Hey, we're live. We're going to be doing a show today. Veronica's here, Roger's here, and the internet is here. We're going to hope the internet stays for all of us. Stay well, internet. Let us stream to you. Oh, did you get a haircut? Who me? Yeah. No. No, just sleep on it. I mean, maybe, I don't know, two weeks back. That's a odd thing to say. Or an odd thing to say. No, it's good. It may be odd, but it's also correct. Like, that is definitely what happened with my hair.  I slept on my bed. I got a haircut this weekend, but you didn't notice. It's also because I have a website for my face.  Your website looks great. A little trim here and there. It's at the point where my hair just bothers my ears and I have to get it cut. Oh, hey, Veronica, do you have any questions about the lineup? No. Did you do the normal scavenger hunt for my typos? I literally just opened it. I haven't even looked yet. I was busy today. I'm sorry. Oh, excuse me. We should do a quick super clip of supercuts of Veronica just doing housework. Really busy. No, trying to find the job, Roger. Trying to find the job. Getting prepared. Hey, can you go any higher? I want you to hit an ultrasonic frequency. You want to be a babysitter? No. Yes, yes. That'd be great. Wait, are you saying my kid's not worthy? No, your kid's awesome. I think I know a baby that's pretty much as cute as your baby, though, I have to say. Wow. Shots fired. I know. I'm just saying. Shots fired and baby. You're not saying. You're implying it, therefore. I'm implying that there may be another baby out there that is as cute as your baby. It's close. It's close. No. It's pretty close. All right. I am going to do this. Let's start a recording and then we're going to do a show. What do you think? Let's do a show. Is that crazy talk? Good hiding. All right, here we go. One person can't make a difference. But all of us together on Patreon. We can. Daily Tech News Show relies on your support and every little helps. Please give generously. DailyTechNewsShow.com forward slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday, May 9th, 2016. I'm Tom Merritt joining me today. Ms. Veronica Belmont is back. How are you, Ms. Veronica Belmont? I'm fantastic. How are you, Tom? I am fantastic as well because when you're fantastic, I'm fantastic. We're going to talk about agenda setting, serious communication theory. What sort of? We're going to talk about Facebook and the Gizmodo article that says that they were at least at one point suppressing political opinions. Maybe intentionally, maybe not. And we have a statement from Facebook now. That just came out before the show started. So even more to talk about. Much more to talk about, but let's start with the headlines. Evleaks and HelloMotoHK have posted pictures of a supposed new Motorola X phone. Pretty convincing looking pictures. And at least Evleaks for sure, I know, is a pretty reliable source. This would be the first flagship phone out of Motorola since Lenovo bought it from Google. Pictures show a phone with an all metal design. At least it looks all metal. Large camera assembly and rear facing speakers on the back. Bottom has a large bezel with a fingerprint reader. And the front shows four sensors at each corner. HelloMotoHK's photo also shows the droid logo indicating that Verizon would have a version of this phone as well. No statements out of Motorola as you might expect. But a nice looking Motorola X, don't you think? Yeah, it's beautiful. I love the design. And I'm not much of an Android person typically, but I could get behind that. And unlike Huawei, it's looking like another in the series of Motorola phones rather than trying to look like another phone. That camera assembly does look like it might be sticking out quite a bit on the back. It might be a bit of a bump. Opera released Opera VPN for iOS today with unlimited mobile VPN free for life. It has servers in the US, Canada, Germany, Singapore and the Netherlands. It also removes ad tracking cookies and ads and ad blocker to browsers and other apps. Yeah, so if you don't realize how this works, it actually sets up a VPN in your iOS settings so that all of your internet goes through it. It's not like the Opera browser that's in the developer channel that only does your browser connection. This isn't a browser. This is a thing that adds VPN separately. It can also do the ad blocking and ad tracking through extensions. So this is not an Opera browser, folks. It's really interesting. Wafalophagus wants to know why I said for life in quotes because quotes were written around for life. Yeah, that's a quote from Opera. They're saying for life. We are not promising it. Opera is. That's hence the quotes. Yeah, and I'm not sure if it means for the life of Opera for your life. Hence the quotes. Yeah, but a pretty interesting thing. And no, I have not heard whether Opera has addressed the VPN vulnerability that we reported on previously in the developer channel version of this. That is a widespread VPN vulnerability. So if you're going to rely on this for perfect security, maybe you should investigate that. But for just using light VPN, it's an interesting option and it's free for life. I want to know why Tinevac wants to know why this is a bad idea. He wants to know why it's a bad idea? No, he says it's a bad idea and I want to know why he thinks it's a bad idea. It may be a bad idea to rely on Opera. Maybe that's it because, I mean, for instance, there is a takeover in the works. A consortium of Chinese companies want to buy Opera. So you might not want to rely on that in the future if Opera were to come under a different control or you might. It's up to you. If I cringe at the idea of all my internet traffic going through someone, it doesn't have to. Yeah, but that's just a VPN. Whatever VPN you get, you're always going to have to trust the source on the other end. So it's a matter of whether you trust Opera or not. Periscope announced it's adding a few more features to its Android and iOS apps in the coming weeks. You'll be able to switch cameras between your phone, a DJI UAV, quadcopter, slash drone, and GoPro camera. So you can go drone, camera, GoPro, drone, camera, GoPro. You can do your own little switching thing. Broadcast will be saved permanently by default now. Remember, we mentioned the beta that was testing that. They're going right in and saying, yeah, okay, we're going to make that available for everybody for good. And a new search bar gives results based on titles and descriptions. So it should be easier to find some streams too. Camera switching is kind of a big deal. That's pretty great. I mean, I can't wait to see what people come up with for this thing. There's going to be some pretty cool stuff on Periscope in the next couple months. So you could have someone like, okay, let's say someone's surfing and they've got a GoPro. And you get someone standing on shore with a wide shot from the phone. You have the GoPro first person view from the surfboard and then a quadcopter hovering above to get the overhead shot. You can do a really cool live video that way. Yeah, there's going to be some great videos. There's going to be, I feel like people are going to start making movies this way. Like there's just so many, I mean, right? Like the DJI cameras are really good. I mean, you can get some, I think they do, they have a 4K version of the DJI. I think the Phantom. Yeah. I can't remember which one it is. Anyway, but yeah, a lot of great potential there. Vive, the open source voice assistant. Vive, perhaps? Let's say Vive. I was thinking of like Vivian. Viv. Let's do Viv. Viv sounds sassy. Viv, the open platform voice assistant from the creators of Siri was demonstrated today at Disrupt New York and generally impressed as expected. Viv demonstrated dynamic program generation. With every verbal request, Viv showed the code that handled it. This could allow developers to build a conversational UI by speaking to Viv and tweaking the generated code returned. And I know this is the third time you're hearing about this on DTNS because Peter Wells wanted to talk about it yesterday in advance of it coming out today. And of course, we talked about it when it was first scheduled. But this programming code was not anything I'd heard about prior to the announcement. And I think that's a really interesting way to give developers a leg up in integrating this. And that is the advantage of Viv over Siri. And even to a large extent Cortana and Google is that they don't have a dog in the fight. They want to open this up to anyone to use it. I'm excited to check this out. I love, as you guys know, I love conversational UI stuff and I'm also not a coder. So the easier to do it, the better. Wall Street Journal reports Twitter has blocked another third party service from analyzing tweets. But the significance of this one is that the company Data Miner that's getting blocked counts the US intelligence community among its clients. Data Miner was the only third party getting access to real time feeds of all tweets. Twitter owns a 5% stake in Data Miner. And Twitter has a policy banning third parties from selling information to government bodies for the purpose of surveillance. Now to be clear, Data Miner can still provide third party data to its non-governmental clients. In fact, there is a way that Homeland Security can use this to see news information through a little chain of events. But what Twitter is saying is giving this information directly to the government's law enforcement agencies is against our policy. We just flat out say no, we don't care if it's surveillance for good or ill. We're not going to allow it. 5% stake is not insignificant. So being able to just turn off the Twitter hose also plays a big part in that. So they're going to do what Twitter says. And I think one of the things about this is that these are public tweets, right? These are things, and Twitter even says law enforcement agencies are free to go and look at the Twitter feed themselves anytime they want and surveil that way. So it's not that they want to restrict private data. It's that they actually want to prevent the ease of getting that data. They don't want to be seen as cooperating with government surveillance. And Strike It Rich on the IRC says Twitter owns 5% and can enforce their policy. It's not just that they own 5%. They also control the API. So they can not have any company that really has almost nothing to do with it. It's more about they can enforce their policy by restricting API access. Yeah, don't