 Hours of one and two thirty gets pretty speed because people are still in bars. But after round three, you know, this like people around three, everything starts to clog up again as people people leave the bars. And then that blends into the early commute. Yeah, the super early commute. Yeah, it's people trying to beat the rush. It's it's so weird because it's not that like going down to Palo Alto is farther. It's a good twenty two miles. Sure. Yeah. From San Francisco, you mean? Yeah. And it's getting over to where Tom is. Not that it's like, what? Where's Tom? What world? Tom, maybe. I'm like twenty miles from you, maybe. Yeah, I think so. Maybe not even that. Let me see. Fifteen to twenty somewhere in there. It'll take you over down here. You should visit. We'll visit. Yeah. If you fly into Burbank, you're near Roger. If you fly into LAX, you're near us. I got a couch that folds out. I got a father. I have a baby. I have a wife. I feel like a Roger's baby. Can I borrow your baby? I would remember your website. The one you were when when you when you first started. Oh, yeah, I haven't updated that in a while. But it still gets new likes on Facebook. I have a website like that. That I started in 1996 and I still have. And I updated it recently with a post, which is the first post in like four years. And apparently that's now my period of posting because the post before that one was also four years. It's crazy. I think the web has been around long enough for that. And now you're twenty five miles away from me, Tom, and twenty five hours, eleven, eleven and a half miles south of me. And it's it's weird because it's just go ahead. Oh, sorry. Can I ask one more question before we get. Yeah, we're starting. So I can do to adjust the. I'm getting some weird audio hits from you, Tom, where you're getting garbly for a second. Is there anything I can do to mitigate against that? That's just bandwidth stuff. You could lower your bandwidth. Oh, yeah. Make sure to go back to your thing and make sure the slide. Oh, yeah. Oh, it's. It's set it to low. Yeah. OK. Yeah. I think it reset it when you log back in. Oh, yeah. OK. Good. All right. Cool. Cool. Let me make sure anything else sharing work. All right, I'm going to hide. All right. Are you ready? I am ready. Let's do it. Here we go. Daily Tech News Show is powered by you, the audience. We don't take any ads. We just take your value. Well, not like a vampire, but freely given. It's voluntary on your part. Find out more at DailyTechNewsShow.com. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, May 19, 2017. I'm Tom Merritt, very pleased to have a long journalist, Annie Gauss with us today. Annie, it's been too long. How you been? Good. How are you? I'm good. Annie is well prepared. I feel like maybe better prepared than any of us who do the show because this is what you do. You do the same thing we do. You just read tech news all week long, right? Like obsessively and speed read them and pull out the facts and drop them in various documents. So this is like second nature to me. It's pretty much the same thing. We're going to talk a little bit about what medium is up to. We talked a while ago about how the fact that they're charging now $5 a month for a premium version and they added one of their first big new features today, which is audio versions of exclusive stories. So Annie and I are going to kick that idea around and what that means for them. But let's start off with a few tech things you should know about. A source tells CNBC that Tim Cook has been testing a device that tracks blood sugar that connects to an Apple Watch. Well, that's interesting. Very interesting. Yeah, so you were saying that this is going to be huge for people with diabetes, if it turns out to be true. I think so. And something to note is that this is obviously something that a lot of people deal with. I read that today that 29 people in the US have diabetes and this is also going to translate and I think into a lot of technological development around this as we see what Apple is doing presumably. Google's health division verily also is working on diabetes management products and a lot of startups are doing this too. So I think if Apple can be successful in this and be the first to market, this could be huge for a lot of people. Yeah, 29 million people. HiAfrican.com reports that Egyptian MP Riyad Abdul-Sitar has drafted a bill proposing Egyptians be required to obtain a license in order to use social media. The bill would require your name, ID number, email, username and which social media platforms you intend to use. Failure to register could result in prosecution by the Ministry of the Interior. A similar bill banning anonymous posting and requiring similar registrations being proposed in Kenya. This is starting to move, this is something we think of as China, right? And now it's starting to move to other countries. Yeah, I mean, do we, you know, I tried to read the text of the bill but it was in Egyptian. But do we know, you know, is this, how far does this reach? Do we, does this apply to all social media sites or is this something that people could potentially find loopholes around? Yeah, if there's any Egyptian speakers out there who can read that draft and form us on that, I'd appreciate that myself because the wayiafrican.com