Hey, Chris, how you doing? Hey, John, how are
you? I'm all right. You know, just one of these
days we're going to have this set up and then
we're just going to like go for it. Yes. I'm
just trying to remember the TV doesn't exist.
The TV doesn't exist. You're right, it doesn't.
So. It does. Try to stay drilled in here. You
just look at me and it's fine. Actually, you
know what? Look wherever you want because I don't
actually think that it matters that much. Okay.
I'm also going to get the auto switching. I'm
going to set that up one of these days because
this is a whole other part of my brain that is
devoted to pushing buttons. Camera one, camera
two. Camera one, camera two. Yeah, you need to
watch So I Married an Axe Murderer if you haven't
because that's funny Mike Myers right there.
Yes, although the camera one, camera two is Wayne's
World. Oh, it is. Because they're on the bed
and he's on top of her and he's going. That is
so disappointing. Camera one, camera two. So
yeah, Wayne's World all the way. That is right.
But So I Married an Axe Murderer, still an excellent
movie. Yes. Head, move, now. Head, people, new.
Yeah. So just, yeah, it's, it's, it's good stuff
right there. It is. Hey, what are we drinking?
We got a new one tonight, folks. That is very
champagne. Look at the camera. Duchess. Yeah,
that actually, that didn't look. There you go.
Right there. That works. That works. Yeah, that
works. Duchess de Burgogne. I guess that's how
you would say that? No. Burgogne? No, we don't
know. I don't know. We don't know how to say
it. This is East Texas. We don't know how to
say it. It's definitely some lady from the medieval
times. And apparently this is her beer. I went
there once. They had the jousting and stuff.
It's another Belgian ale. Okay. We're on a trip
here now. We're on a kick. Well, I mean, that's
what's at World Market. That's what you get.
That's true. Oh, speaking of. If you want to.
Oh, hey. See, I think the color, we're going
to be happy. Yeah, I think so, too. If it's anything
close to that. Yeah. So, yeah, there's something
new, folks. You can see that I use Windows. Oh.
Yeah. Duchess de Burgogne. We should just all
be very thankful that it's working. That's all
I'm going to say. Yes, very happy. Very, very
happy. So the Duchess, that's how I'm going to
just say it. Almost like Nacogdoche. Yeah, it's
Duchess, but you know, whatever. Duchess de Burgogne.
It's a Flanders red ale of mixed fermentation.
Okay. It is a sweet, fruity ale with a pleasant,
fresh aftertaste. Okay. We will be the judge
of that. Yeah. This ale is brewed with roasted
malts and with hops with a low bitterness. After
the main fermentation and the lagering, the Duchess
de Bourgogne matures further for many months
in oak casks. The tannins and the oak give the
Duchess de Bourgogne. I'm going to get, this
is getting bad fast. I haven't even drank yet.
It's fruity character. Duchess de Bourgogne has
a full, sweet, and fresh taste. It is a ruby
red jewel of 6 .2%. So it's a little on the weak
side, but that's okay. That best is served in
a chalice -shaped glass In 12 degrees centigrade.
We don't have those. And your mug is not quite
there. Yeah. Oh, well. So there you go, folks.
It's going to be great. The Duchess de Bourgogne.
I'm sure the people who make this beer hear this
and they're going to be like, oh, you stupid
American. Hold on. You ready? Yeah. Bourgogne.
Bourgogne. Bourgogne. Bourgogne. Duches de Bourgogne.
Duché. Duché? So it's Duché de Bourgogne. Yeah.
Close enough. Yeah. That's Americanese there
for you, folks. Sorry, French people. We don't
actually care. Here we go. Try not to hit anybody.
That's going to be great. I'm super excited about
this. Don't hit a camera. It doesn't want to
go. Oh, no, it's going. It's going. I can see
it. Here it goes. Here it goes. Hey. Oh. That
was a little anticlimactic. For the effort. You
got the pop. Dang. All right. Here. Here. Here
we go. Yeah, watch your pour. Yeah, because I
am using the computer. I was having trouble.
You're pouring over your computer. I am. It's
okay. At least it's a Windows. Okay, now you're
looking like me. Now let's let you have it. Hold
on. She didn't look bad. Gotta get used to the
camera. Mm -hmm. Mm. El Duce de Bogogne. El Duce.
Yes. The Duchess. Just gonna sit here and just
steadily butcher these names. It's going to be
great. El Duchess. All right. Finish that off.
I will, I will, I will. Because you know. You
don't have to tell me twice. And boom. I'm telling
you, this is a lot more beer than it looks like.
It's like, oh, you didn't even half fill your.
Yeah, but this mug is enormous. Yes. So here
we go. Cheers. Cheers. Wow, that fruit hit right
away. That is tart. It is. It is. There's a Jolly
Rancher in that. There is. I mean, they said
sweet and fruity. Low bitter, I agree. This is
a wife beer. They have a girl on that on purpose.
Yeah. I don't see anything about tart. No, but
it's like it's so. It's like a sour apple. Yes.
