The Catchup
Dive into the world of trending topics every Monday morning with us on The CatchUp! Our podcast unravels the complexities of today’s biggest stories, from the rapid advancements in Artificial Intelligence to the latest global news. Engage with our unfiltered opinions and spontaneous, in-depth discussions that dive into AI's impact on society and beyond. Our unscripted conversations offer fresh perspectives and insights, making “catching up” the perfect blend of real talk and real topics. Tune in for thought-provoking analysis and lively debate that will redefine your Monday mornings.
The Catchup
EU's New Battery Law, AI in Windows 11, and the Game Changing Power of AI Tech
Ever been annoyed with your phone's dying battery, forcing you to consider buying a new device? Well, the European Union has you covered. This episode kicks off with us dissecting the EU's game-changing law, mandating consumer electronic manufacturers to make batteries in their devices easily replaceable by 2025. This means your device's lifespan could solely depend on how well you maintain it, rather than the whims of your battery's life. But what does this mean for the tech ecosystem? Strap in as we pull apart the implications on waste reduction, the potential boom for third-party battery manufacturers, and the likely shift in consumer behaviors.
Imagine if your computer could anticipate your needs and increase productivity seamlessly? That's not too far in the future. Our exploration of Windows 11 and its AI integration reveals some breathtaking advancements that could redefine your desktop experience. We've had a hands-on experience with the new features and boy, are we excited to share our insights! From familiar features receiving facelifts to brand new capabilities, Windows 11 is poised to be a game-changer. We also dive into how AI could play a pivotal role in marketing, productivity, and tasks like email analysis or idea generation for Word documents.
To top off our tech feast, we delve into the transformative power of AI technologies such as Microsoft's chat GPT and Dolly. These are not just some fancy buzzwords - they hold the potential to change learning and content creation as we know it. We scrutinize how these tools can help us learn at lightning speed and generate images from mere prompts. But with great power comes great responsibility. We also discuss implications in the workplace and the biases we need to be mindful of while using these tools. From small business owners to individuals, everyone has something to gain in this AI-driven shift. Buckle up and join us as we navigate this riveting journey into the heart of tech evolution.
Let's get into it!
Follow us!
Email us: TheCatchupCast@Gmail.com
So one of the big things that I saw, one of the articles that I came across, was that the European Union just Within maybe what? A few few weeks, maybe a month or so they released a, they put into effect a new law that should fully come into effect in in 2025 June to June, the 20th July 2025 that all manufacturers I should really say like Electronic manufacturer, consumer electronic manufacturers that use batteries in their devices so, like you know, a tablet or a phone or stuff like that have to have removable batteries, and To be more specific on that is that these removable batteries Need to be easily replaceable, because, yes, technically right, if you took your I don't know your phone to a Repair shop, you know you give it to them for a few hours, don't come back, though, and then you have a brand new battery in there, but you know it. But the thing is, is that's not something that you can do? Sure, sure, apple and you know, some of the other manufacturers have released like Thing ways, they've released guides and stuff like that to do this yourself, but they haven't exactly made it super easy, right?
Speaker 1:Most of the phones that we have nowadays are they. They come with this beautiful glass on the front and on the back that you have to Prove exactly. So, exactly so. You know you have to take that off. Yeah right, you got it. You got to take the glass off to get to the batteries. Right, so for like instance, for, like your, your regular old iPhone, to get to the battery you have to take the screen off. You got to take the front screen off, you got to unclip some stuff and you're gonna have to have all the screws and bits that require or that are able to Actually get into that iPhone.
Speaker 3:So so big thing, dennis. And told me that, right. And my question when he initially told me this was who? So who does this really affect? Right, and then that's when I was like, oh, I Could be able to just be sitting right here and be like, you know, you got. You've ever growing up, bro, you had those kids where they just be with their phone. You're gonna be doing that all over again, it's gonna be classic. It's gonna be on the back of an iPhone.
Speaker 1:Probably right here. Mm-hmm, let's drop it down, but that's a big deal, man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think it's a huge deal, you know? Yeah, yeah, they wanted to be. Their big thing is to be all this right here. Yeah, they wanted to be.
Speaker 1:They wanted to be. Their big thing is to be all this right, even with moving over to putting in that rule which we've all seen on the newest iPhone, that you, that the newest iPhone has a USBC port, right, the reason why the European Union also did a big ban or a big push to force all manufacturers to adopt your iPhone, was because they were trying to reduce cable waste. All of this is to try to do as much as they can, you know, to mitigate more one help the the end user in general, but also to mitigate waste. Right, because you know we, when you've got like multiple manufacturers who have different types of cords, different types of cables, that's an issue. Yeah, right, that's more waste that you're creating. Because you know now instead of or I should say you know before in some ways. Right, because I think our last big bastion of Different cables has has finally fallen, since the iPhone is now moved over to USBC, right, yeah, exactly. So that makes it to where you know this.
Speaker 1:Now, this one cable is here to rule them all. Right, one cable to rule them all. You can bring one cable on a trip and that that that's going to charge everybody phone. You don't have to have a lightning cable. You don't have to have anything, you just get this one little cable.
Speaker 3:I can't. I can't charge your iPhone. I have a micro USB, sorry.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, you'll see again trying to get rid of that.
Speaker 3:I know those are words that would get you broken up with. Sorry, I'm micro USB, like what?
Speaker 1:I don't know how you feel. I mean, I feel like that's, you know, similar to how it is in the US. I have to specify when people are saying like, oh, you got that green bubble, don't know if I want to talk to you now, right, she told me. You know, I have a lot to say about that, but I'm not going to get into that topic. I've gotten there before. Tough times, man, hey. Hey, this is all Apple's fault. You know, apple is the one who's created this wall garden. Android, google has freely admitted that they are open to better conversations. That's not the green bubble, but I digress, I digress. All of this is to do is to reduce weight, and the battery swapping thing is another thing to help reduce weight, or not weight, but waste, of course, weight, I guess weight in waste, but whatever, well, and not to cut you off, but actually I was thinking about this wouldn't invite more third party battery manufacturers, wouldn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it can, it can.
Speaker 3:So you could have an advancement in technology? Of course you could. You'll have some cheap ones too, but you could have, you know, lighter and longer lasting batteries perhaps right?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, there could be yeah, there's that More, more third party manufacturers to create like swappable batteries in there.
Speaker 1:That'll go in really quick and easy.
Speaker 1:This also makes it to where you can hold on to your phone a lot longer, right, I'm sure there's plenty of people who move over to a different phone, not because the phone isn't working, but it's because the battery right is atrocious at this point and no one wants to go out and pay, you know, on their two three year old phone pay, like I don't know, in some cases for Apple $400-$300 just to get the battery swapped out.
