 to get Scrapple with your meal, do not ask what's in it. Nope. I know it's in it. And then understand that you enjoyed what you ate by way of what's in it. I had Scrapple for the first time at Bob and Edith's on Columbia Pike in Arlington, Virginia. And it was delicious. And I did not know what it was when I ordered it or ate it. And I'm glad I didn't. Scrapple is delicious. Because now all I think of is how delicious it was. I mean, because basically it's just a big patty, right? Exactly. It's a big sausage patty. Yeah. Start the casing. Yeah. You don't ask too closely what went into your sausage. You're not Rudyard Kipling. Yeah. I mean, who are you? Rudyard Kipling? Jesus, running around here like you're all a bunch of Rudyard Kipling. Just eat your Scrapple. Just eat your Scrapple. Like, I mean, at least in Minnesota area Midwest, you got a lot of Scandinavian, like Lutafisk. Yeah. And what's hot dishes, right? Isn't that like a Minnesota? I have a lot of German-influenced food in my area. But again, nothing. I mean, pork burgers. Pork burgers would be the one thing that I could think of that definitely was huge in Greenville and you couldn't find it most other places around us. But that's not, I don't know, the pork burgers or... What is it in Iowa? It's like a fried pork loin. They love... Yeah, but they eat it off the bone. Like, it's like, I've seen it at state fairs. Yeah. No, it's like a fried pork loin and they love that just as much as they love dipping their pizza and ranch dressing. It's like a corn on a stick. If you need to dip your pizza in anything, it's a bad thing. The kind of food I would get at the Bon County Fair would be the most regional of foods and nothing I could think of is, you know. That being said, I'm reading this book about the campaign and they're talking about, I'm reading the Iowa stuff now. And I really, really want to go back to Iowa for the caucus. That was super fun. Is it heaven? No. It was fun. It was just a good time. Somebody on Twitter tipped me off Greenville, Illinois was the dateline of a Wall Street Journal article on big agribusiness today. And good old Jim Gaffner was quoted the soy ambassador. He calls himself, no, I think he's officially like the soy growers association guy. Okay. So, are we all clear about what we're doing here? I do do a show, right? Yeah. Roger needs control, as always. Always. Control free. Control. Okay. Here we go. Quality content thrives for the support of those who benefit from its creation. If you gain value from The Daily Tech News Show, consider joining others like me who provide support. Learn how to help at dailytechnewshow.com slash support. This is The Daily Tech News for Thursday, April 20th. I'm Tom Merritt, Justin Rubber, young alongside for the National Holiday of Colorado. And Washington State. And Washington. And large parts of California. I got a little thrown off at the beginning of today's show. This doesn't usually happen, but I got a notification on my iPad that it uses a sound board right as we were starting the show. Rick Ankeel unpacks the yips and talks about getting a fresh start. Is that just a random? I mean, as a Cardinals fan and the long story of the outfielder slash pitcher, Rick Ankeel, and the word yips, it just really threw me off. I apologize for bringing baseball into your tech podcast. Well, hey, listen, I know that this show is going to be a perfect 10. And I have five on it. Let's get it going. All right. Here's a few tech things you should know. MasterCards testing a new fingerprint sensor in its credit and debit cards in South Africa. It replaces entering a PIN or signing a receipt. So certainly more of an issue for folks in countries that use the chip and PIN technique. Which is all of them, but us, practically. Everybody but us, right? But interesting in terms of the advancement of tech on this front. Yeah, for sure. Amazon brought its Lex voice assistant technology out of preview so any developer can build chat features into their own apps. That's, so basically we knew this was available, but now everybody can get it. So that's kind of cool. We'll be seeing more Amazon stuff. Apple released its environmental responsibility report saying it has a goal to eventually move to a closed loop manufacturing system in which all metals and rare earths in its products come from recycled materials rather than mining. I'll tell you. I mean, this has been something that's been a big issue for them for a while. They've always wanted to be on the forefront of the environmental and reusability thing and it's been as a PR sword and shield a way of fending off some of the stickier issues that they have in China. Yeah, and they don't have a timeline on this. It's just a goal. All right, I am gonna put on a hat and fill up the shot glass so I can take off this hat and pour a little out for Australian retail because Amazon's coming. Amazon confirmed its launch and its retail online shopping services in Australia. Amazon searching for a site for its first fulfillment center. They do have a bookstore. If you're like, wait, there's no Amazon in Australia. There is. There's a few products there. Kindle Store, a few other things. They launched that in 2013. Meanwhile, in advance of Amazon coming to Southeast Asia, the troops are circling. They're circling the wagons. The wagons are some metaphor involving circling in there. Lazada announced a partnership with