WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:01.280 True. 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:02.160 Paul! 00:00:02.160 --> 00:00:03.360 How are ya? 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:04.560 Good. 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:07.840 I was just opening some packages that I got today. 00:00:07.840 --> 00:00:09.280 Oh. 00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:11.200 Yeah. 00:00:11.740 --> 00:00:13.260 Uh mostly ammunition. 00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:17.900 Uh shooting explosives through the mail is hmm interesting. 00:00:17.980 --> 00:00:19.420 Okay, okay. 00:00:19.680 --> 00:00:23.760 So yeah, I uh I've been I've been working on my new rifle. 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:32.320 I was actually I actually knocked off work a little early today to go up to the range and kinda dial things in because we're gonna be going out east this weekend to do some long range shooting. 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:32.720 Yeah. 00:00:33.080 --> 00:00:35.000 How'd that how did it go today? 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:35.960 Uh good. 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:43.400 Um we we me and my friend went up last weekend, but there was a catastrophe because 00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:49.280 I had the wrong scope base and I couldn't probably I couldn't properly calibrate my equipment. 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:54.079 So we had to do some quick thinking and do some re-jiggering of stuff and 00:00:54.560 --> 00:01:04.960 Long story short, everything's put back together, and I spent about sixty rounds up there this afternoon in the windy conditions, just making sure that everything is is working and 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:08.320 I'm pretty sure I got it in a place where we'll have a good time. 00:01:08.320 --> 00:01:09.360 So everything's good. 00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:10.000 Everything's good. 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:10.960 How are you? 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:13.039 Uh it it's I'm okay. 00:01:13.039 --> 00:01:13.600 I'm okay. 00:01:13.600 --> 00:01:14.000 Yeah. 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:14.799 Yeah. 00:01:14.720 --> 00:01:15.440 Just okay. 00:01:15.440 --> 00:01:16.080 Just okay. 00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:16.960 Just okay. 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:22.960 No, no, no, no, no, no. 00:01:22.960 --> 00:01:25.920 Uh I would love to talk about that topic though. 00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:27.780 Okay, well let's let's go. 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:28.979 What are we waiting for? 00:01:28.979 --> 00:01:32.420 So last week we recorded on Friday. 00:01:32.420 --> 00:01:35.700 It's the day I got back from my little work thingy. 00:01:35.700 --> 00:01:38.900 Uh so also to to make the story 00:01:39.500 --> 00:01:40.460 I don't know. 00:01:40.460 --> 00:01:41.020 Good. 00:01:41.020 --> 00:01:43.020 You have to know we have I have cats. 00:01:43.020 --> 00:01:44.540 I have four cats. 00:01:44.540 --> 00:01:44.940 Whoa. 00:01:45.180 --> 00:01:46.060 Okay, I'm out. 00:01:46.220 --> 00:01:46.619 Okay, four. 00:01:46.860 --> 00:01:48.780 I I knew of the two cats. 00:01:49.180 --> 00:01:49.979 I have four cats. 00:01:49.979 --> 00:01:50.860 I have four cats. 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:52.520 Where did you get the other two? 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:54.759 Uh a couple years ago, I think. 00:01:54.759 --> 00:01:57.159 There are there are a set of brothers. 00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:58.759 They're tuxedo cats. 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:01.640 Uh well I remember the kittens. 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:02.439 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:05.880 So we had two we had the kittens, then there were we already had two cats before that. 00:02:05.880 --> 00:02:09.479 So sometimes 00:02:10.399 --> 00:02:18.880 You know, uh sometimes bugs get in the house, and that usually drives the cats apeshit. 