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So, you know, I knew I forgot something I need to find a Person to think at the top. Ah Thank you because I always forget that to you What the heck did he call it? Daily Techno show Oh Is it I come Dot biz I would love to have a dot edu. I Can't I get I get discounts. Yeah, right? You have to know you can't. Yeah, that would yeah The top-level domain What was the thing I opened up no, what was the thing that I needed to open up to check for The the title a person to think yeah, no, was it but what was I opening up in the sheets trying to remember? Why did I walk into this room? I don't Unfortunately, I'm sorry. I'm literally blanking on it. I Just know you you were trying to look for somebody And I know that you and I talked about this last week and I just forget I Literally cannot remember. Just thank me Thank me for being here Okay, so I've I'm a little shiny the best I can well, it's too late. No, I can't man. So I'm a little shiny, but that's okay I should have a little pop Um, I So are we live on YouTube? What's that? Are we live on YouTube? We are live on YouTube. Oh, I was saying that the Lamar took your shine Ah, yes, the shine is off on Sarah Well because I'm always I run shiny. I'm a shiny happy person you are But today I don't really look that shiny at least you are the cap. You're the captain Marvel of tech You know, it's funny I did so much work on this office over the weekend, but so much of it you guys can't see because it's just Just like super organization stuff. I'm so proud of it. Should have done a video. Maybe I still See, that's how I feel about this Kind of it just looks like I just moved in, you know, I got a picture here I was gonna hang that up above here, but it's it's kind of girly I don't know. It felt a little not dts s enough for me. So you're a girl and it's okay I know Maxfield pair. She's like one of my favorite artists. So it's like I like I like the picture But it's it's big. So it's like that would sort of be the only thing there and I'm like, I think maybe I want I have wonder woman right there. It's okay. If I could do that You know what we like And I found the person to put in You now so We are recording so you can start um Whenever All right Good stuff You want to count me in or do you not care? Yeah, I'll coach it. All right, cool. I'm ready three two Alex lasnik has supported independent tech news directly for five years Be like alex become a dts member at patreon.com slash dts This is the daily tech news for monday march 11th 2019 tom merit is out traveling today, but from studio feline I'm sarah lane Also from los angeles. I'm lamar wilson And uh, i'm roger the show's producer who will just turn on this camera right there and you can see my face But if you're listening to the audio, you don't know what's going on. You have no idea who this is Lamar you outed me. I didn't say I was from los angeles. Oh, oh, now everybody knows. Oh, no That's all right. It's a big city. You'll never find me All right, let's uh, we've got we've got quite a quite a few things to talk about including facial recognition at airports And how we should all panic or maybe why we should not panic But first let's start with a few tech things you should know Facebook sued two ukrainian men for allegedly scraping user data through quiz apps such as character and popularity tests We've all seen them that also injected ads into their news feeds Potentially for years around 63 000 facebook users browsers mostly from russia and the ukraine are said to have been affected titles high res mqa music tracks are now available to listeners and titles ios app The feature came to android phones back in january and first became available to titles desktop listeners last year High res audios to find this anything with a higher bit rate or sampling frequency than a 16 bit 44.1 color hertz, so hope this is a great standard used by cds Estonia in the modern world estonia's recent parliamentary elections saw 44 of total votes were made online The 247 232 votes made by estonia's eye voting system marks a record for the percentage of the electorate and total numbers of votes cast online voting in the country launched in 2005 and is open from the 10th to the fourth days before an election As of wednesday march 13th It will be illegal to fly a drone within three miles of an airport in the uk Currently the uk imposes a 0.6 mile limit The rule changes were first announced last month after drone activities shut down gatwood airport for more than 24 hours In november anyone flying a drone over 250 grams or 8.8 ounces will need to take an online safety test beforehand And register with the country's aviation authority amen to this Yeah, that gatwick airport shutdown happened right around christmas. I remember lots of people were stranded bad news around the holidays All right, let's talk a little bit more about invidia and where it wants to go next lamar Yeah, so invidia agreed to acquire the networking chip and component maker melanox For 6.9 billion dollars now video's offer is a 14 premium on the current stock price at 125 dollars per share The move would further bolster invidia's data center division Which has already tripled sales in the past two years and currently makes up a third of total company revenue Reuters reports that invidia outbid intel in negotiations for melanox Melanox, excuse me. The acquisition must now be approved by regulators before being finalized You know, roger, you and i were talking about this before the show and the fact that invidia needs to Expand into