Speaker 1:Right, that's more than half the value of the phone, if that, if anything, it might be even more than the phone is just to replace the battery. Of course, sure, definitely replacing that battery can probably last you a little bit longer, but it's just, it's a heavy cost for most users. And so if you make these batteries easily replaceable batteries in general, like from my old V20, that I have my LG V20 those batteries I can get replacement batteries. They're harder to find but still if I can find them, those battery I can buy like two of them and I and it's going to cost me, like I don't know, maybe 20 bucks.
Speaker 3:Right, right, well, exactly. And the thing I would say, too, is, if you're spending that much money for Apple battery replacement, you're getting screwed, because wasn't it was about a year ago? I was down Dallas, went to an Apple store, I don't remember which one. I think I went to Stonebrother. No, no, no, no, I know where I went. It was the Galleria, and they changed it out and swapped it out for me. I think it was 80 bucks, 80, it might have been 89, if something around there maybe it was more. I'd have to go back, but regardless, it can still be too expensive, but it should not be that expensive.
Speaker 1:You know, I mean yeah, well, exactly, exactly. So you know it's, it's one of those things.
Speaker 3:So it was oh good, even better $69 $69.
Speaker 1:That's a great. That's a great one right there.
Speaker 3:So hell, what a deal, man. I know that's a great deal, I know. So, yeah, it shouldn't hopefully not be that much money. But no.
Speaker 3:I think if the market value were to maintain that, you would have the opportunity for companies that market themselves as an even better battery to enter, you know, and then maybe people going oh you know, I'm going to swap out my battery. Of course, technically some of what I paid there for should be, or paid for there should be the work that was done on it. You know the actual way. But like let's say that the battery itself was 4999, you could have people that buy a $7999 battery and then install themselves, you know, because it's better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, exactly, you know, and and it just it's overall, it's better for the consumer. People use their devices longer, people will, I don't know. I mean I think it's just a much better world right, because I'm looking at like just repair costs for certain services that Apple has right. So if I damaged the back glass of my iPhone 13 right, I filmed 13 pro right, darn, I dropped it. Guess how much. That is how much $449.
Speaker 3:Hell bro, I'm buying a new phone for that price. I'm be honest, I don't know what the 15th price for I haven't looked yet but the 14th they were like 700 bucks. You can get them brand new, right. And if you had to pay that much to replace back glass, I'm paying, I'm gonna, I'm gonna make sure I have it. I'm gonna spend a couple hundred more on a brand new phone, right, yeah?
Speaker 1:exactly.
Speaker 3:But that's their goal, is it not, mm? Hmm?
Speaker 1:Yep, exactly, you make the the cost so atrocious that you might as well just replace the phone, yeah, which then becomes e-waste, right? Yeah but I throw that one off into the landfill and you know problems yeah, but it's less production output for them, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3:They can focus more on investing in Spain money on building new phones rather than replacement parts.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly, or, or, though is say like hey, we'll take it and they'll refurbish it, and then they'll sell it back to you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, I think Dennis remembers this, but for you guys, I, when I first got my iPhone, the four S, was the first model I ever owned. I only remember what that other phone was called man, he's sick, though, you guys know. It was like one of those where you have it and you could flip it over. It was like half the size of this night and half the size, but then you could slide it up and the screen would be up where my thumb is and then you have the physical keypad down there. You remember that phone? That was a dope phone, yeah, so those things were durable too, but anyway, you could. So I have four S, right, and I had that first four S for just under the warranty amount I'm trying to remember, yeah, by end of getting three, four S's within the cycle, because I had it just under the warranty amount and they used to do the lock button different, and so it's literally called like some type of electric contact nibble is what it was called and it's slid off of the contact and so the phone wasn't registering the contact of the lock button and so I took it to Stormry. No, I did not.
Speaker 3:I was hanging downtown Dallas with this girl I was dating at the time. I stopped at this Apple store that marketed itself as an Apple store. So also notification, gang Darien coming in with the love, what's going on? Well. But yeah, they had it said Apple. I don't remember the location of it, but it was near Rappahoe, you know. It was on the way to Dallas, right, it's kind of like Southern Richardson, yeah. And I go in there and the guy goes oh, that's going on, okay, and he was like oddly chill about it. He goes, I'll be right back. Disappears comes back. He goes here you go. I didn't even have to sign paperwork. I walk out with this phone, right, and some cards transferred. Whether it was a refurb to phone, it wasn't new. I remember this one Cause I had all kinds of issues with it. At a certain point it just didn't even turn on, if I remember right, something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that it wasn't until I took it in cause. I was like well, I'm not going back there.
Speaker 3:It was out of my way anyway. So I went to stone Brian Frisco, and they go this isn't even a new phone, cause it had been marked refurbished. But they never told me that. They told me it was new at the other place. So it's like you're having to do dances with that. It's just a lot, man, to have self-service parts. You know you want to have something that's much more effective with the self-service side of things and even more, even a phone that you don't even require that kind of stuff Right, which, in my experience as a still an 11 owner, it's gotten a lot better. You know it's gotten a lot better, but but still, I mean, man, that was a wild story that every time we talk about maintenance on iPhones, that's what I think of is just like dude, so dumb. But yeah, it's already set up. It's been a while since I've been on the phone Like dude, so dumb.
Speaker 3:But yeah, it's already expensive, it's already hectic, and then you know you're not getting it necessarily any easier for you, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 3:But anyway. So I find that interesting man, that will be a good one. I'm glad that the USB-C thing is rolling out. I don't have a ton of USB-C cables they're all right in front of me right now actually but it's something that has been proven. It's proven very effective for my Bluetooth keyboard and my laptops and this dock that I use and, yeah, so I'm. I'm definitely on board for Apple to finally adopt the same. You know what I mean. So, but um, and I only got a couple of lightings, so we'll be all right, but then, yes, with this other removable battery stuff, that was an interesting thing, you know. It's interesting how the European Union is the one that's having to make these decisions, right. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Why do you think they're the ones taking the taking the draw on it Um?
Speaker 1:I think it's. I think it's a culture thing, you know, I think um, they're more Honestly, I think some of it comes from the way that, geographically they are right. The European Union is, you know, multiple countries, multiple big countries, all working together for different values and goals and stuff like that. But I think there is kind of like a nice oneness to them that I don't feel like we fully get in the United States you can have. I think the European Union is interesting because you have very different ideas but at the same time you all are able to come together and like make different changes and all sorts of other stuff like that Right, a little bit different than what I feel like we do here. I don't know why, but I think it's just because it's their actual countries, rather than, you know, the United States is. Yes, there's different states, but in some ways they all kind of blend together after a little bit right. So well, one United.