00:02:19.480 --> 00:02:27.720 It was also that time of year, things are getting a little bit colder colder, insects are trying to find warm places to not die. 00:02:27.720 --> 00:02:31.320 So, you know, when I see a cat. 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:36.239 Freaking out and chasing stuff around, or you know, in a window trying to jump at things. 00:02:36.239 --> 00:02:37.599 I I don't think much of it. 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:40.400 It's just like, oh, the cat's gonna get a bug. 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:41.120 And uh 00:02:42.980 --> 00:02:44.340 It's not a big deal. 00:02:44.340 --> 00:02:46.580 It's gonna be a fly or something. 00:02:46.580 --> 00:02:50.739 Uh so last Saturday, about a week a week ago from today. 00:02:51.099 --> 00:02:52.620 This this happened. 00:02:52.860 --> 00:03:01.900 One of our cats was very adamantly going after a bug in uh in one of our uh windows in our living room. 00:03:02.020 --> 00:03:09.459 Uh we leave generally of those windows open for sunlight, also like the cats like to sit in them and look outside and you know pretend that they're hunters 00:03:09.480 --> 00:03:10.920 So I didn't think much of it. 00:03:10.920 --> 00:03:16.439 And about fifteen minutes went by and I'm like, wow, she is really going after that thing. 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:18.760 I should probably go take a look. 00:03:19.640 --> 00:03:25.160 So I get to the window, I open it up, and it's a hornet. 00:03:25.160 --> 00:03:26.120 It's a hornet. 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:27.880 Hornet in the house. 00:03:28.440 --> 00:03:38.360 So I go grab uh uh an appropriately whippy yet solid shoe, smack the hell out of it, and and Hornet's dead. 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:40.600 Uh, don't think anything of it. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:45.560 About twenty minutes later, it happens again. 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:51.640 By the time I've killed six hornets in the house. 00:03:51.640 --> 00:03:52.120 Uh-oh. 00:03:53.900 --> 00:03:58.140 I begin to think we have a hornet problem. 00:03:59.740 --> 00:04:01.500 Sure enough, uh 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:10.200 So these windows in particular are on either side of a gas fireplace. 00:04:10.200 --> 00:04:15.239 Uh so I know I walk outside and sure as shit 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:26.320 The little the little part of the house that juts out because of the fireplace, in the top corner, one of the corners, there's just a shit ton of hornets. 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:26.960 Uh 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:33.080 You know, they're they're obviously making a nest in the in part of my house. 00:04:33.960 --> 00:04:37.000 And that's not a good place for them to be. 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:37.320 So 00:04:39.699 --> 00:04:46.500 You know, wow, we kind of think, well, like, you know, we can go to the store and we can buy, you know, 00:04:47.100 --> 00:04:52.380 Hornet spray that's you know, that you can shoot from like up to like twenty-two feet. 00:04:52.380 --> 00:04:53.260 It's amazing shit. 00:04:53.260 --> 00:04:55.020 Oh yeah, no, it's it's really good. 00:04:55.020 --> 00:04:55.340 Yeah. 00:04:55.340 --> 00:04:55.740 Uh-huh. 00:04:55.780 --> 00:04:57.940 So and we and we we talked about that. 00:04:57.940 --> 00:05:07.860 Uh and my s my son uh happened to be home that weekend and he brought up the thing the concern of well they're already getting into the house somehow. 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:15.680 If you spray them and piss them off, are they just gonna swarm into the house? 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.400 Which is a legitimate concern. 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:19.040 Uh 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:24.640 Meanwhile, your cats have their Vietnam helmets on and they're ready, they're ready to fight. 