 YouTube is live. Hello, YouTube. Yay. Hello, YouTube. Sorry. There you are. Go, Toony. If we're singing, I'm going the full Carol Channing. Yeah. Jam to Mara, jam yesterday. Wait till the post show where I do a lane stretch, and here's to the ladies who lunch. Oh, nice. Some Sondheim in there. I do a pretty good Ethel Merman doing news impression, though. Oh, it's going to be a fun and poh show today. I just do a mean Christopher Walken doing a hot spur from Henry, the fourth part one. Oh, that's pretty good. When I yell, I've got me a Chrysler. It seats about 20. And then no one likes it. Then you can do that and make up. I just had the most amazing thing happen to me, and now we're going to start the show. But what happened was the YouTube went live in another window, and all I heard was, hello, YouTube, my own voice coming back to me. All right, I'm going mute. Bryce Scott will play the clips once he recovers. And have a good show, everybody. All right. I'm recording in the helpful. I guess I assume it's helpful. I don't know. And Bryce, you're recording, right? Yes, I am. All right. Starting in 3, 2. Oh, crap. Sorry, hang on. Wrong tab. OK, here we go. Give me another 3, 2, will you? Sure, sure, sure, hold on. All right, ready? Starting in 3, 2. This podcast is made possible by listeners like you at patreon.com slash ace detect. Offer Voidware prohibited. Your mileage may vary. Product may contain nuts. This is The Daily Tech News Show for Wednesday, August 19, 2015. I'm Scott Johnson joining me today. Jonathan Strickland back for Substitution Tom Day. What's going on over there, buddy? You know, it's a great day when you and I get to work together, Scott. I always look forward to it. It's another one of those moments where they told me our crack producers who have nothing to do with crack cocaine. I'm talking about how well they do their job. Sure. They let me know, guess what? You're with John again on Wednesday, and I got super excited. So I am stoked to have you here, man. I'll give you a little secret here, Scott. Peek behind the curtain. I actually had my pick of who I would get to work with. And you picked me? You were, like, number three on the list. No, I chose you, Scott. I chose you. I would be happy to be fourth, even fifth. So pleasure having you here. Of course, Tom's still away. He's in Detroit, hopefully getting a picture of him in front of the big Robocop statue. If he doesn't do that, we're doing this all wrong. We'll hear all about that when he gets back. But before we get to any of that stuff, how about, well, that's the wrong file. How about a little news? All right, let's get right into the headlines here, folks. Check this out. Reuters reports at a group known as Impact Team. No, they are not teenagers with cool suits who fight alien robots. Has released a huge cache of customer information online after hacking into Ashley Madison and established men last month, for those who don't know both those sites are owned by the same folks. Wired reports that are approximately 9.7 gigabytes of data were posted and appear to include member account and credit card details of people who signed up to websites designed to facilitate extramarital affairs and connect with young women with older, richer men. Impact Team wrote that avidlife media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and established men. We have explained the fraud, deceit, and stupidity of ALN, that's avidlife media, and their members. Now everyone gets to see that data. avidlife did not respond to Reuters' request for comment. Analysts expect a dramatic increase in the use of, quote, the guys at the office sign me up as a prank, unquote, or, honey, I'm just a victim of identity theft in the days and weeks to come. Sad trombone. Well, as the last wistful vacationers cling to their beach blankets and the band starts tuning up their instruments for that Labor Day parade, so we begin to hear the faint cry of fall in the form of Apple rumors. Nine to five Mac reports that reliably reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kwao of KGI Securities has heard that the long-rumored 12.0-inch iPad Pro will feature force-touch stylus support, as well as an optional lightning-charging stylus. KGI predicts that the tablet will go into production between September and October, and that Apple could sell up to as many as 5.5 million units of the 12.9-inch iPad this year, and under one million styluses, styli, styluses, styluses, styrofoam, stilistites. Those things. I've gotten asked this a bunch today. For those who don't know, I spend a good deal of my time on a WayCom tablet every day and create a lot of art for part of what I do for a living. And people are saying to me, whoa, is this gonna hurt WayCom? Does this present an actual threat to them? And I would answer, if that stylus, either the chargeable or non-chargeable stylus and whatever third-party styluses come out, if those are good and create enough sort of pressure sensitivity to create enough preciseness and interest among the artist's community, it probably won't replace big standard WayCom Cintiq desktop production style displays. But it might well replace people's portable devices they may be using now to get sketches down to the things that they may go do post-production on work later. So I'm actually very much looking forward to this. If they can nail that, that is a