Coming up on D T N S the thinking continues to evolve about Apple's child protection schemes Amazon merchants that will pay you to remove a negative review. What's that going to incentivize you to do? And is Apple TV useless? D T N S starts now. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday August 9th 2021 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane and I'm the show's producer Roger chain joining us writer, podcaster Chris Mancini from White Cat Entertainment. Welcome back to the show, Chris. Great to be here. Thanks for having me. We were just all discussing our experiences with dinner theater on Good Day Internet. If you'd like to solve that mystery, get the show get the wider show become a member patreon.com slash D T N S. There you can join our top patrons such as Dustin Campbell, Tim deputy and Brandon Brooks. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Apple updated its FAQ stating that it's newly announced client side scanning technology coming to iOS and Mac OS is limited to child sexual abuse material stored in iCloud and quote, we will not accede to any government's request to expand it and quote, the company said that the image hashes will scan it will scan for come from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children or NCM and other child safety organizations with the same listed maintained overall devices to prevent individual targeting. Tesla now lists its forthcoming cyber truck shipping in 2022 originally announced as shipping this year CEO Elon Musk had previously said on an earnings call in January that the company would only be able to ship cyber trucks in 2021 and quote, if we got lucky, which I guess they did not. The financial time sources say bite dance plans to go public on the Hong Kong stock exchange by early next year. The company reported company reported has nearly 1.9 billion monthly active users across its platforms and in a funding round last year was valued at $180 billion. As we mentioned last week, some investors have speculated that the ongoing Chinese tech crackdown might lead to more IPO listings on the Hong Kong exchange. Even it is was down 3.8% on the year last week. Microsoft updated the Xbox app on Windows to include its X Cloud game streaming service currently available to Xbox insiders in 22 countries. The app also now supports streaming games from a local Xbox and in other gaming news, Microsoft's going to stream a Gamescom Xbox event August 24th at 1pm Eastern promising new looks at upcoming games that have been previously announced. The stream comes the day before the Gamescom opening night live showcase August 25th. Valve Steam Deck designer Greg Kummer confirmed that the company is working on bringing Windows 11 support to the device. The company is currently working with AMD to make sure trusted platform module is supported at the BIOS level for the OS. Alright, let's talk a little more about Facebook letting you leave. Sort of, yeah. Facebook's transfer your information tool lets you export some data for use by other services, mostly photos. That's something that people could have taken advantage of before now. But Facebook just updated it with the ability to export to different services simultaneously and also filter some export so it's not an all or nothing thing. So in addition to photos, the tool now supports the Facebook's event data type to support to export event listings to Google Calendar. Okay, and photo bucket has been added to the list of places that you can export your photos. Facebook already supports exporting images to Google Photos to Dropbox to Blogger and to WordPress. The UI also got a tweak in an effort to make it easier to use. Yeah, I like that they're expanding beyond just photos here. But Facebook events feels like it's more from what I can tell to be an event based thing where someone invites you to something not a calendar replacement. So I'm not sure how useful it is to export your previous events to Google Calendar unless you keep doing it on an ongoing basis. Adding photo bucket seems to make sense. It's like a breadcrumb trail type thing. I participated in a Facebook event. It was on my calendar at some point. It's nice to have it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's better than nothing. Yeah, I think the photo stuff is more interesting. You know, you still might say, well, Facebook didn't add anything to the list of a place that I would want to export my photos to. But it is seeming to be a bigger effort to say, yes, you can transfer your data elsewhere. Chris, do you feel freer? Well, I think the photos is a big deal because if there's one thing you would want to take with you, it would be that. And I feel like somebody actually probably said that in a development meeting, Sarah, like, well, it's better than nothing. Like when they were trying to figure out the other functionality, like, well, the calendar, we got to give them something. It does seem like a little bit of like a, yeah, a little bit of a drip, like, well, they won't complain for another year. Yeah, if we just do a little bit at a time and see, see, look what we're giving you. And don't leave. Don't leave. So I think. Yeah, we'll let you leave. So don't. In the end, I know that Facebook is probably doing this because they have to. But it's a good thing that they're doing it. And the more that they participate in the wider data transportation efforts that are out there across the platform, the better it is for all of us. So whatever the motivation, I'm glad to see them continuing to develop it. And hopefully it gets even more expensive. Yeah, I mean, Facebook was all about sharing your data. They just didn't want you to do it. So that's now catching up. Yeah. Why do you want to take your own? To be clear, to people who don't realize you can export all your Facebook data to yourself. This this is an addition of like, we'll make it easy, rather than download all your photos to your hard drive and then upload them again, you'll be able to go straight to photo bucket. The way you can now go straight to Google photos, Dropbox, Blogger and WordPress. So you already can can pull out all your information. You've been able to do that for a long time. This is going beyond that and saying, let's make it easy. If you want to switch over to someplace else, which if you're like, why blogger and WordPress, that's because a lot of people treat a Facebook like a blog. And if they decide they want to switch to WordPress, this lets them pull over their posts and photos and things like that. And go back to the 90s. Hey, we're on WordPress now. You be careful. The latest beta for Valve's Steam VR, which is version 1.19.6, adds support for floating app windows inside VR games.  It could just be floating there in the side. I could see Discord being especially useful in some games for that. The windows are view only so you can just monitor your chat, but you can interact with them in the Steam VR menu. You just have to pop down and open it up. Previously in Steam VR, you could dock a window to your controller so you could do quick glances and pull it up, but they didn't float persistently. So that's the big change here is you can choose to do either one. So as somebody who I play certain VR games and they're very intense, this is not a thing that I could make much use of. I would get lower scores. When you're dancing in Supernatural, you wouldn't want to be also watching a Netflix movie? I really wouldn't. No. I mean, sure, I'd love to try, but it would only make my score worse. Facebook for Oculus recently allowed the implementation of, if you'd link your Facebook Messenger account and give it the right permissions, you could get, you Tom could message me and I would be in my VR experience and say something to me and I was like, I mean, I guess I'll let it do that. I don't talk to that many people on Facebook Messenger. It might be kind of fun just to see how it feels. One person did that to me at one point and I was like, it's like the worst notification ever. You're totally taking me out of my game, but that's a very specific kind of game.  There might be a Discord server that, yeah, it seems a little clunky that you'd have to, you'd be able to view only, but if you want to jump in you got to kind of deal with the Steam menu a little bit. I could see where that would make a lot of sense because there are places where people have sort of clustered to talk about all sorts of stuff that might have to do with the game that you're playing. So it's kind of, it's kind of neat to have the option. For me, I feel like man, VR is just, there's only so much distraction you can have and then it kills the whole point of the VR, which is to get out of the world. Well, I think it's just an extension of what you're talking about, like a heads-up display when you're actually playing the game. It's like it's another thing to actually look at to the point where, all right, well that, like you said, I think it'd be good in certain games in certain contexts, but there's other ones where you just want as much of the VR screen as possible. You don't want anything else popping up. So yeah, it's, more choice is the better. And I think it takes us further down the road of just general productivity, VR, as a display, the more that you can put windows up floating, the more that you could be like, well, I'm not actually playing a VR game. I'm doing some work in VR. You're seeing more and more implementations of that. Yeah, yeah.  