00:05:24.640 --> 00:05:25.200 Yeah, yeah. 00:05:25.200 --> 00:05:29.040 And then, you know, you start doing some Googling and generally, you know, like 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:37.560 It's not good to be stung by a hornet, and it's really not bad and really not good for if a cat gets stung after they swallow said hornet. 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:42.280 Uh whether it's in their mouth or their esophagus, they can swell, it could be a whole big thing. 00:05:42.139 --> 00:05:47.100 So we're trying to be diligent in killing the wasps as as we detect them. 00:05:47.100 --> 00:05:51.900 So we just decided, or I decided, that you know what, scrit. 00:05:52.220 --> 00:05:54.699 What we can deal with it for the weekend. 00:05:54.699 --> 00:05:57.020 We can kill hornets. 00:05:57.020 --> 00:06:01.180 And on Monday, I will call a professional. 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:05.320 So that is what I did. 00:06:05.320 --> 00:06:11.000 Uh there is a local pest removal company uh in Grove City that did 00:06:11.620 --> 00:06:18.180 Uh that that not all of them do stinging insects, as I was learning, I was doing my research, which makes sense, right? 00:06:18.180 --> 00:06:20.900 You have to have special equipment, whatever. 00:06:20.860 --> 00:06:27.740 Uh so I called and this very nice lady is like, oh no, we can't have hornets, and uh we can get someone out uh tomorrow morning. 00:06:27.740 --> 00:06:29.820 So they came on Tuesday morning. 00:06:29.820 --> 00:06:30.460 Uh 00:06:31.599 --> 00:06:35.440 It cost $250 to remove hornets from my house, but it's fine. 00:06:35.840 --> 00:06:38.879 I think all in all that's a that's a good uh good bet. 00:06:38.879 --> 00:06:43.680 So the the guy comes and he's like, Yeah, we can take care of that for ya. 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:44.159 Uh 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:49.919 He's like, well, they they you know, it's a at this point it's probably not worth putting a hole in your house. 00:06:49.919 --> 00:06:52.160 They just started making their nest. 00:06:52.160 --> 00:06:57.600 Uh, you know, these hornets do this in the winter, they will find a place, they will make a small nest 00:06:57.840 --> 00:07:00.560 jam it with full food and eggs. 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:04.320 So this would be the next generation of hornets next spring. 00:07:04.320 --> 00:07:10.320 He's like, but what we can do is like basically he just went to town on that area. 00:07:10.420 --> 00:07:15.380 He sprayed some spray after he put on his his you know be bee fighting suit. 00:07:15.380 --> 00:07:15.780 Oh yeah. 00:07:16.820 --> 00:07:17.620 Uh-huh. 00:07:17.620 --> 00:07:19.060 Modern day night. 00:07:18.960 --> 00:07:19.520 Yep, yep. 00:07:19.520 --> 00:07:25.680 And then all this powder stuff he like basically shot this powder into the corner of my house. 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:28.879 And he's like, okay, so what's gonna happen is uh 00:07:29.340 --> 00:07:34.300 For about one to two hours, them hornets are going to be pissed. 00:07:35.420 --> 00:07:40.220 They're gonna be buzzing around, they're gonna be trying to figure out as they, you know, they go through 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:46.960 Through and everybody in their hive is diving, dying, and they're tracking in this poison, and it's killing all the eggs. 00:07:46.960 --> 00:07:48.640 They're gonna be absolutely pissed. 00:07:48.640 --> 00:07:54.240 And after about a couple hours, you may see some hornets just kind of flying around, and then uh 00:07:54.660 --> 00:07:57.460 Because by by like the end of the day, they'll be gone. 00:07:57.460 --> 00:08:04.340 He goes, give it a week, and then go up there, spray some like sealing foam in there to seal it off, and you'll be good at good as new. 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:08.400 And sure as shit, the that exactly what happened is what happened. 00:08:08.400 --> 00:08:11.600 Those those hornets were pissed. 00:08:12.440 --> 00:08:27.160 We kind of have like in uh in part of our landscaping we have like this little mini willow tree and the hornets seemed to decide that that was going to be where they're gonna stage their next uh their their next plans was in this willow tree. 00:08:27.140 --> 00:08:31.940 But that attracted an army of sparrows. 