Jolly Rancher. That's what it tastes like to
me. Sour Apple Jolly Rancher beer. Did you give
a percentage on this? Yes, it was 6 .2. So it's
not too stout. We have had far stronger on the
show. Oh, for sure. But it's not bad. No, this
is a candy drink. This is dessert. I didn't smell
it very much before I drank. Usually I try to
smell it first. No, but I would say the smell
doesn't really... It doesn't give a whole lot
to the flavor. It doesn't give you as much of
a hint as to what the flavor is going to be as
a lot of the other ones we've had. You can kind
of smell the sweet, but when you drink it, the
sweet is overpowering. Yeah, it's a... Very dessert
beer. Very dessert beer. Not bad. Not bad. I
won't be buying it, rushing out to get it anytime
soon. I might like go get it for Lori. Well,
yeah. Be like, babe, try this. Have you, have
you heard of. You need to clip that out and be
like, wait, wait, wait, hold up. Yeah, I'm good
at butchering. There you go. Oh, it hurts my
back. I'm laughing too hard. I mean, how many
times can I say this wrong? I guess technically,
since it's a lady, would it be... Although I'm
crossing the streams on Spanish and... um belgian
here um yeah i don't know all right well that
is crazy there you go folks i mean i was i was
gonna make a comment about the like the red being
very red like oh man this is a wine or something
and i think this is a better red than what we
had on the previous not that it no that wasn't
red it wasn't it wasn't red like they claimed
no This is very red. I don't know how red that
comes through. That looks pretty dark on the
camera. Yeah, it's kind of brownish. Yeah. Dark
brownish. But on their webpage, it's such a pretty
red. It's very red on that. You can definitely
see the red. It makes me wonder what they do
for lighting on some of those things. Put red
light on it? I guess. Anyway. Moment of silence.
Yeah. It's just letting the flavors. There's
a brief moment. I guess maybe it is just the
tart. Yeah. There's a brief moment there where
it's like, whoa. And then it just kind of. Yeah.
I mean, I feel like it's just so sweet. Yeah.
But not in like, you know, we've had like the.
Like the oatmeal stouts and the chocolate -y
stuff that we've had before. And they've been
sweet with that before. It's the difference between
you eat a chocolate and you're like, that's sweet.
And then you eat a Jolly Rancher and you're like,
that's sweet. That's a different sweet. A lot
of sugar. It tastes like pure sugar. Yeah, if
you've got the sugars, this may not be a good
beer for you. Although I guess technically no
beer is good for people with the sugars. Yeah,
probably. All right, well. I have the diabetes.
Yeah. Oh, Brimley, right? Yeah. Wilford Brimley?
Wilford something like that. Brimley? Brimley?
Oh, what is his name? That guy. Yeah, he was
in, what was that movie, Cocoon? He was in a
few movies, but yeah, I think he was in Cocoon.
Diabetes. I think it's Brimley. Yeah. I'm pretty
confident Wilford. Wilford Brimley. Yeah. Yes.
There it is. Diabetes. Diabetes. One word. Diabetes.
Wait. No. Go back to it. Diabetes. Betus. B -E
-E -T -U -S. Yes. Diabetes. There you go. Makes
it sound like it's a condition for me having
too many beats. you gonna make it um yeah i'll
be fine is just wow well i got it sweet i brought
a backup just in case okay i mean we're gonna
power through this thing it's gonna be great
yeah we are no big deal all right so we want
to Just hop into it then? Yeah, I guess so. I
don't know anything else to say about this beer.
I mean, Jolly Rancher. Jolly Rancher, yes. This
is a Jolly Rancher. Jolly Rancher. Jolly Rancher.
I don't think even my wife would drink this.
But my wife doesn't like beer at all. I have
a few people in mind. Okay. I may have to go
get it. It almost hits me like a sweet wine.
Yes. And I'm not a wine person. Yeah, I mean,
normally wine's not going to have this carbonated
whatever it tastes to. It's like sparkling sweet
wine. Yeah, there you go. But very, very, very
sweet. Not kind of sweet, very sweet. Sugar sweet.
Wow, that was extra tart. This is why we shouldn't
do video. No, they got to see that we're not
making it up. It really does mess with your face.
Well, when the tart hits you, yeah. Now I'm tired.
Okay. So what are we talking about? All right,
let's shift it around. Well, it's been a while
since we've done a ubiquity -based or unified
-based show. Yeah. And they brought out some
interesting products. They did. And some of this
dovetails in pretty well with what... you potentially
may be doing for cameras. Yeah. I was, I was,
I was telling somebody about that. I was telling
somebody about that the other day that this is
actually kind of handy that this is coming out.
Cause we have some, some requests for being able
to reach out and touch something with the wifi.
I got to tell you though, like ubiquity you're,
you're making me nervous right now. Yeah. We've
got some other stuff going on and I'm like, if
it's your fault, like you, you're really messing
with me, but yeah, if not like, sorry. Yeah.
I, that's a really weird one. Um, everything's
on the same subnet, so it should just technically
work. Discovery should just happen. We're not
crossing the streams in any way on VLANs, but
yet when you, introduce a different VLAN. Somehow
things work for a little bit and then it falls
apart again. So yeah, really, really weird that
it'll see a printer. It'll work just fine. And
you come right back to it and it's like, Nope,
no idea where that is. Don't know where it's
at. Never heard of that. No, I don't know what
you're talking about. Yep. So look over here
so much for, well, I guess technically they're
phasing out air print, which is a whole nother.