Yeah, that's really true. Yeah, it's not necessarily like, oh, my friends are chatting with me while I'm trying to get the best score possible. I mean, that's kind of what I'm doing. Yeah, right. But there are a lot of things you can do while wearing a VR headset where you might say, this is actually really hopeful. I can, you know, I can kind of see what's going on. Amazon is awash with inexpensive products from brands you may have never heard of, but they often have reviews around four and a half stars. And you may wonder, how does that happen? I've never even heard of this company. Well, it could be that these brands are selling very good products and have built a loyal and passionate customer user base. But the Wall Street Journal recently looked at the lengths that some of these brands will go to to avoid bad reviews and keep that star rating high. They found instances of sellers reaching out to customers who left bad reviews and offering them refunds or gift cards, sometimes for more than what they had paid for the item in exchange for taking down the review. I buy an item, I'm disappointed, I leave a bad review, I spent 20 bucks on the item, I get offered 40 bucks to take down the review. The contact comes outside of Amazon's official channels and violates its terms of service because it's not supposed to, you're not supposed to have an Amazon merchant contact you outside of channels and you're not supposed to have an Amazon merchant ask you to remove a bad review. So it violates it two ways. As part of Amazon's network, sellers get access to a customer's address for shipping and payment, of course, but emails are hidden. If Amazon fulfills a product for the merchant, which it often does, then the merchant only gets your city, state, and zip code. They don't even get your address. Now some appear to be getting around this by including offers of a free gift with an item. If you've ever seen a little card in the box with whatever you bought that says, hey, you get when a free gift card, it'll often ask you for an email and that you gave them your email if you signed up for that. Sometimes they'll even use third-party lookup services to take whatever information they do have and these third parties will be able to use the internet to go find out what the email address is that goes with that name, address, zip code, etc. A company called Matic Chain, for instance, is cited by the Wall Street Journal as offering an email extraction service specifically for Amazon sellers. Regardless of how emails are obtained, some customers reported getting emails four months after leaving a bad review continually asking for it to be taken down. There was one instance where the email said, we will keep emailing you until you respond. I know. Nicole Nguyen of the Wall Street Journal recommends not using your real name in your reviews, saving all the communications if you do get these kinds of emails and, of course, reporting them to Amazon. Well, you know, it's at least now customers are a little savvier when you see something like that they've never heard of, and there's like a thousand good reviews.  So I think there's people are getting a little more savvy, but I've gotten those too. Like, I've ordered something and it wasn't an email. It was literally something in with the package like, hey, we're a small company. We'll give you this if you leave a good review, blah, blah, blah, or like just more stuff or whatever. So at what point do they start calling it broad and private? Right? Well, I mean, that is that. If it's a title review is a violation of the terms of service, right? Right, yeah, and it's clearly a rampant issue and I'll be interested to see how Amazon finally clamps down on it because ultimately it's going to hurt them because when people start to lose trust in the products that they sell, they're going to go elsewhere for their business. Well, yeah, I generally never look at a star review on a device unless it's got, you know, six or seven thousand. Those are harder to fake. But even then, I'm fairly skeptical of it. I try to look at how individual reviews are written or just fine reviews elsewhere off the platform. The problem is the scale at which Amazon works, it's whack-a-mole for them. You know, they can shut one of these down and this company will have five other brand names they go under and just pop over under them. And so it works for them to offer these gift cards because it floats them up higher in the search engines and they know it's harder for Amazon to catch them. Yeah, I think too, like before this really took off, I always felt like there was like an 80-20 rule where 10% of the reviews were like super good and like, okay, well those are plans. 10% of the reviews were people with an axe to grind and then the 80% in between were like the ones you could kind of trust. But you never know which was which, but generally I would go with the bulk. But now with everything getting manipulated, you have to be a little more cautious. Yeah, yeah. On Yelp, I generally will just look at the worst reviews and if they're complaining that, you know, about things where I'm like, yeah, that just happens in any business, then I know like, okay, this business is probably okay. Hey, folks, what do you want to hear us talk about on the show? One way to let us know is in our subreddit, submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. In his latest installment of his power on newsletter, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman argues that in the current streaming landscape, the Apple TV has become pointless. I know, I know that he goes on to tell us more. Apple TV spent a number of years as Steve Jobs described hobby and has never really matched the sales of Apple's other top-end devices. Certainly not the iPhone. But Gurman argues that even then it served a purpose because the initial 2007 version was designed to store and stream local media. Then there was the 2010 Apple TV, which was the company's entry into cloud streaming media that went for $99, and then you had the 2015 version that added the App Store. And there's a 4K version now. However, Gurman notes that the cost and features of the Apple TV make it harder to justify in the competitive landscape, even for those who are deeply in the Apple ecosystem, or at least feel that they are. What it does offer integration with HomeKit and Fitness Plus and AirPods and the iOS remote app, but there's no content advantage on the platform argues Gurman. It doesn't have any key apps that you can't find on Fire TV or Roku, and it also costs more. Even Apple TV Plus, you can get elsewhere. It's available pretty much anywhere. And Apple TV holds 2% of the market. Count them too. Gurman argues a shift in pricing may be the introduction of a cheaper Apple TV stick could help, or possibly offering Apple TV, Apple's TV Plus service for free on the device could also help. So Rich Truffilino before the show, because he helped us put the story together, had a little informal poll, you know, among friends who care about these sorts of things, and it and conducted on Facebook. 62% of Rich's friends owned a Roku. The rest were evenly split between either Fire TV or Apple TV. Owners of all the devices said they liked the UI. Apple ecosystem was a consistent draw for Apple TV, although cost was most cited among Fire TV users. Also interesting that most Apple TV respondents also said that they did own a Roku as well, while Fire TV users were most likely to also use a smart TV for streaming. Well, I have an Apple TV, and I will tell you it's for two reasons and two reasons only, because I wouldn't have gotten one for all of those reasons you just cited in that article. I have an older LG television and only half the apps work on it, like HBO Max doesn't work. Disney Plus would work, but you can't do the upsell, like the $30 ones, because there's weird functionality that's missing on those. So I got the Apple TV, so I could have all my TV streaming apps in one place, and also so the kids could kind of cast videos from their phone onto the TV. But that's it, those are the only two reasons when these new smart televisions, and we get a new one that all the apps actually are functional on, and it has airplay on it, there's no reason I would get another Apple TV. I, for the longest time, was Roku first. I felt like Roku was the best, mostly because it had all the apps. There was a long period of years where Roku had all the apps from everybody, and Fire didn't have all of them, and Apple didn't have all of them. But once everybody kind of got all the apps and that distinction went away, I found myself gravitating to the Apple TV because I liked the interface better. Now, granted, I was a person who didn't hate that old Apple TV remote, but even that's been changed now, you can get the new remote. And I just do find the interface more pleasing on the Apple TV. I have been an Apple TV fanboy though, since the very first Apple TV, which I still have. Of course you do. I just love, I love the idea of it. Got it right here, says Tom. Yeah, no, it's in my hand. So I'm probably not the most unbiased source on this. I've been brainwashed, but I really do prefer that interface. The one thing I will say is I, when they stopped showing you like what to watch next at the top and started showing you promotable things, I went into the settings and undid that. The thing I do love the most is that very big and very clear up at the top, it tells you like, here's the shows you've been watching. You can just click on them to start watching them next without having to find the app. And I know other interfaces have been adding that now. And so maybe I need to go experiment and see if I'm cool with the new interfaces. But I don't know, Apple TVs, they seem to work really smooth and I like the interface. Yeah, I'm an Apple TV user exclusively at this point. Most of everything I watch is either from a Plex Media Server or YouTube TV. But those are both things I could do on other platforms easily. I like the interface. I do feel like I'm sort of a victim of the Apple ecosystem sometimes where I'm like, I just know it, it's fine. I also haven't upgraded my Apple TV since 2015 when we got that. I think I actually bought it in 2016. But the app store model where it was like, oh, and you can air play stuff to the TV. And that was all very new. I'm still rocking that Apple TV. I don't have a new one. But there was a point where, yeah, I had to use a Roku to watch HBO content and then switch back and forth. And Roku had kind of other fun like Crackle.com stuff that I would play around with. And now I just, it's the one, it's one less thing to switch back and forth between. So I guess I kind of just made my choice for that reason. Yeah, it definitely makes it easier when everything is in one place. And if you like the interface, like I was literally going back from like, OK, well, this app works on the PlayStation 4. This app is on LG.  So let me get it all working in one place. And if you're in the ecosystem, you know, I watched Rick and Morty on my phone last night. But my Apple TV knows that when I go to watch and says like, oh, yeah, you already watched that. We're not going to try to make you watch that. I know I think the home kit stuff could also become an advantage, but it's not yet. So that that's sort of in the offing. And and if they ever get, you know, the the the HomePod speaker system to be more compelling as a controller for that and streaming music could become. But it's not there yet. So I don't think German's wrong about any of this stuff. I've just sort of. Well, yeah, I mean, look at the market share. It's like, I mean, Apple can't be pleased with two percent. No, I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a phase out eventually or it has to go one way or the other. It's either a phase out or a more robust offering of features. Yeah, they either go cheap, like German said, or they go higher fidelity. Like this is the upgraded sound, the upgraded picture that, you know, that is superior to what you would get, etc. etc. That would be a very Apple move. Real quickly, one China tech crackdown story to add on this Monday as we follow the continuing China crackdown on tech over the weekend, prosecutors filed a lawsuit against Tencent claiming that its WeChat youth mode violates laws protecting minors, though they did not cite what violated the laws. Youth mode is a function of WeChat similar to what a lot of social platforms have. Let's children use WeChat without the ability to access payments, without the ability to see if your friends are nearby and restriction on what games you can play. But apparently that didn't go far enough. So China cracking down on that now too. Well Ikea Canada has created instruction manuals and a batch of free PDFs for repurposing some of its products aptly named repurposeful instructions.  