[SPEAKER_05]: a factual data creation facility production.
[SPEAKER_02]: recorded live in front of a computer monitor, the podcast voted number one in the most likely to be ignored category.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's the OF&C podcast.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, here's your host, the old fart himself.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jim Shaffer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gee, that was enthusiastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to episode two, seven-eade, which I'm calling, Internet Lose of Begon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I finally squared away my internet speed problem, I've been nagging me lately.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's not much tech news this week.
[SPEAKER_06]: What?
[SPEAKER_06]: Again?
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, it's not my fault that the tech industry decided to go on a summer hiatus.
[SPEAKER_00]: The action this week is in the entertainment section.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, even.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was kind of surprised about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, I think it's time we get this thing rolling now.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: tech news.
[SPEAKER_00]: In a move that I imagine is sending shock waves through the tech channels of YouTube, nine to five Mac.com reports an Apple is suing FPT hosts John Prozer for his iOS twenty-six leaks.
[SPEAKER_00]: The lawsuit is not because Mr. Prozo leaked the details of iOS''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
[SPEAKER_00]: acquired the target phone's passcode and broke into it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hermesciotti, then FaceTime Prozer, showing him iOS' twenty-six and demonstrating features and applications.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rosa recorded the FaceTime call and later discussed how Rameshiai could be financially compensated for sharing this stolen information.
[SPEAKER_00]: It sure is Apple is asking for a jury trial and damages as well as punitive damages be accessed.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a long list of other demands from Apple.
[SPEAKER_04]: I guess you can sum it up by saying this YouTube fella and his friend are in a heap of trouble.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good summary.
[SPEAKER_00]: I follow the FPT channel though over the last year or so there hasn't been much content released on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I don't like the way this leaked information was obtained.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as soon as I get around to it, I'll be unsubscribing from the FPT YouTube channel post-taste.
[SPEAKER_00]: Chinese-made iPhones could be banned in the U.S.
[SPEAKER_00]: over theft of trade secrets, unquote, and that's to headline from norklonappleinsider.com.
[SPEAKER_00]: From the article, U.S.
[SPEAKER_00]: regulator ITC, I guess that stands for International Trade Commission, is recommending BOE smartphone displays, such as those in some iPhone, should be banned, and is follows a preliminary ruling in Samsung's case against its rival.
[SPEAKER_00]: The bad grammar is from the article, it's not mine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Samsung ledges that BOE has been manufacturing OLED screens using Samsung's trade secrets.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is how I think it all happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: Samsung, like many companies, especially US companies, decided to take advantage of the lower wages of Chinese workers and pad their bottom line, all while cheating domestic workers out of well-paying jobs.
[SPEAKER_00]: They did this and still do this by transferring manufacturing over to China.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where Chinese officials placed people inside these manufacturing plans to, quote, borrow, unquote, the information on how to make the item or items, and then transfer that info to local companies.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, didn't you talk about BOE in the last couple of episodes and didn't you say that BOE displays would only be used in iPhone, sold outside of Western markets?
[SPEAKER_00]: Indeed, I did.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess Apple knew this case was pending and made arrangements where this ruling wouldn't affect the sales of iPhone's outside of China in certain other places.
[SPEAKER_02]: And here you thought that Apple faced a backlash over the use of BOE displays for iPhones.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hence the decision to only use BOE on iPhone sold in the Chinese domestic market.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and I've said it many times before.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll say it many times again.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, absolutely no one pays me to think.
[SPEAKER_00]: My cellular carrier of choice, T-Mobile has gotten approval to buy U.S.
[SPEAKER_00]: cellular for the cool sum of four point four billion dollars.
[SPEAKER_00]: According to Android Authority.com, T-Mobile will gain U.S.
[SPEAKER_00]: cellular customers, stores, and spectrum.
[SPEAKER_00]: Spectrum being the most valuable thing here.
[SPEAKER_00]: U.S.
[SPEAKER_00]: cellular will keep their current service towers in least some out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cell towers are also money-makers these days.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course the buyout means there's just one less sailor service provider, reducing competition.
[SPEAKER_00]: U.S.
[SPEAKER_00]: cellular was known as the carrier of choice in rural areas of the country, which isn't served very well by the big three of T-Mobile AT&T Verizon.
