Coming up on Daily Tech News show, it's checkmate for iOS jailbreaking. The end of Google Play music is nigh, and we get to the bottom of streaming fatigue. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, September 27th, 2019. In Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Feline, I'm Sarah Lane. Also in Los Angeles, I'm Lamar Wilson. Drawing the top tech stories all the way from Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Len Peralta. And on the show is producer Roger Chang. We were just talking quite a bit about water absorption, as well as naming our new Patreon tier on Good Day Internet. Speaking of Patreon tiers, the way to get Good Day Internet, if you want to spend a little more time hanging out with us, is to go to patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Logitech agreed to acquire Streamlabs in a deal worth $89 million in cash. Streamlabs makes Streamlabs OBS a popular streaming front end on Twitch and other streaming platforms, which the company claims is used by 15 million streamers. This complements Logitech's webcam business and its 2018 acquisition of blue microphones, both of which are also popular with streamers. HP announced Chromebook X360 12B and X360 14B convertible laptops. The 12-inch 12B supports the Universal Stylus Initiative, the first open standard stylus protocol. Should I say that three times fast? The 12B will start at $359 and a 14-inch 14B is $370 more, both available later this month. HP's rechargeable US side pen arrives in November at $69.99. Hey everybody, settle down. The Galaxy Fold is finally on sale in the United States, starting at $2,000. It's just five months later than originally planned after those test reviews brought Samsung back to the drawing board. So the Galaxy Watch Active 2 released today, in case you're keeping track. Got another data breach for Friday, DoorDash announced that a data breach on May 4th exposed data on 4.9 million customers, delivery workers and also merchants. Customers who joined DoorDash after April 5th, 2018 weren't affected by the breach. Names, email and delivery addresses, order histories, phone numbers and hashed and sold passwords were stolen, as well as the last four digits of a customer credit card and merchant bank account numbers. So, you know, it's a significant breach. Driver's license information on 100,000 delivery drivers also exposed. A spokesperson for DoorDash blamed the breach on an unnamed third-party service provider. Which apparently they stopped using after April 5th, 2018 is my guess. Guess who's part of it? Me too, man. All right, let's talk a little more about a test Facebook is doing, Lamar. Yeah, Facebook is testing hiding reaction and video view counts on Facebook Post in Australia. Now, the creator of a post will still see the number of likes and other reactions, but it'll be hidden from other users. Everyone will still be able to see who interacted with the post and can also see comment counts and at the most common reactions they can see. A similar test on Instagram has been running since April, expanding to six countries in July. Now, can I just real quickly, just as a content creator, I need help with this one because I don't see the point of this. I'm not sure who they're protecting, what feelings they're protecting here. I need help with it because I don't get it. That's because everyone likes your stuff, but we're all not that lucky. Or handsome, yes. Yeah, yeah. The idea is that people see other people's like counts and get miserable, like, I don't have as many likes as them. And then start just posting in order to try to get likes. And what Facebook is saying is like, no, we want people to have substantive posts. We don't want it to be a competition. So if you don't or if you aren't easily able to see how many people are liking someone else's post, then you won't be as likely to feel bad and post crappy stuff. You also will be potentially more likely to post more because it doesn't matter as much the fact that you're not getting as many likes as the next guy. But I think that that's actually what Facebook is thinking of here. It's they would like to, you know, they'd like to just spur more engagement because people aren't feeling bad about themselves. It's not so much about who feels bad about themselves. It's that they want people to be engaged. But when they were feeling bad about themselves, they were posting more to try to keep up with that. Yeah. So wasn't that good? I'm not sure. I'm not sure whether this will make them post more or not. But it is it is a it is a test to see if it actually creates a healthier, more substantive posts. And it's a test. We'll see. Yeah. A new iOS exploit called Checkmate. That's Mate Spelled M8 could lead to a permanent unblockable jailbreak on hundreds of millions of iPhones, according to researcher AXIEOMX. The exploit is the boot ROM vulnerability, allowing hackers to access deep enough that Apple would be unable to block or even patch out with a future software update. This is the first boot ROM level exploit publicly released for an iOS device since the iPhone 4. So it's been a while. It works on the iPhone 4 S to iPhone 8 and iPhone 10. So A5 through A11 chips for now, though, this is known as a tethered exploit. So it's only triggered over USB. But possibilities include Apple no longer having control through software updates or we vote signatures to get rid of this downgradable iOS devices that could easily be rolled back to previous versions of the software dual booting between multiple versions of iOS and others. Now, just like with the alternative app store yesterday, not everybody's going to do this. We don't even have a jailbreak yet. It's a matter of time before somebody figures out how to make a nice jailbreak out of this. But that's not what AXIEOMX did. He just found the vulnerability and put it out there. This is one that I think Apple would want to fix. I was arguing that Apple might not bother with the operating with the alternative app store because it's not a security vulnerability. This is a vulnerability. Now, it's a vulnerability that you have to have physical access to the phone to get. It only applies to older chips. So and it's going to be harder to fix because it's in the boot ROM, which means you'd have to have physical access to the phone to update it as well. But it is the kind of thing that Apple is more concerned with, usually. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, Apple is more concerned. What does Apple do for something like this? I mean, they would have to push out. They would have to push out a software update that would update the firmware in the bootloader, again, which would require people to tether their phones. And a lot of people I mean, I haven't plugged in my phone for a software update in years because it's over the air. So maybe there's a way to do an over-the-air firmware update of the bootloader. I'm not going to say that's impossible, but that's not usually the way it's done because of security concerns. Yeah. Yeah, man. I think we're just we're looking at a potential jailbreak of older phones. And the fact that we have have it only through the A11, it's not going to affect the 10S. It's not going to affect the iPhone 11 means that Apple may not bother with it, which would give, you know, White Hat hackers a great chance to play around with this. Though Apple's security research program is going to give like custom jailbroken phones to security researchers anyway. So there's not as much demand on the White Hat side of things for this anymore either. Yeah. I'll just say real quick, I didn't have a comment, but like, yeah, they say what 90 percent plus update their their phones to the latest up, you know, software. So their percentage, the work, the work require versus their percentage that might get affected, plus having to be tell their I grew up, you probably just won't be worth it for them. Yeah, I mean, how about desktop robotic arms? How about it? Who wants one? I do. This is one of my trends to watch. Desktop robotic arms are starting to look like drones did in their early days, and we're getting some products out there on the market from multiple companies, marketing them to do things like calligraphy, hold a hairdryer, butter your toast. I mean, we're still waiting on the killer app here, trust me. But 33 year old Shandong University graduate, Liu Peichao's Shenzhen Yue Jiang technology wants to develop smart robotic arms for everyday life. Yue Jiang started as a Kickstarter in 2015 and sells the robot, I'm sorry, DoBot Magician for 10,000 Yuan. That's about $1,400 US and 16,999 Yuan for a more advanced model. That's about $2,400 US, marketing it as an educational device for students to code on and learn to develop. But Yue Jiang wants to market these for just home use eventually. So this is their way into the market. And students from the University of Tokyo working with connected robotics adapted a Yue Jiang arm to be a breakfast-making machine currently being used in a Japanese hotel as a test. Tech in Asia notes that there's another Shenzhen based factory selling its desktop robotic arm in more than 80 countries right now as well. So this, I challenge you to think about, OK, if you had a desktop robotic arm that was easy to use, what would you want it to do? You know, when I first was like, right calligraphy doesn't come up in my house all that often, but I'll tell you, holding a hairdryer is actually very annoying. Oh, you think about it? Yeah, I'm like, it's actually heavy and it's hard on the wrist and the whole thing. There are use cases for this. I mean, the mic that I'm using is sort of a desk clamp type thing. It's like, there are a lot of scenarios where I'm like, OK, this could be something that's sort of part of my little, you know, my daily routine, buttering my toast. Yeah, the kitchen stuff actually. Holding vegetables for cutting, maybe. We're actually cutting them. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. Your hairdryer 100% for me, 100% all the time, every day. I will add, if you have a little workshop where you do things like soldering or you fix things, having an extra pair of hands, even if they're clawed, super helpful because one of the things, especially if you solder stuff, one of the things you need to do is manipulate the item that you're soldering. And it might be easy for you just to hold the iron and hold the solder while the robot turns the item or the robot holds the solder and you turn it and, you know, it moves with it. I mean, there's just I could think of like, you know, if you could get rid of the claw and you just attach my monitor on it, then it can move the monitor any time I need it for a different position. And that's the thing about these, especially the one from you, Zhang, is that they are available with swappable ends. You can put different ends on them to make them do different things. So it could do all this stuff that we're talking about. I really want one to like, because I don't have friends. So like when I play video games, I need to have someone sit next to me and play with me with a controller that can hold. I'm serious. You want more than just a computer-controlled opponent. You want someone, you want an arm sitting next to me. I want an arm there with their arm processor in it. For all the tech. Arm with arm. I like it. Send us your thoughts, folks, because I think this really feels like quadcopters did, you know, several years ago. I remember seeing the first quadcopter shown at CES and thinking, okay, that's cool, but what's it good for? Well, guess what? We figured out what it's good for. Delivering groceries. Just delivering burritos and sticking a camera on it. So let us know what you think the robotic, the desktop robotic arm might be good for, feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. I am now hungry. You mentioned burritos. Google announced that all of its authorized Android 9 and 10 devices will have YouTube music pre-installed in place of Google Play Music. Google requires certain apps to be installed in order to get access to Google first-party services. Google Play Music will remain available for download in the Google Play Store. Google said in 2018 that a plan to transition users from Play Music to YouTube Music once feature parity was reached as early as the end of 2019. And may I be the first to tell you that feature parity is nowhere near close. Yeah, it's not there yet. Which is why I stopped using YouTube Music. I really wanted to love it. I had nothing against it. I'm already paying for it because I have YouTube Premium. And it's just, I'm an iOS user, but I found Google Play Music to be really good. Like it really knew me, really understand what music I like. And it's just the YouTube one is just not ready yet. And a weird thing is when I listen to music, it comes up in my YouTube watch history because it's a video. And so there's a lot of little, there's a lot of things they need to fix with it. And I looked at the Reddit form about this and I'm not the only one that is not happy about that. It's just not ready. Well, although you said you looked at a Reddit form so people being not happy isn't terribly surprising, but... Very true. Yeah, I think above the normal Reddit background rage index, people are unhappy. Yeah. I, as a Google Play Music user, have been a little nervous about this and hopeful that YouTube Music would eventually just be Google Play Music. Just change the branding and give me everything. That's great. I'd love that. They added the ability to play your local files in May, which is a nice step forward, but I really want that online locker that Google Play Music has available in YouTube Music. And there's no sign of that coming anytime soon, but most people don't use Google Play Music. And this is a big step forward for Google to say, no, we are confident in YouTube Music being our music brand going forward. So we are changing the default install with millions of handsets across the world to give you YouTube Music instead of Google Play Music from the get-go. So if you're worried about them backing off of YouTube Music, this is a sign that they're absolutely not going to do that anytime soon. Yeah, just interesting, like you said, Lamar, that it's not just the same service, but renamed. YouTube Music makes more sense naming-wise. Absolutely, absolutely. But yeah, I mean, if it was sort of like, ah, well, you know, get to feature parody and then no one will even know the difference. You're like, meh, you didn't, though. It just doesn't feel like the same company is working on this. I'm like, you all are probably sitting in the same desk or right next to each other, but you won't talk to each other. It's infuriating that Google is like this. It literally is like two different companies are working on it. Put a lunch together. Come on. If only any other large company had the same problems that Google does. No, it's only Google. Yeah, just Google. Hey, speaking of music, the latest beta of Spotify's iOS app tells users to tell Siri to play songs, lets users tell Siri to play songs, albums and playlists from Spotify itself. The feature doesn't work on the Apple Watch because Spotify doesn't have a watch OS app yet, but the Verge said it had trouble playing podcast too with the iOS app, see means to search for music instead of podcasts. Yeah, Siri has lots of problems with lots of things. This is a beta app of Spotify. So let's not rush to judgment and it's not out. Spotify isn't promoting it. So maybe it'll fix the podcast thing by the time they launch it. Verge thinks it'll come out in a couple of weeks, we'll see, but it is a big step for Apple to say, yes, we are going to allow another music service to be launched from Siri. I mean, that's too long and coming in my opinion, but I'm glad it's coming. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, Spotify has got the, you know, the lion's share of users. I mean, Apple music isn't far behind, but this is something that, you know, Apple saying, listen, it's better for us to allow people to get used to using Siri for something like Spotify rather than keep them from it. Yeah, absolutely. Well, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, there is one place to go, dailytechheadlines.com. All right, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that sources say Apple plans to release feature length films and theaters prior to making them available on Apple TV Plus. That's not a shock. Theatrical runs would probably last just a couple of weeks, making them eligible for the Oscars. And Apple hopes the approach will attract top directors and producers to projects if they know that their movie can be nominated. Sources say Apple's first major theatrical release would be Sofia Coppola's On the Rocks, sometime in mid-2020. Apple also intends to have documentary The Elephant Queen in theaters. That is part of the November 1st TV Plus launch, but it doesn't matter whether it goes online first or not, what matters is can you get it in theaters? And landmark theaters have been pretty amenable to this, a lot of independent theaters are amenable to showing these movies. So they just need to meet the qualifications of the award grantors, whether it's SAG or Merrick's Choice, People's Choice Awards, or the Oscars, whatever. I don't think this is shocking. I would have expected them to do this. If you follow Netflix and Amazon and everyone have done, they all want their movies to show in theaters even if it's a limited run to qualify for awards. So to me, I'm not looking at this and thinking, wow, Apple showing movies in theaters, although it does seem a little weird. It does put us back into the mind, however, that Apple TV Plus is going to be a serious other streaming service. And I'm already seeing the reactions of people who are like, oh, that's right, another one. I don't want to pay for this. I don't care if you get it free with a new Apple device. I don't want to buy a new Apple device. Streaming fatigue is the bigger story to me because man, everyone has an opinion on it. Billy Steele over at Engadget has a story out today, a very well-reasoned post about why this is also frustrating. He calculates for himself to get the stuff that he wanted. If money were no object, he would need at least $133 to get all the stuff he wants to watch. And with people going like, man, I used to pay $9 for Netflix and I felt like I got everything I wanted, that is a lot more money. However, in 2018, the average US cable TV bill was $107. It's probably not gonna go down or if it does go down not much from that. So if you look a little closer at some of the things that Billy Steele included in is $133, you have to ask yourself, well, if I have a cable bill of $107, I would still have to pay for some of these. Netflix isn't part of your cable bill. There's $12 probably right there. Special sports services like Fox Soccer Match is one that he mentions, probably not part of most people's cable bill. So that's an extra cost. All of those sports related services like MLB at BAD or NFL or the NFL Sunday ticket, those are all extra above that average $107 for most people, even movie services like HBO or above your normal cable bill. So then $133 starts to feel like, well, I guess I'm not saving money, but I'm probably gonna be spending about the same. Now, despite what people say, it may not be the cost that's really the frustrating thing. We had a great debate about this in our Discord's master channel for people who support the Patreon at the master channel and Anne C.B. and I, we were having a disagreement, but I think he finally hit on in the real problem. Anne C.B. wrote, I honestly think it's the effort that goes into signing up and managing a new thing. If all of these services work together and acted as add-ons for each other, I don't think people would be talking about subscription fatigue. If it was quick and easy to manage, I think people wouldn't have a problem with adding CBS or Disney Plus or Hulu or Netflix or vice versa. It's the idea of having to manage four to five apps and remembering what to watch and where that is that turns people off. Lamar, what do you think of that? I feel like to solve this, if we just had one company that would take all of these channels and put them together across this one service and charges one price, that would completely solve this problem. No, seriously, though, I agree with his sentiment. That is, we haven't even started subscription fatigue yet until Disney Plus comes out and what is the HBO Max Infinity War? And Peacock, yeah. Yeah, like once next year happens, oh my God, I think that's gonna be the tipping point. Yes, I can afford it, but again, money is not the issue. It's working out, working out watch this again. Is that DC? Is it on DC Universe? Is it on HBO Max? Is that a Disney Plus as a Disney channel? Or do I need to go to the Disney app? And it's