Tech, AI, and the Future: A Deep-Dive into Natural Disasters and iPhone Capabilities

Ever wondered how natural disasters can wreak havoc on your tech? Join us as we unravel this intrigue with a deep dive into the impact of the Hawaiian fires on our gadgets. We also let you in on mysterious phone ticking noises, and more excitingly, on the marvel that is the iPhone 14 and its life-saving SOS satellite call feature. As if that's not enough, we practically demonstrate how to use this tool. This is your chance to learn, get entertained, and stay abreast with the latest in tech, especially how it's affected by natural phenomena.

Our conversation takes an unexpected turn when we unmask the interplay of technology, work-from-home efficiency, and artificial intelligence. We challenge you to confront the complacency that comes with working from home and emphasise the importance of setting goals in this new setup. We further expose the insidious threat of keyloggers and how antivirus software can shield your devices. The climax of it all is our provocative discussion about AI taking over the world, beginning with writing your essays! 

We also bring in some practical life hacks. For instance, are you stuck with passport renewal? We explain how a congressman can expedite this process for you. Listen to Adam's personal journey with online passport renewal, and how his congressman's office got him his passport in a week. We wind up the episode with a tribute to the first transatlantic telegraph cable, an amazing technological leap that shows just how far we've come. Brace yourself for an enlightening and entertaining odyssey through tech's past, present, and future.

Transcript

Adam: 0:00

This week on 5acreTech Keylogger AI and Get your Passport Fast. This episode of 5acreTech was released on August 14, 2023. I'm Ronnie Tofty, I'm Adam Oghan I think we did that backwards and I'm your host and Ronnie is your host, or we're the co-host Hostess I'm not sure what we are this is our seventh episode of our podcast. And for Ding Dongs I do like them. I like the ones that are the vanilla ones.

Ronnie: 0:55

Do you ever have the raspberry?

Adam: 0:57

No, I don't think.

Ronnie: 0:59

Twinkie with the raspberry. I like the.

Adam: 1:01

Twinkie with the vanilla frosting ones. But since I went out of business, back into business, they're not the same.

Ronnie: 1:11

They were really, really good. The Ding Dongs were.

Adam: 1:16

Never could get into those Really. Yeah, never for Ding Dongs.

Ronnie: 1:19

I don't know what that means but yeah, neither, but there you go.

Adam: 1:24

Anyways on our podcast today.

Ronnie: 1:26

Did you see the fires in Hawaii?

Adam: 1:29

Yeah, that is really bad.

Ronnie: 1:33

My wife said there's a fire in Hawaii. I didn't. It's too wet there. It's too wet there to have a bad fire. Right, I'm sure it's just a tiny brush fire that they're freaking out about. No, no, that's not the case.

Adam: 1:51

Yeah, and talking about fires and tech. Since this show is about tech this is the first time we're putting it on YouTube In my ear I'll change the subject. I've been hearing a ticking sound and it just occurred to me that while you were talking, it was your phone laying up against.

Ronnie: 2:11

Oh.

Adam: 2:12

The mixer, so I don't know if you guys will hear it or not.

Ronnie: 2:15

That's why you moved it, but we ended it so. I couldn't hear it. Because I can't hear it, I can barely move it away. Oh really, yeah, it's interfering, oh.

Adam: 2:26

So we learn something new about tech every day. There we go. I have to tell you something about that. That is actually really what's that? And then we'll get back to the Hawaii thing, talking about tech and ticking sounds and going to the hospital thinking you're having a heart attack, and then they do an EKG on you and this is years ago. This happened to me. They do an EKG on me and go something's wrong and I'm like, well, what is it? And the guy shows me the graph on the EKG machine. I'm like I take my pager off yeah, pager. And I throw it across the room. I said, ok, try it now. I mean not like I threw it over hand.

Ronnie: 3:16

Right right.

Adam: 3:17

Toss it across the room away from the machine, he goes oh, that's much better. So it was sending off a signal, causing an issue because it was on my belt and they had something connected to me right here and a probe or something.

Ronnie: 3:31

And how did you know? I mean, how did you know I knew?

