CroftCast Ep. # 84 For the Hearing Impaired

For the Hearing Impaired

John tests out the dictation functionality while recording.

A follow up on Daniel Craig’s Southern accent.

Tom Cruise’s immortality and the Mission Impossible series.

Bonus musical recording at the end where John finally has the mental focus to play an entire song that he’s tried a number of times prior to this to get on tape.

Dictation (unedited)

OK I'm going to turn on the dictation on on the Word document you're just gonna get maybe if I decide to publish all this all of the words in there if I want to here's The funny thing how dictation works in Word it doesn't recognize when I end in sentence it's kind of like receiving a text message from my father there's zero punctuation carriage returns or anything else so if I wanted to end a sentence have to go this is the end of the sentence. And then it will put the period at the end of the sentence but if I just use the word. At the in the middle of a sentence you will see that the word. Will show up . And there's some more punctuation ! ? . - - 1

and if I do publishes you'll be able to follow along it'll kinda be funny because you can read along while I'm speaking I guess for the hearing impaired listening to a podcast this is this is the ultimate way to go uh if you can read you'll be able to follow along with all the words with zero punctuation This might be really fun I don't know we're gonna give it a shot and see where it goes but when I it's not picking up the laughs which to me is even funnier so will so we'll see where it goes I've hit pause and then I forgot to hit record so I have no idea we got what we got recorded but you can read the transcripts and see what I said literally see what I said now when I may or may not have been recording so enjoy that

again you don't get the laughs but uhm I'm getting a good laugh out of it and I'm really enjoying it but there's not when I want to talk to you guys about today What I want to talk about I want to follow up on something that I talked about on episode 79 on episode 79 I mentioned Daniel crag and his southern accent his Colonel Sanders Kentucky fried chicken accident when no one else in the movie had a southern accent

no this action that I told you about before I told you it was overly excessive and it was way out of character And I think that movie came out 2019-2020 somewhere very very recent What I came across earlier this week was another movie I think from 2017 I didn't look it up but I'm it was I think it was 2017 2017 2018 and it was called what was it it was a Logan lucky and in Logan lucky they were everybody in that movie their their characters anyway obviously Daniel Craig is not from West Virginia but his character and all the other characters were in Virginia or West Virginia West Virginia Mountain West Virginia Take Me Home country Rd yeah that that song plays into that that's that will help me remember that it is sometimes when we're trying to remember things there are lots of little tips and tricks that you can do out there to help you remember things Association is really the best in When I moved around quite a bit it was a lot easier to keep track of time because I could keep track of I remember I was here and that was this year and then we moved there and that was this year and then But once once we bought the house and settled down in 2004 and lived there for 15 years really lost track of time we we may circle back around that I want to get back to this Daniel Craig thing real quick

so in Logan lucky um he he it was a much better fit number one it was not in West virginians I mean that's a complete I mean it's southern but it's I mean it's it's a dialect unto its own it's kind of like if you go to Mississippi well that's southern but the people from Mississippi sound like people from Mississippi it southern I mean uh joked about the Kentucky fried chicken thing Colonel Sanders Kentucky I'm pretty sure is North of the Mason Dixon line we can we can digress on that but uh it's almost it's in that Midwest kind of area which Midwest is really like central East I don't know I had never understood the Midwest is like my dad said did the Kansas City just quit And I guess if Kansas was the West and Midwest would have been but really nowadays the West is California so it's one of those things we really need to re calibrate um talk about the the Southwest I don't want to get off on football here but here's something really is chapma ask for a long time The Dallas Cowboys I've been a Dallas Cowboys fan my entire life but why is why are the Dallas Cowboys in the NFC East along with New York Philadelphia In Washington and watched in his lost her complete identity even though the the Native American slash Indians had no problem with the name Ashley dug it all those are on the East Coast there in the East we're not even in the Eastern Time zone want central time no I digress again