wrote it up, it sounds like it's just kind of open-ended but that means the bill would have to define what a social media site is if it didn't actually list the particular one. So that's a very good question. Yeah. Venture Beats Evan Blass posted several photos of what he believes will be a new Surface Pro to be announced at Microsoft's event in Shanghai, May 23rd. It shows some new pen and keyboard colors. It does not show a USB-C port. What does Microsoft have against USB-C ports do you think? I don't know. I mean, my main question is, should I buy this instead of a new MacBook? But I'm very undecided. I don't know. I don't know if either one or actually the best choice next but I guess we'll find out more next week. US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has ruled that unmanned aerial vehicles, quadcopters and the like, are in fact model aircraft and therefore subject to federal laws that prevent the FAA from issuing rules and regulations governing them. So that registration requirement, that $5 fee, this court has said, no, you can't do that FAA. They're model aircraft. The most surprising thing to me was how low that fee was. It was $5 for you. Yeah. You think they'd want to stick it to people? Yeah. They're obviously using it as a speed bump to kind of make sure that people who flew these stopped and thought about it and really took it seriously. But model aircraft flyers have fought for the ability to fly model aircraft without registration for years and have been arguing that UAVs, quadcopters and such ought to be considered model aircraft. So I don't know that this is done. I don't know if there's another appeal that could happen but it's a victory for them today for sure. Yeah. Cool. Here are some other top stories. A new security tool called Wana Kiwi can decrypt PCs running Windows XP and Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 that have been locked up by the WannaCry ransomware. Matt Swish of Comey Technologies helped develop the tool. He did build on the Wana Ki tool that we talked about being developed earlier this week. That worked for some XP PCs. So now it works for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003. Like Wana Ki, Wana Kiwi extracts info from memory and it will only work if the infected computer has not been rebooted and the memory location has not been overwritten. It uses an unpatched weakness in the Microsoft cryptographic application programming interface to extract the prime numbers used to create the secret key to encrypt the hard drive and therefore it can create that key and decrypt it. Europol has validated the tool and according to data released today by Kaspersky Lab roughly 98% of the computers affected by WannaCry were running some version of Windows 7. So the Windows XP key earlier this week or yesterday that we talked about not as useful because not that many XP machines were infected but this could be incredibly useful. Yeah, it sounds like this attack was kind of as far as like massive cyber attacks go was sort of a botch, right? Yeah, and that's why it's got a lot of security researchers wondering like maybe this wasn't a money making thing. Maybe this was some kind of government operated thing. Some people have noted similarities in code between this and hacking groups that are thought to have originated in North Korea. So there's a lot of mystery behind who is doing this. Yeah, I mean, certainly it was not a big money maker. I think I read that it was, they made off with something like 50 grand. Yeah, not much more than 50 grand. Yeah, but then it raises the question of what were the other motives for doing this? I don't know. Were they just not very good? Or did they, or they just did a sloppy job. I don't know, that's possible too. Yeah, I mean, it's hard to say. But I do still find it poetic that a vulnerability in an old version of Windows has saved people from ransomware that exploited a vulnerability in old versions of it. Yes, it's, yeah, it wraps it up all very nice. Yeah, there's some sort of balance to the universe there. Right. Court filing says that Uber has told Anthony Lewandowski he must hand over any files he took from Google or his job with Uber will be terminated. If you've been following this, we've been talking about this pretty consistently on Daily Tech News Show. Waymo is the former Google autonomous car effort that is suing Uber over a theft of trade secrets allegedly by Lewandowski. Lewandowski has pleaded the fifth. He says, I'm not gonna talk about any files because I'm gonna plead protection against self-incrimination. However, as an end around the court ordered Uber, they're like, if any of your employees have these files, you need to hand them over, which means Uber has gone to Lewandowski and said, you either need to hand them over or we have to fire you or you have to swear in court that you've never had them because otherwise we will be in contempt of court. The only way you can keep your fifth amendment protection is by not being an employee of Uber anymore. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, this has been a fascinating one to watch because the implications for Uber are gonna be so huge and they go beyond just the business implications and the legal implications. They're also taking a big hit to their credibility. They also have numerous other issues going on. That's kind of the same. And they don't have a lot of room to take any more of those hits. Right, yeah. And I don't think people are as willing to give them the benefit of the doubt anymore. But they also have a lot to gain by being perceived as the one who is the company that has the best and the closest to the consumer, the best and the most accessible self-driving technology. But I think that all of the attention around this case has had a really negative impact on their believability in that respect because even if they do have this technology, is it as good as Google? Is it as good as anyone else who's working in this space? And it could be the issue that determines their entire future. Yeah, I mean, if they get rid of Lewandowski, it could slow down their development. He's a smart guy. He brought in a lot of technology that is not in dispute when they bought Auto, his company. Uber just launched it. It's first freight, self-driving freight. Well, I'd say self-driving. They launched their first freight service this week and that stems directly out of Auto, which was a freight company. So it's, I look at this, Eddie, I gotta say, if I were Uber, I'd probably wanna wash my hands, Lewandowski at this point. It's not fair, but he is pleading the fifth, not denying in court. And they're basically saying, you either deny that you had these files, you turn them over, or we can't be associated with you anymore. Yeah, I mean, is there any reason they couldn't have just fired him already? Because it seems like that may, I mean, at least from sort of the objects perspective that would have done them some good. I'm sure there are many legal complications around that, but... Well, and they're probably trying to be good to somebody who in good faith sold them their company. At least we can assume it was in good faith. There may have been some chicanery going on, who knows? But, you know, when you acquire a founder, you wanna keep him around, and he's probably an asset if they can keep him around because he does know this space very well. So, I mean, yeah, that's a tough one. I'm glad that I don't have to make that decision. Yeah, he's also somebody that Travis Kalanit called a brother from another mother. Yeah, so there's love. So there's that. Yeah. A judge in Israel has ruled in favor of a landlord who said a couple misled him into thinking they wanted to rent his house, leaving him to take down his listing. Now, it's a small claims court thing. All he's asking for is a couple hundred dollars, or a couple thousand dollars, rather, in damages for being led to believe that he had rented a house that he hadn't. But here's the reason we were talking about it. The couple responded to one of the landlord's texts when they were talking about whether they were going to rent the house with a mention of the house, and the following message, woman dancing, people with bunny ears dancing, or partying, rather, victory hand, comet, chipmunk, bottle with popping cork. They responded with emojis, and the judge ruled that the emojis conveyed what he called great optimism. And I quote, although this message did not constitute a binding contract between the parties, this message naturally led to the plaintiff's great reliance on the defendant's desire to rent his apartment. And the landlord was awarded around $2,000. Annie, do you get a feeling of great optimism when you see these emojis? You know, I kind of get the champagne popping one. I kind of get the people dancing one. Maybe the peace sign. By the way, I interpret that as a peace sign, not a victory sign, but the chipmunk, the chipmunk. Like, okay. I mean, the chipmunk hoarding the nut. Chipmunk, it's got a nut in its hand. It's very excited about that. I don't know. I mean, chipmunks are cute. They have big, puffy cheeks. They're cute, but they're also rodents. You know, yeah. Dancing, dancing, peace sign, comet, chipmunk, champagne. I mean, the champagne one is really, you put that at the end and it's like, we're celebrating because we got the house. I get that. Yeah. The chipmunk, I don't know about. All I can say is if any of my emojis can be used against me in court, I'm in big trouble. I love the legal ballet being done here, which is that it's not a binding contract, but it is definitely an expression of intent. And we talk a lot on the show from time to time about whether emojis constitute a new language or new way of communication. And this judge is basically saying, yeah, they are. Like this expressed enough positivity that the landlord understandably thought he was golden. Yeah. Pretty amazing. Yeah. On the downside of social networks, a study from the Royal Society for Public Health and the Youth Health Movement says that Instagram and Snapchat have won, I just have won. That was a 40. Instagram and Snapchat have the worst impact on mental health among social networks. Study surveyed 1,500 people ages 14 to 24 in the United Kingdom. Negative impacts expressed by the survey respondents included anxiety, depression, body consciousness, YouTube ranked number one as most positive of the five social networks they studied. Twitter was number two and Facebook number three. I start to question this study with Twitter at number two, to be honest. Yeah, that