And this isn't working for me anymore. So you could, for example, turn a candle holder into a planter or turn bags into a hanging garden or transform a cabinet into a beehive. Wow. Yeah. I thought that was pretty cool. It's cool. I'm just not sure where I would safely put that in my house. But okay. Well, I think that happened in the same development meaning is what do we do with the Apple TV? No, I think that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Come on, Apple. At least I had a repurpose it. Like, can you make the Apple TV into a beehive? Tom's first gen is quite big. But, uh, but, you know, this is actually, yes, I've turned my Apple TV into a beehive. Ikea has been, he's been kind of on a roll with the repurposing of items back in June. Ikea Norway launched a similar program called the Trash Collection, which gave broken or otherwise discarded Ikea furniture, their own catalog with ideas for reuse. And last year, Ikea stopped selling non-retargeable batteries. We talked about that, you might recall. Also converted its print catalog to a digital-only version, said we're not going to make all, you know, waste all this paper, launched a second hand store, and also bought nearly 11,000 acres of forest in Georgia to preserve it. Okay. So this, this is great. I love the idea of reuse, and whether you need a beehive or not, there's, there's lots of different ideas here to kind of spark your own ideas, I think is part of that. And there's, there's a whole culture of reuse already around, not only Ikea stuff, but all kinds of furniture out there. If Ikea really wants to do this right, it's not PDFs, y'all, it's, it's YouTube videos, TikTok videos showing, showing the ideas.  That's a really good point. Yeah. And then you get in front of the younger people that have the furniture as well. Well, yeah, exactly. And when you see it, you're like, oh, now I want a beehive in my house, that, you know, because I saw it in video and it looks so cool. And that lady made avocado toast on it. It's amazing. That's, as I understood it, how, how all that stuff works. But yeah, I think it's an interesting idea. And, you know, I might be downloading a couple of these free PDFs because these Billy bookcases aren't getting any younger behind me. Now, if you have enough of me, you could actually make that IKEA maze that you have to walk through at the store. Sometimes I feel like I'm in an IQ maze. All right. Let's check out the mail bags, Sarah. I'm going to start us at this time. A few of you wrote in, I'd say a half dozen or so, to disagree with my assertion on Friday that Apple's new notification system for child protection identified for users younger than 13, breaks and to end encryption. I really appreciated your sincere and respectful and well reasoned emails on what can be a pretty device of issue. So, y'all rock. Thank you so much to be clear with the end to end encryption topic. We're all talking about the personal notification system in Apple messages. We're not talking about the part of that story that had to do with iCloud photos, at least in this case. Some of you said that the system only notifies parents. It doesn't send the actual message contents. And you're like, so that doesn't seem like subverting into an encryption to me. Others of you contended that since it all happens on the device, it's at the end point and therefore does not subvert end to end encryption. To that first point about say it doesn't send any content to the parents, that may have been my misunderstanding. It was my understanding that the photo in question was saved for review by the parents, which sounded to me like message content being forwarded to a third party user. If that's not how it's going to work, then it comes down to point two, whether you think any information leaking out, even a notification, subverts end to end encryption, which is a more nuanced argument. End to end encryption in principle doesn't let anyone but the user handle its information. So the way I look at this, those of you who emailed me are sort of living constitutionalists. And then the people are like, no, it's end to end if any information leaks out are strict constructionists. And there's reasonable debate to be had about this. The Center for Democracy and Technology argues that client-side scanning on one end of the communication, just the scanning itself, breaks the security of the transmission and informing a third party, in this case the parent, about the content of the communication undermines its privacy. Organizations around the world have cautioned against client-side scanning because it could be used as a way for governments and companies to police the content of private communications.  That is a similar situation. That's the way Center for Democracy and Technology is saying you should think about it. Apple sees it different, of course. It issued a fact flatly stating, does this break end to end encryption to messages? No. And on the subject of letting either of these system be used for other things, Apple reiterated in that same fact that it will refuse any demands to add non-CSAM images to the hash list and pointed out it has resisted demands, quote, to build and deploy government-mandated changes that degrade the privacy of users before, which we mentioned Friday, but it's worth repeating. That brings us to one last email on this topic that I want to read in full from longtime patron John in Billings, Montana. Sarah, you get that one. Yeah, so John says, like Tom, I have mixed feelings about it, but I wanted to bring up an important point regarding how they plan to forward questionable content sent by children to their parents. The short version is that while messages themselves are end to end encrypted, Apple has always been able to direct those blobs of data to whomever. Steve Gibson did an episode of Security Now many years ago, and the reason that they can do this is because they act as the directory of devices public keys. So when you send a message, Apple provides the public keys and then can insert the keys of unintended recipients like the child's parents. John says the episode is around March 10th of 2014. He was kind of in transit when he sent us this note, but we do have a link in our show notes of the episode that he thinks that it was about. And John says, so why is trusting Apple necessary? It's about convenience. Apple wouldn't be where it is if people had to scan QR codes or transfer keys out of bands. I always love the show. That's a pretty good argument that this is not subverting end to encryption. It's just changing the endpoint, which again, I think a lot of people say, well, if you change the endpoint, you've subverted end to encryption. So my opinion on this continues to evolve. I haven't landed one way or another of whether I'm firmly against or for as you heard on Friday, I sort of kind of changed my mind about the uploading to the iPhoto, the photos to cloud, because that was already insecure and what they're doing is better than what Google and Microsoft do where they actually scan in the cloud. And it's very well protected. Barbu Schatz had a great explanation of that on security bits on Alison Sheridan's no silicast this week, but I'm still uncomfortable with the idea of leaking out information. I'm not saying this is a bad situation that it shouldn't happen even, but I am concerned that this is not pure end to end encryption. And once you let that happen, even if Apple's firm and says, no, we will never let this be used for anything else but this, it does set a precedent where others may go, well, Apple lets them do this. So maybe it's okay if we do it for another good purpose. And that's the slippery slope argument there. Chris, I don't know if as a father, if you follow this super closely, but the idea of protecting your children from things versus having pure encryption is pretty much the heart of this issue. Yeah. And as a parent, you always want as much protection for your kids as possible. So it's definitely a balancing act and as the technology evolves, like you said, your opinion is still fluid on all of this as well. So I tend to come down more on the side of like, well, what protects kids the most? So I would probably be a little more forgiving for a little more rules and things like that. Sure. And I guess the only thing I'll say is I can't disagree with any of that. It's always the unforeseen use cases. Remember, I'm very careful to explain this as an account created and identified as for someone 13 years or younger. Someone can create account for someone else on a family account called 13 years or younger if they want, possibly without that person's knowledge, even if they're not younger than 13. So it's always those cases that end up being the problems, not the one that they're intended to help with. Well, thanks everybody for their feedback about this topic and every topic that we talk about on the show. Keep it coming. Feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Also, thanks to brand new bosses today. They are Danny Werner and Nathan. You know, like Prince. Nathan just goes by Nathan. Both just started backing us on Patreon. Thank you, Danny. And thank you, Nathan. Thank you both. That's a great way to start there. Two new bosses. New bosses, new bosses. Want to be a boss?  Also, thanks to Chris Mancini for being with us today. Chris, where can people keep up with your work? People can find me at whitecatentertainment.com. 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So hopefully they'll be excited for number two as well. That's great. Thank you, Chris. Thanks for having me. Also, every time you say white cat entertainment, I'm like, rare. Yeah. Sort of just kind of have that going in my brain.  So I felt like, you know, to kind of honor her a little bit. Yeah, because she was my writing partner basically. So that's what I named the company after. Oh, that's great. That's a great background. All right. Well, we're live on this show Monday through Friday. Did you know 4.30 p.m. Eastern, 20.30 UTC is when we're live. You can find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live and we'll be back doing it all tomorrow with Alice and Sheridan. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. The Diamond Club hopes you have enjoyed this program.


