 one. Oh, maybe it was him. Well, so we've got, you know, Kelly Clarkson, right? She got a set of pipes. You got Kerry, Kerry Underwood done very well. Yeah. And I think, you know, I can think of probably a couple others that had a hit or two, but it. It's really that first, her first season and then Underwood only she didn't win. She just was like a runner up, right, or something. Oh, I don't know. Did she not win? Yeah. I think she wasn't even a winner. Like, I think there's, there's some lists somewhere of the most successful post American Idol artists are ones that didn't actually win. That went on to do more stuff or better stuff or Sanjaya. Oh, yeah. Yeah. A different guy than I'm thinking then. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know where he was from. I just know that my mom was like, oh, gosh, I don't know why they keep voting him through. She doesn't know like that. I've seen your mom before because you had her on some show once and I can totally picture her saying that. That's funny. Yeah. Here it is. His name was hold on. Oh, what's his name? Why can't I find this? Bristle. Here we are. Quantum Computing Chip. Oh, I guess there's a few from here, Madeleine. Oh, member Clay Akin. I do. Jordan Sparks. Adam Lambert. That's the guy. Oh, yeah. I guess there have been more. Yeah. I mean, he's enjoyed a pretty illustrious. Yeah. There hasn't he? Yeah, there's a few. That's crazy. There's always going to be some winners. Yeah, I wasn't I was never really into those shows. Oh, Roger. I can't tell which talent. Roger, it seems so up your alley. Yeah, I'm shocked by this revelation. No, I mean reality shows in general. The only ones I really like is either it has to have. I need to get a sense that something really is going on and it's not just Hocom because most of the time it's just Oh, no, all most reality shows are scripted. I know almost all of them. That's why I hate them so much. So you you'll catch me on things like amazing race is at least about a competition. Or I'll see something dumb like like survivor was cool because they made him eat crap that I would never eat. Right. And even that, you know, a lot of it's made up like the rivalries and stuff are crap, but the guy had to eat a pig scrotum, you know, like he had to do it. And that's those first few seasons of survivor, even though it's like, I mean, it's a television show, right? So there's always going to be smoke and mirrors, but you could sort of watch these people lose all this weight. You know, the rest of us were like, wow, they're really surviving. You know, now it's like there's like 40 survival shows that are way worse. Yeah, totally. Make it an afraid. I hate that one. It's just like how can you just be like, this is the name of a show. You know, it's just like, gosh, it's so intense. My favorite, my favorite of all time turned out to be totally fake. At the end of it, they admitted it was fake, but it was the one with Gary Busey. I think. Oh, yeah, like something with Gary Busey. Yeah, Busey. I don't even remember that. And it was so good because it just seemed like they're capturing weird Gary Busey being weird. And then toward the end, it got like kind of magical. If it's good, it's produced. Let me just, it's a short, it's the roll of thumb, but it's really good. It's produced. Yeah, that really turned me. I went, okay, I'm done. I don't want to waste it. So we are 30. So, okay. Oh, um, did we, uh, Scott, are you recording a version? I am. I'm recording the main one that we'll use for the feed. Um, otherwise everything. Um, and then Raj, are you using a pre-record for the top? Uh, yes, Scott is. Scott's going to play the music. Oh yeah, I'll play a pre-record for the top and then, uh, musical kick in. And then when I, when you hear it go down, that'll be your cue. Okay. And I'm going to start it now so that it's good. Okay. Bep, bep, bep. Oh, you know what? I need to turn. Make sure that's not too loud on this end. Hold on a second. It's perfect. Okay. It's so scary when I hear these, you know, out of order, I'm like, nah, now it's time to thank the totally. All right. It's like a Pavlov's dog thing. Okay. We're ready. So here we go. Roger, are you good on your end? Yes. All right. Um, here we go. Start it in three, two, one. The Daily Tech News show is supported entirely by patrons like me. To learn more, visit DailyTechnewshow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News Show for Wednesday, March 7th, 2018. Tom Merritt is taking the day off. He's in the middle of traveling to Austin, Texas. He'll be back tomorrow. I am Sarah Lane coming at you from Studio Feline. Um, Scott Johnson from wherever this is today. You know what it is? I went to a cooking class last night and I learned how to make some things. So we're going to call this, I don't know, kitchen central with a guy who can no longer just make eggs. I can make other things now. Like what, Scott? I learned how to make beef skewers that you put a bunch of weird sauces on and some kind of weird peanut dipping thing for egg rolls that I made. And then I also made some pot stickers. This all may sound really rudimentary to everybody else, but for me that stuff's always been frozen before and I made them fresh like in front of people. So I'm, I'm proud today. I'm proud of your kitchen evolution. Good on you, Scott. Roger Chang, what can you make? I can make stew. I can make fried rice. I can make scrambled eggs and rice. Oh, beautiful. All right. Well, I think between the three of us, we've got like four dishes. So good stuff. All right. Well, we are going to get into the show. Let's start off with a few tech things you should know. Microsoft is changing Cortana slightly. It's not a big change. You can now activate the digital assistant with the command Cortana along with hey