infuriating to have to think of all that and some people are gonna throw up their hands and say, forget it. I'm gonna pick my one thing I like and just one network and just watch that. Or just go back to cable. Well, I mean, Apple is one of several companies who want you to manage your subscriptions through a single place. TVOS is a great example of that. You're trying. Yeah, do people do that? Well, I don't know. I mean, yes, with mixed results, some people do. I think what's also interesting about this is, okay, so there's gonna be some original movies coming out, big stars, big names, big directors, production houses that are highly respected, that are going to be associated with Apple TV Plus. The theatrical run, sure they're gonna make some money, but that's not really the point. The point is to have, to be considered for future awards. That whole thing, and trust me, I am an award show fan. I watch them all, even if I don't care about who's winning or whatever. I love award shows, but that is such a relic of a bygone era at this point. I wonder how long this is going to be part of a model that the modern companies have to agree to in order to be considered on that level playing field with the old guards. Now, I really agree with that. Before Tom added this other element, I was literally gonna comment that, again, I don't like award shows myself, but I'm not against them at the same time. They have their place, but the idea that they have to run something in this antiquated, and we're supposed to be digital and new, and on your phone and instant, then you have this theatrical run, and it just feels like you're just going against it. I'm not really for that. Apple seems to, I mean, they have Steven Spielberg, they have Oprah, they have all these top people. It seemed like they should be able to hold on their own. Yeah, but no, the way they got those top people was those top people knowing that, well, I'll be able to get an Emmy or an Oscar for this. Now, the Emmys is easy. The Emmys, you don't need to go, take your thing and put it somewhere, but the Oscars particularly want to differentiate TV movies from theater movies. And on Netflix, if it just shows on Netflix, how do you do that? How do you say which is a Oscar level movie versus a Emmy level made for TV movie? And the only way to do that is to have it show up in theaters right now. I think you're right, Sarah and Lamar, both, that eventually that will go away. But Spielberg himself was campaigning to change the requirements to make it stricter to make them do 90 days in a theater to get an Oscar nomination. Oh, I remember. So I don't think we're anywhere close to that system changing anytime soon. That's 20 years from now, somebody will go, why do we make them go in theaters? We should just have some other criteria, but I don't even know what that is.  Yes, a few years ago, the whole promise was, oh, we can just pay $10 a month for just a few things because those are bloated subscriptions that people don't actually want.  Okay, well, now we're getting to the point where, and it depends on what you care about and what your stack is going to be, but you might get up to that point or further depending on what you wanna watch, but is that okay with a lot of people because it is actually a group of channels that you have picked and choose and you care that you want to pay for that. So I wonder how people will feel about like, what is the threshold at that point? No, my, and this is where I tie into Anne C.B.'s argument. My argument for a long time has been, yes, but you have control. You don't have to pay. With cable, you had to pay your cable bill to get the things you wanted. There wasn't a lot of choice. Yeah, there might have been a couple of tiers, but basically you had to pay for a lot of stuff you didn't want. We're shaping up where you don't. If you don't care about what's on Disney Plus, you don't have to buy it. It's not gonna be bundled in if you don't want it. Same for Netflix, same for Amazon, same for CBS, same for Tubi, same for all, and on and on and on. You don't have to have all of them. You can control it. There's another Engadget article today, kind of helping people walk through the idea of, oh, sign up for Netflix for a month to watch the thing you want, then cancel it, sign up for a different thing so that you're watching multiple channels, but you're not paying for them when you're not using them. But to go back to NCB's argument, I think it really is we need a service that's not you pay one price, but you have to get everything, but will let you manage everything from one place because psychologically we don't like multiple categories that we have to think about. Like, wait, where is it? Who am I paying? What am I doing? And they used to be, ah, I can't get that streaming. I have to get cable to watch it. Those days are gone. Now pretty much everything that you can get on cable is available streaming. And then there are things only available streaming, right? The tide has turned the other direction. So now we're in the position where Amazon, Apple, Roku, even Voodoo are starting to create these platforms of we wanna be the place that takes all your subscriptions and makes them easy to manage for you. And we're just seeing the earliest beginnings of those. None of them have all the services. None of them have all the features you want for your bill management, but that's gonna be the next big wave in cord cutting is the people trying to be the platform that says we will help you make sense of all this, know where your shows are and which ones you need to pay for and cancel the subscriptions that you don't. Yeah, it's funny. I feel like Hulu was trying to bring everything together and now they're part of, you know, Disney for the most part.  I think Amazon channels is probably closest to what you're talking about, Tom. I think even closer than Apple TV, in my opinion. Yeah, Apple TV channels too. Roku's doing a similar thing too. So, you know, there's a lot of people trying. Yeah. Hey, thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit. A lot of TV stories and others there. You can submit your stories and vote on others to help them get on the show, dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. We're also on Facebook, join our group, Facebook.com slash group slash Daily Tech News Show. What's in the mail bag, Sarah? Oh, Tom, I'm glad you asked. Chris Christensen, our amateur traveler, he writes and gives us lots of regular updates on traveling. But he also wrote in, based on a conversation we had the other day with Roger and prescriptions glasses and that they're expensive and there's a whole thing going involved. Chris says, someone needs to introduce Roger to zennyoptical.com or one of the other web-based companies. You can even do a virtual try-on. I'm maybe four pairs of glasses into this and it's a great solution. That's zennyoptical.com. I will look at it. So this is the one thing I neglected to mention now that I think about it. I'm actually limited to the type of glasses frames I can select because I have such a extreme prescription that what I need would not fit for every pair of eyeglasses frames, which is why my frames tend to be in the two, the $300 range. And then my lens is that, let's just say it averages around five to 600 bucks for a pair of glasses. The question remains, Roger. Yes, I will look at it. Are you going to take the zennyoptical challenge? I will take a look at it and see if it, part of it is I don't know if all those frames will fit. Just say yes. You just say yes and try it out. Doesn't mean you have to buy the frame. No, no, I understand it. Just try, just try. I will try it and I will have to do my prescription. And report back to see. Yeah, if they're like, nope, didn't work, then we'll know. Let's check in with Len Peralta who's been illustrating the show. Len, what do you got for us today? Well, you know, you talked a lot about streaming services and I wanted to kind of draw something that felt like how I feel about everything here. It's, yeah, this is called stop the streaming please. And I am really not looking forward to November because I've got to make some serious decisions. I still subscribed to cable, yet I also still get Hulu and Netflix. I am planning on getting Disney Plus, but it's like overwhelming. You know, it's so overwhelming. And I think this image sort of exemplifies that and how I feel about it. So I don't know how about you guys feel, but it's... You scored another homerun, man. It's so good. It's so good. This is hard about water. This is liquid death. Right here. It is liquid death. Exactly. Wow. Bring it all back. Lamar, the high five, man. Nice job. Yeah, the solution is some kind of like culligan water dispenser. That's the platforms. But right now, this is how everybody feels. Really encapsulated the mood of the world right now, I think. Exactly. And I think I should rename this to liquid death. That's a great thing. So, yeah, available right now. Patreon, patreon.com, forward slash Len and also my online store, lennproldstore.com. Thank you, man. Thank you, Len. Also thanks to Lamar Wilson for being with us too. Friday's in a row. Good streak.  No, I love being here. I do, I love being here. Well, we love having you too. Let folks know where they can keep up with the rest of your work. Yeah, my main hub is YouTube. I just posted a video a couple of hours ago about what's on my iPhone 11 Pro Max Infinity war, whatever it's called, I forgot. But yeah, people are actually interested. I give some app suggestions on what I have on my phone and what's running, do some app arcade stuff. So yeah, you wanna check that out? That's YouTube.com slash Lamar Wilson. I'm Lamar Wilson everywhere across the socials. Hey folks, if you didn't know, we're changing our Patreon rewards October 1st. 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and welcome to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. I had to make a quick run to Trader Joe's and I spent $109 and some change. I didn't pick up a lot of stuff but let me get started with the produce. So I grabbed some baby broccoli or broccolini. There is a pasta dish that I really enjoy making. I haven't made it in a while so I plan on using the broccoli for that. And then I also grabbed some bok choy. Bok choy is not something that I buy or eat very often but there is an Asian soup that I want to make with wonton so I thought bok choy would be really good in that. Grab some baby spinach and kale. The kale is for this soup like a Zupa Toscana soup that I tried on our What's For Dinner. Probably, I guess it's been a couple of weeks ago and Howard and I really liked it a lot so I want to make it again. Grab some cabbage just because I was craving cabbage and wanted some. Also grab some garlic. I have not bought, I don't think I've bought this garlic before but it comes in individual little bags of garlic cloves and so I thought that would be pretty cool to try. And then I grabbed some fried onion pieces. I really like their fried onions. They are seasonal.  