 She had learned French while she was in high school in Texas. So she sounded like most people in Illinois. But if you asked her to speak French, it was, you know, probably Francaise. That's cool. I don't know. French people would generate a cute accent or not, but that's kind of cute. I mean, of the variety of accents that attempt French, how horrible is the American accent? Because I assume that you can tell really easily, just the way that you'd be able to speak any other language. I mean, English isn't easy. The thing is, French has apparently a width of tones or types of, I don't know how to say it exactly, but different types of sounds that are difficult to reproduce for English speakers because they don't have. But it's the same with Japanese speakers. There's a lot of the front of the mouth stuff rather than, like, through. I think most languages have something like that, because when I learned Russian, they taught us mouth positions for certain letters, like you don't do this naturally as an English speaker. I think in the English language, I might be wrong about that, but doesn't have is not very difficult to learn. But then there are a lot of words, more words in English than there are in many other languages that I might be wrong about. Well, there's a lot of words that mean the same thing. Yeah, we have a lot of derivation. Right. More exceptions that can't be explained. They're just the way that they are. I mean, it's the same Japanese, but there are certain Chinese words that are literally enunciated the same, but you emphasize different parts of the word and it means something else. Oh, yeah, of course. That's the tonal thing. You don't have tones in Japanese, so that's not a factor. And I think you don't in Korean either, or so I've been told that it's also a non-tonal language. Yeah, I don't think so. It doesn't mean that there aren't words that are pronounced the same. I wouldn't know. The English doesn't have a tonal aspect to it. Take the word, dude, dude, dude. Oh, no, but that's not. Yeah, right. But you don't say it differently. No, I'm joking. Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, like sugar and and temperature hot are pronounced almost the same way in Mandarin, like tongue and tongue. It just means really hot tongue. It just means sugar or sweet. So there's also the context, right? Like what I'm just saying is like the sentence that it's in helps you. I mean, they're essentially homonyms, but you emphasize. I mean, Spanish has a couple of words that way. But it really, you know, when you understand the context, so that's what he's saying. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, we should be saying tech stuff. Speaking of context. I didn't get your mass text. I mean, your context is that what you put on lumber ply to glue them together. No idea. Yeah. Don't know anything about lumber. I'm going to thank someone. As you should. John Denver supported tech news. What a hero be like John. John Denver's real name. I have to know now real quickly. I did. John Denver. John, John, Deutsch, Deutschendorf. I knew it was something like really like very not Denver. John Deutschendorf has supported independent tech news. All right. You got a. So has everybody been born? I am born. I am also born. Do you have the born identity? I have the born weight. Supremacy isn't really great. What's the last one? I thought supremacy was the last one. Oh, yeah. I don't remember. Well, what's the second one then? Never mind. All right. Here we go in three, two. Christopher Camacho has supported independent tech news directly for five years. Christopher Rocks be like Christopher, become a DTNS member at patreon.com slash DTNS. This is the greatest daily tech news for Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from Studio Feline. I'm Sarah Lane and from a finally sunny Finnish countryside. I'm Patrick Reza and from a standard L.A. County sunwarm land. I'm the show's producer Roger Chang. We have got a lot of great emails. It's a talk back Tuesday today. But first, let's start with a few tech things you should know. Google launched AMP for email coming to Gmail, Yahoo Mail Outlook and Mail.ru. AMP for email allows functions like RSVP, questionnaires or browsing store inventory story to happen within the email client itself. AMP emails still use standard HTML as a failsafe in email clients that don't support AMP. Huawei announced the P30 and P30 Pro in Paris on Tuesday. The P30 Pro is a 6.47 inch OLED Android phone and has a quad camera system with up to 10 times lossless zoom and a small cutout for the camera on the front screen and AI help with photos. The P30 Pro has no headphone jack or earpiece using the screen vibration to generate cold sounds and also includes reverse wireless charging. The smaller P30 is a 6.1 inches with a three camera system and a headphone jack. The P30 costs 799 euros and the P30 Pro starts at 900 and 99 euros, ranging up to 1,249 euros on sale immediately in Europe. Asus confirmed that, yes, indeed, its live update tool had been targeted by an advanced persistent threat as discovered by Kaspersky Lab. We mentioned it yesterday. Asus customer service has been reaching out to affected users and Asus says the