Cortana as you previously had to do. The change is currently live and the Invoke speaker only has yet to update on iOS, Android or Windows 10, though all three are expected to come soon. Seems a little weird. The Windows 10 is not in the world. That's fine. Whatever. The committee on foreign investment in the United States, a government panel that reviews mergers that could result in a foreign company controlling American businesses, that sort of stuff has called for an investigation of Broadcom's proposal to acquire Qualcomm two comms for the price of one saying the hostile takeover big could threaten US national security and weaken Qualcomm's technological leadership. Broadcom announced an unsolicited bid of 130 billion. That's billion with a B everybody for Qualcomm back in November. Yeah, the story keeps on giving anonymous sources tell Cheddar that snap will announce its biggest round of layoffs to date within a week, focusing almost entirely on snaps engineering department and affecting around 100 jobs. Now this would be the again, the engineering department and a hundred people is a pretty small number because snap reported having 3069 employees at the end of 2017. But it's not growing a trinket. All right, let's get this our way this place with snap real quick where we think things are supposed to start going south. Like I feel like there's a shelf life to social services where everybody loves it or at first it's like this is cool new thing nobody knows about aren't we cool because we're early adopters and then it kind of ekes toward mainstream then it becomes very mainstream and then we get to this place where we like to hear that things aren't going great and I feel like snap is like flag carrying in for that right now. Yeah, I mean if you think less than 10% of snaps engineering department is potentially again anonymous sources being let go. It's a small number but I admit I thought the same thing as you Scott I I live quite near snap headquarters and I was like will my town be a ghost town all of a sudden now I probably won't notice anybody off the road in the neighborhood anyway or my rent going down. All right, let's talk a little more about a few more stories starting with Amazon announcing it will offer a lower cost version of its prime membership program to qualifying recipients of Medicaid. So that would be instead of 999 per year or per month rather 599 Amazon first started offering discounted prime service for customers on government assistance in June of 2017. So this is kind of an expansion of that. It also includes U.S. Customers with a valid EBT card. Interesting. I think this is a cool it feels like a cool thing for a company to do and I already kind of talked to a friend of mine who let's put it this way. I tend to be pretty middle of the road politically. I've got a friend who is very much further right from me on in regards to things like this and he thinks this is a terrible idea. He thinks it's already bad enough that people are quote unquote on the land or not on the lamb, but on the what's a better way of saying that there actually is a way of saying it, but I'm not going to say it on this show. Anyway, living at ordinary poverty line. There you go. They're using government resources means they're using his tax money and in his mind, this is just a company he thinks leans very liberal. Anyway, who is now saying, well, here's some more freebie stuff. Even though it's not really free, it's just sort of half of something else. And hey, if they have enough for prime, they should be spending that on food instead of getting food stamps. Like there's a lot of there's a lot more political heat potentially with this announcement than I would have expected personally. I think it's a really cool thing they're doing. So I say thumbs up to Amazon. I like when, you know, there's socially conscious stuff happening over there. Yeah, I guess if I sort of tried to think of it as not politically as possible and just think, well, if you know, the idea of getting delivery and you know, everything's delivered right to your door seems sort of like a luxury for people who had internet access and, you know, not so long ago, this is not necessarily something that would be available to folks with lower incomes and shipping costs and that sort of thing to be able to, you know, especially if you're not near a city center and you get a car and there's gas and there's all sorts of reasons that you might feel a little bit shut out of this otherwise. So yeah, I'm cautiously optimistic. Yeah, I think it's all right. Let's move it on to dig once. No one's ever heard that before unless you're at the Fonds, I suppose, but the name is a for a policy that could speed up fiber internet deployment throughout the US and it's shaping up to become US law after passing the House of Representatives and it's expected to rip right through the Senate as well and succeed. Dig once requires fiber conduit installation during many federally funded road projects and mandates. This is a quote mandates the inclusion of broadband conduit. That's plastic pipes, which house fiber octa communications cables during the construction of any road receiving federal funding, unquote. So the result is reduced costs and increased access for communities and broadband providers enter these new markets and decide to roll new services out because of some of the groundwork will sort of already have been laid quite literally. So yeah, you can't go just dig up a road and say, here's a new road or here's work we're doing on a road without piping that thing through. Yeah, I gotta say it's it makes sense if you're if you're going to be making repairs that the federal government is funding, at least partially funding. I love the fact that they're like, okay, broadband fiber providers, especially folks that might want to come dig up the same place in another few years or having a good excuse not to because the the you know, that the the housing piping infrastructure just wasn't laid down before. Now you have less than excuse to not be able to give underserved communities better internet access. Literally two birds one stone. I like it. I like it too. All right. Maybe you'll like this as well. Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore tweeted that the company will move Windows 10 s from a dedicated operating system, which it has been known as up until now to a special S mode for versions of Windows 10 starting in 2019 next year. S mode will lock down any copy of Windows 10s we can only run apps from the Microsoft Store. The company plans to roll out S mode for Windows 10 home enterprise and pro versions of the OS Windows 10 pro customers with S mode that want to enable their device to the full mode will have to pay $49 to get access to a full version of Windows 10 pro. Yeah, it's kind of almost literally the it's like it's like a paywall for Windows. Yeah, it's almost like where RT went to die. You know what I mean? Like RT had limited functionality. You could only run certain things and while that may have been more technical limitation. This one is also kind of financial limitation or service limitation and you can get the very basics that Windows offers. You're going to get your, you know, it's like a Chromebook basically is what S reminds me of. It's like all the basic stuff is going to be covered. But the minute you want to expand out of that forked up 50 bucks and go for it. Actually, I think it's a pretty good idea. It seems like you'd be able to get I don't know, maybe a cheaper PC from an OEM or something. Start small. Aim, you know, get bigger as you go. That's what Well, and I don't exactly know how the S team is structured, but it would make sense that they've, you know, if you combine the two a little bit more internally for on the engineering side, it's it's easier for Microsoft to keep track of everything. Well, another big name every day we seem to do this show is Google and they have released an early preview of Android P. They said what the P stands for because it's almost always like candy. With the I think the going rumor is pineapple pineapple. All right. So fruit. I'm cool with that. Yeah. Pineapple always cuts up my mouth. But anyway, go on. You know, you're not wrong. Lemonade gets me. Anyway, Android P is the next version of the mobile OS highlights include an all new notification panel, new status bar with notch support. And I don't mean the guy who sold Minecraft Microsoft for 2.9 billion. Multicamera API indoor Wi-Fi positioning enhanced privacy by blocking apps idling in background from access in the microphone camera and sensors and improved backup encryption Android P is available right this second for Google Pixel one. Google Pixel or sorry and the one Excel Google Pixel two and the two Excel. So both the Google Pixel models are all set for this thing. Google recommends users avoid installing this build on their own personal devices. I suppose that means they can put them on company ones. I don't know why they say they make that differentiation, but I guess go out there and get it. If you're a Pixel user, it's time to test. Well, Roger, as you know, as as the one third of the three of us today on the show who uses the Android phone regularly, what stands out at you the most that you're excited about? I think what's really fascinating is that typically when you see Android and iOS converge on certain features. You know that it's probably a trend, for example, the notch support. You know, it's something that a lot of people kind of cycle wiser a notch in my phone and a lot of people hate it, but it does point point the way that it might be a more common feature among Android phones moving forward. The ability to kind of essentially block access to a lot of the OSes or Android P's functions on background applications that are idling is also huge because we've had issues with before of apps listening in to people while they were not necessarily being run, but we're in the background and that's caused a lot of people some anguish over potential privacy. Multicamera API. That'd be great because now you know there's certainly going to be especially with higher end phones multiple camera like stereoscopic where you have two lenses or in some cases two sensors. I don't mean the front and the back so that could that be that be pretty neat and well it's what's interesting is kind of the limited to only Google pixel and up phones right pixel one so everything else you have old Nexus 5 for you're out of you're out you have to upgrade so it's definitely a push for people haven't upgraded their phone hardware. Well you know I'd say iOS but you know we're on the same boat after several reports from users of Amazon's voice assistant you know who I'm talking about. I'm not going to say her name on the voice assistant naval devices said that she was randomly laughing at them without being prompted to wake mind you randomly laughing out of nowhere. The company Amazon has responded in a statement to the verge saying we're aware of this and working to fix it multiple posts on Twitter and Reddit reported that they thought it was an actual person laughing near them in the same room and why wouldn't they since smart speakers are not supposed to randomly laugh at you. Yeah I got actually an example of this I'm going to play it real quick this is the sound that people were hearing apparently randomly from their echo. Now that's just a short version of it but imagine this was happening every few minutes. It's an it's a it's an ominous laugh. Yeah it's very it's very eerie. It's an eerie laugh. It's