[SPEAKER_00]: Heck, I reside in a semi-rural area and I don't get great service from T-Mobile.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I'm lucky I get one or two bars of LTE around my house.
[SPEAKER_00]: U.S.
[SPEAKER_00]: cellular had extensive Romeo agreements with other carriers, but it's unknown if T-Mobile will keep these agreements.
[SPEAKER_00]: To be honest, I have never known anybody who used U.S.
[SPEAKER_00]: cellular as their carrier.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nor have I ever seen a U.S.
[SPEAKER_00]: cellular store.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess the company really served mostly extremely rural areas.
[SPEAKER_00]: For people who live in these types of areas, let's hope T-Mobile does the right thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Owen, I just got an email from T-Mobile which told me that their beta program for satellite messaging is ending tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wait, didn't you just say not too long ago that you would signed up for this beta?
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, I had signed up months ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was finally accepted into the beta program a couple of weeks back.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even get a chance to test it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then again, I had nowhere to test it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: My area, I have a signal, usable or not, everywhere I go.
[SPEAKER_00]: A while back, I brought you a story about Google merging there and raid mobile operating system with a Chrome OS, which is the Big G's desktop operating system.
[SPEAKER_00]: According to nine to five Google.com and many other sources, this is not really a merger of the two operating systems.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, Google is basically replacing Chrome OS with an upscaled version of Android.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, what could go wrong with that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've always been intrigued by Chrome OS.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ever since receiving the first iteration of a Chromebook for free from Google right before Christmas of twenty eleven.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we've heard this story before.
[SPEAKER_06]: Many, many times.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you got me there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Chrome OS is what's called a light client operating system.
[SPEAKER_00]: Basically, the browser is the operating system.
[SPEAKER_00]: Almost everything like apps reside in a so-called cloud.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll say it for you.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's no such thing as the cloud.
[SPEAKER_06]: The cloud is just other people's computers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, you are.
[SPEAKER_00]: Since that hobbled first Chromebook, improvements have been made with more onboard storage, which lets you use Chromebooks without having to be connected to the internet.
[SPEAKER_00]: Chromebooks were ahead of their time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know if I had high speed internet in my house yet back then.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would own a nice Chromebook if their prices for feature loaded ones were reasonable.
[SPEAKER_00]: All I was asking for was a large, let's say, fifteen inch HD display, a backlit keyboard, and a nice amount of storage.
[SPEAKER_00]: All in a nice case.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I was in the market, a Chromebook, such as this, was more expensive than a MacBook Air.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's exactly what I wound up buying, an M-II, fifteen inch MacBook Air.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now that Chrome OS is going away, I have no desire for one.
[SPEAKER_00]: even if it's going to be called a Chromebook going forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who wants an upscaled mobile operating system for a laptop?
[SPEAKER_00]: I sure don't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tech I'm using.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you've been listening to this sorry excuse of a podcast lately, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Besides having my gratitude in sympathy, then you would know that I've been experiencing problems with my internet provider.
[SPEAKER_00]: To recap?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Since installing internet service in my new abode last year, the speeds of that service have been deteriorating steadily and that trend has lately accelerated.
[SPEAKER_00]: It came to a point where I was getting zero point six five down and about the same up, even though I pay for one gig speed.
[SPEAKER_00]: In response, I created a separate five G network which helped a bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then had a technician visit my house, who swapped out the router and recommended a Wi-Fi range extender.
[SPEAKER_00]: After purchasing and installing the extender, which created its own five-g only network, I found myself constantly switching between networks in order to find the one which provided the fastest speed, which never managed to exceed one hundred up or down.
[SPEAKER_00]: The router, as well, was located in my bedroom.
[SPEAKER_00]: And internet speeds were fine there, as well as the upstairs room where I record this podcast, which sits almost directly above that bedroom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amazon Prime Day rolled around.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I made a decision to purchase a TP link, a deco, xe, seventy-five pro mesh system.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I could always return it back to Amazon if it didn't help my situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I've used a TP link mesh systems previously and had no problems with the company's gear.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now the US government has a security problem with the Chinese company, which had me intending to switch brands for future mesh system purchases.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, financial considerations over road my concerns.
