 I think it's good. I think the hurricanes are good to go to the Stanley Cup. That's the only thing I'm sure about. And I'm also sure the Blues are not going to the Stanley Cup. The Blues can keep it interesting. I'd like to see these go on. They would make me happy and not just because they have a lot of former Leafs on the team. Yeah. I mean, I'm enjoying it while, while I can. Yep. I saw the Cup and also forevermore the count after they score goals will make me happy. One of my favorite crowd things. Yay. I do miss the checkered home, but not really. I just missed the name. The place itself was kind of a dump, but the enterprise center. I've never actually been to a game at the enterprise center since they moved in there. Hey, Tom. So how was your trip to Vegas? It was lovely. Oh, yeah. At a great time. Got to see a bunch of frog pants people watched Avengers Endgame with a crowd that was entirely made up of frog pants listeners and producers went to a great little producers dinner and had to hang out with Scott Johnson and Ibit. And then all day Saturday, there was the board games at the hotel, although I did sneak out to watch the blues game. Actually, a bunch of the drunk kids gaming folks like helped me figure out, but Zula particularly helped figure out how to set up the TV in the cabana at the pool so that we could watch the game while we're hanging out there. But yeah, there was a bunch of board games and then a concert at the container park. Everybody's hanging out and having drinks and talking went to a speakeasy with a bunch of people. Yeah, it was really fun. Was it like a real speakeasy? So they have the Mob Museum in the old city hall and downstairs to the side is a speakeasy. So you have to know the password, which you can look up on the web. You know, you give them the password, they open up the door and let you in. And it's like a good old fashioned looking, you know, bar 20s style with a lady dressed up like a flapper singing songs and they serve all these cool cocktails like one is served with your drink in a bottle that's hidden in a book. So they give you a glass in the book and then you open up the book and you, you know, pour it out. There's a bathtub gin that you ordered that comes in a really tiny bathtub. What, what, like, what does that mean? Well, bathtub gin is made in the 20s. They made gin in the bathtub. I see. So this is a bathtub gin and it has a little tiny bathtub. So like they brought you a drink in a dollhouse kind of bathtub? Right. It's a little actually pretty nice though. Like it's, you know, it's a soaker tub for a doll. Well, not to, you know, deviate from the tiny bathtubs, but you might have a show to do. Yeah, we do. Shall we, shall we get along with that? Let's commence. All right, here we go. Lee McCartney has supported independent tech news directly for five years. Be like Lee, become a DTNs member at patreon.com slash DTNS. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, April 29, 2019. Happy birthday, Meg. In Los Angeles, on top merit. And from Studio Freelance, I'm Sarlane. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Joining us as well today, very happy to have freelance producer, Jen Cutter, back on the show. How's it going, Jen? Hello, everyone. I'm doing well, having fun here in Toronto. We were supposed to get snow yesterday, but it snowed like all over the U.S. in the prairies, but not in Toronto. How did you manage to just send it to us? I don't know and I'm very sorry. I really wish it came here instead. We're going to talk about game developer burnout with Jen a little later, so stick tune, stick with us for that. But let's start with a few tech things you should know. A group of security researchers led by Noma Rotem that discovered an unsecured database on a Microsoft cloud service containing addresses, names, ages, genders, income levels, and marriage status for more than 80 million U.S. households. It's unclear who owns the database. The server containing the database came online in February. Rotem discovered it in April in a post on vpnmentor.com. He called on readers to help find the database owners. Yeah, we're a little out of order here, but this is a really interesting one to start with. And we'll get to our quick hits in a second. But what is disturbing about this is that you don't know who owns this, so you can't get it taken down. Now, they have contacted Microsoft. Microsoft hasn't commented publicly about it. Microsoft conceivably could go to the owner of this database and say, hey, you got this unsecured thing here. You probably should be taking this down. But Microsoft might be in legal hot water to take it down, even though they know that it's unsafe to be there because it's not their property. And their terms of service say we won't touch your data, so they really need to wait for the owner of it to take it off. Thankfully, the security researcher found it before malicious people did, but it's not to say somebody else couldn't find it. Shall we go up to our quick hits? Yeah, I know. If we got nothing else on that one, then yeah, let's do some quick stories. Marcus Person, aka Notch, created Minecraft 10 years ago and then sold it to Microsoft in 2014. He's not going to take