Mac Power Users episode 542, Beta Tales. Hello welcome back to Mac power users. My name is Stephen Hackett and I am

joined as always by my friend and yours Mr. David Sparks.

Hello Mr. Hackett, how are you today? I am good. This is going to be a fun one.

Yes, all my devices are running a little hotter. Their batteries are burning a little

faster, but I'm having so much fun. That's good. Before we get to the the beta season because that is

officially started now in Appleland in a big way. We spoke a couple of episodes ago about the Relay FM

membership program and Mac Power Users is going to be taking part of that

starting in July. So what we're going to be offering we're calling more power users.

I'm very clever David. That name had whiteboards and consultants and we came up with it.

Pretty good, right?

Oh yeah, it costs thousands of dollars to come up with that name. So please join so I can pay all of our branding.

More power users. So what this is going to be is if you become a MAC Power Users member, you will receive an ad-free version of the show

and at least once a month, David and now are going to be doing an extra segment covering the news.

You know, one thing about MacPower users is we don't get to talk about the news here and sometimes we try

but it's kind of a weird fit for our format so we said look we can do it for

members at least once a month if stuff's busier I think we'll do it more often

it's kind of talking about the news through the lens of MPU yes and I am super excited that we can bring some

extra content and for those of you that are you know trying to get through your

day a little faster and you don't want to listen to the ads. There you go. There's an option for you.

Yeah, so we will have in the next episode we'll have directions of how to sign up and

everything but kind of wanted to put that on everyone's radar that will start in July. I'm super excited.

Me too and if you don't want to be a member that's okay we still have the show

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