frequency limitations. After that we discussed about linear beam tubes and their basic working followed by detailed analysis of 2 cavity cholesterol, its working, its applications and the specifications of practically available 2 cavity cholesterol. Today, I will discuss reflex cholesterol and travelling wave tubes. So, let us begin with reflex chrystron. It is a low power microwave oscillator and to design a oscillator the first thing which we need to know is how oscillations are generated. The answer to this question is that we need to give positive feedback from output to input such that the loop gain is unity or we can say for a chrystron if a fraction of output power is fed back to the input cavity such that the loop gain magnitude is 1 and the feedback path phase shift is 2 pi or multiple of 2 pi then the chrystron will oscillate. Now the next question is can we make oscillator using 2 cavity chrystron? The answer to this question is yes we can, but it will have some disadvantages such as if the oscillation frequency changes then we need to readjust the resonant frequencies of the 2 cavities and the feedback path phase shift to give positive feedback. This disadvantage of 2 cavity chrystron can be overcome by reflex chrystron because it has single cavity and there is a reflector or repeller to repel the electrons back to the cavity to give feedback and the feedback path phase shift can be adjusted by varying the repeller voltage. Because of this reason the 2 cavity chrystron oscillators are not constructed and reflex chrystron oscillators are constructed. The working of reflex chrystron is somewhat similar to the working of 2 cavity chrystron. So, working principle of reflex chrystron is velocity and current modulation. So, electron beam is injected from the cathode and that injected beam travel with a uniform velocity till the cavity and in the cavity gap the velocity of the electrons is modulated and those velocity modulated electrons enter the repeller space with different velocities. And because of the velocity modulation and repulsive forces from the repeller plate the bunching takes place in the return journey of the electron to the cavity. Because of the bunch formation there will be current modulation in the cavity. So, this is how the reflex chrystron works. So, let us see it is working in more detail now. So, this is the basic schematic of a reflex chrystron. In this we have a cathode. So, this is the cathode from where the electron beam is injected. Then this is the focusing anode or accelerating anode which focuses the electron beam or narrow downs the electron beam. Then we have the cavity. So, this is the cavity which acts as buncher cavity for forward moving electrons and catcher cavity for returning electrons or backward moving electrons. So, this is the cavity gap where velocity and current modulation takes place and the gap is equal to D. Then we have this repeller plate which is at the potential minus V r and this V r is very very high. So, because of this negative potential at repeller plate the electron beam coming from this cavity gap is reflected back to the cavity. So, this is the basic structure of a reflex chrystron. Now, what is the difference in the structures of two cavity chrystron and reflex chrystron? The first difference is that in two cavity chrystron there are two cavities whereas in reflex chrystron there is only one cavity which acts as both buncher cavity and catcher cavity. And the another difference is that in two cavity chrystron at this place there is a collector which is used to collect the electron beam coming from the output cavity. Whereas in reflex chrystron there is repeller plate in place of the collector which is used to repel the electron beam. Now, the question is why we need this repelling of electron beam? The answer to this question is that for electrical oscillations we need feedback from output to input and that feedback is produced by this repeller plate by reflecting the electron beam back to the input cavity. So, these are the differences in the structures of two cavity chrystron and reflex chrystron. Now, let us see how electron move in reflex chrystron tube. So, electron beam is generated from this cathode which moves with a uniform velocity till this cavity and in this cavity the velocity modulation takes place. So, some electron will be accelerated and some electrons will be decelerated and there will be no effect for some electrons. So, the electrons which enter this cavity at positive gap voltages will be accelerated and those electrons will have greater velocities. And the electrons which enter this cavity when the gap voltage is negative, those electrons will be decelerated and their velocities will be lesser as compared to the other electrons. And the electrons which enter this cavity when the gap voltage is 0, their velocity will not be changed by this gap voltage. So, all these electrons will have different velocities as they enter in the repeller space. This is the repeller space. Now, since these electrons have different velocities in this repeller space. So, they will travel different distances in the repeller space depending upon the velocities. The electrons which has greater velocities will go deeper in this repeller space and travel more distance whereas the electrons which has lesser velocities will travel less distance in the repeller space. So, after entering into the repeller space, they feel repulsive force from this repeller plate because of the high negative potential at this repeller plate. And as they go closer to the repeller plate, the repulsive force increases and at some point the repulsive force will make their velocity 0 and reflect those electrons back to the input cavity. So, because of this velocity modulation and repulsive force from this repeller plate, the bunching of electrons will take place in the return journey of the electrons. And one more thing we want that the bunching of electrons should take place at the centre of this gap cavity gap. The timing of this bunching should be such that the phase of gap voltage should be retarding. This is done to ensure the maximum power transfer from electrons to the cavity. So, because of this power transfer, there will be oscillations. So, this is how oscillations are sustained in the reflex crystal by two end flow movement of electrons from cavity to repeller space. So, this is how electrons move in this reflex crystal tube. Now let us see bunching process and the modes in reflex crystal. This vertical axis represent the distance from the cavity gap towards the repeller plate and this horizontal axis represent the time taken by the electrons in moving in the repeller space. These curves represent the path of movement of electrons in repeller space. So, different electrons follow different paths. Depending upon their velocities while they enter the repeller space. So, this is the cavity gap voltage varying with time. Now to understand the bunching process, let us say we have an electron reference electron E naught which reaches the cavity gap at this point of time and at this point of time the cavity gap voltage is 0. So, the velocity of this electron will not be modulated by the cavity gap voltage. So, this electron will enter in the repeller space with the same velocity with which it entered in the cavity gap. After entering into the repeller space, this electron will feel repulsive force from the repeller and because of that force the velocity of this electron will decrease as you can see from this path. So, this vertical axis is distance this is time. So, the velocity will be distance divided by time that is the slope of this curve. So, as the electron moves closer to the repeller plate the slope of this curve decreases. It means the velocity of this electron decreases as it moves closer to the repeller plate. And at some point let us say L naught after travelling this L naught distance the electron velocity will be 0 and it will be reflected back towards the cavity and after this point it will start moving towards the input cavity in this path. So, let us say this electron throw journey of cavity gap to this distance L naught in the repeller space. Now, let us say we have one more electron that is early electron E E which reaches the cavity gap when the gap voltage is positive. So, this electron will be as accelerated by this gap voltage and its velocity will be maximum. So, this early electron will enter the repeller space with maximum velocity. So, it will travel maximum distance in the repeller space. So, let us say that distance is this L E after this distance L E this early electron is also reflected back towards the cavity. This will take more time as compared to the reference electron and that time is equal to this time T naught plus this time. So, this time is T by 4 1 fourth of time period of cavity gap voltage. So, time taken by early electron in the journey of cavity gap to this length L E and back to the cavity gap will be the time taken by the early electron plus one fourth of the time period of cavity gap voltage. Now, let us see we have one more electron that is late electron which reaches the cavity gap when the gap voltage is negative. So, because of this negative gap voltage this electron will be decelerated and its velocity will be minimum and because of this minimum velocity this electron will travel lesser distance in the repeller space as compared to the reference electron as well as the early electrons. And let us say it travels this L L distance and to cover this distance let us say it is take T d minus T c time which is equal to the time taken by the reference electron T naught minus one fourth of the time period of the cavity gap voltage. So, this is how the bunching of electrons takes place after a time T naught with respect to reference electron. So, this bunching takes place at the cavity gap as you can see from this graph. So, this vertical axis is distance and this represent the zero line that is the zero distance from the cavity that is the cavity itself. So, bunching takes place at the cavity gap itself and as I discussed earlier the time of this bunching should be such that the bunching encountered the retarding phase of the gap voltage. This is the half cycle of retarding phase, this is also retarding phase half cycle. So, bunching should occur either in this cycle or in this half cycle. Now depending upon the bunching cycle there are different modes in reflex crystal. So, if bunching takes place in this cycle then it is called as 3 by 4 mode, bunching take place in this cycle then it is called as 1 plus 3 by 4 mode. In general depending upon the bunching cycles there are n plus 3 by 4 mode in reflex crystal where n is the integer. Now the question is how we can change this bunching time depending upon the requirement? Answer to this question is that the bunching time depends on two parameters which are repeller voltage Vr and repeller distance L. So, while varying these two parameters we can change the bunching cycle or we can change the mode of the reflex castron. So, this is how by selecting the proper time and the proper place of bunching the oscillations are sustained