 Me, me, me, me, me, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, us, us, us, us, us, us, us. Off Topic Tuesday, I thought it was Monday. Oops. It's not Monday, really. That's a way off Topic Tuesday. So we're so far off Topic Time, oops it's Monday. Oopsie. Well, I work seven days a week. So, and I don't know if really what everything I do I consider work, it's just I'm doing stuff seven days a week, a lot of times here, because my office is just down the street, it's, I don't even have, I only have a laptop at home, so all my computer stuff's here so if I want to do even personal videos I still edit and film anything here so that's how I thought it was yeah I don't know cuz when they're not here it's Sunday when they are here it's Monday that's how I know cuz I'm always working sometimes he knows we're here sometimes he doesn't know we're here I enjoy sometimes that are not here oh sure really quiet so welcome back talk to have a Tuesday and let's get started mm-hmm well this is great I love it welcome to the cards against humanity baseball place so these guys are pretty off the wall they've dug a hole they've done all kinds of silly shenanigans yeah it's entertaining sure for sure that they do these things but now they've gotten a baseball place yeah so they it's part of their cards against humanity saves America I think is what they were calling it and every year like they ask people donate to us and they'll do a thing well this year they did several things and one of them was they bought the naming rights to a minor league baseball team just outside of Chicago and well the to the student the stadium not the team itself they bought the naming rights of the stadium so it is now called I believe it's in Juliet I think is how it's said the Juliet Slammers now play baseball at the cards against humanity baseball place yes so it's a lame name yeah but it's kind of they're calling card cards I don't know let's get into a better story here about our message to our customers about my phone batteries performance this is the follow-up from last week yes this guy likes iPhone well I have a pixel to well he's thinking he made like iPhone less after seeing a pixel to well after seeing the pixel to and after the stuff that's gone down with Apple yeah I'm thinking about making a switch I don't know maybe we'll see I'm yeah anyway Apple came back because of all the backlash and they sent out a message to all of their customers trying to explain how batteries age yeah yeah how I'm expecting unexpected shutdowns yeah yeah yeah like oh this is all these are the reasons we did what we did and but we realized that it causes some problems so we'll replace your battery for 30 bucks which is pretty reasonable so it's not bad normally you have to you have to go to a genius bar and they have to do a diagnostic and say oh yep your battery is below 50% will replace it for $80 I think it is $79 so now they're saying they'll wave that you don't have to go to a genius bar they'll just replace your battery for $29 right I don't know I've only had bad experience once at a genius bar like the only time everyone there like it's I don't know yeah I mean I've gone a couple of times I mean you definitely I mean the weight was the only problem I had yes that's the problem I had like I was yeah 30 minutes to find out they couldn't help me they go we don't do the thing you asked I'm like oh well 30 minutes ago would have been the time to ask before yeah how long ago was that to you or the year ago maybe a year and a half ago okay because the the last time I went in they kind of you go in and you talk like the person will greet you like right away and find out what your issue is yeah and then they'll be like okay you know yeah go go here I'm assuming if they don't fix it they'll say oh that's not something we do here maybe I don't know I'm my problem with Apple I've been an Apple user for decades but they haven't done anything innovative or interesting since Steve Jobs died see this is honest I have to say that I we I love them I hear that band-aid offer the iPhone users like they they've lost their way they've lost their visionary yeah don't do design anymore they they don't geeks have figured it out Google's doing a little better yeah now to a little bit of Apple's offense I really don't want to have a singular market where there's only one single phone vendor or phone software provider in the operating system world Microsoft I don't even I'm not even to call it a good attempt I'm gonna call it what did you guys realize there's other stores out there you could have used as examples and at least on the same thing as before you came up with the idea you had that was a bad idea which is part of the reason their phones failed that's a mention our updates bricked a lot of their phones which is it yeah anyways so I like the fact there's competition in the market but Apple come on be competitive I don't know I think they they they've sat at the top of the phone market for so long I think they just kind of got complacent they were like yeah we own it we're always gonna own it people will take what we give them and then along came Google and Google started beating the crap off them yeah so you know I like I said I'm kind of entrenched in it which is part of Apple's plan I'm sure I mean like I do like the idea that like my phone like I don't really have to do much if I do