WEBVTT 00:00.111 --> 00:02.913 [SPEAKER_01]: a factual data creation facility production. 00:02.933 --> 00:23.783 [SPEAKER_02]: Recorded live in front of a bargain computer display. 00:24.264 --> 00:26.465 [SPEAKER_02]: It's the OFNT podcast. 00:27.114 --> 00:33.975 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, here's your sometimes Kentanker's host, the one and only, and thank the Lord for that Jim Shafer. 00:34.896 --> 00:39.997 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that may be true, but the older I become, the less Kentanker is I am. 00:40.017 --> 00:44.658 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm at a point where I just don't care much about anything any longer. 00:46.058 --> 00:50.199 [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to episode two, eighty four, which I'm calling, short and sour. 00:51.099 --> 00:56.220 [SPEAKER_00]: As in short of unusual episode, and what you may perceive as my sour temperament, 00:57.725 --> 00:59.146 [SPEAKER_00]: Or is it the other way around? 01:01.088 --> 01:05.891 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we've had the made by Google event, and Samsung may have an event next week. 01:06.812 --> 01:09.974 [SPEAKER_00]: And, of course, the iPhone event is happening on September nine. 01:10.134 --> 01:13.877 [SPEAKER_00]: So, the holiday tech season is now in motion. 01:16.799 --> 01:20.682 [SPEAKER_00]: This week's guest microphone is the Neumann TLM One-O-Two. 01:22.455 --> 01:26.001 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about you, but I'm ready to start this thing now. 01:43.028 --> 01:43.789 [SPEAKER_00]: Tech news. 01:44.469 --> 01:46.170 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll start off with Apple news. 01:46.971 --> 01:48.512 [SPEAKER_00]: So, you're returning to normal. 01:48.852 --> 01:49.212 [SPEAKER_00]: Got it. 01:49.673 --> 01:51.814 [SPEAKER_00]: Why yes, I guess you can say that. 01:52.775 --> 01:55.817 [SPEAKER_00]: First up, Apple wants you to put them in your ear. 01:56.377 --> 01:57.918 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, what do you mean by that? 01:58.439 --> 02:01.601 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you'd let me continue, you'd find out soon enough. 02:02.121 --> 02:04.043 [SPEAKER_01]: Ha, you all can tanker us on you. 02:04.538 --> 02:05.138 [SPEAKER_00]: What is this? 02:05.158 --> 02:10.422 [SPEAKER_00]: This can't anchor us the word of the weakest part of some new episode feature I don't know about? 02:11.863 --> 02:20.789 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I say that Apple wants you to put them in near ear because not only is an updated AirPods Pro incoming, but also an updated PowerBeat's Fit. 02:21.870 --> 02:23.651 [SPEAKER_00]: both slated to be released in September. 02:24.832 --> 02:34.279 [SPEAKER_00]: The AirPods Pro will be announced alongside the iPhone during Apple's annual Extravaganza, slayed for a September ninth in case you hadn't heard that already. 02:35.360 --> 02:40.543 [SPEAKER_00]: While the power of Beech Fit will most likely be announced with a press release a bit after the event. 02:41.844 --> 02:45.567 [SPEAKER_00]: Though I could be wrong, and you very likely are. 02:46.040 --> 02:53.846 [SPEAKER_00]: That's fair enough, but I don't recall a time where both the AirPods Pro and the Power Beats fit were released within the same month or year actually. 02:55.547 --> 02:57.688 [SPEAKER_00]: I currently use both models of those earbuds. 02:58.489 --> 03:00.350 [SPEAKER_00]: The AirPods for general, listening. 03:01.031 --> 03:04.133 [SPEAKER_00]: While the Power Beats fit, are my go-to while exercising. 03:04.153 --> 03:09.857 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually prefer the sound of the Power Beats over the AirPods Pro, but hey, that's just me. 03:11.565 --> 03:18.529 [SPEAKER_00]: To my tired old ears, the Powerbeats fit sound more lively, while the AirPods Pro sound slightly muffled. 