The Seven Five - Part 2

NN - EP05 - From CCPA To Cambridge Analytica: How Your Data Became The Product

• O. Kenobi • Season 1 • Episode 24

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Originally released January 2020

We cut through a noisy start to 2020 to focus on consumer privacy, why CCPA matters beyond California, and how simple habits protect your data without wrecking convenience. Along the way we hit tech news, drone mysteries, Hedy Lamarr’s legacy, gear tests, and a listener story about devices that may be listening.

• Edge moving to Chromium and what it signals
• NYC Bar concerns over public legal statements
• Unexplained drone swarms in Colorado and Nebraska
• Cambridge Analytica leaks and 2020 manipulation risks
• CCPA rights and how they apply to non‑Californians
• Practical privacy habits and password hygiene
• Free platforms, ecosystem lock‑in, and hidden costs
• Building better news filters and validating sources
• Hedy Lamarr and frequency hopping history
• Live audio tests, guitar interlude, and show updates

Give us a call at 541-314-4271 to share your opinion on the California Consumer Privacy Act. Check out more at oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa and support the show.

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SPEAKER_06:

Hey everybody, Larry Compton in our first episode of a brand new decade 2020. Can you believe it, man? I cannot believe it. Time just flies when you're having fun. Tons and tons of stuff in the news lately, so many things, of course, both, you know, from all fronts. It's like coming from everywhere. We've got politically, uh, you know, just uh the election year, all of that business going on, an impeachment uh that just happened, and then of course the whole Iran-Iraq situation in the Middle East with our president taking out Solomony, just so much coming from all fronts. And I have been trying my best to stay away from the political part of all of that discussion and focus on the technology news as of late. So some of the things that caught my eye, Microsoft will begin replacing Microsoft Edge with its Chromium-based browser next week, which, you know, Edge was a good browser, lightweight, but you know, a piss poor attempt, in my opinion, from the get-go. I was never a fan of Internet Explorer, so don't even get me started there. Although I have to still to this day, you know, use old browsers for various tasks, including things like recovering data from these digital CCTV devices out in the wild that leverage ActiveX controls. It's just nuts that I have to use Internet Explorer, that anybody would use Internet Explorer or Edge, but the new Edge is going to be Chromium-based. So, yeah, a little tip of the hat to Google there. Also in the news, I saw that the New York City Bar Association called out Attorney General William Barr recently with a letter to all of the Washington D DC mucky mucks and majority and minority leaders of Congress and so on and so forth, essentially saying they really should look at, you know, gross what were their let me see if I can grab a few of their words. Now I had seen this in the news, but in the context of pending investigations, government lawyers are obligated to be uh circumspect in their public statements and to avoid prejudice in the outcomes of those investigations. Mr. Barr has disagreed and disregarded with these fundamental obligations and several extended public statements during the past few months, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So, yeah, so the you know, New York City Bar Association is uh concerned about that. And, you know, uh my opinion, rightfully so. What else is in the news? Well, it looks like you know, a whole swarm of drones. Did you see that? And what there's whole uh mysterious swarms of drones flying in Colorado and Nebraska, seen by people, nobody identified, you know, who was flying these, what the purpose was. Nobody knows where they're coming from. I first saw this on Businessinsider.com in a post that they had done and found that quite interesting. Some fresh leaks from Cambridge Analytica's nightmare. The I don't know if you remember Brittany Kaiser. Brittany Kaiser has recently come out with a ton of new information in regards to the financing of all of that type of activity, both for Cambridge Analytica and other players of that. You remember Steve Banion, very much involved as a VP in Cambridge Analytica, and uh so on and so forth. So a very, very interesting story. Saw this on The Guardian and in BBC News, and on The Guardian it says that uh Christopher Steele, ex-husband of the M16's, or excuse me, uh MI6's Russia desk and uh intelligence expert behind the so-called Steele dossier into Trump's relationship with Russia, Russia, said that while the company had closed down, the failure to properly punish bad actors meant that the prospects for manipulation of the U.S. election this year were even worse. Yeah, kinda late to point that out, but you know. Thanks, Christopher Steele. Uh M16s, that's funny. M I6. I crack myself up. Also, you know, this year CCPA, California Consumer Privacy