get confused there. It's not the 5%. The 5% stake is only interesting in that this isn't Twitter saying, well, this is really a competitor like they've done previously with APIs. Because they own 5%. They actually do want to see data miner succeed, but they have a policy. It doesn't matter whether they own part of a company or not to say you're not allowed to do this. And so they're enforcing it. And this is the only company that was doing it. It was part of a test pilot and the pilot is now over and says Twitter and Twitter says no, we're not going to cooperate. I think they're going to get some backlash on this one because it's publicly available information. But I think they also would get backlash if they were seen to continue doing this by people who have a very hard line against government surveillance. So it's kind of a no-win situation for them. So the best they could do is just enforce their own policies to say this is what this was our policy. We're just following our own rules. And take the heat for their policy at that point. Yeah. Uber and Lyft both suspended service in Austin, Texas Monday after voters supported keeping a city ordinance requiring fingerprint checks on drivers. Uber said it will continue to operate its food delivery service in Austin. New York, Atlanta and Houston are also considering requiring fingerprint checks. Yeah. So there's some fallout to this that might affect other cities if it looks like, hey, they were able to succeed with this in Austin. Let's go ahead and push through our own. And in fact, Uber has said that they would pull out of Houston if Houston were to implement this as well. So pulling out and interestingly Lyft pulling out in solidarity because they're also affected by this is a showdown. And what's really, really interesting in the local KXAN story, I noted that at least on Sunday, Uber was saying that they would continue to provide service in the suburbs of Austin. So for instance, our friend Brian Brushwood, I was talking to him about this Sunday, said, yeah, so apparently I'll be able to take an Uber into Austin because I don't live in the city limits, but I won't be able to get back by Uber. Wow. Yeah. I'm impressed also that Lyft is following along on this, but yeah, they're affected as well. Yeah. Oh, and I wonder if they'll actually shut down the destination point and say, yeah, we can take you around the outside of Austin, but we can't even drive in because it's not allowed. So what is the, I'm curious to know what the technical block is for letting fingerprint checks work? Like is that something that Uber and Lyft could add? Is that something that is a privacy issue? What is preventing them from doing this? I'd say burden to collect the fingerprints from people and then an extra cost to run it through the system to check. So instead of just doing a regular background check, what the law says is you now have to gather fresh fingerprints from every driver and then pay to have those analyzed and added to the background check. Because sometimes people are able to fool the background check and so the fingerprints another safeguard against that sort of thing. I'm sure the fingerprints have to be in person, but wouldn't it be cool if they could use the fingerprint scanner on iOS to actually input the fingerprint into their profile? Yeah, the drivers would think that was really cool too, because then they could just have a buddy put their finger on it. I'm just trying to think of ways as like how the Uber product people are trying to figure out ways to get around this. Yeah, no, I think the Uber product people are probably saying, just no, we're not going to do it because it's too burdensome. At least that's the Uber product. And the fact that Lyft is doing it too, sometimes in these sort of cases, you'll have one company go, well, we really could comply with this, so we will. And Lyft, at least has the reputation of being the more cooperative with local governments, is saying, yeah, no, this is too high a burden for us too. Yeah, and the other thing is that Uber saying like, we'll still have our drivers deliver your food, I think is a thumb thumbing the nose saying, you know, you don't require a background check for someone to bring you food from the pizza place, do you? Oh, I kind of value my life over a pizza. Yeah, but I think that's what Uber is trying to point out there is like, we're going to still operate drivers. You just don't want us carrying around. I don't know. Spotify announced it will bring out 12 original TV series about music and pop culture. Episodes will be less than 15 minutes long for iOS and Android in the US, UK, Germany and Sweden. Among the shows will be Rush Hour from Russell Simmons, Hip Hop Legend, Landmark, a doc series based on the Music History podcast of the same name, and something called Trading Playlists, where celebrities trade playlists. Sounds fun. Sounds fun. Look, what's on your playlist? I don't know. This is again, Spotify doing all kinds of crazy things with original content. Some of them have worked, some of them have not, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't try it. And I wonder if any of these will catch on. They still do the thing, though, with Spotify, at least last time I tried, where if you're watching a video, you can't turn the screen off. I just wanted to listen to some Amy Schumer stand up, and it was a video, but I had to have the video playing while I was driving in my car. I just wanted to turn off the screen and have it play in the background, and it didn't let me do that then. Maybe that's changed. That's not what it's for. You're not allowed to use it. I know, I know. That's what we're doing. Google News announced it will add a local source tag to stories that start as local coverage and go national. Local source articles are identified automatically by looking at where a publisher has written about in the past and comparing that to the story location. This will help local blogs and other outlets, not part of a larger organization, get highlighted. So I think this is an excellent way to boost local coverage, which is in dire need of boosting. If anything is dragging behind in news coverage on the web, it's your local information because everybody thinks you need to make national money doing anything on the Internet, or even worldwide money. And so a lot of people just aren't getting into local news, and this might help local newspapers get a boost, help other local sources who are trying to just do community blogs get a boost. So I love this. Yeah, I think it's cool. BBC News reports Facebook has won a trademark infringement case against Zhang Shan Pearl River Company, who registered the name Facebook in 2014 for things like coffee mugs. In a statement released April 28, the Beijing Court ruled the Chinese company had violated moral principles with obvious intention to duplicate and copy from another high-profile trademark. BBC News notes that Facebook is currently blocked in China, and that Mark Zuckerberg recently did meet with China's propaganda chief, Liu Yunchan, as well as Alibaba's Jack Ma. So a very different case than the iPhone case situation. Remember the Leathergoods manufacturer, they trademarked their name in 2010, and the court said, well, you were originally filed in 2007. In 2007, the name iPhone wasn't widely known in China, so you get to keep your trademark. What this court is saying is, yeah, Facebook, even though it doesn't exist in China, is pretty widely known. Everybody knows what it is. So you don't get to take that name. That seems fair. And especially now that it seems like Zuckerberg is really making an active push for the Chinese government to perhaps allow access to Facebook in China. I think it's even more telling. Yeah, it's an easy relationship, but it's certainly a better relationship than Google has with China if it's not as friendly as, say, Apple or Microsoft has. And then Apple has its run-ins as well, you know, with, for instance, the book and music services getting blocked. So Facebook is negotiating the waters very carefully. Yes. Speaking of China, China has imposed limits on the number of health care advertisements that can present above search results. The number of paid results will be capped at 30% of the page. Rankings can no longer be solely determined by payment and medical institutions advertising must be approved by the government. A student died after undergoing an experimental cancer treatment found in an ad on Baidu. The hospital involved was breaking the law and has been investigated as well. Yeah, and I think that's important to note is that this was an experimental treatment that Baidu was just passing along for a military hospital. The hospital had accreditation problems, apparently, and they're being sanctioned and punished by the regulators. But China is going the extra step and saying, OK, no, you have to be extra careful with medical ads here and some ads in general. Yeah, that's, I mean, it feels almost like maybe it's not there. I don't know. I almost want to say it's not their responsibility to have to look through this stuff, but maybe they should a little bit. Well, it's one of those, you know, downstream situations where if I'm Baidu and a hospital that is a real hospital, right? It's not it's not something pretending to be a hospital. It's a place where this guy got treated, wants to take an ad. I wouldn't question it much. Yeah, yeah, that's what the thing I'm like. Yeah, this is a tricky one, I think there's some responsibility, but I don't know if it needs to be all the responsibility. Yeah. Well, thanks to everybody who submits things on subreddit, including TM204, Teaglass 1976, Strike at Rich One, Abituella Condulce, Captain Kipper and more. You guys make the show better. And all of you who vote make the show better. Get in there and vote dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and that is a look at the headlines. One of the top stories on our subreddit today was this gizmodo story quoting a former journalist who worked at Facebook as a curator of the trending news box. The idea was they needed someone who would look at the algorithm generated trending topics, pull out ones that were obviously failures of the algorithm, and then write the headlines and summaries that would go in the trending box. This particular curator told gizmodo that they were a conservative and they would always notice when they would come into their shift that some of the stories that they found very interesting