part in Microsoft's 10-year anniversary celebrations. However, a Microsoft spokesperson told Variety his comments and opinions do not reflect those of Microsoft. The PowerBeats Pro wireless earbuds from Apple's Beats will go up for pre-ordering Canada and the U.S. on May 2nd for $250. Everybody else gets them May 10th. I know a lot of people have been waiting for these. And State Development Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Robert Strayer said that the U.S. government will reassess information sharing with allies who use wall-way equipment as part of the country's 5G infrastructure, saying that the U.S. makes no distinction between core and non-core parts of 5G networks. The U.K. and Dutch carrier KPN are both open to using wall-way equipment and non-core deployments. Now, Apple's reporting earnings today. We'll wait for their earnings call and talk a little bit about the context of that tomorrow. But Alphabet also just reported their earnings and they missed. Alphabet shares dropping nearly 4% after hours trading. Quarterly revenue rose 17% from a year ago. But that's its slowest pace in three years. And Alphabet's expenses have grown faster than revenue for much of the past two years, which is concerning to some investors. All right. Let's talk a little bit about Apple removing apps and the complaints about that. We've talked about that in the past, about how Apple has been accused of favoring its own built-in apps over apps in its app store over the weekend. The New York Times reported that Apple removed or restricted 11 of the 17 most downloaded screen time and parental control apps over the past year. Two app makers have filed a complaint against Apple with the EU's competition office, claiming Apple forced changes to apps to make them less useful than Apple's own native screen time app. However, Apple's Phil Schiller told MacRumors that the apps in question used mobile device management or MDM profiles that are designed for enterprise use so businesses can access employee devices and manage them. Anybody who's had a device through a business that has MDM knows that this means that the IT folks at your company can get into your device. They can update stuff. They can remove apps like corporate apps. They can block services that they don't want in case they think that might be a threat to our intellectual property or leaking of data. They can manage your device for you, basically. Schiller said, yeah, if you're an IT department that is trained in doing that, that's fine, but no independent developer should be using these MDM profiles on consumer devices because the profiles give the developers unrestricted access to the device. When you download this app and say, yes, I agree, you're now saying that it's okay for the maker of the app to have entirely unrestricted access to your device. That means if you're using a parental control app, that's unrestricted access to your children's device as well. Okay, this sounds a little like burying the lead here. The first half of that story sounds like, oh, this sounds really shady by Apple. Then the second half is like, oh, wait, this sounds not good by the actions of the developer here. That's a lot of access you're giving someone to everything on your phone just to see what you're doing on your phone. Yeah, I understand that parents want to be able to track kids. I understand as well that there probably is a legitimate developer beef that, hey, Apple's got their own screen time thing built in, and we can't do all the things they do with the traditional Apple API. So, hey, there's this MDM, we could do some of that. We won't misuse it, we promise. But Apple's saying, it doesn't matter if you promise, if they give you MDM access, you have it, and that's probably not a good idea to give. A little close to stalkerware, isn't it? What's that? I said, it's a little close to stalkerware. I understand parents and kids, but then there's always the, how can this be used in the worst possible way, and how do we prevent it if we're Apple? Yeah, it's something that needs to be, there probably needs to be a middle ground. There probably is an argument that Apple is not giving these parental control apps enough access to be as useful as they could be. But they shouldn't have to give away the store to do that kind of parental control, and there probably is a little anti-competitiveness on Apple's part, even if it's subconscious that they have their own screen time stuff that can do things because they're like, well, we're Apple, we run the whole operating system anyway. What would be the alternative? If someone wants to call Apple out for being anti-competitive, what is the alternative in this situation? Give the people who develop parental control apps the exact same controls that the screen time app has. Don't say, well, the screen time app's part of the operating system, so it can do some stuff that we don't let apps do, but don't give them all of the MDM unrestricted access. That's what I thought. There could be a middle ground for that. Let's talk about Spotify's earnings. Oh, you thought last week was a big earnings week. Well, this week is, it keeps rolling. Spotify reported it lost 0.79 euros per share, but raised