 Welcome to our best of GDI end of year episode. This is where our editor Joe puts together an edit of our more thought provoking and lucid conversations on such weighty topics like global finance, philosophy, social progress, avant-garde literature, the works of Barth versus, actually no, this is just a highlight clip of us talking about what we ate for breakfast, entertainment, award shows, diagnosing our injuries, life issues and of course pie and a lot of tacos. So from us to you, happy holidays. Enjoy. Shannon, I saw a tiny little Sookie. Oh yeah, you had given us there. Just a tiny little Sookie. She's like passed out. She's gonna be so crazy later, isn't she? Yeah, she will. It'll be the witching hour. She heard us talking. I heard her grumble and then- Hi Ray! Aw, she's so cute. Hi Ray. Oh look, there's Odie. He says, this is what I do when mom is doing her show. I sleep. She's very, very well-behaved. I mean, that's all this guy does. Yeah, all three of our dogs are just bored. So that's what's going on. They are, they're bored with us. He's like, let me know when you're done talking. So the way I have experienced this has been a particular video gets taken down. And it says, this video is claimed to have copyright content. And then I immediately say, no it doesn't. You got three strikes all in a row. I understand that. The complaints came so fast that you built up three strikes. But how did it get all the way to a strike without you knowing about it? It was just, you have a, the first day was like, you have a strike. A day later, you have a second strike. If you have three strikes, your channel goes away. I'm like, well, there's no way I'm gonna get three of these. Next day, third strike. This is the thing that underlies this whole conversation for me, is you have paid money for the right to play the music. All the other content in these videos is yours. You generated it. Yeah. When they struck, or the stuff that got hit is from a time where we played the songs live on the show. Yeah, right. I remember you stopped doing that in 2015 for the reason of- Just to avoid trouble. Don't we just, we know we paid for it. We know it's legit, but YouTube gives us zero way of verifying it. You didn't know who the originating strike issuer is? The complaint issuer? Let me say. It's like finding out your neighbor said, hey, your neighbor says your dog poops on his lawn. So we've taken your house, put your dog in a kennel. Locked up your house. Yeah, we've locked up your house. She can't get in. In 90 days, you might be able to go back in. Yeah, what neighbor was it I would ask? And they'd say, oh, we can't, we're not going to tell you that. What can I do? Well, you can say, you can click this button and just tell us what you can fill out this form and send it through the mail saying you dispute that. And someday maybe someone will look at it. I got in a discussion. It wasn't even an argument with a guy on Twitter who's like, well, wait a minute though, this YouTube is huge. It's really hard for them. They're going to make mistakes. And I'm like, yeah, man, I was making these exact statements five years ago. And I still believe it. Like, yeah, it is hard for YouTube. And it's going to take a while for them to figure it out. But at this point, they should have a better way of doing this. This shouldn't happen to you. I've seen this happen so many times to so many people. I've had to fight it myself. I'm just kind of tired. My patience has run out. And it's not that I hate YouTube. It's not that I'm even taking the DTNS channel off of YouTube. I'm not. I'm not protesting. I'm not throwing down things in anger, but I'm certainly kind of just done. I'm not excited about that. And I'm hugely sympathetic to what a big company has to do to manage all of this. Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. It's a big deal. I get it. I understand how this stuff can't go. I could do it. It's too big. I'm not saying this will be true for everyone. I'm not saying this is the death of YouTube. Don't try to read in a bunch of other stuff in here. I'm just saying for me. And that kind of doesn't make sense anymore. Man, just toss me to the curb like that was great. And again, I think it's worth repeating. You didn't break any law. I don't want to fight with YouTube. So I'm going to just not play the song. I'm going to put them in post, which means also took more time and effort for me to do it in post. Like there's all these like add on knock on effects that I'm just that I tried to accommodate a thing. I was already not, you know, doing anything illegal with. Well, you should obviously sue the people who gave you the, the takedown notice. That