backdoor exploit has been fixed in the latest version of its live update software. It has also introduced end-to-end encryption and more security verification tools for customers. Let's talk a little bit about the bad news for Samsung. Indeed, Samsung warned it would report disappointing financial results for the first three months of the year due to chip and LCD screen price drops, which points to further slowing of demand for smartphones and other gadgets. Samsung's update follows a 7 percent decline in smartphone shipments globally during the fourth quarter of 2018. The fifth quarterly decline according to an analysis by the Hong Kong based research firm Counterpoint. Yeah, so, you know, the short version is Samsung not having a problem selling its own phones. Samsung feeling the pressure of just smartphones in general, not selling as well as they used to, because they sell the parts that make them. So it's essentially a confirmation. Another point, as we just said, that shows, yeah, they're not selling, no one is selling as many smartphones or maybe I shouldn't say no one. But overall, there are a lot less smartphones being sold than there were before. And it makes sense. Yeah, Samsung is getting a lot of attention like, oh, this is rare from Samsung. But I I assume that this is going to be the trend for Samsung's rivals as well. I think it hits Samsung because they make phones and they're a very important parts supplier with their memories and such and screens. So that it's well, OK, it's interesting because some phones are just some phone companies are just now hitting their stride and creating really compelling lower priced phones or mid range phones and the market is shrinking or not growing as much as it used to. So I wonder what's going to happen to those who don't have time to evolve their business into something more. Look at Nokia and BlackBerry to find out. A paper published in preliminary form ahead of its presentation at the IEEE symposium on security and privacy describes potential privacy and security risks of preloaded software on Android. The study looked at 82,501 preinstalled Android apps across 1,700 devices made by 214 vendors. They found that a large number of actors tracked and obtained personal information without the user being aware of it and most can't be deleted. Most third party SDKs for advertising used SDKs for advertising and user tracking. Self-signed certificates often made it difficult to know who even developed the app that you downloaded and often standard app permission requests are sidestepped with custom permissions sometimes in the hundreds. The researchers recommend the implementation of global certificates and documentation of the preinstalled apps. Yeah, you didn't even download these. They just came installed and what this paper is trying to shine a light on is Google may feel like, hey, but there are partners. It's good. It's fine. But Google actually isn't involved in all these partnerships. A lot of times it's with the vendors. Those partnerships may go through varying levels of vetting depending on the vendor and what their practices are. And so just because it's preinstalled doesn't mean it's entirely safe whether through incompetence or maliciousness. And it's really hard to audit these kinds of apps because they're preinstalled. That to me seems to be the biggest takeaway of this report. Yeah, I was asking you before the show, Tom. It was an end user. What can you do? Well, you get mad at Google really because it's something that Google can tackle but the rest of us don't have much to say about it. Yeah, it would seem like something really Google should have been worried about with the emphasis on privacy that's been brewing for at least a couple of years now. It's surprising to me that they didn't, or maybe they are starting to work on this issue when it's such a mess because they have so many partners across the Android ecosystem. But it feels pretty bad to me in today's privacy conscious world. Yeah, and the Google response to this, I have to say is not as sincere as it has been to other privacy related things. They're a tiny bit dismissive. I think partly because they're like, well, we can't control what vendors do, but they could, that's one of the things that they're getting brought in front of antitrust regulators for is having influence over all these vendors in lots of ways. This is a way they could exercise that influence. The European Parliament approved the new copyright directive Tuesday 348 to 278. It includes Article 11, sometimes the one referred to as a link tax, and what was Article 13, but has now been renumbered to Article 17. We'll keep calling it Article 13 for clarity's sake, but if you see it referred to as 17, that's why. It requires companies to demonstrate they're taking action to prevent copyright infringement. It does not apply to cloud storage and it exempts parity. Now, Article 11 is the one that gives news organizations the right to quote the online use of their press publications by information society service providers. However, it allows for sharing of hyperlinks, individual words, or very short extracts of a press publication. Anything beyond that, though, requires permission. Article 