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Ask the Podcast Coach for November 23rd 2024.
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Let's get ready to podcast.
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There it is.
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It's that music.
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That means it is Saturday morning.
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It's time for Ask the Podcast Coach, where you get your podcast questions answered live.
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I'm Dave Jackson from theschoolofpodcastingcom, and joining me right over there is the one and only Jim Cullison from TheAverageGuytv.
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Jim, how's it going, buddy?
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Greetings, dave.
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Happy Saturday morning to you.
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Fall and winter.
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We're on the edge of winter.
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Are you feeling it?
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It's like it's almost here, right.
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Yeah, we got a sprinkling of snow the last couple days and you wake up it's kind of like winter's warning shot.
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Hey, if you haven't dug the scraper out of your trunk, this would be a good time to do it.
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Yeah, that's, and I'm not.
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I don't know, I don't ski, so I don't hate snow.
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I just when it becomes hard to you know, like last night I was driving around and it was at night.
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I sound old when I say this but, I, don't like to drive in the dark when it's raining.
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But I don't like to drive in the dark when it's raining and now you don't know, because it was in the 30s here and I was like, oh, is that ice or is it?
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You know water and it just makes you.
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You know, you're like oh, here we go.
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You know it's that time.
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You gotta be careful yeah you gotta be careful, but you know what's great on a cold winter's morning.
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Oh yeah, yeah.
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And Jim is running through a bunch of new stuff today and we'll just jump into the toys.
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I was very happy.
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I will piggyback on yours, but what's going on in the land of Jim this morning?
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Well, brand new.
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So the M4 came in as Apple does.
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They overpromised, no, they underpromised and overdelivered.
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It was supposed to be here Thursday, got here Monday, which is kind of nice.
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So just from a specs perspective, I got the Apple Mac Mini M4, their newest version of it, 32 gigs of RAM on that.
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I did upgrade that to get that.
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I kept the same hard drive size as I had on my M1, which is a half a terabyte, 512.
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And it's got a new neural processor.
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I haven't messed with that part yet.
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So I still got some work to do.
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But set it up tuesday, did some sound checks on wednesday, did a podcast on thursday, here with you guys today it's actually sitting.
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So the m1s on the desk, the m4 is sitting on right on top of it.
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Completely different profile, right?
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I mean the M1 was like a flat pancake, the M4 is more like Intel Nook.
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It's a little thicker, it's more like a really thick cheeseburger.
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So it's kind of what I'm.
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It's got some.
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It's all USB-C.
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There's no USB-A ports on the thing.
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So if you're an old USB-A guy, like my camera and my audio device, those are still all kind of the traditional I shouldn't say traditional, but the old school a ports you're going to need.
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It's got some usb c or thunderbolt 4 ports in it.
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Check out the specs.
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You know you can go to applecom check them out now.
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I'm reasonably priced, working pretty well.
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But whenever, dave, whenever you change anything like this, you can see the box up here.
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By the way, if you want to put it up in the screenshot whenever you change something like this.
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And you got to go through.
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Yeah, there you go.
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Then you got to go through all of that.
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You can see the old box.
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There's the old box below it and the new box on top.
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Very cool, yeah, you got to kind of go through and set all the presets.
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The setup was actually really easy.
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You know, if you get a new iphone or I think even android does this you put your old phone down and you put your new phone next to it and you say I have a new phone and all the stuff just transfers over to it.
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Now, super cool.
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Okay, not like that with the mac, but I was able to.
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I just took the time machine back up, plugged it it in.
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Oh, probably an hour and a half of setting that back up, all my apps were there.
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Handbrake worked, exact.
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All the presets were there.
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It worked exactly like I expected it to.
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Opened up, I do some editing in iMovie because it's just easy.
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Everything was there.
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That worked out really well.
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All the apps that I had purchased just came over and were just there, of course, because that came from the Time Machine backup.
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Setting up a new PC you don't get the opportunity to.
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I mean, you got to still log into your browser, you got to use a password manager, you got to log into that.
