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I'm close Yeah, but I'm still like I don't want to miss something such as daily tech news show comm seems obvious, but Happen before I know You could rephrase to it's true. I could basically just want to tell people email time watch website Right, that's right E twa is the waiter remember it email time watch website Also, even though I've been saying it for three plus years. I've also changed it multiple times Well, and I I like the idea of changing it. It's like I just have to Feels though. Yeah. Yeah, you gotta you gotta learn it before you gotta learn the rules before you can break the rules That's right. Yeah, this some Podcasts separate from from the from DTNS our project here that I'm working on. I'm Kind of helping coach some hosts that are first-time hosts You just kind of ask good interview questions and be present and and my advice is always like just know your bullet points You know, you don't want to memorize anything because that'll just throw you off And it'll take you out of the moment like just know what your bullet points are And if you know them then you can even reorder them and it'll you know, so it's like I'm just needing to take my Yeah, you don't want it to sound like I'm Tom Merritt and I approve this message No, or that it has to be in some sort of order. It's like you just know what you want to cover and Then you get there organically which is not always super easy to advice to follow but it is The vice I always follow Although one thing I like about prompter is when you're when you're doing sound checks reading it backwards because it's fun Reading the prompter backwards. Yeah I've never done that Currency app in purchase to ability the with a free be will game. That's Tom stuff. No one wants to do that except you That's that's not a thing Although we got like half a dozen emails of people who wanted to do the same playlist crazy playlist thing so You know what I would really like to do is You know, I could buy a teleprompter there Yeah, you know, because I want you know one with a real mirror and you know, I don't want to fake it Yeah, you can always tell But and there are lots of not super extensive options on the market, but even the ones that I've used Over time they kind of got janky software and there's always Wrong, but I that yeah teleprompter just opens up possibilities of little home studios a ton But I I've thought about kind of DIYing it and I remember way back in the day if you guys remember when Morgan Webb had her Independent podcast called web alerts. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if he was even a podcast But it was a daily show mm-hmm web alert She had built her own teleprompter because she's just a she's crafty. Yeah And I should really ask her because I remember hearing the details about it This is a hundred years ago now and being like good for you. Yeah, you save some money I as actor did one with a CD case. That was pretty damn good I as would be another really good. Yeah, he's great at that stuff The one I have is just you put an iPad in it and otherwise. It's the normal enclosure with a mirror But like you still have to buy the you still had to buy the mirror enclosure Yeah, but that's not that expensive Well, we should start the show Send me a link. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, we'll talk. Okay. All right Here we go Do you like listening to advertisements me neither want to help and support greatest directly? Then head to daily tech news show comm slash support and help us reach our new milestone today This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday October 25 2017 on Tom Merritt it did us headquarters in LA And it's studio feline at the beach. I am Sarah Lane and joining us is our producer Roger Chang Hello, I only controlled this is the first time Roger gets more and more enthusiastic Also giving me requests during the show that I should have taken care of before the show Yes, it's the first time since Sarah came on board that it's just been the three of us Just the three of us we can make it make it we can make it if we try should we try Sounds like a sitcom. All right. Let's try. Let's try. Let's start with a few tech things. You should know Nintendo announced animal crossing pocket camp for iOS and Android coming in late November It's huge franchise for Nintendo, obviously But it's its first appearance on smartphones game will be free with the ability to purchase in-app currency. Oh In-app currency purchase Cisco and Google announced a cloud services partnership centered around Google's kubernetes kubernetes container orchestration tool and the Istio service mesh for connecting and securing microservices across clouds early customers will get access in the first half of 2018 and it will hit the broader market in the second half of the year just real quickly It's always weird to think of Google as the up-and-comer in a space having to partner to get a leg up on the competition But essentially what they're doing here to take on Amazon. Yeah, Amazon Really holds the has it has the foothold in the cloud services market at least right now Yeah, but Microsoft Azure and Amazon web