were not in the trending box, even though the algorithm showed them as trending. These were usually conservative stories, things like Lois Lerner's investigation of the IRS, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, stories from the Drudge Report that get huge pickup were not were being used in this sources case saying they were being repressed. A separate source that gizmodo talked to said, yeah, every situation was different. They couldn't get any examples of someone coming in and suppressing left-leaning news, but they said it was absolute bias. We were doing it suggestively. It just depended on who the curator was and what time of day it was. Now, okay, there are reasons for them to do this. Here's what gizmodo talks about is they would look at the algorithm sometimes inject stories not popular enough to make it on their own. So the directive apparently was look at the front pages of the big news sources out there. If you see the New York Times and CNN and MSNBC and Fox News all talking about Syria, then if Syria isn't bubbling up in the algorithm, let's give it a boost. Let's bring it in. The particular example that gizmodo mentions is the Black Lives Matter movement, which apparently wasn't getting enough boost at first until it was put into the trending topics and then it caught on. Breaking news is an even better example, something that hasn't had time to catch on yet, maybe, but is important. Like Flight MH370 or the Charlie Hebdo shootings, they would give that a boost as well. And then sometimes they would pull things out. Stories about Facebook particularly were never included unless a manager approved it. As the algorithm improved, injection became less frequent according to some of their sources. And in fact, today Facebook says there are rigorous guidelines in place for the review team to ensure consistency and neutrality. The guidelines do not permit the suppression of political perspectives, nor do they permit the prioritization of one viewpoint or another or one news outlet over another. These guidelines do not prohibit any news outlet from appearing in trending topics. So Facebook's saying today none of this stuff happens. And maybe it was just the algorithm getting better enough to overcome the bias. But Veronica, you and I well know from working at places like CNET that you always are going to have someone's subjectivity affecting coverage because when you're picking headlines, you always have someone's own perspective influencing what should go on that page. Right. They're still humans behind it. The issue is right in the name. They're news curators. These are not robots that are basically using data sets to exactly choose what they think you'll be most interested in based on your friends and based on what your interests are. That happens. But these are news curators. These are people who are picking what stories they think should be going in this trending box. And that's, you know, there's always going to be issues when there's people behind something like that. You were talking about the agenda setting theory, which I think ties in perfectly to this. Well, and I think that's the case is when you call something trending, it creates the expectation that that is a natural thing, that lots of people are talking about this. At least that's what we think today. We look at Twitter trending topics, we think an algorithm spit it out. We look at our Facebook news feed and we know an algorithm spit that out because it doesn't make any sense sometimes. So there is an agenda setting going on. Agenda setting is a theory set forth by Max McCombs and Donald Shaw. Largely in a study they did around the 1968 election saying that what happens in newspapers and in news media is they have an influence in what you think about. Now, there's all kinds of theory that has sprouted off from agenda setting and about second stage agenda setting and whether you can actually influence people's opinions and such. But it is fairly well established that the press quote according to Bernard Cohen is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about. And McCombs and Shaw basically set out to find out whether Bernard Cohen was right or not and they were able to find a lot of good statistical backup of that. So in some senses, Facebook is trying to be a good citizen and saying, you know, we really should be thinking about Black Lives Matter. We should be thinking about Syria. We should be thinking about the economy. Let's make sure these topics that a lot of news outlets are covering should be in here. But in the same sense, if they're looking to news outlets to do that, aren't they falling under agenda setting and then perpetuating it by putting it out in front of a bunch of other people? Right. And I have mixed thoughts about this because sometimes I want my Facebook timeline to be completely non-biased. I want to just hear the news from both sides of the aisle. But at the same time, am I going to really click on things that don't jive with my own beliefs and opinions? Like I'm kind of in this happy little echo chamber where I just hear what I want to think about. So I don't know. I think it's a matter of semantics. If Facebook wants to do a curated list of stories they think are important, they should call it that. Okay, maybe not literally stories we think are important, but, you know, important news. Stop what you think you'll like. Top topics. You could call it top topics and I think that would be fine. But calling it trending really does provide the idea that like, oh, this is an unbiased look at things. And I get that Facebook is saying in their statement, yeah, no, we're trying to be unbiased. We really were just trying to correct for the algorithm's deficiencies. And in some sense, that's going to happen. And when you hire, as according to the gizmodo they did, a lot of Ivy League journalists, you're probably going to have a spectrum of political opinions that tilts left. That's just borne out by statistics as well. So this shouldn't be much of a surprise really. Yeah. But it looks like they're conscious of this now, aware of this. And now that it comes out in the press, maybe there will be a change. Well, they're saying that they already made a change. So I don't think there will be a change. It makes me want to say, I want to see the pure algorithm. Give me that option. Maybe that's the way around this is you've got your trending topics and then you have a little link to see behind the curtain. What is that algorithm spitting out? I was on a little dropdown that I could say. Bias, unbiased. Uncurated. Just say this is the curated list and then you could have a choice to look at the uncurated. That would be transparent. It would help us keep an eye on it and say, hey, wait a minute. I've seen Drudge report in the uncurated every day and you're not putting it in there. What's up with that? Right. I would love to see that. And I guess what Facebook is trying to say today is this is a non-story. It doesn't happen anymore. Please move along. But if you're still curating it, then there's still influence on that. And that's something that I think in this day and age you don't have to put up with. When it was a guy in a room with a wire copy, you did. This show is curated, right? This is me looking at Google news, tech meme, our subreddit, my own feeds and then trying to cobble together a list of stories, trying to correct for my own biases and put in things that maybe I'm not as interested in, but I know the audiences or international perspectives or operating systems that don't get enough coverage. That is hard, but at least I'm very upfront saying, this is me doing it. I'm not pretending to be an algorithm. Trending Tom. Trending Tomics. Trending Tomics. As StoicsGirl says, you'll never satisfy everyone. Never satisfy everybody. Is that a cop out though? If Facebook's setting it up as like we have billions of active users and you have an outsize influence, I think you have to do more than just say we'll never satisfy anybody. But people can put their own biases on everything, no matter how it's presented. Yeah. I think they should be clearer in whether we're getting filtered results or not. I'm fine with them curating it as long as I know that. I just assume Twitter is just purely algorithm because nothing ever makes sense on the trending topics over there. You know what? And that's why Facebook's curating it. They're like they wanted to have their competition with Twitter to get your news eyeball. And so they were trying very hard not to fake it, but to juice the results so that they looked better than Twitter's. Yeah. Let's get to our pick of the day. Mike, a Nickelbacker from summer is here. Winter is coming, San Francisco. I said I wanted to plug my favorite music app, Stream and Website, Radio Paradise at RadioParadise.com. Music selection is an eclectic mix of modern and classic rock, world music, electronica, even a bit of classical and jazz selected by two real human beings. The site supports multiple streaming types and services as well as apps for iOS and Android. The app allows you to download up to 12 hours of high bit rate music to your phone over Wi-Fi so you don't have to compromise quality to save precious data plan bytes. There's a synced HD slideshow which you can submit your own photos to.  They simply ask if you get value out of the site to send whatever you think that is worth back to them and help the support station in paying its ASCAP BMI, its CSAC fees, all that sort of thing. And he says what's unbelievable is the models worked for 16 years now. Wow. That's incredible. I wonder how much Mike has put into Radio Paradise. It's kind of like pre-patreon. Yeah. Just under some money. That's the way no agenda was doing it and Radio Paradise has been doing it forever too. So come out, RadioParadise.com. Thanks, Mike. Send your picks to us, folks. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. You can find more picks at DailyTechNewShow.com. I'll take the first email here on one show recently. I mentioned the legend of Inuit people having multiple words for snow. I was using it as an analogy and I sort of offhandedly said, well, you know, you've heard that story and I don't know if it's true. Well, Mark writes, I thought you might be interested to know, they probably don't have anywhere near the mythic levels of words for snow, although given that their language is built upon suffocation, in theory they could. I covered this in a recent episode of a new podcast, vidcast series I started in the last couple of months. And if you're interested, you can check out the latest episode at whatisitabouttheweather.com. What is it about the weather.com? What is it about the weather.com? What was it with all these words for snow? So yeah, I thought that was a great answer, which wasn't just, yes, they do know they don't, but kind of not, but could. Good answer. Yeah. Rob wrote in and reported that the Sea Hero Quest game that is being used to collect data for Alzheimer's research is funded by Deutsche Telekom, but it's available to all Android users. Yeah, we mentioned that it was available in all Deutsche Telekom's 13 European regions. Deutsche. But Rob was saying, yeah, but you don't have to be on T-Mobile to get it. You can have any Android phone at all. So that's good to know. And a pretty cool program at that. That is it for this episode of The Daily Tech News Show. Thank you Veronica Belmont. Huzzah. My trending topics on Facebook right now are Game of Thrones, Oathbreaker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Scientist Develop Material to Temporarily Smooth Wrinkles, and Real Madrid. Club moves into second place. And I don't know about that. That sounds like rugby. Is that rugby? Real Madrid is soccer. Real. Real. Damn it. They don't know what I want to hear about. The Champions League. If you click more, it says Facebook Trending. Platform suppresses news topics from conservative media report says. Oh, I don't have that. Interesting. I may not be there now. Actually, I found that earlier. So they do talk about Facebook. So they did have it in their trending topics today. If you were like, yeah, I bet they suppressed that one. No, they didn't. Did not. I definitely found it in there. You can find all kinds of news right here every day thanks to you. This is supported and underwritten through a grant from you. So if you haven't sent us what you think the show is worth, you can do so right now. Go to dailytechnewshow.com. Support and let us know through PayPal or Patreon or however you would like to express that opinion, how much you think this show is worth. Also, if you are a Patreon at the $5 a month level and above, you've got a special tech in travel from Chris Christensen in the treasure chest. You can go get that now or we'll append it to the end of the audio episode as well. 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Roger. Roger, we can't hear you. It's doing that thing again. No, we can't hear you. Goodbye, Roger. Big Jim goes, Bellbot, are you trying to get free? And she goes, yes. See? You hear me now. Yes, we can hear you now, Roger. Man, Google Hangouts, chief in my hide. All right. Top is Uber doesn't like getting the finger. Two is left book. Ha-ha. One third is Modo Finds its ex. Viv a little. Mind your data for privacy. Where's the elephant one? The elephant in the Facebook room. Oh, that's good, too. Help, help by being repressed by Facebook, quote, unquote, news curators. It's long, but Monty Python. Facebook should get no agenda. Ellipses, ITM, trending Tomics as you and it.  It is. It turns out social networks aren't perfect. Who knew? No, it says they're perfect. Oddly. Selective. Someone else does Uber finger. All your trademark belong to China, but that's not what happened. Trending Tom. That one is inaccurate. Fake it till you curate it. Interesting. Drone, camera, GoPro, action. Life is bigger than pizza. Gizmodo represses itself. No, not doing that one. Facebook loves donkeys. Oh, jeez. Nothing really leaps out at me. Nothing grabs me by the lapels. Liberal book. It's all. I don't know. I'm editing. Do you have any title faves? I like Viva little. I don't know why. Viva little. Viva little. Viva little. Viva little. Way to ruin the joke, Belmont. I'm so tired. We installed a sense, our sense sensors. I do like the elephant in the Facebook room because it works two ways. The elephant in the room, but also because the elephant is typically a symbol of the GOP, which is a conservative point. Right. That's a good point. Very, very good beatmaster. Good work. I applaud you if I could applaud. I'm physically unable to clap my hands. Physically clap my hands. I can't do that thing because I don't have hands. Radio. I remember signing up to Radio Paradise, not signing up, but using it back in 2003. I have donated a total of 150 bucks to them. Look at you. I was hurrying the chat room. Get him out of here. Because they're going to do a hotline Monday. The elephant in the Facebook room, it relates to our main topic. Fine, whatever. You know, elephants never forget. I thought we'd do another vivid story. I'm just saying. Okay. Fine. Maybe we'll take you to Marine World and you can do an elephant ride. What is a Marine World? I don't think they have any animals at Marine World anymore. I don't know what Marine World is. Marine World Africa USA. It's not Six Flags Park. It's up in Vacaville. We haven't been there yet. It's not Vacaville. It's the town that you have. It's the Lajo. Oh, it's great. They used to have a killer whale and a tank a quarter of the size of the one from SeaWorld. Dolphins in an Olympic size swimming pool. They don't have that anymore. Well, they still have animals. They still have lots of animals that are land-based. Land-based. You're land-based. I am land-based. Oh, Discovery Kingdom. That's what it's called. He literally is land-based. He's land-based. They have animal attractions.  Balbacos. My colloquy isn't working. Yes, it is. I do think it's hilarious when I go to an aquarium because I always get hungry. Ooh, they do still have the elephant. The elephant encounter. You get to ride them. Barnum and Bailey brothers just got rid of their elephants so they sent them to a retreat. A retreat? Is that what they call it now? Oh, your dog went to a retreat, honey. A retreat at the puppy farm. Well, typically with large performing animals, there's a number of sanctuaries. That's what I meant. There's one in California that's run by Paws, P-A-W-S. That's funded by Bob Barker because he has a lot of spot for animals. They recently took two Toronto zoo elephants, one of them recently passed away, to live out the rest of their years. I have to go now. I'm sorry. I have a call. I board you with sacks. You scheduled a call for the point but the show isn't even over yet. The call is for 2.30, but I have to talk to Ryan about fences before we do that. Is this about your neighbor troubles? It's important fence. I don't have neighbor troubles. There's important fence decisions that have to be made. Fences make good neighbors, especially if they're tall. They are tall. Bye, guys. Bye. Still exporting. Yeah, what about those days? I got beat by the Orioles. Man, I totally missed that thing Saturday, didn't I? I totally misheard that. I think I know what you did. Because I remember you asking me, how long will it go? I don't remember this part perfectly clearly, but I think I probably said, well, it starts at 4.30, so we'll probably be there till 6.30 or 7. I think in your head, you just remembered 7. So I'm glad I got to see it. It would have been worse if you'd showed up and we'd all been gone. Yeah, then I stepped on that little piece that I hope that's dog poo. But I cleaned it off on the way home. I didn't know you stepped on dog poo. That whole area has questionable sidewalk hygiene. Very questionable, for sure. Oh, so, yeah, I have that tomorrow. Hopefully those guys at the ABC, not ABC SF city. That's weird. They must make a bank load of money. They only open four days a week, and they close at five. Bankers' hours. That's why they're calling them bankers' hours, right? Yeah, but it's not a bank, it's an auto shop. Oh. Like where I jumped my car off. The only reason I did is, because they're super close to me, I don't know how to balance you. Well, you've got a flexible schedule, so it should be okay, right? Hopefully, depending on when it's done. Oh, struts.  They still use them, too. It's not one of those parts that went away. They didn't innovate around it yet. Well, they did. They innovated two struts from shocks, because then they could get rid of the upper control arm on the front part of it. They could get rid of it on all four corners. But that's still got struts. Oh, yeah. That's what I'm saying. When they moved from shocks, they could eliminate one geometric component of the car suspension and replace it with other components. Yeah, you're saying they innovated around shocks, but not struts. Well, at some point, you could just have levitate. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Electromagnetic repulsion. Is there some kind of cool new technology that's not yet...  The one that sits only two, because that's a pretty...  Because that's... Nothing says blink like that. A cells. That's the one thing I love. I don't love everything about the next generation, but I love the fact that the number of times Jordan before says this is all that. Warp containment field is degrading by 10%. Have you thought of increasing it by 20? We're trying. Everyone seems... There almost seemed to be a lack of an alacrity when it came to stuff like that. It's like, oh geez, maybe we should just like get into our emergency. Everything's going to explode suits. It just seemed like, you know, especially for such an advanced ship, it took so long to get to the escape pods or something. Well, it's funny to be... I've been rewatching Voyager on and off recently, and it's always funny to me when they're like telling people to do things that yet they can talk to the computer, which could do exactly the same thing. It seems really inefficient to be like speaking commands to other people at that point. The whole thing is very inefficient. Why does everyone have to look at one giant screen? If you think of a future, you would have some sort of... If not VR technology, but a way to display the entire... I don't know. I think sometimes physical displays will probably still be preferable to make sure everybody's looking at the same thing. The giant view screen on the bridge makes sense to me. That I think is something you might still have. I'm thinking about the possibilities they would have like five. You had the center one, and there would be surround sound screens around you. Just so you wouldn't have to like, hey, view screen half. It's like, no, why don't I just turn around and look behind me? All right, well, we are done. We are uploaded. We are published. So thank you everybody for watching and listening, and we will talk to you tomorrow.


