 Experiment week. So it's going to be interesting. Gombe rare interesting. I have no idea how this is going to go. I should probably get a screen share going. All right, I'm having some delicious idea. Instant coffee. It's a mocha latte. Quite quite delicious fact. I should put that in my darn darn what Dan. Logging my idea. It's 50 calories, not a sponsor. All right. So no, this is not pre-recorded. I don't know why I would say that. Definitely not. Apparently not. Or I'm really good at anticipating what Dan is going to say. All right. So the premise of news, sports, and weather is that I will take the process I use for creating daily tech headlines of daily tech news shows, story selection, which I've actually shown on the stream before. If you happen to have seen that stream, you're familiar with that process. I'm going to take that and apply it to general news. I'm not sure how this is going to go simply because I am much more up on tech news than I am on general news. But also I have very clear sources of general news or of tech news. I mean, Google news, tech meme and the subreddit. Now, Google news, I can I can switch that to world news. That's easy enough. I can also do sports. Weather is not really, I don't know. I don't know what I'll do for weather. I'll take taking suggestions for weather. Google news, fine for that. I need some of their news sources. Now, my sources of news, BBC, World News, they've been getting a little weird on the homepage on BBC. I'm not going to lie, but the world news is still pretty solid. Let's see. Oh, my my own feeds. I have a news feed is my news feed. And I don't know, what else should I use for news? Well, we'll deal with sports in a minute. I'm only going to pick a couple of stories each to have not going to do like the full DTNS, DTH treatment. Then where's my news folder on my phone? Economist, news nation, smart news. What does smart news say? Is there a smart news? Is it only on the app? Yeah, it's only on the app. All right, I could use that, though. What else we got? I guess I could take Reddit's front page. It's not as reliable as these to be, though. AP, that's a good one. Yeah, I'll do that. All right. Oh, because most of all the episodes are prerecorded. This is not an episode. This is just Reuters behind a paywall. OK, that's pretty good. That'll give me that'll give me a nice. Nice cross section. Good day, Ryan. All right, so cranium ship leading Odessa. That seems like big news. Hey, Kilbot. Ryan, stop saying hello to me in so many places. Hey, Zoe. Pakistan, Pakistan Christian Sector Troubles NATO official admits coming. OK, that would go with the Ukrainian news, I guess. Ah, weather. Typhoon. Let's see if I can get around the paywall. Oh, it's actually it's actually not a story. OK, I guess we'll use CNN then. Website doesn't tend to be as bad as the channel. OK, I feel like that's as far down. All right, actually, I think that one's worth considering. Let's see what else. Coffee. Oh, thanks, Dan. Appreciate it. I'm glad you like the editors desk. Maybe that. All right, that's about as far down as I want to dig. Let's see what the BBC says. It's a feature story. Wildfire. Ah, sports. OK, this is the first one to make it past the multiple. So the Ukraine grain ship made it past the multiple sources situation. OK, where do I get? Oh, there it is. Target sales suffer, border crossing. What does it have on its home page? Well, the app is and the BBC World Service lineup. Let's see. Maybe that looks better. Well, I hear in my flash briefing, it's totally different. Mm hmm. So I'm, you know, I listened to that BBC World Service earlier and I'm going to put the fires in Maui up there. Arguably, that's weather. That's sports. That's definitely weather. BBC sounds. I'm just going to be. I'm just going to go through and do a couple of other things here. I imagine Star Tribune would have that target score. Kilbot, are you are you listening to the Experiment Week stuff? OK, is this a target HQ, right? All right, that's a good one. But that went up there to the news. Let's just see all the articles. Sound rises. Yeah, OK. And then our last one. Let's go to AP World. Niger makes double appearance. Germany open a second tab on the Pakistan stuff. I'd say the Iceman came from Turkey. That's interesting. Those stopped working. All right. That's a video. OK. All right. I think that's plenty. That's more than enough. So the idea is I'm just going to I'm coming in on these cold. Kilbot, that's cool. I'd rather have a printed tutorial than a YouTube tutorial. But if you can't find text of that, yeah, just just send it to feedback at dailytechnoosho.com. Send me the link. OK, now we need some music. Nope. Nope. Definitely not. It's time for news, sports and weather. That seems too much. No, too. I kind of like that one. Welcome to news, sports and weather. It's a little bit. It's a little bit morning. Morning show. You got you all like this one. It's time for news, sports and weather. Welcome to news, sports and weather. I'm Tom Merritt. This is my attempt to look over the news of the day. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. All right. Cool. Well, let's give it a go, shall we? Oh, I don't know how this is going to go. All right. Here we go. This week on DTNS, it's experiment week. That's because DTNS's staff has taken a little break during the August lull and bringing you experimental versions of shows. Now, you've enjoyed a couple already this week. Today's is a bit of a departure. I am hosting a concept and think of it as a concept called news, sports and weather. This is a crazy idea. It doesn't even really have to do with technology news. What I've done is taken the process that I use for selecting the tech news every day for either Daily Tech headlines or Daily Tech news show and applied it to wider sources. So I used Google News, not just Google Tech news, but Google News, the BBC World Service, the Associated Press and my own news feeds that I've curated to select some of the biggest stories of the day. Now, unlike tech news, I don't bring a lot of experience to this. So the concept is a little different than I'm reporting the news. It's more I'm reading the news with you. So that is the concept behind news, sports and weather. Enjoy. Welcome to news, sports and weather. I'm Tom Merritt. This is the show where I peruse the news along with use and see what kinds of things are happening in the world today. Now, I am not setting myself up as the expert on news. This is like you and I are reading the morning paper together. And so I'm just going to go over what news is out there and talk about my perspective on it, what I'm reading from my sources and and we can engage in a dialogue in other places, maybe about it. The idea, though, is to give you a wider perspective on news than than just the cycle of like, we need to grab your attention with something crazy and awful because I'm using the process that I use for selecting tech news to say, hey, these are the things I think are important to understand the world. Top story across multiple sources that I look at are the Ukraine grain ships leaving Odessa. So if you have been following this story, I've been sort of distantly following it. Russia and Ukraine had an agreement that Russia would not attack its grain ships in order to allow grain to get to the rest of the world from Ukraine. Ukraine supplies a large amount of grain to the world. And that agreement expired and Russia decided not to sign back up for it. Turkey had brokered the first agreement. They're still trying to broker a new agreement. But in the meantime, grain leaving Russia and Odessa is the major port since Crimea is under Russian occupation. Odessa is the major port that Ukraine would export its grain out of. Now, you may wonder, why don't they just send it out over land? Right? They could send it out through Poland over train. And they do. You just can't send as much. It's like saying, well, why not use dial up instead of broadband? You you can send a lot more grain through the ports than you can through the trains. So a merchant ship, according to the BBC, has left the Ukrainian port of Odessa despite concerns that Russia could target the vehicle or the vessel. It is Hong Kong flagged. So it is not flying a Ukrainian flag or a Russian flag. It has been in the port since February 2022. Kiev announced a humanitarian corridor in the Black Sea after the deal collapsed last month. So Kiev, basically, Ukraine, from what I'm reading here says we won't hinder this route. And we expect everyone else to respect it as well, whether there's a deal or not. Russia has not said whether or respect the corridor. Ship left as the ship left as Ukraine said Russian airstrikes had damaged grain storage facilities in a river port about 260 kilometers southwest of Odessa. Yeah, ports continuing operations. Russia did not comment on the grain silo attack. Fired warning shots at a ship traveling towards Ukraine earlier in the week. Hmm. So this is important because if I am interpreting this and this is just my lay person's opinion. What Russia wants to do is put pressure on Ukraine, of course, sell its own grain because it does also produce grain, not in as large of amounts. Ukraine, Ukraine was the breadbasket of the Soviet Union. But Russia would like to sell its