is, that is, that is the way this is set. It's illegal for them to issue a false claim. So there you go. Scott, no problem. Yeah. I just need a pro bono lawyer friend. Right. Well, and also the identity of the people issuing the takedown. Yeah, no kidding, dude. Let me face my accusers. There's got to be some kind of something for that because CES is not going to Vegas. CES is CES and it dominates all and any time in my past that I've tried to fit something else in while I'm trying to do CES, both suffer. Game or just your enjoyment? No, my me, me, Roger, I'm sorry. You two definitely have that. We just spent four days together doing nothing but looking at each other energy. We had a lovely, we had a lovely ride home. We were sat next to each other on the plane yesterday. We had a lovely ride home. Didn't we? Oh yeah. I just, you know, Roger, didn't we? You should always tell. Did we what? I'm sorry. I was working at a piece of cookie for my molars. Oh, bad. Really? Really? Oh, my goodness, Sarah Lane, you're back. I'm back. A very large tree, you know, had hundreds of tons of tree fell on my property. And yesterday, I was not sure if I was living in a safe zone. So, yeah, it was a little touch and go for a while. Did the tree hit your house? No, no, it did not. OK, but so like, I'm not sure where it was going next. Exactly. Yeah. The tree kind of went parallel to where I live, but was at the top of a hill where it could roll down and still crush me kind of thing. Yeah. And not wanting to be crushed is a reasonable reaction. Totally. The not only the internet, but literally the power to, I don't know, a hundred houses in this entire area are all attached to that tree. And I asked her which utility company was it? PG&E. PG&E, Roger. Who else would it be to muck up something else? But but, yeah. So so the tree, there is part of the tree that is still standing. And there's a lot of power lines attached to the tree. The tree has to come down and they're going to put up, you know, like a, I don't know, like a telephone pole in its place. And that is sort of like TBD. Who knows when that's going to happen. Oh, my God. That's so PG&E to attach power lines to a tree that is known to rot. She has gone through fire, flood and falling trees for this show. Oh, man. James Taylor. And I said back to Tom, I'm like, what did I leave LA again? Sidewalks sound so great. Just living in civilization. And so we've been we've been following the tree saga as it is secured from rolling down the hill on to Sarah. And now today being dismembered. What a piece like that. And there might be maybe 70 of them that have to come down over the course of the day or like hundreds of pounds each. You can't you can't just let them fall into the street and like hope for the best. Right. You have to you have to wrap them. And then once once the chainsaw lets it loose, then you lower it down slowly like a person. So it is. And then there's a. It's amazing that you guys can't hear what's going on. I feel like it's, you know, Armageddon out there. Where do you get to a point where we're just going to have deodorants named after people just like up and up people like smell like Brad's pits. Yeah, or it'll be like you'll have like you'll have like the Charlton Heston or, you know, Charles Bromance, you know, if they have like perfume and cologne named after celebrity, yeah, that's why not. Yeah, why not? Oh, no. Like Elizabeth Taylor deodorant, 24 hour deodorant. Oh, is that Julia Roberts? The problem is none of us can touch each other anymore. So, you know, you just kind of you're going to get a whiff and be like somebody's wearing Julia. I love that. Instead of bumping elbows, you're encouraged to get close and sniff. Nice to meet you close. It would be kind of like a dance, right? Like you're like, do you want to meet? And then the other person's, yes. And you have to like decide that seven feet away from each other. And then you walk up sniff and, you know, in unison. And then that's it. I use this natural deodorant brand called Myro. And there it does smell nice, but it's the same sort of like, for example, one scent is called Big Dipper. The Giant Dipper. I don't know if you've all ridden the Giant Dipper. I've seen it. But I have like, I don't know how many times I have a flinty smell. It's not flinty, but at the beginning of the ride, you go into a tunnel before you kind of like climb and do the big drop. And you can't see anything in the tunnel, you know, and it's sort of like a scary way to start the ride. It's not really a scary ride. It's really fun. But that tunnel smells like like a model train kind of like a mixture of soot and, I don't know, old wood, because