Netflix and Uber called Live Up, or maybe Live Up, launching in Singapore for 28 Singaporean dollars a month. That's about $20 US a year. I'm sorry, not a month a year, $20 a year. It offers faster shipping from both Lazada and Taobao. Lazada is owned by Alibaba, so is Taobao. Discounts for red mark groceries, discounts for Uber rides, discounts for Uber Eats, and six months free Netflix. But in reality, Amazon coming. You know, much like over down the alley, this should not bode well when it comes to Australian commerce. Although, who knows? I mean, I'm good for Australian commerce in general, in aggregate, perhaps. Yeah. Can you imagine with all that we rely on for Amazon now, if all of a sudden, for all of our Australian friends, they're going to get the fully formed Amazon, Amazon Prime experience just all at once. I feel like it's overwhelming for me, and I've been a Prime member for coming on a decade now, for as long as they've had it effectively. And Amazon likes to do price wars. Australia famously, famously has higher prices for many things than they reasonably should, even with exchange rates. I wonder if we see that kind of stuff happening. I have a prediction, and that is that Amazon's e-commerce, or sorry, Australia's e-commerce that is not Amazon will indeed go up in smoke. I'm brick and mortar too. It's the eye of Sauron that is Amazon, turning away from Singapore for the moment, giving them a reprieve. An update on Google Home adds support for up to six different users. Not only can six different accounts be connected to a device, but Google Home can tell them apart by voice. Each user will train the device by saying the trigger word three times, while Google thinks its voice detection is pretty good. It admits it's not perfect and does not recommend relying on it as a security feature. I read between the lines as, this will stop Burger King, but don't use it to safeguard purchases. You'll need to go to other methods for that. So the idea is only the users that are authorized will be able to trigger it. Right, that's the idea is you'll have multiple accounts, so you could have, you know, six people in a family, up to six people, register and train it with their voice. And then when that person says okay, and then says Google one after the other, it would only trigger it if that person has trained it. If I say it on this podcast, it shouldn't trigger it once this is in place. So let's understand that the Burger King thing was obnoxious by Burger King, although pretty funny, I think, to many, many people. As I said earlier today to Justin, the troll in all of us admired Burger King. It was one of those, where somebody was going to do it, it's funny that somebody did it, right? Like it was going to happen at a certain point. However, I kind of think this is a little bit of a step down if random people aren't able to use it. Like people who come and like watch our birds when we're away could be able to turn on our lights so train them a profile, add their profile to it. So now we got to have them come on. I don't really think the step, no, no, no, it's at the point of AI. The point of these voice activated AIs is to avoid that step, right? And we can always do, this is the common point when it comes to technology, to dismiss technology, well, you can always just do bleep, blop, bloop. No, the magic is not happening to do it. I hear what you're saying. It's putting a barrier in place. Yes. But it's like saying, it's like saying to my ears, like, oh, so now you have a password on your laptop and not everybody can just sit down and use your laptop. Well, that's a pain. That's not the way technology is supposed to work. Like these devices, you only want people who are regularly in your house to use them. Do you? You don't want people to be able to do it at a party? You don't want people who are- No. ...courses that are coming in to be able to do stuff? I mean, I- This is the difference between you who has friends. No, I mean, in all seriousness, we have people stay over quite frequently. People are passing through town, it's at our Brian Brushwood was just here. Would I like Brian to be able to use my Amazon Echo? Sure, I guess. Or my Google Home in this case. But it never came up. He never did. I just don't see it. I see it as more people are concerned about it being accidentally set off for the wrong reasons than are concerned about letting guests use it. Yeah. It's interesting though, I hadn't really thought about it, to be honest. I guess to me, the magic is ubiquity. And if you are taking away from ubiquity, I'm not saying it's not forever, that it's a major problem. It's just a thing for me that I don't know if it's going in the right direction. Yeah. HTC plans to show off its squeezable phone, the HTC you, on May 16th. I don't know why a squeezable phone just makes me smile so much. The phone is expected to include edge sense. It's a system of sensors in the frame of the phone that'll let users control apps and other functions by squeezing or swiping. It also, you know, it's got sensors so you can swipe along it to do stuff too. I just feel like, Justin. I love it. That, you know, people are like bezel-less, fingerprint sensors, biometrics, and then HTC's like, oh, I got something nobody's thought of, squeezable. Squeezable phone. Well, I love it for a few reasons. Number one, HTC obviously is just like, notice me, Senpai, in any way. Like, we