[SPEAKER_04]: Of course they would you old cheap skate.
[SPEAKER_00]: The TP link system was much cheaper than an equivalent to euro or other name brand, in this case, half the price.
[SPEAKER_00]: The new meshes my rifle ate last Saturday afternoon, but in order to install it, I needed to swap out my ISP provided router for a modem.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when doing the same thing up in New York many years ago, I had to bring the router back to the ISP store, swap it out for a modem, then go back home and figure out how to install the modem meshes to myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, New York is not known for its friendly customer relations.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now is it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, no, it isn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here where I currently live, a technician from my local ISP came out, and after swapping out the router for a modem, set the mission system up for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm happy to report that though I don't get the full one-g speeds over Wi-Fi, let's be frank here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who does?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm averaging between six hundred to seven hundred down, and seven hundred to eight hundred up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Also speeds were reversed, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: Download speed is much more important for my uses.
[SPEAKER_00]: Upstairs, the speeds are slightly lower, but compared to the speeds I was previously getting, it's an improvement.
[SPEAKER_00]: The TP link XE-Semi-Five is a tri-band system and uses the six gig network it has for a back haul.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that alone speeds things up.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for now my internet will have been banished, and I hope it stays that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, one negative thing about TP link.
[SPEAKER_00]: They now charge a monthly fee for what they call security plus, which is supposed to protect your network from intrusion and other nefarious acts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Parental controls are also included within security plus.
[SPEAKER_00]: All these were included for free with previous versions of TP link deco mesh systems.
[SPEAKER_00]: Subscriptions are where the tech industry is at these days.
[SPEAKER_00]: Entertainment news.
[SPEAKER_00]: We in the old Fort household had cut the cord to cable television back in twenty ten.
[SPEAKER_00]: First with dish network, I was the first kid on my block to switch to satellite television, I'll have you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then with direct TV.
[SPEAKER_00]: When direct TV now streaming, I'll arrive back in twenty sixteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: I jumped on board and kept that service through all its iterations at all, relocating here to Tennessee.
[SPEAKER_00]: When it was time to pick up a streaming service for general television viewing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I decided to cheap out.
[SPEAKER_00]: See what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: As the cool kids don't want to say these days.
[SPEAKER_00]: And decided to go with sling TV.
[SPEAKER_00]: Besides having a lot of junk channels or quote real channels sling included, I really didn't watch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Besides some news channels, the only other channel I really watched was ESPN and only when the New York Yankees game happened beyond that channel.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, last week, the Major League Baseball all star game was being played.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there wasn't a way to watch it on Sling TV.
[SPEAKER_00]: The game was to be broadcast on the Fox Network and, well, Slingers and Carrie Fox.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh no, I know, right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Upon finding this out and knowing that the one whom must be obeyed would be greatly disappointed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that her disappointment would then be passed on to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I made a decision to replace Ling with Fubo TV, which is sports centric.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what they say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Happy wife?
[SPEAKER_00]: Happy life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Though I get MLB TV, gratis because of my mobile carrier.
[SPEAKER_00]: The all-star playoffs and regional games are not available via MLB TV.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now this isn't really much of a problem for us being where New York Yankees fans.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when the team is playing the Cincinnati Reds or Atlanta Braves, while those games are unavailable to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tennessee doesn't yet have a major league baseball team, so Atlanta and Cincinnati are considered regional games.
[SPEAKER_00]: The state of Tennessee doesn't yet have a major league baseball team, so Atlanta and Cincinnati are considered regional games.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hadn't looked into subscribing to the fan-dool network separately from sling, which carry those teams, but that would have cost me nearly thirty dollars per month, at least during baseball season.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fubo, which charges ten bucks per month more than sling, includes that fan-dool network, so I guess you could say I've saved some money.
[SPEAKER_00]: There it is again.
[SPEAKER_00]: What a skin flip.
[SPEAKER_00]: When baseball play off time arrives, Fubo has most of the channels that they will appear on.
[SPEAKER_00]: The outlier here is TBS, but because of my HBO Max subscription, I have that all covered.
[SPEAKER_04]: I know, but this is what these modern times demand.
