And with that video started, I start the other video. Okay. Is everyone assembled? Prepared. Here we go. As she does most Mondays, Miss Veronica Belmont, DTNS contributor, host of Sword and Laser, and dear Veronica on Engadget. How's it going, Veronica? Awesome. I have to say, one of my favorite pre-roll ads to date. That was fantastic. Is that right? That was excellent. I would think, with the Rickroll part though, it doesn't come off too dated. But it rolled in so nicely to the theme music. I was just really impressed by the editing skills there. That was very nice. Good execution. Excellent execution. Also joining us today, Kevin Purdy, writer for Wirecutter, The Sweet Home, several other outlets, former life hacker editor where I was a big fan of him and still have a big fan of him. How's it going, Kevin? Very well. Thank you for having me on. I navigated that. I almost said that as if I stopped being a fan of you at some point. Sometimes I'm not a fan myself either, Tom. He's like, now he's all right. I guess whatever. No, I think I've always relied on Kevin's opinions for lots of things and that has never stopped. I mean, and we'll talk about that in our main discussion. You're navigating the horrible world of Android smartwatches and trying to make recommendations for people. That's brave. Thank you. Thank you. It is a wild jungle out there. Yeah. We'll also talk a little bit about toilet scrubbers. But first, let's get into the headlines. Microsoft sent out invites to a media briefing for Tuesday, October 6th at 10 a.m. Eastern in New York, saying it has some exciting news to share about Windows 10 devices. The Verge expects that we will hear about the Surface Pro 4, the Lumia 950 and 950 SL phones, and a new Microsoft Band. I have to be honest. I'm actually a little excited about a new Microsoft Band. I think that's a pretty good product. Yeah. I'm excited about that as well. But I'm hoping we don't see the Surface Pro 4 being a, I don't know, a 65-inch tablet. You know, just bigger and better. The rumor is 14 inches, which is kind of crazy big. That's what she said. Sorry. CNBC quotes an Apple statement on iPhone sales saying the company is on pace to beat last year's 10 million unit first weekend record when the new iPhones go on sale on September 25th. FBR capital markets say backorder times indicate strong sales, especially in the Chinese market, which is what we saw last time as well. Every time there's an iPhone, there's a statement from Apple about how great the sales are. Kevin, is this news? Like, everybody's reporting it, but... It's like financial news, right? Like stockholders, don't worry. Don't start dumping APL, like, I guess. This is Dog Bytes Man. Yeah. If the Apple iPhone didn't sell in record amounts, it would be Man Bytes Dog. It was surprising how many friends of mine were looking really tired on Saturday morning because they did this. Well, on the East Coast, it's like a 3 a.m. Pre-order. So it's remarkable when you see how many people are like, man, it doesn't seem like the economy works that well if you have to do it that way. But, you know, yeah, it's a pretty recurring story at this point. It pretty quickly went to a three to four week shipping amount. I did not pre-order anything. I'm not updating this time around. Not upgrading. Yeah. Next time, maybe. I don't usually upgrade in the S-cycles these days. Google has appointed John Krafchik as CEO of its self-driving vehicle project. Krafchik is a mechanical engineer who's worked at Ford. Hyundai, and most recently, was president of Truecar, an online sales company for cars. CNET reports Sarah Hunter, head of policy for Google X, said last week Google wants to make a few hundred self-driving vehicles from the ground up and is considering developing and selling autonomous vehicles. They still say they don't want to get into manufacturing them in large amounts. But yeah, this could mean that we get a car spin-off under Alphabet at some point, too. Yes. That is exactly what people are saying right now, which makes complete and total sense to me. So I would not be surprised at all if that's announced in the next several months. Nintendo has named former managing director and head of HR, Tatsumi Kimishima, as its new president. Kimishima previously served as CEO of Nintendo of America. The Verge reports Shigeru Miyamoto and Genyo Takeda, who had been running Nintendo and interim roles, have been given new titles as well. Takeda has been named technology fellow and Miyamoto is now creative fellow. And if I remember correctly, Kimishima was also in charge of the Pokemon arm of the company for many years as well. And I believe he was CFO of Nintendo previously, but I don't have that in front of me. Yeah, I think that's right. I know he was in charge of Pokemon, which is kind of a weird... I don't know if it's technically a subsidiary, but he was a major investor and... Yeah, it's a separate... It's kind of a separate entity. Yeah, but this is someone who is very good at the business side of things, at the books side of things and is very well trusted, has had a good career at Nintendo, but very different than Satoru Iwata, who was an engineer. And it looks like what they're trying to do is say, Miyamoto will handle the heart of the gamer. The creative vision, yes. And Takeda will handle the engineering side and hopefully they'll be a triforce. All three of them. Did Miyamoto have an official title beyond in-house genius like before this? Do you know what he was before he... I don't remember what his actual title was, and then he was an interim head of Nintendo in this previous interim. But it's good now that they have some stability and can move forward on this, and Nintendo has been struggling in many ways in recent years, so hopefully someone with an eye for the financials will be a boon to the company overall. Yeah, let me see if I can figure out Miyamoto's previous title. He was a president. They had multiple presidents, essentially. It was his most previous title. But yeah, they've kind of given him lots of honorary titles throughout and the most recently was a senior executive and he became a co-president there temporarily. APB, I'm sorry, ABP Live reports that Google will bring free high-speed Wi-Fi access to almost 400 railway stations in India. Google's partnering with Indian Railways on the project, which will give users free internet, full speed for 34 minutes, and then they reduce your speed after the first 34 minutes. First phase of the project should be live in four months. That's awesome. I'm jealous. Yeah. Well, I'm jealous that they have railway first of all. Yeah, that too. That's pretty great. And I'm fascinated by that time limit. I wonder where they got 34 minutes. Is that a popular stretch of time between major stations or is it just arbitrary or why 34? Why not 30? Why not 45? Thoughtful. It's four minutes of work and 30 minutes at YouTube which describes most of our days. There's some kind of research went into it. Yeah, exactly. SP Sheridan Hobbit from PA submitted stories about DARPA's successful project that enabled a paralyzed patient to feel pressure on fingers of a static hand. Signals were routed from torque sensors in the prosthesis to electrodes attached to the volunteer sensory cortex. The prosthesis used in the experiment was created by the applied physics lab at John Hopkins University. DARPA reports nearly 100% accuracy in initial tests. The results have yet to be peer reviewed and published, however. The best part of the story is the test subject, they were touching fingers and asking him to say which finger they had touched, and then they touched two fingers at once, and he immediately was like, are you trying to trick me? That's two fingers at once. And they were like, why? He could tell both fingers. Great success. That is so cool. Just the ability to be able to tell what your prosthetic finger is doing directly. I don't know if I can imagine how important that would be. I've used those external hand grips to do things, and it's really clunky. Imagine if that was your hand, and then suddenly you could use that and actually feel it. There's an interview in the popular mechanics, I think, with an actress in the Hunger Games who is like, she's a... I don't have the correct term, I'm sorry, but she's missing an arm, and she has a prosthetic, it's a really high-tech advanced one, and she specifically said that one of the trickiest things about her arm is that when you go to grab a can, you first grab it really lightly, and then you grab it a little bit harder, because you don't feel anything back. You know how to press harder, but you don't have any sense of is the can crushing, is the can, whatever. That sounds like that's probably the next big challenge for prosthetics. It's really cool to see this stuff. Intel announced the launch of the Automatic Security Review Board to improve security systems on cars. Members of the board will perform ongoing security tests and audits in the effort to create best practice recommendations and design suggestions. The board will consist of top security talent and be provided with Intel's advanced development platform for research, and they've already published the first version of an automotive cybersecurity best practices document. They say they will continue to revise. That obviously makes a ton of sense because of all the security issues we've been seeing in systems of pretty typical cars. Not even things like self-driving cars or heavily electric and computer-driven cars. I mean, this is just your average car has all sorts of security flaws now because of the way that we connect all the systems together. So I'm glad that something like this is being put into effect. I think it's maybe a little late, but still welcome. I mean, you could say it's self-serving, and it is for Intel to do it this way with the idea of saying, hey, we will harden the security on Intel products, and then you'll more likely want to put Intel products in your cars when you build your car systems. But any effort at this point is better than the limited and failing efforts that we've seen up till now as these things become more common. You need to have more people poking holes in them, so I'm very much for this. Absolutely. The deputy head of Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service said today that Google is abusing its dominant position in the market for pre-installed app stores, and within 10 days, Russia will send an official order for Google to terminate such abuse. Search engines Yandex filed the complaint based on the fact that Google authorized versions of Android require Google to be set as a default search engine. TechCrunch reports Yandex has 60% of the Russian search market while Android is on 86% of all smartphones sold in Russia. This is a tricky one, too. And in some ways is similar to the debate in Europe. I'm not sure how much it will impact the debate in Europe because it's Russia and it's a whole different set of rules, but the idea is not that you can get a version of Android without Google. The idea is that the version of Android that Google sells is 86% dominant and so once you're that dominant, that's when you start to point at things and say, well, now you're abusing your market power because the rules change and you have market dominance that high, I guess is what I'm saying. That has been Google's dominant defense to all kind of antitrust accusations is there's always an alternative, like for everything we make there's always a very close second hand competitor. In this case, I guess it would be Android phones without the Google. Or couldn't it just go so far as to say Android phones