 I. Oh, hi. What's up? I'm just looking at our DTNS discard and see or me gook. Hmm. What's going on, everybody? I hope most of you got your notifications. Big day of podcasting for me on the Wednesdays. I do the TMS hit in the morning with Scott and Brian, and then I do it's a thing in the afternoon and then sword and laser in the evening. Oh, I'm pretty much Sarah has the rundown for DTNS Wednesdays. So I've got my story in there. I've kind of done everything I think I need to do to help her with that. Doug Rowley Bear. I like your avatar. Yeah. So we're just we're just prepping for it's a thing now. Did not receive the notification on YouTube. I even waited this time. I don't know what's up with that YouTube notification. It just seems as a mind of its own. I thought I suspect that maybe it was if I went too fast after creating a stream, but I waited, I created it and I gave it a good, good bit before I went live. So, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what's up with that. You received the notification by Twitch and then went to YouTube. Interesting. I doubt that's what either company wants you to do, but hey, whatever works, right? All right, what kind of things do I have marked away for the future? The future more startling things in the future. Future events such as these will affect you in the future. Is Pokemon back? Pokemon might be back. What's going on with Feedly? Why are you not showing me my things, Feedly? Come on. Let's not have an adage right now, please. Pliss. Pliss. Just doesn't want to show me my personal board of things. Maybe it'll work on mobile. Sometimes that happens. Oh, be real. Here, I'll show my loading screen. Did I make it in time? Oh, I think I did. I barely noticed that. Be real. Burial. Hello, the gamer. Hello, Zoe brings bacon. Apple renewed for all mankind. Very nice. All right, let's see if it comes up here. No, it just doesn't want to load the... You're welcome for the WhatsApp, Zoe, anytime. Well deserved. It just does not want to load the sub thing. Huh. Why doesn't it... Oh, is it because it's about grimes? Is that why? Grimes failing at Coachella. Oh, wait. No. I closed the window. Do you ever do that where you're like, I just need to get rid of these windows and then you close the window you actually still need? I do. I do that all the time. Hi, Wabba Magic. What's new in your neck of the woods? Who's... No, I probably shouldn't say that. Who's neckin' in your woods? I'm glad you like him. All right, so there, I got my... You don't want it. I don't want to out him. He's a busy guy, but we don't have the rundown for the pencil thing yet. Oh my gosh, it's too early for it, but... But I got my things here, so that'll be easy to put together later. So next is sword and laser. Finish up. It's a thing. You're going to drive to Vegas? Oh, not in 16 hours, but it's going to take you 16 hours to drive to Vegas. When are you driving to Vegas, Wabba Magic? Oh, I haven't done my confirm with Veronica. Episode 487 of sword and laser. For April 17th, 2024. 487. You think there'd be more, honestly? I'm not going to lie. It's 11 a.m. Pacific. Do you know where your stories are? Okay. All right. First thing I do for sword and laser is I go to Goodreads and I find the sword and laser group. 487 total since the sword and laser audio podcast began. All right, so then I open up the quick burns, the podcast thread, because I always like to see what people are saying. You know what? I'll share this screen with you. What do you say? You're interested? Hello, Mr. Pedalicious. Hello, Adam 12. And then usually what I do with the quick burns. Oh, that's the wrong one. That's 2022. That won't do. I need the current one. There we go. So then I go to the newest and I work backwards because last one we did was April 3rd. And then I just go from the bottom up in my dark trike. Dark matter, Apple TV, May 8th. Boom. Small press distribution across. I was very small, but the last distributors. I don't know enough about that stuff. Paul Hugo awards finalists also worth knowing. Oh, that was, oh, so we only have those two. Wow. Not many quick burns. Well, maybe I, maybe I will put this in since we don't have much. I'll just say, I don't really know much about this. I am allergic to people who are like, this is bad and it's going to kill everything, which isn't what Richard is saying. But sometimes these stories do tend to have that little bit of a slant to them. All right. So there's that. And then I look at the sword and laser discord quick burns channel. Since April 3rd, there has been one live action, teenage mutant Ninja Turtles. That's a movie though. That's fun, but all right. Well, there's not going to be a whole lot of quick burns today, which is okay. So let's just see X-Men night, February 7th. Yeah, that's too old. All right. Well, I guess we'll have two quick burns. There you go. That's how it happens. That's all we got. All right. And then bear your sword. I will go. Life kills everything. Make Veronica read about a Dodger fan. That'll be fun. Speaking of Galway. Oh, Wizard from Glasgow. We'll put the second part of this. You know, sometimes people have two points. I'll just pick which I'll pick one of them. The British Isles is a group of islands off the Northwestern, including the Island of Ireland. The Isle of Man is a mythical place populated by tailless cats. The office hours are just me hanging out, prepping for DTNS. They're not really for anything. But if