That's great. Yeah, new peeps. Yeah, I feel like we're getting more emails from new peeps, too. Good. I also noticed that Well I'll need control when you get a chance. Oh shoot. Yeah, you're right I'm gonna have to do with my hairline. Is that what you're gonna? You know, there's a spray that I've seen Brian Cooley use I won't let it on this secret. I don't know if he uses that anymore. That was 10 years ago I remember it's like wait a minute. What is he doing? It was like it's it basically the same kind of spray that you spray on On something shiny to make it matte except for your head Sarah's green screen is back to normal. Yes Well folks, I don't know What you've been told You've been told never slowed down.  I think Penny Lane every time I think of Sarah You aren't the only one. I'm sure that's nothing new for you a lot of pennies and a lot of Lois's Yeah, I think Sarah smile hollow notes. No, that's not bad. That's Sarah without an H So it doesn't count. Oh, right. I keep forgetting that I keep making that mistake I I pretend that bothers me Nobody doesn't oh, no, it's just a thing All the Fleetwood Mac Sarah songs also no age because I think like someone's daughter, you know There's just how they spelled it and you know, so I'm like, what is the deal? Sarah by Starship. No, age. Hmm. How about a nobody doesn't like Sarah Lane? But they're Lee normally Also, no age.  There's that whole like everyone remembers that the wrong way type thing. Yeah, yeah Very similar because it's like nobody does it like Sarah Lee is a better slogan than the real one Which is nobody doesn't like I know I know that's what I thought it was this is so you said it right Scott I was doing the wrong. Yeah, it's a Mandela effect thing. It's always fun to find those It's like when when Sinbad was in that one movie Yeah, it's supposed to be in a Genie in the bottle movie, right? Yeah All right, we are ready to go. Are you ready to go so ready? I'm ready ready check Here we go three two Daily Tech News show is powered by you. Yes you you're doing it right now If you'd like to find out how go to Daily Tech News show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday October 4th 2017 I'm Tom Merritt from our DT S headquarters in Los Angeles and from studio feel I'm Sarah Lane And from the silicon slopes of Salt Lake City. I'm Scott Johnson. I got you to say silicon slopes. I'm so happy Of course DT S producer Roger Chang here as well Roger. How are you feeling? I am feeling well the talking webpage. Well, then let's start with a few tech things you should know European Commission says Ireland has failed to collect up to 13 billion euros in taxes from Apple And therefore has referred the case to the European Court of Justice Ireland says we're appealing that decision What are you doing? Meanwhile in Luxembourg the EC says Amazon got illegal tax benefits worth 250 million euros while current European president Yonker was in charge of Luxembourg And better news at least if you have a sonor speaker or want to buy a new one the company's announced It's going to support Amazon voice services aka Alexa on the new sonos one speaker and available to the public now though It is still in beta now if you have an older sonos model You're still gonna need to control it by another device like the echo because older models don't have integrated microphones Well deep mind who's always watching us announce the formation of deep mind ethics and society or D M E S DMS I don't know if they want to say it that way the study and published research on topics like AI bias the economic impact of Automation making sure AI shares our ethical and moral values and so on sounds like that episode of Star Trek destiny Tom What are our ethics and moral values that we would like them to share? I think is a good question, too HP announced a new specter 13 laptop. It's new and improved so it's got a 4k touch screen now That's kind of cool as well as Intel's 8th gen Kaby Lake processors starting at one thousand two hundred ninety nine dollars October 29th HP also updated the 13-inch specter X 360 hybrid It adds a fingerprint reader starting at a thousand one hundred forty nine dollars October 29th as well Well, would you like to hear some more top stories? I would love that good because I've got some In fact, we all do Google announced two new phones today the pixel 2 and the 2x L Both have OLED displays snapdragon 835 processors for gigs of RAM and Lots of other stuff too each pixel also has active edge So you can squeeze them to activate Google assistant or silence an incoming call the camera got a 98 for DXO That beats iPhone score of 94 and actually sets a new record for quality So that's something that Google can crow about anyway The pixel 2 has a five inch screen with a 1080p display comes in three colors runs $649 for the 64 gig version 749 for the 128 gig version the pixel 2x L also well has a six inch screen rather with a 2080 by a 1440 display a nice thin bezels for people who are bezel haters Seems to be a lot of them these days available in two colors 849 for the 64 gig version and 949 for the 128 gig version pre-orders are open now for Australia Canada Germany India the UK and the US shipping October 17th on deck for the next round is Singapore Italy and Spain The Pixel phones will also be the first with Google lens preview that's coming out later this year So Google spent a good 28 minutes before they announced anything this morning and what they were hammering away at is We are really good at AI We love the AI and we're building AI into things and look what AI does And I think that has to do with the fact that while these pixel phones are very nice When you look at all these hardware specs, nothing really jumps out at me as as being fantastic It's on par, you know in some cases better Obviously, they've done another great job with the photo with the camera part of this because they they they set the standard with that DxO rating last year with the first pixel and they got beaten a couple of times most recently by the iPhone and the Samsung galaxy s8 But but now they're back in front So it takes really good pictures, but it is increasingly becoming what the software can do that is the differentiating factor here Well, isn't that kind of where mobile is headed generally speaking? Oh, this is what it feels like on the Apple side as well They're focusing on a are they're focusing on applications they're focusing on what these devices can do for people and less about what the devices themselves are and That feels like a good Maturation point for for mobile we've had plenty of those points But I think we're we're definitely getting into that time where we're saying alright What else can we do with these and Google may be best? Position to to answer that question given all that they've invested and thrown into things like AI and automation and other things But they've got the back end and sort of the information to make services really matter in a way that I'm not sure Apple's ready for so Pretty excited about the pixel but more excited actually about what they talked about around it There was also the Google pixel book. It's 10 millimeters thick weighs about a kilogram That's a couple pounds with a 12.3 inch 235 pixel per inch quad HD LCD touchscreen has two USB C ports and it is the first laptop with Google Assistant built in it just comes right in It's also a $99 pixel book pen Built in combination with Waycom that has 10 millisecond latency 60 degrees of angular awareness in 2000 levels of pressure sensitivity The base model pixel book has a core i5 processor 8 gigs of RAM and 128 gig drive for $999 if you up that price to 1199 you'll get 256 gigabytes of storage and for a thousand six hundred forty nine dollars You get a core i7 processor 16 gigs of RAM and a five hundred twelve gigabyte NVMe solid-state drive You can pre-order today available in Canada the UK and the US and in one thousand retail locations starting on October 31st So you may have noticed that there's a drawing engine here everybody and this piqued my interest We talked about a little bit this morning the specs on that of that pen what waycom says it will do the pressure sensitivity all of that stuff Stacks up to what's available generally speaking on the waycom standalone devices other portable solutions They definitely one up and do better on those specs than the current surface pro stuff does It's Sounds like it's on par with what the iPad pro and pencil are giving people from an artist perspective This is very interesting stuff The big question is is app support and will enough Android or chrome native apps show up to give artists What they need to do things on the go that would be a big question, but I think this is the most exciting the pixel Chromebook has been to me in a very very long time and It runs all the Android apps So you know a lot of people are forgetting that Chrome OS isn't just Chrome OS anymore It it can run things like the office version of Android now That's granted not the same as the full version, but you know, it's not bad. Yeah, sir You and I are I mean big Mac OS fans You want to start lugging around a pixel and will it do what you need to have done? It's not that I don't think these specs look great I just I've just ordered so much Electronic equipment some of it I have a very loose knowledge of how to use so I'm not really going to be investing in a whole lot in general Until next year probably and that's more about a pocketbook than it is about be you know being not interested but all of this especially because Depending on what you got a plug into your computer You know the the the connect the connectors now that my MacBook Pro because I got the MacBook Pro that was that was new last November and it's absolute nightmare. You know where it's it's a dongle nightmare. I I think this actually looks really nice if I was in the market, I would take it seriously Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at other Google announcements include this Google announced the Google home mini in coral chalk and charcoal Nice little disc looking donut looking pastry looking thing. It's very exciting for $49 It's on pre-order now in stores October 19th Google home max with smart sound that tries to tune at the sound to your room Configuration and placement that's gonna cost you $3.99 with a free year of YouTube red that comes in December and Upgraded daydream view with