revenue 33% on the year. Spotify also announced it grew paid subscribers 32% on the year, becoming the first streaming music service to reach 100 million paid subscribers. Worldwide, the company now has 217 million monthly active users, and the company expects to have 222 to 228 million users by the end of the quarter with 107 to 110 million paid subscribers. It identified smart speakers as a key growth area. Big surprise. Well, smart speakers as a growth area, I think for a few years people have been wondering if that would really be something that takes off, but it keeps growing. If the music companies are saying, yeah, that's where we see most of our listening coming from, I think it puts an underline on that. Spotify getting to 100 million first is part of their bragging rights against Apple. Apple's beating them domestically in the US and Canada, but they're not necessarily beating them around the world for now. Spotify wants to keep it that way. They want to stay in front. And if anybody who's sort of like, oh, well, you know, why isn't the revenue higher, the company had said in last quarter when we found out that it acquired Anchor and Gimlet, both podcasting companies, that it was going to be putting a lot of money into other podcasting companies. And a company called Parkast apparently, Spotify paid 30 million euros rather to acquire. So they're making good on their claim. Yeah, Spotify's growth has been incredible in terms of how they've hit people who aren't into tech. I have teammates who don't know how to use their phone, who have Spotify accounts and run it in their cars. They run it everywhere. I'm like, you had me check your email for you last year. How did you figure out Spotify and Bluetooth so fast? So their growth has just been outstanding when people want it. And it's funny to say that because Apple, it's bread and butter is people who aren't really techies, right? But Apple just does everything the right way. So the fact that you have friends who are like, I don't really understand technology, but Spotify just works for me is something that's working in the company's favor. And Apple Music, even though it's available on Android, I think a lot of people who use Android don't think about it as something that is one of their choices. They think, oh, I have to have an iPhone for that and don't look into it. Whereas Spotify, they know, oh, yeah, I can use that on any phone. Even though it's true that you can use Apple Music on Android, I think Spotify does have an advantage and that advantage pays off in markets where Android is even more dominant. And iPhone has a hard time breaking in, for instance, India, where Spotify just launched and added 2 million users at the drop of a hat. Yeah. I'd love to know from our audience how many folks are like, oh, yeah, I use Spotify, my smart speaker, whatever your smart speaker might be, because it, you know, just like mobile. It's a very personal decision. You have lots of options and it's kind of personal. Jen, I don't know if you do, you know, you dabble on the smart speaker. I don't. I'm not a fan. They're not anywhere that I live, but a lot of my friends have them. And so at parties and stuff, that's always what's in the background. Yeah, it's funny. We, we, you can switch profiles on the Echo, but it's such an annoyance to remember to do it or to know which profile is on at any given time that what we did is we hooked on one profile. We hooked Eileen Spotify and my Apple Music so that we don't affect each other's playing history. She tells it like tell Spotify to play this. And I will always say tell Apple Music to play this. I prefer Google Play Music because that's what I use normally, but it's just not available on the Echo. Sam's Unannounced Day, 43-inch Quantum Dot QLED TV called CERO, S-E-R-O, meant to be stood on end in order to watch vertical video, which can be automatically displayed when your phone is near. So you come home, you put your phone in, it's docked to charge, and boom, your Instagram videos show right up on your 43-inch Quantum Dot QLED TV. Who doesn't want this? And if you're like, well, wait a minute, what about my non-vertical video? Sometimes I like to be old-fashioned. Well, it can swivel into a horizontal position to watch all your old-fashioned horizontal video. The TV also offers 4.1-channel 60-watt sound, Bixby Voice Control, and supports NFC for that mirroring. They plan to do 49- and 55-inch sizes later this year. It will be available at the end of May in Korea for 1.9 million won, that's roughly $1,630. There was a typo going around. You may still see some stories that listed for $16,000 because someone shifted a decimal place on the amount of won, but it's 1.9 million won. So it's actually a fairly, I mean, it's still kind of expensive for a 43-inch TV, but reasonable at $1,630 equivalent. Well, I feel like an old person because, of course, when I first saw the story, I was like, who would ever want this? But I also said that about vertical videos on mobile. For me, I'm like, oh, I see that they're catching up to a certain class of gamer because pinball gamers and music gamers for like Beat Mania and the like is like, yeah, we got vertical monitors for this. Where have you