"Everybody has their kryptonite." - Greg

Who doesn't love Megamind? Host Syya is joined with Greg and Grant to break down TWO unforgettable scenes from DreamWorks’ Megamind—but with a twist. We’re not just watching; we’re unpacking how this animated classic hilariously (and sometimes eerily) mirrors real-world tech, cybersecurity, and the future of AI.

🔌 Go behind the scenes of powerful data centers & their wild security setups

🎭 Explore how Megamind surprisingly nails themes like social engineering

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💣 Dive into cyber warfare, command control, and the evolution of online threats

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in his little data center layer, wherever you want to call it.

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I could not help but think how much power it would require to run that facility.

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And the fact that he's got multi-layers, you've got alligators in the waters and all those

little platforms moving in.

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That's a lot of moving parts.

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All of that has got, I'm assuming, like, unless it's purely mechanical, I doubt it.

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It's got an IP address.

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I mean, it's hackable, right?

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Like, but the power behind all that, it's got to be like...

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Enormous!

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Yeah, well, you see later in the movie that he gives away his assistant gives away the

location of the secret door to get in.

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that, you know, even with the best security, you know, you're going to have a human that's

going to end up giving it away.

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What are you going to say, Greg?

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I was just going to build upon that when you think about his location, it's adjacent to

water.

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And a lot of our big cloud providers are building their facilities close to water, helps

with cooling.

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One of the biggest expenses with data centers is not just the power of the infrastructure,

but the powering of the cooling to keep the infrastructure from melting.

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And whether it's his laser beams or the solar side are coming down, maintaining the

environmentals is just as important as providing clean power to all of those resources.

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Yeah, bet he doesn't have a zero carbon footprint.

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up.

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A lead certified building, I don't think.

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I don't think he cares.

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Good afternoon, good evening and welcome to Technophile Real Talk.

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We are back.

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And today I've got two more friends of mine, Greg and Grant are joining.

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And let me just tell you, I think I stalked one of them and I don't know if you know this,

Grant.

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I kind of stalked you the last like almost a year now.

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Are you aware of this?

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My apologies.

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I mean, had I known, I'd have turned around.

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Or actually you probably should have run further away.

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But no, I met Grant last year at a cybersecurity conference.

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Checkpoint was there, had a huge booth.

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And I was there with a friend of mine who was a end user, CISO.

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And I said, my God, Checkpoint's there.

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We gotta go say hi to everyone.

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And Grant, you were the only one that actually talked to me.

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Everyone there at the booth was like, my God, who's this lady?

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She's crazy.

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Cause I was talking about, at that point it was called Checkpoint Real Talk.

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And they're like, yeah, no, we don't want to go on that show here.

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Go talk to Grant.

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Grant will do it.

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So you're like my Mikey that I've been stalking.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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I love all breakfast cereals as well.

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we just dated ourselves, which is okay, which is okay.

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Greg, welcome to the show and lucky you.

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I have just met you so I don't have the opportunity to I've been stalking you.

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So yay.

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Happy to be here.

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It sounds like Grant needs to do a better job monitoring his online presence.

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Yes, that's right.

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I need some ERM.

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Yes, know, external attack surface monitoring.

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Yeah.

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Hey now, haven't, hey, I haven't done any attacks yet, yet.

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But that's because you actually were so gracious.

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When I saw you at CPX 2025 in Vegas, let me tell you, you actually remembered me or you're

just like that.

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You said you remembered me, but that's okay.

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Now, I remember faces well.

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I mean, my name recollection fails me often.

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I'm so glad we often have name tags and the names are big and I can usually pick it up

from a distance, but I don't often forget faces.

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Thank you very much for you made my day.

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Cause I was like, e squeak, the grant remembered me.

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So, well, if it's any consolation, I ran into Mark Ostrosky.

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He was on the show, as well previously and

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Yeah, now that, you know, the amazing Marco, that's worth, you know, making a big deal

over.

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Everyone, check out, I'll put the link below for Marco's episode.

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He was so much fun.

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was he, I think he was with me with Eric Anderson.

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So shout out Eric Anderson.

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Thank you so much.

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He was on the show as well.

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I think we did Ocean.

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almost look like Mark.

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stop.

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You know he's gonna be watching this.

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the gossip.

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Love you, Mark.

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Well guys, hey, it is such a pleasure to have you and you know, this is like one of the

fun things about this show is you guys got to pick the show movies and TV shows that you

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guys wanted to do.

