John Lund as... Johnny Dollar. Walter Jackson, Johnny. Oh, hello, Mr. Jackson. How are you? No, not too good, Johnny. It is our company isn't. If you're not on the case, I'd like you to conduct an investigation for us. How about your service? Good. Our company writes a group health and hospitalization policy at the Rick's Bering Company. Where's that? In Rick City, Florida, employees 3,000. We cover the employees and their families. And? We've just received a claim on behalf of a farming forester the child of a machinist of Rick's. For what? An operation involving a team of neurosurgeons and technicians that had to be flown to Rick's city by chartered plane from Boston. Now, what do you want me to do? Dr. Grant Howell, director of the Rick's City Hospital, has to report to the claim. A report which we think bears investigation. Okay, I'll get right on it. Fine, Johnny. And don't spare any expense. If Dr. Howell's report bears out, his ambitious racket's ready. A racket which victimizes children. At this point in our program, I'd like to give you something to think about. Probably one of the most quoted Americans in our nation's history is Benjamin Franklin. It was Franklin who said, early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. And? Never leave that till tomorrow, which you can do today. And, of course, the Lord helps them that help themselves. But probably one of his most familiar quotations is, there are only two things in life of which we may be certain. Death and taxes. Of course, what bothers most of our taxpayers is that death and taxes don't come in that order. But seriously, one of the biggest jobs handled by the Secretary of the Treasury is the collection of taxes. Our government's main source of income. The government raises money through the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which collects income taxes, excise taxes, amusement taxes, and other federal taxes. The Bureau also checks to see that you haven't paid too little, and, believe it or not, that you haven't paid too much. Another way the government raises money is through the Bureau of Customs, which levies taxes on imports which are sent here from foreign countries. But although the Treasury Department collects the money, it is Congress, the men we send to Washington, who actually says who will pay taxes and how much. And that's one thing from which none of us can escape. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Home Office, National Medical and Hospitalization Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Bobby Foster matter. Expense account item one, $85.56, plain fare and incidentals between Hartford and Miami, Florida. Item two, $2.60, bus fare between Miami and Rig City, a spick-and-spam little town with coral white streets shaded by tropical trees. I registered at the Cachubi Hotel, then went directly to Dr. Howell's office in the modern air-conditioned hospital. Good afternoon. Hello. May I help you? I'd like to see Dr. Howell, please. Well, the doctor doesn't see a patient. After five, I'm afraid you'll have to return tomorrow. Unless it's an emergency. I understand it is. My name is Johnny Dollar. I'm representing National Medical. Oh, I see. I'm sorry. That's all right. Is the doctor in? Well, he's looking in on a patient, Mr. Dollar, but we expect you. Oh? In turn, somebody phoned you were coming. I see. Pretty awful what happened to little Bobby Foster. I've never seen Dr. Howell so obsessed. Just exactly. What did happen? You don't know. Not the details, no. Well, if Dr. Howell is right, it's terrible. Well, he'd better tell you.  Oh, thanks. Here you are. Oh, thank you. You see, I heard some matches. Oh, here you are. He said worth it. Hang out the flags. Well, how do you life rig city, Mr. Dollar? Well, I haven't been here long enough to know. How do you like it, Mr.... Oh, Roger. Slow, Roger. I haven't been here very long myself. It's a little over two months. Oh? Oh, I like sunshine. It means truth. But what? It's just a little dough. Well, is that so? Well, maybe something can be done about that, Mr. Roger. It's, uh, his miss, isn't it? Oh, he's a bit of death in history. You're right. I've made you a proof. I not only approve, I applaud. Oh, on behalf of the Finsters of America, I thank you. Oh, that must be Dr. Howell. Excuse me. Reluctantly. I will see you, Mr. Dollar. Thank you. Company acts fast. Well, he made that claim the day before yesterday. National Medical feels it's an unusually high claim. Is this thing I padded it? Oh, certainly not. But a team of neurosurgeons flown down from Boston. It's necessary to save the boy's life, I assure you. Well, don't misunderstand, Doctor. National Medical isn't challenging your professional opinion. I should hope not. The reports you attached is what interested my company? It should. It should interest the whole country. I didn't have the opportunity to read it, Doctor. Perhaps it was a potential child killer, Mr. Dollar. A vicious, unscrupulous racket, capitalizing on panic. Dear... Come with me. I want you to see what they've done to an innocent child. Ravi Foster? Yes. A panicked, stricken parent and a criminal operator. What are his chances? We won't know until it comes out of coma, if he does. And then? For complete recovery, no chance. For partial recovery, a fair chance. Bobby Foster will be paralyzed. You've felt a criminal operator. Who? If I knew, Mr. Dollar, I wouldn't bother with reports to insurance companies. Has been a doctor 40 years now. A lot of pain and tragedy. Let's go back to your office, Doctor. I must be overtired. Shouldn't let these things get to me. Well, after seeing that boy, I can't blame you. Cigarette? Yes, thank you. Now, let's have the story from the beginning. Some of our children came down with fever, headaches, sore throat, symptoms resembling polio. Was it polio? No. But to confirm my diagnosis, I called in a polio specialist from Miami. Meanwhile, epidemic rumors spread through the town. Parents got panicky, held a mass meeting. For what purpose? They demanded I inject every child in town with gamma globulin. That's the polio preventive, yes. And did you? Certainly not. Gamma globulin is impossible to get unless a genuine polio epidemic is threatening. The government has to ration it carefully because one whole blood donation is required to manufacture a single injection. You know how many demands there are on the whole blood supply these days? Of course. Well, to get to Bobby Foster's case, I was called to the foster home last week, found the boy in a coma. He had all the symptoms of embolism. Of what? Cerebral embolism, caused in this case by an air bubble entering a blood vessel being carried to the brain. Well, that would cause paralysis, wouldn't it? Yes, and possible death. And so you called in the neurosurgeon. I didn't feel qualified to undertake such a specialized operation. Well, just how did the air bubble enter the boy's bloodstream? Through criminal carelessness by way of a hypodermic injection. Any proof? Well, the needle marks still on the boy's arm. And you have no idea who injected Bobby? None. But I know this. Other children in this town have been injected, too. Oh, in their cases, fortunately no harm was done. Well, surely Bobby's parents know who injected him.  