own grain first. So it would like to create a market with African countries, particularly. It's been on a charm offensive with African countries. And so if it could put pressure on Ukraine and get its grain prices up and be seen as the one saying, oh, you can't get grain from the rest of the world, but Russia will help you out. That can win at some allies. This ties in to other stories I've been following. We'll get to a related one in a minute here. But multiple African countries have been changing governments to dictatorships that are switching from European and U.S. alignment to Russia adjacent alignment, usually involving the Wagner Group. So Russia really is trying to create a block of African countries that it can market to and be allied with. Yeah. So that's that seems to be the top story. Is that that grain ship? If that if that ship can get out safely, then probably more ships will be able to get out safely and grain supplies will loosen up and that will weaken Russia's ability to use that as a diplomatic offensive. It will also keep food prices down in large parts of the world. We also got this Washington Post story about this. I don't know that it's going to say much different than the BBC. And despite threats by Russia, Alexander Kuborakov said the container ship flying and left the plane. Yeah, this this looks like it's it's pretty much the same story. Now, adjacent to this, I did notice the CNBC story that NATO official admits comments on Ukraine giving up territory to gain membership were a mistake. And from what I know of this, Ukraine and Russia's possibility for peace hinges on what territory they would be willing to allow to stay in each other's hands. Russia's purported claim seems to be that Crimea for sure and parts of the Donbas, which are the eastern part of Ukraine are really part of Russia, a historically part of Russia. They make all kinds of arguments and they are occupying them. They're also occupying the southern coast around Crimea of Ukraine as well. So Ukraine is saying you have to give everything back, including Crimea. Now, why is Crimea different? Crimea historically has not really been always part of Ukraine or Russia. It was part of Russia prior to the Soviet Union, if I remember correctly. And then Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine in the 60s, transferred it from the Russian Soviet Federated Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Federated Republic, which really didn't matter, because it's all part of the Soviet Union. Because Ukraine said, well, historically before before, like way back, Crimea is part of Ukraine and it is attached to Ukraine, not attached to Russia. And then in 2014, Russia liberated Crimea is how they put it. They came in and Crimea has a large Russian speaking population, which that gets weird because Ukrainians speak a lot of Russian too. Anyway, they they came in and took Crimea and said it's part of Russia again. So that happened in 2014. The Donbas partially happened in 2014 as well, but that didn't go as well as Crimea. And that was that was still being disputed. And then and that wasn't Russia invading on the eastern side. That was Russia saying they weren't backing rebels in the eastern side that have seized to create their own republic, which since Russia invaded in 2022, Russia now says it's part of Russia. Anyway, that's all a long way of saying. Crimea and the Donbas were already disputed before 2022. So there's some diplomatic minds out there that say, well, Russia should definitely give up what it took after 2014 in 2022. And maybe there's some compromise to be made about the Donbas in the eastern side of the country. But Crimea, I mean, that one's a little tougher. And so it sounds like a NATO official, John Jensen, had made comments about Ukraine seeding land. Now, I'm trying to look through this story and see what the comments actually were. Because Ukraine has been basically saying, no, we will never give up anything and we won't we won't like it if anyone else does. Anyway, the whole reason I even noted this is that if someone accidentally says the quiet part out loud, it usually means it's being considered. They just don't want it to be out there in the public. Still, my statement about this was a part of a larger discussion about possible future scenarios, and I should have said it that way. I think that a solution could be for Ukraine to give up territory. So he didn't say which parts. But that's going to happen. And my my bet is Crimea would be the easier part for Ukraine to live with, giving up maybe if they were given a port on Crimea or something like that. All right, this one's no fun at