with the option to choose a different search engine on setup? Well, and then you get into what Microsoft had to do with browsers, right? In Europe, they had to sell a version that made you choose a browser at the beginning so you weren't forced into the IE and that could very well be what Google ends up having to do with Android here. Matt Blackcube sent us the PC Mag report that TomTom has launched a new system called RoadDNA to allow makers of self-driving cars to integrate accurate location information into onboard systems. RoadDNA captures real-time lateral and longitudinal views of the road and helps inform the vehicle where it is on the road, even at high speeds. RoadDNA is designed to be conscious of vehicle data storage and processing limitations as well. Essentially, TomTom tried not to get left behind saying, hey, we're really good at maps. You probably need maps, right, for yourself and other cars? You gotta need maps. You need maps and we have them. Cars need to know where they are. We have them. Maps. We're really good at maps. And to be serious, like knowing where the car is exactly on the road is a tough thing to solve. You can know generally where it is on the map, but knowing where it is on the road if they can really pinpoint that could be very helpful. Please don't use ways. We're TomTom. Please use us. PC Mag reports on Xerox Park's proof of concept ship made of Corning's Gorilla Glass. Why made of glass? So it can self-destruct. It was developed as part of DARPA's Vanishing Programmable Resources Project. The chip is meant to hold something valuable like an encryption key. If the chip falls into the wrong hands, a laser or radio signal causes a resistor to heat up. Within 10 seconds, the glass shatters into a thousand pieces destroying the data. Just to get smart. My favorite part of this story is that it was a self-destroying chip that wasn't like what it really does is just overwrites the data 15 times. I've read that story a million times. This is one where it actually breaks itself into thousands of pieces. What I love is that, especially with Gorilla Glass, which is supposed to be some of the hardest glass that we use for electronics and devices, and then they're like, we're using this so we can shatter the hell out of it. Like what? Cool. You just take it to a bar at 1.30 in the morning and it's all a cab. And then it just shatters. It's on the curb, it's gone. All the data is safe. That's what's really happening in that resistor. It's a virtual bar that it walks out of. Exactly. This is fascinating. I know it doesn't actually explode either, but I kind of wish it did. Well, I think I like to let's just think of it that way. It's better for their marketing. I think it's a good idea to submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. That is how we get these stories like exploding Corning Gorilla Glass or Tom Tom launching a new system called RodeDNA. The more you vote, the better the show gets. Go there, dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. Okay. So as I mentioned at the top of the show, Kevin Purdy braves the waters of Android Wear. You don't have to go to Wirecutter. Your best watch listed is the Pebble Steel. You've done 40 hours of research and wearing, comparing nine Android-compatible smartwatches. But you're saying hold on, wait. There's been a software update to Pebble Steel and especially with the EFA conference recently a whole slew of new Android watches. How do you make sense of this landscape? Well, that is why the guide isn't weight status right now because we are waiting to make sense of it in a way. It's it's been really hard because I've been feeling like the Pebble and discussing with my editors and trying to figure it out. It feels like the Pebble has been for a long time the best option for people who want a watch that is affordable, lasts all day on battery and to a certain extent looks okay especially that last part. I don't think the Pebble Steel is better looking than a nicely designed watch but I think that for a while it was kind of the one that had a certain design to it and if you like that design that kind of like chunky, very male look to it then it was great. A big section of the piece talks about how bad all these watches look on female wrists. That's my wife's wrist somewhere down the page holding a giant Modo 360 or something. So at EFA, I didn't know we pronounced it that way, there were four new watches and they all kind of hit on the things that I thought were wrong with Android Wear or problematic. The look, the price a lot of them are all round, completely round without what they call the flat tire on the 360 and so I think at this point it would be kind of that you shouldn't buy any watch. You should wait for some people to wear a 360 for a bit to wear a Huawei watch an Asus N Watch 2 or even Samsung, I say even a lot of people are impressed with Samsung's Gear Watch which is not even running Android, it's running Tizen. We don't have time in the show to describe Tizen but it's a kind of it's kind of mostly a Samsung propped up version of Linux that they've been using for wearable stuff and people have been saying that even that watch looks impressive so it's a really confusing space right now and I'm slowly getting a chance to try out some of these watches and see how they work and I really do think that it's going to be a different pick probably the next time we update it I think just based on looking how many new things are out there and how they seem to really learn from I guess you'd say the second wave of watches now we're onto the third. So what do you think and not to to gender fight but I guess for people who are looking for smaller watches or who have smaller wrists, what are some of your recommendations for that area? Okay so the 360 that's coming out I think you can pre-order it now it should be arriving probably by the end of September for most people buy it that has a 42mm version and a 46mm version That's still pretty large Yeah the larger Apple Watch is 42mm I'm so fun at cocktail parties the larger Apple Watch is kind of small relative to other watches like Android Wear you can't see it on the audio version but this thing is a hockey puck If you fly on planes you see dudes wearing hockey pucks all the time and they're not smart watches they're just giant ostentatious finance job watches The chronograph things where they've got 16 different dials on there Yeah exactly and so the Asus then watch the Gear S2, the Gear 2 or whatever it is and the Moto 360 all have very specifically smaller versions I think the Gear and the Asus are even smaller than the Moto 360 They're definitely focusing on look size and style but again it's going to be a while until we pick one or say anything because you want to see how it lasts I mean we're still kind of dealing with size against battery limitations even at this advanced stage Now the Apple has been considered a top watch in all of these different categories especially battery life but it's never been the prettiest in the top in any particular category it's just been the best across the board and it sounds like you're saying this time maybe it's time, pebble time steal may not come out on top how hard is it for a company like that to compete when you've got these huge heavyweights like Samsung and Apple and all these other watchmakers weighing in They are very specifically staking out a position saying that they don't want to be the everything watch they don't want to well they do have some capability of doing it but they're not a fitness slash back and forth messaging everything that the Apple Watch reports to do the pebble company in general says we show you notifications you can control your music the end is that what you want? Do you want to be able to be able to add a party at work look at your wrist and say okay I need to go home I need to be walked that's fine that's what our watch does I think they're definitely trying to pick out a position somewhere way below the Apple Watch and even Android Wear in terms of what they're trying to do so they can succeed and they have succeeded on that in some ways because their watches have been fast, super long battery life and just they do do what they say they do on the tin as they say but right now I think that with the new way the watch is coming out the watch is different competition well that's one of the things I picked up from your article where you say look if you want a fitness tracker you should get a fitness tracker because even though some of these watches do fitness tracking they don't do it nearly as well and I wonder if that's a really smart way for pebble to approach this to say we're not a fitness tracker we're this kind of watch because one of the reasons I'm attracted to the Microsoft Band is that it tells the time which is great and it does fitness tracking I'm not saying it does it the best but it does it very well and I'm curious to compare it to other fitness trackers out there because that's what I would use a wearable for mostly is fitness tracking I don't really care about the other stuff Yeah because you feel like you want to limit or at least reduce the number of gadgets that we have to have on a set at any given moment and I'm currently wearing an Apple Watch and also a Fitbit and while I like the Fitbit ecosystem better in terms of tracking information for fitness I would someday like to pair that down to one device and have a really great Fitbit app on my Apple Watch which I know is not really in their best interest right now unless they're you know that would be a money losing proposition for Fitbit which is a publicly traded company is obviously not ideal for them but so it's yeah it's hard because we have to kind of make these these choices about how many devices are we willing to wear and if pebble is kind of in the mindset of oh we're just going to be a good watch well maybe I don't want that to be my watch when I'm trying to cover as many bases as possible at this point sure fair point and you know I think that the all of the companies have kind of latched on to the same marketing for their smart watches which is this is the thing that helps you keep your phone in your pocket this is this is a technology reducer this actually prevents you from getting lost inside Facebook tabs when you just meant to you know look at the weather or whatever but to your point yeah I mean they're all of them try to stake out a lot of different territories fitness notifications whether you know stocks even I think the Apple Watch has a stocks app doesn't it yeah that's a life I can't imagine living but yeah I think that at some point you have to decide like do you want a multi-purpose watch that does replace all these other things but I think most people at your point where like if you start running a lot you're going to get running gear like a dedicated GPS watch and you're using from fitness tracking like Tom said you're probably going to end up with a fitness tracker so even at this stage with our guide I still find myself there's a section like who is this for and I feel like I just sit back and look at the monitor for like 10 minutes like yeah good question yeah well it sounds like the answer is it depends on who you are like if you want it for running this is the watch or this is the wearable if you want it for fitness this is the one if you want it for notifications like what people do you should go with this one but there's not one answer that just covers everyone as well as maybe a wood with a phone or something I still think you're an early adopter at this point a third wave early adopter if you get an android wear watch or even an