Speaker 3:Nation. Yeah, exactly, I think, go ahead. Sorry, man, oh, no, no, no, no, go ahead. Well, I think you're hitting on a really good thing is based on what they cover. They have to look at the greater like, the greater interest of a variety of people, right, and rather than being like, well, my country would like, but you can't do that. You know what I mean Exactly. You got everything from Poland to freaking Italy, you know Exactly. No, maybe not Poland. Don't quote me on that, but anyway, I think, excuse me man, yeah, I think this is a good topic. I'm glad that we touched on it. Poland is in the European Union, so I nailed that. Per usual, with my geographical context, I say we go ahead and get into our main topic, though I'm very excited for people to be a part of Microsoft Windows 11 just rolled out. Co-pilot man. Oh man.
Speaker 3:Cool. Start playing the theme music. Start playing Danger Zone, bro. How is that one ready, man? How is that one ready? Yeah, we just got to start playing a top gun theme, I think.
Speaker 3:Of course I don't want us to get banned, so yeah, yeah, we got to do that royalty free kind of stuff, but anyway, this is exciting because it is AI integration into the most popular operating system on desktop in the world, right, and thanks me for shouting out myself on that, yeah, but yeah, so we have that, and it's exciting because of how it integrates typical Microsoft ideas. They're wanting to make it so you're more productive and more easily productive, right. Some of these things are things that we have already seen with other programs, but they're integrated onto your desktop now. Other things are new, and Denison and I were playing with some of it before we came live, and we're really excited to talk about it. I think this will be a big game changer. It's again I'm going to throw this out there before we start another interesting mark that Apple is not involved in, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean, I still got Siri giving me dumb questions and dumb answers over here. Man, it's just stupid stuff and like that was the first thing and everyone was so excited about Siri and now it's like bro, siri's dumb.
Speaker 1:You know Siri's falling behind the competition Now. Granted, Siri has gotten better than it was, you know, years ago, but it still has issues, but do you know what the most common question I ask for Siri is what?
Speaker 3:Hey Siri, who won the Thursday night football game tonight?
Speaker 2:The Packers were beaten by the Lions today. The final score was 34 to 20.
Speaker 3:It's the most relevant thing. I can consistently get information out of it from. You know what I mean. It's just fun stuff like that, nothing against it, I love having fun. I'm just saying it's not more capable than stuff like that.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean, yeah.
Speaker 3:So, anyway, we're going to have a good discussion on this. I'm looking forward to it. I say we go ahead and roll into it, man. While I have you here, let's jump into the three best ways to support this show. Number one leave us a rating review wherever you're listening, wherever you're watching. There's your one right there New iPhone 15. What a flex dude. I just said one and he goes you mean like that, more like 15. Am I right? Leave us a rating review wherever you're listening, wherever you're watching. It will help us to know what you think of this podcast and it will also help us to get in front of more potential listeners and viewers, which is a huge gain for us, and we really appreciate it. Number two oh my goodness, he's flexing bro. It's a Rick Gates thing again. There we go, all right, number two. Number two Thanks for following us on YouTube. If you aren't already doing so, jump on and subscribe.
Speaker 3:We go live every single Thursday and you get to interact with us in real time. Whatever it is we're talking about, we want to hear your thoughts, we want to hear what you have going on and what you have to say about the topics that we're discussing. So jump, oh, almost flex, too early, but so jump in with us and let us know your thoughts. Number three oh, a USB-C cable for them both. Dang, that's a flex, and timely as well. So, number three, if you want to support us monetarily, we have some good, clean merch available at the link wherever you're listening and wherever you're watching. Hey guys, god, dang it, this GAH, dang it. By the way, it is fall. You know what you're going to want. May not feel like if you're in the Midwest right now. I don't know about the South. What do you guys do down there?
Speaker 1:No, it's not fall either.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's not fall either 94 today but you know what you're going to want soon You're going to want some beanies, you're going to want some hats, you're going to want some long sleeves and hoodies. We got them all. We even have mugs to keep your warm drink warm. We have phone cases to keep your warm phone warm. It was hard for me to say. Anyway, we got all kinds of options. Wherever you're listening, wherever you're watching, please check it out. We appreciate the support. But yeah, man.
Speaker 3:So, with that said, let's dive in the co-pilot. So I'm going to read something that I researched A set of AI-powered features and experiences that are designed to help people be more productive and creative. Now, one thing I know as a marketing professional is saying that is eight I powered experiences. That's a bit of a marketing sell, but that's not to take away from what the capabilities will be. So, first of all, one of the things is like voice and text commands for controlling the desktop experience. We know what text commands are. We know what voice commands are too, I think. In my opinion, microsoft has been advertising that for a long time, but not really integrating it. Do you think that changes here, and what would that look like?
Speaker 1:I mean, I think this kind of puts this more into the realm of what we kind of already use, like Siri and Google Assistant in that realm, because you can ask it questions really quickly If you can make it to where, I think you can also have it to where it'll read it out to you, right? If you add all of that together, it kind of becomes something similar to that, right, but it's on your OS, right? You can just ask it really quick questions or just say hey, this I don't know this word doc, that I have right here, can you summarize what's in here? Or hey, can you help me do this? Instead of actually having its accessibility features as well as just sometimes it's just easier to communicate or be able to speak it out than it is to actually write it down. So I think that's a huge help.
Speaker 3:I do too. You know controlling the desktop experience. I think my question is this right so, a simple example is like you have, let's say, an Adobe product, right so being able to pronounce that the algorithm knows how, you know what ADOBE sounds like and you say, please open Adobe Illustrator and it will do it right, yeah, but is there anything more advanced that it's trying to say when it says controlling the desktop experience?
Speaker 1:I mean, hey, you could say like open up File Explorer and go to this network drive.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, that's a good example too, actually, but I just want to preface this I'm nerding about this because I'm a guy that your network drives, so I could be like, hey, you know, go to blah drive with this folder, right? No, yeah, it's on time, yeah, or?
Speaker 1:even I just now thought of this too. This is kind of a cool one. You can even open up Command Prompt. You can say, hey, open up Command Prompt and type in you know, for me, right, a lot of times with my job I'll say like do a GP update, right, so it's like a global policy update, and they could just run through that, right, they can figure out exactly what I'm saying and open it up and then it'll run that command and Command Prompt. That'd be really cool, just by me talking up, just saying it. So that's really neat.
Speaker 3:I agree, which I know we're going to dive into this kind of one more. It says AI powered features in default Windows apps such as photos and paint. They will dive into an alternative of this very soon. But what do you think that kind of stuff would look like? I'm going to grab my microwaved meal real quick, but I have some thoughts too. But I want to hear what you have to say, you know.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I think that's just going to be really cool ways that you can use that. You can really use the. I'm trying to think. I think it can just really add to those little little deals Because, yeah, it's paint, it's photos looks like the snipping tool. Who knows, maybe with paint Maybe you draw a little bit better. I think one of the things that it actually has in here. It says it enhances your drawing.
Speaker 1:For AI and digital creation.
Speaker 1:It may be able to help you create backgrounds, generate backgrounds, which would be really nice when you're trying to paint in it.