all. Mobs attacking Christian churches in eastern Pakistan. Accusations of desecrating the Koran. This is a story that I don't feel qualified to comment on. I do not follow this as closely, but it is big news. And I don't know if it's being reported on the U.S. side as much, but people in eastern Pakistan alleging a Christian man had desecrated the Koran, demolished the man's house, burnt churches, damaged several homes. The attacks in the district of Faisalabad in Punjab province. I think I don't know. I don't know what to make of this. It seems to me that it shows that there are tensions, certainly. And I'm more familiar with tensions between the BJP and Muslims in India and other non-Buddhist groups in India. So I don't know if this is kind of a similar situation where the government has been fostering this, but or if it's just, you know, I have a general theory that people after COVID are real stressed and we're seeing a lot of fault lines that would normally not erupt, erupt, AP says, eastern Pakistan. Same kind of facts. Government employed additional police form forces and sent the army in to help restore order. That's that's something that wasn't as high up in that Yahoo story. Mob gathered police intervene, firing into the air, wielding batons. They are launching raids to find the perpetrators. Dozens of riders arrested. There you go. So. Right. Then, of course, the fires, the fire on Maui, well, fires that are continuing on Maui, but that devastated Lahaina. This one particularly is, I mean, I've all I'll say is I've been to Lahaina many times. It's a wonderful place. And I am the least affected, of course, but incredibly sad to see just how much devastation, how many things that I, who've only been there a couple of times, love that are gone, I devastation here is incredible, but they have started releasing names of people killed because it's been difficult to identify victims. So far, a hundred six people have been identified as victims. Have been identified as dead and two people have been named. Three others were identified, but their names were withheld until families were notified. So that's kind of the latest in the aftermath of Lahaina. And I know there's a lot of stories about whether people are getting proper recovery efforts and how that's going and doesn't sound like it's going as well as it should go. So Jason Momoa, of course, telling people if you have a vacation scheduled in Maui, cancel it because as much as they will eventually need your tourist dollars, they don't need your strain on the system right now. Yeah, that just leaves me a little speechless. Nigerians call for mass recruitment of volunteers as the junta faces possible regional invasion. Okay, so remember when I mentioned that Russia and particularly the Wagner group are teaming up with in Maui, MALI, Niger just had a coup and the rest of Africa that isn't Maui and the other recently coup or dictator oriented countries, a lot of ECOWAS, which is Africa's regional bloc, have said you need to restore the duly elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, or we will come in and restore him. You're not, they're basically drawn a line. They're like, yeah, no, not you, Niger. And Niger, an ally of the US and the French particularly. So in preparation for a possible invasion by ECOWAS troops, which would probably mostly be Nigerian from what I know, residents in the capital, Niime are calling for the mass recruitment of volunteers to assist the army in resisting an invasion. A lot of people have wondered whether ECOWAS was really going to follow through on this. So Niger calling up volunteers to say you need to protect us against invasion indicates that the coup leaders do believe that this could happen or at least they're taking it seriously enough that they want to dissuade ECOWAS from happening. All right, let's get to some lighter stories. Germany's cabinet has approved a plan to liberalize rules on cannabis possession and sale. So this is not legalizing, it doesn't look like, setting the scene for decriminalization. So we're not even close to legalization, but decriminalized possession of limited amounts allow members of a cannabis club to buy the substance for recreational use. Well, that's pretty close to legalization. Legislation bill is the first step in a two-part plan, still needs approval by parliament. So this is the cabinet drawing up the bill, it hasn't been passed. Government's approval is a stride forward for the reform project, hopes that it get it through parliament and have it take effect at the end of this year, legalized possession of up to 25 grams. So it would be like straight on legalization, I