 For Miami subs whenever I put on this shirt. Does Miami sub still exist? They do I believe they are part owned by a recording artist and all-around emphisario pitbull. Oh But it but it has a Very colorful history that the guy who founded Miami subs Had some very creative ways to make money and some shady business partners famous for their euros because he was Greek and also They would sell you a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne Was it worth it or the sound which is good? I Mean really that's like work question. No like the Dom like okay Literally, you know you get a hero and a Dom like welcome to south welcome to south floor in that beautiful Yeah, if you Google Miami sub champagne, there's like pictures of the menu Where it would just be like soda two dollars Dom Perignon champagne. Oh, here we go. Look at it right like was it like a like regular retail price $195 for a bottle of Dom Perignon like a $4 euro type thing Yeah, well the other beverages was what I'm looking at right now You could have a $2 beer $2.99 beer a $4.69 Chardonnay You can get a glass of champagne for $4 and 69 cents But if you wanted the bottle which I mean you might need the bottle when you're eating those wings and euros at a Miami subs in 1995 you need to peel off that, you know Buck 95 All right, you guys ready? I Mean Just just watch that whole thing off of me. Yes. Let's do a tech news show. All right. Here we go in three two Eileen Petringaro has supported independent tech news directly for five years be like Eileen become a DTNs member right now patreon.com slash DTNS This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday April 25th 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio feline I'm Sarah Lane from Oakland, California. I'm Justin Robert Young and to run out the cast. I'm Roger Chang the show's producer I wouldn't be complete without you Roger rounding out the cast today First of all a big thanks to Scott Hepburn who sent us all burger noodle five t-shirts Yay Scott which are a pun on the burger new low five Spotify band that was fake that one Peralta did art about He also packed in some hot tamales for you Sarah. I'll make sure you get this which is good because I Just ran out of my last Well done. All right, let's get on with some tech things you should know Uber drivers in seven US cities are planning a 12 hour work Stoppage for May 8th. That's the day of uber stock market IPO. So not coincidental Drivers will be trying to raise awareness for better wages Clear policies and better employee benefits and representation of workers Figures suggest that Uber and Lyft drivers are paid on average $8.55 per hour in the US The work stoppage will happen in San Francisco in Chicago and Los Angeles in San Diego in Minneapolis Philadelphia and Washington DC During an earnings call Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said it is very much in everybody's interest to maintain quote The Hulu relationship He added that Hulu is really valuable and we're glad we own a really large piece of it Apparently they also want to find out how valuable it is in CNBC reports that Comcast is in talks with Disney over whether it will sell It's one third stake in Hulu. We're glad we can cash out from Disney with this very valuable piece of Hulu Maybe during Nintendo's earnings call CEO Shintaro Furukawa said we're always working on new hardware And we will announce it when we're able to sell it He added that the company has no plans to announce new switch hardware at E3 in June Remember Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal are among the outlets who've been saying Nintendo might launch a less expensive switch with fewer features Possibly in June, but it sounds like that certainly won't happen at E3 and maybe not even in June Amazon beat expectations for profit in the first quarter of 2019 reporting $3.6 billion of net income and all-time quarterly records sales increased 17% with earnings of $7.09 per diluted share Amazon's AWS cloud division grew revenue 41% to $7.7 billion and Amazon Studios greenlit more than 20 new and returning local original series in Q1 as well So don't worry about Jeff. He'll be fine. All right. Okay. Let's talk a little more about Facebook's earnings Yes, Tom Facebook reported its daily active users increased 8% to 1.56 billion monthly users Also up 8% to 2.38 billion if you include messenger. What's up in Instagram? Facebook has 2.1 billion people using its services every day sales increased 26% year-over-year beating expectations 93% of all advertising revenues coming from its coming from its collection of mobile apps Facebook also reported that it will set aside 3 billion dollars Which is 6% of its cash in anticipation of a fossil a possible FTC fine later this year and a related note Canadian regulators said Thursday that they will take Facebook to court over its mishandling of users personal information That's a don't let's not forget to circle back to that $3 billion that they're writing down right now. Yeah, I think that's significant But those user numbers 1.56 billion monthly users up 8% 2.38 billion I'm sorry, that's 1.56 billion daily and 2.38 billion monthly both up 8% I don't I mean, I