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And customers don't then indicate they're willing to continue to wait. The company told Reuters that US regulations require this notice. Samsung hasn't announced a new ship date for the foldable tablet phone. Twitter users can now add images, videos, and gifs to their retweets slash quoted tweets on Android, iOS, and Twitter's mobile site. Though not on the desktop version. Twitter says it was difficult to design in a way that made sense and that wasn't overwhelming to timelines. The original tweet is now shown in a smaller indented box with the user's avatar still visible and it makes your own media full-width. They keep coming with the features. WordPress content management systems are getting new security features in version 5.2, including support for cryptographically signed updates, modern cryptography library, a site health section in the admin panel back end and a feature that site admins across their back end in the case of a catastrophic PHP error. This makes me rest a little easier. I do not like the so-called white screen of death. Let's talk a little more about supercomputers. The US Department of Energy announced that the world's fastest supercomputer to be called Frontier will be built by AMD and Cray for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory by 2021. It's expected to reach 1.5 exaflops, which would make it an exascale supercomputer, have as much power as the next 160 supercomputers combined and be used for nuclear and climate research. Frontier would be the second exascale computer in the US. The first is expected to be Aurora being built by Intel and Cray right now at Argonne National Laboratory. And China is expected to be the first country with an exascale computer in operation with a Shugang computer coming to the center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing in 2020. I love how we keep getting updates on. And this will be the fastest one after the one before it, which isn't done yet. Yeah, the one before it won't be as fast as this one, which will be done after, which will be faster. And by then, we'll know about two others that'll probably be faster in the march goes on. And it's also always used for nuclear and climate research. It's always cool to hear about new supercomputers, but it feels like it's not enabling anything groundbreaking. It's just allowing us to go deeper, look farther in the future and predictions and look deeper in things, but not changing what we can look at. Maybe I'm not a scientist, so maybe I'm not a scientist. I think it's perhaps begging the question, maybe not, to be like, hey, what are you going to discover with all that power? We won't know until we use it, I guess. I suppose so. Electronic Arts Unlimited Game Subscription, called EA Access, is coming to the PlayStation 4 in July. EA Access launched on the Xbox One back in July of 2014. And at the time, back then, Sony said that EA Access did not offer a good value to the PlayStation gamer. That is a strange bit of news. It was confusing indeed, because you're starting to get multiple subscriptions everywhere, including on consoles, where the console manufacturers themselves already have subscription offers. Sony has one for the online access and also one for the PlayStation Now Cloud Streaming service, which is not as popular as it might become in the future. Microsoft also has a bunch on the Xbox One. I'm wondering, though, if Sony changing their stance on this isn't a sign of what's coming for the next generation, because they have already won this generation. I don't think they have a competitive advantage to be gained by adding this service to the PlayStation 4. However, once things reset with the next generation next year, maybe when you make your purchasing decision, you are thinking, well, the Xbox One has the EA thing as well, and it's become more popular, the subscription services, so maybe. Yeah, one less reason to switch when it's time to get a new console, I guess. Right. Folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com on into I.O., starting with what we all knew was coming, the new Pixel phones. Google announced the 5.6-inch Pixel 3A and the 6-inch 3A XL, starting at $399 and $479, respectively, both with OLED screens. Both, and I know two of you are very happy about this, probably a few more, 3.5-millimeter audio jack. That's right, it's got a headphone jack. Active edge is back and adaptive battery life based on typical phone usage. No wireless charging in this model, though. They include Qualcomm's Snapdragon 670, a little bit of a step down, the Adreno 616 graphics card, too. Both have dual front cameras and night sight for low light. Both will be available in T-Mobile, Sprint, and US Cellular, breaking the once exclusivity of Verizon with the Pixels. They're available now in 13 US markets. Well, I know the audio jack got a lot of applause from the crowd at I.O. As did