 And we're live with the song stylings of Len Peralta. Hey Shannon. Hey, thank you so much for listening to me practice my Japanese. Are you flunked? Wow, that sounds good to me. How do you say you're welcome? Say it again. I remember because it sounds like don't touch my mustache. Are you listening to baby metal now as well? No, but have you heard Lady Baby? Oh my gosh. What's Lady Baby? Patrick Beja know about Lady Baby. I'm just gonna let you see what happens when you google it. It's amazing. Are they are they like Baby Metal or no different than Baby? It's like Baby Metal. Oh, it's what's his name? A much taller muscular manly. What is it called Lady Baby? I gotta see it now. Lady Baby. Oh Lady Baby, I gotta see it. Or maybe it's Baby Lady. Oh, I don't know. It's Lady Beja's. You'll probably get the same thing. Lady Baby. It has what's his name in it? Oh, that guy? Oh, I love that guy. Oh, Lady Baby. Hey, what's up with your Cleveland Cavalier that is getting in trouble for wearing a fitness tracker? Who's this? Who's this? I don't know. I don't remember his name. It's hard to pronounce. Oh, who would that be? Oh, the music's horrible. We'll look it up. We'll look it up after the after the show. I'll look it up right now. I have the internet Cavaliers We're gonna start doing this Daily Tech News show now. All right, here we go. All right, here we go. When having tea with the queen, you must remember three important things. One, think it up. Two, never wear a hat more audacious than hers. And three, make sure you wear your DTNS t-shirt. To become queen appropriate, go to DailyTechNewsShow.com forward slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, April 8th, 2016. I'm Tom Aaron, joining me today. Shannon Morse, host of Tech Thing, producer at Hack 5. And many other things, Threat Wire, all kinds of stuff going on with you, Shannon. You guys have been building a drone. We have been building a drone, and I am happily able to announce that it actually flies. Whoa! Congratulations! Yay! My first drone fly! It's cool to build a drone. It's even cooler to build a drone that flies. It's even greater if you don't end up with band-aids and stitches while you're trying to fly it. Absolutely. Go follow the project. See this thing get built in action at hack5.org or youtube.com slash hack5 is where I've been watching it as well. Len Peralta also with us on the Friday. How are you doing, Len? I'm doing well. By the way, you just mentioned my autobiography, which is called whatever you said about the drones. It's better to build a drone that flies. That's the name of my autobiography. Ah, the Len Peralta story. You know it so well. It's great. It's out in stores now, number five in Amazon and climbing. It's great. Of course, if you don't realize this, if you're new to the show, perhaps, Len illustrates the show, and then you can see his stylistic rendering of our topics at LenPeraltaStore.com. Let's start off with the headlines. As expected, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a letter in the federal court in Brooklyn saying it still requires Apple's assistance unlocking an iPhone running iOS 7 in a New York drug case. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein ruled February 29th that the All Ritz Act did not provide the authority to order Apple to assist. That was before the case in San Bernardino was resolved. Apple now has until April 15th to file papers in opposition of the appeal. And before we hear what Shannon thinks about that, Thursday evening U.S. Senators Diane Feinstein and Richard Burr released a draft of the Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016, which would make all these fights just go away. The bill states that, quote, all persons receiving an authorized judicial order for information or data must provide, in a timely manner, responsive, intelligible information or data or appropriate technical assistance to obtain such information or data, even if the data has been made unintelligible on purpose, aka encrypted. The kicker is that no computing service or electronic communication service can make products that can't comply with this resolution. That's in the bill too. So if this were to pass, and by the way it's just been released, it hasn't even been introduced into committee, but if this were to pass as written, it would mean, Shannon, that A, the FBI wouldn't have to appeal an order. Like Apple would just have to comply. Apple wouldn't be able to contest it. And B, it would not be against the law to have encryption or make encryption, but if you couldn't access that encryption because of a court order, you would be violating the law. It's way too vague the way that they're writing it right now, and if it passes, we're completely screwed when it comes to encryption. I am not a fan. Not a fan either. That's not obvious. No, this is a horrible law. First of all, you shouldn't need a law that says you have to follow a court order. So what they're trying to do is take away your appeal. Take away your ability to say, well, wait a minute, I don't think the court should appeal this. So you're gutting a defense. You're removing a right from companies to say, hold on, I think this is unreasonable. They're saying, nope, you can't say that because there's nothing about reasonability in this bill, by the way. It says, you have to comply if the judge ever thinks that the prosecution has a case, and you can't make a product that would prevent you from complying. So no US company would be able to make strong encryption without a back door, unless you could think of a magical way to comply with this law without a back door, and everyone in the rest of the world would, meaning everyone