Whoops. Shamika over at Amazon World of Seven. She recently picked this up on her Trader Joe's Hall. It's a vanilla buttercream frosting mix. It is a mix that you have to add your own, where is it? You have to add your own butter. There it is. Your own butter and milk and I love baking and making cakes and things like that and I just wanted to give it a try. Just ignore those toys and stuff over there on the floor. And then also, we put this over, got some spicy JoLoft seasoned rice mix. I saw this in their Fearless Fire and I really wanted to give it a try. We love rice and it comes with dried tomatoes, onions, and garlic. Here are the ingredients a little bit closer in case you're interested but I'm excited to give this a try. Clarified butter. I just like to have this. I keep it on my cabinet. I use it to fry eggs. It has a really high heat point so you can fry it at a really high, you know, at a high heat and it doesn't burn. So glad to get some of this. I also grabbed some of this crunch collection. I used to buy this all the time. I love it. I just love to saute it and have it as a side for our dinners. And it has kale, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, green cabbage, and red cabbage in there. Grab some broccoli just to have it for sides. We eat a lot of broccoli around here. And then I grabbed some chives because I'm thinking of making double eggs and I wanted some. Grab some pancetta for a recipe that I want to try. It's a pasta recipe. And then I grabbed some peanut butter cups for another recipe I planned to try. And this crispy rice milk chocolate bars. That was just an impulse buy. You get three little bars in there. It was at the checkout stand. I don't think I've ever tried it. It was $1.79 for these three little bars. Back over here, I grabbed my husband some Chinese pork buns. He really likes these a lot. I have bought these for him before and he really enjoys them. And I also grabbed a couple of boxes of soup dumplings. I got three chicken and I got two pork. And if you've not tried these before, they are very good. You just pop them in the microwave and they are perfect. I love these things. Also grabbed some mini croissants. I tried these for the first time. I guess it's been a couple of months ago. They are really good and that is why I got two boxes. You can bake these directly from the freezer, which is what I did the very first time and they were good. The second time I let them thaw out for maybe an hour or so and they were still good. But the last time that I made them, I let them completely thaw out and proof and they were delicious. They say many, but they're actually a pretty good size, especially if you let them thaw out and proof. I would definitely recommend letting these thaw out before you make them because they are phenomenal. I grabbed a tart and you, let me see, this one is mushroom and cheeses. The one that I typically buy is the one with ham. They were completely out, so I decided to give this one a try again. It's been a long time since I bought the mushroom, but we both like mushrooms, so it should be fine. Wanted to try some of their new seasoning blends, so I got the green goddess and let me show you what's in the green goddess. Chives, spinach, powder, onion, et cetera. So this is something that I really think that I will like a lot. And then they also have a cheesy blend and you can use it on pastas, vegetable, popcorn, and here's what's in there. And then I got some hot cocoa mix. One of the employees there said it is really good and I love hot cocoa and I love tea, but I'm not a coffee drinker, so I was excited to see this. Grab some of their chicken spring egg rolls. We like these. These are okay. Last time I had them, I just thought, eh, but I wanted to give them a try again just to make sure to see how I kind of felt about them. Going right over here, I grabbed this salted caramel flavored hot cocoa. This is a new one for me and I'm excited to try it. I love caramel, so hope that's good. And then I bought two packages of their chicken wings. I have not bought their chicken wings in a very long time. Wanted to give them a try again and I plan on throwing these in my air fryer.  Very good. This corn is as sweet as sugar. All I do is add a little bit of butter and salt and pepper and it's perfect.  I mean, I'll eat it, but this is probably the best corn that I've ever tried. And then I also grabbed some bulgogi beef fried rice with kimchi. So I did try these probably last year, is when I tried the kimchi and the fried rice, excuse me. And I thought it was okay. I do think it needs to be doctored up just a little bit. So I plan on adding some more beef and maybe some veggies or something with it. I'm not sure, but I wanted to give it a try again. So this is everything that I picked up in the Trader Joe's Hall. I hope you all enjoyed this video. If you did, please make sure to give us a thumbs up. And if you have not subscribed to our channel, we certainly love to have you. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you all next time.


I love you, I love you, I know it's, but I can still say I love you. I'm a woman now, it doesn't matter. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. We met in the general meeting. It's nice to see you. Who is that? Who is that? He's an extremely famous hairdresser. He's a famous hairdresser? It's awful from so long ago. This is from Germany. I visited the Waterston to see if I could find your autobiography. Have you found it yet? Yeah, I don't think you've found it yet. It was a copy-loaking of a laboratory. I said, hahaha! I said the most things about you.  Seconds already, by the way. There was an effort for it in Salisbury Station of your interests. Well, it's... When you took charge of the film, how much preparation did they give you? Me? Yeah, and I always told them, I think it was only a day and a half. No, I think I said three weeks. Was that about in my ad-rit? No, it was... Nick Rogue was going to do it originally. Right. I met Dina for some inexplicable reason. He was determined to get me to do it. Eventually I agreed, but incredibly reluctantly. Because I was a totally inappropriate director for the film. I really was. I had no idea of special effects or anything. Anyway, he convinced me. My bank notes suggested I should do this. I think it's a good idea. So I did it. No, I had much more time. But the making of it, because Dinello Donati, the lovely, wonderful production designer, I don't think he ever read the script, actually. I loved him, didn't I? But I had to just wait and see what he gave me, you know. And I'd then be all improvised. Oh, that's amazing. Remember the day when you had to... And that's all... And all the karate chops you meant to deliver to the pig men and all of that, and then he puts you in a dress made of armour and high heeled shoes. And then we worked out an improvised... The whole film was improvised. The football scene? Amazing, yeah. When it was, we just made it up as we went along. We did, didn't we? You gave us the room to do that. That's what I was always so grateful for. Yes, you did. You gave us room. But I always loved Ted. My left-hand man. You know, with the broken nose. Biro. Biro's next line was, he just kind of, yes, don't worry. And I said, come on, just shout back. Are you all right, Biro? Yeah, he just winged me.  And he was so shy. And I said, all the way, I said, in all the scenes, keep along, so I'll give you a wing. You'll be in every fucking... You'll be in every scene, Biro.  Oh, that's right. And I said, that's why I've got a broken nose. Just keep it alongside me all the time. Have you been in any shot? I kept grabbing him all the time and holding him closed. And so I was telling him a little natural fact.  So everyone goes, Gordon's alive whenever I go. They're up in the street everywhere. But I went to number 10 down in the street a short while ago. I was at Elephant's and I was doing something about Elephant's. And I'm there a bit early in the prime. I was sitting outside and said, there's the prime minister. I said, hello, prime minister. He was about 16. What are you doing here? I said, well, I was actually coming to see some people around Elephant's and all that about Elephant's. I can't do it until you go in. I've got to wait for you to go in here. And he said, well, come in. And he made me a lovely cup of coffee and he made me an omelette.  And then he took me into a room and there was the cabinet. And I made me stand at the table and shout, Gordon's alive. And that's the British prime minister. So the effect of flat Gordon throughout the book. I mean, you get people coming on speaking about telephone mate or a taxi and say, Gordon's alive. Go and say, eat. Gordon's alive. Oh, thank you, bro. Everywhere you go.  I'm going to the cabinet again. I've been ringing the outlaw for a while to provide you with a suicide note. It's weird to do the job properly. You voiced me in flashball. I did. I voiced you.  I couldn't hear a flashball. But he didn't fly me back. He didn't fly me back for the looping and dubbing. And I was the one that realised it had to be a comedy. He would, when we were running the rushes with the crew, like, why they laugh? Why they laugh? And I had to save the crew. Could you stop laughing at the rushes? I mean, there's no way you can make it. Seriously. I mean, the top of his arco when Raymond drew the original strip cartoons, we hadn't been on the moon. This is 38. Now we're on the moon. It's our best building. It's just rocket ship and it's conservatory. And we're meant to take this seriously. Dino took it seriously.  