03:19.970 --> 03:28.956 [SPEAKER_00]: According to MacRumors.com, the new AirPods Pro's three are expected to get the heart rate monitoring feature, which debuted on the Powerbeats Pro earlier this year. 03:28.976 --> 03:32.818 [SPEAKER_00]: Along with improved sound quality, which is needed. 03:33.598 --> 03:34.899 [SPEAKER_00]: Better noise cancellation? 03:35.399 --> 03:35.760 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes! 03:36.220 --> 03:40.803 [SPEAKER_00]: And some minor design changes, which probably refers to the earbuds case. 03:42.123 --> 03:47.406 [SPEAKER_00]: I find the rumored heart rate monitoring feature to be kind of redundant, at least for the AirPods. 03:48.566 --> 03:52.828 [SPEAKER_00]: That's because if you're wearing an Apple Watch, the HR monitoring will always default to it. 03:54.208 --> 04:02.512 [SPEAKER_00]: I can understand why this heart rate monitoring feature would be great for the Beats lineup, being that a large share of their users would most likely be using other than Apple Watches. 04:04.212 --> 04:14.296 [SPEAKER_00]: On now, according to nine to five Mac.com, Apple has teased a new Power Beats fit in a video on YouTube saying that these new earbuds are coming in fall, twenty twenty five. 04:14.316 --> 04:15.376 [SPEAKER_03]: Autumn. 04:15.836 --> 04:17.297 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, you do you. 04:18.477 --> 04:24.880 [SPEAKER_00]: No details on what new features these new Power Beats fits will get by assuming heart rate monitoring features will be one of them. 04:26.400 --> 04:32.205 [SPEAKER_00]: If that feature fails to show up on these new buds, besides being surprised, it'll be a no-bye for me. 04:33.186 --> 04:35.147 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll just hang on to the ones I already have. 04:36.448 --> 04:41.812 [SPEAKER_00]: Unlike my AirPods Pro second generation, there's no one to pass my old pair of beats fit on to. 04:42.273 --> 04:48.378 [SPEAKER_03]: Well, perhaps you should just hang on to those old power beats anyway, and forego purchasing the new model when they're released. 04:48.898 --> 04:54.883 [SPEAKER_00]: That's always an option, but then again, I don't know if I could resist a temptation of a new shiny bobble. 04:57.677 --> 05:05.821 [SPEAKER_00]: As I alluded to in the previous story, Android Authority.com, reports that Apple has announced the date of its annual iPhone event. 05:06.841 --> 05:09.022 [SPEAKER_00]: It's Tuesday, September night this year. 05:10.203 --> 05:12.244 [SPEAKER_00]: The title of the event is Audrapping. 05:13.104 --> 05:14.826 [SPEAKER_00]: A play on jaw-dropping, I guess? 05:15.987 --> 05:19.591 [SPEAKER_00]: The basic iPhone XII, the new iPhone XII air. 05:20.392 --> 05:26.378 [SPEAKER_00]: The regular iPhone XII Pro and the iPhone XII Pro Max are expected to be announced during the event. 05:26.919 --> 05:29.842 [SPEAKER_00]: So I guess we should pour one out for the iPhone Plus. 05:30.571 --> 05:34.874 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it appears we've seen the last of the oversized poor persons iPhone model. 05:34.894 --> 05:36.355 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, at least for now. 05:37.416 --> 05:39.997 [SPEAKER_00]: I've heard the plus wasn't selling as well as Apple expected. 05:40.017 --> 05:46.982 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't remember if the plain Jane iPhone XIII my lovely wife and I had was the plus model or not. 05:47.382 --> 05:52.066 [SPEAKER_02]: It was the standard iPhone XIII as there was no plus model that year. 05:52.586 --> 05:58.070 [SPEAKER_02]: The iPhone XIII was released alongside the ill-fated iPhone Mini XIII that year. 05:58.668 --> 05:59.349 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's right. 05:59.649 --> 06:00.030 [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. 