other places. It's certainly a you know, it's it's a leader in its space But it's faced increasing competition from from other companies until being one of them and and and data centers Is is is one of those places that it can expand into? I mean, it's it's definitely a situation where I think invidia has kind of moved To a place where it's kind of just saturated the market that it's been in which was gpus for the longest time And they've tried to branch out into automotive With with their arm based offerings And I think they want to move out Into another place where arm processors may can make a difference and that's data centers, right? You see it with qualcom You see it with a lot of other manufacturers even amd. It's been dabbling with Arm architecture and it makes sense because you know intel is developing in-house another in-house gpu program Maybe more successful than larry b This time around AMD already has a ti. So I mean, it's going to be the only man It would be the only company out there that's very single tracked if they stay with gpu and they need to branch out into other markets Yeah, so not only do you see this, you know consolidation as you were saying, you know With the the companies, but you're also getting a shrinking customer list You're getting more and more companies are making their own chips Or you know, you know, or you know, just outright now using invidia So so prices are going up for them. So, you know, this kind of consolidation makes sense You know, they're already huge in gaming Jumping into ai and data centers It's the next logical thing and a lot of this is just kind of back in all us as consumers won't really Notice or care about the difference of this. So, you know, I probably expected to go through the regulatory approval pretty fast um, yeah, oh, I think it remains to be seen if uh It ends up being as successful For them as they have been with gpu's because gpu's have traditionally been something that invidias excel that and You know, it the other markets are going into are a lot more crowded than the gpu one is Yeah, it's interesting though that the data center division Has done well and currently makes up a third of invidia's total company revenue That was actually a surprise to me I didn't realize that that it was such a big part of invidia's business already neither. Yeah, and I think it also also Kind of illustrates how Mature the gpu market And when I mean the gpu market, I mean specifically the consumer gpu market There's always going to be a market for for invidia like quadro and amd ati fired line carts, which are bored Excuse me more institutional industrial CAD cam developer usage That they've kind of maxed out that point and they really just need to like hey We've got other markets we that we need to start looking into to expand our financial base In less cryptocurrency gets hot again, and then it's gpu news for days Uh, oh my my light went out. Sorry about that. Look at that change fix There's a ghost in the machine lamar. There's there's a ghost All right, the european union's competition commissioner margaret vestiger Responded to elizabeth warren's proposals from last week and and by the way We had a great discussion about it on friday show if you missed it we with tom and Brian brushwood and jesson robert young and and roger and i had a great conversation about it So if you missed that show Go ahead and listen to it a lot of good information Anyway, that was last week's news. It's big big news on friday. Elizabeth warren wants to break up big tech companies That's a very simplistic way to explain all of her ideas Speaking to recodes cara swisher at south by southwest over the weekend margaret vestiger said and i'll just quote her directly to break up a company to break up private property would be very far Reaching and you would need to have a very strong case that it would produce better results for consumers in the marketplace Than what you could do with more mainstream tools We're dealing with private property businesses that are built and invested in and become successful Because of their innovation As for those more mainstream alternatives vestiger pointed to an agreement last month that was struck between european political institutions On regulating online platform transparency as a fairness focused intervention that countries That that counters rather market imbalance lamar I mean without getting too political Uh, did did you follow warren's proposals? Did anything strike you as a little out to lunch or right on the money or somewhere in between? Yeah, so i'll watch you all on friday. And i'm glad you had justin on kind of do that political, uh Part for you for you all Yeah, he really is um, so so it's expected and what i mean is like it's a it's an easy target to say You know google bad break up good and and you know, you know very very hawk style and and so i'm not surprised at that i am surprised that the that You know, the european union is is kind of taking a Hey, we don't know we should do this because remember, you know What happened with microsoft back in the day and and even now they have a big case against google, of course that is more antitrust uh, but but they are they've been known to be very Uh, let me be more heartline on on u.s. Companies and these big companies of having too much power so I mean seriously see see her take a more measured stance And you know, I guess I have a few base opinions on it. I don't necessarily see You know the problem with big, you know, big companies are being balanced and offering good services i'm not I'm not saying