13, the one that's now in the final draft, Article 17, declared that copyright infringement shouldn't happen, but leaves it up to member countries and companies on how to combat it. And a recent draft stated, according to Ars Technica, cooperation between online content service providers and rights holders shall not result in the prevention of the availability of works or other subject matter uploaded by users, which do not infringe copyright and related rights. So in order to avoid liability on Article 13, you could put in an algorithmically generated upload filter, but you shouldn't prevent people from putting up works that they do have the right to do. They basically say, don't do anything bad. That's the new law. Member states will now need to approve these directives and implement them. After they've approved them, they have two years to implement them. And most legal experts say that the effect of the directive will depend a lot on how it's implemented. This is typical for directives of this kind, as each member nation translates it into its nation's specific law. Patrick, I know you had some insight about this as well. I don't know about insight. Some measure of despair, maybe. I mean, I'm on the record, I think, in the American slash English speaking world as saying, you know, sometimes you need governments to get involved and it's important for regulations to happen because companies aren't gonna regulate themselves and you need someone to be looking out for the other side of the relationship there. And people often respond to me, yeah, but then governments become overbearing and they create regulations that are impossible to understand and that will hamper the efforts of some of the smaller companies, et cetera, et cetera. I think I still stand by my initial statement. I think this is a good example of the ladder of the example of the cases where indeed government can maybe try to please everyone and ends up maybe pleasing no one. The problem with this law and with these articles, these two articles specifically, is how vague they are. It is extremely difficult for a company to do business when you don't know what the law should, how you can respect the law. The key issue I think in article 11, it's the link tax which decides what you can and can't use is very short extracts because you still have the right to quoting something, fair use essentially, but it says you can do it beyond very short extracts and we don't know, no one knows what very short extracts means. So it's essentially gonna have to go to the courts, is my lawyer wife's analysis and I think it makes sense. The courts are gonna have to say, well, this fits and this doesn't. Slovakia could say it means something different than Italy, than France, and then it all goes up to the European Court of Justice and then that's where it finally gets remedied, right? Yeah, and I think it could even be as vague in the local implementations, which doesn't help anyone. So this is kind of a SMH moment, shake my head and face palm. There, I'm certain there would have been better ways of doing this and the content ID type thing, the filter is, I mean, I could talk about that for another two days. It's actually five years of DTNS. Yeah, I think the effects of this law are being exaggerated a little bit by the people who are against it, myself included, I've been guilty of that. Ultimately, it will end up somewhere in the middle, but the goal is definitely to protect a very important content industry in Europe that has been lobbying for this. And I doubt it was the right way to do it, but we'll see. The link text one is vague enough, right? And I think Google is over exaggerating when they say, well, this is what we'll have to do, which is show no pictures and just the name of the publication, that is exaggerating. But article 13, now 17 is the one where they're like, just don't do anything bad, okay? Don't allow any copyright infringement, but also don't stop people from using their fair use rights, got it? Okay, great. I'll just go. Yeah, you got two years, it'll be fine. Yeah, and the example of content ID on YouTube is the exact case for the application of that law, which we know how many issues it creates. So in that situation, YouTube, for example, is damned if they do and damned if they don't because they do have issues with the algorithm, et cetera, et cetera. I can't remember it was all stuff or someone else, but someone in the European Union said, well, they'll just have to get innovative, which is that that's always a great basis for a law. Yeah, especially when you're forced. Yeah. Forced innovation works. Just do it better. Oh, damn it, I had a lot of bad luck. Thanks for reminding us. Yeah. I'll add one last thing. And I'm sure it will launch some people into a frenzy, but the right to be forgotten was much maligned before it was voted into law. And I don't think it has created the maelstrom of censorship and despair that some people were predicting. I'll leave it to that. Sure. It hasn't been as bad as some people said. I think that's certainly fair to say. You got the next one. I have the next one. Damn it, I lost my place. Okay, breathe. All right, let's talk about Apple. That will make me happy. Apple