the night sight for low light. Otherwise, Google really spun this as, phones are too expensive. We know that no one likes paying for these expensive, but wonderful phones. So here's a new model of ours that's, yeah, it's a step down from the 2A and 2AX phones. The expensive ones. Yeah, but still very good. This is a crowd pleaser, right? Like, you want a cheaper phone? Here's a cheaper phone. You want a headphone jack? Here's a headphone jack. You say you don't care about the processor? Great, we stepped down the processor. Hope you don't mind. Kind of calling their bluff a little bit. Yeah, I wonder how much people will be happy with them once we see the performance, because that's something they didn't talk about at all. They're still, most of these mid-range phones are still pretty good on performance. And that's what you want when you have these kinds of phones, but it's interesting. The way they phrase it was essentially, it does everything. It's all the same. It's just as good. Just cheaper with a slower processor, unless we're happy. Android Q Beta 3 introduces a full gesture-based system with a thin white strip along the bottom of the screen, similar to the iPhone. There's also a new back gesture on the left edge of the screen. So if there's already a menu there, you do the menu, then you do the back gesture. They're hoping people will adapt their apps, though. Android Q Beta 3 has a new dark theme toggle, a new focus mode that makes apps you find distracting disappear while you're in the mode, no notifications. Live caption generates captions for saved videos. And Google says Android Q will optimize the foldables experience, if those ever come out, with multiple OEMs launching foldable devices this year. Q also supports 5G natively, and users can install Q right now as an over-the-air by manual download or the Android Beta program on Pixel phones. So it's coming to the Pixel phones, but it's also coming to 15 others, including Sony One Plus Nokia, LG, Asus, Vivo, and Xiaomi. There was a lot of exciting stuff at I.O. I felt like this release of Android was not necessarily the most exciting of those things. I'm not primarily an Android user. I was gonna say, I think if you use Android every day, you're like, oh, focus mode sounds cool, and making gestures for the back mode, that's promising. Like there's a lot of little things for the daily use in here, for sure. Right, but it's a lot of little things. I think on all mobile OSes, we've not sunk, but we've now gotten used to those types of updates that are incremental and not really changing the way you use your phones. These are just the new things today in Android Q. This isn't the thing I'm gonna tell you about in some. I thought the live captions for saved video was kinda interesting, and when they first started explaining it, they said, there are many times where you'd be watching a video but you don't wanna play the audio, and I was kinda like, are there? I don't really do that. But the fact that it's available is cool. Yeah, also a project mainline is interesting. Android Q will be able to move some security updates through the Play Store, allowing them to come in much faster. There are 12 modules that in Android P, I actually maybe even before that, they started to separate out so they could update them without having to update the entire operating system. You still will need some major updates to the core functionality to come through your carrier or directly from Google on the Pixel phones, but these modules means that they can update and do bug fixes for certain things like media playback and such more rapidly without having to push it through the carrier, which is great. Very cool, very cool. Google is introducing AR to search this year. Compatible Android and iOS devices will see 3D object links in search, and then you can drop a 3D model into the real world at proper scale, the big one they showed was a shark. Google search will use the GIF format for 3D, I'm sorry, the GIF format, GID format for 3D files. New Balance, Target, Samsung and Volvo are all on board to make some 3D models of their products available in mobile search. They're also gonna index podcasting, including per episode. I guess there's gonna be some voice recognition stuff going on to be able to say like, oh yeah, they talked about this. Full coverage is coming to News Search. That's a feature that's in the news app right now and shows you things like timelines for various resources to help you understand a story and incognito mode coming to Google search this year as well. I was skeptical about the idea of dropping 3D models in AR. I didn't see the use of it. I guess the thing they pointed out is it gives you a really good idea of scale for some things. So it's kind of a niche use, but it's true that scale in many, many ways is difficult to perceive when we get to certain numbers. And this is kind of a fun use. I'm not sure it's gonna go much beyond