guess that's slower growth than we've seen from Facebook in the past But it certainly doesn't indicate that there's any kind of mass movement to get rid of using Facebook No, and I we've always understood that to be a bit more of a tempest in a teapot whether or not the leading edge Loudest online community is representative of a future trend I think remains to be seen but no Facebook as it turns out today Remains popular. Yeah, big news dog bites man Facebook remains popular All right, let's get back to that 3 billion dollars. This is a brutally practical move on Facebook's part Remember the FTC is investigating whether the whether Facebook violated its previous agreement by allowing third parties to use data Without properly informing users. It's not about whether Facebook did anything It's whether Facebook didn't do enough to stop its third parties from using the data improperly When it said that it would not let this happen again, and it sounds like Facebook believes that the FTC is going to punish it So they think in this guidance between three and five billion dollars and they're so sure of this that they're Actually setting aside three billion dollars right now. They're just writing it down Taking it off the bottom line their revenue would have been better this quarter if they hadn't written this down But they said you know what let's get that off the books right now So it doesn't impact our stock Well, and also in a quarter that otherwise looks pretty good for right. Yeah To do this very strategic so that when if the quarter that it the fine does come isn't as good This won't affect it as much. Yeah, how much of this is? Facebook self-reporting to the FTC to that. It's like hey look we know that we're gonna get fine We have three billion dollars. So are you really gonna make the fine more than three billion dollars? That could be yours if we just agree right now Yeah, maybe it's like Facebook trying to buy a sofa. It's like hey look I know it's listed for 200, but I got a hundred in cash right now Yeah, I I actually don't know how much it's that or how much it's the FTC and Facebook are in a room right now going Well, it's pretty much gonna be a fine It's just a matter of us dot in the eyes and cross in the teas We'll let you know and Facebook's like great. We'll go start getting the money together. Thanks This is why you have lobbyists. It's also, you know when you know normal people like us Say three billion dollars. It's like that's so much money when it comes to Facebook It's like six percent of cash is the actual number that I think makes more sense for the company Yeah, there have been times in my life when six percent of my cash was six dollars Yeah, and I don't want to talk about that anymore Tom Well, then tell us something else. All right Verizon opened its orders for the same Samsung Galaxy S10 5g alongside its announcement of Actual 5g mobile servers in 20 additional cities beyond the previously announced Chicago and Minneapolis areas Verizon mobile 5g is available to users of the Motorola Z3 phone with the 5g motor mod now keep in mind AT&T has Fake 5g service that shows up on 4g phones But also has 5g mobile service in 12 cities that only works with a mobile hotspot at the moment So if you're on AT&T and you see 5g on your phone little public service announcement Be aware you're getting 4g service that AT&T is marketing as 5g evolution So it is evolving Yeah, well, yeah, like they're not saying where on the evolutionary chart it is right It could still be kind of a very proto fish, you know, but but yeah, it's evolving every day What Verizon is doing is actually using 5g to mean 5g service on actual telephones cell phones that use 5g Going from one phone that required a mod to another phone. That's a flagship phone for Samsung That doesn't require a mod So I mean I'm not saying five horizons 5g service is better, but it's very clear what it is So I'll give them that and adding 20 cities ain't bad either It's got to take a couple years for this to really permeate and honestly for most people They shouldn't bother to upgrade at this point yet Even in the places where it's going to be it's not going to be in every neighborhood even for a few months or even a year Yeah, look their 5g has the capability to really kind of open up a lot of possibilities in terms of speed and communication and and I think it can be disruptive to some of the telcos but Look, it's not here yet Don't worry. You will know if if AT&T is going out of their way to Mislabel something so you might get Fractionally excited now because you see something on your phone Imagine how much money and effort they are going to put into the fact that That will eventually be a thing that you can take advantage of so that this news will find you Yes, yes, exactly, and we'll try to keep you up to date when real 5g comes to AT&T So that AT&T subscribers want to look to see if there's a small e or not Meanwhile, Microsoft has become a one trillion dollar company again today on the stock market Here's why Microsoft Q1 revenue rose 14% over last year operating income was up 25% earnings per share up 20% to a dollar 14 per share But with Microsoft the interesting parts are always