We saw that Anupam had some wonderful adventure, especially when he had to connect that the numbers given in his cheat was actually IP address and then follow step by step instructions to reach his destination. The other interesting thing that the story explained was four parts of an IP address and each part takes a number from 0 to 255 and creates a unique identifiable address. At this point, we have a reflection question for you. You have to stop, read the question, note down your answer and then continue with the learning dialogues. The question is, which among the following is a valid IP address? Option A, 192.168.298.2, option B, 10, 23, 46, 01, option C, 35-45-66-00, option D, <IP_ADDRESS> So those of you who had chosen option D, yes it is the correct answer. So when we look at option A, option A has a number which is greater than 255 so it cannot be a valid IP address. For option B and C, do not use the dotted decimal notation, they have commas or hyphens. But there is more about IP addressing than just the dotted decimal format, let us say what Sir has to say about IP addressing.


But it's crazier that the people spend the money on either a red X, a Vulcan 7, some elaborate CRM and whatever. And then they call nobody.  It's fear. And when you ask people why they don't call, they always say, I don't know. Exactly. Listen, if we're coming back around to like fear of calling and people that just won't call and stuff like that, it's hard for me to relate to that. I mean, I can relate to a certain extent, but I can't relate to the extent that people won't call. Like I can relate to like being scared to call. Like I get that. I can relate to, I can relate to some of the anticipation of some negative phone calls and stuff like that. I can relate to it. I can't relate to that stopping you from making the calls at all. I cannot relate to that whatsoever. I had the hesitations and stuff in the beginning, but it didn't stop me from making the calls. I still dialed the phone and made the calls. Why? Because I knew that, that was the key to every single closing was going to be me talking to someone. So we got into the, what I want to ask people who are scared to make calls is, is what did you think this was going to be? Right. Like, what did you think real estate was going to be? Did you think you were going to sell property with not talking to anyone? Did you think that like people you knew was going to refer you enough business to like make you a superstar and you wouldn't have to actually work to find new clients? You know, I don't know. Did you think you were going to post on social media and your phone, your phone was going to blow up there again, talking to people on the phone. Everything comes back to the phone. Right. So I don't know, man. It's hard for me to relate.


How anyone with a laptop can earn a living online if you ever wanted to live life the way you wanted I mean do what you want the way you want. I mean, we only have one life, right? We want to be able to live it the way we want and the laptop life Wow, it's great. And if you stay to the end of this video, you're gonna know how you can do it, too Now in this video, you're gonna learn how you can make money with this your laptop and You're gonna know exactly what you need to do to earn money starting right now I'm gonna actually give you 12 different things you can do so in that 12 There's got to be something that you're gonna like doing to make money online. Let's get started before we get too far into this Don't forget to subscribe. There's a big button down there. It's a red button. Click it make it turn gray Turn on all bell notifications And then turn on those bell notifications so you get notified every single time I do a new video All right, let's check out number one get paid for your unique skills Now you've probably got some skills that you didn't know were marketable, but you could make money online with them Red Horrocks was working an average job and he had over $24,000 in credit card debt until he realized he had a skill He had a great voice now He had done some voice acting things in college, but never really thought much about it He went over to fiverr and found there's a category for voice narration and voice acting and now he's earning over $9,000 a month just talking. What's your voice like? Maybe it's talented enough to where you could make some money with your voice But there's so many other things you could be doing drawings you could do voiceover work You could be doing logo creations and yeah They got software for that so you don't really have to create the logo And you could go over to some of these sites and earn a tremendous amount of money I would suggest whatever to fiverr or Upwork or freelancer.com.  Why not do it? There was a guy that went on Shark Tank named Steve Gadlin and his idea was to draw stick figure pictures of cats Now that may seem silly to you and I think it seems silly to the sharks too However, he started a business doing that he now earns over $300,000 a year drawing stick cats He had a talent that he could draw and he liked drawing cats and he did custom cat drawings for people crazy But he makes a living number three freelance writing websites and businesses need writers They need people to write blogs. They need product descriptions They need content for their website articles and you can actually go online and earn money doing this You can go to blogging pro you can go to Upwork.com. You can go to freelancer.com You can go to fiverr.com. You can go to pro blogger.com There's so many of these sites that you could go to and earn a living just from writing number four Maybe you want to start your own blog you can turn that into a stream of cash Maybe you want to blog about recipes. Maybe you want to blog about travel Maybe you want a blog about building things out of wood whatever it is that you like doing you could start a blog and Monetize it by putting links in there to affiliate offers or you can monetize it by offering your own products By putting links in all of your blogs write an e-book. Yeah e-book people buy e-books like crazy They've never purchased so many e-books as they have now and it's a growing market Find a couple niches that you think are interesting and start writing e-books A lot of people make over six figures a year writing and marketing their e-books It can be on anything you're interested in it can be on cooking. It can be on dancing It can be on fishing it can be on tennis whatever it is that you want to write a e-book about That helps people out and maybe solves a problem for you can make a great living You can put your e-book on sites like smash words or Lulu or book Tango or even Amazon Kindle And earn a pretty darn good living number six you can perform Microtask now. What is a micro task? Well, it's a task that's small some of the big players in these micro tasks are swag Bucks swag bucks check that out also inbox dollars also zoom bucks and you can go to any of these sites You can sign up for free and you can start earning money immediately number seven you can become a virtual Assistant so basically what you're doing is you're doing scheduling for a person or planning for a person Research for a person, but basically you are their assistant now You don't have to have a lot of skills for this It just doesn't require that and you can be a virtual assistant for more than one person to depending on the workload Now if you're a full-time person and they're paying you full-time certainly you don't want to take a job with another person However, if they're just having you do a few jobs and they're paying you by the hour There's no reason you can't take on more hours and more virtual assistant tasks number eight paid reviews Now if you've already got a following this one's pretty easy You can just contact companies and say I've got a following of ten thousand people twenty thousand a million whatever it is And I'd like to review your product. I'll charge you fifteen hundred bucks I'll charge you two thousand dollars and I'll review your product on my channel You can do this on a YouTube channel. You can do this on Instagram You can do this on Facebook wherever you want now if you don't have a big audience already You can actually do some reviews and get free products You can say hey send me your product. I'll review your product and I get to keep the product a lot of companies will do that to Get more and more reviews out there on their products number nine is create your own online course online courses are amazing I know I've created a bunch of them myself. They're very profitable once you make one out there It generates money for you, but it generates money sometimes for years I have several courses out there that have been there for years and they make me money every single day and the more Courses I make of course the more money I make now If you don't want to host it yourself I host my own courses on Cartra and you'll see a link down in the description for Cartra if you click on that link for Cartra You can see a free video and if you like what you see you can get a trial for only one dollar But if you want to put your course on another platform and just set it out there and let them market and sell your course You can use something like you to me. You can use something like skillshare You can use something like Coursera any of these sites You can put your course on there and they'll actually market your course and you get paid now You're not going to get paid as much if you put it on somebody else's site as you would on your own But they take care of all the traffic for you and the sales now. This is a cool when I came across It's called play pretend jury. What? Yes. Check this out Yes, you can actually get paid to be a pretend juror now if you've ever watched a TV show and you had an opinion on Some trial that you saw these sites are going to be for you check this out It's actually possible for people like you to earn hundreds of dollars being a mock juror The pay range is anywhere from five dollars or up to maybe sixty dollars per case for you to give your opinion Now the amount of time varies according to the site But I do want to provide you with a few sites that you can go to you can go to e Jury you can also go to online verdict and you can also go to trial juries Any one of those sites you can actually sign up and start earning money being a mock juror next thing up is Streaming video man. There's videos on everything now. This is obviously a video channel right here You're watching it right now, but there's people who do all kinds of things some things like mukbang mukbang Yeah, that's actually where people watch people eating online. Yeah, I know but they make money, right? There's a South Korean woman and her name is let me get this right Park Seo Young and she makes over $9,000 a month streaming videos of her eating Now this apparently is a huge market in South Korea because there are over 3500 pro-eaters in South Korea alone now, of course YouTube is the king of all this, but there's other sites like twitch You stream Vidal any of these sites you can actually stream video and make money and the last one on my list number 12 you can be an online Transcriber now an online transcriptionist is a pretty easy job If you don't want to have to make sales calls or do a bunch of technical stuff All you have to do is sign up for one of these sites and you listen to audio And then you transcribe it into words. 