They deny the boy was given any kind of injection. But you think they're lying? Of course they're lying. The boy was running a fever. The parents thought it was polio. They panicked. Took him to some quack for an injection. Of what they were told was gamoglobulin. At a black market price, no doubt. To a frightened parent price would be no object, Mr. Dollar. Well, I'll see the boy's parents. They can be persuaded to tell who's behind this record. You're wasting your time, Mr. Dollar. I've tried repeatedly. They refuse to admit their responsibilities. Afraid criminal charges will be brought against them? Perhaps. But they have another child. A girl. Seven. You're thinking the girl has been threatened if the parents talk? I wouldn't put anything past the ghouls who operate this racket, Mr. Dollar. Yes, yes, it would figure, Doctor. Well, thanks. I'll check with you if I turn up anything. Just do that, Mr. Dollar, and be careful. I always am. And you ease up, huh? He's very perturbed, isn't he? Well, he has a right to be, Miss Rogers. Do you have the force to address? Oh, yes. I prepared this for you. Oh, thanks. Well, I'll take a run over there now. I wish I could help you. You've been very helpful already. No, I didn't really help. Isn't there anything I can do, anything you need or need to know? Well, I could use a little background information, you know, about the town and the people. I tell you what, why don't we have dinner tonight? Then I can get the rundown on Rig City and the little nourishment at the same time. Well... Do you have another engagement? No, no, I haven't. Yes, but... Well, I didn't want you to think I was angling for a date. Oh, now look, I have a pretty good memory and I distinctly remember that I asked you to dinner. I know, but... I think it's your civic duty to dine with me. Well, if you put it that way. As a good citizen, how can I refuse? That's the spirit. You name the place. Well, there's a restaurant called The Tropics, a bar and grill sort of place. It isn't 21, but it isn't bad either. Time with you. What time shall we meet? Around six. I'll be there if I have to crawl. All right, but wouldn't the taxi cab be more practical? See you at six. I left the hospital with a sound of Flo Rogers' laugh still rustling in my ears. It occurred to me that Rig City might be a very pleasant place under different circumstances. I hailed a cab and ran up expense account item three. 75 cents. Fair and tip to the forester's bright little cottage. A stone's throw from the beach. Yes. Mrs. Foster? Yes. I represent the National Medical Insurance Company. We have insurance where my husband works. Just a minute, Mrs. Foster. Please. I said we already have medical insurance. Yes, with my company. Oh. I'd like to talk to you. May I come in? No. That is... My husband is home. It'll only take a minute, Mrs. Foster. If it's about the premiums, I can't help you. They're supposed to be deducted from my husband's space. It's about Bobby. I can't answer any questions. You have to see my husband. I think you have the information I need. What information? About the injection Bobby had. The one that nearly caused his death. No. You're wrong. Bobby didn't have an injection. Dr. Howell says the needle mark is still on the boy's arm. No. Is someone threatening to harm your other child if you talk? Please. Go away. Please. You have a moral obligation, Mrs. Foster. I can't answer any questions. Other children are being victimized, too. You could end up in the hospital like your son. Only half a lie because their parents were panicking to buying phony drugs from the black market. Mrs. Foster, you're so worried. Bobby had polio. So worried. Who gave Bobby the injection? I can't tell. I can't. You've got to tell. But I love you, Margaret. Please tell me. That's enough. I didn't tell him everything, Edward. Get inside. Where's Margaret? Inside, I said. So you're Bobby's father. That's right, Mr. I know who you are and sure come to detective. Investigate. Have it your way, but get off my property.  I'm warning you. You can get police protection, Foster. Just name the man who gave Bobby that shot. I don't know what you're talking about. You get off my place.   You owe it to your son or the other kids that are being victimized. All right, darling, I warned you to get out.  I won't.   I'm investigating. I said, get off. Get on your feet and clear out of here. Since you asked me so nicely. Sure. You know many great men have attained the highest office in our land, the presidency of the United States. Can you guess the name of this man? He was our second to oldest president being elected for that office when he was 66 years old and our only bachelor president. In 1828, he was appointed minister to Russia by President Jackson. In 1856, when he became president, differences between the north and south caused much unrest in his cabinet and in the various departments of the government. While he was president, the Confederate states were formed and the Civil War began. If you don't have his name by now, here are two more important clues. During his administration, the famous Lincoln-Buglass debates were held and the first Atlantic cable was laid. Who was he? James Buchanan, 15th president of the United States. His life is part of your American heritage. And now with our star, John Lund, we bring you the second act of your truly Johnny Dollar.  I went back to the Cachubi Hotel for a shower and a change and a little elementary first aid. It helped, but not much. What with one thing and another, it was nearly 7 o'clock by the time I got a cab and ran up expensive on item 4. 85 cents to the tropics cafe. I spotted Flo Rogers in a corner booth. Well, hearty greetings and humble apologies. Good evening. Don't apologize. After all, you're only an hour late. I'm sorry. I had a little repair work to do. Repair work? Johnny, what happened to your face? I was over a match. I lost the decision and it wasn't close. Someone beat you up? Well, that's one way of putting it. Mr. Foster did the honors. But why? He thought I was a little too inquisitive. Oh, Johnny, he must be an awful man. No, he's a frightened man, frightened out of his wit. His little girl's life has been frightened. How do you know? Mrs. Foster was on the verge of admitting it when her husband barged in. Oh, well, what are you going to do now? Starting tomorrow, I'm going to question every parent in town. Do these other children have been injured? Well, Dr. Howell thinks so and has figured. A group of griptors move into a family town, spread polio rumors around, then make a killing selling phony gamma globulin shots to parents who are scared silly for their children's health. Johnny. Yeah? You're going on with this investigation? I certainly. In spite of what's happened to you already, you're determined to go on? I sure am. What are you driving at, Lowe? I guess I'd better carry you then. Tell me what? Well, tonight when I first came in, I sat at one of those little tables near the bar to see if there's a bathroom over there behind the juicer. Yeah? So? I heard the bartender whispering to a man. Well, what did he say to him? He was telling him where to take his child for an injection. An injection? A gamma globulin? I think so. I couldn't be sure. I couldn't hear everything he said. Where did he tell the man to take his child? Did you hear that? No, I told you, he was whispering. The man he was talking to, is he still around? No, I don't see him. Did you know him? No, he's just one of the customers. Okay, thanks. Where are you going? To dig my elbows in that bar.  We'll have that dinner some other time. Thomas, you'll be careful. I'm my honor. I wouldn't want anything to happen to you. That makes two of us. I settled on a stool at the bar and ran up expense account item five. Ten dollars and seventy cents. For more than a few double bourbons. With which, I slowly drank myself into a mood so dark that my neighbors moved to the other end of the bar. Hey, Skinny. Jimmy. Name's Mickey, sir. I told you before. Well, I'll show you this. So what? Well, don't just stand there, Skinny. Fill me up. I think you've had enough, sir. You need a cup of coffee. Relax. What I need, you can get for me, pal. Nobody can. You sound like a man that's got woman trouble. What do you mean, woman trouble? Why, my little wife is as fine as sweet as... Yes, sure, sure.  How do you know I got kids? Well, you're the type. Family man. No kid. No kid. Now, look. I'll get you that coffee and then a cab to take you home to the kids. Okay? Okay. Hey. Hey, wait a minute. Come here. Yeah? Yeah, well, guys, Skinny. You understand when a man's got trouble. That's sure. Forget it. Just that my kid is sick. Wife is worried half of her mind. I had to get out of the house. Had to get away for an hour.  Yeah. Wife's scared of polio.  Oh, a lot of mumbo-jumbo. Everybody knows there's a polio epidemic in this town. The doctors are afraid to admit it. They can't get the stuff to stop it. Damn it, lovey-dovey. That's the only thing that'll save my kid, the only thing. Uh, Mr. Liston, maybe I can help you. Huh?  Where? Where, Skinny? Helping anything. Anything. Yeah. Go to Mr. Bixx. The party there will tell you where to take your kid for the shot. He remains Mickey. Oh, sure. Mickey. Don't worry. I won't forget you today. I'm not worried, Mrs. I left the tropics bar and piled into a cab. On the way to the address Mickey had given me, I stopped at a highway diner and ran up expense account item six. Thirty cents for a carton of steaming black coffee. Not that I was in need of sobering so much. I just wanted something to take the sudden chill of my spine.  