Because I was always putting in jokes about never to tell you. Of course, it's really interesting, actually, the film is kind of it's sort of on the nose in a way that it's I remember when Dino used to have these art shows where he was trying to get people to come and put money into it. And the guy from I didn't know all of this. I used to have to share them around because Dino's English was terrible. And the Iraq war was sort of going on. I said, look at this, you see. The Iraq war was going on. And I said to this guy, I said, listen, this is this is a medieval world arms up to the teeth. It's kind of curious. And now you look at what's happening in the world. It's still been going on. But you have a totally medieval mind, arms with these amazingly sophisticated lethal weapons. And it's exact with the syndrome that you've got him get much more than me. And all these other things, sometimes ridiculous, but in fact, it's weirdly accurate. Yes. He said he hated our version of it. Who was this? But he wanted me. So you don't remember the inspired thing. It was a set that was made on a big web and it was supposed to occur when Sam was having some drug. And I sat around and painted head to toe in green. They even helped me with my teeth to get denser. They cut the whole thing and I sat there all day. I didn't call them fairly dressed. And I said, hi, thank you. We're happy to meet you today. And I said, oh, okay. And the cost, the set was exquisite. Oh, so sorry. I said the set was exquisite. It was this big, shiny, sparkly spider web. It was beautiful. It was $10,000, $10,000? Was it from an island? No, this was at Sheperton. Yes, I know. We built an island in Old Street for the end of the film. And I said, this is useless. We didn't have an ending. No. We'll be just talking about how that happened. Yes. I have to just tell you because it's such an important measurement. It's very sweet show. Your kindness was important and we left you all, as you know, scared. You were such an incredible, very good experience. You really, really gave me such strength and such support.


Good day fellow investors. Today we will discuss Qualcomm. It's a very interesting stock. It's intriguing because the stock price really exploded since they settled with Apple. And I'm here with Yao Kai, who is in China working on his startup, but still he has the time to share his thoughts on the company and on what's going on. I made an analysis on Qualcomm in the past and it discussed how it was a risky investment because from a retail perspective, retail investor perspective, I couldn't know who will win the game of the settlements, of the licensees, of the trade commission investigations, etc. So I put it as risky and I put it into the too difficult to assess basket and certainly not the value investment. Now with more clarity, unfortunately with the stock much higher, let's see whether it's still an investment too difficult to comprehend or it is, let's say, more clarity gives more certainty and gives more an indication of what to do. Hi fellow investors. So this is Yao Kai and in my mind I really had no doubt whether Intel and, sorry, not Intel, Apple and Qualcomm would settle because what are the alternatives for Apple? They could either not release a 5G phone, which will make them a market laggard, which is not something they want to do, or they could settle because this is the only shop. They could also buy from a lesser chip maker. For example, they can get a Huawei modem, which they probably don't want to, or an Intel. An Intel one is still much worse than the equivalent Qualcomm one. So yeah, I think that wasn't a surprise to me. I wasn't expecting the thing to the share price to the spike at that because I thought that was kind of obvious that Apple would need a Qualcomm modem, but it wasn't apparent to everybody else. So Qualcomm really is just two businesses. One is the patenting business and the other one is the chip business. I haven't looked into the patenting business, but I really love their chip business. So I looked at a lot of comparisons between Qualcomm chips, Qualcomm modems and SOCs versus someone else. One of the comparisons that was most convincing was between a Samsung Galaxy S9 using a Samsung chip versus the same phone with a Qualcomm chip. And when you see that, I think Sven will put up a link to that Anantek article. Essentially, by going with Qualcomm, your battery life goes from 9 hours to 11 hours-ish, and then your performance actually goes up by 20% or something.  And that chip is, I don't know, $20 more or $30 more. Are you willing to pay for it? Yeah, you're willing to pay for it. And even if I say, okay, for a phone that's $500 or $700, now it's $750, but it has two hours more battery life. You'll be like, yeah, I'll take that because it makes your life that much better. And on the other side of battery is usually performance, because usually it's a trade-off. But for that comparison, you will see that the Qualcomm chips actually outperforms in terms of raw performance to Samsung as well. So in gaming, your frame per second was something like 20% higher for the Qualcomm chip versus the Samsung chip. And you feel that, especially if you're just on the edge of the game being smooth. People think game being smooth, after 60 frames per second, you don't feel it that much. But at 40, 50, your borderline smooth, and take 20% off that, suddenly you find the game lagging, and that's not a good experience. And you don't want, if you're paying $700 for a phone, you don't want it to be lagging. And yeah, so that's a reason why almost all the high-end phones use Snapdragon as their SoC and Modem, because it is objectively better and it's detectable by the end consumer.  And people think Snapdragon is there for that much better, but there's more to a phone than the chip. So by being inside high-end phones, you actually benefit from the other parts of the phone. So the experience of using Snapdragon is just that much better than any other chip.  So there is some kind of self-reinforcing cycle in that. So when it comes, so we could say that Apple was flexing its muscles and buying time with the lawsuit. So a little bit negotiating typical business doing by Apple. And then on the chips and on the going forward, because it's always important what's going forward, do you see any competition coming out from? Yes, mostly towards Snapdragon. Yeah, so in terms of a role, performance, Snapdragon is really two parts. It's the CPU and the GPU plus the modem. So Apple already makes the CPU and the GPU. And they recently are in the talks to buy Intel's modem division. So they're going to buy Intel's modem things and then Apple is going to do it in-house essentially as they usually do. So Apple also had a lot of inside of like trade secret almost stuff from Qualcomm while they were collaborating. And then the whole lawsuit was basically Apple is leaking these things to Intel. So for Intel to make a better chip and Qualcomm is really unhappy about it. So in this case, Apple itself, given them a few years may come up with something that is actually better than Qualcomm or at least on the same level. But again, they never sell their chips outside. So the competition will just be within iPhone. But again, iPhone is quite a big market share. So it is going to be a hit to Qualcomm down the line. I can see Apple making their own modem probably within three years. And this is also the biggest risk also earlier before the settlement when watching Qualcomm.  If they wouldn't have settled and Apple was already there, it isn't there. Now we see it. Now we know it. But if it wouldn't have been like this, then the stock could have really been hit and we would see earnings of three dollars per share or something. So it will be always volatile. And it's always a bet on the future technology race, who will prevail, etc. So it's not a value investment. It remains not a value investment. And it remains a high uncertainty investment. Could we say that? Yeah. And then the, I mean, for me, the upside in the next few years is, yeah, Apple's not going to be able to come up with a chip in year and a half. But give them three years, they probably will. But within year and a half, 5G might have already taken off. So everybody's switching their phones with a better chip and everything. So that could drive their earning quite a bit higher if the global smartphone shipment goes up as we have this whole, essentially a generation switch. You need new hardware to support 5G and everybody's going to upgrade their phone. You're going to upgrade cycle. But it's not a sustainable, it's not a thing that once this 5G takes off, you constantly have this demand. No, it's a wave. It will fade. How long it will take? I don't know, maybe three years, maybe shorter. And then, as you said, investors in Qualcomm have to also look into the patent part and how many patents does Qualcomm have for 5G? They had all of them from 3G and then... That's in 4G. And now 5G, I haven't checked myself. But in 3G, they almost were monopoly in terms of patents. They almost hold, like everybody selling every phone had to pay them. And it's not the case for 4G. I mean, I remember there was a lawsuit during the 3G time where the Chinese government got involved because all the Chinese phone makers had to pay so much money to Qualcomm and it was a big fuss. But you don't hear that was 4G. And in 5G, I don't even know if they're ahead in terms of the patents. But given the environment, we could again say that, okay, now Apple is settled. So there is certainty that Qualcomm will get revenues and profits for the next one to probably three years. After that, we don't know. But there still remain the uncertainties. The trade commission is continuing with the investigation. Others will sue them or Qualcomm will sue other people, et cetera, et cetera. So it will be again the same environment going forward. Right. I don't see how it, it's just not, if it's valued at much lower prices, you will get the best chip, mobile chip maker for cheap. Yeah, I'll buy it. It's not that cheap. So I'm not long or short this name. Just for me, it's just an interesting side show. And also very interesting to keep up with how the technology is progressing. But it's not an investment thing that I would not invest in it at the moment. I think we are on the same page there. And then we'll close this one here and we'll announce the second stock that we are going to talk, which is real value investment. And that is Guansheng Railway in China. Yeah. All right. Thank you. And see you tomorrow with Guansheng Railway, which is, let's say, more a value investment and more a stock that we could really get interested in as value investors.