better lenses. That's cool Has some front firing stereo speakers and new cloth coverings for $99 I still say they look like purses that somebody tipped over on their side, but whatever What else Google Pixel Buds Bluetooth headphones Tap to play or sorry tap to play swipe for volume Also, the Google assistant offers real-time translation with pixel phones $159 pre-order today and it bears mentioning that The pixel book will have a lot more integration with Google assistant Which I think is you know on par with the device that also runs Android but also gonna be good for people who use Google assistant outside of their Google home devices Yeah, and that and that theme of what are these things able to do? What's the software able to do? We're the folks with the AI was really hammered across the product line Not just in the pixel phone, but they talked about how we only need two mics in our Google home Some people need six or seven They talked about being able to do portrait mode in one lens on the pixel Because of machine learning because of AI so there's some impressive stuff I mean it is definitely impressive that the Google Pixel Buds can do translation Well, you know while you're talking to somebody But here's the thing the demo they showed had one guy with a pixel phone That he was hearing the translation from the other person and then one person wearing the Bluetooth ear buds Or rather the pixel buds You have to be living in the ecosystem for a lot of this stuff to really work well the promise Google hammered on and they said this a Couple of times which is you just you just don't have to think you just do what's natural and it will do it And they were trying to say that Google home is a little better at that stuff than Amazon Echo and and they are I'll give them that but you still have to think about stuff You still have to think well wait a minute is my calendar integrated with Google home Oh, it's not yet. Oh spotifies in there Google play music is in there. Oh, but I use a different I use Apple music will that work with Google home? Oh, no, it won't yet We don't have a seamless system for customers where you can just say to the assistant Do this and it will always work because everybody's got their silos up. Yeah once again, we've walked into a whole new silo area We'll probably keep walking into those silo areas. I find that incredibly frustrating in the long haul But I also really understand it I totally get it like Amazon has a very vested interest in making sure that that's where you stay and and that that's where third Parties want to tie their wagon and same with everybody else Apple Maybe the worst of them in terms of wanting to lock that stuff down and they may all provide wonderful experiences within those walls But I just feel like every time we get a few more steps closer to a little more of an open Environment with with mobile or whatever it may be then we just stepped right back in with this other new emerging market None of these guys want you to have an open environment The only time they start playing nice with each other is when they realize that too many customers have gone over to you know To whoever the competitor whatever the competitor is offering That's either better or for some other reason more popular than what they're offering. I mean Apple is clearly a Comes to mind, but that's that's just how it's going to be with all these huge companies Yeah, the Google home Max was demonstrated with Spotify because Google knows we don't have enough people using Google music yet to make You know make that compelling we got to use Spotify if they ever get YouTube music or Google play music up to speed Believe me. It's that's going to be in their demo. They're gonna want to shove people that way It you don't see Apple using Spotify to demo their stuff. It's always Apple music Also, they kept calling it YouTube music. They had the Google Play music logo up there But I have a feeling this thing's gonna get renamed I think we'll play music as the names go that actually brings up a point I just wanted to throw out there real quick and to me you just exemplified it with your description I believe I agree with everything you say, but they've got a branding problem with their some of their not all their services They're some of their services and they fix some of that stuff over time The Google Play move was a good one back in the day, but Google music YouTube music YouTube red the various combinations of these music services Derived from various corners of Google and or YouTube or whatever is very confusing I can tell you right now that most people I know are just like well I know Spotify or I know map Apple music because those are concise products that they either subscribe to or they don't and This other thing sounds like well, I don't know which of the four you're telling me about I should subscribe to it I think that's hurting them So maybe they are gonna do that and that'd be great Consolidate and then finally there was the surprise announcement of Google clips Which uses some AI to automatically photograph moments only takes pictures of faces and pets that it knows So you you do some some work with it to say these are this is my family These are my pets take pictures of them when you see it come into view It's so that you can just set it down and play with the baby or play with the dog And then go back and pull pictures out later It can export those as video or photo it can even do animated gifts over Wi-Fi it only exports them when you tell it to it's not surveillance camera It's not automatically streaming has a 12 megapixel sensor hundred three degree field of view Takes photos at 15 frames per second has 8 gigabytes of internal memory And it works not only just with pixel phones speak of the silos But the iPhone 8 and 8 plus and the Samsung Galaxy s7 and s8 clips is expensive though 249 bucks for this little thing I Mean call me crazy, but that doesn't sound that expensive to me if this actually works out nicely And yeah, you know you mentioned like babies and pets and if you're going to be using this on a regular basis And it works really well and the quality sounds pretty nice. It doesn't sound that expensive to me. Am I crazy? Who's trying to get a baby and or a pet to pose? I Totally can see how this is compelling having baby, but no pets with my with my smartphone if they if it bronze out support to additional phones or Ecosystems and you can train it to not just see your pets your family members But oh look motion at your front door. You should probably take a picture kind of thing I can see this being kind of Not I want to say hacked but kind of used in a non-traditional way because first thing I thought when I saw it was really looks like a body cam It'd be great if it could automatically start recording kind of any interaction I had if I were a delivery person or whatever just I think you guys are forgetting that this is but like Google Glass 2.0 for me The guy who shows up at Thanksgiving family reunion is gonna be the least popular person there But this hanging around his neck. It's gonna be annoying to see that thing not what it's taking pictures Not no, it does it has an LED light on the front so that everybody knows every time it's taken a picture I'm telling you man. I'm just not it's not even that. It's like a still thing. It's more that like yeah Like uncle Ernest after Thanksgiving is gonna send you like 7,000 pictures of you over the course of two hours because his camera knew you and you're like thanks I'm not sure how well it's gonna be able to to work in in non-tradition not intended situations Cuz you have to train it what to look for So it's not gonna work with strangers because you have to tell it look for this person look for this baby Look for that a grandpa. Yeah pictures of them You know what take pictures of people who don't look like my family I don't think it works that way, but If you've got a nosy neighbor that you just you never want her to come over, you know You take one picture pretend you guys are friends tell Google clips any time she comes to the door absolutely not and then maybe you've got something Roger's point like you can kind of hack it to your band. I think you made it work. You're right Hey folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines comm you can get it as a podcast on the Amazon echo On the anchor app and through anchor on Google home, and that's a look at our top stories All right, so yesterday many of you know from watching the morning stream or maybe just seeing it on Twitter Scott Johnson was one of the people who fell victim to a breach at the server of his domain name registrar and Essentially what happened if I if I have it right the basics are they got into the server We're able to access several accounts and you were the unlucky person that they got to first Before the domain name registrar shut them down and because they were able to just have a few seconds in your account They were able to forward email on that domain name that you had set up to their own address and Got a whole your Twitter account. Basically that is correct And it was within about a span of 15 20 seconds that this breach occurred It was within that time that they added the second email address to my domain forwarding record That meant anytime I would get an email to the one I have there They would also get one they get a copy of anything I got So what that meant was not such a big deal in terms of what email they got because I it's all spam and stuff I don't care that much about in this particular account But what they do get is any kind of reset sets on any accounts I have for password resets or checking on user names I don't remember or whatever and I'm a pretty locked-down guy for the most part I have two factor authentication on just about every service I use everything from stuff as simple as gaming all the way up to banking and everything in between and I thought I had Twitter on the same lockdown It's probably worth using what I just said as a as a as a warning to people who think that maybe they did it too But now they're not sure you may think you did it because at one point they had you verify your phone number And if you did that you may think that what you were doing was yet another two-factor authentication text-based something Turns out you weren't you were just verifying a phone number. It helps them verify who you are You become a