It was 2 a.m. when the cabbie dropped me at the driveway of what looked to be a deserted beach house. I paid him off, expense account item seven. $1.20 tip and fare. Started up the drive to a divine covered gate. That's far enough, darling. Who's there? Oh.  Horster. That's right. Don't give me any trouble. Okay, okay. He's up.  Yeah. Yeah. All right.  Clasp them. Don't turn around. Okay. Where's your gun? I didn't bring one. He's got a less chance than I thought, darling. I had my reason. Let's go out the gate. My car's down the road. Horster drove away from town. Using the back road, a tire iron clutched in one huge hand in case I got ideas. Once out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw the big guy's lip tremor like a scared kid. He finally pulled up beside a long sleek auto trailer, parked in a lonely beach cold. He motioned me out and followed me to the door. Hello, Donnie. Well, hello. Surprise. No.  Of course. He's my husband. Oh, it's figure. Oh. Come on and tell me, Donnie. And please be good. Just as long as you have that gun pointed at me. I hate to. But I've used it so much. That's figure too, Clough. Marcus. Yes? Wait in your car. Excuse me, the trailer? Can you make me an eye-eye picture? Come on, Donnie. I want a good drink. I'll be right for it. No, thanks. No. You're proud of me. You're disappointed in me. Not very. Tell me. Why weren't you surprised by me? On the way over here, I got the thinking. It was last noon when I met Foster. He already knew my name. I hadn't given it to anyone but the doctor and you. Careless of me to have mentioned your name when I warned Foster you looked at me. Just what kind of a hole did you get on him? His little girl. His kidnapped her. Oh, no, Donnie. We're just sleeping, Margaret, for a little while. You see, the Foster's had been very responsive to Mickey's warnings. But then you came into time. And drastic measures were in order. We haven't harmed, Margaret. How did you get it? Foster came by the hospital after he left. He's a son. He left, Margaret, in a waiting room. And you phoned your husband? Mickey's wonderful with children. She was sick of him to go for a soda with him. Real sweet people, you and Mickey. I really hate this, Donnie. Believe me. Yeah, sure. What happened to Bobby Foster with an unfortunate accident? Who gave Bobby the injection? Mickey. I can't stand the sight of the needle. Some sweet rest. Oh, he did very well. Traveling from face to face. He didn't golf. Following the epidemics like a pair of buzzards turning a stray. Self-righteousness doesn't become you, Donnie. What are you charged for a shot?  What's in them? Nothing. Harmful just colored water. And once in a while an air bubble. That was an accident. I'll take the gun as well.  Everything all right? Foster did exactly as he was told. Good. Hmm. Hello, Donna. You play a lousy drunken father. I'm usually better. But tonight I didn't extend myself. Huh? I had a hunch you'd want this meeting to take place before I started questioning the other parents in town. Because you knew I was bound to find a mother or father who'd identify you two. Oh. Then you've been willing to make a deal all along, huh, Donna? Well, let's say I hated to spoil your fun, especially clothes. What's that correct mean? Ask your lonesome wife. Don't listen to me, Mickey. She plays a very convincing bachelor girl. You're trying to make trouble. A little too convincing.  And she talks a lot. Talk? She told me everything just now. Even that you've done away with Foster's little girl. What? I didn't. I said, Mickey, do I do? Sorry. Come on. I'll take the gun, Flo. Let me go. Now sit down and behave. You hurt me. I'll give it to me, darling. The gun.  No, Foster. Give me the gun. The gun's all right. I said this. You understand me? She's all right.  Well, I had to. It was the only way I could shock you into making a move. You're not just seeing it, darling. Margaret's really safe. Tell him, Flo. Yes. She's all right. The case deserves publicity, Mr. Jackson. Lots of it. Scared parents make easy dukes for operators like Flo Rogers and Mickey. And when innocent kids end up the victims, it's intolerable. Dr. Howell tells me that all the gamut globulin manufactured goes to the Office of Defense Mobilization, where it's distributed to local health departments who, in turn, pass it on to MDs' own mates. Expensive account item eight, $94. Bus, plane fare, and incidentals between Rigg City and Hartford. Expensive account total, $196.96. Your truly, Johnny Dollar.


I do prefer it slightly than the old one. I don't know them. And you're trying to get his girlfriend back, right? What's going on, everybody? Welcome to another special food court edition of Fung Gros Food. So we just did Costco. We just did Sam's Club. And because you guys asked for it, now we're doing IKEA. Yes, we are talking about IKEA, everybody's favorite Swedish furniture manufacturer. If you don't know how to design like your new spot, just go to IKEA and just get some ideas. Everybody knows that IKEA is known for like moms and lax and like easily put together furniture. Garbendorvins, scar schools. The food court at IKEA is very interesting because it's Swedish. But there is two parts to IKEA's food. One, there is the restaurant that is actually there pretty much close to the entrance right when you walk in. And towards the end, there is the exit cafe, AKA the bistro right before you leave. And that has all your hot dogs, pizza, cinnamon rolls and sodas. Back in college, I worked at IKEA. I worked at the bistro at the end. I was making coffee, I was putting the grinder in. IKEA food court review, let's go. All right, everybody, thank you so much for clicking on that video. That video is sponsored by Squarespace. And definitely check them out if you are thinking about creating your website soon. They're clean, cool, easy to use, intuitive and there is no coding required. So definitely check the link down below to get 10% off your first domain purchase. Now you can enjoy the rest of this video. Boom. All right, everybody, the first dish that we have to review, IKEA Swedish meatballs. And they are coming in two forms. They have the pork Swedish meatballs, which are the classic ones. And then they have these new veggie ones. So the Swedish meatballs coming in at 4.99 and the veggie meatballs coming in at 3.99. They look like they're made out of meat. Let's go with the classic, what, with the lingonberry sauce? Lingonberry is essentially like a Swedish cranberry. So we're gonna eat the Swedish meatballs with the gravy and no lingonberry sauce, all right? IKEA Swedish meatballs. The way it broke down was pretty good because you feel like you taste the gravy and then it starts to break down more into the meats. So these are beef and pork. They wanna make all the vegans mad. So we gotta try one with the lingonberry. All right. This looks like popping pearls. Lingonberry. With the lingonberry sauce, would you put it over just the gravy? I would. I would say go light on the lingonberry. Vegetarian Swedish meatball. It was a little more mushy, but I felt the outside, they really cooked it together on the outside. I don't wanna be a negative Nancy, but I did not really like that one. But you can't stop Debbie Downer. Okay, I will say Nelson, you are not the biggest fan of vegetarian food period. I have not.  