who doesn't follow the law already has strong encryption, and people who want to follow the law wouldn't, or you'd have to use non-US software. Yeah, it completely violates our privacy and our security rights, and it's, it basically voids the whole point of having a judicial system in America for these kind of issues. Somewhat. We were talking about it in the analysts' Slack, people who are patrons at the analyst level, and one person in there said, and wanted to remain anonymous, as someone who used to have to break encrypted drives used by al-Qaeda fighters, I never once complained that I should have a back door. It didn't stop me from doing my job and getting the information. Exactly. Yes, that's exactly what I've heard from my friends who work with federal government agencies and have to do this kind of decryption themselves. They have the ability to do it. They don't need to make this law. This bill, by the way, let's be clear. Bill. I don't even know if it's properly a bill yet, since it hasn't actually been introduced into committee, but potential bill then, I guess, is a great way to set the goalpost really far away so that you can compromise and still get away with weakening encryption. That's what it looks like to me. Make this thing as unreasonable as possible, so that when you water it down, you can still find some way to weaken encryption, which is just bad for everybody. I vote no to this. Me too. Microsoft Garage released its hub keyboard for iOS Friday. That's less controversial, The hub keyboard's key features include faster copy and paste, text translation, constant access to your, I'm sorry, contacts access on the phone and Office 365. You can search OneDrive and SharePoint right from a little button there. Microsoft released the Android version in February, so this is just the release of the iOS version. And if you're thinking, well, wait a minute, I thought Microsoft had a keyboard called Wordflow. They do. This keyboard hub is not related to Wordflow, which is a different keyboard for iOS from Microsoft. Congratulations iOS. You now have a new keyboard. All the keyboards. TechCrunch reports multiple sources and a leaked document show that Facebook is in fact, as expected, going to provide developers or is actually already providing developers with API tools to build chatbots and live chat web plugins for business clients. The tools are expected to be announced at the F8 Developers Conference. That happens next week. Chatbots will be able to respond with structured messages, so not just text, but title, image, description, URL, calls to action, etc. There's all kinds of specs for adding chat buttons for Facebook Messenger to your websites. You can instantly chat with a bot. Kind of cool. Not interested at all. No, you don't like chatbots or you just don't like that Facebook is running this one. One, I don't like Facebook running it. I don't even have Facebook installed on my computer anymore. And two, I'm just not interested in chatting with a chatbot. I love chatbots. Chatbots are fun. I have too much other things to do. Well, okay, but there's the fun chatbot, which I think is still fun. That's true. But also there's the ones that Facebook is going for and Kick and Line are customer service chatbots. Yeah. So those are more practical. Yeah, it does make sense. It's going to give businesses one more thing that they'll have to work on. Yeah. OpenWhisperSystem's signal messaging app for the desktop is now available to all. It was in private beta before now. Signal is in the Chrome Web Store and uses the Android app for logging in. iOS users will have to wait. You can send text, audio, images, and video, but there's no way to set up a group yet on the desktop version, but it's there. So set it up on Android, log in on the web, and you can start using Signal for end-to-end encrypted web chats while you can. That's cool. I'm actually really excited about this. And that signal is the one that was done by a Moxie Marlin spike for anybody that doesn't know out there. So it's a definite really good choice for anybody who's concerned about the privacy. And I definitely say go for it. And Signal Protocol is what WhatsApp is using its encryption as well. Yes, it is. You can find out more about that on ThreatWire as well. Yes, you can. ER doctors at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, New Jersey used the heart rate history from a man's Fitbit Charge HR to guide his treatment after suffering from a seizure. Here's what was going on. The doctors noticed an irregular, fast heartbeat. Now, they didn't know if this is something that was caused by the seizure, because if it was new, if it had just happened because of the seizure, then they could use an electrical shock to reset the heart's rhythm. But if it was a chronic condition, something he had had for a long time and unrelated to the seizure, if they did that electrical stimulation, it could cause a stroke. So the Fitbit history was looked at and showed that the arrhythmia was a new thing. And the doctors therefore performed the electrocardioversion to the heart, evened out the rhythm. Guys, fine. Case was reported Friday in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. Paper is entitled, Interrogation of Patient Activity Tracker to Assist Arhythmia Management. I actually have a really personal interest in this story because I also have a Fitbit Charge HR and, you know, without getting into details, my heart beats really quickly sometimes. And I've talked to doctors about it before. So I think it's really important to use, you know, our tools, our technical tools to our advantage, especially if it's going to help you medically. Yeah. And they're very