you have a question about your homework, just let us know. We'll do our best. What did you have to uninstall? Just switch to Edge. You'll be fine. I was fairly certain. All right. My favorite browser is Firefox, but it doesn't tend to play nicely with others. So I use Chrome because that's what everybody seems to standardize on. But I also have Edge, Safari, Opera, and Vivaldi open. Don't take me as an example. All right. I got to our bear your swords. Oh, Book of the Month discussion. We are finishing up Hint about May Pick. Good news can be journalistic. Yes, see our poll. Good take. And congrats to Justin and Ashley. That's exciting. That's April Pick. I have not heard back from Ms. Belmont, but at least this is all set to go. The CA and Google News story. Probably not because I don't know what you mean. Sword and laser. All right. So now I'm prepped for swords and for lasers. Google stopping news links in California or said they would stop news links in California if California passed the law. And if it's that, that's several days old and we talked about it previously. Or if we didn't talk about it on DTS, I had it in my newsletter, but yeah, it's kind of old news. And until they do it, it's like, oh, here we go again. But let me look and see if I'm if I miss something. For some users. Yeah, no, we talked about this. This was several days ago. Google on Friday began removing California websites from some people's search results in advance as a test. This is exactly what they did in Canada. It's like they've done this in Australia and Europe and like Spain and Canada. So okay, here we go again in California. And California is just considering a bill. So this is just this is a test. It's not going to affect most people. Yeah, it's to me, it's not terribly pressing news. We'll see we'll see what happens down the road. But it's it's not the first time it's happened. It's an old pattern. So it becomes kind of like, all right, well, let's not just retread all the same takes again. Let's let's see what happens. Test on your own time. This is their time. This this is basically they have to prep that if the legislature bans them from linking to California news sites without paying, they have to have a system to comply. In other words, not link if they haven't paid. So they if that legislation is being considered, then this is them getting ahead of it, which normally we tell companies they should do like you should have tested that ahead of time. So that's what they're doing testing it ahead of time. So you can't can't really be mad at them for testing for what could end up being an eventuality. Granted, are they doing it simply because they want to, you know, put pressure on the legislators not to pass the bill? Absolutely. But it's also good practice. It can be both. So yeah, I don't really love the outrage. I'm kind of done with it. It's not fun anymore. Are you angry that YouTube is blocking ad blockers had a 48% open rate? Then again, I'm checking my fantasy team. The Baltimore Browns are even five and five with the Boston Bullets. I think we have the batting categories. Yeah, we're tied and stolen bases. We're tied in quality starts. Boston has all the pitching categories, and I've got all the batting categories, which is good for me because I have a lot of pitchers going at the end of the week. And we all we both have batters all the way through. So if I'm ahead on batting categories, not that they can't catch up, but that's good that that's an easier place to defend. Whereas the pitching categories are average base. So as I get more pitchers should bring them down 20 Ks to three Ks, that's a lot of Ks to catch up on. And that's your fantasy baseball update. Maybe I should start letting the chat room manage my fantasy team for me. Tell me who to start, who to drop. Y'all just can pick it based on the names. Logan Webb, obviously a tech guy. All X reds all the time. Oh, all red socks all the time. Well, yeah, you're in, you're in former, former Massachusetts, Maine. Does it handle the elbow injuries? I mean, if you get injured here, here, I'll show you. If you get injured, you get put on the injured list. Once somebody puts it on the injured list in real life, creating a YouTube family is useful, removing ads and you get YouTube music. You know, we got an email from somebody who was mad about YouTube music being included in YouTube premium. And this is not the first time I've seen this perspective of like, I wish they would remove YouTube music. I'm like, you don't even know it's there. What that perspective is usually trying to say is I don't want to pay for something I don't use, which is fair, but you're not. It's a myth that you're paying for something you don't use. The company is saying across these services, these a number of people use them and this amount of money causes them together. The mythology that this person and others are falling under is that if they took YouTube music out, they could charge less. That's not how it works. It's potentially they could charge less, but also the economy of scale of not having as many subscribers because you don't have as many offerings might actually keep the price the same or make it more expensive. So just because you're not using a part of a service, doesn't mean that you're getting overcharged. You should just look at how much the service is and whether it's worth it to you to pay that for it, right? Now I feel better for having answered that. Alright, so