When I bit into it, it just like mushed all into like, no, together. I eat no vegetables like on its side in and by itself and stuff. But I guess I'll mix together like that, grind it up and stuff. I gotta say, man, that has a lot of flavor. I do like the pork and beef Swedish meatballs overall better, but this in a way does have more flavor because it has more seasoning. My ranking on the IKEA Swedish meatball, 3.5 out of five. And then on the vegetarian one, also a 3.5 out of five. I will give them the regular meatballs, four out of five. Four. And then for those. What are those? I'll give it a 2.5 out of five. I'm gonna actually give the Swedish meatballs four out of five. Vegetarian. I'm gonna also give it a four out of five. Can we point out the quinoa? Oh. Oh, jeez. Quinoa? Well, you know what? If you don't like vegetarian food, no, you're not gonna like the quinoa. So try the quinoa. That's gonna help you jump higher though. No, that's good. That's not bad. Yeah. I like it. Do you like it even better than the meatballs? I do. Really? I do. Is it because you don't like the fake meat. You don't like the vegetarian meat that's faking the funk. I gotta wash down some of this stuff with some drinks. I'm gonna get the apple and jor-gub. Jor-gub, I believe is strawberry. Strik paran, I'm thinking that means pear drink. It's not like that. Apples though, when you first read it though. Appleson. Yeah, but it's actually orange. Appleson sounds like a last name. Yo, I have this smoothie, blabar, and halon. Cheers guys. I was gonna say, are these organic? And I read the box that said organic. Man, this is a smoothie blend. This is 100% juice, but I definitely feel like without it being cold, it doesn't taste that good. I'm cutting up. You make though. We have some items from the IKEA bistro. Andrew, can we trust you to give an unbiased review of the bistro? Not on that team anymore, man. I switched to H&M, another Swedish company. Might as well just move to Sweden. Let's go into the pizza first because we've been reviewing pizza at Sands Club in Costco so much. It's just one flavor of cheese. Just cheese. Cheese. They keep it simple. IKEA's pizza coming in at $1.75. IKEA cheese pizza. The crust is really thick, but it's very light on the bottom. You know they don't have the little bubbles. Flavor-wise, not bad. Definitely kind of tastes just like a cheese stick. You know, it doesn't have that much flavor to it. It has too much breading compared to like topping. Hey, don't go to IKEA for the pizza. 2.5 out of 5. 2.5 out of 5. Give it a 3 out of 5. They recently introduced the vegetarian hot dog. We've got the IKEA hot dogs coming in at 75 cents, both for the meat and the vegetarian version. Vegetarian hot dog. Said it has like a lot of ginger. It has a lot of vegetable flavor. I mean. Tastes like a little Asian. Little ginger. Ginger-mated Asian. Now I'm not mad at this. I wouldn't say I would eat it over a regular meat hot dog, but if you give it to me, I would eat it. Whoa, they even have fried onions on it too. Look at all the color in it. So that was pickled red cabbage. You got fried onions. You have a sweet mustard. You know, apparently IKEA sold a million of those in the first month. It's got regular texture. That was way better than the vegetarian meatball. All right, let's try the IKEA hot dogs here. So as you guys can see, I love how the hot dog is sticking out beyond the bun. That means you're getting a good deal. They just give you mustard and ketchup. They don't deal with all the relish and the onions. They try to keep it simple. I actually enjoyed that a little bit better than the Sam's Club hot dog. 3.5 out of five. I mean, price taken in consideration. I mean, I could see 3.5 out of five. I gave it 3 out of five. I felt like the bread wasn't as good. Nice, thick, but it's very dry, very airy. Okay. But the hot dog wiener was pretty tasty. All right guys, real quick. I'm gonna try it with the red cabbage and fried onions from the vegetarian dog left over. See how this tastes. A little bit better, it's a little bit better. Bias. Bias. No, I think for the vegetarian hot dog at 75 cents, I gotta go with 4.5 out of five. Why? Why? Yeah. 4.5 out of five? That's high. I was gonna give it slightly better than the actual this hot dog. I was gonna say 3.5 out of five. All right, I'm gonna stay with the 4 out of five for the vegetarian dog. Pretty good. I have a hard time giving it 4.5. I will say this guy's low-key, the vegetarian stuff that they have at Ikea is maybe the most flavorful. Here we have the turkey breast medallions coming in at 6.99, the beef tenderloin coming in at 8.99, and then the salmon fish filet coming in at 6.99. I never thought I'd be at Ikea cutting a piece of meat like it was, ooh. You don't get this at your normal food court. Hey, that beef shredded pretty nicely, man. Turkey medallion. Beef tenderloin. Salmon filet. Hey, hey, hey. My favorite was the salmon. My favorite was the salmon as well. I'm rolling with the salmon. That was the most delicious. That was super good. That was super soft. It was with the hollandaise sauce. My next up goes the beef. And then lastly, which wasn't bad, was the turkey medallion. It's real turkey, but it's definitely chopped up and packed together into a patty. It's almost like a turkey patty. This had actually a lot of good flavoring, but it was very dry. This was very, very soft, very tender, but it was lacking in flavor. I'm going with 4.5 on the salmon, 3.53. For $7, you cannot go wrong. This is a 4.5. I'm going to roll with a 4. And then this one, big jump down to the 3. 4 on the salmon. Then we're going to go with a 3.5 and a 3. Yo, I'm feeling this cauliflower cake. 4.5 on the salmon plate, holistically. Holistic 4, 4.5 on the salmon plate. Because it gives you the cake, too. Yeah, because you get the cake. Guys, that hollandaise sauce is killing that dish. Growing up in Seattle, actually, there's actually a lot of Scandinavian slash Nordic people, and they eat a lot of salmon out there, too. While we grew up eating a lot of salmon, we got first off, chicken tenders coming in at $6.99. Chicken tenders. Wow. It does need a sauce because it's kind of dry, but flavor-wise, not bad. I'd say the outside is still crispy. 3.5 out of 5. I'm rolling with 3.5 out of 5. I thought it was 3. After that, though, how dry that was? That chicken was dry, real dry. I got to go in on another drink, the Drick Flother. I got the Apple Strawberry. Drick Lingon. Mine is elderflower. So here's the thing about lingonberry juice. It's light cranberry juice, except even less tart. You know, you drink that Ocean Spray cranberry juice.  It doesn't. This really legit tastes like a smoothie. It's actually, like, a legit smoothie in there. It's got this raspberry-flavored Drick Helen. Tastes like vitamin water. Whoa. This is actually pretty good, man. You want to try this? Kind of tastes like chrysanthemum. It has the floral taste, kind of like chrysanthemum. It's similar. Similar. Similar. In the beeninging. In the beening. In the beeninging. Similar to chrysanthemum, but this is a... I think it's a little more sweet. Yo, shout out to the Drick Flother. I might say that's the best drink. Flother. We got the salmon wrap right here. Oh, guys. OK, let me just show you the smoked salmon. So this one, as you can see, has mixed greens. It has some sweet mustard dill in it. Ikea salmon wrap, $3.99. Let's do this. I don't know about the wrap, man. What do you feel? I feel like some of those mixed greens are getting in the way. They're kind of making it bitter. I thought it was a 3.5 out of 5. The salmon by itself is, like, a 4 out of 5. And then everything else to me was, like, a 2 out of 5. So averaging that, 3 out of 5. I'm going to give it a 2.5 out of 5. I feel like, to me, my favorite part of it was actually the tortilla wrap. The salmon, I felt like it could be smoked a little more. This is a comfort food favorite of America, mac and cheese, $1.99. Almost like a creamy alfredo of mac and cheese.  Smooth but sharp. Hey, how you doing? 3.5. OK, that's all I take. I like it. I'm biased. I'm biased. I'm biased.  Well, you better get ready to slap me right there. Ah, 4 out of 5. 4 out of 5. Solid, solid. I got to go 3.5. OK, 3.5. I was thinking about it. I think had there been maybe, like, some of the baked oven crust, I felt like it was missing something. If it had, like, maybe one more, like, item in there. I would have sprinkled some of those fried onions on top. The sweetest meatballs in the mac and cheese. Oh, that's interesting. We have finished with the hot foods, and now we are on to dessert. We have the delicious cinnamon buns at $1 each. I don't connect with these cinnamon buns as much. They used to look more gooey, right? Yeah, these don't look like the Princess Leia's. They're looking like the UAF players, dude. They don't look the same. It's almost like I don't know them. Man, you make it sound like that's your first time girlfriend or something. And she like, tell me I'm pretty. Tell me I'm pretty. Tell me I'm pretty. Nelson, I want to say got worse or got better. Man, they're quite soft. Ikea cinnamon rolls. I think your first time girlfriend got better. She glowed up. She blossomed. Look at that. That is so soft, man. That is looking like a chocolate croissant. Let me say this. Overall, I do think it's better than the old cinnamon bun. There's like heavy gooeyness, but heavy dryness. That sort of juxtaposition, the contrast, is too stark for me. It's an interesting take. I can't say that it's better or worse. I maybe prefer, actually, the old way. I'm going to give it a 4 out of 5, because I was not expecting it to taste just based on how it looked. And also, it's a dollar. I've got to go with 4 for a dollar. I mean, a dollar. Guys, if you take in price and consideration, give it a 4 out of 5. 