careful in this article in ours, Technica in the paper as well, to say we're not saying the Fitbit is the medical standard for heart rate checking. But they're saying, you know, with the doctor, the doctor has the purview to look at this and express some confidence in it because heart rate trackers have been around for a while. And if they feel like this is reliable information, they can act upon it. And I think that's great. It can definitely help, especially if you're the kind of person who doesn't necessarily notice those kind of things going on in your own body, which can definitely happen in some kind of forms of arrhythmia. Absolutely. And so in your case, they would look at this and go, ooh, we see a history of this. We better not do the electric shock. And that's good. You want them to know that. Yeah, exactly. Uber will pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit in California accusing the company of misleading customers about the thoroughness of driver background checks. In fact, they're now banned from making a lot of the claims that they used to in their marketing about those background checks. Reuters reports that Uber must pay $10 million in 60 days and the rest will be waived if the company complies with the terms of the settlement for two years. So go two years without making any of those statements. They'll be fine. They won't have to pay the rest of the money. Case was originally filed back in December, 2014. Uber, come on guys. Yeah. Interesting that they got sued by the district attorney in San Francisco and in Los Angeles at the same time. That's pretty bad. One of the few things that San Francisco and Los Angeles have teamed up on, I think. One of the very few. Ars Technica reports that leaked extracts from an assessment indicate that Europe's Article 29 Working Party plans to say the proposed EU-US Privacy Shield does not provide adequate protection for European data in the US. Translation, that deal for safe harbor that allows you to transfer information back and forth from the US to Europe? Not good. We're not going to recommend it. Now, support from this working group is not a requirement for the European Commission to implement the new agreement and companies are putting a lot of pressure on Europe to implement this because otherwise, they'll have to face tons more liability. However, the group can't support legal cases against the implementation. So if they're saying we don't support it and it does go into effect, expect them to file lawsuits. This is one of those stories that I haven't looked into too much, but it's been growing a lot lately. So it's something I really need to research. If there's been people who haven't followed up on this, the idea is Facebook can store European data in the United States and not be liable for certain things because there's what was called a safe harbor agreement. It said, look, if a US company stores European data in the US, that's okay. Likewise, if European companies store US data in Europe, that's okay too. There was a safe harbor agreement. The European Court of Justice determined that the agreement was invalid. And since that time, there hasn't been protection. There's been sort of an extension given that, hey, we won't sue anybody while we figure this out. But if they don't figure it out, it means that the companies will have to have different privacy policies, not only in the US and Europe, but in every country in Europe. That's extremely confusing. Yeah. And for them. Yeah, well, absolutely. And it could, and it causes a lot of costs. It could cause a lot of people to decide, okay, we're going to have to build servers in Europe just to avoid any appearance of impropriety, which I think there's a lot of people who want that. They're like, you know what, we don't want our data stored out of house. But that's kind of not how the internet's supposed to work. So yeah, it doesn't, unfortunately. Finally, Kenya Power and Safari comm have agreed to roll out more fiber connections to homes in Kenya using existing infrastructure owned by Kenya Power. Safari comm has already on its own rolled out 3200 kilometers of fiber hooking up 7000 homes and the new partnership will allow it to add 12,000 more homes over the next 12 months in residential areas in and around Nairobi. So fiber coming to Nairobi. I still don't have fiber. I'm going to move to Kenya. You're going to move to residential Nairobi. Residential Nairobi. Get yourself some fiber. Yeah, I mean, there's a there's a hot startup scene in Kenya too. You'd probably be able to find a job. That's awesome. Yeah. Finally, Recode's Cara Swisher reports sources tell her Yahoo has given potential bidders an extra week to make their proposals. We talked about the fact that Verizon is rumored to be making a bid as is Google and they had till April 11th. Well, now they have until April 18th. I was talking yesterday with Justin Robert Young if we wanted to pool our resources to make a bid ourselves. I saw that, you know, I'm willing to cash in like one Frappuccino. All right. I think we're up to three Frappuccinos now. Is that do you think it'll be more? I don't think it would be much more. Nah, probably need one or two more. It's Yahoo. Thanks to everybody who submitted things that we used from our subreddit. You can do the same. Submit your stories. We will use them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and that is a look at the headlines. All right. One story we didn't mention in the headlines, but is getting some attention today is that Brave, a new browser, it's cross-platform, Linux, OS X, Windows, Android, iOS. Their deal was that they had ad blocking built in, but they are announcing as of