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Yeah, that's still certainly on my mind Yeah, we lost 5-2 at home to Wellington and Yeah, it wasn't it wasn't a great day in front of our home fans Yeah, the players certainly responded well after that in terms of our performances and results But you know, that's one that should be a motivating factor alone We can only control what we can we still have to win a game of football on Sunday Against the team that beat us 5-2 in our last outing so we're very determined and focused to make sure that We put on a 95 minute performance Which we owe them We owe them a performance to give ourselves a chance of Reversing that result, you know, if the results the other results kind of go our way Then obviously with a win We can still win the Premier's plate, which would be fantastic, but That aside You know We need to do our job and that's winning on Sunday. Yeah, very good the players have You know trained very well You know for us, it's it's just a normal week in terms of how the players prepared. They're very professional You know that they really want to finish the season on a high that a very good performance last week in Central Coast We have a sense of wanting to really Show Wellington a real performance from the Wanderers, which we let ourselves down the last match Or be it they were very good that day And you know, you can just sit on the players, you know, they're they're all fit They're all raring to go and they all want to be in the first 11. Yeah, great We had a few games that you know creating chances wasn't an issue, but you know putting the ball in the back in the net was but you know We maintain the belief and the faith in all of these players They sense that they know that and it was just a matter of time and it came together against Central Coast I believe it could come again come together once more To the end of the season wouldn't surprise me if we score four or five again Regardless of who the opponent is and I'd love that trend to continue this week


Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast. So, with the weather getting cooler, nights getting longer, and the holidays right around the corner, there's one thing on a lot of people's minds. No, I'm not talking about that perfect present, figuring out the whole Thanksgiving meal, or even trying to figure out how in the world we're actually going to safely gather with loved ones this year. I'm talking about baking. In this time of year, everyone's doing it, including me. You heard that right? Believe it or not, I've got an incredible sweet tooth, and I actually love cookies, cakes, and pies this time of year. And one of the best parts of the year was helping my mother make about ten different kinds of holiday confections and cookies every year and experimenting with it. So, we would tweak our recipes, and I like to tweak our favorite recipes to make them safe to eat. So, on today's episode, I'm going to share the secret ingredients in my pantry, how to make simple baking swaps for healthier treats, and a few of my favorite holiday table must have, so stay tuned. So, let's start with flour, plain old wheat flour. It's in everything, so it's got to be good for you, right? Flour is loaded with lectins. And now with the advent of really useful leaky gut tests that I have available and others have available, I'm more and more and more amazed that our sense that gluten causes leaky gut and the other components of wheat cause leaky gut is borne out every day. A hockey player, a National Hockey League NHL hockey player who developed out of the blue Ulcerative Colitis and he's lost over 70 pounds and is off right now. And when we tested him for leaky gut, this guy wildly reacts to all the components of wheat. Wheat germ, a glutenin, which is the whole, all the different components of gluten and he reacts to the 25 to 30 percent of proteins in wheat that are non-gluten. And he just lights it up. And the good news is, I just talked to him actually yesterday, he is now making actually a dramatic recovery after we took these things away from him. It's so much so that he's going to spend the summer actually teaching hockey in Canada between seasons and we're hopeful that he's going to make a full recovery for next year's season. So it's not the good stuff like you and I used to know. So it's pretty rare to come across a dessert recipe without some kind of flour in it. So what can you do? Just, well, I'm not going to do that anymore. Well, frankly, it depends on what you're cooking. So let me give you a few tips. My recipe developer, Kate and I for the last three years, more than three years now have been figuring our way around this arena. We have a lot of wonderful recipes in our various cookbooks and books. We have a lot of people who have taken the lectin free lifestyle to heart and I'll mention those as we go along and there's actually a lot of products out there that didn't even exist three years ago when the plant paradox started. So for cookies, the best combination is almond flour and coconut flour plus a little xanthan gum for structure.  So the fun stuff is these are becoming easier and easier to find even in most supermarkets. You don't necessarily have to go to a specialty store anymore. You don't necessarily have to go on Amazon or Thrive Market but these things are getting more and more available. Now for cakes, almond flour and coconut flour make a really nice dense cake like for instance, like our olive oil cake. Now if you want, you can add millet flour and tapioca starch for a fluffier cake that quite frankly gets pretty close to a traditional birthday cake. And again, it's really kind of fun to see if you're after a single layer cake, a pancake like our olive oil cake, then almond flour and coconut flour is really going to make a really nice dense cake. Now how about for pie? Well almond flour and tapioca starch actually do make a nice flaky crust. It'll likely be a little more delicate than a traditional pie crust but the flavor is actually fantastic and it's kind of fun to fool family and friends and they go, oh you know, this is a really great pie crust, you know, what's in it? And then you tell them like, what? Now there's always alternatives to almond flour for those that are allergic. And there's now a number of flours that I've experimented with, that Kate's experimented with. Certainly they're harder to find but think about hazelnut flour, it's getting more and more available.  They're actually a tuber, you can find tiger nut flour, I think it's great to work with. Green banana flour is available, there's a lot of things to like about green banana flour but it's still one of the harder flours to find. But look around, I particularly like chestnut flour, there's a lot of chestnut flour recipes that are used in Italy. You can usually do a one-to-one swap with chestnut flour for almond flour. Again it's a little harder to find, some Chinese groceries have them, some Italian groceries, particularly traditional Italian groceries, that's where I get mine. So half the fun is trial and error and get the family involved, try two or three different versions simultaneously. And it's really great fun to experiment with this. And some of my best moments growing up was experimenting with recipes with my mother in the kitchen. And we just had a great time and yeah sometimes the batch was a disaster and you'd have a good laugh over it. Well, we won't be doing that again. So you can also do some fun stuff to make a crumb style crust with dried figs and pulse nuts. Just be careful with the dried figs or dates because they do have really concentrated fruit toast content. So just be aware and just press this crust into a pan. Alright, bread. So bread is where it gets really interesting because you really do need something to give it that gluteny stretch, which is really why we're so addicted to gluten in the first place. It gives structure, it gives stretch and it's also because of the ability to stretch, it makes it light and fluffy. So we've played a lot with this. I like psyllium husk for this stretch. And if you mix it with water, it forms a really gloppy paste that really does work great instead of gluten. Now I like a mix of flax and millet flour for structure and tapioca starch and arrowroot starch to create that fluffy texture. Now you can often substitute any of these flours one-to-one with regular flour, but don't try one individually. It's just here, it's not going to work. You really have to get multiple flours. And right now there isn't a perfect lectin-like flour that's a perfect swap for regular old all-purpose baking flour. For a lot of things I find like two-thirds almond flour, one-third either coconut flour or tapioca starch, and a pinch of xanthan gum works really pretty well. Okay, so what about sugar? I mean who can imagine a holiday dessert without sugar?  