Act, takes effect in 2020. Actually put in place in 2018, the California uh Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, uh creates new consumer rights relating to access, deletion of, and sharing of personal information that is collected by businesses. It also requires the Attorney General of California to solicit broad public participation. And so, as part of that effort, I am personally not a California citizen, but this privacy act is going to impact us globally. It is going to impact the country. And if you've been on my Patreon site, you'll see I've got some posts there related to the topic of privacy and consumer privacy, and really been focusing on it this month. In fact, it is the topic for our segment. What's your opinion for the entire month of January? I think we should declare it Consumer Privacy Awareness Month and try and get ourselves and our loved ones to take a little ownership, to step up and actually take some time to review your own privacy and security practices, right? I did a post on LinkedIn called Who's Your Data? Saying, you know, hey, why not start the new decade off by taking 15 to 30 minutes and review those privacy and security practices, all of them, on everything, like your mobile devices, your network at home. Seriously, take control of your data, take it back, and maintain control of it. Stay up to date on that stuff, right? Do OS updates, software updates, and things of that nature. Have a policy, have a practice. Don't just be installing crap you don't need and clicking on things that you have no idea, you know, who they're from. You know, just old silly, silly fundamental things, but really now's the time. It's 2020, folks. Let's make this a priority in January. Let's try to educate our loved ones and those around us about consumer privacy policies and practices and make them aware that they are in fact the commodity. Even their anonymized data, they are the commodity. All of these digital platforms that provide services for free, that provide, you know, Facebooks, the Twitters and Instagrams, of course, back to Facebook, Google, and the all of the richest companies in the world have made their billions off from you and your clicking. And built, you know, an tremendous amount of very, very valuable marketing information. Marketing information not just for the purposes of selling products or services, of course, but for in fact changing entire regimes and political systems and countries. And it's not tinfoil hat crazy stuff. This is reality, and it is happening and will continue to happen, but we can own up to our part of this. We have to stop being those victims. We have to stop writing our password on a post-it note and sticking it underneath the laptop. We have to stop using the same password on all websites. We have to stop being so damn lazy, right? When you buy or leverage a product or a service, understand its strengths and weaknesses and what you're getting for what you're giving, right? And and it's not just financial, right? How can a company afford to give away millions of dollars of equipment for absolutely free to get you in on their cloud-based product or platform or service, right? How could they do that? Because they know it's not their generosity, right? They know that they're gonna lock you into an ecosystem that's number one gonna be very, very hard to get out of, and that free product is storing to a platform that you're gonna have to pay storage for, right? And that is going to come back to them tenfold over the life of that product that they just bought you. Right. And so things like that you have to have your eyes open, understand that there is good out there. People are trying to do good and they are being creative and and trying to help, you know, with both consumer and uh business and government and military technologies, but we have a responsibility as well. We have to be smart about our privacy practices. So hope you'll share your opinion on the topic. Uh California Consumer Privacy Act. And you can check out more of that on the Office of Attorney General for California's website at oag.ca.gov forward slash privacy forward slash ccpa. Share your opinion with us by giving us a call at five four one three one four four two seven one. That's five four one three one four four two seven one.

SPEAKER_03:

Like this line is like a real skin, when I be singing time. You'll be thinking when I'm rap, I'm kept a lot. I'm on my line, I gotta spirit them all the time, but that's just not what's on my mind. I gotta tell the truth to these people. I'll be root, gotta scream it to the ones that always roll up in the crew. Gotta tell you what it's like to do the wanna live like this. Live is life, bro. Let me wrap a bit and tell you what it is. I'm the greatest chosen one. I got this golden life I live. I told everybody that, but it's just in my shit. I'm just tryna find out how I really fit in. I'm a motherfucking mistake. Yeah, you know you cannot make me different.

SPEAKER_02:

Wanna change my tune, wanna get a different life, wanna live true, wanna get a punch life, live like my stream.