huge boon to what I do, but it will not replace that kind of hardware. So just wanted to throw that out. There are lots of questions about that today. Hopefully those people are listening. And if you are, hello. Speaking of Whistful Things, enjoying their last day in the sun, nine to five Mac also hears that Apple is planning to simplify its retail experience and relocate iPods to the accessory shelves. Oh, no. Scandal. That is very scandalous. Traditional Apple products are kept behind closed doors and brought out to consumers on purchase in a swift flowing motion surrounded by a chorus of angels. But now the iPod will sit on the shelves amid huddled masses of storage drives, keyboards and lightning cables and cases and protectors and all that other junk. Apple will also remove the iPad 2s that gave customers product and pricing details and move that information to the gadgets themselves, which is very interesting, making the store look even more like a sleek and futuristic store, which makes the correct answer to daily jeopardy what Johnny I've thinks about on the way to work. Yeah, I actually think putting the info on the actual devices you're looking at, even if it means that Mac or that desktop or that whatever or the actual iPad you're looking at, I think is probably a good idea and creates less confusion because I know there are people that go in there and go, what am I looking at? This iPad of this laptop and it's a little confusing, so it seems like a good move by them. Agreed. Intel unveiled details on their Skylake series of processors. PCworld.com reports that Skylake achieves power savings by incorporating an intelligent power management system called Speed Shift, which improves responsiveness when coming out of lower power mode and allows for more performance in lower power states. Skylake also has more efficient cores that handle more simultaneous instructions than previous chips and embedded DRAM called EDRAM Plus, or EDRAM Plus, that stores recently used data and instructions in a fully coherent cache. EDRAM Plus can be sized either 64 megabytes or 128 megabytes, making the technology more widely available in a range of models, especially laptops. On the security front, Intel introduced software guard extensions and memory protection extensions, technologies that reduce effectiveness of malware-isolating blocks of memory. The Wall Street Journal's reporting that the Sony Vio, you remember that thing? They were in all the movies all the time. Lots of product placement going on with the Vios. Anyway, this is their former in-house PC brand. You thought it was gone, but hey, look, it's making a comeback in the US. VioCorp is currently owned by a private equity firm. Aren't all old dead things owned by them now. Japan Industrial Partners, which plans to start selling laptops at Microsoft retail stores in the US in October. Although the company currently sells laptops designed when the brand was still part of Sony, they will be adding in new designs. New machines will cost around 200,000 yen. Don't worry, that's only about $1,600 US, also a little high still. Anyway, in Japan, and we'll start at about $2,199 here in the US, that's $2,199. That is kind of expensive for a new notebook. Anyway, the company also plans to add a document-sized laptop with cellular capability, which would eliminate the need for users to plug in a mobile data card or to otherwise tether their phone and also into desktop PCs. Vio first wants to attract graphic designers, photographers and others who may now be using Macs. Reuters reports that two phone carriers, Barty Airtel Limited and Vodafone India, were among 11 companies selected by India's central bank to help set up payments banks, which would give millions of Indians access to basic banking. Payments banks can take deposits and remittances, but will not be allowed to lend. The aim for payments banks is to piggyback on existing retail or other networks. The company selected will be given in-principle approval for 18 months, after which they will be given licenses if they fulfill all conditions stipulated by the Reserve Bank of India. No lending allowed, that's weird when you're talking about banks, very strange. Yeah. Yeah, also opening in India soon, a YouTube space. Just like they have in LA and New York and other places now. TechCrunch reports the facility will be located inside the Whistling Woods International Film School in Mumbai. And if you've ever seen a Indian movie, the Bollywood style, probably something got made there, is my thinking. The head of YouTube Spaces in Asia, Pacific David McDonald says India is seeing an emergence. Of new generation YouTube creators are capturing the color, music, humor and drama of India more creatively than ever before. In fact, India creators are now amongst the top contributors in Asia when it comes to driving time spent on YouTube watching videos. So no surprise, YouTube expanding their base. Yeah, and I'm actually really excited by this. I know that a lot of the listeners to my shows, a lot of them come from India. And the idea of them having a greater access to an ability to create content and share it is something that I'm really energized by because I've seen so many of the fans of my shows go on to make their own stuff that this is really a joy to me. So I'm really happy to hear about it. And it gives them a chance to really boost