Speaker 1:It could also help I don't know maybe correct some of the lines, especially if you're using like a mouse. Sometimes they're not super perfect, but in photos I can even see it as something that can help edit some of your photos, because on our phones we have tons of tools where we can edit inside of there. I can see this co-pilot being able to do that in the photos apps on your computer, which is really cool without having to buy expensive programs like Adobe and all sorts of other stuff you can build in, integrate it right then and there, without having to really outsource to these much more higher expense photo editing things, especially if it's something that you're going to do like really small right. If I just say, oh, I want to blur this out or something like that, or I want to blur the background, or something quick, simple, you can do that. That's a really really I think that would be a really really great use of the tool and make it a lot easier than something that you would normally be able to try to do.
Speaker 3:Well, I think too and this is probably something we'll see integrated in Apple as well because they make it easy to edit photos and stuff like that, right? Excuse me, guys, I'm sorry, but I mentioned the Photos app too, because there's an AI integrated way to enhance your photos. As someone who works with that too, that would be beneficial, I think, for a lot of people, and to do it on your desktop, I'm saying. But also it would be cool combining the ideas that were accruing here. Maybe there's a way you download photos on your laptop, like a lot of people do, even though terabyte drives are becoming more and more rare these days. But anyway, maybe you do that and then you say, hey, terabyte drive or two, sorry, multi terabyte drives. It's why I meant it Isn't it rare, bro? It's hard for me to find man.
Speaker 1:Are you talking about like a hard drive, like disk drive?
Speaker 3:Yeah, like yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, so disk drives are I don't know. You can find a lot of really cheap big disk drives out there. I mean, I guess if you wanted a small one, yeah, external ones, yeah, I can see that those are a little bit harder. Sorry, I got a soft one and turned it there.
Speaker 3:No, no, it was worth you mentioning that. So, anyway, a point is, maybe you could say hey, all these photos were from there. Yes, please categorize them accordingly, right? Yeah, so things like that. I think that would help people. I like that. So far, I do think we're dipping our toes in those small things, but when you approach the entire program, it's a huge difference, right, when you realize that this help is right around the corner and you feel like your tech is working with you.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean? Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3:Okay, so it says the ability to generate text, translate languages and write different kinds of creative content. What's interesting about this is this is where we kind of dip our toes in the chat. Gpt right, and Microsoft still has major ownership in open AI, right, so would this not be them integrating that platform basically on the Microsoft?
Speaker 1:Of course. Yeah, I think that's because they're using chat GPT for and being, so it's really not all that much of a stretch to see them integrating that into the OS.
Speaker 3:No, I agree. So that kind of stuff, I think, is pretty self-explanatory. We've talked about it a lot on this podcast. But I also will say translating languages is not a new feature. You know what I mean. Yeah, I've had Microsoft read an entire Word document to me one time. You know what I mean. But then all you got to do is highlight some text and right click. It should be like translate. Yeah, yeah, I can do that Literally. Right now it says translate selection to English. This is great, so it's just more effective. We know how chat GPT works. I don't want to waste too much time on that, right? So the final test was amazing. Thanks so much. Those are some of the things that we talked about. For Microsoft Copilot In Windows. There's such a small naming difference, apparently, but there is a contextual difference between Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot, right? Mm-hmm, there is Now. Here's the thing. So Copilots included in all Windows 11. The thing I forget is not everyone pays for 365. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:You know that's true. I don't know why you'd have Windows without using Office and Excel and all that kind of stuff. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm, but what do I know? I'm a nerd. So, with that said, there's a version of Copilot available to enterprise customers as part of the 365 subscription, which includes all the features of Copilot and Windows, plus additional features that are designed for business users, like the ability and this is one I actually really like to analyze work email to provide a summary of the most pressing tasks for an individual employee right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which is amazing.
Speaker 3:It is Now. In my estimation, it's not just analyzing your email, it's looking at your Outlook calendar. Yeah so, but still for it to say you guys talked about this, so, like at my job, we used a program called Esana and it's a project managing platform. Maybe some of you know what it is. It's very effective. We can collaborate with so many different people and just make sure projects are done on time and managed all properly. Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but technically this would at least wink an eye toward that type of a thing being built in automatically through AI and through Microsoft, mm-hmm. So what are your thoughts on this, bro?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I mean I think it's a great way to utilize it and force it into those. Honestly, I mean it is forceful, but it's a good way to really get people's hands on this tool and utilize it to the best of its ability, because I feel like a lot of times, you know, people always talk about, oh man, chat GBT, this, chat, gbt that, but there are little examples of ways to use it in their everyday life, right, their everyday stuff, and this, especially this being enterprise stuff, really helps. Or, you know, m365, co-pilot being enterprise chat, all of these do a really good job of forcing it into most users' day-to-day work and allowing them to be able to really use AI in such a cool way than they have done before and increase productivity by you know who knows how much. Because you can. Now, you know you can have it like this small example of just analyzing your what's going on in emails and give you tasks bam, that's automatically. It's essentially summarizing that email, that long, nice email that you have there, analyzing that and saying here's what you really need to worry about. Right, here's what needs to get going. And you can just jump right into it, because you know, of course, we're all going to go back and read through it, but sometimes when you're in a hurry right especially, I know, for me, when I'm in a hurry I just need the bullet points. I just need to get you know, get exactly what I need out of it, and then let's go, let's go on, let's keep moving, let's keep doing stuff.
Speaker 1:So I think this is such a cool feature, and I think all the other features that they have, because I know they have it integrated into Word and throughout the Office suite to really enhance what you can do. Right, you know it can generate certain things, help you, help you come up with ideas when it comes to emails, as well as Word when you're using Word and doing different types of work within Word can help you create or at least give you ideas and create like Word documents that you're working on based on you know what your source material is. I think these are all really incredible, incredibly powerful features, especially if they're going to also integrate into Teams as well, which is, you know, a chat program that I'm sure tons of you know, that tons of businesses use. Yeah, I think it's just a really cool way to get this into people's hands and actually give them like tangible ways to use it.
Speaker 3:I agree well you get you brought a good thing specifically with the email too. I'm sure everybody's experiences at some point where you know you get an email sent to, let's say, five people and you know this is like a team project and what you have is this right, but the email is like that.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying yeah, you're going to be able to just automatically be able to just determine with the training of the language analysis that it has from chat GBT. This is what John needs. Oh dude, that's a game saver or a game changer. It's a time saver and a brain saver a little bit too. You know. You're like let's just hit it, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:So I love that. That's a good analysis on that. Another mentioned thing I have here is the ability to act as kind of an AI agent, performing its own market research across multiple web sources in real time, giving employees accurate and up to the minute information. So I know how. Actually I don't. I don't, and I'll explain why I don't know how that could benefit. What would you see as possible uses for that type of technology?