Adam: 3:35

that because I heard the ticking sound, as we just heard here on other pieces of equipment a long time ago. It may have been a karaoke machine, May have been something I had a microphone next to, but I actually heard that before. When I saw it on the graph, I was able to troubleshoot and go. You know this is it Unbelievable?

Ronnie: 3:54

But anyways, I didn't realize they made a tiny noise.

Adam: 3:57

Yeah, each phone is different, like this one. I don't think it's making that noise. He has an Android phone and I have an iPhone and it's sitting in the same spot and it's not making a ticking noise at all. So there you go.

Ronnie: 4:14

Kudos to all of them who knew.

Adam: 4:15

Who knew? But back to the fires. Yeah, the fires.

Ronnie: 4:19

I mean, that is probably one of the most beautiful places I've traveled to.

Ronnie: 4:25

I've traveled all over the world, but you haven't Raina, up there is just tropical and beautiful and what you'd imagine. It's very sad, but I was watching, I got a question for you. I was watching the news and this girl kept saying how they actually was a TikTok and she said that she lost signal in certain certain side, one side of the island, the west side of the island. They had lost a lot of their signal and so it was causing problems because she couldn't get in contact with anyone to tell them that she was fine. And then I started thinking about a conversation that you and I had had, which was phones. Can the newer phones your phone can actually make satellite calls?

Adam: 5:12

Yes, it can and it is very cool. I have not used it but I have tested it with the on the iPhone 14, it can make SOS satellite calls back to Apple. Apple has got it set up through I am not sure the satellite company off hand. I know I read about it when it came about and it was really cool to try when it actually came out on the version of iOS that it came out on and actually was up in Alaska and we took a helicopter ride to the top of a glacier and did dog sledding about four or five months ago and I tested the demo there because it was really neat. I wanted to try it but my dad wanted to use it so I sent him a little video. I could pull it up here in just a minute but it was very, very cool on what you can do with it.

Ronnie: 6:14

So is it only SOS? Yeah, pull it video. Is it only SOS If?

Adam: 6:21

you're going to contact your family.

Ronnie: 6:23

In this case, this girl was trying to contact your family.

Adam: 6:26

No, yeah, it's only going to be SOS. Now, whatever you say to them, they will probably forward that on, because there's actually live people at the end of it this is what I'm going to show and I just got the video here. What I'm going to show. I'll just turn it on now. Let's see if it comes up.

Ronnie: 6:43

And I think this is something that most people probably don't realize. They have right.

Adam: 6:46

Yeah, so anybody has an iPhone 14. Basically you're going to press the up arrow or the up sound button and the power button at the same time to activate where you can turn off your phone or go to SOS. So what I'm doing here for this test for my dad was I went outside, I held the phone straight up and down like this and then, as you saw, it move, basically it's trying to acquire a signal. So it's looking for a signal now. Let's hope it's still working. Videos not doesn't seem to be moving.

Ronnie: 7:26

It's looking for a signal.

Adam: 7:27

Now it's still, it's still going, but it the video just kind of stopped working Interesting. Let's try it again.

Ronnie: 7:41

It's moving.

Adam: 7:43

It's moving, but nothing's moving on the screen up there.

Ronnie: 7:46

There it goes.

Adam: 7:47

So basically, I'm getting to the point. We'll go back a little bit more to where it's going to pick up the signal here. So there it is. I'm moving the phone around to get to the right signal, where the satellite's up in the middle, and then it acquires a signal makes a connection.

Adam: 8:07

You just sit there and wait. It may move, because there's several of them going across and now it's sending information back to me and I'm basically saying to it you know, this is awesome to see what kind of response I get back. I'm not sure if they they respond back on this I think it's all automated for the demo but it does get you to the point on how to get there so you can actually go to the settings to test this of your phone type in SOS, go to the SOS area, go to the very bottom and basically what you're going to see is the SOS information come up and shows you how it works. But to actually activate it you're going to press these two buttons and hold it, which would be the same buttons you would use to turn it off. But pretty cool, I'm going to search.

Adam: 9:01

Yeah.

Ronnie: 9:02

My apps and see if it says anything about that, because I looked and it said no the Android. The Samsung S23 Ultra could do it and I pulled up a video and it said you know, push the power button five times in succession and it would pull up the SOS signal. And it just did SOS. So you had to wait a few minutes and it did the same thing. It connected and then it sent a signal out, but he in his demonstration had to cancel it because he didn't want to do that.