in the reflex castron tube. This is all about the working of reflex castron. Let us move on to specifications of practically available reflex castron. So, the frequency range over which reflex castron can work is roughly from 1 GHz to 200 GHz and the tuning range is from 5 GHz at 2 watt to 30 GHz at 10 milliwatt and the power output that can be given by a reflex castron is from 10 milliwatt to 2.5 watt. The theoretical efficiency of reflex castron is about 20% and the practical efficiency of the reflex castron is somewhere between 10 to 20%. Now, let us look into the applications of the reflex castron. There are many applications of reflex castron such as they can be used in radar receivers, they can be used in radio receivers or in signal sources in microwave generators. They are also used in local oscillators and receivers or in pump oscillators and parametric amplifiers and these are also used in portable microwave links. So, these are all applications of reflex castron. Now, let us move on to the next microwave tube which is traveling wave tube. So, these microwave tubes are non-resonant structures and they are of two types. First one is helix traveling wave tubes which are slow wave structures and are used for broadband applications and the another one is coupled cavity traveling wave tubes which are used for high power applications such as radar transmitters. I will discuss these two structures one by one but before looking into the helix traveling wave tube let us see what are slow wave structures. So, slow wave structures are used to slow down the electromagnetic wave. Now, the question is why we need to slow down the electromagnetic wave? The answer to this question is that the phase velocity of electromagnetic wave is greater than velocity of light in a ordinary wave guide and the electron beam can be accelerated up to a fraction of velocity of light in vacuum. So, there is a huge mismatch in the velocities of these two one is electromagnetic wave and another one is electron beam.  So, there will be no energy transfer from one to another and to increase this energy transfer what we need to do? We need to decrease the velocity of electromagnetic wave so that electron can get enough time to interact with the electromagnetic wave. This job is done by slow wave structures. There are many slow wave structures such as helical line, folded back line, zigzag line, corrugated waveguide and so on. And what happens in these slow wave structures is that we provide a larger path length for a electromagnetic wave to travel from one point to another as compared to the electron beam path that is the shortest path. So, to understand how velocity changes in slow wave structures let us take an example. So, if I want to move from this point to this point let us say this distance is D. So, there are multiple paths to travel from this to this point. So, one is the straight path which is the shortest path, another path can be zigzag path or this path or helical path or this path and so on. All these paths the displacement is same which is D but the time taken to travel through that path increases depending upon the path length. So, since the time is increased so velocity will decrease. This concept is used to reduce the velocity of electromagnetic wave. Now, let us see how velocity of electromagnetic wave is reduced in helical line slow wave structure and what is that value of phase velocity after decreasing. Let us say the distance between 2 turns of the helix is P that is axial length and the diameter of the turns is D then we can find the path length traveled by the electromagnetic wave for a axial movement of P. We can find that distance using Pythagoras theorem and that distance will be under root of P square plus pi D whole square. Now, the ratio of phase velocity of electromagnetic wave traveling along this helix and the phase velocity of electromagnetic wave which is travelling directly in the straight path will be the reverse ratios of their path lengths. So, for electromagnetic wave which is travelling in a straight path the path length is P and for electromagnetic wave which is travelling through this helix path length is under root P square plus pi D square for axial movement of P. So, the ratio VP divided by C will be P divided by under root of P square plus pi D square. By simplifying this one we can get VP phase velocity is equal to C divided by under root 1 plus pi D divided by P whole square. So, we can get this by dividing both numerator and denominator by P. This phase velocity is less than C as you can see from this equation. So, this is how the phase velocity of electromagnetic wave is reduced from greater than velocity of light to less than velocity of light and depending upon our requirement of phase velocity we can change these two parameters that is D is diameter of the helix and P is the distance between the turns. So, by varying these two parameters we can change the phase velocity of electromagnetic wave according to our requirement. So, this concept is used in slow wave structure helix travelling wave tube. Now, let us move on to the helix travelling wave tube. In general helix travelling wave tubes contains an electron gun, an RF interaction circuit and electron beam focusing magnet and attenuator and a collector. Let us see these things one by one. So, electron gun is used to inject electrons in the tube and input RF signal is given to this end of the helix and at the other end RF output is taken out. There is a surrounding magnetic field to hold the electron beam as they tend to spread out because of the repulsive forces present between the electrons and that magnetic field is produced by the permanent magnet present surrounding the helix. Next we have a attenuator which is used to attenuate any reflected wave generated due to the impedance mismatching. And this attenuator is placed after a sufficient length of RF interaction region so that the attenuation of amplified RF signal is insignificant as compared to the amplification. And then we have a collector to collect the electron beam. So, this is all about the components present in the travelling wave tubes. In the next lecture we will start from this point onward and just to summarize what we discussed today is, first we started with reflex crystalon. We discussed its working principle then the detailed analysis and detailed working of reflex crystalon and its applications. Then we discussed the slow wave structures and how they slow down the electromagnetic wave and type of slow wave structures. After that we started helix travelling wave tubes. In the next lecture I will start from working of helix travelling wave tubes. Then I will discuss the applications and specifications of practically available helix travelling wave tubes. Then the comparison of helix travelling wave tube amplifier and clistron amplifier. After that I will discuss cross field microwave tubes such as magnetrons. They are working their applications and specifications of practically available cross field tubes. Thank you.


What happened to Roger? He had to reboot his. Oh, no. So he won now. Yeah, so if you're listening to the the MP3, the patron MP3, this is the the gun mug. There we are talking about. Roger, look at that gun mug. Let me see. Let me see this mug. Oh, no picture yet. Oh. Now, the funny thing is it's got all these weird symbols that I think are supposed to be like, you know, ranch brands, because it's very Western. But one of them is a peace symbol on your gun mug. Failed it. I mean, honestly, I think it's supposed to be a Y brand, not a peace symbol, but it's funny. Hold on. Let me see. Yeah, I was just being the obstinate in here for a minute. All right, I've given you the requisite control. Yeah, requisite control. Requisite gun troll. Come on, Wired. I think it's just not working with me today. Hey, I'm going to hide. OK. I think we're about ready, Scott. Are you? I'm so ready.  All right. Well, then, I'll take a sip of milk from my gun mug. That's what I always remember having in there was milk, whole milk. Yeah, it's a great place for a drink. All right, here we go. The Daily Tech News Show is brought to you by people like me, not outside of organizations. To learn more, go to dailytechnewshow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, May 24th, 2017, I'm Todd Merritt. Joining me today, Mr. Scott Johnson, how are you, sir? Fabulous is the word I'm going to choose to use today. I feel great. I'm happy to be here. Sun's out. There's tech in the air. Do this. Let us do this. Yeah, we're going to be talking about Microsoft's new Game Pass streaming game service, although I misled you on the morning stream, Scott. I told you that it was both streaming and download, but I read more into the fact, and it's just download. It's not streaming. But it is their competitor for PlayStation Now, which is a streaming service. Yeah, it's an interesting take, and we'll talk about it more in length. But I feel like Microsoft's making small incremental moves toward trying to figure out how they can own 2017 or at least take back a little bit of lost ground. Let's start with a few other tech things you should know about. Intel announced it is integrating Thunderbolt 3 into Intel CPUs. That should make it a little more widespread. And it's making the Thunderbolt protocol spec available to third-party chip makers royalty-free next year. This is all trying to get Thunderbolt into more USB-C ports. Thunderbolt 3 can transfer data at 40 gigabits per second, roughly a 4K movie in 30 seconds.  