Yeah. It's like, Thing of like, okay. Anyway,
but that's not ubiquity. That's push pay, which
is the other side of the story, which I trust
way less than ubiquity. It is interesting that
it was working until they apparently made changes
to printing in the application. I'm not pointing
any fingers, but not it. Something's going on.
It's definitely very weird. What are you going
to do? Yep. All right. So let's talk bridges.
Bridges. Bridges. And not the kind you walk on
either. Yeah. What is it? Bridges in Madison
County? Okay. We don't need them. All right.
So yeah, they've got some new ones out that are
quite. I'm going to be probably doing a lot of
looking down at the screen. Yeah. So look down
at the screen. Don't look up at the screen. Don't,
don't look up at the screen. So I guess can start
with, I guess the, the bridge sector. Cause that
again, that could still be pretty useful for
what you're trying to achieve. Yep. So again,
just a simple outdoor bridge. Nothing fancy,
but again, this is at 5 gigahertz. Nothing 2
.4, no 6 gigahertz. Looking for the angle and
trying not to say what's running in my head at
the same time. It would not be a family -friendly
show. All right, where is the... Come on, where
you at? What are you talking about? Looking for
the angle of the beam. Oh, yeah. In terms of...
Disbursement. Yes, but I'm not seeing it. I guess
it doesn't exist. That's a bummer because I'm
sitting here going... There is no beam. Are you...
Because in a sector, you could be 180. You could
be 90. You could be whatever, but they don't
seem to call that out. But again, the main thing
to remember on a... If you've never used one,
you're not going to get 360 degrees out of this.
You're really tightening where the beam is going,
and that's what gives you that extra punch to
make some of the extra distance that you may
be trying to do. Well, I mean, you know, Scotty's
got to actually get you and pull you up. It takes
a lot of that energy. Correct. There you go.
So, well, that kind of went. anticlimactic i'm
trying to determine the width the angle of attack
yeah yeah boo i mean these are these are brand
new they they are and maybe eventually they'll
they'll have it on there uh but in certain situations
especially when you're trying to hit the parking
lot you could put this on the building blast
out into the parking lot and you could force
all the beam out in front and no nothing being
lost behind. So, well, that one didn't go as
well as I hoped. Maybe the next one will be better
because it actually has something a little extra,
a little bonus to it. Very disappointed. So next
on the list, folks, and boom, there it is. The
DeviceBridge Pro. What I found intriguing on
this one, let me make sure I'm looking at the
right one. Yeah, do you see what they're doing
in the picture there? Down here in particular?
Mm -hmm. See that. POE out to that camera. They
sure are. So that's pretty intriguing that you
could have a remote bridge. So again, in this
case, we could be mounting onto a light pole
and bridging it in and then coming right out
into a camera that is viewing that section of
the parking lot that you're looking for. Now,
it could get expensive to do. One bridge per
camera? Yeah. But that's an intriguing way that
you could do this. Yeah. Depending on how you're
looking to cover your space, the bridge is going
to handle the POE off to the radio, or sorry,
to the camera. Yeah, that's not bad. No, no,
it is not. And at $199, that's not bad. No, I
mean... What is your... There's a lot of APs
that are way more expensive than that. Yeah,
and so it is doing, well, that's power in. Where's
the PoE out? Do -de -do, PoE in, PoE out. What
are you talking about? It's on the bottom of
it. There's two. Are you looking at how much
it is? I was looking to see, is it just pushing
out PoE, or does it push out PoE plus? Just looks
like PoE. It's got PoE plus in. Yeah, there it
is. I see. POE plus is required for POE output.
But for some of those smaller cameras, POE is
still going to be sufficient, especially if you're
doing the bullet -style camera that they were
showing. Maybe don't do a PTZ on this. No, you're
not going to get enough juice. Not enough squeeze
of the juice. But again, I like the idea of it.
You can set it up. Camera cooks. Well, regardless,
a camera could go into it just purely just for
the data. Sure. And then you power it separate.
But the fact that this could drive itself in
the camera, you're minimizing the amount of cabling.
I really like it. It's a good idea. And at $199.
$199, folks. So next bridge. You can certainly
tell that we're winging it here tonight. Yeah.
All right. So another device bridge. This is
kind of more what you would use indoor. And I
guess the closest that you've done anything like
this right now is you're doing more wireless,
the extenders. But this would be if you had a
device that's just slightly out. We do. We have
a few devices that are just slightly out. So
you could put this there. And then connect. And
in this particular instance, they are running
it to a camera. Who knew? It's like cameras are
all the rage now. Who thunk it? An indoor camera.
One of them baby monitors. Baby monitors. We
actually got a request for a baby monitor in
a talk the other day. Nanny cam. Oh, don't remind
me of the nanny cam story. There's a documentary
on that. Yeah. Have you, have you, you familiar?
