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All right three two Daily Tech News show is powered by you to find out more head to Daily Tech News show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech News for October of the 13th of Friday Friday 13th Friday 13th their headquarters in LA. I'm Tom Merritt From studio feel I'm at Venice Beach. I'm Sarah Lane and From Sailor snub studio in Richmond, California. I am Shannon Morse course Len Peralta is here as well And this new way of starting the show Len is going to reduce the amount of times. I forget to introduce you I love it by about 90% anything that helps anything that helps Tom It's led here to illustrate the show We're gonna be talking a little bit about how Google is teaming up with all the retailers in the world to take down Amazon Roger Chiang is here Roger. How are you feeling? I am good? Let's start. I'm fine Things should quiet down Roger Let's start with a VTech things you should know The Netherlands data protection authority has determined that Windows 10 breaches privacy law Because of the telemetry data it collects though users can opt out of data collection the DPA Determined that Microsoft doesn't clearly inform users of what data is collected and how it is used Therefore meaning it's hard for them to make an informed decision. I Feel like it's pretty easy to figure out what they're collecting because you you choose to opt in or you choose to opt out When you reinstall windows, but if it's already installed, it's really hard to find that info Western digital announced it has developed microwave assisted magnetic recording or M a m r hard drives They use a spin torque oscillator to write a magnetic media at I'd lower field packing more bits in the MMR drives should arrive in 2019 with 40 terabyte drives available by 2025 Qualcomm filed lawsuits in China to ban the sale and manufacture of iPhones due to patent infringement Apple and Qualcomm had several legal disputes over the terms of patent licensing and that's where they make most of the iPhones It's getting nasty All right, here's some more top story Samsung had a good news bad news day It expects operating profit of 14.5 trillion won in Q3. That is a 179% increase over 2016 They had a profit last in Q3 of last year, but it was muted because of the recall So they've bounced back quite well however CEO and vice chairman Oh Hyun Kwon resigned saying the company faces an Unprecedented crisis and is calling for new leadership. So it's not that they're not making money It's the leadership that's in crisis and if you haven't been following this Samsung's chairman Lee Kun He has been ill for years the company has been run by his son J. Why Lee who is the vice chairman? But Lee J. Why Lee was recently sentenced to five years in jail for bribery embezzlement capital flight and perjury because of his dealings with a friend of the president of South Korea who was forced to step down It's a whole big political scandal there.  I think got it, you know, like yeah Yeah, he runs to another location. Yeah Interesting So yeah, so so Samsung doing great the company itself is like it had a huge recall and it just bounced right back And it's printing money and the galaxy s8 is doing awesome, but the leadership is in crisis Moving on KGI securities analyst Meng Jiquo wrote in his investor's note that he believes all 2018 models of the iPhone will use face ID in place of touch ID This would allow Apple to build all future phones with full-screen designs It's not super surprising at all So yeah, I mean, I guess I'm a little surprised. I wouldn't have any models Having touch ID touch ID is very useful. You'd think you'd have like an SE model with touch ID But I know what what quos saying is that Apple has an advantage with 3d sensing right now on Smartphones and it wants to push that advantage Do we feel like that's okay? I mean we haven't even got a chance to try face ID yet So it's kind of hard to say. Yeah, I'm just curious about how secure it is Well, yeah, how good how well does it work? How how I think it's going to be fairly secure because it's using the same secure enclave as touch ID But how easy is it to fool right exactly? It's not so much about the storage of the data as it is about the spoofing like pulling it. Yeah. Yeah What a really good 3d print of my head be able to fool touch ID Apple says no They say they have Hollywood modelers who've made copies of people's heads and and could not fool face ID Wow, it's on the other hand Twins are a problem. I mean touch ID has been more or less pretty secure, right? So if you eat, you know, if you think of it in terms of that, it's like, okay, I mean Seems like the next logical step But master points out that that he thought the analyst said that Apple didn't integrate touch ID on the 10 Because the tech wasn't there. It wasn't the tech wasn't there It's that they couldn't get the touch ID to fit under the glass So that they could get rid of the button and they without it being too expensive So they just ditched it and what close saying now is they've just decided it's not worth pursuing that Wow All right Well moving on Facebook announced US users can now order food for takeout and delivery in the Facebook app and Website Facebook is not operating the delivery but partnering with Grubhub delivery comm Door dash chow now Zubler eat street slice and Olo Facebook also partnered directly with some restaurant chains like Chipotle and five guys Restaurants are now collecting in the new order food area So I'm probably not gonna tell my husband that they're doing this now because I hate it when he orders Popeyes to go it has it delivered by Grubhub Popeyes to go You can do that here such a thing. It's so weird to your husband. You can do you can do I'll pull you a loco on here as well There's Okay, that's all I need to help with my diet is like getting McDonald's delivered the weird thing about this is You're not ordering it through Facebook and as far as I can tell you're not even paying through Facebook You're just going to a page that collects a bunch of services. So on that respect It's almost one of the most open things Facebook's ever done. They're like saying we don't care But they don't have all the services. They don't have caviar on here. I don't think they have uber eats on here So you're not getting a full spread of the comparisons And if you don't