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That was nice. Let's just try to cheer you up. It's a Monday. We need to get some energy going in here. Hey, we have a diverse amount of topics on today's show. We're going to talk a little bit about Marcus Hutchins, because you interviewed him for IRL and we've got some updates with his situation. He's malware tech, the guy that was arrested last week on suspicion of breaking the law regarding some code. But we also have high tech breast pumps and AI sleep research. Seems like a special kind of day. It does, doesn't it? Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Amazon has re-listed blue smartphones, calling security concerns a, quote, false alarm. Blue admitted that last year it discovered third-party software it used was collecting unauthorized data, but said it has stopped using that software for its over-the-air updates. So it's all good. You can buy your blue smartphones again. I don't even know what those are. They're smartphones. They're made by a company called Blue that doesn't use an E in its name. OK. It is also not microphones. No, no, they're not the blue microphones.  Got it. Apple Insider obtained a note to Apple investors indicating Apple has canceled plans to embed a fingerprint sensor in the screen of the next iPhone. It is unclear what biometrics will be included, but leaked home pod code indicated some kind of facial recognition. Man, that leaked home pod code has just been goldmine for people. I was kind of excited about the the fingerprint. But if it's just going to recognize my face anyway and lock me, and I guess I don't really need it. Yeah. I mean, I think there will still be touch ID. I can't imagine they get rid of it, but yeah, it's just not going to be that slick, you know, no button situation. Yeah. Here's some more top stories. Intel has finalized the specs of its consumer level basin falls. Core I-97980XE processor.  Eighteen cores for consumer level CPU. 2.6 gigahertz clock speed. Can turbo boost depending on if your turbo boost 3.0 compatible up to 4.4 gigahertz has a 24.75 megabyte L3 cache. 165 watts of thermal design power for a thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars only nineteen ninety nine shipping September 25th. There's also a 14 core version shipping on September 25th. 12th core version arrives a little earlier, August 28th. It's the most cores Intel has ever put in a desktop CPU. Intel decided to ship this monster after seeing surprisingly good sales of its 10 nanometer, I'm sorry, 10 core Broadwell CPU. And the move is pretty interesting in light of the conventional wisdom out there that, you know, we just need lightly powered mobile devices. Intel is finding that there is still a thriving community of enthusiasts and prosumers and power users. They talk a lot about gamers and streamers who need these big machines. Yeah, I mean, if you're running something like a TriCaster or you've got, like if you're doing tons of Twitch streams and gaming at the same time, I mean, this is still important to a lot of people. And I mean, I still I I don't need this many cores, but my gaming PC at home is relatively souped up and I still use it. That's a huge market out there. And they've done a lot to make sure that one core can get the maximum speed, even if not all of the cores can do that. So that, you know, one of the the knocks on multi-core systems is they were only as fast as the slowest core. That's not true anymore. And like I've always said, there will always be specialty reasons for desktop PCs. And we can't predict what all those specialty reasons are. I mean, the fact that Twitch came along, became a moneymaker for people that rely on low latency, high resolution video games while streaming. That needs a that means a pretty powerful machine. Exactly. Samsung will release the Galaxy S8 active on Friday, August 11th. Pre-order start through AT&T on Tuesday, August 8th for $28 a month. The S8 active comes in gray and gold and has a larger, excuse me, 4,000 milliamp battery, as well as dust resistance, water resistance and five feet of water for 30 minutes and shadow resistant for drops up to five feet on a flat surface. Yeah. So this is the one for Patrick Dorton and people like him who are very put their phones through their paces, you know, and that that's a lot of people out there. Sorry, I'm sick. So I sound like terrible. I'm so sorry you're saying having to mute myself to cough. So if that's why I don't answer right away, that's why it's happening. But are you hard on smartphones? Am I? I'm not really. I'm actually I've never broken a smartphone before. I have doused a smartphone in water. So I could have used this in that situation.  You jumped into the pool. Yeah, I was just sitting on the edge even. I didn't even jump all the way in. It was less than five feet of water, so I would have been saved if I had the only time I ever did that to my phone. I lost it at the bottom of the ocean. Yes, I was just gone. So it was gone, gone, gone, gone. Netflix acquired Millar World, an independent comic publishing company founded by Mark and Lucy Millar, creators of Kick-Ass and Kingsman. Those have both been made into big movies. So you can guess why Netflix is interested in this company. Mark Millar was also behind the comic series Old Man Logan, which was an inspiration for the movie Logan. And Netflix really wants to bring more of a Malar's work to the screen. It's it's the first major acquisition for Netflix. Yeah, and this is also kind of I was reading another post where this was kind of a big, you know, snub at Marvel or a big like fine, we don't need you to Marvel or whatever it is, something to Marvel. Really? Do you think it is, though? I mean, no, I don't know. They want to cancel their their deal with Marvel. They just want more, more of the same. Yeah. And I think that's that's fair. And that's cool.  Well, that's the thing. Netflix's theory is let's put a lot of things out there, because even if somebody doesn't like this one version of the thing, they might like the other. They're doing a ton of anime now, too. But that doesn't mean they're cancelling their acquisition deals for anime. So I would look at this as as doubling down, saying Marvel works so well for the people who out there who don't love the Marvel stuff. We need to find some other comic book stuff for them. I do you mind if I interject? Yeah, Roger Chang jumping in. What's up? So I think this is part of it of hedging their bets because they want to bring in and I've always said this about Marvel when Disney was when bought them, what they were buying were was a huge back catalog of stories that they could eventually turn into either a TV show, a series, web series, a movie or whatever. Of course. Yeah. And this is very similar, although in some ways, in the same way that Sony packages deal with Valiant Comics to basically being their universe of everyone wants to have that control. Right. And so if you're doing a deal, even with Marvel, that might have the most compelling stories, you're still got to work something out. So you might not have as much freedom in either distribution or scope. Right. Like, hey, I want to do an Avengers Netflix only. It's like, well, no, that's, you know, Marvel. And a good example of that is Netflix can't allow the Marvel shows to be downloaded for offline viewing because of the deal with Marvel. And so this would be a perfect thing like, hey, if we can get enough compelling content out there that is of a similar genre, maybe we, you know, we hedge your bets, but we can also maybe have better negotiating terms the next time this contract is up with. Did Mark Millar do Superman Red Sun? That's what Silva 42 says in the chat room. If he did, that that was a really awesome elsewhere. That's a really good one, yeah. It's a post-world book. And just to side note, that's basically what if Superman landed in the Ukraine instead of Kansas and grew up in the Soviet Union? Oh, must read, must read. Yeah, right. Very cool. Moving on to something completely different. Breastfeeding babies started coming back in fashion in the U.S. in 2000, apparently, but breast pumps are loud, complicated and inconvenient. TechCrunch has an article on innovation finally coming to the 1980s era technology. Naya Health, founded by Janika Alvarez, uses water instead of air to create compression based on a technique used in cataract surgery. A $900.99, $999 Naya Pump is supposedly quieter, more efficient and more comfortable. Willow makes a pump that can fit into a bra and has no wires or tubes and CEO Naomi Kelman claims it's quiet enough to do a conference call without muting. There's no price or release date for the Willow Pump yet. And older pump companies are innovating as well. I don't know how to say these names. Lansano and Madella both use Bluetooth to help track sessions on an app with pumps that range from $200 to $400. Now, these things are not cheap, but if they, you know, allow you to walk around instead of having to close the door and sit, they allow you to be on a conference call. I mean, I think any woman who I've ever talked to who's had to use these has complained about them. This could be huge.  