Speaker 1:You know that's kind of hard, I would imagine marketing trends. Honestly, I think that would be a really good one, right? If it's giving you, it can give you a baseline. Of course, if you're in the industry I'm sure you're always up to date on that kind of stuff, but I think it maybe it can see things in marketing trends that you normally wouldn't see right Through. It's, through the type of analysis that it does, it may be able to enlighten you in certain things. So maybe, if anything, that could just be a good like thing to check out as like a semi baseline, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, well and yes, and we all had our Microsoft home or you know, the news section that will pop up completely have nowhere. You accidentally scrolled over it for like 0.5 of a second and it's like here's the top stories for the day, right? But the thing is so. I think some of you watching this know I'm in marketing and social media and the thing about it is I know this through trial and error Meta, the worst, but also TikTok, reddit, twitter every major social media site has protections to where bots, even AI, cannot just go on there and search, hey, what's trending right now? Have to be on the platform and do the research yourself.
Speaker 3:So for it to be something like that, I don't, I could be wrong. Maybe there's new agreements being reached, but I don't think it'll be effective, you know. But if you were to say, let's take a more simple example. You know, be researching a new vehicle, perhaps you know you could do market research for that vehicle of good sales locations, good prices and comparable other cars that you could compare it to, you know, again, I think that's a simplistic example, but what do you think?
Speaker 1:No, I think that's a good example of something that they could use it for Okay cool.
Speaker 3:Well, I think that those are some interesting, you know enhancements. You know I was dogging on Apple earlier, but I you know so far what we've read none of it is really something that I'm like oh hell, yeah right. But if you work at a place where you get a lot of emails, I think so like I used to work in the news, right, how beneficial that would have been for me. Oh my God, dude, that would have changed the day. I would have known everything that's coming in that needs to go in my newscast, and I wouldn't have even had to check. You know my email every five seconds. You know what I mean, but it seems a little more situational, based right now as to how important and effective this is. What do you think I mean? Are there any other things that you think this or that this is changing and that you think is worth mentioning?
Speaker 1:You know it's hard to say. I mean, I think that you know. One of the things that I know we haven't touched on exactly yet is the image generation right the fact that they've integrated Dolly 3, which is one of the newest image generating models from open AI, into Bing as well as into the gosh darn copilot, as well as into Word itself, which is pretty amazing. So no more you know the super stock photos that you got from Clipart right within Word. Now you can create these really really cool pictures directly into Word using this copilot feature, which is really amazing. I think that's a really cool thing that they're trying to work on. That they're working on, and it's also really neat to see it in the browser as well, being able to use that. So I think Um.
Speaker 3:Clippy was the bro man. That's not dis on Clippy too much bro.
Speaker 1:You know Clippy, Clippy was the bro. Clippy was the bro man he was, he was doing what he could man. He was out here, I know.
Speaker 3:Hey, I see you might be working on the letter right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you want a template Clippy, clippy, out here. Man, he's out here, but you know, move over Clippy. This is Clippy 2.0 copilot dude. Is copilot bro, copilot out here.
Speaker 3:He's got a mustache sitting in a rocking chair now and he's exactly I remember back in my day and just sees copilot go right over. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I think that's a really, really powerful tool that I think I you know, I think it's going to gain a huge amount of traction and usage.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I agree, man. I will say some other examples of how copilot can be used, just to help make it more tangible for our listeners as well. A student could use copilot to help them write a research paper by generating ideas, finding sources and summarizing information. Now, look, I'm going to jump in that one right off the bat. I know that's a controversial one, but to me, I always have looked at these things like how do you learn them Right?
Speaker 3:We have trainings that we do every month at work, and one of them right now is like eight minutes long, a very monotone narration, but then at the end you have to answer four to six questions before it lets you move on to the next thing of training. You can get them wrong as many times as you want, there's no failing. You just got to get it right, right. And the thing about that is, even if you were someone who didn't listen to a second of that training, you're still walking away learning because you had to get those questions right. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:And so if AI were to come in and to help somebody, a student, write a research paper, giving them ideas, finding them the sources they need and summarizing that information. I mean, they're still learning, they're having to gather it and put it together. Yeah, thank you very much. Thank you so much. That's a lesson on the comments, if you hate me for that, but that's my opinion. There's, I mean, there's nuances to all of it, right, but I think, like for the teacher to make sure that something was still learned through that process that's on them, but to have assistance, writing and of course, you know, maybe more beneficial it would be for graduate students, those type of students, but still, I think that's an effective thing, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, number two a business person can use co-pilot to help them prepare for a presentation by generating slides, analyzing data and finding relevant information online. Now that is maybe, if not the most tangible and good example of how this could be a game changer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, I mean, that's a really, really big one. You know, I'm sure all of us have been in a situation once before where we need to jump into a presentation. We have the fact that we need to kind of put it all together and make it look nice and clean and stuff like that, and so to be able to have something that will do that for you is incredible.
Speaker 3:It is, it is and yeah, I mean, you know, again, I think that's a really good thing. Again, I think I've talked more about my profession on this episode than perhaps ever. But you know, I find myself in front of people a lot. I don't mind presenting things, but I hate slideshows, dude. I hate them. I don't like watching them, to be honest. But if I don't like watching them, I hate putting them together. And if you compile information and then co-pilot could analyze that information and then make into slides and slides for you that fit a good presentation, that's actually pretty mind blowing, dude. That's a big one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is. It's a huge one. It makes it such a huge time saver and probably attacks it at a different, in a different way than what you normally would. I think that's really, really big.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I completely agree. I like that one, okay. So third example here A software developer can use co-pilot to help them write code, debug errors and test their code. Okay, nice, let's put it for this way. Chudgegpt can do that, right, yeah, we don't know if this is going to do it to a further extent. It could, of course. I don't know, but it might not. But the other thing is, too oftentimes when you're in a position like that, you can't go outside of your operating system. You can't just go on Google and be like, hey, let me run this by ChudgeGPT real quick. You know what I mean, mm-hmm, and so I think that that's an effective, an effective thing. You know? It's a more simplistic, straightforward example from the others we've given. Yeah, but I think it's still good. I think I'm yeah, I'm on board with that. So I think these were some good examples. Do you have any more that you want to touch on? I know we're going to show people some dolly action too, real quick, yeah, yeah, but did you have anything else beside that too?
Speaker 1:I can't think of any other examples. I mean, I think those were really great examples to kind of really get people engaged as well, as you know, help them understand exactly the power this that this has, and it's also kind of funny too. This is again, you know, what we've talked about ever since we started really covering this topic of, like, different types of AI's that are out there, that are AI tools that are out there, is that this is the tip of the iceberg, right? This is literally probably the worst that it will be, and it will get better and faster and smarter.
