Welcome to a weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home.

I'm Brian McCullough.

This is our second experiment with a listener call-in show technically, but really I'd like to think of this as our first real attempt.

As I think you'll hear, it went fairly well, and certainly with Zoom you can get a lot of people

in the same room at the same time I got some good

questions some pretty good conversation out of it you will hear we did get

zoom bombed which I did leave in a little bit but actually I cut out a whole five minutes of it.

I'm kind of glad that that happened because part of me wanting to do this was I wanted

to get a better handle of what is and what is not possible with Zoom, so now I know how Zoom bombing happens and I know how to

keep it from happening the next time we do this. So thanks to those of you that

sat through me figuring all that out. Anyway, please enjoy this conversation

about tech in the time of coronavirus, about podcasting in the time of

coronavirus, about Netflix at this moment of time, and a whole bunch of other

stuff like how I source the stories we

do what are my biases when giving you the news that sort of thing many thanks to

those of you that participated and if I didn't get to your question today, we'll do this again probably sometime next month.

So do listen out for when we do it again.

Yeah, this is, I don't know if I said this, but actually until about a week ago I had never used Zoom even once.

And then I've got to do, there's a tech conference

that I'm gonna be moderating a couple panels on and of course they're doing it virtually.

So one of my motivations for doing this was to figure out if I could get Zoom working properly for me.

So all right, let's consider us recording here. I'm going to get my stopwatch going so I know how much we're actually doing of this.

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