introduced Apple Arcade Monday, giving you access to multiple video games across phone, tablet, Apple TV and Mac, for one monthly price coming this autumn. We don't know how much it will cost or how revenue will be split with developers. Apple did say it's funding development of the games, although we don't know if it's all the games that will be on the service or some of them. The Verge's Andrew Webster notes that while most developers he talked to were cautiously optimistic, there was a concern that it could negatively affect paid game sales. It's not clear if Arcade will be out of reach for most developers. Apple touted mobile exclusivity of its arcade titles. This is an interesting one. I think it tries to answer an issue that developers of mobile games have had since the launch of the app store, in that it's very hard to compete with free. Most games that are super popular are free games, especially with an audience that is maybe usually more casual, made of casual gamers, who would rather try a game first and see what happens than pay upfront. Potentially this could be an interesting way of Apple to get people to pay for paid games. Of course, free games will not be part of that service, but I think a lot of people will be likely to subscribe to this and thus effectively pay for games on a more regular basis than would have previously. And they're also having an interesting approach with very talented game developers, very peculiar types of games. So I think overall, most people I've seen discuss this are quite positive about it. Yeah, I mean, it's good in that it helps the people who wanna make a game that you just download and play offline and you don't wanna have to keep buying donuts or coins or whatever. But when they're signing up, Will Wright, the creator of SimCity or Hironobu, Sakaguchi, the Final Fantasy Mastermind, it's impressive, like those are gonna be great games, but it makes me wonder if we're going to continue to see the small developers be able to come up because Apple would be picking the winners and losers by picking who gets into this program. Well, the alternative is mostly no one pays for paid games. I'm exaggerating if some people do, but the big issue that we've seen in the gaming world is that it's very, very difficult to get people to pay for games on mobile. And they're still gonna be there. I think it's still gonna be an option. But overall, I would suspect that it would be added to the overall revenue for these developers than if it didn't exist. The BBC has pulled its podcasts from the Google Podcast app and also Google Assistant. The BBC's Director of Distribution and Business Development, Karen Clifton, said that the company is not comfortable with Google's practice of directing users to search for podcasts in the Google app rather than BBC Sounds, which is BBC's own app or other third party services. Clifton said that the company asked to be excluded from this feature, but Google declined. So the BBC said, well, fine, we're gonna pull the podcast then completely. Clifton also criticized Google over making it difficult to obtain audience data which makes it harder to personalize services among other things. The BBC is blocking Google simply through arobots.txt and Tree. Yeah, I love that part of the story the most. BBC didn't ask for a law. They just used arobots.txt file which Google respects. Good for Google, respect therobots.txt file. That's why it's there. I think Chris Welch at The Verge actually did point out something important, which is if you read that BBC post, it does feel like they're more upset about the difficulty obtaining audience data than they are about the redirection of users to within the Google Podcast app. They just use that as the... Yeah, audience data is what the BBC wants they feel like they're, you know, if they can get it, they, yeah, exactly. This is, you know, this is a huge broadcasting corporation taking their services off of it. I'm not saying it's gonna sink the Google Podcast app, but I think the Google Podcast app was having a hard enough time getting some traction. This is certainly not gonna help it. I believe that you also can't add a podcast by URL in the Google Podcast language. No, you can't add it manually unless they've added that recently and I'm not unaware. Well, I know for a long time you couldn't. What are you doing, Google? Hey, folks, if you wanna get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, you can subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com, which is available on the Google Podcast app. There you go. So check that out, dailytechheadlines.com. Thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on others at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. We're also on Facebook, facebook.com, slash groups, slash Daily Tech News show. Let's check in with Chris Christensen, the amateur traveler, who's back with reasons to perhaps turn off geo-tagging on your next trip. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another Tech in Travel Minute. And today we're talking about geo-tagging and some of the negative things that we are seeing in the real world because of it. So you're in Africa and you see a rhino. What do you do? You pull out your cell phone and you take a picture. Turns out that poachers are now using the geo-tagged information from unsuspecting tourists to find where animals are so they can poach them, which is not something we expected to have happen. The other thing that we're seeing is places like the Grand Tetons National Park are seeing specific sites in the back country that are starting to get overwhelmed with tourists because some influencers posted a picture of a particular spot and people are trying to get to that spot to take that picture. And that increase in tourism is causing erosion and traffic problems on some of these smaller trails. So you can turn off geo-tagging, but will you and should you? I'm Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. Or maybe deliberately post the wrong place. Insert the wrong place, you know? I don't know how you do that, though. It's just automatic geo-tagging. You see they're on or off. I guess that's true. Well, you know, on Instagram you can get creative, but yeah. Well, that's different than geo-tagging. Right. Yes. Instagram suggests things based on geo-tagging. I assumed he meant the geo-tagging that's in your photo. Where do metadata? Where do people get them? Because I think most services nowadays strip away the precise geo-tagging. Yeah. There's certain apps that will bake it in. So yeah, it's good to know whether your photo has that baked in or not. You might want to just check that out and turn it off because you might be inadvertently revealing. All right, let's check out the mailbag in mega terms. It's Talk Back Tuesday. Kick us off, Sarah. All right, Nick wanted to chime in on new switch rumors. We talked about this yesterday. Nick says, Nintendo has always done mid-cycle refreshes of their handhelds. According to Wall Street video game analyst Michael Pachter on his YouTube Q&A show Pachter Factor, Nintendo sees the switch as a handheld and they have user data that shows over half of all switch users play in handheld mode. So a mid-cycle refresh is very normal for Nintendo in this case. Also an upgraded switch definitely doesn't need to be as powerful as the Xbox One X, as they would be targeting the built-in screen, which is the current switch, which is only 720p, but looks nice and sharp. So, okay, I agree with some of the things Nick is saying. I would disagree with Michael Pachter on the Pachter Factor. I assume it's Pachter because Pachter would rhyme with Factor, yeah. I don't know that Nintendo sees their switch as a mobile only or mainly mobile. If half the people are using it mobile, half of them are using it at home. But regardless, I was listening to the show yesterday or earlier today and I was grumbling in my head because indeed, Nintendo does do mid-cycle refreshes. That's a very frequent thing for the Game Boy, the DS, the DSi, and you were asking, oh, I wonder what thing Nintendo could add to the high-end console to get people to buy it? Well, guess what? Anything, anything, and people will rush to buy it, especially core gamers who are in love with the switch as their second or third device. It's incredible how they managed to create that affection for it. And it doesn't need to be as powerful as the Xbox One X. I don't think it would have an upgraded screen, necessarily, maybe it's possible. Maybe on the power CPU, GPU side, they would go to the Tegra II or whatever updated version of that. It's currently using the first version. And the lower spec version also makes a lot of sense. It seems it would also be portable and a home version, but essentially the big difference between the switch and the other home consoles or even portables is that you can have a lot of them in your home. So you would be very happy to buy a more powerful one and give away your handover, your previous one, to a sibling or an offspring or someone else. Yes, I failed Planet Earth yesterday when I didn't make it very clear that I meant merely Gamecube Wii and Wii U when I said Nintendo doesn't do mid-cycle refreshes. I assumed people knew I wasn't talking about the 3D, 3DS, but that was a wrong assumption. That said, I like Nick's email about the idea of the lower end switch sort of being the 3DS successor. And I like your points about the higher end one being for those avid gamers who look at the switches their second console and want it to be more powerful. I think that makes a lot of sense. We got a lot of emails about the credit card. Brian said, when a metal credit card is replaced due to expiration or theft, the credit card company will often send you a special return envelope to turn in the old card for destruction. So that's good to know. And then Chris had some thoughts on the Apple card. He says, it's the same as any other credit card, no late fees, but if you're late with your payment, they will raise your interest rate. It's all on their website. It didn't say anything about over-the-limit fees, but I wouldn't be surprised if they raise your rate too. The way they incorporate the card with the wallet is great, but that's just another selling point to get people in debt, just my two cents. Keep up the great work, Chris. I looked on the website and they do say variable APRs range from 13.24% to 24.24%. Yikes, based on credit