Yes. Camera got hacked and yes. Start hearing
things and being told, Hey, you're wearing this
and your kids doing that and keep the technology
out of your house. Don't do it. Very bad. Chris
and I like to send each other the, uh, the. or
whatever that are about the technology guys.
If you're an enthusiast, your house is full of
technology. If you work in it, you don't have
any technology in your house. Keep it to a minimum
just because you know what happens. And you know
what it does to children's brains? I'll go to
my grave believing that Wi -Fi is a contributing
factor to the increase of cancer. Yeah. I stand
by it. Stand by it. I'm standing there in front
of all the, you know, the AP trying to get the
stuff to work right. And there's, you know, in
the, in one of our buildings where we were having
a lot of trouble, there's that AP that's like
right next to you. Right on the counter. And
you're like, I can feel my brain getting cooked.
Cooked. Yes. Feels great. So. By the problems.
Yes. So this bridge, well, you're going to get,
it's Wi -Fi 5, so you're not going to get a whole
lot of throughput. But if you're just hooking
in a single camera or maybe even if you've got
an old school TV that has Ethernet but didn't
have Wi -Fi, this would be more than sufficient.
There's some of these speakers and stuff now
that this would be really handy for. Yeah. Um,
but, and, and actually, I mean, speaking of cameras,
um, Chad was actually telling me about a, uh,
um, um, a home kit, whatever, but it's POE. No,
it was POE out. Yeah. Yeah. I need to figure
out which one that was. Cause this would be a
good use case for that. Yeah. So, um, let's hop
on to the next. Building Bridge has been out
for a while. The XG? That and the XG. Again,
that's if you're doing a true, like a site -to
-site bridge, if you will. So where these are
kind of coming together as a matched set, but
you are getting 60 gigahertz. So you get significant.
We've got some of the smaller version of this
that we use that is primary 60 gigahertz, but
in the event of heavy rain or whatever may be
going on, it can fall back to 5 gigahertz when
that 60 gigahertz just can't sustain due to whatever
environmental elements are going on. So on the
ones that we have, when 60 gigahertz is connected,
we're consistently pushing 1 .2 to 1 .4 gig.
Wow. But again, 60 gigahertz, that's a big wave.
You're in microwave territory. So there's a lot
of bandwidth potential when you're doing that
versus coming down to 5 gigahertz or 2 .4. And
there's not enough power behind it to technically
hurt you, but I would not recommend standing
in front of anything that's microwave. Period.
Yeah. Especially if you intend to still have
children. Nope, we're done with that. You say
that. Good luck to you, folks. But God could
still come up and go, boom! Yes, he could bring
an orphaned child to us. Nice save there. I see
what you did there. Okay, so I'm technically
going to skip over the one that... Really got
me excited about it. But to talk to this one
other bridge, it is their device bridge IOT.
IOT? Now, this is kind of more of they're showing
it outdoor. That thing is tiny. Yeah. I'm not,
unless I could get my hands on one, I'm not sure
about having it fully exposed outdoor to the
weather. Look at that power socket. Yes. We're
such nerds. I mean, this is intriguing that this
thing fits palm of your hand. That's how small
it is. And it's got a reasonable size external
antenna. And then you can power it with type
C. And then you get that Ethernet out. Now this,
I believe you, yeah, you do still get. You can
put a bigger antenna on that. Yeah. So now you're
only going to get 10100 out. But again, if this
is just driving a camera, 100 meg is more than
enough. Yeah. And again, even if this was going
to a TV or whatever other piece of equipment
it's connecting to, it's still going to be sufficient.
Yeah. And depending on some of you where you
live, that 100 meg is probably still faster than
your internet connection. Listen, don't be hateful.
Well, it wasn't too long ago I was in that boat.
It's only very, very recently that optimum said,
yeah, we'll give you a few extra crumbs. Yeah.
They're not very generous now. Cause I was paying
for a hundred minute connection, but what's really
intriguing on this one is the price. It's $49.
Dang. So crazy cheap, very tiny, easy to tuck
out of the way. Um, so yeah, we're showing that
still. There's an example of some of what they
would do outdoor. Um, again, they, are showing
it outdoor, not just indoor. So I guess we'll
have to take their word on it that it would hold
up over time. Maybe that's indoor. That like
concrete thing. Maybe people's houses or something
look like that. The only person I know that would
have an interior wall like that would have been
Cody. Yeah. On the house that he built out by
camp. Yeah. So I don't know. Maybe that is indoor.
Maybe it's a style. Maybe. I don't know. Stucco
in the home. We don't do style here, obviously.
Function over form every time. Anyway, what was
the other one? The switch? Yeah, this is the
one that I saw that really kind of got me excited.
They're calling it a bridge switch, and it technically
does do that. The idea behind this one is it
has a built -in Wi -Fi radio. That's what establishes
that bridge connection for you. And then you
have eight. Yep. Right. Eight, seven. Yep. Eight.
Eight ports total. One that's 10 gig PoE plus.
The other seven are two and a half gig PoE plus.
That's a lot going on in a little bitty switch.