SPEAKER_03:

Y'all don't know it's real or not. Y'all don't even understand what I be saying half the time. Y'all be thinking when I'm rap, I'm cap a lot. I'm on my line. I gotta spit it all the time. But that's just not what's on my mind. I gotta tell the truth to these people out the roof. Gotta scream it to the ones that always wanna be in the crew. Gotta tell you what it's like is real. Wanna live like this. Life is like roading, I don't know what's real or not. Yeah, I don't even understand when I be saying half the time. Y'all be thinking when I'm wrapped, I'm capable. I'm on my line. I gotta spit it all the time. But that's just not what's on my mind. I gotta tell the truth to these people out the roof. Gotta scream it to the ones that always roll up in a coup. Gotta tell you what it's like to be the one and live like this. Lavish life, golden kid, golden one, chosen.

SPEAKER_00:

Holy sh did you know?

SPEAKER_06:

Her beauty was stunning, her presence overwhelming. For decades, many thought she was the most glamorous woman in the world. She brushed elbows with Hollywood's elites and industry titans like Howard Hughes, the most beautiful woman in the world, according to Louis Beemer, head of MGM. British moviegoers voted her best actress in 1950, among many other words throughout her career. And yes, she is, of course, on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. But in the late 50s, she started becoming a recluse, eventually only communicating with the outside world via telephone. Even her own family couldn't see her in person for decades. In 2000, she passed at the age of eighty-five, only a decade or so after I had first learned of her, and became fascinated with her story. Turns out I wasn't alone, especially if you were involved in wireless and telecommunications technologies like I was. You see, Hetty Lamar was the first to patent frequency hopping technologies. The same frequency hopping used by the US military since the sixties and later by the general public for things like early cell phone networks and Wi-Fi networks and even Bluetooth. Hetty Lamar never received a single penny for her patent. Ever. That particular patent was developed by her and an American music composer, George Antheel, intended as a guidance system for Allied torpedoes during World War II, using frequency hopping. To protect those critical communications, it remained locked away until the late 50s when the military finally realized it was the answer they'd been looking for to secure their wireless communications. You can learn more about Hetty's story via the Netflix documentary Bombshell, the Hetty Lamar Story. Holy sh Did you know? Do you suffer from an ailment or minor inconvenience that you're pretty sure others around you don't have to deal with? Astropharmaceutica introduces Get Bent. That's all one word. G-H-E-H-T B-E-N-G-H-N-T. Get bent is a prescription medication for any ailment or minor convenience that you may be experiencing. Is Johnny faster than you? Get Bent. Does your anus frequently burn after eating a boatload of jalapenos? Get bent. Your doctor will know if it's right for you. But we've already told him it is. Get bent has zero side effects. That's why it's astronomically priced. Don't take this medication if you're allergic to it. That's just stupid. Astropharmaceutica is not a real company, and this is not a real product or commercial. Get bent. Listen, whoa, we're full duplex, man. We're like, you know, we are 1980s technology these days.

SPEAKER_08:

Dude, I feel so comfortable with that.

SPEAKER_06:

So you said you got a gig this weekend. What's up with that?

SPEAKER_08:

Oh yeah. My niece. Most beautiful and wonderful woman in the world.

SPEAKER_06:

She's adorable.

SPEAKER_08:

Yes, she is. I always tell people at family unions because she looks better than any of us out there. We always talk about it. You know, we don't hold her hooks against her. She can't help it. We keep her in the family anyway. She's that special one. I always say that when people know I'm like, yeah, she's the special one in our family, but we don't make fun of her looks. She has a sweetheart. She has a good heart. Doesn't matter what she looks like.

SPEAKER_06:

That's right. That's right. So a gig doing what what was the event?

SPEAKER_08:

What's the she is a physical trainer or nutritionist, and there's gonna be a bunch of women. It's kind of a yoga retreat. But I'm gonna play during the lunch hour while they're eating. I'm gonna play uh guitar music, instrumental guitar music.

SPEAKER_06:

Nice relaxing stuff.

SPEAKER_08:

Yes, in a in a yoga fashion.

SPEAKER_06:

Nice. Very nice. Do you do yoga?

SPEAKER_08:

No, no.