it's all it like, there's something about it that I can smell it right now. Just talking about it. And it's like, because it's exciting. And when you're a kid, you're like, I want a roller coaster. And it has smelled that way as long as I've been alive. Like it's just the way it smells, which I associate with fun. If someone smelled like the Big Dipper tunnel, I would be really into it. Like you smell fun. You smell like a really good day. It is an interesting coincidence that today is Taco Tuesday and Cinco de Mayo. So you can go both. Oh, true. I don't know what I feel extra bad. But I got to have the Taco Bell have anything. Maybe I'll put the lasagna in a taco. Yeah, I mean, put some lasagna in a tortilla. Yeah, lasagna taco, lasagna burrito. Yeah, but it's taco Tuesday. So. So yeah, lasagna has cheese and ground beef. What's better in a taco than cheese and ground beef? You could use a small tortilla and make it a soft lasagna taco. Yeah, soft lasagna. Basically, the pasta, the lasagna noodle. It's hard lasagna taco. Yeah, the lasagna itself is just a soft taco. If you fold it up, I don't know, macaroni and cheese sounds a little crazy. I'm just trying to get the most talk, Sarah, some of my own lasagna. Some of culinary history's greatest achievements were because someone was crazy. Literally, I understand. Literally, just I'm just saying for the record, your history lane, you know, this whole lasagna burrito thing sounds a little crazy. It's just, you know what? You know what's bad? And someday when you go to Las Vegas, you will sit down at the Taco Lasagna restaurant and read on the menu how this was invented during the pandemic of 2020 by none other than Tom Merritt. When Tom Merritt found it was Taco Tuesday and Cinco de Mayo and all he had was lasagna. I'm going to throw you under the bus pretty hard right now for just a second and you can go ahead and hate me for it. But if you ever wanted to do your own live with it segment, I wonder if you couldn't try to live with a keyboard where you actually type the way that traditional people learned how to type on keyboards. You got three months. I understand the direction of this. What would that product be? A keyboard and you learning how to type properly. But that's not a function of the keyboard, is it? I have a keyboard. It doesn't matter. We're not talking about that. OK, so it's not living with a new keyboard. You're saying live with. You're living with a new reality. Oh, so he's living with Mavis Beacon teaches typing. This is Sarah's very kind way of saying learn to type. Learn to type, you jerk. When I see it in person, I'm just like, OK, breathe, breathe through it. How do you do it? How do you do it? Trust me, I have. But any more? No, but now I know you do. You still imagine it. Everybody shut up. Listen to me for a second. I feel like you've gotten so far in life with the hunt and pack where most people are very bad typers. You're a really good type because of this. But how good would you be if you typed really appropriately? That's what I want to know. Yeah, you're not alone in this, by the way. I remember Natalie Del Conti when she was Natalie Del Conti, not Natalie Morris. So that's how long ago it was. Just like openly laughing at me when she was she was like, what are you doing typing? I'm like, oh, that's how I type. Is it not that he's just whacking the keys hard or is that it? No, he uses his index fingers to type. He doesn't actually type. I didn't know that. Like my dad, except he did it with the birds. He did it with the middle fingers. That's even weirder. It is weird. I agree. It was weird. It looked like he's flipping us all up, upside down or flipping us off. But I had an I almost went into couch collecting like I wanted to just buy and collect a couch. Not for a sofa. Very, yeah, like a sofa. And I was thinking at some point I would need a giant. I would have to, like, buy a warehouse in the sticks just to have this huge collection. The comfiest collector. I just kind of stuck with me for like a year because I was shopping for a couch. It's like, I really like all these couches, you know, just like them all. I think we need to call it a Bravo network and get this man to show. But I see this happening right now. Right. Yeah. What would you call that? Like a sneak guy, a person who collects sneakers as a sneaker head, a couch head or like I just have an idea about where you're going to put all these couches about a sofa snagger. That was like a euphemism and a really bad one. Don't ask what it means. I would like to to to apologize to Twitter. For being on it. Usually a very uncontroversial follow, if anything, when you wait into issues, you're usually