services. That's that that's who they're gunning for all right Here's some more stop stories Microsoft says it will stop manufacturing the connect Alex Kippman creator of the connect and Matthew lapson gm of Xbox devices marketing told fast companies co-design That the company will continue support for customers on the Xbox connect once the existing retailer stock is depleted Though they didn't talk about continuing tools for developers, but that's it. They're not once the retail stock is done There will be no more connects Connects version 4 and version 5 sensors do power Microsoft's augmented reality Holo lens headset so it does live on in fact it is survived not only by the Holo lens But elements of it went into Cortana voice recognition was in the connect Windows hello with the ability to recognize your face an expected grandchild coming soon called gays It's an interface thing and of course it's distant cousin face ID a Lot of people have been like oh wow Connect go on you know go in the way of the dodo and it's like it just sounds like Microsoft Feels that it has sold the bulk of the units which were quite a few I think it was like somewhere in the 30 millions Since it was introduced back in what 2010 and it's figured out how to integrate connect technology into the products that it cares about Not so much a death as a evolution Well, it's it's odd because they really leveraged a lot of the Xbox one on the connect to which was something was a big selling point Didn't really go over well with the gaming audience because they saw it as an unnecessary costly addition and Microsoft spent a lot of time integrating other services into it for example Skype and What's very interesting is they updated Xbox one and now it supports most USB webcams You can I plug in the one I'm using right now and I can see myself on Via Skype on my Xbox one so it's curious to see if this means that they've pretty much like okay It was a good idea. We thought it was a good idea didn't work out that way Let's just take what we can from it and move forward and never talk about it again Yeah, I I mean when they made you get a connect with the first round of Xbox one a lot of people thought that was unnecessary Then when they made it optional it seemed to me like okay So if you want those cool features great now it sounds like you don't really need the connect to get the features So we're just not gonna make it anymore And and it's not a loss like like I said they have all these other products and and Sarah you mentioned that too They have all these other products that it went into well the in-home delivery Landscape get slightly more complicated today or a little more in your home Yeah, right. It's slightly more in your home Amazon has announced the key for Prime Amazon Prime customers Which is a service that allows a carrier an Amazon courier to unlock your front door and drop off a package inside A new Alexa enabled gadget called cloud cam acts as the security camera in this case allows Amazon to decide When to open your house for delivery cloud cam captures 1080p video has night vision Has two-way audio saves clips from the last 24 hours via the Amazon cloud cam apps You can kind of look and see who's been at your doorstep the cloud cam is 199.99 on its own or 249 bundled with a smart lock Pre-order isn't it 120.119.99. Oh, what did I say? I think you said 199. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah 120 on its own We're 249 if you're bundling it with a smart lock. So pre-orders are now open for availability on November 8 Yeah, so this is interesting because essentially they're introducing two products, but one of the products is in both The key product is basically this is just sort of the new a new service The cloud cam is the hardware that would would sort of yeah The cloud cam is a Nest cam competitor and forget in home delivery. It is a cheaper service I think it's like $70 a year for the the cloud recording service, which is much cheaper than Nest cam It's a hundred twenty dollars on its own. So it's competitively priced there That that's a product that's interesting just on its own that Amazon's getting into that then you add it as the hub Like you said, it's the hub for this door lock The door lock uses Zigbee to connect to the cloud cam and then the cloud cam can authorize like yes In fact, we know that an Amazon delivery person is at your door. So yes It's okay to unlock for just that Amazon delivery person and of course in the video They just show them like oh, we just pull the door open a little bit and shove the package in You know, we won't walk around inside and you know And how does it know like does the Amazon Courier have like a QR code on their hat cuz you know, yeah, they they scan the they scan the box And then they're in the presence of the door and so the box says well You should be at this address and then the drop in the nest or the Amazon cam the cloud cam says yep This is the right address. So we were expecting that package and all checks out you can unlock temporarily But what about somebody who like tackles the Amazon courier on the way to your front door takes the package and is like dressed appropriately Well, I'm I'm being