SPEAKER_06:

Have you ever done it? Well that's the metal beside me. That's what everybody says, but that's the whole purpose of yoga, actually. Because you don't have to do any of that extreme stuff. It's just about doing it and actually starting to build flexibility and stuff. I talked to my mom about it recently because Stacy and I have been on a break, but we fell in love with it last year and we're doing it together regularly last year, and it was so cool. We got I mean, and you notice like the results right away. So it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_08:

I've only done that one yoga move of dog style.

SPEAKER_06:

Downward, downward dog, yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

Yes. Yes, it was.

SPEAKER_06:

No, you've done you've done other things. You've done planking, you've done uh mountain pose, which is just standing at attention, essentially, trying to elongate your body. You've done you've done yoga poses, you just don't know. Like standing straight up, people, you know, that is exercise, believe it or not. If you you're standing in the proper and extending your spine and yeah, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_08:

Yes, standing erect. Yes. Yep. I was erect this morning. I was so erect it was like I didn't have any covers on at all.

unknown:

Oh no.

SPEAKER_06:

I just knew as soon as I heard that word, man. I knew it was coming. It's coming. It's coming. So so what you went and got the the hairdo done today, eh?

SPEAKER_08:

Yes, I had to go get groomed for my big gig. I want to look pretty for the ladies and um I didn't get my usual cutter. This place is called Cougar Cuts. Nice. It has nothing to do with fine women. It's more about there is a disproportionate amount of taxidermy in the place.

SPEAKER_06:

That's deceptive marketing. That's that's cool.

SPEAKER_08:

Well, it's it's for the good old boys. It's a man's place. That's right. They offer you a beer or a drink when you come in. Oh, that's cool. You get hot towels and all that kind of stuff like that. And so I had a different chick cut my hair this time. I'm like, eh, whatever. Okay, it's cool. In their computer, they got your what your requirements are already. So they should be able to pull it off just as well as anybody else.

SPEAKER_06:

Right, along with comments like, you know, he was a dick. Stuff like that. Right.

SPEAKER_08:

But so it's telling her because she's like, so everything, all that's got to ask questions. How's your day going? What's your day been doing? I'm like, whoa, whoa, now back up there. Personal. But I told her, I'm getting ready for the gig and stuff like that. And I said, I don't work every day Saturday. Oh? I'm like, yeah, no, I'm not rich. I said I'm disabled. I said, I used to, I had a parachute accident in the military, and now I have some uh screws and stuff in my back, and it prevents me from doing a lot of things. Right. I said, it's because the cold weather aggravates it. You know, even if it's just a little bit, it aggravates it. And she says, you know, it's too bad they just can't use plastic for that. Yep, plastic to hold bones together.

SPEAKER_06:

We that's that's the thing, is we don't have enough uses for plastic these days, you know. If you really think about plastic.

SPEAKER_08:

I've got eight screws that are each three inches long with two titanium rods going up on it. Everything's titanium. We said, if not the plastic, man, we'd you don't know. She goes, I said, well, I said, you know, the VA, they're not gonna go with plastic, they're gonna stick with that stupid titanium. Yeah. But she goes, here's what sealed the deal, buddy. She goes, Yeah, but now that Trump's in there, that ain't gonna happen no more. And I immediately said, You are fucking doing a great job cutting my hair.

SPEAKER_06:

Dang, you sound beautiful today. Yes.

SPEAKER_08:

I'm like, oh my god. Now that Trump's in there, we're gonna have plastic for everybody.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, I just saw in the news the you know, uh EPA regulations that they're stripping away. That's you know, certainly gonna help our planet die sooner, which is, you know, always great to see in the news, on top of things like, you know, war. Yes stuff like that.

SPEAKER_09:

Going to war, bro. Going to war, bro.

SPEAKER_06:

That's our group, man. That's our guys. That's our guys. That's so cool. I mean, I wish I just hope, you know, I know they'll they'll they're they're top of the line, tier two, tier one stuff. So good for them, man. And I certainly hope they make it back safe. All of that jazz. But man, what a crazy time. It just seems like there's so much news. How how could anybody, you know, stay up on top of all of this? So crazy. And I'm trying to do a show. I wanted to talk about privacy, consumer privacy, the California Consumer Privacy Act, and maybe, you know, hope to uh spend a couple episodes in January talking about privacy and taking, you know, 2020. It's time, folks. Let's uh understand our own responsibilities when it comes to this stop being the commodity. But and there's been a ton of news regarding that, I mean, uh lately, but there's just so much other world news that's kept me preoccupied. I haven't really been doing my job lining up interviews and stuff to talk about my topics for what's your opinion, you know?