verified user that way in a lot more cases, but it doesn't do anything for two factor I thought I had two factor I didn't the story would kind of end here because the the the registrar was on it They saw what happened they sealed it They shut down the accounts affected and then only reopened them after full reports and all the blogs have been gone through and everything else So they did great job on their part. None of this was their fault necessarily except for the sex point which I'm gonna now patched Wasn't my fault Except I didn't have two factor on Twitter They had enough time in that 20 seconds to change the address to request a password reset and then Get the password changed and then change the email because now they're in they can just change the email And now my email is not even on my account Before the server got shut down and there was anything we could do That resulted in a full day of back-and-forth with me trying to get ahold of Twitter Being a little stressed out because he spent the entire I say he could have been a group could have been a bot I don't know but spent a lot of time in my DMs talking to friends and followers asking for credit card information and And and and how specifically I mean if he he or she or they had just been like give me your credit card information Most people would be like no way so how what was the social engineering strategy? Well, if that was interesting because this work got really creepy I thought because some people immediately saw something was wrong because they knew I would never ask what for what I was asking in a Couple of cases they'd get as far as saying well Can I contact you and we can talk about it on the phone instead of here and they would say oh my phone's down But here's this other number and then that would be Of a totally different area code and they say oh, all right Well, then you're not real because why would I call that but even Patrick Bay Joc called me yesterday? just to make sure because he wasn't sure what was going on and Wanted to help and that was my worries that people would want to help but here's how they did it We had one person say Well, if you're really Scott, they weren't believing it and they were using good natural language by the way this this hacker So it didn't seem that far off except for what he was asking He says if you're really Scott, please tell me three podcasts you produce a week That's easily found online though, right? Morningstream current and the instance immediately and That made this person still not believe him, but I thought oof near miss Because a lot of people would just buy that so obviously they did their homework They knew who I was they knew a lot of that stuff the parts I haven't really expressed much as while I'm waiting for all this to get locked down during the day and Worrying what they could do with the account what kind of damage they could do I also witnessed a couple of real-time attacks of my slack credentials Which I have on two-factor so they couldn't get all the way through on that They went in so far and I told Tom this when they realized I had two-factor and couldn't do anything I then got an invite to a new slack group called scott-johnson.slack.com and They use words like nertacular and all kinds of other stuff in the invite. Yeah So really what they were doing here, and I'm getting some echo from somebody so what they were doing here went away good was Trying to use your email. This is there's a couple of lessons to be drawn here One is your email if you have password resets connected to it is a vulnerable place You need to make sure that is very locked down because if they can get your email Then they can get your password resets and it doesn't matter how long and strong your password is Especially if you don't have two-factor authentication, and that's the another lesson here Which is when you have two-factor authentication That's another mitigation against this and it certainly made me go and double-check and say do I have two-factor on authentication on the things that I need to have it on And and and so this is a good reminder for everybody if you think you have two-factor authentication Go and check if you think you have your email address locked down And that no one could get into it and you have two-factor authentication on that go and check Because it doesn't matter if you have a strong password Which you should have if there's another way around it another example, which you didn't fall vulnerable to here is The the so-called security questions where you can say well, I forgot my password. What's your mother's maiden name? What town were you born in? What's your favorite song? Kind of stuff that especially if you're Scott somebody could look up online. Maybe get into an account that way Yeah, also, I mean I've probably mentioned my favorite song on shows before like we're in about a minute a uniquely bad position where I blurb a lot of stuff out on the air that any of that stuff is sort of secure so So while this really was nobody's fault certainly not my fault Not kind of occasionally checking your accounts and going all right. Where am I locked down and where am I not? Or a new service I'm signing up for take the time to see what kind of security measures They have in place or if you need to put in place some sort of more overall protection My password for Twitter was ridiculously long and complex. There's no way they could have guessed it Which is why I need to yeah now now what did Twitter do to finally give you back your account? So That's the part. I think they were going to try to ransom me on on slack. I also should mention I got Facebook See slack or no Facebook Skype and one other service. I can't remember which one But I got requests for passive resets on all of those they all had two factors. So it didn't matter And it just went nowhere after that but they went full force all day to try to get everything I had based on that email address And how it all turned out in the end is I sort of had to wait for Twitter They say it takes up to three days. It only took them 12 hours. So I guess credit for that They gave me a new address or they said they gave me a reset and said now give us an address You're not currently using another email address and we'll replace that then you can get in do the reset again Then to factor it down blah blah blah. I did that But in real time, I don't know how this works Okay, because I'm no hacker or whatever but in real time somebody else somewhere else Saudi Arabia's where all this said it came from Was trying to do the same thing again. Yeah, it's a script and and they're not in Saudi Arabia They're just putting a you an IP address, right? It could be spoofed. Who knows where it is could be next door for all I know but the point is that by the time I was done It felt like the end of a 24 episode or something just key for Southern and making it through by the skin of his teeth And I finally got control of my Twitter account again and got it all back up So the lessons for me are twofold that email stuff you talked about dead on Absolutely, make sure that wherever you're hosting it where your MX records are whatever it is you're doing Make sure that stuff is locked down as possible and check on that stuff periodically And don't just set it and forget it and then the other is check accounts Especially your big social accounts like Twitter you may have thought you did it and you didn't so go check and see if you did And none of this would have been a problem with with two factors So for me, that's the big takeaway also I just have never been faced with this kind of disruption slash personal violation of information thing before So in a way, I feel like I you know I got a little blunt education yesterday and I'm gonna make the best of it But hopefully this advice and these you know, this description will help people listening to the show Well, thanks to everybody who does listen to the show and participates in things like our subreddit at daily tech news show Reddit comm and our Facebook group at Facebook comm slash groups slash daily tech news show Let's check in with Chris Christensen is Chris Christensen from amateur traveler with another tech in travel minute if you have ever slept on an airport floor and I have then this is good news that there at least four companies that are competing to get into the airport Sleep pod business where you can buy access to a sleep capsule One of the business problems with this is it makes more money for the airport to put in a restaurant than a bunch of sleep pods for instance One seat in an airport restaurant can generate $20,000 in revenue in a single year according to an article in travel pulse Com but for those of us who don't need another McDonald's in Mexico City For instance, there are sleep pods that come with a bed a high definition TV a safe Wi-Fi and USB charging ports and can be rented for $8 an hour For a two-hour minimum or $30 for the entire night private showers are available, but cost extra I'd rather spend my time outside airports But sometimes when you're stuck it'd be really nice to have a place to Recharge yourself and your devices. I'm Chris Christensen from amateur traveler. Thank you Chris Let's get to our messages of the day first ones from Tim who said recently you guys have had several discussions about AR devices And you mentioned AR contact lenses I was the chief information officer for an AR company for almost six years So I've been involved in lots of discussions about current and future AR tech people frequently talk about contact lenses being a great option Once the tech could be miniaturized But one thing to keep in mind is people spend up to $20,000 to have a surgery so they don't have to wear contact lenses I wore contacts until I was about 25 and couldn't wait to get my lasik surgery Contacts are uncomfortable expensive and require a great deal of maintenance in order for context to become a viable AR platform They'd have to significantly improve their comfort and care requirements in addition to miniaturizing the augmented reality tech Tim is totally right by the way.  