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at least wanted to start the show this week on the subject of evs,
and I want to talk about Toyota's promises, for lack of a better word,
that they've made a breakthrough in solid state battery technology and we'll have cars
with over seven hundred and forty five miles of rage and da da da da
da charging in ten minutes. Blah blah blah blah. Well, I'll get
to that in a second. I wanted to talk about kind of the realities
of the current state of evs and making in making a comparison to where the
internal combustion engine was at about the same time in their development as evs are
now. So let's just kind of have a general starting point for EV technology
as we know it, and by tech, EV technology as we know it,
electric vehicle technology as we know it, I mean based on lithium ion
or lithium battery packs. So I know, technically, Chevy tried to make
an electric vehicle back in when it was at late nineties or back in the
nineties called the EV one that was based on lead acid batteries. That's a
that's kind of a very fascinating story there with the EV one from General Motors,
and they basically bought them all back from the customers and it's kind of
a it's kind of a weird tale, like the customers loved them so much,
they worked out so well for their for the customers use case scenario,
and then GM's like, NA, we need them all back, don't.
We're not just going to tell you to stop driving them. We're getting them
back from you. Give give us back the vehicle you purchased from. It
was really weird. But the EV one based on lead acid, the Toyota
Prius mid two thousands, the hybrid vehicles are to becoming popular. Those were
not based on lithium. Those were based on nickel metal hydride. The same
exact rechargeable batteries that you put in your TV remote control or other kind of
devices, your wireless mice and things like that. That's nickel metal hydride.
Before that was nickel cadmium, those really crappy rechargeable batteries from the nineteen eighties
and early nineties. No, so when I'm talking about electric vehicles, I
mean the current generation, like electric vehicles as we know it based on lithium
battery packs. And let's just put a date on this, let's call it
EVS as we know it started with the Tesla I'm gonna say the Tesla models,
even though I know the Roadster came out of a few years before the
Model ASS. I think that Tesla Roaster came out two thousand five ish seven,
like mid two thousands ish per four two thousand and ten, but that
wasn't really widespread adoption. That was there's very niche. The Model S in
around twenty twelve twenty thirteen marks the beginning of the electric vehicle era as we
know it, the mass production and mass adoption of electric vehicles as we know
it. So let's call it to Let's call it two thousand and thirteen.
So it is now as of recording two thousand and twenty three, So we
are basically ten to maybe fifteen years maximum, about a decade or so into
electric vehicle technology as we know it. Let's put the internal combustion engine back
into the same param So the internal combustion engine kind of mass adoption came with
the Model T. You can argue a little bit maybe before the Model T,
but around the nineteen tens, right before the nineteen twenties. Between the
nineteen tens and nineteen twenties was the internal combustion engine. The automobile. The
gasolene automobile as we know it, came about at just about after the turn
of the century. So let's fast forward from there from the nineteen tens to
the nineteen twenties. Let's say it's nineteen twenty five and there's different Fords rolling
around, and it's still the infrastructure is not There are still dirt roads and
farms, and you had people just like you have today with electric vehicles,
the doubters and the people who snub it, and the people who who are
afraid of change and afraid of new technology, saying the evs are terrible and
blahbadeh blah. The exact same sentiment existed for combustion engine vehicles ten to fifteen
years after their mass adoption. You had people who were afraid of change still
on horseback. To a certain degree, they were correct because you didn't have
freeways, you didn't have the interstate system, you didn't barely had paved roads.
It was still very much agricultural based society as far as rural areas were
considered, and you had lots of people in rural areas. It's like people
in rural areas today bad mouth evs or are afraid of evs or whatever.
You had the same people in the same area as bad Mouth in the combustion
engines versus the horse as we knew it, there was no use for horseless
carriages. Horseless carriages were dangerous. Horseless carriages were dirty, they burned dirty
fuel and created smoke and blahni blah. There's just ten years, ten to
fifteen years after mass adoption of the gasoline automobile, you had detractors. That's
where we're at right now with electric vehicles. Just you fast forward one hundred
years from nineteen twenty three to two twenty three. That's the basic notion amongst
the doubters of electric vehicles. It's the same kind of mind space that society
was in in nineteen twenty three with the internal combustion engine. I just wanted
to make that kind of comparison. That's just the reality of where we're at
in kind of the mind space, in the mentality of ev adoption as we
know it. Evs haven't been aren't a thing really as far as mass adoption
as we tend to think they are there. It's still a razor edge,
bleeding edge technology that is still in its infancy. That's where evs are right
now. So should we throw the baby out with the bathwater? Should we
get rid of evs? Let's talk about that more. Geek Therapy Radio,
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that good stuff. Geek Therapy Radio podcast. So in the previous segment,
I started to talk about evs in the general kind of mind space that a
lot of the general public has. That's some of the general public has about
electric vehicles. In twenty twelve three as of recording, is the same kind
of mind space the general public was in in nineteen twenty three regarding the internal
combustion engine. Regarding the horseless carriage, in nineteen twenty three, there were
detractors of automobiles saying that they're useless, they're dirty, they burn fuel,
there's they're unsafe compared dual horse, there's no use for a horseless carriage.