the already growing burgeoning followership of a lot of these bigger names over in India just like it does here and give them a chance to do some pretty interesting crossover work. And essentially they're just duplicating the model that seems to be working pretty well for YouTubers here. So seems like a good move for them. Right. Did you know that New Yorkers are fond of the Statue of Liberty? No? Well, let me tell you. Most of them haven't visited it. Hawaiian's also like surfing, all right? Smiley face pizza trumpet. I'm talking about emojis here. USA reports that a study by SwiftKey, folks that made that thing I still can't use because I think it's crazy. Maybe I'm too old for it, I don't know. Analyze more than one billion emoji typed into keyboards in the US so Californians love the taxi emoji. Texans are fond of grapes. I would have said like a cowboy hat, but that's just the stereotype decision I made. People like grapes, Scott. Floridians are fond of people taking strange drugs and dancing on open freeways. Oh no, I'm sorry. They're fond of trumpet emojis. Sorry, read them wrong. But best not ask too many questions about that one. Anyway, globally the most popular emojis are the happy face, sad face, the hearts, and in the US the most popular emojis were eggplant, I have a theory as to why, birthday cake, and a slice of pizza. Where's the poop emoji? That's all I wanna know. Now we have one other story, Scott. Don't want to skip this one. Xiaomi unveiled its first MIUI7, that's MIUI7 version of Android in New Delhi today. The biggest feature is the incorporation of Opera's data compression technology to shrink mobile data usage in browsers and other apps by as much as 50%. The feature makes use of Opera's max technology and is baked into MIUI7 under the data saver feature. Xiaomi claims MIUI7 offers up to 30% faster response time when launching system apps and a 10% increase in battery life for the average user. Other features include Xiaomi's baby album feature which uses facial recognition to organize photos of a child in a dedicated album. Four new system UI designs and tighter integration with Xiaomi's Mi Band wearable. I had that line just got me, which uses facial recognition to organize photos of a child in a dedicated album. Beep, beep, we want to know about your planet. Something about that, I don't know what it is. Got some news from you as well. SP shared in, and Star Fury Zeta sent the engadge report that the US FCC has fined a company $750,000 for blocking Wi-Fi spots. The company is Smart City LLC, provides wireless connectivity for hotels, convention centers, and the like in Ohio, Florida and Arizona, but customers complained that the company was blocking their own personal Wi-Fi hotspots while at these conventions. We'll assume they brought various Mi-Fi type devices with them and they blocked them. Smart City released a long statement that basically said, sorry, we did that, but we won't do it again. Metal Freak sent us the R's Technica report that virtualization software parallels desktop 10 for Mac and VMware Fusion 7 won't be updated for Windows 10. Both were released a year ago and although Windows 10 will run on either, they won't be able to take advantage of parallels coherence or Fusion's Unity modes. These modes allow the virtualized instance of Windows to have each application show up as a separate window on the native OS's desktop, basically making it feel like you're running one operating system instead of two at the same time. VMware says Fusion 8 will address the situation and of course you can always buy Parallels 11 which has the added bonus of putting Microsoft's Cortana right on your OSX desktop before Siri. Trollolol, indeed. That's very trolley. Nice guy, guys. Hot Branch sent us the Hot Branch, what a great name Hot Branch is, sent us the R report, one of the great ownership debates of our time has finally been settled. Gearbox software, you know them as the Borderlands folks has declared that is the full quote, rightful owner of the Duke Nukem franchise. Not necessarily a badge of honor in my opinion. Anyway, previous rights holder and creator, 3D Realms, AKA Apigee Software. Man, that's taken me back. Relinquished all claims to secure the future of Duke after lengthy legal proceedings. No word on whether Gearbox will actually go ahead and make another Duke Nukem title anytime soon but I don't know that Forever really did it for anyone and probably we're okay waiting a while longer before we have any sort of inkling toward another Duke Nukem game but I guess at least they can do it legally now. Yeah, this is odd to me because I thought that the legal arguments was you take it. No, no, no, you take it. I mean, the original Duke Nukem 3D, amazing game, right? Yeah, fantastic. The boundaries, great worthwhile stuff, amazing game. Lifted lots of quotes from the Evil Dead franchise. It was fantastic, great multiplayer but yeah, that franchise went downhill dramatically. Well, finally Funkaround sent us the wired report about the software that helps noted astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking, communicate with the world. Intel created the ACAT, which is Assistive Context Aware Toolkit System that makes computers more accessible to people with disabilities by using visual cues in the user's face to understand commands. Now Intel is releasing the ACAT platform under