Speaker 3:That's the truth Every time. Dyson said it. You know, something the next few weeks comes out that changes it. Mm, hmm.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, I agree, man, I, you know I want to say too, generalization statements can be taken the wrong way so easily. One thing I think about as far as me learning using maybe an AI right to help learn is because I had a foundation of learning on my own. You know what I mean. There's one part of it where it's like you know good old American values, it makes me value it more. Right, it makes me value that I have this easier access to learn something and it's transformative for me. But I do think that there's a way to approach it where it's like hey, you're learning stuff and you're learning it faster than anyone ever has before. You know, mm. Hmm, because not really tangible for you viewers on the podcast fully, maybe, maybe for a little bit. But my knowledge since I started, since chat GBT came out, my knowledge on a plethora of things has exploded. Man, it's insane, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So, anyway, I just wanted to include that as well. But, dude, let's show them these dollars, dallay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I will. I will. Let me get my screen shared really quickly here you guys can check it out. Pop it up here, go Boom, look at that. So this is just some of the stuff that we kind of been playing around with One of the images that we yeah, you have that we created.
Speaker 3:I got pop out for again for one more second. Okay, it's all good. So yeah, this is one of the images that we had it create.
Speaker 1:I, just as you can see, you get the nice little prompt here, which is really cool. It even gives you the size that it is, and then I can just grab it. Right, I can grab that content credentials, which is one of the things that they talked about, which gives you a history, the origin. It can tell you exactly what it was generated by. That was one of the things that Microsoft and, honestly, a lot, of, a lot of companies have been really trying to push, since they've been pushing these, yeah, products is to help people understand like this image is generated by an AI rather than created by a company. This image is generated by an AI rather than created by a like a human or a person or whatever. But, yeah, so this is. This is my little astronaut, that we had an astronaut going into a black hole, so he's this poor man is in a get swallowed up here.
Speaker 1:But also, as you can see, on the side here we have a prompt that we already did, which was gave us a little bit more nightmarish Photos, just as like a kind of quick little deal here. So this is one of the ones that it generated. It doesn't do really well with hands and a couple of other things. Right, it does its best. Yeah, I will say that chat GPT does great with objects and dolly it does the same thing. It does great with objects, but when you try to do something more with people, it's a little strange, but this was probably one of the best ones that we had. That.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, but also fun fact, though, with the prompt was to catch up podcast with John Denison. And spoiler alert, in case you're a new viewer, that's not what we look like. Yeah, no, not at all. And there are other catch up podcasts. But what was interesting about it is it more or less and this is not a knock on Microsoft at all, because this is Dolly and it's one of the most advanced ones out there really, yeah, it is, but you know they took podcast. Oh, this is what a podcast thumbnail typically looks like. You said your names. Here's two guys. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 3:So it was. It was it's actually really simplistic and what it decided to come up with from that perspective.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, now I will say that. One thing that's really interesting, right, I just pushed the same thing, I just changed like punctuation a little bit here, but I got just slightly different results. One thing that's really interesting, right, we got four. This was our previous four results that we got before, right, and then we got four more. One thing is a thing that I've noticed here is that one these are like a middle aged men, which is kind of weird, but it's the same. Yeah, middle aged white men, right, which is strange. Now I understand some of the like, for instance, this right here these guys, they're a little concerning.
Speaker 3:They swap each other's facial features.
Speaker 1:I know exactly this man ate his glasses, or his glasses are morphine into his face. But one of the things that's really interesting or I could say that they're probably getting some of their inspiration from is Joe Rogan. I'm sure that's true. It's a good catch. But these guys I can see that and that may be one reason why it's going more towards a white demographic, but I do find that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3:Well, if you click the bottom right, one real quick, sorry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this one right here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and the only reason, you know it's not. No, not that one.
Speaker 1:Sorry, this one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, sorry. Yeah, I mean, you know that's nothing. If you were to think of a generic podcast background, right? Mm, hmm. You would think that I would. Yeah, you know for sure. So that's what it was going for, for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know, I mainly wanted to bring this up just because I do find that, you know, as it continues to generate things, I think that is, of course, I could have been a more descriptive with it, but I do think that is something that we will, you know, need to think about as we continue to move forward with our AI training and stuff like that, making sure that it's providing diverse things and without having to fully ask for different things, right, or whatever like that. This was a prompt that we had once before. I just wanted to kind of go back to show this, right. This was actually one that was really interesting because it was auto generated, right? If you take out all the text, it's a surprise.
Speaker 1:It's a surprise me, right. And then it was just a robot. You know in what was the let me do undo? Here is robot holding an umbrella in the rain.
Speaker 3:And that's so. I think people have used this kind of stuff before. I wanted to say because I fooled around. Do you remember when I was doing AI animation on TikTok? Yeah, yeah, I made this video where it converted me and my two bandmates into grant that auto characters and like that. You know GTA care, it was GTA characters comma, a different sub specific thing. I went in that design commas. You know that type of thing. That's how you have to communicate with these, for whatever reason. That is yeah, but with that said, yes, this was a auto generated, one that Dolly favored, but it looks great, dude, yeah, like it looks really cool.
Speaker 1:It looks really cool and let's go ahead and generate another one, but it's really neat to see, just like, what it can do.
Speaker 3:Right Of this idea.
Speaker 1:So this was cool, yeah. Mechanical sphere floating over a pink desert 1970s sci-fi illustrated by Mobius.
Speaker 3:I love it.
Speaker 1:Let's do it, let's see what's going to, what happens right here. And for those of you who are wondering, this little counter here, it's essentially like the, it's what they call boosts. Yeah Right, so it's something to help. You know, if you want to pay for stuff, you could, I think, yes, get more of these, but if you run out of them, it just takes longer for it to generate an image, right, and you start off with a hundred of them, which is Not bad, not bad.
Speaker 3:Oh, unless this is your business, you know that you're going to run through that quick. For the average person, that's plenty. Yeah. So Exactly. But look at these man, it looks like early Star Wars covers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it does. Look at that. That's kind of interesting too, because you can kind of see like this is clearly, you know, something that's generated, but the way that it looks right, yeah, you know, there's like kind of almost like an old film haze kind of go into it, which is really really neat.
Speaker 3:The shadow that's cast from the sphere on the ground there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, exactly, yeah. So yeah, that's pretty cool. Let's go to this guy right here.
Speaker 3:If you've seen oblivion with Tom Cruise that spaceship was this type of design. Yeah, exactly. Design.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, that's really cool looking. We even go here. That's pretty crazy, mm. Hmm, you know, although there's some weird artifacting, like just for all of these, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I will say over. Most I will. Oh sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off man. No, no, go ahead. No, no, I totally see what you're saying there. I will say I kind of like this one the most.
Speaker 1:I do too. This one's really neat.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's very cool. Really really neat, let's see, I think that's what these type of Got a little person there. Sure enough, dude. I feel like that's what these type of AI should be made for is thinking outside the box, like not trying to replicate anything you already have.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 3:You know, exactly.