have an account set up at one of these things It's not that Convenient because you're gonna get kicked out to one of them and then you're gonna go I don't have a door-dash account. So okay, I got to put in my credit card number and make all that happen There are a lot of restaurants that are currently doing this So it's not a huge change from what's currently happening if you order online from a website and get delivery But it's making it a lot easier for consumers as long as you already have those accounts If you're already in Facebook, I guess right but and I guess there's people who spend that much time in Facebook I'm getting hungry. I've spent so much time in Facebook. It's because some McDonald's Raspberry revealed the new pi top modular laptop with a sliding keyboard that makes it easy to access the Raspberry Pi 3 board And space for additional parts has a full-size keyboard 14-inch HD screen and 180 degree opening angle plus 3 USB 2 ports 3.5 millimeter audio jack. There's also an inventors kit that comes with it That has another add-on board some LEDs a microphone a motion sensor All of which can snap magnetically into the case the pi top will cost you $320 though. That's expensive for a Raspberry Pi If you already have a Pi 3 you can just pay $285 for the laptop Assembly and put your own pi in it if you want to still kind of expensive relatively speaking though This is really interesting because back in the day I believe it was Motorola that made a laptop very similar to this layout That was made for one of their phones so you could just plug in the phone and be able to use a desktop screen and a keyboard with it So this is kind of going along with the same thing I I barely remember it But we did a hack on hack 5 with a Raspberry Pi and we plugged it into this Motorola laptop thing and it worked perfectly So I'm glad that they're finally getting on board with this, but it is rather expensive I mean, but you're also getting a 14-inch laptop So, I mean when you look at it at a 14-inch laptop $300 yeah That's pretty cheap and you're getting I mean the idea is this is educational also comes with a bunch of Software that gives you challenges and exercises to work out and solve problems And working on hardware. So I think overall it's pretty fantastic I think we're just so used to paying virtually nothing for Raspberry Pi boards. Exactly. Yeah That you get a little sticker shock when you're like whoo three digits crazy Well, if you'd like to talk about four digits I've got just the story for you Sony has begun selling its Xperia Touch projector which can display 80 inch movies and games But also project a fully functional 23 inch Android touchscreen on any flat surface The projector is capable of 1366 by 768 resolution 100 lumens of brightness and a 4000 to 1 contrast ratio it runs Android Nugent and has three gigabytes of memory And if you can find one in stock you can order now for $1,700 I don't know how many of these things they made but apparently they ran out of stock on Amazon real quick And and I'm fascinated by it. I don't know that I'm so fascinated to drop 1,700 because now we are talking about something That's expensive, but It apparently works pretty well and it's it's it's an Android device Do that that's the weirdest thing about it. It's a projector that is a fully contained Android device that just projects its interface onto the table I'm not super familiar with Projectors, it's not something that I've studied a lot, but it's 4,000 by one an excellent contrast ratio for projectors I think it's okay. Okay. No, it's good. Is it good? Yeah, I guess the resolution could be a little better, but the contrast ain't bad. Okay, I'll buy that We've seen cheapos at CES and places places like that like similar things like to this technology But I don't believe we ever saw one from Sony. So this is pretty cool. I I want to learn more about it I would like to like play with it before I would ever think of purchasing one. I think it's the 20 It's the ability to project a touch screen that makes it kind of nifty. Yes I think that's entirely what makes it nifty. Otherwise, it's just a projector, right?  Yeah, and it may not be like the highest resolution projector it's far from it, right? But but you're right, Roger. It's the touchscreen stuff that makes it interesting because Where wherever you are, you've got an interface and the specs are middle of the road I mean, they're not high-end, but they're I mean they're they're good for what they are And it's really the touch screen that also Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Be sure to subscribe to daily tech headlines at daily tech headlines comm you can also get it on your Amazon echo in the anchor app We can even flip through the individual bits and on the Google home through the anchor app And that's a look at our top stories So Google and Target announced a partnership Thursday to expand their delivery test They've been doing it in a couple cities, but now they're gonna go across the entire continental us Order something from Target have it delivered through Google And and the biggest thing that they keep talking about is voice ordering So if you've got a Google home, you can tell it to order you something from Target You need a stylish chair, a Massimo shirt, some cat litter, whatever you can tell Google home to order it for you All of these things I need Google also has deals with Walmart and Home Depot already on board so Recodes Jason Del Rey Says, huh? I think what they're aiming for is not just to beat Amazon Obviously, this is a take on Amazon where Amazon says get an echo order from Amazon Everybody orders everything from Amazon. You're done Google's saying hey, but what if you want to get something from Home Depot or Walmart or Target? We're gonna have a bigger Stable of retailers because we're able to to bring in more people than Amazon Although Amazon is a partner with a lot of these retailers as well So that's that's a little weirdness, but back to Jason Del Rey. He thinks what they're after is augmented reality He thinks because Google is working on things like Daydream VR and augmented reality in Android That they want to come out with the ability to shop In a virtual space So Google has actually worked on stuff like that with Lowe's Where you could look at your Android phone and look at your room and then put Lowe's stuff pottery