worthiness. And late or missed payments will result in additional interest accumulating toward your balance. I don't know if that means they actually raise your rate immediately, but it certainly means what any revolving credit limit means, which is you will continue to see what you didn't pay get interest accumulated on top of it. And like the fine print on lots of credit cards, those APRs do get raised when you do things like not pay things on time or not pay your minimum. For sure. Well, all right. Let's move on to Alison Sheridan, who was actually our guest yesterday. And she wrote in just with a little bit of clarification about the new News Plus app. Alison says, we talked yesterday about most of the Wall Street Journal being in Apple News Plus with the exception of business news that Brian Stelter over at CNN had mentioned. He had seen a Wall Street Journal internal memo that said, that's actually not gonna be part of this. Alison says, I tried it out yesterday and was reading an article that had links to other articles at the bottom. I clicked one and immediately had to upsell to pay for a full subscription. So basically she got dumped into the Wall Street Journal asking her to pay more. Alison says, I can live with them eliminating stuff, but doing the upsell within the app untenable to me. Yeah, I saw another story claiming sources. We're telling them that you'd get three days worth of archives of the Wall Street Journal in the News Plus app. And then after that, you get kicked out. But I have not seen the upselling yet. I'll have to keep an eye out for that. So if you do have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, do you get all of your articles available in the Apple News Plus app? Oh, so you have to go to switch to the Wall Street Journal website? Yeah, and in fact, that's kind of annoying because I subscribe to the Scientific American and get access to all of my issues that I've subscribed to going back years in the Scientific American app. And there's no way to link that account to get access within the News Plus app. I mean, that's not that big of a deal. I just go to the Scientific American and have to do that. But at least I haven't found out a way to do that yet. Also can't find anything from the New York Times. It seems to be buried or if it's there, it's not immediately. Well, listen, in France, we don't even have the Apple News app at all. So consider yourselves lucky. And then related to last week, Vince had a couple of thoughts about Facebook storing passwords in plain text. He said, diagnostic capturing is done out of band of the normal development cycle by injecting something into the runtime, which routinely includes visibility of secrets. There are ways to mitigate this and Facebook had an unusually long retention, but it's not surprising. Second is that the way enterprise security audits often work is they start with the core of a system and expand out in layers with the caveat that at a certain number of failed controls, the audit is considered failed, stopped and scheduled again in like six months. So if in January this year, Facebook found a system this far out of the standard application data flow, it means their core systems likely have solid security controls in place and working. So it's actually a good thing. Interesting perspective from Vince on that. I think Bart Bouchat might disagree with you. He had a different perspective on this in the Nacilocast podcast this weekend, which is worth checking out to hear. Talk back Tuesday was fun. Let's put it again next Tuesday. Thanks to everybody who writes in with really good questions and comments. You helped make us smarter and we thank you. Also thanks to Patrick Beja for being with us on Tuesday. Patrick, where do people keep up with your other work? Oh, I guess if you like tech and French, you could listen to Le Rendez-vous Tech, which is a tech show in French that I do every week. And if you enjoy video games, there are two things you could do. Go to subscribe to MVGB. 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So I'm still an hour closer to Los Angeles, which means because we haven't gone to summertime yet, which means it's only 11 p.m., which means I'm going to take advantage of that and go to sleep earlier than I usually do. You're going to catch in the savings, is what you're saying? Yes, exactly. I heard they're outlawing summertime in the EU. You what, sorry? They're outlawing summertime in the EU. Oh, apparently you- Well, the headline was daylight savings time to end, and then it's like countries get to choose, which one they go with, so. Yes, they are. Oh, really, countries get to choose? That's what the article I read said. That is going to be a horrible mess. Oh my God, why, no. It's going to be terrible. Although, I guess initially, when people did go to summertime, they also got to choose. So I guess it was, it's only fair. Yeah, that's a good point. Well, go enjoy it while you can. Thank you. Next week, it will be gone. Thanks. Bye, Patrick. To all of you. We miss you already. Taco back Tuesday. Ooh, I like to talk over. That's not one of the suggestions. It's just a thought that came to my mind. You know, you should make it a level, so we just