Ronnie: 9:39

But so you're saying it, someone will come on the line with you.

Adam: 9:44

Yeah, you'll be texting them online and telling them what's going on from your phone.

Ronnie: 9:49

Wow.

Adam: 9:50

Yeah, so something would have happened or the glacier broke, with all the global warming Right. You know we could have. Could have happened, got to hold somebody, even though they had Starlink on top of that glacier in one of the cabins there and distributing wireless everywhere for everybody, which I thought was really cool, and it was very cool cold up there, so it's twice as cool.

Ronnie: 10:15

It's cool both ways yeah.

Adam: 10:17

Cool In two ways, like you would never believe, yeah, so the basically it's just a really neat tool, basically to help people.

Ronnie: 10:30

Cool. Well, I think this is something that people. So if you're a tech fan and you're listening to this, or you're interested in a little bit of technology and you didn't realize that your phone could do this, you should do the research, because it's an important thing to have in a crisis situation, and test it out. Yeah, use the demo.

Adam: 10:49

Yeah, we're all going to have it for, at least for now, for two years, but you never know with Apple. I think Apple's probably going to go ahead and just give it away with the cost of the phone every time you buy a phone. But we don't know that. So it's. But right now, for two years you get that, that feature.

Ronnie: 11:05

Yeah.

Adam: 11:07

These safety features they put together are pretty cool.

Ronnie: 11:10

And what they'll do is they'll use it as an additional fee. If you'd like to make it so that you can communicate, not just SOS, well, pretty, pretty soon.

Adam: 11:19

Actually, team mobile they're working with team mobile, or team mobile is working with Starlink, to be able to actually connect with you, get connected and you can text people that are in areas where you have no service. So that's the rumor. That's what's been on the news. So Starlink and T-Mobile are working on something. Don't know what that is yet, but we're going to find out. I'm a T-Mobile subscriber, so I think it's going to be pretty cool. It'll be cool to test out. I mean, if, for example, we had the hurricane here, we had no service for several days. One of the things I got to make sure this never happens again with Starlink, just because if we leave and come back, we have communications.

Ronnie: 12:06

Oh, I thought you were going to say ham radio, oh yeah, we also have the ham radio.

Adam: 12:10

So anybody that would like to prep in advance, you can get a ham radio or get several ham radios. You can buy them on Amazon between $30 to $60. Get your license in an emergency situation that's overwritten. You don't have to, from what I understand. I could be wrong on that, but I could believe I read that correctly. It's not a must, but that's one of the things you have to do is really, you should get your license because it would help you to learn and get part of a ham club and you'd be able to connect to somebody's tower with a walkie-talkie and a repeater tower that's up very high will get good signal, and then you can help several people, contact other people or let people know what's going on.

Adam: 12:56

So always a good tool to have.

Ronnie: 12:59

Absolutely so factoid.

Adam: 13:07

All right, I've been waiting. I look forward to this part.

Ronnie: 13:10

Why is it a mouse called a mouse?

Adam: 13:15

I think, as long as I've been in this, I would have known, but I don't.

Ronnie: 13:19

Because of the long cord coming off the end. Of course, the new ones are all Bluetooth and have no cord but, originally they did, and they resembled a mouse being a licensed pest control technician. That would be incorrect, because a rat is the one that has the long tail. A mouse's tail is not as long. So, they got it wrong, but it was still a good shot. A mouse.

Adam: 13:53

Yeah, and it's very good to use, because that's how everything you see right over there is coming up on the screen by using a mouse, so very cool.

Ronnie: 14:03

Very cool factoid.

Adam: 14:04

Very awesome tool. They've made lots of different kinds. Remember the trackball? Did you ever have one of those? I never did. I did, man. I loved it and then I realized, when I went back to a mouse, I was not efficient after all. It just was not efficient. It was very slow.

Ronnie: 14:22

I had the little thing in the middle of my laptop with it. It was like a little button and you kind of wiggled it.

Adam: 14:29

Yeah, I remember those Thinkpads.

