 No, but I've watched plenty of videos online Always reminds me of an internet tonight promo that we had on CDTV One of the sites they were talking about was 101 uses for a flowbie on Monday. Oh I need to be in check in check so Everyone it's May 1st. Hope you're having a great day off International workers What what loyalty day? I don't recognize that day. I don't recognize loyalty day It's It's also May day. So you more s dancers. Hope you're having a good one I didn't see my neighborhood may pull out this morning when I took the dogs for a walk Sadly You know that May day as Labor Day is pit was picked because of the Haymarket riots in Chicago And it's also why President Garfield didn't put our Labor Day in May because he didn't want it to be commemorating the Haymarket rights No Haymarket no market and yes Garfield also Said Labor Day should be on Monday because he hated Monday's That's a cat joke. Come on. Sorry. I was thinking about the Giants. What do you think about the Giants? I'm just so bad Having a bad year It's early Take it recover The A's back when I was the season ticket holder for the A's would always suck until the end of May of course The year I'm a season ticket holder, of course, this is the season. Oh, yeah, the one year for the Giants They were bad too All right, it'll still be fun I mean, I'm not I'm not a fair weather fan. Obviously. I'm just like This is your first test. This is the true test since you since you've you've changed your allegiances It's not the first. I mean, they've had not great. I mean, they've had not great Seven years or so Last of last half That though it can get late early in baseball. Yeah, all right. You ready to do this worse team in the league Let's just to stop thinking about the Giants thinking about maypole dancers. Okay That'll cheer you up feeling better. All right. Here we go Daily Tech news show is powered by you May 1st It's not only International Workers Day, but it's also the day we collect your patreon Contributions so thanks to everybody for supporting us find out more at daily tech news show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech news for Monday May 1st 2017. I'm Tom Merritt not a Morris dancer joining me Veronica Belmont Also, not a Morris dancer, but we do respect your maypole traditions. Should you choose to celebrate them, right Veronica? Yes, indeed also the day to make sure that your dogs are up to date on their heart guard and possibly their tick-and-slee medication Oh, yes. I gave my dogs their trifexus this morning as a matter of fact odd side note totally un-tech related new dog Ray Loves it ate it right up Actually wanted to eat Sawyer's Sawyer has always turned his nose up at it was like no I have to like how is it served? It's served cold like revenge. It's a chewable. It's a chewable. Oh, Bodega loves hers Very Jango both were like man does not smell good, but Ray's like yeah, it's a treat for Bodega She's stoked when she gets her heart guard. No, that's good. Yeah Well, we have got some stuff to talk about including a way at least in the United States maybe this will come to other countries to actually write an Effectively somewhat effective message to your elected representative using a bot that is Veronica's bot take today But first let's start with a few tech things you should know about The economic Times reports that Apple intends to sell iPhone SE's manufactured in India later this year Through the Indian Apple online store Apple plans to open physical stores in India over the next several years But they've been working hard to assemble iPhones in India so they can meet the regulations that allow them to be a direct seller of their products in India Fascinating that's gonna be open up a whole new huge market totally Samsung meanwhile rolled out voice command support for Bixby on the Galaxy s8 in South Korea No word on when voice command would roll out to other markets However, you can if you're not in South Korea You can ask your s8 all day long when Bixby will get voice support and we'll just won't answer you just won't tell you Turkey started blocking all languages of Wikipedia on the morning of April 29th Siding a law that allows for blocking pages or entire sites to protect public order national security or the well-being of the public Best guesses are it has to do with certain articles related to people They believe are responsible for the coup that was attempted in Turkey last year But this is a continuing tradition in Turkey of blocking things on the internet That's a big one too Yikyak announced the social network will shut down over the coming weeks and that Square has agreed to hire several employees you don't have to block Yikyak Turkey because It's gone. This is one that I kind of thought Was gonna have a shot at becoming something else right like snapchat was a goofy thing that you know Just sent disappearing messages and eventually evolved into this powerhouse that it is now Yikyak was this weird thing that led people like anonymously chat mostly around college campuses I thought I wonder I wonder where they will grow to and apparently Nowhere. Yeah, I