there should be one monopoly. I don't think that can never happen again. I think what Microsoft was building can probably never be replicated. I think having three or four good companies doing it is about as balanced as it's probably gonna be. I think part of it is that there's a tacit understanding at least at the EU that they still rely on these companies whether it's Google, Facebook, Apple, as big and being the 800 pound of gorillas in their respective markets. They always will bring a lot of regulatory attention upon themselves, but it is a delicate balance. And I think what Marguerite is stating is that, yeah, we wanna regulate you, but doesn't mean we wanna eliminate you. And I think it's very important because it says to them, we wanna do business, but we wanna do business on our terms rather than- Elizabeth Warren isn't talking elimination either, though. Well, she's not, but she's talking about breaking up, which if you're old enough to remember, Ma Bell AT&T was the only phone company in the US for the longest time. And when that broke up, that was huge. I mean, that shattered what, a 50, 60, 70 year monopoly on a telecommunications market. I mean, we're not dealing with that on that scale, but it's very easy for a lot of that rhetoric to amp up a lot of, and then flame a lot of passions about like, we gotta take these giant companies down, they drive up the cost of real estate, they know all our information, they can troll us, they can track us. There's a lot of fear and there's also a lot of emotional investiture that people have put into these things. And so- And there are also different laws based on what countries we're talking about. And some of these companies that are in question here that are huge do comply with various regional regulations as well. So it's complicated. Yeah, absolutely. Moving on, the US government says it will downgrade intelligence sharing with Germany of Huawei wins a contract to build out the country's 5G infrastructure according to a letter from US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grinnell, to Germany's economics minister, Peter Altmaier. Germany has not found conclusive evidence that the Huawei technology is used for spying by the Chinese government, although they concede the company could be compelled to do so in the future. I love this. We're gonna increase intelligence sharing because of the threat of intelligence sharing that we think might be not kosher. Yeah. And so the whole take on this is essentially we supply information to these foreign governments in return of them providing intelligence to us about movement of people, movement of political governments, for example, Germany's closer to Eastern Europe than the US and they might have a better feel about what's going on with the governments and policies and stuff like that. The idea behind this, of course, is to put pressure on Huawei, whether you agree with it or not, it is part of a larger plan to put a pressure on Huawei because it is, at least in the current administration's view, a proxy for the Chinese government. So there's very much a geopolitical element to it that goes beyond just plain technology business but rather an intertwining of business as diplomacy. And so what they're saying to the EU is like, well, we can't really give you, or Germany I should say, we really can't give you all this upper tier information because if you use Huawei's 5G network, we can't be sure that that information will not be e-dropped on. Yeah, this is a complex issue and I'll be more sure with this current conflict we're having with China, with the trade talks and now this intelligence sharing. I'm not sure where this goes. It seems to stifle innovation but I understand it's security concerns but it almost sales a little. The Huawei story is a very complicated, very very intermeshing, in some cases very complex, especially in tech and convoluted but tech as we all know is big business and business is on the mind of everyone involved. And so I mean, the problem is there is no plan. There is no, this is where we wanna be in 10 years time. This is where we think we wanna be in terms of political relations but how we get there is totally up in the air at this point. I agree. Let's talk about Tesla, shall we? Hey. In a blog post Tesla announced it will keep more retail stores open kinda walking back the news from last week than it had previously been stated by CEO Elon Musk. The company stated it has already closed 10% of retail locations with another 20% under review. As a result of keeping more locations open, average vehicle pricing will increase 3% but will not impact the new $35,000 base Model 3. So I had a question and maybe some in the audience may be thinking the same thing. Did Tesla was obviously initially pushing online, online, online they still do. Where did they make retail to comply with local laws that you have to have a retail location to sell cars? Cause I know that was a conflict with some states maybe cities that they were trying to keep them out. So cause I was wondering where this we're gonna take the stores away and now we're gonna leave them come from. I didn't think they had that many stores to begin with. I only see a couple here in LA. Yeah. Like some states require you have a dealership network in that state in order to actually sell a car. Like you can't, you would not be able to sell a car the way you would sell a lamp on Amazon. I know in Tesla's case, and yeah, it depends on the region of course, but in many cases it was just a showroom, come see this car when you do, you're gonna fall