I didn't realize that Thunderbolt at the chip level could, as a protocol, could actually enhance what we're getting out of USB-C ports. Yeah, those USB-C ports on the new MacBook Pros, also Thunderbolt 3 ports. See, that's good to know. All right, I learned something every day. How about learning this? Samsung Gear 360 video camera goes on sale May 25th. So get out your wallets, everybody, because it's going to set you back 229 bucks. It's been available for pre-order in the UK for 219 pounds. The camera does 360-degree video in 4K, and does that still with 15 megapixels. Yeah, still images. Yeah, I want to see it in action. I'm sure some sample video exists somewhere, but I just... Oh, yeah, there's tons. They showed it off at Mobile World Congress, so... Sure, I just want to see a guy like you do it and then see what the results are, you know? I got you. Like, every day use, is it worth my 230 bucks? That's what I want to know. Ikea's Trud-Free, Trud-Free, Trud-Free, Trad-Fri. T-R-A, well, I don't know that that's an A. It's an A with a little halo on it, D-F-R-I. Anyway, smart lights from Ikea are getting support for Google Home, Apple HomeKit, and Amazon Voice Services this summer or autumn, the lights first debuted in Europe. Cheap smart lights that are cross-platform, smart move Ikea. I agree. This is what I've been waiting for. I love everything Phillips and everybody else is doing. That's great and all, but I don't want to spend my life savings on automated home stuff. I would like to go buy some cheap, crap at Ikea, even if it means it's only the last couple of years. This is the true full rotation of home stuff. So yes, thank you Ikea for finally getting into it. Let's get into some more top stories. Google announced Google attribution, which uses machine learning to estimate how real world video ads, banner ads, emails, and other materials contribute to a customer transaction. So instead of saying, well, they clicked this link and then they bought something, that's all we know. They can say, oh, well, they actually went into the store and we know that from Beacon and they got this circular in the mail and then they went to the website and then they clicked the buy link. And so now we have more information about them. Google attribution is free in beta, but will eventually charge for enterprise pro deployment. But it's just more AdSense details for most people. Google also has begun including analysis of credit card transactions to help determine when digital advertising leads to real world purchases, kind of part of the same effort. They are not collecting your credit card transactions themselves and they're not talking about where they're getting the data from, but presumably it's from companies out there who compile credit card transaction information anonymously and make it available to marketers. Google's just gonna start including that data. So funny timing on this, I got a friend who works in the web advertising world and he was talking to me via email about this very thing. Oh yeah. He was trying to understand from him what this meant and it's all kind of what they've said it means, but he said what I really want it to do is give us analytics on if a page is crowded with advertising, did that page, was that page more likely to lead to an actual sale or was it less likely? If the ads were up top, did that change it if it was on the side or if they were large square ones or if it was in line stuff right in the middle of an article? Like those are the questions they struggle with and they don't really have a good way to analyze that data in a very scientific way. So his thinking was it'd be great if this could be applied that way. Now that may go beyond AdSense and that's the problem. Maybe we can't apply this to other things outside of AdSense or outside of Google Sphere, but that's pretty interesting if we can get down to the nitty gritty of how many ads did it take for Scott to say, okay, fine, I'll buy it. And honestly, without that kind of information, without tracking you, and I know when none of us like to be tracked without permission, but this is one of the arguments for you giving permission without tracking you. They don't know if that stuff works.  Whereas if they have better data, then someone can make a reasonable argument of like, hey guys, this turns more people off than it does help. Let's do something that's more useful to the consumer. Yeah, especially I'll go to some pages where I use an ad blocker or something and it'll say you've blocked 38 ads on this page. And I think to myself, okay, I don't know if that's some of them repeating. I don't know if that's one that's on a refreshing to be new content. Yeah, and little black pixels, single pixel trackers and stuff down. Exactly, but it's too many. And it strikes me that maybe we could hone, we could figure out a way to do it in a way that isn't so much just throw traps everywhere and let's hope animals step in the traps. Instead, let's be a little more scientific about it. Right, right. Now that's a good way of putting it. The DJI Spark is about the size of a soda can. Tom, if you're looking at your soda can yesterday the other day and you're thinking, man, that'd be cool to have a pop can for some of you. A pop can, exactly. Or a Coke can if you lived down in the South, they call everything. Anyway, this thing shoots HD video, has a two access gimbal stabilizer, tops out at 31 miles per hour and can fly for over 16 freaking minutes. You can also control it with your hand waving. The spark will follow your hand. And if you wave it, it will fly 10 feet away keeping you centered.  You can also, let's see, it will, oh, you can also follow as you walk. And when you're done, wave and hold out your hand and the spark will land on your palm. It will know what they're doing. The St. Francis of quadcopters. Totally. Anyway, so you can preorder this thing if you want to right now in Alpine White, Sky Blue, Meadow Green, Lava Red. That's cool. And Sunrise Yellow. Also known as White, Blue, Green, Red and Yellow. Exactly. I love all these screwy names. Burnt Umber, not included. 500 bucks shipping, with shipping, I guess, June 15th. So coming up faster than you can take a stick at it. I've actually been kind of interested in a drone lately. I don't even know why. I've worried that I'd use it for a week and then quit. But maybe this is the good place to start because I do want some of these cool automation features that are less than just, let me see if I can't crash this every time I try to land it. Yeah, I mean, it's half the price of DJI's next up level of quadcopter. It's also very small and it doesn't do a lot. Two axis gimbal, HD video, like it doesn't have all the specs but that's, everyone talks about it as a selfie function but that ability to just kind of fly off 10 feet and keep you in view, you know, that's the kind of thing that people have been craving and showing off in demos like, oh, and you're on the trail or you're going down the rapids. The quadcopter could just follow along and get it all on film. Now it's here, you can get it on June 15th. It's expensive for the kind of quadcopter it is but maybe it's not expensive when you've taken to account that it can do all that stuff. There's also an app, there's an upgrade package that includes a remote if you don't want to constantly use the hand waving and it'll be interesting to see just how reliable that hand waving is, like what the quirks are on it but certainly interesting. Yeah, I mean, look, 1,000 bucks is 1,500 to 500. I'll bet there is a big market of people who did not want to go, you know, full Monty on the next up at that DJI. So I think it's a good deal. Also, I think it was very telling that the Verge compared it to the size of a pellet. Did they say a Pellegrino? Oh, yeah. I don't know if it was them that did it. Maybe it was somebody else that did that. Might have been wired. But I was like, oh, how, how, how very modern. You know, the old, the pellet. Like the favoured Pellegrino, I'm totally showing my age here because my wife drinks this all the time and I can't even remember what it is, but it's like the hot new flavoured water because it doesn't have any calories, size of a Mountain Dew can for the rest of you. There, a potato for the rest of the other rest of you. For those of you who don't drink sugar water. This one is put in by request from our Daily Tech Headlines collaborator, Rich Drafilino. He said, please tell me, just God Johnson is on the show tomorrow. Blockstack released a decentralized browser that can run apps off of blockchains. Do I need to explain any more for you, Scott? Hold on, let me think. Yes, please. All right, so the browser can grant access to websites using a single identity login owned by the user. Sites are loaded from peers rather than from servers. You don't need a database. You don't need an identity management system. It uses the blockchain for all of that, which means you don't have to actually put the site anywhere. It can just be distributed around and still be secure. It is in the development stage. There aren't a lot of sites yet for it. There aren't even a full browser for it. It currently exists as a browser add-on. So it's riding on the back of either Chrome Firefox or Safari. It's only available for Linux and Mac OS. Windows version is in the works. Current version is for developers to use to create things for it. They want people to come up with really cool things to take advantage of this. And a user-focused version is expected in six months without getting into the nitty gritty of how it works, which there's a lot out there about that. What this does is decentralize so that you don't have to operate a server.  The blockchain certifies that I am who I say I am and the site is served from whoever happens to be on and connected to the blockchain at that time so that I get all the relevant information. It is the thing that Silicon Valley, the series is kind of messing around with the sort of mesh decentralized internet and also solves a lot of problems, especially ones around that neutrality. Yeah, I agree. So I'm gonna shock everybody here and say that I am finally starting to understand blockchain as it starts to get away from Bitcoin. I don't mean get away from it, it's still an integral to Bitcoin, but as I start to see the newer applications or the ideas that are being applied to it, it's all starting to fall into place for me. The idea of 10 years from now, all of us having a unique user identification that is purely mine, purely yours. We're living in the future and all we gotta do is say our name or walk up to a thing or have it see our face or whatever. And this being the mechanism for sort of a unified identification system across the board with this level of security and from what I know about blockchain already, it's brilliant. It's totally, I totally get it. I'm on board, I'm all the way in. It's just when it deals with money I struggle for whatever reason. It's the Bitcoin that bothers you, not the blockchain. Yeah, well, it's just the money in general. It's like money's already nebulous and weird. We apply value to a thing that never had value before. And yeah, you've solved, that's Bitcoin right there. Exactly, there it is. And so because I've always struggled with that, what I don't struggle with is everyday functionality. I understand the need for me to go to a website and not have to, what's my password? Shoot, it's asking for caption. I can't see that E or whatever. Like all the ways we do it now, that would be lovely to have that just disappear into the ether and we are just, we are our security. I am my way in. Iocow says this might solve DDoS because you first of all would know wherever request is coming from. They could be anonymous, but there is a public identity. This is one of the problems with the WannaCry folks. We all know what their wallets are for Bitcoin. So we'll know as soon as somebody takes money out of that wallet. So it's gonna be difficult for them to get the money out of the ransomware. So you'd be able to track DDoS is a little easier, but also you wouldn't have one server that you can deny.  It's not, I mean, I'm not saying there wouldn't be a DDoS equivalent attack that you could conduct and BioCal has already moved on to like, which could you end up DDoSing every node? But that's much more difficult and complex. Yeah, for sure. I just, I picture a future where that is easier, but also imagine you get into your car, it knows it's you. Somebody who doesn't own your car gets in, it doesn't, it can't verify it based on the same exact criteria, your hunting rifles, your kids can't use them, only you can. Like we're into sci-fi territory in a very real way that's practical and I'm into that. So blockchain is, the more it dawns on me, the more practical it gets.  