was I mean they had a huge user base a very rabid user base But I think they could tell that it was going nowhere good Like it just the product itself worked as intended, but it's the way it was being used was pretty Gnarly in a lot of places. So I guess they just couldn't figure out a way to pivot Yeah, I don't mean to spend too much time on this but now that I think about it I wonder if in the mid-2000s Yikyak Takes off because there was less worry about the negativity online than there is now and in this day and age Yikyak was just abhorred for that and and people are way more Sensitive to it and and and and are less likely to use something because of it. Maybe Now here are some more top stories Yahoo finance Published images of a forthcoming Fitbit watch supposedly codename project Higgs That's what everybody says has a square face physical buttons and what looks like an elastic Rick's band all Probably sound familiar if you've seen the hundred fifty dollar Fitbit blaze which came out in early 2016 Which also has a square face physical buttons and what looks like an elastic wristband sources Tell the Verge that the new watch was designed entirely in-house though unlike the blaze which had a third-party designer that was contracted so Fitbit wants to get into the watch business The at least that the the sport watch business the tracking the fitness watch business And so people are very eager to see what they come out with This is interesting for me too because I stopped wearing my Fitbit because I got an Apple watch So I wonder based on what kind of features and and you know stuff It'll have included if it would be a good Apple watch replacement Probably not. I think there's just too much tie-in to the Apple ecosystem at this point for me to really see a benefit to switching But I like Fitbit stuff and I think they do a great job and the Verge has previously reported It's not gonna have a lot of third-party app integrations either So that's that's kind of a death knell for people choosing an Apple watch for that, right anyway Also, I mean these may not be the final photos of what it ends up looking like but these leaked photos do not Seem to be met with an appreciation of its style Fair enough Beijing based seven in Benson a member of HTC's Vive X accelerator is Releasing an upgrade kit called a glass adds eye tracking to the HTC Vive a pair of eyepieces fit inside the headset And connect by USB allowing eye tracking by infrared. There are three pairs of interchangeable lenses a glass goes on sale in China next month for 1500 RMB that's about $220 US and will ship internationally in Q3 Foveated rendering here you come That's the thing where it can tell where you're looking and it only renders that part of the image thus Allowing for a better image because it only it has to render a certain part of it not all of it all the time That's part of what foveated rendering does and there's a lot of technology out there trying to do this I kind of this is another Thing remember the Vive had the wireless attachment that came out of its Vive X accelerator and that is now Becoming an HTC accessory. I think this this accelerator program that HTC put together is Looking in the early running like it will pay off with some successful Yeah with some faster to market products. I mean this is coming of internationally in Q3 I imagine if this was in an HTC lab, it wouldn't have moved out that fast. Yeah, potentially I mean, it's it's it's kind of neat to and I think that's cool that that people working in the Accelerator are able to see their products come to market so quickly as you said a glass though I Am not saying anything. I didn't say close to glass hole. That's why with an a I just wonder maybe internationally they could Market it differently. Yeah, they've got time. They've got time and only I mean only a couple hundred bucks That's that that is a lot of money for an accessory But when you put it next to the ridiculous prices of these headsets these days percentage wise, I guess it's it's not that bad Maybe that price will come down to a 23-page document discovered by the Australian That is not just a person that is a news outlet in Australia if you're not familiar with it Details how Facebook promotes advertising to teenagers and it's caused quite a stir According to the Australian and this document which it has excerpted but has not published in whole Advertisers are told Facebook can identify quote moments when young people need a confidence boost Facebook's claims to be able to identify several emotional states including worthless insecure silly overwhelmed and a failure Facebook Australia issued an apology to the Australian and promised an investigation and disciplinary action However, a later public statement from Facebook added that the document was intended to help marketers understand how people express themselves on Facebook And that Facebook does not offer tools to target people based on their emotional state Well, I mean, yeah, maybe not to marketers We know that Facebook is already kind of using this to to look for people who may be suicidal or Or you know