4 out of 5. And I do prefer it slightly than the old way. And we're trying to get his girlfriend back. I see you can probably send her back. All right, guys. No, you didn't make a comment about how tiny the slice is. I was about to say, who ate the brownie already? They're very dense stuff. The gooey brownie, 150. 4.5 out of 5. It's so good. It's so good. It just tastes good. The texture was perfect for me. Nice and gooey, soft. Does it justify how small it is? It does. For 150? All right, I take it. For 150, size doesn't matter. Nice. 5 out of 5. Whoa! Is that the first 5 in the series? Is that the first ever 5 in the series? I don't think we ever gave a 5. No, did you give the churros, Costco churros 5? We did. I can't believe you gave Costco churros 5. 4.5 out of 5. Ah! I gotta cut out the sweets a little bit because I'm not trying to get that dunk packet, but I would eat that again. Nelson's Life does revolve around dunking. Guys, if you have any suggestions on dunkable foods, let us know in the comments down below. All right, man. We'll do a dunk package video. It is a holiday season. Pumpkin pie, 199. I felt like it was too mushy. I wish the crust was a little harder. I'd give it a 2.5 out of 5. This pumpkin pie filling is good. Give it a 3.5 out of 5. I'm actually at 3.25 again. That means three, guys. These last two are touted as probably the top cakes at IKEA. Lingonberry cheesecake, 2.99. I felt like the Lingonberry adds a good taste to it. I would give it 3.5 out of 5. 3.5 out of 5? 3.5 out of 5, yeah. I'm with you guys in 3.5 out of 5. Solid. It was solid, but not great. There we got the chocolate cake. You know what I like about this chocolate cake? It looks like every bite is good. You got the cake. You got the frosting. You got the filling. The 2.99 chocolate cake from IKEA. You got a 4 out of 5. 4 out of 5, that was good. That was a really big bite after really, yeah. I thought the regular chocolate cake was a 4 out of 5. Real quick, guys, what was your favorite thing and what did you take away? And don't everybody say the salmon, because we know the salmon was good, though. Well, then let me say the salmon. I thought I was just impressed by how soft the filet was. The classic meatballs. I liked it without the Lingonberry. The vegetarian hot dog. Oh. I love pickled cabbage. I thought the sweet mustard was nice. Elderflower drink. Elderflower drink. Oh, the elderflower drink. Okay, so we all decided that the best dessert was obviously the gooey brownie. Basically, I think stuff like IKEA, IKEA being a furniture store, and they have very decent food. Mm-hmm. All right, you guys, that does it for the IKEA Restaurant and Be Sure to Review. I know that we did not get to every single item. 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Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Ms. Music Teacher, James C. Smith, and Miranda Janell. Coming up on DTNS, Amazon got MGM in order to help its advertising. Snap has something that might actually be a part of the metaverse someday and why fact-checking makes people trust news less. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, March 17th, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. Not wearing green, I'm Sarah Lane. With a inch-proof green badge in Austin, Texas. I'm Justin Robert. Yeah. I am wearing green. I'm in Cleveland. I'm Len Peralta. I'm wearing red, oblivious to everything, and I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Well, whether you're Irish or not, you're welcome here at Daily Tech News Show, where we're all tech-rish. No? All right. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Google announces annual developer conference, Google I.O., will take place May 11th and 12th as a virtual event viewable through YouTube and I.O. Adventure in VR. The May 11th keynote from Sundar Prachai will be streamed from the Shoreline amphitheater. Samsung announced new models in its mid-range Galaxy A series. The A53 5G adds 5G, as you might have guessed from the name. It also has better display, visibility, photo editing features, 6 gigabytes of RAM, and a 5,000-mAh battery. All models will use Samsung's Exynos 1285 nanometer processor, so no Qualcomm in the US this time. Starts at $50 lower than the previous A52 version. A little inflation buster there from Samsung. Samsung Galaxy A53 comes to the US April 1st for $450. Samsung also announced the Galaxy A33 at a price that'll be set somewhere between the A53 and the $250 A13. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky signed a law Wednesday clarifying the status of cryptocurrency assets in the country. Crypto exchanges have legal authority to operate regulated by the National Commission on Securities. The bill passed parliament on February 17th after the president had rejected a previous version back in September of 2021. The Ministry of Finance is working on amendments to the country's tax and civil codes to fully launch the market for virtual assets. AMD confirmed that its upcoming Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor will not support overclocking. That's the official word. Everybody kind of thought that, but they've made it for sure. They said the reason is that 3D vCache doesn't work at high voltages. AMD says the extra cash, however, in their opinion, will compensate for the lower clock speed. Microsoft Edge can now generate automatic image description for users browsing with their screen readers on. The feature uses Azure's cognitive services intelligence to generate alt text to images that don't have them assigned already. Users can turn the feature on and edges accessibility settings. All right, let's talk about the big closing. Amazon got its MGM on. MGM, now part of Amazon. Tell us about it, Justin. Indeed, it is Amazon RR. MGM. Amazon closed its acquisition of Movie Studio MGM on Thursday. No word on how MGM will be integrated into Amazon Studios, but as a reminder, MGM makes content that includes James Bond, Rocky, the Pink Panther movies, as well as television properties like The Handmaid's Tale, Vikingsfall Hall of Fargo, and many others. First, don't jump to conclusions that all this content will go right to Amazon Prime. Studios often make content for partners and those contracts usually keep the content there for a while. See the slow unwinding of Netflix's deal with Disney over Marvel shows or the bouncing of Harry Potter movies between Peacock and HBO Max. In fact, Variety reported that the EU approved the merger without conditions because MGM's content cannot be considered as must have. Ouch. MGM will certainly make more content for Prime Video, but Amazon has indicated that it'll still operate as a studio that will make content for other clients. The back catalog will probably be the bigger boon to Prime Video. MGM holds the rights to nearly 4,000 films and 17,000 TV episodes. That's part of why Protocol's Janko Redegars argues that while some extra content for Prime Video won't hurt, the bigger win for Amazon is the ad money. Fast services, and that is fasts the acronym, free ad supported television is a hot growing streaming market and Amazon owns one of the tops with IMDB TV. That has 120 million viewers a month viewing its ads and while Prime Video subscribers can watch IMDB TV content, they have to watch the ads. There's no ad-free version. So injecting a bunch of MGM library content into IMDB TV should raise more eyeballs, which of course sells more ads. James Bond movies have only been available for rental or purchase, for example. So I think what Janko Redegars was thinking is those James Bond movies might show up for streaming on IMDB TV and so you'll have to watch them with ads and if you don't want ads, well, go rant one. But they're gonna try to drive eyeballs to that ad sales, which would be a big way to boost the advertising revenue of Amazon. A lot of rumors that Amazon might change the name of IMDB TV too to make it sound a little more interesting to people. Amazon. Yeah. Easier for me to say, thank you Amazon, that'd be nice. I mean, I gotta say, the EU saying, you know what? Let's go ahead and improve this merger because nothing really in the MGM, libraries of note. I mean, that's insane. Somebody was having a handshake deal in the back room. I think that is gonna be a stunning rebuke for Brexit. That