a free software license so that developers can create more solutions for assisted computing. The software is PC only with no plans to bring it to Mac. Interesting article to finish news out on because our discussion story is right along these lines so I suppose, let's get right to it. So, I like the discussion story often because it's like, oh, we've taken one of the hot headlines and we've expanded it out into a larger discussion and platform for the show but today we are talking about something similar to what we just talked about, but not quite. A brain computer interface that reads your mind, Jonathan, and your emotional state and then makes choices about the film you're watching as you make changes in your emotional state. I'll give you that quote here. The interface, read your emotional state, makes choices on behalf in a choose your own adventure style film experience, actual film experience, instead of making conscious decisions, this system determines which path best fits your mental state and you watch as the film unfolds, they are calling it scanners, which is kind of awesome. Yeah. Here's an actual quote from the creator of it, his name is Richard Remchern, I wanna say how you say his name. Yes. And this is what he says about scanners. Scanners is a film platform that uses live data from people's brains to cut and mix a film where you have an effect loop, a two-way effect loop, whereby watching the film, you change it and it changes you. All right, it's a little vague, but on the surface, that at least sounds pretty cool sci-fi, Nido, right? Yeah, actually, I looked into this a lot. I did a video about this, which is not live yet, but it was a lot of fun to research and the basic premise is choose your own adventure, but you don't actually make the choice, it's how you react to the film that chooses for you. So if you have a very even keel approach, the plot may just play out in the standard, the average mean or whatever response is. But if you have a heightened response, it may be that the story changes slightly, one of those branches gets triggered and the story goes in a slightly different direction and as you react, that continues to branch down the pathway. So ideally, you would have a 15-minute movie where no two people who watch it really see the same thing. There's going to be some difference down the line and it's all due to how they were responding to that. And they're using an EEG headset. It's got two sensors, one of them fits on the forehead, the other one on the earlobe and they measure, well, the one on the forehead measures both brain wave activity and muscle activity. The earlobe one is strictly muscle activity and the main reason is to filter out the muscle information so that it's really just responding as much as it can to your brain waves. Specifically, they wanted to target alpha brain waves which are associated with wakefulness but relax wakefulness. So it's not like you're actively focused on doing a task, that'd be more like the beta brain waves. And I think the idea there is that it's trying to tap into something that you're not consciously aware you are doing. But I love the idea that you could be watching something like a horror movie and you're thinking, no, you idiot, don't go through that door and the idiot doesn't go through the door because you're reacting that way. Here's my question about it. So I was trying to think of a good real-world example of something like this that already works in a more physical way and the only example that I could come up with was oddly enough Dragon's Lair from the 80s. So this is a Laserdisc game that had you running Dirk the Daring through a hallway and when you got to the end of the hallway, you would need to make a decision. Do I go left, do I go right? And you had to be very split second about it. Basically it's the first example we have of quick time events and video games. A lot of fun, really cool. The whole thing's this big animated, beautiful adventure. You get to the end of the hall, you whack it right and then he runs right and that was the right way to go. If you went left, you were gonna be killed. Or in some cases there were branching paths and you could go different ways. But ultimately there was kind of one linear way to get through everything. You needed to know what it was, memorize it, spend a lot of money getting there and then by the time you figured it out, save the princess and you're done. This feels like that except obviously more complex, you're not necessarily, well, you're definitely not making physical changes. You're making chemical electro changes in your brain that are gonna make decisions for you. But if you're making your horror movie you're talking about and you're saying, this guy's gonna go into that room. Every time that happens in a horror movie they die don't go in that room because they've established this part of the movie so well that you've just got that intense like oh my gosh dude don't go in the room that trope is terrible, don't go in there you're gonna die. Then that means that they've got one other scene filmed because this is film mind you. Yeah. That says oh, the brain wave said that we have interpreted that as saying don't go in there and then he doesn't, he goes someplace else. But what if your brain said go back and get the ax off the wall, I saw hanging there on your way in then go in