CHAPTER XIV. Uncle Wigley and Susie's Doll Well I see you are going out for another ride in your auto! remarked Mrs. Bow Wow, the puppy dog lady, to Uncle Wigley one morning, after P.D. and Jackie had gone to school. Where are you bound for now? Oh, no place in particular, he said. I just thought I would take a ride for my health. You see, the rabbit gentleman had come to pay the dog family a visit. I should think you'd stay in when it snows, went on the doggy lady. You always seemed to be out in a snowstorm, for it was snowing quite hard just then. I love the snow, said the old gentleman rabbit. I like cold weather, for then my thick fur coat keeps me much warmer than in the summer time.  Well, be careful you don't get stuck in any drifts and freeze fast, said Mrs. Bow Wow, as she began washing the breakfast dishes. I'll try not to, promised Uncle Wigley, and then he put some oil on his auto and gave it a drink of warm water, for autos get thirsty sometimes, and away the old gentleman rabbit rode through the snowstorm. I guess I'll go call on Aunt Letty, the old lady goat, to-day. He thought, as he went through a big snowdrift, scattering the snow on both sides like an electric car snowplow. I haven't seen Aunt Letty in some time, and she may be ill again, for this was some time after Uncle Wigley had brought her the flowers. Well, pretty soon he was at the old lady goat's house, and sure enough she had been ill again. She had eaten some red paper, off the outside of a tomato-can, one day right after Christmas, and the paper didn't have the right kind of stickum paste on it, so Aunt Letty was taken ill on that account. But I'm much better now, she said to Uncle Wigley, and I'm real glad you called. Come in, and I'll give you a hot cup of old newspaper tea.  Oh, I'm surprised to hear you say that, spoke Aunt Letty, sorrowful like. Newspaper tea is very good, especially with cream-stickum mucilage in it. But never mind, I'll give you some carrot tea. And she did, and she and Uncle Wigley sat and talked about old times, and the fun Nanny and Billy Goat used to have until it was time for the old gentleman rabbit to go back home. School was out as he went along in his auto. He could tell that because he met so many of the animal children, and he gave Petey and Jackie Bow Wow and Johnny and Billy Bushtail a ride home.  And she was crying very hard, her tears falling down and making little holes in the snow, and she was poking into the drift with a long stick. Why, Susie, asked Uncle Wigley, whatever is the matter? My doll, my lovely big new Christmas doll, cried Susie. I had her to school with me, for we are learning to sew in our class, and I was making my dolly a new dress and—and—and then poor Susie cried so hard that she couldn't talk.   So will I, said Petey and Billy and Johnny. No, it isn't that, spoke the little girl rabbit. But as I was walking along, with my dolly in my arms, all of a sudden she slipped out, fell into this big snowbank, and I can't find her. She's all covered up, boo-hoo-hoo-hoo-boo. Oh, don't take on so, said Uncle Wigley kindly. We will all help you hunt for your dolly, won't we, boys? Sure, cried Petey and Jacky and Billy and Johnny. So they all got sticks and poked in the snowbank, Uncle Wigley poking harder than anybody, but it was of no use. They couldn't seem to find that lost doll. She must be very deep under the snow, said Uncle Wigley. Oh, I'll never see her again, cried Susie. My big beautiful Christmas doll, boo-hoo-hoo-hoo-boo. You can get her when the snow melts, spoke Petey Bow Wow, as he scratched away at the drift with his paws. Yes, but then the wax will all be melted off her face, and she won't look like anything, murmured Susie, sad-like. Wait, I have a plan, said Uncle Wigley. There is a fan, like an electric one, in the front of my auto to keep the water cool. I'll make that fan blow the snow away, and we'll get your doll. So he tried that, making the fan whiz around like a boy's top, but though it blew some snow away, the doll couldn't be found. Oh, I'll never see my big beautiful doll again, cried Susie. Oh, whatever is the matter, asked a voice, and turning around, they all saw the big, black, holy bear standing there. At first the animal children were frightened, until Uncle Wigley said, Oh, that bear won't hurt us, I once helped him get some walnut shells off his paws, so he is a friend of mine. Of course I am, said the bear. What is the trouble? Then they told him about Susie's doll being under the drift, and the bear went on, Don't worry about that, my paws are just made for digging in the snow. I'll have that doll for you in a jiffy, which is very quick. So with his paws he began digging in the snow. My, how he did make the snow fly, and he blew it away with his strong breath. Faster and faster flew the snow, and in about a minute it was all scraped away, and there was Susie's doll safe and sound, and she was sleeping with her eyes shut. Oh, you darling, Susie cried, clasping the doll in her arms. Did you mean me? asked the bear, laughing.   But if the rocking horse doesn't run away and upset the milk pitcher down in the salt cellar, and scare the furnace so that it goes out, I'll tell you in the story after this one about Uncle Wigley on roller skates. End of Chapter 14. Chapter 15 of Uncle Wigley's Automobile. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Shasta Oakland, California. Uncle Wigley's Automobile by Howard R. Garris, Chapter 15. Uncle Wigley on roller skates. Well, where are you going this morning? Asked Jimmy Wigglewebble, the duck boy, as he looked out of the front door of his house, and saw Uncle Wigley, the old gentleman rabbit, putting some gasoline in his automobile. Oh, I am going to take a little ride out in the country, said Uncle Wigley. I'm going to see if I can find an adventure. Nothing has happened since we found Susie's doll. I must have excitement that keeps me from thinking about my rheumatism, so I am going to look for an adventure, Jimmy. I wish I could come, said the little duck boy. I wish you could too, said his uncle, but you must go to school. Some Saturday I'll take you with me, and we may find an adventure for each of us. And for us girls too, asked Lulu and Alice, as they came out, all ready to go to school. Alice had just finished tying her sky-yellow-green hair ribbon into two lovely bow knots. Yes, for you duck girls too, said Uncle Wigley, but I will be back here when you come from school. And if anything happens to me, I'll tell you all about it. So he kept on putting gasoline in his automobile until he had the tinkerum tankerum full. Then he tickled the hickory dickory dock with a new slush brush, and he was all ready to start off and look for an adventure. So Lulu and Alice and Jimmy went on to school and Uncle Wigley rode along over the fields and through the woods and uphill and downhill. Pretty soon, as he was riding along, he heard a funny little noise in the bushes. It was a sad little squeaking sort of noise. And at first the old gentleman, Rebeth, thought it was made by something on his automobile that needed oiling. Then he looked over the side and there, sitting under an old cabbage leaf, was a little mousy girl. And it was she who was crying. Oh ho, exclaimed Uncle Wigley. Is that you, squeaky eaky? Worthy thought it might be the little cousin mouse who lived with Jolie and Jilly Longtail, as I have told you in other stories. No, I am not squeaky eaky, said the little mouse girl, but I am cold and hungry and I don't know what to do or where to go. Oh dear, boo-hoo! Nevermind, said Uncle Wigley kindly, I will take you in my auto and I'll bring you to the house where the Longtail children live and they'll take care of you. Oh goody, cried the little girl mouse. Thank you so much, now I am happy. So, Uncle Wigley took her in the nice warm automobile. Then he twisted the nudalium nodalium until it sneezed and away the auto went through the woods again. And all of a sudden, just as Uncle Wigley came to a big black stump, out jumped the burglar bear with roller skates on his paws. Hold on there! A bear cried to the old gentleman rabbit and he poked a stick in the auto wheels so they couldn't go around anymore. Hold on, if you please, Mr. Rabbit. I want you. What for, asked Uncle Wigley? I want you to come to supper, said the burglar bear. Your supper or my supper, asked Uncle Wigley politely. My supper, of course, said the burglar bear. I am going to have rabbit pot pie tonight and you are going to be both the rabbit and the pie. Come now, get out of the auto. I want to ride in it before I bite you. Well, of course Uncle Wigley felt pretty badly but there was no help for it. He had to get out and then the burglar bear, taking off his roller skates, got up into the automobile. Oh, what nice soft cushions exclaimed the bear as he sank down on them. Then he took hold of the turnip steering wheel in his claws and twisted it. I shall have lots of fun riding in this auto after I gobble you up, said the bear, looking at the rabbit with his blinky eyes. I must learn to run it.  