March 31st an ad replacement program coming in May that will swap in ads that are safer and don't track you and share revenue amongst you, the publisher, and the browser. Sounds amazing. Everybody wins, right, Shannon? How did the publishers react? Yeah, they weren't too happy about that. So Thursday, a letter from ad agencies and publishers, and these include Dow Jones, The New York Times, Washington Post, Tribune, amongst many others, they say, quote, your plan to use our content to sell your advertising is indistinguishable from a plan to steal our content to publish on your own website. And they continue republication that violates copyright and trademark laws and websites terms of use, unquote. So how did Brave take that? I'm sure they're like, oh, you guys have a good point. You're right. So Brave ended up writing this really long blog post and it's very detailed. I highly suggest that everybody go read it. But one of the most important statements that they made, Brave CEO Brendan Eich, I want to say, he said, quote, contrary to the misstatements of the NAA letter, Brave is the solution, not the problem for users and publishers. So here's what's going down if you're like, hold on, how's this thing work? What Brave announced was called the Brave Ledger. Now it's Bitcoin based, but don't let that confuse you if you're confused by Bitcoin. Just think of it as there'll be an online account planned to launch in May that will give you two options. You actually have three options. One would be not to do anything and browse the web as it is now with everybody serving their own ads. But your other options would be the ad free mode. So that gives ad blocking, but it allows you an extra thing over the usual ad blocking. You can choose to pay the sites you're blocking the ads from. Payouts are based on a ratio weighted by your visits. Brave takes a cut of that maybe 5% as a processing fee. You as a user can control those weights. They're algorithmically determined based on your browsing habits, but you can change them up and then they pay them out to the publishers. So you're blocking ads, but you're going ahead and giving money to a fund that will go to the publishers. That in itself is a little controversial. The ad replacement mode, which is the default mode on Brave, takes the total views aggregated into a weighted list for publishers and replaces the ads with ads from Brave's ad network that are not tracking you. Basically what Brave does is it says, we store all your data about you on your browser. We don't keep any of it. So your browser signals to the ad network. They do a lot of travel stuff. That's all they say. They give categories. Say, give me some travel ads. This person does travel, but they don't actually give any of your intimate data. Those total views are aggregated. And then the money for those ads is split up with 15% going to the partner that serves the ad, 15% going to Brave, 15% going to you, the user, and 55% going to an account for the publisher. And you have the option to go in and say, you know what? I don't want any money. Give it to the publisher. And that would give the publisher 70%. That user data of yours, by the way, is encrypted. It's never unencrypted by Brave, so they never see it. So the idea here is everybody gets paid and your private data stays private. So one of the kind of interesting things about this for a publisher, especially for pretty much any site that runs third-party ads from an ad network is that usually you only get up to 45% of the revenue from those ad networks. But in this case, you would get 55% at the low end and up to 70% on the high end. However, the newspaper's problem with this, the online agencies, their problem is we don't know how much that percentage is going to be. And if it's going to be any more or any less than what we're currently receiving from our third-party networks. Yeah, I think the big problem that the publishers have here, and it's probably lots of people out there looking at this saying, what? This is good for the user. The publisher should just agree they're going to get more money than they would from Ad Block Plus, right? But the problem is no one asked the publishers if they would like to do this, right? Brave just said, this seems reasonable, so we'll do it. And publishers are not used to doing that, especially in advertising. The advertising departments and publishers negotiate everything to get the highest return. They don't just have somebody come up and like, we'll give you between 55% and 70%. And you'll just take it. That's just not how it works. It'd be nice if it worked that way. It'd be so much easier, but it's not. One of the huge problems that I have as a user is the fact that there are so many security concerns with advertisements from these ad networks currently. I mean, just a couple of weeks ago, an ad network was sending out malware to top sites. And some of these were news sites, news affiliations. And that's extremely, extremely bad for users who don't even think about blocking these ads. I mean, you currently have a lot of add-ons, you have extensions, and you also have other browsers that currently block ads. So the fact that Brave is going one more step forward feels to me like they're the first people setting foot into this new future that we could possibly have. And a lot of the publishers are really afraid of that. Yeah. And I mean, first of all, you have to trust that Brave's ad network isn't going to serve malware, which first time it does by accident is going to bring this all coming down. But let's say for the most part, it's a good actor and it's doing its best, and it doesn't most of the time. That is an improvement. That's