[SPEAKER_00]: Late night television was once a staple of American television viewing habits.
[SPEAKER_00]: Johnny Carson was the most notable late night host, still he's during my lifetime.
[SPEAKER_00]: My personal favorite late night television's host were David Letterman and Craig Ferguson, Conan O'Brien and Tom Snyder.
[SPEAKER_00]: Back then, these shows were tasteful, funny and entertaining.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the old guard retired or were forced out, they were replaced with subgrade comedians who put their political ideology over entertainment.
[SPEAKER_00]: All had the same Hollywood ideology that turns off half a more their potential audiences.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like Hollywood, these shows have bled viewers steadily over the years to a point where they're not even profitable for the network to appear on.
[SPEAKER_00]: The latest to fall is Big Farmer and Democratic Party hack, Seafon Colbert.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not only did CBS cancel Co-Bear, but they decided to end the whole late-show franchise.
[SPEAKER_00]: Co-Bear's fellow late-night hosts most likely fearing for their own careers are up in arms about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Blaming, wait for it, President Trump.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, of course they would.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything is Trump's fault.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are claiming that the decision to end the CBS late night show was for political reasons and probably secretly agreed to by CBS in order to settle the lawsuit by Trump against them.
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel that CBS is just cutting their losses here.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of these partisan late night talk shows are losing money and big money.
[SPEAKER_00]: And are all being beaten in viewership by a cable news channel's roundtable style discussion show, which is the Greg Gutfield show and Fox News.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I know how to fix this late show problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: How?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Conan O'Brien and Craig Ferguson are each still young enough to host a late night show.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you offer them a boatload of money and bring them back temporarily.
[SPEAKER_00]: Until an equally talented host can be found.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ferguson and O'Brien will bring back entertainment and humor to the format.
[SPEAKER_00]: Something late night shows haven't had since twenty-fifteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Continuing with failing media outlets, Congress has just passed a bill that will stop taxpayer money going towards funding of the public broadcasting service and the ODS National Public Radio.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, talk about partisan hacks.
[SPEAKER_00]: During past attempts at cutting off NPR and PBS from government funding, the heads of each testified that taxpayer funds only accounted for about one percent of their budgets, or did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that was on true.
[SPEAKER_00]: PBS and PR were getting a significant portion of their budget from non-governmental organizations, better known as NGOs, who get their funding from the taxpayers, and that's in the form of grants from the US government.
[SPEAKER_00]: As you've no doubt have heard, the current administration has cracked down on these NGOs, and this mantle the largest of them all, and that would be USAID.
[SPEAKER_00]: These shadowy NGOs are now themselves as trap-precache, and are no longer able to shovel free-tax pay our money to their buddies, but he's like NPR and PBS.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now in the past, I've pointed out how NPR in particular uses the most expensive equipment, like six thousand dollar Neumin mics, for example.
[SPEAKER_00]: One five hundred dollar Electro Voice, Ari Toneys, could do the job.
[SPEAKER_00]: Heck, three hundred dollar loot mics would just be fine.
[SPEAKER_03]: In fact, many successful YouTube news channels on independent news networks use loot mics, like the Blaze Network, for example.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, like the Blaze Network, and they sound awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps NPR and PBS could reduce the salary of their top executives.
[SPEAKER_00]: The PBS head makes over one million dollars per year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, NPR's head makes just under one million per year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I can go on about this, but I won't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I haven't even talked about the slanted news and PR vomits out on the daily.
[SPEAKER_00]: To their microscopic political bubble dwelling, coastal lead audience they serve.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if those types want to continue hearing this one-sided, ideologically charged at River, they call news.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, then, make a pay for it themselves.
[SPEAKER_03]: Perhaps NPR could employ more announcers with accents such as the one I have.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone knows that if you have a British accent, you're automatically smarter.
[SPEAKER_00]: According to an article from rainnews.com, which is a website dedicated to mainly broadcast radio, but also sort of covers podcasting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Series XM is introducing a cheaper and supported subscription tier.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Series XM is a satellite radio service which saw a day back in the early two thousands coming go.
[SPEAKER_00]: The XM part of the company's name comes from a merger with competitor XM radio.
