 10th grade junior high, you know, still really young still very confused and he had a bird and He would draw pictures of his bird and like slip them to me, you know All the school yards, you know and and you know, we were sort of like for whatever reason we weren't together And so it was all about like I wish you loved me more But look at this picture of my bird and he was actually a pretty good artist And those were like the most precious things that I kept for a really long time. They were so cute I know That's a Man, I can't Fact I haven't looked him up in a while. It might be time to stalk him on Facebook I had a Geez, I'm just go I was doing where I wound up. Oh my god, Tom. Do you have a categorized? Encyclopedia of old of course he does Yeah Of course he does have my social studies notes, too Wait, those are school notes Are those notes that people wrote to you? They're both in this folder. Yeah. Oh I found our man. Oh look the Stanley Cup playoffs For what year? I don't know The islanders one I don't know if this is real or my predictions though. Who was the final? It looks like it would have been against Edmonton Well, huh, how about that? Yeah, here we go. Here's that note. This isn't this is that might have been 1983 Tom that sounds about right. Yeah This is me and Mike's passing notes in class. I mean what like Is there no end to your very well preserved Can I can I tell you something funny There is a very good chance that when you wrote that note I Wasn't alive and by the time that you had filled it out. I was Oh Good wait trivia you the Stanley Justin born during the snow that that the Stanley Cup play Uh-huh. Uh-huh. We began before I was born. I was born while they were going on So if you do, so I drew the brackets before you were born or put in the final I was there. I was there for the for by the time that you're it's it's essentially your birth certificate is what you're Examined this more after the show All right. Yeah, we should probably grab where our show We're gonna stop and break for Daily Tech News show now So Everybody ready ready. Let's go here. We go three two Eric say has supported independent tech news directly for five years be like Eric become a DTNs member at patreon.com This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday February 28th 2019 in Los Angeles I'm Tom Merritt and from studio feline. I'm Sarah Lane. I'm the shores of Lake Merritt I'm Justin Robert Young and underneath the sunny skies on the show's producer Roger Shane. Oh, that's Talk tech. We've got warnings. We've got portents We have all kinds of stuff coming your way today and let's start with a few tech things you should know Samsung says that the galaxy s10 and s10 plus will ship with a pre-installed Plastic screen protector similar to what one plus does the ultrasonic in display fingerprint sensor means that not all 30s Third-party screen protectors are going to work Samsung will sell extras of the protector for $29 and 99 cents while current tempered glass screen protectors don't seem to work with the S10s fingerprint sensor some companies claim they'll have compatible screens after all Motorola told Engadget this week that it indeed plans to launch a foldable phone first seen in a patent file from the company which describes a smartphone that features a large internal display that bends in half when the device is closed Motorola VP of global product Dan Derry says that they're also exploring a dual hinge device with a single screen that folds twice Leaving only a third of the display Exposed when in phone mode more than more than one person has asked me when we're gonna see the flip phone with the touchscreen inside So there you go Reddit is testing letting users tip real money to posters Reddit users can now choose three dollars five dollars ten dollars or even enter a custom amount a reddit admins said 78.5% of the money will go to the tipped user 18.5% to reddit and 3% is kept by stripe who processes the payment a reddit spokesman warned only a small percent of Experiments get implemented and this test right now only works with one reddit user the user known for adding the E-themed line to the end of posts in 1998 when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted 16 feet through an announcer's table my goodness All right, jury. Let's talk about Amazon Amazon announced project zero in an effort to eliminate counterfeit products from its site Companies can apply to be given the power to flag and remove listings of their products that they believe are Counterfeit right now companies have to submit a request to Amazon to have such products removed Amazon will train employees of product zero companies which must maintain a high bar of accuracy To keep their project zero privileges Amazon is also letting companies submit logos trademarks and other info for an automated removal system and For a service cost of one to five cents per unit Amazon will scan products as they leave the warehouse to look for a special serial code Now that