Horses are still the way to go. That's the way people thought in nineteen
twenty three. Fast forward one hundred years of twenty twenty three, you have
EVS in the same kind of state of technology and mass adoption. EVS as
we know them are about ten It's a technology that's about ten to fifteen years
old. I'm going to repeat this for the listeners just tuning into the radio
broadcast who didn't hear the first segment evs as we know them, and I
if you go back to listen to the podcast, you can hear me make
the case. In the first segment. I mark evs as we know them
with the Tesla model S that came around around twenty twelve, twenty thirteen ish
around that time. So fast forward ten years, about fifteen years ish,
that's the current state of ev technology as we know it, and I was
drawn to parallel between the evs as we know them right now in twenty twenty
three with combustion engine around the same time one hundred years ago nineteen twenty three,
that the mentality exists that it's a new technology and there's a lot of
detractors and in evs are useless, just like people in nineteen twenty three,
we're saying that the internal combustion engine was useless. Blah bade blah. So
there there are When you ask somebody who hates evs, let's say they've just
been listening to nothing, but you know, conservative talk radio for their forty
hours a week, they've been listening to hosts on conservative talk radio bashing evs
and da da da dah. So obviously they don't know much about it.
The listener unfortunately, just if they're only getting their source from Fox News and
conservative talk radio, they don't know ninety eight percent of the truth about EV's.
But there is typical for sensationalist media. What they do is they take
a little nugget of two percent truth and then they repeat it a thousand times
a day so that you think that it's the actual truth. If enough people
are lobbed, are locked onto a tiny little nugget of truth, that makes
the audience of millions thinks that that's the whole truth. It's a fallacy.
Just because a thousand voices are saying it a thousand times a day doesn't mean
it's the whole truth. But that's just the nature of sensationalist media. That's
how they keep you locked onto the commercial break, gets you all fired up,
tap into your emotions, make you angry and scared about something. That's
just the way it works. So let me just tell you, let me
let me offer, let me tell you what that little nugget of truth is
that they lob onto. That is. That's real, that's a real concern.
And I say that as somebody who I daily drive an electric vehicle.
Still have my delous I still have my gas burning vehicles, but I also
have my daily commuter. It is an electric vehicle. The Chevy Bolt,
a twenty seventeen Chevy Bolt, no gas at all, is just a battery
pack. Now the truth, here's the truth that they will often bring up
on let's just call it conservative outlets that are sensationalized to that sort of bias
to the right wing type of bias. There is truth that the not only
the infrastructure as far as like charging stations and how long it takes to charge
a car, that is still a concern. You know what was also concern
in nineteen twenty three, gasoline stations infrastructure with roads. It was the same
concern for the gasoline vehicle in nineteen twenty three as it is for electric vehicle
infrastructure in twenty twenty three. It's the same, but different, different,
but the same, but regardless, it is true. It is true that
the electric vehicle infrastructure is in its infancy. It's still in its infancy.
It is also true, which is very funny to me. It's it's hilarious
to read these comments and hear these bleeding goats on the TV and radio talking
about how lithium is terrible for the environment. It is true mining lithium and
the production of electric vehicles is terrible for the environment. It just is that
is also a byproduct of a technology that is still in its infancy. So
gasoline has had a hundred years of research and development to to pun intend,
to refine itself and become cleaner. Internal combustion engines have become cleaner. The
gasoline that has burned into that burns in the internal combustion engine is way cleaner,
and it's a much more streamline process, much more, much better for
the environment than it was when the internal combustion engine automobile was in its infancy
in nineteen twenty three. Evs are in the kind of the same boat,
but different. Mining lithium is horrific for the environment and for people, And
by the time you buy an electric vehicle, it has already done. It's
done as much damage as an internal combustion engine vehicle has done within the first
few years. I think the magic number for an EV is you need to
own it and drive it for like seventy thousand miles somewhere around there for to
break even with an internal combustion engine. But every mile you drive after seventy
thousand miles with a current generation of electric vehicle that starts dipping in a nugget,
then it starts becoming more overall good for the environment. And what's funny
to me speaking to the environment, is that you hear the call bleeding Goats
on TV and radio talking about how bad lithium is for the environment. Since
when did you start caring about the freaking environment. That's funny to me.