That's exactly right. One password, speaking of security, they're here now, man, they're here now. They introduced a travel mode that will move all stored password and payment data on a user's device during border crossings and restore it once the travel has finished. Canada, Mexico, wherever. All password vaults are wiped when in travel mode unless specifically tagged as safe for travel. Maybe Canada, I don't know, making judgments there. The removed accounts are then synced up again once travel mode is deactivated. Travel mode is only available to subscribers of one password service, not those that purchase the app outright. So you need to be part of their subscription. That's an interesting thing. It feels like they're taking good advantage of some recent events, trouble with people. Well, yeah, a lot of people are worried that the border agents, not just in the United States, but specifically there've been some cases in the United States where people have said, no, you have to unlock your phone. And there's arguments about whether that's legal or not and courts are ruling on it. But for the time being, people are worried, hey, I have sensitive corporate information on here. This has happened in one case. We're an engineer had to unlock his phone for TSA agents who took it away from him and looked at his phone without him present. They don't know what data was accessed. He had confidential data. He's a NASA engineer. And so this is a way to say, look, I'm gonna be safe because I'm not gonna perjure myself. I'm not gonna pretend I don't know something because that's dangerous. If they can actually bring charges against you then, I'm going to remove the access. I won't know the passwords because they're stored in one password. And I will tell one password, get rid of everything on the device so that I won't be lying when I say I don't have the passwords to those things. And the idea being before you leave for the airport maybe or even in the airport lobby, you turn this on and it gets rid of all your passwords.  And then when you're through and you're safely on the other side and no one else is gonna be looking at your phone, you press a button and it restores all those passwords to you. And you can mark some safe. If you're like, look, I don't really care if they have my Flickr account because there's no photos on there. I don't know.  I've got this one email account that I only use to talk to family. I don't mind if they look at that, that's fine. Maybe it'll keep them from getting angry. I'll mark that one as travel safe, whatever. But if you have those kinds of accounts, you can mark those safe and it won't get rid of those even when you turn on the travel protection and it gets rid of everything else. I have a friend named Zane, went to Nigeria for a business thing he had to do. He's in IT and does some training, gets to the airport, goes through the customs line, they ask to see his notebook, they take it in the back room and they then say that the only way he gets it back is if he pays a certain amount of money. So if you're thinking Nigerians and scams, they extend well beyond email, it turns out. This would have been something he would have really liked to have because he may not have ever gotten it back. He ended up getting it back. There was some scuffle and people got it worked out, but had he not or had they had it long enough to do something to it or to get into it or whatever, there'd been little he could do. So outside of the whole, I'm being truthful about not having my passwords to unlock anything side, which is good. He would have had a much better piece of mind knowing that the data on this thing, which was important corporate data was not being tampered with and that seems good. So I like this. I hope some of the other password management apps and things continue to maybe follow their lead. Yeah, this is the kind of thing that if I'm gonna travel internationally, I'm gonna think about switching to one password because this is pretty convenient. Finally, Warby Parker has an app that can help you order new glasses from them even if your prescription is expired in some cases. The prescription check app needs you to be between the ages of 18 and 40. So Scott and I are out. You have to live in New York, California, Florida or Virginia for the time being. That's where it's legal. I guess they're working on other areas. You have to have no history of eye disease, no need for bifocals. Oh, I'm out again and have had a comprehensive exam in the last five years. So for those few of you still left interested in this, you go to warbyparker.com slash test, you pair up the website with the app, then you stand 12 feet away from the website screen. So presumably you'd have it on a desktop or a laptop and then you have your app in your hand, you stand 12 feet away and you take a basic vision test. If your vision hasn't changed, a doctor will issue you a new prescription within 24 hours and then you can spend money on new glasses from Warby Parker. All right, I like it.   So why not a vision test? I mean, I realize there's probably more legal hoops to jump through for them, but I mean, sure, it's just a chart on the wall. And if it's smart enough to be as good as my doctor at telling me what I got blurry and what I didn't, I don't have a problem with this. I'm a little sad I'm not in their age range because I wouldn't mind. Well, you have to have no history of eye disease.  Yeah, I had eye surgeries, I do not live in those states and I am not 18 to 40, so I'm screwed. I have had a comprehensive exam in the last five years. I think that's the only one of these. Well, no, I live in California. So I have two of these that I can pass. Good morning, I do. Yeah, and I'm wondering what safeguard they have. I mean, I guess it's just not in your best interests, right? But I wonder what kind of safeguard they have against somebody standing closer to the screen than 12 feet. Yeah, you don't. The app may be able to tell through the camera or something. The camera, I mean, but then that depends on, do you have a camera mounted to the screen you're looking at? Like there's a lot of... The camera in your app on the phone, right? That has to be pointed at the screen and maybe that's able to pretty accurately tell if you're 12 feet away. But Warby Parker just, I like this about them. Even this will never affect me and I'll never use it. But I like that they are more than just, hey, get cool glasses online and at a few of our locations. Like they've got more to say, more to do. They're like porn hub for glasses. They have a lot more to do than their core business. Sure, they love being thought of that way. They'd love to have the bottom line, I'm sure. To get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to dailytechheadlines.com available as a podcast, as an Amazon Echo flash briefing or on the brand new Anchor app. Anchor has a bunch of great content from folks like Annie Gauss who's on the show Friday or Jeff Kanata's newest, latest, best. And of course, dailytech headlines, you can get that right there at anchor.fm. And that is a look at our top stories. All right, Microsoft Xbox One Game Subscription Service Game Pass launches June 1st, 10 days before E3. If you subscribe for $10 a month, you get access to more than 100 Xbox One and 360 games. It seemed to be a roughly evenly split between the two. Game Pass subscribers can download the games if they want to play them offline. And in fact, I was incorrect as I mentioned on TMS, there is no streaming. And Microsoft says in their fact, they determined that the biggest problem with streaming services people had was lack of bandwidth. So they just do downloads for this service. You can purchase the games if you wanna keep them, like especially if a game is being pulled off the service and you wanna keep it, you can purchase them for a 20% discount. You also get 10% off of downloadable content, which once you buy, you get to keep even if the game goes away from the service. Xbox Live Gold subscribers can get into Game Pass right now. They don't have to wait, Scott. All right, so a couple things about the announcement. I was wondering for months why they had so many 360 games popping up almost daily saying guess what's now compatible with Xbox One? Guess what now is compatible? Every day there would be a new game added to the 360 to Xbox One compatibility list. And while those were also purchasable in some cases, if you already owned it digitally, then you could now just get it. And it was your copy on the new platform. Red Dead Redemption is one of those. There's a few others. That was always really good news and everything, but I kept wondering who was this, what is this for? Like why are they actually doing this? Because in the past, they haven't cared that much about backwards compatibility. In fact, none of them do. They would rather people move onto the new platform. And I think this was it. I think they were waiting for this to launch. Now they've got enough back catalog plus current titles on Xbox One. Certainly nothing brand new, but a decent selection of games. Halo 5, for example, is on here. Halo 5 Guardians, yeah. I actually also like the idea. I kind of wish it was an option, but I like the idea that they're at least addressing this elephant in the room with game streaming these days, which is, I don't care how good your bandwidth is, it is not the most consistent experience in the world. It's kind of a problem across the board. It isn't just Sony. It isn't just the way Steam does it. It isn't the way, you know, Nvidia's got their service. They're all kind of crappy. At one point or another, you're going to have a glitch or a problem. It's not seamless. So it'd be nice to be able to say, well, if I don't have a terabyte internet connection, wouldn't it be cool if I could just download that copy of Halo 3 and play it? And I like that. That's a great option. I wish Sony would do this. This would be a thing Sony should do for PlayStation Now. All that being said though, it is interesting to see Microsoft positioning themselves in a couple of small ways leading up to E3 and leading up to the release of Scorpio this fall to try to take some ground back because they've lost so much of it. According to some numbers released in, let's see, March 16th on Venture Beat, they did a big article about Sony dominating console market with 57% share worldwide. That's huge. And that's everybody, not just those two competitors. That's an enormous lead that is really hard to come back from. So I don't know if this is enough of a small step, if Scorpio is enough of a big step, but we're definitely entering some unknown territory. And I feel like Microsoft's trying to figure out how they can do it. Yeah, so to compare the streaming services is kind of apples and oranges. PlayStation Now costs twice as much as Game Pass. It's 20 bucks and doesn't offer discounts for purchases. So on the financial side, Game Pass wins, but PlayStation Now also has more than 480 games. They don't have PS4 games yet, but they did announce that they're coming. So pretty soon it'll be at parody of having both old and new games and almost five times as many games as Game Pass. So it definitely wins on game availability. The service is streaming though and Game Pass is download. So it kind of is what your taste is. If you've got enough bandwidth, you may prefer the streaming because it doesn't take up space on your hard drive. But the download model of Game Pass means it's always gonna play without lag. So a lot of people may like that. I call it a wash. It kind of depends on what platform you are. I don't think you're gonna pick a console based on the service. So you're gonna get a pretty good service either way. This is, I guess what I'm getting to, Scott, is this is not the thing that's going to get Microsoft to catch up to Sony. What else do you think Microsoft needs to do? All right, so there's a couple of things that have to happen. I think getting some service parody or some service competitive advantage is a good idea. I think this is a good one. I don't know if this is gonna be the end all be all. I don't think there are that many players that care that much about that catalog, but it's still a nice tick on the checkbox list of things you want out of a service. So that's number one. I kind of wish all the console makers, Microsoft included, would quit having separate subscription services for various services.  