So you'd have to have a very compelling life-changing reason for me to to adopt it Got another email from M. Darleen Sensei who says I've been listening to the show for a long time Notice that there are a lot of teachers who also listen I'd like to start a professional learning network for teachers who listen to DTNS I'm currently a technology teacher for a small K through 6 parochial school in Massachusetts always looking for other teachers to collaborate on projects and kick around ideas So email me if you want to talk tech in schools Who knows maybe we can put together a student segment for DTNS labs and her email address is on the reddit post She made about this we'll have a link to that in the show notes You can just go to the subreddit daily tech news show reddit.com to find it Thank you Scott Johnson as always what you got going on. Oh, it's a pleasure Tom So it was a leaked yesterday I don't know if it's leaked but it was made obvious yesterday by Blizzard entertainment that I will be hosting a live panel and show for the instance on Saturday at blizzcon The first part of November. So if you're going to blizzcon Come and see us. It's up on the schedule now. I believe it's 3 p.m. That afternoon We'll be up on stage and on direct TV For those who are not at the event and you can watch that as well Oh, wait, the instance will be on direct TV. The instance will be on direct TV Yeah, my ugly faces some awesome guests from Blizzard We're still working on who but all of that stuff which I can talk about in full soon Will be happening but as it stands right now You're definitely getting us on stage and you're definitely gonna see us on TV And we're all definitely a little nervous about it, but we're excited and stoked So if you're going to blizzcon do check that out that schedules up at blizzcon.com for everything else follow me on My recently reacquired Twitter account at Scott Johnson or find me on the web at frogpants.com Excellent big thanks to everyone who supports this show and makes it possible for us to do it We will stop talking about it, but we're super thankful That's Sarah Lane's here and when I say we'll stop talking about it.  Yeah, it's it won't even be a party anymore. I'll just never yeah, it'll be awesome every day and You're getting free Len Peralta art at a certain level. You're getting a bonus show every month Everybody's gonna get a round table show in the final Friday and if we keep pushing to the next milestone We'll do two of those every month. So there's all kinds of reasons to still support And if you haven't started start supporting us now patreon.com DTNS Our email address is feedback at daily tech news show calm We are live Monday through Friday at 4 30 p.m. Eastern 2030 UTC at alpha geek radio calm and diamond club TV and our website is daily tech news show Back tomorrow with special guests Nate Langston and Justin Robert Young talk to you then show is part of the frog pants network Get more at frog pants calm Good work you guys yeah fun show fun show and we packed the info in timing everything I mean the content itself was not fun, but it no true The silver lining is that there's probably some really good information a lot of people got out of it I got gotten a load of one for the team. There's got yeah I'm whole bunch of people send me email saying that they all went and did two-factor because they heard About it. So if that's all that comes out of this great. We did our did our duty. I you know, I You know, I didn't talk to you yesterday, but but I heard about the incident and I Checked a couple things too. Luckily. I'm in good shape But I mean I think sure a lot of people don't really understand two-factor authentication And that's you know, it's you just got to you know Kind of hammer that home and use one password or last pass and all that stuff But I think more common really is just missing a service. Yeah, you thought you did it and I've found services where they didn't have two-factor authentication and now they do right yeah And so it's hard to keep up like oh, oh, they have they have to a now I should I should go do that sure and it's like how are they gonna let you know that I mean at some point It might be an email newsletter that you already unsubscribed from right kind of thing Yeah, they sent out an alert that you deleted because you didn't read it because you're like spam Yeah, man speaking of newsletters, you know how Well depending on the site that you're visiting there are these sort of like like boo-hoo. I see you're using ad blocker Don't you love us like they're starting to get more and more manipulative It's like it's like it's like the crappy email newsletter of 2017 where I'm like, okay You know, I get what you're saying your ad supported But you know some of them you know, I see you start reading them and it's like the verbiage is really Well, and it really is me because I don't use an ad blocker I use privacy badger privacy badger only blocks you if you've got a bunch of stuff that is Sharing its data with other sites without my approval.  It's just I and listen I I Gotta hear both sides and I understand them, but I Some some of them have really become very Very heavy-handed for the price of a cup of coffee this reporter Yeah, there was one that the I won't call out the site, but you know, you might have seen it It was like, you know what? It seems like you don't like ads, but they're not that bad Exists to block them some people actually think they're really bad We're your friend that's what happens We're your friend We have not gotten to titles and I don't title. All right, do Andrew's dream of AI ethics. Sorry everyone's stuck Scott's no good horrible very bad day Scott's fishing trip Yeah, I don't I mean, it's not a it's not really fishing but no, that's a great Quote Scott kept calm and carried on Winner came for Scott Johnson Google sits AI on the ball Pixel 2 XL Boogaloo. Oh We didn't talk about the pixel 2 doesn't have the phone doesn't have a headphone jack Yeah, we didn't mention it.   So I think I'm gonna go ahead and spring for that guy. I Have that one actually it's good. Yeah I think they exist already. It's just like now. There's like an official Apple sanctioned. Yeah They the one I got is well, I think I got it for an attack here But I have the MacBook which is even has less ports on it than when you got It's literally got the single USB 3 thing No, no, that's that's what I've got to all right So so this thing goes out to this kind of hub block where I can go HDMI USB another USB-C and Maybe 10 base T like a network connection. I can't remember. That's all in a single It's a little I don't know seem pricey at the time, but maybe it wasn't so the top vote getter for the title of Scott's No good horrible very bad day Wow, really Well, it wasn't a very good day Scott Do androids dream of AI ethics there's one down here Echo system of a down Get it system of a down. Yeah, I get it. Mr. Page turned on these walls to Scott kept calm and carried on That he did yeah That's just how calm I was if I'm being honest But you looked calm on TMS because I checked in and I was like wow, okay He doesn't look as freaked out together. Okay by the end of the day though.  Um, yeah, that's good. Whatever Scott is copacetic with it's his day It's your special day day and blackest night Remember the green lantern Where is that Amazon delivery person? My goodness What do you think they would have come during the show? Yeah, I know that's that's usually how it works. Well, so okay So if I can go on just a slight this is a mini rant. It's not a big rant for whatever reason Everything that I ever get on Amazon requires my signature Well, that's not okay Not everything because that blue icicle Tom came yesterday and it was here when I got back from the airport And you know, it's I wasn't here obviously, but okay, but but you know I figure like was it a certain price point, but it's not so it must be like certain third party Sellers that Amazon is working with I don't know what it is I have bought some sort of pricey items lately, but like some of the electronics I've gotten aren't really pricey I think that they're just in a category Where Amazon's like you just need a signature. I I wonder if it has to do with third-party sellers That would make sense to me actually. Yeah party sellers want proof that it got delivered So you can't because you heard about that couple that were trying to scam Amazon by saying everything got damaged or Didn't show up right. They were using a bunch of different addresses It the whole thing is a little bit messy and part of it is probably because I usually don't buy that much Kind of random one-off stuff from Amazon But I have lately because I've been kind of putting together the studio and buy little things But I did have Amazon for the very first time send. They had tried to send me it was one of these Scarlet preamps and It came and I wasn't here to get it So I had to sign for it and then the next day it was supposed to be delivered some waiting around all day And I finally get you know, and it's like we have until 9 p.m. To give it to you it's like okay, I guess I'm not leaving the house and Then at around 8 30 p.m. I got an email saying well, we're sorry, but the item has been lost and So I called Amazon customer service and they were like well, this is unusual. This never happens I'm like, well, you sent me the email. I mean never got to me. You told me that it's been lost So somebody told you that I don't know Bad Amazon luck, I don't know what the deal is all of my friends are like just have them leave it outside your building But no doesn't work doesn't work that way at the Lane residence And then I thought is it have to do with like an address where there's enough instances of something Complaints Interesting because I do live down by the beach if you left a package outside my building it would be gone in five minutes Yeah, yeah for sure that that could be you know that that could be part of it But you know now that you mention it when I lived in Oakland. I would always have stuff delivered to work Because it seemed like everything needed to be signed when I had it delivered to my house And I was never home to sign it and they wouldn't just leave it Right now it's not I feel like it's not as bad But I also have a secure place for packages, which I didn't right. Yeah. Yeah You know, it's I don't know half the time when my buzzer rings It's because UPS is trying to just put a package inside the door for one of my neighbors Very that's a whole other thing. Yeah. Yeah, I'm usually you know, I'm happy to help I know my neighbors for the most part, but but but but yeah, this isn't this is like You get the the person has been inside the