apple watch but I feel like this is the chance for android this wave of coming watches is the chance for android wear and Samsung to a certain extent to prove at least we can make it look okay at least you're out there on the fringe and people on the subway don't know you're on the fringe or without really looking it's a chance to kind of see if they can make them at least more normal and maybe normalize the things you want to use it for before we move on I know you we mentioned that you're working on the wire cutter stuff you're also working on the sweet home stuff which has some some smart items in there and people should go look at it because there's some smart home stuff involved in the sweet home but you also sent me earlier today your best toilet brush roundup I have to say I am much respect for someone who has put in as much effort in testing products as the wire cutter and sweet home do on that particular product I have to know which is the crappiest I award you no points it all depends on the user Veronica well it's the one you spend the most money on because you're supposed to replace them more often than anybody else does is the really short cliff notes version we try to approach everything with the idea that a lot of it is going to be testing all the things that are out there and testing what people are asking about but then I think a lot of times at the sweet home and at the wire cutter we end up kind of writing a guy that's also like about how you're supposed to use it about we ask experts and a lot of times you ask experts about a category and they'll end up saying yeah people just buy these things and they break like with the cutting boards article I wrote I had talked to all these wood engineers and folks who work in woodworking science and they just kind of all you ask a bunch of people whose entire life is woodworking and wood and they're like people should buy plastic boards people should buy sheet plastic boards beat them to hack and then just get like you can throw in the washing machine I get plastic cutting surfaces that I put over my wooden board so I've got a nice wooden feel underneath but I'm not cutting on the wood oh man you're on the you're an early adopter cutting board technology or things like that like getting a rubber polyethylene mat and just throwing it over your wooden board because wooden boards require a little bit of more care than most people know so with toilet brushes we just tried to ask a lot of people especially germ and you know cleanliness people like what you're looking for and the thing is you're not looking for you're not obsessively looking at bristles and scrubbing it turned out that what you're looking for is something that is the easiest to clean because you should clean out and replace and you should clean your toilet brush holder where you put it back when you're done you should dry it out and you should also replace the brush itself more often than you do that seems like a lot of work and this is the kind of that you're going to get from the tech stuff at the Wire Cutter and even from things like luggage I bought a suitcase recently Briggs and Riley based My luggage is also the Wire Cutter pick I can't, I mean I say this time and time again and I don't buy a thing unless I've at least looked it up on Wire Cutter or Sweet Home to see if it's a product category there and I don't necessarily always buy the top pick but I usually buy something that's recommended based on price and how much I really need the best thing or whatever my criteria are for picking a product but I've never haven't gotten a bad one yet so keep doing what you guys are doing. Meanwhile we will make our small effort on Daily Tech News Show to share picks from our audience which are just good at spreading around information. Harrison from Flower Mound, Texas wanted to lighten his load while traveling and picked up a thumb drive sized router from ASUS called 330NUL he says the key features are its size, power via USB and also it can receive Wi-Fi and broadcast your private network I wouldn't expect to secure on it to be amazing the admin password is printed on the device after all but it meets the bar for me on just creating a private network when traveling to piggyback off the hotel, office or plane he said yeah I did test it with GoGo InFlight to create a guest network if needed and very limited configuration so easy to walk the wife through setup now some people don't like the limited configuration I was looking at the Amazon reviews other people don't like the range of it they say it's good enough for a hotel room but if you want it to be broader like in a house it's not going to work but I think for what Harrison is talking about a lot of people have had similar situations where you pay for one connection and then you can share it amongst a phone a tablet and a laptop without having to pay extra for each device fascinating yeah it's an interesting pick thank you Harrison the ASUSWL330NUL send your picks to us feedback at dailytechnewshow.com you can find my picks at dailytechnewshow.com slash pics some news out of Australia failed access memory notes that communication minister Malcolm Turnbull surname pronounced as one word he says challenged the Prime Minister Tony Abbott and won so Turnbull is now the new member of Australia we are so thrilled says failed access memory Turnbull had the national broadband network over budget and late but because it's the Liberals and not the Labour Party it's fine no word yet if the front bench will be made up of former Telstra board members or if they're staying on the national broadband networking board I guess they could do both right yes that's Australian sarcasm in the paragraph so if anybody has followed the national broadband network story over the years from Australia I've reported on it several times someone instrumental to that is now the head of Australia your mileage may vary in what you think of that we had great response to our discussion of emotion recognition on Friday's show Jason suggested it could be used to diagnose emotional affect disorders and Christian Cantrell suggested it could help people with conditions like Asperger's writing I do think having access to a program that helps teach them how to project intended emotion to interpret others emotion could help make their lives easier Tyler who's a former therapist agrees saying people may be more comfortable talking with a computer avatar or to a faceless virtual psychotherapist who exists in the cloud and if those can at least flag a patient for follow up from a human much mental illness could be preempted before it becomes acute Paul thought that we should imagine deploying this technology at government buildings and transportation hubs to identify specific emotions such as nervousness apprehension excessive seriousness Jason thought the same could be useful at ATMs if someone looks like they're being forced to withdraw money and then Mike wrote in and says he has a form of facial paralysis called Mobius syndrome which prevents him from making facial expressions and in relation to tracking wrote when do you think we'll see a surge in popularity of Botox injections so people can make their face expressionless to avoid being tracked wow that's some interesting ideas there huh that's fascinating from the helpful to the controversial to the encouraging Botox wow go ahead I was going to say we'll be hiring shadow runners who have gotten this Botox injection and then you'll send them to return things to target after your third no receipt return and then they'll walk in and say it is no longer functioning properly I wish to return it and they'll be like yes you seem on the level sir and I'll be in the car I'll be in the car and be like oh man good thing I hired this guy it's a fascinating technology and as we mentioned on Friday it's going to be used for advertising first of all to find out how you're reacting to advertisements but I loved all of the responses we got from people saying yeah but it could also be used for this could be helpful with this it's fantastic stuff well that is it for this episode of the Daily Tech News Show thank you Kevin Purdy we waxed pretty eloquently about the wire cutter and sweet home already but you have been working on a project about USB microphones that I know you were asking me a couple questions about I know you've asked Veronica about so that's coming up when can people expect that boy that's a good question I didn't mean to put you on the spot I was just trying to tease it no my editor is on vacation this week so good question pretty fairly soon I would never promise a date but yeah fairly soon we've kind of wrapped up the testing and the interviews and stuff like that so I'm using one of them right now that shall remain nameless video feed can figure out which one it is probably but yeah pretty soon look for USB microphones and then the android smartwatch as mentioned earlier is constantly under revision so I would expect to see after we get this first wave in probably an update in early October so check back on the website and follow Kevin on twitter twitter.com anything else to mention no that's it my whole life is toilet brushes and watches right now like a 1930s salesman it could be worse Veronica Belmont what's up with you before we go let's see we just had a recent episode of Dear Veronica come up in which the gentleman from my brother my brother and me answered some questions about how to deal with meeting famous people in real life they took it into a hilarious extremes and we also covered why we can't find more NFC payment terminals around the city especially in some place like San Francisco so yeah you can check for new episodes every Wednesday over on Engadget at Engadget.com slash Dear-Veronica huge thanks to all the people who support the show whether it be through Patreon PayPal or the dailytechnewshow.com slash store store we we survived because you want us to this the show exists because of you so thank you if you can't support the show directly just tell somebody about the show I've been noticing people doing that and it's really helpful dailytechnewshow.com slash support our email address is feedback at dailytechnewshow.com you can give us call 51259 daily listen to the show live Monday through Friday at engadgetradio.com and visit our website dailytechnewshow.com we'll be back tomorrow with Patrick Beja this show is part of the Frog Pants Network get more at frogpants.com I hope you have enjoyed this program good show I have titles I know I was waiting for you I knew you were choking so I thought I would wait to be asked before I told you about the titles he's choking oh this is so good excuse you Kimishima that's great why is nobody talking is Tom dead I'll be okay okay don't die Tom went this whole thing without coughing and then saved it all up and had one big cough and then choked now you know the more you know you were trying not to cough that entire show no no it was only at the end oh okay well you made it good job only when I got to the email address and then I was like ahhhh blah blah blah so other titles although that one is pretty awesome is let the chips self destruct when they may that's how the computer chip crumbles um do android stream of smartwatch sheep sheep I think the choice here is clear I choose you I choose you lauromans title yep yep you ever have one of those days where you really think things should be simpler and yet printing something takes up your whole day are you printing something takes up a whole day you have to do one thing and send one thing to one person but printing it off a new printer that you haven't used before has