jumped out at me too. Like Twitter does not have a reputation as being a really uplifting place all the time. But I wonder what it is about Snapchat and Instagram in particular that maybe it's just the focus on images that can have an impact. But it makes me wonder what it is about those two networks that make them worse potentially. Especially Snapchat. Instagram is well described as causing that fear of missing out and sort of believing that everyone else has an ideal life because they take these beautiful, perfect pictures. So I understand that one a lot more than Snapchat. Snapchat's whole raison d'etre was that the pictures are fast and they go away. And because of that, you don't obsess about them like you do. It was an alternative to Instagram. So it's surprising to me that it's at the bottom like that. Yeah, and Snapchat is also seemingly a place where you don't feel like you have to polish up what you're showing to the world because it is ephemeral. But I don't know. I mean, it's still image-driven. So maybe that's it. So I don't know if you talked about this on the show but got some flack recently for showing some information to marketers about how you can teenagers age 14 to 18. I think it was 14 to 19. They can basically tell if they're experiencing anxiety or depression. So Facebook got some criticism for trying to leverage that, those negative effects. Yeah, they walked that back really fast saying that shouldn't have been in there. And the only reason it was in there to show how good we are with the data, we weren't trying to say you could market to depressed teenagers. But optics on that were horrible for them. And especially in light of the fact that this is a real problem. I mean, YouTube, I don't consider YouTube a social network, so I think it's odd that it's grouped in here. But YouTube, I can see being the more positive because you see people having fun on YouTube, right? And I think all five of them though have that aspirational aspect of everyone else seems to be having a better time than you. Maybe that's why Twitter is more positive is because everyone's so miserable on Twitter complaining about things. It doesn't make you depressed because you're like, wow, people are even worse off than I am. Yeah, yeah, that could be it. Like everyone here is such a jerk that maybe I'm not so bad. Yeah, finally, earlier this week, Google announced an SDK coming for Google Assistant. So more third parties can integrate it. We talked about that a little bit. Thursday, Google formally launched the assistant directory where you can find what third party content is available. You can get to the directory in the Assistant app and browse through it by category. And unlike the Amazon Echo, you don't need to install. You just ask the assistant to use one of them. Once you know it's there, you can say, hey, assistant, tell the New York Times that I wanna hear its headlines or whatever. Some even respond with generality. So you can say, I want to fly to Omaha on Monday and assistant will pick a flight related skill or app that it will use to answer the question. You can pick which apps you want to trigger based on certain things as well. Although they're a little vague on how much control you're gonna have about that. That's still in development. But lots of really interesting things coming out of I.O. I was curious what caught your eye. Yeah, I mean, this was certainly one of them and grouped in with the Google Home announcements. I'll be really curious to try this out a little bit more myself because one of the things that I have an echo and one of the things that is annoying is just the skill store is not great. And you do have to remember to install things before you can start using them. And then most of them kind of still suck at this point. So there's a lot of, it still feels very early days for development for Echo. But you can make the case that Google just has better resources for that sort of thing. So I'll be curious to see how well they're able to integrate the Google Assistant stuff with Google Home and kind of bring it all together in a way that actually solves problems for people. Yeah, I mean, I love that idea that I could just speak to the Google Assistant on Google Home or anywhere and say like, hey, I need to know X. I know there's an app in there somewhere, but I didn't have to look it up. Whereas with the Amazon Echo, I'm like, why don't you do that? On the other hand, you still have to remember what it is. That's one of the things I hate. I use our groceries for the shopping app with Amazon Echo now because it has more features than the built-in shopping list that Amazon provides. But I have to remember to say, tell our groceries to add X to the shopping list, which, you know, I'm in the habit of it now, but I'll be honest, I can't remember how to tell it to turn on the lights because I have Lifex bulbs and I can't remember the exact phrasing I'm supposed to use, so I never use it. I just use the app. Yeah, but there's definitely a learning curve to some extent and it'll be interesting to see if Google, with their vast resources and can make it more intuitive and making more conversational. So I look forward to trying it. Yeah, me too. If you want to get all the tech headlines each day, keep up to date in about five