Speaker 1:So I think that's a yeah, I think it's a pretty, pretty amazing kind of Feature that you just have at your fingertips to kind of play around with and kind of use, right, I can see this being great for both business and non-business applications, right, this would be even cool, if you know. If you're doing like an amateur YouTube channel channel and you just need a really cool thumbnail, exactly right, boom, you can generate it right off of the topic, off of your topic.
Speaker 3:Well, and with that, send us tell them about the other thing. Man, so it, you know, integrates directly and with Microsoft's what's that program called? You have it open on the tab there.
Speaker 1:So there's clip. Champ is one of the things, but it actually integrates with Microsoft designer.
Speaker 3:Exactly.
Speaker 1:That is what the thing is. So we're actually going to I'm going to jump into that real quick. You have the base form of it, but you can import images into it and then you can start to. Oh gosh.
Speaker 3:Excuse me, sorry, hey, I can't articulate that one man, I know.
Speaker 1:But you can use the designer to help you create different types of Well, in this case, promotions, or whatever like that, um uh, thumbnails or anything like that. See, that's Right. You've got like a little text where it's grabbing the image and plopping it in here. You can also have it generate different images, you can add different images, and it's using AI Uh, it's an AI powered tool to really help you, kind of like, Create something really cool and really neat, like that's a cool looking. Right, that was really neat, that's really cool. I like that. Well, and to distance.
Speaker 1:I think, that's a really cool thing.
Speaker 3:I like that. You know, if anyone's familiar with Canva out there, this is a direct competitor with what can go do. But you know, this would be like, uh, like a greeting card. A greeting card, right, that's what this template looks like. But it makes it easy. If you were, uh, as Dennis had mentioned like maybe doing a thumbnail for a YouTube video, you just take this and you have templates that you can. Oh, wow, you took the background down. Yeah, just like that Look at that Super effective.
Speaker 1:Boom Nice, that's a clean cut too.
Speaker 3:It really is very well done, which you would hope for, obviously, because it generated the image, but for it to work with, uh, different sub, uh tech software's of its own, you know, and uh, that effectively it's impressive. And then again, you know, let's say, yeah, youtube, make a thumbnail out of this real quick, real easy. You know, um, you did mention you, like you said businessmen, but you know this, this kind of stuff to me comes into play for small business owners and individuals. You know what I mean. That's where this stuff really, because you can make a thumbnail so quick that not just the image but again the actual size for the thumbnail, um, and then create and make it your own, whatever you need it to do, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, um, I think that's just so. It makes it so powerful, right? And this is I mean tomorrow.
Speaker 3:Oh man the dentist. And cancel out again.
Speaker 1:Oh, there we go, I think I always back yeah there we go. I lost before a second there, um, um, but uh, what I was going to say is just like this is really cool and like, to my knowledge, it's like free, so um.
Speaker 3:I'm sure there's a paid version of it, but you don't need you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I mean it's it. You don't need you know, especially if this is what you got, like yeah, anything Super, super crazy or whatever like that.
Speaker 3:Well, actually, I guess to that point too, you would say if you know you have office 365 that you're already paying for it has Dolly installed on it and then Dolly quickly attaches to this. I would think that's actually included. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And you can uh install designer on your computer. I just found that out.
Speaker 1:Oh, nice, even better.
Speaker 3:It does say try for free, which would imply there's a paid version. Oh no, no, it's, it's just free. That's awesome, that's amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just like clip champ, which also kind of uses some AI powered stuff to be able to create, you know, going off of different videos that you have to create, as you can see, templates or anything like that inspired kind of videos in this tool. Right, see AI. Yeah, create a video with AI. That's pretty neat. Yeah, auto compose a video.
Speaker 3:Are you doing it? I want to see what that looks like. That'd be fun. I'll upload some media, okay, okay. We got here. Do you have?
Speaker 1:any freaking out, there we go.
Speaker 3:Do you have any videos you would throw up on there? What do?
Speaker 1:you think let's see. You know I got some. I don't have videos, but I got pictures. Okay, I got pictures. Let's see what we got here and pictures. We're going to do a DC trip, right, I got all these cool pictures. Drag that in there.
Speaker 3:And I'm all new.
Speaker 1:Let's drag the whole DC trip in here, and probably, oh Lord, that's what I expected. Yeah, let's not do that. But let's let's go with something like this Right Far back, go like these right, drag them up in there. Probably also more than I was expecting, but hey, it's all good. Yeah, exactly, why not? Okay, this is cool, looks like it's uploading nice and quick yeah.
Speaker 3:This would be cool. I also have video on my computer too, that I could try it, depending on what this turns out like, just to compare, you know. Yeah, let's get her going.
Speaker 1:Cool, so let's do it. Let's say get started Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, we'll go minimal, right, we'll do Okay. All right, some weird internet issues. Weird internet issues lately, so I do apologize, but let's see We'll go minimal. Choose for me. Oh, that's kind of neat. There's a choose for me. You know what I'm going to go choose for me. I'm going to let you know. Let the AI take over, let it go ahead and check it out and see what's going on All right, all right, all right.
Speaker 3:It's reviewing all of my media.
Speaker 1:It's finishing up, finalizing everything. Apparently, I don't have a Microsoft account.
Speaker 3:It's telling me, so I will hold off for now. All right, then, I do have one. But it's not accepting it outside of work right now. Okay, excuse me, so it's just doing this thing.
Speaker 1:I was doing this thing. Oh it's okay, goodness, just finished. All right, that's cool. All right. So how? How long do you want this video to be? Well, we're in landscape for our production right now.
Speaker 3:So let's do landscape, and then I just say less than 30.
Speaker 1:Less than 30. Let's do it. Cut it down, okay, we'll do next. Oh wow, sure, We'll go right ahead. Oh wow, sure, we'll go. Relaxation for it.
Speaker 3:You change your font if you want. That's cool. Cool. And then you just have to hit player or what you do.
Speaker 1:I think so. I think it's already got it, otherwise you just export it, right yeah, autocompose.
Speaker 2:Oh, dude, it's sick. Looks dope, looks dope, looks dope, looks dope.
Speaker 3:Looks dope, looks dope, looks dope, looks dope, looks dope, looks dope. That's pretty dope it is. It's kind of like you know how Apple has it on board where you can make a quick video of your photos and stuff like that. Yeah, you're right, it was like really clean, I liked it. It makes you wonder and I apologize, guys, for you. You guys listen to watching it. I don't have the access to do video right now, apparently, but I do want to play with it and I'll get to that and we can report back.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I want to play with this as well.
Speaker 3:Yeah, cause how simple it was for it to edit. This makes you wonder what it would look like throwing a video in there.
Speaker 1:You know, I know Well, yeah, full, full video and see what goes on, Okay.
