Hey there. Hey everybody. How you doing Chris? Throat's a little rough from talking but
You got a great radio voice right now. I do right now baby. Yeah. Please don't call me
baby. You're getting me excited over here. Okay. Bro, you're tired. Oh yeah. I'm tired.
We are, we, this is, this is gonna be an interesting show. Well yeah and then on top of that, that
beer. Yeah so what is this beer that we're drinking? You want to give us the, the 411
from your needs? Well and also from this being a gift. Yes, this is a gift. This is a really
nice gift. Man I'm really loving that voice. Maybe I need to talk loud. Wait a minute.
Before a show. Yeah this is another Dragon's Mill product from Michigan. Michigan. Michigan
baby. Thank you Jason. Yes another huge thank you to Jason. This is their Triple Mash bourbon
barrel aged out. I mean if it's bourbon barrel aged I'm usually down. Correct and the others
that I've had from them have been bourbon barrel aged. That's gonna be tough to talk
after I've had a few sips of this. Bourbon barrel aged. Yes because this is not your
average beer and it's and it's not your average bourbon aged. Typically I've run into those
around 10 percent. Kind of that beginning of high gravity. This is 18.7. I mean. So
hello. I'm just saying I've been saying for a couple days or the past week or so like
I'm ready for some beer. Ready for some good stuff. So I'm glad we're getting to talk today.
Yeah yeah yeah. So they say Triple Mash is the ultimate indulgence. The result of years
of honing technique. I'm having trouble reading tonight. I guess I'm that tired. In pushing
the limits of what a stout can be. Well there you go. I'll take it. I'll take it. So yeah
this I think this is gonna be pretty good. We'll have to pace ourselves a little bit.
Yeah. So pour the beer. Do the honors. Yeah I've had better on the sound. Better on the
sound. Better on the sound for sure. Better on the mic. Well you know. Alright. Still
want to work on getting some etching on these glasses. Yeah. No I think I think we got to
get that that gear on the side. I need to talk again. The recurring resource for the
show I need to talk to Jason. Yeah Jason. His wife I believe does. Jason is an unofficial
sponsor. Yeah he's a. This episode brought to you by. Unofficial producer. Jason. So
although I will shame him a little bit. He hadn't set a boost in a while. Shame. I know
he's listening. Shame Jason. Shame on you. Well I bet he's like well I'm the only one
sending these so. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. I know he's not the only one listening. Speaking
of listening. I can confirm that Michael Moore is listening. Yes. So sorry about what I said
in the last one of your boss not listening. My bad. That was the previous boss. That was
the previous boss. We weren't talking about you Michael. No no no. Hey thanks for listening.
Okay what does this smell like? Oh it smells delicious. Oh. I'm in trouble because I mean
I we were supposed to pace this and that I will tell you for everybody who's. That's
good. I'm wondering if you should go pick one of these up like that smells great. Well.
And by go pick this up I mean order it. Jason found and I'm not recommending that we do
this but I'd be willing to split. He found somebody that was selling a 24 pack. Okay.
130 bucks. It's a little stout on the price but it's not your average beer. Oh my goodness.
Because I mean if you drink the whole bottle. Yeah clean. That's like drinking four normal
beers. Yeah. So. Goodness. Man it smells good. So each of us are drinking two right now.
Oh. Yeah that's not bad. Oh that is smooth. Okay well. Especially for bourbon barrel aged.