bar and same thing You put pottery bar and furniture see if it fits Uh, and he thinks that's how they want to jump in front of Amazon It's very interesting. I have a lot of questions about this to be honest a lot of questions Mostly having to do with security, of course Well, yeah a couple of the downside customer confusion over who's responsible for what right? So when I order from amazon, I know to complain to amazon But if I order from google home, do I complain to google? Do I complain to target? Do I complain to Lowe's? That needs to be made clear to me. Maybe they'll have a system. Maybe it is just I I'll respond to google right, but that also means there's multiple vectors for attacks, right? Exactly and I mean first off. Well, what do what do home depot and what do target already have in common? Both of them have had a breach and have been hacked And millions of people have lost their credit card data or other data that target or home depot was saving at the time Now, of course, we can assume that both of those companies have increased their security protocols since then and Oh my goodness. I hope that's a fact But the fact also still remains that whenever you have multiple different vectors You also bring in multiple different Potential attack vectors as well. So unless google is working to provide the same kind of technology for ordering for all of these companies and working within Their current infrastructure to make that happen Then there could be potential hacks happening just from that transmission of data going from google's voice activated system to targets Inventory and targets Purchasing power because then you have that transfer of data between the two like how is that transfer happening? So whenever I hear about things that are happening between two businesses I get a little bit worried because we never know exactly how those businesses are encrypting data and how they are Keeping it safe within their servers well, I mean I Purchased things from amazon quite Frequently and many times it's a third party Person that I'm you know ordering from and Uh, the rules are a little weird Depending on you know where I would assume you're originating from so this is not something that you know google's not reinventing the wheel here it seems like they're trying to uh Keep up with amazon and that makes perfect sense, but it's not a perfect system No, and I don't think it ever is going to be and the thing with amazon third parties Is generally that that processing of the payment and stuff like that is happening on amazon servers And then they send the customer data to You know the third party so that you can get your shipment and they get paid for everything out of amazon but when you have google transmitting that Voice data to target and then implementing that that Purchase I feel like it it might add in an additional layer of security that's needed there So that they're that transmission doesn't break some well And that's why something like android pay is so fortuitous because uh, if this all works the way it's supposed to All target ever gets is the order Uh, and the confirmation that it's been paid right and then google sends a big chunk of money to them at the end Of the month I would assume that's like here's this should total up with all of your orders Here's your money and and just like apple pay Your credit card number and everything is never exposed to the merchant. So it could Actually make things safer for places that target at home depot because they no longer have to store all this payment information It's stored with google, uh and and granted You know not that google could never be hacked But google seems to be a little better at this sort of thing Than some of these retailers. So I look at it as a possible positive as well I I hope that you're right on that front. I definitely agree So so we definitely know that we have some questions about security and hopefully they're implementing proper protocols for it all My other question for you guys is This weekend I went to target and I wanted to buy some halloween decorations I found these lights that I wanted to use for decoration and all of a sudden I was like I wonder if I can get this cheaper on amazon So even though I would have to wait two extra days I bought it on amazon because it was cheaper to buy it there and I didn't mind because i'm not having You showroomed them. You showroomed target. I did. I totally showroomed them So i'm wondering if by including all these, you know, voice activated purchases from different big box retailers If that will give them the ability to increase sales and also lower costs by having more More sales going on through their through their big boxes Well, and that points to one of the things that I have a problem with with all of these systems including the amazon echo Which is I want to be able to shop around on my voice assistant. I want to be able to say hey voice assistant who has the best price on halloween lights Exactly have them say like oh well targets got it for 550, but amazon's got it for 4.99 and lows actually has a sale It's 3.99. So maybe you should go there instead With google home having more retailers in the hopper Conceivably that that could be an advantage But you're not going to get it compared to amazon and like you say amazon also works with tons hundreds thousands of third parties So you can actually use amazon to shop around Which is actually one of the problems google has is they're they're worried that So many people use amazon as a product search engine right now because amazon doesn't fulfill everything So so in the end, I actually want somebody who isn't partnering with the retailers This is always the problem with shopping aggregators online all going all the way back to shopper.com On cnet. It's always a problem of hey, you know one way we can make money is to partner with the retailers And take a cut which means that we can't point to the best deal. We can only point to the best deal among our partners And then you run into a headache. Yeah, exactly. So I I don't know how we get there, but I want these voice assistants And these these smart speakers and everything To be platform independent. I don't want to have to think well, wait a minute Should I switch to spotify because google music isn't on the amazon echo or oh wait Should I switch the amazon echo because I love shopping on