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So I got to ask you, Grant, why did you pick Mega Mind?

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Huge Will Ferrell fan, love the play on words.

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I think he epitomizes a very nimble, great salesperson in his ability to adapt.

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know, I just, think it's awesome.

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You know, I mean, how do you go wrong when the superhero is Brad Pitt?

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I mean, come on, man.

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It's, it's, it's great.

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I just, I've always had, it's in fact one of.

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Three movies I have downloaded on my phone from my own personal library, just because it's

one I like to be able to watch whenever.

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That's too funny.

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If I have that myself and it's Willy Wonka the chocolate factory whenever I just feel

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one though?

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First one, second one?

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The only one that, Exactly.

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So, okay great since we're talking about our all-time favorites, what's yours or not

all-time favorite?

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But what's what's on your rotation that you get to?

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have to just mention, Greg didn't participate in the movie selection.

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I was the one that had that gracious honor.

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by no means paint, don't paint Greg with the same stripes that

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I have to say, Grant, I'm familiar with the movie.

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I have voice actor 18 and 15 now, so this was kind right up the rally in the last 10, 15

years.

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And it's the archetypical superhero story with comedy spoof, spiff thrown in along the

way.

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Personally, just from an anecdote, my favorite movie of all time is Spaceballs, the

ultimate satire and scoop of the classic sci-fi trilogy.

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But in this case,

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You know, it really resonates both the characters, the interplay, and maybe some of the

poor decisions that they make that cyber criminals also make as well.

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Yeah, I just got my hair.

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Yes, I did actually get my haircut.

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And when I was there, I was looking and I noticed the space balls helmet, you know, the

hairdryer.

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Yes, there it is.

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It's a great movie.

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just inspired me to get that custom made and go to a conference one day just to like get

attention for whatever it is.

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maybe if you're speaking at like a panel or something, you just inspired me.

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Cause I've always loved that darn big helmet.

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So anyway.

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yeah, that's fun.

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Lord Helmet.

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Different podcasts for a different day.

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You know, but you know, someone did recommend space balls to review.

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So that is on my list for those that are uninspired.

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So stay tuned for that, everyone.

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We're going to do space balls in the future.

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All right.

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So are you guys ready for the first clip?

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I am.

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We are.

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I am.

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Awesome.

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Here we go.

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Miss Richie, we meet again.

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Would it kill you to wash the bag?

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You can scream all you wish, Miss Richie.

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I'm afraid no one can This reminds me...

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Isn't she screaming?

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Just the whole thing makes me think of- Like this.

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That's a poor lady's- That's the lab you're pretending.

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The evil lab layer

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You're in the lab practicing.

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It's nothing like the real thing.

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Well, it reveals all the secrets too.

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It's like, shows the face, shows the identity, shows the tricks of the tools.

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Stop!

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She's you nosy reporter!

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Gills, on your weak mind to find out all our secrets.

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Such tricks won't work on me.

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Social engineer?

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You're so-

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always the assistant who gives out the secret information.

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Yes!

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This is all the misspelled fishing emails of old, right?

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The great prince.

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There is a linkedin version of a prince of the shake that bothers people I know if you've

got him we miss him.

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He's gotten booted

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Yes.

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be hater

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The salesperson immediately improvises.

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yes.

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That is so true.

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Give it up, Megamind.

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Your plans never work.

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Let's stop wasting time and call your boyfriend in tights, shall we?

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comes to ransom or not

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That's obviously the high-tech guy, you know, he can't just use scissors he's gotta use

his laser

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message from the CISO

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Okay

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I am still waiting for the ability to fly like that.

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play along too.

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Should have known you

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Well they have the jetpacks now, they're just not for personal travel just yet.

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Okay, so question you guys.

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Okay.

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The fact that you've got the big screen projecting, okay.

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A, here's the projector and B, is it an internal projector like old school style or is

this like a project?

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are the robots that flew out of the guys in field.

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Using projectors.

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They're rear projectors.

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Rear projector or a drone projector?

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I think that it's uh cameras in the back and there's a guy behind a curtain over on the

side nice that that actually was really good on you know no no that's not where we are

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right lure them in

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They must not have anonymized their location on the internet using Tor.

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That's right, NAT.

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They weren't using NAT at all.

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Network address translation.

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my god.

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you know what's funny?