been? And 4.1-channel sound, right? I'm kind of curious to see what the frame is like for the whole rotating thing. Yeah, they've got pictures of this out there. And it's part of this kind of picture frame line that Samsung has going out there where they're trying to make these very stylish panels like the serif and the frame are other models kind of in this same line. But this is the first one that can swivel vertical. And the way Samsung is presenting this is this is a vertical TV. And in fact, the stand it just on is vertical, but you can swivel it horizontally if you want to. Yeah. And again, not to poo poo this, what's obviously a pretty cool thing, but okay, when you're dealing with something in the mobile sphere, it's vertical or it's horizontal. It's kind of easy to deal with. When it's in your living room, and it's 43 inches, and it's on a wall, how often are you really trying to like swivel that whole thing back and forth? Is that going to be something that people are just like, yeah, that's part of life or pain? Yeah, it does. It does. But again, I haven't done this at my house and maybe I'd be happy to have it. Well, folks, if anyone, I mean, Samsung's pitching this as a concept, but it's also going on sale. Like it's got a sale date and a price. So maybe it's just a limited run, but also they probably don't expect to sell that many of them. But if anybody in Korea gets ahold of these, let us know. Feedback at DailyTechnica.com. Well, if you are looking to go on vacation sometime in the near future, the Wall Street Journal reports that Marriott will expand its test of a home rental service from Europe to the US. Marriott is the world's largest hotel operator with 1.2 million guest rooms. Airbnb is the largest room provider with 4.92 million listings. So Marriott has been testing its home sharing service in Paris, Rome, Lisbon and London, while Airbnb recently acquired Hotel Tonight. So, I mean, as is, and I've said this on the show before, enthusiastic Airbnb user is Hotel Tonight, certainly so much. My first reaction was like, oh, Marriott, they're trying to get into the game here. But if they can undercut Airbnb at all on price, then they've got something here. Yeah. And I think the other advantage they'll have is the whole Bon Voy ecosystem, which is with the newly named frequent stay program, their loyalty program, because as they took over Starwood, which was the Westons and St. Regis, they wanted to create a new name for this expanded catalog of hotels that they have. So they named it Bon Voy. I'm sure I'll get used to it. It's kind of weird. But when you're in, when you're a Bon Voy user with a lot of Bon Voy points, you go into the Bon Voy app to book stuff, and I could see places where it's like, wow, there's not a lot of hotel rooms, and they're kind of pricey. All of a sudden, these shared room listings showing up like, oh, well, that's a bigger, better deal. Even if it isn't necessarily cheaper than Airbnb, it'd be cheaper than what you're looking at in that loyalty program app. Yeah. Especially for business people who travel a lot, now you're getting business people who don't use the Airbnb side of things kind of getting used to the idea, which may end up helping Airbnb in the long run, though, but that's different, though. No, that's a good point too, though. You get the corporate world, which is tied in, and Airbnb has their corporate booking system now, but you have to go sign up for it and set it up. And a lot of booking agents and companies probably are like, you know what, I already have Marriott in my system. I'll just use that. You know, it's funny that, okay, so Marriott, huge, huge hotel conglomerate. Airbnb obviously does what it does very well. And I have this conversation with people all the time of like, certain people are like, I just like the hotel experience. I just want to be at a hotel. I want room service. I don't need an apartment. I'm kind of on the other side of things where I like the idea of having a kitchen and, you know, feeling like I'm in my own house type thing. How much, you know, obviously Marriott getting into this, they know that Airbnb is killing it to the point that they have to offer something besides the hotel experience. I just, you know, I wonder what were, you know, like, what is the hotel experience going to be like in five years? Oh, I don't think the hotel experience is in danger here. This is, this is- No, not in danger, but just like- This is additional revenue for whoever wants it. And as I said in our pre-show, to paraphrase Netflix and HBO, I think Airbnb is trying to become Marriott before Marriott can become Airbnb. Both these companies want to have both kinds of listings available because there are both kinds of people out there. Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to DailyTechHeadlines.com. All right. There have been lots of stories kicking around about developer burnout. We're not trying to claim developer burnout is new, but there's a story on Kotaku about how Bioware's Anthem went wrong. There's a story on Polygon about the intense crunch period at Epic Games because of the success of Fortnite. Some devs are speaking out about crunch time at other studios. Jen, what is game developer burnout? It seems like it's pretty widespread. It is. Well, we all come from the old media world where we know people who've worked in television and movies and stuff for 30 years. If you've been a game developer for 10 years, you are a grizzled old veteran because everyone else has left. It's a short-term career because people cannot handle the working conditions. It's not that they don't want to make games, it's that they get treated so poorly, there's little incentive to stay. Whether you're working in indie games or the usual AAA culprits, it's very tough to handle the constant crunch, which is what it gets called when really it should be called mandatory unpaid overtime. I can crunch on a project and make quadruple rate and that's fine. That's a choice. That's a short-term thing. These are companies that are crunching endlessly over and over again to either make E3 demos, to make release dates, and then once the game is out, now you're crunching again because every game is a forever game. You've got cases of like Fortnite every season. There's new maps, there's new vehicles, there's new everything. The crunch never ends and that's just unsustainable for human beings who want to have a life and sleep and eat food that didn't come out of a plastic box once in a while. It sounds like that's part of what's changed. I had a friend way back in the late 90s, early 2000s, who was an EP at 3DO. That's how long it was. There was a 3DO. He would talk about how they'd set up cots during crunch time when they were getting close to ship for a couple of months and people would come in and do these 12-hour days plus. Then when the game shipped, they would have downtime. He, as the person running it, even though it wasn't technically the policy, he would turn a blind eye if people missed a couple of days after ship date. But it sounds like, A, the policies should have been that that was okay, and B, there's no longer a downtime after ship. It just never ends. Yes. Being compensated either through overtime or through loo time kind of thing would be nice. Some companies do find a way to grant it, but a lot of times you're going right back to it. Crunch has become normalized if not romanticized by people. It's like, oh, you're not a real game developer until you've done. I used to crunch for 18 hours a day. We slept under our desks and they didn't even feed us. We know that there's tons of game developer students who are willing to do all of this work for less money. Crunch is just part of the business. No, it's not. You have to have a healthier life. You will work better when you have a healthier life. You will solve problems better when you sleep more. Our games will be better and have less bugs when developers get to sleep more. This is a problem that gamers should kind of start thinking about. Well, I think not game development doesn't always happen in Silicon Valley, but the Silicon Valley is sort of like, oh, everyone's making so much money doing their development, that kind of thing. I think that this is an underlying issue where it's like you work over time, all the time, because you're making a bunch of money. Someone's paying you, maybe more than you think you deserve or maybe you do deserve it. It doesn't matter, but the burnout is real. The way that people sort of turn on the whole situation is quite real. It doesn't have to do with not making enough money. It's that this is not sustainable. It's not sustainable behavior. I don't know. I wish we talked more about the fact that I wish I made lots more money, too, but you can't necessarily, what we're describing here is what you got, 10 years before you're like, I can't do this anymore. 10 years at best. Then another big problem for game developers. I say developers, but I should also include artists and writers and QA, everyone that goes into making games what we love. Contract workers, temp workers, these are just bodies thrown at a problem, treated like crap, promised with like, oh, yeah, though, there might be full time at the end of this for you. We'll see how it goes. They give three years of their lives to a project. They get turf right before the end and don't even get a credit on the game because they didn't survive the process. They didn't put in enough hours to make the company happy. This on top of toxic work environments, this is all going to come into play in future lawsuits and forced arbitration clauses. This will become more and more news as people start talking about it. People are so miserable. They are willing to put their names on this kind of treatment, say, this is what happened at my company. I don't care if I never work in games again. This is what happens. I need people to know about it so it doesn't happen to more people. That's how fed up developers are. It sounds like we're finally reaching the breaking point, but what's driven the trend that perpetuated this? You would think that there would be so many developers that would just say, no, I'd forget this. I can find a programming job that doesn't do this for me. It was because people just wanted the glamour of being associated with games. When you love games and want to make games, you will make these sacrifices to work for these companies. Then