OK, welcome back to the channel, everyone. And yes, we are back in the studio. And as the name of this video suggests, we're going to attempt to discuss, well, something that nobody really wants to discuss. We're going to give it a go. Right, so this video is going to ask a lot of questions. And the first being, why isn't LiveGolf being discussed on any YouTube channels? Well, I can tell you the simple answer is, everyone is very much too scared to have an opinion because of what follows on. And that really leads me to question two, and that is, why can't people have an amicable debate anymore? Because, let's be honest, you simply can't. But we're going to try and look at some of the major talking points around in the Live Tour. And the impact it's had on Golf. And the only opinion that I'm really interested in is yours right now. And I'm interested to see what that balanced opinion is. So please get involved in the comments. I expect this to be a busy one. So what I'd ask you to do is try and keep it clean, factual, and non-abusive amongst each other. We're far more grown up than that. So if I ready, buckle in. Right, do you watch LiveGolf or are you just not prepared to give it a chance? If you have watched it, what are your thoughts on a three rounds, no-cut shotgun start kind of format? What about a team event? Is that a good idea? It was introduced in cricket, it seems to work well. An idea of supporting a team rather than an individual, I wonder, will kids start wearing a team shirt? Does the format actually engage a younger audience? What are the impacts it's had on the game? Has it diminished the PGA Tour as they suggest, or the DP Tour, or has one affected more than the other? Has the DP Tour become a feeder tour, which is also the opinion of many? Is Keith Pelley the right man to be leading the European Tour and Jay Moynihan getting it right for PGA Tour? Why have the PGA introduced new formats into the program? Would seem to be events that bring greater riches again to the elite. Is that really best for the Gamer Golf or have they gone down the route of effectively copying somewhat Live have done? A lot of people said that Live attracted players that were sort of past their best. So why is there any concern about losing them to another tour? But then Cam Smith and others who have followed are clearly not past their best golfers. They are in fact, in his case, open champion. So has the landscape changed even in recent weeks and is your general opinion of Live changing? And what are your thoughts on golfers reacting to each other? Previous Ryder Cup teammates now seem to have completely fallen out with each other. Is that a good way to behave? Is it really showing golf in a good light? I ask myself, are Rory and Co right to take a swipe at any opportunity at the Live Tour and its players? When top European golfers became successful on the European Tour, they would often jump ship and play on a PGA Tour at the first opportunity, thus effectively weakening the tour it left behind. And I would have assumed they did that for financial reasons. So I ask myself how that differs from, well, leaving the PGA Tour to go to the Live. The one question that seems to be fading is the human rights issue. Is that not a worrying fact that the question is being now overlooked and seems to be dominated by questions that we've just raised so far? Now finally, I hear how the introduction of Live is detrimental to the game of golf. I think we should all remember that it only impacts on professional golf. I recently paid a visit to what golf really looks like to most of us. Right, this morning I am down in North Wales. I'm at Betsy Co at Golf Club. It's a nine-old golf course. It looks pretty idyllic in terms of the surroundings, but it got me thinking that we're a lot about lately about golf tours and how they affect the game of golf. Well, let me tell you, this is what real golf looks like for most people that play the game, at least anyway. It's a Monday morning, the clubhouse is shut, but somebody's come down and opened the changing rooms.  And this is what real golf actually looks like. It's grassroots and these kind of clubs need help and they need exposure to try and get more people to come and play it and keep this whole thing going because at the end of the day, it's rather tiresome to hear how multimillion pound tours are affecting or being affected by, at least, the arguments that are going on right now and affecting the game of golf. They don't because this is what real golf looks like. We're about to go and film it and give it some exposure and hopefully get a few more people coming down and visiting and playing this golf course and helping it keep open because it really is absolutely stunning to look at. So I will leave it there. I have a little personal opinion only that I'm not comfortable with the way humans behave anymore, whether you are for or against live golf can people just not show some decency instead of descending into vile abuse. I would also prefer if professionals could retain some dignity and show a little respect to one another, especially former teammates and stop the slide digs which I find a little bit childish. But we all know that is not the world we live in right now. So be nice people, get your comments in below because I am really interested to know your thoughts. And like I said at the beginning of the video try and keep it clean, keep it polite and keep it balanced. Just give an opinion that's based on fact and not just one that sort of throws abuse at people. I have no idea why that is the only way people can express an opinion nowadays. Right, it's a short and sweet video. It's not one that I expected to be making. And like I said, I avoid the conversation as much as anybody else does on YouTube or social media to be quite honest with you. But there is such a lot that surrounds LiveGolf right now it seems that we're kind of ducking away from it if we don't raise it and create a video and throw it out there for you to have an opinion on. So I hope you, I don't think you enjoyed the video the right word to use but I hope you appreciated the video. And as I said, get involved in those comments. Let me know your thoughts and I'll see you all soon. Take it easy.


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All right, we've got one of these big fancy JVCD series CRTs that's been dropped off for servicing this week and this is a silver edition Check this out. It has a 32 inch tube and just look at the curve on that tube. It's fisheye. See how it bubbles out like that That's hard to see there. You can kind of see the reflection of the BBM screen over here and how it's Gives it that weird warped look so that's that's a cool feature of these tubes They really have a different distinct look because of that shadow mask a bubble screen And here's a look at the front Buttons that are pretty standard for a television from this time. We do have an input on the front for composite video and Also stereo audio. All right, it's the AV 32d 305 120 volts 60 Hertz CRT television from November of 2005 Chassis number a124 and 128 watts if we look down here, this has not been serviced yet, so it's still dirty and It's pretty easy to open up even though. It's very large There's some screws that have tiny arrows pointing to them and if you just undo those screws and then there's a bunch around the sides of This shell and the top just get all these screws out in this shell will pull out and we'll see how It looks inside. I'm going to guess there's a lot of dust in there Here's our input board on the back. Of course. We've got our 75 ohm RF input right here. We also have an input up top that can be S video or composite input number two is all Well, so it looks like maybe you can use this green input as composite video or you can set it up to use component There's a bunch of empty slots here that are blocked off because there are so many different versions of this television You may see different build-outs on your specific model if you have a different model and we're going to open it up We're going to take a quick look inside. We'll see what kind of tube we've got behind here And then we will get the circuit boards out for servicing All right, here we are inside and you can see we've got a lot of dust up here around the anode cap and then on the tube itself just check it out normal amounts of dust for 20 almost years Guarantee this has not been open since it was manufactured back in 2005. We've got way more dust down here and Then the fly back cabling over here in our high deflection area This is a great example of how these parts can get insulated by this dust those capacitors and then that actually will Make them wear out even quicker If you left it like this and just kept using it because that dust would act as an insulator and cause the heat to Build up even higher inside those capacitors and not be able to even dissipate So that would wear out these parts even quicker. So it's always great to get in here and at least clean But this is our main chassis area down here. All right, so let's look at this tube for one quick minute It is an M80 Ju a zero six one X this tube is actually made by Panasonic and Some people claim that this is a very high-end tube and one of the more desirable ones for this JVCD series Now we can look at this yoke over here and this yoke is slightly different than the 36 inch yoke And if you want to go check out more on the 36 inch JVCD series Check out this link right up here And then you can see more about how it looks on the inside this one you can move and manipulate if you need to and It's more of a traditional style yoke than what was what we saw on that 36 inch one and again the tube here It's a shadow mask tube. So we've got three Color guns in there separated and they are shooting our beams onto the screen for our video signal All right, so now I'm just going to disassemble the rest of this We're gonna leave the deflection yoke in place But all the rest of these things are coming with us the boards are gone I wanted to give you one last look at this dirty tube Before it gets a good cleaning It's pretty gross up there We're a lot cleaner now Now the main board's been broken out here and we're ready to go in and install a cap kit now This is a custom new capacitor kit that you can see over here I've got laid out and the areas on this kit are going to be deflection The neck board and in our power area Now thankfully if we look at this board even though it's not like a PVM or BVM or high quality monitor Where everything's separated into different boards This is all on one single board But it is marked as to what each area does so some of these areas for example over in this area Well, this again controls audio So we're not really even concerned with this as long as all the caps test within good tolerances Then we're not going to change them same thing over here in this video chip area These are capacitors that don't age as quickly as these ones over here in the high heat areas And so if they check out fine, we will leave them in place now over in this area is our power supply And all the voltages that will come in from right here This is our main plug that's soldered into place from our wall So the wall voltage comes in here and then it gets transformed into the different usable voltages So we've definitely got these capacitors within this block and you see how it's marked by these lines This is our isolated power area. See how it says isolated and then right where my finger there says power And so this is a good area for us to check the capacitors on but we're doing the just the whole kit on this So we're replacing those that's why they have the marks on them And then if we go over in this area and this is always around The fly back and then these other ICs which control horizontal and vertical deflection And those transistors we need to check these capacitors that are all in these areas They'll control a lot of those deflection Things those are all on the kit and even if we go over into this area Where it says side pin right here Side pin so we want to get in here and change these couple capacitors And everything again is blocked off on this circuit board There's also the neck board over here, which does have just two caps on it. So we'll change those out And that's what we're going to do now is change the caps All right, these boards have been fully serviced And they have been reassembled to a point I just wanted to show you this breakout card here with our additional inputs on it We're also serviced and cleaned in And then if we go over here that we'll just plug right into this