building because you get the little notice inside saying Sarah We can't deliver this. We'll try again tomorrow. So anyway, I just want my lights When Scott's oh, it's Scott kept calm and carried on title. Oh, yeah, I've already published the show It's fast that way done Do you and done Dunzo Oh speaking of Somebody asked I think it was beatmaster before the show Sarah How you were able to track down and fix the audio problem from Monday Heck if I know well, the one thing I remember is the device manager was muting Your mic. Yeah, but you right find out after the show The original issue that we were having is that I was kind of siloing, right? There was like a there was you know, my my mic was kind of coming in and out So we were like is it the connection doesn't really make a lot of sense because the video seems fine You know my mixer everything on on my end looks fine What we did was we we changed the default recording device in windows 10 from Uh, it was I don't remember what it was, but it wasn't my mixer. So we changed it to the mixer and for some reason That makes no sense and won't make any sense to anyone else either Once we did that There was a tab but within that sort of recording device settings of your system sounds in windows 10 that just Toggled on the mute. Yeah, it defaulted the mute Yeah, so, you know, here we are trying to figure out like and I'm like literally all of my stuff no longer works Just be you know, even when we changed the The the recording device setting back to whatever it was before I think it was just default Uh, they didn't fix anything and so even just before the show Just now I had to go in and toggle off that mute button because by default now It just wants to mute me all the time And I don't mind doing that as long as my mic sounds okay Yeah, and it's not a good today But it does it's it's still very befuddling. I don't I don't uh, I don't I don't I don't appreciate how my stuff is giving me the run around that's for sure So there you go. Yeah Uh, well folks, uh, don't forget tomorrow I'm back with sarah. Justin nate roger Then on friday the show is from la pod fest We will definitely have an audio show In your feed there probably won't be a full thing like there is because it's at a conference Uh, but there will be audio there may not be video Although there may uh, we're still trying to figure that part out and then monday's show will be from london And it sounds like uh for sure we'll be able to do maybe even a pre and post show I don't know about that, but definitely an audio and probably video from there and then back to normal on Tuesday So there you go. Hope everybody keeps that in mind And uh, thank you for for hanging around and being with us. Uh, as as we begin this new phase It's been pretty fantastic to have you all here Yeah, it really has really has we mean and I I would say like my the only thing I wish I could do more of is respond to everybody in our slack bosses uh account DTNS slack. Yeah DTNS bosses um But I do lurk in there a lot like I keep up with everybody because I'm starting to like get to know people and you know recognize usernames and stuff like that, but um, there's a lot of volume So it's good thing and I like the hive mind aspect of it, but um, I do get behind really easily I like zoe brings bacon right now. She's like, I'm not across the pond. You're across the pond Somebody's crossing a pond. That's all I know. Yeah. Cool pond. Pond's good for you. See you later. Bye


peak in an echo chamber about this and that includes at OROCTIS meetings the laughable conversation that was had about a multi-billion euro scheme it was clear from the questions that were being asked that people sitting on OROCTIS committees that should know hadn't a clue about this really the most basic fundamental questions that you know in a very highly paid job you should at least have briefed yourself on that then we have how it's covered in the media some sections of the media doing fantastic work in keeping this to the fore but generally speaking I think if you pulled a lot of people in the media and general society they would believe it's a job done a scheme has been announced it's not for everyone it's multi-billion there it is and the people that are paid to make sure this can't happen again must surely know that that really in terms of general awareness of how big a problem this is between the media the public and even politicians it's not there so we are back to the points it feels that we're talking about this amongst ourselves and no one else gets it yeah I have to say it is very very frustrating and what happens at national level is people pay attention and then move on to the next crisis and problem and of course there was a sale a pitch made by government look at this the biggest redress a scheme in the history of the state billions of euro look we're giving everybody 420,000 euro which was a complete lie and when you speak to people down the country now we had their attention in 2021 thanks to the fantastic campaigners we have in Donegal people started to tell their story it was harrowing and there was a lot of solidarity from around the country but now there's this view which usually you're getting 420,000 euro 8 so it's an absolute lie and then just as bad is the fact that the very industry that caused this crisis the quarry and construction industry you know is getting like touch regulation still and fairness now I have to say the national building control office Maria feeling the people who are heading that up are fighting for more resources are looking to do their job but they need those resources from government so the question I ask Greg was how in the name of God can you have massive resources every year behind the sea fish use protection authority 24 hour CCTV surveillance of fish factories and you can't even get access to a quarry that was responsible for the destruction of thousands of families lives in Donegal to test to see if that quarry you know has deleterious materials for God's sake you know so I want to call it out I'm going to stay calling it out because the hypocrisy in the double standards is astonishing. 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07491 25,000 let me see if I've addressed that technical issue can you hear me in the whole column hello no I'm going to have to kick you out and then bring you back in again stay where you are right okay so I'm going to go back to my usual fold right by the way just whilst we do that we've had a couple of calls along the lines of where is the guard investigation as to exactly what was the cause of the terrible Cree shot tragedy as I say a few along those lines we contacted guardie of course just to find out they said as this is an ongoing investigation on guardie she kind of has no comment at this stand that right is me hold column there can you hear me now no I can not hear you alright that's gone all together close and all that get rid of everything and we'll bring it back in trying to do too many things at the one time you see that's my problem right more comments here hi Greg I have little respect for farmers I live in a very rural area and the farmers cut hedges and spread slurry whenever they want they seem to think the rules do not apply to them slurry season we're in at the moment because of the weather it has been extended so we're not it's fine I just have to correct this issue anyway we can rejoin well we can go to line two good morning to you me hold column imagine my and I just show you the technology is brilliant when it works well yeah the problem is I try and I over egg the custard that's my problem shot three hits under the hurry an extremely old bridge chart take three you know we're talking about we're talking about the bridge in dookery me hold 1733 I mean what what a historic thing in the first place can you imagine being a fly in the wall as that was being constructed I love history and I love the notion of it and our ancestors at this crack but it is a beautiful bridge and we're looking at some video of it right now here for those watching the show talk to us about it well I'm not so sure if my dates are correct I know that some of the people in the dookery will be less than so they've been more better positioned than I am to give the proper dates there was for initially I was told 1733 and then later this morning I was told 1780 but anyway rounded with that period a very sad difficult time for Irish people considering the poverty and the occupation and then comes along Cunningham which was a planter landlord and built the first bridge across the Gibara that bridge then was added to it to actually a very beautiful bridge and anybody that goes through beautiful dookery you'd nearly forget you'd nearly not even realize that you're on the bridge but I would ask people to stop on the village and actually go off the path and see the bridge first what it really is and it's full beauty it's a double arch bridge and it's stunningly stunningly important and beautiful and it's a protecting structure isn't it me whole column yes it's a protected structure we have a couple of dozen protective structures within the county I do know that the minister who has advised that there should be a couple hundred and for one reason or another the council hasn't put the resources to it and that's something that I didn't realize until the last couple of days and I've actually emailed looking for a response for it but putting that aside and the main reason why I'm speaking today on radio is to draw attention on the failure of the council to act when reported that the stones on the bridge had started to move there's been an issue on the bridge for a long time in terms of the ivy grown on it there's trees going on it and there's a concern by the locals themselves I was in and shopper yesterday that's the wee beautiful shop that's in Duhuri anybody passing please do stop and shop there small village shops are really important but you know we were talking about it and the structure of the bridge there's some concern because that bridge would have been initially obviously a couple hundred years ago built to carry nothing heavier than a couple of horses and carts or what we would have had at the time would have been only donkeys and now with the heavy vehicles because it's our main route if you leave on Hohaliyah heading for Balin Afinye heading for Liscanela or Balbafe so it's a really important