Ronnie: 14:32

IBM Thinkpads they had it.

Adam: 14:35

Yeah, that's really cool.

Ronnie: 14:39

Alright, what's our first subject? First subject oh.

Adam: 14:44

Yeah, keylogger.

Ronnie: 14:47

So that girl was all over the news.

Adam: 14:50

I didn't see that story. You were telling me about it. That's when it started this.

Ronnie: 14:53

Yeah, I did, because I don't know anything about it and apparently they have a way to. This girl got fired from her job because she was working from home, and this is. I think working from home is great. I have a lot of friends who work from home and they are efficient and they do a good job of it. However, there are people who will take advantage of it, and she was not working as much as she said she was working and they started monitoring her somehow. How did they do that? How did they monitor her, do you?

Adam: 15:28

know. Well, it sounds like they probably used a keylogger at that point to monitor what she was typing and what she was doing. I mean, that's what they said. Yeah, so that's one way to do it.

Ronnie: 15:42

Keystroke is what they said. They called it keystroke technology or keystroke something.

Adam: 15:46

I'm not that I'm not sure about, but a keylogger is basically something that they can install on the computer. They can install a USB drive to the back of the computer and basically see everything that's happening and everything that they're typing. So if they're not, there may be another technology that they're putting in there to basically monitor. I bet you there is to monitor how much the employee is actually doing on the computer. So if they say, hey, this employee needs to spend of eight hours, three hours on the computer a day, they're going to be able to tell that. So I have not looked into that portion of the technology, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was there, Because people, you know they want their employees to be efficient and so a lot of what's happening right now is a lot of companies are saying, hey, you need to come back to work. You know not work from home anymore, and it could be because people are being complacent. People wanted their jobs during COVID.

Ronnie: 16:47

Yeah, well, I believe that there are a lot of jobs out there that people can do fast. I know my wife for a while worked in an office setting and she said that she could. She sat there most of the day waiting for something to do, yeah, and that they would give her stuff to do and she would do it fast and get it inefficient and get it done. The other girl would sit there all day with a similar amount of work and it would take her all day to get it done.

Adam: 17:17

Yeah, and so my wife was so.

Ronnie: 17:19

If someone handed you a stack of work to do, however, whatever that looks like at home, and you got it done fast, I don't have a problem with someone taking a break.

Adam: 17:36

Yeah, no, there's nothing wrong with that. So.

Ronnie: 17:38

I think that's what. I don't know what was happening with this lady. It's a bummer. She lost her job, but they were tracking her. They said that there was a couple of four. They said how many days, whether it was 30 or 60 days and four of those days she didn't come to work at all. They said that's crazy.

Adam: 17:58

Yeah, I could see that happening. People get complacent, unless you're an independent agent of some sort and you're doing the work yourself. You're not working for a company, you're just working off of commissions. But hey, that's your business. You're only gonna make as much as you put into it. But then there's also other companies or government, government facilities that require they need at least two people for a job and they may only have one or two people come in that office a day, but if somebody's sick, how are they gonna know what to do to help them? So it's those jobs. People need to obviously be easy on those people, because they're there for a reason. They have to know what to do when that person comes in for that. They need to get something with their property, who knows? So that's quite a bit different. But yeah, it's interesting. But you could. Keyloggers are a good and bad tool, because you don't want that on your computer. If you keep good antivirus or internet security, you're not gonna have an issue, right?

Ronnie: 19:09

So yeah, Hopefully she gets a job back and she takes it more seriously. I don't know I don't wanna call her. I mean, I'm sure she was taking her job serious, but it may have been simply the fact that she was more efficient than what they expected. Yeah, I don't know, or maybe they were questioning her what she was getting done already. Maybe that started it right. She wasn't getting very much attention like what is she doing at home.

Adam: 19:38

Right.

Ronnie: 19:39

Who knows?

Adam: 19:41

Probably watching Netflix. Well, I mean, I hope not, but that's what I would be doing right now if we weren't doing those, because I'm missing all my shows Netflix Not necessarily Netflix, but I have no clue. So next thing, our topic is AI. Do you know anything about AI?

Ronnie: 20:03

Not really other than it's taking over the world.

Adam: 20:05

It is taking over the world and actually we are not here. We are AI.