just need to make a phone that's going to stand out because these heavy hitters are making these world-class phones. Let's see if we can take a gamble on a feature that for whatever reason people tend to like and now maybe we can be a little bit closer to the center stage when it comes to the smartphone conversation. But also, I love it because it's not just this herd mentality that we have right now within with Samsung and, you know, Google and Apple where all these phones are effectively the same. Within a year, all of the top smartphones are going to be these gorgeous, beautiful, button-less glass shards and they're going to be great and I'm going to own one and a bunch of people are going to own one and we're going to really like it. But I just long for the days when there was the crazy little thing that came out. And when I see squeezable phone and you can swipe and that's another way to engage with the phone itself, I don't know. It's pretty cool. I kind of like it. I kind of love it. And look, we know a lot of companies have been doing like voice assistance before other people or modular phones. The try-it modular phones, it didn't seem to work out but there's still a few companies trying it. Like, yes, we get it. But there's, I don't know, there's something about squeezable that just strikes me as funny but also useful. Like, I see the demo from HTC where you're just holding the phone and then you basically like can just move your thumb to move through a menu and then you can squeeze it to select something. Yeah, it kind of feels normal. It kind of feels cool. I really dig it. Yeah, good on you HTC. Yeah, good on, hey HTC, good on you, huh? Verizon reported a 20% fall in quarterly profits from 1.06 per share last year to 84 cents a share this year. Verizon lost 307,000 retail post-paid subscribers. Analysts had expected additions of 222,000. Doge, yeah, 222,000. Go south, south, 220, yeah, 220. Yeah. Okay, so first of all, Verizon in the process of trying to become an ad tech company as well. Don't forget about that. They've got AOL, they wanna buy Yahoo. That's gonna make up a bigger percentage of their margins but right now, wireless is the majority of what they do. And not margins, margins is the wrong word. But it's gonna make a bigger percentage of the business. They need to be adding subscribers and the best part about this story for me is that everyone said T-Mobile couldn't survive that they needed to be bought by AT&T. Well, not everybody, but a lot of people did. And turned out that not letting AT&T buy T-Mobile kept the market competitive to the point that T-Mobile is now stealing business from Verizon which would have been unthinkable a few years back. Oh my God. I mean, in this coupled with the spectrum that they've bought, they're, you know, crowing about how much better the T-Mobile service is going to be. This is really an amazing story and it's hard to make Verizon kind of softening in their lead as far as their market share grows into a T-Mobile story. But if you're a lot, John Legere, it is inhale, exhale. There's a lot more subscribers getting a T-Mobile bill in the mail. There is a tremendous story to be told that a company that said, you wanna know what, people find their cell phone companies odious and a nickel in diming to say, hey, what do you say we start doing a lot of consumer friendly shocker, consumer friendly practices and it could make business sense in the long run. This is just an exceptional story. And you're right, Verizon has been future-proofing by buying the companies that they have. They wanna be a different company in five years than they were five years ago. They saw this coming, but man, it's a fall of that short. I mean, this is a half million, over a half million difference between what the expectations were and what they wound up doing. That's a big swipe, you know. And don't get us wrong. I don't think we're overselling this as Verizon is done. T-Mobile has won the war. By far, not the case at all. Instead, we have something much more interesting which is, hey, you can't just rest on your laurels and expect to stay number one and have little niggling fights with AT&T with sort of a wink, wink, understand we're not gonna change our terms too much, right? There's plenty of room for both of us in this market. Instead, you've got T-Mobile and to a certain extent Sprint and all of the smaller operators out there nipping away at your heels, causing you to go unlimited, causing you to really rethink how you approach customers. It's not killing Verizon. It's making Verizon have to work for their subscribers. Indeed. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in partnership with General Electric have developed a clothes dryer that uses sound waves instead of heat to dry your clothing. High-frequency sound waves speed up drying from 50 minutes to 20 minutes and should use 70% less energy. Way it works, small sheets in the interlining of the drum vibrate at a frequency high enough to shake water from clothing, turns it into a cold mist that is then driven into the outer part of the drum where it flows into a collection tank. It also produces less lint because the lint comes from the air blowing through and basically damaging your clothing and this doesn't do that. Does it not shrink your clothes? I don't think it would either. I don't think it would. Right, because that's a heat thing, right? Because the heat stretches things out and then it compresses. Yeah. Uh, you could dry your wool sweaters in this? Give me, give me, all right. Is it next year or is it the year after when this is the talk of CES? This seems like one of those like sound wave dryers are going to be the like the thing that everybody's talking about at a CES within the next two years. Possibly, yeah. I think that might be the case. I love that, first of all, this is coming from Oak Ridge National Laboratory where they have, you know, one of the world's biggest supercomputers. Not that that supercomputer was working on this, but hey, they're doing lots of good research there and this could, I mean, it would cut your power bill. It would save on your clothing. Your clothing would last longer. There's so many good things about it. I mean, wow, you wanna know what? We've got just a lot of like cool, fun tech, like cool, fun hardware stories today. This is a great thing. This is a cool sound waves. I wonder if this would affect animals. Would my dogs not like the sound of this running? Oh. Like what frequency is it at? I don't know. Oh dude, all right. So what would you, would you trade for 20 minute drying if your dogs went freak show crazy? Oh, no, no. I would have to figure out a way that the dogs aren't affected by this because this would be a no go. So what if it's just you had to take them out. They had to just be out of the house. That's so inconvenient. I'd rather just go 50 minutes at that point. It's only 20 minutes. I mean, I'm sure if you add it up all the time, that's the time. Yeah, but it's the flexibility of the schedule. Right now it's important to my lifestyle, Justin, to be able to toss clothes in the dryer, turn it on and leave and go out and get some Chippino. Uh-oh, uh-oh, we got it, we got it. Roger's tagging in. What's up, Roger? But this would make the ultimate washing machine is you could build that in to a washing machine, right? And so you would actually need to transfer anything. It would be in the same machine. How awesome would that be? And you know what's great is because front-loading washing machines typically only use two gallons of water. And if you get the really high efficiency kind, they extract at least 80 to 90% of the water in their spin cycle. So you wouldn't have that much water left to shake off anyway. It'd be the ultimate washing machine. It'd be awesome. You could cut down on the amount of space you would need to store all that. I'll be great. Yeah, you're right. I'd go in on this. The dryer would become part of the washer at that point. Maybe, maybe. I don't know if the drum, if the drum has to be constructed in such a way that wouldn't work for the washer, but that's interesting. Would this be greener? Would this be green tech? Yeah, well, it would use less power. They say 70% less energy. So yeah. Hell, I'll tell you what. I mean, another, I'll tell you what. And your current dryer emits steam. It sounds like this would emit more of a condensed water, but that's not that much. I mean, here on Thursday, April 20th, we're all about the green stories. Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in around five minutes, be sure to subscribe to our other show, our Better Half. Well, our other half, dailytechheadlines.com. And that's a look at our top stories. Let's get to, we should have teased right up at the top, Wall Street Journal's Jack Marshall reporting that Google is planning to introduce ad blocking on mobile and desktop versions of the Chrome browser. Now Google's not talking. They're not saying anything about this, but we already have Marguerite Vestiger in Europe being asked if she would pursue antitrust against Google for doing this. Google would reportedly use the Coalition for Better Ads list of standards to determine what it would block. Fortune already has an opinion piece of why this is a bad idea to have the world's largest advertising company, owner of DoubleClick and AdWords, deciding in their browser what ads get to show up on people's pages. So let's walk through, just to give context, the history of ad blockers coming into the mainstream. It was about two years ago that Apple decided to start letting ad blockers into the iOS store. Right, but not built into Safari. We're letting other people come up with them. And dire predictions were made by all. And yes, it has had an effect, but it has not had nearly as large of an effect as some people feared. So the idea is, I think, soundly realized by impartial observers that there is a lot of ad crap out there. Oh, yes. It can be, at its most benign, a degradation of your reading and browsing experience, and at its worst, a malicious hole into a far more defarious actors, right? Yeah. So the idea here, it seems sound, that there would be more close assurance. We're not on the browser side. It's not different from opera doing this, right? Advertisers get their nose bent out of shape, saying, hold on, don't you dare. But users say, oh, that's pretty cool. And I didn't mention this, but it's an important point. It's opt in. It isn't turned on by default. At least, again, this is a report. But according to the report, it would be something that you would have to turn on yourself. It'd be built into the browser. You wouldn't have to add an extension, you would have to turn it on. Sure. We also don't know exactly if maybe it detected things that were bad, that it would alert