in the segments and they have three major segments these days Productivity and business processes is the one that has all of your office 365 stuff your Skype stuff LinkedIn, etc That division raised revenue 14% pretty evenly across its products Though LinkedIn stood out a little with a 27% rise commercial office 365 Subscriber numbers were up 27% and consumer subscribers for office 365 were up 12% Office 365 revenue as a whole was up 30% while non-cloud office licenses fell 19% so all that means is the money is shifting into the cloud version of office versus the one you buy in a box off the Shell on to intelligent cloud. That's Azure And all of the Azure services the cloud services up 22% in revenue with Azure itself up 73% and The enterprise mobility installed base grew 53% to more than a hundred million seats That's Microsoft managing, you know accompanies mobile services and including non-Microsoft phones since that's all phones now But the one you most care about out there is probably personal computing That's Windows Xbox search Advertising etc as a whole this division's revenue was up 8% the surface devices revenue grew 21% Gaining revenue was only up 5% but that's because we're in the lull on hardware for the Xbox Software and services rose 12% that's a healthy number the number of Xbox live users rose 7% Search revenue on Bing rose 12% but the big star was Windows. Yeah Windows OEM Pro revenue grew 15% on higher than expected demand from commercial systems OEM non-pro was only down 1% they expected it to be farther This is you know because people are getting Windows 10 free now with their upgrades all the time and Windows subscription and service revenue Jumped 18% now. You may ask yourself wait a minute Why is I thought Windows was the fading out part of the brilliance of such a mania well It's probably driven by the coming end of life of Windows 7 Which means enterprises are coming in and renegotiating their Windows licenses and that that causes money to come in And it's being drawn out It's not all happening at once because companies are putting off the upgrades due to some Intel chip shortages So we'll we'll see that Windows revenue kind of spread out a little bit over a few quarters Microsoft so hot right now in so many ways, right? Right in all of them turns out Yeah, I it's Not it's not surprising because Microsoft has been on a bit of a trajectory For the last few quarters, but um, yeah, this is healthy numbers. Yeah, I mean look this was the You know everything that we were kind of applauding Sacha Nadella for when he first came in is refocusing the company on the things that we're making money They have done fantastic with Azure the surface can in terms of hardware They have continued to put out a product that people seem to really like as opposed to venturing out into some of the You know that the phone the smartphone world that did not pay off for them in the same kind of way And they've continued to make Xbox work, which is something that initially, you know, we heard rumors wanted to get spun out So Everything's coming up roses and Redmond. I want to put a statement out not as an assertion But as something to kind of test as we go along looking at tech news every day sure that is That Microsoft Apple and Amazon are the three companies hitting a trillion market cap Now granted this is stock market cap That is a weird revenue. That is a weird measuring stick, but it's not Alphabet and it's not Google and Those are the two advertising-based Companies whereas Apple has services and hardware Microsoft has cloud and gaming and all of this stuff and Amazon is is retail and Transportation and logistics as well as cloud. Yeah, so is there anything to that? I'm not saying there is or is not I'm just saying I want to keep an eye on that. Are we gonna be talking about ma in the future Microsoft Apple Amazon? Not Fang that's I Yeah, I actually think that that's that's a pretty astute observation Advertisings fickle and a Apple is putting out signature hardware that they have tremendous margins on And the other two companies are selling the concrete of the internet You know any kind of cloud services will always be around as long as we still have an internet unless there's a radical shift And how we deliver what we understand is the internet and Alphabet's trying its best to diversify not only in non-Google companies But also with cloud services inside Google. So I'm not saying they'll be out forever. They may be the third a in the ma Like a like a sheep In the US verses carpenter on June 22nd 2018 the US Supreme Court ruled that people have a constitutional right to privacy in their physical movements and law enforcement Must get a warrant before obtaining that data But exceptions have been sought and the carpenter decision is being tested in the lower courts Tuesday the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts versus Almanor that warrantless police access to real-time cell phone location data whether from a phone company or collected in a device like a stingray intrudes on a person's reasonable expectation of privacy The justices said that cell phones serve as a proxy for an individual's location and that society's expectation