I'm being a little hysterical But I mean, I think there is there, you know, there's just weird privacy concerns here or people are like what? And you know Amazon courier sure most of the time they want nothing to do with anything inside your house But you have the cloud cam which lets you watch live So it'll it'll like pop up on your phone like hey Amazon delivery persons there If you want to watch watch and walk off with all your You know who it was Amazon vets their employees that they'd be able to tell who that who was supposed to be there I mean if they go to the trouble of like Knocking out an Amazon employee and then sneaking in my my guess is you have other other Valuables at risk and you probably have a security system which brings up the question we talked about in the morning stream How does this work if you have an actual home security system? I don't think it would Yeah, this is I don't at least at this point. I don't believe it hooks into anything like that at all I also I watched this morning as the as the announcement people started reading the announcement being like I wouldn't use this. It's just crazy And it's like I actually am not that weirded out But the idea of an Amazon courier opening my door and putting a package inside Particularly because I live in an apartment building and it's like really hard to get packages delivered I always have to sign for stuff And you know, it's it that would be actually pretty convenient It's more like just the reality of having somebody open the door like what if the courier drops his keys and the Doors open and my cats get freaked out and they run out. It's like it just seems kind of clunky If you have no security system or pets, maybe it works. Yeah And again, it's only Amazon delivery people. They're not allowing third-party delivery people in yet So they're keeping strict control over who would be able to use this it only works with a package that you're expecting and and and You can use it with Amazon home services to let the maid in and stuff like that But that's no different than giving the maid a key So it's kind of that's less of a strange thing for people It also assumes you have a certain kind of walk up to the front door. Yeah, yeah with a little entryway Type of a situation. I mean for somebody in an apartment situation like mine What would I have a whole another one at the front door entry for everybody else? Like it, you know, it's it's It's more of kind of a suburban Solution so if you have no security system you live in a suburban home or or an apartment That doesn't have an external door access and you have no pets to worry about. This is great. Check it out Blueberg has a detailed report of the supply chain issues that may be constraining production of the iPhone 10 Sam so, you know the headline on this report has to do with face ID But honestly, this is a really interesting description of how the sensors are made and who's making them and what those supply chain issues are Samsung's yield of OLED screens has been reported before as one potential hold up and they mentioned that here But another is the 3d sensor the dot projector is the part of the sensor that maps your face It does like 30,000 dots on your face And it's made of a vertical cavity surface emitting laser or VC cell and a wafer level optic lens Now there are supply issues with the people making those two parts But the big bottleneck is LG in a tech and sharp They're the folks that combine these two parts and they're very Fragile and you have to combine them just right so they don't break and they work and Both these companies are having problems with yield And so they slowed down at least Bloomberg sources say they slowed down production to meet The requirements for precision that Apple had put now Here's where the headline comes in a source told Bloomberg that Apple Relaxed some of those specifications for precision which helped speed up the testing time Which helped improve the yields and now LG in a tech is above 50% usable yield and sharp will be there soon however, Bloomberg reported this as a Reduction in accuracy of face ID and Apple very uncharacteristically spoke out Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller Said to Bloomberg Bloomberg's claimed that it reduced the accuracy spec for face ID is completely false And we expect face ID to be the new gold standard for facial authentication the quality and accuracy of face ID haven't changed Now first of all that's news that Apple responded to something that was a rumor that almost never happens But second of all they said the claim that it reduced the accuracy is completely false But if you read the story closely, that's just in the summary lines at the beginning What the source actually told Bloomberg was Apple relaxed some of the specs? There may have been some specifications that Apple said, you know what? Those aren't actually integral to the accuracy of face ID. You can skip those Maybe they're necessary for a future feature or maybe they're just extra cautious Go ahead and skip those and speed up your yield. I I think what Apple saying is face ID is gonna be just as accurate as we said But they're not necessarily denying that they