Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is the Cavalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont, maker of better things or better living through chemistry. Tonight, DuPont brings you the 18th Captain, a thrilling and authentic story of our Navy, with Ralph Bellamy playing the title role. The 18th Captain was written by Stuart Hawkins. This oracle background is based upon the new biography John Paul Jones by Lincoln Lorenz, published by the United States Naval Institute in Appalach, Maryland. Presenting Ralph Bellamy in the 18th Captain on the Cavalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont. The pharmacist's mate, first class, United States Navy, awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for Distinguished Heroism in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Captain Paul Heinemann, United States Navy, awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious service with North Atlantic convoys, Lieutenant William H. Gibbs, United States Navy, awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroism and Extraordinary Achievement in the Aleutian Islands Campaign. Charles Swine Smith, Water Tender, First Class, United States Navy, awarded the Navy Cross for Extraordinary Heroism and Courageous Devotion to Duty in the Battle of Midway. Vice Admiral Henry K. Hewitt, United States Navy, awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for Exceptionally Meritorious Service in the Successful Landings and Occupation of Objectives in French Morocco. Carl C. The North Atlantic, Aleutian Islands, Midway, Africa. Today the terse citations come literally from all around the world. We thrill to them, of course. But there is one man who would hear them with even deeper satisfaction if by some miracle he still could listen. He sensed our Navy's destiny and fought for it, even before we had a Navy. His name was Jones. 164 years ago in Philadelphia. There's no purpose in attempting the impossible. He did, too. He has been fighting for it. Yes, we might as well applaud him. Gentlemen, please. I have a letter from General Washington. We're still holding General Halt, end up in Boston. Let's not stray from the port, Adams. We're the Naval Committee, not the Military Committee. I'm not straying from the port, as you will see. General Washington says here, I have fitted out several privateers and have high hopes they will bring in some merchant ships as prizes. That's the answer to our problem, gentlemen. Privateers, sir. There's no answer to anything. Cost us nothing to give them the commissions. They're the only naval force we can afford. Come in. Mr. Hughes here. Oh, John. Come in. Come in. Joseph, I have you. Gentlemen, this is my good friend, Mr. John Paul Jones from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Mr. Adams of Massachusetts. I am here. Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island. John Langham of New Hampshire. I am here. Robert Morris of Philadelphia. I am here. And Lee, you know. The town of Falmouth, Maine, has been attacked and burned to the ground. What? The Hughes just came. Three enemy ships, a 60-gun frigate of two smaller one, sank it in the harbor and shelled the town at leisure. There's not a house left standing.  The town was defenseless. And so is every other town along our coast until we organized a navy to defend them. We were just discussing the possibility of relying on privateers, John. Privateers? They're only good to play on merchantmen. They've not stand up the ships with a line. Why not? They were armed heavily enough. Who's there to be no profit in it? Frigates can only be defeated by men who are fighting for the continental cause, not for pride, mine. Yes. I'm afraid this interruption has lasted long enough, Mr. Jones. It's great for you for bringing up this news that the committee must make its own decisions. Mr. Adams, I've been a sailor since I was 12. And I've been captain of my own ship since I was 19. I've spoken too freely. It's only because I know we cannot win this war without a navy. Oh, pardon, gentlemen. Good day. Good day, sir. Personally, I agree with Jones completely. A captain at 19, was he? We could use men like him, I think. Who is he? Where's he from? He was born in Scotland. His brother settled in Pettisburg some years ago, and John now makes his home there. I like his spirit. I must say, Adams, there's good logic in everything he says. Well, John, it's finally settled. Which way? Right or wrong? There will be a continental navy. Oh, right way. Thank heaven. How many ships? Five. Only five? How big are they? The outfit will have 30 guns, the Columbus 28, the Andradoria 16, the Cabot 14, and a little fluke Providence will mount 12. Perhaps there's been a smaller navy than that sometime in history, but I doubt it. Well, we'll just have to make it do. You are to receive a commission as a lieutenant, John. A lieutenant? The four captain commissions went to men who have lived here longer than you have, John. But as the highest ranking lieutenant on the list, you can have the command of the Providence, if you want. The 12 guns look no thanks. I don't want it. What's heaven's name? Why not? We are all new with the business of war, Joseph. The Alfred with 30 guns will carry the front of the fighting. I'll learn faster on her than anywhere. Very well, John. You'll be first made on the Alfred, and until Captain Self-Install arrives from Boston, you'll be acting Captain as well. Gun crews to the stations for Gunfell. All right, ma'am, here's the station. Put it on high there. Wake up on number three. Release the larkin. Watch side batteries. Woo! Fireman number