06:00.350 --> 06:01.992 [SPEAKER_00]: That comment was helpful for once. 06:03.173 --> 06:09.039 [SPEAKER_00]: All eyes are on the iPhone XII Air this year, which promises to be the thinnest iPhone Apple has ever made. 06:10.190 --> 06:13.351 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm interested in this model, but my wife, and that's so much. 06:14.732 --> 06:22.495 [SPEAKER_00]: Supposedly, the seventeen-air will have a six-point six-inch Pro-motion display, which has a one hundred twenty-hurt screen refresh rate. 06:23.076 --> 06:26.917 [SPEAKER_00]: As will the entire iPhone lineup for the first time in iPhone history. 06:26.937 --> 06:26.997 [SPEAKER_00]: Wow. 06:28.638 --> 06:33.740 [SPEAKER_00]: That's right, even the base model iPhone will get this display technology and it's about time. 06:34.541 --> 06:36.862 [SPEAKER_02]: What about the E-series of iPhones? 06:37.542 --> 06:39.323 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, I forgot about the E-series. 06:40.079 --> 06:43.301 [SPEAKER_01]: Forgetting seems to be a reoccurring theme with you lately. 06:43.321 --> 06:45.802 [SPEAKER_00]: Now there we go, back to normal indeed. 06:46.783 --> 06:50.205 [SPEAKER_00]: The sixties still stuck with a sixty-hurt screen refresh rate. 06:51.086 --> 06:56.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe the room would iPhone seventeen will get a promotion display next year, along with that dynamic island. 06:57.750 --> 07:01.312 [SPEAKER_00]: The room was claimed it will be sticking with that sixty-hurt screen refresh rate. 07:03.468 --> 07:05.508 [SPEAKER_00]: Time will tell as it always does. 07:06.709 --> 07:14.430 [SPEAKER_00]: New Apple Watch models are inbound along with the aforementioned AirPods Pro and an updated HomePod Mini is also expected to make it showing at the event. 07:15.450 --> 07:27.513 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not in the market for a new watch or HomePod Mini, having just upgraded to an Apple Watch X earlier this year, and I'm not really a fan of the HomePod Mini, which I have two sitting in their boxes under my desk. 07:28.333 --> 07:36.616 [SPEAKER_00]: I was sold on the iPhone Air, but besides my better half not feeling it, the miniscule battery it's equipped with does give me pause. 07:37.677 --> 07:44.739 [SPEAKER_00]: Along with the Air being a first-generation product, I've sort of been burned previously by first-generation Apple products. 07:45.840 --> 07:51.582 [SPEAKER_00]: Like the first-generation Apple Watch and the first-generation butterfly keyboard equipped MacBook Pro come to mind. 07:52.622 --> 07:57.064 [SPEAKER_00]: Being that my wife wants the foldable iPhone, which should show up sometime next year. 07:57.784 --> 08:05.931 [SPEAKER_00]: I figured that the trade-in value of the iPhone XV Pro Max will better mitigate the foldable's expected astronomical price tag. 08:07.192 --> 08:15.919 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll downgrade to an iPhone Air next year after the inevitable bugs are fixed, so it looks like we'll both be getting XV Pro Max this year. 08:15.939 --> 08:24.105 [SPEAKER_00]: Eventually, when the Apple Watch Ultra inherits more iPhone functions, I'll get one of those and further downgrade my phone to an E-series. 08:25.046 --> 08:25.907 [SPEAKER_00]: That's to plan anyway. 08:26.687 --> 08:28.610 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you looking forward to this year's iPhone event? 08:37.458 --> 08:40.659 [SPEAKER_00]: which as I previously stated is expected for next year. 08:41.300 --> 08:48.442 [SPEAKER_00]: The phone will be in the book style of folding, not the flip style, and have a thickness of four point eight millimeters when folded. 08:49.603 --> 08:53.865 [SPEAKER_00]: When folded, users can interact with a five point five inch outside screen. 08:54.765 --> 08:59.647 [SPEAKER_00]: When unfolded, the user will be greeted with a seven point eight inch iPad mini-style screen. 09:00.847 --> 09:04.789 [SPEAKER_00]: This inner screen will be seamless, which will set it apart from its competitors. 