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Probably the following up from the last show that we talked about, sunscreens and all this stuff. I don't know if you guys got a chance to listen or watch. But it's following up on the same, there's some CNN show happening this week. There's a doctor, Sanjay Gupta, he's reporting on pesticides and all the different foods that are in our food system that are toxic in ways. And one of the things that I wanted to point out also from that show, and you guys can go to CNN, it's like on the front page because they're really promoting it, but the topic that I wanted to cover today was like five toxins that are everywhere in our food supplies and our drinking bottles and things like that. And I think that a lot of you have probably heard about the different toxic effects, but it's because it's such a pervasive thing, it's definitely worth mentioning. And so the first one on this list is the Bisphenol A, which is basically plastic bottles. And yeah, he just brought it up on the background. And it's a clear heat resistant plastic and it's found in water bottles and reusable food containers and plastic tableware, where else? Infant feeding cups, lining of infant formulas, cans. And the gist of this story is that these chemicals are linked to ailments, including cancer, sexual problems, and behavioral issues. And the five products are the BPA, which is the Bisphenol A, and the phthalates, some people pronounce it differently. And then there's this PFOA, there's formaldehyde, and then probably brominated diphenyl ethers or PDBEs, so it's a long names, chemical names. And the tests reveal that most of us now carry them in our bodies. So we're drinking them, we're inhaling them, we're, they're all over the place, so much so that now they can actually test it in most people's bodies and find some kind of residue of these plastics and stuff that they're putting into these. So I just wanted to run down the list and the reason I brought it up is because there's ways to avoid or to reduce the exposure of these, and I just wanted to quickly go through the list. They say that, it says here, this is CNN.com. It says that they're doing this, as you said, this special toxic America, they call it. That's the name of it, yeah, toxic America. June 2nd and 3rd at 8 p.m. Eastern time, so that was like last night and tonight. Yeah, and you can go to their webpage and look at these at any time. Watch the video later, but if you probably just Google CNN Toxic America download, you might even be able to download it somewhere. So that looks like something worth watching, the special too. Yeah, and this is from like a very well recognized medical doctor speaking out about these things. So it's finally sort of mainstream in a way. It's scary because there's plastic in everything. Every food that we eat, every beverage we drink, if it's not served in plastic, it's delivered in plastic, everything is, like what doesn't touch plastic? And this children are the most affected by these things, and then adults of course as well, but not in such high concentrations as it is being found in children. Why is that? I think that children or babies are now starting to be born with these chemicals already in their system. That's why they're bringing this to the light that tests reveal that most of us now carry them in our bodies. So I'm not sure exactly if they're finding them in babies, but I believe that that's part of the research that's being found out now. And so for the BPA, which everyone talks about is the plastics and water bottles, et cetera. How we're exposed, it's obvious I already said it. We drink this stuff and the health effects are cancer producing health effects. There's some type of regulation that environmental protection agency is looking into to try and curb this exposure, but mainly what you need to know and what you can do to reduce the exposure is to buy stainless steel bottles or glass bottles. For example, what we do here at our home is whenever I buy milk or whatever we buy, I immediately place it into glass bottles. What about those regular milk cartons that are wax lined paper? Are those better than plastic? Yeah, I think they are if you had to choose one. It's hard to get milk in glass containers anymore. If you go to an organic store, you might find it, but no, not really because it's so heavy. Once it arrives at your house and it comes in plastic, it's spent most of its time in plastic anyway. You switch it to glass, it's fine, but isn't it better if you can buy it in something so that it's been transported in something safer? Yeah, ideally, yes, but the reason I switch it is because I buy my milk from a local dairy farmer and I buy raw milk, actually. So that milk, they do bring it in plastic, but it's only been in that plastic for maybe a day or two because it's coming straight from the farm. So in my mind, I just think overall, it'll be better just to put it in glass. Like everything else, if you buy it in glass or if they were even to sell it in glass, it would cost a lot more because you're hauling glass, which is much heavier obviously, and then you've got to return it probably for deposit and handle all that stuff, used milk