amazon and I can't shop on amazon on the google home Like that's not the way it should work It's way too proprietary and it's cutting off a lot of consumers while they're doing that Um, I think on the other hand that it might be a really good thing that they're they're kind of They're bringing all of these different big box retailers into one place where you can order everything So it's making it easier for consumers if you're not the kind of person that likes to shop around You just want to get the thing and you want to get it done and then you want to get it delivered And you don't care how long it takes to get it delivered You just want to get that whole shopping experience done But google also mentions in one of their articles that people really enjoy that shopping experience So they've been talking about the virtual thing too Yeah, and that's and that's where that augmented reality speculation from jason del ray comes into place And I do think that that is a threat to amazon That is a thing that Unless we hear of something new and I wouldn't put it past amazon to have something in development amazon doesn't have An augmented reality strategy not that I know of yeah Do we want do okay, so this makes sense on paper, right you have you have a shopping service and then you have Uh an augmented reality glass that allows you to like shop around with target and home depot and amazon and everybody All right, let's just pretend it's a new world Do you want really want to do that? Not really I spend way too much time shopping as it is I mean sorry, yeah, there's this joy around shopping But it's really this joy around spending money and being a consumer And if you're trying to save money and you don't want to spend your time shopping You'd rather spend it with like friends and family We I feel like it's an addiction If i'm not in the store Do I want to pretend to go into the store or do I just want to tell the voice assistant to buy it right? No I would just ask the voice assistant to buy it for me. I don't want to spend time in this store more than I need to I hate Not a thing that people are trying to like let's have more of that. Um, it's It it makes sense It fills a need but I don't think it's like really tapping into like the buyer You know, it's not the thing that I've been sitting around saying Exactly. I wish I had I mean the furniture thing kind of makes sense But even then I'm like, yeah, but how accurate is it really going to be? um So I'd rather go to some floor plan app and get like accurate dimensions and work with that A lot of things I want to put my hands on that's why I go to the store It's like, uh, I want to see how the controls feel or I want to I want to see what that that finish looks like on on that device And augmented reality is always just going to be a representation. It's not really going to give me that right? that's a that's a great, uh Extra that you had there too because I was just reminded I just bought a little This thing this little blanket from pottery barn And I bought it from a one of the stores as opposed to going online because I wanted to feel it in my hands And see if it was something that I really liked And I don't think you can recreate that digitally. You can't really recreate the feel of something. Yeah, not not in 2017 I mean I'm gonna say this whatever they do it needs to be convenient and it needs to Fulfill a convenience need that I have Now if they can do the augmented reality to the point where hey, I got I I need to replace this faucet handle I need to find something that fits this I don't know what to I don't know what to look that's If I look at it and it can go through the home depot Inventoryless. Oh, you need you can use six of these products Which one do you want to buy? We can have at your door You know blah blah that's the one thing amazon can't do. He can't tell me the right product to buy To fix my sink or you know the right the right, you know widget to go in my car to make it run again You know all those things all these little things That by themselves are very like yeah, you know The grommet broke off my dishwasher or you know, I need a hanger that fits this article of clothing better That's the kind of thing augmented reality could help me with Yeah household things are hard because sometimes you don't even know what it's called So you don't even know what to serve that and then you take the thing to home depot and you're like What is this? Where can I find it? I need a new one Yeah, exactly and And everyone has done it once in their life if you if you especially if you're a homeowner You do a home depot hardware shuttle run. We're going back and forth through the store This is the right part you buy like five of them because you want to go back to the store It's just woods and I you know, I've done that. You're like, uh, this doesn't work. I'll try the other one You know, this lock doesn't fit. I have four more. I bought try it Find the one that fits and return the other four be great You could just eyeball it with your augmented reality glasses. It tells you oh only this product fits with your door You're gonna have to buy this, you know, it would save you so much trouble I think with the ability that google has for search and for for being able to find the information that you need So easily these days they could easily Target that that market of people who who are homeowners and things like that Especially with these these agreements that they've made or that they're going to make with these big box stores I think going from that view this could be huge for google Yeah, I mean if the including with the demographic data, they might collect Oh, your kid's getting bigger these diapers aren't going to fit next month Seriously consider, you know the next size up just what i'm dealing with right now And we had to go and run out to target to buy diapers that fit Um, and if again if they can really get that convenience Aspect of it down That's where they really threaten amazon because people buy stuff from amazon because it's convenient, right? And it's not even just like oh, I just want this thing. It's just like I really need this thing It's faster if I buy it from amazon than going down to the store because it's such a small I had a monocular style or something like that Well, thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit You can submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show dot reddit dot com It's one of the ways we figure out what to talk about on the show We're listening to you we're seeing what you're talking about But it's also a way that you can talk to other people in the audience about all kinds of things that we don't have time to talk about So go check it out daily tech news show dot reddit dot com and our facebook group facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show Got an email today, uh from a media teacher in still hot south carolina Who says I was super excited to learn from you guys that disney was expanding their movies anywhere program To non disney studios. 