there to try and offer the sage. Like, hey, guys, let's just, you know, yeah, let's just realize that it's not all. Yeah, right. But much as even the most wizened gods still have old beef from the Titans, there are there are things that will still get your goat. And it seems as if the Joe Rogan to Spotify thing is part of it. So much so that you wanted to make a draw a rhetorical line in the same. Really, this whole thing gets resolved. If you think about it as Joe Rogan's not doing a show for Spotify, no one would get upset if there was no podcast. And Spotify said, guess what? We're going to do the Joe Rogan show. You were trying to play a peacemaker and say here indeed is the hole in the sheet. Like, let's just not think of it as losing a podcast. I made a spotify original. I made the cardinal sin of a journalist, which was to forget that other people aren't journalists. And I wrote like, hey, Joe Rogan experience when it goes exclusive to Spotify is a Spotify show, not a podcast. And we should refer to it as such, meaning when I write things on DTNS, I will call it a Spotify show to make it clear that it's a Spotify show that we're talking about, not a widely distributed podcast. And hence peace in our time, Justin, the whole controversy evaporates. What I forgot is that other people read that is like, hey, everybody, this is what you're going to do from now on. We can't call it a podcast. That's giving it too much credit. And and that's not really what I I read it more as. You Joe Rogan has left this realm and now is assuming another another phase. I think a lot of people hung that on it and I get why. So it's so it's a form of podcast transcendentalism. Let's check out the mailbag. You know, we got a lot of feedback on our special time to listen episode of DTNS yesterday. If you haven't listened to it, I I hope you do. And I hope you get something out of it. And we got so much good feedback. We don't have time for it here, but just wanted to read some excerpts of a few. One person said the stories told by those I've listened to for years touched me and gave insight. I have never had so clearly. Will you pick this up, please, Tom? Oh, sure. Yeah. The stories listened for years touched me. I gave insight. I've never had so clearly. Another person said, I know about the inequality either due to race or economics or both, but knowing isn't feeling or understanding. I'll probably never be able to understand. But your podcast is something that most other reporting has failed to do. For me, it went beyond the facts and hit me on a more personal level. Thank you and your correspondence for this gift. Another person said, I normally write off shows and segments like what you did on Monday as pure virtue signaling. In the case of DTNS, however, your years of apolitical reporting, which I am immensely thankful for, have given you a level of credibility that other outlets simply don't have. As a result, I was happy to listen, really listen. And I now have a better appreciation and perspective. I imagine the decision for this episode wasn't easy. And I imagine you publish this episode knowing that you'd get some blowback, probably even people exclaiming that they'd be canceling their Patreon subscriptions. I applaud your courage. Thank you for yielding the DTNS platform to share the voices of the black community in this moment. Those are from different people, all those sentiments, but they are representative of the vast majority of people. And yeah, our our Patreon right now is down six patrons on the month, which is about normal as people get charged at the beginning of the month. They tend to go like, oh, wait, I can't really afford that. So it seems like that is not a factor either. And let me just take one second to really from the bottom of my heart and on behalf, at least from Rob, and I'm sure Brother Tech, thank the folks that took time to listen and comment and share their thoughts because the reality is when you have a conversation like this, you really do think twice about putting these type of stories out because you're bearing a soul and you're putting your perspective out there that you're not sure that people are going to get. And the idea is not to preach or to beat you down or to ashamed anybody. We just want people to understand the world is different. And we took, you know, the time because it was a real conversation. It was a real portrait into our lives and that, you know, and you always worry about the response and seeing the response all day today. And most of yesterday has absolutely blown me away. And I just have to say thank you and I appreciate the folks that took the time to listen and and offer comments on