become some sort of like horrifying act of I don't even know what okay well I will say and this is not a knock and I know that we're still live but we did buy I believe the wire cutter printer and it has been a god darn nightmare to set up on our set up on our home network so oh no I think that guy makes it pretty clear that it is like saying this is the best rabies injection you can get you know like it's never gonna be like it's never gonna be as fun as opening like that getting that neoprene smell from like a new phone it's you're still buying a device that sprays fluids under paper so you know what's rotten inkjet cartridges you know what's extra rotten printer drivers you know what makes it worse networking it's just the perfect storm of awful and if I was able to fill this out really successfully via you know computer fill out that would be fine but I ran into trouble filling out numbers in the right boxes so that didn't I know it's just so it's just like you just want to fill out one form send it off can't do it added to Tom's list also is wonderful PDFs PDFs built by third-party companies with interactive fill-in forms those are wonderful too everyone's different everybody go to one convention center at the date specified and fix it perfect thank you for having me I'm gonna get back to you thank you Kevin and the next time I'm on I'm going to have a rug and be facing a different direction so there's not a big lake Wizard of Oz window behind me no problem that'll be exciting thank you so much and if you have like when the USB mic thing is up or if you have another project of any kind if you're writing a book or anything just let us know yeah your readers have really great picks man I did not know that category existed what the little mini I didn't know about that thing either the little mini travel router yeah I had no idea my travel experience is just having two battery backups for my phone at all times and just using my phone as like a modem and not doing that well at it alright thanks so much guys alright cheers that was a good show yeah I got as far as configuring the device and yes that was a good show configuring device configuring the show device I just want to print four pages no configuring the looking for printer guys this could happen so it's so close you're almost there and I guess all it is is go home and printed it home but then that's like a whole day oh cassette tray is not installed correctly that means they're talking at least it knows that right I can fix that problem I'll be right back what there's someone coming down my stairs Brian brushwood what not again why is he still here what live at your house now he just lives here don't you have a home no this is my home I live here now hey it's the Mad Texan the Mad Texan the Mad Texan oh that's right the Mad Texan does anybody need a printer by the way I have an old printer I'm trying to offload I need you to go throw it in the garbage go office used printer that's a hot category how about a used 46 inch TV television well that actually is useful somebody take that nobody on next door wanted it so I guess I have to put it on my rig list which means that's going to be a nightmare hmm do you expect to get a little money for it if not that's when I take it out of the closet it was like I guess I take it to the Jewish women's center because that's the closest place I just really want someone to come take it away from me task rabbit well they'll pick it up yeah that's what I do with all my old tech it's not even worth putting it up it's just easier because they have a whole entire program to help people to train people on recycling and electronic material as well and you know whatever they sell they get they put back into their programs yeah right you get the tax deduction yeah you get to write whatever it's worth $1,000 okay this 46 inch LCD I spent $4,000 on it in 1992 donate stuff you get a baby oh is that where you got it that's where babies come from wow brushwood must have donated a lot of things so he just keeps getting rid of stuff he's really a one in one out kind of guy he's like what did I do Roger was saying that when you donate enough things to goodwill they give you a baby that's where babies come from I want to update I have successfully printed four pages which I will now fill out one page of and scan four pages back into the computer oh boy why do you have to scan it back in wasn't a pdf or nothing it was a pdf that I couldn't fill out the right boxes with numbers in them that's why I used my I can just draw on top of it Wacken your Wacken hold on I know that's very nice sounds like a personal problem I use an ipad 12 for that or whatever ipad bro an ipad bro ipad bro it's just like you get it out in your ear ipad bro alright look at that that show is published that's a published show you guys and I didn't die good job why would you die I have coughing good so on that up note of not dying foundation powder should I buy just go to mac stay tuned tomorrow to find out which foundation powder I had an answer I dropped my contact I don't want to go to mac will she go to mac what about not mac what about um spoilers there's that new company that I really like what's the new company jenny likes tomorrow


Thanks for tuning in to KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis, California. I'm Autumn LaBea Renault and today is Tuesday, January 26, 2021. And this is the COVID-19 community report. We're sharing local news and resources focusing on what's impacting Davis and nearby cities in Yolo County during the COVID-19 pandemic. My guest today is Lucas Frerichs, Vice Mayor for the City of Davis, and we'll get to that interview in just a few minutes. This particular episode finds me in a pensive mood.  Everyone in our immediate household is fine and has tested negative, but someone in our pod was exposed and didn't know, and that's frequently how this virus spreads. I find myself very grateful for healthy Davis together and free, painless, saliva-based testing. Honestly, I find myself grateful, period, and there are many locally who perhaps can't say that. Yolo County posted its highest ever one day total of COVID-19 cases this week, as well as a record number of county residents hospitalized to date. According to the county's dashboards, last week, 45 county residents were hospitalized with COVID-19, including 15 in intensive care in the county's two hospitals. And on Wednesday alone, the county reported 298 new cases of the virus. That was a one day total. Last week's new cases in Yolo County numbered 1,040, also record breaking. For perspective, when I started reporting these numbers back in March, we were looking at an average of five to seven cases per day. The county also recorded seven more deaths, bringing the death toll in Yolo County to 138. Those deaths were in West Sacramento and Woodland, which are the cities in our county that have been most heavily impacted by the pandemic. The county did report some good news and some bad news on the COVID vaccination effort last week as well. And once again, I thank Yolo County's public information officer, Jenny Tan, for her frequent updates and being a go to resource during this time. Last Wednesday, the state advised counties and healthcare systems that they could resume use of a batch of Moderna vaccines that had been suspended, following possible allergic reactions. Yolo County had received 1700 vaccine doses from that Moderna lot in question, none of which had been administered. The county will now move ahead with administering those vaccines. Tan also said the county has received a total of about 7100 vaccine doses, but those were all expected to be used by the end of last week and it was not clear when the county would receive more. So we'll update in future weeks. And finally, here's your testing information. Through the end of this month, January 30th, there's an OptumServe testing center available in a portable next to the juvenile detention center, located at 2780 East Gibson Road in Woodland. The testing is by appointment only and can be made by calling<PHONE_NUMBER>, or by completing an online application at LHI.care slash COVID testing. The county also continues its free Abilino testing sites through the end of the month. Participants must provide proof of county residency. There are a variety of testing times and locations and you can visit yolocounty.org for more info there. See the testing page located on the website. And finally, Healthy Davis Together offers free saliva test. If you're symptomatic, you can get tested on Mondays. Other days are reserved for testing of asymptomatic individuals. Appointments are recommended. Visit Healthy Davis Together.org to create an account and register. Although actually I was told that after you've had an initial test and are in the system, walk-ins are possible, doable and easy. The whole process takes about 10 minutes. Joining me today is Davis' Vice Mayor, Lucas Frerichs, who was first elected to the Davis City Council in 2012, was re-elected in 2016 and again in 2020. He currently represents District 3. His civic engagement also includes service on boards ranging from the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, the Capital Corridor Joint Powers Authority, the Yolo County Transportation District, Yolo Habitat Conservancy and Valley Clean Energy, many of which he has chaired over the years. As Director of State Policy for his day job with the Nature Conservancy, Lucas is responsible for advocating before the California State Legislature and State Agencies. And he was recently named as one of Sacramento Magazine's Sacramento 100 and Honor Bestowed on those making a difference in our region. Thank you so much for joining me, Lucas. Thanks so much for having me on. I appreciate it. You know, you were actually my first interview on this show, Episode 1, back on March 17, 2020. And today is Episode 49, just FYI. And when we spoke in March, it was at the very beginning of things shutting down due to COVID. I know I had this real sense of urgency. What can I do? How can I help? And within four days, I was on the air with the first show of this program. And you shared with me then the city sense of urgency and getting a safety net under our community, particularly some of our more vulnerable members. I don't think either of us could have imagined 10 months ago what this time period would bring. And we had also yet to experience district elections. You've been through that. So thinking back over those long months, let's talk about some of the steps the city has taken during this time. What would you consider to be some of the best practices and success stories emerging from this pandemic period? Yeah, no question that 2020 or say just the past year up through now, but 2020 was quite an unorthodox year to say the least. Certainly I would say the most challenging year since I started serving on the council about eight and a half years ago. And during that time actually, when I first came on to the city council in 2012, that was sort of coming out of the depths of the Great Recession, which was a really challenging time. So you see these cycles sort of up and down, but the issues around the pandemic and with COVID are unlike anything I think the city has ever seen and most governments for that matter. You know, I think even having said that, I do think that there has been a fair amount of really positive sort of adaptation, you know, has been pivoting and adaptation, right? That's the real key in the past year. You know, moving all of our meetings to virtual meetings, right, all city meetings, even a neighborhood meeting, you know, sort of that would