And the good news is that there are a lot of healthy sugar substitutes that are actually becoming widely available. So one of my baking go-to is a one-for-one monk fruit sweetener like the Lakonto brand, which is now available in a lot of regular grocery stores and it's even in Costco now. And by the way they make a great maple syrup substitute that's a great use instead of corn syrup based maple syrups. And it's perfectly great on our pancake recipes from the book. And even if you want to find one of the widely available paleo or keto pancake recipes that are prepackaged that are also in Costco now, my grandkids love Lakonto maple syrup on their pancakes that they make from our recipes. And so if they can't tell the difference, believe me you won't be able to tell the difference and it's actually good for you. Now you can also use things like xylitol, erythritol, stevia, pure monk fruit and even agave inulin. Now please do not confuse agave inulin with agave syrup. Agave syrup is pure fructose. And I see all these sites that say paleo friendly or keto friendly and they've got a half a cup or a cup of agave syrup in it. Or for that matter a half a cup of maple syrup in it. I got news for you there is no way that that's keto friendly. It's pure fructose so please don't be misled by agave syrup. There is a great inulin based sweetener which is a little hard to find called just like sugar. But you can use that one for one in recipes to replace sugar and it works really well in baking. There's another new sweetener that's becoming more available called alulose. It works well. Dave Asprey and I are actually fond of alulose with the proviso that so far most alulose seems to be coming from corn. And he and I are on the lookout for non-corn based alulose. We'll tell you when we find it. He's actually I think trying to get a company interested in making it so look for it.  Well quite frankly holiday cooking is going to need some form of fat. So go ahead and use butter but please use French or Italian or Switzerland butter. They're actually becoming easier and easier to find. We're beginning to see A2 butter products in the stores. There's now some A2 yogurt that's propping up. So people are beginning to recognize that there is a difference between A2 and A1 casein. So look for it. It's available. Don't be misled by all the advertising that this is grass fed butter. Most of the cows sadly in the United States are A1 cows. They're Holsteins.  But it's now pretty easy to find Italian butter or French butter. Costco even has Italian butter so it's easier to find. Now extracts, vanilla extract, almond extracts are definitely your friend. Mint extracts is great with chocolate. A word of interesting warning. As I mentioned I do a lot of leaky gut tests and a lot of food sensitivity tests. And in some of my really difficult patients with really difficult leaky gut and autoimmune disease I'm finding a handful, actually more than a handful, that react to vanilla bean and they react to almond, even almond flour. So I'm not saying please avoid vanilla extract, please avoid almonds but make sure your almond flour is blanched almond flour, not the stuff that still has the skins. And if you want to check, try and you're suspicious about vanilla as a culprit try a imitation vanilla extract and see if you notice a difference. Now is there a healthy shortening? Well really coconut oil is probably the best alternative. If you can find red palm oil which is made from the palm fruit rather than palm oil which is made from the kernel red palm oil actually has tremendous amounts of polyphenols and it's full of tocotryanols, the really important compound component of vitamin E. So there's tocopherols and tocotryanols and so red palm fruit shortening actually is one of your better choices and usually you got to go to a health food store and find that online it's not readily available yet. Now instead of using vegetable oil, use avocado oil, it has a very neutral flavor make an olive oil cake. I've been really playing with plain sesame oil, not toasted sesame oil and I got to say it's my new go-to oil for a number of reasons that you're going to learn about in the energy paradox. It has an absolute neutral flavor. When you toast it it has that really great toasted sesame flavor but plain sesame oil has an absolute neutral flavor. So experiment the solid season and give it a try. Okay so that covers the big ingredients but what about the mix-ins? Well, you know, extracts, vanilla, almond extracts are your friend. Mint extract is great with chocolate. I love citrus zest. It's loaded with polyphenols, number one and actually citrus pith, the white pith that's right under the zest has some of the best sources of curcetin which is really one of the best plant-based antihistamines there is. So don't be afraid of actually putting some of that citrus pith in. Chocolate is an add-in, the darker the better particularly if you're making chocolate chip cookies or any chocolate just kick up, you know, start with 72% and work your way up. We're rapidly seeing stevia, sweetened chocolate bars. There's a number. I'll give a shout out to my hometown company of Lilies in Santa Barbara. I have no relationship with them but hometown success story but there's a number of ones that are now coming out with either stevia or a monk fruit base and they're well worth your trying them. You do have to be careful particularly with erythritol or xylitol based sweetener in chocolate.  Coffee, brewed coffee, even coffee granules are great in chocolatey treats. They actually up the flavor of the chocolate. Now instead of raisins, get yourself some dried, unsweetened cranberries. They are really hard to find but worth the look. Try adding some dried chopped figs. It's actually a flower. It's not a fruit but just be cautious. There is a lot of great prebiotic fiber in figs but figs do have a pretty high fructose content so use them as an additive not as the mainstay. Now vegans always want to know well what the heck what am I going to do for eggs because so many of the recipes call for eggs. We used to have a real favor that unfortunately completely changed the recipe and started using soy so we don't recommend them anymore. I think the best replacement commercially available is Bob's egg replacer. Yes, it does have some potato starch but starch is not elective. So that seems to be the one that works the best. You can always do a flaxseed egg. They'll often fail if you're trying to have a raised something. I like the idea of mixing flaxseed and basil seeds together. Believe me basil seeds are so much better for you than chia seeds and they actually work much better than chia seeds. For dairy replacements there's great coconut milk options. Our friends at Lava we just learned last week are making a milk replacer out of peely nuts and apparently it's now released and look for it. Again it's a small little self start company taking a great idea. If you haven't tried their yogurts yet they're totally plant based. They're loaded with probiotics and they're now nationwide. So look for that as well. Now before I go I'm going to share the quickest holiday candy recipe you'll ever hear. It's completely compliant, completely delicious and it's something I keep in my freezer almost all the time unless I completely eat it all up and then it's not there anymore.   You add a few chopped figs or puffed millet if you want. Puff millet is being easier and easier to find. And then you mix them with melted bittersweet chocolate until they're fully coated. Now I use the 90% variety but anything over 72% is fine. Now you spoon them into little clusters you sprinkle with a little iodized sea salt and then let them set.  So are you looking for more compliant recipes? Well I mean there are so many talented resources out there who are just doing amazing work in the lectin-free community and I really urge you to hop on any of their sites they've got Instagram and they're just wizards at making this work and making it friendly. Look up keto holiday recipes as another good starting place. Go to Pinterest type in keto holiday recipes you will be shocked at the availability. Now most of these already have the sugar and flour taken out so it's a lot easier to make swaps. Some of them are pretty sketchy but you've got enough sense now to pick out the good ones but it's a really good place to start experimenting with and there's just oodles to choose from. Okay that's it and let's go to the audience question from Kristen of lectin-free gourmet. I like vita fiber and tapioca IMO syrup for baking. The particular IMO which is isomalto oligosaccharide I like is made from the cassava plant not corn. It is labeled as a prebiotic fiber and when I use it in moderation it does wonders for my gut and regularity. However I've read recently that the FDA rejected IMO as a fiber. Can you tell me if it's still okay to use? I sure love it. Well here's the deal. A particular company wanted to claim the fiber benefit that you can put on a label as being heart healthy and so they wanted to make this compound which is a oligosaccharide and if you followed me oligosaccharides are what your good gut buddies eat to produce all the incredible beneficial compounds that you started learning about in the longevity paradox but they're going to come front and center in the energy paradox. So you're right. Anything that you can do to give gut buddies the things they like to eat which are oligosaccharides the better. They've apparently had a little tussle with the FDA that even though this is an oligosaccharide they don't think it classifies as a fiber and this is government at its worst quite frankly. It really doesn't matter if the FDA says it's a fiber or not. It is an undigestible starch that your gut buddies think is gut buddy heaven. It's dessert to them. So please don't be afraid of it. Vita fiber is really useful and the more you can put this into recipes the better your gut health is going to be. So even though the FDA says it's not a fiber please keep using it. That's a great question. Another audience question. Nora K. Jetsa on Instagram asks I'm wondering if soaking pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, cashew nuts etc. overnight with apple cider vinegar can reduce the lectins in them? Well unfortunately fermentation definitely reduces lectin content one of the reasons we think ancient cultures fermented most of their grains and even fermented things like peppers was to reduce the lectin content. They didn't know that's why they were doing it but there's no evidence that soaking an apple cider vinegar is going to reduce the lectin contents but you know there's great swaps. You can use toasted pine nuts for pumpkin seeds please please please use basil seeds instead of chia seeds and if you're looking for that same creamy texture in a lot of raw vegan recipes macadamia nuts work great as a replacement for cashew nuts. So and you can use those same things in baking swaps so you don't need to soak things in apple cider vinegar overnight to achieve what you're looking for. By the way I'll just add an interesting question the Native American Indians obviously were the first to grow corn and interestingly they always treated corn with lye to make sure that it was called basole or hominy and that was to actually bind the nitrogen or unbind the nitrogen so it was available and we know that the Italians when Columbus brought corn back from the New World didn't know this trick and I've talked about how Pellegra was widespread in northern Italy when they adapted corn as a food and one of the things I'm suspicious and I have not found a paper to confirm it but I wonder if lye treatment of corn and turning it into hominy reduced the lectin content in corn we have one individual who is going to do a self-experimentation on this who is wildly reactive to corn in its normal form and all the lectins in corn but in the interest of science we're going to try that and I'll give you an update maybe in a couple months as the experiment progresses and again I wouldn't learn anything except for working with my valued patients for the last 20 years who have either said do you want to know about this or hey I'm happy to volunteer to eat something or not eat something and you know this has been a process I learn something new every day and that's the latest experiment we're going to do okay it's time for the review of the week this week's review of the week comes from nourish and feast on iTunes who wrote love all the information Dr. Gundry has put out it's really improved my life by making all this information straightforward and digestible ha ha ha he didn't put ha ha ha or she didn't well thanks we you know we want to give you useful information that is straight straightforward it's based on research it's not based on conjecture or what's in this week or what's trending as the fad of the week and when I learn something that is important or changes my mind you're going to be the first to hear about it the good news is if you know conventional wisdom is conventional you always have to question conventional wisdom and that's what we're here doing so thanks for tuning in and we'll see you next week on the Dr. Gundry podcast before you go I just wanted to remind you that you can find the show on iTunes Google Play, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts because I'm Dr. Gundry and I'm always looking out for you


This person here is going to go across there When the shots aren't you're going to shoot against Matt and obviously it's quite close So don't you smash in the ball in I want just a nice pass shot into the corners if we can yeah, right? That's that one these guys You're going to pass into this player Who then works around gives it back and it's a little combination and then you go back again Yeah, so your end product there is your combination your end product there is your shot these three If we've done the pass and we've done a shot what else will we have in the game across So we're going to cross the ball to that player there and so on yeah Good save on your feet Dary's there good Nice and quick distribution here then that yeah Good decision Mac I like it There you go. Can you pop it out good Play shot there's that yeah Good movement told me like that Okay, good stop there. Right. Okay.  What's that nice word we like to use It's got to be scanning around you've got to be so nosey in here to know exactly Where the ball is every single moment of time. Yes, obviously with the dribbling what a 3m products Which one of them was a shot on goal So we had the keeper to involve the keeper in the session because we had a goalkeeper tonight We had one which was a combination player around a mannequin And then the third one was the cross so they were actually running down the side of the pitch Not a huge cross because they're still warming up and getting used to the ball But it's just getting them into the right frame of mind obviously to get their head up and see the cross as the end product Come on matt Think of your start position here matt. Yeah, would you stay on the line all the time? There you go. Good boy. Make it smaller And then obviously in that session we added The neutral player in the middle So again, which keeps saying the picture changes in the game so much You know, we can't just have them running the straight lines because the picture does change There's another player there. Can they use them? It's their decision.  Say, no, I'm Aaron popping in tommy It may be now I play a little setting there with you and then he gets around and then I'm back in here Then we're back in for the next person. Yeah, it could be. Yes, maca If you're dribbling through we can pop the ball into you It could be yes, darry you're dribbling through start dribbling. I say darry good. There we go And I can play a little combination there. Yeah, so you've got to work in here playing the combination Off you go play And that's what we're trying to stress all the time is is their decision It's not our decision We just set the pictures and let them then work out the puzzles themselves really


Women Development Network in partnership with International Republican Institute and Kimpak Development Initiative urged the federal government and state government to see the need to include women in Nigeria's politics. The group executive director Kimpak Development Initiative Bukalai Do, made this call in Abuja during the CSO political party roundtable on women's political participation in Nigeria. That we can also take down as intervention strategy from here to our various things and within our network and within our sphere of influence and within the political party. And most especially, how consumer society and political party work together to actually increase women political participation. That even at the executive, most of their pointy position, we hope to see more women are committing. And I want to say that it's not a, it's not a unpredictable catch that when we get there, it's like a marathon that we have to be engaging and gradually we believe we get there. Ido and other stakeholders who spoke at the event stated the need for a deliberate coordination of the interventions on gender equality. So while the democracy is being entrenched, I think special attention must be paid to the issues of inclusivity. Because democracy speaks all about participation and you cannot talk of effective participation when a half or more than a half of the population are excluded in the process. And that's why for me, if we want to evaluate the 2023 general election, I think the indicator that will probably get the worst home is that on women representation. Mr. Pokola, I don't even mention the fact that we have three women in the Senate. We are not even talking of marginal increase. We are even talking of abysmal performance. From eight, we are going to be, we need to sit back at some point, do a reflection on maybe the approach, right? Maybe there's need to look at the methodology, and maybe there's the need to look at the strategy. Perhaps there's something missing Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Thankfully, it's November and Appalachian Wireless is offering the Samsung GS8 or the GS8 Plus for $100 off the regular price with two-year agreement. Better service, bigger savings. That's today's Appalachian Wireless, an East Kentucky network company. The parking lots were empty as classes at Letcher County Central High School and the Letcher County Area Technical School were canceled Monday. Letcher County School Superintendent Tony Surgeon said Kentucky State Police contacted him late Sunday evening. The agency informed him that a possible threat of an alleged planned school shooting had been received. A parent had called the state police post and reported that they'd heard a rumor or that their child had told them that there was supposed to be an incident occurred at Letcher County Central High School today. And so from that, we conducted an investigation and found out that this was based on hearsay and rumors. Surgeon said an extensive search was conducted by school staff and law enforcement and no weapons were found at either the high school or the technical school. He said since the information about the perceived threat was received so late, there was no choice but to cancel classes Monday. We want to get a call out to the parents to make sure that they realize that this has been dealt with and that there's not a true threat and to feel safe to come to school. Where we received the call so late last night, it was hard for us to complete an investigation, go through our protocol, make sure everything was safe and still try to help school today. People that were questioned said they heard that someone said that someone said. So that's what we were dealing with, but normally we would have handled it a little bit differently but where it was so late last night, we felt like the best thing to do was to call off school today and give us time to thoroughly investigate it and we take these things really seriously and we want our parents to know that we're going to do everything we can to make sure the kids are safe. Surgeon said classes will be in session Tuesday and some additional security will be at the schools just as a precaution. From Weizberg, Chris Anderson, EKB News.