if I do it on my phone it yeah swaps over to my my laptop over to my desktop seamlessly seamlessly but so does the Google stuff I use and everything else I've done a video on Google keep and how it works in effect we share notes right now and we're not using any Apple products right now we're sharing our notes via Google Docs right now so using one Apple product one yeah yes that's a beautiful shiny Chrome browser you have there yeah yeah it's the best browser it's a pretty Chrome browser yeah it is well because it's a Chrome speaking of Google in their actual competition which is an Apple Google home versus Amazon Echo the holiday push now this yeah this was interesting I don't have these listening devices in my house and I mentioned on my final year on review I'm gonna do some home tech videos about what I have at my house but things you're not gonna have at your house it were Tom's house is you're not gonna find listening devices besides my phones hmm how many is Marvin have none none we have one on the other side of the wall that I won so we play with it in the office yeah we get it to say things that are stupid and absurd occasionally we haven't really found I'm not that wowed by the Amazon one it's kind of novel the Google one probably a little bit more useful because if I connected to all my Google accounts but I have my assistant on my pixel and I had a previous on my Nexus I use it there I don't really see the need to have it as a box or whatever yeah and then they have the big one and I'm like hey cool if you have no sound system at your house apparently the audio quality is good okay for the Google one for the big Google one little Google one the big Google I don't know what the difference the names are I call it the big one yeah one I mean there's some good reviews on it but I can I have a nice home stereo system a lot of other people you can buy a nicer home stereo system I don't know I guess it depends in really the use case of them but they spent a lot of money both oh their marketing was insane on because they wanted you to buy them for Christmas so just since Thanksgiving they spent 42 million I think it's a collectively they spent over 70 million dollars 70 million dollars trying to tell you you need a listening device yep yep yes so you you'll put one in your home yeah but I think Amazon spent more they spent now I've done some testing with these and we put our we have a separate Wi-Fi called the Internet of Insecure Things here at the office and the Amazon Echo is on there and not that I think it's insecure but I was curious about what data it sends what data transmits it's all encrypted so I can't really see into all the data but I do some testing I mean it's sending so little data I can't call it an always on listening device but they are and there's been people who proved you could hack them to be so they I don't know they make me a little nervous so we unplug ours here when we aren't playing with it we just turn it off because it's not something like ubiquity on all the time that we're playing with it's kind of a novel we play the word games with it I was just gonna say the only thing we really turn it on for is to play games pretty much like the trivia game we do the trivia game so it for $49 I think is the dot cross I got a minute it's a fun trivia game player the Google one is fun because it same thing I but it's the same as you get on Google Assistant you can ask us some questions we also all these lights and everything none of them are Wi-Fi light bulbs these are not in my house nor my office therefore it doesn't have that integration excitement of hey turn my hallway lights on or off come on that's so cool you can set the mood you know I'm looking I may build some Raspberry Pi automation if I like when I have control over it not the cloud there you know what we should you know this has been a great is an old article and we covered it before but there was a garage door opening company and this is so wonderful because the way the other choices work they need a server to work they don't they're not self-contained or self-hosted so when you tell Amazon to turn off your lights it goes out to the Amazon servers it comes back into your place and talks to the lights and turns them off well there's a garage door company the guy got belligerent on the forums and the reviews oh no so they said no problem they turn they wouldn't let him along his garage so we found that very easy because you know the box communicates to the outside with an app they turned his garage door opener off they're disabled it you should return it sir yeah my garage is closed I can't get now and that's hysterical to me like yeah no problem we can would you like us to leave it closed or open it we can open it for you yeah so that's good worries me about a lot of these and people who are like-minded you know about running things self-hosted wherever you can or delegating control if the internet goes out you also lose control things and I don't know so yeah I'm kind of may on those we might do a review sometime of the Amazon echo like our thoughts on it I don't know there's so many videos out there I mean we kind of play with it a little bit when we first got it I mean it's not for me it novelty really really quickly yes we opened it we played with it for like 20 minutes and now I plugged it and now I played trivia and that's what it gets turned