[SPEAKER_00]: Exem satellite radio was superior in my opinion and was ruling with the merger with Sirius.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's a story for another time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sirius Exem was a cure for the loss of a radio reception you would experience while driving an automobile, specially car trips of distance.
[SPEAKER_00]: The advent of smartphones and streaming apps has put a serious pun intended, dent into serious exams of business.
[SPEAKER_00]: The company has pivoted into podcasts and music streaming apps, with just modest success.
[SPEAKER_00]: While music stations on serious XM are ad-free, talk shows on the servers are already feature advertisements.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this new ad-support description to your basically adds advertisements to the music channels.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have to question why anyone would opt to pay for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Current subscribers who mainly listen to talk shows are already getting ads so well they'll opt into this new plan to reduce their monthly subscription price.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those who for some reason subscribe to Sirius XM for the music channels are the losers here.
[SPEAKER_00]: They'll have to keep paying the higher ad free subscription costs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why would you opt into the ads-apported service when you could just use an ads-apported music streaming app like Pandora, which is also owned by Sirius XM, and basically have the same service for free.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pandora also has talk shows and podcasts.
[SPEAKER_00]: During my long drives between New York and Tennessee last year, Pandora was my listening app of choice.
[SPEAKER_00]: As long as you have cellular service, you can listen uninterrupted, except for those ads.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what, the further I got from New York, the less ads that were served to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this new tier is a great way for those that primarily listen to talk shows to reduce their monthly subscription price for Series XM, and that's about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometime back, I reported on a story about how ESPN, the sports-centric network, had failed to come to an agreement with Major League Baseball to carry certain games.
[SPEAKER_00]: The jewel of this deal was Sunday Night Baseball.
[SPEAKER_00]: On ESPN had lowballed the MLB and wanted less content and pay far less for the content they did want.
[SPEAKER_00]: The MLB eventually walked away from the negotiations.
[SPEAKER_00]: At the time, I thought that Apple, or perhaps HBO would be the home of the Sunday Night Baseball games.
[SPEAKER_00]: Apple already carries Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+, so I figured Sunday Night Baseball would be a good fit for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: According to an article on nine to five Mac.com, Apple, along with NBC and ESPN, have also been at Bids for Sunday Night Baseball games.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was surprised that ESPN was amongst the bitters, being that during the renewal negotiations with the MLB, they acted as if they didn't care if they had Sunday night baseball on their network or not.
[SPEAKER_05]: I guess they had time to rethink their position on this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was also surprised that HBO wasn't amongst the bitters, but it seems that HBO doesn't know what it wants lately.
[SPEAKER_00]: Of the three, I hope Apple becomes a new home for Sunday Night Baseball.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's as long as they don't start charging extra for a sports package on top of the subscription price of Apple TV+.
[SPEAKER_00]: I rest my case.
[SPEAKER_00]: Apple also needs to step up its announcers game.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't impressed by them during the last Friday Night Baseball game I happened to watch.
[SPEAKER_00]: In lighter entertainment news, I managed to watch the first episode of the Bosch Spinoff Ballardon, Prime Video.
[SPEAKER_00]: It stars Maggie Q. of Lefem Nikita fame.
[SPEAKER_00]: As a Los Angeles police detective, who's been internally exiled to a cold case team.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ms.
[SPEAKER_00]: Q is in great shape for her age and, like previous characters she's played, looks capable of being a real girl boss.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first episode was a setup episode so long with hold my judgment of the series until I get three or four episodes under my belt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dexter resurrected is now playing on Showtime and picks up where Dexter knew blood left off.
[SPEAKER_00]: While entertaining it's more of the same Dexter stuff we've seen before.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dexter Original Sin, which should be starting up again soon, follows Dexter before he became a serial killer who kills serial killers.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for now, that's a better show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Podcast News.
[SPEAKER_00]: Though it's podcast events season, there's not much going on in the podcasting space.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's been no big announcements as far as a podcasting technology, no big celebrity starting a podcast,
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, good.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing wrong with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, much of anything really.
[SPEAKER_00]: This might be because in a study conducted by podnews.net, the number of active podcasts is actually shrinking.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think the cause of this could be?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it seems many big moneyed productions have thrown in the towel, realizing that competition is fierce and also not realizing returns on there in some cases substantial investments.