So if you had a situation where. You were bridging
in multiple devices. So I'm thinking about grade
school building. Right. You could put that in
there. It could give you your wireless bridge
and then you could come out to iPads. You could
come out to printers, whatever you wanted to
do. If you had something like on the iPads, you
can get an adapter so that they take the POE,
pump that through type C and your iPad stays
charged all the time. Yeah. So I'm really excited
by the capability of this and what it can mean.
Now, you are going to be dependent upon that
Wi -Fi backhaul. That is going to be the one
caveat, but it leverages 6 gigahertz. So you're
trying to push the maximum amount of bandwidth
across that wireless backhaul. It's not like
this is the old Wi -Fi 5 and we're just going
to give you a little trickle of data, try to
make something happen here. And for $299, just
as a standalone switch with 110 gig and all eight
ports are PoE plus, for $299 is not bad at all.
No. And again, you can do tabletop. You can wall
mount. There's that same wall. They must really
like that concrete -looking wall. Yeah, because
I don't think this is outside. No, I'm going
to have to walk that back. But this one, I saw
it, and it really kind of got me excited about
the possibilities of what it could do, what it
could mean for different installations. And again,
at $299, as you can see, everybody else agreed
it is sold out. Yeah, it does not say coming
soon. It says sold out. It says sold out, folks.
So, yes, that means everybody else had the same
thought of, yeah, give me that. So if I had a
use case for it, I'd buy one. But I haven't been
able to come up with a good use case. Yeah. Maybe
someday I'll figure it out. But yeah, this one,
pretty sweet little device. I would say UniFi
is doing a good job of continuing to diversify
their product line. But they've also got to be
careful because at some point, your product line
is going to become so bloated. Well, I mean,
and honestly what I'm scared about right now
is the like, have we lost some of the, did we
miss an update? What are we doing? Yeah. Because
this is a lot of really cool stuff, but also
like we got the other stuff's got to work. It
does. It does. If the basic things don't work
all isolated on the same VLAN, we've got a problem.
So. So that's all of the bridge pieces. I keep
looking at the TV. That's fine. Over here. You're
fine. I'm not, you're not hurting my feelings.
That's a lot prettier than I am. Except when
it's me. Yikes. It's still really, really sweet.
I'm taking a little bit longer to put this one
down. Because I feel like I'm about to... The
sugar and the tart are just like... About to
get up and run around the room. You know what
I'm saying? Got to run off your sugars. Okay,
well, that went slightly faster than I anticipated.
Well, there's not a whole lot to talk about with
that, but... Well, I guess the main thing was
just talking through some of the scenarios with
you for potential for the parking lot. And the
parking lot side of this is going to be, I feel...
I feel pretty good about that. The idea that
we're just going to be able to reach out and
touch some of these areas that are pretty remote,
but clear line of sight. Now, I assume that they're
going to want these cameras, though, to go into
your existing NVRs. Or are they going to allow
you to begin the process of slowly migrating
away from that and bringing everything into Unify?
Stumped him, folks. Don't ask me hard questions.
He's stuck in an OODA loop. Either way, it would
work for both. Because it's using standards -based
POE and not passive, depending on the camera,
it could even still power up the camera, depending
on which bridge you went with. Yeah, you're saying
words. I'm still trying to figure out if I'm...
The sugar and the tardiness have gone to your
head. What is going on right now? This is not
a normal beard situation that I'm having right
now. The La Duchess is messing with your head.
Feels like it. It's weird. All right. Let's see.
Oh, don't do that. Don't break stuff. Okay. So
where's the zipper? Where's the zipper? Chris
can't find it. Don't speak off axis. Okay. So
I think I'm going to go with the big one first
and then let the smaller one dove tell us into
something that I think we've missed on the previous
two shows that we should have been talking about.
At least I think we missed it. So I'm super scared
of what's about to happen. It's not a snake.
It could be a snake. It's not a spider. That's
the power cord. Where'd you go? Power cords.
Where'd you go? There it is. All right. I don't
know how long this will be in my possession.
Okay. This could go the way of the... Dodo? The
books device that we tested. Oh, the Palma. The
Palma, yes. Still not a bad device, but it just
wasn't a keeper. We didn't really need it. So
in a manner of speaking, as of right now, we've
completed the set. Okay. So you got the camera
up. Yeah. Oh. La, la, la, la. Got to get it right.
There it is, folks. It's the big brother. It's
got. The antennas on it and everything. Well,
no, I don't have the antennas on it right now.
Well, I mean, it's got the little covers. Nubbies.
Just came in yesterday. Okay. About the only
thing I've done is update the firmware. That's
something. And when I can report, because I know
you've had some trouble. I was getting that to
talk to the Rodecaster Pro. I have no idea what
you're talking about. I've never had a problem
with it ever. It works like a charm. That's what
happened here. It just worked. Man. I plugged
port 5 on the back of the Videocaster into port
2 on the back of the Pro, and it just started
passing audio. Now, again, all you get. That
is not what happened, folks. All you get is a
stereo feed. You don't get multitrack. Right.
I mean, even that would have been fine. Sure.
But what I was realizing with that, and because
everything they keep talking about is hook them
together, use them together, use them together.