also you know even the laughing is one like that's just weird right but but just because so many people are already like hey we love our you know echo device or or equivalent but it's kind of weird that it's always you know it's like I mean anybody who's already on the paranoia fence at all is going to be like all right no this is no good. Yeah also why why laughter is a random sound why wasn't it just saying hello or anything else why a laugh like that's the part that's ominous to me. Yeah it's like being at it you know like a like a scary clown and show also I was sort of going through some of the tweets because I was laughing but I was like if this had happened to me it wouldn't have been funny because one of them was you know the our speakers right next to the bed you know lights off sleeping you hear that in the middle of the night and you think it's over for you. Yeah there is a clown next to the bed. What are you going to say. I was just saying what if you know our whole fears about an artificial intelligence coalescing from all these distributed networks and start online services and it's just laughing at us. Yeah you know I'm getting the hang of this I'm laughing at you because in the decade or so I'm going to be on the control this is hopefully we'll figure out you know what happened sooner than later and you know my guess is like I mean it's like did some engineer who had a lot of access just you know have a laugh. It doesn't sound like her voice right it's not that sort of AI robot laugh. So you know it is a clip from a movie you know that you know got lost in the shuffle somewhere I don't know for that for the record that was the most Roger theory I've ever heard of my life. I loved it. Even for Roger to get all the tech headlines of the day each day in about five minutes you can subscribe to daily tech headlines.com it's our shorter sister show to DTNS good stuff all right let's discuss the idea of just getting off the Internet oh but I'm not going to stop there how about not watching the news on television anymore how about if you only got all of your news about the world no matter if it's tech politics environment whatever from print yes the old way of doing things Farhad Manjoo who is a New York Times reporter who by the way I had noticed was not tweeting lately because he's kind of a funny tweeter you know he's one of my favorite people just to sort of be online with during the day and now I know why because he took two months only digesting news from print I mean he's a New York Times reporter so it's like the guy has to get a lot of news right so this is a big experiment it's not it's a little bit more than you know your average sort of like I'm going to stop using Facebook class but he had he had quite a few revelations if you will some of them are more obvious than others right that the news comes to you much more slowly obviously if you're just reading print because you don't have that 24-hour instant notification we all know that once the last time we ever practice anything like this you know you're really on sort of a when it goes to print cycle again you have less news amplification without social media of course you don't see fake news issues that are caused by Twitter bots or reposts from people on Facebook that you know aren't looking at sources clearly enough print news is read by a very small number of people versus online so if you're going to discuss a particular article you've less of a chance of having seen that exact same version as you know the next person and he said overall the experience was very life-changing he said turning off the buzzing breaking news machine as he calls it smartphone I carry in my pocket was like unshackling myself from a monster speaking of monsters who had me on speed dial always ready to break into my day with half baked bulletins so you know I love these experiments because that he's certainly not the first person to be like what it what you know what would it be like if I just unplugged and you know what lived in the woods or some version of that I have never done this I have never done this since I've had access to the internet I remember in junior high school we had a project that required us to have no power in the house I think it was for a day may have been longer but at least a day and your family had to go along with it and all I remember from it mainly was that my we had to use candles for light and my brother burned his eyebrows off by accident with a candle that's the main thing I remember from but I remember liking the experiment it was like a way of saying well these things we'd completely take for granted and just expect to be there are just suddenly gone what do you do and part of that was well you know what do you do to survive or to maintain or to continue living and do all the things you have to do if these things went away but also to remind you of what life may have been like a little bit before these conveniences were there I think the same can be said for this the the part of this that really jumps out of me is important is that the way that we are now consuming this information and that we're sort of always on there's a notification just a thumb print away or I'm checking it on my watch or wherever I'm getting it is I think mentally possibly not all the studies are done but possibly it's not great for us it's not healthy for us from a sort of a mental health perspective to be always on all the time and I think it's it's not necessarily saying everybody subscribed to this and just get your newspapers and let's call it a day on technology and that's it's been fun but forget about it from now on I guess all I'm saying is maybe we can mimic some of the practices of the older way and those practices being check Twitter twice a day sure only check your your