last one I think makes sense We'll stamp a code on our stuff Amazon as you're shipping it make sure it's real That that seems fairly foolproof I'm sure somebody could maybe fake the code or something but that that one doesn't look sound like it'll lead to false positives Anything that's scanning for logos and automatically removing starts to sound like the YouTube content ID bot which as we very well know Right here at this very show isn't perfect doesn't always get it right and companies being given the power To remove things Amazon saying the right things like gonna hold them to a high level of accuracy. We're gonna vet it We're not gonna give it to everybody That could go wrong Justin you you do this you sell stuff through Amazon and and so I know that you know Particularly there's a need for this. Well, certainly. I think that they're you know for our products with the games There's not a tremendous problem that someone's going to wholesale rip stuff off But certainly once you get into more commoditized markets or you get into games that are Printed in China very often people can just run off different copies and sell them to the highest bidder They are It is a major problem because what you what you wind up seeing in those markets is that even if it is For a day two days, maybe a week, right? That is a a chunk of momentum that is taken out and also in the mind of the consumer You've reset a price bar that might not be feasible for you. They're only able to get it because they're getting it Against bar now To your point Tom, I don't think that we would have as big of a problem with the YouTube algorithm bot if When somebody's a challenge was overturned they got a strike, right? If you had the idea that okay, I can use this I can flag stuff But if I really challenge it if I go to the mat for it Somebody's getting a strike either left or right then I think it would moderate its use a little bit more the problem Isn't the flagging or maybe even the removal the problem is people abusing it and as Amazon can do that That's the key and we don't know how they're doing Amazon says they're doing it We don't want the mechanism is for it and granted you've got a smaller number of players here than I think you even have on YouTube You're gonna have big big clothing retailers bag makers, etc I'm a little nervous about it though. I'm gonna keep my eye on yeah What one final point of order in terms of the scanning that's only for stuff that also comes out of Amazon fulfillment warehouse Right good point It's not Amazon also will sell things that you can ship from your own warehouse would not have any effect there But if they are also fulfilling by Amazon, then you would be able to gain a peace of mind to cut off one more avenue. Yeah Well another Amazon news the company launched Amazon day for prime members in the US to let them control What day of the week their orders arrive if you're a person who gets a lot of stuff on Amazon? This could be advantageous for you Amazon says that orders will arrive together on that selected Amazon day of your choice in Fewer boxes and allow for more predictable Delivery the company also said it tested Amazon day with a group of prime members Didn't say how many prime members it tested it with but did say that the results reduced packaging by tens of thousands of boxes Over several months now as somebody who is I'm somewhat I was somewhat reluctant to become an Amazon devotee. I I've always wanted to sort of you know Give my patronage to the local pet store down the corner, right instead of get it on Amazon Well, those days are over because Sarah's tired However, I'm sick of breaking down all those boxes and it's true that there are there are times where I'm like man Like that truck just used all that gasoline to come into my house three days this week And all that stuff could have been kind of given to me on Monday type thing And if you're I don't know somebody who maybe works from home one day of the week and you're worried about your packages getting stolen Which some people are depending on where you live and what the setup is this works This works for the company for sure because they can streamline their delivery service But I think depending on the the member. It works really well, too It can also mean you lose all your packages if somebody stole them I suppose. Oh, yeah, hopefully that's balanced out Yeah, number one This is a gigantic win and a flex by Amazon and how good they've gotten that logistics This is the understanding of their entire business the idea that they can not only a Gather all these things and sell them for a profit I'll be at a meager one at the price that they sell it at but then also do the added degree of difficulty and having It come to your house at the day that you want to is funny and also Isn't it hilarious that the initial concept of prime was that you got everything you ordered in two days? And now we have come so far that we are Rejoicing that we can now get it five days after Well, it's about