guess, for recreational purposes and allow individuals to grow up to three plants on their own. German residents who are 18 and older would be allowed to join non-profit cannabis clubs with a maximum of 500 members each, and the clubs would be allowed to grow cannabis for members' personal consumption. All right, so there you go. Coming to Germany, this is one dear to the DTNS folks' hearts. It's LK99, the superconducting material. Does not appear to be a superconductor. This is an article in Nature. This is not a journal article. Nature has journals that appear reviewed. This is a news article at nature.com, but it does seem that the conclusion of multiple researchers is that the LK99 compound is not a room temperature superconductor. Studies show that impurities in the material, in particular copper sulfide, were responsible for the drops in electrical resistivity and partial levitation over a magnet, which looked similar to properties exhibited by superconductors. I think they are pretty decisively settled at this point, says Inna Vischek, a condensed matter experimentalist at the University of California, Davis. When I said that this reminded me of cold fusion back in the 90s, really, really reminds me of cold fusion back in the 90s, which was, hey, promising demonstration could be real. Let's see if you can reproduce it, replicate it, and then they couldn't. Yep, does not look like we got ourselves a superconductor. But I would say before you called the original researchers scheisters, this is something that needs to happen in science more often. People need to not be punished for publishing results and saying, hey, can somebody else replicate this? This is how science should work. I think I found something. Am I missing something? And then other scientists look at it and go, yeah, you're missing something. It's producing some effects, but it's impurities that are doing it. And it's not a room temperature superconductor. Good try. Go back to the table. I know it's tempting to look at all of these as attempts at fraud. But if this was an attempt at fraud, it would have never gone through the scientific process. So it did, and it's not. And that's good. That's fine. This is the process working. The problem with scientific publications from what I can see is that you have pressure to only produce results that are good. You have a pressure to publish. And so nobody ever produces the negative results. Nobody ever produces a result that ends up not being true. And you need those to learn from. So that's a good question, Cliff Singer. Why not just make the whole thing out of the impurities? I imagine that if I read this whole story, I'd be able to answer that. But it's probably not a consistent result, and the impurities on their own wouldn't do it, is my guess. But you can go look at this nature.com article if you want to have a look at it. But also, I think the other thing is the impurities aren't superconducting. They are producing effects similar to superconducting. So even if you made it out of the whole impurities from the little I've read here, it wouldn't do superconducting the way you want it. This one caught my eye in the Associated Press. DNA from Etsy the Iceman. Did you all hear about Etsy the Iceman? A well-preserved body from thousands of years ago in the Italian Alps. They have been studying it. Looks like Etsy lived more than 5,000 years ago. Was killed by an arrow to the knee. No, no, an arrow to the back. Preserved as a natural mummy when hikers found Etsy in 1991. And after some DNA research, they determined that Etsy was descended from farmers who live present day in Turkey. His head was balder and skin darker than what was initially thought, according to the study published Wednesday. So there you go. Etsy's people may or may not have been in the Italian Alps back when Etsy was walking through, who knows, maybe he was just off on his own. But the people most closely related to him today, I'll live in Turkey. That's interesting. Look at Etsy. All right. I called it New Sports and Weather, so we've got to have some sports. England reached the Women's World Cup final for the first time. We're going to have a new Women's World Cup soccer champion. It's going to be England versus Spain. And apologies, Australians, if this is a painful story, I understand. But England defeated Australia 3-1. Elitun gave England the lead in the first half with a superb first time strike, and they never looked back. So look at you. England World Cup final for the Women. Well done. And that's a look at sports. And then weather. I don't know if we'd always have weather if I turned this into a regular show, but Typhoon Lan hitting Western Japan. So it's Typhoon season. And Typhoons are no joke. 237,000 people evacuated. 