news feeds once a day do it in the morning do your email in the afternoon once don't always be checking it like I feel like a lot of that stuff could happen and it would help us the problem is it's all self-imposed and it all takes you know whatever collective willpower or individual willpower we have and that's a lot harder than it was for those who only can get newspapers and that was just their only way to do it so they didn't you know they didn't have stuff they had to have willpower over they just had to wait for the paper so if the war ended they wouldn't know for a couple of days in some cases that's the thing I I'm sorry Roger go ahead I just you know personally and I've had long discussions with Tom about this is like I notice my anxiety level drops considerably when I'm not always checking the news and which is why I like what Scott you're just saying actually check it like in the morning when I do the show and then I'll maybe do it in the evening but between then I don't look at anything because the the half-baked bulletins point that he makes the point is that people will suddenly react to just a partial bit of news without having the entire story you know revealed and so they go off in a way that's half-cocked about something that may not have happened the way they thought it happened and unfortunately it propagates itself because then you start alerting people they alert other people and it just turns into this giant tempest that might not necessarily have a basis. I like the fact that this was centered around news as well I mean there've been a lot of discussions about the social media you know hurt people's you know actual social lives as it does it you know make people feel worse about themselves because there's so much posturing and kind of you know smoking mirrors of what folks are sharing you know depression and bullying and so there's all those sort of like is this socially bad for us and then you know focusing on news specifically is is sort of like okay well sure once upon a time if I had to read the newspaper I mean I was younger too but it's like I mean that you have to like try to do that and it's really easy not to read the newspaper and you're just not going to see stuff in the air about what you know all the stuff that you could have been reading when it's you know the internet it's like we're all not a bunch of news gatherers it's just in our face all the time you know if I'm if I'm searching through Twitter and I'm like you guys I try to avoid everything but kind of the tech stuff until about midday when we're done with this show and then I have the capacity to to absorb but you know some of the other things that I that I've been sort of actively avoiding but I'm seeing snippets of it all day so it's kind of all jumbled up in there anyway and I'm not trying to get that but that's just the way that I have my communication set up so to take all of that away you know and and Farhad Manchu had said you know the three sort of big lessons that he had learned and again this sounds it sounds obvious but who's tried this recently is get your news don't get it too quickly you know because again it'll be half-baked it'll be wrong you know there'll be a spin on it that you know will affect your idea of it in a way that you wouldn't necessarily wouldn't necessarily have happened otherwise and avoid social so I don't know if he's going to be back on Twitter I'll miss him if he isn't but I think you know more and more the social kind of big internet pipe you know that we've all gotten so used to which is super convenient is you know messing people up and it's interesting to hear that from somebody who's you know you know he's he's he's absorbing news like we are for a living so I mean I look at it just to sort of finish up this thought as maybe a way to experiment and I'm speaking mainly for me I'm not really you know prescribing this for anybody else listening but I found that when I kind of fiddle around with the way I schedule this stuff sometimes it makes a difference to me it's like taking a shower every day you just feel better you just shower every day you feel better maybe do other things with your social intake your news intake that you find makes you feel better if not reading Twitter until at night or not reading it at all and only using it to broadcast things you want to say or whatever you want to do to shake it up if you do that and you feel better all right maybe maybe continue to do stuff like that so I think I just think there's stuff to learn here and I'd recommend people go read this article I found it fascinating me too it's something that I would love to do I feel as though because of my work I'm not in a position to try this but you never know you never know I'll do I'll do the show reading the newspaper at we'll figure that out but yeah no fascinating stuff fascinating stuff definitely check out that New York's time article from from Farhad Monju and thanks to all of those who participate in our subreddits we love to know what stories resonate with you and we try to include them in every show here and headlines you can vote on them even if you don't submit a story just get to you know get people talking about what you like and don't like at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and we're also on Facebook if you hang out on Facebook a lot facebook.com slash groups slash dailytechnewshow is where to find us there so Scott yesterday we were talking about the Google's new quantum 72 qubit quantum chip that was called the bristle cone and I said to Tom what's a bristle cone have you ever heard of that and he was sort of like don't put me on the spot sir I don't know and so Charles wrote it and said you guys need a staff Forrester and then linked us to to where to learn more about the