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So still some bugs to work out there All right, let's check in with len and find out what he has been drawing during the show len Yeah, you know as it is sometimes with these shows The discussion goes a little bit different than what uh, I envisioned with the drawing uh, one thing that I took from it was that amazon and uh and target were Creating an alliance sort of like an anti amazon sort of thing and the first thing that popped in my mind, of course Antifa, I don't know I've been very political lately recently.  Don't that's right. That's right It's uh, and uh, so this is available right now in my online store You can pick it up. You can also get a digital version of you if you choose and uh, I want to remind everybody that of course Uh, this week was the premiere of the last jedi Trailer and uh in order to honor sarah lane being here as well as the art prov friday group roger Tom and myself. We are all on a dts Poster last jedi poster, uh, which you can get your name on if you choose There are still some slots available. There's 30 slots available And uh, you can get your name in the credits feeling kind of a way to become a Even deeper part. Yeah, your name is will be on the poster if you're one of those 30 slots And that's a good poster too. Oh, it's really gorgeous. It's yeah, it's it's probably one of my favorite ones I've done for the show. So good. Yeah, go check it out folks lend parol to store Com and get in before the 30 slots are gone. Yes, shannon morris. What's going on over a tech thing? Oh lots is going on So we just released an episode where I reviewed the super nintendo classic and it was so much fun And on that episode I actually announced that we're doing a giveaway of the nes classic Which you can't even find nowadays. So I decided I got an extra one and I was like instead of scalping it I'm gonna give it away. 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Oh, happy birthday to him Folks our first two dts labs episodes will be in your feed this weekend One episode about the gear scott johnson uses on art tech and another one on game consoles in advance of the holiday season Which is patrick bezia and scott johnson as well if you're a patreon you already got those episodes early That's one of the perks of supporting us at patreon.com slash dtns Lots of ways to get ahold of us our email address is feedback at daily tech news show dot com We are live monday through friday at 4 30 p.m. Eastern 20 30 utc at alfakig radio dot com and diamond club tv Dot tv and our website is daily tech news show dot com back on monday with veronica bellmont and the the other part of tech thing patrick norton dr This show is part of the frog pants network Get more at frog pants dot com Diamond club hopes you have enjoyed this brover All right, good show you guys Shannon you really brought the noise. I was a little slow today, but thank you. No, no Quite the opposite. You were great. It's a little delayed No, you were good really good. I always gotta ask those security questions, you know Oh, yeah, for sure So what do we call this masterpiece? Oh, I saw really good There's google sets. It's target on amazon No, no. Yeah, I like that um Food book talking about digits rasp berry pie wants a piece of the laptop pie Raspberry wants a piece of the laptop pie you show room them Faced food Papa the social media man Okay, that that one I get it, but it doesn't really make me laugh Is it a touch screen without a screen keeping up with the amazons Google targets. Oh, that's it. Did you find the one that you saw shannon? Yeah, I did. It's the google sets. It's targets on amazon. That's why I kind of like that one, too Any others you like in there roger? um So it's it's starting to uh, I I like that one I like either one the google targets amazon or google sets. It's starting to google targets amazon. Just take out the apostrophe. Yeah That would work. We'll fix that for you nick with a c You know what if they could just get it so you could take so one of the things about appliances is they all have very long model numbers On it so whether it's refrigerator washer dryer dishwasher If you take a picture of that and it automatically just Inventories your local home depot or whatever with all the appropriate parts What do you need to buy eat belts new drum new motor new display? It's probably cheaper to buy a new washing machine, but whatever Excuse me These things happen. Yeah, I can taste it for me. Oh Oh You don't want to taste that it's like mushrooms risotto and weird stuff I don't know what my computer tastes like right now I had Hey, what did I have? I had a uh, uh squash pasta But now I can't wash your pickle. No not pickled Yeah, but it was a it was a pasta with squash in it. I had a fancier name than that though That doesn't sound very good. No, I know they call it squash to Well, you know they um, there is um What's the kind of squash where you can you can spread it and it seems sort of like Pasta spaghetti squash. Yeah spaghetti squash. I guess. Yeah, so there's probably a real name for it But that's what I was here called maybe not too far off like it tastes pretty good Yeah, so it was it was a it was a pasta it was from tovala because I'm always eating these tovala meals And it had spaghetti or it had uh I had to do a horrible job of explaining this. What's the pasta that is like a tube? Oh, macaroni penny rigatoni. No, no, but it's bigger than macaroni and it's got blinds on the edge rigatoni rigatoni bingo Um, it was rigatoni with a bunch of cheese and squash and it was delicious and I had that in salad for lunch That sounds so I can't taste any of that. I don't It's a long way to go Sounds really good. It was really good Are we talking about what we had for lunch?  