.280 —> 00:21:13.400
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.

00:21:13.400 —> 00:21:21.600
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.

00:21:21.600 —> 00:21:30.560
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.

00:21:30.600 —> 00:21:35.640
I was using it as an excuse to stop and take a sip of water or take a break or something.

00:21:35.640 —> 00:21:37.800
Oh, I never stopped a drink. Yeah.

00:21:37.800 —> 00:21:42.200
Yeah. Well, I would. Otherwise I’d like, you know, start waterboarding myself or something.

00:21:42.200 —> 00:21:45.000
Well, these little bottles, they’ve got a cap that makes it easy to…

00:21:45.000 —> 00:21:49.720
And plus you got to remember, I’m a cycler. You don’t… You just keep going while you eat and

00:21:49.720 —> 00:21:55.320
drink. And same with running. I’ll just keep going. And those little bottles I have, they’ve got a nice

00:21:55.320 —> 00:21:58.600
little cap. You just pull it up with your teeth, take a squirt and then push it right back down.

00:21:58.600 —> 00:22:00.120
You’re good to go. You never stop.

00:22:00.120 —> 00:22:05.480
So, you know, that’s one way to do it. But I found like most days I’m like,

00:22:05.480 —> 00:22:08.040
I don’t need water, you know, so I just leave it behind.

00:22:08.040 —> 00:22:10.200
Do you hydrate like crazy beforehand?

00:22:10.200 —> 00:22:16.520
I try. I’m still working on that because I don’t like having to stop to relieve myself

00:22:16.520 —> 00:22:20.440
of everything that I hydrated like crazy beforehand. But I find that if I need to

00:22:20.440 —> 00:22:25.720
give myself at least half an hour after I pound some water before I leave the door.

00:22:26.440 —> 00:22:29.440
Otherwise it all wants to come out as soon as I start running.

00:22:29.440 —> 00:22:33.040
You know, it’s weird. Running is different, but in general,

00:22:33.040 —> 00:22:37.560
once I start exercising, my biological needs kind of go away.

00:22:37.560 —> 00:22:42.760
However, one big difference between running and biking is the old,

00:22:42.760 —> 00:22:45.200
uh, emergency stop in the woods syndrome,

00:22:45.200 —> 00:22:48.400
but running definitely brings that out way more than biking does.

00:22:48.400 —> 00:22:52.000
Well, you’re shaking, you know what I’m talking about?

00:22:52.000 —> 00:22:56.160
But this, the thing is like, there’s an initial hump that you have to cross.

00:22:56.160 —> 00:22:57.960
You know?

00:22:57.960 —> 00:22:58.960
So that’s it.

00:22:58.960 —> 00:23:00.060
Maybe that’s the whole point of warming up.

00:23:00.060 —> 00:23:01.600
Maybe that’s why you’re supposed to do that.

00:23:01.600 —> 00:23:03.320
But let me say, let me put it this way.

00:23:03.320 —> 00:23:08.740
I’ve never suddenly felt like I had to poop while I was riding a bike, but I have definitely

00:23:08.740 —> 00:23:11.000
had that issue when I’ve been running.

00:23:11.000 —> 00:23:12.000
That’s a thing.

00:23:12.000 —> 00:23:16.560
And in the book, I Hate Running and So Can You, he talks about that on at least two or

00:23:16.560 —> 00:23:21.200
maybe even three times in the book about the number of times you have to stop during a

00:23:21.200 —> 00:23:22.200
run.

00:23:22.200 —> 00:23:23.200
Yeah.

00:23:23.200 —> 00:23:25.760
I was like, that should be something that you could plan for.

00:23:25.760 —> 00:23:27.920
Yeah, I don’t ever want to be running and hear this.

00:23:27.920 —> 00:23:29.440
You pooped your pants!

00:23:29.440 —> 00:23:32.560
That happens a lot to runners apparently.

00:23:32.560 —> 00:23:37.440
So that’s a thing. Hey, I remember watching, oh what was it? I can’t remember where I saw this,

00:23:37.440 —> 00:23:40.160
but this poor bastard who was running like a marathon,

00:23:40.160 —> 00:23:45.840
and he just pooped all down his own leg and everything. I mean it was everywhere,

00:23:45.840 —> 00:23:50.880
and he just was crying and I felt bad for the guy because that’s horrible. That is just horrible.

00:23:50.880 —> 00:23:51.920
Yeah, that is horrible.

00:23:51.920 —> 00:23:52.400
That’s not-

00:23:52.400 —> 00:23:55.640
That’s one of one of the advantages of trail running versus,

00:23:55.640 —> 00:23:58.180
you know, running in the city.

00:23:58.180 —> 00:24:01.240
Yeah. And if it’s trail running, first of all, you’re probably alone

00:24:01.240 —> 00:24:02.680
and there’s places to hide to poop.

00:24:02.680 —> 00:24:05.320
But also, if for some reason you do poop down your leg,

00:24:05.320 —> 00:24:07.820
you can just say you fell in the mud. Perfect.

00:24:07.820 —> 00:24:10.660
And as long as they don’t get too close, they won’t know the difference.

00:24:10.660 —> 00:24:15.320
Gross. I’m just saying that options there.

00:24:15.320 —> 00:24:18.820
Oh, boy. So moving on.

00:24:18.820 —> 00:24:20.500
Yeah, but I still.

00:24:20.500 —> 00:24:22.100
Moving back back to you.

00:24:22.100 —> 00:24:26.580
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.

00:24:58.100 —> 00:24:59.300
Tastes just like it.

00:24:59.300 —> 00:25:00.520
So it’s nice.

00:25:00.520 —> 00:25:02.000
It’s not sweet.

00:25:02.000 —> 00:25:06.100
It tastes ever so slightly…

00:25:06.100 —> 00:25:07.460
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.

00:25:48.920 —> 00:25:51.440
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.

00:26:15.500 —> 00:26:16.340
So.

00:26:16.340 —> 00:26:19.880
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

00:26:50.040 —> 00:26:56.460
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

00:28:29.480 —> 00:28:31.880
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.

00:29:50.700 —> 00:29:51.700
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.

00:30:36.400 —> 00:30:38.060
These are Vikings.

00:30:38.060 —> 00:30:38.560
Right.

00:30:38.560 —> 00:30:41.580
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?

00:31:47.800 —> 00:31:49.160
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,

00:33:11.800 —> 00:33:15.800
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.

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Right.

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Right.

00:40:42.220 —> 00:40:44.960
No, he was, I said that on a recent episode though too.

00:40:44.960 —> 00:40:50.100
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.

00:40:52.220 —> 00:40:56.940
So he doesn’t, that’s, I don’t, he’s from Tennessee, man.

00:40:56.940 —> 00:40:57.940
He sounds like that.

00:40:57.940 —> 00:40:58.940
Trust me.

00:40:58.940 —> 00:40:59.940
Trust me.

00:40:59.940 —> 00:41:00.940
Not exactly like that.

00:41:00.940 —> 00:41:01.940
I’ve had two beers.

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Give me some credit.

00:41:02.940 —> 00:41:05.740
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.

00:41:10.620 —> 00:41:14.220
Vic is from Kentucky and he will out accent Adam any day.

00:41:14.220 —> 00:41:21.700
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.