is that quote law Enforcement could not secretly and instantly identify a person's real-time physical location It will end quote the ruling however was based on an article 14 of the Massachusetts declaration of rights Which the court notes quote may afford more substantial protection to individuals and quote than the US Constitution a similar case the state of Maine versus O'Donnell is still a trial So this is interesting because it's not will it rise to the Supreme Court? It's how is the Supreme Court decision being interpreted in practice and what it looks like law enforcement is trying to do is say Well, wait a minute. You said we can't just get records without a warrant, but we're asking for recent records Right, we don't want to track this person's entire history I don't think the Supreme Court meant less than six hours, right and the state of Massachusetts said no In fact, we don't even need the Supreme Court We can look at article 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights and tell you even if it's less than six hours You still need a warrant and it'll be interesting with Maine where they don't have the same articles in the state Constitution if they'll rely on more on the Supreme Court or whether they'll have their own justification But it does seem to be the like the wind is blowing towards more protection for your location records Or you know at least requiring the warrant versus warrantless surveillance The information reports that Amazon is testing something called utility patent a neutral evaluation to fight patent infringement Here's the deal the seller claiming infringement makes a $4,000 deposit to make a claim in the program If the accused party doesn't respond the product is removed by Amazon and the deposit is returned If the accused party puts down a $4,000 deposit a third party attorney makes a decision in the case And then collects the deposit from the losing party Amazon will take any fees from the departs deposits or payments unsurprisingly So if I have this right You can go through the normal procedure and say hey Amazon They're infringing and Amazon employee will look at it and decide whether they think it's infringing or not and take the appropriate action And you don't have to pay for that not taking that away, but they're saying if you don't trust that We'll let you put down a $4,000 deposit put your money where your mouth is and this is probably for larger enterprises than just Individuals home sellers to say okay, we'll get somebody outside of Amazon We'll get a third party to come in a legal expert and look at this And that'll be a little more binding. It'll be a little more neutral And and you can have someone decide Whether this is a problem or not And and you basically have to have both parties willing to say I'll put $4,000 down. Yeah, let's it's like a kind of arbitration Yeah, so anybody who has sold on Amazon You know, we'll quickly understand that it is a wild wild wild place like there is it's very it is common for people who are moving at a certain amount of Units which you can tell because Amazon even to random users shows how popular certain products are in their categories that they will have knockoffs come out with the same name undercut their price and You know for whatever it costs you that day in sales you understand Reasonably that you have lost X amount of money so for companies they that that are moving at a larger kind of You know just cash flow every day. This is a great way to say hey look $4,000 is probably what we were gonna lose on this anyway So now let's do this get the expedited version of all right Amazon goes to the people that are using the the patent wrongly and says all right You have $4,000 to challenge this they say no because they were there for the cheap buck and You bounce, you know, this this I think is just a way for people to swing a band hammer for Players in the Amazon marketplace to swing a band hammer more effectively and $4,000 puts it at a range where it would be Harder for it to be abused not impossible, but harder now the question is Will it be abused because it can be really really really annoying if yeah, that's the case and a couple of things to note First of all Amazon doesn't get any of this money the money goes to the third-party lawyer Amazon's not trying to turn this into a monetization thing. They say we're not keeping any of this money This is just between y'all. We're providing an arbitration case for people who say, you know I'm not satisfied that Amazon knows enough about this or is impartial enough or even like I trust you guys Amazon, but you you're just you can't be impartial you're Amazon. You're the platform I really want someone impartial on this. I want somebody who's an expert which is totally normal in arbitration That's why arbitration exists. It's not because people are lax or negligent arbitration exists because someone's like I just don't know that you can be fair because your position. That's no insult Let's get somebody from the outside and Amazon saying great if you're willing to put $4,000 down on that awesome Also, you can't just put $4,000 to get someone busted The other party has to respond if they don't respond it just