a service. And I see where the logic goes. We can build a browser that blocks all the ads, but what if we were able to provide a replacement for these ad networks that are full of malware? Well, okay, we could do that, but only for publishers who agree. Well, why? Is it better to have the ads blocked by the user or to have them replaced? I mean, if they're going to be blocked anyway, what's the harm in replacing them? Right? And I could see the slippery slope they go down to get to this point. It's perfectly reasonable. It's a huge slippery slope. I mean, I'm a content creator, so I have websites, but I don't use third party network advertisements because of the security issue. So for me as a content creator, it's not going to infect me. I can understand why these different news publications have such a large issue with it, and it just comes down to money. It comes down to how much money they're going to make, and if it's going to benefit them or not. And I would have no problem going into Brave and agreeing as a user for this, because I do currently block ads unless I really feel like supporting a company, and then I am wary about those third party networks, again, because of privacy. Yeah. And some of the claims made in the letter are a little bit extreme. For one thing, you could compare this to ISPs that tried to put their own ads on pages because you were a subscriber. I think AT&T even still does something similar to that, where you can pay a little less if they can collect information about you. But the difference here is you don't have to use the Brave browser. Right. That is your choice. So you are assuming the choice, hey, I'm going to do that. Publishers, however, don't get a choice. And I think that's really what's going on here is the publishers didn't get asked. They didn't get to opt in to this system. I don't think Brave is breaking the law. They claim they're breaking the terms of service, and I think that's arguable. They're basically saying we're serve your site. We just don't serve every element of your site because we're a browser, and browsers can either decide not to serve elements as they do with JavaScript blockers or with ad blockers, or they can decide with the user's agreement to serve differently how those things appear. It's just, it's just, it rubs the publishers the wrong way that they're like, no, you shouldn't allow that. And the thing is they're probably overreacting because I don't know how popular the Brave browser is going to be. We know how hard it is to get a really good browser to get any kind of market share. So they've actually done Brave a solid by getting in in front of a lot of people who might not have been aware of it anyway. Yeah, thanks for the free advertisement. So that was one thing I thought of this morning was the fact that the people that are currently using ad blockers, the people that are currently, like, don't have Flash installed and, you know, are using these extensions or are using .go to their searches and everything. That's a very small amount of people when you compare it to the general populace who are checking out these newspaper websites. So the people that are going to be downloading Brave and using that to check out all the same websites, they're already blocking your ads. So does it make a big difference whether or not they are using the Brave browser? Personally, I don't see making that huge of a difference for these publications. Yeah. And I read one article out there saying, look, this is just the first round of negotiations. Don't take this threat seriously. And I think that may be right. We're looking at the publisher saying, you didn't talk to us. So this is how we're going to react until you talk to us, which you'll now do. And then we'll figure something out. Because honestly, if the publishers consent to this and get a revenue share that they agree to, why wouldn't they deal with this? The only reason I can think of is if I'm an ad salesperson at this publisher, I don't want to surrender those relationships to Brave. And that is a valid objection. But otherwise, it's like you said, if you're reaching a bunch of people who are going to block ads anyway, this is a way to get some ads and make those people feel good about the fact that they're supporting your site. I'm always welcome to being able to support professionals that I see in the industry that I can relate to. And then I'm proud to support. And if these news industries would be welcome to that, I'd be happy to support them. But if they're just going to send me things that might be stealing my data behind my back, I'm not, I'm not, I'm going to block those ads. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, not sorry. W. Scott has one in the chat room just said, don't support extensions. Can't do it. Brave may support extensions down the road, which could change people. But I think that's, that's the bigger challenge for Brave, actually. It's just adoption. All right, let's get to our pick of the day. Christian has a pick. He wanted to suggest a TV show for the pick of the day called The Code. It's on Netflix, he says, at least in Norway, and I checked it's on Netflix here in the US as well, contains some suspense, some hacking, some conspiracy, and it's Australian. I'm four to five episodes in and like it very much. Oh, and it has Zena in it. Lucy Lawless is one of the main character, plays one of the main characters. Yes. The code. This is on my list. I have yet to watch it, but it is on my list. Yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to add this to my Netflix queue as well. I know somebody mentioned to it when Mr. Robot first came out. They were, they were saying, hey, there's