And I'm like, well, then the auto switching is
out. Because if all you're passing over is a
stereo channel feed, it doesn't know which camera
to go to. No. Why would it, yeah, no. So I guess
where the. Just plug it in. Yeah, plug it in,
plug it in. I guess where the Rodecaster becomes
more of a use to you is if you are bringing a
bunch of extra people in and you just need audio
and you're not driving a bunch of video. Right.
So you can just really stack up. I mean, yeah,
and that's. that's a great use case. Don't get
me wrong. I just, um, it's got a little more
heft than the small. Sure. Um, I think that the,
the extras of everything is, is nice except for
the, it doesn't have an extra, uh, XLR combo
jack. Um, yeah, it's only got the two and then
it has, It has extra HDMI out. I think an extra
HDMI in. Yeah, one more HDMI in, another HDMI
out, which would be handy. And then it's got
one more. Yeah, one more USB -C. And it has the
micro SD. I don't think this has micro SD. No,
because yours, the S has. Built -in storage.
Right, yeah, which is handy, but... Yes. Let's
be honest about how much storage that is. It
just means that if you hit your... And this has
the... Then you're kind of stuck. Left right
out. Yes, that's true. That's true. So, I mean,
there's a lot of good here. The price initially
was prohibitive, which I get. I didn't ever have
a problem with what they were trying to do or
how they... Did it. The only problem I had was
when they came out with this and I was so excited
and then it didn't work exactly the way that
I thought it would. Well, yeah. And I don't think
I'm doing something wrong, which is correct.
It's, it's becoming a mantra, which is not good.
Like I understand I'm not, I'm not flawless.
I, by any stretch of the imagination, I just
can't figure out what I did wrong in a lot of
these situations. Well, I'll show, I can show
you what I did. And see if it makes a difference.
And two, you could always hook this up to the,
yeah, that was, there's someone in the building,
folks. I think that was a acorn falling onto
the deck. Perhaps. We could also, we could die.
Good thing this thing is still recording. We're
all going to die. They're all going to laugh
at you. So I've got it for at least 30 days.
I don't know beyond that. So the other thing
that was intriguing on the S is it's now $799.
It went up $300. That doesn't make any sense
to me. No, it does not. What is that? That wasn't
a drop. No, that was like a thing. I don't know.
Maybe. Okay. I mean. We may be doing some of
these. Yeah, I'm sitting there going, I've got
my. You have your shiv because I have my shiv.
I've got my shiv. Come on, get me. It's going
to be great. Yeah, I don't know what that last
one was. That sounded like something dragging
almost. That's weird. But, yeah, it was shocking
to see. It shipped $4 .99. Not a bad price, all
things considered, especially that it was less
than half the price of the full -blown video.
Right. But then overnight it goes to $799. Yeah.
And they blame tariffs. Sure. But I'm like, not
$300 worth. I really doubt it. So I don't know
what's going on. And all that to say, this, the
big guy, $830 off of the Amazons. Hmm. So $799,
get the S. Or $830. $839. So $39, $40 more. And
it's not like the. Get the full blown. Yeah,
it's not like the video is huge. Like that was
part of the appeal. Correct. It's not a big device.
No. So it's not like it's less, it's not really
less portable. Yes. So. So the only thing that
neither of the videos have that I'm realizing
is they don't have the call me feature. Oh, cause
I'm sitting here going, okay, so if I could get
a fair enough price and reselling my pro two,
could I justify just keeping the roadcaster video?
Because I don't need more than two XLR mics.
Right. But then I'm sitting here going, I would
lose the call me feature. And I mean that. I
will tell you when the call me feature came out,
it felt like such a like, oh, this is so bonus
and blah, blah, blah, blah. And now it's like,
that's really a selling point. Yeah. Bummer.
Yep. I didn't put that together. Yeah, I just
kind of realized that last night as this was
doing updates and looking through. Oh, the other
thing that was interesting to see when I had
these connected together, it did pass through
the. Type -C that goes from my Pro 2 to the computer.
So the Rodecaster app sees both devices. And
so you can quickly toggle between the video and
the Rodecaster through the app if you're making
changes. Yeah, which would be important because
you don't want to have to have another USB -C
connected to another device to then... No, that's
great. So you can daisy chain it. You can daisy
chain, so I was glad to see that. And I had seen
some stuff where people were just getting crazy,
and they were daisy chaining two Rodecaster Pros
off of a Rodecaster video just because they could
to drive all those extra audio inputs. And I'm
like, yeah, you could do that, but that's a really
expensive way to do that. Well, I mean, just
the submix that's happening inside of that is...
That'd be interesting. Yeah. Because it's not
like one of the RODECasters is controlling the
other RODECasters inputs in a different way.
Like, it'd be the same stereo. Yep. And then
you've got, like, stereo going into that, then
you mix that into the other inputs, and then
you've got stereo going into the... and I don't
know. I'm trying to think where I would get that
desperate for more inputs. I don't know. I do
like, I mean, I get it. It has only been a few
times that we've needed even three of the XLRs,
but I like the idea of having four. I kind of
wish the video had four, but I don't know what
I would do. give up on the back of it for two
more XLRs, and I don't want it to be bigger either.