Guys we may not have much of a show. We're just gonna sit here and smack our lips at
this. I apologize in advance for any slurring of my words. Beer. So all you're saying is
last week. Yeah. Last week we got to talk about some of the challenges that we face
as I.T. support individuals. You know part of that being just the nature of I.T. now
and in terms of the amount of change that happens in a single year from month to month
with gear and service ability and softwares and everything needing to interact with each
other and there's there's so many options but also because of those options there's
also less options in a lot of ways for some things and it makes it hard to be an expert
on everything. Correct. So being able to Google is kind of your best friend. Yeah you become
a jack of all trades. I did I did find myself the other day. I mean y'all can all probably
relate to this. I found myself texting Chris a question and then you know he's in meetings
and he's doing his own thing and I realized like I should just Google this instead of
asking my friend. I'm expecting you to have all the answers like right at the tip of your
finger. Yeah right. My fingertips. Fingertips but you know so do I. So yeah anyway Google
definitely can be a friend. Have we talked about let me Google that for you. You remember
that. I think we did. For those of you that don't know there was a service there for a
while that you like was whatever the letters are for the first letters for let me Google
that for you and you could go to their website and type in a search and then it would give
you a link to share with somebody where basically you shared it with them and when they clicked
on it it took them to Google and typed in the question that they asked you. Yeah. And
then gave them the results. Which I think is pretty snarky but also some people kind
of need it. It's a teaching opportunity. It is a teaching opportunity. You are able to
do this. You are. You can do this. I'm not going to use the E word but you are helping
them. Yeah. The E word. Thank you. Well people who are listening know me know the E word
that I don't like. We're not going to use that word. No. But anyway so you know that
that's a catch 22 because then people get like half answers when they Google for themselves.
Yeah. And when you don't know the pitfalls of what you're looking at on a screen that's
telling you to do one thing and kind of the reality of what you're getting on the other
side it makes it difficult sometimes but you've got a lot of semi informed people that you
then got to like walk through back through what they did. Yeah. And then you know out
to where the real answers are. Yeah. And that makes it difficult for a lot of different
ways. One of the things though that we were talking about just a second ago kind of in
relation to Chris just got off of a staff retreat. We had we also had a staff day last
week on Wednesday and then I think I have another one coming up in October but it's
not a full staff retreat but just some making sure that we have certain conversations anytime
I.T. guys I feel like are usually introverted. Not always the case. You extroverts out there
that are listening. Grateful for you. Yes. You're weird. But like a lot of times the
staff meetings like you said exactly what I was expecting whenever I asked you about
it it's like well this is put on by extroverts. Yes it is. And they're not really thinking
at all about what maybe an introvert would be thinking. No. Inside of this thing. I can
share one thing that they did. What they do. Kind of give you an idea is we played Farkel.
OK game. No big deal. But they had the losers from every table combined into tables. And
so they ultimately got down to the final table. And then you had essentially the ultimate
loser. The Farkel tournament. Yeah. So the loser essentially got a hazing and had to
dress like a lobster. So the introvert. That does not feel uplifting to me. No no no no.
Why are we doing this. The introvert me the whole time at that table is like I just don't
want to lose. I just don't want to lose. And I thankfully didn't. Because the idea. I need
to win once. Yeah. Yeah. All I need to do is win one time and I'm out and I'm safe.
So that is not something that introverts would do to other people. No. Because we're considerate.
Yes we are. And we don't hate you. Extroverts are like let's all laugh at somebody and the
introverts are like I wouldn't want that to be me. No. So why would I make somebody else
do that. You people. So that's terrible. Yeah. I'm calling it. Extroverts are immoral. Just
immoral godless Philistines. All of you. Okay sorry that was a joke. That's severe talking.
There you go. No. But it does seem like that's you know kind of a funny thing that happens
whenever you know you put the life of the party in charge of the party is sounds going
to get awkward for those of us that don't really want to be at the party. But we one
of the things that this reminded me of is actually like I was I was having to I was
having to work during our staff meeting. I don't know if you had to do any problem solving
or any support stuff while you were at staff retreat. When the rain came through yesterday
I took down the bridge. So yeah we had to go fix that. But like that's that's I feel
like we're always on call with stuff like that. And I mean this just the nature of what
I'm doing right now I cannot be out of the office for six hours and not have fallen way
behind and then I don't have time to catch up. Like there's no margin. Correct. Right
now. So I it's a season not always going to be this way. Grateful for that. But also it's
just the way that it is. And when you're in those situations where you're he just wowed
and that's just when you're in those situations where you are maybe you know like we're going
to do this neat thing and not be at the office. But we still need to be able to be productive.