My wife would have loved one of these when she was still working and our daughter was only a few months old. Like it's not just the, it's not just a setting up which is incredibly, you know, involved, but like you're just kind of stuck in one place, right? It's like being wired to something, right? Like a VR headset. So the ability to physically move out of your chair somewhere else is huge because now you're just not stuck in a seat for like 30 minutes an hour, depending.  Yeah, and they're external still. I remember when we're all external. Well, no, apparently this one from Willow isn't. What does that mean? It's just, it fits in your bra. Oh, okay, well, that's, we're talking about different kinds of external, yes. Well, true, right. No, they're not internal to your body. I just mean like outside of your clothes. That's, I was gonna say, I remember when Molly had her kid and realizing like, oh, you can't put that off. You have to go do it. Otherwise, you know, it can lead to complications. Yeah, it's pretty useful. Yeah, yeah. So I think it's, you know, we talk about health devices and gadget innovation and health devices quite a bit, but this is an area that's been fairly overlooked. There hasn't been a lot of progress in that area for a long time. Yeah, I didn't know anything about this until one of my girlfriends had a baby last year and we went on a trip together and she had to keep pumping throughout the whole trip because the baby was at home with her father and it was like, we lost one of the pieces so we had to go to baby's, our rust and then the thing was like $400. Yeah.  Well, that's that complexity that a lot of these companies are trying to solve. Like make something that's really easy to use instead of having all these tubes and wires and everything. Right. Researchers at MIT have developed an AI that analyzes radio signals to measure sleep stages. So it's kind of like radar. It just bounces these radio signals off of you or basically it's like Wi-Fi too. It broadcasts the radio, but then it receives the radio back and can measure that. The key is training a deep neural network to recognize respiration and pulse among all of the other irrelevant information like bouncing off your lamp or your window or your wall. In a test of 25 healthy volunteers the new technique was found to be 80% accurate. That's comparable to an EEG which requires electrodes and wires monitored by human specialists. This could mean that sleep studies would no longer be restricted to lab situations where you have to have those electrodes attached. Electrical engineering and computer science professor Dina Katabi led the study which she and her co-presenters will present at the International Conference on Machine Learning on August 9th.  And they wanna advance this into being a diagnostic tool for Parkinson's. There's all kinds of applications for it. Very cool. And it's all about the AI. It's the things that you couldn't do if you didn't have the AI to sort through the signals cause it's way too complicated for humans to recognize but it's also difficult. It has been difficult for even a computer to do it until you got these deep neural networks to look through it all. Exactly. And speaking of complicated stuff if you ever done any of those sleep studies I also have not done a, have you ever done a sleep study? You have? Yeah. I hear it's a pain. Yeah, I mean both times was very annoying. One time I had to do it in at a hotel room that was set up for the research place where they did all the things all over my head. And then the next time I did it it was at home and they put, it was like a headband you had to wear and stick to your forehead. They had to wear it for the whole night and it was very uncomfortable. 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Said it was a couple of years ago. He doesn't seem to be a flight risk. He doesn't seem to be dangerous. Let's release him on $30,000 bail. He is required to stay off the internet. Will be monitored by GPS and he is only allowed to reside in Clark County, Nevada or in the Eastern district of Wisconsin which is where he will appear in court on Tuesday. Apparently he spent the weekend in jail though because they couldn't get the bail money together quick enough to meet the Friday deadline but supposedly he is out today. BBC also said that security researcher and hacker Tara Wheeler and fighter securities Andrew Mabit or Mabit have set up a funding page to help his defense. He was caught as part of a sting operation that was conducted to buy code from his co-defendant. Other evidence that will be submitted in the trial of chat logs where Hutchins complains about the money he received from the sale allegedly. Hutchins lawyer and Adrian Lobo says Hutchins is not the author of the Chronostrogen and will plead not guilty. Now that brings you up to date on his story but we wanted to add to this the fact that he was your recent guest on the IRL podcast and I know you talked to him, you recorded this interview a while back long before any of the events of last week but granted, I'm not expecting you to say I could tell you was shifty or he's definitely innocent or anything like that but you probably formed some impressions of the guy talking to him, no? Yeah, absolutely and this is like you said totally my opinion, completely subjective. I have no inside information whatsoever but I have an extremely difficult time believing that he did anything malicious. I truly believe that from the bottom of my heart and if it turns out to be not the case I will be beyond shocked. But I legitimately believe that he only has the best intentions and if he did do something, I mean, he's 23 years old. He's a kid. This would have been when he was 21. This would have been a couple of years ago, yeah. And I know that's not an excuse but as part of the research that he does he has to obtain code samples from a lot of this malware and I'm wondering if some of these wires got crossed in some way that looked as though he was involved in a way that he wasn't necessarily involved or maybe perhaps he was, I mean he tweeted about the Kronos malware back in 2015 I believe asking for code samples. And I just have a very hard time thinking that if someone is doing something outright maliciously that they would be so publicly obvious about their involvement by doing something like tweeting publicly about it. So I don't know. I'm very confused. I'm very upset. I think he's a very, very sweet, nice kid. And this is his passion. This is his life. He spends all of his free time, all of his professional time figuring out ways to get around malware and to protect people from it. And that's not an easy job. And the water cry situation could have gone south extremely quickly for a great number of companies, organizations and people. And he was able to stop it. Yeah, in part it was somewhat accidental but at the same time he still did figure out a way to register the domain that ultimately ended up being the kill switch for the malware. So I don't know. It just seems to me like this is part of the issue that comes with being a security researcher of being a white hat hacker of figuring out and solving the huge problem around internet security and malware because you have to dip your toes in some pretty unsavory stuff and communicate potentially with people who don't have the best interests of the internet at large at heart. And I don't know what the deal is with these chat logs. I don't know what the deal is with this Bitcoin conversation. It hasn't come to light publicly yet so we can't really make any judgments on that. But I deeply believe that this is some kind of misunderstanding. I hope, and if I'm wrong, that sucks. Yeah, well, you're not alone in that opinion. I have seen countless number of other security researchers who work with him saying pretty much the same thing that you're saying, which is this is a guy who's really dedicated to fighting malware and I can't imagine it isn't anything but him doing his security research in a way that is being misinterpreted.  