bridge to actually make sure that the bridge doesn't start giving way in any shape or form through time and what is the just for those who may not be aware because every day is learning day the coping stones are the stones that sit atop the walls effectively of the bridge and I presume if they are there and they're well fixed it stops anyone maybe pushing some of the bridge into the water or picking stones that have been created there looking at it in terms of that part of the work that needs doing and we can talk more about the general structure that might need work it just needs really the motivation to do it it's not for a skilled stone mason they wouldn't belong I don't think bringing the top part of that bridge into a good state of repair really quite quickly if the will was there yes look the thing here is and this is what's really important and it's a listed structure is that you have to have a specialised qualified team of people to carry out this work there are grants available for this up to I think some 80% available to the council so I can't imagine that that extra 20% would be that difficult to get but the problem here is that when I was initially reported there was only one or two stones and I believe that that could be them stones could have been retrieved but what's happened over this last couple of days or this last week and I'm not going to get into the time you're pointing it's happened and that's just the reality but as you can see from what I sent Caroline Orr and Orr earlier is that there's quite a lot of broken stones missing and it's like a broken windows syndrome once you break one you find the others will start breaking and it's disappointing it's not that I want to just use this opportunity just to have an athlete at the council but I think this bridge like many of our other structures that was built by the occupiers and the planners as much as we might not like it but they're important and they're historical and we need to maintain it and we need that investment and that's why stay where you are because Dr. Andrea Redmond do three development Tidy Towns also good morning Andrea thanks for your time today good morning Councilor Micheal and it's good to get this on the agenda but obviously this has been under the attention of the group for quite some time and we can go back to 2021 when you were calling on the council to I suppose really shore up what was there repair what was there because you's predicted I think really the damage that was to come so we've lost a couple of years from your first calls Andrea we did we raised this issue when we had a new committee formed and we took stock basically of our beautiful village and things like they I just tried to get a preservation order which again hasn't been put through but we had serious concerns about the bridge because there were stones missing at the top and we also had members of our heritage committee we shame it's cool had gone in underneath was concerned a bit Ivy and the impact that that may have on the structure but at the minute now Greg to see if you walk the bridge literally the brain just comes up your way so there's a serious health and safety issue that the issue that we had and we've had great support from me whole is to try and work through kind of the mire that is the council and council's department and to get the right hand speaking to the left hand or working in tandem because we would go to one department and they would say oh you have to get special stone maces and blah blah blah we don't have that expertise we don't have that money and we don't own the bridge it's literally owned by council and by road service and we believe it's their responsibility protected structure but the job of protecting that structure structure is not the local community or the local groups now we've talked about the top of the bridge Andrea in terms of inspecting underneath as you and me whole column also pointed out this was built really for horses and carts donkeys and traps but obviously we've been making some heavy vehicles now for which it wasn't designed for are we adequately and we've seen similar with the bridge at the bottom of the Kenny here are we ensuring and inspecting underneath to make sure that it's structure is sound and that we're not doing damage that will end up being irreversible well this is the major question that we have at the moment you know what is the time scale for regular structural analysis of these historic routes because if you stop and think of people now if that closes because of damage or safety issues how are people to get from Fentown on to their own low you know it's a major arterial route that needs to be protected so not only because it's a historic property or historic site but also because it's a major arterial route without it would severely impact residents schools tourism and that type of thing we're asking you know what is and I think there was a bridge survey done maybe was it 2006 or something and I was actually reading it and I think they propose to have a regular structure analysis of these bridges I don't know has it been done it's very difficult to get a straight answer they just seem to say one aspect of council will say well that's such and such you go and see such and such and then you go to them and they you know so we're not getting any further would you like to see obviously it assessed for its structural soundness but also you know the walls they probably have a name restored would you like to see the IV off it it pointed because it is beautiful now but I think it would be it would become a real extra special landmark if the IV was taken from it and it was pointed respectfully and appropriately where it needed to be looked after and is that the view of the committee yes yes we I mean the thing about IV undermines the structure because it works its way into the stone and you know we can't go out you know I could go out with a trowel a bit of cement and put in some of those capstones but we can't touch it because it's a protected structure you need specialist stone masons so I mean we couldn't go out and try to pull the IV off because you know we could do further damage so literally sit and watch the thing disintegrate in front of our eyes and we've raised the issue in 2021 you know and we we warned council look there's there's several stones loose now it just looks shocking at the minute and what's worrying to from a safety perspective it doesn't look like it would be very difficult for minded individuals to actually toss quite a lot of that bridge into the into the river without the the capping stones and what have you heard from Dr. Redmond the frustration that's there and Dr. Redmond a voice of the community we show many people sharing her frustration is what I'm saying effectively so how do you as an elected rep for that area progress this within the council well you know was Dr. Redmond has says in the big work that her shop and Jonathan all the doing in the area and I feel kind of a better bar if they're going to but embarrass this local councillor that steps hasn't been taken long before this and we shouldn't have to be forced on radio to bring attention to it but it's not just the idea for me in relation to the structure the structure of the building that or the bridge it's also that now we see not we can coaching on it as well and it's something that I think that the council should look to help to to to address because the not we'd itself will have a massive impact on the bridge and what I'll be doing is and is obviously raising with the council and continue to raise her with the council but the main thing and I spoke to senior engineer today and an unfairness the engineer was correct he says look it's not fair that a committee has to constantly write and myself constantly in contact to get the departments were on the council to actually co-work with each other at the end of the day I can't go and say this department and that department it's not their fault, it's their fault people don't care you're just the council get it fixed we're neglected enough as it is in Western Eagle Dury's a wee beautiful village that has been shockingly neglected over the years and now we have a fantastic committee who are capable and able and willing to put it up a notch put that village on a map and we as a council cannot continue to ignore them but in the response to you it's not really clear who's responsible the roads office might have an advisory role the heritage office though doesn't have the authority to take on the work but the heritage office can provide information on who might be able to do the work and perhaps maybe some money might be available from historic like I appreciate whoever put this answer together actually I know who it is and you know it would be in the right place but it seems to be falling between stools it's kind of frustrating well this morning this morning I did find out that there is a road central bridge design and maybe I don't have the right terminology for for that department but it does come under the remit of the road section of Coral Fonda, Leningau so we need to move now we need to find out I have got a guarantee today that next week meeting on roads that I'll have a more up to date answer and I don't believe for a moment that there's a lack of willingness on the local staff because our local staff are more than capable and able and willing but what we need to have done in 2021 when this was highlighted and raised we should have put our heads together and said let's move in this alright okay thanks very much Mihill Collam and finally Dr Redmond I'm sure you appreciate us raising this issue I'm sure you appreciate the work Mihill Collam is doing on this and I'm sure you appreciate we've kind of done talking now aren't we this is a beautiful historic protected bridge let's crack on and do something about it alright thanks so much for your time Andrea take care of yourself that's Dr Andrea Redmond and also counselling Mihill Collam McGill Lasberg Sarah moved back first and Steven moved in beside her with this new fibre broadband they can work from home so they don't need to live in the city they love being back of course and I suppose there's no harm that they have a free babysitter on hand whenever they want it National Broadband Ireland is delivering our high speed fibre broadband network to homes, schools and businesses across Ireland no matter how remote or rural Granny! 