00:08:31.940 --> 00:08:33.539 Oh. 00:08:33.539 --> 00:08:38.900 And it was feeding frenzy time for them sparrows as they were dive-bombing around. 00:08:38.500 --> 00:08:40.900 Uh I watched a sparrow catch a hornet out of midair. 00:08:40.900 --> 00:08:42.659 It was pretty spectacular. 00:08:42.659 --> 00:08:46.820 Uh and now I don't have any more hornets. 00:08:46.820 --> 00:08:47.860 Huh. 00:08:47.839 --> 00:08:49.120 Hornies are dead. 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:53.839 Well, so love first of all, love that story. 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:56.800 Because fuck those fuck those angry skybugs. 00:08:56.800 --> 00:08:58.240 Yes, I don't like them one bit. 00:08:58.240 --> 00:08:59.120 Like bees. 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:00.480 Bees are okay. 00:09:00.540 --> 00:09:08.540 Uh and there there are actually some so we had a similar issue on our front porch that I caught as it was starting to get bad. 00:09:08.540 --> 00:09:10.700 So have you ever heard of a mud dauber? 00:09:10.980 --> 00:09:12.100 Yes, yeah. 00:09:12.100 --> 00:09:12.500 Yeah. 00:09:12.500 --> 00:09:20.420 So basically that's that's that's a some kind of species of hornet that basically just puts mud in a corner and that's where they make their nests. 00:09:20.520 --> 00:09:23.400 Uh I freaked the fuck out thinking that it was termites. 00:09:23.400 --> 00:09:24.360 It wasn't termites. 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:33.320 Um it was it was it was that and I had to like get up there and like get all the mud off of there and they flew around and were angry, but they never attacked me. 00:09:33.560 --> 00:09:35.480 But we had a similar thing. 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:38.280 Now, love that story for you. 00:09:38.680 --> 00:09:40.040 Glad you got a happy ending. 00:09:40.040 --> 00:09:43.640 But uh where's all the where's all the carcasses? 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:53.360 Uh so so but it basically what he was saying is so and most of them like fled the hive as it was dying. 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.480 Like he basically said like hey don't even go at it for a couple of days. 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:08.960 Like you goes at this time of year the nests are again like they make an extremely small nest, just cram it full of food, lay eggs, and then die. 00:10:08.880 --> 00:10:10.160 It's gonna be the second one. 00:10:10.160 --> 00:10:12.880 He's like, it's not worth like at this point. 00:10:12.880 --> 00:10:18.480 Like if it would have been like a couple of weeks, he said we may have to like, you know, pull off the siding and and see what we can get. 00:10:19.040 --> 00:10:20.160 It's gonna be a really small nest. 00:10:20.160 --> 00:10:21.840 He's like, don't worry about it. 00:10:21.560 --> 00:10:24.040 Because everything that this stuff kills all the eggs. 00:10:24.040 --> 00:10:29.400 He just said, hey, and generally speaking, hornets don't make nests twice in the same spot ever. 00:10:29.640 --> 00:10:30.360 Uh huh. 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:31.400 Which is interesting. 00:10:31.880 --> 00:10:36.520 But he said just like give it a week just to be sure and then get up there in the ladder and just seal it off. 00:10:36.520 --> 00:10:37.560 And he goes, you'll be fine. 00:10:37.560 --> 00:10:39.880 Like the nest isn't gonna hurt anything. 00:10:39.880 --> 00:10:42.520 So that's my plan. 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:44.480 So yeah. 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:49.120 So I may have like hundreds of Hornet carcasses in in my walls, but you know what? 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:49.600 That's fine. 00:10:49.600 --> 00:10:51.680 There's probably worse things in my walls that I don't know about. 00:10:51.680 --> 00:10:54.880 So I mean free insulation if you really want to 00:10:55.580 --> 00:10:55.740 Yeah. 00:10:55.820 --> 00:10:57.260 Put a finer point on it. 00:10:57.340 --> 00:10:59.420 So yeah, yeah. 00:10:59.420 --> 00:11:01.900 Uh seems like pretty reasonable service. 