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah, I just skimmed the headlines. I mean, I can get the whole story out of the headlines.

SPEAKER_06:

Right. Right.

SPEAKER_08:

So I'm starting to get an ulcer again, so I gotta limit what I read.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, I have uh habits. I mean, for many years, my news uh reviewing habits, my filters that I've built up for consuming information, that sort of thing, have been built up over decades, you know, essentially. But I spend several hours a day reading news, technology news, headlines, industry stuff regarding technology, and of course scanning, you know, national and international news, but not the typical sources, you know. I I'm trying to, you know, is find as much, you know, unbiased stuff as I can. So I'm often on BBC news, AP news, those sorts of things, PBS, that that sort of stuff for for sources, or you know, as direct to the source as I can possibly be type of thing. When I'm when I'm researching anything beyond the headline, regardless of who's written it. Just like I, you know, I say in my classes when I'm teaching and stuff, I don't care who makes it or who's saying it, always validate. Always validate. Right? You gotta look and people just take everything at the surface, and there's a good reason for that. Just like you said, there's just way too much information coming at you. And you gotta have filters so you scan a few headlines so you're not like down in the dumps by the end of the day thinking about all of these horrific headlines you're reading.

SPEAKER_08:

You know what I mean? Yes, especially if I've had a whole day with my mother, and then the next day I'm gonna digest news. No, I just don't go down that well.

SPEAKER_06:

Say that again.

SPEAKER_08:

Nailed it. I'm like, holy shit, my mom's there with him. Say that again. Coherently. Yeah, just uh say this. This is a mom.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, that cracks me up. She's so sweet. But yeah, so it's just been challenging to stay on top. It's challenging for everybody, but you build up these filters, and you know, there's problems with that. You gotta also look outside your own box occasionally and make sure, you know, you're checking in and uh keeping up everyone does that that you're not too off far off center, you know? And it's fascinating to me, you know, how freaking irate people get over stuff they know nothing about, you know, just at the surface level, you know, even myself included. I'm not, you know, ruling me out, you know, like Trump's thing. For instance, though the whole, you know, him taking out Solomani, you know, that that wouldn't have been me. You know, it wouldn't have been prior presidents, and I wouldn't have made that decision. But I can't even say that because I don't have all of the information that he has. So, you know, I try to be as objective as I can about it, even though I have this personal dislike for this guy since the 80s and the USFL thing. You know what I mean? But I I at the same time think he handled his pref, you know, of course he he added his spin to the message on top of it, but he did the press conference the other day. I thought, well, for him, uncharacteristic, calm, you know, almost presidential press conference, you know. A little bit of slurred speech and that sort of thing, but the message was pretty clear, and I think he did well delivering it for for that, you know, type of situation.

SPEAKER_08:

So see, I I can't watch footage of him. I can barely look at pictures of him. So hearing his voice, it takes me back to a bad time in my life when I used to hate the sound of Glenna's voice.

SPEAKER_06:

Right.

SPEAKER_08:

That's being my ex-wife.

SPEAKER_06:

Right.

SPEAKER_08:

It's okay, she's dead now. We can say stuff. Oh, jeez. Don't get sensitive on me.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh man. So, anyway, I've been like I just have been uh lacking on this. I'm so glad we got this figured out, the Skype on your on your system, and we got your network updated on that last trip. So we're moving forward, people. Technology-wise, we're we're taking steps here. You gotta understand the leaps we're making. This started with a flip phone a couple months ago.

SPEAKER_08:

Oh, yeah, my flip phone. I missed that so much.

SPEAKER_06:

I miss it, right? I know.

SPEAKER_08:

I'm I'm headed fixing in your pocket, flips right open, instant answer.

SPEAKER_06:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_08:

Pretty hot tick.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I don't know. So I'm thinking, you know, we just keep rolling around. I wonder how your guitar would sound. You got your guitar right there, grab a guitar and strum it through the through this just over the blue. That nice shiny new microphone you've got. And hey, can you hear the applause?