changed the specs. I Mean it they're not mutually Inclusive just because you all share the specs doesn't mean that the the precision of their face ID Yeah application doesn't work and it could work and like you could say it could have been future-proofing Some things they had down the road that they may have to rethink Because they they they loosened up and you know what this is something that More than just Apple Does I mean car companies do this all the time because there's a point where you you you know You'd like well, we can get by with maybe not having the tolerances this tight Car still works people are gonna drive people gonna buy it What's up? No, they're absolutely and and and I get the sense that that's what's going on Bloomberg is fairly good at this sort of thing Apple doesn't want people to think the face ID is not gonna work because they're banking on it being better than fingerprint authentication so they have to say something about it and I think in the end They're probably both right Apple's probably right that face ID is not going to be worse And I bet Bloomberg sources are right that you know what they tweak the specs to make it faster Because anybody who's seen specs knows there are often specs where you're like I don't really need to be doing this part of the Test it doesn't really matter and Apple may have decided. Okay. You're right. You can you can skip those parts the whole question will be Are they wrong? Are those specs that did matter? Time will tell. Yeah On the heels of blockchain a blockchain test by IBM and JP Morgan in the South Pacific So that's in countries like Fiji Samoa Tonga and Vanuatu Mastercard is releasing an API to help banks make payments across international borders faster as well However, it's not like IBM system because Mastercard system only uses the blockchain distributed ledger to register and record transactions Faster IBM is actually using a cryptocurrency called lumen to store value in transit Mastercard will settle transactions in local flat currencies We were having a conversation about this earlier like why is Mastercard not sort of going all the way with this my suggestion was the Probably have this is sort of a stop-cap solution to be like we like the blockchain without Really taking advantage of it while they might be figuring out some sort of a longer-term solution Yeah, it's a very cautious way of doing it. I'm generally when you do a blockchain You have some kind of cryptocurrency token. It doesn't have to have value You don't have to issue Bitcoin or anything like that the lumen doesn't have any value on its own It's just a token that's used to store value It's in some ways no different than a check right a check is not actually a hundred dollars It's it's a token that stands in place for that and so the lumen cryptocurrency is kind of like that I'm over simplifying but that's the idea. So Mastercard is taking away one of the advantages One of the advantages of using the coin like that means you don't have to keep cash reserves online To transfer the money because you don't have to convert it across international borders I don't have to take Polynesian francs and convert them into Australian dollars on one end and then send the Australian dollars or vice versa I can just send the lumen then it gets converted over on the other end That saves a lot of money and that saves a lot of time. What Mastercard is doing is saying, you know We're just not gonna use a coin We'll just use the advantages of a publicly readable verifiable ledger to do what we normally do which is deal and fiat currency and And so it isn't going to be as fast as IBM's my guess, but it also is much more friendly to current regulatory Because there may be some new regulations coming down the line about using these tokens and Mastercard is avoiding that. Yeah Finally Kaspersky has released preliminary findings of investigation into allegations that Kaspersky software was used to copy code belonging to the US NSA's Equation group member Wall Street Journal reported this a while back Kaspersky says This is very interesting to me that an NSA employee was running Kaspersky antivirus on a home PC alongside a pirated copy of office a Keygen that was being used to fake the validation for the pirated copy was infected with a Trojan So when the user scanned to remove the Trojan using Kaspersky antivirus The Kaspersky security network kicked in the Kaspersky security network is Used to combat advanced persistent threat. It's on the lookout for threat data It noticed that on this PC in the course of its scan that was authorized by the user There was a seven zip file with some weird malware in it So it collected a copy of that malware which it is allowed to do that's how this that's how antivirus works That's how this kind of network works when it was reviewed by Kaspersky lab personnel. It was discovered to be NSA equation group malware CEO Eugene Kaspersky ordered the malware deleted and claims it was not shared with any third parties So your reaction to this can be sure it wasn't he turned over it He turned it over to the Russian government. That's the end of this story. That's not what Kaspersky says But who knows if he did