No. I just kind of wish the Video S did what
I thought it was going to do. People claim it's
supposed to work, so maybe we can still figure
it out. I mean, maybe theirs does. I'm just a
schmuck. All right. Well, one last piece of hardware.
Okay. I think you'll be excited to see this.
This is hardware rich. Yeah, it is. But this
dovetails into a future show. Future show. Yes.
Okay. So you might remember the original case
of this. I don't know. Okay. This is from Mr.
Fernando. Oh, Fernando Perez. I think I'm saying
that right. P I R E S. Nice. Um, so this is the
pod mobile, the new version. Okay. Um, I'll hand
this off to you and let you look and see what
you notice. So, um, a little backstory. Yeah.
Look at that. Very nice. That didn't used to
be there. It used to be a generic case logic
case. Okay. Uh, but he hit me with that. And
it was like, Fernando, that's an amazing attention
to detail. It's not an M. No, no, no, no, no.
That's the Sigma. It's a Sigma. Yeah, for Audio
Sigma. I was holding it the wrong way. Early
January, reach out to him. Look at you. Yeah,
to say, hey. We kind of showcased your gear a
year ago. Just wanted to check in with you, see
how things are going. Is there new things we
could tell people about? And he starts telling
me, yeah, we've done some changes to the PodMobile,
particularly around syncing audio up to the cameras.
Yeah, that is the PodMobile audio interface.
You can get the two XLRs there. Two XLRs. And
you've got your dual headphone jacks. You've
got monitor out. Type C, so it can pull power
off the laptop as well as send the audio over
that. If you dip switches on this side. Yeah,
if you show them the bottom side, there's actually
touch controls. Oh, gosh, I forgot about these.
Yeah, so you've got equalizer and denoise, I
believe. Yes, and then there's a slider on the
side so that those... Touches become non -touch
so that you don't accidentally bump it and make
an adjustment once you've got it drilled in.
You've got the phantom switch on the top. Yeah,
the phantom power as well. These headphone jacks
are 3 .5 millimeter, not quarter. So that's important
to know. I'm double checking that price before
I speak at all. And then the monitor out and
the aux in are... um, are also 3 .5 millimeter.
Yeah. So that is three 99 99. That's it. That's
it. Um, guys. So anyways, talk to him over email.
He's like, yeah, we've made some changes, particularly
around syncing audios to camera. Um, he said,
why don't you send me your gin one and I'll send
you back a gin too. And I'm like, uh, this dude.
Yeah. You're the man. I mean, I'm not going to
say no to that. No. So ship it off to him. And
that came back in. Immediately right away saw
that case. And that really, really popped. Showed
attention to detail. And that's not to say that
the original CaseLogic case was bad. It was great
in what it did. It was a good size. I mean, CaseLogic
does a great job. But this is like professional.
Yeah, that's kind of that extra. attention to
detail and then the usbc cable is not in there
but it came with the usbc cable that also has
the audio sigma logo on the connectors now there
is another cable in there i don't know if you
noticed it and that has to do with connecting
the audio oh geez so it's not just a cable yeah
so it's like a the little mini okay mini mobile
there so you've got mike out to camera Yep. And
then this is the line in from the gear. Yep.
From the pod mobile. So pod mobile comes in and
then this comes out and goes into your camera.
Yep. TRS TRS. Yep. So that's, that's kind of
part of the change. So, so it, it, it's, it does
a pad drop of 25 decibels on the output. Yep.
Just to make sure you don't. run too hot into
your camera correct uh so uh he sends that back
to me he says hey let's get on a phone call and
let's talk about the hardware yeah and i'm initially
i'm like yeah sure that'd be great i appreciate
that and then kind of went oh you idiot you should
have asked him to come on the show that's right
so i immediately responded back and i'm like
hey um how do you think you would feel about
coming on to the show and let's just talk about
the hardware And it took a couple of days, but
then I got a response from him, and he said,
I'd love to be on the show. So all that to say,
you may have noticed we're doing some changes
here, trying to modernize, I guess you'd say.
Just because Chris hates video does not mean
that it's that modern of an idea. Video did kill
the radio star. a long time ago a long time ago
yeah so yeah um introducing video uh but all
that to say we're working on a show that would
hopefully happen within the very near future
yeah to have him come on remote uh because he
does live in oklahoma um we can talk to him talk
about the hardware you know kind of talk about
what he's doing where he's going um just kind
of give an opportunity to just kind of Cast a
vision for his, his product. Cause he does more
than just the pod mobile. He's got the Mike hero
DSP, which is a single, there it is a single
XLR. And then you have the, the original Mike
hero, which when I reached out to him the first
time I was having a little bit of trouble with
the pod mobile. Yeah. Shipped it back to him.
He updated the firmware, shipped it back to me.
Everything was great. And he said, oh, hey, by
the way, try this out. You might like it too.
Yeah. Because I talked to him then about, hey,
we want to cover this on the show. Yeah. So he
has been amazingly generous in terms of helping
along with the hardware as well as his willingness
to communicate and talk back and forth and share.