That's funny that you'll hear the same type of host or whatever railing against environmentalists
and just bashing al gore over the head, which al Gore A lot of
environmentalists do deserve a lot of it. But I'm just saying they bash environmentalism
and bash environmentalists and blahbity blah, and then all of a sudden, when
it comes to EVS, lithium is terrible for the environment. Making batteries for
EVS is terrible in environment. Evs are terrible in the environment. Oh,
so the narrative change is to kind of just fit the type of fear and
distrust that you're trying to manufacture and manipulate. That's how that works. Funny,
Oh, it's about the environment now when you when it comes to EVS,
that's that's fine. But there is a grain of truth to it.
I don't mean to sound like a butthole here on the on the radio.
There is a grain of truth to that. Yes, lithium is horrible.
Do you know what lithium is also inside of Do you know them the lithium
that they mind for electric vehicles. Is also in your freaking cell phone,
is also in the rechargeable batteries, in your your controllers, your wireless mice,
your whatever device you have, your your your digital cameras, your whatever
you have that has a battery it, that's all lithium. It all comes
from the same place. Electric cars are just one one product of that lithium
mining. But lithium is everywhere in every battery and every device that you own
around you, You're already using the lithium. So if you're reasoning for not
getting electric cars all of a sudden that it's bad for the environment, you
gotta throw away your phone. You gotta throw away your tablet, you gotta
throw away your laptop, you gotta throw away your wireless mice, you gotta
throw away your game controls. You gotta throw away so much because it all
contains lithium. But it's true that mining lithium is terrible for the environment.
This is going to lead me great into segment three, which is kind of
the state of ev technology right now where it's gonna go, and it kind
of ties into how gasoline became more refined over the last one hundred years.
Gasoline benefited from the R and D for one hundred years, whereas electric vehicles
have benefited from like fifteen years of R and D at max, not fifteen
years. Modern evs as we know them is still in its infancy. Let's
talk about where EV technology needs to go to be finally become this kind of
holy grail of transportation. And I'll say that before we get out of the
segment right here, we are still decades upon decades, if not an I'm
gonna say one hundred years. When we talk about EV and transportation, we're
just talking about kind of kind of consumer the consumer side of transportation. We're
not talking about about tractors and shipping and all sorts of things being able to
convert to EV right now, we're just talking about commuting to work. But
anyways, let's talk more about that more geek there, Parado coming up,
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cure Raator Johnny Hamburger. We're talking about evs in this episode, specifically lithium
mining in the current state of electric vehicles. It is true that mining lithium
and electric vehicle production is currently terrible for the environment, especially the lit mining
for lithium actually, like making the electric vehicle, putting it together and everything
isn't really as different as putting together a gasoline powered forward f one fifty,
Like the actual manufacturing processes is just the same both ways. But mining lithium
is dangerous for the environment. You know what's also dangerous for the environment is
fossil fuels, mining fossil fuels and refining fossil fuels. But but before you
label me some sort of tree hug and hippie, the benefit that fossil fuels
has as far as it's way cleaner to burn. The internal combustion engine is
way more efficient. The internal combustion engine is so efficient now at extracting energy
from from way cleaner fuel now that we wouldn't be in There wouldn't be this
kind of climate crisis called action. If if the internal combustion engine was as
clean as it is now, as it as it is now way back in
nineteen twenty three, there wouldn't be this argument. In some cities, the
exhaust coming out of like Singapore or whatever, the exhaust coming out of a
gasoline engine is cleaner than the air going into it, Like burning fossil fuels
now as far as transportation, as far as gasoline is concerned, is so
much cleaner than it was one hundred years ago. That's a direct benefit of
over one hundred years of research and development. Lithium for electric ours is where
gasoline for combustion engine was in nineteen twenty three. That's because evs as we
know them is kind of a new technology, doesn't have one hundred years of
R and D in refinement. We're still on lithium. That's still the best
way, that's still the best source of energy density to store electrons and store
electricity to run in an electric vehicle. So what we have to do is
get off of lithium. You have to find you don't just have to get
off lithium for electric vehicles. You have to get off lithium for the batteries
in your cell phones, for the batteries in your tablets, the batteries and
your laptops, et cetera, et cetera, etc. Lithium is just a
dinosaur way of storing electricity. So there does need to be a breakthrough in
energy storage as far as far as batteries are concerned, that the energy density
needs to keep increasing, and we need to get off of lithium period,
because we'refining. Lithium is a is a somewhat rare resource and getting it and
refining it is a filthy, dangerous process that's horrible for the environment. That's
true. You'll hear conservative host on TV and radio saying that lithium is conveniently
horrible from their vironument, because conveniently being bad for the environment is okay to
talk about in terms of evs, because evs are the devil after all.