anyway, injured list. Joshua Lowe, for example, expected to be out until April 29th. So TMS Vegas time, Joshua Lowe will be back and I'll decide whether I want to keep him at that point. Probably will. He's pretty good. Then I got two pitchers. Bobby Miller expected to be out until April 26th. So he should be coming back soon. Eduardo Rodriguez now out until May 24th and they moved into the 60 day. So he's definitely not coming back early. So yeah, those are the injuries on my team. And then I moved them to the injured list and that frees up a slot for me to put somebody else in there. Oh my gosh. So yeah, here I'll put this one up. YouTube never sends me reminders about YouTube music unlike Amazon, which sends me reminders about parts of prime I don't use. Amazon sends me reminders about parts of prime I don't even get like Amazon music stuff. There's some Amazon music stuff you have to pay extra for that. It's like, wouldn't you like to do this? Like it's just totally upselling. You know, that bugs me. Especially when you just told it to turn the light off. And it's like, did you know you could add things to your subscribe and save? I'm like, I don't I don't need an ad when I turn the lights off. I just need the lights to go off. So you keep doing that. Eventually I'm going to switch to Apple's system, especially as threads and matter make it easier to switch. So stop doing that. I understand that they think they need to do that to make the service worth the money or they will shut down the service. Totally get that. But that's this is the negotiation that a customer and a service provider have. All right, let's see if I've gotten everything. All right, I did that. I did that yesterday. Apple's upsell is a $3,500. That's kind of true. I did that. I did not do that. I did that. I haven't done that since before COVID. Okay, great. I've done all the things that I can do before the show. Is there a better subscription than YouTube Premium? I mean, there's no alternative to getting ads off of YouTube. There are other music subscriptions out there, but yeah. For what it does, you really don't have an alternative. I think that's the bigger problem is that there isn't a competitor to YouTube, right? There's no, there's no other place to go. Then you have to use the sarcasm mark if you're not asking a real question. There's no other, there's, you know, I mean, there's Vimeo and they've changed their tactics, so they're not really a competitor. There's Daily Motion. There's a few others, but honestly, you want to talk about a monopoly, YouTube. Why are we talking about iOS being a monopoly when YouTube exists? Seriously. Like that, that's a real monopoly. Like where else can you host your video? Even Twitch is only a competitor in live streaming, not really for hosting videos. I just made it up. I don't know what it is. We need to invent the sarcasm mark, and I should probably have used the sarcasm mark when I said it. So there you go. All right. I'm fresh out of things we have to do. We got time. Ask me anything. I will take your questions for the next 10 minutes. No, Zoe, you're never sarcastic. Are you? AMA, American Music Awards. I mean, ask me anything. Yeah, if you want your video seen, it's YouTube, right? Unless you have a direct connection, right? Patreon allows us to upload videos directly to Patreon, which works because we only want patrons to see them anyway. So it's fine, right? But if you want people in general to see them, you've got to put the stuff on YouTube. It's just the way it is. Have you read any of the High Republic books prior to Acolyte releasing? I have not, Adam 12. I am sorely behind in my Star Wars-ing. There were several reasons, but one of the reasons that we stopped, let's talk about Star Wars is I was kind of just losing my enthusiasm. It started to feel like work. So I have not, I have been sort of taking a lean back approach. I didn't even watch Bad Batch recent season. And I'm excited about the Mandalorian stuff, including the movie and the Acolyte looks great. And I'm definitely going to try it, but I don't want to feel this sense of obligation. Bad Batch is good. I'll get to it. I'm pretty sure I'll get to it. That happened to me last season. I didn't watch it until the season was already over, but once I did, I enjoyed it. I do need to get back to doing East meets West with Roger Chang. Yes, Zoe. Roger was good for a long time about pushing us to do it every month, and then he got busy and stopped. So now it's my turn. I need to make us do it. But yeah, that is something I would like to do because it's been too long since we did an episode. And I don't want that to be a pod fade. I want that show to continue as long as both of us are alive. Or, you know, if I die, Roger can keep doing it without me. It's fine. I'll give him the passwords. I think one of the problems is that Good Day Internet sort of became East meets West. Like a lot of the things we do on East meets West end up happening on Good Day Internet. So yeah, that doesn't mean we shouldn't do East meets West, and it's good that you have provoked me into remembering that because then I could schedule it. Maybe we'll do it tomorrow after we do the top five. We're shooting top fives tomorrow, and those take much faster. Those do not take nearly as much time as they used to. So maybe I'll talk to Roger about doing one after we shoot. Yeah, I can, in my will, I'll direct Eileen who gets all of my assets to