Ronnie: 20:12

We are AI this whole show is AI.

Adam: 20:16

Just by chance it built itself.

Ronnie: 20:18

We just said make a podcast, yeah.

Adam: 20:21

We said we told Bing to make a podcast. Make two characters, one name Ronnie, one name Adam. Put all this stuff in this room and, by the way, if you can see over there, please don't feed this as much. And I, you know I programmed that in there. But actually, to be truthful, it's as easy as saying that, but not to this point where it will change the video. But I've been using it to write little stories for my grandkids.

Ronnie: 20:52

Well, it's funny because I said I don't know anything about it, but I did learn recently that a lot of students are writing their essays and doing some of these papers with AI. Yeah, and it got. It's getting so bad that the teachers are defending these essays with AI because they can't tell the difference.

Adam: 21:14

Yeah.

Ronnie: 21:16

But they're developing AI to catch the AI. I don't know that happens.

Adam: 21:21

I don't know how that works, but the podcast that we use streamed Buzzfeed, no Buzzsprout.

Ronnie: 21:35

Buzzsprout. Use Buzzsprout. Buzzfeed's news.

Adam: 21:38

Yeah, that's news. So Buzzsprout has an AI feature that actually goes in and does a whole write up, gives you several write ups of what you can say, what you can add, what title for the podcast. I basically use Bing for my oh, what do you call it For my bio, told it to write a bio and it wrote a bio and I added very little of it and it sounded great. I mean, it's exactly what I wanted it to say. I didn't have to put it in my own words. So it's making a lost art a lot easier for some people. I need that.

Ronnie: 22:20

I always want to know how to get involved with AI to maybe make a little money.

Adam: 22:26

That I'm not sure Because I knew I don't even know much about it being in the tech world. It's just kind of ignored it until it came out Right.

Ronnie: 22:35

It's been interesting. Well, we all ignored Google too, and that was a mistake.

Adam: 22:39

Yeah, that was.

Ronnie: 22:43

Because we could be sitting here right now in like a place, a place, a place, a place. How?

Adam: 22:48

do you say?

Ronnie: 22:48

that Palatial mansion, but we're not. No. We're sitting in a little, not a little room, but this is a.

Adam: 22:56

this is actually a little room. This is one quarter of the room. Across across right over, there is a K grader, not very far probably.

Ronnie: 23:05

That's why we have to hear.

Adam: 23:07

Four feet, yeah, four feet away. But then we looked at this and said, hey, this would make a good spot for the video podcast. It makes a great spot. Yeah, it's very comfortable. This couch, by the way, I love this couch. This took a while. This office, he basically was just packed with with stuff. Since I'm in the technology business and I'm always buying stuff for clients. It's everywhere. I mean, even some of the stuff is right in front of us right now that I'm working on. You can't see, but I left this part really nice, just to give you an idea. But I walked into Ikea and these couches right here are in the very front. So if you go inside of an Ikea and you sit down on that couch, so you should have a two or three, sometimes four, depending on which one you go to. It is so comfortable, and so that's where I got this from and why it's so comfortable. I love sitting here, so it totally made my office better. That area right over there is where the computer is. I got a.

Adam: 24:11

TV screen across the way it's all home-automated in here. Do it All right, I'm going to have to end this one quick because I'm not sure if we're getting trouble on this one, but how?

Ronnie: 24:32

Make it a cantina.

Adam: 24:34

We don't have it hooked up, so then we'll be able to hear it. We're going to do it next week. Okay, we'll have it hooked up next week.

Ronnie: 24:39

Tune in next week and we're going to make this room the cantina from Star Wars. Yeah, this will be by simple command to our Echo.

Adam: 24:49

It'll be good for home automation, very good. So I don't know if I told you, I don't even know if you noticed it, but I bought a new camera for the property.

Adam: 25:02

Really Is that what this is right here. Yeah, down there, one of us wants to get it, or so I got my sunglasses down there. So this is another real link. I decided to go with this, and I was going to go with another, sullyer version, or LTE version, and I got this one instead. So it's solar panel and it's got AI in it. So I thought it would be a good time to talk about AI. So this I have not even tried yet. We'll talk about it next week, and this is supposed to follow whatever shows up in front of it and get close to it.