on the brink of self-harm in some way, so we know that they do have this technology Internally, I don't really know why they apologized. I guess because it just looked bad Like why were they apologizing to the Australian? They say that well, they issued an apology to the Australian for the story saying, you know, hey We this this does not meet our research standards. This is how we're supposed to be doing things But then they came back. It's like they apologized first and then came back and was like hold on That's also isn't what we do. That's not what this is saying We don't target teenagers with ads based on their emotion, but let's let's walk this through Facebook Can identify your emotion, right as you said Facebook in this document identifies the emotions that it can identify It may not be saying you can buy an ad targeted toward them But it's it is saying we can tell when someone feels worthless when they feel a lack of confidence when they feel like They want to improve their looks based on their posts. I don't know if this is bad. Is this bad? Well, I don't know if I feel like this is bad It is definitely one of those things where how you use it is important Yes, and especially this being cast as teens who are particularly vulnerable. We all are particularly vulnerable as teenagers That requires some extra responsibility. This is still in the legal age limit You know, it's above 13 in the US above 14 in Australia But you know, you're talking about most of teenagers you can have a Facebook account can have advertising targeted about at them With proper guidelines, could it ever be okay to target teens with Emotional ads that say hey if you're feeling worthless, you know, I mean the good side The good side of well, that's the thing right inside of it would be to like target them with public service messages, right? It's like, hey, here's here's an outreach campaign like you say suicide prevention things like that positive messages And if you're a company that let's say you sell psychological services Is that is that a thing that would be okay? Like where is the line and then let's take the teen side out of it because I think that's what really gets people Especially parents upset it was like I don't want people manipulating my teens and making them feel worthless Or making them feel like if they buy things that'll somehow make them feel better What about us if we're feeling like hey, you know what? I wish I looked a little better Is it bad to have products that help you look better marketed to you? I feel like I'm just bombarded with that anyway So I don't really know if it would make too much of a difference But yeah, I'm going to get some crap for saying is it bad, but I just yeah, I mean it it's It's a tough one But yeah, the the teenager thing I think is probably the biggest issue here because as you said they are very vulnerable Sensitive to this kind of stuff easily persuadable Uh, so there's there's a lot of kind of ethical Quantary going on there and it's it's an ethical quandary that's not going to go away because facebook apologized about this report And I mean targeted advertising like this, especially as we get into more like the augmented reality state and you know Services know more about where we are what our heart rate is how we're feeling in that time You know what our habits are how we deviate from those habits and sell against us You know for those kinds of things. I mean we're just going to see more of this Yeah, we're gonna they're gonna have more and more data on you. They're gonna have more and more abilities to target you and Just saying no you can't ever use any of that data to target isn't going to work because As with all advertising the only advertising you hate is the advertising you didn't want to know about right and so the line has to be like, okay When should it be okay for them to know? I need cheering up play a guardians of the galaxy volume 2 trailer to me Because that will cheer me up and when is it not okay because I need cheering up and so you play a Stoley And that leads me to you know go back to drinking and I shouldn't you know like there are definitely lines there But I think we need a responsible conversation about what they should be And I I put a my bottom line now let you have the last word on this My bottom line is you should have control over it as a user. You should decide Whether companies can target you in these different ways. Yeah, I really am curious what kinds of of groups are going to spring up In the next coming years to kind of council companies on what is okay to do are they're going to be like Watchdog groups around this they're probably already are but like going into the more high tech space As this advertising becomes so much more sophisticated and targeted Like there's probably going to be third party groups that that spring up to Protect consumers or or the ones that exist. Yeah become a lot more technology focused Well, moving on a twitter and bloomberg will partner on a 24 7 video stream Twitter will not retransmit bloomberg's existing live video stream But instead bloomberg will originate