That's annoying. I don't think they even have any combined ones at the moment that I'm aware of. So I had to sign up for all those individually or the ones that I wanted. Microsoft's got similar setup with the way live works and now game pass. Presumably on the first we learned differently, that will be a separate thing that's sort of a separate subscription that you have to manage. So all that being said, as much as that could improve, getting into some sort of parody position with Sony in that way is a great idea. They have one strength Sony seems to have never had and they should capitalize on this. And that is they've always had better quicker downloads. Since this is a download only service, this bodes well for that than the PSN ever has. It's still a chore to preload a game on PSN for whatever reason, if it's throttled or a thousand other reasons I don't know about, PSN is terribly slow. The fastest is easily steam. Then I'd say Xbox one, and then you get down to way down on PSN. So they could give some heat to Sony in that regard and really improve that experience. The main things are gonna be though, Scorpio this fall being a success, it's gotta launch at least at the same price or less than the PlayStation pro. Otherwise you're fighting an uphill battle. It doesn't matter how awesome that piece of hardware is. So that's a big one. And they need big games at launch when that Scorpio hits. And right now their big games are cracked down three, Sea of Thieves, and I think that's it. As far as stuff you can only get on that platform coming out till the end of the year. E3 they may stand up and go, hey, guess what, five more we didn't tell you about. And I would expect them to do so, but yeah, they need to do that. Something like that hopefully will happen at E3, but they have a lot to prove that way. And the third thing is harder. The hardest thing is to get with third parties and convince them that the recent shift away from them as the previous lead platform in the last generation to Sony as the new lead, that they need to bring some of that stuff back. And that's really hard to convince those third parties that they need to play that kind of ball when big leagues is happening somewhere else. So usually what that is for Microsoft is them paying a ton of money for exclusivity. They did it with Tomb Raider last year. They've done it with other games where they just pay out a ton of incentive cash for certain developers or publishers to go to them first or DLC first or whatever. So I think that's really important. And if it takes a bunch of money, then it takes a bunch of money, but whatever it is that needs to really happen. But all of this, if I'm being truthful, they're not gonna have a big impact with Scorpio until 2018 anyway. We're talking about holiday sales are important, but then there's a drop off and then what? What does the next year look like? That will depend on games. That will depend on how they leverage their PC Windows dominance and combine that with their very loyal Xbox audience and their very loyal PC audience and somehow make those two groups work together, play together, have game parody, launch day parody, that sort of stuff. That's all really important. So that may be too many parts of Microsoft having to work together to make that happen. Sony certainly has this problem across their various divisions. Although PlayStation now works on Windows. Game Pass does not. Microsoft's gonna need to fix that. Yeah, that's a really good point. Again, that parody is gonna matter. They need to be at least as good. And then Scorpio may have enough guts in it to say, all right, we're as least as good on the services front and the games front, but now also we're this much better because of this 4K and this kind of VR capability and blah, blah, blah. I mean, they keep talking about how Scorpio's VR capable. We don't know what that means. They don't have a headset in the works that we know of. Does it mean you hook an Oculus up to it and they make a deal with somebody? Well, remember Microsoft had billed, announced all these third party headsets. So I would expect to see more announcements along those lines, including compatibility at E3. Yeah, so also it's, you know, well, whatever PSVR has done pretty well for itself, but everything always does better if you pack it in. So there's questions about that. That's too expensive for a Scorpio launch. So I have a lot of questions about what they're gonna do, but I think what we're seeing is the right direction for Microsoft. And as much as we can hymn and haw about how this generation is going so far since 2013, the one big difference is this isn't a six to 10 year cycle. It's this new weird half 1.5 upgrade cycle introduced by the PlayStation 4, originally announced from the Scorpio announcement that came before the PS4 Pro announcement. So they're playing a little gamesmanship there, but that's what makes this different. So they can't just count on that this time. You can throw a wrench into it and say, guess what, PS5 is coming out in a year and a half and it's gonna be brap, brap, brap. And that'll make people go, well, I'll just wait. I don't need Scorpio, I'll skip that. So it is a really weird wrinkle in a very familiar tale of one company's ahead of another during a certain generation and then they flip sides the next generation. And that is really fascinating as someone who watches this stuff. I can't wait to see how it pans out. Well, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. Quick patron shout out. I wanna start calling out other folks doing cool things on patreon.com. Peter Anthony Holder has been doing his radio program for decades in Montreal. The latest version of his show is called The Stuff File. He started it in 2009 and it's now supported directly on Patreon. He's interviewed folks like Robert J. Sawyer, Tom Arnold, a man who has Hitler's toilet among many others, including myself. He was nice enough to have me on the show. Go take a look at The Stuff File. It's S-T-U-P-H from Peter Anthony Holder at patreon.com slash The Stuff File program. We'll have a link in the show notes as well. Quick message of the day from Gerhard in sunny Africa on the subject of the Samsung 8 Iris scanner bypass, I can see law enforcement taking mug shots with infrared cameras in the future. This way they have both facial recognition and Iris bypass mechanisms. As an added extra, they can ask you to stand palms faced forward to get a good shot of your fingerprints as well. Eugh, really? Yeah. By the way, speaking of which, I said this morning, I was making a bit of a big deal about it, but I was talking this morning about, you know, Samsung should have caught this whole thing. And I thought about that sense and you said, well, I don't know if they can or whatever. And I came to realize that's how this stuff goes, right? Company releases a thing, public gets their hands on it. And before you know it, 500 weird problems are found. There is not an authentication method without a vulnerability. Exactly. The thing that Samsung needs to responsibly do is say, okay, this isn't 100% perfect, you know, but it's good enough for most people or something like that. Should they have done that? I mean, this is a PR question, so maybe it doesn't matter. They could have done it ahead of time a little more, you know, prepared people for it. Maybe they didn't know somebody would crack it this quick and have such a problem. Well, and also, you know, companies aren't going to market their thing as might be cracked. So, you know, that's not going to happen. But as long as they don't overplay the security, as long as they're out there saying, and this will 100% secure, it's the most secure way to lock down your phone. And I don't think Samsung did that. No, and you could love the same exact argument against Apple and their fingerprint sensor stuff and OneTouch and all that. It's all, that stuff's all subject to the same problem. I feel like Samsung gets a little bit too much heat though because they had a little too much heat there for a while in their Note 7. I didn't actually mean it that way, but yes, well said. But yeah, like, it's just, it's impossible not to want to go, oh, Samsung again with the weird thing. And it's, this is probably stoned too far. Yeah, that's the echo chamber.  Samsung Iris scanner is cracked. Well, yeah, all biometrics are cracked. We haven't got there yet with them. They're nifty, but they're not the most secure. We've also been misled by movies to think that these things are more secure. I'm telling you that blockchain thing earlier, that's the answer. We're going to get to a place where I just have to walk in the room and everything knows what's going on. Yeah. Gouchum says Iris scan should mean username, not password. I don't know exactly username, but I totally am with the spirit of what he's saying, which is a second factor, not the only factor.  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We're live Monday through Friday, 4.30 p.m. Eastern, 2030 UTC at alpha geek radio.com and diamondclub.tv or at facebook.com slash dailytechnewshow and our website of course, as you could guess, is dailytechnewshow.com. Back tomorrow with Justin Robert Young. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. I hope you have enjoyed this program. Nice. It's a good show. It's a good show. I am imitating a post-television, one of those little post-television production company blips. It's not trying to be. Isn't it Rick and Morton? I think so. I think it's Rick and Morton, yeah. I think it's the Dan Harmon thing. It's a good show. Yeah, it's Dan Harmon's thing. That's right. It's my favorite one. I used to, I'm a big fan of those generally. I like logos at the beginning of movies. It's like production company. I love that stuff.  Love that stuff, but the best one. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Yes, Roger. What have we for titles? We have putting passwords on airplane mode. That's pretty elegant. I see what you did there, Warby Parker.  Not sure that came from porn hub for glasses. Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt Thunderbolt, size of a pop can. Thunderbolt type C. Very, very frightening me. KV-87. KV-87. KV-87. Blockchain exporter. More blockchain, fewer fools. Putting passwords on airplane mode. I like that one. That one's pretty good. Yeah, that one's pretty good. What do you like, Scott? Of those, I don't know, I'm bad at picking these. I don't want a big one. I'm going to say my favorite so far is probably, I feel like putting passwords on an airplane mode is long. Okay, it's fair.  Let's see. I'm just looking at the lower ones in case something late breaking came in. Yeah, keep voting if you're watching live, showbot.tv. Vote, vote, vote, vote. So far, a maximum of seven of you have voted and there are many more of you watching.  I don't know if that's really the point you want to get across. Maybe that's, maybe it's a different comment. Yeah, also I always look for ones that are part of the main topic, but we don't have to, I guess. No, I've started writing a better description that is more than just the main topic. That was always my hang up was like, the description would always be just the main topic and if the headline wasn't that it kind of disconnected, but now I don't have that problem. All right, well, I'm gonna, people are uploading porn hub for glasses. I don't know, putting passwords on airplane mode is probably the best one. It's just. Writing in cars with passwords. It's just long. We'll let it marinate. Showbot.tv go, go vote. Don't soak. Well, more put looks got more votes.  Unlike actual elections and things, these are not binding numbers. Everybody. All right. I'm exporting without a title. I know dangerous. Danger putting passwords on airplane mode is at the top by twice as many as the next one. Yes. 50% more votes going. But is it because you didn't vote? If showbot.tv is not in your browser tab right now, make it so. Yeah. Unless you're at home later, don't look it up. Right. Then it's too late. Sorry. It'll be empty. Or it'll be the next day. And that doesn't make sense. Chad B says, let it merit Nate. That's what happens when Nate Langston's on the show. Nuclear password options, not bad. Nuclear. You know how I used to be a nuclear guy? Yeah. Did you? You know how I fixed it? All you have to do is pronounce the clear part. So you say nuclear. Nuclear. Nuclear. Yeah. Easy. I used to be a Washington, Warsh McClos guy. I fixed it by just paying attention and not saying that. I used to hear people make fun of George Bush, or George W. Bush for saying nuclear. I'd feel bad because I used to do the same thing. Nuclear.  Now we've got campaigns going on. Putting passwords on airplane mode is definitely leading. Porn hop for glasses, make it a run. Thunderbolt of Type-C, very, very frightening me. Also very long, hilarious. Probably my favorite, but maybe it doesn't work as well as the title. The bolt of Type-C, very, very fright sees what it should be. Rhymes better. Thunderbolt of Type-C, very, very speedy. Cause it's fast. Thunderbolt of Type-C, very, very fast. See. Ah, see, there you go. See, it's very fast. See. Be a good writing vote. I wanted to vote. A vote for KV 87 is a vote for the modified version of his title.  Oh, it was the Ikea thing. I do. Oh, with the light bulbs, of course. Yeah. No, I remember now. Yeah, now I remember. Brows with blockchain, blockchain explorer. Tom lives dangerously. Oh, is that a new one? Yep. Yeah. All biometrics are correct. Impassive prime. Well, we are 30 seconds away from final export. The polls are about to close, folks. Yep. If you're already in line, hurry up. We do operate on a dictatorial model that allows us to overrule democracy when we feel it is necessary. However, I think we're gonna go with the Democratic results this time. All right. You go with the popular results. Yeah. The popular vote. There's no Roger, Scott, Tom, Electoral College chicanery. Yeah. My porn hub for glasses would be the puppet dictator if we were to put him up there. Well, and Roger and I would outvote you anyway, I think at this point. So it's fine. Yeah. What? Yeah. That's a kind of democracy right there. That's a sort of a democracy. Yeah. So putting passwords on airplane mode, it is. Hooray. Well done. Well done. Well done. Agesia. AJC. AJC. Yeah. Isn't that a AJC? That'd be AJC, right? I was trying to spell it. I was trying to get all phonetic up in there. I get phonetic in here. Oh, my legs. Drawing two legs. Nah, I don't know what it is. I need to walk more. That'll help. They just crank it up. It's one of the nice things about having dogs. They get me out of the house. Heck yeah. I get a good, I don't know, mile or more in just with the walks. I can do usually two miles with a kid. That's two miles carrying a kid who doesn't want to walk in the same straight line. Even with their little push car. You know the little car that comes with the long bar in the back? Oh yeah. Dig it board of it and want to start walking. And now you got to push this thing and carry them at the same time. My dental hygienist daughter is named Ellie and she's a year and a half old. So she always asks me about your daughter when I go into the dentist. Tell her she's left for training. Man, my kid's got the same big obnoxious, hard to find head as I do. I can already see it. She has difficulty putting, I don't know, let me ask you this, Scott. Yeah. You were there for your child, children's upbringing. Did you ever come across an issue where your kids' heads were too big for the shirt? Like you tried to, like, you know, at the one or two age, did you try to pull over their head? Yeah. And complain about it going over their head? Yeah, their head. They get all bent back and they get mad. Yeah, that happened. But maybe because the hole's too small or it looks like it's too small. I usually chalked it up back to our hat discussion. I usually chalked it up to their heads being too big and the shirt wasn't really at fault. That's what I'm thinking, but like, maybe, I don't know. I'm still bummed about my hat not fitting. I gotta return it now or something. Give it to Jen. I have a really great Green Bay hat that I love, but it is so tight that I will have a migraine by four if I wear it. I don't have a headlight. I had that forensic unit hat and that hat was sweet because it fit my melon to a tee. It was a flex-fit hat. It worked. And now I can't find it. I misplaced it. Maybe I left it at a restaurant. I don't know. It's the worst. Just hit it. Pissed. I'm voting for Tom lives dangerously just for fun. I picked our thing already, but why not? I think everyone should push that one up. Give it a 25-inch head, which is a huge head, by the way. Pretty big head, yeah. It's probably about mine. I'll bet we're about the same. Yeah, but you're also 6'1". Yeah, it helps to be stretched out a little. I'm not. I look like I'm an orange with it on a toothpick.   It's when I try their hat on, then they're freaked out. They're like, what? That doesn't fit. So somehow I have an optical illusion going. Yeah, because you're 6'1". Yeah, it helps. You don't, I don't know. I just got a big head. It's pretty obvious to me. I don't know. Actually, what's weird is you only notice it if I'm standing next to someone who's like Patrick, compared to Patrick, I have a ginormous noggin. Patrick. That or Patrick just has a very small head. Patrick Beja or Patrick? Patrick Norton. Yeah, Patrick Norton seems, let's see, here's the thing. On camera, Patrick Norton seems like his head is enormous. When you meet him though, it's not. It's like a little orange. Like a peanut. All right, enough talking about peanut heads.  Enough of this melon talk. Yeah, we're bordering dangerous territory. Put on my perfectly average seven and a quarter inch hat. Whatever, I have the same problem with shoes, but that's it. Take a drink from my gun mug. Oh, my God. I wish I could find knitted brain slug. You know what really grinds my gears to borrow a phrase from Peter Griffith is that I can't just, other than pants, I really can't go into a store and find stuff that actually fits me. Like, I don't want to brag. I got a pretty wide chest like torso. So if I get a shirt that actually fits me. So it doesn't pitch my armpits. The shirt comes down to like my knees. You know what I mean? It's just like it's weird looking. Or if I do get one that fits, it just looks odd because the cut is meant for either. I just I basically look like a kid.  Like I'm wearing a kid's shirt because it's a shirt. But I just can't find anything to fit. I'm the most ungainly person to clothe. I think that's most people though. Because because I don't have that unusual of a body type. I don't think and even then I can't I go in. I know my size, my inseam and my waist size and I try on pants and they don't fit because the numbers don't mean anything. But I don't know. And this is the only reason I'm not ashamed of it. I would leave eyes 501s because their size is like I know what my size hasn't changed in like the 20 years. And you know, from that manufacturer, it's going to be the same every time. Yeah, no, I hear you. That's you know what I started buying the Mr. Collection service where they just send you clothes and you wear them and send them back and you get to keep ones and buy them from them. If you like them, I have found more pants that way than I ever have going out and shopping. What's the service again? The Mr. Collection. Do they do hats? You know, I think they do occasionally do hats. I've never gotten a hat from them, though. This is I've always wanted to try this. You've you've liked it. Yeah, I get good stuff from them. And you and and they've changed it since I started it now so that you can send it back as many times as you want. It doesn't make sense for everyone because it's not cheaper necessarily. But for me, it was like I need different looking clothes for videos and stuff. And this is better than going out and constantly buying. Yeah. And then, yeah, then you then now you're in charge of figuring out what to do with the stuff you're not going to wear anymore or whatever. Yeah, right. And this way, I just I just like I'm going to wear the shirt is from Mr. Collection. I'm going to wear it today on the show. I'm going to wear it on the tech Republic videos and then I'm going to send it back. I don't have to keep it. Interesting. And it's in the selections. Good and all that. Yeah, they've been pretty good. You can give them feedback too. I wish they had a better feedback system.  So I often forget to go back and give them feedback. It's not as nice as trunk club in that respect, but trunk clubs are so expensive. Yeah. And it's and it's a shopping service, not a try on service.  And if you don't want to send it back, don't wear it. Right. Whereas Mr. Collection is meant to be worn and then you just send it back to me. All right, that is it. Thank you, everybody, for watching, listening, enjoying. We will talk to you later.