Ronnie: 25:36

So if the guy's sleeping in your, if the city worker's sleeping in your driveway, he can follow them around.

Adam: 25:42

Okay, I can actually zoom in on that and report back to me. Hey, this is happening and it will follow anybody who's walking or any vehicle that's driving according to what it says, not doing a review on it. We don't do reviews at this time.

Ronnie: 25:57

But if you're oh go ahead, oh go ahead.

Adam: 26:01

But it's going to be neat to see. So maybe we'll put a little side video on how this works and what it did for us Be interesting. Maybe it'll be our first regular YouTube video.

Ronnie: 26:12

Yeah, sponsor, yeah, could be, that'd be nice, yeah, we'd love to have a sponsor.

Adam: 26:17

Right now we don't have one.

Ronnie: 26:20

Actually, who's our?

Adam: 26:20

sponsor. Oh, we do have a sponsor, we do, yeah, this. Okay, let's stop here, we'll take a break. This, this episode of five acre tech, has been brought to you by sand Sand. Yeah, well, it's all over other property.

Ronnie: 26:38

That's our sponsor.

Adam: 26:39

Yeah, well, I tried.

Ronnie: 26:44

That's our sponsor. That's our sponsor sand.

Adam: 26:47

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Ronnie: 27:00

So I'll get some sand. Someone got in my truck today and they're like oh, looks like someone took this to the beach. I'm like the beach. Oh, I think the entire south Texas is the beach. Yes, it's just sand everywhere.

Adam: 27:13

It's sand everywhere. Yeah, I think Aladdin said get used to it.

Ronnie: 27:18

Yeah.

Adam: 27:19

There you go, or the genie did the genie and Aladdin, yeah, so we're, yeah, we'll hook that camera up and see what it's about. Go and go from there. But I got one last thing. What's that? So this was brought to my attention and we never really talked about this before, before we started the podcast and I, we decided to go to Alaska about four months ago and I Needed to get my passport renew. Why do you need a passport to go to Alaska? Oh, that's a good question. So good, it's because the all of our friends who decided to book booked out of Vancouver, canada.

Adam: 28:05

So we had to go to Vancouver, canada, and leave out of Canada to get to Alaska.

Ronnie: 28:10

I see kind of Alaska. Is the United States correct?

Adam: 28:13

I still think it is. We purchased it. I did not know. They spoke our same language that we purchased it from Russia which I told them that they thought it was pretty funny up there. So we have some friends up there, hello.

Ronnie: 28:23

We being the United States, not me and Adam.

Adam: 28:25

No, yes, we did not purchase last week. We the people, not we the us. Yes, anyways, yeah. So we had to get our passports renewed. I went online. I Decided we'll, we'll try the the new online renewal system that Passport people have. Whoever that department is Think it's the State Department of some sort in there- and my wife got hers.

Adam: 28:55

Yeah, yeah, I think it's in the United States. Okay, I'm not sure. We'll have to figure that out one day, maybe we'll just watch, um, oh well, anyways. So my wife gets her passport in about four or five weeks, a little longer than normal, that's okay. Mine still has not moved. I'm going online, I keep looking. I've called up, got nowhere with the, with the people from the passport department. They just, they just pretty much read a script and there was really no help. I'm sure they were doing their job and they were doing what they were told to do, but they weren't any help at all. So we're about ready to cancel the whole thing.

Adam: 29:36

And you may have seen stories out there and I've seen stories and it was happening, why this was happening. So I decided there's got to be another way to get this passport, because I didn't. You know, I need to make an appointment, but you can't make an appointment until three weeks out or two weeks out To go to the passport facility and I think the one that I was gonna have to go to would be in Houston. So I'm like this is gonna be impossible. I mean, I'm gonna have to take time up, time off, I work for myself, but still trying to find time is hard. You have to go up there. I have to go a day in advance, make an appointment probably not gonna get the appointment in time. We have to leave we were leaving a week before have to be be at the. You know, try to get an appointment at two weeks before, so that only gives us a week, and it was looking like it would only be two or three days shy of two weeks to get an appointment and they wouldn't even give me one until two weeks out. So I searched all over the internet and then I found it. This is the key. So it's really not about getting your passport fast. If something goes wrong, you want to contact your congressman's office for your area or your state representative's office or your area, and on their website you can request anything you need.