normally be in person in some community building or in a neighborhood itself. All of that has been moved to Zoom and you know, and there's a lot of there's a learning process of course with all of that but it's in some ways it's interesting because now I mean there are, you know, on several council items before the city council this past year. We had 130 public comments, 160 public comments recently, 160 public comments, you know, from members of the public that absolutely would not all have attended an in-person city council meeting. So, you know, that ability. So there was a lot of questions about well how can, can, will people be able to participate. Right, right. And they do. Yeah, absolutely. So that is something that is just a real change and but I think has been positive. You know, I would say, truly, the partnership in collaboration with UC Davis on the Healthy Davis Together program. That is something that is, you know, there's been an increasing relationship of partnership on a variety of items but that is this is just, I mean, sort of, you know, far and away, much larger than a lot of the items we've worked on with UC Davis and so so thankful for the partnership there. The, you know, the testing obviously for members of our folks who are living in Davis folks who work in Davis. That is such a huge, been a huge asset, but also just the other components that sort of dealing with the downtown, you know, sort of the, the Healthy Davis Together ambassadors that sort of are roving around downtown, you know, farmers market different places like that on campus, of course. You know, but also the pivoting to having, you know, setting up the, closing off some of the streets, setting up some of the outdoor dining in the parklets and things like that. I think that those are, you know, a real, it's a real shows that sort of the initiative and sort of how the city was able to really work together with say like downtown Davis or other business owners and things and then just really sort of pivot and start to sort of make the best of not so great situation. You know, Healthy Davis Together is interesting. I want to comment on that for a minute because I've, I've had cause to go get tested a few times myself lately after I was unfortunately and unintentionally exposed. And I'm fine and but I'm so grateful for the whole process how easy it is totally painless how little time it takes and how quickly, you know, we get results I have my results and about 28 hours after I got tested, which was awesome. And I do think during a time of crisis as we've seen elsewhere in the country, people and entities they either go towards divisiveness or they find ways to work together and I do think the pandemic has brought some encouragement in this relationship between the university and the city and I hope that's something to really build on as as we move forward. Let's talk about the downtown for a minute because as you know better than most are poor businesses are just really struggling and there's been a lot of efforts over the course of the pandemic from gift card stimulus to to the adaptations we see downtown with for outdoor dining and and pedestrian access. And yet as soon as that happened, we kind of had to go into a period of shutdown again so what are you hearing from, from business owners how are they faring, what are their, their hopes and fears what comes next for them maybe.  You know, I think we have, you know, some of that is out of our control as a city of course I mean it's you know it's both you know the public health officials are making recommendations and sort of issuing directives from either the county level of course or also in the then of course the state level. And so, you know, and some of those occasionally have been in conflict, frankly, and so it's been trying, you know, trying to have to sort through those and figure out, you know, what sort of, you know, what is the most up to date or accurate information and regulation and you know that's sort of consistently also I think it's been a challenge. You know there's, I do think there's some optimism out there certainly I mean it's you know sort of cautious optimism right that, you know, there's some businesses have been shuttered for most of the pandemic and are continuing to be shuttered right so think of movie theaters for and so and so of course Davis has three movie theaters to separate owners but three three movie theaters in the downtown, all of which have been shuttered for basically almost the entire part of almost the entire past year.  And you know we saw these like early on in the early days we saw these issues around you know hoarding and selling you know bank shortages of, you know, basic supplies and cleaning supplies and sanitizer and toilet paper and all those types of things. But I think that you know we are. So it's not hitting everyone uniformly, I think it's a real issue so you know a lot of the businesses now that they are now that the county has moved back into the purple tier and is. You know outdoor dining has been able to be resumed. You know there's a lot of folks out there safely I think you know I see people safely dining outside and and and Davis I think also is a very fortunate that people are adhering to the the directives and guidance around, especially mask wearing and such. I think that you know it's funny people are, you know, when you hear see these folks that say, I don't want to wear a mask or whatever it's like, I don't necessarily where they want to wear a mask either, but I'm wearing a mask. To protect you. I mean, right. It's not I mean I'm yes sure I potentially make risk for you know we all are contracting COVID, but I am I'm as much wearing a mask to protect myself as I'm really out there wearing a mask to help protect other people. And I think that that is something that, unfortunately, you know, is lost in sort of aspects of our greater society and I think that, you know, when I've traveled some to several communities nearby right on occasion right have to go pick up at the store somewhere else. Let's just say Davis is, Davis is a lot more masked up than many, many, many surrounding communities. So I feel very fortunate that folks are really taking that seriously. That's been my experience to and limited trips to other areas, whether that's woodland or a little further a field. People do not mask the way we do here so. Yeah, good. Good on us here in Davis, but you know the numbers countywide are still creeping up and and there is hope for optimism with vaccine but with limited numbers we're just you know what I say to people every week is we're not out of this yet. And it's going to be a while. So, Lucas, let's talk about governance for a minute because you're doing something different this year you've served as an at large elected member of the Davis City Council and now you represent district three. So, how, how is that different for you. Well, you know, it's, it has, I don't know if you can hear me or not all right I'm saying my it's telling me my connection is a little unstable. In some ways it's, you know, I think the jury is still out or the verdict is still out you know on how district elections will sort of impact the community. Yes, I represent a geographic area, you know, of the community, sort of the central part of the city. When you look at the entire map of Davis, but at the same you know sort of sort of central downtown itself but central and then much of East Davis, and then also some of some of the northern part of the city north, north of Covel. But I think for me, you know, I was elected eight years ago to represent the entire city. And that's how I operate that's how I attempt to govern I represent this community of Davis. And I feel like, you know, I use this example during the Council election sort of campaign, you know, if if somebody, you know, one of the one of the boundaries of my district is on the west side is Oak Avenue. Right. And if somebody on one side of Oak Avenue who's in my district has a has a problem, and somebody who's on the other side of the street on Oak Avenue has a problem. I'm not going to just listen to the people who happen to be in my, you know, in my district, so to speak. I'm going to really try to seek out to represent the people in this community. And because I that's what how I've done it for you know since I've been in the office in sort of city council elected office so far. And I think that I do think that that's how most of the folks who are on the city council also approach that situation. And we're supposed to try to govern for the entire community. And so that's how I really approach it and I think that that I assume that will be how you know there's always an opportunity there's always a potential for proclism and sort of, you know, you know, factions and you know geographic sort of representing your own little area but I do think that by and large people will try to represent the entire community. And there are things that are common to the community at large the downtown to go back there for a second for example that we all care about and so you're not as you know that's that may not be in your district but your or portions of it may not be but you're not going to ignore it. I did before we move away from the downtown, talking about the businesses that have been shattered for, you know, for most of the pandemic movie theaters performing arts venues, and many others hotels and and tourism and visitors. That has to put a dent in our sales tax revenue and our transient occupancy tax revenue and everything in a big way so what kind of impacts are will the city be seeing and I know that we just finished one quarter and we'll probably really see the fall out in this next quarter. But what are the hopes and fears there. Yeah, it's interesting some, you know, so some things are so sales tax is actually not fallen as much as we thought people are still consuming, you know, items so and buying things, you know, grocery stores and other stores target as an example right and you know and ace hardware or wherever downtown you know. So there's definitely a fair amount of an avid reader and others where things are taxable so that that's we're seeing a lot of the sales tax really revenue not really decline yet. So the hotel tax or the, you know, transient occupancy tax those that's been a little underperforming certainly, but it's interesting we write we've had, we have one brand new hotel at, you know, the Marriott at second and mace open just essentially as the pandemic was starting. And so, you know that, and then we have another hotel in South Davis that is the Hyatt House hotel that is nearing completion. So you know you've got these two. I mean that's basically another. I mean it's close to I think it's close to 400 rooms total right between the two hotels that are new. And so, interestingly though, some of the Marriott was doing not work very well right for the first couple months, but then they were they started to have they were essential workers. And so, so there have been some sort of bright spots in there that we you know weren't necessarily thinking about, I would say and so but I do think that'll rebound over time right that you know that's, that's going to, and you know there was a real high demand for need for hotel rooms prior to the pandemic, especially due to the all the sort of sort of business, you know with the university and just the conferences and, you know, things that people attend at the university as an example and some of the company and of course also visiting the companies here in town. But there's been a few bright spots as well as interesting you know in terms of some of