kicks back to Amazon And it's not like you can you can pay $4,000 to bring somebody down So I'm not saying there aren't other ways to game it but there might be But that's not one of them. All right Walmart opened a concept store called intelligent retail lab or IRL for customers in Levittown, New York Store contains 30,000 items spread out across 50,000 square feet staffed by a hundred employees and it's not Cashierless cameras monitor inventory levels to restock shelves and pull expired items So restockers will know exactly what to bring out with them without needing to walk the floor and check It saves a bunch of time The AI is also going to be used to make sure shopping carts are available That registers are properly staffed because the humans are still going to be checking you out and the data center That's making all this happen will be in the store and visible to the customers Not that's just for fun But kind of vintage nifty that you'll be walking by and you can see them and see the servers and everything And they'll have the fancy blue lights like data centers have sometimes. So, yeah I worked at a grocery store last when I was in high school. So it's been a while But I love those sort of like Walmart saying like we're not going cashier list We really Depend on our cashiers and that's a big part of our our business, which is true But then it's like the AI will make sure Shopping carts are a bit like that's kind of what the staff does like I'd love to know how this kind of breaks I actually I'll argue with you on that one Because the staff have to go and see like oh wait are the is the are the shopping carts empty crap I need to get out to the parking lot if this works, which it could I'm not saying it does But it could it will alert someone like hey the shopping carts are close to running out It's this is the optimal time to go collect them from the parking lot so that they don't run out Because every you know every Walmart every every store out there runs out of the cards before the person gets out there And starts collecting them it happens all the time. Yeah this is more of a press release than it is a Ground-breaking shift for for Walmart, but it's it's interesting I think that it's it's definitely Walmart trying to say Hey, look, what what what will Walmart's look like in 20 years? And that and that is a big question because considering how dominant Amazon is The Amazon's looking to make Walmart's obsolete in 20 years You know and Walmart has has proven itself somewhat, you know, well I mean not somewhat but definitely still in the game Trying to compete with Amazon on levels that I would have never anticipated beforehand So yeah, a lot of this is sort of like Amazon go. All right. Here is Walmart. Yeah, oh, yeah No, absolutely. I 100% agree with that especially the data center in the store That's that's totally gimmicky, but I think this AI is real and I think it's useful at optimizing your employees It could save cost if you reduce the employees and Walmart says they're not gonna do that They were gonna use the employees to help you on the floor more and make people more available to answer questions Which you know some people may not care about but I think a lot of people do so I think there's a little bit of some substance to this Behind oh, yeah, no, no, I think that again This is about what Walmart's will look like like they are testing out things that will make Walmart a more pleasant shopping Experience as opposed to the ubiquitous we beat everybody on price experience. Yeah, which which they they absolutely need to do Man, I wonder what that plucky upstart underdog Walmart All right, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day We've got an option for you it only take five minutes or less subscribe to daily tech headlines at daily tech headlines Dot-com and also thanks to everybody who participates in our sub reddit You can submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show dot reddit dot-com We're also on Facebook if you hang out there join our group Facebook comm slash groups slash daily tech news show Let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. This one comes from Phil Phil says last week You talked about how several of the online grocery shopping giants such as Amazon and Walmart and shop, right? We're implementing snap as a payment option for purchases I teach coupon and money-saving skills to people in mental health care settings And we're all in agreement that this is a great way to alleviate the stress and anxiety that grocery stores can bring We're already using store online shopping sites to do price checks while compiling our shopping lists and a store Allow you to use coupons. I view this as a massive win The small shopping fee is easily worth it to avoid a public panic attack And what's a few bucks when you're already saving? 70% or more on your groceries. Oh, that's a great perspective. Thank you for sharing. Yeah. Yeah Appreciate that. 