Welcome to the Mac Power Users. I'm David Sparks and joined for the first time by Mr. Stephen Robles. Welcome, Stephen.

Hello, David. Thanks so much. Well, for having me, but now that I'm here. Yeah, I'm so happy. I woke up today very excited about being able to record with you. You and I have been talking now for, I think, over a month. And the day is here. We're, as we said, we're shooting with live ammunition today. I'm super excited. I had you, you put in the outline, we're going to surprise each other for the more power users segment. I have so many things on my desk right now that I'm just ready to surprise you with. Okay. All right. Throughout the episode, we'll do it in and then in more power users. On more power users, our segment today is going to be called the drawer of shame. We're going to talk about things we bought that we kind of regret in the tech sphere. And so we decided to surprise each other. We got a couple things. That's going to be fun today for more power users. If you'd like to subscribe, go check it out at relay.fm slash MPU. You can get the ad for extended version. Stephen and I actually are, we're not going to announce it to the general audience yet, but for the more power users subscribers. We actually have some big plans for more power users.

We're going to be expanding it.

So stay tuned and eventually we'll be able to announce publicly what we're doing with that.

But we got plans game.

We've got plans.

That's right.

Either way.

Stephen, I'm so happy to have you as the co-as.

We talked a little bit at the end of the last episode where Stephen got to welcome you in.

But, you know, you and I have had a lot of discussions and time together.

And I just want to say going in, I'm so happy that you're here.

And I think that you and I are going to have a really good time making Mac power users. Thank you so much, David. I mean, it was an honor to be asked. I'm, my adrenaline is just pumping right now because I'm super excited. I've probably been for a long time, but doing this one, it's really meaningful. And for how long you've had this show going and now for me to be a part of it. It's a huge honor. So thank you. Looking forward to years with you. And I think we're

going to have a lot of fun. Yeah, let's do it. But a lot of folks in the audience, I found out after we announced, are already big Stephen Robles fans. There's a lot of audience members when I went to over the MPU forums where people like, oh, I've been watching his YouTube since he started. And so there's a lot of folks that already know you, but there's also a lot of folks that don't. So one of the things we're going to talk about today is a little bit about Stephen. We're going to talk about where he comes from, what brings him to this world, and some of his tech preferences, and just how you and I have become friends.

But let's start with your background, Steve.

And tell us a little bit about yourself.

So I grew up in upstate New York.

The town was actually called Fish Kill.

It's near Poughkeepsie.

If you're familiar with that.

Fish kill?

Fish kill, fish like the animal, kill like on alive. Okay. Well, yeah. That's the name of the town. Small town. But I went to high school there in Wappinger's Falls, which is nearby. And I was huge into musical theater and singing and I played trumpet. And so this is a picture of me. We'll try to put it as the chapter artwork for audio as well.

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