one. That's it, that's the way. I ask you what you're doing, Lieutenant. Oh, you're Captain Self-Installer. I am. Welcome aboard, sir. We expected you to take command several days ago. I was delayed on the way. What is it you're doing with these men? Gun drill, sir. You're wasting precious powder and practice drills? No, sir. We're not using actual powder, shots. The men simply go through the motions of loading and pointing the gun. Is this one of Commodore Hopkins' idea? Sure, it's my own idea. Oh, I see. Well, the men don't seem to enjoy this game of play acting as much as you do. They're rumbling a bit now, sir, but they'll thank me for it when we meet the enemy. We may have fewer guns than a ship of the line, but we'll be able to fire faster and truer than they expect. Mr. Hughes, Commodore Hopkins writes that as a result of Lieutenant Jones' gunnery and the engagement with the Glasgow, he has promoted Lieutenant Jones to Captain's rank and has given him command of the Providence. Fine. Fine. I told you we should have made him a Captain in the first place, Robert. Well, perhaps it's better this way. He leaves a well-drilled crew on the Alfred and will now train the men on the Providence the same way. Oh, we shall have two fighting crews, at least. Of course. This is Captain Jones of the Slough Providence. He's not been in Philadelphia since you became head of the Naval Committee. Pleasure to meet you, Captain Jones. And honor, Mr. Hancock. Captain Jones has just convoyed several cruise ships down from Boston. And since the Commodore gave him no definite orders for the future, he's hoping the committee will seek to introduce them. I'm afraid we have no convoys that need escorting at the moment. Convrying isn't what I have in mind, Mr. Hancock. Well, what kind of orders would you like? The only kind that'll do any good, orders to cruise up and down the coast and attack enemy ships wherever and whenever I can find them. In the Providence? You alone can't better to attack alone than not at all, Mr. Morris. Except for our one engagement with the Glass Girl, we've been fighting a defensive war. And so the enemy supply convoys come in with one or at the most two escort ships. Give me authority to cruise at will, and I can play drakes with them.  I'll fight it or I'll fail it. Don't you see we must attack. We're so weak we can't do anything else. We must fight as a carrier fights a bull, dashing in and out, sapping at his heels, worrying him, harassing him until for peace he moves into a quieter past. For a fighting man, Captain Jones, you turn a graphic fray. Yes, and a thousand. Now we'll let you try it, Captain. I'll draw up the order, permitting you to cruise as you see fit. I have the honor to report, sir, that in the seven weeks of my cruise I have captured and sent in eight prize ships and I've sunk eight more enemy vessels. Blend it, Captain Jones. Blend it. I think that carrier has worried the bull in notable fashion. A little more of that and we may hear him bellow. By the way, Captain, I've been holding something for you. Yes, it's your new commission. A new commission? Yes. Now that we have declared our independence, Congress has replaced the original commissions in the Continental Navy with you and proper ones in the Navy of the United States, I guess, sir. Is there some mistake here, Mr. Hancock? There seems to place me as the 18th Captain in line of ranks. Oh, yes. That's right. When I was appointed a senior lieutenant in the Continental Navy, there were only four captains ahead of me. On the basis of simple seniority, I should stand fifth in the new list. Yes, I know, I know, I know, Jones, but...  And I assure you, there were times when it seemed every mother's son in Congress had 14 brothers who must be made Captain, I see. Whoa, whether I'm 18th or first is only important as it affects my chances of getting a larger ship. I've done what I could with the Providence, but it's not a tense of what must be done. Well, planning another cruise already, huh? Well, as you can do as well the second time as you've done now, you no need for a larger ship, Captain. Oh, yes, I have, sir. At this time, I want to cross the Atlantic and carry the offensive to the enemy's own doorstep. What's that? Cross the Atlantic? The only sensible thing to do, sir. The enemy hasn't felt this war yet. We must make him feel it where it'll hurt, like at his own port, as he is stuck at ours. That can mean his own home water, where his whole fleet could be after you in no time? That doesn't mean they'd get me, Mr. Morris. No, Captain, Jones, you're mad. It's an impossible idea. That's what the enemy thinks, Mr. Hancock. Any plan which the enemy thinks improbable has an excellent chance of success. I don't know. The only way we can keep him from sending more ships over here. His fleet, his home fleet, is thinned out already. If I start raiding along his coast, he'll not dare weaken it further. He may even have to call some frigates back to try and catch me there. Oh, it's a wire scheme. Yes, Hancock. Can you see the possible effect of a bow stroke like that on Trance? If successful, it might swing them into open alliance. If successful, I tell you, it will be successful. Just give me a proper ship. A proper ship? Well, Dr. Franklin has been doing good work for us in Paris, Captain Jones. His last letter reports that the French are secretly building a new frigate, the Indian, which they will turn over to us when it's finished. You frigate. Such a ship, operating for a friendly base, and France, I couldn't fail. The Indian will be finished in the fall. If you can go to Trance in the Providence day at the end of