So it's never impossible that a good person has done something wrong like that. But the chances are low because security researchers, particularly on the internet, particularly engaging things like investigating malware and dipping into the dark web to make contacts and acquire code samples, are like undercover cops in a drug sting. They're going to talk with people and do things that if you didn't know they were a cop would make you highly suspicious of them because they have to in order to do their job. The difference is security research isn't deputized by the government. It's not, he's not a law enforcement. So you have fewer protections. That said, I'm not saying undercover cops can go and break the law in the pursuit of their investigations. There are laws against entrapment and things like that. But it is riskier for a security researcher to engage in this habit because, let's say he acquires some code and then someone wants it back and there's a misunderstanding and he's like, fine, just give me the bitcoins back and I'll give you the code. And that's the part that is in this chat log. Again, not saying that is what was happening. I'm just putting a scenario out there. So it will be very interesting to see what evidence they actually bring to light here. And there's also a very interesting opinion piece in the Washington Post. And this is not at all necessarily, well, I mean, it is related to Marcus Hutchins because that's what the opinion piece is about. But working to have done it intentionally, is it a crime to create and sell malware that you don't use? Right. And the law is a little bit fuzzy on that. It's a little fuzzy. Yeah. It's not necessarily against the law to create code. It's certainly not against the law to sell code. I don't know that the law says that it's against the law to sell code with the intent to harm, but then you'd have to prove intent. So that's another aspect of this whole situation to keep an eye on. Because it could be precedent setting. I mean, I know for a fact that there are companies that sell code to do things like track people's, essentially like cell phone trackers that you can put on people's phone and monitor their phone, reply all, had an entire episode about this recently. Those companies are legitimate companies that are not breaking the law. They're selling software that could potentially be used in a way that is law breaking, if you understand what I mean. So it's a very similar in my mind kind of situation. That's part of this that I hadn't even thought of before. And granted, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is wide and loose and can be applied to almost anything. But what if he in trying to acquire malware samples agrees to give some innocuous code that is on its own, not harmful to a person that's going to use it to develop a Trojan in order to exchange, he's like, well, this is code that isn't harmful. I'll give it to you in exchange for the sample of the harmful code. And then that person goes and takes that innocuous code, puts it in the Trojan, which has got other code that is harmful, right? Because there's parts of code that's just like, hey, check network systems. I mean, checking network systems is against the law. You need it to happen. You need it to do stuff. So that's another scenario that, again, I'm not saying it is what happened, but it could have played out that way. Right. Yeah, so I don't know. Well, I'm sure we'll learn more in the coming weeks. Yeah, but thanks for sharing your perspective on that from somebody who's directly talked with them. I appreciate that. He's a real sweet guy. Thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. You can submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and also in our Facebook group, facebook.com slash groups slash Daily Tech News Show. Real quickly, the amateur traveler is here to discuss a potential pilot shortage and a prediction for how to deal with it. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another Tech in Travel Minute. So an interesting article on CNN Money that was a study that came from Boeing, talking about the number of new pilots we will need, especially in the United States, but all around the world, to supply the number of commercial airline pilots will need because of the increasing demand in air travel. Now, combined with that in the U.S., there's quite a lot of pilots who will be turning 65 by the year 2021, which is a mandatory retirement age. What Boeing says is they think they're now going to need to train something like 87 new pilots every day to meet the need. We're already seeing some airlines that are cutting back on flights because they can't find enough pilots. How does this relate to technology? This is my prediction. Don't be too surprised if you're gonna start to hear discussions about making the co-pilot optional and replacing the co-pilot with a drone pilot who is keeping an eye on that aircraft and some other aircraft as well. It's just a prediction, but technology is going to be one of the things they're going to use to address a shortage of pilots. I'm Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. That is intriguing, Chris. And he says discussion, not necessarily they're gonna be doing this. Also, I wonder, I don't know if Rachel Metz is listening, but here's another 2021 prediction, like we talked about when she was on the show a while back. So thank you, Chris, for that. Let's get to our messages of the day, starting Veronica with somebody who has a recommendation. Yes, indeed. Hey, Tom, not sure if you're still doing pics of the day, but I have one for you.  But now I've gotten really into using my Xbox One and PS4's game streaming abilities and I'm getting through my backlog of games. Did you just hear me burp? I'm so sorry. The PS4 has the remote play app on a variety of PCs and Xbox One has the Xbox app on Windows 10. By using these apps and connecting a supported controller, you can play your PS4 or Xbox One games on your PC with no noticeable lag. Note that the PS4 controller shockingly works with Microsoft's game streaming in my experience. The video quality of both is really good on a wired LAN for such low-powered consoles. The PS4 Pro provides a better quality experience than the other models. But aside from a little artifacting and dense foliage on the launch, PS4 and the occasional momentary hiccup on Xbox One S, I can't fault the experience.  This is from Nick. Yeah, I like this not only because he writes up a good, you know, from the user perspective recommendation, but he's cross-platform. He's like, yeah, I'm using it both and there's good things about both of them. So thank you, Nick. Finally, Bob Davis wrote in asking the question, what happens to people who need organ donations if self-driving cars cause road fatalities to drop precipitously? The US government's Health Resources and Services Administration, or HRSA, estimates that one person can donate up to eight life-saving organs. Bob uses a more conservative estimate of 2.5 to six and organ donors generally don't, and points out that organ donors generally have to be a victim of traumatic death, not disease. So the majority of organ donations do come from auto accidents. Bob says if you do the math, 10,000 donors eliminated times 2.5 to six organ recipients is 25 to 60,000 lives. Not counting the life improvement transplants that could add another 20,000 plus lives doesn't seem like a very good trade, does it? Okay, well, the National Safety Council estimates that 40,000 people died in motor vehicle accidents in 2016. Now, we're gonna assume that not every single one of them could have donated an organ, and in fact, not all of them did. In 2016, according to the HRSA, there were 9,971 deceased organ donors. Probably not all of them were from auto accidents, but let's assume the majority were. In the US, the HRSA also says 54% of adults who support organ donation are signed up to be donors. So one solution to this is to say, hey, we need to get people who believe in organ donation to authorize organ donation. That could help make up the gap. But the other one is a tougher question, Veronica. We obviously want to stop people from dying in traffic accidents, but what do we do about people who now have a long enough weight for organ transplants? They could get longer in that case. We gotta grow them. We gotta print them. We gotta print them, we gotta grow them. Yeah, wait, no, wait, my mind went to the 3D printing of organs, which is not there yet. And I went to back-growing organs. So, yeah, there's two different approaches there, and this is the motivation we need. I mean, there's plenty of people motivated to research