control and it's about control, right? It's same thing as court-cutting. It's about you want it the same day We got an option for that. You want it in two days? We got an option for that You want it all to come on one day on Tuesday? Great. We got an option for that. Whatever you want Well, and yeah, and it depends on the volume that you're using this, you know at as a prime member I now have enough packages coming to my house that yeah I'd rather them all come on Monday and I'll just bring them all upstairs It's gonna be annoying, but that's the only day I have to do it that actually works better for me It doesn't necessarily work better for everybody, but I I think that Amazon's Going down the right road with us So to speak That's fine Justin Would you like to tell us about YouTube? I know it's not fun. Yes. Sorry YouTube announced that it will disable comments on all videos Featuring minors YouTube previously disabled comments on millions of videos in order to prevent communication between pedophiles a Small number of creators that closely moderate comments and demonstrate a low risk of predatory comments We'll be allowed to keep them open on videos with minors in them YouTube says it improved its comment classifier that can identify and remove predatory comments in any video automatically So the big thing here is shutting down comments on any video that is not from a big creator I mean grant basically, you know Little little Ryan who makes millions of dollars for himself in YouTube. They're not gonna shut down comments on that if Ryan doesn't Ryan's family doesn't want that but everybody else the masses they'll just shut the comments down so they don't have to deal with it and and You don't get a choice in the matter which Justin I I know we were talking before the show that's kind of different than the the traditional Internet we're old enough on the internet now to have old ways changing It's certainly so and here's my larger question because I think it does answer to this issue of You know the the the comments from pedophiles on these, you know little kids videos Do we need? Automatically to have a comment section on everything in 2019 I almost think that it's an antiquated notion from an arrow when bumping into somebody online finding something online that you could chime in on was You know a very important thing there were the internet was smaller literally it was a simpler time literally similar time right now We have a tremendous we have a Spoiled for choice in how to communicate with each other and I think that there is a realm of the world that doesn't need Comments and maybe kids posting on YouTube is one of them, you know, it's funny by a mistake I had posted something on Instagram and it You know, I I had to edit, you know I had made a spelling error or something, you know So I went in edited it right away and by a mistake. I turned off commenting I didn't do it on purpose. I just it was just something that I'd hit by accident and like a 24 hours later I was like, wow, you know lots of likes on this post, but no comments not one I must have said something very poignant Right like like no one wanted to add anything and finally I like figured it out But but it was kind of nice. I have to say it was like, yeah It wasn't necessarily that I was like and let's open the discussion It was sort of a thing that I had shared and it was sort of nice the way that it was and I'm considering doing that more often This is typical of YouTube's hammer approach, right? Turning a comments off by default from YouTube would be a great move because of what Justin's saying And and if you want to build your community and moderate the comments then you can go in there and turn the setting on But what they're saying is everybody's comments are on by default still unless they have a kid in them And then we're turning them off and you can't turn them back on Because that protects them better. Sure. Well, and look the the stuff that was uncovered about those videos was Very gross and I do think negligent right you do. Yeah, you take effort, but I agree with you I don't know how much YouTube really And some of their their the ways they implement things it makes me scratch my head IBM's X-Force threat intelligence index Which by the way it monitored 70 billion security events per day in more than 130 countries So they do some data collection on this Indicates that criminals are moving away from malware and ransomware in favor of file less attacks I don't know if you've heard about this But it's not like malware and ransomware are going away file less attacks though are harder to defend against criminals are also moving towards Crypto jacking which is basically stealing your computer power to mine cryptocurrency rather than stealing your personally Identifiable information because dealing with personally identifiable information requires more knowledge and resources So it's harder to profit from than just crypto jacking somebody's processes. You can make direct money