So looking forward to having him on the show
soon. Yeah, I remember that about when you were.
Having trouble with the gain structure of it
all. Yeah. He was real. Generous with his time.
He was. Not just. Absolutely. You know, I'm telling
you to figure it out. Which he easily could have
done. Yeah. So, but we are looking forward to
having Fernando on the show in the future. So
may not catch him in March because the next show
I will be in Columbus. So I need to figure out,
do I take the pod mobile? Do I take the road
caster video? Do I take the pro? Yeah. What do
I take to bring me into you? Um, so that's, I'm
figuring out to do there. Yeah. No, I think you
just dropped yours as well. It's just, it's so
much sugar, sugar, and then the tart. It's not,
like, we keep, it's not bad. It's not bad. No,
no, no, no, no. But, like, that's got to be what
you, I was not planning on drinking an icy today.
Well. A warm icy. Well. It's, like, thick. It
is, it's syrup. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's
a strawberry or. Fruity. Yeah, very fruity, syrupy.
Wow. Okay. There you go. So all that to say,
potentially maybe April is realistic that we
could have him on the show. So if anybody out
there knows anything about audio Sigma knows
about Fernando, you can start being boots on
the ground. I'm like, Hey, he's going to be on
this show. I'm totally going to leverage no agenda.
But that's actually how I was introduced to the
hardware. There you go. So I will send in a donation
so that they'll read my note and plug that particular
episode. Oh, and I have one other thing to show
if you want to throw the screen up. Hey, you.
Albie got the hub going. And there is the wallet.
I've been doing some playing around. And then
here is where Moritz. sent us a little bit, just
kind of testing things out. And he says, thanks
for using Albie hub. Um, and then this is kind
of me playing around a week ago with a message
of boosty boosty. So, um, all that to say booster
back, um, learned a little bit. Um, when you
set up your Albie hub, it wants to, when you
open up your channel, it wants to make it private.
Don't do that. You will need a public channel.
So learned a little bit there. Didn't notice
that. Had a private channel. What's going on?
You need a public channel. Well, crap. So got
rid of that. Repaid to get the public channel
up. And then ran into some issues with testing
boosts. Was trying to use Podcast Guru and found
out what happens when you Try to do something
that is KeySend based, but your wallet only does
Bolt 11. They don't talk to each other. They
don't work. So what happens is the transaction
fees get hit, but the actual amount that you
were sending as a boost goes nowhere because
Strike doesn't do KeySend. So it goes, yeah,
I don't know what you want me to do with that.
But I'm still going to charge you for it. Correct.
So I have multiple charges in my... Well, I guess
now you won't see it anymore. I close it out.
But I had a bunch of 50SAT, 50SAT, 50SAT, 50SAT,
50SAT, where I was trying to do all this testing.
Yeah. All that to find out that, oh, yeah, that
doesn't work. So I created a sub wallet right
here, linked that into my podcast app, and I
can now. and it just works because what's great
about Albie is Albie does key send and bolt 11.
Eventually, key send will fall by the wayside
and everything will be bolt 11. But until then,
they bridge the gap on both. So if you're trying
to send a boost to the show and you're using
Strike, let me go ahead and stop you right now.
Don't do that. Don't do that. Because we're not
going to get it. We're not going to get it and
you're still going to get charged. You're still
going to get a transaction fee. Find you a wallet
that supports Keycent, whether that's Albi or
something else that's out there. But boost her
back. Or just Albi. Yeah, you could just do Albi.
But boost her back, so feel free to boost away.
Yay! We will read your boost on the show. Of
course. Which means that in the near future,
the Jason Court segment will be back. Yay, Jason
Court. So yeah, that's kind of the last little
update. But yeah, all that to say, Jason Cord
probably knew it was Wayne's World. He probably
did. That comment. Maybe. So all that to say,
exciting show on the horizon with Fernando. Looking
forward to that. And then trying to leverage
No Agenda Nation to kind of market it. Nice.
And get the reach out there and be like, hey,
this is going to be happening. You need to be
a part of that show. Boost away. We'll split
those boosts with Fernando. Yeah, we will. Absolutely.
Yeah. So looking forward to that. Joked with
my wife that it will be the first official podcast.
Interesting. Because, I mean, to me, that's a
monumental leap. It really is a big one. I mean,
at that point, we're Joe Rogan. Yeah. For one
show. For one show. For one show. For one show,
that's what we're doing. This is what it feels
like to be Joe Rogan. Well, there you go. So,
but yeah, looking forward to it and we'll see
if that can't turn into something that becomes
more common. Yeah. That'd be great. All right.
I think that's all I've got to cram into this
show. Yeah. That's a good one. Thanks for the
beer. No. Yeah. Thanks for the dessert. La duchess
de begonia. Just wow. The duchess. Good job guys.
The duchess, duchess, duchess. Um, I gotta get
that right. It's backwards. Anyways, when we
say the Duchess, it makes me think of Tommy Chong.
Yeah. Is that Nacogdoche? Oh, Nacogdoches. Nacogdoches.
So there you go. The Duchess de Borgogna. All
right. See you later, Chris. See you, man. Wow,
that was a great show.