Then to make sure Uncle Wigley couldn't get away, the bear took the old gentleman's crutch away from him and Uncle Wigley's rheumatism was so severe, which means painful that he couldn't walk a step without his crutch so there was no use for him to try to run away. Well, the bear knew how to run the auto, it seems, and he started to take a little ride in it. Uncle Wigley felt pretty sad because he was going to be gobbled up and lose his auto at the same time. All at once when the bear in the auto was some distance off in the woods, Uncle Wigley heard a little voice speaking to him. Hey, Uncle Wigley, the voice said, I know how you can get the best of that bear. How? asked Uncle Wigley eagerly. Here are his roller skates, said the voice, and it was the little mousy girl who was speaking. She had quietly jumped out of the auto, put on his roller skates, said the mousy, and skate down the hill until you see a policeman dog, then tell the policeman dog to come and arrest the bear. He'll do it, and then you'll get your auto back. You can go on roller skates even if you have rheumatism, can't you? I guess so, said the rabbit. I'll try. So he put on the skates while the burglar bear was making the auto go around in a circle in the woods, and that bear was having a good time. All at once Uncle Wigley skated away. First he went slowly, and then he went faster and faster until he was just whizzing along, and then at the foot of the hill he found the policeman dog. Oh, please come and arrest the burglar bear for me, beg Uncle Wigley. To be sure, I will, said the policeman dog. So he put on his roller skates and skated back with Uncle Wigley to where the bear was still in the auto. The policeman dog hid behind a stump. The bear stopped the auto in front of Uncle Wigley and got out. Well, said the burglar bear, smacking his lips. I guess it's supper time now.  Come on and be my pot pie. And he made a grab for the old gentleman. Oh, you will, will you? Suddenly cried the policeman dog, drawing his club and jumping from behind the stump.  I guess not. And with that, the policeman dog tickled the bear, so on his nose that he sneezed and ran off through the woods, taking his stubby little tail with him, but leaving behind his roller skates.   I'll take these skates home to Jimmy. They will fit him when he grows bigger. That's a good idea, said the dog, and if I ever catch that bear again, I will put him in the beehive jail and make him crack hickory nuts with his teeth. Then Uncle Wigley went home and took the little mousy girl with him, and he told the duck children about his adventure with the bear, just as I have told you. So now it's bedtime, if you please, and I can't tell you any more. But if the man who cleans our yard doesn't take my overcoat for an ash can and put the dried leaves in it, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wigley and the clothes ringer. And of Chapter 15 CHAPTER XVI This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Nan Dodge. Uncle Wigley's automobile by Howard R. Garris CHAPTER XVI Uncle Wigley and the clothes ringer. One day Jackie and P.D. Bowell, the little puppy dog boys, came running over to Uncle Wigley's hollow stump house. It was after school from which they had just come, and they rushed up the front steps, barking like anything and calling out, where's Uncle Wigley, where is he? We want to see him in a hurry, bark P.D. Yes, immediately went on Jackie. He had heard the teacher that day in school use the word immediately to tell a bad bumblebee to take his seat and stop trying to sting Lulu Wibblewobble. Immediately means right off quick without waiting, you know. Hoity-toity cried nurse Jane Fuzzy-wuzzy, the muskrat housekeeper. What is the trouble? We must see Uncle Wigley immediately bark P.D. again, trying to stand on one ear, but he could not make it stiff enough so he fell down and bumped into Jackie, and they both tumbled down the steps, making a great racket. There, there, you must be more quiet, cautioned nurse Jane. Uncle Wigley just came back from his auto ride for his health and is taking a nap. You must not wake him up. What do you want to see him about that is so important? Oh, we'll wait until he wakes up, said Jackie as he sat down on the porch. Ha! Who wants me suddenly exclaimed a voice a little later? And out came Uncle Wigley himself. We do, cried Jackie. Oh, Uncle Wigley. We're going to work at it, P.D., unable to keep still any longer. What? You don't mean to say you're going to leave school and go to work? Asked Uncle Wigley. No, we're not going to leave school, exclaimed P.D. We are going to work after school. Jackie is going to deliver newspapers. And I'm going to get ten cents a week for it, said Jackie, proudly, but not too proud. And I'm going to help at the clothes ringer for the circus elephant, exclaimed P.D. Help at the ringer for the elephant, cried Uncle Wigley. What does that mean? You startle and puzzle me. Why, you know the circus elephant has to dress up like a clown went on P.D.  And he does a lot of things like that.  Then he has to squeeze them in a ringer to get as much of the water out as he can. Then he hangs them up to dry. Well, he can turn the ringer himself with his trunk. But his paws are so big that he can't put the clothes through between the rubber rollers.  I answered and I am going to help him wash and dry his clothes. How much are you to get, asked Uncle Wigley? I get three puppy biscuits every day and a glass of pink lemonade. And on Saturday afternoons I can go to the circus for nothing. Fine, cried Uncle Wigley. I'm real glad you came to tell me.  Then P.D. and Jackie ran off to do the new work they had arranged for and Uncle Wigley cleaned his auto ready for his ride next day. And when he had finished, he thought he would take a walk down to the circus tent and see how P.D. was helping the elephant wash the clothes. As for Jackie, he had to run so fast here and there and everywhere to deliver his papers that Uncle Wigley did not know where to find him any more than Bo Peep did her sheep. Well, in a little while, the rapid gentleman came to where the elephant was washing his clothes. Of course he had to have a very large tub and washboard and an extra large ringer for his clothes were very large.  And as he fished them up and put the ends between the rubber rollers of the ringer, the elephant would turn the handle of the squeegee machine with his trunk. How is that, asked P.D. Fine, cried the elephant, making his trunk go faster and faster and squirting the water out of the wet clothes all over the ground. Yes, P.D. is a good little chap, said Uncle Wigley. Just then the elephant's brother came along and the two big animals began talking together. And as they were both a little deaf, each one shouted to the other as loudly as he could. Oh, such a racket as they made! Thunder was nothing to it. And then a funny thing happened. P.D. turned around to put some more clothes in the tub when all of a sudden his tail got caught in between the ringer's rubber rollers. Ouch! cried the little puppy dog. Ouch! Oh, dear me, stop! Please, Mr. Elephant, don't turn the ringer any more. But the two elephants were talking together each one as loudly as he could about how much hay they could eat and how some little boys at a circus would give them only one peanut instead of a whole bagful and all things like that. So the clothes-washing elephant never noticed that P.D.'s tail was caught in the rollers and he didn't hear him cry. Around and around the elephant turned the handle of the ringer with his trunk, winding P.D.'s tail right between the rollers and drawing the little puppy dog boy himself closer and closer into the tub, over the water and near to the rubber rollers themselves. Oh, stop! Oh, stop! cried poor P.D., trying to get away, but he could not. If I get rolled between the rollers, I'll be as flat as a pancake, he screamed. Oh, stop! Oh, Uncle Wiggly saved me. Yes, I will, cried the rabbit gentleman. You must stop turning that ringer, he said to the circus-elephant. You are ringing P.D. instead of the clothes. His tail is caught. But the elephant was so deaf and his brother was calling to him so loudly about pink lemonade that he could not hear either P.D. or Uncle Wiggly. Then to make him listen Uncle Wiggly with his crutch tickled the elephant's foot, which was as high up as he could reach, but the big creature thought it was only a mosquito and paid no attention. Oh, what shall I do, cried P.D.?  