Right, Anyways, we need to get off of lithium. That is a
very very true sentiment, and that is a very very true need. This
is kind of segues to the overall idea that battery technology needs to improve.
Battery technology needs to advance. Remember back in the eighties, rechargeable batteries or
nickel cadmium, and they held about as much charge as a heavy duty battery.
They sucked. And then nickel metal hydra came along and they were arguably
just as good in some scenarios, are better in some scenarios. Then the
alkaline battery was not totally I'm not going to get into all the science behind
the difference between alkaline disposable alkaline batteries and nickel metal hydride rechargeable batteries. One
operates a denominal vulgative one point five. The alkaline operates at a nominal vultative
one point five. The liki metal hydride operates an a nominal vulgative one point
two. And blahity blah, there's a little differences, and it's just there's
some applications where the nickel metal hydri will last longer in a device versus an
alkaline, and vice versa for other devices. Not getting into that, the
point is that energy storage in batteries has improved. So if you remember I
almost said the s word crappy nickel cadmium chargeables versus modern nickel metal hygdride rechargeables
and lithium batteries, battery technology has advanced. Now we need to advanced past
lithium to make a safer battery that is less less flammable. When a lithium
battery catches on fire, whether it's in your smartphone, your electric scooter or
electric car, what air laptop, whatever, those fires are horrible and you
cannot put them out. You have to There is some serious, serious work
that goes into trying to put a battery fire out, and basically that is
just to let that is basically to let the battery burn itself out in a
safe way, like get the battery away from other things, contain the burning
so that it doesn't burn anything else up. It's create in this crazy how
long lithium batteries burned like an electric car catching on fire, can burn for
days and days like it's nuts in your cell phone. If that thing bursts
in the flames, it is going for a long time. It's basically going
to be like an acettline torch in your pocket. Lithium is dangerous. We
need to get off of lithium much the same way that gasoline has improved over
the years. Remembered leaded gas was I even alive for leaded gas? For
all the youngsters listening, when you see unleaded gasoline, it's like, well,
I don't know where to find leaded gasoline. Needed if you could find
leaded gasoline. But the point is that that refining gasoline has improved over the
past earned years. Thus the same is true for battery and electrical storage.
It needs to keep improving one way that it has improved or that it promises
to improve. And this is kind of my segue to talking about Toyota's promises
and claims. Toyota to kind of set the backstory up a little bit,
Toyota is famously kind of been behind in the electric vehicle arena. They don't
have any evs kind of as we know it there, which is funny because
they're the ones who came out with the Prius. They're like, they're kind
of responsible for the wide adoption of hybrid technology, but they never got on
the EV train. Every other major manufacturer has gotten on this electric vehicle train.
Volkswagen and Mercedes and Ford and Chevy like they're all on board of the
EV but Toyota really isn't. They don't have an electric vehicle one percent electric
vehicle on offer. So they've made this promise that not only are they going
to start offering electric vehicles, but they're going to offer electric vehicles that have
up to seven hundred and forty five miles of range using solid state batteries,
and they will be on offer by the year twenty twenty five. Basically,
what Toyota is it sounds like they are overpromising. Just to be completely frank
here, it sounds like Toyota is way like Elon Musk over promising on what
they're going to deliver as far as evs are concerned, because this is this
is nuts. And when poked and prodded, Toyota like, okay, Toyota,
how can you tell us about the solid state battery technology? They're very
tight lipped, and which I understand a little bit, as far as you
know, you don't want to just give away divulge too much information about your
proprietary technology. I completely understand that part of it. But at the same
time, it's like shape like do you have it or do you don't have
the solid state technology? It sounds like you're making a huge, huge claims
here, but you're not giving us much information beyond that. Toyota says that
they've made this progress in the prototype stage, but that manufacturing it in like
mass wide scale production of it is a different story altogether. But they hope.