it. Thanks, man. I have threatened my wife that things go really south. I'll try to I'll try to jump the Golden Gate Bridge in it. Oh, well, that's uplifting. Yeah, wait, at first it is. Bridge, what would you be jumping off of it with the car? You would drive off the Golden Gate, not off. I would I would hire a ramp to sit there for for perhaps the first two minutes or whatever. And to see how fast I could go like so I could. So I'll clear the suspension. Very elaborate. It is. Yeah, like you've really thought. I mean, there's so much I even have I have like I have the music picked out. And then I know what will go on the headstone and all the rest. Here's what I mean, like how weird that you would name your car. But I've got music picked out for when I drive my car triumphantly off the Golden Gate Bridge from a ramp. Yes, I definitely used to think of letters and numbers as having colors. Hmm, really? Yeah, that are that are unique. Like you have these yellow like the letter. Wow, that's a new one. C is blue, D is green. Is that because of like a light blue, gray? Yeah, maybe like in preschool that I don't know. Yeah, blocks that right. But I mean, again, the alphabet, at least the, you know, American English alphabet, you got 26 different colors. Like, are you thinking of what W is? Yeah, it's kind of an off gray. It looks like X is black and Z is brown. What about H? It's orange. My gosh, what's happening right now? Yeah, he has a he has a specific form. That's really cool. No, I've never heard of this before. What's R? R is is really dark brown, almost black. Yeah, you should make a like a, I don't know, some sort of a swatch, an alphabet swatch. Make it like a French. Have somebody knit you an alphabet scarf when someone's like, that's a very interesting color pattern. You can be like, it's the alphabet. Oh, it's the alphabet. Yeah. Well, I see what you're saying. Like, you don't have the letters on there. You just have the colors. Yeah. Yeah. And then when I look at it and go, oh, could you spell things and would I then be able to tell you? I mean, that's some alternative universe accessibility would work that way, though, because it's when I picture the letter, it has a color, right? But when I look at a color, I don't think the letter. When you see a dark brown, you don't automatically think, hey, yeah, what's R doing on that pants? That is really cool. Is that is there a hot pink in there? Jay, I'm trying to say. No, I don't think so. Huh. See, but that's the thing. It's really hard for me to go from the color to the letter. Tell me the letter. I'll give you the color, you know, colors. Jay, it's like a purplish blue tea. What tea, light pink. There's your tea is light pink. P letter P. Oh, I mean, T like in T. Oh, T is orange. T is like a dark orange. Well, I'm blown away. In a good way. It's just a weird thing. I know. Yeah. I mean, I always thought I was weird to type everything in my head. Right. But this is more interesting than that. Yeah. All I think of when I think of Zingas, like that's where I used to work. The building, yeah. The building. Yeah, there was a picture in one of the stories I read where I'm like, oh, it's 650 pounds in. Yeah. I mean, we didn't have the huge Zinga Z's at every level. It was definitely, yeah, they made it their own. But because it's such a weird building. It was designed to mimic from what I was told by building management, designed to mimic a cruise ship and so the center of the building is where the the office and all the floors are off to one side. And the the idea is that you look over it and you can have a fashion show in the center. No, it's just that it was just a big empty space. Like, I don't think we ever really used it for anything. But no, that doesn't matter because a single entity owns everything. I mean, back then we only read it to release two floors. Yeah, it was the Sega building back then, because Sega had the name. It was the Sega building. That's right. We had because when they sold everybody because they sold ZD net to CNET, they sold us to Paul Allen. They sold key media off. People, some people left, but CNET kept ZD net there. And they had to do this weird thing where a bunch of people moved their desks down to the fourth floor where the CNET section was. But we were still in the same like there wasn't any actual separation. You just had to observe an invisible line. Like, oh, that's where the CNET thing was. And, of course, in their break room, they had 25 cent sodas in. I take advantage of it. Look at that. Do you remember there? There was it wasn't every Friday, but there was like a maybe once a month. It would be like a it was like tech TV, social, and they'd