bottles, unless you wash them yourself, that's probably a health hazard to return. I don't know, but I mean the old days, my grandparents had the milkman delivered glass bottles in a previous life, I'm not really that old, but I remember hearing stories about my grandparents receiving, the milkman would come and bring a box on your porch and it'd be milk bottles, but of course they'd drive a truck around you know, that's not very friendly for the environment either, driving a truck around delivering milk, but I guess things we had different values then. Yeah. I don't know, I mean, what's the safest material besides glass, because glass is so heavy that it seems like the paper with the wax lining, does that have any toxic effects? No, not that I'm aware of. I mean, they're... So why not just buy the paper cardboard milk instead of the plastic ones? Yeah, because normally, like if you buy more than like a liter or half a gallon, then it always comes in plastic, so I mean, you don't, I think those... You can buy multiple half gallons, but... Right, then you end up spending more. Most people are looking for values, so they end up with the gallon and everyone drinks milk. So we hear all these stories all the time about all the things that cause cancer, everything seems to cause cancer, but I very seldom hear the solution, what are we going to do regularly? You know, what can you do? If everything is coming in plastic and it's because people are buying it in plastic, they want it in plastic because it's cheaper. They want cheaper and they want it efficient and they want it easy to carry. They want it, no, I don't want to have to return anything. They think, oh, it's green enough because we can recycle some plastic or whatever. I don't know if that's really true, how much of it really does get recycled, but what they want is cheaper, cheaper, cheaper. That's why Walmart is so successful. So it's really hard. I mean, if they regulate it, then that just means you're going to have less options, you know, everything's going to be forced to be put in glass or something, or what are they going to do? That or it'll innovate creativity into some other form of container. Some new plastic that we haven't researched. That's the thing that, I mean, we're going through this oil spill now and people are really getting very upset about it. And and this might be just enough to trigger people just to not want to consume it. You know, I mean, I doubt it. We live in a chemical world. I know, like what about seafood? Oh, man, I don't even want to think about what that oil spill is going to do. That's just really, really horrible. That's one of the it's just a national. I mean, it's a global disaster that is just too painful to even think about. Well, without moving into another subject, I mean, I think that they're this week, they're rallying in like 10 big cities in America because they're trying to like freeze BP's assets before they like give them away to their CEOs. Their record profits. Yeah. Oh, boy. Well, they're protesting the American people should not be forced to pay for this cleanup until after all of BP's assets have been spent on it. Right. But the idea is that, you know, Americans are getting smarter. They're realizing that freezer assets, they can protest all they want, you know, but the CEOs are going to walk away with the multimillion dollar payouts. They're going to fly away in their private assets. You know, they can freeze the assets and rally people to do it right away or the government to do it right away. It might prevent, you know, all this money going somewhere else before I doubt that they will be able to freeze all their assets because it's a global corporation. But and it's not an American corporation. But anyway, but anyway, back to the BISMO, BISMO final, which is the BPA in plastics, ways to reduce exposure is by stainless steel bottles and glass food storage containers. If you buy plastic, check for the recycle number on the bottom. If it says seven, then you want to stay away from it. And, you know, don't heat up any kind of plastics in the microwave, et cetera. Use glass containers on the glass when you heat it up in the microwave. And then the the other one is phthalates, which is spelled with a P phthalates. And where are they found and phthalates are used to mainly to soften plastics or to it's a family of chemicals that softens plastics. They also use to bind chemicals together. There's obvious health effects related to that and how you can reduce your exposure to it because they use it in shampoos and conditioners and other personal care products. The so all these are these are all going to be on this web page. If you go to CNN.com and just search for five toxins, you're going to find all these details. Right. So anyway, watch the show, watch the special. Yeah, that's why I wanted to cover it because people don't necessarily might not have the time to do it, but they want to listen to what we have to say about it. So boy shampoos and conditioners that have on their ingredients list fragrance because they're made with phthalates and and they don't disclose if they have phthalates or not and the government's trying to do something about that. The other one is called