They say they're well on their way to mass production of solid state batteries
capable of seven hundred and forty five miles of range and charging in less than
ten minutes by the year twenty twenty seven. So they want to have evs
by twenty twenty five using liquid based lithium batteries that offer extended range and been
faster charging times they have. They say they're gonna have that by twenty twenty
five. But it's the solid state batteries that charge in ten minutes and have
almost eight hundred miles of range that they say they're going to have by twenty
twenty seven. That sounds like overpromising that because they're so tight lipped, And
like I mentioned before, I understand, you know, proprietary technology. I
understand why they want to be tight lip, but at the same time,
it's like do you, like I said, do you have it or do
you don't. So solid state batteries do exist, They do exist in certain
limited applications and limited production. What Toyota is promising to be a game changer
here is that they are promising to perfect the mass production and cheapening of solid
state batteries. Solid state batteries are more energy dense, they charge quicker,
they have more range because of that energy density, and they don't have that
liquid electric light that is so risky as for fire. So solid state batteries
are less they are less dangerous, more range, in charge, quicker,
and Toyota is saying that, yes, solid state batteries do exist in certain
limited productions and limited applications, but they are promising that they've unlocked this game
changer that's going to allow them to mass produce solid state battery for use in
electric cars and other applications, and they promise to have that perfected, or
they say they're going to have that perfected by the year twenty twenty seven,
which as of recording is about four years away. That sound you ever heard
too good to be true? It probably isn't. That's kind of the way
I personally feel about this, Like I have a feeling and I would love
to be wrong about this that twenty twenty seven is going to come and go
and we're not going to see this magic silver bullet EV that gets seven hundred
forty five miles of range and charges in ten minutes from Toyota. I don't
think we're going to see that, but I would love to be wrong.
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Let's and I hate this turn of phrase. Let's switch gears here and talk
about the iPad or my iPad pro that I bought a while back. I've
said this cup probably for the past couple of years. I said this when
I bought my first M one MacBook Pro in the year twenty twenty. Is
like, the real winners in this kind of new Apple silicon game is going
to be when the M two chips come out and people are going to be
able to scoop up M one devices for half the price or a court like
for really cheap. Those are the real winners. They're going to get these
awesome devices with this awesome chip in here for without paying the Apple tax first.
So in my kind of Mac universe, I'm a PC and a Mac
and an Android user. Like I use all of it all the time.
Right now, as I'm recording this podcast, I'm using my sixteen inch MacBook
Pro with the M one pro in it that I got for a freaking steel
I traded in my M one thirteen inch MacBook Pro towards this sixteen inch MacBook
Pro that was on a steep discount at a microcenter, and it also got
an M one iPad Pro also at a steep discount because all the new generation
stuff's come out, So I'm one of those benefactors of buying used M one
chips when the M two chips stuff comes out because it is huge discount.
So anyways, I want to top of the iPad a little bit here.
My it's an eleven inch M one, What is a fifth generation iPad pro
whatever fortune third, I don't even know. It's an M one powered iPad
Pro. And as much hate as Apple gets in, as much hate as
I criticism, I tossed towards Apple where it's do. There is something to
be said for the Mac ecosystem for certain functions between devices. For instance,
the way that you can use an iPad seamlessly as an external monitor for your
MacBook Pro or your Mac laptop is awesome. You I already have my iPad
with me. I've got my MacBook Pro with me. Click one button up
there in the top right control center to either mirror the display on the iPads
display or just use it as an extended desktop over there. It's awesome,
so awesome, and so seamless. That is so freaking cool. I wish
there was a way on the Windows side of things, on the PC side
of things, to do something that seamlessly, natively, natively, natively,
Yes, there are ways to you is an Android tablet or smartphone to extend
the display of your lap, of your PC laptop, your Windows laptop,
your Windows desktop. Yes, there's a way to do it. I use
an app called super Display, and it's awesome for that purpose. But it's
not as seamless and baked into the ecosystem as screen mirroring is in between mac
os and iPad os. It's just one click and there it is. It's
awesome. I mean, especially for editing, for for editing podcast, for
editing audio, for editing video. I can have the iPad, you know,
running my notes there in like Microsoft Word or one note or whatever,
and then on the main bigger screen of the Macupro sixteen inch. I've gotten
the editing software I'm using Da Vinci Resolve or Reaper or whatever I'm using.