Yes. This is a good segue into mobile IT. Yes. Take it away Chris. Here we go. Thank
you. Yeah a lot of this obviously got pushed through the whole covid thing. And that's
when you found out who was prepared and who wasn't. Whether that was when that time it
was everybody obviously working from home. Eventually it was teams rotating in and out
of the office and then just trying to figure out how all that works. That's when you start
to see some of the limitations of traditional IT. Whether that be things like Active Directory.
You know that is such a premise driven piece of the puzzle. Yeah. And we found ourselves
a couple of times with people having trouble being able to log in and we did some fun tricks
of remoting into their computer and connecting a VPN and then doing a switch user and it
authenticated against Active Directory and we got them back in and it was like here you
go. Hopefully we don't have to go through this again. And if you followed that that's
why you're listening to this show. Yes. I probably went a little far down the rabbit
hole. That was great. That was perfect. So but all that to say that you know as you become
more mobile you do have to not necessarily reinvent the wheel but you've got to rethink
what you're doing. And so when I was initially presented with that I was clinging to Active
Directory with everything that I had. I'm like no no no no no no no this is business.
This is the way it works. This is the way it's always been. And so just having to let
go and you start getting into cloud based directories. There's a lot of options out
there really opens up your ability to let your staff be anywhere. Love the idea that
I could send you a laptop. You may be halfway around the world. It arrives. All you need
is basic Wi-Fi and you've got your log in and you're right into that system. It goes
right into the management starts pushing applications and you're off and running instead of me
having to ship it to me. Get it connected directory. Push all the applications either
manually or through our internal pieces. Package it up. Ship it to you. And then see OK what
potential issues do we run into when you take this thing out of the box and you're halfway
around the world. So that's that's really game changing that really enables you to be
a small team but still be incredibly nimble and able to support your staff anywhere they
are. Zoom obviously became a big a big piece of some of a mobile workforce. Obviously there's
other things like Google Meets and you could still guide Microsoft Teams. All of these
are viable but it has become a big piece of a mobile mobile workforce because you're not
necessarily always going to be in a physical location that's going to have a meeting room
with hardware. Yeah it's less and less of a thing. Yeah. Now I will say when you do have
meeting rooms and people still sit at their desks and connect in I'm going we have a we
have a room right there. Beautiful TV beautiful hardware big old TV. Go do that. Yeah. I've
got 15 of you sitting here all with this connection clogging up the Wi-Fi clogging up the Internet
connection. Do everybody a favor. Go to that room. Yeah. One connection instead of 15.
Everybody's happy especially your IT team. So that is one of those things that it's just
kind of like that's it. That's an education piece of like I know this is just what you're
used to but when you're here take advantage of that. That's why that's why they're here.
Yeah. It's different if you're truly are remote and you've got to get in. But see that's a
and this is part of what I want to talk about is just like the knowledge to be able to say
like I know like people know like they they look for a Wi-Fi connection. Yes. If they
need a password they know that the ones with passwords are the better ones and an open
network than an open network. So they want the password protected one. Yes. They know
to do all of that. They know they they're going to ask you what your Wi-Fi password
is there. They're going to want to be on it and they know when Wi-Fi is good and when
it's bad like they know all of that but they don't know why. So there's like this there's
that disconnect again that that IT professionals are having to kind of step through inside
of it where they're saying like I know you understand part of this from the experience
side of it. But let me tell you what would help with that. Let me let me let me walk
you into this space and and and so let me just give up a practical here from last week
with the two of us. Yeah. We have to talk through budget stuff every year. Everybody
does. And so we were getting Chris and I were getting asked questions about why we went
with a certain solution or why why it wasn't even why we went with a certain solution.