give Roger the passwords. Did you ever see yourself doing anything after Twitter? Well, yeah. All of this. It's an interesting question. I think you mean when I was there, did I imagine having to do something else after? If I'm reading the question, right? I would only give it a thought when I thought maybe things weren't going to work out there, but no, it was not a plan. I never had plans for what to do after Twitter. I had to put them together rather rapidly at the end of 2013. I will try not to hassle you too much to do more stuff. I have no idea how you manage all the things you do already and get sleep. Yeah, it's something I'm working on. I probably need to do fewer things. Did you think you were going to stay there? I mean, yeah. Until 2013, until when I moved, I got the sense that they weren't happy with moving, and so I started to worry a little bit. But before that, I never thought much about, I wasn't planning to leave or anything. And it seems to have worked out well for everyone. So it's all good. I am definitely enjoying where I am. Sometimes I wish the money was better, especially with the economy the way it is, but I think that's true of almost everybody. Yeah. Ad market is picked back up though, so it's not as crushing as it was last year. Beginning last year was tough, but we weathered it. So fingers crossed. Hey, if you can stop people in positions of influence and power from ruining it for the rest of the planet, that'd be great. I don't know if you're in a position to do that, but if you are, that'd be awesome. Thanks. All right. Anything else? Any other questions? Keep them coming. No. I don't see anything. No. Why can't I buy you a cup of coffee? You can, M. Terrence. You could just send me PayPal and then I'll buy it myself. Or we could meet up at TMS Vegas. You could buy me a cup of coffee. That could work. I mean, it's always coffee time, right, Zoe? I have read Three Body Problem. I have not watched the show yet, Adam 12. That kind of goes along with what we were talking about earlier about the Star Wars stuff. Like just, I'm not prioritizing watching TV as much as I used to. What website? See our poll. It's always coffee time. Coffee or do you mean Kofi Annan? Because no, you cannot buy Kofi Annan. He is above reproach. I do want to watch Three Body Problem too. I'm interested and I've heard it's pretty good. I did watch Fallout though. I tried it and it just sucked me in. So I haven't tried Three Body Problem yet. I am lost on this website. Why can't I buy you a cup of coffee? I'm missing something. I have not heard of that game or main. Hey, you luck, Jackie. Nice. Going out and take some photos. That's good. See, when you say this website, M. Terrence, I'm looking at StreamYard. I assume you mean YouTube because you're looking at YouTube. I am doing good, Lucky. I'm feeling like actually getting a cup of coffee because of the suggestion. Would you, you don't have to buy it for me though. I have a cup of coffee. But yeah, I'm doing good. Busy day, DTNS coming up. It's a thing. Sword and laser. All good. Let's check the feeds one more time, shall we? Anything big happen? Know Your Meme has an article called People That Hate As Soon As Something Gets Popular. Reddit is taking over Google. All right. No, nothing. Oh, the option to buy me a cup of coffee is not there on YouTube. Well, why didn't you say so? I didn't know that was a thing. I've seen this on other channels. I just thought it was something they did. Is it a built-in thing or is it a meme? Is it something people do? Let's see. Let's find out. I have super chats on. You can buy me super chats. People have done it. Maybe a lot of people change the name of that. Ah, stop, M. Terrence. You may earn more super chat revenue by following these tips. I guess we probably need to do more things. Oh, coffee. You know what? I've actually heard of that, GamerMain. Now that you've put it in context, I just liked making the Kofi Anna joke. That's all. The website above has a way to link a button to your channel. Kofi has a way to link a button to your channel. I'm not sure what above refers to, because I see Twitch and YouTube chats all together in one. And that's why some of you are like, who is he talking to? I don't see this person. Yeah, we'll have to see if I can get Joe on that. All right. Good question, though, once we figured out where we're going. And yeah, I know the Kofi thing. I did run across them. I feel like I even created an account there. Join one million creators. Keep more of your money. Zero to five percent platform fees. We're independent and run by creators with no investors to please. We put you first. Yeah, can only do that for so long. Sadly, I hope that they're able to continue that. But that zero to five percent platform fee means they're only taking out the, well, wait a minute. You have to pay transaction fees to offer payment systems. And then you have to pay employees to properly maintain and secure and do anti-fraud. Makes me a little nervous when people are like, no, no, we're altruistic because it costs money to run this stuff. Anyway, yeah, we should not forget about YouTube chat. That's very good. All right. I got to go and get ready for our production meeting. Thank you all. This was fun. This was great. Thanks for all the questions. Sorry for my confusion around them, but thanks. Thanks for prodding. And I'll talk to you in just a little more than an hour on this exact channel. All right.