It's easier to make money that way than dealing with personally identifiable information Especially as companies are starting to crack down on the reuse of personally identifiable information and stopping the breaches 57% of cyber attacks in this study used Administrative tools like PowerShell to escape detection Targeted phishing attacks accounted for 29% and 45% of those phishing attacks use targeted business email compromises So it looks what like what's happening is The trend is towards let's fish somebody Get access to a machine and then use that to To access PowerShell PowerShell is a scripting language that provides access to a machine's inner core Including unrestricted access to Windows APIs that can run remotely through win RM So you aren't detectable you you basically just need access to a machine then you can get into the rest of the network's PowerShell and Do whatever you want and no one will know because PowerShell is resident on the machine It's approved software from Microsoft and that's how you then can install your crypto jacking software, etc Again, it's not like malware went away. It's not like it's gonna be gone away overnight But this this is an interesting trend to note But what does the phishing scheme have to do right in order to get that PowerShell access phishing scheme? Just just convinces one person to accidentally allow a login to be shared And that's still an art in itself. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's that's a more social art And there are other ways to get that add access than phishing you to And all you need is get into that machine so you can access PowerShell But that that's the thing is that this effectively means you get in once and Then instead of harvesting information and then having to find a place to fence that information or or finding a buyer to buy it You literally just now make money directly in a way that is basically unobtrusive and nobody's really going to know And even if you're stealing personally identifiable information if you come in and access PowerShell any virus is not going to catch you Because it's just going to go. Oh PowerShell. Yeah, that one's okay So it's these fileless attacks where you're not leaving any traces that are becoming Something that security researchers are starting to try to figure out how to defend against a Quick check of strategy analytics estimates for the wearables market shows that Samsung and Fitbit quadrupled the number of smart watches shipped in Q4 of 2018 versus the previous year Apple grew by 1.4 million units over the previous year to but its market share dropped 15% Apple still shipped 9.2 million units to number two Samsung's 2.4 million So Apple's still way in first place Fitbit came in at 2.3 million the overall smartwatch market grew 56 percent overall I mean, this kind of good news for everybody, right? Apple's market share shrunk because they were so dominant before And the overall like the tablet market a few years ago. Yeah. Yeah, exactly very very similar actually So yeah wearables, huh? Well, you know before the show I was like am I the only one who doesn't have a smartwatch rod is like I don't have one either but I Continue to not want to wear a watch because I just don't like wearing things on my wrist But that's not the watch's fault the smartwatch Industry continues to give me reasons why I need to change my mind. You want to know when you're gonna jump in when you're still in the Smartphone pre-app world Or for wearable. Yeah, like as soon as we are able to crack What the heart arrhythmia monitor isn't enough and look, there's cool I was sold on the promise of being able to reliably get an Uber on my wrist and That will be a killer feature when that eventually does become more reliable than it has been in the past the US Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration in the US have issued new rules around lithium-ion batteries in cargo holds the new interim final rule I love bureaucracy and interim final rule this allows lithium-ion cells and batteries in the cargo area of passenger airplanes Now it disallows them. It doesn't go so far as to ban them They would prefer you put them in your carry-on but if you must put an electronic device in your checked baggage the guidelines are to turn it off completely and Pack it to be protected from damage So what this means is if they don't like the fact that your iPad is on or loose in your bag They might pull your bag aside and say hey, this is this is not safe for cargo planes though The this will have more impact on you lithium-ion batteries must have less than 30 percent charge So those days of getting a phone in the mail with almost a full charge are over my American friends That's 30% max when that thing is shipped It always surprised me when it was almost full charge anyway because I'm like didn't it come from the other You know across the world somewhere. So yeah I think that that you know when I first read the story this morning I was like wait, what does