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Hi everyone, I'm your Miss Vermont 2023 Yimuna Turco and welcome to the Miss Vermont voice This is an interview style show where I speak with local members of the community and different people who are maybe even involved with the Miss Vermont or Miss America organizations Today I have a former Miss Vermont community member teacher and educator and that is Riley Field. Hi. Hi. Thank you for coming This is so exciting.  You're a teacher and an advocate, but you were also Miss Vermont 2016 So would you mind telling me a little bit about your time as Miss Vermont? Sure, being Miss Vermont was a phenomenal experience And I always say that being part of the Miss Vermont organization is what led me to where I am now So even though I'm a teacher and I don't wear a crown in the classroom I am a teacher because of the experiences I had that when I was Miss Vermont and because of the people I met when I was Miss Vermont and Following my time in the organization as a title holder I became a board member for a few years and a volunteer in the years in between So it's something that really shaped who I am now even though Day-to-day not as glamorous not even close So you mentioned that you were part of the board So would you mind telling us how long you were on the board and maybe your role on the board? Sure I was on the board for three years and I was the social media and marketing chair and it was really exciting to be part of the behind-the-scenes of Miss Vermont I was a Contestant and a candidate for so long before I won and then I was a title holder that getting to be part of the organization and Bringing in girls who wanted to be part of this organization and being part of the voice that is Miss Vermont on social media was really exciting And it was a fun way to be able to support the board which is all volunteer based Without feeling like I was right back where I started Would you say then because of your involvement with the organization and the board? That all the changes that have been going on make you want to be more involved or want to bring more girls into the organization Certainly bring more girls into the organization Nothing that has happened within the Miss America opportunity since I have been Miss Vermont or since I even Started being involved in the program has made me want to step back from the organization I think because at its heart it is about scholarships and about empowering women. There's nothing that I see in the Organization thus far that has made me want to remove myself. I Love more than anything though that the Miss Vermont organization really focuses on growing Leaders for Vermont and I think that outside of the Miss America opportunity the Miss Vermont scholarship Organization is something that just is so invaluable to the women and the young girls in Vermont That's really great. I would as a current title holder I would definitely have to agree my mission is to get more girls to join more people because Also, the more people that are a part of our organization the more scholarships were able to give out the more Scholarship dollars were able to give out as well. So that would be super ideal So as I mentioned before you're a teacher and an educator and my platform is child literacy Is there anything that I can do or that the people of Vermont can do to better support their teachers? Oh, Absolutely, I mean the the simplest thing that I can say is that you should vote for things that support education Vote for school board members that are champions for children and and vote in local elections for people that are looking to support local schools But I am a teacher here in Vermont and I teach special education Which is a really vulnerable population of our students and it's been incredibly rewarding one of the things that I tell people Whether or not they have kids or they're just supporting students in Vermont is that there is no harm in reading to a child So you're right on the money there It's true And it's one of those things that I think like miss Vermont has the ability to open doors in ways that we don't understand until it happens And so much like I always say that miss Vermont led me to here I truly believe that reading to kids and exposing kids to literature as early as possible and as often as possible is Something that's going to benefit them down the line. Yeah, definitely Okay, so we've gone over kind of the broad overarching things definitely what we can do in Vermont to support our teachers Um, this may sound a bit funny, but is there anything nationwide that as a teacher and as an educator You would like to see kind of bolster to increase the support for teachers I I just don't know if we have the time right I see that Yeah, I think that the list is really long Right we're supporting kids in schools because we want quality teachers and we want to be able to give them quality instruction We also want to be able to feed kids in schools. We also want to be able to keep kids safe in schools We also want kids to be able to be themselves in schools. I mean the list goes on and on and on, right On a national scale, what can you do as a vermont or what can you do as miss vermont? I think the the answer is really simple as you get involved in your community schools Especially here in chitenden county. We have the ability to really support community based schools and neighborhood based elementary schools in a way that is not typical all over the state of vermont and being able to volunteer or donate or give time energy Things that are not just money to these programs and to these schools is It's life-changing. You might think that giving an hour of your lunch once a week to be a recess monitor is really small But you have the ability to build relationships even in that one hour a week Yeah, that's really great and I really appreciate that so i'm going to keep that with me and kind of continue doing that and also As someone who was technically a local title holder before you know the miss vermont scholarship organization We don't have necessarily competitions to be local title holders But to have that. I think that's a great way to start. Absolutely. Absolutely And I started as a local title holder. Exactly I had multiple local titles before I won miss vermont and and it was you're right It's all about getting into the community you're already in You don't have to have a crown in sash to be able to support students or whoever your platform might not be literacy related or student related, but you still have the ability to get into Local options that allow you to volunteer and support other people. Yeah, definitely. That's really great. Thank you so much So kind of going over everything there are a couple updates that i'm going to go over that kind of pertain To the miss vermont scholarship organization, but also to the much larger miss america opportunity, which is one of the updates Okay, so we're going to start out the miss vermont scholarship organization If you would like to get involved in your community in a way that might make you more quote unquote visible You should be involved in your community regardless of in what way in my humble opinion But if you would like to get involved in this way, we are starting to think about our miss vermont and miss vermont's teen 2024 class If you'd like to learn more, there's the miss vermont.org website or you can reach out to me on social media or via email We really want to increase this class We want to make sure that there's so many young women a part of this organization for scholarships for opportunities And just to really boost your self-esteem and confidence. That was probably the biggest non tangible thing that I took away from this Absolutely, it was amazing I think the biggest thing that I learned the first time I was part of the miss vermont class, which mind you was back in 2012, okay, so I don't want to date myself too much, but it was in 2012 Was that I could be miss vermont And I think I entered that class and entered that opportunity being like well, I'm gonna be miss washington county and we'll see what happens And I left that year on the stage. I was third runner-up. I didn't win But I left being like, oh I can do this I can really do this and it's achievable and it's absolutely And so many young women that are a part of our organization end up becoming miss vermont or miss vermont's teen But even if you don't you gain so much from the experience and sometimes you gain scholarship Sometimes you'll gain a scholarship even if you don't end up winning Yeah, a lot of our girls do a lot of people do and they win lots of money and lots of opportunities And I think that's the greatest part So if you would like to be a part of our 2024 class or even have any questions You can reach out to me on social media or via email. I can also include more information at the end of this um The next big change is the miss america organization is no longer the miss america organization It's now the miss america opportunity And that's to emphasize the focus on that this is an opportunity It creates a year-long program or if you end up being crowned miss america or miss america's teen Almost two years that you have an opportunity to work with community partners different community members just people across your state, but also Sponsors and you get to maybe have a talk show like this And you get to work on your social your community service initiative that name also changed Right and emphasize that and focus on that and I think it's pretty great that they're wanting to do that for us You also meet some of the most phenomenal women in the country I never met more people that were as driven as smart as Kind as willing to give their time and their energy and their expertise than when I went to miss america and Now you now you also have a friend in every state exactly You can't beat it. It's like 50 other people. I know pretty great And you all share this experience together and no no class So that's what we call them. No class will be the same. No, it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience Exactly every single time and that's incredible And then the last thing which is kind of a personal tidbit But a lot of people ask when miss america is going to be but that does begin with orientation So miss america orientation Is supposed to be labor day weekend and that's the current time we have set I'm super excited to meet these 50 other young women that i'm going to be competing with You're going to love it and these 50 other people that I get to have this year with this incredible experience Um Do you know where orientation is going to be or are you allowed to share where orientation is? Um, that's not fully confirmed. I have an idea, but I won't share it just because if it's not surprised in later episodes Exactly, you will you'll be surprised next episode or even the one after that in september Um, so yeah, so that's kind of the updates that I have. Thank you so much Riley for being on the show today I'm so excited to be your first official guest I wanted to make sure that the first guest I had was someone a part of the organization But also someone who is super involved in their community and wants their communities to succeed Yes, and that's I love and that's you. I love vermont. It's been a part of my life for 30 plus years, so It's can't be beat. No. Yeah. Thank you so much and thank you everyone for watching the miss for mom voice I'm your miss vermont. You moon aturko. Have a good night