on so yes first of play trivia with us yeah so yeah but that's another instance here that I just to kind of point out Apple doesn't even have any any skin in that game at all they're working on it they're they say yeah allegedly see Apple doesn't have your personal data so yeah the closest they have is that with Apple TV you can you can speak into the remote like you can do that like if you're watching you know because I have Apple TV yeah so with that remote I can like hold the body able to do it for about two years in a Amazon yeah so I mean like that was love the Geary who's a Geary Boosie he does the video he runs around talking to his lamp yes if you're like me you're like talking to things hello lamp and then he finally talks to his Amazon echo because he's talking to things she's smart and anger parts could put that guy in anything I don't care I'll watch him absolutely he's his own well he's on YouTube and out but I think he could just have his own crazy didn't he have a reality show for a little bit yeah he's he's good for YouTube mmm John McCaffey speaking of people who are good from YouTube I loved his video on how to uninstall McCaffey and undoubtedly you've seen that right yes and if he is a madman I think there was a time when he was really relevant and really smart and unfortunately that was the mid to late 80s and that has fallen off his apparently is Twitter he says his Twitter account got hacked it's hard to say because the absurdity of his life is is entertaining to some extent but so apparently some crypto people used his Twitter account to promote some other cryptocurrencies and if you don't know who John McCaffey is it's not a coincidence of McCaffey the most hated anti-fair software bears his name that yeah literally that he named after himself just like this idiot here who called his company Lawrence systems because my last name's Lawrence you know we're well called it Lawrence technology services 10 minutes from a school called Lawrence now Lawrence Tech so I didn't go to school I have excuses yeah so I have one more person asked me for an application when I'm out yeah they think we work for this problem I did this 14 years ago you know that happens so he eventually got hacked I don't know well what I like about is he blames two-factor authentication he says that they hacked his two-factor and so to be more secure he has removed two-factor from all of his devices yeah I don't know I I don't get it that seems counterintuitive yeah I have two factor turned on in there I mean I don't know like I said he's he was supposed to eat a shoe and he didn't eat the shoe didn't know he was gonna hack an iPhone he couldn't hack it he did a shoe if he couldn't hack it he wouldn't give it to him or something I think he's still supposed to eat a shoe or something I I followed it for a while it's kind of like how Charlie Sheen like tiger's blood just kind of like I cook herring yeah yeah he rose the minor celebrities the B celebrity status with the the crazy beliefs thing yeah but yeah we're these heroes sent an army of bots to save your Christmas from pushy telemarketers this is awesome yes especially since they had well we'll tell the story but I assume we'll put the links up they have some of the calls recorded yes they have the calls recorded we won't blame you but the the Jolly Roger telephone company which specialized in programming bots designed to waste the time a pushy telemarketers is teamed up with spam call walking service no more noro mo I don't know how to say it I can read it no arm or OBO normal robo to unleash a dedicated battalion of bots built with the sole purpose of lurking telemarkers away from real people now I really like this we I think we actually brought this up a while back in our their state yeah where there was a company doing this they're doing with emails yeah they were doing else they would send emails back and forth this is another level that and eventually it's because we're actually seeing a couple things happen here we're gonna start seeing more and this is happening in social media right now there's a few people that are researching this and I may I might do a blog post on it and what they're doing is you're using AI bots to influence social media and then now we have to have teams of AI bots to influence it the other way or in this case it's specifically target scammers but I'm talking about the bigger picture here that we're gonna start seeing bot wars yeah and whoever can have the best bot wars this is where this is where it's going yeah worried about world war four for war three no it's just bots going at it wasting each other's time there used to be and let me see if it still exists you see a web service called fancy hands so yeah fancy hands well Tom's looking for that I listened to a couple of the calls and they are worth it so when we put the link up check it out the one I mean it they've obviously done recordings and then you know the AI just pulls the the audio that it needs yes and there's still is a service called fancy hands and this is how absurd life is getting fancy hands is a US based assistant at your fingertips use any device at any time of day and our systems will tackle it and anything you choose now one of the common uses for this this is great because no one likes to send a hold right I can send a hold to get something done you know like on Comcast because service sucks