It's delicious Uh sounds really good and also not hark no And I am I It's super easy. That's that was the thing Yeah, you know, it's like minutes I mean the hardest thing was getting all the spices out of my spice rack And you know, measuring them out. That was the difficult part of the entire That's really hard. Yeah Where's all my stuff Um, that sounds so good Good work tom and it tastes good Eileen said it tasted good. Yeah That's always my test because she normally doesn't get like did her eye twitch kind of when she's Look Eileen's nice. She'll never say something's bad. She'll suspect it's fine. No, it's good Right, I bet I can tell and last night not only she's like, oh, no, it's good But also it was gone like there was nothing left on the plate. So and that's that's that's your yeah Wait a minute. You're not my wife So yeah, so we didn't have any leftovers because I kept us from ordering from ordering delivery last night There we go It's the way to do it Yeah I also make garlic bread in the tovala now Ah garlic bread. I love making that spread spread some butter thin on the on the bread and then I use garlic salt Like oh, I actually put Tom you should do a cooking show. I know right? I'm practically doing a cooking show I I think about that sometimes but then I'm like, oh, but then I have to actually know what I'm doing if I actually do It's impressive when you enjoy what you're doing Well, tom in the post show saying hey, this is what I did last night could sound impressive Tom saying I'm doing a cooking show. Suddenly it becomes a put the target on your back No, but that's actually garlic salt. That might be part of the charm of it, right? Right. Yeah, like I don't know what I'm doing Here's my show.  There's something to that too But you don't have you kind of would be though because you know Yeah You could uh You could do like um where you're learning about cooking you're sharing your your journey Yeah, but then that's a great idea But it also sets you up for for the same thing of like you should have learned by now Like I don't I don't want to be judged on my cooking You'll be judged regardless. That's well. No, I'm already judged enough. That's what I'm saying If you're doing a show that's for a specific audience like people who are Say you're working at home or or whatever. It's just something you can do that That's actually a good idea. You know, I would watch a show like that because sometimes I'm thinking now What am I gonna have for lunch? I could make something. Okay. Here's here's an example of what what sets me off The other day I did a quick video Of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich I remember that and everyone laid into me They're like, why is your peanut butter in the fridge? That's that's the worst peanut butter and jelly sandwich I've ever seen All it was was people criticizing and here's the key in the video I said this is not meant to be a demonstration of how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich Do not criticize me. This is just how I make it and it didn't matter No, you were opening yourself up to a room. I I put peanut butter in the fridge, you know What kind of jelly? What kind of monster are you, Roger? The jelly was from the best freaking monster ever What kind of jelly, Tom? It's uh, it was from Milan. Uh, I mean I got it No, no, no, no. What was the jelly? Oh, oh, uh, it was a blackberry jelly Oh, okay. I was gonna say No, blackberries good. Also, it was like, you know, un unsalted unsweetened Or organic peanut butter. I think that also upset people Refridgerate Yes, why is that? Thank you.  They they've been selling it since the late 70s Buy it at any supermarket. Yeah, no everything in that peanut butter sandwich came from Ralph's It wasn't even whole foods Um, what kind of bread? Uh, Dave's killer bread since we're talking about it Dave's killer is the best except for the power seed one Oh, I think this was the super seed. Yeah The um, the one that's in the yellow or the green bag one is like 22 seeds Oh, the blue one. I haven't tried the one in the red one is the The one with the flour seeds the bread they used they were they subject to one of the greens with fruit juice I don't think it works it out as well. I see Hmm. Now I have to check out this killer bread Dave's killer. Oh Dave's killer bread. It's really good. It's good bread I it's turned me back to sliced bread because I used like after college I just stopped eating sliced bread It's the best things that slice bread So where do you get that you get that like uh, you get a supermarket, but I get it at Costco Costco Because okay, so both typically sells for six 650 alofa, but you can get at Costco for two for eight bucks Uh rich draffolito says I want to show we're talking only makes a different peanut butter and jelly sandwich each episode No, what you should do is um Mix up the peanut butter. So it's like almond butter You could do like a solid 20 episodes of all different things of like peanut butter and jelly variations peanut butter I'm a butter fan myself. So that's a whole other almond butter. So good almond butter best Y'all are making me hungry and I already had lunch now. I have to go I'm a big fan of the almond brothers myself I'm looking for I always look for good bread. That's good Can't you see? He was a criminal on a What that peanut butter Been doing to me He does not have a clean history of of life living gotcha. And uh, he turned back to The teachings of his father who was a baker And so he just basically started So basically Sarah Sarah to to to get back by saying this is just the way I make this peanut butter jelly sandwich is what caused all of the criticisms I think you got a show here, Tom Like like part of the show is about making the sandwich and part of the show is arguing with people about This is this is it.  