turn it over to the Russian government He wouldn't say so you can almost guarantee that the other hand you could say ah This guy had NSA data on a personal PC That was running a pirated copy of office that had malware There's no reason another third party couldn't have got in there and stolen that data as well And that's how it ended up in the hands of the Russian government It sounds I Mean it depends on how much you you really believe because Kaspersky, yeah He's preliminary findings of Kaspersky's alleged, you know, and I'm not to say like okay Doesn't doesn't mean the company's lying at all It also doesn't look good for this NSA employee if indeed There was a pirated copy of Windows that had you know malware involved and that's how this whole thing You know got blown out of proportion. It's like well somebody did something pretty dumb here. I'm not sure I Don't know I I Sort of like what Tom mentioned the other day It's like is Kaspersky at fault of anything besides being a Russian company. I don't know There's multiple things at play I mean and You could you know you take him the nationality, but you also take him the fact that Potentially whoever whoever, you know was the root causes it had been an essay contractor or not I mean it's a lot of listen the NSA is never gonna come in here and say this happened So we can forget about that you're gonna be left to your own devices to decide this is literally a choose your own adventure Yes, did the government get this on their own which is perfectly possible or did they have help from Kaspersky? Which is also perfectly possible You know if you believe this turn the page to 231 if you don't believe this turn to page 189 Hey folks if you want to get all the tech headlines each day turn to daily tech headlines calm You can get them in about five minutes They come to you as a podcast or on your Amazon Echo or in your Google home or on your anchor app at anchor Fm and that's a look at our top stories Now this morning in the Daily Tech headlines Sarah you had this story about the city of Honolulu Approving a bill stating no pedestrian shall cross the street or highway while viewing a mobile electronic device That's right. Yeah, the the whole idea is that and this is something that had been introduced as a bill the mayor's office Basically approved it as of I think tomorrow it would go into effect And what what it means is if you're crossing a street or a highway or some sort of road And you're looking at your device and you get caught You're not gonna go to jail or anything, but you are gonna get a I think it's a thirty five dollar fine If you get if you get in trouble again that fine mostly doubles to 75 bucks, then it goes up to 99 dollars So it's like you know getting a parking ticket But it's the first time that a city has been like we got problems too many people are looking at their phones It's a traffic hazard It's you know, you're putting not only yourself in danger, but but motorists who are hoping that you're paying more attention And a lot of people are saying well people deserve it looking at their phones while they're crossing the street because There's just too much at risk and I wonder how many other cities will follow suit I wonder how much of a How much this is gonna dissuade people because of several things first of all to some people 35 dollars won't seem that bad And they don't think they'll get caught so they'll say half. I have to pay 35 dollars once a year Whatever right I'm just not gonna worry about it's only the 35 dollars the first time and then But they just don't they don't think they're gonna get caught so so there you know I'm not saying it's necessarily even rational then there's the fact that I'll be honest probably and My Hawaiian friends and viewers can can write in and tell me if this is true or not Probably this is caused by tourists in Waikiki who aren't looking at their phones But also don't pay attention when they're crossing the street Only gets worse when a big worst hub and those tourists are not going to necessarily be aware of this I mean, I'm sure the state that City of Honolulu will will do great work at trying to make people aware of it and putting up Signs and everything but people don't read signs. So I just wonder how much of an effect it really has I also there are also some exceptions It's like if you're talking on the phone you got your phone up to your ear and somehow it like kind of seems like you're Whatever talking on your phone and having a physical phone up to your head if you're not looking at it You're not being distracted. That's still not a problem There are other exceptions if you're a paramedic if there's an emergency situation You're not gonna get a fine because we're looking at your phone trying to save somebody and you got to run across the street But it's also like well, you know, we all we all know texting and driving we're looking at your phone and driving is really bad thing, but I see people do it every day and I also know multiple people who have gotten tickets for doing that Who've been caught in the act? especially up in San Francisco and the plan is a lot more than thirty five dollars, but they're still doing it because you