and you got to convince someone that their service doesn't suck mm-hmm so you get sent hold for a while you can call other people who will sit on a hold for you yeah let you know when the holds over so instead of actually having a good customer service experience we realize that's just not gonna happen so here's another startup company that's filling in that gap as these guys are doing we need bots to fight bots we need a customer service company that you pay a service fee to so they'll sit on hold with your customer service when you're trying to get service the absurdity of life occasionally yeah wonderful this is this is the madness we've created folks this is this is where we're at I was trying to figure out with the other day because like like Kroger in places like that will like now do like curbside yeah like you you know I need these things and you pull up and they bring it out to you and I'm like so could I like send uber eats over there could I like not have to go out at all could I just could I put my order and then have uber eats go pick it up from Kroger from Kroger and bring it back to me then could I then hire TaskRabbit somebody from TaskRabbit to put my groceries away yes I never have to get up so you can you can return it's the best thing because he seems don't cost a whole lot of money so you can have like a whole dedicated team of servants and staff for a pretty reasonable price now yeah really that's where life's going yeah I don't like that yeah it's like I like that was it walley where like the humans had just developed to be just blobs like on a floating chair yes yeah I think that's going to be us that is going to be a sooner than we think yeah oh probably yes it's going to be walley very soon alright and the final one here is it has to do with the way the content is handled and conhead ID so if I were to upload a video to YouTube that was copyrighted like you know the new Star Wars easy or perhaps the show Hamilton which is really popular show everybody wants to see it oh yeah and apparently you can watch it on Pornhub Pornhub with Zootopia as well that is just amazing so this is what's going on and I we were laughing so as I got my coffee this morning we're having a laugh at this because the picture how this works you have a team of copyright lawyers who run around having to watch things and take them down but like all offices that are businesses you can pretty much bank on porn sites being blocked oh yeah so if you upload those videos to the porn sites you can get away with hosting Zootopia on Pornhub so that's what people have done so this will be all done and apparently we set up new account there's five-minute limits okay I don't and I'm not gonna see how I know that but it was the article and I hope it is and as a public service if you Google Pornhub Hamilton do not I repeat do not click on the first hit especially if you're at work well we come the first yeah maybe well yeah we're the first hit than fine but as of right now we are not the one we're producing this video right now the one that simply says Pornhub Hamilton click that one with caution yes yeah but I I think it offers a great excuse for like when my wife wanders in and is like why are you looking at Pornhub I'm like I'm watching Zootopia yeah it's like it's on there I think it goes to the bigger picture of some of the copyright problems we have now I've even had to argue fair use on my YouTube channel for mentioning things that it flagged and I'm like really it we've there's been so many problems there's been a few out a lot of news people especially get hit with this where they just have something in the background playing like someone pass her by recording in a public space you're like oh copyright there was some song playing within an earshot in our system and there's a difference between fair use and I want to talk about something I can you know show clip we're referring to the Star Wars and here's a clip from the trailer that does not well should not do a takedown oh so that's a problem some of these automated systems as they go into far and then we come all the way over to you know people up in Pornhub the solution so we're gonna see extremes on both sides until we come to some type of you know actual solution to the problem I think it also shows that pornography has been the the driving force for most things on the internet I think it falls into that category as well so we'll leave you guys with that something to think about we'll leave links to the actual articles in the description below not not the actual video on yeah please under and other thoughts for Tuesdays tweet them at us stories you may want us to cover topics you may discover questions you may want us to answer or just ramble on about a offer some opinion this was a shorter show because we I said no it's Tuesday Marvin's like Tuesday I'm like what yeah in my morning started out with a client with a server flood so I wasn't we were late even getting here in yeah server room full of water yeah so that elevate your servers people which they did be on our they listen us the servers are elevated servers are safe water we open the door let the water out of the room so that's a whole other that's right now everything's in yeah that's being cleaned up as we speak so thank you for watching let us know what you want to hear like subscribe and we'll go from there alright thanks see you