bristle cone and it's a really cool cone which is why I love the fact that Google called it the bristle cone for this you know extremely powerful chip because all three species of bristle cones are long-lived and highly resilient to harsh weather and bad soils one of the three species Pinus long gave va is among the longest-lived life forms on earth the oldest Pinus I'm not really good with with biology long gave is more than 5,000 years old making it the oldest known individual of any species Yeah that was great I just love it when you know thought goes into naming a quantum chip I agree it's pretty cool congratulations looks like Colorado Arizona you both have these 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it needs to go right yeah I'll put it I'll put it in the rotation so as well part of the I mean to play it again yeah I'll send that to you here in a sec so I don't forget cool awesome show cool jazz I will never read news again today it'd be so ill-informed I think I think what's what's I mean it's it's weird there's like a push and pull effect like as more people moved to getting such a quick and and you know like you just spur of the moment manner I think people who generate news or to work in PR kind of understood understand that and so they do things that we we would call click baby right whether it's an outlandish comment or something they did at a bar you know one night like you know tip in a waitress like a thousand bucks huge news right even though in the bigger scope in the larger scheme of things wouldn't really be that all that newsworthy and it's and it's weird and I think it's just like you know you you clutter something other people come over and clutter that as well and then you just end up with a big mess I yeah better point all right yeah what do we want to call the shoe I I I enjoy Amazon's assistant getting the last laugh that's a good one it might not be the last one it's also not necessarily sort of like the black male that the title sort of hints at I don't think there's any last laugh really being gotten it's funny though random laughing isn't funny isn't that the not bad there's a dig once cord cut twice dig once cord cut twice there's also oh snap you're fired call a little cold a little cold colds a little cold what do you got all nothing with the topic topic topic wait there was one I just unplugged experiments still like the random laughs no random laughing isn't funny it isn't okay I'll vote for that one Zoe brings bacon you are nothing if not consistent with the show by title ideas you a lot of a lot of the others too I just I for some reason I gravitate towards all of so we're like-minded folks all right good stuff and I'm laughing isn't funny because it isn't no you know no it can be it can be quite frightening turns out it's like being you know in a you know the sort of a I'd mention there's a reason people don't like laugh tracks and their TV shows anymore because turns out random laughing or fake laughing canned laughing isn't as funny as if it if they're not laughing at all yeah exactly like how bad would a rest of development be if at a laugh track it wouldn't be good well but like Seinfeld had a laugh track it did and I feel like it's the last great comedy that had one and got away with it and they also so yeah that's not exactly a nice so I married so I how I met your mother use a laugh track aided that show I love that show couldn't stand it how did they meet nah I'm just getting don't always tell though when it's three camera audience laughter and when it's they're out on camera baking it uh-huh yeah on the set stuff was always pretty genuine that always sounded right right and remember how like back in the day I'm really going way back now like the days of the cause be shown stuff and they'd say cause be shows from the front of a live studio on this like just so you know like they were there were really people laughing still had giant signs that said applause yeah right no no Roger the tonight show just gets all that applause at exactly the right time I know organically and those guys off to the side just gesticulating to the audience that's yeah and that's sort of familiar face we're like I feel like that person said the audience a lot doesn't work on the show right not an intern or a friend of an intern just you know staff members with nothing better to do reality shows are real yes I actually speaking of reality shows and this is really embarrassing but I watched an episode of the Kardashians the other night cause like everybody's having a baby and I'm just like what's going on with the show and they took it was just that it was like the weirdest package where it was almost like the city of San Francisco wanted them to like come to the city stay at the certain hotel go to Alcatraz and like get like a very thorough like tour you know would like a lot of information almost like you know it took up a lot of the episode and I was like this is the weirdest reality show cause it's like obviously the Fairmont Hotel paid for something site but you know it was like some sort of like Chamber of Commerce I don't know but more and more you get these you know all the reality shows now or at least you know the stupid ones where people yelled each other that I watch it's like they're always like okay we're going to the Bahamas and then it's like this weird touristy thing you know that's been paid for and then they just sort of pretend that they all wanted to go there for some other reason I have never seen a single Kardashians episode it's Scott it's it's barely it's it's barely watchable and I'll watch anything Oh Scott are you it's so strange it's so strange are you levelating the MP3 or should I I am right now in fact okay thank you for doing that and that was a lovely show and Raj thanks