know because that's the way of the world for some folks and Yeah, I also remember last summer when Pokemon go was all the rage I know some people still play Pokemon But last summer it was a really big deal and it was like a bunch of zombies walking around my neighborhood You know just like wandering in traffic not even paying attention Like it really heightened the idea that if you're not paying attention Someone is going to hit you and kill you in their car So it's like all kidding aside. It can be a life-or-death situation and pedestrians Although everyone must yield to pedestrians at all times if you're in a big piece of machinery You still have to be responsible as well. Yeah, the pedestrian is always right However, it's no consolation to be right and lying in the hospital. So no, yeah Or worse. I I don't know. I'm not saying it's wrong to pass this rule or even have these fines necessarily But I just don't know that it how much it's really gonna change anything I looking around New York this past weekend everybody there was face-timing and walking down the street like not even just Texting and then reading things on their phone with plenty of people doing that But I saw so many people like talking and looking and having a conversation in person With their phone while they're walking along. It's just so distracting which is a whole other conversation But it's like who are all these people who want to face time. Oh, right. I do not want to do that I don't want you to see me. I don't want to hold my arm up. I don't like anything about it Well, thankfully autonomous cars will come along and make this all moot because they'll all watch out for us and stop There you go. There you go. Thanks. Goodness And hey, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit you can submit stories and vote on them a daily tech news show dot reddit.com and Talk about what you think about texting and walking while seated at Facebook comm slash groups slash daily tech news show Okay, we got an email from Jonathan who says it's starting to feel like fall where he is in Columbus, Ohio How nice for you Jonathan as we all melt here in Los Angeles He writes I was just listening to the discussion in episode 31 44 about security and privacy concerns regarding AI and kids toys So that was yesterday's show and that discussion dipped a toe into the area of psychological development The timing of the discussion was uncanny because the Ted radio hour had just released a podcast episode about the power and importance of Play in our lives as children and adults Jonathan says not to go into too many details But it's worth considering as toy companies all race to build the coolest toy that kids want to play with They should also be creating serious They could also be creating serious Impediments to a child's growth in the area of empathy creativity socialization and problem solving Yes So he says and referring to my chubby checker pillow story from yesterday He says chubby checker probably provides for more benefit than a dog named Ibo now I haven't listened to this Ted radio hour and they do good stuff there But I don't think anybody studied this the MIT study we're talking about yesterday is one of the first pilots into let's find out if there's an effect and we often as a species Jump to the conclusion that new technology is bad because common sense when it turns out It's not or in like the case of television like it can have good effects when used this way and bad effects when used This way so kind of reminds me of the screen time Conversations that we've had on the show before about the benefits of a tablet for a child But when is it too early for them and why you should limit the time that they have and I think we're probably on the road to coming up with Sensible rules around AI I bet there are AI toys that will prove to be very beneficial under certain conditions And we should study it to learn what those conditions are You know in our DTS bosses slack earlier today with the Patrons of a certain level Participate in and love you guys Somebody had had asked me. Hey, well if if you know the Sony's new Ibo was smart enough to take care of your cats When you're out of town, would you want that and I was like, yeah, it's kind of complicated though Because it's like medicine and food and litter and the whole thing But then I started to think like huh, okay. Well, that's just for me. I don't have any kids in my house but if it could also Work almost like a babysitter slash somebody to make snacks slash That sort of thing for a kid that opens up a whole other conversation, right? Not so much about empathy, but about healthcare But that's your station. Oh I was about to say the ultimate AI Toy for a child would probably be a sibling. It'd be like an artificial civil artificial sibling that can make snacks and baby Yeah, all right, folks. Thank you for supporting the show. 