in love with it even more. And there was a retail location I visited in LA down, kind of down by the airport actually in the El Segundo area where they've got, they've got a whole big operation going on down there. And yeah, I mean it was not totally like a normal dealership but it was designed to sit in the car, look at this cool, you know, that sort of iPad dash situation and make it harder to deny yourself this wonderful car. Because of course, you know, it's like buying anything online. You know, if you can see it and touch it and you've got like tactile touch to it, you are more likely to get it. Yeah, so maybe that's part of the outrage of them saying they were gonna close more people wanna, they wanna be able to see and touch. And some of it is just like, why are you closing? Are you losing money? Are you not making enough money? I mean, there's a lot of, Tesla occupies that space where it is both a unicorn and the ultimate bullseye. Like everyone wants to throw something at Tesla because whether or not you like their cars, whether or not you're like Elon, I mean, you're just a high profile target. And so whatever you do as any celebrity can tell you will be met with a lot of suspicion and a lot of people doing, like, are you not making your bottom line? Or do you need to lower the price of these cars because you're not selling enough? There's a lot of those kinds of questions, but it could be like, we don't need to blow money on these things that don't necessarily add to the bottom line when we could use those resources to either increase production or lay out cash somewhere else. Although, and I know it doesn't apply to the Model 3, which I'm also not getting, but I know enough folks who have Teslas that I'm familiar with them, they're lovely cars, they're out of my price range, but I don't need to go to a retail location. So the fact that vehicle pricing will increase 3%, if I was in the market, I would say that sucks because I don't actually need to go to a retail location. I already know I want the car and now it's a little bit more expensive. Absolutely. I'm not gonna buy it either. I mean, I'd love one, I would. I feel like you need a house. That's the only thing I'm against electric cars. You need a house to be able to fully take advantage of it so you can charge it daily. I don't know, at least you're in a really good area that has chargers everywhere. I don't know. That's actually a really good point. Yeah, it's out of my price range and I also don't know where I'd plug it in. I don't know. Yeah, that's literally my problem. That's not happening. All right, everybody, to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com. All right, everybody. Let's talk about privacy at the airport. Shall we? It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun. All right, I'll kind of set this up and Lamar jump in at any time if you want to. There's a lot of information here. The Electronic Privacy Information Center published a long document, 346 pages, outlining how US Customs and Border Protection is implementing biometric entry exit systems using facial recognition at major airports in the US. BuzzFeed News, which obtained this document, notes that there was no period for public comment on the system before implementation began. So that's just people go, oh no, this is all happening behind the public's back. Foreign travelers can have their images stored for up to 14 days. It's not totally clear how cooperating airlines and third parties can use this data, this facial recognition data going forward because of course these are leaked documents. Now the US Customs and Border Protection will call them CBP is operating under an executive order that was signed by President Trump in 2017 to expedite biometric verification of all US international travelers in the top 20 airports by 2021. But important to note, approval for this system was initially signed into law during the Obama administration. So this has been going on for a while. Document states that 17 airports currently have system trials in place with the goal of initial operating capability of scanning 30 international flights per day by the end of 2019, which is that's right around the corner. Yeah, yeah, I'll go ahead. Well, okay, so the systems, the way that they work is matching up a passport photo of an international traveler. So you know that there's my passport photo that's in the system with real-time images captured at airport. So I'm walking through the airport, a camera sees me said, yep, that's her land. We know who she is. It looks, hopefully, hopefully they match me correctly. That's who I am. And audit in late 2017 found that there was about an 85% successful match rate, which is sure that sounds pretty good, right? 