programs for twitter and mix and live video from twitter users It would be broader and focus and bloomberg's financial oriented news But bloomberg is supposed to be entirely in control of the editorial content Now we're going to talk about this quite a bit on court killers today because I think this could be very Significant. I think it's where twitter has been pointing for a while Which is we want to be the place you check in to find out if things are going on there has been a lot of dissatisfaction with 24 7 news and The way netflix has subverted the market for drama and and scripted shows twitter could with bloomberg's help subvert the market for General news and the key to this is the fact that bloomberg isn't going to do a financial presentation That's what bloomberg does right now. They have a live feed of their financial news But they are going to work with twitter to create something that is broader than that and reaches a bunch of people Who whether they have access to cable television news or not? Worldwide would be able to watch this Uh, and it goes right along with what twitter does which is talk about what's going on in the world It's all a matter of execution, of course, but I think this could be the start of something very big And and start of the thing that maybe disassembles the traditional network package The one thing I'm concerned about though is when we are doing live programming live video programming Especially and it's kind of feeding off of what's going on on twitter You know, especially with even though there will be editorial oversight I would imagine like take for example the big You know fury over the avanca trump ad that was happening in the philippines There was a billboard featuring uh avanca trump and manila And people were reporting that this was a huge conflict of interest and yes, potentially it could be But the picture was originally from 2012 And it took a really long time for the the truthiness to kind of cycle through and for even You know big networks to kind of like, you know Take it back a little bit and and say like no, no, this was actually from before So I just worry sometimes that when it's live live live and it's becoming and it's focused on social media and so Focused on twitter specifically Like how much editorial control will they really have and how much fact-checking? Will they be able to do on the fly to make sure that they're not promoting top stories? That might not necessarily have been completely thought through and fact-checked Well, that is going to be the key, right? I think you're absolutely right because the the opposite side could be that bloomberg in their editorial control does such a good job of this Because they're in twitter that they can hop on these things faster fact-check them faster and poke a hole in them faster Possibly short circuiting them because they're because the coverage is happening on twitter also One of the reasons that these 24 7 newscasts Are are so quick with stories is they want to beat the other guy It may be because this is on twitter where they're like we don't need to beat cnn or fox news or msnbc We just need to be good They may not suffer the same pressure. I may be totally wrong about that, but it's a different playground So I think it's fascinating to watch. Yeah Finally the korea herald reports samsung has received approval to test autonomous cars in south korea samsung's developing the sensors The ai software is a sam familiar because it's what everybody's saying apple's doing apple just doesn't say anything publicly about it Samsung will use customize hyun dae's hyun dae by the way was the first to get permits for testing autonomous cars in korea And you may not realize it, but there's 20 permits now have been issued in korea The samsung is certainly far from the first. There's a lot of people trying this wow That's awesome. Yeah So go ahead make your note 7 jokes in your own head And then let's move past that Know that samsung is uh is diversified You know, even if even if it's just korea, they could they could capture a part of this market Uh by cooperating with hyun dae on this and I think I think we have a more competitive marketplace for autonomous cars right now than we have in many other sectors of technology like Phone operating systems for for instance. Yeah Well folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to our sister show daily tech headlines dot com You can also get it on your amazon echo and the app anchor right there on your phone Okay, there is a bot out there called resist bot now despite its politicized name anybody can use it To send a message of any kind To elected officials in the united states You access resist bot on sms. Although they are adding facebook messenger and amazon echo as of today. That's the news It's a non-profit project of jason putorty. He is a designer at angel list eric rice Who's the ceo of the long-term stock exchange? Uh and about a dozen other folks contributing time half a dozen of those are twilio employees It launched back in march march 8th By letting you use sms. You typed the word resist to 50409 It would