minutes. Does that sound good? You won't fall behind. Subscribe to DailyTechHeadlines.com. We're available as a podcast, of course. Available as a flash briefing on Amazon Echo, which I believe you can install by just talking to the Amazon Echo. And available on the Anchor app at anchor.fm, where you can just listen to us and even swipe through stories if you've heard one or two of them to speed you on to the next ones. It's even more efficient. And of course, not only can you get DailyTechHeadlines on Anchor, but you can get more Annie Gauss on Anchor as well. Yes, yes. Subscribe to my show. Go favorite the channels, as they say on Anchor. And that is a look at the top stories. In fact, I took your story on Medium from your Anchor channel and added it to the DailyTechHeadlines channel today. Excellent. Yeah, so we get a little cross promotion there. And we want to talk about that a little more. Paying members of Medium, as you recall, pay $5 a month. They get exclusive member-funded stories. The idea is to create better journalism, better commentary, without having the influence of advertising. And now, all of those exclusive member-funded stories will have an audio version. So they'll either be voiced by a professional or the author, depending. And even some non-exclusive stories will have audio versions available for paying members as well. They've got 50 stories available in audio at launch. This is intriguing. It's a little bit podcasting. It's a little bit not. You can only get these audio versions either on the website or in the Medium app. What do you think of this idea of an audio version of a story as a perk? You know, the move makes sense to me because it does feel like in the zeitgeist, given, as we just talked about, the growing adoption of apps like Echo and Google Home, there should be more demand for audio content. So maybe that is something that people will be willing to pay for. But there is also a good amount of audio content out there already. So is there room for more? Is there room for another editorial perspective that provides an audio experience? And that I'm not so sure about because Medium doesn't really have one. So what is there? They're not the Washington Post. They're not the New York Times. They're not the LA Times. What are people, in Medium, what are people paying for specifically? Right, and they have a lot of high-profile tech bloggers on there and political writers. And so their idea, I guess, is they've got enough of those that it will feel like you're paying for high-quality content. And if, for no other reason, there's an accessibility factor here. Instead of text-to-speech, you have better than text-to-speech because you have an actual performance which reads better and sounds better, even as good as text-to-speech has gotten. It never compares to someone who actually knows how to read. So if you need that, either for accessibility reasons or you're just in your car and you're like, hey, I want to go through my Medium stories today, but I can't read them while I'm driving. Now I can listen to them. That's kind of cool. It seems somewhat labor-intensive, though. Yeah, it reminds me of, do you remember an app called, was it Umani? I can't remember, Unamo, Unamo. I always get the name wrong. But did you ever use this app? One's a burger place, one's a flavor, and the other is this app you're talking about. Maybe that's part of the reason why they didn't end up succeeding, but there was an app called Unamo a few years ago that I actually used all the time, but it was sort of a similar thing where they had a certain, they had kind of a mix of news stories and blog posts like you would find on Medium. And you could pay, there were actual voice actors who recorded many of them. You could have them, as you're getting ready in the morning, they had audio versions that I would listen to. And I used it all the time, but the reason why I eventually stopped using it is because what they were, it was kind of business-focused and sort of self-help-focused articles that I wasn't really interested in. And I guess the business model didn't end up working out because you have to pay people to do the recordings and they were paying professional VO artists. So I would guess that just the economics didn't work out for them. But it kind of makes me think of that. And I think part of their problem was that they didn't have that editorial point of view. And they also, you have to pay people and that makes it harder to keep things going. And they were also free, but. Yeah, I sort of vaguely remember that app because I think I played around with it a little as well. And that editorial point of view was even worse in that case because it was all coming from Umano. Whereas with Medium, you know that like, okay, each of the people who writes on Medium is their own editorial voice. So it feels more like a blogging platform, but Medium's trying to pitch it as a unified situation. And that's a tough thing to reconcile. I do not envy them trying to figure out like how do you take disparate professional voices and pitch it to people as one product? Because it's not gonna have one voice on the plus side, it could be amazing because you're like, hey, instead of a news outlet that has a particular bias, we've got people from literally all over the