85%, okay, you're close to 100 than zero, but you're certainly not 100%. You're gonna get some false positives there or you're gonna miss some folks as well. Lamar, as somebody who, I know you do a fair amount of traveling. I do. And we can go back and forth between, you wanna catch the bad guys at airport. So this all seems like, okay, they're not doing it for no reason. They're doing it for very specific reasons, but where does privacy end and kind of the scary stuff begin? This is, and forgive me, audience, if I sound very simplistic with this, but I kind of already thought this kind of thing was happening already, like we have cameras everywhere that is already tracking especially in airports. If anything, I would think this kind of system would be helpful to maybe expedite a foreign traveler. Okay, we see them walking down. Yep, that's them, the matching that will take them less time to get through security. I'm not seeing the outcry and negative here unless we start talking about what these airlines are gonna do with the data. They said they hold it for 14 days, but what happens that, I'm sorry for the life, what happens after that? Does it, are they using for marketing purposes? Are they trying to figure out how much you travel and sit? I'm not sure where the negative is here. Well, I think, yeah, I'm having trouble with that. Yeah, I think the obvious negative is if the AI systems don't work well enough, then you're gonna have a lot of people inconvenienced at best. Sure, the 15%, right? Yeah, yeah. And then I think there's also, there's certainly a large portion of people who are like, well, what airports and why don't we know about it? And is it my airport? The one that I go to often and where's the cameras? And there's that whole, this has been going on for some time. This is not necessarily a secret, but something that has been, it is further along, I think, than a lot of folks assumed, and that always tends to upset people. Yeah, I just think, look, from my point of view, just we've been around as adults since 2001, when those attacks, we have full awareness where our kids went out. So we, and I just assumed from then on, it was just, we see it in movies, where it's just that biometric scanning or the finger, like I just assumed that was coming and it would just be a thing. I'm surprised it's just now here. I know, I get people's aches about more data of them being stored, but as you walk through an airport, you've seen it. I mean, I look where, I'm not trying to look like I'm, they probably will stop me if I'm looking at too many cameras, but like I know where they are. And I'm just like, I've just accepted that this, you know, if you're gonna fly, that's just how it is. I think, I think a lot of it also has to do with just general profiling, right? Like how do you, is this just, you know, if you develop then in a totally agnostic, totally ambivalent system to a person's appearance, and then you slowly develop it to target certain individuals. For example, a lone male who wears a certain type of clothing, perhaps facial hair, you know, headdress or anything. That stuff tends to lead over time to an unfairly biased way of identifying people, especially in the security setting, which tends to disadvantage minorities at a greater rate than the general population. I mean, are we talking about like just, when I'm thinking of biometric, I'm literally thinking of, you know, do you see those movies with the eye points and they just stand in the faces? I'm not even thinking about dressing up. But that's the worry, right? It's not just, all this stuff doesn't exist in a vacuum. Biometrics is fine, right? It's the implementation that people have issues with. And I think, you know, at least based on American, you know, security history, there have been a lot of false positives where people are misidentified. Oh, sure. Because they happen to appear as something that they were not. Based solely at the discretion of whoever's operating it. Now you can use machine learning, but as we've discussed, and Tom has mentioned in previous episodes, machine learning is often biased by the people that develop it, right? And that's why you would want a very diverse, a very broad set of people helping develop it because you can then kind of kick out those subconscious biases that people tend to put into a system. Nothing does good points. I just like, and I don't know if we can answer this now, like what's the alternative? Yeah, and I think you answered it partially by just saying just a more diverse amount of people making sure that it's a balanced system and that I'll reduce some of that. I think that's a really good first step. Got some breaking news, everybody. Apple announced it will hold an event on March 25th with an invitation showing a countdown and the words, it's showtime. Ooh. You're buying showtime. Yeah. That was actually what I thought. I'm like, that's very specific to the showtime network. Apple is expected to announce the TV and Apple News subscription services. We've talked about this in the past. The Verge also noted that Apple first used that tagline at showtime for a September 2006 event where it announced that it would start offering movies on iTunes. Wow. Interesante, I did not remember that. Yeah. I wasn't even born then, but yeah, no. I was very, very young as well. Yeah, I'm excited because I knew their TV thing was coming and I've been bouncing around TV networks on YouTube TV and I'm now using Hulu. I'm excited to see what they're offering. I like Hulu so much I doubt I'm going to jump off of it, but I want to see what they got going. I already heard that you all probably talked about the Apple News controversy with the 50%, whatever crazy amount they're taking from the publishers. So I'm surprised they got that ready to go. I'm excited for the event because I'm excited to stop speculating about what the event will be about. Because we've been doing that. Seems like a solid year now, maybe more. That's Apple, that's Apple News for you. It is, all right. March 25th, everybody, that'll be a fun day on the show. Thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit, also a fun place to hang out, submit stories and vote on other stories at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. You help us make our show every day so we thank you. It's so nice for you to participate. We're also on Facebook, facebook.com slash groups slash dailytechnewshow is where to hang out with us there. All right, let's move over to Chris Christensen, AKA the Amateur Traveler, who has a story on why it sometimes pays to read the EULA. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another Tech in Travel Minute. It's been talked on DTNS many times about how people don't read those user agreements online. Apparently, Donalyn Andrews, who is a Georgia high school economics teacher does. And by doing so, she read the details of the policy she had bought, the travel insurance policy at squaremouth.com and found an embedded contest where she won $10,000. SquareMouth said they were expecting that contest to go on for as long as a year. They were surprised that someone discovered it within 23 hours. So apparently some people do read the fine print. I'm Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. If I thought I would win things, I'd read them a lot more carefully too. Oh yeah, now it's not gonna work because everybody's gonna read it now. Well, maybe it did work. Yeah. Isn't that funny? The company's like, we thought it would take so much longer. We didn't think anybody was gonna read this. They probably didn't have that money saved up either. They're in trouble. They better, they better, they better. Yeah, blew up in your face, didn't it? Now you got a customer who won a contest. All right, real quickly. Let's check the mailbag. AOJ had some thoughts on her story from last Friday about Philadelphia requiring almost all merchants to accept cash. And then he had some potential work rounds such as, if these cashless stores wanna keep being cashless despite the new law, I would think they could just use a membership model. People thought people through their web portal become a member of their club. Then the club's terms of service could indicate the club member's acceptance for having their credit cards on file or acceptance of only credit cards for club debts. The store then gets their club member to use the web portal on their phone or to pay, make the payment, which in turn gets reported to the store. That sounds complicated, but I get where you're going with this. I understand that, but from someone who's worked exactly two years in retail, I think you would see a huge dip. Not like half, but 15%, 15% dip if you were forcing people just to go into a membership model. Yeah. But membership models are consistent money. They're consistent money, but it's also, it's easy for someone to be like, I don't wanna do that. I'll just go to the store. Only if that membership typically involves some fee, right? Even if it's like $15 a year, people are gonna say, well, I spent money on this, so I should probably buy some from that store. That's what Amazon Prime does for me. Have you ever used a cashless place? I think Tender Greens is a, I think it's the only place I've used here that was cashless, which is cool, I don't care cash anyway, but. You know, I've been to Tender Greens and I didn't notice that, but I don't really carry cash either. So yeah, it's very, in fact, the only places that I notice is places that are cash only and those are the places where I'm like, oh man, I gotta use your ATM and it's like $5. Oh, they love that, yes. I'm old guy from 20th century, I was carry cash always. Well, I know, Roger, you're the better person. You are better. 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Simon Club hopes you have enjoyed this program. That was a very mellow, almost jazzy ending there. Yes. That's... It's our special one when Tom's away. It's Scott's bug time. Is that the After Dark Edition? I know. That's the After Work Edition. Frog Pants Network. Oh, yeah. I don't know why we only use it when Tom is on the show, but that's when it always is. It's because that's the only bumper I have for the movie and Tom has it pushed over yet. That's the one that Scott implemented for 2018, so I downloaded it. Right. Because he's letting it do it. I like the variety. It's like Otterpops. It is like Otterpops. Man, it's been a while since I had an Otterpops. It's those puffs that are like in a little... They look like Slim Jims during that little plastic sleeve. They're Popsicles. Yeah. And you kind of got to tear them with your teeth and then they're... It's basically just frozen Kool-Aid. Oh, is that what they're... I didn't know they were called Otterpops. I had those when I was a kid. Yeah. Yeah. There are probably a few different brands that did something similar, but yeah, the Otterpop was a summer treat. Yeah, right there. So if you see it... Oh, yeah. I didn't realize the name. Yeah. I grew up on those. Definitely. Got to love an Otterpop. They are the best. Yeah. I remember... Yeah. And the adults, what are we saying? Don't open those with your teeth. Here. Let me get some scissors. They're the worst and they're simultaneously the best because they're Popsicles, but they were cheap because you would buy... When they sell them, they sell them in packs of like 25 or 30. Yeah. And you stick the whole thing in the freezer and then you break them off. It's like before glow sticks were a thing at Rave's, that's what they were making. Really? Really? Pre-glow stick? You just bring your Otterpops to a Rave? Yeah. You think with all the dancing, they would get very melted and... Wait. Wait a minute. You can drink it so you're not dehydrated. Oh. And you would have a snooker damp. Aren't you concerned that your Otterpops are glowing though? I think that would be a little bit more concerning to me. You know, a lot of your food that you eat probably... Radioactive. Mmm. Put