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Stephen is going on a trip for Vampires of New Orleans with The Author Success Mastermind.

Alan saw James Bond and we reminisce about the many years of great Bond films and wonder what will be coming up next.

Alan just attended the new mac announcements and we wonder how things will work with the shortages.

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[00:00:00] Stephen: There you are. There you go. Okay. All right. Now,

[00:00:08] Alan: yes, I can hear you. I can see you. I’m surrounded by leaves.

[00:00:12] Stephen: That’s weird because then Castro, I mean, I saw the wave. You saw the wave. I’ve used the Zencaster, uh, in the last week. In fact, I had a really good interview on Friday. It was fine. It was just, and I haven’t used it and I rebooted this morning.

So what’s going

[00:00:27] Alan: on. Like I was saying it sometimes apps don’t like, they set things to where they are, but then they leave them, even though they don’t realize that it’s a system setting instead of an app specific site.

[00:00:41] Stephen: Oh no. I have found that if I have a zoo and then later today I go on the Zencaster a lot of times the mic won’t work until I do a complete reboot Zen or zoom must capture the mic and not give it up.

[00:00:55] Alan: Yeah. That there. Wow. You know, it’s kind of funny because. In this era [00:01:00] of COVID and so forth, you would think that all the places that learn to capture screens, sound or recording, they would learn to play nice. Unless what they’re saying is let’s make it inconvenient for you to use anybody, but us, you know what I mean?

[00:01:13] Stephen: I mean, honestly, isn’t that a playbook tactic out of Microsoft and apple. I mean, we know Microsoft has done that type of stuff in the past.

[00:01:22] Alan: Exactly. That make it integrating enough and act like, Hey, we know we’re the only one out there, so why should we worry about anybody else? And then they don’t.

[00:01:33] Stephen: So anyway, okay.

So, uh, wow. A lot going on. My big thing is we are leaving tomorrow for new Orleans. The first trip this year that we’ve both been able to go on that we had planned.

[00:01:47] Alan: Wow. So this was for a conference or for a big, I think it was a conference,

[00:01:51] Stephen: a writers writers world-building event. So we’re going down the new Orleans, a group of writers.

It’s only like [00:02:00] 10 or 12 of us. We’re going to create a world as a group. And then everybody’s going to write a short vampire story. Uh, set within that world and we’re go compile it and release it as an anthology and all the monies go, go to charity. And while down there we’re going to go to a vampire ball.

We’re going to go to a vampire club and do a tour cemetery tour, and all

[00:02:22] Alan: sorts of you get all the atmosphere to it, to get everybody thinking. What a great idea I’ve often liked shared world series, you know, like Robert aspirin did it for a long time with, um, not cause the thieves world. I think it’s called thieves world and George Martin, when he, before the big breakthrough was game of Thrones, he had written successful stuff,