this, but this is a little boost, like, hey, you guys, we might need this pretty soon if by 2021, when everything else happens, we get those self-driving cars in large numbers. Yeah, that's something I've never thought about before. That's fascinating. Yeah, because, I mean, I don't want to not save lives on the road, you know, I don't want to say, well, we can't have self-driving cars because we need those organs, but I also agree that Bob's pointing out a unintended side effect of that. Yeah, like I said, never would have occurred to me, but that is pretty upsetting. Well, go to organdonor.gov, if you want more stats about this, and if you haven't done it yet, you know, it's usually done through your driver's license here in the US, sign up to be an organ donor. I am myself, and I encourage you to do so as well. Thank you, organ donor Veronica Belmont, for joining us today. I know you weren't feeling well. I appreciate you sticking with it. Of course, irlpodcast.org, you can see Veronica's interview with Marcus Hutchins, lots of other cool stuff. Well, I guess you can listen. You can only see the waveforms, you're right. But you can listen to it. What else you got going on? Yeah, we have episode four actually came out today, the care and feeding of your trolls, pretty personal episode for me, so please check it out. And they had the episode before that, number three is the one that we had Marcus on previously. So irlpodcast.org is where it's at.  Our goal is always to get one more patron than last month.  But we usually make it up by the end of the month. So right now we're negative 14 patrons over July. If you've been thinking about supporting us, now's the time. It only takes a dollar a month and you get an exclusive RSS feed with some extra content in there at patreon.com slash DTNS. Our email address is feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. We're live Monday through Friday, 4.30 p.m. Eastern, 2030 UTC at alphageekradio.com and diamondclub.tv. Our website is dailytechnewshow.com and we'll be back tomorrow with Mr. Patrick Beja. Talk to you then. Joe is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. I hope you have enjoyed this brover. Good show, what should we call it? 18 cores. Just 18 cores, that's it. There's also Patrick for it. 18 cores, oh, with three exclamation points though, I see, okay. Netflix opens a can of kick-ass. That's pretty clever, yeah. Intel focuses on their core demographic. That's clever too, Dark Redeemer's killing it today. I know, a far cry from one of the cry. Intel works the core. N cores, do you want more? I like on-core, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kingsman and Statesman and Flixman, oh my. I like Netflix opens a can of kick-ass. I'm sorry, that's the best. That's really good, yeah. I'm just gonna page it through these other ones. Puppets feel good. Perchance to dream of improved sleep. Marcus says leave Marcus alone. So don't put him in the title, so, oh. No, no, I'm reading, that's a title submission that I just read. Sorry, I just got to it. The thing keeps bumping around. Marcus Hutchins can hack it. Amazon plays the Bluss. Veronica burped. Blue, oh, the blues. Blue in the face, blue. Two men in Veronica talking about press pumps. To Roger, breast pump is just like a VR headset. That is limit your movement. And 20, 21 drones will fly planes. That Flix opens a can of kick-ass, pretty good. Yeah. AI is woke. I think we tried that one two episodes ago. Yeah. Intel focuses on their core demographic is pretty good too. All right, I'm still level-ating, so y'all can vote at showbot.tv if you're watching live and help us figure it out. We take your vote seriously. It's not a democracy. We don't just pick the one that gets the most votes, but it definitely helps us break ties and be inspired. So please vote. What's a democracy? It's just limited. Yeah, it's a representative. It's a constitutional monarchy. Oh no, just because Sarah Fina just has her kid, I was thinking the rest of them was like, man, that's a lot of smokey. Well, it's one of those categories that just kind of, I mean, I'm sure there's been some progress in it. But if you read this TechCrunch article, the ones that came out in the 80s are not that different than the ones out now. There hasn't been a lot of innovation there. The one thing I wonder is how quickly can you get those out of the device that go into a bra so you can put them in a fridge so that they keep? Oh yeah, that's a fair point. You'll want to find out what the storage and transportation system is. Although if they can combine it with a kind of a refrigerated camelback. Well, you could probably do that. Goes in the back. I mean, that's kind of a constant across all of the options though is how that's happened. The camelback? No, how fast you can get it out and put it in the fridge or freeze it. All right, I'm getting close to exporting. What are we picking?  Wow, you're super excited about it. Sorry, it was a long night and an early morning. Oh, I was muted this whole time. Oh yeah, I thought you were muted on purpose. Oh no. What did we miss? I don't know.    I should go though, I'm sorry. Yeah, go rest if you can. I know. I'll see you guys soon. Bye, thanks. All right, feel better. Thanks, bye. Bye. I'm putting you in the credits since you piped in. I popped in. Popped in. The only person who actually has at least indirect experience with the pumps. Oh no, I had direct experience. Those things are loud. You haven't pumped is what I mean. I was not pumped. No, that's what I'm talking about. We were trying to figure it out one night. It's like, what do these tubes do? So this is the thing about breast pumps, at least in my circles is that they're just passed around because it's one, number one, they're super expensive. Yeah, yeah. Two, you don't use them very long, right?  Right, right. Well, the TechCrunch article said that insurance covers them. Some of them cover up to a point. Up to a point, yeah. And that's the thing. It's like, if you want that new $999 NIA one, they're probably not gonna get that cover. You can get one and they'll cover it. The thing is you get one. And for most people, they typically get two because if they're at work, you know, depending on how they set up those, because you need to pump, you need to be basically in a position to pump, right? And if most of your day is at the office, that's where you're gonna need to pump. Yeah, because I think that's the hardest thing for people who've never done this to realize is it's not like, oh, I can just do it at night when I get home. Like it has to be done regularly on a schedule that you can't delay. No, you need to get it going because you're, the thing, the whole process is to ensure that you're constantly creating milk, right? You just can't, you can't do it on that. Like, oh, I think this is a good time. Everything stops. Like, no, you have to do it when you have to do it. Yeah. Yeah, we got some good response from people to the discussion on Friday about teens and smartphones. I didn't include a lot of it in here today, mostly because of time, but people were very happy that Len and you weighed in. I mean, I know you don't have a team, but Len does. And, you know, it's a, I don't think there's, the feeling I get is that a lot of people are like, well, there could be a lot of alternative reasons for the things cited in her article, which she admits to in her article. And also, I don't think anybody's really figured out the way to do it, you know? Parents are just making their best calls. And it varies by child too. Depends on their personality, you know? Kids that, and I assume, this is totally assumption in my part, that tend to be a little more, that tend to be more shy, might be more drawn to a phone than someone who's just super gregarious and needs to talk to everyone. Yeah. You know, and I think it was Kim, the Texas teacher who pointed out like, sure smartphones might be causing kids to not leave their houses often, but she's like, prove to me it's not helicopter parents who are just making it difficult for their kids to go hang out with other kids. And that's a point to consider. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I, in the article, at least when I read it, I got more of a feeling that, at least the way I understood it, it was more of an effect than a direct cause. Like, this was- Yeah. She's saying there's more smartphone use, there's these other things that are changing, and you can see where smartphones might impact some of them in some ways. But I thought she did a good job of saying, I'm not saying definitively they are, but it's something to start thinking about. I didn't get that sense that she was blaming smartphones, but there was a strong correlation then. Yeah, and so it's worth paying attention to. Well, not just pay, like a strong research into understanding what these connections are, and if there's something really, you know, concerning that people should be thinking about. No, that's how science is supposed to work. You see these correlations and you make some hypotheses about what might be causing them, and then you study it to see if your hypothesis is correct. So she's just putting out a hypothesis in the Atlantic article. I do think it's funny to think back at a time before cell phones, because even, you know, even myself and my older sister, when we were like, oh, make sure you have your phone on you, or else I won't be able to find you. It's like, well, we used to be able to find each other. How did we do it? Just- I remember one of my dad's waitresses used to send her kid to school with a pager. So if there was ever an emergency, he would pay them and he would call her back. Yeah. But I mean, I didn't go to school with a pager or a cell phone or anything. My parents just knew like, okay, well, I'll expect you home within a certain time range. And if you're not, call me, let me know why, otherwise I'm gonna get worried.  No, I was a latchkey kid. I was not a latchkey kid. That myself made my sandwich, watched my TV, did my homework. I think I got a key in high school, maybe, but I got a key in junior high.  Here's the key. Don't lose the key. I don't remember what it looked like. I lost my key twice. That's the worst. I can see why parents put the key around the neck. Oh, they didn't actually put it around your neck? No, they gave me like a key fob. There's their first mistake. Yeah, maybe I got mine in junior high because the thing was in junior high, my mom started working more. She'd worked a little bit before that, but she started working more often and I was doing more after school stuff. So it wasn't like I just walked home from school. I mean, I lived walking distance from all my schools too, which made a difference. They didn't have to come pick me up. Nobody. Yeah, I was walked. I lived close enough. Even if I had to take the bus. I took the bus because my school was literally on a hill, so it was easier to take the bus up. Well, that was the worst thing about it. Junior high, which was just seventh and eighth grade in Greenville, was along the schwaak up a hill, but I was just too close to take a bus. They were like, no, we're not busing those people. So I'd always whine and I couldn't drive, right? Because I'm still underage. I always whine for them to take me to like, can you just drive me? I hated it because I had to get up like an hour and a half early and then wait for the bus and the bus was crowded.  I never took a bus to school. I took buses to like sporting events and stuff like that, but never rode the bus to school any more. I never had that iconic movie moment where the bully won't let you sit in the seat where you want to or whatever. There was a couple of years, my parents didn't live at home. They were running the restaurant, Modesto, so my sister and I were still, and we just lived by ourselves. Oh, that's the key. Well, I had the key way before then, but my father would check in every two weeks. It's okay, so we have some cash so we could buy groceries. Wow. How old were you? I was 11, 12. Oh. So I learned how to cook. Yeah, I would come home and make dinner for my brother, but that was when I was in high school. I was a little older. I made a lot of eggs. Eggs are easy. Eggs are easy, and then what was your- I made eggs and coffee mugs in the microwave. My mom got a microwave for Christmas and in like 1982, I think, 81. We have that, cold cut sandwiches, or lots of Chinese food, but no rice, because we can make rice at home. Oh, we didn't have, I mean, we had one pizza place that delivered. I think they delivered. Pizza Hut delivered, but they weren't always there. I think they didn't come along until, oh, well, they must have come along in 1980 because I remember, or no, probably like 82, because the arcade was opening up where the Pizza Hut would eventually go when Ronald Reagan came in the 1980 election campaign. I kid you not, I don't think I would let my daughter go to the places I did when I was like in junior high. And I worked delivered pizzas for Pizza Hut, but yeah. I was just all over the city. Take the bus, take the train, just end up on the other side of the city. It was a different time, Roger. That was when there was all the stranger danger and all the kids were getting picked up from school because there was a one kid, not at my Catholic school, but at one of the neighboring parishes. First name, something Collins, but he, they never found him. Well, they thought he was abducted because he was raining around at school for his mother to pick him up. And his mother never was like, where did he go? Can't find him. That's a horrible story. So, and you know, there was a time there was a lot of vans around that were handing out stuff to kids. So back in San Francisco, the 106.1 KMEL, the Camel, the radio station, they used to have a guy parked like two blocks away from the school, the white van giving out KMEL bumper stickers and all the kids would come around trying to get free bumper stickers. It was a white- Hence the stereotype of don't take free things from people in vans. It was just a white, there was nothing on the side. You just, you wouldn't do it anymore. I think there was a bumper sticker on the bumper of the van that said KMEL, but there's- One of the ones that were giving out? Yeah. Yeah, but there was nothing that said KMEL radius. It was just a white van. Yeah. And now I think about it, it's like, ah, that's probably the first thing. Snago says growing up, I assume pizza delivery was just something that happened in TV land because we lived out in the country. Same here. I mean, we didn't even live in the country, but we didn't have pizza delivery until I was older. The idea that you could actually have a pizza delivered to your house was absent for most of my childhood too. We did that once or twice, but I found out that I didn't like delivery pizza. It was just- Well, we didn't have any delivery options at all. Nothing. Well, being in San Francisco has the fortunate consequence of good food on the way home. So I could just have something, some like a little- There were no restaurants on the way home from my schools. There was Al's Diner, which was rebands before it was Al's. That was next to the high school, but that wasn't on the way back from junior high or elementary.  My dad did to go from rebands a little bit. We did a lot of Chinese takeout, one, because you're Chinese, but two, it's cheap. Cap Jack wants to know when Domino's showed up in Greenville. Not while I was living there. I guess there was a Domino's in Greenville for a while after I moved away. There's a Taco Bell there too. We didn't have that when I was growing up. We didn't get McDonald's until my sister was in high school. There was no Taco Bell anywhere near me up until high school. It was like, why is there no Taco Bell? At that point, I lived in another completely different city, so it didn't matter.  And it was like five times farther away. Yeah, but it was in the country, so there was less wind resistance. Yeah, it was in the suburbs. There were tumbleweeds in my town. You could stop at a red light and there were tumbleweed would blow by. Oh man, Silverblade says, my old house was one street outside of the delivery range of a pizza place, and they refused to deliver it to us. I would be so tempted to just have them deliver it to the next street over, and then go wait for them on that street. Just hang out. I think there was a period when I didn't order takeout pizza because of the whole 30 minutes thing. Like people like delivery drivers were driving too fast and reckless and they're causing accidents. Yeah, and we never had that. We've worked for it, but we only had pizza hut and they didn't have the 30 minute guarantee, so. So I was like, I don't want to order it. Maybe some of it might get hurt. So I just go there and pick it up. Well folks, that brings us to the end of our broadcast day. Thank you so much for joining us. We'll be back with Patrick Beja tomorrow. If you are a supporter of the Patreon at the co-executive producer level, we're gonna do our monthly round table tomorrow, but Patrick had an idea about flipping the tables. He's gonna interview me on that, and that'll go into the Patreon feed. So check that out tomorrow. See you then. Bye.