there. What if your brain says go back out to your car, start the damn thing and drive home because this was a bad idea in the first place. Do you see what I'm saying? The infinite possibilities are impossible to replicate so I wonder just how deep it goes. I mean they talk in the article about how they had to film, they had to do the equivalent of a full feature film with lots of B-roll for a 15 minute experience and the reason for that is for all these alternatives but do you worry that at some point in the process you just run out of paths to take? Well I mean there comes a point. I mean anyone who's created a choose your own adventure style story knows that you have to at some point put a limit on those choices. You have to figure out the branches. Sometimes branches will converge and so you can actually take two different pathways and end up at the same scene, five scenes further down the line. So there's ways where you can converge those and then you would diverge them again. I think really the sophistication of the EEG is limited. It's never going to be a point where it's going to know what you are thinking. It's really only going to measure the activity level of your brain. Not what that activity means necessarily. So the interpretation has to be all right, well we're seeing a spike in neural activity at this point. This is what we're going to do whenever a spike happens at this point in the story. We will go left instead of right. If there's not a spike, we go right. And that simplifies things a little bit. You still have to do a monumental amount of work to accomplish one film as you say in order to make this happen. But to be honest, I mean this guy is really an artist. He's an artist and a filmmaker primarily, not a technologist. So he's doing this as a way of saying look at a cool way where technology and art and the human experience can all interact. It's not necessarily meant for any other practical application, although I would argue there are practical applications for this kind of approach if you want to continue down that road, particularly in things like virtual reality implementations, video game implementations, perhaps not to the point where it's consistently monitoring you for the entire experience, but maybe at key moments it does and realizes hey, we need to ratchet up the intensity so that we really get this person engaged with the story that's taking place in the screen in front of them, that sort of stuff. Yeah, I guess I need to see it in action to understand how binary we're on. Binary, the kind of Boolean answers of yes or no are and how that all works. He does say that the rhythms of the editing and the way the film jumps from scene to scene depends on the mindset of the person watching it. And this is largely, he says, out of their control, meaning the person's control. That part is very interesting to me because it's less of a choose your own adventure and it's a let an adventure happen to me without me being able to really choose anything. Because if this thing's just responding to, he's having a high stress response, the EEG is reporting high stress response, go left, he's calm now, go right. If that's really all it's doing and you can't really predict where people's heads are at or what levels trigger it or whatever, then in theory if you have enough sort of granularity in how many different scenes can take place, then you're talking about a very different experience every time somebody sits down to that thing and even the same people may have a different experience at night versus the morning or a week before they did it again or whatever. Or even two times in a row because now they have an expectation of what they're going to see which might mean they become more complacent which could actually change what they see. Yeah and I, so my final argument with this is, this is neat and all, great go for it, let's see this happen, what needs to happen next? Is somebody needs to, this guy maybe, whoever, take this technology which kind of already exists in a medical way, put this stuff and get this hooked up to an Oculus Rift or an HTC Vive or something to that effect so that you've got actual VR experiences which you can represent with polygons and data, right? And that polygonal world having that change based on your brain waves is far more interesting to me because now you can literally change the world not have to film it 50 different ways and only have 50 finite ways it can go. You can have infinite ways it could go. It basically becomes a fractal generator. Honestly, I would love to see the classic farce comedy Clue remade with this technology so that the way you respond determines which of the characters in Clue did it. I like that idea. Or just how confused will Mr. Furley be at what he's hearing in the room next to him or whatever? I think these are all great ideas. Anyway, feedback, always welcome on subjects like this. I think this is fantastic and pretty excited to see where it all goes. We got a pick of the day, Andrew from Athens, Georgia, that's in your neck of the woods, man. That's right, I went to school in Athens. Oh, very cool. It's also the home of R.E.M, is it not? It is, it is the home of R.E.M and the B-52s and tons of other bands. Well, there you have it. Big scene happening out there in the 90s anyway, in the 80s as well. In a previous episode, a completely reasonable joke