that, but maybe. The one example they also gave was for a medical student seeing a skeleton with muscles attached, you know? And I was like, yeah, this you could show in a video or something like that. It would be the same. And that's often the case for those AR members. Medical students, please write in the feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Improve your life as a medical student. Yeah, or as BioCow is saying in the chat, 3D shark. I knew it. I knew it was gonna happen. Google is bringing in an incognito mode to Google Maps as well. Remember we said it's coming to search. It's also coming to Google Maps. If you tap on your profile photo in Google Maps, a menu will expand, which includes the new incognito mode option. Maps is also getting augmented reality walking directions in preview. They announced this last IO, but now you'll be able to use it as a preview. So you hold up to see arrows, directions are overlaid on your surroundings, which you don't wanna use constantly while you're walking, but it would be nice. Especially when I come out of a train station, that always takes me a while to go, okay, I know I need to go right on Wilshire, but where is Wilshire? I get, you know, if I'm unfamiliar with the train station, this will help make that sort of stuff easier. Incognito mode to Google Maps is cool. To the point that I was like, huh, I didn't realize it wasn't already there. I use Google Maps fairly regularly, although I've been using Apple Maps more and more, just kind of when I'm lazy and that's what Siri chooses. But yeah, it should absolutely be there. If you forgot it for search, you should, you know, you're searching for things within Maps, then it'd make perfect sense. I don't want Google to store my location just this time. I don't mind the rest of the time because it helps, but this time when I'm going to Wilshire, I don't want to know. This is a secret trip. Google Assistant is getting its AI model down from 100 gigabytes, which is stored in the cloud, to a half gigabyte it can store on your device, meaning you can load it from your phone and it works in airplane mode. I kept waiting for him to talk about and we will no longer be storing any of the data, which they never said, but it could mean that if we put the pressure on them. It's super fast though, and it come into Pixel phones later this year. Also a couple of other nifty things you don't have to use your trigger phrase anymore to turn off your alarm. So instead of saying Google, stop, Google, stop, you can just say stop three times to turn off your alarm. And the new picks for you feature, Google Assistant can now take into account your preferences to help recommend things like recipes and podcasts. So I feel like this part of the Google Assistant coming down from the cloud to the phone is absolutely hands down completely the most impressive and important part of this entire IO. What it means for people who don't really understand what that will change is that when you're speaking a request, instead of sending that audio to the cloud for analysis and then sending back the results, it does the analysis and essentially understands, transcribes to text your request on the device. So it is incredibly fast, meaning if your request has to do with something on the device, it's essentially instant. You don't have that two, three, four, five seconds delay to deal with the servers. And if it is a request that requires information from the net, then of course, it's gonna be a little bit slower, but this is a first step to making those requests and conversations flow at a natural speed. And I think that this does amazing things for the virtual assistants. It makes them 10 times as useful. Yeah, no, you're right. The speed is the most important. The ability to be working without an internet connection is very important. The third thing that I'm just gonna hammer one more time is the privacy that you could offer people out of this could be very important. Google Assistant also getting an optimized driving mode suggesting directions, calls to make and music in a compact bar at the bottom of the phone screen. Dinner reservations from your calendar could be used to show directions to a restaurant. Podcasts at home will automatically pick back up in the car, calls can be picked up or declined by voice. Driving mode will launch automatically when your phone is connected to your car or Bluetooth or with a let's drive command available this summer on Android phones with the Google Assistant and Google Assistant also coming to the Waze app. Google Lens is getting more helpful on the go. For example, pointing your phone at a menu is what they showed off. You can get the most popular items highlighted or show photos of a dish that's listed in the text. Lens can also help you calculate the tip, even split the bill by overlaying a calculator. And for Android Go users, Lens can highlight text on signs, forms and other