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It might have the browser might have auto updated possibly it was fine once I got back in But it did take a minute. I had to had to restart a couple times Titles DT and s the sitcom Amazon key allows for Amazon theft Hawaii erupts over new texting law See what they tried to do there Apple has altered the specs pray that it doesn't offer them further and they take in a borrowing from Darth Vader To Lando Kharisian as he gives up Han Solo Just the three of us Microsoft disconnects disconnecting connect Who let the dogs out? Don't text and walk in Hawaii Suggest the dogs out every day I didn't even know that was a big song outside of the US I mean, I had forgotten it was a worldwide hit Roger. Come on. Really It's it's it's our generation's despacito. That's such a such a sad sad Commentary in our period Don't let me see don't don't text and walk in Hawaii coming soon to a street near you don't text and walk bra Using a little pigeon Hawaiian What's the word on the street accuracy in accuracy fake ID if you don't believe capers key turn to page? Kaspersky, that's right Ski, that's my it's my big for every time I mispronounce that someone needs to send me some poroski That would encourage you though, I would think Yeah, yeah, then you would keep those pronouncing so it's every time you say it right. They should send you a pierogi No, not a pierogi a poroski To no, they're pretty much. No a pierogi is a dumpling a poroski is stuffed bread Poroski is a small dumpling No, no, no, that's why it's ski at the end Please send in your emails about porogi versus poroski the great controversy. We will do a special DDS labs This is what I'm talking about Tom and you can tell me now it's pronounced listen I should admit here that Joe the pilot rode in and told us a story about how he was in a car wreck And he was fine everybody's fine But one of the cars had a baby on board sign and the first responders were Paying attention to that and making sure there wasn't actually a baby which there wasn't the sign was there But the baby wasn't but so there you go totally wrong Poroski's Yeah, it's just so how do you pronounce it? No, it's pierogi and poroski. They're two different words But one's a stuff one's a bread the other one is like in DDS kitchens with Darren kitchen Guys this whole thing we might be on to something I think we are I have some grievances about some snacks that I bought it The market the other day, but I'll save that for not gonna say which market so you don't impugn there Well, no, it was Whole Foods owned by Amazon. Ah, I see. That's my market of choice I enjoy going to Whole Foods. I might I enjoy it there, but I had um, do we need a new milestone level for you to be able to Continue the story. Yeah What are my grievances please donate their chicken their chicken is disappointing. I'm sorry the roast chicken is disappointed I never buy anything that's already cooked there I I do buy raw chicken from Whole Foods here on there Hawaii reps over new texting law or Apple has altered the specs pray doesn't offer to them alter them further offer them Should be so long. It's not bad. It's just long Hawaii reps over new texting law I like why did the texture cross the road? Oh, that's good. I like that one. Where is that one? Yeah, mr. Bob Dabalina Mr. Dabalina mr. Bob Dabalina. Yeah Wow, I hadn't thought about that a while. All right, and he just came right out mr. Bob Dabalina Lucy loves that song. Where did you go? I thought she was gonna make an appearance today, but but new Why did the texture cross the road To get fined on the other side There you go see it's a good one. Oh Dad jokes just Extra crossing the road I have to think about that one a little bit more Knock knock dot dot dot Get it Is it because you got hit by car? No, it's Dot dot dot the way you're waiting for the texture play Oh, yeah, it's too clever too clever to get it. All right fine I did mention. I don't know if I want to do a whole unboxing thing because it's like it's actually more like software setup, but We'll show them off. Yeah Sonos one nice one for me and one for you. Oh, that's so nice of you Sarah Whatever you whatever you happen to support but so this is sort of silly when I When you know beforehand I was like oh black or white I don't know one of each and now I'm like that's so dumb. Why didn't I get to the man? They'll be in different rooms. Yeah, I guess it's and you have this white room And then of course we all know you have your totally black room correct Well, you know, it's funny. I do in my actual living room. This is not my actual living room You know with it the kind of media stand under my TV is black One of them on top of there, so it actually makes sense. There you go And then the white is maybe slightly more office-y. So I'm super pumped You should put one on to the left of you one to the right of you and you can have stereo Quadrophonic stereo Where'd you go? I'm here. I'm here. I'm late to the game with the you know the home assistance. I don't have one I don't have Google home. Now you do. I know I know I don't have an echo and I Don't know. I just dragged my feet a bit about the whole thing I was on the echo train from the beginning cuz I thought and I wasn't sure but I was like this is too intriguing I got to try it. Yeah. Well, I thought to myself in theory. I was like, I don't want to talk to the air I just don't want to do it. And then I've I've got a really good friend to You know over at his house