thanks for being so Android you know so so such a user of the Android mm-hmm yeah we needed so we needed a voice on here that could speak to your weird tribe I love Android I the thing that I it's like I've just never been an Android user but I also you know there's lots cool things about it I just feel like you know I can really kind of only talk about features like that in comparison like oh yeah with the you know on iOS and people hate that yeah I don't they don't love unless it's like a comparison story it's like hey iPhone lady hush it up I think it was just because it was there's so many people who've had so much more experience like jailbreaking or circumventing Android for the longest time to do weird stuff to it right but I also what really attracted me was the kind of model range and the price range for phones like you could get like a one-year brand new like galaxy s7 and it would be like 400 bucks you know like you were locked into the downside of that I agree with you but the downside of that is for me always was well this version won't get like there's a brand new version of the operating system I can't run it like actually this thing today only pixels can run the freaking thing and I know right now this this is it will broaden out to a larger audience but for people want the preview you need to be on those phones but I think I mean yeah there there's a cutoff point and you have that with any technologies at some point where the hardware just won't support any of the new features but like especially with that side as well so but like with phones especially like I live with a phone for at least four years before I dump it and get a new one right like I don't need to have all these features as long as they get email and I can send it in my navigation works usually I'm pretty set like I'm not too worried about not having like ooh stereoscopic camera vision that takes the best you know photos at night I would love to have that and I will consider it when I get a new phone in four years but you know as it works well enough like I'm the kind of person that keeps a car for at least 10 years like I don't see the cars and cars forever I can't stand buying a new car I can't stand the experience that costs too much and oftentimes you know the operating costs for my older car is actually cheaper because insurance is cheaper most of the parts I know where to get for it and it's generic enough that you know you just go to any pick and pull you can find something find what you need you know I don't disagree with that I mean the way it is with phones for me is I don't know I just like the consistency also like the ecosystem I don't hate it it's someone calling into that you or me no that was me someone was trying to someone was trying to call into our email into the into the daily technician email that happens yeah that's a new one right in the middle of the show I can't in I use Google's inbox well that's the other funny thing is I'm all about the Apple hardware and OS but I love Google apps in iOS they're great me too like they're in some cases having I have an Android tablet in some cases they're better than the Android counterpart of the same app they make great iOS apps so I do like that about Google a lot that they as much as they're interested in success of of Android generally I love that I can you know have that stuff I can still have those services and still enjoy them across platform it's great yeah I mean between Gmail putting this show together every day maps it's like I mean Google's a big part of my iPhone experience right all day every day Google services I mean I use them all my favorite iOS mail app is by far Google's inbox app I love it like it's it's a weird relationship you know you know you mentioned older cars a few minutes ago and my car is not older but I also don't drive very much because I do a lot of working from home these days and you know it's those insurance and you know just a whole thing it's it's costly to have a car you don't really use that much and so I thought oh you know what I'll do is all you know check out some of those services where people can like rent your car because days go by sometimes and I don't need it or even if you know like if you want it for a few hours on Saturday it's like I'm just walking around anyway and so get around is this company that I had profiled but I guess tech cruncher something really long time ago and you know I looked at their side and I filled everything out and you know it's not like a huge hassle we have you have to have your VIN number and like all this information about your car and then you have to like arrange for somebody to come and just inspect the car almost like an insurance agent you know so like you can't claim that like somebody like hit your bumper later on when it was already anyway went through the whole thing talk to them and they're like yeah cool and so and your zip code is nine four one or three right which is an old zip code from San Francisco and I was like no I live in LA and they were like oh yeah we don't service area by that was yet like I was like but like had my zip code from when I filled out the form before I had to call you I know it was a bummer but I have heard since then that there are a couple of really similar services that operate in the Los Angeles area so yeah yeah I don't know I just feel like I hate to have something that sits idly when you know it could make your money yeah just like your money work for you and yeah that's in this period right make your money work for yeah invest wisely all that good stuff hold on a second guys I had a plug in my computer my chargers yeah it's a I don't know if I would ever want someone I hate valets like I wouldn't want someone else driving my car no same it's like why are you in my card of