enough light on anything, oh, glow. Speaking of glowing, Roger, I finally watched the Bodega bathroom musical skit. Would you? That was so funny. Yes. I mean, it wasn't just funny. I was like, this is so well done. I mean... Oh, Malayne doesn't... There's antsy and choreography. But there's so many Broadway jokes in there. It's like, well, you spent a lot of time thinking about that. It was really funny. Lamar, we're talking about not this last Saturday, but the Saturday before. John Malayne. Malayne? Yeah. Oh yeah. Was on Saturday Night Live. Yeah, he was the... Oh yeah, I remember that. The host. And that was a great episode. That's great. He was one of the writers. Yeah, he's extremely funny. Even his... No, everybody was saying that they need to have more stand-ups do, you know, be the guests, because stand-ups know how to do that open and monologue, and regular actors don't like... The jokes never come off really well. No, I listened to those monologues. He did a fantastic job. Well, when you're stand-up comedian, there's a certain timing you have for a good execution of a joke. Yeah, absolutely. That's like half of it. That's what Scott Harry told me. Yeah. Where's Scott Harry at? Yes, I do. That's what Johnny Carson... That's what he promoted a lot of comedics. He will let them do their two to three-minute spiel, and you don't see that as much in recent nightshows. So it's kind of good to see Sarah and I live doing that. Titles. To NVIDIA and beyond. To... How about the title? The title is the title. I'm sorry. That was stupid. Don't write that one. U.S. airports face ID plans scrutinized. I thought we were stringing something there. Okay. I need to contact them and find out why this light is doing this. What's it... What is it doing? It's just turning off. Maybe it's someone's been watching. What's the inner minute scene? I'll just turn it off. Oh. Yeah, yeah. I'm not doing anything. Well, it's weird. When it turns off, it actually gets brighter in your room, because I think your camera's compensating for that. You can't sell a car like you sell a... Well, you can sell a used car. I guess you can't. You would... Well, I think your setup looks real nice otherwise, Lamar. Well, thank you. Except for my failed lighting. Well... If it makes you feel any better, the two lights that I used to use kind of, you know, as sort of side and back fill lighting, I'm not using currently because my dog chewed through both of the power cords. I thought that was exclusively for cats to do. What about it pays to read the fine print? Oh, that... Oh, that's not one of the main stories. Yeah, that's good, though. It does. I would say... There's no... I'm a little more cynical. I like the, you can't be homeless in a Tesla. It's true. Um, I like... Well, we wrote that. It's great. Yeah, that's just... That's exactly how I feel. Do we want the word homeless in our title? Breaking up a corporation is hard, too. Maybe we could bring the homeless people who wanted... Breaking up a corporate is hard to do. It would be funny. Yeah. Okay. Done. Selected. I got a fun... Yeah, because it wasn't doing this yesterday. Or where do I plug it in? And then you just put the... Okay. I'm gonna plug it in. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. And then you just put that in there. Okay. It's funny. I... There's so many... I'm... Because I do a lot of walking around my neighborhood. And I've... I've told the folks at home about my strange neighbors in the trailer and the power cords going into the abandoned house and what's happening. And I still don't have any idea. the car is in the driveway. It's not in a garage anywhere. I don't know what's in the garage or maybe there's not a garage, but then and you see it's plugged in and then it's all taped down and then it goes somewhere wherever the outlet actually is. And I see that in the neighborhood a lot. Not like on busy streets where it kind of be weird or people would mess with it, but some of the because there's some like hilly areas where there's like little cul-de-sacs and just stuff where they're not getting a whole lot of traffic or even really foot traffic and you're kind of like, oh, I see what you're doing here. This is kind of an operation though. Yeah, the city allowed. Yeah, I guess they're not making a big deal out of it. Well, usually it's in like the driveway, not really parked on the street, but it's still not like within, it's to the point where I'm like walking around the car. It's like in the block in the sidewalk. Yeah, I'm sure some people have figured out some ways, you know, but I just like when I lived in a couple of houses I was renting, that would have been, I guess actually I was holding a friend's electric car in the garage for him for a couple of months and that's perfect. Like, you know, if it's there in the garage, but like living in some of these apartments, I could not see owning. I almost have to like determine where I live based on my car. I've ever bought a Tesla. Yeah, yeah, it's the reverse and I don't want to live like that. Right, yeah. It really pays to be a homeowner when you have a Tesla. It's funny at my old apartment building, I don't even have a garage where I live now, although I actually don't currently have a car so it doesn't matter right now, but at my old place before I moved, I didn't have a garage but at a car port and so it was like there were three cars, next to each other and we were all just kind of in this. It covered but it was open to the elements and there was an outlet. I was in, I was the middle space between two other spaces and