Plenty and he's got one and it's like I started started to watch his interactive and I was like You know, you're getting all this cool information. Yeah, this is beautiful Kind of heavy kind of kind of so no see It's it's nice I have a bunch of so no speakers not that they can be integrated into this because they don't have microphones But I've been a bit of a sonos person for a while now. So I and I really was I Like the idea of it hooking up to Alexa and then also Google home and even maybe Because so knows kind of, you know Dangle that carrot in front of us. Yeah, and yeah, it's on the top. You got your little your little I think sort of volume and play that button. That's not disabled I'm like the Google home mini. Yeah, I got a little ethernet port here. We got a little on-off switch I mean, there's not much to it and all of the Just cuz so knows is such a they're a little behind in this whole arena, but their audio is so good Yeah, they make good speakers and everyone's like dude You put one of these like you can like get ready your surround sound which may or may not be true You know, I don't know if it's exactly true But living room like the one that I have, you know My surround sound set up as cool as it is is like total overkill. Mm-hmm. So Might be nice to pare down a little bit. Yeah, I I've never had a the five full five point one in my house. It's always been soundbar. I Have I have three point one. I do not have five point one and It's pretty nice. It's nice Yeah, it's it's great, but I was I will say this you more than often don't use it because you got to turn on your amplifier Well, that I don't have a problem with because I got a receiver and the whole thing is I'm used to it It's just more of like it's almost like I Don't know you're sort of It just seems like overkill for most of the stuff that I'm because all you watch is old episodes of all in the family Real housewives of Dallas episode four and surround sound is so much better But so many cables so many cables Wires run all over the place Well, I also have because I'm just lucky this way. There's some sort of strange voltage issue in my unit So when I first moved in here, which is like a year and a half ago Yeah, I set up my whole speed like I've got these real nice speakers and I I've set it up in multiple apartments I know exactly how it goes and I blew up my center speaker immediately and I was like, oh, wow What did I do? You know something wrong with my what one of my cables, you know And yeah, it's like I have these like specialty speakers. You have to take it into like a specialty store And there's like one in LA, but it's not that close by there's just a nightmare And then it happened again, and then I realized there's something going on with power in my building It's not me it's them and My landlord has been unhelpful thus far Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and said it's not me it's you well You know, that's the thing is that the landlord says oh, you got to talk to the Department of Water and Power Yeah, and that's why I say no water and power is like you can't do anything without your landlord Yeah, I'm telling my landlord no you need to talk to the Department of Water and Power because this is your building. Yeah what I what I've actually Because this is sort of a I'm making light of a situation. I was very upset about But it sounds like a good power conditioner might actually save me and that we're not talking about just like a you know I got not just a power strip like a full-on like and I can like rack mount it and That that seems to be an issue that other people have had and that's how they've sold it. So that's annoying Yeah, I know do that. Yeah, it is annoying, but I like my apartment I mean if you want to go if you want to go I Mean if you want to spend too much you can get like a good decent UPS And it will probably in some ways be better because it will well depending on the UPS you buy if it does Right. Yeah conditioning. Yeah. Yeah, it's I if I could be guaranteed that I wouldn't blow out my center speaker It's always the center for the for a third time and have to pay $200 to fix it then I would but I I've been Been burned once Shame on me I would make sure and borrow someone else's receiver just to make sure that whatever voltage issue that Effected your speed or didn't affect your receiver as well. No, yeah, I brought the receiver in to the to the audience Yeah, and we all it was you know, yeah, because we were kind of making sure that we weren't we hadn't like burned out I don't know circuit boards on the inside and and it seemed okay, and I really like my receiver It's been very good to me. It's this apartment building darn it. Mm-hmm. The price we have to pay To live with four walls. That's right. Ah high-end speakers It's why does life have to be so Well folks we are published like we're published to authors Yep available now in the Amazon bookstore up of area by Tom Merritt. That's not a joke It's actually real, but but I meant we've published the show and we're done. So good job y'all you too and Thank you for watching as I find the stop broadcast button. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye. Bye