00:11:01.900 --> 00:11:06.860 I mean, we have we have Oracon that we pay for month over month. 00:11:06.860 --> 00:11:07.660 And uh 00:11:08.140 --> 00:11:11.420 You know, listen, I don't have a ton of bugs on the inside. 00:11:11.420 --> 00:11:12.940 Uh spiders, yeah. 00:11:12.940 --> 00:11:15.980 I mean, it's that time of year, like you said, where stuff's coming inside. 00:11:15.980 --> 00:11:21.900 And there's basically two two times during the year where we have a lot of bugs in the house. 00:11:21.640 --> 00:11:26.120 The first one is in the spring when the ants start to emerge. 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:31.080 Uh so we'll have some ants that work their way into the house every s every spring. 00:11:31.339 --> 00:11:35.899 And, you know, we either put down traps or if I catch 'em early enough, I'll spray. 00:11:35.899 --> 00:11:40.540 If it if it's really bad, Orkin will come and they will put that like 00:11:41.380 --> 00:11:44.500 gel a few places that they have to like carry back to their nest. 00:11:44.500 --> 00:11:52.660 So like you yeah so what happens is you still see ants for a few days and then you start seeing dead ants for about a week and then not dead. 00:11:52.660 --> 00:11:53.220 Yeah 00:11:53.560 --> 00:11:54.920 Oh, this is the best part of the stor. 00:11:54.920 --> 00:11:57.080 I read that the best part of the story, Drew. 00:11:57.080 --> 00:11:57.400 Okay. 00:11:57.800 --> 00:11:59.560 I thought it was the best part of the story. 00:11:59.560 --> 00:12:01.800 So usually so you know 00:12:01.959 --> 00:12:06.279 The guy, he's gonna go put on his suit, he does his thing, is like, hey, I'm gonna leave the front door unlocked. 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:07.959 I work from home, I'll just be in the living room. 00:12:07.959 --> 00:12:10.200 If you need anything, whatever, just just just come on. 00:12:10.200 --> 00:12:11.399 You don't have to knock, just come in. 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:12.920 I'm expecting you. 00:12:12.920 --> 00:12:21.880 So most of the time when when you hire somebody to do work, they will generally introduce themselves, talk about what they're going to do. 00:12:22.380 --> 00:12:27.580 Do the thing, and then come back and say, hey, I did the thing, everything should be good. 00:12:27.580 --> 00:12:28.700 Goodbye. 00:12:28.700 --> 00:12:29.180 Yeah. 00:12:30.620 --> 00:12:34.620 This dude introduced himself, did the thing. 00:12:34.820 --> 00:12:36.820 Just got in his truck and drove away. 00:12:36.820 --> 00:12:39.620 Yeah, classic classic Midwest exit, right? 00:12:39.620 --> 00:12:40.580 Just fucking I'm out. 00:12:40.580 --> 00:12:40.900 Yeah. 00:12:40.900 --> 00:12:41.140 Yeah. 00:12:41.140 --> 00:12:44.820 I did see him like I watched him like he took everything took everything off. 00:12:44.820 --> 00:12:45.860 He got in his truck. 00:12:45.860 --> 00:12:49.140 He did like pull out and sit in the street and he watched 00:12:49.339 --> 00:12:52.139 Like he must have been like looking because I could see him looking. 00:12:52.139 --> 00:12:54.459 I can see him on the like on the doorbell camera. 00:12:54.459 --> 00:12:56.620 He must have been watching his handiwork for a while. 00:12:56.620 --> 00:12:57.180 I thought 00:12:57.280 --> 00:13:00.320 Yep, I done fucked them hordins up good. 00:13:01.520 --> 00:13:04.400 He's probably the kind of guy where like bugs are his friends, right? 00:13:04.400 --> 00:13:07.120 He has more bug friends than human friends. 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:07.680 Yeah. 00:13:07.680 --> 00:13:08.240 Yep. 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:09.040 Yeah. 00:13:09.040 --> 00:13:09.440 Yeah. 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:11.360 But um yeah. 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:18.080 So the other part the and and the other part of the year that's kind of rough is when it's like really, really rainy. 00:13:18.140 --> 00:13:22.220 So we have these little tiny millipedes that kind of creep through our foundation. 00:13:24.300 --> 00:13:30.300 Well they I didn't think they were millipedes, but they're they're just like these tiny little worms and I never see them alive. 