09:06.365 --> 09:08.167 [SPEAKER_00]: In my opinion, that remains to be seen. 09:09.288 --> 09:14.312 [SPEAKER_00]: This inner screen will have a two thousand seven hundred and thirteen by nineteen twenty resolution. 09:14.732 --> 09:19.877 [SPEAKER_00]: Bully out of screens resolution will be a two thousand and eighty eight by fourteen hundred and twenty two. 09:21.435 --> 09:29.838 [SPEAKER_00]: The phone will feature a forty-eight megapixel dual lens camera around back, and a single front facing camera for both folded and unfolded states. 09:30.639 --> 09:36.501 [SPEAKER_00]: The inner display may feature an under the screen camera while the outside will have a punch hole camera. 09:37.321 --> 09:39.362 [SPEAKER_00]: There will be no face ID on this phone. 09:39.382 --> 09:40.722 [SPEAKER_01]: What? 09:41.103 --> 09:46.625 [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, an integrated touch ID side button for user authentication will be provided. 09:48.907 --> 09:51.428 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that could be considered a step back, couldn't it? 09:51.828 --> 09:52.168 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. 09:52.748 --> 09:59.069 [SPEAKER_00]: Inside, the foldable iPhone will be equipped with an Apple C-II modem and will not have a physical SIM card slot. 09:59.629 --> 10:04.770 [SPEAKER_00]: The batteries will be of the high density type, which makes its debut on this year's iPhone Air. 10:05.931 --> 10:10.452 [SPEAKER_00]: The price for this iPhone is expected to be between eighteen hundred to twenty five hundred dollars. 10:12.492 --> 10:15.593 [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot justify buying an iPhone for myself at this price. 10:16.513 --> 10:19.195 [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, my lovely wife is a different situation. 10:20.035 --> 10:25.098 [SPEAKER_00]: I figured by downgrading the iPhone model I use for myself next year, or not upgrading it all. 10:25.738 --> 10:32.823 [SPEAKER_00]: And by doing so, should help to keep the capital output for cell phones within the old Fart household down to a manageable level. 10:33.743 --> 10:37.305 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd rather spend that sort of money on a desktop computer or a laptop. 10:38.066 --> 10:40.227 [SPEAKER_00]: Are you interested in buying a foldable iPhone? 10:42.950 --> 10:47.514 [SPEAKER_00]: and some sad news for many within the Android mobile operating system ecosystem. 10:48.634 --> 10:51.036 [SPEAKER_00]: Android authority.com has to following headline. 10:51.837 --> 10:56.901 [SPEAKER_00]: The days of Android custom ROMs are numbered and Google is to blame, unquote. 10:57.681 --> 11:04.066 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, for a supposedly open source operating system, Android seems to be closing up more and more these days. 11:04.487 --> 11:04.767 [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. 11:05.307 --> 11:11.212 [SPEAKER_00]: Both Google and Samsung have been busy putting up roadblocks for custom ROMs on the hardware it's side for years now. 11:11.692 --> 11:15.935 [SPEAKER_00]: And lately, both Android behemoths have turned towards the software side. 11:16.876 --> 11:22.500 [SPEAKER_00]: Google's play integrity API, enforces stricter checks that most custom ROMs cannot get around. 11:23.000 --> 11:31.166 [SPEAKER_00]: This prohibits a multitude of apps from being able to be loaded on an Android phone with a custom ROM running on it, like banking apps for instance. 11:32.227 --> 11:40.393 [SPEAKER_00]: Combine this with stricter, dare I say Apple-like restrictions on the Google Play Store, and you have the makings of another world-garden ecosystem 11:41.855 --> 11:54.299 [SPEAKER_00]: A while back I had commented that with all these new rules and regulations imposed by government entities like the European Union, on both Google and Apple, eventually you'll get a homogenized mobile computing experience. 