11 prefectures. Typhoon made landfall near Shionomasaki in Japan's Wakayama. Prefecture around 5 a.m. Tuesday. Category 2 hurricane. 26 people injured on that. Well, there you go, folks. That's a look at New Sports and Weather with me. I hope you enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I imagine this concept would need some refining. It is fun for me to be able to say, well, I do know this and that from what I've been following, but not feel like I have to have an answer for everything. When I do tech news, I feel like the expectation is like, hey, I'm coming to you for the tech news, for understanding. So you better know what you're talking about. This is more, let's all have a look at the news and share our perspectives on it. Let me know what you think. Feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com is the place to do that. This is Experiment Week after all. So this is just me experimenting. And like that room temperature superconductor, the experiments may not always work, but maybe you'll learn something in a concept that doesn't work. So let me know what you think. That's a look at New Sports and Weather. Thanks, everybody, for hanging out with me. And I will talk to you soon. Yeah, Cliff Singer. I mean, I could do that, but I feel like I would be stepping on Patrick's toes if I did that. I'm going to remove this screen sharing so I don't accidentally do anything. And I'm going to publish this while we're chatting. Let's see where it goes. TNS, it's Experiment Week. That's because DTNS's staff has taken a little break. All right, even stealthier. Then it's stealth. Bye, Fred. It is. It's time to make coffee, Zoe. All right. I'm going to post this first. You know what I will do? I will share good old Untitled 11. Those of you who know the story and lore of Untitled 11 by all means, please tell your friends. So what should the title of this episode be? Shobot.tv slash DTNS2. Do you have any titles over there? No, we don't have any titles. Tom swims the Web-C in search of headlines. It's very poetic, Ryan. Tom makes coffee. Well, that'll be true later. It's like reading the morning paper with Tom. Tom looks at everything except tech news. Although I had LK99, so I even had a little tech news in there. Daily non-tech news show. News, sports and weather. What's a story related? What's one of the stories that I did that would be most related? Peruse the news. Because the main story was the Ukraine. Ukraine grain. Typhoon was a big one. The Ukraine grain. If you had to say like, Tom talked about this in that show that you just heard, what would you say? Ooh, Ukraine grain drain. Ukraine grain strain. Oh, even more to the point. Yeah, I like that. Strain or drain? Three, two, one, delay. Say which one do you like? Yes. Thanks. All right. All right. That works. Oh, crap. Did I close that? No, I'm not going to include the links to the stories then. I agree. Alrighty then. So we'll start with Petrion. Someone told Dan the story of Untitled 11. There once was a notepad.exe who's Untitled 11 was so short that it didn't need to be much longer. Oh, wait. I recorded this as a WAV file. So I'm going to have to turn it into an MB3. Yeah, where's BioCal? He jumped off TMS today early too. So I feel like he's got like a busy work day going on or something. DTS experiment week, August 2023, 16 save. Ukraine grain strain. I mean, basically, I don't know how it ended up being the 11th, but I would open notepads and use them and they get auto-saved. And so at some point, 11 became the one that I used and I kept, I noticed it and once I noticed it, I didn't want it to stop. So I kept reopening it. Using episode numbers on experiment week four, five, eight, four. Oh, okay. We are DTS four, five, eight, four. Okay. Genre podcast. Need to put the album art experiment week, August 2023. All right. That looks right. This week on DTS. Yup. This week on DTS, when do the things, when the stuff. All right. Now we can post it to Patreon because it's got all of its proper things in place. Martin's birthday this Friday. What should you get? I never get, we never give each other really anniversary gifts. This year's anniversary gift to each other is going to be a trip to Korea, which we are taking together. So it's for all both of us. So there you go. Take a trip to Korea, Nick. That's my idea. Experiment week. Yeah, but you need a birthday present too, I guess, right? All right. There we go. Ukraine grain strain, not NSFW. Patrick. Yeah. He occasionally does a little rendezvous tech. It shows up in my feed. I have