go eat tacos. Right. Yeah, we will spend a little bit more time on the mail bag while eating tacos. I'm not sure if anyone wants that besides the three of us. Who doesn't want tacos? You know, people who do get a really popular video genre on YouTube. That's true. Which is funny because, you know, I am guilty of this because I'm hungry all the time, so sometimes I eat. It's rude to eat in front of people when they're not also eating. I mean, like, I noticed there's some of them are, a lot of them are also AMSR. So I'm not sure if that's like two things or just a one thing. Is that like a two for one? I know our noodles. I know I enjoy watching people cook like on like YouTube. It's like a very zen thing. I just watched them repair. Like I don't even cook. Cooking shows. Very popular. Yeah. The ones I watch curiously enough for all these Indian street vendors in India, they're cooking a variety of dishes. So it could be whatever regional dish, but also could be Chinese food. They'll make fried rice. And the great thing is no one talks over it other than like the street noises. It's not instructional is what you're saying. Exactly, but there's something very zen about it. Like I just look at it and my mind goes, Maybe I'll start doing that. That'll be my Twitch channel is just me preparing for a podcast, which will just be me doing this. Well, you know, I've thought about that also, Tom. In fact, we've sort of talked about it. Where I'm like, I mean, someone wants to watch me on a stream. I don't really have an issue with that, but most of it is pretty boring. Sarah Cam was one of our most popular web pages at techTV.com. That's true, but keep in mind that was refreshed every 20 seconds because we weren't actually, we weren't in live streaming mode yet on the internet. So. By the way, for the title, how about EU says do good stuff, don't do bad stuff. Simplifies it somewhat, but sure. Yeah. Well, I think that I said that during the show. I'm open to other suggestions. Oh, you see, he used to do evil. Like don't do evil, figure out the details yourself. I don't like to don't do evil. That feels so played. All right. You know, with Google, don't be evil. Be good. The house up to you. No. I think part of it is like, you know, the general idea is that, you know, don't be evil. You basically wrote a law that says do good stuff, don't do bad stuff. That's why I like that title. Okay. Let's go with it. All right. Why not? Why not? The frequency, the radio station, I've pinpointed it to, they're definitely speaking Spanish. Oh, this is the one that's coming in. That only I can hear. Yeah. Yeah. The entire time we're doing our show, and this just happened, like within the last three days, I am also listening to a Spanish speaking radio show of some kind. See, it's not... If you think you're going crazy, try being me for a day. Is it a talk radio show or is it like this? At least you're not getting it on your phone. No, I mean, I'm, well, there's talking and then they'll do some like mariachi music for a while and then what sounds like commercials? So it's like, it's some terrestrial something, you know? I don't know if they're broadcasting near me or if it's just some band focus right is picking up on. It's an AM station, most likely. Yeah. I've had that happen in other places that I've lived. It hasn't happened in a long time. It's kind of fascinating actually. I just wish they'd stopped talking to me when I'm talking to you guys. Well, as long as they're, I mean... I used to just get one that was just off sports because they would always talk about football, football, football, football. Yeah, it's so low that I can't really pick up the topics. You need to amplify. But it's Spanish. It's definitely Spanish. I'll figure it out eventually. What if it's from the future with a warning? Yeah, what if it's you? And I'm the one who's going to save the world and instead I'm like, shut up. You know that your enemies don't understand Spanish. So you're like, I can only communicate with my past self in Spanish. Hopefully she'll understand. Shoot, I am not saving the world very well right now, am I? We are all in mortal danger unless you learn Spanish is what this comes down to. I mean, I took Spanish for like eight years collectively. So I'm not terrible. It's the volume that's more of the issue than me not getting the message. Speak up, Peter and Sarah. Save the world. Sounds like an episode of the Twilight Zone or Black Mirror or something. Tango, Tianes. It's just numbers. Ponce. Tianes, Tianes. Catorce. But it was just like dos, dos, dos, bentitos, bentitos. And it turns out it's just like a phone number for a Spanish language lawyer. Well, that would be out on the radio station which would make this a much less interesting story. No, they play it. There's like 20 minutes at a time where it's all just music. It's a radio station like many others. It's, what I'll have to do, I guess, is record it somehow. I will or just play around with another something where I can get the AM and FM stations and try to find the, try to sync it. To find the station. To hear the same thing. Yeah. Although, well, no, I could do that. In fact, my old Walkman still has an AM band. If I change out the