Speaker 3:Take our podcast, for example. Right, if you threw that in there and then said make a 30 second video, what would it take from this? That would basically turn into a social media reel. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, I'm going to share this. I'm going to share this actual Video that it just created. I exported it so that way you can actually see it. It was a little Well different, but yeah, I mean, that would be really amazing, right? It makes it so much easier for you to do so much more. Yeah. So my video should be shared now, okay.
Speaker 3:I'm in with Google now. Don't hate me.
Speaker 1:Oh man, you got to watch out, Google will get. You Don't like Google Get you.
Speaker 3:Okay, let's see here Great video with a, and I'm going to drop. See, I think I have a.
Speaker 1:Oh, John, do you got the video here?
Speaker 3:I can. Yeah, I was just making sure I was looking at something viable here, real fast. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yes, I do have live Share stuff. Yeah, okay, cool, let's go ahead and Sure the screen. There we go. Okay, here we are, and I'm going to click on six views and I can't see them right now, but all they're just coded, so I hope that these work. I don't know what they will look like, but, all right, we'll get them rolling here real quick. See, they're all taking their time to upload. It's not called any trip, it's called Ender. Show Ender show.
Speaker 1:Look at that.
Speaker 3:Did not plan a flexing about my band today. We had the. We had the opportunity to open for hinder Last year. Pretty much, yeah, just over a year ago, man, it's pretty, pretty amazing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was it was definitely the best show that I've ever had with my band, and the crowd loved us.
Speaker 3:It was fun. We played in the middle of Inman, kansas, which, if you know, yeah, well, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure, I'm not sure. If you know, yeah, well, actually I'm not even Gonna say that. I know several people that live up here that don't even know where Inman is, but, um, but it's, it's kind of In the middle of Kansas and there's nothing crazy there, but they have a big concert venue that they just opened, like two years ago three maybe and it had a ton of people in there. Man, um, well, this is taking us time. I may end up having to go back and drop some of this, but maybe not. Let's see what we got here. I'm not really feeling.
Speaker 1:You're going to choose for me.
Speaker 3:Okay, I guess I did that. So yeah, we'll. We'll review when it comes back, but let's switch over to you, man. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1:Check me out. All right, let's go ahead and just do this. No, it is.
Speaker 3:Looking clean. No man, I like it, this looks yeah it's not bad. No no.
Speaker 1:And look at that. It had a nice fade out you know, fade out into when it comes to you know the sound, fade out into the video itself, like that's. That's a pretty darn impressive.
Speaker 3:It is, it is. I agree. Um, yeah, no, I completely agree. It looks great from that side of things. I thought it was yeah Well put together and I'm I'd be completely happy with it, to be honest, yeah.
Speaker 1:I would too. I would too.
Speaker 3:I'm going to try something different, real quick. Okay.
Speaker 3:So some of these video files are really hefty Um, and so I'm going to just do, and I don't know that one Um here we go Okay, I'm going to put a music video in Um and see what it does. That is something that is more tangible. There we go. Perfect, I'll put this one in here. All right, it should be. Let me get the sharing up for y'all. Boom, already uploaded. This is much more tangible. Let's take a look here. So videos here. Uh, our first music video we put out. Okay.
Speaker 3:Let me type in collateral music video. I'm more or less just. I see what comes from this, you know. Yeah. Um, so it doesn't really let me easily select what the style would be like. Do I hit here? Oh, I got it, I got it, let's do it, let's do it. It's classic Sure Not. Can't do both. Uh, no, yeah, okay, how many of these do I have to hit? Yeah, but it's reviewing my media right now, so this is yeah, once it finishes.
Speaker 3:Yep, exactly, this could take a while. I didn't think it would. It's 50 megabyte file, but, um, regardless, it's interesting. You know what I mean. Um, I don't know what's going to happen in the next couple of minutes, but I'm going to just start, you know, wrapping things up here, if you're down for it, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, let's do it Okay.
Speaker 3:Well, I think we had a good discussion on this. There was a lot to um unpack, you know, and, and really the fact of the matter, one of the things that Dennis and I found out is that it's not even really being marketed that that hugely. You know, as what is in um, this rollout, and and maybe it's because, on one hand, there's so many possibilities they don't even know how to explain it the best.
Speaker 3:On the other hand, they could just be. You know well, on week one it's this, a week two it's that, and then you know, by the time people catch on, they're like, oh wow, my computer is completely different now you know what I mean. Mm, hmm.
Speaker 3:Um, and so it just really is interesting. I think that, um, yeah, I think that this is going to be a big one, based off of even just the things that we saw. Now, you know, it's not so much, excuse me, not so much flash or anything like that, but it is very much like, um, well, this would be effective during my job. You know what I mean? Yeah, so I'm I'm excited for it. I think we had a good discussion on this man. Did you have anything else you wanted to add?
Speaker 1:No, I mean, uh, yeah, I think the biggest thing is, just like you said, it's pretty amazing just to see that these tools are here and skies the limit, um, I think once this is in people's hands, just like you were saying, I think it'll be pretty impressive. I think we'll really start to see the true effects of it. I remember when they started announcing some of this stuff back in March, because that's when Microsoft first announced this and talked about these integrations, and so it's just really cool to see it like come to fruition, um, and really see them like doubling down and really pushing into this, and so, um, it's only the sky, you know, it's only going to get better, it's only going to get way better, um, and I can, the possibilities are kind of endless, almost.
Speaker 3:I agree, I agree, I agree. So let's take a look. Here I have the results. I just had to stop sharing my screen apparently, oh, wow, okay. So let's uh, this is going to look a little different. Mm, hmm.
Speaker 3:By winds to look at it from a uh, vertical perspective, because it was shot in horizontal shot, edited in horizontal. You will hear some background music that added over the top. This is not me, oh, glitching, sorry, guys Should download it. That's my bad, let's get a rolling. Yeah, okay, okay. Um, how'd you do yours? I just wanted to download it.
Speaker 1:Uh, it looks like you're at the right spot. You just got to wait for it to finish up because you hit export Right. Ah, yeah, okay. Yeah, so it'll eventually export itself. It just has to finish up. It's probably still doing some stuff. Yeah, might have to share it in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I agree, yeah, well, that's, that's all good, we might have to circle back, but anyway.
Speaker 3:I think we had a great discussion on this. I appreciate you guys jumping in with us in real time. As always, thank you for jumping on the live stream. This is the longer one longer ones we've done for a while, and I missed it, man. It was fun. Yeah, me too. So I hope you guys enjoyed it. I know it was more nuanced than some of our, uh, recent episodes, but sometimes you got to do it. This is, uh, it's going to be something you're probably going to interact with no guaranteed you're going to interact with at some point. So I'm glad we talked about it and, uh, yeah, all, uh, if this is worth sharing, I'll share on our social media. Otherwise, we'll circle back to it next week. But thank you guys, so much for listening, thank you for watching. We'll catch up with you next week. Yeah, yeah.
.JPG)