ask you your name and your zip code to figure out who your representatives were and would let you send a fax Of whatever you wanted whatever your opinion was you wrote it and it would turn that text message into a fax that would get Set to your senators And after a certain amount of engagement with the bot then eventually to your representatives And I think the thing that that knocked you out veronica was the fact that voters have sent roughly 800 000 pages Worth of messages to elected representatives here in the us 150 000 of them came on march 24th I'm sorry march 24th right around the healthcare debate Yeah, I think this is a really great example of a the best possible kind of scenario for a bot It's taking a task that is You know pretty profoundly difficult this day and age and and like a real just Hurdle for people in general is to actually like put something down on paper And then have to go and find a fax machine or mail it in the mail Which is totally reasonable, but you know a lot of correspondence still happens via fax machine And especially in these kinds of you know government for example Healthcare, you know these these these crazy kind of scenarios where email doesn't necessarily always get looked at And so resist bot came around and offered a super simple way to to make this process a couple of steps And so all you have to do effectively is is send a text You know follow their onboarding procedures adding your name your zip code your address And then it essentially just you decide what you want to talk about it can be anything And you know as you mentioned It's called resist bot and that was the primary goal was to was to send you know messages like Of resist mint Started by people with a particular political stance, right? Yeah But really at the end of the day if you just want to get in touch with your congress people Like this is a great way to do it And they are seeing the messages because they are coming by fax And for some reason fax is still heavily weighted over emails Which can feel a lot more automated. I think to officials I think the key to this is the fact that it isn't a form I've seen a lot of web services do things like this not bots But they say like here fill in this and we'll send the message you can customize it if you want But we've written it for you. Yeah, this doesn't do that. This says you write what you want and that Can carry more weight With representatives as well. Yeah I mean and so I've been using it all the time and and they're adding features pretty regularly You know and eventually you'll be able to email You're you're it's senators now. I think they're I think you can do representatives Now as well If you hit a certain limit And then you're soon we'll be able to do governors local newspapers And I think that's really amazing too and and being able to add that facebook messenger support Which I think a lot of young people particularly are a lot more keen to kind of jump on Is really awesome amazon voice services being able to dictate your letter Which I actually find to be a lot more difficult than just tapping it out on my phone And and being able to actually sign it, you know Having a saved signature like on the service that you can just plug in to make the letters feel even more official and more personalized So it's a really great way to just kind of get involved with your government and feel like you're making a difference And and having your voice be heard without having to you know, find a fax machine Which is increasingly difficult for some people these days Figure out like what's the address? Where do I send it like you just get on facebook messenger or even amazon voice services? Yeah Then if you engage with it enough, it'll start alerting you when there's major votes coming up So you can express your opinion on them. They say they are going to do hand signed letters Send postal mail find town hall meetings for you Even place calls on your behalf. Yeah Yeah, so I I think the only downside of this is the name because that's going to turn off conservatives And and some people just aren't going to trust it. They're like, oh, you're going to block my message Or you're going to spy on me or something like that. The fact of the matter should be just a tool for everybody Everybody should be more engaged Um across the board. I think it's really important that we all understand, you know the discourse that's happening right now And you know being a young person and having your your voice be heard in that way I think is really important and if it could be that easy like I mean, I I'm I'm in my mid 30s and I still have a hard time picking up a phone I worked the phone banks that was like physically painful for me to have to call human beings on the phone But I did it and I feel like this is this It it enables you to have uh have a say and and take action one way or the other Without having to put a lot of a ton of effort into it Which frankly is is what keeps a lot of people from doing anything Yeah And and one of the one of the downsides of a lot of these efforts has been It it actually takes away your sincerity, right