you, that you could take advantage of this feature. Possibly, possibly. There's a lot of possibilities. Once it's in there, that's the big question. Although opt in versus opt out is a big difference. Having it opt out would mean that it's there for everybody. And the ad agencies would really freak over that. So with that being said, let's discuss why this is a very troubling idea for Google. Because like you made mention, Google is the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to advertising. It's how it makes all of its money. It has pioneered, from the very beginning, this the unobtrusive, easy to buy, very comfortable to click, AdWords. Consumer friendly. Friendly AdWords. We don't need to do, they do display ads, right? But they have become this very, very dominant kind of company. You would imagine that part of the curiosity to this is, so how many of your own ads are you going to be blocking? Sure. Well, none. We follow the Coalition for Better Ads guideline to a T. You'll never see one of, that's almost a troubling response if they make that. And it's the response they should have. They should say, oh, no, we don't deliver these abusive ads. So we would never be blocked. But again, that's them saying, our ads will never be blocked, only yours, you competitors who sell ads to other people. And that's a bad outcome. I mean, it's good for consumers. Again, if Google's just a browser company, this is just them trying to be pro-consumer and being fairly responsible about it, saying we're not gonna block all ads, although this report did say they might consider blocking an entire website's page of ads, even if only one type of ad was offensive. But let's see if they do that before we dam about them. But they're only going to go after the ones that are against the standards. That's a good way to do it. Opt-in for consumers is a good way to do it on all sides. It's the fact that on the other end of the campus, you've got the people who are putting these ads out there that makes it feel like, well, wait a minute, how much communication is going on between these two sides? And can your ad people tell them what to block and what not to block? And let's be clear, ad words run Google. Google has the amount of money that they have because of ad words, almost full stop. It's not to say that other stuff doesn't make money. Nothing comes close to how much they make on ad words. So let me ask you this time, is it hardballed, anti-competitive? Question mark? The way you have to look at anti-competitive stuff is this an abuse of the position in the marketplace. And this is right on the line. You can have a company do everything for the right reasons and with the right intentions, but if the effect of doing it drives out competition, then it's considered antitrust. It's considered anti-competitive. And Chrome has around 42% of the browser share in the US. It has a pretty big browser share worldwide. It's not overwhelming like it is with Android, but the Chrome browser on Android is the Chrome browser. This is gonna be on mobile and Android's got 90% share worldwide. That's where it starts to get troubling and where it starts to smell like antitrust. Yeah, and I'm seeing numbers even higher than the 40s for Chrome usage. Sometimes even over 50 or it has topped over 50 in the past. So Chrome is a dominant browser. It is something that is a huge part of many people's lives and my life as well. Would it have been a better way to introduce this? If Google spearheaded along with maybe Opera or Mozilla, possibly even Microsoft and Apple to say we want to create a consortium against the worst actors in junk and malicious ads. And we want to spread what we've learned and share what you've learned to make sure that we have the most up-to-date database that we can hard bake in to our browsers to make sure worldwide we are stamping out some of these very, very, very pernicious and malicious actors. There's no reason to believe they haven't tried that. They may have. Again, this is a Wall Street Journal saying our sources tell us they're considering this. Part of that consideration may be even now reaching out to others to for a final announcement that involves multiple companies. We don't know, but yes, absolutely the only way for this to avoid any kind of anti competitive appearance is to put this out as a non-Google started consortium. So the problem with Coalition for Better Ads is Google started that, right? So even though it's independent of them, they started it. You need to have Microsoft, Apple, Opera and Mozilla at the very least, at the very least you need to have them on board with an independent commission that says these are browser standards implementation. We're all going to follow it the same way. So if you're going after Chrome, you're also going after Safari and you're also going after Firefox and you're also going after Edge. It's the only way Google avoids that kind of inspection. However, I don't know that there's a whole lot of motivation for Firefox, Safari and Edge to do that. Like why should they help Google out? Well, because theoretically, because these are junk ads, right? Like these... Yeah, but they can come up with their own ad blocking scandal that won't get them in any trust hot water. Why should they have to play along with a standard that Google would operate? So the idea would be let Google either have a inferior ad blocking solution or