SPEAKER_08:

Huh?

SPEAKER_06:

Can you hear the applause? No.

SPEAKER_08:

I didn't hear it? No.

SPEAKER_06:

No, yeah, I didn't think, but but it's not cutting out like before. See, on the Skype, I can do the applause and not cut you out.

SPEAKER_08:

I got you turned up to pretty much.

SPEAKER_06:

And I got the applause. Well, that's look at us, man. Come on, guys. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah, it came through pretty good. Came through pretty good, man. And now we gotta try your PA. Do your PA. Huh? Ha ha. Oh, oh, you're in the other room, aren't you? Or do you did you bring it out for me?

SPEAKER_08:

No, I'm at the bar.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, are you?

SPEAKER_08:

Yep. That's my workspace.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, that's right. You got the speakers and the TV are gone up there.

SPEAKER_08:

Yep. The last time I had voices going through my PA, I was watching this show that used to be on TV called MXE, The Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, is a Japanese show that these dudes, like me and you would do, they interpret it in English their own way.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_08:

You surely you've seen this show.

SPEAKER_06:

No, no, I have not.

SPEAKER_08:

It's these Japanese, they're going through this obstacle. It's like one of them reality show obstacle courses where it's got all kinds of funny crap they go through.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh no, I probably have seen clips of it.

SPEAKER_08:

And they just put their own script to this.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, I love doing that. You know, to anything. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

Just look it up, MXC.

SPEAKER_06:

Ah well.

SPEAKER_08:

MXC. I mean it's it's everywhere. It's on YouTube, whatever. But I used to have that going on, and my neighbor came over like, who's talking in here?

SPEAKER_06:

Lordy. Yeah, you should be able though. That blue mic is a really nice condenser mic. And so you don't even need the condenser mics going, you know, through that other mixer at all. If we can. I mean, your acoustic stuff sounds fine, just through the blue, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_08:

Okay, here's a little more too. Hang on, let me put this down.

SPEAKER_06:

You got it. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

Okay, we're gonna walk over to the PA.

SPEAKER_06:

Uh oh.

SPEAKER_08:

You're gonna be over the PA here in a second.

SPEAKER_06:

Let's let's see if anything pops. Hold your ears, folks. Turn your volume down real quick. Click pop. Hey man.

SPEAKER_08:

Alright, start talking. Can you hear me?

SPEAKER_06:

I hear you. Gotcha five bye. What's that?

SPEAKER_08:

You're in my PA system. It's hilarious.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, the so my audio's going through your PA now?

SPEAKER_08:

Oh yeah, that's loud as crap.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_08:

If anybody was walking by my house right now, they're thinking, wow, there is a loud guy in there.

SPEAKER_06:

Now that's the type of audience I appreciate. You probably got a few four-legged furry creatures and some birds that would hear us. That's my type of audience. Now it's happening. So fire it up. Well let's hear the let's hear the guitar, man.

SPEAKER_08:

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, again? Oh. Fumbling around. Making people wait. Okay. I think we can work with this. I think we can work with that, man. That's awesome. That's awesome. Okay, how about something rockin'?

SPEAKER_08:

Okay.

SPEAKER_06:

What you got rocking? I mean, pick pick one of the what 16 now? Was it was it 15 or 16?

SPEAKER_08:

I bought a 12 string the other day, did I tell you that?

SPEAKER_06:

Yes, you did. And you said you broke a string right away on the 12 string.

SPEAKER_08:

I spent four hours the day stringing it. 12 strings suck. I spent four hours. We're going electric.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh.

SPEAKER_08:

Stratocaster style.

SPEAKER_06:

Hold on, folks.

SPEAKER_08:

Do not be scared.

SPEAKER_06:

Do not be scared.

SPEAKER_08:

I scared.

SPEAKER_06:

It trips me out that you can't. Yeah, I mean, you sound like you're in a can, you know, it sounds like you're across the room, but I can hear you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08:

We were sponding as if you could hear me real good.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah, I mean, it you know what I mean. Like you're far away from the mic, I can tell, but it's amazing the levels I'm getting if you're all the way from the stand to the other side of the room there with a Yeah.

unknown:

Oh.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh.