It was why we think these things that we think we need to purchase are better than maybe
ones that cost less. Sure. And so then then you have to go through I was getting a little
flustered actually in the meeting and I think Chris knows that Chris for those of you that
know Chris and I mean I'm just going to go and say it on here. So I've said it. He's
incredibly patient and I say that in humility because like I I lose patience really quickly
inside of answering questions when I feel like the person asking questions doesn't either
isn't listening or is sticking to an idea that we've moved past or something like that.
Not so with my friend across the table. Anyway so we were we were trying to explain like
you know if somebody asks you these questions or if these these things are being questioned
like there's there are reasons behind both what we've chosen and what we are suggesting
for the future that have you know a lot of explanations attached to them. This is hours
and hours of research that's that's gone into this from not just this year but like years
before. So we chose the hardware that we've kind of implemented across this organization
because of the desire for the staff to be more mobile and there are certain offerings
that are out there when it comes to setting up your network that are more pliable to mobility.
I think this is a this is a trend we're going to see further down the line but there's there
are of course people that who who have decided like we really need to be in that space and
so most of what they're innovating on are those things. We chose one of those a long
time ago. Yes. I mean goodness was that 2017 was that was it that long ago? Hard for me
to remember. It was before I well no because when I first started I'm trying to remember
what year has it been five five years since I started because I know it was pre-COVID.
I don't know so it's been five possibly six. So either 2019 or 2018. Yeah something in
that range and so yeah when I got here we still had a lot of the all the Dell Sonic
wall. We had a lot of Dell. We had a lot of Sonic wall. We also had a lot of Linksys.
Yes it was it was typical of what you would see when there hasn't been a lot of focus
on IT. It's right. It's patched together. I mean the firewall was not a bad firewall.
Don't get me wrong. Sonic wall is a great product but it really wasn't what the vision
was that we were trying to go for and so that's what drove us into into unify. Yeah. Now
you you can sit down with IT guys and pick it apart. Oh yeah. And there's some that are
just adamant against it. It's like it's not a bad product. No. And so it's given us all
the abilities that we've needed and more. It's given us the abilities to be able to
manage it from anywhere. Yeah. It's so easy to manage. Yeah. The mobile app is very feature
rich. Most of them. I will tell you it's more feature rich than the Meraki app that we use
and I love the Meraki app. Yeah. But the unify app has so many more capabilities and features.
They're very affordable. You know again you're you're setting yourself up on a unified platform
I'm trying to avoid as many buzz terms as I can here. I don't want to be Silicon Valley.
But it was it was the right choice. It was the right decision. You don't want to be piecemeal.
You don't want this out of the box best buy experience. Well and you start looking at
the more feature rich offerings that are out there and you start to realize how like you're
not just paying for the product you're paying for service agreements you're paying for yes
like that that licensing licensing that's that's that's happening every month or year
whatever the drug dealer model is now. Yeah. And you start to be like okay well that like
that that's a cost and it adds up and I'm not saying it's not worth it. I'm saying we
didn't have that money correct and we still don't have that money. Correct. And so when
somebody is asking that question they they don't know any of this but they expect to
understand all the decision making that's going into it. Yeah. And I'm always like I
don't I don't know what to say at this point. I just need you to understand like we're we're
building infrastructure. Yes. And you're talking about changing from PVC to copper pipe. And
I'm like why would we do that. Yeah. I mean whatever. Yeah. You understand what I'm saying.
Yes. I don't recommend this if you're trying to explain things ultimately for budget but
I think there's truth in this. You just simply ask them do you like the way things work.
Do you like the dependability of our network. I know I sure do. I hope you do too. Right.
And so you know we can go back to the old days that you probably don't remember. I do.
Yeah I do too. And again you get these staff and users just get so used to things just
constantly working right that they don't notice when it works. You only notice when it's broken
and there's a problem. Yeah. And that's ultimately really the way you want your I.T. to be. You
don't want to be noticed. No. If you're being noticed something is wrong. Yeah. And so it
just keeps coming back to we're solid. You don't have worries. We're not spending an arm
and a leg here. Yeah. We've got a we've got an excellent solution and we want to maintain
this. Right. We don't want to go back in any way. No. We want to keep being forward thinking
yet with making sure that things work and not waiting until they don't to fix it. Correct.