the revenue that comes in for the city. This is was kind of an surprising one but the cannabis revenue has been, we'll just say, quite strong. Taxes from the dispensaries, both the bricks and mortar dispensaries the delivery services has been very exceeded expectations during the during the course of the pandemic so you know there are, and which was something we were not anticipating so there's no, you know, I think the other potential issue out there is that in this with this change in federal administrations, we're going to see, I think a commitment to, we're hearing from DC and from the White House that there is a commitment to help send some relief to a lot of individuals have had the relief sent in businesses through the paycheck protection program and such, but that local governments and state governments are going to also be in line for seeing some sort of relief money for from the pandemic and so, you know, we'll see if that happens. But I can also say to you that all, there's not a local government out there will say probably anywhere in the country but certainly not in California. There are some sort of adverse effects from from the situation so Davis is, you know, we're not alone in that. Sure, but it is glad to hear that there's a little hope on the horizon and this is why I asked those questions because I don't have the inside knowledge that you have. We have about four or five minutes left and before we run out of time we've talked about some of the success stories and some of the better than hope for outcomes, maybe that we're looking at through this. What are you hearing from what what's weighing heavy on the on the hearts and minds of Davis voters you know when I when I read the local news I I read about may say I read about crime and I read about police accountability and so you know what what are you hearing from voters and what do we need to know that to be looking at for the next couple of months ahead. Sure. Yeah, I think a couple things I think firstly, you know there are still a few sort of next steps that are unresolved and some of these items so, you know, so mace Boulevard is a good example you know we've been in South Davis specifically, you know we there's still some at the last City Council, you know, I mean, sort of last year, basically, you know the earlier part of 2020 basically said you know there are still some, you know, tweaks and changes that need to occur there, no question so the real issue is this working with the county, and you know and then getting the sort of changes put in place over the course of this next year. And we've got I'm on a subcommittee with Josh Chapman, who is the new council member from elected from South Davis and we've got a meeting coming up with Supervisor Provenza. And so you know just getting ready to make sure that that sort of the next steps occur there. You know, I think that that you know they're, you know, I don't think that you know there's some folks who want it to go back to the way it was, you know, you know, for 40 years and there's others, many others who also say we actually enjoy having the ability to have send our kids safely to go to go to school when schools sat in our open of course but you know if we've we see the usage there so I mean there's some there's a happy medium to be struck I think. And then, you know, interestingly, a few other quick things yeah we've heard obviously we're hearing some concerns about crime, you know increases in crime around town. I would say if you know, Davis, the crimes in Davis, historically, and basically now are crimes of opportunity that is what that is really how I'm not making excuses for the crimes occur. But you know it's a lot of it is like the catalytic converter thefts we're hearing right or you know or bike thefts things like that. You know, package the packages being taken these porch pirate sort of situations. You know that that has long been a situation where you know there's there's a real need for folks to take a sort of common sense approach to, you know, if you see something and you know that's you know out of the ordinary definitely think of about it you know but also I think that there's, you know, these issues around like the package thefts, you know, we people, I mean, people and there are more people at home these days to that's the other thing. There are more eyes and ears out in the neighborhoods right as opposed to when they're gone, but we know it's, it's these crimes and convenience that is really what is people, there are a lot of folks will come from out of town.  But we're, you know, and we just are going to be announcing we just found out that there was literally just a catalytic converter thief out there that was caught this morning at about 5am. So, you know, and so I think it's, you know, that's an example of where there are, there are concerns, I mean, no question, but I also think that, you know, we have been working on hiring of new officers and sort of new, especially folks who are unarmed and who are out there to help mental health workers and such to help with our unhoused population.  And we know that they're definitely they mean, you know, our, there are people are really having concerns about some of these items so we're working to address them. Thank you for that. And I know I know constituents contact you but I want to remind everyone if you go to city of Davis or there is a link on the front page for city council, and you can easily email council members right from there. There's also agendas and archive meetings and all of that good stuff. So, this has been the COVID-19 community report for January 26 2021 and I've been speaking with Davis's vice mayor Lucas Farris Lucas thank you so much for joining me. And this has been pre recorded on zoom during quarantine and I hope to be back in the KDRT studio very soon. Thank you so much I'm really appreciate it. All right, take care and I'll see you next week folks.


Hi everyone and welcome back to another episode of our Pokemon VGC 2019 battle series I hope you're all well it is Friday and beyond finishing the week of this craziness of all these memes all these gimmicks. With one more team today before we put the poll up this afternoon this evening for you guys to vote on what you'd like to see from the teams we've played this week into next week what you'd like to see a bit more of so make sure you do vote over the weekend get those votes in voting your clause like Sunday afternoon so I've got a little bit of time to kind of prepare for next week's episodes but it is going to be the final week next week of the moon series which is a little bit sad I have had a good time playing the moon series it's not been my favorite format that we've had so far this year and I am really looking forward to the ultra series but on a plus side it has been a lot of fun and I'm gonna say that and this week's been a lot of fun as well so we've got our final team today and I'm gonna reveal it now no incineroar which is yay okay great it's a little bit similar to the one we run yesterday although minus the ditto we've got the stack attacker the kyoga the ride shoe the velta the ride shoe obviously protects the kyoga the velta and the star actor who is the star of the show and the serena so the serena and the star actor are predominantly the main members of this team I've just kind of put things around it so the basic idea was that I had a long time ago was okay we've got star after it's got intimidated it's great we can scarf it so with scarf we had to beat scarf Kyogre we had speed um swift swim ludicolo in the rain which is pretty nice um and the only thing that really kind of hurts star after in those situations is fake out support so you're like okay serena is perfect for this with the queen emergency ability so we've got that perfect protection for the star actor who can final gambit anything we've got feints so nothing can protect in front of it if we want to get rid of it has to switch out force a switch and we've also got you too and we've also got brave bird and close combat there if you want to and help in hand to support that as well so serena star actor it's a really good lead combination it can put on a lot of pressure like rip through parts of portions of opponents teams to carve and win condition for the rest of the team so I think it's going to be a lot of fun getting it gone especially in the best of one format where your opponent's a bit kind of guessy anyway so it should work quite well so without further ado let's get into it today as always though guys if you do enjoy this content make sure to drop a like on the video subscribe to the channel so you don't miss these daily episodes as well as a guide series of flames world circuit or a stream of bloods and everything else in between there so it's going to be a lot of fun hopefully I'm pretty confident out of everything we've played this week I feel most confident about being able to get this star actor serena working better than anything else we've had this week and we've had a lot of success I think only one team that we featured this week has had double loss all the other teams who featured this week have had double wins which is which is pretty good so hopefully we can end up and I'm not cursing myself with a couple of wins today I touched some wood and we'll end up with a high and I hope you have been enjoying it this week just changing up teams every day is a lot of fun and just featuring some other things because the moon series has got a little bit still and you know it wasn't too much different from the sun series so it's a little bit seamy just had the z moves there and it did change it up quite a bit so just finishing up on a nice high with a bit of fun it's always a nice positive but we've got a first opponent of the day running what looks like a great team so let's hop into team preview and a first opponent is running a team of palkett incineroar aromatis shout out to our man pinko there serena kyoga and stack attacker so what can we do here I think we can use final gambit and serena and so we will lead off with our illustrious lead of star after serena what do we want in the back though because you've got to worry about potential trick room being set up from that stack attacker aromatis as well so we probably want to bring out on stack attack although it does have a really hard time against both these water type attackers and eval to does a really nice job against them and we could potentially just bring around kyoga here which I think I'm gonna do so we'll lock in straight away we'll wait for our opponent to pick theirs they've got about 30 odd seconds left and they're just gonna mull it over thinking what the heck am I facing down against right here but I mean our opponent knows all about this stuff they're playing aromatis they know they know the score they got the style points already I think things that I'm worried about here it's just it depends on the HP numbers are a lot of pokemon for the final gamut to be like super effective but we'll be able to have a good a good play around with things here we'll see if we can have some effectiveness from the star after star after is a good pokemon in general anyway just with the the intimidate support there we're gonna see the park here aromatis come out for my opponent and we'll leave off with star after and Serena so we can potentially just get rid of this aromatis but there's double trick room on the field right now which makes it a little bit more difficult for us to prevent things doesn't it right choices choices I mean the park is more threatening than the aromatis like 100% so if I was gonna pick anything I'd probably prefer to