[SPEAKER_00]: Has also been a decline in podcast studios with many being bought up and subsequently closed down, ending most of their projects.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's far as independent podcasts to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: New podcasts are going straight to video, not bothering with audio only shows these days.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those that have launched audio podcast have seen a steep drop in ad revenue and have decided it's not worth continuing
[SPEAKER_00]: As I touched on last week, I don't do this podcast to make money, but my recent decrease in listeners has driven me to a point where it's almost not worth producing the OFNT podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: I still enjoy making this show, and that's the only reason why I keep it going.
[SPEAKER_00]: Along with a commitment to what loyal listeners I have left.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you draw a podcast are also suffering?
[SPEAKER_00]: That genre is expensive to produce and takes a lot of work.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to write a script, hire voice actors, and in some cases rent a studio.
[SPEAKER_00]: One podcast area that is expanding is the news and political talk genre.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is driven by the lack of trust in traditional mainstream media these days.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's face it, the blame for losing the trust of most of their audience can be put squarely on themselves.
[SPEAKER_03]: They no longer report factual news, rather they report agenda-driven versions of the news.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is what happens when you're bought and paid for by political or industrial concerns.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: The most money I ever made podcasting was from a political opinion show I produced and hosted called, Straight from the Desk.
[SPEAKER_00]: The problem being is that I wasn't enjoying doing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Delving into the political subjects of the week made me upset.
[SPEAKER_00]: After I stopped doing straight from the desk, I thought I'd rename and we lost a show as fringe dispatches, and cover headlines not given much attention by mainstream media.
[SPEAKER_00]: But again, while researching from material that old upsetting feeling returned, so I shelved fringe dispatches.
[SPEAKER_00]: While the way things are going with the OFNT podcast, I might consider revisiting fringe dispatches.
[SPEAKER_00]: Time will tell.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you are a fan of BBC radio and who isn't, while I used to be a big fan of their world news service, but around the time of the first Gulf War, I felt their reporting started to become very slanted.
[SPEAKER_00]: Plus, they had a news presenter that would pronounce President Bush's name as Bush.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was annoying.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I recall that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you really?
[SPEAKER_03]: Indeed, I do as if it was yesterday.
[SPEAKER_03]: I recall that it was also annoying for us that have real, British accents.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cool story there, bro.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, take that argument somewhere else.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, you no longer any funds since getting into your new fitness regimen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I'm aware.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been told that I've been cranky lately.
[SPEAKER_00]: What was I even talking about?
[SPEAKER_05]: The BBC you silly goose.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, that's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, James Criedland of Paddo's.net also publishes a newsletter called Radio Land, which of course covers the radio industry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, what doesn't that guy do in regards to audio?
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, he speaks with a British accent, so he's very smart.
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, he can do a lot more than those that don't sport the same accent.
[SPEAKER_03]: Only I forgot about that, accent part.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will add, though, that he now resides in Australia, so he's in danger of losing that coveted accent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Alright enough.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Criedland reports that the BBC sounds Apple no longer be available outside of the UK, except for a radio for in the BBC World Service.
[SPEAKER_00]: All other BBC stations in content within the app will be unavailable, come, twenty-one July of twenty-twenty-five.
[SPEAKER_00]: and then includes on-demand.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, if you really would like to access other BBC content, you can do so as long as you know the direct link to that content.
[SPEAKER_00]: Third party apps like Tune in still allow access to these stations and even Apple Music, and that is if you search for specific content.
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess it's time for expats to dust off their old VPNs.
[SPEAKER_00]: The music is, again, playing as this episode of the OFNT podcast starts fading into the evening.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you enjoyed this episode, I enjoyed making it for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: For like what you heard, well, you can make a donation using a link in the show notes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Any and all donations will be greatly appreciated.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can always reach me at ofntpodcast at gmail.com.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you're so inclined, I'd enjoy hearing from you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember, don't listen to what they say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Watch what they do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, in a little over a week, I'll have a fence around most of my property.
[SPEAKER_00]: So in the meantime, when I check, get off my lawn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stay skeptical.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm out.
[SPEAKER_00]: See ya.
[SPEAKER_03]: And that folks is the end of the show.