In terms of especially things that that you you can't you can't update all of these pieces
at the same time. You want to update in cycles. And again if you don't if you haven't ever
done and I wish there was a resource for that that I could off the top of my head like point
you towards if you don't if you haven't looked at making sure that your update schedule like
that number one you have an update schedule and that you are refreshing your devices be
it laptops or switches or TVs or whatever it is like so many different things on a regular
basis and not and by regular basis I mean like I mean it could be anywhere from three
to ten years depending on the life of the product or anything like that but but that
you are thinking about that before it happens especially if these are certain products that
you have certain solutions I won't even say products certain solutions that you have a
lot of I'm having a hard time not just finishing because that beer is so good. It is anyway
darn you Chris darn you Jason. Oh no. This is a problem. So like if there's something
that you're relying a lot on or if you just have a whole lot of them like just making
sure that there is a you're thinking about how to not wait for catastrophe correct correct
to be replacing things technology is built by humans humans are flawed therefore our
technology is flawed and so are the people using it. Sean Welch. Oh there's no way you're
listening but I'm telling you we've all we all know the guy who spilled something on
a computer and a few a few there was there was still Gatorade coming out of that machine
when I was handed to Chris that one was epic yeah you open it up and you just turn it and
it pours out the side and you can still hear the snap crackle pop oh my god because the
battery has juice still oh man that that that one was a that was a good one not picking
on him no no no just saying like we it stuff like that happens yeah unfortunately unfortunately
it happens and you've got to be prepared for it as an IT professional correct and whenever
possible you want to maintain some kind of spares on the shelf some things are obviously
a little too expensive yeah and you may not be able to but if you can keep a couple extra
computers aside if you can keep at least a spare switch you know and a spare access point
yeah you know these things are going to happen good example what we've ran into on at least
two occasions AC's have problems and they they leak mm-hmm we have had two access points
be killed by AC's because the drain pans overflow and it pours into the access point yeah that's
terrible and you're thinking about like an AC that's that's situated above a ceiling
yes and the access point is below it correct that's a bad situation correct and you pull
it off and you move the access point and the water literally pours out oh my gosh Chris
I'm having like nightmares right now I'm starting to try to like run through all of our access
where are any of those underneath AC units you try to avoid it sure but like oh my gosh
no I don't so not off the top of my head but let me tell you what odd things happen I'm
gonna be looking at that on her we were building another building before long and I will definitely
logging that in is something I need to look at correct where are you putting me I just
want to know where your AC units are so I can not put access points beneath them yes
I yeah yeah and can we please not run major water lines above the server room for the
love I mean they know that's not cool like that's a that's a different level right there
I don't even want to talk about that we did have a water leak here today that they've
been trying to fix over and over and over again with no luck so we're without bathrooms
currently just in case that beer hits harder I finished mine now and I'm so sad yeah I'm
looking at this last drink and I'm like it's all gone it's all gone Jason you have created
a monster sure the next time he goes to Michigan I'm giving him money yeah like hey bud let
me know before you go so I can fund your trip or something that I mean we just I think we're
unanimous y'all if you have the chance to get this Dragon's Milk triple mash do it it's
a winner that is worth it it's a winner we were talking about mobile yes oh I actually
had a moment today and you'll appreciate this because we know this we both know this situation
so we have a staff member who would rather not use their cell phone to call some people
for yeah there's nothing wrong not giving your personal number I totally get it that
I mean it makes makes all kinds of sense but we as an organization have not in the past
really provided another way and rest it's just kind of always been understood if you
need to call somebody and you're not at church or not on the property then you need to use
your personal device to do that yeah but again unify has a has an offering for this and so
we were testing it and I thought we actually rolled it out to her but talked to her today
and she has not experienced that I was I was talking to her about another problem that
she was having or this individual was having and trying to figure out like there's honestly