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How many of our acronyms that we use that like have percolated into the real world.

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So I remember texting some friends.

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I'm like, hey man, I'll ping you later.

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And then one person like ping what?

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And it was just really interesting because I forgot they're not in technology.

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In fact, they were Disney cast member.

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So they were just totally not of the realm.

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But one got it.

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Right?

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ID10T, come on now.

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I don't know what all those things mean.

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IDK.

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All right.

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Okay.

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So let's talk about this clip.

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Now, we made jokes about it, but like there is this assumption, especially for folks of us

like in IT, like I love the IT crowd.

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did one, we did a reaction to that, that the assumption is, know, IT people are thrown

into the dungeon or into the netherworld of things.

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Or in this case, the criminal mastermind has this layer, you know, of things.

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But if you really think about it, if you actually look like a...

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at a data center, right?

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There are cameras and TVs and all that everywhere.

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does have a little bit of that war games vibe to it.

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is fiction kind of meeting reality a little bit?

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It might be exaggerated, but don't you think there's some semblance of truth to it?

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I think that there needs to be a high level of security, especially when you're in a sock,

right?

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That's why you see all those cameras.

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That's why you see all that stuff.

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mean, trust no one.

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I mean, I think things we've seen for years depicted in science fiction, oftentimes we see

come to pass, right?

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So, it's gonna

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But also, though, Grant, the opposite is a little bit true, too.

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Though we see significant physical security controls around a lot of data centers, many of

them lack the proper cyber security controls, whether it's an enterprise data center or a

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hosted data center.

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If I'm a cloud provider, I'm often trying to protect my resources, but customers are

responsible for securing their own.

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Now, in the physical data centers of an enterprise, they may have to add responsibility.

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But a lot of times they're just taking a cage out of a co-location provider where that

co-loc provider is not providing the network security, they're providing the physical

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security to the cages.

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Come in Greg with the heavy.

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But it's true, right?

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No, it was perfect.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And I think, I think a lot of people don't understand the nuance.

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I just had a CISO who was on my podcast and he was talking specifically about that as

being one of the big differences when you go from on-prem to cloud that just doesn't

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always sink in right away for everyone, you know, the whole access.

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Well, and I mean, it's kind of like, we talked about this too, the old way of doing things

is it's hard to break those old habits of creating a group and all you work for Greg.

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well, I'll put you in Greg's group and it's easier.

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It's simpler.

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not always the best though.

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All right.

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So let's bring this back to Mega Minds though, guys, because in his little data center

layer, wherever you want to call it, I could not help but think how much power it would

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require to run that facility.

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And the fact he's got multi-layers, you've got alligators in the waters and all those

little platforms moving in.

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That's a lot of moving parts.

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All of that has got, I'm assuming, like, unless it's purely mechanical, I doubt it.

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It's got an IP address.

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I mean, it's hackable, right?

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But the power behind all that, it's gotta be like enormous.

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Yeah, well, you see later in the movie that he gives away his assistant gives away the

location of the secret door to get in.

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that, you know, even with the best security, you know, you're going to have a human that's

going to end up giving it away.

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What are you going to say, Greg?

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I was just to build upon that when you think about his location, it's adjacent to water.

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And a lot of our big cloud providers are building their facilities close to water.

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Helps with cooling.

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One of the biggest expenses with data centers is not just the power of the infrastructure,

but the powering of the cooling to keep the infrastructure from melting.

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And whether it's his laser beams or the solar side are coming down, maintaining the

environmentals is just as important as providing clean power to all of those resources.

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Yeah, I bet he doesn't have a zero carbon footprint.

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Yeah.

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At least by building, I don't think.

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think he cares.

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That's right.

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He learned that in shool.

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I don't know that reference.

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What is, school, my God.

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It's in the movie.

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That's right.

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And that's what he, I learned it in a place called.

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my god.

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It's in the movie, sorry.

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No, don't be sorry.

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I've actually never, I don't have kids, so I've never gotten to see it.

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So I've been watching it piecemeal.

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haven't had a chance to watch it all the way through because I actually wanted to be

genuinely surprised for it to see it.

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all right.

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last one.

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Roxanne Ritchie, I mean, she's awesome.

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I mean, she's terrific.

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Well, one last thing you'd mentioned on this particular clip that I want to mention and we

already talked about which is the social engineering component of it.