this mean for me as a passenger on a plane? It means nothing it unless I'm checking a lot of tablets in my checked baggage, which is very rare You know it almost never in fact, I'm not sure it's ever happened But but yeah, the cargo plane part of it is it makes a lot of sense and yeah It's not going to ruin your life But you have to understand why the the the battery is so low when you get it in the future because it will be Yeah, it's likely to be I mean I guess they could come by ship and train and then not have to meet that But this might have an effect and and also it's worth pointing out airlines can still put in their own rules An airline can say you're not allowed to have a device with a battery in it in your check luggage at all Because that's our airlines policy So don't get mad at your your airline if they tell you that you can't do this because they get to make up their own rules These are just the FAA guidelines that they have to pay attention to The New York Times reports its sources say WhatsApp will launch a cryptocurrency pegged to multiple fiat Currencies that would let users send cash across international borders What's that has supposedly approached cryptocurrency exchanges about listing the currency? Telegram and signal are also reportedly working out crypto currencies as well Now everybody's reporting this as Facebook because Facebook owns WhatsApp And I get it because Facebook getting into cryptocurrency makes a better headline but if you focus on this as WhatsApp and Focus on this as WhatsApp the messaging app of choice for the majority of the world and you focus on the fact that a lot of parts of the world have Diaspora communities that want to send money back to them play especially places in Asia Africa India Let's let's take India where WhatsApp is insanely popular If people working in in other parts of the world can send money back to their families in India with outpaying a cost and Send it back immediately through WhatsApp. This is gonna be huge And well in what companies will be destroyed by something like this, you know, we talked about Western Union before the show It's like, you know, where you're going now, there's like a very strange rate But people kind of have to use it because that's the only thing in place. How does this change the market overall? Yeah, it's it's the market for remittances right now is what keeps a lot of those kinds of companies in in business, right? Telegrams that you write to send someone a letter don't exist much anymore But but the places that can wire money do and it takes a while and I you know And and it costs there. There's a fee. So so this is a really Smart thing to do now. I think ours technical brings up a really good point Timothy Lee at our sector cut brings up Why wouldn't WhatsApp just create a financial transaction system? Why are they using cryptocurrency? It may be less efficient to do a cryptocurrency But I think what they're trying to do is not escape regulation because if they're tying it to fiat currencies And they're involved in international transactions They're gonna hit regulations, but maybe try to avoid some of the this the the length of time It takes to go through the hoops of normal fintech Transfers because you see all these fintech companies doing this too saying, you know what? We want to do international transactions with blockchain because we think it's more efficient. Yeah That's it. It's it's speed and the two biggest problems for anybody who's had to send money overseas is it costs Too much money and it takes too much time Yeah, and and remittances is a big deal if you don't if you're not involved in that you may not be aware of it But a lot of times that's that's what keeps your family back home eating food Yeah, you're gonna send that so you're kind of over a barrel like I gotta send it And with what's that being as popular as it is in places like India. I think this is an very interesting thing to watch Well folks if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Don't forget we have another show available called Daily Tech headlines. 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We're also on Facebook Facebook comm slash groups slash Daily Tech news show All right, let's check out the mailbag Let's do it Brian in as he mentions soggy Raleigh, North Carolina It was a little soggy in LA this morning, too, Brian So you're in good company had some feedback from Tuesday's show Which was an Apple Watch discussion that Tom and Patrick and Roger had Brian said I use the Apple Watch to track my sleep every night There's a fantastic app called auto sleep Uses the motion sensor data and heart rate monitor in the watch to give me a night-by-night Analysis of how well I slept it shows me how long I was in deep sleep light sleep How affected the sleep was whether the daily two bed and awake trends are going and make suggestions for improvement as for Charging issues I charge my watch while getting ready in the morning or during my commute Apple sells a short