things and then read it back to you. And if you don't speak the language that the sign is in Lens can not only read it back to you but translate it as well. Currently works with more than 12 languages and only takes up 100 kilobytes of storage. That's rolling out later this month. I guess the restaurant would have to be a partner of some kind for this to work. You're not just going to be able to see photos of dishes. I don't know. Oh, I think about it. They talk about Google Maps and there's a whole maps program to get people to add their own photos and reviews of stuff, whether the restaurant is a partner or not. Oh, okay. All right. That's pretty cool. It seems like it's using that. Yeah. There's always that, hey, and we can help you split the bill. Like that's always a feature that gets, but hey, it's really helpful. The video that they showed, there was a, they showed quite a few videos, but one was showing off a woman living in India who has a hard time reading lots of signs and going to her day and how much more helpful it had made her life and really cool. Well, because there's so many languages in India. That's particularly an issue there, I think. Absolutely. And literacy as well. That too. That's also a problem, so yeah. Yeah, we're traveling. There's been lens capability in the past and I've used it with some success, but it sounds like it's really graduating to be an indispensable tool. Duplex on the web, not duplex voice. Remember Google IO previously, we saw the duplex thing where it could just call and talk to somebody for you. This one doesn't talk to anyone. It fills out a form. So to start with just car rentals or movie tickets, you can say, hey, I wanna buy a ticket to see Longshot or hey, I need to rent a car for this trip and the assistant will know what trip you're talking about by looking at your email or maybe the notification that you got and it'll go to the car rental company, fill out the form, show it to you. So you say, get me a rental car from National for my next trip. It pulls up National's website, starts filling out the fields in real time and then you look at it and go, yeah, that's right. And then it rents your car for you. I mean, it's really just pressing the buttons for you, but nicer than you having to type it all out. More examples of this besides car rentals and movie tickets coming later this year. It's interesting. It's kind of, Google is kind of changing what Duplex is. I wonder if it's because of the backlash of potential concerns that they had with the conversational. I don't know if they're changing what Duplex is. The voice stuff is still happening. It's kind of taking that same infrastructure and we're using it to fill out forms. I don't think that's giving up on the voice stuff at all. No, no, no. What I mean is Duplex, last year, meant conversation between two people. I think Duplex is even that idea that you're gonna have two people speaking in the same program at the same time. At least that's how we use it in French. And now it's kind of encompassing also the human-like interaction of the system on a webpage. But anyway, that's kind of a side thing. If it works like that, it's pretty impressive. It essentially means you can give any form website to the system and it will know how to fill it. That is the... Last pass can do that right now, too. I just can't tell... Not in the same way, not in the same way. What this does is it has multiple different steps that it goes through using your information. Right, because it's like what's time to go to and it knows what exact stuff you need, like your dates and stuff. That's true. Yeah. The Nest Hub Max was announced. It's a 10-inch smart display with a built-in camera that can act as a security camera, Nest. Photoframe video player uses face match to customize things. So if it sees you walk in the room, it'll give you your calendar and contacts. And you can raise your hand to stop media playing. They said, just your controls. It can do this one. Let's talk to the hand or if you stop talking because the hand is up. There's also a hardware switch to turn off the camera and mics for privacy. It'll sell for $229 available this summer. And it's basically taking over the Home Hub space because the original Google Home Hub is now going to be called the Nest Hub. That's the one without a camera. And the price of that drops to $129 now too. Yeah, they really pushed this as a, this is the screen you always wanted in your kitchen. And some people will want that, but obviously you could put it in all sorts of different places. Pretty handy. I like the raise your hand to stop the music thing because then you don't have to scream at it. If you're, you know, or whatever audio might be playing or whatever medium might be playing, it's cool. It's a step in an interesting direction. Also, sorry, Patrick. Sorry, I saw that they are basically gathering every piece of home hardware under the brand Nest, if I'm