Yeah, it's having a hard time with that one. I'll not go instead of bereet. It's bereet. Yeah I Don't want to do a show where I get in arguments people. My whole point was to avoid that No, no, you're you don't even have to answer them back You just like down the down the corner is just all this abuse that's being spewed While you sit by you for your sandwich your closing argument for every art for every argument What are you gonna do is prove it Prove it you can I feel like the series doesn't even have to be about food It can just specifically be about peanut butter and jelly because so many people have very specific Ideas of what makes the the right sandwich. No Maybe that's what you do. Maybe I lean into it and each episode I make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich But explain why it's wrong Like use a bagel or something Yeah, you know what I mean like make it. Well, no just everything's like now see the problem is dave's killer bread Is too seedy for a real peanut butter sandwich Yeah, and while we're on the subject, how about amazon? Actually, we could just do it on this show. I'll just I'll just start making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches during dTns Speaking of food Then we'll turn each one into a metaphor It's the pre-show right? Instead of hat friday, it's pb and j friday All right, I'm waiting for you to do the show where you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on a bagel So I can get really You mentioned the bagel twice now like what in the world peanut butter. That's a terrible acceptable. I've seen them as an option What are you talking about? That's like you've never had peanut butter and jelly sandwich out of the english muffin All right, nothing wrong with that. I've done that never No, but you have to toast the muffins. You kiss can't put it willy no, no toast it. Yeah, you're right You're right. Listen if you've never had peanut butter anything toasted you're missing out on life No, no, we're talking about peanut butter and jelly. You know what put that on a bagel Yes, no, I know don't do it. No, I don't I agree with the bagel, but english muffin. Yeah I can totally put it on english croissant No, that'll be terrible. Oh Gosh, I can't even talk to you people. No, that's okay. Yeah. No, I wasn't suggesting it was a good idea I've done the ham the hamburger, but it's just disappointing. You're just like, oh, it's all bun My god, rich draffolino is finding domain names I'm like, oh god All right, uh amongst all this I think I published the show It's possible. I even published it correctly, but I make no promises about that So, uh, thanks everybody for watching. I hope you have a lovely weekend Uh, I hope you enjoy in your audio feed the new dts labs episodes And we'll see you later


So how do classical or traditional Chinese medical formulas actually work? I've established in another video that traditional Chinese medical herbalism is very very different from western herbalism in the sense that Chinese formulas are almost always formulas and not used as single herbs and in addition to that they're also very sophisticatedly done in the sense that the architecture of the formula is very important where there's a chief herb that has the main direction of the focus of the formula and then assistants and what are called deputy other aspects to the formula so they either offset the potential damage done by the formula in the case of using a very toxic herb like fuzzi aconite with shangjiang ginger or with something else or they just basically mitigate the effects or treat other parts of the symptoms going on so I want to quickly break down probably the most famous Chinese medical formula Guizhou and show you a little bit about how each herb plays an integral role in putting together the whole formula hey guys alexhine here current doctoral student in classical or traditional Chinese medicine and author of the book master of the day so in guizhou for example so there are five key herbs in guizhou guizhou, shiaoyao, shengjiang, dazhao, and zhiganshao now according to benski this is how each herb works together to form the whole of guizhou so the core herb guizhou which is cinnamon, cinnamon twig is considered accurate so spicy and warm and it releases what's called wind cold from the muscle layer combined with the second herb baishao or shiaoyao which is peony to strengthen the yin part of the body so combined they help the body expel anything that's caught in other words if you caught a germ for example and it strengthens the body's inherent defenses the third herb here shengjiang which is ginger fresh ginger is called an assistant herb and it helps the main herb not only treat any nausea and vomiting through warming the middle so for example a deficiency of the middle like in the digestion can often cause nausea for example or count what's called counter flow so any kind of cough nausea vomiting is all counter flow where qi is going up and not down and it helps the qi or the energy of the body come back downward dazhao which is jujube helps also harmonize the blood and these overall assistants here shengjiang ginger dazhao jujube help overall help the spleen and what's considered the middle qi or the it's called the middle jiao the middle section of the body here and then the final herb dir gansao is something that said to harmonize actions of other ingredients so gansao is in almost every chinese formula and it's one of the most famous herbs here so in classical medical formulas there's always that chief herb the assistants and the deputies and even more layers sometimes but they all have an overall direction which is the overall direction of the formula and remember the way herbs are used in chinese medicine is that it's viewed almost in terms of physics so for example the stomach should be going down if it's going up that's counter to the stomach's nature and that's nausea burping vomiting and so on if the bowels are going up but they should be going down because you need to poop that's considered a problem and herbs that are used to help descend the function are what are typically put in formulas there so it's important to think not in terms of biomedical active constituents but instead of the flavor the nature and what direction an herb actually drives the energy of the body so i hope that video helps elucidate a little bit about the way the classical formulas are put together and why they are in formulas and not it's not just a hodgepodge of random ingredients like a little bit of spicy a little bit of sweet it's much more sophisticated than that and they've also been refined throughout history and there are many that have stayed almost the same because they still work in their original architecture so i hope that helps the best way to stay in touch is to grab my free guide at alexhine.com forward slash free which is how to add 10 years to your life with classical Chinese medicine and you can watch my last two videos on the topic right here and right here