11:55.459 --> 12:02.381 [SPEAKER_00]: This might even lead up to an iOS-based phone made by Google or Samsung, or an Android device made by Apple. 12:03.321 --> 12:09.163 [SPEAKER_00]: To take it even further, perhaps eventually there will be only one mobile operating system, government OS. 12:09.683 --> 12:12.426 [SPEAKER_01]: Now come on, do you really think that would happen? 12:12.446 --> 12:13.847 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, you never know. 12:13.867 --> 12:22.095 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, of course, it wouldn't be called government OS, would be named something unassuming like FDCFOS. 12:22.515 --> 12:24.197 [SPEAKER_01]: Ha, I see what you did there. 12:24.837 --> 12:27.760 [SPEAKER_01]: FDCF for factual data creation facility. 12:28.187 --> 12:32.488 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to admit that that would be a great name for a government-controlled operating system, though. 12:33.449 --> 12:34.869 [SPEAKER_00]: Hear that three letter agencies? 12:35.249 --> 12:36.509 [SPEAKER_00]: Make me a reasonable offer. 12:37.630 --> 12:45.092 [SPEAKER_00]: On the other hand, it may be I've just been listening to a lot of audio drama podcasts, sitting dystopian worlds lately. 12:47.768 --> 12:58.255 [SPEAKER_00]: The smart ring choice of products has just gotten a little smaller as the International Trade Commission has ruled against RingCon and Ultrahuman for violating patents which are held by aura. 13:03.238 --> 13:08.602 [SPEAKER_00]: This action forces Rinkan and Alter Human to withdraw their products from the market. 13:09.243 --> 13:17.689 [SPEAKER_00]: Amazon has two models under the company's Amazfit brand that well-competitive don't come close comparing to the now big two that is aura and Samsung. 13:18.710 --> 13:27.538 [SPEAKER_00]: So basically we have Samsung Cran droid and aura for iOS and Android, or a lean slightly in favor of iOS and my experience. 13:28.739 --> 13:33.103 [SPEAKER_00]: This development leaves an opening for our favorite giant fruit company to enter the smart ring fray. 13:33.123 --> 13:35.525 [SPEAKER_00]: That is if they decide to do so. 13:36.266 --> 13:40.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether Apple enters the market or not, at this point is anybody's guess. 13:41.451 --> 13:47.637 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been using an or a smart ring since the discontinuation of the old mode of ring some five years ago now. 13:48.658 --> 13:51.441 [SPEAKER_00]: I started with a series two which remains my favorite model. 13:52.101 --> 14:02.364 [SPEAKER_00]: And currently where a series four, being that I'm considered a legacy customer, I don't have to pay for a monthly subscription for my or a count, which is the biggest knock against the company. 14:03.125 --> 14:07.186 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll remain in or a customer until Apple enters a smart ring market. 14:07.706 --> 14:11.828 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's only if Apple's version improves on what or already provides. 14:12.748 --> 14:18.850 [SPEAKER_00]: It's said that two competitors have left the smart ring market though, because, you know, competition is a good thing. 14:21.627 --> 14:25.369 [SPEAKER_00]: Does anyone recall the one-to-promising ties in operating system? 14:25.389 --> 14:26.330 [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yes! 14:26.830 --> 14:27.030 [SPEAKER_00]: No! 14:27.230 --> 14:30.312 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know. 14:30.652 --> 14:35.374 [SPEAKER_00]: Samsung backed ties in a traumatic time in the world of mobile operating systems. 14:36.355 --> 14:43.919 [SPEAKER_00]: Symbian, Blackberry Pomp, and Windows phones, OS's had just left the mobile phone market, and Android had gotten a little stale at the time. 14:45.119 --> 14:49.762 [SPEAKER_00]: Samsung was still trying to become like Apple, having its own, wild, garden ecosystem, 14:50.222 --> 14:52.123 [SPEAKER_00]: And the time seemed right to do so. 14:52.764 --> 15:00.668 [SPEAKER_00]: Many of my online friends from the old Nokia days that were devs for Symbian jumped aboard the ties and train at that moment. 