not mistaken. And that includes the, damn it, brain fart. The things you plug into your TV, the Chromecasts. Oh, yeah. Right, so all of those devices. Oh, I didn't see that Chromecast is falling under Nest. That's interesting. Yeah, I think it was in the background picture where they were showing all the devices. I might be mistaken on that, but yeah. One public service announcement is that Nest is phasing out works with Nest this summer, replacing it with a more restricted version, a little more privacy sensitive Google Assistant for your home stuff. Fewer partners, less data, you'll have to approve anything that Google Assistant will do in the smart home area. Also, this means it's gonna break ift. If you've been using works with Nest in any of your ift formulas, you get till summer to figure out an alternative. And they announced Project Euphonia that will ask to collect voice data from people with speech impairments to help remedy AI bias. They're saying, look, we need more samples of your kind of speech if you don't speak in what is the accepted way that our assistant currently works in. So please, if our assistant doesn't work for you, donate your voice to us so we can train our assistants to work with a wider variety of voices. They're also working on gesture and expression recognition for people who can't speak at all but wanna be able to control these. And they announced Live Relay as a prototype to help those who can't hear or speak hold a phone conversation depending on what they need. So it's kind of, again, going back to duplex. It's kind of like duplex on one end and then either delivering text or audio to someone so that they can, or, you know, delivering audio out for someone who can't speak. Pretty interesting stuff that they're doing there. There is more. They're still announcing things. Google's gonna let developers build games for its smart displays. Google Assistant will be able to order food or track your run. They're pushing back against ad tracking in Chrome with some more controls, time-lapse mode for every pixel camera coming. It's gonna get easier to build Android apps on the Chromebook. Google's testing faster image loading in Chrome Canary. The Flutter framework is going multi-platform and significantly, TechCrunch pointed out, no VR news. There was nothing about VR, at least not yet. So that's interesting. Patrick, what did you think of the announcement overall? Honestly, the conference was kind of, I mean, we all have concerns about for privacy and all of that, so that's a given. But overall, I kind of felt to put it poetically, the magic of technology for the first time in a long time. There was a lot of impressive stuff presented there. Some of it might not work the way they've shown. Of course, that's always a caveat, but they are bringing together different areas of expertise to create things that seem, at least, useful and interesting. And these days, I think this kind of thing is in short supply. It's kind of easy to get jaded about the tech conferences because it's all stuff that's incremental that we've already seen, that's, you know. And a lot of these things are actually seem like they work and they seem quite impressive. So I was kind of feeling a feeling that I hadn't felt for a while. Sarah, what about you? Well, as somebody who's an iOS person, there are a lot of features where I was like, ooh, neat, only on Pixel phones. All right, well, maybe one day. But there's certainly a lot, there are a lot of great announcements that I know I'll be able to take advantage of. The Lens stuff is one of them that I'm excited about and we'll get there eventually. I thought that the Google Assistant, the drive mode stuff sounds great as somebody who's all very into car technology right now. And, you know, car play at least for me is definitely a move in the right direction. And yeah, I mean, we didn't really get into it, but they had some health announcements that sound really promising and like in a life-saving way. And the crowd seemed happy, it was a gem packed show. I mean, at no point was I like, well, this part of the announcement is kind of boring. It was not boring. Yeah, the drive stuff is really interesting because it's for the person who doesn't have a car integration already. And I think that that's important. The one thing I didn't see, no matter how useful and there are plenty of really useful and helpful and positive announcements here was a new business model. This all makes its money off advertising in one way or another. And that is always an implication for privacy, but it's also going to become a problem for Google as we saw in their last earnings report as the advertising market matures on the internet and there's more competitors for it with Amazon getting bigger and bigger in that space. I always look at like with Apple's pivot to services, right? I always look at what are they doing to anticipate the next change? Netflix is brilliant at this and saying, you know what we're doing right now is a thing that will help us when the market changes against us in the future. And they've been very good at navigating that. I see Google doing more of the same, better, but still more of the same. They've tried to do a lot of new things. None of them has succeeded. They keep falling back on advertising. That's very true. It's not new, but it's still true. And granted, this wouldn't be the place for the cloud and enterprise announcements necessarily, although it could be. Oh, it could be, yeah. 