face anti competitive. Exactly. If I'm Microsoft Edge, I win either way. I mean, it's part of me hopes that this blows up and not because I want Google to get in trouble or I don't root for Google, but just because, man, I would love to run back some of those Microsoft issues from the late 90s. Now... Bundling a browser with an operating system. Well, I mean, like those Microsoft... Seems like an innocent time. Were the reason why tech companies started getting lobbyists? Part of the reason why Microsoft in the autopsy said that they wound up getting spanked as hard as they did in the United States, Europe's a different story because Europe loves to throw the anti competitive thing around, but in the United States was because they didn't think they needed lobbyists. What do we need lobbyists for? We're just trying to do tech stuff. And now everybody does. Hey, and Google has lobbyists and they might avoid problems. They might be able to do this and this might be perfectly innocent. It may be operated in a way that's perfectly innocent, but they might have to use that lobbying power and they might still run into problems in Europe particularly. Oh, I think no matter what, they are going to get heat if this is an effective solution. So I think you were right. Either it's going to have to be fairly feckless or they are going to get some kind of heat because somebody is going to want to push the needle on them. And honestly, I would love the browser companies to get together and say, hey, what we're going to do is shut down the bad ads. We're not blocking all ads. And that's what this story is saying. They're not going to block all ads. It's not an ad blocker that says get rid of all the ads on a page. Like some ad blockers do. They're saying these abusive units, these units that aren't good are the ones we're going after. Is it going to be both? They're going to have the purest intentions and yet face these repercussions. Hey, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit and submit stories there and vote on them. You guys help us figure out what to talk about. DailyDecknewshow.Reddit.com. Bunch of messages here in response to our discussion of to-do lists and organizations and productivity yesterday. Steve writes, after listening to Tom's method, our methods are similar. I use Google Calendar with my Gmail. I have email sent to my Gmail for upcoming events. I use Google Calendar and Gmail as my to-do list. If I have something in my Gmail, I have to call, email or follow up with something. I never delete the event from my calendar. That's my historical record. Instead, I just delete the email reminder. You still get the satisfaction but you keep the historical record. I also, like Tom, like the ease of being able to adjust things on the fly. I often have a need to go back into my calendar and see what I did or where I was on a certain date. Dude. Andy Beach wrote in, my biggest productivity tool is still a letter size pad of paper and a pen. My last function every day is to take all of my digital to-dos and follow up tasks for the next day and make a physical list. This handwritten list serves as my narrowing down of the to-do to just the one day, the next, and the process of me doing so lets me mentally prep a little for what needs to be done. All scheduled tasks go to the top of the page and then the unplanned tasks, things that pop up during the day, go at the bottom and roll up. God forbid the two lists meet. By the end of the day, anything that I've not completed on either planned or unplanned get merged into either the next day's physical list or moved out to a digital if it's no longer a follow-up. The system has served me for years and was one I started doing when I was a project manager more than 15 years ago. And then finally, Mark, in weather ambiguous Birmingham, UK, says I was listening to your discussion on task management. I'm sure someone will have already mentioned omnifocus, but I recently moved to it from things and have found it way more powerful. Its methodology takes some getting used to, but I'm finding it a great way to keep track of everything I need to do for work and home stuff. However, just today, I started combining my calendar with my to-do list as I was starting to feel like I was stretching myself too thin and working too many hours. So I now have calendar events in two to four hour blocks that let me know what area I should be focusing in right now, client work, podcast recording and editing, admin, marketing, et cetera. Once I'm in one of those contexts, I can use omnifocus to help me figure out what I should be doing in that time block. This helps me stay focused, but also ensures I'm spending the right amount of time on my various commitments. And omnifocus is beloved by people who are way into this. So that's the high end of this stuff. Hey, if you want more details on my organizational method, if you're curious about what I said yesterday, patreon.com slash daily tech news show, patreon.com slash DTNS rather, has the post up for this week's tech update for anyone backing at just the $5 a month level. It's a weekly newsletter you get as part of backing us there. So check that out, patreon.com slash DTNS. Thank you, Justin, Robert Young. How are things going right now? Oh man, they are going great. We are working on the new Kickstarter, which will launch this summer. It is the follow up to the contender, the card game, the game of presidential debate, which you can still get at thecontender.us. But the new game is going to be called Action News. You are interested in it. 