it's just a she has a software that she uses and I was trying to it she had gotten an error
whenever she tried to email people using the software and it's very obviously at least
in my opinion that the password has changed like her email password has changed and I
just could not find for the life of me was sitting there for a good 15 or 20 minutes
scrolling through menus could not for the life of me find where I could update that
so I was like you're gonna have to call their support but in the midst of like figuring
out what was actually going on and why they're having this issue I'm hearing like a conversation
between this individual and her supervisor and they're they're talking about like how
oh well no you can't do that like you got to make sure that you're up here if you're
wanting to do that or this or whatever and I was like no you don't and the supervisor
was like what are you talking about I was like oh we can like you can we'll just set
up a VPN like you can you don't have to be here to be on our network yeah and she was
like what are you talking about and so like the just that moment of like oh yeah like
we've we have made this system able to work for you in so many different ways and somehow
you are unaware of how flexible we've made everything yeah I appreciate that you did
not beat down my door asking for the capability to change somebody's hours without having
to be on property to do it but let me tell you like that's super easy now yes it is and
I would love to walk you through yeah absolutely but it was like things like that and the like
the soft phone technology and everything like that to be able to use your business line
not on property yep or from your cell phone and things like that that it's like this is
why we like we work so hard to build an infrastructure that can support this yes and then you got
to like flesh it out so there are things like that that have just been really like spinning
around in my mind especially and this is not supposed to be like a unifier ubiquity like
commercial like I'm not that's not what we're doing with this is just the tool that we chose
to use and because of the capabilities that it has we were able to do some of these things
and able to like walk through different requests that are being made yeah because of the necessity
of or not necessity of because of the nature of having a more mobile staff yes of having
a more nimble organization in terms of where you can get stuff done I cannot tell you how
many people I've been talking to about our property and be like oh no like I schedule
all the locks and ACs but if you have a problem just text me and I will make sure that it
gets changed I can do that remotely and they're like whoa that's incredible I'm like no it's
not the the world that we live in now yeah it's kind of expected this is expected absolutely
I mean I used to laugh with Colson all the time about how everybody freaks out now over
QR codes we've got to have QR codes everything has to have a QR code why don't we have a
QR code on that and we need to make a QR code for this or whatever and wouldn't it be neat
if we had a QR code for that and I'm like are you kidding me this is we're talking about
like technology from 2005-06 yeah maybe eight I don't know like whatever the thing on that
was I'm like I that's at least 15 years ago why are we why are we why are we not talking
about NFC I mean at least that's seven years ago yep but which by the way I did find you
know because we're always asked for signage that has QR codes on it I found signage that
found signage I got advertised signage that has NFC on it I was like man I'm gonna blow
these QR code people's minds just hold your phone next to it yeah just give it a light
tap no big deal anyway yeah yeah I we talk about the ease of unifying you know we could
achieve some of these other things you know you could piece mill it you could do a pfc
of sense firewall mm-hmm it's a great great product you can either buy their appliance
or do your own mm-hmm and then you can set up something like an open VPN mm-hmm and run
the open VPN client and you've got to download all the configuration files and get everything
going for people there's ways to put all this together but when you can choose a platform
that just kind of takes care of all the pieces for you you have as close to a single pane
of glass to manage it it makes your life so much easier and you don't have to go to ten
different places just to make simple things work for your staff mm-hmm and that is huge
when you have a very small team you have a lot of work to achieve and you have a finite
amount of time to put all this together and to take care of everybody welcome the most
IT yeah like that I mean you just what you just described I'm like everybody expects
one IT professional to be able to take care of I don't know how many people I think the
last that I had seen in a lot of places it's been anywhere one person from anywhere from
250 to 500 people oh and that's insane to think of like that made me want to throw up
yeah that's that's a lot of that's not the beer yeah that's that is so much yeah I don't
have a I don't have a place for that in my brain well I think about it you know I mean