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Good work, everybody, good work. It's a beautiful thing. Of course, AR Shark is now number one, and I do need to credit BioCow because he said it in the chat room before I said it on the show, so. But we all thought it. We all thought it, I'm sure. So AR Shark or R Shark? I don't know that we want to use that as the title or not. I don't know what do you guys think? I like Google's keynote was I OK. Yeah. That's cute. Google I O 2019, it's like magic. Kind of. Getting there. Google I O 19, lots of new tech, same Google model. Oh, nice. That's a good one. Same Google model. Yeah. That'd be too long. Teen, let me see, let me see. I'm going to run to my bed to sleep. Good work. Thank you very much, Asia. As always, many hugs to all of you. Bye. See, that's what happens. Any time the word shark is anywhere near me, then it just turns into we could do the do do do for a good day Internet. Yeah, you can do that for a good day Internet. Perfect. We just do the keynote was I OK for Tom. For DTNS, let's do lots of new tech, same Google model. We'll just drop the Google I O. Got it. Lots of it. Yeah, that'll make it. That'll make it fly cool, cool, cool, cool. Oh, what a day. But why don't you copy me? Yeah, I really, really, yes. Yeah, I know I voted for that. I'm just trying to copy and paste it. Introducing Google Nest. Families around the world have embraced smart devices designed to make their homes more helpful. But the smart home, I just got this email again. Really, what everyone wants is Jarvis from Iron Man. Oh, they want me to to you'll have the option to migrate your next Nest account to Google later this summer. So they're just they're folding Nest farther into the Google world. That's to be expected. Yeah, you know, I mean, announcement days aren't they can they can be stressful or they can be, you know, they kind of plod along. This one, there was just so much information. Yeah, they just kept coming. You know, it's one of those things where because I'm kind of I'm kind of typing notes in real time and they're they're just they're mumbo jumbo that I'm like, I'll just clear that up later. And even then I was like, I couldn't keep up, you know, and you're like, oh, crap, it's live streams. You can't. Especially with these long announcements like this one, which was more than two hours. You you are sometimes better off not listening to their announcement, right? Because it's like, I won't have time to understand and write everything unless I just read it. Like if I'm trying to listen to them, I can't sit there and write it and understand it and research the little things here and there. So and then that's true. And sometimes you have to do that or well, I'm just saying it kind of works against them, right? It's like they want to give me their version of the message. But I'm like, I don't have time to spend two and a half hours talking about it. Sorry. Yeah. Although at the same time, there there are always those nuances that you can read all the reviews of of everything that was that was announced later on. But it's not the same experience as watching a live stream kind of getting the, you know, the reaction to the crowd and and the enthusiasm of whoever is is is showing off whatever the the the new hardware or software. Is so I like to watch them. But yeah, once I have to start hunkering down and writing, you can't do both. Yeah, it's like someone in your ear where you're like, be quiet. I have to write. Stop with your stop, you know, why it's Sundar. Why can't you be like Apple and just talk endlessly about how awesome everything was right after you just say that and be like, trust us, you it's worth the money. The kids at my local elementary school, it's the last day before summer, which is I was like, really, that's wrapping up early. One would think it would have been June, but I don't know, I guess they go out for summer earlier. And the loudspeaker every morning, you can hear the principal or whoever it is, you know, good morning, man, I can't really hear what she's saying, but it's like general announcements. And this morning, they played the entirety of celebration by cooling the gang. Loudly, you know, like it's it's it's a loud loudspeaker. And I was doing headlines. Oh, that's right. I just I just sat. It was it's the last day of school. So it was that was but it was celebration