00:13:30.300 --> 00:13:31.420 That's the weirdest thing. 00:13:31.420 --> 00:13:32.780 I never see them alive. 00:13:33.020 --> 00:13:39.420 They're always curled up dead near my computers and my UPSs in my unfinished basement. 00:13:39.420 --> 00:13:42.220 They like crawl to where it's warm and then they die. 00:13:42.819 --> 00:13:44.819 And like spiders get the rest. 00:13:45.139 --> 00:13:46.819 So that's with really the only two times. 00:13:46.819 --> 00:13:49.620 Now one thing I really like about having Orkin is 00:13:50.400 --> 00:13:57.280 They go around the hole outside of your house, they knock down cobwebs, they look for anthills, they they do a really good job outside. 00:13:57.280 --> 00:13:57.600 Um 00:13:57.959 --> 00:14:02.680 The one thing that they didn't catch is I had some bagworms on some of my trees near my deck. 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:06.040 Uh that they didn't it they yeah, they fucking destroyed it. 00:14:06.040 --> 00:14:10.440 I I looked out there one day and I was like, man, that tree's way browner than I remember. 00:14:10.140 --> 00:14:13.900 And I went out and looked at it and sure enough there were bagworms hanging on it. 00:14:13.900 --> 00:14:15.020 I'm like, fuck. 00:14:15.020 --> 00:14:18.380 Because we I'm very familiar with what a bagworm can do to trees. 00:14:18.380 --> 00:14:24.860 They were really bad where I grew up, uh, one summer where, you know, everybody lost a whole bunch of trees in their yard. 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:32.960 So I had to I had to have an arbor c an arborist come out and treat the ones that were still alive that were starting to get infested. 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:33.120 And 00:14:33.640 --> 00:14:35.480 Some of them are like half eaten. 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:37.960 Uh he said that they should recover, but yeah, I lost. 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:38.760 I lost a few of them. 00:14:38.760 --> 00:14:43.160 And it was they were really nice arborviteis too that really provided a a a degree of 00:14:43.520 --> 00:14:44.560 shade to the deck. 00:14:44.560 --> 00:14:46.640 So that was that was kind of shitty. 00:14:46.640 --> 00:14:47.040 Okay. 00:14:47.040 --> 00:14:49.040 Yeah, that's too bad. 00:14:49.040 --> 00:14:49.680 Huh. 00:14:49.680 --> 00:14:50.240 Okay. 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:51.360 So this next thing. 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:54.320 Paul, we are keyboard snobs, are we not? 00:14:54.339 --> 00:15:00.100 Uh but y I've I know people who are snobbier, but yeah, I like a good mechanical keyboard. 00:15:00.100 --> 00:15:00.899 Yeah, yeah. 00:15:00.899 --> 00:15:01.220 Okay. 00:15:01.220 --> 00:15:02.420 Yeah, I think that's fair. 00:15:02.420 --> 00:15:02.660 Like 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:12.600 If you put a $3,000 keyboard in front of me and like a $200 keyboard in front of me, I probably couldn't tell the difference, but I can sure as shit tell the difference between like a $20 keyboard and a $200 keyboard. 00:15:12.680 --> 00:15:13.560 Oh, yeah, $100. 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:14.839 $100. 00:15:15.319 --> 00:15:18.440 So this crossed my inbox this week. 00:15:18.440 --> 00:15:22.600 So our good friends at Keychron, which I think we both are pretty positive on. 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:26.759 Yeah, I'm using a keyboard a Keychron keyboard right now. 00:15:26.300 --> 00:15:27.660 Yeah, I have multiple. 00:15:27.660 --> 00:15:27.980 Yeah. 00:15:27.980 --> 00:15:32.779 Yeah, I have I have one within arm's reach right now that I use for my Mac Mini. 00:15:32.779 --> 00:15:35.899 Um, and then I I have owned a couple other keychrons before. 00:15:35.899 --> 00:15:36.220 So 00:15:36.459 --> 00:15:47.820 Keychron, and we'll put a link to this in the show notes, uh, is currently doing a Kickstarter, which is overly funded at this point, so it looks like it's gonna go. 00:15:48.140 --> 00:15:53.420 It is the Keychron Q16 HE8K. 00:15:53.420 --> 00:16:01.580 Now there's a lot in there, but the headline is World's First Fully Ceramic Keyboard 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:06.480 Yes, it's made entirely of ceramic. 