because it's because it's a form Or because you know, it it takes away It makes it too easy or you know, you can't just post a hashtag on twitter and say you've been involved This I think is a great example of using technology to take away the parts that Don't need to be there to make things difficult It's it's like we'll do the the hard work of figuring out where your message should go The important part of democracy is that you get to express your opinion to your elected representative And and this this makes that easy this this makes this happen I almost wish they would come up with something on the other end because one of the problems is that the staff For these elected representatives have a hard time waiting through all of the responses We need some machine learning on the other end to make this easier for them to see what people are saying So a lot on the other end like an answer bot maybe yeah As long as they're counting them, that's all that that's all that matters But yeah, and it does seem like automating would would would be make a lot of sense Well, uh, check it out folks again, you can find it at resist bot dot i o And again, even if you if you're not on the resist side of the conversation I think it's worth worth trying out. In fact, you you may want more want to try it out because of that So so you can balance things out, but either way it's a really good way to make your opinion heard Thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show dot reddit dot com Okay, I've got a couple of messages before we get out of here today But the first one comes from our friend Nate Langston over there across what some people call a pond I call the Atlantic Ocean What's up, Nate? Thanks tom this week we discussed creepy advertising partly because one of the uk's on demand video services We'll start calling out viewers by name as a way of getting their attention We also spend some time talking about why the uk's ebook market is down for the second year in a row That plus driverless cars joining our highways in 2019 and more out now at tech podcast dot uk like to you Thanks, Nate. Yeah, Veronica and I've talked about the ebook thing on sorden laser as well And the fact that we audio books often get left out of that conversation I think that's part of it, but some people still just want to pick up a book Yeah, it's sure they like that that dead tree smell They I offend so many people whenever I say that I just fear it's to wrangle people Oh, stop killing the trees But you know what these kids these days who are absorbed in their phones Also like to sit and read a paper book while listening to a vinyl record Hmm Also, uh that channel four thing about ads that will speak your name They're gonna do it for alien covenant ads Run Veronica I'm good. I'm good. Go check it out folks. Listen to what natinium have to say. It's good stuff tech podcast dot uk Uh, you can send your picks to us feedback daily tech news show dot com Message of the day comes from david who wrote in reference to our friday show discussing google phone support timeline the google operating system android operating system Uh david says i'd like to add if they think i'm going to spend 700 plus dollars every two to three years and get a new pixel phone They are crazy I bought this phone at a premium and expect to have an extended premium service longer than I would get with a 200 to 300 Dollar phone granted technology changes as does the phone hardware But two and three years for updates and security is just wrong google sold phones Need to be six years for security and four years on updates if not that then why pay for a premium phone Now one minor adjustment here. It's two to three years from the end of the sale of the phone Uh for the operating system and security updates But even then I I think david is is right that a lot of people Don't like that idea. I don't I wonder veronica how many people who say i'm not going to buy a new phone every two to three years Still end up buying a phone every two to three years. I think a fair amount Yeah, and that's the problem because then google could say like well, we don't really need to support it It's not that many people And real quickly a correction anthony wrote in thank you anthony to point out that on show 30 19 Uh, except we haven't done have we done 30 19? What hold on my my uh My episode numbers are wrong in the dock here. Oh, are they 19 was friday. Oh So pay no attention to the dock number. That is incorrect on show 30 19 on friday. I Said me tom said most of amazon's revenue these days is coming from amazon web services That is incorrect I meant to say profit the story from recode that we were looking at said amazon's profit Most of their profit comes from amazon web service. Uh, so apologies for the confusion there I hope it didn't confuse uh, too many people But we're just talking about the fact that aws is their most profitable sector. Thank you anthony Uh, and thank you veronica belmont, uh, you are not patrick bezia as it says here You are veronica elmont and we're glad to have you uh, and and the bot news as always Where can folks find more of what you got going on? You can head over to bot zine.org and subscribe to my newsletter bot zine Also, check out bot makers and bot wiki.org and if you want a cool tool for your slack instance Download robot at robot.io help track your team recognition and all the cool stuff that happens in your day-to-day workspace So anybody with a slack could do that, huh? 