when we get into the summer you know we've got 200 or so year-round staff and then we've
got another 2500 or so college staff who are using shared equipment on the network whether
it's a an all-in-one it's a Chromebook whatever it may be I mean and there and not all of
them are on property a good chunk of them are remote with city and city is absolutely
sharing all the resources that they have so you know and there there is one two three
of us right now there was four I mean right now if summer was happening there'd be three
of us supporting everybody not just IT but also AV so even when you've got four people
and you've got 2500 or so summer staff plus a couple hundred full-time staff we're a very
small team helping to support all those people in some way or another I'm dying so like there's
all like like my inside of my skull right now there's just screaming yeah because I
don't like I don't that cannot be good like I I know like you and I both know what you're
talking about and like what I'm talking about in terms of personnel and whatever but like
that that's not a normal thing like that that cannot be what what is expected of sure and
then some of that even extends to some degree to Saturday and Sunday when campers are gone
and they're trying to utilize their own devices on guest Wi-Fi and they're hey we've got a
problem and so you're like well let me see what I can figure out you can only go so far
with a personal device I definitely had that feeling today when I was trying to like knock
things out of my to-do list and then four more things showed up from non-staff members
yeah I was like oh great yeah well I guess I'm never gonna get done there is no end to
what we do no but it is job security sure unless they find some new person that can
do it faster than you and it's why we sometimes have these yeah bro that Dragon's Milk was
awesome yes it is big fan of the triple mash holy cow I will say make sure that you're
not driving when you drink the Dragon's Milk cuz especially if you're gonna drink it by
yourself holy cow like I we I drink half of that thing yeah and it's not like I mean I
mean you tell me how much of my story I think we're doing okay so far but the like it was
really good yeah but I don't recommend drinking it and driving heavy machinery no I would
not those of you who are out there know what I'm talking about yeah so it might have made
it fun but I don't recommend it yeah I feel like maybe I should have eaten lunch today
no time for that you don't have time for lunch I don't have time for lunch you have people
to take care of I have things to do places to go support tickets yes waiting on me yes
or whatever that is anyway um man we hope that there was something inside of you know
sometimes it just feels like a complain fest I'm not that hasn't been what this podcast
has felt like to me in the past but yeah right now my just general mentality sometimes can
feel that way so yeah sorry about that well we're just kind of scratching the surface
of this topic there'll be a lot more to dig into oh for sure different options that you
can obviously consider yeah you know just because we threw out unify does it mean it's
the only way to go oh it's definitely not and and like I said we did not mean for that
to be a love fest in any way we are not yeah sponsored by unify every piece of gear we've
now we have is purchased by us and we want to make sure that we're giving you all the
information that we can yes but if they're listening I could use a couple access points
bro I got a friend who's really interested in your have you seen the have you gone to
like the connect page and seen the they've got the amp basically the speaker amplifier
that connects to your system I don't I don't mean to ruin your day we're talking about
your yeah unify has a you know they so this is one of those a lot of a lot of network
appliances trying to figure out the Internet of Things category and if you don't know what
that is look it up because it's just it's very popular right now but the Internet of
Things moving not just from being a household type solution where you can turn on your lights
and your TV and your unlock your door and stuff like that but actually moving into commercial
that seems to be more of a thing now because people are getting this like oh I can do all
these things at home I should be able to do this at work and so that turning into more
of an enterprise type thing they have and what I was trying to reference was unify has
made a ubiquity has made a whatever you call it has made an amp that can connect to your
system that not only will allow you to play music over and stuff like that but will actually
like has them you you run the leads then to the to the devices directly from this device
or to the speakers directly from this advice device and being able to power things but
also be selective in which music is going where and stuff like that yeah so this is
kind of getting into the Sonos arena it is but like I have one but baked into your network
devices yeah I have one complaint go for it there's no chromecast support there's no chrome
pat cast support sorry Chris there's the first beer effect at least that I detected yeah