place. So you can get lots of different perspectives. You know, the downside is that may not sell. People, you know, as much as they complain about biases in other outlets that they don't like, they kind of like to get their news from a place that has the biases they share. Yeah, that's very true. Or people like, I mean, I know speaking for myself, the news sites that I tend to pay for are one that have a very, something very unique that I'm looking for, focus on a specific niche that I'm very interested in, or they do breaking news really well. Like I subscribe to the Washington Post because I'm addicted to the sourcing that they have coming out of DC and that's interesting to me at the moment. But I think that's, as you said, it's a much harder sell when you don't really have a unified perspective. And it's just kind of like, here are a bunch of great writers who are gonna read their stories aloud to you. You'll see, I mean, I don't know how many paying subscribers they have already, but it'll be interesting if this is a selling. I think they also need to just sort of make a better case for why people should subscribe in general aside from the audio. It's tough because they want to say, hey, we're not advertising supported. So there's no advertising influence on us. And we make the same pitch with Daily Tech News Show and that is appealing to a lot of people. But then you need to follow that up with and we have these kinds of stories from these kinds of authors. So let's take Jessica Lesson with the information. She's doing an amazing job of providing a high quality investigative tech news that is worth paying for and she's doing very well with it. There needs to be an analog on medium and that's difficult because if you're Jessica Lesson, you're gonna make more money if you go operate it yourself. But if you're not, you may not have the poll to get people to come into medium and pay the $5. So they have to find those niche stars for lack of a better word that will compel people to say, oh yes, I need to read the perspective of those authors and it's worth more than $5 a month. So $5 a month is a bargain. Because I get so many of them. Yeah, I mean the information charge is something like $400 a year. But it's stuff that you really can't read anywhere else. So I think people are willing to pay for that but they also focus on business and technology and that's something that there's a lot of reporting, there's not a lot of unique reporting. Well, and they can go directly to the people who want that kind of information which again, it comes to that single editorial voice you're talking about. Yeah. Well, we'll keep an eye on it. 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The first thing that Roger has to do is help us pick the title of the show, which showbot.tv, if you're watching live, you can go to showbot.tv and see all the title suggestions that have been made in our chat room during the show. Oh, wow, that's handy to have people write them for you. All right, now can you hear me? Yes, I can. All right, everyone, showbot.tv. First of the titles is Anything You Emoji Can and Will Be Used Against You. Sign your emoji on the dotted line. Premium, medium, it's classy. I like that one. Audio's a preferred medium. That's pretty good. Daily Tech, Argo Bargo. Social ID. Idiabetes. Idiabetes. Idiabetes. Idiabetes. Diabetes. Wilford Brumley's Annunciation, not mine. Wanna Cracker. Wanna Decrypt. Wanna Argo Bargo. Oh, Wanna Cracker. Clever. I'm surprised I haven't seen that more. Google AI, legal brief mojis. You know, there's some like, one curious thing about emojis is there's no tense involved. There's people like you that have no tense, aren't there? Like what? Well, I know Russia has no present tense of the verb to be. Oh, languages, yeah, yeah, no, I mean like, I was just thinking about because of, because of that movie Arrival, because I watched it the other night. Ah, yeah. Oh, yeah. I just watched that recently too. It's really interesting. It was really interesting. Yeah, I didn't like it that much. I have some problems with it. You're one of the first people that said that. Well, I enjoyed it, but what bothered me about it is how they glossed over, it seems like they went from, oh, we've managed to figure out that he's saying his name with this blob to being able to communicate abstract like thoughts and like, I'm like, how did that happen in the course of like a week? And here's the thing. I read the short story that this was based on a long time, not a long time ago, but you know, like a year or so ago before the movie came out. And in the short story, it takes you very carefully through that. It explains like the trouble they had to go to to be able to get from one point to another. And so in my head, I just made that jump while I'm watching the movie. Oh yeah, because they did X, Y, and Z. But yeah, if you don't have the story, that story in your background, it is kind of a jump. Yeah, it's a huge jump, but especially like, yeah. I mean, I realized that it doesn't make for the, you know, fast paced filmmaking necessarily, but I'm like, I would actually like to know more about how they did that linguistically. And I guess I'll have to read the story. I didn't even- Biocow is yelling spoilers in the chat room. Let's just say the