What's good Josh boros back again with another video, so I want to do another commentary style video talking about LA night and his potential future In WWE for the remainder of this year. I think a lot of us are wanting him to Really get a major push or some type of push This year that way, you know, we can really see a new star arise in front of us I don't know if you guys have seen and I'm pretty sure some of you guys have seen just the Though the recent wave of how many people are really enjoying LA night They love his catchphrase. They love the way he delivered promos. He gets a good reaction Even though he is a heel I think the greatest Well on an example of his popularity growing it was the Smackdown before WrestleMania a couple weeks ago and they had the Andre Memorial Battle Royale match and LA night was one of the last few people and he was getting a very good pop Like a very good crowd reaction when he was out there and when he got eliminated There was so many booze like people were legitimately upset about that Which is a good thing and then You know, it's just one of those things where it's like you can see that reaction Okay, people really they they're buying into him every time he says yeah People say it with him. You know, it's it's one of those type of things where he's so good on the microphone Even though he's supposed to be a heel people still love, you know and find them entertaining And that's a very good quality to have especially with the WWE fan base because sometimes You know when they go to these shows they can just be sitting there and Not giving you no type of reaction, but any time LA night comes out He gets a rat a reaction in a positive one I know they really dropped the ball with him not being at WrestleMania not not being on the show I feel like you could have took it taking out Shane McMahon and put LA night in that spot to go against the Miz granted once again miss is a heel LA night is a heel, but I think it would have worked. He would have got a great reaction a great pop And I think just giving him like a five minute match so that people can get behind him It would have been cool and it would have been a cool WrestleMania moment for him to get that big reaction Because best belief if he would have came out there the fans would have went crazy It they they would have got a really good They would have given him a really good pop and I think he deserves that I think that was a missed opportunity by WWE and honestly I think triple H needs to do whatever he can to protect this version of la night We all know Vince is back and he's been back for a while and we all know before Vince left When la night got called up to the main roster they had put him with that Model group. He was like a like a manager or agent for the models The male models and it just it it didn't go nowhere And when triple H took over he brought la night back and that's what we needed to see And if he's one of these individuals that Even though he was feuding with bray Wyatt and a few Kind of you know kind of went off the rails and he didn't even win the feud He in my opinion came out better than bray Wyatt at the end of this feud and he lost People still were buying into him people who started really still caring about him You know sometimes a feud like that that's not even really that good and then the match is not that good It can ultimately hurt both wrestlers, but in this situation He came out even better, you know people want to see him And I think triple H needs to do all he can if there's any power he has to protect La night, I think this needs to be the year for him in my opinion To win the money in the bank a lot of people have talked about this Uh, a lot of people have speculated that he should win it or montez for it I think montez for it can you know get his climb You know into the to the mid card division to you know upper card, you know potentially through other means I don't think he needs money in the bank more than la night I personally think it fits la night to have the money in the bank briefcase for him to be in that match and for him to win it I know that crowd will go crazy Because I think he's just for the Especially for the hardcore fans and even for the casual fans I think people are buying into him more and more and more and him winning money in the bank Needs to be on their list Now you can say oh, maybe he should beat goonther or maybe he should go to monday night raw and beat awesom theory and To that I would say I don't think that's the right route only because once again He still is a heel And even if they turned them baby face, which I don't think they should do I think they should keep him where he is now perfect the way he is Uh, I just don't think it's his time to beat goonther for the intercontinental championship I would like to see montez Maybe do that. I think that would be cool now On the other side of things or for austin theory for his united states championship I just don't I don't see that right now. I know they are the future for wwe But I just don't see la night taken down Taking down austin theory.  I think money in the bank suits him That's why I say that that's why I say him getting it that way That would be cool if you're trying to build up that baby face to overcome the odds to overcome the heel But him being such a cool heel and people like him It makes sense for him to have the briefcase So that way he can make the the most opportune moment on when he's going to cash in and for example The speculation that codie may win it at somerslam this year Win the titles at somerslam. All right, cool, whatever Say that does happen and say you have codie hold the titles for you know, maybe six months or whatnot And say there's a situation where codie has a hard fought match against whoever it could be It could be seth. It could be randy. Not sure just a hard fought match codie's drain. You hear la night's music I'm gonna be honest with you. I know people love codie but I think la night cashing in On a codie reigns. I'm in codie reign Uh, codie roads title reign at the end of a match if he's tired and he's beaten up He's battered I think the fans will pop I think it would be one of those situations if you guys remember when doff ziggler was a heel Uh cashed in on alberto del rio. Who was a face and the crowd went insane granted That was a different situation, but I think you can have that That type of vibe here. I think especially if he gets more wins He wins the money in the bank. He comes off as someone as credible that could you could see as a world champion He's just gonna pick his spots. He's talking trash. Like it doesn't matter who wins codie. Roman doesn't matter All when it's all said and done, you're gonna be talking about la night as your new wwe Universal we're the wwe champion something like that and he finally cashes in the crowd's gonna go crazy I'm gonna go crazy and I like codie But it's just one of those things if that does happen you have a new star made and I think This is why it's one of them situations where it benefits if codie is the one to take the titles off of roman because I don't see anyone else doing it and sooner rather than later Not waiting to wrestle mania 40 because then you can have interesting setups if la night does win money in the bank and now you can Try to speculate when he's gonna cash in on codie because you know it's gonna happen and it makes sense La night's not cashing in if he wins money in the bank. He's not cashing in on roman as the champ It's not happening roman's not losing the titles and the money in a bank briefcase Run in so it makes sense for whenever roman does drop the titles to whoever preferably codie I think that would be a good moment. I think that would be interesting I I think even la night just teased and i'm gonna cash in on you codie You just don't know it yet and they're back and forth on the microphone I think that would be great and once again, it's all about building new stars And I just think wwe has someone very special on their hands the fans or organically Buying into him without them and he hasn't been winning many matches But they're buying into him. So I think this is the year they need to you know, listen to the fans Really keep pushing him because he is the future the dude got it All he has to do is get that believability that he can win those important matches And you know, I think you got someone special. I think you got a potentially another main event superstar It just all depends on how they book them. So comment down below. Let me know. Do you guys feel like La night should win money in the bank? This year and ultimately become the new champion at some point whenever roman drops the title Do y'all think this is his year to win money in the bank or do y'all think maybe it's not maybe he should go Another route and maybe going for goonthers intercontinental championship or um, austin theory's united states championship Do y'all think that should be the route him going to mid cart route before jumping into the main event scene? Let me know down below But I appreciate all of the support you guys are showing on channel road to 150k and I am still in this be the YouTube rest on champ of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking on me. See y'all next one. Peace