PFOA, which is also called C8. And that's basically Teflon and it's made to make Teflon and use on other thousands of other nonstick and stain and water repellent products. And then what to do to reduce the exposure, basically by stainless steel or cast iron cookware. And if you use nonstick cookware, do not overheat it, which releases toxic effects. The other one is formaldehyde and it's an ingredient in resins that acts as glue and it's in the manufacturer of pressed wood products. So basically your furniture contains tons of it. I know one time I read that like sheets that are like they call these if you buy sheets for your your bed or whatever that are what are the ones that are called that you don't have to iron or whatever the permanent press permanent press. Yeah, the ones that say permanent press or whatever, those contain some forms of foam for maldehyde. If you notice those smell a little differently as well. So you want to stay away from, you know, formaldehyde, basically. And you have to stay away from everything, basically everything in your home. Yeah, I mean, you buy furniture free of formaldehyde, eliminates exposure, obviously. And then the other one is Pbde, which is a group of chemical used as a flame retardant and they reduce the chance of something catching on fire. And that's also in furniture. And what you can do to reduce the exposure is to find products without them. It'll say Pbde flame retardant and be sure to sweep up dust because if you have it in your in your home, the idea is that eventually it deteriorates and then it becomes into dust and then you inhale it. So those are the five things. And I guess we're going to go into. Yeah, I just want to take a moment to thank our sponsors because our sponsors for today's show are Arvix Web Hosting. First of all, Arvix is the web hosting company that we use. They do domain registration as well. And they have excellent web hosting. The thing I like about it, obviously, they have, you know, super high uptime. We've never had an outage actually using it. It's by the way, it's it's Arvix. I always pronounce it wrong, but it's A-R-V-I-X-E. Arvix is how it's pronounced, Arvix.com. And you can register domains with them, which we do. And which are competitive prices the same or less than anywhere else. 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Yeah, I think they're great and you can return anything you don't like, even if it's a year later. I love that. Yeah. And you can go to Costco.com and the prices there are all inclusive of shipping and handling and all the they'll include shipping on there. You know that I know one thing. Costco.com is like a different store altogether, even though it's the same membership. You you have different products on Costco.com that are not necessarily in the store and vice versa. So it's really cool. You can it's like two different memberships. You can shop at Costco.com. For example, we buy our mattresses. We buy these memory foam mattresses, which are quite expensive if you buy them otherwise. But they're, you know, super, super affordable at Costco and they just deliver them UPS. It comes in a little box the size as a queen size memory foam mattress came in a little box the size of a, like an office refrigerator or something really tiny. And you cut it open and it just expands. 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It'll synchronize all your files. We use it here. We have the maximum size you can get. Plus they give you free storage if you make referrals. So we've got like a total of 116 gigabytes of storage on there. And we only put on there, pretty much we only put on there the things that are irreplaceable, like family photos and documents. So we use it like a file server. What happens is you put the document on your computer and you store everything inside your Dropbox on your computer and then instantly, like within seconds, as soon as I save it on my computer, boom, a message pops up on all the other computers. This document was just saved and it's now accessible on every computer we have wherever it may be, including the Android and the iPhone and everything. It's brilliant. So what it does is it synchronizes your files among all your computers, which obviously in effect backs them up so I could drop my laptop in a lake and nothing is lost. Everything is still there. And you have as many, I mean, nothing could be a better backup because if you have six computers, you have seven copies of everything. One on each of the six computers plus one out there on the web for Dropbox. And you can even log on from any web browser, log on and go to Dropbox.com and log on and you can access all your files from any web browser and download your file if you need to. Someone else's computer. Anywhere, yeah, even an internet cafe or something. And finally, you can actually share documents. So for example, if there's a whatever, some flyer that we created or something and it's on my Dropbox, I can right click on it and it says get public URL and I can actually email that link to people or text message it to them. They can click the link and now they have a copy of the document. So, and it can also be like a video, music, photo, any kind of file. So you can