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She knew her enemy if you want to call it that right she educated herself she knew all the

you know attack vectors that would come after her right the idea of like the alligator

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cliched.

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Okay now you're do like, you know these whatever the machine gun whatever or grotesque Do

you think

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Even this day and age, you guys, do you feel we've educated the masses more or do we have

a more educated masses or are we still fighting that fight where with every subsequent

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generation, we have to remind people, hey, don't open every email that you receive from

mom, right?

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Or, you know, the shake doesn't need money from you if they're oil billionaires.

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So where does your head fall on that, you guys?

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I think there's less informed than there are more informed.

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think in general, think people are pretty aware of the old fishing, know, chic, kind of,

you know, I got $10 million kind of thing, but those are...

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Those are, think, long gone.

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I think it's going to get much more sophisticated.

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I don't believe mainstream populations really prepared for what's out there in the

technology and the implementation and utilization of AI and agentic AI.

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mean, they're going to kick the shit out of us.

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I mean, you're going to have the only way you're going to be able to win is you're going

to to fight fire with fire, I believe.

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Yeah, when you think about it, Graham, we have both our population of techno files and

techno phobes.

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And on one hand, the techno phobes, maybe they've gotten the message not to click on the

link and they're not the ones that are constantly on social media, you know, responding to

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those scams.

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But at the same token, the ability of hackers now to have more highly targeted and

customized and crafted attacks, emails, SMS, social media, and then those techno

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files who think, I'm digitally native, I understand these things.

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They're implicitly trusting of more online and social media, which is actually increasing

their attack surface significance.

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No question.

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I don't really believe people appreciate the enormous number of digital crumbs they leave

in today's world.

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You know, compared to just, you know, 10 years ago, I mean, when you look at every app,

banking,

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They're all implementing biometrics of some sort, fingers, face, right?

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That data, mean, I think it's far, far, I mean, we see this with our own tools, right?

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How many, some 500 attributes are looked at from the outside in.

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This is, I think, a big area that a lot of companies need to do a better job on.

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They've done a pretty good job from the inside out and certainly even larger companies.

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But I think the big risk still is how much those digital crumbs can be assembled, kind of

like mercury.

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You know, if I can put it all in the same Petri dish, all of a sudden it all comes

together.

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There's some reconnaissance.

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There's some powerful information that can kind of come out of that to compliment or help

arm an attack.

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Yeah.

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Well, and everybody has their kryptonite as we'll see here in a little bit with the copper

scene coming up and everyone has their weakness.

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And when we tell the whole world about it on LinkedIn, social media, again, we're making

ourselves more vulnerable to these customized and targeted attacks that may look like

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they're coming from a known trusted source, but really they're mega mine trying to hack us

and make us ransom victims here.

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And I think your point is really spot on too.

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think, you know, it's, it's.

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You know, was Stuxnet the lighting of the fuse that has become the race between these

nation states, right?

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mean, there's been a lot of, I've read articles about how that really set off this up

spiraling race.

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between these nations that cause they went son of a bitch.

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can break shit with this stuff.

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You know, if I do the right code, That's, that was a revelation.

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I mean the fact that whole Stuxnet, I mean was that we knew we know nation states Okay

have their own arms and we know that's happening right but the idea being of it like being

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recognized like We have admitted that this Stuxnet was clearly not you know Joe Schmoe

teenagers kid having fun You know with us some script kiddie type thing, right?

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So I mean it was crazy and the idea I think I think we've woken up to a lot of it.

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But I mean we're kind of like

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diverging a little bit.

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want to pull this back to MegaMinds because it does require MegaMinds from here on out to

understand, like to keep thinking outside the box because there's always going to be some

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person that comes up over time that comes up with a new inventive way to penetrate some

network, good, bad, ugly, and different, right?

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We just have to always stay on top of it.

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So guys, I know we can talk all day, but we got to get to clip two.

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we ready for that?

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All right, let's do it kids.

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All right.

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Ready the Death Ray menu!

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Death Ray Readying!

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Is this is this Our release is coming out next month can be corroded over time Justice is

a non corrosive metal but metals could be melted by the heat of revenge It's what I love

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this exchange hole, but it can be easily reheated in the microwave of evil.

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Well, I think explaining security to the board

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Girls, you're both pretty.

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Sounds like cyber security insurance right there.

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And much like technology arguments, we really need it to work.