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:09.520 The base and the keycaps are all ceramic. 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:10.720 Yep. 00:16:10.820 --> 00:16:11.780 Yep. 00:16:11.780 --> 00:16:22.500 So the first thing I noticed about this Drew, especially like in the vid like in the videos around this, it's so fucking shiny. 00:16:22.500 --> 00:16:23.940 It really is. 00:16:24.520 --> 00:16:25.480 It really is. 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.480 And and I'll tell you something. 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:32.040 That actually is kind of a benefit because human filth 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:33.440 builds up on stuff. 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:36.240 Oh yeah, keyboards are gross. 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:44.400 And things become discolored and like our our oil kind of seeps into plastic and over time keyboards kind of get shiny. 00:16:44.540 --> 00:16:50.300 I wonder if these surfaces are a little more filth resistant, even though it's shiny. 00:16:50.300 --> 00:16:51.340 Hmm, maybe. 00:16:51.340 --> 00:16:51.980 I don't know. 00:16:51.980 --> 00:16:53.820 I haven't I haven't read anything about that. 00:16:53.820 --> 00:16:55.100 That's just a hunch. 00:16:55.100 --> 00:16:58.140 But yes, it is very shiny. 00:16:58.040 --> 00:16:58.680 Yes. 00:16:58.680 --> 00:17:03.640 Because it's ceramic and apparently it's heavy. 00:17:03.640 --> 00:17:05.800 I would imagine, yeah, yeah. 00:17:05.800 --> 00:17:08.439 Now my my my my 00:17:09.040 --> 00:17:12.800 Current keyboard that's hooked up to my PC, which I'm talking on right now. 00:17:12.800 --> 00:17:18.080 It has a I guess it's a steel base, and it's got some heft. 00:17:18.080 --> 00:17:18.560 Yeah. 00:17:18.560 --> 00:17:20.320 I think this might be even heavier. 00:17:20.339 --> 00:17:22.900 I would imagine it is much heavier. 00:17:22.900 --> 00:17:32.820 I wonder if is there's got there's gotta be like a speck or something that tells you how much it weighs. 00:17:32.820 --> 00:17:33.460 Uh 00:17:35.280 --> 00:17:37.120 How much switches do you use? 00:17:37.120 --> 00:17:42.560 So also, if you didn't notice, the H E in the name stands for Hall Effect. 00:17:42.560 --> 00:17:44.400 So they're magnetic switches. 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:45.040 Yes. 00:17:45.040 --> 00:17:46.400 Well, hold on. 00:17:46.540 --> 00:17:47.580 Hold on. 00:17:47.580 --> 00:17:48.140 Okay. 00:17:48.140 --> 00:17:51.980 So there's a chart on this page, and this is what I wanted to ask you about. 00:17:51.980 --> 00:17:58.780 So there's a chart about it's in the top third of the Kickstarter description. 00:17:58.860 --> 00:18:02.460 And it says, why the Q16 HE8 key stands apart? 00:18:02.460 --> 00:18:11.419 And it's basically a little, it's a little comparison chart where it's like it's got general magnetic keyboard, it's got general mechanical keyboard, and then it has the new one. 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:13.160 And the very first line is switch type. 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:17.080 Now the general magnetic keyboard says hall effect magnetic. 00:18:17.080 --> 00:18:20.920 The switch type on this says next gen magnetic. 00:18:21.840 --> 00:18:24.160 And then it talks about the certain sensor that it used. 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:27.760 And it is clearly not Hall Effect. 00:18:27.760 --> 00:18:30.640 Which gives you But there are magnetic switches though, right? 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:32.640 They are magnetic switches. 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:33.840 Okay. 00:18:34.080 --> 00:18:41.600 So I was ready to buy this, and I'm sure Hall effect magnetic switches are perfectly cromulant. 00:18:41.600 --> 00:18:45.120 I don't know why they think they need to reinvent a magnetic switch. 00:18:45.120 --> 00:18:45.840 Hmm. 00:18:46.220 --> 00:18:53.420 That's the only thing that makes me nervous because I mean it's $218 to buy this thing. 00:18:53.980 --> 00:18:55.340 Or $219. 