15:01.589 --> 15:05.691 [SPEAKER_00]: A couple of ties and phones were released but failed to gain any meaningful traction. 15:06.452 --> 15:10.995 [SPEAKER_00]: So Samsung threw an towel and relegated ties into smartwatches and smart televisions. 15:11.795 --> 15:18.456 [SPEAKER_00]: Much like LG did after filling to relaunch web OS, which the company purchased from the failed palm corporation. 15:19.197 --> 15:26.998 [SPEAKER_00]: Well Samsung announced some time back that it will stop offering content to Tyson OS smartwatches on September thirty of twenty twenty five. 15:27.738 --> 15:34.220 [SPEAKER_00]: While Tyson OS smartwatches and their apps will continue to function, once an app is deleted it will be gone for good. 15:35.581 --> 15:43.508 [SPEAKER_00]: ties in like web OS will live on in television sets for now, but we're again witnessing the end of another era and it's so sad. 15:59.792 --> 16:01.493 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I've got nothing for you this week. 16:02.033 --> 16:05.915 [SPEAKER_00]: No new tech and the tech I already have on hand has been performing as it should. 16:07.135 --> 16:16.219 [SPEAKER_00]: On the horizon is an iPhone, seventeen pro max, third generation AirPods pro and maybe just maybe new second generation power beats pro. 16:17.360 --> 16:22.922 [SPEAKER_00]: The tech I most satisfied with lately is my bargain basement Walmart on brand sound bar. 16:24.407 --> 16:26.468 [SPEAKER_00]: For its price, you can't beat the sound of it. 16:26.948 --> 16:32.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Sound that's on par with the much more expensive LG sound bar that still sits boxed up in my garage. 16:33.410 --> 16:36.951 [SPEAKER_00]: Waiting for the day that LG decides to send me a return shipping label. 16:37.612 --> 16:41.553 [SPEAKER_00]: Something which I've resigned myself to realizing is not going to happen. 16:42.934 --> 16:48.736 [SPEAKER_00]: My experience in dealing with LG in its lack of customer service this year has sowered me on the brand. 16:49.676 --> 16:51.917 [SPEAKER_00]: Next time I think I'm going to go with Vizio. 16:57.302 --> 16:58.423 [SPEAKER_00]: Entertainment news. 16:59.264 --> 17:05.550 [SPEAKER_00]: Last episode, I brought the bad news of a price increase for a subscription to the Apple TV Plus streaming service. 17:06.591 --> 17:14.238 [SPEAKER_00]: Since then, there's been a rumor banding about the old intertubes claiming that an ad-supported version of Apple TV Plus is inbound. 17:15.359 --> 17:19.263 [SPEAKER_00]: Now this could be true as Apple is slowly re-entering the advertisement business. 17:19.903 --> 17:24.066 [SPEAKER_00]: And this ad supported tier of TV+, would be a logical step in that direction. 17:24.086 --> 17:29.250 [SPEAKER_00]: I figure Apple will charge a four dollars and ninety-nine cents for this ad supported tier. 17:31.454 --> 17:38.038 [SPEAKER_00]: The good news here is that you can get a web browser extension to block these ads if consuming content on a computer. 17:39.118 --> 17:51.825 [SPEAKER_00]: But those like myself who primarily consume Apple TV+, using an Apple streaming box connected to a television set, would be stuck watching ads or have to pony up the twelve dollars and ninety-nine cents for the ad free tier. 17:52.445 --> 17:55.747 [SPEAKER_00]: And I consider that price just too high for what you get with Apple TV+. 17:57.288 --> 18:00.352 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, streaming service prices have gotten way out of hand. 18:01.133 --> 18:04.337 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it any wonder why content piracy is making a comeback? 18:07.941 --> 18:14.770 [SPEAKER_00]: Earlier last week, it seemed Google's YouTube TV was going to lose Fox Sports channels and some regional sports channels. 