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We'll be back with patrick bezia talk to you then This show is part of the frog pants network Get more at frog pants dot com Diamond club hopes you have enjoyed this bro Good show Yeah Yeah, sure you made you what should we call it though if we were to name this show Should we call it sarah joslyn All your emos are belong to facebook. Oh That's not funny though because we might be talking about people who are really depressed Well, yeah, no, you know what and I meant to bring this up and then I forgot shane pointed out He's like, you know advertising isn't going to help clinically depressed and I he's absolutely right I was when I talked about people who are feeling a little down I wasn't speaking of clinically depressed though this facebook document does seem to use terms that might apply And facebook certainly doing it with the suicide prevention Yeah Roger is back. What else we got roger, uh, bought your congressman, which I like Facebook on the cut. Oh, no, that's terrible Take your heart guard Resist bot is futile for uh, that's cute fans. Yeah, yeah gets yanked Resist bot isn't futile. It's not it. Maybe that would maybe we do resist bot isn't futile Yeah, I like that. Let's do resist bot isn't futile Where does the numbering go wrong? Dammit? I don't know It seems to happen all the time and It's it's one or the other of us and I'm not pointing fingers when I say this except it back at me Uh, occasionally just does the repeats the same number twice Because whenever it's off I go back and that's usually what it was Let me see take 10 417 Resist bot is futile isn't futile Isn't futile Air message will be assimilated by the caucus person And inform their position As your elected representative It's not really a borg voice though Not really Find it. Are you looking for it? Yeah, but I know what happened. It happened. It was me somehow. I don't know how but I know I've done it before too, so You're only human roger Or are you Or are you What do we want bots when do we want them when we text them specifically when we text them Okay We've got a chris christensen tech and travel minute on the audio version of the show Today, you're not mistaken for chris christofferson Yes, we do not have a chris christofferson tech and travel minute although I'll be honest It'd be kind of cool. Especially if you really cool if chris christensen could get chris christofferson to be a guest on tech and travel minute And then um He could tie in convoy Convoy chris christofferson Isn't it? I think it was He was the rubber duck or whatever the but yeah, I know the song. I just didn't realize that was chris christofferson We're not singing it been the movie Oh, gotcha. Okay I was like, yeah for some reason. Yeah, okay Chris christofferson did sing though Yes For a very short time Actually, no, you can yeah, like he was done singing by the time he was in blade He sang jesus was a capricorn Uh, his original working title was jesus was a unicorn Oh, uh true at all You know fake news has become a thing. I'm gonna make money off it I wrote a subrelia news story for the first time in three years Last week. It was about united airlines Easy target Yeah, we have a new service where you could just basically Try it go ahead Oh, no, they could like uh mix your salad for you. You just put in all the ingredients in your baglet toss around Are you still worried about the giants? No, I'm watching a very cute video But which one participating Okay Um, it's a little a little baby doing uh, haka Uh Yeah, it's really cute. Like a New Zealand baby. Yeah. Oh, that's amazing Like a little little baby like a toddler barely walking No, like guys and the slap on the knees and all that like younger than with the tongue Yes with everything Little badass Baby hakas not striking fear in my heart though striking love of Deep inside your heart I just want to cuddle you up All right, I should go back to work. Okay. I suppose I know I'm not following the timeline but That's fine. All right. See you guys go. Bye Hi Well now that she's out of the oh wait a minute someone uh Christopher cross we brought Christopher cross on the chair sale I think yacht rock is ready for a comeback. It was it did kind of make a hip they made a hipster comeback It didn't me It was in the late 2000s the odds the late odds Like they're they're like yacht rock versions of um Anthrax songs was it it was an anthrax run for the hills run for the Hills That is not yacht rock No, no, it was done in a yacht rock style. I see let's see if I can find the uh Are you watching dr. Who this season? Yes, I finally bought The uh, who's he what's it? Are you are you watching the current season though? Yes Did you see the one uh, zoe brings