give us all candy. Oh, yeah. That was Tuesday. Yeah. It was a Tuesday, I think. And like, all I would just and so in my, you know, in my drawer in my cube, I had like all the great stuff because I would eat it right away. They would let me keep food in my desk anymore. I remember that because building came up to me and say, you, along with the other person, you know, of your desks are are. Right, like a rat problem or something. They did get mad when I would I would take some of the panels out of my. Oh, yeah, out of my cube so that I could see the person on the other side, like Kevin Rose was on the other side and we were like, you know, like we want to like pass notes. Yeah. And the the maintenance people would come by every now and again and be like, please put the panel back up on your cube. It was always floated to me as like, Sarah, you know, you need to abide by the rules for safety and I'm like, but I don't know what's unsafe about the panel being missing. I don't know. Oh, I do remember one of management. And this is why we couldn't play football anymore through a football and nailed one of the sprinklers and the cause to flood. And that was the no no playing ball two years down the road. Somebody's playing football and they're like, you can't play football. And the person says, well, why can't I play football? And they're like, I don't know. That's the rule, because nobody remembers it's because of the sprinkler thing anymore. Right. The center of the building is empty. You can overlook it, right? You look over. Look the railings is big empty space. And you're thinking paper airplane. Nope. Nope. You can't fling anything off or throw it because by the time that paper airplane got to the ground, it would have built up a dangerous amount of velocity. Yes. Do you remember the email from HR that said, OK, before we used to have casual Fridays and then they just told everyone's like, yeah, you don't have to be dressed dressed like you don't have to be dressed to the nines to show up at work. You know, you could just show up in jeans as a teacher because we were all in power suits the rest of the time. The rest of us, the rest of us in copper health and screensavers like, oh, we weren't supposed to be dressing in jeans and T-shirts. Go to work. I had come to work in like a, I don't know, like an oversized hoodie or something. Kathy Brooks at the time, she sort of walked by and I was, you know, doing whatever I was doing, you know, you know, doing time code on on some video. And she was like, oh, you're very casual. And I remember being like, I'm dressed. I'm wearing clothing and I remember walking down the hall and I think it was either Peter Hammersley, probably Peter Hammersley or somebody at that level or up who looked at me. I was like, tuck your shirt in. Like I had a collared shirt on, but it wasn't tucked in. And I was like, so it's so funny. You mentioned that one of the reviews for screensavers. I remember they really it was it was from a local news reporter in the Southeast. You say you really like to show, but what's the deal with no one tucking their shirt in like on air? It was like Leo Patrick, however, you know, back at the beginning of DTS, I used to wear a suit coat every episode. I remember that. And then I moved here and was like, it's too hot. I'm not doing that. Right. But I remember a couple of people being like, hey, what changed about your wardrobe when you're like, I'm hot? Pretty much. What's this behind me? Could it be a sandwich? Is it an egg salad sandwich? Whoa. The cool. I don't know. Gigantic. Is it a katsu sandwich? Is that a piece of actually? Yes, Roger, it is. I did not make the sandwich. I know my food. Are you just using Skype for that? Yeah. Yeah. You can just load any image as you're back. Because I know you have any image. Hold on. Are you at the airport, Tom? What's going on? Yes, I'm at the Oakland Airport in 2008. I knew you were a time traveler. I knew it. Wow, that's a deep cut right there. Very old picture. Which mall is that? That's the sand. That's in San Jose, right? Oh, my God. Menlo Park. I guess we did a meet and greet with Kate and Leo. And yeah, Tom was there. Patrick Beja is now behind me holding a first generation iPhone. Look at the size of that little iPhone. I want bigger than that. His hair. Patrick. What about a very large, full awful sandwich? Delicious. And you can. What is the? Oh, that's a tree. It's a tree. Yeah, because I was in my car and then Otis is in my rear view mirror being like, please, could I have some? Just get a bump. Just one speed bump because it was the largest waffle sandwich ever been made. Oh, I bought it. I remember that. Do we have a