movie doesn't- Spoilers in the strictest sense in that we're revealing that certain things are in the movie, but there's no plot points necessarily being- Well, the short story also, I mean, like the language is a pivotal thing, like communication. And I was just thinking about it because the emojis, because like you could- Yeah. You could describe how something went in emoji, but like how would you offer tense or like, oh, I'm gonna get him a present, right? If you just do an emoji of your friend, like an emoji vibe version of your friend. I think there are languages that don't use tense. I can't think of any examples of ones that you don't use at all. But how would you describe something that will happen? I mean, it's all in context then. It's more difficult for sure. And that's why, yeah. So anything you- I was gonna say, anything you can emoji will be used against you should be our title, but I would like to put the shout emoji. In it. The face screaming in fear emoji is what emoji should be called. The one that's like that one? Yes, yes. Like the scream. Anything, I wanna replace anything you emoji with that. So here, I'll put it in our chair, like this. Anything you can and will be used against you. I'll send it over to Annie so she can see it. I've got to tell you, we have a chat room, Annie. Roger. Can you see that? Are you I am gonna get to me? Yeah. There we go. Yeah. From a distance, it looks like someone bent over. But, sure. That is not the impression I'm going for. It's not the impression I get. Here are the mighty, mighty mustens. No, I like that movie. I was a little annoyed how it seemed there was a bit of the movie missing, like in the middle. Like there seemed like a middle part that connects the end to the middle, sort of, you know? Yeah. Like something things start happening, you're not exactly sure. Like if you miss something, I don't know. Yeah. There's a lot of movies like that that kind of do that. The most well-known, not the most well-known, the one that strikes me first is Godzilla, that American remake, or not remake of a Godzilla movie, with what's his name? The guy from Breaking Bad has a scientist. Yeah. It just felt like two separate movies. It just felt like two different movies. Now I can think of Walter White. Yeah. Brian Cranston. Brian Cranston. You know what it is? I also think Brian Cranston is a character that he plays, not the guy's name. Maybe that's what Brian Cranston thinks, too. I'm just a character that I play. No one knows the real me. Poor Brian Cranston. Oh, man. I don't think he's poor, but... Poor Rich Brian Cranston. He's very rich, sad man. Poor, rich, successful actor, Brian Cranston. I mean, he's got as rich as some, but he's richer than all three of us. I'm going to think. I mean, it's interesting. Do you take someone's issues with less severity because they are wealthy? Like, you shouldn't. You really shouldn't. No, no, I agree. But there's something about like, oh, he missed, I don't know, something, his child's recital. I don't know, pick something that's a sob story. Right. But like, oh, well, lucky he's rich. Because it solves many problems, but not all problems. It can't fill that whole inside, Brian Cranston. Yeah, yeah. Well, there was some study once because I love to study studies that I read like six years ago and now completely forget where they came from, but said that if you make $70,000 a year as a threshold, or if you make over that, it doesn't necessarily increase your happiness. So if you're making enough money to have your basic needs met anything over and beyond that won't actually increase your happiness for most people. I think I read a similar study, if not the same one that you're talking about. But I remember, because I remember thinking that makes perfect sense because people who make less than whatever that amount is, let's say it's $70,000, but whatever it is, are going to think that anyone who makes more than that has all their problems solved because they see that the more money they make, the fewer problems they have. But above $70,000, that stops happening and the people who are rich, like you don't understand, money doesn't fix all the problems. But from above $70,000, you're like, yeah, but it sure fixes a lot of the ones I have. So Ken from Chicago, right to the chat room, Ace of Tech, Tom, poor Bruce Wayne, group of billionaire and the only parental figure worked for him. It's so true. Yeah. So true, so true. Yeah, you know, it's, it really depends on what it is. Like if it's something you know that money can't fix easily. Smaller pool of potential problems if you have enough money. It's true. I think part of it is a lot of people have personal, maybe not problems, but difficulties they face because of financial constraints. Like, oh, you know, I can't get, I can't send my kid to the best, you know, doctor available for her particular. Medical, that's a really good example because medical, you can fix a lot of problems with medical if you have money. Like insurance won't cover that is no longer a problem, but there's still things like cancer that no amount of money can fix. It was. Yeah, you know, I would trade all the money in the world I don't have all the money in world. I like to be one of those studies where they just give people a billion dollars to