a great Australian show too. And it kind of slipped off my radar. So thank you, Christian, for reminding me about this. Send your picks to us, folks, feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. You can find more picks at DailyTechNewShow.com slash picks. Our first message on a Friday comes from Nate Langson at the Tech's Message podcast. If you want a UK perspective on technology news, I can't think of a better way. I love their show. What do you got for us this week, Nate? Thanks, Tom. Well, this week, we're going to be exploring a slightly different breed of topic for you in the form of dog microchipping, which is now becoming legally enforced in the UK on the pain of a fine. If you don't microchip your beast, what exactly does that mean for dog owners? Plus, we've got our hands all over the Huawei P9. We're going to be exploring what exactly that phone and its dual camera design is good for. All that at techsmessage.co.uk or just techpodcast.uk. Thank you, Nate. Do you chip your pets? Do you have any pets? I do, yeah. I have two cats and they're both microchipped. I do it mainly just so that if they ever get caught by outside in a storm or something, they can get picked up and they'll be able to find me. And that Huawei P9 is a fascinating piece of kit. You're going to want to watch or listen rather to Tech's Message this week. All right. Also, got a posting up on the blog. You can do that too. You can email us or you can post on the blog, DailyTechNewShow.com. Rob SMD says, Hey, you guys were mocking the use of faxes in the modern age, but in medicine, the fax is far from dead and remains the primary method of relaying information between doctors. In part, this is likely due to a misperception of HIPAA standards when it comes to the privacy of communicating about patients. There's a general consensus that an email message about a patient is more likely to end up in the hands of an unintended recipient than a fax. Yes, we are living in a world of electronic health records with the intention of improving communication between healthcare providers. But guess what? There is still almost zero interoperability between all these systems. There are standards, but a last too many of them. So no EMRs talk with each other to relay patient information. One thing they all do, though, is have built-in fax capabilities. Rob from Hanover, New Hampshire, iSurgeon and TechGeek. Thank you, Rob. Yeah. I think there's a few other industries that are similar. A lot of the accounting that I have to deal with and real estate, they still just want a fax because they know it works. Oh yeah, banks still do it too. Yeah, absolutely. Appreciate the feedback, Rob. And appreciate Shannon being on the show. You're great as always. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Yeah, thanks for having me on. I love being on DTNS. It's awesome. H-A-K-5.org. Go check out what Shannon and Darren and Patrick have been up to. It's tech thing. It's hack five. It's all the things, threat wire. As we mentioned, the drones. Is that kind of the big thing to tell people about? Yeah, currently we've been doing a lot of drone action and on tech thing, we've been talking about all sorts of hardware reviews and how-tos. But I'm going to be going to Japan next month and I'm going to be having a meet-up on May 23rd and you can go to my blog, snubz.com, slash blog, to find out more in RSVP. Turns out I might even be having dinner with Patrick Beja. Oh, fantastic. I was going to say. I hope you guys cross paths. Anthony Carboni is over there as well. It's the year of Japan, apparently. I know. I want to go to Japan this year. I'm like, fingers crossed that I can trick my wife into tricking her boss to send her to Japan for work and then I can tag along. I'll go. Let's do it. Yeah, yeah. Sounds good. All right. Check that out. So May 23rd, which would be May 22nd in our hemisphere, but we won't be able to go if you're not in Japan. So it's May 23rd. Yes. Thanks to Len Peralta for being here as well. What have you been drawing, Len? Well, before we did the show, before I said that today's image is total pandering. That is what this is. You found out that Shannon was going to be on. Then I found out about this new Brave browser. Well, the print draws itself, doesn't it? For those of you who aren't seeing the video, it's Shannon Snubsy as Brave, the character from Disney, taken down online advertising with some sort of creature taking it down with some awesome arrows. That's amazing. Little known fact, I actually know a little bit of archery and my hair is naturally curly. Well, there you go. Look at that. See, it all comes together. Your hair's red right now, too. It's perfect. Yeah, it's red and orange, right? No. That's so great. Yep. It's awesome. Red and orange. There you go. It's available right now in my online store, Len Peralta store. I'm telling you, you will not only want to go to LenPeraltaStore.com and just take a look at this, you'll probably want to buy a copy as well. This is really good. I might actually buy a copy and I drew it. There you go. I'm buying a copy and I support you on Patreon because I love your drawings. Yes, thank you so much. Oh, yeah, thank you. Patreon.com forward slash Len. That's where you can get this image and every other image I draw every Friday for DTNS. If you back me at a certain level, you'll get these all as a digital file. You can also get a DTNS Boss Backer if you back me at 250 levels. Boss Backer. You can get the guy that does those radio spots. Excellent. Thanks everybody for supporting the show. Those folks out there who support the show already, you deserve a huge pat on the back for making it possible for us to do this show. 