it's great that you've got earplugs stuff you can't do yeah I mean it's great don't
get me wrong I get that you've got airplane and you've got a silly Spotify connect really
I can't I mean anyway I'm not gonna say anything unifying for listening you need chromecast
now it may already the hardware may be there and they just haven't enabled it yet hey maybe
because I know Apple charges money now they do for you to pull off airplay so good you
may have some similar pieces but yeah we got to bring the chromecast support into this but
this I love the idea of this oh bro I saw short today that you would have just wanted
to throw across the room where a guy was talking about how we have iPhones because we don't
want to look poor and everything like that and I was like oh ouch you know there are
people that choose Android right like that was yes that was that was pretty tough I don't
know what to say to that crowd that mmm that that felt pretty pejorative sorry about that
all of our Android listeners not my not my I did not say that that was not his words
yeah I love mine yeah love my pixel or a champ I love that you love your pixel I'm not that's
what it makes America great you know just choices choices yes all day long you can choose
Richard do you want a device that works or do you want an Android oh see what you did
there it was a joke anyway but it like anyway just talking about them internet of things
I don't know like we we were we were closing the show and then all of a sudden I was like
hey remember that they did this squirrel yeah so I'll have to do some more looking into
that that's that's intriguing I think stuff like this is is going to be more like widespread
yeah and it probably already is I mean there there is an element of I do need to go ahead
and say this like again we talked this is like the fifth time that I've said this wasn't
supposed to be a ubiquity or unify love fest but the idea that because it's what I work
in all the time Chris at least has some respite from that it does mean that so many times
you are you are trying to figure out how the innovations that are happening are relevant
to you like what what does do I need to know about this do I not need to know about this
like they've honestly the one that always pops into my head is they've got unify now
has the ability to like connect to EV chargers and turn them on or off based on whether or
not you're an employee and they're supposed to be charging your I'm like we're never going
to have to worry about that but like yeah that's a little that's cool I guess that you
can do that I think that's still a little more gimmick it feels like it but at the same
time like is that is that a real thing in other parts of this country where they're
like we have EV chargers but you can't be using them if you're not an employee correct
it makes sense I'm not saying that it doesn't you know like anybody pulling up and racking
up your electric no but are there really that many employers that are like I'm gonna provide
EV chargers for my I almost said family in certain states I suspect it does happen wow
okay like that's a thing California is a great example because they're driving everybody
to EV mm-hmm they were really pushing the initiative to by 2030 they don't want to sell
gasoline powered vehicles in the state anymore that's cute so this is this this this is why
you know states should not be in charge of other states correct don't do that correct
we don't live in California correct but the flip side is they go hey can you like unplug
your EV we're hurting for generating enough power it's like well then don't ask everybody
to have an EV man yeah come on mr. Newsom that's rough yeah you got to have some serious
solar panels on the top of your bill yeah on top of your car yeah right anyway there's
a lot there maybe we'll talk about EVs next time no no no no that's not what we're doing
okay thanks for hanging out man yeah enjoyed it it was good this is a two in two weeks
yes we are we are going to be back in this groove we're just making this happen yes
yeah I'm gone next week yeah the next week but the next week we'll be ready right back
in and that's two weeks September 6th one year since release of the first podcast hard
to believe yeah I know op3 numbers look really nice since the last show just saying when
you post stuff yeah it's amazing what happens when you post and listen to it oh my gosh
so we're up to whole subscribers drumroll 14 baby yeah thanks for listening guys we're
doing this for ourselves you know that right yes yeah you this you don't do podcasting
for money no well we don't somebody did Joe Rogan is fine yeah but he didn't even need
that money no he's fine so yeah you podcast for the fun of it it's not an exit strategy
no unless you can work out some sweet deals yeah I'm telling you I am waiting for us to
be discovered when we're discovered I'm gonna be so excited about doing gear reviews we
just have to keep hitting that unify and hey you know if I go catch and that can be the
start hey road hey anybody yeah we will review your gear anyway always good to hang out with
you bro absolutely thanks for making the time not a problem see you everybody
ah thanks Obama