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Well, that was a good show. I see that someone in our chat room would like us to continue the food talk already, though. We're food every day. Back to food talk. Someone's hungry. You can't force stuff like that. It's especially food. Titles are things we can't force because we have to have a title. Top is Am, Oz on, get it, because Oz. And Oz, oh, because Australia, Oz got it again. Okay, okay. Does this know anti-trustee to you, Mr. Whipple? Versus the HTC you, ad crap. Amazon, Australian for commerce. Drying at the speed of sound was a good one. Let's see, there was another one that stood out. Please don't squeeze the Android. That was the other one. Please don't squeeze the Carman. Right. Did I just butt squeeze? Very funny. Magic is you, Biquity, Amazon, Australia, I did that one. And they keep moving too. I like Google is blocking the hand that feeds them. Yeah, there's so many. What, Justin, do you have a fave? I really like the smell anti-trustee to you. By the way, did we get an official count of the jury eggs? I saw them, I saw them try to keep track of the chat room. You know, I'll tell you what, you always want to review, you want to reward the close listeners. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So does the smell anti-trustee to you is deleting and it will be the title? I like it. I like it. Can I just read to you guys? I just ran across this story of, you guys heard of the Starbucks unicorn Frappuccino, right? No, I actually have not. So it burst onto the scene yesterday. It was the first day it was on sale. It is a mango and some other sour fruit like Frappuccino. Okay. It was an absolute bonanza apparently for Starbucks to the point where it overran many stores. There was a 470 unicorn Frappuccino order placed in San Francisco yesterday. I didn't hear about that. In Houston, they had another 42 unicorn Frapp order. Apparently the Starbucks Reddit is just littered with overworked baristas who had to put in the time to make hundreds and hundreds of these things. Oh my gosh. That's a throughput problem. So is it just a Frappuccino? Neutrality. Is it just a Frappuccino that is like a sweet sour taste to it? Yes. I mean, yeah. So yeah, it's all like mango and like tart. So apparently it changes color as you drink it and it changes taste as you drink it. It goes from tart to sour apparently. Interesting. It spoils as you drink it. It spoils in your mouth. Here's a quote. We just had a college class of 20 people come into the cafe and each order them. Most of them with modifications. So we couldn't even use the same blender. Every single car in the drive-through ordered at least two unicorn Frappuccinos all with a whole four people working. Oh my. That's ridiculous. I was off at seven and we had sold 400 at the time that I left and it kept going. We had a debt account and a delivery. I never thought I'd have a near breakdown while covered in pink dust. Covered in pink. Oh, because the pink stuff they had to put on. Oh yeah. No, apparently. Yeah. Shortages. People. People love them. I don't drink coffee drinks. They make me sick. Apparently our own gambling man on Twitter says it tastes like starburst and sour patch kids were dropped in some yogurt then crushed bits of Twix were added two out of 10. He adds unicorn scat as his review. Yeah. I'm going to check in something real quick. I'll be back. Okay. All right. Where do you get the idea for a unicorn Frappuccino? I mean whoever unicorns hot right now. I just saw a billboard after dropping Eileen off at the airport this morning for the Cinemark and it didn't even have an address. It just said Cinemark X D theater. Enjoy the experience or some, some such thing. And it was a person with 3D glasses on surrounded by unicorns. I think I've seen the same billboard, but here in. Yeah. Let's go. Coming over the bridge. Unicorns are hot. I think part of it is. I mean they never go out of style, but I mean, are they, you know, hotter than you? Well, you know, it is, is, is like, you know, the ever growing nostalgia, you know, nostalgia is, and will continue to be hot unicorn something that you like when you're a kid. Yeah. Yeah. It kind of cycles through every purity and, and in all that it's magical. Lots of my friends had the unicorn notebooks when I was a kid. Sure. Yeah. And I think it's also just time, you know, everything comes back around and the nineties just might be back. Cause I looked at that billboard and I thought, I don't want to be in that theater, but I assume it's not targeted at me. No. And the thing is I go to that theater and I like that theater. It's a very good theater, but that billboard did not make me want to be there. Yeah. Yeah, people are. Yeah. I mean, uh, even, even the manly testosterone circus of the WWE has, uh, the longest running tag team champs the new day for which have unicorn memorabilia and they had you light up unicorn horns that they were selling for a while. So unicorns are hot. You heard it. So no more vampires are done. Zombies on their way out. Unicorns, time travel and. It's amazing. We haven't seen a unicorn TV show or a unicorn movie where someone, it's, it's coming. Yeah. Unicorns on the ascendancy, I think. Yeah. That's unicorn