Hey guys welcome to another episode of explorations of me April 2019 How's it going so far? I hope it's going good So this month if I look at my notes Yes, I have notes because I can't remember otherwise We are discussing Do you have a daily routine and does it help you? So for me this month is going to be more about talking to you than it's going to be creating any art for me You bet your darn tootie. I've got a routine and when I am unable to stick with said routine I'm not a happy camper So I'm gonna take you through a few steps of my morning routine, although it's like after lunch already. So, you know We'll make it work and we'll be right back. I Start my morning routine here in the kitchen Over where is it?  I got a spot. You want to see okay? Hang on Got this spot on the sofa. Can you see my drawing bag? Yeah, I know right wait see my little table. It's got my iPad on it I sit there. I'll do some drawing. I'll look at YouTube videos I'll just chill on the sofa while I'm sipping on my morning coffee two cups always two cups When I'm done with that, I don't get dressed.  I gotta stick to my routine or I'm just not a happy camper I already said that already so we go upstairs to my art room because yeah And we go plop ourselves down at the computer Loading a vlog right now But I sit myself down at my computer desk and I do my daily postings so most days more often than not I post some thoughts and Creative wanderings in my Facebook group a life of art and self-expression the creative Wanderings get copied and pasted into a couple of other groups too, but every day I do some thoughts It's a good thing. I don't know what does how to start my day without doing the thoughts While I'm up here. I'm also checking on YouTube comments and replying because I like to keep on top of that I also usually double-check the Etsy shop email If I need to do a website update I do Trying to be better about doing that I'll usually light some incense pull a Positive affirmation card both up here and downstairs In fact, I don't think I've pulled today's positive affirmation card yet this yet today And it's already after lunch, so let's do that shall we here's I have a bowl of positive affirmation cards The one that was here said bright. I Already pulled the ones for downstairs this morning with my coffee, but I didn't Do this one forward. That's a good word just a little hint and reminder of Positive things to do for the day a positive thought to have in your mind positive energy to put out Forward forwards a good way a good thing forward instead of backward And I tried to do some art maybe chitchat with friends if I don't have lots of art obligations to catch up on Do a little cleaning and reorganizing sometimes I'll throw chores in if I absolutely have to because you know I Rather do art than chores. I Tried to take a little walk around the neighborhood go feed Bambi. It's not that far around the neighbor It's just next door, but we use our old dogs food bowl to feed the deer deer corn Our dog passed away before Christmas, and we do miss him, but we're trying to make good use of Some of the things he left behind and so I'm gonna go with you because I'm gonna go with you. Well, yeah, I mean I'm gonna take you with me because although again, it's after lunch, and I'm a little bit lagging behind today I need to go check the food bowl I will say it usually is part of my morning routine to take a shower and get dressed before I go out the front yard to go check Bambi's food bowl because Nobody needs to see that shit in the morning Hang on let's go check the food bowl Also try hard as I'm doing my morning routine and going through all the different things I like to do business wise art wise house wise to not lock myself out of the house Because that's been a thing. Yeah, I've done that already a couple of times So we're gonna grab a cup of deer corn So cup of deer corn my side gate, there's the food bowl. It's empty. It was full this morning So I just dump it in see birds You see him over there? This is what I live next door to and Bambi lives down there somewhere If I have Etsy orders, I make that part of my routine of filling the Etsy orders taking them to the mailbox down the street or if they're too bulky taking them down to the mailbox around the corner and Making sure I get my quiet time in which is Super important sometimes for me when I'm having my coffee instead of putting the iPad on I will just sit with a book I I really need that quiet time a little bit every day. That's like important for me And one of the reasons I do art and mixed media is because I can Sort of block out and zone everybody out put some earbuds in if I need to and music on and just do art So that's my morning routine. I don't know how interesting you're gonna find that but I do find I need a routine and Sometimes when my routine changes and or I need to incorporate new things. I need to make myself a list So I'll make a list and I'll check it off and I'll just stick with a list for a while until it becomes part of my new Routine, what do you do? Do you have one if you don't and you're struggling maybe you should try to have one? So and if you have one does it help? We would like to know so leave up something in the comments below If you want to check out and see what everybody else did this month or what they're talking about and doing with their routine I'm gonna put their links in the description below Don't forget to show them some love and share over in the Facebook groups, especially artsy endeavors and if you're in the chronic pain group and if you want to follow me on social media or Support the free content here on YouTube or over in Facebook click on my link tree when you do You're gonna get a whole bunch of different links and places to find me And if you follow me on social media on Instagram and Twitter for instance, you're gonna see what I do every day I post my little art drawings and stuff that I do every day And you can find my Amazon affiliate store my Etsy shop my tip jar patreon like all that stuff So go check it out Don't forget to like share and subscribe my channel and theirs and above all go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it like get a routine and see if it helps. Bye guys