actually send very large files that way just by sending one link in an email with zero attachments. They can just click the link and download whatever that file is. So it's a brilliant service. It's Dropbox.com. Check it out. All right, so moving right along. The, my topic is, my next topic is about smartphones. The new smartphones. Everyone always asks me, naturally it's about technology. I talk about technology a lot. And I talk about how, obviously. Yeah, you know, we make a good team. The thing, and actually I want, by the way, this is a good point to put in a plug. I'm gonna be starting a new weekly show called AbsoTechly. Spelled just like it sounds. A-B-S-O-T-E-C-H-L-Y. AbsoTechly.com is where it will live. And it's gonna be a weekly show that's all about technology. So I'll be able to talk less about technology on this and more on that. So you can, if you're really into technology, you can subscribe to that one and you'll hear, we'll have some really amazing technology guests and stuff. But anyway, this is a question that I get all the time and that is, what's the best phone to buy? I need a new phone. What phone should I buy? That's where I'm at. I need to buy a new phone. So many people. So many people are in this boat. And so a friend of mine recently asked me, he says he has MetroPCS, which I love MetroPCS. We'll get to that in a minute. But I actually recommended that he get it. So that's why he has it. And he's asking me, what about this, you know, which phone should I buy? I saw this Samsung code. Should I buy it? I said, no, I don't really like it much. At this point, my recommendation, I would not buy a phone unless it had Android Linux on it, which basically just means Android. If it has Android, it's good. The Android is a version of Linux, by the way, most people don't even know it. The people in the phone store don't even know that. But anyway, if it says Android, you can't go too far wrong. However, I mean, I wouldn't buy a phone that has Windows mobile on it. I'm not a big fan of BlackBerry. BlackBerry's sales are going down fast. iPhone sales are going down fast. And the only one that's rising is rising fast. And that's the Android. Any phone that has the Android operating system on it, for good reason, because it really is amazing. So right now, my recommendation, and mind you, my recommendations used to be, for cell phones, used to be like, they'd last a year. And then they went to like six months. And then three months. Now I would say, maybe one or two months. One or two months at most. Because things are changing so, so, so, so fast. The, like this, well, my recommendation right now is the HTC Evo. Spelled EVO. Right, HTC Evo. Now, I am not married to one cell phone company. You know, the top four cell phone companies, they're all pretty comparable. I mean, they're going to give you reasonable phone service pretty much everywhere in the US. So I'm not really, really that tight. I'm more interested in the quality of the device, especially now, because phones have changed. They really aren't so much phones as computers. They're pocket computers. So they're not laptops. They're pocket tops. They're like pocket computers. They really are. And people are using them for email, web browsing, and text messaging, and Twitter, and all the rest. More, much more than they're using it to actually hold it up to their face and talk. So the, I think just recently, that's true. Yeah, exactly. It's been happening that way. So, more and more. So the, to me, the device is a lot more important than the phone company. As long as it's one of the top four, you really can't go too far wrong. It's going to work when you need it at the airport or whatever. So anyway, the HTC Evo is phenomenal. They keep leapfrogging each other. And the, so what's happened is, I have the Motorola Droid, and I love the Motorola Droid. Now the HTC Incredible came out, and it's like phenomenal. It really beat all the specs. It's better. Now, actually the Incredible, yeah, it just came out, the end of last month. And now the same company, HTC, they're leapfrogging themselves. The HTC Evo is coming out tomorrow, actually June 4th. So here's the deal. The HTC Evo is the best phone in the US, in my opinion. And it's up, it works on Sprint. It works on Sprint's 4G network. They call it 4G, in which by the way, 3G, 4G, all that stuff is just a marketing term, you know? It's actually Sprint's new YMAX network, which is, it's one of the, you know, it's the first, what they're calling 4G, data speed networks in the US, YMAX. And so, I don't know, I don't wanna quote that, the specs, the speed and all that, because I don't know, just go to Sprint.com and you can Google it and find out those details. But the bottom line is the HTC Evo is the best. It's got a large screen, it's got dual cameras, it's got a camera facing both directions. So, it's capable of video calls, you can actually call each other and see each other on video like Skype. And it's got a camera on both sides, it's got, you know, the works, it's got, you know, HD video, it's got HDMI out. So, which means you can plug your phone into anybody's HDTV and then watch movies, right there on their flat screen TV in HD, coming out of your