Apple Watch USB Charger that I use my car during my 30 minute commute Which is enough to keep it going as an aside I enjoy using my Apple Watch as an exercise tracker as well where I've paired it with a polar chest strap monitor This gives me extraordinary heart rate accuracy for activities The watch normally doesn't track as well such as weight training and interval training the Apple Watch isn't perfect But I've really enjoyed it for these use cases Yeah, I we got a few emails from people who had similar stories And so thanks to everybody for sending those along it does seem that the charging Moment of choice that most people said was the shower When I jump in the shower I put that thing on the charger and it doesn't take that long for the for watches to charge up because they have a smaller Battery and that's enough to to make it through the rest of the day and and through sleeping I what about what about all the people who don't shower Tom? I mean Brian's In my commute you charge it while you're on your your 30 minute commute on a USB charger Don't have to try don't shower. Wait, maybe you commute. I don't shower and I walk to work Well, you should shower because you're walking to work. I mean, I think that's what if you don't shower and you work from home Oh, you mean me Well, I was talking about myself You're both gross I shower it was No Well, thanks to Brian for the for the email and thanks to everybody who emailed us about this And yeah, it's nice to know what what folks get the most out of when it comes to these devices Particularly smart watches and thanks to Justin Robert Young for being with us whether you shower or not Justin Tell folks what you do the rest of the day And I'm gonna tell you guys up and it's gonna include a visual punchline that you guys are going to have to sell and react to so people Who are only listening will understand how amazing it is? 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Chang Roger is a timing savant Among other things I gave it a I gave it that extra few seconds by losing my place in the dock Just the view takes to the tango I can only I give it a thumbs up Uh, and you should Tom do you still have your, uh, uh, written out 1983 Because I've now found the actual bracket. I want to see if uh, oh to find out if you were alive or not Uh, no, you should give it was alive. I was alive. I was born, uh We need it. We need a title real quick Before we before we decide when Justin's up with the money. Oh, I like that. That's a good one done Oh, that's good Uh, hey, must better. What's up? What's up with the money? You should give oh, I was wondering maybe uh, just to should give a quick context to his Comment about the brackets. Oh, okay So, uh, for whatever reason we got into talking about whether or not you saved or got rid of notes When you were, uh, a kid in school in your past show before it And so of course Tom, uh, immediately produced what I'm assuming is, uh, a dewy decimal system compliant Organization of everything he's ever written or anyone has ever written to him Uh, uh, including a bracket a hockey playoff bracket So, uh, tom for whatever reason Yeah, what what is the top of the bracket? Uh, so We have uh, the top of the bracket, uh, is the rangers and the flyers. It looks like okay. All right. That did that Definitely did happen. Uh, islanders and the caps. Okay Boston and Quebec. Yep. And I will guess that the the fourth is montreal and buffalo. Yes, it is Then chicago st. louis. Uh, the blues lost They did Three one then the north stars and the leafs Yep Edmonton winnipeg and then calgary vancouver. Yep. No, that's right Uh, uh, and you so you literally just wrote down exactly what did happen Yeah, as it as it happened I guess I was just tracking the uh, I was tracking the uh, The the the cup, you know pre-internet. This is what you had to do Right. It's somebody might gaslight you about the playoffs. I'd go to I grabbed the post dispatch every morning and find out Okay, who won? I mean when the blues played I knew that because that was on tv And then the you know the stanley cup playoffs were on tv or the the championship was on tv But everything else was coming out of the newspaper So there you go. That's amazing. Well, the new york islanders. I have listed as the wales champ And the Edmonton Oilers as the Campbell champ Campbell cup. Yeah So, uh, so the point being that when I drew these brackets and filled in this first line over here Justin robert young was not born Uh, no, uh, that that's actually fake news. I've now really I've now seen Uh, uh that this uh tournament began Literally one month. I was one month old. Ah, okay. All right puck drop, but fair enough fifth 1983 Well, then perhaps I could interest you in my uh, In my schedule My my freshman year in college, uh schedule of classes and study time Uh, I had to and roger you can back me up on this graduating from the college that we both went to you had to like pass a dewy decimal like It was it was sort of like a half class