get rid of the big powerhouse and park here it makes life a lot easier for Kyogre when it comes in so I think final gamut and a faint into that slot are a lot more beneficial than going for the aromatis here just if my opponent okay I'm not gonna say anything there so we'll just go for the faint and final gambit this should be enough to take down this park here go to imagine which it is we lose star after though but star after you did such a good job you did such a good job my friend do not worry park here gone aromatis gone for the trick room that's where the trick room was coming from which makes sense okay so I think we'll get Kyogre in or do we get no we'll get Kyogre Serena coming out from my opponent this is fine because we get a decent switch into Veltal now and we can start power whipping that aromatis like there's no way we want to leave Kyogre out in the field in front of this Serena hook doke right let's bring in the Veltal and go for a power whip into aromatis get some nice damage off there we haven't been intimidated yet so that's pretty nice for us and let's see what my opponent does to adjust I I don't know if two power whips will be enough to take down the aromatis you've got to hope that it is and if I didn't mention before guys the team is in the description below check it out try it out let me know if you do I do really feel like the Serena star after combination is quite strong something I should have featured a long time ago on the channel I'm gonna see the aromatis switch out Kyogre coming in oh oh dear as long as our power whip hits this is not gonna be too good for our opponent because we should be taking this Kyogre down depending on its build of course it might be a lot more bulky than your average your average Kyogre we're gonna see a power whip into our Veltal I'm gonna take that quite comfortably here I'm power whip our Serena into the Kyogre and we will so close no bury there um okay so I think we will oblivion wing the Serena on the opposite side of the field and we'll just go for another power whip into the Kyogre that should be enough to pick up the knockout there and if the aromatis decides to come back in on that side of the field then we'll get some nice damage off anyway we're not too bad getting rid of the palkia oh it's a very slow Kyogre very slow it's gonna get this oblivion wing off oh that's not so good that is not so good high jump kick this is not great at all oh that would have been better into the Veltal because that would have actually taken our Veltal down I think but concerned about the power whip of course you want to be getting rid of the Serena if you can um but we do get the power whip now take down the Kyogre and we're going to be able to get this oblivion wing get one of our tasty tasty health back with Iry Veltal yeah and it's in range now to go down this next turn which is super good the aromatis we've got to watch out for moonblast obviously from the aromatis that's something that that can come out and do give us a few problems with the Veltal because it will hit us for a super effective damage and wouldn't have thought it will take us down but you've got to think that a double up into that slot wouldn't be ideal for us um I'm just going to power whip into the aromatis and go for that oblivion wing again into the Serena I think the double up here and the forfeit comes out from my opponent so very good again to my opponent good start for us today I think the big thing there was obviously just us getting rid of the parkia to moon which kind of makes things a lot easier parkia is a difficult pokemon to deal with it anyway you kind of suspect a z move on there as well so just being able to get rid of it with the star raptor like we did so well um made things a lot easier going forward I think the stack attack could have been a bit more problematic for us if that had been in the back but it wasn't it wasn't and we take a win on our first episode first game today so let's get into our next one hopefully it doesn't take too long to find the opponent if it does as always I'll just cut to it and we'll jump straight in where we bump into our next challenger but there we go diana that we've got up next straight into team preview playing a team of amungus incinero kayoka tonelis serena and zernius hmm okay so all right I think like outside of the zernius evalto does a really good job I do want to bring star raptor again does nice things to a lot of stuff on this team especially if they're scoffed we have to be careful about potential tailwind here as well I think this one's going to be maybe a game for raichu um but then we don't have okay no that's fine that's fine um we'll bring evalto and kayoka and we'll leave serena at home I think for this one yeah we'll do that hopefully this is the right decision I always feel a bit like uh just leaving serena really the best thing we needed for star raptor support especially with that tornado but it's probably going to go for tailwind and with raichu is that kind of fake out support on our side of the field it's it's fine isn't it um we'll get the intimidate off well the kayoka is potentially scoffed I would say it is scoffed so we could fake out the tornadoes and final gambit into the kayoka prevent the tailwind I'm going to do it I'm just going to do it into the kayoka take it down and I'm going to just fake out the tornadoes break a potential slash there oh kayoka protects okay we don't get the final gambit into it this turn but we will get it into it next turn we do get a fake out into that tornadoes you've got to think that the kayoka probably switches out this next turn though to preserve it for later in the game because it does want to go down to a final gambit so what we could do is switch into evalto predict that the tornadoes goes tailwind the kayoka switches out and we'll all switch into the tornadoes and take it down so we'll switch sorry I have to keep it around for later I'm hoping this isn't the wrong decision here kayoka's got to feel so threatened here though it's not switching out crazy man he was gonna allow it to go down tailwind it's not so good for us now at all we don't take the tornadoes down at all that's so weak that's so weak ah we can only bring our kayoka in now can't bring staraptor in oh this is not good but I mean we keep staraptor around oh oh no okay this is going to be into evalto see psych up what are you psyching up okay huh that seems like a bit of a waste of a z move to me I'm yeah they're literally left scratching my head with that one um okay we will snarl and we will go for a do we go for an attack we could potentially bring him right you again so we've got the we've got the focus ash on it and then we've got yeah I think we will do that we'll go for and then we've got fake out the next turn you have to double into that slot if you want to get rid of it which then leaves evalto kind of free to just fire off this snarl not worried about it so yeah we're going to see the double up there probably I wonder if you see thunder no just a water spout that was the other thing I was thinking maybe get the right you in okay water spout we do get the minus one tornado is coming in now oh it's buried tornadoes that makes a lot of sense that makes a lot of sense I think we've got to take down this tornadoes this next turn um so we will bring in kayoka I'm gonna need to keep staraptor for the zonius it's lurking in the back now that's the one thing that we need to be really aware of um we could water see the tornadoes actually it's not a bad plan at all um and I think it's probably a good idea to get some help back with evalto if we can do that but I am really tempted to sucker punch here as well um thunder will it be enough I don't know if it is enough to get I'm gonna hydro vortex the tornadoes because we do not want it till wending again among us coming in okay sucker punch isn't going to do anything the hurricane okay that's all right not okay please okay we get away with it the confusion it's one of those things you hate I hate so much confusions way better now and this gentleman was they reduced the the amount of time you can actually hate yourself haven't they in this generation it feels a little bit wasteful but I mean at the same time it's good just being able to deny that future tailwind although it does open the door a little bit for the zonius to come in now which is a bit of a problem here we go zern um okay we need to uh we definitely need to snarl and I think scald and if we can get a scald burn onto zonius that'll be super useful but it's gonna gm and see we probably see rage powder here oh okay I'm just gonna see the zern protect muga's probably gonna spoil and see if he velto I would imagine come on kayaga fight through the confusion this makes it really difficult for us to do to get any ground now the rain does stop as well tailwind pit us up for my opponent um we're guaranteed to turn asleep now and we've only got star up during the back and we can't do anything um I mean we can try and thunder the zonius and try and get the paralysis onto it asking a lot we're confused the rng's all got to stack up for us right now it really does this is where stack attack I would have been the man to come in now hit through this confusion kayaga pick up the paralysis please come on no uh we were asking a lot there's the this sport that is going to be game my friends that is going to be game um yeah there's not really a lot we can do gm and seed zonius tell you what so we can get like one more game in today because this drags out we know the result of this already very good game to will forfeit and um we'll we'll have one more game because we can we've got time for it we've definitely got time for one more game today so let's give this team one more try out um yeah getting into that position there wasn't much coming back from that we need to be thinking a little bit more ahead of ourselves going into that that turn where the um the moongas comes and we give the free switch into zonius which was never which was never good you never really want to be doing that in those sort of situations so we'll continue though and we'll try and give this team it's due in this last one today hopefully it doesn't take too long to find an opponent if it does as always cut right to it we've got our next opponent of the episode so it's going to be joker and we'll go straight into team pre ha joker by name joker by nature playing a team of seeking vaporeon lapras gold duck kayoga and pelippa so we've got double duck we've got double duck going on here um all right what what is going on here what is going on we've got the pelippa uh it's going to be the tailwind set it's all mono rain um seeking protects everything with its lightning on ability of course uh there's only one form of speed control here you've got the the swift swim on the gold duck that we need to be a little bit careful of obviously you've got water absorb on uh vaporeon but then you've only got tailwind on the pelippa so double rain though i think what we'll do is leady velto it's going to be very good here um it's not fake out either on my opponent's side of the field the gold duck unfortunately will add speed star after hmm which makes it a little bit more tough so i think probably serena do we got serena do we all got our own kayoga here um because we do have thunder and it kind of forces the seeking to come in i think we need serena and we'll bring star actor as well let's try this second mono water type team we're playing this week so it's all the rage this week all the rage i really don't know what to expect pelippa gold duck is the lead pelippa gold duck double duck okay so