phone. It's like a little Tivo in your box or something, I mean in your pocket with HD Tivo, okay? This technology is amazing. So, it's very important you get the right phone because you don't want just any old phone that says Android or even any old phone that says Droid because they're using that as a marketing term too. So anyway, number one, HTC Evo on Sprint. Number two, HTC Incredible on Verizon. And then the third best in my opinion is the Motorola Droid, make sure it's the Motorola Droid by, which is also available through Verizon in that order. And I know that iPhone or Apple just, I mean, I'm sorry, AT&T just came out with a new data pricing plan which actually reduces some of the previous costs. So it reduces it by like $10 or so. And they're saying that, you know, that most of all the other companies will follow suit. Yeah, we expect them to, yeah, AT&T dropped their rate plans and I would expect that Verizon and the others probably will follow suit very, very soon. They're gonna have to, they have to keep dropping. And then, which is a perfect segue into the other thing I wanted to mention, which is my favorite cell phone company is Metro PCS. And people are, oh, Metro PCS, oh, that's garbage, but it's not, it's really not. Metro PCS is, I think it's the fourth largest, it might be the third largest. I think they surpassed one of the companies. They're either in the top three or top four cell phone companies in the US. They have these deals, they're like cutting the way, they're on the cutting edge of this new price revolution when it comes to cell phones, which I love. It's unlimited everything, absolutely unlimited, unlimited minutes, unlimited text messaging, unlimited web browsing, unlimited everything. There's no such thing as a bill. There's no such thing as an extra charge. Or contract. There's no contract. There's no contract, but imagine this, there's no bill. You know, you pay a certain price, whether it's $39.95 a month or whatever they're charging, $40 a month depends on the market and so on, but basically it's a flat rate. If it's $40 a month, it's $40 a month, and every month they're gonna charge your credit, if you set it up this way, they'll charge your credit card automatically, $40 a month, that's it, $40, $40, $40, that's it. There's no extra charges. So there's no such thing as a roaming charges or long distance or anything like that. Even their international calling, for a real small fee, you can add international calling and you get free unlimited international calling. Text messaging, same thing. They give you, I mean the US, it's free unlimited text messaging anyway. And then I think maybe it's a small fee or it might be included, the international, at most it's a very small fee for unlimited international text messaging on your phone. Those are really, really cool things. The only thing I'm disappointed about with MetroPCS, well wait, I'll come back to that. The other thing about MetroPCS is that they're, okay, there's normal what they call 3G data networks that everybody knows, we all use that now. That's kind of the state of the art, except you've got a real old original iPhone. But anyway, everybody else is at 3G, they call it. That's a marketing term, not a technical term. But anyway, now Sprint has this one called YMAX, they're calling it 4G, okay. Well, there's another one that's like faster, even faster yet, it's called LTE. And it's not out yet. Maybe LTE stands for late, but no, it actually stands for long-term evolution, which doesn't matter. LTE is coming out the end of 2010 in the US, and it's only coming on two companies initially. The first two companies to have it will be MetroPCS and Verizon. So, it's very interesting because Verizon is, many people say Verizon's the most expensive carrier. I don't know if that's true. And MetroPCS is one of the least expensive carriers. So I'm really excited that MetroPCS is gonna have LTE because it's gonna be one of the least expensive carriers is gonna have one of the fastest networks. The only, now, the only problem I have with MetroPCS is I don't like their phones. Their phones are crap. I mean, it's like we're waiting for an Android phone. As soon as MetroPCS is able to work out of the deal with HTC, come on HTC, you're coming out with a new model every week. Come out HTC, come out with a phone for MetroPCS that runs Android and MetroPCS just get anything that runs Android and everybody will buy it because with unlimited data, text, email, all that stuff on an Android device, that is an absolute killer app, especially if it's in the range of 30, 40, even $50 a month. A fixed price would be even better. Oh my God, that will be killer. Absolutely. Which they've always had a fixed price. So, frankly, they don't have that. People are used to, like I got my haircut the other day and my barber says, I was paying $60 a month on whatever company and then he got the Motorola Droid and now he's paying something close to $110 a month after tax and the thing is, if you can go to a MetroPCS deal and if it's $40 a month or even $50 a month, less than half of anybody else for the same service or better, that's the other thing. The signal on MetroPCS is good. At least in New York City, there's