was made about map quest expense or app map quest expense. But I want to let everyone know that I have been using the Android app for a couple of months and I find it to be genuinely good alternative to Google Maps. It pauses directions so my phone stops bugging me when I stop for gas. That would actually be kind of nice. It can add a location along the route if the nearest gas station or fast food place isn't on the way and supports for alternate TTS voices just to name a few. There are some other downsides however, ads mostly for hotel chains and traffic information is slower to update than it would be for Google Maps. It lacks the access to my data that Google has so search results are less prescient and the movement of the current location icon is pretty jerky if you watch the screen but I am very satisfied user and I think the Android users in the DTS community should give it a look. That's interesting and I think I may have been in the episode where Mapkuss was getting some heat but it wasn't so much heat as it is just they innovated in so many ways and then Google came and took their thunder. It's what Apple did to the Diamond Rio with the iPod. It's what, I don't know, I can't think of any other examples but where these companies come in and perfect a thing that somebody else was sort of already doing but didn't quite have the vision or the money or the whatever, the wherewithal. Or the platform, I would argue the smartphone just so dominated our interface with maps. Before that, I don't know about you Scott, I had binders filled with Mapkuss printouts because it was before you had a smartphone so you couldn't necessarily have a laptop open with an old Mapkuss showing that you would actually print out the turn-by-turn directions. No, I remember wasting a lot of printer toner just to get that thing printed and take it in the car with me and you forget how different that is now. I mean, it's such a different world. I had my Palm Pilot but it wasn't connected to anything. It wasn't like pulling data from the cloud. So yeah, times have changed, things have changed and honestly, the idea that Mapkuss still persists and is still a good option, that makes me happy to hear that. If you have your own feedbacks to send into the show send them to feedback at dailytechnewshow.com and you can find Tom's picks over at dailytechnewshow.com slash picks. We have a message of the day which you send to feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. John, take it away. What do we got? Sure, Mark W from Tech Connected Detroit writes, everyone is curious why Google would produce a Wi-Fi router. Do you think it's possible that it might be in support of the new cellular Fi service? Comcast is creating a Wi-Fi blanket for its customers using its routers. Might Google be doing the same? Oh, interesting. I don't know, I mean, I just, I think I would trust and like a router that came from Google and my guests given their vested interest in Nest, which is I guess now a spun off company, but still, all of those things lead me to believe that whatever device they wanna put in my home or on a portable thing like in my car, for example, those technologies are likely going to try to tie in to their other initiatives with getting fiber laid and getting Wi-Fi services and Google fiber being done here in Salt Lake City. In fact, I may be able to tap into some of that that way. Like I don't know if any of that's true, but it seems likely and I trust Google with that. I don't know who their hardware partner would be, but that's enough for me, just for the brand. So I'd be in. Well, Scott, I too welcome our robot overlords. Alphabet, give us what we want. And we have another message and CDNDude74 wrote us in our subreddit, thank you to the contributor who recommended podcast addict for Android. This app instantly replaced my older app. It's easy to use, easy to add podcast via search, and most importantly, has a listen at 1.x feature. I was sure that I would never be able to listen at greater than one time speed, so never bothered with that function, but after Tom mentioned that he is able to listen to more podcasts because of this feature, I had to try it. I was shocked at my brain's ability to adapt to a faster audio speed. Yeah, the part you don't, Tom and I argue about this every time it comes up, and we would be fighting about it right now if he was here. I hate cranking the speed up, and I've done it to experience it. The problem isn't so much that it's like, it's like taking speed itself. When you come down, everyone's in slow motion, and that's terrible. So like. I live in the Southeast. How do you think it feels for me, buddy? We literally cannot hear as fast as other people talk. Okay. You're telling me you can't get in the Walmart line and set that whole thing to 1.5 speed? Is that what you're telling me? If you were to listen to a podcast at, let's say 1.75 speed, which is what I tend to listen to my podcasts at when I'm editing them, and then have a conversation with, I don't know, anybody in the Southeast, you feel like you've been dipped in molasses. That's a good point. My wife from Mississippi, it all goes real slow down there. Anyway, we love those people, though. 