once you get your foot in the door to find out that it's even worse and you've been led to believe, it will push you to the breaking point that you will talk to reporters, that you will find things like Game Workers Unite to help try to drive the change to make the positive change in the industry. You've heard a lot of talk about unions lately and there was a possibility of a walkout at Riot Games. That news just broke today because they were going to push employees towards forced arbitration as opposed to lawsuits because you know that any kind of oppressed underclass always goes, you know, and really make this better forced arbitration. No, they want their ding in the heart. You're right to take action on your side. I really do think that this is going to become a bigger and bigger issue. For gamers, what they can really do is take it easy on the pre-release hype. Know that you're being sold a lot of promises that may not necessarily happen. Just try to pay attention to these stories. Try to support game developers who are promising that they are not putting the developers through this. What was it? Minomi Park. They made Slime Rancher, which is an amazing game if you haven't played it. They put out that game, which was like AAA quality from an indie studio, working 40-hour weeks. It is possible if they plan properly. Well, and I think that's one of the keys. If you are concerned about this, look for games from smaller studios, independent developers, that you can verify like, hey, these people either are the ones making the game themselves or if they have teams of people, their teams that they make it clear that they treat their developers and their employees with respect. If you can't find that stuff out, then maybe be a little less willing to play that game. You have to support the developers when you see them online talking about the story. Let them know that they're being heard. Yeah, BioCal says support cruelty-free game companies. Cruelty-free to their developers would be the point there. Thanks, everybody who participates in our subreddit, also cruelty-free. It's a lot of fun, in fact. Submit stories and vote on others at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. We're also on Facebook. If you hang out there, join our group, facebook.com, slash groups, slash dailytechnewshow. Let's take a quick look at the mailbag. Well, let's do it. Marco wrote in about a conversation that Roger and Ellison chaired, and I had last Friday about the idea of school, of school when you're young. Marco says, I live in Utah, and what I understand is somebody who had their child go through upstart, which was the program that we had mentioned. The program is designed simply as online preparation for kindergarten and for preschool age kits. Here in Salt Lake, where Marco lives, there's a tremendous effort to reach out to low-income communities in terms of awareness of the program, and if the CCFC's concern is that inequality would be widened with how low-income families may be less able to have laptops or tablets to participate, the nice thing is that upstart provides a Chromebook to use for the duration of the program, typically a year before they hit kindergarten. Given that Spanish is the majority minority language here in Salt Lake, the whole program, as far as what the parents need to interact with, is also offered in Spanish. I was surprised to hear the story on upstart given how much praise it gets here in Utah locally by parents and educators alike. It's like a fun game. Kids have to do it for 50 minutes a day, five days a week. Kids love it. My daughter was off to reading starter, reading books when she was four, and this is not uncommon. All right. Well, thank you, Marco, for that perspective on upstart. 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And you can find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. Back tomorrow with Aya's Aktar from CNET as our guest. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. The Diamond Club hopes you have enjoyed this program. That was a good show. Thank you, Jen. Good show, Jen. That was fun as always. Yay. All right. We'll look at some titles at showbot.chatrealm.net. If you're watching or listening live, you can get in there and vote on the titles that were submitted during the show, including Support Cruelty Free Game Companies. I think it's my favorite. Is Biocow have the record for a number of titles submitted that win or what? I don't know. I bet there's somebody out there keeping track. Biocow is up there. Yeah. He gets them in there a good amount of time. Stalkerware also submitted. Marriott Bonvoyage. Got it. I'm sure that's what that name comes from, but that's good. Game development isn't a game. I actually didn't realize that now makes sense, but I didn't really think I realized it until I read Captain Jack's submission here either. Yeah. Now I'm like, oh, that's what that is. Okay. Ramsong is straight up. I like it. That one's good, too. I haven't slept in a Fortnite. Yeah, Fortnite lends itself to these way too many times. Yeah, it does. I like Support Cruelty Free Game Companies. I do, too. That's what I voted for that one. Now for Good Day Internet, someone suggested Tom's