spot right here And go over our other inputs like that and we'll snap into place And then we can just take this upstairs And install it with the tube and check out the fruits of our labor Now I wanted to point out one thing before I closed this up and moved on to the next section When I recapped this board, I did notice that some of these capacitors, especially The larger ones you see they have a marking on them I marked them so that I would notice that their orientation was different from all the smaller Capacitors you see down here where you see how this one goes and it points this direction. Well the negative Pole on this capacitor right here points the opposite direction of it The best thing to do when you run into a board like this is to mark the items And always triple check your work before you even reinstall The board and test it so that you don't damage anything But we're pretty much good to go all the solder looks good. There was some spots on here that had to have some solder reflowed But besides that Everything went pretty well. Here's the neck board also got some fresh caps and solder on there So let's just go back up now. We're going to install this with the tube and see how it looks All right, so everything's back in place here, especially our anode cap And we've got our neck board installed All the cabling has been reinstalled Up there in the front and the chassis is in place And we've got it plugged in and the last thing we need to do is power test it And then we'll send a video signal into each of these inputs and see how it looks So here's a quick look at the goodies. I'll be using to test our crt out there First off, I got this later edition of the super nintendo. It has been modified and it outputs RGB as well as s video and composite video It's voltars kit. So that's been done to that and then we've got some other things in here We've got the hd retro vision component cables And then we've got the s video cables from insurrection industries And then we've got some oem cabling there for the composite video Um controller and then the aftermarket preferred Triad power supply. So that's that's all good. We'll get this set up there and we'll see if that Jvc works out Well, first up, we've got a component video and I have this jvc tv remote from another d series It's a 20 inch version of the d series So i'm not sure but maybe we can see if this will work with this set Kind of like the sonys and hey look at that. It's powering up All right, there we go. Look at that. We've got component video I did the brightness turn down on this. Let's turn that up Oh, yeah, that looks great All right, i'm gonna let this warm up a little bit and test the other inputs And then we'll take a final look at it And check out some gameplay or today We're not going to be doing a full calibration video But I did want to show you a couple of things about this tv set First off, you notice sometimes the red will push Harder than the other colors. Now this one has a blue gun pushing just as hard as the red So this particular tube it does not seem to be nearly as an issue Maybe if the green was a little bit more than it would be completely balanced But there apparently is a setting in the service menu that eliminates a lot of that red drive So i'm going to do is i'm going to show you how to get into the service menu for this set by using This remote right here first thing it's set to tv. It's set to vcr And then what we want to do here is we want to press our sleep timer And have it say zero minutes and then we're going to press This video status and display We're going to press those two buttons at the very same time and that'll pull the menu up Okay, so after you press those in that sequence you get this service menu Now the first one over here this v slash c That's supposedly where this correction is needed to be made in the service menu to get the red to come back Into balance But over here number two we can select this and work on deflection if you want to change that You have sound others and really this is the very first time i've gotten into this service menu So i don't know a lot about it yet But we're going to start by just trying to see if we could fix this vc And i'm going into this Menu and it's going to give me some things down here at the bottom and we'll start scrolling through them and it should say that What i'm looking for is ntsc matte So we'll see if we can find that on this set ntsc matte see how it's selected to two We're supposed to set that to zero And it's going to take down that like overkill on the red you could see the color kind adjusted a little bit Um, actually you can see it adjusted a lot the red did come down a lot Look at that came down in line to where you have more of a blue hue On the screen and if we turn up our brightness and make them more into balance. All right, so if we exit we hit exit on the remote Takes the spec out to our main area. We can go in and change other things like your brightness under the deflection So i'm going to sit here and work on this deflection for a little bit And then we'll come back and we'll take one last look at the screens All right, i've finished up all my adjustments and here is our monoscope pattern I've got our aspect ratio set And that is why when you notice on the sets that I calibrate you'll notice that The vertical tends to go into the over scan a little bit And then sometimes like in this setup You could see the edge of the horizontal pattern right here on both sides That's so that the aspect ratio is set properly Now this one this particular set if I went over this setting on the horizontal and tried to make it larger It would actually cause a ripple around this cube And it's kind of uh, just would get really warped so you cannot go further horizontally without really screwing up the side geometry So that was kind of an interesting thing, but It's all set. It's looking really really good really sharp in there Um, not really many convergence issues. Honestly, this is one of the best looking CRTs. That's a consumer CRT that I've ever seen High marks for it So that's just this one test pattern Uh, but we're going to go through now and I'm just going to show you some Gameplay we'll mix it up and uh, you can let me know what you think of this tv What are your experiences with jvc's d-series televisions? Let me and everybody else know in the comments Thanks again for joining me today, and I'll see you all next time with some more retro content


Every time I hear that word Every time I hear that word What? I think of a tiny little garden gnome in the city What word?  Hey, welcome back to our studio direction, it's of course I'm Rick And you follow us on Instagram, Farch Butt wads And toilet paper And dragon Subscribe Like Button Button, butt wad Hit the butt wad Micah's here Say hi Micah Hi Micah Yeah, you don't get to see him though Because he's not incognito This is not a food video Yeah, he only wants to be here when there's food involved Which is understandable Yeah, I love food Me too What are we doing? With those guys This is Girls of Kamasutra Sweet Episode 3 Oh, that's my favorite It's the It's everybody That's the one everybody talks about Episode 3 of the Girls of Kamasutra is probably It's probably, that's the best story Arc That is Best Well, most like, you know Anyway We could have gone off on a long tangent there But we won't Anyways, we got a new trailer Okay It's come out It's called Anik And I think it has Eishman Karana in it Who's that? I don't know And it's a T-Series film Who's that? And you know what that means It didn't have subs Yeah, thanks guys Appreciate that Yeah, you only like The biggest production house Yeah Outside of like Darman Outside of the One-point-something Billion people in India Only one-point-something Billion also speak English Anyways, but it's a It's an action thriller Ooh And it's from the same director It's like sapped in Article 15 So it's like hard-hitting messages Yeah Awesome But different from his like Comedic hard-hitting message I think it's more like But it's a socio-political action thriller Set against the geopolitical backdrop Of Northeast India That's a myth Alright Northeast are we talking? Yeah The northest and the eastiest Thanks for that But once again It didn't have subs And so you know who came in clutch? Hey Nas Hey Nas The original OG OG Wow Thank you Hey Nas Hey Nas He came in clutch Some of our subbers Thank you so much We're busy, you know Working with real jobs For those of you who don't know Hey Nas has been around since day one Day one And is the first to sub anything And so I asked And support us And he came on clutch I was like Can anybody do this real quick And he's like Give me 20 minutes So shout out to Hey Nas Thank you An absolute stud So here we go Hey Nas Hey Nas Don't come between us Ew Here we go How nice it was India India I work for the protection of this India North East India North East means West Bengal's Full side of India Mission was To help the Tiger Sangha And the Indian Government To help the peace and stability Oh jeez Is it a parlor? Yes Ow Is it a parlor? Yikes Let's get the idea So this team Will make India or China? We are called Chinki Did not want India Here They just throw that word around aren't they? All of a sudden One group Has become more active Johnson Who are you asking for help? Come with me I'll get out of here I don't know where to go I don't want to go there Dad says We are not Indians That's why I don't trust India's team I can't do this for your fight You can't do this for my fight All of us Live in such tragedy 40 villages have been posted With the support of The peace about the against The Tiger Sangha will have to stop it And all of a sudden We are talking about Johnson Oh come on Johnson, who are you? I don't know Johnson I present the voice of the people They are the people's voice People's voice 5, 7, 8 I can go to sleep Every day I won't sleep And if I don't sleep Everything will go wrong If not You I won't go anywhere This is not a solution You have to surrender If I hide the name of one of the states in India Then how many Indians Can keep their fingers on the name of every state This is an artist There was a minister on the team Your entire Visorum's capital He doesn't even know the name of the states Where are you from, sir? Telangana South Why South, sir? Because I am from South India But Telangana is north of Tamil Nadu People of Tamil Nadu should call you a North Indian Maybe Do you know where I am from, sir? North India Do you think so? Because your Hindi is clear So India decides who is from the north and who is from the south No So it's not about Hindi either How do you decide, sir? North Indian, South Indian, East Indian, West Indian Not just Indian How does it happen, sir?  