00:18:55.340 --> 00:18:57.500 And they'll ship in December. 00:18:58.360 --> 00:19:06.040 So I was very close to ordering this because it definitely looks like something that I would enjoy. 00:19:06.019 --> 00:19:08.980 I don't own a magnetic switch keyboard. 00:19:08.980 --> 00:19:10.100 So this would be my first. 00:19:10.100 --> 00:19:11.700 I don't know if you currently do. 00:19:11.700 --> 00:19:14.019 I do not, but I am I am interested. 00:19:14.019 --> 00:19:16.580 But I have I have become. 00:19:16.540 --> 00:19:21.420 See, I th this keyboard was not even on the table for me to consider. 00:19:21.420 --> 00:19:23.100 Really? 00:19:23.100 --> 00:19:24.380 And that is because 00:19:25.019 --> 00:19:29.179 I have grown to love Alice layout keyboards. 00:19:29.179 --> 00:19:29.820 Oh, that's right. 00:19:29.820 --> 00:19:30.220 That's right. 00:19:30.220 --> 00:19:31.179 You're a weirdo. 00:19:32.700 --> 00:19:33.179 Yes. 00:19:33.179 --> 00:19:34.380 And they don't they don't make that. 00:19:34.380 --> 00:19:36.220 They don't make a ceramic version of that yet. 00:19:36.220 --> 00:19:38.220 If they did, I'd probably order it. 00:19:38.220 --> 00:19:39.179 Okay. 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:46.680 Uh I I will say that uh having watched the videos and looked at the pictures, I really like the look of that gray. 00:19:48.040 --> 00:19:48.920 Yeah, yeah. 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:50.920 You should buy you should buy one, Drew. 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:52.680 I should buy one. 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:53.400 You should buy one. 00:19:54.200 --> 00:19:55.960 You should buy one. 00:19:56.600 --> 00:19:57.960 For the show. 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:05.000 Uh a key a keychron silicone palm rest and a keychron coiled aviator cable. 00:20:04.760 --> 00:20:08.039 So with $257, there's a pretty nice bundle. 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:14.360 Have you used the the uh the Keychron launcher webpage recently? 00:20:14.360 --> 00:20:15.000 No. 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:17.799 Okay, so I don't know if you know about this site or not. 00:20:17.820 --> 00:20:20.460 Uh so give me a link, give me a link, give me a link, give me link. 00:20:20.860 --> 00:20:21.420 Okay. 00:20:21.420 --> 00:20:25.740 So they used to use uh well I guess they still do. 00:20:25.740 --> 00:20:32.140 They use via as kind of their firmware for uh hold on. 00:20:32.019 --> 00:20:33.700 Link coming in. 00:20:33.700 --> 00:20:37.059 Uh I guess you don't need that extra thing. 00:20:37.059 --> 00:20:41.139 They used the so they still use Via, but what they did is they kind of forked it 00:20:41.360 --> 00:20:43.360 And they made their own web page. 00:20:43.360 --> 00:20:47.039 So you have to use like something like Chrome that supports USB devices. 00:20:47.360 --> 00:20:51.519 As long as your KeyCron keyboard is plugged in, you can you can go to it. 00:20:51.519 --> 00:20:54.799 And it's a great website for uh 00:20:55.460 --> 00:21:00.420 Like you can set up macros, you can set up what the different layers do, you can remap keys. 00:21:00.420 --> 00:21:04.980 And for all your RGB nerds, they they've just launched a feature. 00:21:05.140 --> 00:21:10.900 where now you can get down to per key RGB light control. 00:21:10.900 --> 00:21:18.740 So they've been really improving this uh this website if you N obviously you have to have a keycron keyboard and I think it has to be attached by a cable 00:21:19.019 --> 00:21:26.620 But uh uh it does a really good job of uh you can update your firmware from there, you can test keys. 00:21:27.019 --> 00:21:29.659 Any setting that you can control, it's a great website. 00:21:29.659 --> 00:21:37.820 So I mean Keychron keeps investing in keyboards, so I think you could do a lot worse than back in this and uh Oh no, a hundred percent. 00:21:37.820 --> 00:21:40.779 Like this isn't like some fly by night um 00:21:41.540 --> 00:21:42.580 You know, thing. 00:21:42.580 --> 00:21:42.900 Yeah. 00:21:42.900 --> 00:21:45.460 Uh this doesn't have any LED, which isn't a deal breaker for me. 00:21:46.420 --> 00:21:47.140 Oh no, wait a minute. 00:21:47.140 --> 00:21:49.300