because it's like, yay, don't they have like, I don't know how school years go anymore. They changed them all around. I know that's why it seems so early for the last day of school. I know. Well, the reason I grew up with snow days, I don't know. It used to be it would be you you'd be in school for like the first couple of weeks of June, because it would I remember it would be starting to get really hot, you know, and we'd all be blessed and our school. Well, I remember high school let out right at the first week of June. And that was including graduation and whatever. I think ours was always supposed to let out like mid to late May. And then they would tack on school day or snow days to make up. And that would and that would put us always like May 30th, June 1st. Yeah. Well, yeah. So celebration, which I thought was cute, but it was so loud that I was like, OK, I'll just wait for the song to end before I start recording because you're going to hear it in the background. They're like, wow, I'm really excited about Google now, I guess. Just, you know, all the days I'm like, ah, Microsoft Build News got her super excited. Yeah. Yeah, I think I probably would have been confused. Like, what are they doing over there? But the little kid who lives downstairs told me very proudly that he gets to go to second grade because it's the last day of school today. Oh, any past first grade? Yes, it's his last day of first grade. So he'll be almost a second grader. Wow. I know. Such a big boy. He is. Yes, he is. I get to bring carrots in my lunch. It's funny. I had a moment where he told me that and he's really cute looking. And I thought, I wish I was just graduating first grade right now. And I got to have summer vacation. Oh, that just sounds. Yeah, you missed that summer vacation idea. Oh, yeah, yeah. Thank your parents about going to Disneyland or something cool. Like, no, we're going to go to Disneyland. No, we went to Silver Dollar City. Well, what was that? That's a brand in Missouri. Is it like a like a Wild West kind of thing? It's it started as a like a recreation of an old time small town in in in the Ozarks. Yeah. And then it, you know, eventually it just became a theme park with rides and stuff. But it's still themed along small town. So I think they still do the candle making and stuff. But I remember like, oh, they have a roller coaster at Silver Dollar City. And now I think that's mostly it's just all rides. They have Silver Dollar Hotcakes. Um, yes, I believe actually they did. What's a hot cake? Pancake. Oh, I was thinking of like. A dessert or carnival. You've never been like when they gave you like a little stack of Silver Dollar Pancakes or hotcakes. Satisfied. No, they're called Silver Dollar. Like, are they small like they're supposed to be small? I mean, if you like like eight or 10. Man, I wouldn't, I don't want that. I want a big pancake. They have the American Plunge. Bertels Cabin. The Electro Spin. The Elephant March, which looks like an old Disney ride they bought. Fire like don't go without the ears or something. Yeah. The Firewagon Frenzy. A lot of fire, really. You know, Dollywood has some as a rider that fire or something. I thought about going, but it's very expensive to get to Dollywood. You know, I went to a wedding in. Silver Dollar City is Dollywood, I think, may have been inspired in part by Silver Dollar City. Where was it? Blackberry Farm, which apparently is not far from Dollywood in Tennessee. And yeah, like it was just like not enough time because I was there for a wedding, but I really wanted to go. Well, that's not like a hoot. A hoot, nanny. Yeah. Here, I'll show you the I'll share my screen so you can experience the thrills. It's our own AR. Yeah, see. Oh, wow, look at that. Dollars. If you survive this, you get a stack of Silver Dollar Pink. Yeah, that looks fun. Yeah. As a kid, I would have loved that. The showboat, those are all separate things. These are Silver Dollar City. Like we used to camp at the campground. Then you can go on the showboat, you know, and I think I don't know if it actually, I guess it cruises a little bit. Then they have their separate water park. So it's, you know, it's kind of like, oh, we also offer these attractions besides the theme park. Stop your showboating. Fun for the whole family. Yeah, here, let's see. What's on the showboat? There it is. Oh, it is. Oh, flash sale. All ages. See, there's little kids having fun on the showboat. Oh, they have, like, entertainment. Yeah, yeah. Welcome aboard. It's like, it looks like a good date night, too. So when it does that, is it just an entire like five hours or is it a whole day or are you stuck on it like a cruise? I don't know how long it takes. Let's see if it says it's a dinner cruise. Learn more. All right. I would like to learn more about the showboat. Cruise Table Rock Lake, home of the Netflix show Ozarks. Actually, no, I don't think it's the same link. Um, I don't