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So there is some setup on some of those kinds of things.
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But so far so good.
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Up on some of those kinds of things.
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But so far so good.
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I'm just kind of working out the kinks and making sure that.
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You know you gotta I the I traded the old one in so it's gonna go back on monday, right?
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So you gotta kind of make sure you got everything off the old one.
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But a good upgrade, dave, I think, to go from the m1 to the m4, good upgrade, probably out $800 for it, something like that.
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If you need ports, I have the from CalDigit.
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I have one of these and it has three USB-As.
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What else do?
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We got back here Four, Three Thunderbolts and a Thunderbolt slash, usb 4.
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So these are all.
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I don't know if you can see the ports back there, but I got these because I have one of these already and I was running out of ports and I was like, okay, maybe I can do this and unplug some of this stuff and plug it into this one, and so I got that.
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But I was in the Apple store and I went in there to buy this, the mouse, because the nice thing if you now this is of course you pay the Apple tax on this to get an Apple mouse, but my Mac Mini tied right into it so it didn't take up a port.
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So that was kind of cool.
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And while I was there, I have the new.
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It's new, oh nice, new to me.
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I walked in I said, hey, I know your, your latest watch, whatever it is, the 10 or the something.
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Blah, blah, blah, because I, when I told them what my watch was, they're like oh wow, that still works.
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You know, kind of it was old, like a three or a four.
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Whatever the watch was, I have a four yeah, I think that's what I had, and I said it's to the point where I have to charge this during the day now, and sometimes to.
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If I'm going to stay up late, I have to charge it, like at dinnertime too, and I go, what's?
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I said I don't need to check my heart rate, I don't need to, I've fallen and I get.
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I'm like I just need it to.
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Basically, I love that I can double authenticate on it.
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I love the fact that I can pause and change the volume, especially when I'm riding my bike to podcasts.
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Pause and change the volume, especially when I'm riding my bike to podcasts.
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I go I really don't use half the watch stuff and they're like, oh, you need an SE and it was I don't know 200 and something.
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I'm like now we're talking Like it's weird, because you kind of go, hey, that's cheap, and I'm like it's still $200.
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But anyway, and then they gave me 50 bucks for my old watch because it was in really good shape.
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So, oh, nice, yeah, but I don't use the sleep thingy because I've got my aura ring which is now going to be on my finger.
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It was charging, so yeah, so I, I am.
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It's just one of those things where I am officially an apple fanboy.
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Now I will just and and I was thinking about it and it is, it's a cliche, and of course, until it's not, but it is kind of like you just plug it in and it works.
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Because the guy at the Apple store was amazing.
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He's oh, go into the watch, unpair it, and now just basically go back and pair it.
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You point it at the watch and somehow this magical thing happens on the watch screen and then your watch is like pairing, and then it's hey, do you want to restore your watch from the backup?
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And you're like okay, and they're like poof, and you're done.
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And I was like all right.
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Well, they've made that stuff very easy.
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Yeah, they have made it very easy.
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Am I coming out of speakers?
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Dave, on your side, do you know on?
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no, I can turn down.
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My headphones are right now oh, I'm just getting a little.
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I just get a little echo back on that and I think if I get my mic closer.
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Yeah, we are.
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We should be the same volume.
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You're a little louder than I am.
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I see I saw somebody mentioned that early show somebody had said that earlier.
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I did notice when I ran, when I rendered the video last night I guess I did that it was significantly faster too.
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I mean the m1 was a huge improvement on video rendering.
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And then, of course, the M4 is a I wouldn't say gigantic, it's large.
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I mean I didn't time it.
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I'd maybe say half the time.
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Now, that's not scientific, but in my podcast processing workflow I get that going, so I do the video edit, I get that going, you know, so you do I do the video edit, I get that going, and while that's going I just jump over and do something else.
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So it's not like I'm sitting there staring at it waiting to finish, to get it done.
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I've loaded the audio over to the transcription services already.