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The two that I do are tech stuff and forward thinking, which is also a video series, but we've got lots of others from Stuff You Should Know, which is our most popular show, Stuff They Don't Want You to Know, our conspiracy show, Stuff Mom Never Told You, Stuff You Missed in History class. We've got all these podcasts covering different interest areas. They're all fantastic. My coworkers are some of the smartest, funniest, and nicest people I know. Can't recommend them highly enough. Go check it out. All right, that sounds good to me, and you can take his word for it. His parents used to write Star Trek novels. So that is true. Yeah, it's fantastic stuff. I want to thank the 5,031 patrons who support this amazing show that Tom has put together with all his hard sweat and tears. His hard sweat and tears. Don't even know what that means. If you want to support the show, and I know you do, go to dailytechnewshow.com slash support. Our email address is feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. 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I was wondering, if you were to host again, like the film host on an episode, would it be weird if you did that live portion, like get more at frogpants.com? Oh, I totally would. Because it's your voice. Yeah, I totally could do it. I've got the music without my voice. I could totally do it. I'd be fine. Do it! Yeah. I'll do it. All right. I'm taking his challenge. Anything? That was a lot of fun. Yeah, that was great. That's a good discussion. You guys are awesome. It's a good Wednesday. Yeah, Wednesdays are always good. I always know. They're sometimes the slowest newsdays. There's no newsday like our Wednesday like no newsday. I know. Oh, you want to hear? OK, here's my uncle. This is Ethel Merman doing, what's his name, Fred? The B-52 guy. What's his name? Fred. Frocklubster Fred. I don't know. Yeah, him. Anyway, this is him. This is her doing a part of Love Shack. Ready? Here we go. OK. I've got me a Chrysler. It seats about 20. So come on! It still sounds a lot like Fred Schneider to me. I'm ready to go and chokebox money! I could do a... Yo, Lex, while I'm telling you the same people, basically. Yeah, I had a friend who did for karaoke. He did, I fought the law on the law one as Fred Schneider. Oh, nice. And the best part was, she's the best girl that I ever had. Oh, my gosh. Sorry, I'm just testing. Everything works. So before we get too far into the land of Ethel Merman and his to the ladies for lunch, we are going to pick a title. So your options are Mindful Movie Editing, which I really like. The only title that I think could possibly be chosen, which is Binders Full of MapQuest. That's not the very end of the show. I love it! And you, Bali Tube, I really like. Oh, that's good. I do like a hot nukem. And I do like Choose Your Own Emotion. But I really do think that what other universe would we be able to say and use as a title, Binders Full of MapQuest? Yeah, it's pretty good. If I have an argument in my head between that and you, Bali Tube, because you're just fun to say. Yeah. But I feel like here's my argument for Binders Full of MapQuest is that it is the particular poetry of a live show, right, where it just happens and it comes out of someone's mouth and you just go, whoa, that was amazing. I'm so glad that there's a medium that is recording those moments so that I have proof that they occasionally happen to me. No, but it's just like every once in a while, your brain puts together things in a certain way and it comes out of your mouth and it's just magic. It's like poetry. That's actually what the best poetry is, is sometimes when your mind puts two things that are totally asynchronous together. Sure. It's awesome. It's what separates us from the machines. That's right. I put the whole recorded thing in the chat just now. Oh, great. So it available, not the chat, sorry, in the Slack. And so if that comes, if it ends up sounding better, you're welcome to use that. If you've got your own version that's better than that, go ahead and use it. Yeah, why don't you download and take a look? No. I mean, it all sound better, but I don't know. Oh. Oh. I don't say I don't get it on my end. Oh, I got it out of that. Anyway, and I have that saved in a wave of, for some reason, something needs to get fixed or whatever. Cool. Well, thanks, Scott. You know how it is. I'm all, I'm all good. All part team, part of the team. Yeah. Let's see, what else is going on? God, who can we impersonate next? Oh. I don't do good impressions. I do terrible ones. Like, I used to do a good George Lucas, but I don't do it very much. Yeah, the Christopher Walken I do is really more of someone who is okay at doing a Christopher Walken impression. I'm doing an impression of that person. I see. Jared, tell me my friezer down or something. Give me some. Let me do the Shakespeare bit, because that was a lot of fun. I once auditioned as the role of Hotspur in Henry IV, part one. He's essentially one of the antagonists. And when I did research, I found out that Christopher Walken played him at Shakespeare in the park, in Central Park, in the early 80s. And it just blew my mind. So here's my impression of someone doing a bad impression of Christopher Walken doing Henry IV, part one. So some Shakespeare. Here we go. But for my own part, my lord, I could be well contented to be there in respect for the love I bear your house. He could be contented. Why is he not then in respect for the love he bears our house? He