Where you like there were certain things you had to do in the san francisco state library in order to be like Yes, I understand how to use a library And it was a really big library and so it was like not that hard but Took a lot of time and I remember just being like, why do we have to do this? Why do we have to do this? It was it was a it really wasn't It was it was a course in the same way that you have to take a written exam for your driver's license But it was it was like it was like a check mark, you know You basically went through the library that you like had a brain and you it's like So how do you find this book and you say, okay, you do this do this and right, right? Yeah But you know, I it was one of those things where it was like again, not hard but It didn't come in handy especially because you're about to graduate and there were all these things that you were doing Towards the degree you actually believed in and then you had to do a decimal thing Well, you know, you had that uh, you had that section You had your section one and two and three or whatever. Yeah, that wasn't your major And so you had to complete those so you had to pick a bunch of classes that fit fit in Right, right. Well, although I lucky I passed jeffet. So I didn't have to take an English Class a writing class I had to take English 1a and it's So bad I took I took a java programming class and I thought it was I kept falling asleep in the class I said I can't do this class. I'm so gonna plug it because I'm always asleep This is so This is the thing. This is the thing oftentimes When people say teachers really matter they do if a teacher can't make it Not just interesting enough, but like, you know, um Applicable to what you want to do or whatever Right. Yeah, because sometimes these things are classes that you have to take, you know, like there were certain I don't know media law. We had to take that that was Quiet for a major hated that class And I didn't think that my professor really like lent himself to me liking it anymore Had to do it hated it But I but I it's clearly very very important comes up all the time, especially in something like dts It is I'm trying to think of oh, I also took media aesthetics Media aesthetics was fun Yeah, that was a good one. Oh man, that class that class was great. He wrote the book He literally wrote and it wasn't one of those cheapo photo copy I've been to put together with a plastic, you know binder Flip on the side. It was actual like printed published book that a bunch of schools use herbs at all Yep. Yep. Loved him. Loved her um also took Let's see. What were some of like We we were not required to take photography for our major, but I did Um, so I spent a lot of time in the dark room at sf state, you know, kind of like Trying to be all cool and I would use these toxic chemicals to make a picture of you toxic chemicals actually that that that were quite toxic Now that I think about it, but that was really fun um But you had the english classes. It's not because I don't like reading But I hated those classes because I I felt like by that point I was in, you know, I was I was an upperclassman I wasn't supposed to I just want to get out of english classes. Yeah, I wanted to do my video stuff That was, you know, I took that very serious grant. She was the best Mm-hmm. She was Uh tom yes, sir. I have a I have a baseball stat that I think you will enjoy. Uh-oh Okay, let on me rice harper. Hmm. It's his final paycheck from the philadelphia fillies in the year 2031 the final cent of his 330 million dollar 13 year contract Bobby bonilla will still be four years away from getting his final check from the new york meds. Oh, wow Ah deferred payments Oh my god, that bonilla contract is the gift that keeps on getting. Yeah, good man. Bobby bonilla Uh, the story the story is That he he basically deferred over like an insane number of years, right in order to get a bigger amount And the meds was the meds bet that Well, by the time this contract runs out that'll be of such a small percentage, you know The percentage of our gross will keep going up and that'll be a smaller percentage. So sure. Why not? Uh shockingly enough the owner of the meds got caught up in a ponzi scheme So, uh, uh, maybe financial planning not the strongest not the strongest That's amazing Uh, Bobby bonilla now what happens? I mean, I haven't heard that name in a while This is morbid, but what happens if bobby bonilla doesn't make it? Uh We get to pay out or I don't know No one would at that point or he's 56 now So at the at that point he would at the end of bryce harper's contract He would be Away from the end of the payouts by that point. They don't end till he's 73 Yeah So that's probably something that you just write into your contract, you know, like If you know in the event of my death Oh, does someone or dismemberment? Yeah, like who gets this? There is zero chance that the meds ever get out of this contract. Bobby bonilla will be a sentient ai Enjoying his automatic