bacon wants to know did you see the one last week? Uh, I owe him only up to the to the planet with the little uh miniature robots and the little one from last week Okay, not the one from this weekend, but the one from last week. Yes Zoey says maybe facebook had something to do with that episode Did they I don't know would explain a lot. I was kind of annoyed I liked it where it was going, but that's like really at the end. That's like kind of like That's kind of bugged me So you have to deal with it. It's like really that's your answer I I thought I'm thinking this season is much better than previous the past couple seasons previous capaldi season Yes, but to be honest in my opinion, that's not a very high bar you're probably right I liked the emoji episode and I really liked the one this weekend, which you haven't seen yet I have not seen I I wanted to like The first one the the the thing is like the the first one was like Felt the same way the second one. It was like going somewhere, but the payoff just didn't happen for me It's like that's it really It's like it's often both. I really like bill too. I think they've done a great job with her Yes, I I I'm still in the fence. Generally what I find is Midway You'll eventually like if if the if the the companion turns out to be really cool You'll you'll know by then so I'm still on the judgment phase this most recent one this past weekend was the uh, the first of the We're going back into recent English history one, which usually are kind of lame You know, like usually it's robin hood or queen victoria or hercules pro agatha christy Whatever this one didn't have any famous people in it They just went back to a victorian era of england and it was so much better Because they actually weren't relying on a famous person for the plot My queen or queen yeah, I think it's one of their best episodes yet um You know, it's it's kind of weird like the last companion I liked was Amy pond Uh, I love Clara I just after in her first like four episodes more than most of the rest Something about her just bugged me Yeah And I again my favorite companion still has to be Donna like because there's something Yeah, I don't like Donna. How you don't I know and I and I people can rightfully throw tomatoes at me But and and she's fine. I don't hate her She's one of my least favorites. I like her because her storyline ends up really compelling, but I I liked martha jones, which most people hate so I probably just have a horrible taste I like I like the fact that Donna is just really like back at you like, you know Well, that's one of the things that I think is I thought Donna was too much that way Uh, whereas I think bill is a little bit more like less Accepting of everything the doctor says but in a more believable way for me I can buy I can buy that I think that's part of I think that's part of what I like about her Is that there's a I liked Amy pond in so much that Amy pond had rory and rory was along It wasn't like mickey with the rose where he just kind of making a lot on yeah He just fell off. He was there at the beginning and then he disappeared Then he came back in the middle and disappeared They just sort of put him in when they felt they needed him, but he wasn't a very consistent developed character Swamp read the chat room mentioned he liked ace and I liked ace too because she was very bad assy She was very much. Let me pull out the baseball batter. Well, that's classic. That's classic. Yeah Is that it can you classic I guess you can that was uh That was the the lot doctor. There was the eighth doctor right um, no, it was um What's his name from the hobbit? He played one of the he played the yeah. Yeah, um Okay, I'm really bad with names I used to have all of these like at the tip of my tongue Oh, no, not the eighth eighth was palm again. You mean the seventh? Yeah, smith Celestia McCoy, that's it something Something like that. It's McCoy That was to me as his that was to for me like the most Up until the reboot the most up-to-date doctor who series because everything felt Not so cheap-ish Like that the set pieces and the and the props like the previous series they did and so that makes sense Yeah, and then uh, again, that was just a special Yeah, what are you doing? All right Well, I think I've successfully not screwed up I say that every time and I find out something but no, I think this is I think this is right Run for the Glad we could bring you a little anthrax into your day today Here I am going to post this in the chat room. I already posted in the uh slack. Yeah, I saw that. I don't have a chance to look at it though Okay Whoo, so we're all good Anything else they we need to talk about um I don't think so. No, that's all right. That's what I'm aware of Thanks everybody for supporting us uh for sure. I it's extra extra special on on the first of every month when this happens So guys rock Thank you Microsoft edu event tomorrow. That's probably one of the things we'll be talking about with patrick veja Unless they just and don't announce anything worthwhile, but i'm pretty sure they will So we will see you tomorrow Goodbye