18:16.187 --> 18:21.974 [SPEAKER_00]: Nine to five Google.com reports that Google has reached an agreement with Fox to continue carrying those sports channels. 18:23.175 --> 18:27.961 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the bad news is you can expect the price for YouTube TV to rise real soon now. 18:28.582 --> 18:33.447 [SPEAKER_00]: I recently switched from a sling TV to Fubo in order to get those regional sports channels. 18:34.248 --> 18:42.097 [SPEAKER_00]: If it wasn't for the one whom must be obeyed, demanding to be able to watch her beloved New York Yankees, I would have stuck with slang. 18:43.278 --> 18:50.406 [SPEAKER_00]: If price is rise for Fubo, I might put my foot down and refuse to pay for the regional sports channels and go back to slang TV. 18:50.686 --> 18:51.607 [SPEAKER_01]: Let's be honest here. 18:51.947 --> 18:53.389 [SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to do that. 18:53.970 --> 18:54.450 [SPEAKER_00]: Watch me! 18:55.370 --> 19:01.152 [SPEAKER_00]: We're able to watch the majority of Yankees games on MLB TV, which we still get gratis from T-Mobile. 19:02.253 --> 19:09.175 [SPEAKER_00]: The only time we need Fuba was when the Yanks play Atlanta or Cincinnati, and that's only six to eight games per year. 19:14.138 --> 19:15.138 [SPEAKER_00]: podcast news. 19:15.958 --> 19:22.580 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing earthshattering is happening within the world of podcasting incorporated lately, and I consider that a good thing. 19:23.981 --> 19:30.782 [SPEAKER_00]: Podcast events season has mostly come in gone, with the push towards a so-called video podcast still in full swing. 19:31.342 --> 19:40.905 [SPEAKER_00]: Concerning video, according to Sound's Profitable, which just merged with the podcast movement, who are the folks behind the largest podcast event of the year, 19:41.745 --> 19:47.891 [SPEAKER_00]: has found that just about half of the people that consume podcasts using YouTube do not watch them but rather listen to them. 19:48.491 --> 19:53.175 [SPEAKER_00]: This sort of goes against what YouTube itself claims but I think the results are accurate. 19:54.096 --> 19:59.381 [SPEAKER_00]: YouTube comes pre-installed on most Android phones and with Google dropping their podcast app. 20:00.102 --> 20:04.366 [SPEAKER_00]: The only pre-loaded app where users can find podcasts is the YouTube app. 20:05.046 --> 20:10.409 [SPEAKER_00]: Most normal Android users won't bother seeking out dedicated Android podcast listening apps. 20:11.089 --> 20:22.276 [SPEAKER_00]: Like podcast addict for example, especially when a subscription is required to unlock those advanced features and speaking of podcast listening apps I tested out too recently. 20:23.136 --> 20:25.457 [SPEAKER_00]: One was podverse, which I've used in the past. 20:26.117 --> 20:30.039 [SPEAKER_00]: I had heard the app has improved recently, so I revisited it. 20:30.739 --> 20:37.342 [SPEAKER_00]: The app itself is more visually appealing than I remember it being, but I still found the user's interface somewhat confusing. 20:38.122 --> 20:47.606 [SPEAKER_00]: While it was easy to sideload RSS feeds like for Patreon subscriptions, I found that podverse wouldn't update them in a timely manner, if at all. 20:48.907 --> 20:50.788 [SPEAKER_00]: I wound up deleting the app yet again. 20:52.415 --> 20:55.736 [SPEAKER_00]: He knew to the market app called POT Home, all one word. 20:55.756 --> 20:59.877 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's the other listening app I tested, and it may be a keeper. 21:00.537 --> 21:06.859 [SPEAKER_00]: The app was created by one of the contributors to the podcasting two-point-o-standard, and it's in its first version. 21:07.960 --> 21:14.762 [SPEAKER_00]: The UI is better than POT versus, and there were no problem-side loading RSS feeds and populating them with new episodes. 21:15.482 --> 21:20.006 [SPEAKER_00]: I haven't gotten around to testing Pod Home's CarPlay compatibility, though. 