transfers. In fact, I'd be shocked if the meds don't resign them. They are such a competent organization in front office That's a bit that should be one of those like memes that just goes viral is resign bobby bonilla This has been so funny We just need to keep this going Just renegotiate it renegotiate the contract. Yeah. Well, no, no, no just another another 31 year deferred payment Like like yeah, no like a refinance. Yeah more years Four more years of bobby bonilla that's That's amazing uh tech tv Blast from the past Tom and roger you remember greg tramellion and deff roback They just put a photo of themselves together on facebook She's great. Yeah, totally. I'm gonna like it tesla halts orders for cars ahead of promised announcement Hmm What kind of car maybe like halts orders like the tesla launching 35 000 model three with deliveries as soon as next month Well, the model three is you know, it's yeah, they've twice lowered the price of the bottle three Uh, yeah, so they hauled it orders because they're like, hey, we're gonna have a different timeline. We got to redo it It's like when apple takes down the yeah, yeah, this is the apple store going. Yeah. Yeah, if you launch it with new stuff interesting It's finally here You know eileen is very taken by the mercedes model a Uh Which is the the one that has the built-in voice recognition Oh, she has thinking of upgrading well We my my car is a 2002 Prius And it's it's it's getting time to just you know say thank you for your service Uh 17 year old car. So the question became like should I Do what I would do which is traded in for you know, something super boring and cheap because I don't drive a lot or Should we get eileen a car that is better for her commute situation? And when she started thinking about oh, what if I got a new car? That was the thing that caught her eye so one of those commercials where uh It's all like millennials going mercedes. What about making a car for me instead of my old man And then they have the car that has a dual touch screen and it has voice recognition and everything So she's super taken by that. It's not much cheaper than the model three though Really? Uh, well, I you know As a person who's turning in her mercedes lease Any day now, uh It's supposed to be yesterday, but I don't know my weak gut sidetracked I'm I'm I'm mercedes fan. It's they're lovely cars I I I have not driven the a but um, I Well, it's kind of new I think I don't know if there was a model year before this year to be I don't think so either, but you know, you they usually have it like at the end of 2018, you know for 2019, but But yeah, I mean if you can do it I mean, I'm I'm going like straight used pickup truck at those points for my next car Nice, I don't drive. I'm like you try my I just don't drive. I go to the dog park I go to the grocery store Maybe a couple times a week most of the time I just don't drive it makes no sense for me to have a nice car Have you have you thought about going no car? I have and the reason that I wouldn't is because of my animals because I feel like if there's an emergency Yeah, I I got you know, you got to have a set of wheels For everything else I could I could live without a car. No problem In fact, I I prefer not to drive if at all possible if it's not raining. I'll walk five miles Yeah, no problem. But but yeah, I you know, even even with my vet nearby You got a you got a point A to point B And I can't you know be asking an uber driver. Is it okay if my dog gets in the backseat? You know, like Yeah There's not a good solution for that There isn't I wish there was and I'm sure there will be at some point That seems like it should be a setting in uber Just I know there are pet friendly uber drivers. Yeah But it's not easy to figure that out. Yeah. Yeah, that should be you should mark This is like My my grand overhaul of the uber app would include you just being able to say don't talk to me Uh is my pet okay? Like there's no reason why these can't be things that we dial up or down depending on I am I am I may have dreamed this I don't know But I feel like there was a point where you could say like pet friendly uber driver That is no longer in there somewhere. I don't know man I mean, I have looked through the settings high and low and maybe I'm blind, but I don't think so What you have to do now is call them once you've already ordered the ride and then they're allowed to be like no No, yeah, you know, and then your ratings get weird So nobody has to be that official uber help page in accordance with local and federal laws in your area Service animals are permitted to accompany riders in all time. But if you're planning to ride with a non-service pet It's a good practice to contact the driver who accepts your ride request Use your app to send a text message or call to let the driver know you'd like to bring a pet Yeah All right folks, uh, well, we're gonna get to the bottom this uh video folks Thank you for joining us and audio folks stick around there's more to come