Michael, thanks for taking the time. Just was curious how you felt about your first outing of summer camp. Yeah, it felt great. It's a weird routine, obviously, even just showing up later than everybody else and not having a full locker room. But you got to do it. And I felt great out there. It was nice to be back out there competing and then facing such a good lineup. It was fun to test yourself a little bit. You said showing up later than everyone else. When did you show up? I got here right at 5. And we had the earlier workout, so it staggered. So guys were here at 2 when they were all out of here by 4 if they weren't in the game. So coming into an empty locker room was kind of weird. Was there anything in particular that you were working on while you were out there, or was it just a matter of getting reps soon? Majority of it was just getting reps. But I actually was working on an arm-side foreseam that Ineta actually sprung on me. I told them towards the end of my bullpen that I'm fine doing it, but we can do it later on once we get more comfortable. And first battle to Hicks, I go up. I think it was 1-2 on him. And he calls foreseam away to him. And I executed it, which was great.  So I was happy about it. And obviously, just any time you get some work in, it's good. Thank you. James Wagner, if you can unmute, there you have the next question. Hey, Mike, I hope you're doing well. Just out of curiosity, yeah, because we don't see the setup. Are you in the visitors' clubhouse? Yep. How is it spread out? How does it look to you? How is everyone else positioned against it? Yeah, we're all, it's every other locker. Every time we're in the clubhouse, we got to have a mask on. It almost prevents us from talking. You feel uncomfortable talking. So it's a little silent in there until we get a few guys in there. But because it's so scarce, it isn't a full locker room that you can really be talking and kind of hanging out like clubhouse. So it's definitely different, but we're all figuring it out. Take the next question from Ken David off. Ken, go ahead and unmute. Hey, Mike, just wondering if you have any sense of what your role could be, obviously, with expanded rosters? And do you feel like starting a spot in sovereign irritation and possibility? Yeah, I really don't know. I'm kind of taking it day by day, doing whatever they say to do. I know I went two winnings today. I love starting. I know I can probably do both. But I would love to stay on that path and build up, because I feel like you can always jump back to a relief role, because you can always go back in innings. So I wouldn't mind building up. And if they need me as a reliever, that's my role. But for now, I'm just kind of taking it day by day. Thanks, Mike. Take the next question from Eric Boland. Eric, you need to unmute. There we go. I think we got it this time. Hey, Mike, thanks for coming in tonight. Curious as a fellow pitcher, what did you notice, admire most about Eric Cole when you saw him for three weeks in spring training, and obviously, watching him out here tonight? I know you had your job to do, but I'm sure you snuck a peek of what he was doing occasionally. Yeah, yeah, of course. Honestly, his intensity. He does not take a pitch off. And I talked to him about that in his pre or his in-between start routine, where when he throws bullpens in between, it's max effort. He doesn't want to overdo it. He doesn't want to throw 50, 60 pitch bullpens, which I actually like doing because I like throwing as much as I can. But he said he wanted to be game-like every time he was on the mound. So when he was on the mound in his bullpens, even if it was only a 15, 20 pitch bullpen, every single pitch was full intensity. And then you see that out on the mound. Even in these inner-squads, first one of spring training 2.0, and he's mad at himself for missing pitches, mad at himself for not executing. So it's that competitive miss and intensity that he brings that I hope to do the same. Thanks, Mike. Take Sweeney Murdy next. Sweeney, you can unmute. Hey, Mike, was the force you were talking about a way to the lefties? Is that in place of some things and trying to counter something else in the record? Yeah, I always feel very comfortable throwing away to righties because I can kind of backdoor a two-seamer where I started away. And for the most part, if I execute it, right-handed hitters are just going to give up on it. And it's kind of a free strike for me. When I do that to lefties, I have to throw a two-seamer middle and have it trust that it's going to break away. And I've come into a lot of problems with lefties that, oh, oh, if I'm trying to steal a strike, they just stay on it and take the freebie with a little single left field. Not every hitter does that, but I know a Brett Gardner, he would take that every single time out. If it's an OO fastball away and he knows that I like doing it, he'll just slap that thing the other way. So for me, I just wanted to get free strikes, or as many as I possibly can. And so I know me across my body, a little bit different slot, lower slot, if I throw that thing and kind of stick it on the outside corner, it almost stays like a freeze fastball, where it starts over there, expecting it to continue to break away, and then it just stays there. I wasn't planning on using it in a 1-2-0-2 count. Ionetta wanted me to. I threw a couple to righties as well, one to Voight, one to Judge, that I ended up kind of running too far in. I just started it too far in. But for the most part, I want it to be just like an OO fastball that I can get ahead early and be confident that it's almost going to be out of my hand, no one's going to swing at it. And at what point did you feel everything was good health-wise for you this spring? It's been healthy the whole time. Once I was back last year, it was really once I got back to Scranton last year. I think that was in August. That's when I felt full go. Thank you. We'll take a final question from Brendan Cuddy. Brendan, go ahead and unmute. Mike, good to see you. Thank you for taking the time here. If you had to dial back, and if the Yankees needed you in a relief role, how would your approach change? Would your repertoire change? How would you attack that? Totally would change. Because as a starter, I want to get out the third time through the lineup. So there are a lot of times where I will not throw in spots that throw pitches in spots that guys normally like. So I will set guys up in starts in their first or second at bat to then expose a hole in their swing later on in the game, because those outs in the sixth, seventh, eighth inning are a lot more important than the first, second, and third. We can come back from a 1-0 deficit if a guy gets me in the first, then we could in the seventh or eighth. So I would have to totally go right after those holes immediately, and I'd also have to be studying hitters a lot more in the game. Because you can see how hitters get set up for their later at bats on pitchers earlier in the game. So if I'm watching, even if it's a pitcher that is nothing like a Cole, if Cole's blowing 99 by everybody with a knockout slider and everything and I come in there with kind of sink and finesse, it's totally different. But I can still see the holes that he was exposing, that then he was kind of leading a reliever towards. And I know the best relievers do that. It's not like they're just going at them with their best stuff. They know exactly how to get these hitters out. And that's kind of what I would do. Not be easy for you, difficult. I'm sorry I didn't hear that. Would that be an easy adjustment for you, difficult? It'd be easy because I love watching video. So it's now just live video that I'm watching. The only difference is I'd have to do it every day instead of every fifth day. Where I always say that a starting job is easier than a relief roll because I get four days off in between and relievers have to be ready every single day. So that'd be the only difference is I'd have to be ready every day and do it every day because you never know when your name's going to get called.