21:20.827 --> 21:25.490 [SPEAKER_00]: The one thing my current main podcast listening app castematic consistently fails at. 21:26.691 --> 21:31.155 [SPEAKER_00]: Being that Pod Home is in its first version, I'll give the app some time to be updated. 21:32.436 --> 21:36.860 [SPEAKER_00]: I've given up on Metacass, which was also promising when it was first released. 21:37.640 --> 21:41.785 [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, there's been no additional features added over the year it has existed. 21:41.805 --> 21:47.691 [SPEAKER_00]: I also decided to unsubscribe from Amazon music because they keep raising the price for the subscription. 21:48.692 --> 21:53.718 [SPEAKER_00]: That leaves castematic in pocketcasts on my phone, of course now joined with POT HOME. 21:54.579 --> 21:59.304 [SPEAKER_00]: If POT HOME can get car play compatibility right, well I'll be dropping castematic. 22:01.963 --> 22:14.679 [SPEAKER_00]: For the first time in their seventy-six year history, the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California, RTNA for short, has opened its coveted Golden Michael Ward to podcasts. 22:15.080 --> 22:15.801 [SPEAKER_02]: Wow! 22:15.961 --> 22:18.805 [SPEAKER_02]: So, are you hoping to snag one of these awards? 22:19.265 --> 22:20.487 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm asking for a friend. 22:21.269 --> 22:22.710 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a solid no. 22:23.390 --> 22:28.013 [SPEAKER_00]: You need an audience approaching that of Joe Rokens to even be eligible for that award. 22:28.713 --> 22:34.476 [SPEAKER_00]: That in primarily news and news commentary shows are considered, and I don't have or do either one of those. 22:35.177 --> 22:39.539 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's nice to see podcasting finally getting the recognition it deserves. 22:40.400 --> 22:44.742 [SPEAKER_00]: I wonder what podcasts will walk away with the first podcast called in Michael Ward. 22:45.222 --> 22:47.063 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, probably the usual suspects. 22:47.524 --> 22:49.065 [SPEAKER_00]: NPR, New York Times, etc. 22:49.965 --> 22:51.627 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you're probably right. 23:02.657 --> 23:07.961 [SPEAKER_00]: The music is playing as episode twenty-four fades into this cool southern evening. 23:09.339 --> 23:11.080 [SPEAKER_00]: The fall season is in the air. 23:11.100 --> 23:11.881 [SPEAKER_00]: Autumn. 23:12.421 --> 23:13.762 [SPEAKER_00]: I get it, so stop. 23:14.783 --> 23:16.164 [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you enjoyed this episode. 23:16.244 --> 23:17.585 [SPEAKER_00]: I enjoyed making it for you. 23:18.365 --> 23:21.947 [SPEAKER_00]: To like what you heard, you can make a donation using the link in these show notes. 23:22.988 --> 23:25.870 [SPEAKER_00]: Any in all donations will be greatly appreciated. 23:25.890 --> 23:31.214 [SPEAKER_00]: It always reached me at LFNTBondcast at gmail.com. 23:31.934 --> 23:33.275 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're so inclined. 23:33.295 --> 23:35.897 [SPEAKER_00]: I did join hearing from you. 23:38.016 --> 23:40.637 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember, don't listen to what they say. 23:41.478 --> 23:42.838 [SPEAKER_00]: Watch what they do. 23:44.919 --> 23:48.140 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm still waiting on the installation of the gates from my fence. 23:48.821 --> 23:50.581 [SPEAKER_00]: That seems to be a thing down here. 23:51.162 --> 23:54.003 [SPEAKER_00]: There's always a part or something missing when you get something done. 23:54.923 --> 23:57.544 [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of getting, get off my lawn. 23:58.825 --> 23:59.685 [SPEAKER_00]: Stay skeptical. 23:59.725 --> 24:00.025 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, out. 24:06.552 --> 24:08.399 [SPEAKER_03]: And that folks is the end of the show.