sister. Tom's sister was on the roof? That will get people clicking. Yeah. I'm on the roof. Dad, she's on the roof. She's not on the roof. She's not on the roof. She's in the closet. Where did you hear her say this? I don't know if I remember exactly, but it's something along those lines. Hold on to the commercial. I look forward to the video materials after they see this. Wait till there's a time out. I'll go play. Tom, on the subject of title contest, there are a few people that are trying to get a sweep of a week. Dark Redeemer and BioCal, I think, have both maxed out at four. I've got three, and I know there are a few other people with three. I want to not hear these numbers, because then I will become biased, either for or against people. All right. So anyone have any selections for a GDI? Yeah, Tom's sister is on the roof. Yeah, Tom's. Oh, I thought you were joking about that. No, that was actually submitted. She's still up there. We need to get Tom's. It's perfect. Don't change it. Poor Meg. Got the roof, Meg. Have a great day. Get off the roof. It is the best way to start the week on a Monday. Roger, if you don't like it, we can come up with something else. No, no, no, no. The way you phrased it, I thought you were kidding as a kind of, because like, oh, we're just because it's funny. I have never met your sister, but I'm sure it would be funny to her as well. She will be amused by this. Tom, I'm not abused. Let's all go to Illinois and put Meg on the roof. And then interrogate her and see how we all feel about it. No, I'll be scared. What happens if you put her up there and she likes it? Get up there, Meg. All right. She might stay up there. I was like, you're a great perspective of the town. Oh, our county clerk. Yeah, she's up on the roof. And we need a nice patio picture with a drink or something. Under duress, in fact. Her brother made her get up there. I don't know when she was 10 years old or something. I don't know. She started it. That's a tourist attraction now, though, so it's really. I'm sorry, Meg. Download this. Ah, download, download. Why is it not down? Oh, there it goes. I'll have to walk you through this process, Amos. All things in time. Well, did we ever get the Apple earnings? I'm curious. I like that we got... I planned for the Alphabet earnings and then... I planned for the Apple earnings because the Alphabet earnings are usually boring. But then the Alphabet earnings missed and became interesting. I'm still not doing anything. No. No. Is this the wrong day? Well, hold on. Yeah, I know. You're going where I'm going, aren't you? Apple's tomorrow. Apple's tomorrow. Tomorrow is Apple Samsung AMD LG and... Earning to lose it tomorrow. You're going to have a busy day tomorrow on that. It's an a la mode. I'll be interested to see how Samsung handles their numbers with all the pre-orders they received for the device they didn't deliver in time. Yeah, they weren't going to sell that many of them anyway. I don't think that's going to matter. Well, what they should do is take some of those vertically rotating monitors and make a clamshell. But, like, literally just take two of them. That's what we need, clamshell TV. It was a courier. Was there, like, tablet notebook that were just two screens that touched each other? They were separate screens. They just folded in, like, a Nintendo DS, basically. And I'm still mad they never made one because I wanted one so badly. I still want one. Give me two iPads. Put them together. Let me, like, do two-screen stuff. Duct tape. Duct tape will fix everything. If you can't fix it with duct tape, it's not worth fixing. In the future, it doesn't matter. All those displays will be shot in the back of your retina, so it won't be a physical display. It'll just be something light in your retina. That isn't so good. Shot? You should wait until you see how it looks. Hey, I had to fix my hockey bag and I used duct tape and I used Hello Kitty duct tape, but I'm very proud of myself. Ah, but that's hockey. Oh, there you go. That's very much a pigeonhole to squirt. Oh, let's see. I might have a picture of my dog somewhere. Hardcore. Is it on your Instagram thing? Can I pull that up, or do you not want people to see your dog? I have to post it first. I have a current one, not one from Christmas, of Shaggy Dog relaxing. Shaggy Dog. Sometimes it doesn't have my mom in the shot. Does your mom ever up on the roof? Is she a fiddler? Jen, what happens when your mom gets stuck on your roof? My mom is the one who knows how to fix everything, so she's the least one I'm concerned about. My dad would go on the roof to fix the reception because we had one of those big, tall TV ads. Yeah, we did, too. And we would have the classic situation where my dad would be yelling down through the open window to my mom. Is it better? It's worse. It's kind of snowy. Move it to the right. Oh, wait. No, you went past it. No, but go back. Whatever you did worked for a second. Yeah. Those are the days. Forget your cord cut. We were no cord. The only cord we had came from the antenna into the back of the TV. Power cord. And the power cord. You're right. Fine. Hey, hey, fine. I won't bring it up. It's obviously a sore spot. We're having such a fun cord metaphor. You