No one needs it For so many years There has been no small problem One It'll be the same thing as yours Only one criticism You could have made it two Doesn't need to be that long Two-thirty Yeah Could have been two-thirty That whole scene in the car Just his final line When he said northeast, south Yeah Get rid of that whole scene Yeah, there was a part Because it's a great trailer There was a part Right before they got in the car Yeah I thought it could have ended And it would have been I was like, that's a great trailer And it was right at two minutes It was a spectacular... I'm not saying that stuff after was bad Not at all It's just superfluous You didn't need it Correct I was already in before Actually, that scene in the car Took me from way here And I kind of went like this And then back up at the end And in a trailer You don't want that And it's not because that scene was bad Not at all It looked like a good scene Great scene Just your trailer You're trying to build up the anticipation For what this is You can't take us here And then take us back down here Agreed But that's my... Only What a great trailer This looks phenomenal The story looks important Sure does Looks essential Looks representation Engaging Northeast Indians Who often don't get the recognition As being Indian Because they so much more resemble Another Asian people in China And my goodness It was hard to hear them say that word Over and over again Yeah, using the C word The C word for... I guess it's for... Is it all Asian or Chinese people? It's particularly the Chinese Because the Japanese had one for them In World War II Yeah That was derogatory Yeah, it's like Quentin Tarantino Shoves the N word in all of his... Yeah, it hurts Yeah It's one of those things That's just jarring I'm glad... Because I don't know if the... That word would've... If the T-Series would've actually put it... Right Translated to that The way Hennos did The way Hennos did it The way Hennos did it Yeah But I think we got a lot more Because it was... It's a great trailer man Great Everybody It looked one, massive Yep It looked like this massive action thriller With an important message story All the VFX was really good Acting looked phenomenal Acting looked good It looked... It looked right off the bat And I can grade trailers also the same way Was it engaging? You bet it was Did it... Am I gonna learn something? You bet I am It's educational Was it excellent? Sure was Did it seem to be an enlightening experience? I bet it will be And it almost looked like They went into some type of Concentration camps Or I don't know... I don't specifically know what They were specifically going into If you guys... Well obviously don't give anything away But obviously you can kind of educate If you kind of know Well know the history Of what the story they're telling Yeah Eushman Karana He's a phenomenal actor And he always does these stories Love his choices These films that have... It seems like he kind of Took the mold of Amir Khan But his films have... Even like it's like... The more... I don't mean this as an insult to Amir Khan The more adult Yeah They're not as universally... But also Amir was at a different time Absolutely He's coming at a time where It's more generally acceptable to do it Exactly And I just meant in the hard-hitting Maturity aspect that are... You know Amir Khans And I think it's a great comparison Because it is this wheelhouse Of understanding Because they both are doing films And have done films with Amir Khan At an excellent level At an excellent level That cover universal truths And have you look at the human condition In ways so that you can learn something Or be empathetic about something And not forget about it So I think it's a good comparison And also he looks different He does He looks like... He's put on some pounds for this role Because the last one is always what... Well, at least the theaters Was article 15 No, he put on some... He put on some pounds for this And I think he was like skinnier In that one He was He's beefy in this Really good action Some really good representation Of Northeast Indians Who don't often get the representation They deserve And we're seeing it more Like with... Which I do You saw the representation there Looks like Modern Love Is gonna have some Good Northeast representation Because obviously before You either didn't get it Or you had people like Priyanka Chopra Playing a Northeast Indian Right Obviously we haven't seen that film But that's... We've always said We thought that was a weird casting choice We love Priyanka But that's a weird casting choice I'm sure there's An ample amount of great Northeast Indian actresses It's as weird a choice as I'm gonna see the film But It's just been on and on Gal Gadot's gonna play Cleopatra What's her ethnicity? Gal Gadot? Yeah She's Israeli Cleopatra's African African Egyptian though Yes But that looks a lot different than Israeli Yeah That's strange It's a strange thing Because Hollywood's been Particularly good lately Lately Has at least having Even in animation The Lion King The entire cast was Of African descent Yeah And it's one thing If you're gonna go Hamilton And it's just gonna Blow the doors off of it Because you have an Artistic vision That's going to be Not definitively historical And it works Because you're Contemporizing a story For the modern day audience To understand What was going on Culturally That is Anyway We don't have to get off On a tangent on that The lead characters Who are Northeast Indian And talking about the fact that they're Indian And often treated Very Not Indian I would love to Maybe we'll get to talk to them Because obviously You always Your chances go up To talk to some Actors When they have a film Yeah, yeah, yeah Because they're doing Promotion Not always Because obviously Most of them Still don't know who we are Or care Or what have you It's still very difficult To get people To talk to them Because the one I think he's a really good actor And I love his choices So I'm very much looking forward To this film I am too Once again Thank you so much to Hey Na's Hey Na's For coming in clutch Because obviously It wouldn't have meant the same If we just watched it without subs Not at all There's a lot of stuff Going on under there Even when we had the subs We didn't quite understand Everything that was going on Yep Anyways Thank you It was great Please let us know What you thought about the trailer And let us know Any other information We need to know Down below


Hey everyone, we're back at it again with Some more Nintendo rumors for you. In fact, it's kind of weird We actually have two kind of sort of report slash rumor videos for you today But the first one is going to be about fire emblem because after all fire emblem three houses Which is previously released on switch is the best selling strategy RPG of all time I'm not sure if you guys are aware of that like of any franchise on any platform It is sold the best. It's crazy. How popular fire emblem three houses is so to get more fire emblem Isn't really a shocker, but the kind of fire emblem we're talking about here might surprise some people might not depends on how much you've kept up I'm fire emblem kind of you know hopes and dreams and fire emblem heroes and all that over the last year might have Gave you some hints But this actually comes off reddit now it comes from a reddit user that actually leaked fire emblem three houses Information in the past before we knew about it and it turned out all of that information was correct So that user is named fanny bomb and in 2019 He revealed a large amount of inner information for fire emblem three houses before it was known Which all turned out all of it 100% turned out to be true when we saw more of the game in the next Trailer so clearly he at least saw the trailer or it has some sort of connection somewhere now before I get into The actual rumor. Hey, why don't you guys go on ahead and hit that subscribe button? Hit that like button if you want all the latest rumors and reports around Nintendo along with other gaming news Nintendo news Some opinions as well. Maybe you don't like my opinions, but that's all right We're all free to think what we want to think all right so Ever since the beginning of 2020 the fire emblem houses mobile game has been having an unusually high Amount of fire emblem path of radiance and radiant dog. Oh look at that. It's kind of like I'm referencing it in the background who knew Related content such as seasonal variants and these characters appearing every month and in 2020 only and The pattern of the game subscription service fire emblem heroes pass being broken recently by one of the Protagonist from those games a statue of the duology's main protagonist was also recently released So a bunch of stuff around these two games for some reason in 2020 out of nowhere users on Reddit slash fire emblem heroes discuss the pattern and speculate something minor But then fanny bomb the person who leaked all that fire in one three houses info Reply saying that they think it's something much bigger in Response another user then speculates that these characters might have been released throughout 2020 to coincide with these remakes But the remakes were delayed while the game content was not the leaker fanny bomb then replies to this comment specifically with Emoji eyes Possibly hinting that what this user speculated is true and that these supposed remakes of fire emblem path of radiance and radiant On and or both are planned to release in 2020, but we're delayed due to the pandemic So basically what the any bomb is doing and he's doing it quite subtly subtly this time instead of more directly And maybe it's because he doesn't know exactly when the games are coming out That path of radiance and radiant on are either gonna be released as like another dual ality Which they've been doing a lot of dual ality kind of releases what I say duality We're talking about you know releasing two fire emblem games at once that are part of the whole the kind of kind of Pulling a Pokemon now they didn't do that with fire emblem three houses So potentially path of radiance and radiant on aren't both going to be remaked and remastered here That might not be what's happening But one or the other might be or both and then have them release You know a separate releases that that may be combined for a combined ending or whatever they decide to do I think that that's very very interesting because one fire on the three houses is very very very popular So having more fire emblem coming out makes sense having to be remakes of games that are really old that people haven't played in a long time Yeah, and hello These are like path of radiance is my jam man. That's like my favorite fire emblem game of all time So me imagining being able to replay that but not just replay but replay in a remake fashion with better visuals Maybe updated combat maybe new features new content that really really excites me So having them work on these remakes after after banging out fire emblem three houses wouldn't be shocking They did this on 3ds by the way They remade old fire emblem games on 3ds after this success of fire emblem awakening So having fire on the three houses blow up It makes a lot of sense based on the pattern of fire emblem games that we're going to get some remakes now Where are we going to get them in 2020? Possibly and if you look at fire emblem heroes the mobile game They do like to coincide content with that game with releases We saw them do it with three houses So it could be that hey it was going to be a 2020 game But COVID delay all that jazz now it's gonna come this year again We don't know but don't be shocked when we find out about these games at E3 coming up that we now know Nintendo is Fully participating in Doug Bowser putting out there to be hyped You know granted Doug Bowser supposed to hype you for anything Nintendo's involved in but yeah, I think this is just really really interesting I don't know what to expect. I'm not sure where to go with this other than saying I really really Want more fire emblem and I think all of you guys out there want more fire emblem to Now I do want to address a few comments that kind of appear out there On some of these rumor videos I do where people are kind of looking at my channel as maybe Bullshit because it's just a bunch of rumors well for starters I don't just post rumors and anyone who is a true fan of my channel and watches knows I post a wide variety of content which a little bit ironic considering our last video was a rumor video And then our next two videos like this video and the next one are also rumor videos because I do like talking about rumors and back When I ran Zelda informer there was a running joke that it was called rumor informer, but I don't grab any old rumor off the street I think people have it in their mind that when I bring up these reports that maybe other channels aren't covering They think that you know, I'm just trying to yank people's chains, and I'm not I bring up Rumors and reports that I feel like have a reasonable chance of being true now when I do talk about something that maybe I think is complete bullshit.    He's kind of wink wink hinting at things quite literally with emojis So I don't know what else to think other than hey I'm just trying to get you guys the latest and greatest information and speculation and rumors and reports and actual news out there Obviously real news real big news only really happens about a handful of times per year Now you could talk about how there's a lot of gaming news out there and there is There's some news out there that Technically is also a rumor about PlayStation potentially countering game pass and it's a rumor But everyone's talking about it and people are cool with people talking about that But for some reason they're not cool with people talking about this. I don't get it Both of the rumors have about the same amount of validity too in which means none of us can really verify anything We just have to go based on a track record of the person saying it So in this case this person nailed three houses. So until they don't nail something Why would the hell wouldn't we talk about it? So that's what I'm just throwing out there I'm gonna continue to talk about this stuff and bring you the latest and greatest, you know that I can I don't intentionally try to hype people up You know to be disappointed I think a lot of times we allow ourselves to get a little bit overhyped and over expectation You know, do I expect big things from this E3? Yes, but not because of rumors I expect big things from E3 because Nintendo doesn't factually have a lot of games announced right now So they have to have something to talk about besides was through Splatoon 3 in 2022 Anyways, I'm the dinner over Jets from the dinner prime Let me know what you think about this video and the rumor and I'll adjust on the console And I'll catch you guys in the next video