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It just sits there.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Or, mean, come on, we always see the, the, the, bars that are 98 % and it took two seconds

to get there, but then takes 28 seconds to finish.

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This end.

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know, should have brought the enterprise class bandwidth and not the consumer grade cable

motive.

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Well, this was back when we had a, we said we had a T1, but it was really fractional from.

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That's true, this is 2010.

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Your plan is failing,

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Just admit it.

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Good luck.

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Whose side are you on?

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The losing side.

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Thank you.

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Could someone stamp my frequent kidnapping card?

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Of all people, we discontinue.

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made me think about like the whole idea like bandwidth shaping and all that back in 2010,

it was still a new thing, right?

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What did he just say?

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Crab nuggets?

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Now, you know, this is a perfect example of a sandbox, you know, or, you know, luring you

in.

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It's like the honey pot.

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loading

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that's so funny the deception right now who's fooling who

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Here comes the malware delivery system

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That's right.

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Yeah, diversion.

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Some distraction.

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slips in through an open door.

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That might have been the volumetric DDoS attack right there.

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Well, let's not get our hopes up just yet.

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Look!

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Metroman!

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Metroman!

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Metroman!

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You

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That's when you, that's airmail delivery of a product you bought online and then you saw

it, really.

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That is absolutely 100 % perfect.

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It's like the, I call it the team of deliveries, right?

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You sell one thing online and what you actually get is another.

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It's yeah, similar to online dating, I think today, you know, fortunately I'm not into

that too much, but I could only imagine.

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You know, had this conversation with someone else the other day is like, what a, what a

state of affairs of our lives today where 20, 30 years ago, 20 years ago, we made fun of

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people who did online dating.

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And then now fast forward, it's like, everyone does online dating more or less in some

degree for whatever purposes.

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I'm just saying it's more accepted than before.

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Every part of our life is online, whether it's our grocery shopping, we're booking Ubers,

right?

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I mean, you talked about dating or education.

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We're using technology now to record this session.

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Whereas 20 years ago, we'd have to go to a studio to do something like this.

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And what's also important is now there are websites that you just have to upload a few

examples of your voice or a few examples of your face and you can create avatars.

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So this recording, while for fun, could potentially be utilized to create a fake Greg and

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create a fake Greg's voice and the technology is getting to a point now where it's getting

really good and.

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It's still different than our conference presentations, whether it's at CPX or industry

events.

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We're YouTube and we're available for scraping with a great tools to replicate and

regenerate ourselves

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But it's going to happen.

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We haven't seen it happen much.

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We've, you know, I've, I've got a few examples in a presentation from a, a site called how

to fly where they did some deep fakes and there's a great website called, Hey Jen, that,

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know, you can, you can, experience it yourself, but this shit's getting, you know, the

old, is it live or is it Memorex?

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mean, we're back.

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because you're not gonna really be able to discern.

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It's gonna be difficult to tell.

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It is.

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mean, so as a content creator, right, we see a lot of tools that are available and they're

great.

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It helps, you know, just create more efficient, you know, tasks, get them done faster, you

know, whatever.

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That's great.

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But there is something to be said about your, tool you use, whatever AI tool you use is

only as good as its programmer originally, how they originally coded for, because there's

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going to be inherent biases.

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Yeah, the AI is going to learn and et cetera, but it's still learning from the biases of

humans.

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Right.

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And I wonder, and I'd like to think no matter how good these deep fakes look and whatnot,

there's going to be that like uncanny valley ish of it where you're like, there's

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something off.

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Like the eyes are slightly off or the tone of their voice is like, and there's something I

would like to guess humans, we should be able to maybe fight or flight it where it's like,

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some's not right.

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I'd like to think optimistically because heaven knows as the technologies of that nature

get better and better, we just have to be more diligent.

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But I argue guys, I'm gonna say something controversial.

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You guys ready?

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I think humans are inherently lazy.

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I think when they see these deep fakes and they see these types of things, they're just

gonna wanna trust and believe it because it's part of their worldview of thinking.

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and no additional research is going to be done.

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And I think that's going to be the big problem.

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Not so much that we can't detect it.

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Even if we detect there's some fakery to it, but because of what they're saying agrees

with our viewpoint, we'll just accept it as fact.

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And that worries me.

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I'll go one step further.

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our naivete, right?

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We want to believe, right?

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We want to believe that that video we saw, the TikTok, the YouTube, the Instagram,

whatever it is, that's inherently true.