only two services that work on our elevators here in this building and Verizon and MetroPCS and MetroPCS doesn't drop the call. Verizon does sometimes, but MetroPCS doesn't. So, the signal is awesome here. It's not awesome everywhere though. It works great in Florida. They just expanded to, they're in pretty much all the big cities but there are some, there's one or two cities that are still sketchy. They're still working, they're still building it out but it's gonna have, when they're done building it out, see it's gonna be the newest network because they just built it. So, MetroPCS is very exciting. Get an Android phone, MetroPCS and HTC, work out a deal with them. That's gonna be a killer app right there because like I said, for $50 a month, you can get the state of the art HTC Android on MetroPCS. Everyone will immediately cancel their contracts which is another thing. Don't be afraid to cancel your contract because often your monthly bill is not much less than the cancellation fee. So, you'll save enough to cancel your contract in one month. So, don't be afraid to cancel your contract if you find a much better deal, much better phone, things like that. So, that's the end of my rant about that. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, I've been looking at the Evo because I really wanna get a new phone as well and I'm just contemplating whether I really want CDMI and Sprint along with it. So, we'll see. We'll see. I'm sure you'll find out as soon as I have it because I'll be all crazy and googly over it. So, there you go. Googly, is that a word? You're gonna be googly? Yeah. Meaning I wanna tell you everything about it. Googly-eyed. Googly-eyed. We'll do the unboxing live. But like anybody else, it's all over YouTube. Well, no, actually it's not coming out till tomorrow. So, tomorrow it'll be on YouTube. Well, I can't wait to be able to plug it into my TV and watch TV shows or when I go to my mom's or somewhere, friends. And that's the biggest thing he's excited about is plugging his phone into a TV and watching it. That's cool, that's fine. Well, I'll be able to use it as like a little- A Tivo. A Tivo, right. Like a Tivo. The only thing I think that the memory seems kinda low. I thought it was like one gig or something. I don't know. Let's find out. I'll have to look it up, I overheard one person saying that and I was like, oh, I gotta look that up, but I never did. So anyway, one of the other things that I've had on the list to talk about, which I thought was kinda cool and just worth mentioning is this new website called, this is about probably relationships on the topic of relationships and stuff like that. Let me, I'm sorry to interrupt you. I just wanna tell you, I just Googled it. HTC Evo, it says four gig memory cards available. So I think the, if I remember reading right, not to interject, but the, or interrupt, it may come with a small amount of memory, but then you can upgrade it with a card. Oh, I hope so. So up to four gig or something like that. Cause four gig is like one or two movies or three maybe at the most. So for me, that's gonna be a little tough to navigate, but yeah. Okay, I'll research that and let you get back to you. Go ahead. Yeah, exactly. And I'm sure if I end up getting it, we'll give everyone the specs. So anyway, the topic was about cheatconfessions.com. It's this new website where people are going and posting their cheating ways, which I thought the only reason I wanted to bring it up is I thought that that would be, it's a good place to anonymously post what you're going through and people are posting why and the reasons why and what brought them to that point. And there's some real funny ones actually to read and they don't go, it's not long drawn out big confessionals, but just like a maybe one or two paragraph blurbs and then people comment of course on it and then there's like a stick with it or move on buttons that you can press for people. Stick with it or what? Yeah. It's all about relationships? It's about your cheating confessions. So, cause a lot of people cheat and then they don't wanna tell anyone. They don't wanna tell their best friends or that's the only one person they tell or they might not tell anyone. So, what's it called again? It's called cheatconfession.com and yeah, yeah. Okay. And so, I think that it'll be a pretty popular website if anything for entertainment's sake cause you can go on there and just see what people are talking about and why they're cheating and how it came about. And also to get feedback and comments on maybe what you should do or if you're even thinking about it, you can go in there and see what other people are saying about why or how they cheat. And let's face it, there's obviously people get divorces in this country in more than 50% people that are married end up in divorce. So, cheating is something that's going on and that most people don't ever hear about or talk about. It's always in a negative light. So, here's it's a very interesting thing. I think I kind of align this with, there's this other website which I can't remember the name but it's like a text messaging confession kind of thing. Text from last night. Yeah, text from last night. We go there like every six months