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Back on Monday with Allison Sheridan to convince her that VR is more than gaming. Travis Falstaff. This show is part of the Frogpants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. Diamond Club, I hope you have enjoyed this program. Is hack 5 daring in the chat room? Probably. What's he doing in the chat room? I couldn't get into the chat room earlier. Did they get in there? I wasn't even in the chat. Who is that? I'm so lame. Len, I love that drawing. It was fun. It was a lot of fun. The minute I read it, I was like, I got to do this. Plus, I saw that you had colored your hair. I'm like, oh, that's perfect. It's going to be a different color next month. I also kind of feel like it's a thunder cat, which makes it even cooler. So like the logo. Oh yeah. It was cool logo. It's a lion. Show titles. Yeah, what do we got? Anything good? Kill this bill. I like that one. It's better to build the drone that flies. The brave little browser this week in encryption. Congratulations to the keyboard. I actually really just like kill this bill. Yeah. Any objections? So ordered. Jen or so says the motion is carried. Done. Done. I'm just a bill. I'm only a man. I'm just a draft of a bill and I make you all ill. Yes. There's a dog behind you. It's amazing. Jax is very busy right now. Eating your couch. He's bored. Why are you doing so here? Why are you bored? He's bored here. I'm not there. Yeah, exactly. He's like, she's not real. That's just the fake Shannon. It's not a real Shannon. It's not the real Shannon. You're not the real Shannon. Well, we need somewhere cheap to eat in Japan eat it. I don't know if they're still out. Are they still around? Hold on. Let me see. Patrick Fesha invited me to some Gyoza place in Kyoto. So apparently this is happening. It's all they serve though. I don't know, but I'm okay with that. That's the one thing I remember about Japan was after a while, I just wanted a burger. Is that a place that does pizzas? If you get a chance, Moss Burger in Japan, you'll like MOS. Walt Moss Burger. Okay, Moss Burger. And if you need somewhere cheap like beef bowls, just like beef and rice, that's Yoshinoya. They used to have a couple in San Francisco. Used to eat it after work. Do they not have those anymore? I used to eat them. In San Francisco now. Well, there were Japanese chains, so what's interesting is during the whole Mad cow scare, around the late 90s, early 2000s, there was a run on the chain because the country was going to ban all imported beef. And so everyone lined up because that was the only time they would be able to get the price. It's like two bucks because after that point, all the price of beef would go up like triple. People would say, I want to eat my beef bowl. I can't. Beef bowls. It's so cheap. And it's always filled with single old guys. Yeah, kind of. It's like Sizzlers where all the airport limo drivers seem to end up when they're not driving. Apparently, when they go away, Matt will be at a Sizzler. And he says it's filled with all other husbands of wives who are away. I never imagined Sizzler having a home cooked meal feel. No, but it's not a home cooked meal. It's the fanciest meal that a husband wants to, I'm generalizing, to pay for while his wife is away. I want to eat steak, but I don't want to spend $100. I'm going to go to Sizzler. If I want steak, I'll cook it myself. I'm going to butcher it at Sizzler. Yeah, I don't know if what is at Sizzler counts as steak. Really, it's more like just steak-ish. Steak-ish. It's like Stakeham's. I've never eaten at a Sizzler before. Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I find that hard to believe. I've never had Sizzler before. Have you been to Outback Steakhouse? Yes. It's kind of like that, but not as good, which is saying a lot. Oh, gosh. If you've been to Outback Steakhouse. No, it's not. It is not anything like Outback Steakhouse. It is entirely like Taco Bell is to Mexican restaurants. Tex-Mex restaurants. Yeah. Well, because the brilliant- I thought Sizzler was a buffet, is it not? Yeah, exactly. It's the surf-a-turf part. Right. So you go there for the buffet because they have these crazy tacos and on the buffet and noodles and spaghetti and stuff. And then maybe you order a steak. It's not going to be a very good steak. No. I don't eat at buffets. And they have a lot of fried fish and stuff. But you really go for the buffet. I don't eat at buffets. Okay. How's that even- Unless you're in Vegas. Because I went to school for restaurant and hospitality administration, so I learned all the things about buffets that you never want to know if you're eating at buffets. Yeah, they're a vector for disease. I won't say it out loud in the past. But so is everything. Going outside is also a vector for disease. Just don't go outside. But at least when you're going outside, you aren't necessarily eating the food that a child has put the burgers on. No, you're breathing in everything that a child's eating. I always look for buffets. They're high enough that kids can't reach them. And then they have the, like at Fresh Choice, they have the little tray carriers on the edge all the way down the buffet. So if you're under the age of like 12, you're not being, you can't reach around or reach over. Have you guys ever heard of a place called Texas Day Brazil? Texas Day. I feel like I've seen an ad for that in like an airline magazine. Yeah, they're like, you know, it's funny. They're just like the Brazilian steakhouse sort of concept, right? I took Nora there for her birthday this week. And it was kind of, you know, I was like, oh yeah, this is so cool because they keep bringing