day. Oh, it was because of James Bond? Yeah, that might be, I mean, what they're trying to say is MGM doesn't suddenly make Amazon dominate the movie market, right? And yeah, right. I mean, when you're, and I wonder how much, I mean, I know that bad catalogs and MGM has a really big one are lucrative for any company looking to be like, okay, we got a streaming service. Now we're going to have all this access to content that we didn't have before. But yeah, like at what point is something like this, does it kind of sound like a tech company buying another dying tech company's IP? Well, yes, and the entertainment IP that they are going to get here is something that Amazon is gonna put a lot of money in. If you've looked at the moves that have been made by these tech companies in the entertainment space, and I would really include Apple and Amazon as the big players there, they don't care about the average price of things in the entertainment world. They are willing to blow away the competition because they care more about the prestige and they are playing different games. Apple is ultimately looking to sell more devices. Amazon is ultimately looking to keep you on the prime service. The fact that there will be new Pink Panthers, there's going to be new James Bond. There's going to be new Rockies. And it's going to include the top talent that money can buy literally. That's why they did this. Sure, the ad supported stuff is fine. And maybe in the next 10 years, those fast networks become absolute juggernauts. But make no mistake, considering what Amazon just paid for a Lord of the Rings series that legally cannot mention any of the characters you know from Lord of the Rings, this is for their ability to free and clear, make new branded IP properties that they can make exclusive to their platforms. I mean, they can mention Galadriel. So it's not all of it, but it has to be mentioned in the appendix, right? For my rampant Galadriel slander. But yeah, they are willing to pay a lot to get a little bit of franchise. And they're getting a lot of franchise at MGM. But I don't think it's any of one of these reasons. MGM wasn't the best thing to buy if they just wanted the franchise. It isn't the best thing to buy if they just wanted the back catalog. It isn't even the best thing to buy if you want the studio expertise. I think Amazon gets the benefit of now saying, hey, Amazon Studios, you have a whole group of people who've been doing this for decades now that can help make Amazon, it's gonna help Amazon content just as much as it will help MGM content, right? It's a two-way street. I don't think it's any of those things, I think it's all of those things. It's a combination. It is all of these things. The deal works for a lot of different reasons, but buying studios is not easy. They are not always for sale, they are not always for sale to you, depending on where you are in the market. MGM has been kind of a sick puppy looking for a savior for a while. This made sense, like you said, Tom, all of the above. Back in October, we did an episode of Know a Little More, the podcast, with Stacey Higginbotham about the matter standard. We've talked about it on the show a few other times since.  The idea is that once matter is all in place and all the products have it, you can just buy a smart product that says it's matter compliant, bring it home, and use it with your system. Doesn't matter what system you have. You can even change your system. All your stuff should still work as long as it's matter compliant. Now that was scheduled to launch this summer, probably around June, but the folks who administer the matter standard, the Connectivity Standards Alliance, or CSA, told the Verge that that launch is being rescheduled for autumn. CSA says the holdup is because more developers than expected are adopting the platform. So they want to take more time to make sure that the SDK will work with all the platforms. CSA expected five platforms a year ago, and now says it has more than 16. So in addition to the ones you'd expect like Amazon, Google, et cetera, you also have Infineon, Synaptics, Darwin, Tizen, TI, NXP, Ex-Espressive Systems, Nordic, and more. Everybody wants in on this, which if that's the reason, that's a good sign. The CSA's Michelle Mandela Freeman told the Verge they will use the extra time, quote, to stabilize, tweak, tune, and improve quality in the code. Now, this isn't the first delay of matter. It used to be called Project Chip, and it was supposed to launch in 2020, but then 2020, 2020, all of us, and that launch got pushed to 2021. In August 2021, they changed the name to Matter, set mid 2022 as the launch. So pushing it by one season from summer to fall is a shorter delay than they've done in the past. If you wanna keep watch for milestones, CSA still plans to make the 0.9 Matter spec available in June. That'll go to more than 450 members so you can start testing and certifying when the 1.0 spec comes later in the year. Spec validation is expected to take six to eight weeks. However, 130 devices in 15 categories from 50 companies are already in testing. These are folks who were part of Matter from the beginning and will be part of that first rollout of Matter certified products. Light bulbs, locks, thermostats, blinds, garage door openers, wireless access points, TVs, those might be ready to ship as soon as the Matter spec is released. So we may still get Matter products before the end of the year, but the bulk of them are now going to come in 2023. Well, as somebody who's pretty, I have a lot of smart home devices, it'd be cool to be able to use Matter as sort of my single hub in the future. In a way, if I was being pessimistic, I'd be like, when is this ever gonna happen? Because yeah, now a bunch of other developers now wanna get on board and now it's getting pushed out because it was the promise of the future. And now the future just keeps getting pushed out. That said, all of this makes sense to me. The consortium saying, okay, well, we have way more interest. That is a good thing. That is a very good thing. In the short term, it's a little bit of a messy thing. And so the consumer has to wait a little bit longer. It makes a lot of sense to me that this is delayed because if you understand what they wanna do, they can't break things. Matter is as a brand supposed to, and I don't mean that in the specific way that they're trying to sell stuff, but rather in what you think about, when you think about Matter, what they hope is ease of use. And so if it is breaking things, it is going exactly against their entire purpose. So for me, I totally understand, if it's worth doing it all, it's worth doing right. And if you have more skews than you would think, then yeah, take the time to make sure that it works because no one's gonna have any sympathy for them if this rolls out and now all of a sudden my front door lock doesn't work. Yeah, and especially when the whole point, like we've been saying, is that this is easy, right? So you wanna make sure it works because otherwise people will lose faith in it really fast. And I think it gets overestimated whether that faith can be restored, but you don't wanna have to go through that work to restore it, because it takes time and it takes money to do that. And all the big companies are on board with this. I think it is, it's easy to wanna slam it and say like, ah, it'll never work. These are big tech companies that don't trust them. Obviously here we go, delaying again. It's gonna keep getting delayed. You just wait. It's sound, it rings true to me that they're like, actually, we have these people on board that really, the only interesting we have in bringing them on board is making this thing an actual standard. And so we're gonna treat it with respect. Make sure it's a standard. If in two weeks we get the unsourced story that Apple or Google are looking to pull out, now I think it is a different story. And to be clear, we're not hearing, give them the benefit of the doubt. We're not hearing any rumblings like that. You'd have to hear something like that to be like, all right, there's something else going. Make matter matter. Yes, we want matter. Well, speaking of things that might matter to you, Snap launched custom landmarkers on Wednesday, which lets the more than 250,000 Lens creators tie experiences to physical locations like stores or sculptures or other landmarks. So for example, you might have a lens that shows up if you're near your favorite brunch place, for example. To use it, you'll need a phone with a LiDAR sensor like an iPhone to scan the landmark. Then you import the scan into Snap's Lens Studio software on a desktop. Early testers said it took less than a day to make a geostatially anchored piece of content. Not, you know, it's a pretty good turnaround. Creators can also post QR codes in the real world to let users know there's a piece of AR content out there. Go find it. Custom landmarkers are viewable in the Snap mobile app as well as AR-enabled spectacles. If you happen to have a pair of those, it would also be, it would be compatible. Content moderators will review every AR lens before it goes live. That's what Snap says anyway, to help prevent conflicts between property owners and creators. Snap is also trying to hook locations up with creators. So, Manhattan's you and me books, for example, worked with creators at AR Developer Studio Real on a custom landmark. Snap's computer vision engineering director, Chi-Pen, told protocol that the next step would be to enable multi-user AR experiences. That's actually the most fun part of this, I think. The multi-user aspect of this, or the potential of it.  