or so and just have a few laughs. And we sometimes like when we're in a group of people. That's funny. We'll, I'll bring it up and start and I'll read a few of the ones just to get a good laugh. It's called textfromlastnight.com and it's, I think the, you know, I think I don't know how many are real and how many are just like people made it up to be funny. But anyway, then the view or the readers can vote on them. Yeah, they do good or bad or whatever and they vote them up. So it's kind of like dig or something where they can actually rate how good they are. So the funniest ones are the best. And so anyway, it's cute. Texts with an S, textsfromlastnight.com. So that may or may not be real. But this cheat confession, it's interesting. I'm looking at it now and they show a graph. Cheaters and cheating on 52% all time rates, according to this survey, 52% are male and 48% are female. I don't know, you know, I don't know if that's what that really means because only cheaters would go to this page. That doesn't mean that 52% of males cheat because you know what I mean? Like only people who were cheating would be filling out this survey. So that's not very scientific. Yeah, I mean, it's a blog. So I mean, take it for what it is. Just don't put your name on there. Oh, but you're supposed to vote. I see, move on or stick with it. And comment too, as to what you think. So you might get some interesting comments back if you're obsessive. It sounds like an obsessive chick flick destination site because it's gonna be like reading all the details about, you know, but he was so sweet and he brought me flowers, whatever. And then you're supposed to decide with a 10 second, two sentence little blurb whether to give them another chance or dump them. It's like, oh my gosh. Where some are obvious, you know? Oh, it says female cheated on, female other person. Oh, they're the other person. Right. Oh my gosh. Yep. I read some of them and they were kind of, some of them were somewhat funny. I mean, no one, we shouldn't be laughing at other people's dramas in their life, but I thought that. I'm assuming that they're real. They could be made for comedy, you know? Some people make that stuff up just to be cute. Yeah, this stuff looks pretty legitimate. So, you know, I just thought I'd bring it up just cause we'd like to make some of the topics about relationships and. Cheating. And so. They're gonna be started on this topic. Yeah, I know. We have a lot to say about that, which we haven't covered much lately, but we will. And we wanna have guests that, you know, like authors of books on these topics cause I ask good questions. We'll have a lot of fun. We'll have definitely have a lot of fun covering topics like this. But yeah, I mean, that just, I don't know, that just grates on. It's like, it's like chalk, I like fingernails on a chalkboard to me to hear even cheatconfession.com. It's like, you know, the term cheating I have a problem with from the very, very beginning. So anyway, don't get me started on that. We'll talk about, well, we're gonna talk a lot more about things like this in the future. And also, by the way, when you're looking at brettv.com, b-r-e-d-t-v.com, there's a thing, a button or an area on the right where it says show categories. So if you're not interested in stuff like this, like relationships and stuff, then you could just click the category you're interested in. The categories we list there are money, body, love, tech, which is technology, celebrity, and spirit. So if you're interested in, you know, whatever. Say if you're not interested in this sort of thing, relationships and stuff, then don't click on the love one. You know, if you're only interested in hearing about technology, click on the tech one. And you're gonna see every episode where we talk about technology. So we're gonna tag them and basically categorize the shows into logical categories so you can see what you're interested in and skip the rest. So all right, my next thing I wanted to bring up is, I don't know how many people actually have Google Voice yet, but if you don't have it, you should have it. It's amazing. You know, Google has outdone themselves with email. Well, obviously with search first, Google search, obviously. You know, you wanna know anything, use Google search. And that seems like as obvious as its daylight in the daytime, you know, it seems just so obvious. But people forget to use it in many, many instances, Google search, for example, when they really should, they benefit, for example, tech support. One of the best tech support tools in the world is Google.com. You get an error message and it just says blah, blah, blah, blah, you don't understand what the heck it means, but it says error code x100.23g4. Well, you just take that error code, put it into Google search and bingo, you're gonna find all kinds of information. And maybe it'll tell you, unplug the printer, take out the ink, put it back in and plug it in and that fixes it. You will get answers. It's just amazing. It's just a profound invention, this Google search. I don't need to, you know, I just wanna reiterate that whenever you have a question, Google it, you know, first, think of, you know, God knows everything but God gets