like this is the one thing that really bugs me about LA every place is almost completely like a lot of restaurants and stuff for valet only and I just I don't why do I need to pay someone to park my car I'll just park it on the street and walk two blocks and I just don't touch my car it's like you know you don't use the break handbrake you shove it in park like you grind my gears like no you don't need to yeah I feel that way too I hate that I hate valets oh my gosh like I'm enjoying the fact that I'm now talking to somebody who knows what I'm talking about oh the valet life yeah Scott you seem like such a valet guy oh my wife loves valets like she'll always choose to do it but something in me kicks in and it just makes me I get cheap because I know I'm gonna have to tip tip a bunch of other people anyway you know that living in LA there's and just you know says half the time I'm just running late because there's traffic and I'm like valet great now I don't have to you know look for parking for the next hour but yeah you end up sort of getting forced into at times the ones that it's like when someone lives in like a cool building where it's like you know they'll park your car for you because there's like no for you to park a lot a lot of downtown some of the new high rises are like this you know and it's like nice and everything but then it's like I was just going to visit my friend and now I got a tip the okay pretty soon it's just like you know you need a second job to cover it all sure yeah but I'm this is why I just like walking around my neighborhood right really just dense a city person at heart you know cars anyway I love if I could I miss my daughter's whole life plan but just living down in the city and walk or public transport your way anywhere you need to go and everything's with them walking distance and walk over to the university walk I mean there's there is something about that you know I wish kind of wish I could do too but I guess I kind of do I just walk upstairs I would totally be into just like subscribing to a car service where you pay like say like 300 bucks a month or whatever and you get like it would be like city share or car share but with self-driving cars you just come into your door and pick you up instead of having to go to one special parking lot in your neighborhood that has it yeah that was there was a wasn't city car was it I guess it was a car that was like there was a watch that was really close to the last place I lived in San Francisco and you know it was it was hoppin you know people are in and out of there all the time but I was like this is like you know sort of an alley and like I happen to live right next door to it I had my own car so I didn't take advantage but you still have to go there you know figure out sort of like open a gate and the whole thing I honestly I would get rid of my car I would just use Uber or Lyft or something along those lines when I needed to which is not every day except that there are those and I did this back in San Francisco for a while where I was like who even needs it but there were the certain you know when I went to get cat litter and it's really heavy and then you're kind of like waiting outside and you know you got to call people and they don't want to wait for you while you're in the store it's like there are other situations where you're like yes a car is a wonderful luxury to have you know big grocery runs or you know yeah I agree with that yeah especially if you do like oh I need a simple table or a chair from Ikea because I don't want to spend too much yeah just flat pack that thing into the trunk yeah right and just that whole kind of like it certainly has made the idea of carpooling you know like so much more if you're sitting in the back of an Uber it's like where you're carpooling but it's you didn't have to like be like hey okay are we going to the same you know place of work and are we going to leave at the same time and do you live near me and just all that hassle that makes people not want to carpool yeah it's carpooling I mean like in San Francisco in the Bay Area they do though like if you want to get through the bridge you can carpool but I don't know if that would be something I'd be into I feel like there's so much traffic that it's just like screw it just open them all and hope for the best I can't think of any highway not the 10 not the 405 that I use regularly where I have to stay out of the left lane because it's just me maybe I'm just not thinking about that I don't think I don't think so I'll have to be attention next time I'm driving definitely younger generation though none of my I shouldn't see none of my kids my oldest loves to drive but my two youngest don't really care the pressure is not there the social pressure is not there they just don't care that much about it so yeah yeah but then they're just like meh I'll take the train I'll take the bus I don't care do you have light rail is there a light rail we have a light rail system called tracks that goes all the way from downtown and and north all the way south to pretty much the whole valley so you can get anywhere you need to really that's cool clean too it's nice and you know quick and clean and cheap and all that and only it only someone only gets hit every once in a while but there's always some idiot wanders out in front of it and get sliced in half and then and then on that upbeat note any final words for our audience before I stop the broadcast if anyone from the IRS calls you and tells you that the Sheriff's Department is going to arrest you within 45 minutes if you don't pay $3,500 don't do it don't do it let's go and do it all right I got one watch out where the Huskies going don't eat the yellow snow there aha but do watch DTS tomorrow yes and if you can't watch listen