How would you respond to someone who calls people like Oscar Schindler altruists? I try to explain to them why they're not altruists. Why people like Oscar Schindler were egoists in a sense that they cared about their own lives, they cared about their own values, and they didn't want to live in a world in which they did not do. They didn't want to live with themselves. So you have to understand the concept of integrity. And why integrity is so crucial to being selfish, and how integrity is so crucial to being moral, to being happy, and to being successful as a human being. And to live in a world that Oscar Schindler lived in, to know you could save people who are murdered for no reason, to not stand up in the face of one of the greatest injustices in human history, would be self-destructive. So what Schindler exhibits is the characteristics of integrity, of integrity to his personal values. He wasn't an objectivist, he wasn't an egoist, but what he did was not sacrifice himself for something beyond himself. He took a risk, he risked in life for his own values, for his own virtues. He acted out his virtues, he acted out his morality. And his morality was that one does not stand adderly by when a massive injustice happens. And I think that is an egoistic value. Now even if he did not hold it as an egoistic value, it is an egoistic value. Now it's true that sometimes it's difficult in the motivations of other people to identify what is altruism and what is not. It's hard. I'll give you an example. So I put up the movie, I put up my review of the movie a couple of days ago, of It's a Wonderful Life. And I hate that movie because I think that the hero of the movie is an altruist and has sacrificed everything that he holds dear for the sake of other people. And people say, no, no, you don't get it, you missed it all. Yeah, he had a hard time and he gave up stuff. But in order to achieve a greater value family and community and the love of his clients and I think that's complete nonsense. And if you see the movie and if you see exactly what happens in the movie and what's the motivations on, what motivates him and why he's trying to commit suicide and how he runs his bank and how everything he does in his life, he does not consider his life important and he's living for the sake of others and it's destroying him and it's why he wants to commit suicide. And he is an altruist. But see, when you grow up with altruism, you're inculcated with this idea that no, no, no, no, no, because nobody, this is the point I want to make. Nobody actually advocates for altruism. Nobody actually advocates for altruism except a few philosophers and maybe a few priests on Sunday, but most Protestant Christian priests don't. If you walk into an evangelical church today, they don't advocate for altruism. Choir altruism, that is, they don't advocate for complete self-negation. They don't advocate for living for the sake of others purely and never thinking of yourself. They don't advocate for real self-sacrifice like Jesus on a cross, suffering for the sins of others, bleeding, suffering, dying for the sins of other people committed. Nobody except a few philosophers and a few preachers advocates for that because it is an unbelievably unpopular view. Nobody actually wants to hold that. Nobody wants to live that way except Mother Teresa. So what do they preach? They say, look, if you sacrifice, I mean, Jordan Peterson does this. Anyway, so what do they say? And this is why altruism is so insidious and so sneaky and so tricky and so difficult to identify. What they say is the joy you get from other people is so immense. It's so wonderful that a small sacrifice today is rewarded by massive benefits in the future. Or you should make a lot of money. Jesus wanted you to make a lot of money. Go and listen to some of these evangelical preachers. And then when you make a lot of money, give it away. Give it to these other people, right? Remember, Jesus made it possible for you to have a lot of money. So you have to share that money with them. So they've given you guilt. They've given you that you did not really earn it. Jesus made it possible for you to have a lot of money. You didn't make it yourself. So it's always, always portrayed as you'll either have a better life in this world because of the altruism, because of the sacrifice, because of helping other people. Or you'll benefit in an afterlife. I mean, Christianity was very sophisticated and understood that nobody is motivated by altruism. Nobody is motivated by pure sacrifice and suffering. So they said, oh, no, no. Judaism wasn't the sophisticated. I think one of the reasons Christianity is so much more successful than Judaism is because of this. Judaism says, whatever happens on this earth happens on this earth. There's no real afterlife. Christianity said, oh, no, no, no, no. You see, we want you to suffer in this world. We want you to sacrifice in this world. We want to give, you're going to give everything up in this world. We want the meek to inhabit the earth. We want you to help the meek and do everything we can for the meek and risk everything for the meek. But we'll give you an afterlife. So every ideology that's been successful, Marxism, fascism, communism, Christianity, provides an egoistic motivation in the afterlife. Or, you know, in the end of its wonderful life, all the people around. Oh, what a wonderful person you are. Clap, clap, clap. We all give you a little bit of money to help you out.  Is this really a value to me? Are you a value to me? Is this important to me? Nobody asks those questions, but it makes you feel good. That's the reward for the years of sacrifice. For not going to Paris, for not doing the things he wanted to do, for entering a profession he didn't want, for having a career he hated, for running a business badly and into the ground because he cared about people and not about money. So he never, you know, what's the word? Called in alone when people weren't paying it, right? But you see what altruism does. Is it embeds in your subconscious? It embeds in your hierarchy of values, false values. How the community is. How other people think of you. Whether you're loved by other people. Family is a family of some floating, wonderful, intrinsic value. A million other values that you don't actually choose. You have never really thought about, you've never really analyzed, you've never really rationally figured out, are these really values for me? Is what my depositors in my bank think of me important to me? So when you see it's a wonderful life and so many of you see it's a wonderful life. Ah, these are wonderful values. It's worth all the suffering to achieve them. Where? Why? Why is it so valuable? Who said? Where did these values come from? You've thought it through, you've figured it out. Are they really the most important things in your life? And you interpret the movie to be positive because, so altruism doesn't come out as what I imagine portrays altruism as, right? It is that, but nobody preaches that. They always preach an egoistic motivation. Your life will be better in some way, either in this world or in another world. And it's not. It's not. What egoism says is not, egoism doesn't place how you treat other people as the central focus of your life or as a central focus of ethics. What ethics according to Rand means is, how do I live the best possible life for me? And what Iron Man says is, that is not obvious. That you can't just absorb from the culture. That you're not going to get from religion. That you're not going to get from your neighbors. That has to be firsthand. You, you, every one of you, has to, in a first-handed original way, figure it out for yourself using reason as your guide.  And you have to examine your life in a fresh, first-handed way.  Why are they values? You need to be able to explain why they're values. What are you willing to pursue then? What's more important and what's less important? You should have a whole hierarchy of values. Why? You have to be able to answer why. Not as some rationalization to justify a value you absorbed from the culture or from your parents or from your preacher. But why rationally is this a value in your life for you to make you happier, to make you living a better life? Why is it necessary for your survival as you, as a human being that has your particular characteristics? That's what's unique about Iron Man. That's what's unique about Objectivism. And that everything else is infected with altruism. Now, was Oskar Schindler infected? I'm sure some of his motivation might be a feeling of guilt, unearned guilt, maybe earned guilt, because he helped the Nazis.