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And I mentioned I have an 18 year old son and I feel like most of his facts he gets are

from social media or podcasts and things of that nature.

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you want to believe it if it aligns with how you believe, right?

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But even if lies with your belief, they stopped the, and this is where maybe the laziness

comes in, the validation, the fact checking, the cross-referencing.

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Who was the original source?

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The data that fed the article, whether it generated by a human or maybe an AI bot.

428

You talked about the programmer's bias, but the data set that trains AI in conjunction

with the models collectively gives the output.

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And if you don't understand the data that went into the system, let alone the bias of the

AI engine,

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How are you truly to trust and validate the output?

431

Yeah.

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Well, you know, I mean, when I think about how technology is evolving to the point where

it's undiscernible between live and Memorex, I mean, look at photographs, for example.

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Right?

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Can we at get a DVR or something in here?

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I'm talking about my old five and a quarter, you know, it's, or my reel to reel.

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Real to real tape,

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I still have a cassette player like boombox.

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We still use it when we play a pool in my house.

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So I have my cassette tapes.

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I have my own mixtapes I would make.

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Eight-track tape, think, you know, it would be a fun item to set down, you know, in front

of a bunch of youngsters, right?

442

Well, they would think it's a thing of scotch tape or something like that.

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You're totally cracking me.

444

Okay.

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Bring it back to make it mine.

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Bring it back to make a mind.

447

Let us talk about files uploading and executing and like, like, like last like forever.

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Right.

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Um, that's a common problem, right.

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That we see oftentimes.

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I like I think even today.

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It's software.

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Remember Apple got slammed hard for this when your battery would say, ah, it's 97%.

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And then all of a sudden you'd look away and look back and it was at 12.

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And it was all software.

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And it's the same thing.

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When you have that little meter that's saying how much time it's passing, that's all.

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It's a good guess.

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It's not always...

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think it's a psychology.

461

I was going to say, let me take that one step further because one of the things you saw in

the movie clip and we see in the real world is that the actual attacks that are launched

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don't come from the hackers then, right?

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They have their tools and their malware embedded somewhere else in the internet.

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They need to invoke this remote command and control to launch the malware, the phishing

attempts, the DDoS, et cetera.

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And it's that communication between the central hub and the brains and those tools on the

periphery that ultimately wreak havoc.

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And if you can potentially disrupt that command and control chain, you can potentially

stop the laser beam from shooting down or that cyber attack from being launched.

467

Well, I was actually thinking, hey, the reason why it was uploading so darn slowly was

maybe it had a virus.

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Even their Starlink service was interrupted.

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There we go

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Or just really poor bandwidth.

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Hello, SatCom, right?

472

You're having to go from terrestrial Earth all the way out to orbit?

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That takes a little bit of time.

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There's a lot more packet loss and latency going up there.

475

So can I tell you my Starlink story, you guys?

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Because this is during COVID, right, when it launched, right?

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So I bubbled with another household.

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There three households, we all bubbled together.

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So I was at their house and I was going home and walking into my car and they were in the

backyard patio, know, enjoying the night air.

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And I look up and I see the Starlink for the first time and I hadn't heard, I think I had

heard about it, but I never really, you know, wasn't top of mind.

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So I'm just like watching, just kind of going and going, like, uh, guys, guys.

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And I'm like, I said something to the effect of like, I welcome you over more.

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It was like the neighbor, like, like was wondering what the heck was going on.

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But anyway, that was my star link story.

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The very first time I saw star link, um, it was different to see that's for sure.

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mean,

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I can't even remember the name of the...

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satellite service I had 20 years ago, but God, was painfully slow.

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don't know if it was EchoStar or somebody, but I mean, was, you know, 30 miles up to some

satellite.

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was the latency was pain.

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can get decent download, but your upload was always inhibited.

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It was painful,

493

Okay, so, well, hey, so I know I could talk to you guys all day long, and Megamind

actually was a really fun movie to, like I said, I have been watching parts and pieces,

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I'm sorry.

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gotta watch it from end to end.

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gotta watch it.

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Then you'll understand Schuyl and some of the other references that I could make.

498

It's a good movie.

499

have to watch Fiddler on the roof first though.

500

Yes, yes, yes.

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Yes.

502

Okay, so I asked this of everyone on a scale of one to ten from a technology depiction

perspective.

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How accurate do you think it is?