had to bring your truth into it. I remember my uncle, my cousins, but my uncle had a TV that the remote was corded. You plugged it into the TV. It wasn't wireless. Does it really count as a remote if it's plugged into the TV? You're not next to the TV to change the channel. Somewhat. But you had to put it in how remote you could. Yeah. The button on the side that you clicked in. I think it's on my pin tweet. It was like my dad's old, old TV. So I used it as my secondary when I was playing games and watching hockey. But yeah, that thing was a tank. It was an ancient Sony Trinitron. Oh, that's newfangled technology. Trinitron came out in the early 80s. We still have the old Zenith black and white. When I got my TI-994A, I had a problem where the last, the bottom line would fall off the screen because of the way my old TV scanned. It was an old black and white television that my dad had got from Columbia House or something when he was a kid. And so I got them to buy me at the JCPenney Outlet, a 13-inch television that was on sale at the outlet already because it had a crack in the case. JCPenney Outlet? I didn't know there was such a thing. Oh, yeah. That's for the bargain shoppers. I bet I'd like it there. Super bargain. We'll get you this. So my first personal television, which was hooked up to my computer, was a 13-inch color TV with no UHF. It had 13 buttons for the VHF channels, and that was it. I mean, I don't think that our first TV had UHF either. I didn't have UHF. That was just a normal thing, but... You had two dials. You had the VHF and UHF. We didn't get a color TV until 1987, and we got it because they were giving away free bicycles, and my dad thought it would be a cool way to get my sister a bicycle and a TV for the family. Wait, what? Hold on. How did the TV and the bicycles come in? No, they... So if you bought a TV from Dave Matthews at the top of the hill, Daily City, you got a free 16-speed bike. 16-speed. Yeah. My dad rented a little cargo carrier to attach to the roof of the car so we could bring it home. It was all assembled. You didn't have to take it out of the box and screw it together. That's a plus. I mean, my family's first TV was black and white, and eventually it sort of got moved into my parents' bedroom, and then there was a color TV that was in the living room. But as a kid, the color TV was the cooler one. I knew that, but I didn't really mind if things were in black and white or color for a long time because I was so used to the black and white. It was always the second TV for us. Before I got the computer, my dad bought a new TV and moved the color TV into the other room, and so I got the black and white TV to work. And the only reason I got it, because my sister, by the way, was so mad. She's like, how come he gets a TV? Well, she was stuck on the roof. Yeah, she was stuck on the roof. Like, you can't watch TV up there. Sorry, Meg. But my dad's like, well, because he has the computer. And I was told that I was not to use it for anything except the computer. Sure. It was my always did. And you bring up. And you follow the rules. Hopefully because you could barely get reception for anything on it. Amos, if you're still there, did you get that link, isn't she? He's there. I see him. I'm sure my dog on Twitter. You can see my Shaggy Labradoodle. He wants to see him. Oh, he's so furry. Oh, my gosh. So badly because it's really muddy out. But look at that man. Oh, my gosh. What a cute adorable. I have puppy pictures I should post later, too, because she was a totally different color when she was a puppy compared to now. It's pretty funny. Was she lighter? No, she was so dark. She was the darkest brown. And she didn't make a sound, which is very different from now. She did not bark for like eight months and I was concerned. And then that changed. And I don't have to worry about it anymore. There's a Labradoodle that I see on my walks all the time. And Ray, my dog has leash issues. So we always just stay away from other dogs. But today I was walking Sawyer, my border collie. And I was like, oh, we can go meet. And that guy's like, oh, yeah, it's fine. They can meet. And then the Labradoodles just started like taking an issue with Sawyer. They're just like, I don't know why she's doing that. She never does that. I'm like, yeah, that's fine. Yeah. I was like, oh, I wanted to play with the Labradoodle. Oh, well. Yeah. Callie doesn't love other dogs, but like does like to play. But little kids, like she will sit there and like little kids can poke her in the eye and like play with her ears. And she doesn't care. Like she will sit there and take it. And like just, she knows, like don't mess with the kids. The kids are fine. Let the kids be kids and just deals with it. And I kind of love that. All right. My dog Otis is, sorry, Tom. Oh, no, no. If you want to find more out about Sarah's dog Otis, stick around on the audio version. That's coming up next. Video folks, thanks for being here. And Twitch folks, thanks for watching our test video on Twitch. We will not be doing it every day yet, but we'll let you know in the Discord as soon as we know what the plan is for Twitch. So stick around for that. Audio folks, stick around. There's more to come.