And then, happening to have a bag of peanuts in his pocket, he held them close to the elephant's trunk. The elephant could smell if he could not hear well, and all at once he took the peanuts, and as he did so, of course, he removed his trunk from the ringer handle. And as he ate the peanuts, he saw what a terrible thing he was doing, ringing P.D. instead of the clothes. So he very kindly made the ringer go backwards and out came P.D.'s tail again, a little flat but not much hurt otherwise. I am so sorry, said the elephant. I wouldn't have had it happen for the world. Yes, it was an accident, spoke Uncle Wiggly. But I guess P.D. had better find some other kind of work to do after school. All right, said the elephant. I'll pay him off, and then I'll get a rubbery snake to help me with my clothes. A snake won't mind being squeezed. So he did that, and P.D. and Uncle Wiggly went home, and nothing more happened that day. But next, in case the automobile horn doesn't blow the little girl's rubber balloon up in the top of the tree where the kitty cat has its nest, I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggly and the trained nurse. End of Chapter 16. Recording by Nan Dodge. Chapter 17 of Uncle Wiggly's automobile. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Nan Dodge. Uncle Wiggly's automobile by Howard R. Garris. Chapter 17. Uncle Wiggly and the trained nurse. Uncle Wiggly long ears, the gentleman rabbit, was out riding in his automobile. He was taking exercise so he would not be so fat, for a fat rabbit is about the fattest thing there is, except a balloon, and that doesn't count, as it has no ears. I wonder what will happen to me today, said Uncle Wiggly as he rode along, turning the turn-up steering wheel from one side to the other, to keep from bumping into stones and stumps, and things like that. And every now and then, Uncle Wiggly would take a bite out of his turn-up steering wheel. That was what it was for, you see. And as for the German baloney sausages, which were the tires, Uncle Wiggly used to let anybody who wanted to, such as a hungry doggy or a starving kitty, take a bite out of them whenever they wanted to. Well, pretty soon after a while, not so very long, Uncle Wiggly came to the top of the hill. He stopped his auto there to look around at the green fields and the apple trees and blossom, and at the little brook running along over the green mossy stones. And the brook never stubbed its toe once on the stones. What do you think of that? Well, I guess I'll go downhill, thought the old gentleman rabbit, and down he started. But oh, unhappiness, sadness, and also isn't it too bad. No sooner had Uncle Wiggly started down the hill in his auto than the snicker snooker arm got twisted around the Boodaloodalum, and that made the Wibble Wobbleton stand on its head, instead of standing on its ear as it really ought to have done. Then the auto ran away and the next thing Uncle Wiggly knew, his car had hit a stump, turned a somersault and part of a pepper salt, and he was thrown out. Bang, he fell, right on the hard ground, and for a moment he stayed there, being too much out of breath to get up and see what was the matter. But when he tried to get up, he couldn't. Something had happened to him. He had hit his head on a stone. Poor Uncle Wiggly. But, very luckily Dr. Possum happened to be passing, having just come from paying a visit to grandfather Goosey Gander, who had, by mistake, eaten a shoe button with his cornmeal pudding. And Dr. Possum, having cured Grandpa Goosey, went at once to help Uncle Wiggly. We must get you home right away, Uncle Wiggly, said the doctor, gentlemen. You must be put to bed and have a trained nurse. Well, as long as I have to have a nurse, I should much prefer, said Uncle Wiggly faintly. I should much prefer a trained one to a wild one, for a trained nurse who can do tricks will be quite funny. Hmm, exclaimed Dr. Possum. A trained nurse has no time to do tricks. Now rest yourself. So Uncle Wiggly sat back quietly in Dr. Possum's auto until he got to his hollow stump home. Then old dog Perceval and the doctor carried the rabbit gentleman in, and they sent for a trained nurse where Uncle Wiggly was quite badly hurt and needed someone to feed him for a while. Pretty soon the trained nurse came. And who did she turn out to be, but nurse Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy herself, the kind old muskrat. She had been living with Uncle Wiggly, but for a time had gone off to study to be a trained nurse. She put on a white cap and a blue and white striped dress, and she was just as good a nurse as one could get from the hospital. Uncle Wiggly was too ill to notice, though. I know how to look after him, said nurse Jane, and she really did. She felt of his pulse and made him put out his tongue to look at to see that he had not swallowed it by mistake. And she found out how hot he was to see if he had fever and all things like that. And she put a report of all these things down on a bit of white birch bark for paper using a licorice stick for a pencil. Afterward, Dr. Possum would read the report. Well, for some time Uncle Wiggly was quite ill, for you know it is no fun to be in an automobile accident. Then he began to get better. Nurse Jane did not have much to do, and Dr. Possum, who came in every day, said, he will get well now, but Uncle Wiggly has had a hard time of it, very hard. And as soon as he began to get better, Uncle Wiggly got sort of impatient, and he wanted many things he could not have, or which were not good for him. He wanted to get out of bed, but Nurse Jane would not let him, for the doctor had told her not to.  Now you must do some tricks for me, or I shall get out of bed whether you want me to or not. And he barked like a dog, really he did. You see, he was not exactly himself, but rather out of his head on account of the fever. Come on, do some tricks, he cried to Nurse Jane. Poor Miss Fuzzy, was he. She had never done a trick since she was a little girl muskrat, but she knew sick rabbits must be humored, so she tried to think of a trick. She did not know whether to make believe jump rope, play puss in a corner, or pretend that she was a fire engine, and she really wanted to help Uncle Wiggly. Come on, do something, he cried, and he almost jumped out of bed. Do something. And just then, as it happened, a great big bee flew in the window, and maybe it was going to sting Uncle Wiggly for all I know. Then Nurse Jane knew what to do. She caught up a soft towel, so as not to hurt the bee any more than she had to, and she began hitting at him.  You can't sting Uncle Wiggly. Buzz, buzz, sang the bee. Go out, go out, exclaimed Nurse Jane, and she made the towel sail through the air. The bee flew this way and that up and down in sideways, but always Nurse Jane was after him with the towel, trying to drive him out of the window. She climbed up on chairs, she jumped over tables, and without knocking over a single medicine bottle, she crawled under the sofa and out again, she even jumped on the couch and bounced up in the air like a balloon, and at last she drove the bad bee outdoors where he could get honey from the flowers, and they didn't mind his stinging them if he wanted to, which of course he didn't. Then after that, Nurse Jane fuzzy-wuzzy sat down in a chair near Uncle Wiggly, very tired out indeed. The old gentleman rabbit opened his eyes and laughed a little. Those were funny tricks you did for me, he said, jumping around like that. Very funny, ha-ha! I was not doing tricks, answered Nurse Jane, surprised like. I was trying to keep a bee from biting you. Were you indeed, spoke Uncle Wiggly. I thought they were some of the tricks you had been trained to do. They were fine. I laughed so hard that I think I am much better. And indeed he was, and soon he was all well so that Nurse Jane fuzzy-wuzzy, without really meaning to at all, had done some funny tricks when she drove out that bee. Oh, trained nurses are very queer, I think, but they are very nice also. So Uncle Wiggly was soon well and needed no nurse, and when his auto was mended, he could ride around in it as nicely as before. End of Chapter 17. Recording by Nan Dodge. End of Uncle Wiggly's automobile by Howard R. Garris.