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Ten being super accurate like training in school, shool, or one as pure entertainment.

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was entertaining.

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I'll go for the one.

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Wow.

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Not even know in between?

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I was gonna give it like a six or something like that.

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mean, you know, not to say that everyone has access to laser beams.

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You fish inside of a gorilla suit with a swimming inside and then talking.

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That's a one, baby.

513

Well.

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the alligators and the fish in the bear suit are maybe a one.

515

I was looking at more from some of the other technology elements in the layer.

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the flashing lights and I quit at three.

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All right, and okay another favorite question I have is is this was a 2010 movie I think

right or in the tens Kids today Would they relate to this as something as a pure

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entertainment or do you think it's something of yeah?

519

That's the world they live in

520

I, again, I'm still kind of closer to entertainment than depicting anything real.

521

Definitely entertainment.

522

Yeah, this is an entertainment movie just full disclosure guys.

523

We've done movies like, you know sneakers and hackers and her Yeah, where it's a little

bit more philosophical.

524

This is a little harder to get philosophical with

525

Yeah.

526

Well, the animation automatically makes it an entertainment, even though can be factual in

nature.

527

Well, hey, so here's something that we could think about.

528

Think about all of the data it would require to run this movie, right?

529

Like to me, like this is something where, what movie was it?

530

Was it, it was Toy Story, I think two, I think it was, where literally there was either a

fire or something and the movie was literally saved by a person on leave and they were

531

working from home and they had the

532

only backup to a major component of the movie, right?

533

So, I mean, there's definitely some technology aspects to watching these types of movies

because we don't think about the massive storage requirements to run this in the

534

computation and all those algos to do like, you know, hair flowing in the wind and all

that stuff.

535

I think that's, I think that's the crazy cool part.

536

I think of these types of movies as well.

537

Thank you, Steve Jobs.

538

Right?

539

Yeah.

540

It changed the entertainment industry, certainly from the animation side.

541

Yeah.

542

Well, I will say, um, uh, how to train, uh, uh, Dragon was on HP servers, but I'll just,

543

Well, I think who's the Katzenberg?

544

There's dream.

545

See, this is also MegaMind is also a DreamWorks production.

546

And one of the things you'll notice DreamWorks productions, they're a little edgier.

547

They have a little bit more fierce villains.

548

let's just say the.

549

anatomical depiction of the characters might arouse 18 year olds more so than some other,

some other cartoons.

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mean, it's just what, I mean, if you look, that's their little edgier.

551

That's just what they do.

552

So.

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I think it's catering to like, you know, understanding the demographics of what you have.

554

And I think that goes back to quite frankly, you know, with just technology in general,

talking about, you know, knowing our demographics and what's going to resonate better.

555

Because like me telling my mom, talking about ransomware and the very real challenges, you

know, senior community faces, because they're like one of the biggest demographics that

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they go after.

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It can be difficult at times, man.

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So I think

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you know, a movie that would depict that, some of that, like, you know, the seniors would

relate to.

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think maybe that's a movie idea, guys.

561

What if we do some

562

I had heard, sorry, I had heard that Katzenberg was involved in the production of Toy

Story or somehow and wanted Woody to be meaner or, know, I mean, he wanted more of a

563

fight, I guess, and it kind of went against, you know, the, who's the other pixel?

564

Pixar

565

That was

566

Right, it was, but there was, I mean, there's been Katzenberg, Spielberg, remember?

567

I mean, there's been some different efforts.

568

Anyway, I just remember reading about that.

569

thought it was interesting that he thought that was where they clashed or didn't

necessarily agree with his.

570

Vision.

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Advisement.

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heard that too.

573

I heard that Woody was supposed to be more sarcastic.

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And then, yeah, he got vetoed.

575

So guys...

576

You Billy Crystal, not Tom Hanks then.

577

Oh, that would have been interesting.

578

Billy Crystal, oh my gosh.

579

Okay, The Prince's Bride.

580

Okay, nevermind.

581

This is where we're gonna keep veering off.

582

You guys, it's been such an absolute pleasure chatting with you.

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So I'd love to have you guys back.

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You guys, if there's any recommendations for other movies, please let me know.

585

Other people you think should join us, I'd love to have that.

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But on that note, guys, that wraps it up for another episode of Technophile Real Talk.

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until next time, see ya!

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See you.

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Thanks, Saya.

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See you.

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you.

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Thank you very much.