We're like, who got there first? Yeah, yeah. The gamification part of this, yeah. Yeah, I think that this is a next level step up with what a lot of people have been doing on the Snap platform for a while in terms of creating filters that you could use only in certain geo-locations. So, you'll see that a lot of theme parks or restaurants or big events, concerts, whenever you're scrolling through somebody's Snap stories and you see, you know, Coachella or something like that, that is something that Coachella sets up and sets the boundaries for. Now, when you are watching Kanye West at Coachella, you might be able to behind the stage see a gigantic, you know, Donda house or something like that, that would be able to digitally be inserted and everybody would be able to see it from different angles. It's a cool idea. I do think that AR-wise, this is the kind of stuff that you would likely see more of if we are in a world where you are constantly looking through AR-powered glasses or something like that, but it really is, I mean, to be totally honest, the most fascinating thing about this to me is that it is on a just sign up to be a creator level because all of the hardware is on commercially available phones. I mean, the fact that we can light our scan and create something that fast truly is a leap forward that I think we kind of take for granted. I don't know if this is the Friendster, MySpace or Facebook of this thing, but this is the kind of thing that builds the metaverse, right? You have creators going out and creating stuff. Some of it won't be that useful. Some of it will only be popular temporarily. Some of it will just be artistic. Some of it will be practical, but I imagine this becoming, whether it snaps implementation or somebody else's, becoming an eventual substrate of the metaverse in the real world where we walk outside and we pop on those glasses that Justin is talking about and we see a whole lot more things. I was saying in our meeting today, I was like, what if we had a DTNS meetup and there was an AR arrow that was like, yep, you're in the right place. This is it. Or you had little navigation markers along the way where only people going to the meetup could see them, but it would help guide you to the thing. Like there's all kinds of useful things this could do as well. Well, but as we're talking about the metaverse and like, what is it? Where is it? How do we all get there? How is it like great for us? I think, and I have definitely been a person who's been sort of held back by being like, well, I don't like this thing. I don't want this in my metaverse. Why would I want this? That's sort of like, you have to think of it as like real life in a certain sense that, oh my goodness. I'm sorry, my Apple watch is ringing. I'm not used to it yet. The idea that, you know, Snap has launched so many of these landmarkers is like, great. Is it right for me? Maybe not. Might be right for somebody else, but it doesn't need to make sense 100% of the time for 100% of the people. Yeah, real quickly. Princess Delirium has a good question in our Twitch chat. How do people with glasses deal with VR goggles and headsets? And the answer for AR anyway is the Wayfarer, where you have prescription glasses that are your VR glasses. Now Wayfarers from meta are not AR glasses, but they are obviously meant to be the template. So you'll have prescription augmented reality glasses. Yeah, I mean, I think you have VR, you wear the headset over top of your glasses. Yeah, you have some kind of space. AR, theoretically, you would build that in. Yeah. All right, folks. If you have a thought about something on the show, maybe we provoked the thought there in that conversation. Why don't you send it to us? Email us feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. Political scientist from UT Austin, La Trobe University, the University of Melbourne University of Waikato, published a study in digital journalism, a peer-reviewed journal, called Does Third Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in New Stories, an Australian case study using the sports rorts affair. So quick digression, a rort is Australian slang for a dishonest act. Sports rorts, sports rorts was a story about the minister of sport in Australia denying that she awarded grants based on whether a club was located in a swing seat for her party in parliament. Okay, back to the study. The scientists made two identical stories, but presented them as being either from ABC, the broadcast network, or News Corp. These are two mainstream media outlets in Australia. The stories had identical wording and headlines. These weren't the actual stories from these outlets. They just had different fonts and banners to try to control for whether someone had a perception of one or the other. 1600 adults were asked to read one of the stories and then answer questions about news trustworthiness. Half the 1600 were given a version with an AAP fact check to read as well. That's the Australian Associated Press. 86% found the ABC story trustworthy. 79% trusted the News Corp story. Those are both really high. However, here's the interesting thing. Trust in the stories fell 13% after reading the fact checking article. The scientists suggested that the fact checking worked to point out that the politician quoted in the story had told a lie, but that the reader, when they found out that the statement was a lie, reduced their trust in the source of the story, not just in the politician who lied. They suggested that media outlets may wanna spend less time giving equal weight to all sides in an issue, calling out things that are falsehoods in the stories themselves, and that fact checking sites might want to clearly state who's being corrected, that they're not correcting the article author that they're correcting the politician, which some fact checking does, some doesn't. Well, some might suggest that maybe the users of these social media platforms just don't like being in hell, which is what the portal of endless fact checking is talking to these readers because they are indeed a hashtag portal to hell, hashtag hell portal. Look, I think that there's a lot of ways that you can look at these. I think that it is faulty for social media companies to look at themselves as a platform that is adding a filter onto a media source, because what I think is fascinating about this is that readers don't view it as, oh, here's this objective truth fairy filter that is put over top of the imperfect world of media. Instead, it's just another form of media. You are just attacking directly these other sources. And there's a million, I mean, I could bore everybody's head off by talking about how I think the way that we have organized journalism is slipping. And I think that there are functional things that editorially outlets should be focusing on that reduce the concept that there is a both sidesism when it comes to reporting. But at the end of the day, these fact checking outlets are not anything other than direct media rebuttals to the original sources. And when you look at it like that, it is very antagonistic and it is almost designed to erode trust. Yeah, I think one of the things that caught me here is that I, because I went to journalism school, I guess, understand that a fact check on something is not a fact