you the meat and stuff like that. Basically, it's just an overblown buffet. That's what Brazilian steak houses do. They just, I mean, this is the one where they just come around and give you meat, giant meat, meat swords. It's like Fogo da Chao. Yeah. Well, this place also had like sushi and... Don't ever get sushi at a steak place. SpaceX landed its Falcon 9 rocket on the ship at sea. That's awesome. That's awesome. It was successful. That's cool. They did it. They finally did it. Maybe now the guy can respond to my job application. Got one in. Yeah. So it's the second successful landing and the first successful landing at sea. Patrick Norton's kid saw your picture for today and he said, why is she a superhero now? Oh, because you are a superhero. That's why. Now they know your secret identity. Why is she a superhero now? Like, is that a bad thing? Why is she a superhero now? Now you have a Halloween costume together. Oh, you should totally do the... You should pick up cosplay bits while you're there. Oh my gosh. You read my mind. Are you going to get an authentic Sailor Moon? What the hell are those Moon Wand things called? Yes. I'm actually spending an entire day going to all the places that Sailor Moon was based off of in real life because there are real places. Oh, that's cool. And I'm going to take pictures. Get a shot of live action version. It's going to be amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. Although, I don't think they're doing any live musical wall. I'm there. But they do have a Sailor Moon cafe that I will be visiting. So you're going to Osaka, right? Oh yeah. Or no. Well, I'm going to Tokyo and Kyoto. Where's Osaka? It's in the southern... One of the southern islands. No, I'm not. So I'll mix that. Well, if you do... I was thinking, yeah, I should actually go to Tokyo Disney. That might be... That might be packed and... Disney. But it's a very unique experience. My old classmate, when his dad was based in Tokyo, his whole family, they hired him because he's this blonde white kid. And they wanted just some blonde blue-eyed kid in the parade. So they could just plop him for one of the... Alice in Wonderland parade or something. That's awesome. Or just this little blonde kid waving a... Tourists. That's so cute. Japanese Disney World Parade. Disney. I want to go to Disney Sea. And I want to meet all the princesses. That thing looks awesome. Disney Sea. What is that? Is that like the Sea Organ Scientology? It's Tokyo Disney Sea. It's a theme park, but it's more geared towards adults. So do you know Atlantis in the Caribbean, where it's kind of like a hotel resort? Right. Partly. So it's kind of similar... They can show you the world. Shiny glittery sponge. Disney can show you the... It's... I want to go. I also... Jin wants to go to the Vualani in Hawaii, but that sounds expensive. The Disney Vualani. Yeah, it's pretty... I looked into it, actually. It's pretty expensive. Even if you are Disney-related. Sorry, guys. Disney Sea Transit Steamer Line, Fortress Explorations, the Venetian Gondolas. They have those in Vegas. All right. I'm going to figure out dinner tonight. Spaghetti falls. No, not spaghetti. I think we may go out. We may go out. Oh, nice. Outback Steakhouse. No, that place is going to be packed on a Friday night. Outback? You know, Jin dragged me to one. It's like, I don't want to go to Outback Steakhouse. He's like, we're going. I remember. We're so good. It's like, no, you'll be disappointed. I know I'll be disappointed. No, man. The bloomin' onion is great. You know what that is, right? That's just a $60 device that restaurants buy that squashy onion. I know, but dang, is it good? And then they deep fry the whole thing because they're too lazy to separate it. It's so good. We have this burger place, this burger joint here called Muya, which has really really, it's like five guys or in and out, has really good milkshakes. And I've kind of been jonesing for a milkshake, although I probably shouldn't have a milkshake. I miss Steak and Shake. Oh yeah, there's another place. They have one here in LA. What? Yeah. Okay, I hope Sawyer's expecting a visit because that's going to come visit. He is now. Really? I'm surprised they don't have more Steak and Shake out there. Oh yeah. They don't. Take home a sack. I miss them. Buffle a wild wings close enough to me, like half an hour. You know, if my kids, if my kids like sushi, I'd go to like, like a sushi joint or, you know. Yeah, it's on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. I'm not a chain restaurant guy at all. Yeah. Well, my parents run a restaurant, so it's always been kind of like, I am not a chain. I don't do chains. I avoid them if possible. That's tough. It's tough sometimes. This is going to dinner with Roger. I think the chef smokes. Like, why do you say that? Because everything's too salty. I think they're, and I'm always complaining about the service because I always get chapped and on service. Remember, we went to that sushi place and the woman told me what to order. She's like, what the hell? It's like you attract it. It's amazing. Oh, poor Roger. She's just trying to like shuffle me like, you know, pick this and then we're done. It's like, no. You have a menu of multiple items. It's a whole point of coming if you only want to serve one thing. She's just trying to help you out. She's trying to help her out because she was swamped. I can see it in their eyes. All right. I'm going to go because I want to get some food and then I really want to watch Star Wars tonight. Hi, Landon. It was so good to meet you. It's good seeing you too. Please come back very soon. Yes. Thanks, everybody. Goodbye. See you later. Bye, everybody.