We're going to be looking for a few people, and James Giraud is one of them, and yeah, because we've got some awards to give tonight. We've got, well, we've got James Giraud, and we've got Sandy Barrett if she's here. Jessica Tanner would be a great person to find. So welcome here. Thank you to Channel 17, Celeros. We would like to get a shot of the whole party. Demir will help you. You see, that's the good news. Here at Channel 17 and CCTV, we all help each other, and we're having our holiday party, and we're going to be celebrating. We're on live. We've got some new community producers. We're going to be, yeah, I want some people. We're going to be celebrating. Hi. How are you? Hi, Allison. Hi, Allison. Nice to see you. Why are you here tonight? Because I was having a play date with your daughter, and I was having fun. Are there a lot of people? Yes. You want to be a camera person? Yes. Well, here at Channel 17, you can be a camera person. Isn't that pretty exciting? All right, so I'm going to tell people about what we're doing here. Okay. We're having the holiday party. We're starting our 25th anniversary celebration, 25 years. How old are you? I'm eight years old. Oh, my gosh. Eight. Didn't you turn nine? Didn't you? Yeah. So we've been in operation for 25 years, which is kind of exciting. And I would have to say that the first project that I ever really undertook was this CCTV, and then Stella Rose, my daughter, is the second project that I ever undertook. I'm going to interview Jonathan now, because he's usually a community producer. He's usually behind the camera. So would you go ask him, the man in the green shirt, to come on over? One in the green shirt, right there. Now, we're going to be showing some video, and we're going to be giving out some awards. But first, I'd like to interview Jonathan. Come on over, Jonathan. How are you? Happy holidays. Happy holidays. And it's nice to be here, and I hope you all enjoy your new year and all that good stuff. Now, usually on Thursday nights, you're behind the camera, are you? Right, and I run the production booth, and I volunteer on Thursday night for five years on the live TV show. But tonight I'm enjoying the holiday party, and Rob is running the camera instead of helping out in the production booth and everything. And what to you is the five years.  So tell me, why do you keep coming back week after week? Because I like volunteering, and I like looking at the shows. And I like learning about what the Republicans are doing on City Council and different shows. And you, actually, that one of the shows on Thursday nights is the Republican show, right? Right, I do the Republican show, and I like learning about the different challenges of the school and stuff. The Burlington Schools and the hard challenges they face for education and stuff. And so I have fun, and it's nice to be here and see everybody.  It really makes a huge difference. And if you had one wish for the future of public access, what would it be? I could get a TV that could get hooked up to Burlington telecoms so I could actually watch the nights programming on this TV because I'm not able to get the channel at home and I can't watch it. But pretty soon, Burlington telecoms coming to your house, isn't it? Yeah, we'll be able to sign up. I'm hoping we get the parent owners at the house I live at to sign up for it so I can watch all the nights programming on TV. Well, I'm looking forward to that, too. Thanks for joining me. So one of the things that I just wanted to let folks know is that one of the people that we just gave an award to, but he had to go, was Bill Aswad. And Bill Aswad has been making Rhodes Scholars for many, 14 years. 14 years. But this is not Bill Aswad. This is Rob Chapman. Rob runs VCAM Channel 15. Thanks for joining us. Sure, it's a great pleasure to be here. Thanks for having the party. Now, we had a meeting before this about the future of our communications network. And how was that meeting for you? I enjoy talking about this stuff. I live it every day in trying to figure out what community media means in this world and how we adapt to the changes that are happening in the telecommunications industry. So it was a pleasure to sit and talk for 90 minutes with a group of really talented and wise people as to what we can do to make sure that community media survives past these convergences of all these different technologies and stuff like that. And what's your hope for the future of community access? Well, I hope that it's vibrant. I hope that it is, well, active. I hope that it's never lost. I mean, it's just, there's a real threat, I think, in the regulatory structure being based on certain elements of the fact that, you know, if the cable industry is based on the right of ways of the lines in the telephone poles, the phone companies were regulated in the 30s and 20s and based on, you know, antiquated ideas. So the ability to adapt to that is an important thing and I think that we're going to really need to encourage our leaders in our communities to understand the implications and ensure that every citizen has access to the ability to talk to their other members of their community. And that's an important aspect that we cannot lose and I'm afraid that it might happen. Well, I think you need to be commended because you've kept Channel 15 as an open forum for just about any kind of speech you can imagine. It really is and you can notice that every time you watch it. So I hope people are watching it and I hope people will consider coming down and producing their own public access show and telling their own communities what they think about what's happening in their lives or what's happening in their community. Thank you so much. Happy holidays. So Rob Chapman is one of the real great leaders in our statewide network. And next we have Jodi Harrington. A community leader. A community leader. You are. Thank you. You know that the Winiski City Council was the highest rated program of 2008 on Channel 17. Oh, I'm thrilled to hear that. I'm sure we have been. It's been kind of a wild and woolly ride and I have to say though people have gotten a lot of information and we have a most amazing community of people who have stepped up in our community to work with us on our budget and I think part of that probably is is all the exposure. I mean, sometimes things have to blow up and now we're rebuilding and we have six or seven people who are really qualified helping the City Council create our new budget including the chairman of the school board and our treasurer of the school board and of course George Cross who has been superintendent and representative in Montpelier for a long time is acting city manager and I think we really feel like we're fixing things at a deep level and moving forward and we've really got a transparency and an energy to go forward that's pretty remarkable. It was hard. It's been hard for all of us and whatever one's opinion is it's been a very exhausting and hard work and I certainly getting elected in March right into it from my first meeting was when we found out the police chief had been suspended. I can say that it's probably been the most horrible experience of my life certainly of my political life. Really difficult. Very difficult because it was passions ran very high there was a lot of information that we were privy to that we couldn't share the media, not this media but that media created a sensationalist approach to it and it generated just a lot of ugliness and we're volunteers we're just kind of common folk in the middle of a media storm and of a personnel issue which frankly should have been held all behind closed doors. It was all very private stuff that got out in the public so it was really hard and I'm sure we were sure it was fascinating. I've heard that from a lot of constituents that they watched it on TV but I have great faith that people when given the right information and when they understand the issues make the right decisions and are capable of that so I see now as we're in this budget process and we've got these people in the community helping us working with the city council shows that it's like everybody's like okay now we got to fix it you know you can blame this one you can blame that one you can do whatever but the fact of the matter is we're a little city that grew really fast and we're really complicated and people will be able to watch it all on Channel 17 people can watch it on Channel 17 I hope now that we're fixing it and we're all going to be so boring people will still be interested in watching us I mean that's really the I think that's the good news but we really were the top most rated I'm sure because we can count now on the website hundreds of people watch your meetings this summer so that's also the thing I want to let people know is that you can watch these meetings online and you can watch them agenda item by agenda item clickable agendas and I hope people do people need to continue to do that where everybody knows where we're going through really hard economic times and you know five of your local people don't know the answers any more than anybody else does but I think if we get collectively we're going to be just fine so thank you so much happy holidays so we're going to continue our coverage I've got Oak Low Galbo Oak used to work here at CCTV and now you run your very own Community Access Channel in Richmond well it's not mine but yeah now I do run Community Access Channel in Richmond Jericho Underhill and what kind of programs do you run there well really the whole gam at all sorts of things of course we do meetings town meetings and things we get from the state we have music from the farmers market we have local events the high school concerts we get other programs from other access channels that people have requested some religious program the Catholic Mass you're pretty busy oh yeah and you recently moved your location yes we moved down to Richmond Village because we're much more visible and we have more interaction with the public there and it's better for us who work there to be involved in the community more because we were out at the end in Jonesville for a long time and looking forward what's your hope for public access as we move forward into the future well I certainly hope we continue and to exist one and I would really love it if we could actually be carried in more formats wouldn't it be great if we were actually on the satellite dish as well and on every possible format streaming being able to interact on the internet and maybe even more live remote type of things going on so that we could be out in the community more whenever that's possible well many of us are going into negotiations with Comcast you're in negotiations now with Comcast yes we are people need to know that the more support that they can show for their community access channels the more opportunity we have to continue to operate them as soon as we put on something say there's an election debate there's a big issue around our bridge and we covered all the meetings people are calling and they're thanking us because they can't get to the meetings and I also notice that Richmond Board watches Jericho's board and vice versa and they watch each other from each other and because we're all contiguous towns as well so that's great it's like facilitating some community services and knowledge thank you and thanks for all you do happy holidays congratulations I know 25 years it's hard to imagine so we have Avril here how are you nice to see you so you're a community producer here at channel 17 are you yes and you know we're giving you a special award tonight as a live show producer Avril runs the cameras and gets behind the have you done the directing yet yes I have so what do you like best about working here I really like everything about it it's just so fun to work the cameras and direct it's I just like everything here and tell me a little bit about the school you go to I go to middle school and I it's just like a regular middle school we have how can you be sure well I don't know and how did you find your way to channel 17 well my mom was coming over here to pick something up for I don't know what reason for but she came over