check of the entire thing, right? It's a fact check of a part of the thing. But that's not clear. When you're fact checking an article from News Corp, feels like you're saying that the News Corp article was true or not. And really what it gets down to is, in my opinion, fact checking was not a panacea. Fact checking was a response to people shouting do something. So they did something. And we are now studying afterwards whether that was the right thing to do and how effective it was. And I'm not saying fact checking has no place. I think it does. It's just we rushed to slap it on without really knowing what its effects would be. And also the social media companies didn't wanna do it themselves. They didn't wanna hire their own people. So they outsourced it to other people that are actually media outlets themselves that are viewed as directly attacking some of these sources. So look, it is a total mess, but obviously my point on this has been well made over the years. Well, Sarah, how do we get off this planet then? I'm glad you asked Tom. NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS, is ready in a practice countdown before the first Artemis mission later the spring, which is more than 10 years after the last space shuttle took flight. It's kind of big deal if you care about space. The space launch system is designed to bring the Artemis missions to the moon starting with Artemis-1 coming in the spring. NASA engineers plan for the rocket to make its debut on Thursday at 5 p.m. Eastern time. They will then roll out the vehicle assembly building and be ferried to launch complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center on Florida's East Coast. Justin, East Coast of Florida. Space Coast, baby. Yep, engineers and technicians will run a series of pre-launch tests through April 3rd. If SLS does indeed pass NASA can then set the launch date for the Artemis-1 mission. However, there is a lot of scrutiny of maybe, this is a lot of cost overruns. Quite a few delays as these things do tend to have. So with a lot of effort and funding invested in this particular moon program, a test run and staging ground for eventually sending astronauts, human astronauts, maybe, to Mars is clear than ever. But there's a lot riding on this test. Yeah, this has been in the works for years. The reason it's called Artemis is because that's the companion to Apollo. So it's gonna take us back to the moon. So Artemis mythologically and Apollo hang a lot in great mythology. So yeah, it's exciting to see a big rocket ready to take off from there. Yeah, look, the SLS has been derisively nicknamed the Senate Launch System because it's looked at as a give back to a lot of the contractors that have made space stuff for NASA in the past. It was once looked at as a competitor to SpaceX and then the intervening five years happened when SpaceX made itself to be a standard for spaceflight. The SLS will not be taking us to Mars. It will not beat SpaceX to Mars, barring something incredibly insane considering how slow it has gone. But it is good to see and the Artemis mission will include a SpaceX component. So that's it. And the Artemis mission wants to put the first woman on the moon, because we've only sent men before. Good, I'm always glad to see it. More space is better space, but the SLS is something that even from the moment that it was green lit was at a date. All right, I know I told Sarah to take us to space, but now I need Sarah to take us back down to the ground. What's in the mail bag, Sarah? Oh, Tom, I'm glad you asked. Sean, the historian in Toronto sent in his thoughts on renting e-bikes, because we were talking about that earlier this week, in Toronto, specifically, Sean says, I've used Zig, and by the way, we'll put his full email in the show notes if you wanna read the full transcript. We'll summarize now. Sean used Zig, which is a $189 Canadian dollar per month on a month-a-month plan, or $129 a month on a one-year plan, as well as seasonal discounted rates. Last autumn, Sean says he signed up for two months just to try it out. And, quote, they delivered the bike directly to my home and repairs and services were included in the price of the subscription. My commute is 25 kilometres. I tried it on a standard bike a couple of times, but it just wasn't practical for me to sweaty. Switching to a pedal-assisted e-bike was the perfect solution for me. I was able to commute regularly to the office two to three days a week, arriving in an hour and relatively sweat-free. If you're worried about safety, Sean adds, these bikes are fast, but they aren't faster than a standard road bike, many of which blew right by me on the way to work each day. Ah, well, that's good to know. Thanks for that. I like to get these on-the-scene reports, and I didn't even know they had one of these in Toronto. So there's even more places out there. They seem pretty widespread. Well, I think the whole idea of like, ride a bike, good for your heart, don't contribute to gas emissions kind of thing. A lot of people are like, yeah, but I mean, if you're really working at it, you are sweaty all the time. So I think Sean makes a really good point about what's actually reasonable for you to show up to an office, maybe in work clothes, and be able to use it to your advantage. Well, busily illustrating today's show has been Len Peralta. And so we check with the artistic fact that he has created. What do you got for us today, Len? Facts. It's funny you should mention facts, Tom. I decided to go with a lot of misinformation, the fact-checking and everything else. This is called fact-check this. And it's definitely something for you not watching the video to check out because there's a lot of lies being given by this so-called politician and some poor guy in the corner who is saying, you can't really trust these fact-checks articles at all, really. And one thing that's interesting about this is it's probably worth checking out because there's all kinds of little hidden sort of things in the background, these lies and stuff like that. So you may wanna- I was intrigued that the inside of my opponent is Nutella. But then I saw that the Cleveland Browns are number one and I knew something was wrong. They're actually Super Bowl contenders. Yeah, that's another, could be a lie, yeah. If you wanna see this, you can go to my Patreon, become a Patreon, patreon.com forward slash Len or at my online store at lennproaltestore.com and you can purchase it right there. Well, great work as always, Len. Also great work from you, Justin, Robert Young. Let folks know what you've been up to lately. Well, thank you, Sarah. Len Condolences on Baker Mayfield's trade request, but you can listen to the work that I've put out on Dog and Pony Show Audio, my production company, the new season of World's Greatest Con starring Brian Brushwood. Is rolling on, the newest episode this week is all about Charles Ingram and the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire scandal. A retired, sorry, an active army major in the British army goes on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, wins the million dollars in one of the most improbable runs of all time because allegedly he and his wife used the dumbest con of all time that we will ever cover on this series. You can go ahead and check that out now and listeners to the Great Night Podcast. Tomorrow, there is a thing that I've been working on in secret. It is the dumbest thing that I have ever worked on personally, but long-time listeners of the show will very much enjoy it. So check that out, Great Night Podcast for comedy, stuff for serious stuff, World's Greatest Con, season two continues. Justin, I don't know how you do it. You are one busy human. I just don't know how you do it. I fortify myself laughing at the Cleveland Browns, which has this power thing. That's what propels you forward. It's what the hate burns within me. All right, all right, everybody. Special thanks to Martin. Martin, maybe a Browns fan, maybe not. We don't know, but we do know that Martin is one of our top lifeline supporters for DTNS. So thank you to all the years of support. Martin, reminder folks, there's a longer version of the show called Good Day Internet available at patreon.com slash DTNS. If you're part of the live show, we're gonna roll right into that now. Just a reminder for DTNS, we're live Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern, 2100 UTC. 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