It's awesome if you the use cases, it doesn't even need to be stated.
Having multiple monitors is a productivity game changer. I mean it has been
for years and years and years. And just the way that credit work credits
due the Walled Garden of Mac allows you to use your iPad as an external
display so seamlessly is amazing. It's just amazing. So with the iPad,
it's I don't just use it as a as an external monitor. I try
to use a day to day for different productions. And I've said on this
show before that I really wish that Reaper, which is the program I audio
editing program, the NL audio editor that I used for making podcast at least
I wish Reaper. While it is on almost everything. You can get Reaper
on Linux, Windows, macOS. Of course, you can run Reaper on
your Raspberry Pie. It's it's amazing, but it's not on Android or iOS.
It's for the best. The best audio editor I've I have seen for
Um for Android is called audio Evolution. Now there's a bunch of different music
makers and things for Android, like Fruity Loop Studio is on everything. It's
on iPad also, but it's not it's not really made for podcasts, at
least the way that I like to produce them. But Audio Evolution is the
closest kind of like in depth multi track just audio editor that I found for
Android. But it's clunky to use on a touchscreen, and it's just it's
not I've used it before. I've made podcasts and radio shows with it before,
like once or twice, as as a late as a sheer, like
willing it into existence, because it is not nearly as easy to do as
on a desktop based nale. But that's the audio editor that I use on
Android. In a pinch, if I am out in the field quote unquote,
and I just I need to make a radio show with my phone.
That's what I do. I use Audio Evolution now on the iOS side of
things, on the iPad os side of things, not final cut. Oh
gosh, Logic pro is on iPad os now, And I was really hopeful.
This is kind of like the crux of this segment here is that I
was really hopeful that Logic pro. Let me bring it up while I'm talking
about it would be this intuitive thing to use. I don't want to use
face ide I'm not even real real world frustrations, real time frustrations. There
you go, it's on my face, Okay, I want I really wanted
logic pro to be super useful for making podcasts on the on the iPad.
Now, because the iPad has such amazing built in microphones, you could you
could totally make a radio show or a podcast using nothing but the iPad because
the microphones and it are that good. They are production ready, production quality
microphones. They're they're usable. It's not going to replace you know, a
dedicated condenser large diaphragment denser microphone, but in a pinch, you just really
clean audio. For the microphones built into MacBooks and iPads. They're great for
kind of on the go audio recording. They sound amazing. They sound just
as good as USB condenser microphone small dia fram USB condenser microphones. Anyways,
Anyways, so I was using logic pro and I was building a template in
there to make to make a podcast, like if I'm out and I don't
want to bring my laptop or anything, and I just have my iPad with
me be able to produce an iPad again. It's it's an issue unfortunately,
of kind of willing it into existence. And here's what I've realized music production
on tablets, and maybe some of you listening have already kind of come to
this conclusion. Music production on tablets is it's almost entirely under the assumption that
you're going to be using loops and synthesizers and dragging and dropping and copying and
pasting and using pre made audio samples and things like that. It's kind of
funny, like when you start asking it to like do a multi track recording,
like I want to record drums multi track, I want to record vocals,
and then it makes it like it's it's of course doable, you can
absolutely do it, but it's but the software is still assuming that most people
are just going to want to be dragging and dropping samples and loops around.
This is what it caters to. And when you ask it to do multi
track stuff, it's like, oh, okay, we'll let you, but
this is not what the software is optimized for. I know that people make
multi track recordings on their iPads. I know that they've been using garage band
forever and Logic forever. To do that kind of thing with an iPad maybe
not Logic for Erica's Logic Pro is kind of a recent thing on iPad os,
But you get my point here. The main point is that as much
as I I would like to use the iPad as kind of a dedicated podcast
machine, at least when I travel, it's just it's still pulling teeth.
One of the things that Reaper does, and pro tools and different kind of
desktop based and audio NLS DAWs do is that you can when you export,
you can export like regions, which is important to me for radio broadcasts.
I want to export between zero and eight minutes, and eight minutes and eighteen
minutes and eighteen minutes and twenty nine, then twenty nine to thirty nine.
Those are my four segments. It's pulling teeth to do that. In Logic
Pro, it's pulling teeth. But that's where I'm at. How'll updates you
with any of the elements on that front. You are worthy of love,
you're worthy of giving love, and you're worthy of receiving love, and you're
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