know. It doesn't tell you. You just get on and you get off when you get off. I like the Twilight Zone. Next stop, your next destination, the Twilight Zone. Gosh, this website is amazing. It's just it's it's exactly what you think it would be. It looks fun. Let's say fact. Thanks for telling me. Silver dollar pancakes. What happens when I get on board the showboat? It burns this blister. Do you imagine if there's another like form of TSA, like showboat TSA? Yeah, I can't believe they don't really tell you how long it. I'm not obviously. Well, book your cruise and see if you get like a choice. Yeah, whatever. All right. You'll show your your showboat cruise ends when it ends. If you don't know rush, come for the blue grass and barbecue. I'd definitely go for the barbecue. I'm so hungry. Why didn't I eat? I don't know, Raj. One day you're going to learn. I'm going to learn me. Sometimes I don't I miraculously did eat breakfast this morning because I there was a point where I was like, don't have time. And then I thought, no, I'll be a nightmare. Just do it, Sarah real quick. And I have a lot of restaurants now. I think they had like three when I used to go there. How many red places do they have curious? And would they have more than one? Wouldn't there just be the one? There's a buffet, a buffet, a warren buffet. Union Hall, prime rib buffet. Rib, but see, there's like a red rib house. Just like so many like various. And then the house of barbecue. Yeah, chicken and vexans. That sounds like red. Good times for everybody. That's what I'm going to stop sharing that. Thank you. Everyone. Thank you. Yeah, like over a dollar every year when I was a kid. Was it close? Yeah, it was, I don't know, three hour drive, maybe. Oh, yeah. It's close, but it's far enough. And you'd go for like a weekend or you'd just go for the day? No, we'd go for like a week. A week? Yeah, so we'd like drive out there and camp. I think we stayed in a hotel a couple of times, but like half the time we'd camp at the campground. And then during the day, you go into Silver Dollar City and do the rides. And then we went into Branson to see shows. Did you meet or make any new friends at the campground? Nope. I'm sure you made a friend or two. I'm always curious because I'm here after a year. I've never stayed at the campground with family, so I don't know. No, I mean, really, we honestly didn't interact with anyone else at the campground. Stay at your side of the... Because we would get up in the morning and leave and go and then come back in the evening and make things leave. Yeah, it's fine. I just remember being kind of isolated, like the campsites were kind of isolated for me. Were they cabins or were they you just... No, it was just space where you could park your car and then an empty ground where you could put up your tent. We never did anything like that was that long when I was growing up. We'd always... Every summer, I got to go to Great America once and I got to go to the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk once. I mean, not that I was allowed to go more, but it would be... There were like... Those were two day trips that... And it was usually my mom, like taking me and a friend, which we thought was the most wonderful thing ever. I was raging waters, which was a water park. I don't even know if it's there anymore. In San Jose, we went to a few times. Oh, so many. I think it is. There's so many raging something waters. If we didn't go to Silver Dollar City, we always went down to Kentucky Lake, Lake Barkley down in Kentucky. Those are the... That was the other summer destination we had. All my summer destinations when I was a kid were relatives homes. Like, it's time to go see Aunt and Uncle, whoever. See, I think the reason we didn't do that is because my aunts and uncles all lived really far away. And their shared mother, my grandma, Roxy, lived in our town. So they always came to us. We didn't ever have to go to them. We definitely did. My uncle, Harold, once down in Alabama. I went out and visited my ancestor in Arizona once. I think that was it. Those are the only times we ever went and visited family. I was definitely dropped off at my grandma's for a week or so, you know, during the... I think it was always kind of during the summer. And I don't remember my parents always being there. Like, I think they would drop me off and then they'd come get me in a week. But it was super fun because, like... Well, see, my grandparents on my mom's side lived up the street. Like, I could walk there. Yeah, this was like an event. Yeah, I would go there all the time. And then my other grandma lived nine miles away in Smithboro. So it was super, super close. And if you want to find out what I did during my summer vacation. Yes. Stick around, audio folks. Roger's summer vacation exploration is coming up. Audio, our video folks, thank you, though. Audio folks, stick around. There's more to come. See you tomorrow.