not seen Affilius Club in quite a bit. Your post is live. Okay. So that takes care of Patreon. And now to Acast for the rest of the story. Ukraine grain strain. Ukraine grain strain. Edward are tomorrow and two kids that'll keep you out of anything. Your episode is being encoded. This ensures better compatibility with all podcast players. This operation usually takes around five seconds per minute of audio. Oh, and there it is. It's done. I forgot to leave space for a mid roll. See, is that a good space? It's a good space. Then of course, the fires, the fire on Maui. Well, fires that are continuing on Maui, but that devastated behind it. Yeah, no, that's not good. A lot of stories about whether people are getting proper recovery. Yeah. That's just leaves me a little speechless. Ah, there we go. That's a nice. We'll just take a pause right there. Yeah. That's just leaves me a little speechless. Nigerians. All right. There we go. Darcy blows. And that was the week that was. And finally to make the blog post. Yeah, they play. They play us the, uh, the a cast sound to let us know where the ad marker will go when we're making it. All right. So experiment week posting MP3 embed goes here. Oh no, techno match. Well, good news. You can play it back later. MP3 embed goes here. And P3 download goes there for the rush of Richard Nixon. There's no show notes for this one. Yeah. Anybody want to volunteer to work the rest of Ryan's week forum? That'd be nice. Eileen's going to Trader Joe's. Anybody want anything? Let's see. Do we need anything? Nick wants cookies. All right, I'll tell her. You do have good cookies. All right. I think that's everything. Stop sharing on title 11. I'm not even using it. Ukraine grain strain. Let's put that up on the screen. This episode was not found or is unavailable. Let's see if it'll show up in the web embed or in my podcast reader first. Oh, Patreon version showed up. It's experiment week. Ukraine brain drain. What else is going on, everybody? We got a minute to hang out. While we wait for this episode to be found, you got questions? You got comments? Oh, there it is. This week on DTNS, it's experiment week. There we go. You know, Song are saying, I was thinking about doing, I was thinking about doing like really straightforward daily tech headline sounding news updates about Laceraphim. I don't know. It just entertains me. I feel like that would be fun. No, you didn't break me. I was looking for, I mean, TJs. I was answering a text message for Miley. You know, like after their concert this past weekend, this is your LSF update. Laceraphim completed their second concert on Saturday with two great success. This time, Moonche did not cry at the end goodbye. And then Stacy had a new song out today called Bubbles. Very fun. Very, very Stacy kind of song. A couple of Korean shows got picked up for distribution in the US. Amazon got one. And did Apple get the other one that I read about? I don't remember the shows though. Stacy, S-T-A-Y-C. Stacy's mom is S-T-A-C-I-E. Different Stacy's. Yeah, we'll be recording. It's a thing later today. You don't have to make me lunch. I can make lunch, but it won't be back till one. That's fine. We do stream. It's a thing in the Discord. So if you go to the It's a Thing Discord, you can listen to us. We don't do video. And you do not need to be a patron to hear the stream. You only need to be a patron to chat. So if you're not a patron, you can still go to It's a Thing.me slash live and go into the live recording channel and listen in. But you have to be a patron if you want to talk to us during the show. What else? What else can I tell you? Yeah, it's fun. It's a Thing.me slash live. 7PM Eastern, 4PM Pacific today. It changes. So you have to kind of keep an eye out. EP, EPs, yeah. They all do EPs. They make a big deal of when it's a full album. A lot of times the full albums are repacks of the EPs. Yeah, It's a Thing moves around because our schedules are so wonky. And we have to adapt, clean up these tabs. Now I only have 6,000 tabs open. EP meaning extended play, which is old fashion. So many old-fashioned words that have persisted. So for instance, title track, whether it's the actual title of an album or not, just to mean the main single. EP, which is an extended play 45 originally. It was a 45 that had more than two songs. 