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Those are running to get the bits that I need.
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Then you know I have, I have a phonic.
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Do the show notes for me.
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I grab the short description from Auphonic's transcript, throw that in the Patreon account, because I give my Patreon listeners early access to the full show.
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But the description I put in there.
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I don't want to spend a lot of time going through all of the processes.
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I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about writing that.
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So I go 100% AI on that description, just grab it.
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I don't think my Patreon people are reading it anyway.
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So there's a description in there, so they have some ideas and send it over to them.
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So, yeah, I mean, I think it'll put me in the next generation of equipment from Apple.
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Here's the real question, though, dave, and I'll ask the.
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I asked my audience this on Thursday.
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The originally the M1 sat on.
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I have a little rack that sits off of the desk so I put it on the rack, so I don't ever see it.
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It's kind of hidden out of the way.
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You never see it.
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The hard drive, the backup's over there.
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Now, this is smaller.
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It's got a significantly smaller footprint.
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It's taller.
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Oh, by the way big controversy the power button on the M4 is underneath.
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It's on the back and it's underneath.
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You have to kind of unless you have super skinny fingers if you're going to hit the power button, power button.
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You got to lift up your mac to reach the power button in the back.
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Big controversy in the mac world.
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People are losing their minds over this.
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In fact, that's oddly yeah it's.
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It is kind of weird.
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A buddy of mine makes gadget things with a cnc and he's already made a pedestal for it that has a cutout for the power button so you can easily reach it.
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Dave mccabe is his name.
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I'll throw the link in the so you can see this.
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Or he created a stand so you can have it sit upright so that the power button is reachable on the site.
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Pretty great, I'll throw those links in the chat here in just a few minutes.
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But so should I put it out of sight and put it back in the rack?
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Or it's small enough.
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I could put it on my desk chat room or in the comments on YouTube.
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What should I do?
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Should I hide it away?
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Put it on the desk, Dave, I'll ask you that question.
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What's your preference?
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Mine is sitting on the desk and as I say this, I'm like you know, I've never.
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I think I've powered it down twice.
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No, exactly.
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You never touch the power button.
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I never touch the and it's got my hub on top of it, and on top of the hub is a hard drive.
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So I have this little baby pyramid sitting here and if I think about it I never touch any of those things.
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So I could have just basically under my desk found some sort of little bracket to where I could slide it in there and never see it again, and I would get I don't know, you know however big a Mac mini is back on my desk Now I don't really.
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You guys have seen my desk.
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It's a mess.
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Right now.
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It's covered in empty boxes for some reason.
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Quit trying to be Bandrew.
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That's it.
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Magic mouse.
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Yeah, so I don't know.
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Here's the magic thing about the magic mouse is I can take with two fingers, I can swipe left and right and it will do.
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If I have multiple pages open, it will do that.
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There are a couple other gestures you can do on it, because I'm like I asked the guy I go, look, your mouse is 99 bucks.
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I go, what does it do that a normal mouse doesn't do?
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And the Apple guy actually laughed because he's like I'm like, am I just paying the Apple tax?
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I go, look, I'm going to buy it anyway.
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I said so.
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You know there are a couple of things it does that you know you can't get on other things.
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So Randy says he purchased the Apple SE watch for his wife's birthday.
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There you go.
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Good to go, yeah.
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Chris says he's always pulling things in and out and so it's the desk for him.
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I guess if you were plugging things or doing stuff with it, you'd want it close to you.
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Yeah, jeff does mention that because I was like, wait, where do you put the batteries in On the Magic Mouse?
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It's on the bottom and the cable they give you is USB-C to Lightning.
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And I'm like I don't have any USB-C things on my port.
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So I'm like, do I need another, you know?
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So what I bought was a power brick.
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So I'm like, do I need another?
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So what I bought was a power brick, a battery backup that has a USB-C connection so I can power this thing up.
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Hopefully the battery lasts a while.
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I need to remember now when I go to bed to turn off my mouse.