his information because he Googles it first. Anyway, all right, so Google's outdone themselves with search, obviously. They've outdone themselves with email. Everybody who's a tech geek, we all know. We use Gmail, everybody uses Gmail. And now there's, you know, Google Calendar and Google Docs and all that stuff that keep improving literally every week, they get better. Well, there's a service called Google Voice which is limited, it's invitation only, so not everybody has it, but Google Voice is an amazing service. It's a telephone service and it gives you a phone number that you can program in really amazing, clever ways and an inbox that is sort of like your email inbox, another inbox, but it's for text messaging and voicemails. And what it does, you can set it up so that when they call your number, it'll ring on all of your phones, your home phone, cell phone, office phone, whatever you can program, the dates and the times that it's gonna ring or whatever, days and times and things like that. Anyway, it has amazing features. Records, calls, transcribes messages into text, messages and all sorts of amazing features. Well, anyway, if you don't have Google Voice, you can buy an invite on eBay, I've seen. We have a couple of invites. So if you really want a Google Voice invite and you've signed up and you can't get one, send an email to email at breadtv.com and the first couple of people who do will send you an invite. Anyway, this is something for people who already have Google Voice or are going to have it. I've discovered this new feature that they've added that's really, really cool. You may not notice it for a long time so I wanna give you a heads up. It's called Do Not Disturb. So it sounds really simple but when you go into Google Voice, you click on Settings and then you click on Calls and then there's this new option at the bottom called, it's actually Do Not Disturb. It's always been there but there's this Do Not Disturb for duration. So you can say, like when we're taping our show, that's what we use, we go Do Not Disturb for one hour for the next one hour. So you can set it for eight hours, 12 hours, four hours, just the evening, whatever. You're gonna sleep and you absolutely don't want the phone ringing. Do Not Disturb for the next eight hours. Your phone will not ring. It'll still go to voicemail, take the messages and everything else will work but your phones won't ring. So it's brilliant. So we set that up. Do Not Disturb for the next one hour. The phones are not gonna ring. Even if you forgot to turn off one of the phones or something, it will not ring. So that's a brilliant little feature. The whole concept behind it, well we've been using it for many years now actually. It was first Grand Central dot com. Grand Central, like Grand Central. And they were bought by Google and then now it's Google Voice. So it's like, if you wanna be up with technology and incorporate it into your daily life with phones. I'm not sure how many subscribers they have. I know at one point I read a news article where they bought a million phone numbers in bulk. But I'm imagining they probably only have X million in the single digits of numbers of millions of subscribers. Whereas with the other services, they may have tens of millions or more. And it's very reliable. I mean, at least for me it works very well. At first they had issues, but now it seems to be very reliable. So we're very, very happy with it. Yeah, they've really done a great job of scaling it. You can buy an invite on eBay. Typically I've seen them advertised for as little as $2. But I haven't checked in a while so I'm assuming that's still the case. And like I said, for the first few people that we have, I don't know, maybe four or five invites. So for the first few people who send us a request for one, we'll send you an invite. Yeah, I have like three, I think, on mine. Cool. So, all right, well, I also wanted to reiterate that if you're interested in being a guest co-host for the day, and if you live in New York City area, you could actually join us in physical form right here. Right between us, right here. You'd be the meat and the bread sandwich or something like that. That doesn't sound right. Anyway, you can join us live in person here. But if you're assuming you're not in New York City, you can join us right here, still in between us on video via Skype. So if you have Skype, if you don't download Skype, skype.com obviously, and plug in a webcam. They're $24 at Best Buy. Just plug in a webcam, get Skype, and the webcams have mics built in now. That's, you have no excuse. You can be our guest co-host for the day and join us in chat with Ed and I live during the show. And if you're interested in doing that, send us an email to email at breadtv.com. And we'll look forward to doing that with you. So, thank you very much. We enjoyed the show today, sharing it with you, and we will see you tomorrow. Thank you very much. And tomorrow, join us in our chat room. Don't forget, give us feedback at 10 a.m. New York time, which is 9 a.m. in Chicago, 7 a.m. in L.A., and I don't know what, 10 p.m. in China. But go to breadtv.com and you'll see, check what time that is in my city, and you'll find it. Till tomorrow, bye.