Hi, I'm Ragu Das and I'm coming to you from the Audio Tech Show. I'd like to introduce you to Martin here from the KTN. Thanks for taking this booth. Tell us a bit about what the KTN is. Thanks Ragu. So the KTN we're funded by the UK government through Innovate UK, which is the UK government's innovation agency. So it's there to help support businesses and help them accelerate their innovative ideas and actually make them a commercial reality. And how do you go about doing that? So how do you help companies to bring their ideas to market? What's the process that you follow? So we've got a big online community. So we've got somewhere in the region about 70,000 members. It cuts across about 16 specific industry sectors in the UK, all in line with the UK government strategy. And then we've also got a series of cross-sector special interest groups. So each of these communities we've all managed. And we've run events to help companies come along. That's great, really. So how do you work with academia and companies as well? Or do you get engaged with academia and bring these two together? Yeah, absolutely. That's a really important part of what we do. So we work all the way from the academic base, all the way through into industry. Primarily we're there to help businesses to actually connect with the right people to help them find solutions to their problems. And also we find that we're there to help people with the innovations and the interesting ideas help them find people to come and work with to actually help commercialise their ideas. Great, thank you Martin. And may I ask, how have you found this hubby ticket experience? Yeah, it's been really fantastic. It's been a really busy show for us. We've had a lot of interesting contacts and hopefully we'll be able to provide some support to those guys and help them out. Great, thank you, Martin. Cheers.


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Why it is 1126 y'all So it's getting the mix I think they wasn't I think they were kind of slow to me But I was compared to last Sunday when we got busy, but either way go We went up that door baby and I hope you guys off they get into this money too Also, if you want chance to win some of the free merch all you have to do is email me at room sauce if you said gmo Com see me pictures so you subscribe to the channel and earn your chance to win I hope not to off that getting it in I see you guys on next one We go up we go before you already know in the DDK and I'm on my way We are here to jump up order number two y'all ready to get busy I hope you guys are with me. We got to take like maybe two or three trip But the door ain't that far away.  We don't get to the glad back, baby I had to put one in the arm to So they can get busy if they want to Maybe that's the tip. I don't know But ever since that subscriber says that ring the door about try to remember to do it But sometimes I forget. It's actually a good idea. That's how you got the extra ducts against today Oh, yeah, we're gonna get busy with this It's gonna be two trips Hello If you want me to I can sit in the door if you want me to is whatever you want to do Okay That is all you have a great day Baby Or number one and guess what is going to our apartment, but ain't that many stairs? So you don't get together Well, they do have a lot of stuff both of them had it was like a large order in the next large Other one had 54 items. So either way go yonder about the one up to the door And we got the last order up things like that and we get back in the car in the video, baby That video How you doing, sir? I'm doing great. I can't complain. I'm still living Here you go. I have to take another trip to get so you know If you want to you can just take the stuff out of there and I'll just get the other stuff out of the car These are the holes in it Sometimes these bad looking holes in the stuff and the pops of stuff will be so heavy Another stuff be on top of it too So hopefully just don't break Here you go You can take that in I'll just wait for you sir Those pops had bags. I mean had holes, you know You got it Yeah, all righty, all right, you have a great one, sir Walmart two orders 4.1 miles for 36 30. I'm suing stuff just like Gary, baby Or number did is all Walmart two orders 3.8 miles for 1742 forget your your cool. Let's go Just like that. We're here to drop up order number two. What it do, baby He says leave about a front door. That's exactly what we're going to do Still in that door, but this is a kid. They want to get busy They don't have that many items. Well, they kind of got a deep one But it's not that bad even then even though either way go with all of this back, baby They need to take out my tongue They got some cheese Step back We are here to drop a quarter number one this time to get it done, baby What they had some fun? I see somebody to do it. Hopefully opening something give me stuff Hello I'm doing great yourself. If you want me to I could put it right here Excuse me to make it easier because it's not very much room right here You hear them And that is all man, thank you very much. You have a great one So Kathleen's is actually just the top two and then oh, okay, I'll put this in the car. You can put that in the truck Okay, but then that's everything for her. All righty, thank you, sir All right, I'll stick on that one. Oh If it's a stick on the one in the truck, I should be able to this one is Kathleen, right? That one is But it's under a different name for some reason. Okay, that one is Kathleen back there. Okay. All right, appreciate you We bashing in this cake, baby. Oh one more two orders five miles for 24 32 what I do order number eight is all 2.4 miles for 1989 we don't seem to be on the ground and you're gonna watch us shine. Let's go order number two what I do I'm not gonna do something Don't give me dog Oh Step back with the photos we are here to order number one about to have some fun Guess what guys today has been going to not the grids. I had to wait a very long time 20 plus minutes at the Walmart to get this all the way sparked up or because they said they only had a few people It's been like to to the movies that I had to wait a while, but it's all good We're gonna get this money Step back with the photos man, we're gone You got it This bad rip I just be honest. Do you happen to have an extra bag this bag? I think this cheese cut it Unless I can put it in somewhere else. Hold on. Let me see Thank you All right, thank you. You have a good one I got one in there already Alrighty, thank you Money is my drug and I need my fix baby order number four was make it ease baby point a mouse for five twenty-five They're live. Let's drop or number five is all the way Oh Walmart to order 8.8 miles for 2334, you know, we bought some of this dough. You already know or number six was all the way Stop Walmart to order 7.4 miles for 2561. It's time to get it done. Let's go order number two What it do is time to get busy. I hope you guys are waiting. I hope you're out there getting this money, baby Oh, come on. I hope y'all up there getting all of it sparked up doing door dance having a blast Or whatever you whatever you're doing just getting this cash Just like that. We are here to drop off order number one.  We don't go to the next one. So we on the one doesn't try to get these fun While I get busy Hello How you doing? I'm doing great in yourself At least it's not snowing on that and very cold I think I'm playing about that If you want to man, I can sit in that door if you want to if it makes it easier for you Okay, I want the cat to get out That's a good cat thing My business partner came up with this great idea not me I can't take the credit for it. It saves us a lot of tricks Yeah, tell them make us eat as possible. All right, you have a great afternoon I'll put this one in the back seat. Y'all been busy back here yet or not really? Oh, yeah It's a Sunday, so it's gonna be Sunday usually be crazy. It's like the business. They had a week type of tight. Oh, okay Yeah, the few party can negotiate for the week for the week type thing So what did I just do back to the chill or like I mean we got a Order to make sure all the items aren't like oh Okay, we got to do all that like inventory type. Yeah, I'm gonna push that please put it in here Like y'all rotate type of thing Yeah, I appreciate you boss Yes, sir Hello, how you doing? I have a delivery for a old boo hand. Here you go. You have a great day Just so you guys know this Panera brain order was a disaster a huge out the lady to help me out The order was not supposed to be made to 745 8 o'clock look It is 724 on my phone. It told me to be there at 718 to get that green baby So I had to wait for her to make the order and everything I was on council, but I didn't cancel it because the lady says she was gonna make it right now And I didn't want her to have I don't want her to make it and then I leave that'll be bogus on my on my end Baby, but guess what we got order number two and three get with me, baby Order number two is all the way Walmart 205 miles for 1709. We're gonna go on to the end of time order number three is all Walmart 206.7 miles for 1525. Let's drop Thank you Do you guys take a sticker right here, I just put it right here Put the sticker on it. I don't want them to think I was in it inside of me. I really think you have a great day, man Hopefully they got it together so we can run up this channel. Let's go. I'm not supposed to be here till 718 anyway I'll fake come on with it so we can get busy, baby And we're trying to get all the way Turned up to the maximum Yes, ma'am. I have an order for a bohan L See on here it says So 745 to 8 o'clock, I don't know why I'm here it says 718 So you want me to send it to you now? Yeah, so if you send it now, how long do you think it will take? Alrighty take me up top. I don't know what's going on Okay, thank you Thank you order number one. Are y'all ready to have some fun banana bread two items 1.8 miles for six dollars. We're


Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday. First things first, Hank, you are a dad!  My excitement about this baby is at the level of, like, cheese-doodles guy. YAAAAAAAH! This also means that Hank is really and truly on paternity leave now, but fear not, in the coming weeks we will have several excellent guest tanks beginning this Friday with Nerdy and Quirky Sabrina. Second thing second, next month will be the 10th annual Project for Awesome. Wait, is that possibly correct? Oh my god, I'm old, I'm super old, when did I become old? It was this weekend when my baby brother had a baby. I've gone from cheese-doodles guy excited to glimpsing the void in less than a minute. But right, the 10th annual Project for Awesome, no need to fear how old you've become, will begin at noon Eastern time on December 9th and we need your help in a couple ways. First, though, some background. The Project for Awesome started in 2007 when Nerdfighteria essentially tricked YouTube's algorithm into featuring videos about charity. Over the years the Project for Awesome has evolved a lot, but it's always been focused on one, decreasing the overall level of suck in the world, and two, encouraging people to make great videos about their favorite charities. So here's how it's gonna work this year. First, hopefully many of you will make Project for Awesome videos. The idea here is that on December 9th you upload a video about a charity you care about. You explain why the work they do is so important and how they do it well, and then you encourage people to vote for your video at ProjectforAwesome.com. This is a great way to spread the word about your favorite charities, and also the charities that receive the most votes will get grants. Last year the top voted charities received $25,000 a piece. Then there is the live show, so for 48 hours straight, beginning at noon Eastern time on December 9th, there will be a continuous live stream here at the Vlogbrothers channel hosted by Hank and me and lots of special guests. In the live stream we'll be highlighting our favorite Project for Awesome videos, probably covering our faces in peanut butter, and also raising money for charity. There will be an Indiegogo with lots of great perks from all kinds of amazing YouTubers, and all the proceeds will go to Nerdfighteria's charity, the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, which I know doesn't sound like a real charity, but I promise it is one. It is a federally sanctioned 501c3 organization, and yes, your donations are tax deductible if you live in the United States, and possibly if you don't, but I don't know your tax laws. Right, okay, so the Foundation to Decrease World Suck has no overhead because everyone who works for it volunteers their time, which means that 100% of donations less the cost of producing and shipping physical perks goes to charity. Over the last three years we've raised more than $3 million. How do we choose the charities? Well, during the first half of the Project for Awesome, we raise money for pre-selected charities. This year they will be saved the children and partners in health. These are both great organizations our community has worked with for a long time, and we've seen the impact that our donations to partners in health and save the children can have, from Bangladesh to Haiti to Ethiopia to the United States to refugee camps in Jordan. Pre-selecting charities also allows us to gather matching donations, which means that for the first half of the Project for Awesome, every dollar you donate will be worth at least $2. Which reminds me, if you happen to be a person who wants to make a very large donation to this year's Project for Awesome, say anything over $1,000, please email me at hankandjohn at gmail.com with the subject line, matching. We will add your donations to the matching fund, and thank you profusely, and to reiterate, your donations are tax deductible. Okay, so then during the second half of the Project for Awesome, we'll raise money for charities chosen by you, the nerdfighter community, via voting at projectforawesome.com. Last year, the winning charities ranged from water.org to the American Association for Suicide Prevention. It's up to you to decide what charities to make videos about and which to support with your votes. So here's what we could use from you right now in comments. One, perk ideas. What perks would get you excited about donating to this year's Project for Awesome, or what perks have you loved in the past? And number two, guest suggestions. Are there people you would love to see on the Project for Awesome livestream? If so, let us know in comments. Hank, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations. I will not see you on Friday, but it's okay. I will see Sabrina and you have a baby.


Alrighty, round two of exciting news! It seems like we figured out which third cedar fair park is getting a coaster in 2019. So as discussed in my previous video, I think a week or two weeks ago maybe at this time, I kind of forget, but it looks like my prediction of Dornie Park getting the coaster in 2019 is true. I think we all kind of knew deep down that this was the case due to Stinger being removed and this is super exciting and I'm gonna discuss what I think this coaster is. I think it's pretty obvious and I think we're all gonna agree on that. And I think this is just really exciting for Dornie Park. I mean it's about time that they're getting you know a pretty good attraction by the looks of it. So if you look at it, I mean to me it kind of looks pretty obvious as to what it's gonna be. I mean this has GCI wooden coaster written all over it.  This just looks 100% like a GCI wooden coaster. It's cheap so it fits in with carowins in Canada's Wonderland getting extremely expensive investments. And it's a great attraction for this park as well. So I mean what do you guys think? Comment down below. Do you think this is a GCI coaster or do you completely disagree with me and think it's something else? I definitely want to hear from you. Again I do like to respond to all the comments. So respond down below and let's have a discussion about it because you all know I don't know what's coming to Dornie Park in 2019. I am just taking a guess based off of this I guess lack there of a good picture but a layout of some sort that's been leaked. So again thank you to Thrill Central for letting me use this picture. Thrill Central A alerted me of this news and B let me use these pictures so thanks so much. Definitely head on over to Thrill Central's YouTube channel and subscribe to him as he has some great videos as well and he talks about a lot of things for any of you Canada's Wonderland fans. He explains why Canada's Wonderland is getting a gig in 2019 in one of his more recent videos. So go check that out. He's definitely a great channel. So back on topic though. This definitely fits very nicely into this plot of land and this to me screams it's real. Again you never know with stuff you find online but this has you know it's real written all over it and it looks really cool. It looks like it has a lot of twists and turns. I can see some moments of what look like potential airtime but definitely a twisty layout and those are sometimes the underrated wooden coasters and GCI typically comes out extremely underrated. It's usually hated on when a coaster like GCI is announced. I mean you saw it with you know Wicker Man and you saw it with the Kings Island coaster as well.  Everyone has their own opinion and I totally respect that but I think GCI's look like phenomenal coasters and they usually end up being really awesome and I think we have another awesome attraction coming to Dornie Park. Definitely comment down below what you guys think. Do you think it's gonna be GCI? Do you think it's gonna be something else? And what do you think if it is a GCI? Do you think it's gonna be really well themed? What kind of elements do you think you're gonna see and are you excited? So congratulations to Dornie Park fans and enthusiasts. It looks like you're getting an awesome coaster in 2019 and no one no one should ever be upset about that. So enjoy this. Thanks so much guys for watching. As usual, give this video like, subscribe if you haven't.  Have a good one guys. Bye.