see if they become happy or not. I'd like to get it on that. Yeah, wouldn't you? Do you say you said you wanted to be that study? Is that what you say? Yeah, I put me in that study, give me a billion dollars. See if I'm happy. I don't think anyone's proposing a study where they give the right person a billion dollars. Maybe you should start a Kickstarter. A million, here's a million dollars. I would like to study if a billion dollars will make me happier back me on Kickstarter. That's great. It's true, Tom, as I sit here, my huge expansive swimming pool on my gold leaf inflatable chair. I have hired only the best scientist to assess my personal happiness. Ken, you're selling out for cheap. Ken from Chicago in the chatroom says he'd settle for only a hundred thousand. You say that until you get a hundred thousand. You'll just want more. Exactly. It's like, what if I just held out for just a tiny bit more? Stretch goals. No, he's right. He's like, yeah, stretch goals. You do a hundred thousand and then you have stretch goals to see if it makes you even happier. Actually, a valid Kickstarter strategy, to be honest. It's, you know, and it's, you know, it sucks. Especially if you're scrambling to cover stuff. I remember doing that in college. I was just annoyed. Like, I could cover rent, but I was always skimping out on food. Oh, yeah. I gave myself $90 a month for groceries. Costco eats a big chunk of that. You get really sick of eating mac and cheese and- I ate the coral buttered meats. And I would buy the cheapest refried beans and some tortillas. Okay, you can get really creative with ramen. Yeah. You can put a lot of stuff in ramen. Top ramen. 35 cents. All the top ramen? I did a lot of rice. I did a lot of rice and then, you know, buy a big batch of meat and then just stew it, like cook it and then just freeze it. Yeah. My home cooked meals were spaghetti with pasta sauce, no meat, sometimes broccoli. I put broccoli in the spaghetti. Macaroni and cheese, tacos, red beans and rice. Yeah. I remember being so, not broke, but I just didn't want to spend money at the grocery store. And so I was trying to figure out something for dinner. All I had in my fridge was condiments, like mustard, mayo, butter and a loaf of bread and a bag of like pre-cut, clean spinach. So- Butter. Ah, luxury. I made, I toasted four slices of bread and I made like spinach sandwiches with butter. Mmm. Yeah. I was like, okay, whatever. I'll figure it out next week. This is something that somebody needs to make an Alexa skill for. I wish they had that. Like, let me open up my fridge. Hey, Alexa, I have mustard, spinach and white rice. Well, no, you need the fridge that has Amazon voice services built in and then you just open the fridge and say, what can I make? Yeah. Yeah. That's beautiful. All it does, it all it does is give you a coupon for like an antacid or Pepto-Panel. Oh, G-Pig was asking where Len Peralta was. Len has a big project going on and it's still going on. He wasn't sure if he was gonna be able to make it and he ended up not being able to make it this week but he thinks he's very certain he'll be able to come back next week. So. Sorry, Annie, that you didn't get an illustrated version of the show. Well, Friday's, we have Len Peralta who comes on and draws the discussion topic. Yeah. That is amazing. He comes on every Friday. It has been every Friday, like pretty like the clockwork. And this is the first time he's had a big project interrupted, so. But you can still go to LenPeraltaStore.com and see all of his previous illustrations. LenPeraltaStore.com. In fact, the more you go and buy things at LenPeraltaStore.com, the more Len will come back to the show. Really, he's just busking on the internet. Yeah, you think so? He's just that. He's out in Cleveland somewhere on a street corner. But isn't that what YouTube is really? Just busking on the internet? Yeah, I mean, so is this. Yeah. If you're going to go for it. No, no, people have subscribed to you. At that point, it's not busking. Right? Because it's a great- People subscribe on YouTube, too. That's true. And YouTubers generally make their money off of advertisements and brand associations, I think. So they're high-scale buskers. They're like, what was his name? I'm trying to think of the guy in downtown San Francisco with the alien sign. And then he started selling ads. Yes, Frank Chu. He started selling ads. That's when he became the high-end busker. Yeah. Is he still around? I mean, I haven't seen it in a while personally, but I think if he was not still around, we would have heard something about it by now. He felt so outlandish in the Clinton and Bush era. And now, the things he wrote on his sign just are normal everyday headlines. Yeah. Right. Yep. He was ahead of the curve. He was. He was ahead of the curve. There was a way to monetize that, being ahead of the curve. You know, it's kind of funny because you hear those entrepreneurs who are ahead of the curve and made out like bandits. And then some people were so ahead of the curve they were stuck in a psychiatric hospital for a month because people thought they were crazy. Well, folks, we're gonna wrap it up. Thanks. Have a great weekend. I was not a commentary on what Roger was saying. Great. No, 10. And we will see you again on Monday with... Monday.