remake. That's, that's a no brainer for like free form or the CW or something like. Definitely. MTV. Yeah. Oh, totally. Dark unicorn show. Unicorn Riverdale crossover for the CW. So would you, I mean, I guess the problem with, with wrapping a show around an animal is that the animals either got to talk, have mind powers, or somebody turns into the accord. Yeah. You could, you could do a show where the unicorn is more of a background character. Right. It's the unicorn forest and it appears infrequently to dispense inspiration and wisdom. But it's the, the unicorn brigade that's defending its lands that are the main. Yeah. But even then, so then you have, then you have a lot of characters that can't talk. Right. Like you have, you have a lot of big important elements that can't, they can't talk. Yeah. Fair. Almost screwed up the feed again. Cause I was thinking about unicorns. Um, well, but the, the defenders could talk, right? It's only the unicorn and the unicorn would, would, uh, would communicate psychically. I'm sure. I guess. Yeah. That's my question is, is do you have them? Are they talking psychically or does somebody turn into one? To me, that's the only. Well, I think that's your season two twist. Is he thought it was just a unicorn talking psychically? Turns out it used to be someone. Oh, that one of the care, like one of the group secretly was one of the characters whose father disappeared in a mysterious incident. Yeah. Turns out. Are we, we should write our, our unicorn spec script. We really should. I think we just did. We just did. We just did. Roger, make it back yet. Nope. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Daily tech headlines? Well, that's weird. Why would I do that? Okay. Two seconds. I will be right back. Okay. I did something stupid, but I think I can undo it. Because I haven't updated yet. I was in the wrong post. That's never good. This is what happens when you change up your routine. Changed up my routine so that I now do. do the blog post when I'm upstairs before I come downstairs, which means when I come downstairs, the tab that has the blog post open is the Daily Tech Headlines tab from doing it earlier in the day. So if I'm not paying attention, I start writing over the Daily Tech Headlines post, which is a problem for many reasons. Sorry, sorry, it's right back. Hey, what were you doing? First I used the bathroom and then I had to check on my kid. Well, I asked. Sorry. No, that's fine. I was just stopping myself from screwing up the post again. Don't screw the post. Sorry, I didn't give you enough food. Oh wait, we're still live. What else can I add to the post show? All right, I'm just making sure that I'm not screwing this up. That's all there. That's all there. That looks right. Where is the wrong thing? See, I bought a double checked. That's why you double check. That's why you always double check. You measure twice, cut once. Measure twice, post once. All right, I think I got it right this time. All right, I've published, but did I publish too much? Ba, ba, ba. You know what I've been craving a lot lately and I know I've mentioned this on the show. It's been going on for a while. It's fried chicken. Fried chicken, huh? Yeah. Yeah, you know, I don't think I've had really, really good fried chicken in a while. Gotta take you to the Honey Cuddle in Culver City next time you're down. Yeah. It's really good. You know, fried chicken's always a weird thing because even the best, you're really, like it is one of the rare, like commodity foods where you make a lot of it, where it is very dependent on like each cooking. You know, like barbecue, you smoke the meats, right? Like a lot of what is done, you can do it in batches, right? But with fried chicken, good fried chicken, like a good drum, a good breast, good breading can be ruined if you're leaving it in the fryer too long. Mm-hmm. Or, I mean, well, it's one of those things here. I'm gonna just send you a link. This is the one I like in San Francisco. Ooh. Ooh. But what I find is the best fried chicken I've ever had is the one that's done in your standard deep, deep iron skillet pan. Nice. Yeah. I'm also, I'm a fan of a thin breading, thin breading. Yeah, I don't like... You know what's funny is I used to be in the KFC terms, an original recipe person. Yeah. But I find myself leaning towards extra crispy as I get older. I've always been more of an extra crispy guy, but I don't like a ton of it. I don't like it when there's so much more breading than actual meat. Yes. Which bugs me. Well, I think what I liked about the original recipe when I was a kid is it was tastier, but I found as I've grown older, that just means saltier. Yeah. I don't like salt. I love salt. Love it all. I mean, you need salt, but at the same time, I just think that people add, when they say seasonings, all they do is just put more salt. And it's not like, you know... I'm gonna have to take you guys to Loven Salt in Manhattan Beach. To Salt Lake. Yeah, everyone gets an individual size Salt Lake. Deep fried unicorns, says Strengths. It's velvety smooth meat. All right, I think I have successfully prevented danger and the show is posted and we have successfully talked about more food. So, thank you all for joining us. Jen Cutter with us tomorrow. And Len will be here, Roger? You did the script. So I wasn't sure. Yes, I'm sorry, I was... There will be Len. There will be a Len. Talk to you then.