Django? Yes. Oh, wow. That's a really old photo, right? Or is that one 2017? She just looks like a puppy in the photo. She's got puppy eyes. Puppy eyes. Yeah. She when when you had food, the years fell away for that dog. Oh, yeah, I know. That's, you know, the fluff lies. I'm well aware. Really, I hate watermelon. It's the thing I hate most. Yeah, because it's green on the outside. Never served Sarah a big plate of watermelon, Kit Kats and French fries. Oh, oh, wait, wait a second. You don't like French fries. I like potatoes. Well, I mean, potatoes in general, I can understand. But French fries. That's made from potatoes. Well, French fries aren't very French. They are not. Disgusted by. I'm just like, I just don't want potatoes ever watermelon. However, I will. I will leave the restaurant. I just realized my microwave is dying like it. The door doesn't slam shut all the way. So it doesn't turn on occasionally. It's and it's 15 years old. And it's one of those things that I don't remember the last microwave I got, but I remember getting that one back in 2003. The current one. So it's been around. It's been a while. Roger. Treat yourself for another microwave. I mean, like, these are not expensive devices. No, but I'm this is the thing, especially when it comes to appliances. For some reason, I think they should last forever. But I'm looking at on Amazon is your sub a hundred dollars, man. Like this is this is not even a question. You just got to you just got to get another microwave. It just sounds like a I don't know, seems kind of like a very quick decision that you can during I guess it's a scene where we even start and then you would no longer have to worry about electrocuting you or your family. But it's like so extravagant. There's something about appliance shopping that demands I physically touch and, you know, feel the product before I buy it. Like a twenty dollar toaster, you would need to touch it. Thirty five dollar toaster. Yes, a toaster oven. Yes, a toaster oven. You were like you would you would want to see it like a laptop order online, silent scene and get it. That's crazy, Tom. You weren't here last week and we got into a conversation about replacing microwaves. Oh, no. Tom was in it and he was in the chat room on it. I was listening and Roger came to my house to shoot the Tech Republic top fives this weekend and I offered him a microwave, a free. Take it. Well, my microwave works. I just saying that the latch is a little worn and sometimes it doesn't connect all the way. So it the microwave will not turn on because it's not. So no, so no, you didn't take the free one. Oh, I did. OK, all right. So you're still on this broken microwave that you that you refuse. You need to like date another microwave for a year before you can have it move in despite the fact that it costs fifteen dollars. All right. Also, the microwave I gave him wasn't good enough. It didn't have a no, it was. Oh, beggars. Me and choosers. Oh, Roger. Oh, a free might not so good for a high and mighty Roger Chang. Israeli security researchers, Noam Rotem and Ron Locar, published their research Friday. Sorry, a spider was just crawling up my shoulder. Right. I was like, I was looking. I was looking at my own shot and I was like, oh my gosh. OK, the best part about that was, I don't know if you saw in the Twitch chat, Sarah, but like a couple of minutes before for that, someone said, did you just see a spider crawl up Sarah's camera? I could. I kind of looked at my shot like is my shot OK? And I was like, that's weird. I almost see like a smoky thing over here. And then I was like, I got a spider. So I ran out, you know, because I'm like scared. There's a little spider, tiny little spider that's coming down my ring light. And so it looked really big because it's like much closer to the camera than I am. It's like the cutest little spider. The spider can stay, but in the shot, it looked really big. And that's the only thing that I saw. And so I, you know, because we were so like talking about like spread at 13th and I, you know, changed myself. Seagulls are also famously anti-intellectual. That's another reason. They're also bullies. They like steal fish out of puffins, mouths and stuff. Real jerks. Yeah, puffins are known as the academics of the sea. Yes, they're brightly billed. You've heard of chicken of the sea. Well, these are puffins. Academics of the sea. Just as tasty. And with half the camera. Intelligent. Kind of smart afterwards. I know. Great puns today, everybody. I feel that the tone of your voice didn't seem to match the greatness. Oh, oh, wow. Well, the words said they were great, but the tone didn't seem to match that. That's all I'm right. Yeah.