there was an outlet like right in front of where I would pull up and I always was like, if I plugged in an electric car here, who pays for that? Because the space was not associated with my apartment units. I was like, that was just where I parked. Relatricity, yeah, yeah, because no one ever plugged anything in there. I don't really know why there was an outlet, I don't know, there was was, but for construction, I'm sure they use it every once in a while, but yeah, I always thought, I always thought like how long before a landlord would be like, what in the heck where is this bill coming from? Who pays for that stuff? Everyone's right, it shows up. That's right. That was probably the time. Thanks, Sarah. Well, the guy who lived under me would have ratted me out. I'm sure of it. He was a real tattletale about lots of things. Was he an older guy? He was. Was he the kind that kind of just kind of put his nose into things that it didn't belong in? Well, so the apartment building was an older one, kind of late 60s, early 70s era, and he had been there since the beginning. So he was an older guy, but he also felt a lot of ownership over the building. He and I got into it when I first moved in about something really stupid. And I kind of was, I gave him a pass because I was like, I get it. You're just territorial. And I'm like the new kid who's probably paying way too much rent and coming in here with her car, parking in the middle next to your car. He was actually mad at me because I parked too close to his car. He was on the right side of me, but we ended up becoming friends after a while. But I never trusted him to keep a secret of mine. He would be the guy who would tell on anybody who tried to Airbnb their unit, which is technically, it wasn't allowed because it was considered a sublet and that was in our lease. But some people can get away with that sort of thing. I wouldn't have been able to had I tried, which I didn't. But I should have. I would have made a lot of money. I'm by the beach. Yep. That's would have, would have been a very lucrative little side biz, but I've always been thinking about that. Like set up a pup tent in the driveway. Have at it. Some friends of mine who built a house, it was already there, but they made, you know, did a lot of renovating to it up in Sonoma County. It's really nice now. It took them forever, years to do it, but it's done now. They mostly Airbnb it, and then they just, you know, will block off weekends that they want to go up there and live there. And they are making, I mean, I don't know exactly what the number is, but so much money that it's like, it's already paid, like all the construction and renovations have paid for itself like within a year because there's so much demand for that area because wine country and it's a nice house. There's a pool and, you know, you can fit a, you know, a good amount of folks in there. And I'm like, man, you know, you just gotta be careful of writing that one frat house that trashes it. That's true. That's true. But yeah. And you also just have to have that, well, not just like the money investment, but the guts to be like, this is going to pay off, you know, and go through construction hell for some time, knowing that it's going to be a really good idea. Cause I'm like, I'm such a free cat that I'm usually like, eh, sounds too hard. The thing is my dad was like, she still is, is a landlord. And I just have very bad memories of being a landlord. That's just not, it's never fun. Even with an Airbnb, eventually you're going to come to a point where, man, why did I rent this out? As you're like checking out the giant, you know, TV sized hole in your wall. I would never, ever be a landlord. I have thought about it. I would have to have some company run it because I could not handle that. Oh yeah. You would have to get a property manager. My wife and I have a 35 foot travel trailer that goes mostly unused up here in Alaska. And we thought about, well, I mean, we could Airbnb that out of it. It's pretty nice. It's fully accommodated and everything else. And then one of my kids reminded me that if we do an Airbnb, what's to stop my wife's ex-husband from renting it out for the summer. And I was like, oh, okay. So that's not an option. Well, I mean, you would stop him from doing that. Unless he changed his name or something. I mean, you're the one who gets to say yes or no. That's a risk I would not take. That is not a risk. That's a conflict I just don't want to handle. Oh yeah. I mean, if it seems like something that he would do, if given the opportunity, then yes, I can feel why you'd hesitate. He specifically asked about it last time he was planning a trip up here. So he wanted to use it or he wanted to just... He wanted to use it. He was like, I can just stay in the trailer outside. I don't want you have to be in the house because we have a guest room and everything else. And we were like, you're not staying in our house. And he was like, well, I can just stay in the trailer. And we're like, no, that's still too close. It's awkward. All of it's awkward. But you know what is it awkward? What's that? Oh, no, maybe it is, you know, terrible turn of phrase. I want to say thanks for everyone watching on the live stream. But we got to say goodbye. Tom's back tomorrow. Stay tuned. And then everyone else who listening on the audio channel, let's stay tuned for more. There's more to him. All of my secrets. I have a terrible segue. I got to work on those. You know, some terrible segues are the best segues. And that would be a good segue to stop the broadcast.