45 used to have one on each side. Mini album is another word for EP. B sides, which is of course the second song on a 45 being used to just mean not the main songs. Ultra wide displays are full width. They're all full width. It's true. I'm looking at one right now. Oh, someone logged into our daily tech news show, Twitter account. I bet I know who it was. Ah, I got the email if Kilbot's still in there. How to connect Discord to Twitch. Cool. I'm going to do that. That's awesome. Thank you. Yeah, movies aren't recorded on films. Not to mention an album. Album's like way outdated. Album originally met several 78s in a photo album style binding. This is fun. What did you think of the new sports and weather thing? Now that you've had a minute to digest it and you saw it go down live. I'm curious what you think. I'm not sure I liked it. Honestly, I was more attracted to the idea before I did it that I am now. Sometimes you got to do that. Hey, PC Mylesy. I think in my head, I imagined it being more impactful and it like anything else newsy relies on the news of the day. Hey, Wabbit magic. I did bring in more context to stories than I expected. What I was trying to do is not have to spend a long time researching, which is what happens with DTNS. We spend hours researching DTNS before we do the show. And I was wanting to see if there was value and just kind of off the cuff. Yeah, and it's all negative. That's the thing I forget because we do tech news and we can pull more positives in, even though tech news has a lot of negative. Man, regular world news. I'll bring you down. No, no, no, no. No depress you. Maybe that's what hit me. That's what struck me. So maybe it's more about cultivating the sources. Maybe I need to work on that part. That part was not as easily translatable because I worked on those tech news sources for years and years. Like from doing the top talk research for screensavers back in 1999, I was cultivating tech sources and then buzz out loud. So yeah, I think it would benefit from cultivating a few sources. I figured I could just use the sources I used to keep myself informed, but that's maybe not sufficient. Oh, Biocow, everyone, I was showing Untitled 11 earlier, and everyone was wondering the history of Untitled 11, as told by Biocow, the authorized biographer of Untitled 11. I told a little bit of the story, but it wasn't that great. Hey, Wales. Good to see you, Steve. Nightbots got it. Untitled11.txt is a text doc that Tom uses as a scratchpad. He would open a random text doc and type into it, then copy and paste it into something else. At some point, one got saved as Untitled 11, and it's been the one he's been using for decades. I heart Untitled11.txt. That's pretty close to what I said, so yeah, I can get my own story wrong. Yeah, doing it one day, too. Like, it's going to be different day to day if I did it on different days. Could I do the Lacerophim update? Let's see. Ha Yoonjin's new blessing in disguise solo has been met with positive reactions by fear knots around the world. Ha Yoonjin talked to Teen Vogue and New Media Express about the inspiration and how her Lacerophim members are her blessing in disguise. It is Yoonjin's fourth self-written track. The Flame Rises tour kicked off in Seoul last weekend to great reviews according to the Korea Times. Lacerophim will move to Japan next. And Lacerophim, along with Blackpink and New Jeans, topped K-pop's brand reputation rankings for August, according to Pinkvilla. Finally, the fan choice for Billboard this week was Lacerophim and Demi Lovato's collaboration on Eve Psyche and the Bluebeard's wife. And that's a look at your LSF update. Good day, Chris. That's me without preparation doing the LSF update. I'm just like reading headlines out of Google News, out of a Google News search. Yeah, chat GP team me up, BioCal. All right, folks. I got to write some top five scripts today. I got to do it the thing. So I know it's DTS taking the week off, but it's been full of work. So I'm going to get to that. Thank you for hanging out. I know we didn't get like huge streams this week because of the Experiment Week thing. But what that does is allow me to then do a longer live stream. This is essentially office hours just for a different show. Ooh, I don't know if we want to stream the top five recording live. Certainly not every time. I don't know. I'll talk to Roger about that. I don't know if there's a good reason not to. Yeah, it wouldn't have any effects and stuff, and that would be fine. But maybe. Maybe is a one off, too. So yeah, maybe not this time, but I'll take that. I'll take that under advisement because maybe we'll do it once just for kicks. Yeah, see Japanese ice coffee didn't make the top five. So many coffees. Too many coffees to make the top five. No, you did not miss me taking something within reach. Did I have something within reach? What did I have? Anyway, thanks, everybody. Have a great day. I'll talk to you soon. Goodbye. Where's the button? There it is. Bye.