I'm I'm talking and I'm sitting here watching the the words just pop up on the screen This technology's been around for awhile it's it's gotten Better it can be good a Microsoft Word hey Bill Gates instead of like trying to tell the world what medications we need why don't you fix your software too when I end a sentence you put punctuation Or it put a pause you put punctuation because those people reading this phone along at home and you know I judgment call I just did a whole lot of talking there with a whole lot of without a whole lot of recording so for those people that are go to the craft cast website um I'm going to put this on there this entire transcript is I'm not going to I'm not going to put it on on the on the the podcast notes it be way too long so you'll have to hop on over an read what you missed and it'll be easy to pick it up because you'll be reading along and in all of a sudden when i jump to something you're going to have to

Alright I'm back um oh look it's uh it's writing down again what I'm saying so again this is a little experiment I wanted to talk to you guys about a few things but at the same time I did want to see if if I could capture these words all the words even the ones that I'm not recording inadvertently nice little test here give it a run

Going back to the to the movies not literally going back to the movie theater but going back to the subject of movies this is one thing I just realized about the dictation it keeps typing along an A Cup that I made like 2 notes I wanted to talk about Daniel Craig and I want to talk about Mission Impossible that's the only thing I had planned to talk to you guys about tonight those two things one subject movies and my my notes go all the way to the top and I I can't see them 'cause now we're on like page 5 or something like that notes are on Page 1 anyway so back to the Mission Impossible do you guys realize did Tom Cruise has been playing the Mission Impossible part since 1996? And that's just for the dictation 1996 Mission Impossible one Tom Cruise the most recent Mission Impossible movie which all of them were am I want to MI three MI4MI5 the last one was not MI 6 I don't know why I didn't look it up I thought that was kind of weird though anyway that was 2018 that's 22 years did Tom Cruise has been playing the same character I don't know where that fits into the star treks and everything else didn't look it up I just thought that was crazy Tom Cruise was playing the Mission Impossible character before my daughter was born She's 22 and he still playing the Mission Impossible character but here's the crazy creepy thing he doesn't look that much different over 22 years no he got their Hollywood money he's got the living the Scientology lifestyle I don't know what it is maybe it's vegan maybe he's not maybe he's anti vegan I don't know haven't looked it up don't care maybe maybe he's a reptile I don't know the only thing that I do know is Tom Cruise doesn't age now that's really strange for for a white dude I got black friends and say black don't crack man and it's right um I have told you I will forward like if if if you look at a people from the from the Far East they do not age but the lighter your skin is the more age you show S you said that's a fact Jack I mean like 99% of the time I don't know whatever it is but

I don't know all I know is I don't I don't know what to deal with Tom cruises but he's even easier having blending work done getting into my injections I don't know maybe just each really healthy and works outline that might help don't know don't care just a general observation Anyway so just wanted to follow up on a few things well follow up on one thing the Daniel Craig southern accent talk a little movie talk and then see how the dictation works here again you will have to go to the website if you want to read and follow along again there were things that again you'll have to go to the website because again I'd hit pause and I found a hit record but I didn't the buttons not working well for me or I'm not paying attention to what button I'm pushing because I'm more interested in the words just popping up on the screen as I talk show go to the website croftcash.com the link is in it's on every episode on your podcast platform should go down there you can kind of you can read the show notes the dictation will not be in the show notes but it will be on the website Anne for your entertainment an reading privileges you'll be able to read some of the things that I've said that I accidentally did not record and you can laugh hysterically at the lack of punctuation There are some carriage returns in here that's just because I've been hitting the enter key on the keyboard just break this up a little bit otherwise be like a Hill or run on sentence and going back to doctor Edwards in 8th grade I'm pretty sure she told me that wasn't a good thing to do

anyway um I'm going wrap it up appreciate you guys for listening appreciate you tune in give me give me some feedback on the on the dictation let let me know if that was any benefit to you whatsoever um one benefit that I think might come of it if you're looking for something in particular on the website if there was a particular word that I said then that it'll be searchable so the only thing that's searchable right now is anything if it's in the MP3 title or if it's on any of the words that I've literally typed on the screen but because I'm going to copy and paste this dictation into or onto the website everything I say will be searchable on here so if you're like when I said as fact Jack you'll be able to search the words fat Jack and find this episode now I don't know why you want to look for a fact Jack but you can find it don't forget all the big kahuna isms are out there and for those of you that haven't seen it yet I got the big kahuna his own the big kahuna T shirt so he is he's always been the big kahuna but now he's got the shirt to go along with it anyway with that OK Ciao on the flip side