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Hey, hey guys They just want to take some time to commemorate the five-minute anniversary of When we last did that awesome show so everybody A lot of people don't even realize how influential it was five minutes ago Donald Trump was president back when that show Yeah, no true wow strange strange, but true Yeah, okay, so everything's coming up Microsoft Let's see expectations get beaten all over Amazon makes money Facebook remains popular It's our our dog bites man title. Yeah, I like that one, but I feel like it'll just like bore somebody Yeah Thanks I Like hey ma Hey ma now we also have a couple of good day internet titles say gested Including Touch me touch me touch me Right. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah, I guess that's it. I thought thanks. I lean was Touch me. I'm just saying do it so I can get I don't want you to do it, but if you must let's do it But where gloves? Yes You know Brian brushwood used to be a a stalwart of the opt-out and the pat-down. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no, that was like a A Literal political crusade for him was to not Go through the machine and to make it as awkward as possible exist Well, you would just you would just make it. Yeah, he would not make it easy for TSA And then I think he just got bored He didn't you know, I think he probably came close to missing a flight at some point was like, all right, cool Yeah, I made my point. It didn't it didn't sink in I decided to submit myself to further background checks and surveillance that I assumed was happening anyway in order to make it easier for myself But hey, we all have our ways of approaching things. I don't travel as much. Yeah, Roger just refuses to leave his house That's another way Oh, hey, do you want to see Scott's Easter basket that he sent us? Oh Nice Got Johnson sent you an Easter basket Scott Hepburn, so Scott Hepburn. Oh, I thought you meant Scott Johnson, too I was like, oh, no, no, I'm I didn't go five t-shirts in it. Oh, yeah, let's see it. Yeah, so he's he put little detain us stickers with the Easter eggs So it's for all of us Oh And then like Two boxes of hot tamales for you, I assume and then a bunch of other old candies for the rest of us About the other candies Cherry punch sweet tart ropes Would it would eat various skittles, but I think they're just different colored packages. They all say original Okay, okay. Love it Starburst I'm a fan of the starburst. Well, some flavors more than others I think it's just more of the same That's a lot. That's a nice hat Well, all right So I'll take the hot tamales and you and Roger can can can joust for the skittles and I Responded to Scott already. I was like this. I'll probably put off eating the candy till after my doctor's appointment So I don't wait Oh Get a dentist to run in first. Yeah, right and then get into them skittles these tarts ropes I've never had sweet tarts ropes. Are they like licorice? They they look like licorice form factor. They're not like they're They're they're a a sweet and sour here. Let's do an unboxing. Let's do it. Yeah, go All right. So there you go. They're kind of yeah Look, yeah, they look kind of twizlery. Yeah. Yeah, no, they got a twizler mouthfeel. Is there yeah I hate that word mouthfeel every now feel Mallory O'Mara pointed it out on Twitter I'm like, but yeah, they they the texture is like a twizler But it's a tart. It's definitely like sweet tart flavored. It's not as tart as an actual sweet tart I'm into them. I see I don't like I don't like Licorice the twizlers or you know, there's there's like crushed sweet tart in the filling Yeah, that sounds kind of gross Oh It sounds kind of gross till you have one. Yeah, I'm kind of I'm kind of into that Yeah, I don't mean to ASMR you all that's all right. It's all right It's uh, it's it's okay. I Yeah, I mean I as I've as we've talked about on shows past like I don't really like sweets But I love hot tamales. I love cinnamon. I love hot tamales I mean, I would eat them for breakfast lunch and dinner if it would keep me alive, which it wouldn't I would save your emails Right. I know I won't do it. I'm not you like big red shoe. I'm not ending at all Big red big big red gum big red gum. That's it. Yeah. Yes. I love big red gum My favorite gum growing up. That's what I was Juicy fruit was a pretty close second. Do you see it's gonna move? Yeah? Yeah, but the big red is the is the Wintergreen I'd be like, oh, thanks. Oh No, thank you. I'd be like I'd rather not My dad used to Encouraged among young people right My dad used to once he stopped smoking. He had a certs Phase guys remember certs. Oh, yeah, like C. RTS. Yeah, and it was um, it was What not wintergreen, but what's the other like Spearmint Spearmint and it was like they were the worst certs and for whatever reason it just worked for him And so, you know, he's popping them all day long for a little bit But it was like even as a kid. I was like, I don't anyone that's Spearmint Sir Trident and tic-tacs. Those are the ones I remember as like breath fresheners certs with a drop of Retson Yeah, Retson, Retson was the accountant over at Wrigley's and he found out too much and they had oh mint Yeah, I associate peppermint certs with Christmas because quite often I would get the the book of certs from someone Usually like that was like a school Present where they didn't know who they were giving it to so they