Previously, on the Höge Kustenleden. We hiked along beautiful postal areas and crossed a 100 kilometer mark which meant we were almost at the end of the trail.  In eight episodes we are taking you along this beautiful trail. We are hiking through deep forest and mountain top viewpoints, passing beautiful lakes that you only see in Sweden and sleeping in beautiful places along the way. Nowhere else in Sweden can you hike at these heights so close to the sea. Welcome to the Höge Kustenleden. Hey Aletje, it's the final day. Yes, and we started with a beautiful morning in the cabin with an amazing view although it was completely misty but we know that was an amazing view. And so now we are declining from the detour and hopefully get back on the real track again and then it's only I think 12 kilometers till the finish line. Right now we are back on the original trail of the Höge Kustenleden and the downhill was pretty cool, pretty amazing. The steep section are secured with ropes but you can do without ropes and it's pretty okay. It was a very cool detour. I would really recommend this one. And there were also stairs right? Yes, and there were a couple of stairs as well, long stairs but it was a cool descent. I think still 3 kilometers to go and I think the rest is only rope walking if I'm correctly. And we can already see the top of the bridge over there. In the bag. In the bag. There's the finish. And here we are after hiking 130 kilometers through this incredible area of the high coast of Sweden. It was a journey that we will always cherish. We explored the magnificent Skullisgåge National Park where we stayed in an absolutely beautiful cabin surrounded by nature. We saw the famous Lodstal Grafann, the towering wall of Skulleberget and walked through some typical Swedish villages. And although the weather wasn't always perfect and there was quite a bit of rope walking, the natural beauty and the stunning coastal trails of this area more than made up for it. The high coast trail will always hold a special place in our hearts. This was the Högerkustenleden.


Who is Gomer? By all accounts, she was an asset Zinunem, that is one who acts like a harlot. Ordered to marry Hosea so Adonai can make a point.  Well it bothered me, so let's flip the story. Who is Gomer? A strong, powerful woman.  So this is how I read the story of Gomer. That when we break out from systems of white patriarchal heterosexist supremacy, we begin to see the freedom we have to not accept oppression, but to stand in freedom.


This is stock number 21J22. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep and Jeep Gladiator headquarters and today we're checking out the best-looking Gladiator we have ever had on our lot. This is a 2021 Jeep Gladiator Mojave in Hydro Blue Procoat. This vehicle has the award winning 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 motor, 285 horsepower, 260 foot-pounds of torque and it's in the Mojave trim package which definitely gives it some extra things other than just the cool stickers and tires. You get all sorts of off-roading goodies with this vehicle. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the looks and styling of the vehicle and maybe a little bit about it. So first off you'll notice you get the Mojave stickers there. Those are all nice and great and then you come to this and it says desert rated. Desert rated means that this thing is built to race off-road in the desert. So there's a couple different things that they do to this thing that makes that possible. First off you're going to get the painted and polished aluminum rims but then the first thing you'll notice is these Falcon Wild Peak tires. These are LT 285 70 R17s. Notice they have tread even on the sidewalls and definitely an aggressive tread pattern for off-roading in the desert. The next thing you'll notice is the two and a half inch internal bypass Fox shocks. These are specifically designed for off-roading in the desert to keep for all the bumps and everything going over the desert also you know extreme heat. This also has the jounce bumpers and you have shocks in there as well. This vehicle has 11.6 inches of ground clearance which actually makes it about a half inch higher than the Jeep Gladiator Rubicon. So this is the tallest of the Gladiators. You also get the orange tow hooks there they're powder coated. This one has the LED lighting group so when you're off-roading in the desert you can definitely see far in front of you as well as the LED fog lamps and LED running lamps. You also get the special hood. They put up as high as it can go so that you don't get as much sand and dust as you normally would with a lower air intake. Hydro blue one of the best looking colors in the Wranglers in my opinion. Has a little Jeep driving up the side. You also get the sandals on the plastic shroud here definitely fitting for a Mojave package. You also get the rock rails here so if you do hit any rocks while you're out in the desert it's not going to damage the body of the vehicle. This also has reinforced areas by the transmission and engine mounts. In the back you get the double foc shock back here and if we take a look at all the suspension parts back here you can see it's definitely heavy duty. These have a 272 low end ratio 272 to 1 and then a 410 ratio so that you can go up to 50 miles per hour in low four-wheel drive low in this vehicle as opposed to the Rubicon's where you can only go up to 30 miles per hour. We'll take a look at the original window sticker here. Feel free to pause this I'm not going to go through everything but you can definitely get an idea of all the standard equipment. On this side you get the Dana 44 wide front and rear axles the 410 axle ratio command track four-wheel drive system you get the skid plates also on this standard. Hydro blue pro coat the leather trim seats are a $15.95 option this has a trailer tow package which is 350 bucks. Cold weather group which is $9.95 gives you the heated seats and heated steering wheel. Premium LED lighting group is $12.95 the 8.4 with nav and premium audio group is $18.95 gives you all the serious Guardian XM traffic plus and travel link service there. You also get the Jeep active safety group which gives you park sense rear park assist and blind spot cross-path detection. 8-speed automatic transmission is $2,000 option. The keyless entering-go system and then just kind of some random stuff the wireless Bluetooth speakers $2.95 and then those rims are a special $995 rim. Three-year 36 bumper to bumper five-year 60 power train this is going to get you 22 miles per gallon on the highway 17 city for an average of 19 miles per gallon and the front crash test ratings are 4 and 5 stars and the rollovers 3 thrust it's not rated for. So just like all the ringlers and all the other gladiators you can still take those roof pieces off so just because it's in Mojave doesn't mean that you can't do that. You get the LED tail lamps to you get the orange tow hooks in the back full towing package which includes a receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring get the heavy-duty engine cooling the backup parking sensors this is a shock down assist tailgate so that goes down like so you also get the LED bed lighting and if you notice right up there those kind of weird dots those are imprints for your motor off-road bike I guess you could say your motorbike to put it in the back kind of neat you get the bed rail covers as well take a look at those shocks in the back suspension and skid plates that go into this vehicle to make it off-road capable in the desert it will check out inside has the blind spot monitoring heated mirrors inside you do get those leather trim seats you'd also get the orange stitching throughout and you get the Mojave stitched into the backrest auto headlamps power locks power mirrors as we hop inside the vehicle here you do get the 7-inch LCD display animation there digital speedometer you get a compass heated leather wrap steering wheel that also has the orange stitching cruise controls on the right Bluetooth and information center controls on the left notice you get the kind of granite crystal painted dash with the orange vent surroundings pretty cool this one has the 8.4 with the factory navigation system also AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities you also have your heated seats and heated steering wheel controls here and then you can check out your backup camera which is an HD backup camera those are dynamic good lines as you turn that steering wheel they're going to turn as well and then that center line lines right up with the receiver hitch and when you get to whatever you're hooking up to you can even magnify right over the hitch so that you're going to get hooked up perfectly every time which is really nice you also have your different apps here including your off-road pages those are really neat we'll show you those in a second here you also get more heated seats more climate controls down here start-stop capabilities stability control you can turn the parking sensors off and on has a speed select crawl control power windows down here are your axle lockers you can lock just the rears and then you can do an off-road mode which will automatically lock your rear axle you get an AUG's USB and USB C-jack 8-speed automatic transmission you get the little gladiator logo on the top there keyless entry with the remote start and this is a switchblade key those are really neat and then up here your off-road pages you get your steering angle transfer case rear axle rear axle locker tells you if it's locked or not you get your latitude longitude you also have your altitude there as you can see we're raising up right now I think you got to be outside for that to work properly and moving anyways you get your coolant temp oil temp battery voltage trans temp oil pressure then you get your pitch and roll nice to see that we're nice and flat in our brand new picture studio here anyways just the rest of the styling on the interior is really good-looking the hard top in the front comes off just like any other Wrangler you get the SOS and assist buttons and home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems the other thing I wanted to show you on this radio is that that it does have projection manager where you can do Android Auto or Apple CarPlay project that to the screen so if you have a different navigation system such as Waze or Google Maps you can do that and project it to the screen we actually did a demo on that if you want to check that out in the upper right hand part of the screen we'll check out the back seats and then we'll do one more final walk around here with all the LED lights on back seats plenty of room back here do you get the latch child safety system that is a manual sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost you get that orange stitching back here as well you also get two USBs two USB C's and then a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in back here these seats do fold up for extra storage you have a little cubby back here you also have a spot for your roof door hinge and windshield bolts and you do get a little bit of storage back here and then that locks with the ignition key right there so you can put stuff back there lock it and it's going to stay secure these headrests also fold down for better visibility when nobody is riding back there and you do get the child safety locks on the back doors I don't know if you saw it does have those LED bed lighting back there as well anyways we're gonna finish the walk around here and I would personally like thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you have gotten a really good look at this 2021 Jeep Gladiator Mojave in Hydro blue pearl coat and we're looking forward to selling a bunch of these and to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SCVs minivans Wranglers Gladiators you name it we got it go to our website www.summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summit auto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left a link to more Jeep Gladiator videos like this one on your right if you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we really look forward to helping with this really good looking 2021 Jeep Gladiator Mojave in Hydro blue pearl coat thanks again


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