shoes in this. He loves his own bond better than he loves our house. It's magic, baby. Magic. All it needs is more cowbell. Yeah, that's why I don't need to quit my day job. I don't realize that. I'll tell you what, that would be awesome. It also just is the window into the secret life of Jonathan Strickland, who can just randomly quote Shakespeare. It's pretty awesome. I can do that. I can do a little bit from Hamlet because I've played the part of Polonius. I think I've done that on this show, actually, where I've done that as a bit. I've got a long sordid history and performance. A long sordid Shakespearean history. Also, I used to be able to do the full opening of Clockwork Orange. Wow. As me, that is Alex in my three droves. That's Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim Bing, really Dim. We were making up our razzoo docks, what to do on this evening. And so there's this whole, we're outside the Milocco Milk Bar. It's one of those mestos, oh my brothers, you may have forgotten what these mestos were like. Things changed, it's so scory today, and people quick to forget. But they sold milk plus something else. You can drink it with synth, mescal, drink, karma. You could drink it with knives, and as we used to say, for a bit of dirty 20 to 1, which is what we were pitting that very evening. What's it going to be then, eh? Oh my gosh, brother. Bravo. What's the stage production that will wait back in the day? Strickland Community Theater in here. Yeah, community theater's about the level I can do. That's awesome. That's awesome. Oh, I should take this moment, as I said, I would do in the post-show to remind everybody that I will indeed, for no good reason at all, have been Scotty Rowland asked, be doing an AMA after the Daily Tech News Show, post-show ends, and I have no idea how to do it, but I assume Scotty Rowland will find me somewhere and tell me how to do it. How to do the AMA. So you can ask me questions about the Daily Tech News Show, about, I don't know, the Daily Tech News Show. You can ask about CBS News or Yahoo, or what it's like to work with Tom every day, or what it's like to work with Roger. I don't know, ask me anything. That's pretty good, that's what an AMA stands for. Yep, I know that much. That's at reddit.r slash r slash Daily Tech News Show. So on those AMAs, are you required to just answer those questions, or can you say like, eh, better not say. I am not the authority on reddit kit, because I've already been shadow banned and unshadow banned and blocked and unblocked. There's a term for it, reddit kit. Because like, I know way too much stuff about people that probably shouldn't be mentioned ever. Well then we should get Roger on the AMA. I'm just curious. The big question will be, Roger, tell us about your time at GameStop or Spot. GameSpot, oh yeah. They got upset the last time I mentioned something, so I'm gonna keep my lips closed. That's like me and a little company called Discovery. I watch myself when I talk about Discovery. I, for the life of me, have pretty much, that is a giant black hole, of which I cannot discuss until I reach 50. Nice. And then I'll write a tell all book. I'm actually, I'm close to writing a tell all book about tech TV, so much dirt. Like an oral history of tech TV. Yeah, I actually need to get you on tech stuff to do a segment. I recorded a segment with Tom a couple of months ago, actually, about tech TV. I'm trying to put together the story of tech TV, just kind of to give people an idea of the whole like roller coaster of what tech TV was. I was, and it's interesting because I wasn't there when they actually conceived of the idea and the channel and the lead up to it. I actually started as an intern a week and a half before the network actually launched. And that was on screen savers and call for help. So it was a very interesting view from that perspective. I didn't actually get to hear a lot of it or see a lot of it until a year later where all the fun bits come out. Like how I got my job, I mean like the real reason I got my job, but I can't mention that either. I see the point I think about it, at the last I should open my mouth. Did I hear Bray say the magic words that he's out of the post? Out of the post. Out of the post. Oh, awesome. All right, well, thank you guys so much. And somebody please show up to my AMA so that I don't sit there quietly with no questions. Yeah, go ask her all of the questions. Ask me about garbage town. The new hide and seek incubated. That's live. If people ask you about calculus, they ask calculus questions. I will say I do not understand calculus. If they ask you a calculus question, take it to the limit. One more time. Take it. Oh, I love it. All right. Just give them a link to Wolfram Alpha. Everybody, yeah, right. Everybody have a great day. Thank you so much, John. It was awesome. This was a lot of fun, guys. Thanks. We'll see you next time, Tom's out, which I hope will be never. Oh my god. Come back, Tom Merritt. So they're saying you hope I never come back, God. No, I actually want you on the show with Tom. Oh, excellent. Because you do such great work without him, but it seems sort of rude to keep inviting you back. You're the only Christopher Walken. It's true. We can just do the, like, like, Tom will be like, hi, we lost a bet. And now the entire show is just for Walken. All right, goodbye, YouTube. Bye.