just bought a book of certs and they would always be peppermint And why couldn't they just call it peppermints? Oh, they wanted to have make it fun. You know, yeah, you can you can own it. No, I mean That's I always assumed it was like some sort of like copyright problem, you know, like Or like were they were they not actually using peppermint so they they had to get around it I don't know was it like that though? like Retson was a mixture of copper gluconate partially hydrogenated cotton seed oil and flavoring. Oh geez It was a bite I mean I reluctantly ate some certs, but I certainly did eat them. So who knows what's going on in my body now It had no actual mint in it. That may be part of the reason they were not calling it peppermint It's peppermint. It's a new it's a new mint It's mint, you know in It's a lifestyle. It wasn't mint for you Wow, that's a some 7th level punning right there Um, so roger and tom just and I know you're not in the la area, but Have you guys been sneezing are you allergy people because I am dying? I mean, thankfully I did not sneeze during the show But I mean I was like several hours this morning like to the point where I felt like I was like Emperor Palpatine like I looked so red and just like oh I have not been sneezing, but I I don't usually get allergies in california But I'm noticing like my sinuses kind of Yeah, I didn't know what it was. I thought man I must be really tense my when I would like try to lay down to go to sleep And then I realized after a couple days it was my sinuses just kind of mildly aching and I think it's From all It's the super bloom. The super bloom has now attacked The super blooms turned on us. Yeah. Yeah, the sinuses Inflamed sinuses that leads sometimes leads to a sinus headache, but mostly have a lot of watery eyes Yeah, that's that's my problem too. It's like they were sneezing but it's like when I got up this morning and And I used to have really bad allergies when I was a kid But that's been gone for years long time. Like I I that sort of I had grown out of it. Thankfully But yeah, like my eyes were watering when I got up this morning like almost like I was like crying You know where you're like, what is happening here with the like the you know with the hide docs Are you having any super bloom type stuff up in the bay area there? Oh, no, actually, uh, it's been Okay, I I had a big allergic reaction going east So when I when I changed, uh time zones there and got into a new allergy You know sphere. I I had a real reaction, but other than that up here. We're we're pretty good. I mean everything's a lot more lush like Yeah, it's been and it's been quite hot as I and it's been uh, uh, yeah. No, it was it was downright, uh You know, it fits in like an air dail out there yesterday It's an air dail Yeah, that's how you know It's air dail schvitzed so much. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever met an air dail? Yeah, jeez. They schvitz They're schvitzin On schvitzin I forget where is that that's a christopher guest movie if it's not best in show then Just best in show There's a spinal tap No, but which one has this waiting for guffman Which one schvitzes Is that the one from mighty wind? No Mighty wind is the most in show because it involves an air dail, but who knows Oh, this might have just been from the tony kornheiser show. Oh Anyway, uh, well that was a weird side jag. Uh, yeah, it's hot Yeah, yeah, it's hot out here and hot. I mean hotter than la which is rare. I mean Oh my god, isn't hotter than la right now. I mean, it's not 90 degrees down here It was not 90 degrees yesterday. Oh, I thought it Well, maybe people exaggerate a little bit but but but but there were a area that mayor made out of the show yesterday There were some bay area friends And i'm actually not talking about nicole No, no other folks who were like, oh 90 degrees. Oh god, we're all milk No, it was it was like 70 something which which like is yeah, which is it was like direct direct sun high 70s Is in general for because oakland is a little bit hotter than san francisco Oh, yeah, it's it's not as hot as like san jose or the north bay or anything, but Uh, or god forbid if you go beyond the mountains in the east bay Oh, she's immediately, uh Beyond the wall as a beyond the wall and you are immediately 20 degrees hotter You are in the lafayette the opposite of the wall in fava throats. There are fire walkers there Oh I mean, okay. I have and again no spoilers. I have watched episode two like Four times really? Wow. Yeah, because like I just keep trying to figure out like, okay They're trying to tell like certain things like real quick Before we get to like some battle stuff, which is obviously happening like it's like i'm trying to figure out Because they're just there are only a few episodes left, you know, so it's all like What is important enough to be added into the end of this whole thing? So I've been I've been I've been going deep. What are the clues for after the battle you mean? Yeah, yeah, well folks, I've got a plane to catch so we're gonna move things along here video people But are there more speculations from serra to come audio people stick around? There's more to come whether it's that