Adam: 30:55

And I had no idea they did this. I didn't know what they really did, but this is this is what they did. I filled out that I have a problem with my passport. I give them all the information I can. I uploaded it all and that was about four o'clock the next morning. I get a phone call from my I don't remember what office it was. I get a phone call and they said hey, you know. Thanks for sending this this information. We're gonna try to get on to it and find out who has your information. It'll probably take two or three days. Once we get a hold of them and we know where it is, it should be two more days and you'll have your passport. That was Monday. I did this on a Friday by Saturday and I did it probably three weeks out from the trip. That Saturday I had my passport.

Adam: 31:44

Like in hand In hand shipped to me. Wow, couldn't believe it. That's impressive.

Ronnie: 31:51

And I called them back Like a Congressman, yeah.

Adam: 31:53

I called my Congressman's office back, talked to the people that they handled all that and I said this is amazing, I cannot believe that you did this. What can I do for you? Can I bring you guys something? Bring you some food and whatever? So now all you can do and this is what I'm doing right now is what they ask is to get the word out, because not enough people call for help, and they'll help with any department, federal department that you're having trouble with. They may or may not be able to do something for you, but on this issue they were. So that was the message that they gave me, so I'm giving it to you guys. This may be a way to get your passport without losing your trip.

Ronnie: 32:36

Good information to have if you were booking a trip. I had a friend I don't know all the details so I'm not gonna tell the whole story but she had to get her passport in like five hours and somehow she did it. I don't know what she did, but it was impressive.

Adam: 32:52

Yeah, it can happen. It's a lot of work, but we didn't have to go anywhere, Did all through email, send them everything that I had, and even after the trip a month after the trip I went back onto the passport website and it still said in process.

Ronnie: 33:12

Were you getting a new passport or renewing passport? This is for renewal.

Adam: 33:16

Renewal Passport renewal.

Ronnie: 33:18

That's what I meant. Mine's expired too. I haven't, yeah, and you?

Adam: 33:21

gotta do it like before 10 years. So there is a way out because that is a new system that they have and they would turn it on, turn it off, turn it on. And we did it while it was on, and my wife did it from one computer, I did it from another computer. I think we could have done both passports on one account but we built separate accounts because it just wasn't clear enough or maybe we were just doing it too fast and didn't read quick enough or read all the material that they had there. So that could have been our fault, but I'm not sure. But we don't know why hers went through them and ours didn't, mine didn't. Weird, very weird, clerical error. Clerical error, definitely.

Ronnie: 34:05

So I think we need to wrap up. What do you think?

Adam: 34:09

I heard the tick now, sorry. Yeah, we do need to wrap up, and on that note we're gonna end. Oh, there's something else.

Ronnie: 34:18

Just one second, yeah, because we gotta do the art on this date in technology history.

Adam: 34:23

Yes, thanks for running.

Ronnie: 34:25

Yes. So on this date in technology history, the first, what year do you think this was? Obviously, we know the date First transatlantic telegraph cable was completed 1527. No, yeah, that's not Got it wrong again 1858, which is quite impressive when you think what that entailed. It took them five shots, wait, five, four, four failed attempts. So the fifth one, wow. So do you think about that? Laying a cable across the ocean from Europe to America?

Adam: 35:16

That's that just seems daunting even now, so that just kind of reminds me of some older movies where you would see them doing a telegraph, and that's probably what that was for to do. Telegraph overseas, yes, yeah, that's interesting yeah Wow that far back 1858. That's incredible.

Ronnie: 35:38

Which was, yeah, quite a long time ago.

Adam: 35:43

Yeah that, wow that's. It's amazing where we've come with tech.

Ronnie: 35:49

Yes.

Adam: 35:50

That is definitely amazing. Now you can just pick up a phone and text somebody in Australia in a minute, right? Just beep, beep, beep and see their face, which reminds me I probably should do that right now.

Ronnie: 36:01

Call someone in Australia.

Adam: 36:03

No text. Yeah, let's do that.