SPEAKER_08:

Is that distorted?

SPEAKER_06:

No, go ahead. Go ahead and lay out a few. Let me check levels here. Lay out a few. Nice. Yeah. Yeah, it's not bad. You know, it's it is what it is, but it definitely is the best we've had so far, this connection for sure. And yeah, I mean, the acoustic stuff sounds great. You can hear this so much better. So I think, you know, with that blue mic, it's just gonna be a matter of positioning if you wanted to play instruments through it this way. Yes, you know, so that's really cool. I'm glad that we finally have gotten to this point, man. I'm so it's so crazy to think, you know, we're totally like walked away from the show for a month to deal with family and stuff and travel and unexpectedly just after launching. And now here we are starting off the new year with so much going on. And you know, I know it seems like a simple thing, but to me it's pretty cool to finally have this worked out where we can do it this way as well. So thanks for that. Appreciate it, man.

SPEAKER_08:

No problem, man. We have in.

SPEAKER_06:

And the thing is, is you don't get you don't even get my um effects and stuff through the audio. Like you don't hear me talking to you in an effect right now, do you?

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah, you got a loudspeaker or something.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, okay. Let me try something else. One second to see if you hear the um echo effect. I'll try um Do you hear like a like an echo effect going on? You do?

SPEAKER_08:

Yes.

SPEAKER_06:

But you don't hear the applause going on right now?

SPEAKER_08:

Try it again. Try the applause.

SPEAKER_06:

It's going right now. Nothing. Yeah, so so my pawn effects you're not hearing, but you are getting effects on my on this channel, which of course like whatever vote effects you did just while ago, you're one of them came through.

SPEAKER_08:

Your applause button, it ain't hearing it slightly in the background, it sounds like you know, white noise.

SPEAKER_09:

Right.

SPEAKER_08:

But I don't really hear it, it's not coming through.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_08:

Yeah. Yeah, frog voice.

SPEAKER_06:

That's so fun messing with audio stuff. I'm telling you, I spent so many hours alone in that studio in Rochester. That's crazy. Let's see.

SPEAKER_09:

What's this one? Oh yeah, right. Forgot.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh yeah. I got all this. Let's see, what else we got? Any different? Do you hear any different? Any different? Oh no, I don't have those.

SPEAKER_08:

Do I have sounds like you're putting quartz on your voices? Some kind of courtsing effect.

SPEAKER_06:

Hmm. Yeah. Oh, I was changing environments to see if the environment uh let's see here. Wow, wow. All right. Well, this is all good. I don't think we're gonna get much better. You want to uh bust out a riff before we go?

SPEAKER_09:

Yep.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah. We are just getting started, folks. Obviously, still doing equipment setups and things of that nature. But uh, you know, we took a five or six week sabbatical just after launching the show, unexpectedly had a great rhythm going for a couple months prior to launching the show, had uh a ton of interviews done and and others scheduled, and you know, just haven't gotten back into the swing with the holidays after that and everything uh going on. It's just been crazy, but I do plan to uh start getting things uh back in order. And I'll put some more time into reaching out and scheduling some guests for the show if you'll put some more time into giving a shit, you know, or something to that effect. Share your opinion, tell us your thoughts. Give us a call at 541-314-4271, and maybe you'll get on the air with us.

SPEAKER_01:

Hey Larry, it's Peter. I was calling because in episode two you were talking about uh technology listening to us, and I've got a cute little story about that. Shortly after Stacey and I bought our house, we were sitting on the couch talking about possibly buying a hand. In any way. And And very personally listening to this? Like you said, I would not be surprised if you have if there wasn't some type of a f that listens to our conversations, looking for those keywords that they can use for advertising purposes. I'm not the paranoid uh conspiracy tinfoil hat kind of guy. But man, that was weird, and I have no other explanation for it. Anyway, I like your show. Keep it up. Bye.

SPEAKER_04:

And you just don't get it, you keep being pathetic, and you learn to accept it, you know. You're so pathetic, and you just don't get it, you keep being pathetic, and you learn to accept it, you know. You're so pathetic and you know.

SPEAKER_06:

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