here who is she's in somewhere she said that she needed volunteers and my mom knew that I liked camera working and stuff so she she recommended me and then she told me about it and then I thought it was a great idea and yeah I just started joining like a few months ago well we're so glad that you come and help really wonderful and if you were to tell the people out there why they should continue to support public access what would you say to them well I think I would say you should never stop contributing because you don't know if you're going to be like thanks back because I don't know just like stuff yeah thanks so much for your patience thanks a lot so oh we've got Richard Kemp who's actually Mr. February in the upcoming CCTV calendar I need to change my outfit do I have to do this with a bathing suit no actually the picture's already taken it's of you and Will Miller many years ago and under your arm you have stop apartheid we did so I would say that you are an effective community organizer from way back why do you support public access well because I think it just kind of helps with the democracy that people can see what governments are doing with their money and ideas and stuff and it's a very important function that public access plays in the communities in the state of Vermont and probably around the country too I believe right absolutely and I'm going to use this as an opportunity to give a little plug for membership to CCTV and this year we're going to be offering we're starting a new membership campaign which you knew about yes I did know about that and I'm a member I'm not a caring member and Richard is also on the CCTV board and as a benefit for our members we're going to be having this calendar that we're producing of high points from the last 25 years oh that's wonderful it's interesting there's a connection I'm marked after American calendars near the end of the year in the first part of the next year so it'd be a nice calendar to see I'm looking forward to it too so would you do me a favor and maybe tell Rob that that video that is running right now is we're going to need to run here on the air in about 5 minutes so just let Rob know that he's right there in front of that camera okay thank you so much so hi how are you are you coming to be interviewed tell me your name Brooke because my sister volunteers here and I'm just oh my gosh so it looks like she likes it pretty well huh yeah she does what kind of things do you like to do I like to draw I like to um I don't know do you ever watch TV sometimes I do yeah sometimes you do well that's good I'm glad it's in your mix thanks for coming tonight okay bye so Terry how are you doing Terry's one of our community producers too you have a regular show don't you yes I produce Vermont today over on channel 15 VKM and we have a really interesting show that just started this week with Thomas Naylor it's an hour and a half interview and we talk about his new book The Possibility Secession of Vermont An Independent Republic and I also produce a show here on channel 17 called Progressive Thought we had an interesting show last week that people called in and we talked about the upcoming elections in March they're talking about running me for progressive candidate on the city council and so I'm thinking about that now maybe we'll talk about that on our next show until the election guidelines kick in and then you can only talk in a forum well that's on channel 17 but on channel 15 yeah the rules are different why do you think public access is important well for instance the cost of a political campaign is becoming enormous Barack Obama spent something like $50 million on his campaign and to run for the senate in Vermont cost about $5 million actually he spent $500 million okay 10 times as much as I thought so I don't have the $500 million but with public access TV I can get my message out to Burlington and if I run for the city council I'll have an opportunity to reach the voters with my ideas on both channel 17 and channel 15 so I think they're very important thank you so much thanks for your work thank you alright so you know we have a couple of awards here to give out and I'm just going to recognize folks because I'm not sure they're here and they may not be here but they're worth recognizing and one is the Vermont Worker Center and the Vermont Worker Center does a lot with community media this is my camera there you go and they actually produce a lot of programs and are working recently on healthcare they produce a program here at channel 17 and they actually have been showing it in different forums as a way to influence policy so we wanted to applaud the Vermont Worker Center for really using community media in its fullest sense and we're pretty excited about that also another person that we wanted to recognize is Sandy Baird who's been doing commentary here for many years and from the beginning you know more than 20 years she's been doing short commentaries and deserves real recognition for her diligence in getting that done and then Henry Pryne I'm not sure that Henry Pryne is here but Henry Pryne along with Avril are two youngest community producers and they run the live shows on Wednesday nights I think that is and Henry is just an all-purpose person and he's you know ultimately Henry is going to be running channel 17 so he's definitely somebody to keep your eye on and then Jessica Tanner I'm not sure if she's actually still here either hello and she's a community producer and has been working she's just always here editing it's sort of the endless editing job but she's doing some great programs that we wanted to make sure everybody understood about and then James Giro is James Giro here still Rob he left James Giro is does a regular show every week this man comes in and produces something and it's just phenomenal the amount of programming that he puts out and if he were here he would talk about how important and valuable it is for him to be connected to the community through this community media and then we also wanted to recognize two of our two organizations that have been using access a lot and community media quite a bit and that's Mercy Connections and Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity or Community Action and they're both really worth noting in terms of what it is that they do now I'm just going to ask here I think we want to show this video Rob this is what you call sort of a dead zone do we have the video to show we have the video to show so Tui has given me the thumbs up and we're going to show a little compilation that Nat Ayers put together and he put it together from our 15,000 hours of archives and I just wanted folks to know that we're going to be doing a monthly show on Thursday of every month we're going to be doing CCTV rewind and go back into our archives on the 30th of April we're going to have a community screening where we spend two or three hours down at the Main Street Landing Theatre watching our footage and then on the 13th of June we're going to be having a 25th anniversary Extravaganza celebration at the Boathouse so you stay tuned to all of those things we have a calendar it's up on our website cctv.org and we hope that you join us Stella Rose Johnson, the next generation how are you? I'm good why do you think public access TV is important? I don't know. Well there you go why should she, she's my child so we're going to just run to some video and we're going to go from there so stay tuned and thanks for watching and thanks for supporting us for all these many many years can you tell me what you're doing here well we're selling gliders in the whatever this mall is the University Mall we do this, we travel around the different states New England, East Coast areas and sell gliders for 11 day shows so you've been here for 11 days? 10 days, tomorrow is the last day which will be Sunday where are you heading next? Connecticut Enfield, Connecticut so people who didn't get a chance to get one here come right down there Saturday or Sunday, we'll be there how many hours a day do you do this? well, pretty much small hours so from about 10 o'clock in the morning until 9 at night and it gets to be a long day I believe it's just you get used to it, I don't know how but what happens? how long have you been doing this for? I've been doing it since July and he's been doing it for about two and a half years so I'm going to do it up till Christmas and see how that goes Christmas supposed to be a pretty big time to sell so looking forward to that more or less it's a consignment I pay for the goods after they're sold where were you just before you were in Burlington? we were down in Hanover Hanover, Massachusetts it's just south of Boston where are you headed next? we're headed to Enfield, Connecticut where do you end up in the winter time? Key West no, you mean for Christmas? yeah Raleigh, North Carolina is that where you live or that's where you sell? that's where I'm going to be selling these big mall there so where are you guys both from? we're from Iowa how often do you get home? about once or twice a year you go all the way from like Key West, Florida to Iowa? no, we'd probably be closer maybe towards Washington DC before we'd ever think about going home or New York, somewhere we bought a couple of these yesterday and loved them but one did break, so how do I fix it? you can fix it with tape or Elmer's glue either one we tried super glue and that seemed to melt it yeah, that will melt it try to use a softer glue like Elmer's glue but tape is probably your best bet okay and I also noticed they seem to fly a lot better in the mall than they do outside well that's it, I mean most people don't have a mall at home the talk shows start? well that started when I was in Wilmington, Delaware where the guy who originated the telephone talk shows Joe Pine, the late Joe Pine now I remember Joe Pine well Joe Pine was a pal of mine he was from Marcus Hook, Chester, Pennsylvania started the talk show on WIOM in Wilmington, Delaware and then sit in kind of with him some nights and when he went on vacation I did the show and so that's really how I got started with it and I came back here in 1954 when WDOT went on the air and I did a program called It's Your Nickel because it cost a nickel to make a phone call so that was the way people would call and I'd say go ahead, it's your nickel and so I've been doing them ever since Leafy, Peaceful, Vermont where the citizens have more time for life's common courtesies for so we thought I was apologizing to you at all His mission? to improve American public opinion of the increasingly unpopular South African government but soon after he hit the airwaves protestors demonstrating his appearance hit the pavement almost underneath the wheels of the car Duke Kent Brown was driving with one lurch of his Lincoln Kent Brown effectively poured gasoline on the very public opinion Inferno he was supposed to extinguish two people suffered minor injuries but American South African relations in Burlington seem to be dealt another crippling blow this was a legitimate international incident involving a representative of a government from another continent from Africa it was something special a rare treat see how big their jaw gets they can stretch it and dislocate it it's amazing the mouse is dead don't worry I'll look like a cigarette in a second when you dance in the law I guess unbelievable it's an alien invasion but don't panic the Montreal storytellers are coming down on Monday the 13th of July to the Fletcher Free Library at 7.30 p.m. it costs three dollars to see these aliens descending from the wind-blasted frozen tundra of the north they're gonna tell us hyper-modern stories for the first TV age you may be wondering why I'm lying like this why I'm talking to you like this if you come I'll explain everything thank you homeowners is your boiler on the blink does your roof leak the Burlington home improvement program provides low and no interest loans for these and other repairs if you're a low to moderate income a homeowner in the old north end King Street if you're on the side or chase street neighborhoods you can get additional information about the home improvement program by contacting the community and economic development office at City Hall 658-9300 extension 197 he gets boring looking at us you can only look at him he does that very nicely but if you want to film them for a while I'll stop that's right all kinds of all kinds of with the camera on this guy that's a half I didn't film that I mean we're trying to make this video a household word we have


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