batteries, which I probably haven't looked at. Your old Walkman? Yeah, I have one. What are you? Yeah. Thought I was bad. The Yellow Sports Walkman. Never gonna get rid of that thing. It's prize possession. Well, now that I've finally fought my way to, sorry, I just got a text message from Scott Johnson that says, oh man, I wish real birth was like this. Out of context, that's hilarious enough. He's referring to the first scenes of the Netflix series Ashes of Love, a Chinese Wusha series that I'm making him watch for Current Geek, which we'll be discussing in less than two hours. So I could tell already this is gonna be really fun. And for anybody who's like, what's Wusha? It's a, Wusha is like a martial arts style. Like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is probably the style closest to Wusha style. And then there's, and I don't know how to pronounce it exactly right, but it's Yansha, X-I-A-N, which is not only the Wusha style martial arts, but also fantasy on top of it. And that's actually what Ashes of Love is. It takes place in the realm of the gods in heaven. It's pretty crazy. Well, I know it's Japanese, not Chinese, but you were the first person, well, what I'm about to say, yeah. Yeah, you were the first person who was saying like, I'm just obsessed with Terrace House. And I was like, never heard of it. No one I've ever heard. No one I know has ever heard of it. Terrace House is definitely getting into the circles now where people, have you seen the show? Oh my gosh, Terrace House. I have not. I mean, knowing that you like a good reality show, I think there's a good chance you'll like it. I know. And that's almost why I'm staying away because I'm such a sucker for reality shows. They are my kryptonite, my lullaby. I love them so much. But yeah, a circle of friends of mine who are just not, I mean, they're wonderful people, but they're certainly not technical or anything. Terrace House has become the big thing. Well, Terrace House in some ways is kind of an anti-reality show, right? It's a reality show, but it doesn't have the kind of sensationalistic tone. It is certainly less sensational, although opening doors this most recent season, I don't know if I'm just getting used to it or add some risqué or things happening than it has in its previous couple of seasons. But yeah, most of the drama from Terrace House comes from the commentators. That's where it gets really fun. And the people in the house are much more polite. In a way, it reminds me of what I think teachers do, what teachers do in the teacher's room at school when they just like talking about all the things. That's a good comparison, right? It's like everything is normal. And then you go into the lounge and you're like, can you believe what Huey said about... I never appreciated that until one of my, well, a decade ago, 10 years ago, one of my coworkers, his wife was a public school teacher and she would come home with all the gossip that would happen in the teacher's room. Like all the students, like who was hooking up with who? Who was like, dumb as a doornail? It was just really weird because it's like, well, teachers aren't supposed to do that, but they do. That's another one, dumb as a doornail. Where'd that come from? We all know what it means. Why did the doornail get thrown under the bus? Again, another one. Because it was a nail that wasn't smart enough to be used for something else. How many really, really smart doornails have you met? I mean, zero, but like, I've also not met a smart toothpick. Dumb as a toothpick would also work. Well, that toothpick actually... I think the doornail had the alliteration going for it too, right? A nice rhythm. Yeah. Sarah has a floating ground in her system, says old guy. That makes sense to me. There's something not grounded, which is allowing that interference to show up. I used to get this on phone lines back when I had phone lines. And they would, the phone company, back when there was a phone company would give you these little filters that you could put on your lines that would get rid of it. I mean, I have a... Do you have everything plugged into a power strip? Yeah. And the power strip is plugged into a three-prong outlet? Yeah. Yeah. There might just be something in one of the things connected to your speakers that just isn't properly grounded internally. Yeah. I mean... It's in your headphones, right? It's in your headphones. Oh, it's in your headphones or your speakers? I thought it was in your headphones. It's in my headphones. Oh, okay. It's in your brain, then. Yeah. I've imagined the whole Spanish language station. What if it's... No, Tom, it is not. No, from your time in Mexico City. None of ours, but... Like, it's just catching up. Here's what happened. Okay, so when I went to Mexico City, aliens infiltrated my brain, as they do. Too many tacos. And now this is just my life. So it's taco radio. Yeah. It's taco radio. And it just helps me multitask better because I have to filter out certain frequencies. One of the first internet radio stations I ever listened to was the taco wagon, which was just... So more on Dumb as a Doornail to follow for audio listeners, video listeners. Thank you for watching. But audio, there is more to come.