there's the drizzle from our kayoga so um i think we just snarl and we'll thunder the pelippa because the only way to protect it is bring in that seeking which means switching well you've got to switch either one of the slots if you switch up the the pelippa the seeking is not going to be taking any damage anyway so we make a lot of sense to see it come in potentially a lot of gold ducks and room to uh okay i'm going to see the gold duck switch out there's the seeking mm-hmm yeah and we'll probably see a tailwind from the pelippa here we do some decent damage anywhere with eval tol i think eval tol kind of cuts this team open we've got to win this game with star actor whatever happens whatever happens we do boost the seeking special attack so canceling out that scar snarl we see a tailwind set up from the pelippa i mean we're still in not a bad position at all here we've got to be a bit careful about a potential hurricane coming out from i mean what do we worry about from the seeking we could just water spout as well with kayoga i think you concentrate more down on okay wide guard coming out blocking both of our attacks darn it icy wind okay we saw this the same like the other week with the the tailwind the icy wind support they're not the other week the other day when we played that mono other mono water team with the the ludicolor there with the ice icy wind support it seems a bit overkill um i'm still gonna go snarl because i don't expect another wide guard and i'm just gonna scald into the pelippa this turn i don't think my opponent why guards now they could do i mean they're covering bases in case they want to catch us out but i think they've shown their cards and they don't go for it and probably want to try and take advantage of the speed control that they've got so they're gonna want to attack now or as soon as possible because the tailwinds can not gonna last forever seeking i'm gonna switch out we're gonna see lapras in the field now we can get this snarl off here this beat i don't know we're just gonna see another why god it's fine snarl is blocked this skull should do decent damage to this pelippa it's not gonna be picking up the knockout but any burn would be good but no no burn okay um we do need to be careful for the freeze dry course i think i'm just gonna go snarl again and just go for that i'm gonna go yeah scald again because the pelippa either has to why god it doesn't attack this turn or it has to fear the thunder um and that seeking has to come back onto the field so i really do feel yeah the pelippa maybe the seeking comes back in now yeah so that'll take yeah freeze dry okay i mean that's better than it's the kayoga slot i prefer that no white guard down now so this is way better the tailwinds gonna end this next turn although we are i see winded so we're still gonna be probably slower than both of these poke one out in the field a minute scald let's see what this is like seeking is really weak so yeah it does pretty decent damage there and picks burn which is pretty nice procking a berry though is that a lumberry or is that a big boosting a guav berry there we go so there's the tailwind pittering out we can just continue go for these snarls now and i think we'll just protect kayoga this turn it's a bit passive but i just want to get some more damage onto both these targets would you say special attack before they can do anything we may see the seeking just switch out knowing that we're not going to be going for a thunder this turn there's a pretty safe switch into pelippa but then you got to worry about a potential scald as well but we haven't seen a z move yet from my opponent's side of the field so it's got to be somewhere we actually outspeed both poke one still even after the ousey wind wow do you miss the lapras here which isn't great surf coming out serves up with lapras oh it's from the sea king ha that's nice okay and thunder okay boosting the sea king right now i think we got sucker punch into the seeking we haven't revealed it yet so we should be able to take it down and then we can go for that thunder into the lapras sucker punch will be more than enough to get the seeking here and if it switches out it means we get the thunder anyway so we're just covering bases let's see what's my opponent thinking it's ticking through their brain oh okay they're gonna they could make that one the mad play the order play freeze dry once again into eval toe still do some nice damage there thunder gonna boost that seeking even more but again it's protected i'm kind of locking it though like i mean i think we just oblivion wing it we are faster than it so we can just do that and then go for the thunder there's not much my opponent can do here because we don't want to just go for the sucker punch again could potentially protect that wouldn't be ideal for us so yeah there's the oblivion wing get some health back in the process which is always going to be useful for eval toe get this thunder into the lapras of course the rain has ended so there is every chance it could miss now we're like a turn too late what we do hit okay that's good lapras is so bulky isn't it this is ridiculously strong such a good pokemon as well you've seen it have like decent success in previous years as well okay gold they're gonna hit the field now i think we just go snarl and probably a decent time to get serena onto the field so at least we can keep kyoga till later with its thunder it'll be able to clean up this pretty easily i think serena has a pretty nice time against both these pokemon out in the field right now see surf okay yeah that's fine it's just where the freeze dry is you've got to probably think you want to concentrate a bit more into the eval toe slot as long as our snarl hits here though we should be fine that's all good freeze dry where you going into eval toe yeah let's just put us in range ah the freeze are you kidding okay we'll go for it suck a punch into the gold duck and we will go for a power whip into the lapras if the pelipa decides to come out it's not going to enjoy taking a power whip hopefully eval took in thul itself out gold duck going out i'm gonna see pelipa come back in and wants to put a bit of pressure onto this this serena we might see it protect from the lapras here i haven't seen it protect yet but could be a salt vest as well we stay frozen unfortunately power whip this will be enough i've got to imagine yeah and now just pelipa oh correct oh maybe i would have thought that would have taken out anyway hermin just gold duck to deal with now come on eval toe let's throw out let's throw out get the sucker punch into pelipa so we can get this power whip into the gold duck come on come on eval toe thul thul thul no ah psychic psychic gold duck we actually really we outspeed the pelipa and we miss with power whip come on serena why are you so blind i guess eval toes got one more chance to get this sucker punch off into the pelipa thaw out this would have been over way quicker we hadn't been frozen right let's do this sucker punch this time come on eval toe let's do this thunder the gold duck come on come on eval toe thaw out gold duck continually gone for the psychics we'll get the thunder now how slow is this pelipa it's like literally how slow is it it's so slow right we're not running a fast chai auger in this team there's a hurricane i'm not touching this eval toe it's giving me a chance for eval toe to um and i said i said it earlier didn't i we're gonna allow we're going to allow star after to win this game so we'll protect chai auger we're gonna switch eval toe out into star after because they're not targeting that slot and we're gonna allow star after to take the win here okay i would of course it would be into that slot this time watch us get confused you can't even write this you can't write this sort of stuff right okay brave bird big bird let's switch back into eval toe brave bird this thing do this star after so my opponent can see what we're clicking button by button star after best bird brave bird get rid of this pelipa yeah this fake bird they're just trying to be you are the real bird star after we all know us you win the game for us you did well good game to my opponent they'll really entertaining game for us to finish up with today so i hope you guys have enjoyed it today it's been a lot of fun i really like this team the star after is a really cool pokemon we got to see it in action obviously that second game that we played i think it was just positioning ourselves and just not thinking far enough ahead when we needed to because of the threats that were there and maybe some selections and team preview as well we're in issue but at least we finished with a win it's always good against an entertaining team as well so we're gonna end things up there guys keep an eye out for the poll it'll be posted later this evening um and get voting for what you'd like to see next week from all of the teams that we've played this week i hope you've had a good time this week seeing all these different teams and texts and stuff like that and like i said at the beginning of the week if you've got teams and gimmicks and memes that you'd like to see played going into next week make sure you do let me know and i will make sure to try and play them and feature them next week because we've got one more week to go before we go into the ultra series so let's give it a good send off before we do that so i'm just gonna say goodbye have a great weekend guys thank you so much for tuning in hope you have a great rest of your day morning afternoon night whatever time of day it is wherever you are take care of yourselves and i'll see you for the next one so until then guys take care and bye bye


The finish of this Nebraska Arkansas game was insane. The Fayetteville regional winner goes to the super regional tied up at two. And the Brassica is one out away from going into the ninth inning. One to count, two to count. Franklin, the batter for Arkansas sets the tone here with just a really good at bat, fouls off anything in the zone, takes anything out of the zone, goes three to fouls that one off the three to again, fouls that one off his foot. They think they got the out. No, hit him in the foot and it hurt him a little bit. So maybe throw it there again. They don't they walk them. So that's one ball in a row. That's a theme for Arkansas. It's awesome.    Now something is happening. They got two base runners on. There's still two outs in the inning, so they only need one more. Oh, another ball and then another ball.   Good call crowd. I'm going to bring in a new pitcher, even though it's the middle of the count. So they bring in this dude, Jake Buns. It's a two O count. He throws another ball and then he throws another ball. And now we're at nine balls, nine balls and Dr. Pinch hit Charlie Welch comes to the plate seven for eleven as a pinch hitter and a wild pitch.  What you're going to do about it? Uh, my hat now now I'm going to let the audio play for the next pitch because there's nothing I could say that would make it as cool as it naturally is just an absolutely electric atmosphere. Dr. Pinch hit comes through. Let's go. Let's go. Obviously is going to throw two let's goes and then they close it out and win the game head to the super regional.  I mean, that's an amazing crowd, an amazing scene. If you like college baseball, if you want to find out about the young studs that are going to be in the MLB soon, but are not there yet. And you got to check out our podcast farm to fame on the John boy media network. They'll tell you all about the people you're going to eventually be hearing about and you can get in the know a little bit early.