October, Captain Jones. In the Providence? I think that would be a ruinous, sir. What do you mean? Do you think France would be willing to give a new first-line frigate to a captain who arrives in a made-over fishing boat? They'll judge America by me. They'll judge me by the ship I arrive in. This is something better than the Providence. He's full of common sense, Hancock. Somehow, we must find a ship more worthy of him. Not more worthy of me, Mr. Morris. The United States. Welcome to Paris, Captain Jones. Thank you, Dr. Franklin. My friends and I have been awaiting your arrival. We, I come to say, de la Vendale, may I present Captain Jones of the United States Navy? You have come a long way. We are glad you are here, Captain Jones. You're kind, Captain. And this is Monsieur Le Rede-Chermore, who has arranged for this very comfortable room over my aging head. Welcome, Captain.  When he arrived 84 yesterday with the good news of the going surrender. I'm sorry, I'm not the first to bring that news, but I stopped the Capture 2 Prize ships on the way over. You, Capture 2 ships? Well, that is an achievement in itself. Wait till I tell that at court. He apologized for being late. But stopped the Capture 2 prizes on the way. It'll make a better introduction to the King than if you had been on time, Captain Jones. Much better. Let's hope it'll make him see that the Indian has completed quickly. Hey, Dr. Franklin. The Indian, Jones, is a lost hope as far as we are concerned. What do you mean? Our enemies stiffed out the truth and the King dares not offend him by giving us that signal. It would if he could, Captain. But after all, France is supposedly a nuisance.  Is there any chance of getting me another ship? Well, this must be handled delicately. Your look showed down, Captain Jones, with time and tax and talk. Nothing is ever impossible. What do you mean by time? Six months to that? Six months. What am I supposed to do in the meantime?  You are undeniable proof of that, Captain. But I didn't come abroad to be charmed. I came to fight without a ship. We can only suggest patience. No, Doctor. I came over in the Ranger. Since there's nothing better, I'll fight with her. Isn't she too small for what you intend, Captain? You've already told me she has with 18 guns. That's right. Only 18, nine pounders. And she's slower than she should be and cranky in her headwind. If she's always got, I'll have to make her do. You are listening to the 18th Captain starring Ralph Bellamy as John Paul Jones on The Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company. The disappointing news that Trance could not provide him with a powerful frigate did not stop Captain Jones. Turning his back on Paris, he hurried aboard the little sloop of war Ranger that had brought him across the Atlantic. As our play continues, we hear him preparing for action. Good boy, so soon, Captain? Yes, Lieutenant. Cancel all shore leads for the crew. We've worked ahead hard work. How's that, sir? I want the main, Mr. Moog, to place three feet after its present position. All three tops must shorten. After that, we'll clean ship and clean the bottom. When that's done, we'll see about adding extra balance. We've got to get more speed out of it. That's fair, then. I know. The large order. But since no one else will help us, we'll help ourselves. Doctor Franklin. Have you heard the news, Doctor? What news, Countess? It's been magnificent. Oh, so thanks. I have. Yeah, me. What is it? Has the Queen become a mother again? Huh? The Queen? Oh, no, no, no. Oh, it is your captain, your, uh, John Paul Jones. John Paul, a mother? You staggered me, Missy. No, no, Doctor. Yeah. They're porting burnt vessels at the dock. Yes. And this loop of war they sent out after him. He waited for and met and captured it.  Well, then what is unbelievable? This is miraculous. Not at all, Missy. After all, he is captain in the United States Navy. Oh, Doctor. If all your captains are like John Paul, I could wish I lived in America. Yes or do you no good, Madame. But if all our captains were like Jean Paul, they would always be a sea fighting. Oh, you are right. And now, my friends, we must try to persuade the king that John Paul could use a larger ship to even greater advantage, eh? Well, Doctor Franklin. Sit down, John Paul, sit down. Eight months. Eight months of cost. Still no ship. Eight months and at last the ship passed. What's that? Say it again. The king will buy the durat. She's yours. The durat. Do you remember her? Of course, I remember. She's far from perfect. Six-eighteen pounders, twenty-eight-twelve, and the rest nine pounders. Do you think she'll do? She'll have to do, sir. But with one change. Yes. When we raise the American flag in her, she will, with your permission, sir, become the Bon Armory Shard. Well, since it is the captain and not the name of the ship which wins battle, do as you wish, John Paul. How much in fleet all right, sir? Thirty-nine. Forty. Forty-one merchant ships and two ships of war. Can you make out what that larger one here is, Lieutenant Dale? I'd recognize her anywhere, sir. See, this is it. Fifty guns. Fifty. We must take care of her first. Well, not too French. She's out of sight, as usual. Have it. It's way to the south, sir. And the alliance? There she is. All down on the right. You can't wait for her to catch up. Hello, Mr. Dale. Stand by to come about. Stand by to come about. Right here, there. Man the winner keeps it. I don't know what to say about it. Close and pipe all hands to battle stations. I'll give you an order to sign. Yes, Mr. Dale. A light gun has become more effective with every yard we've gained. Longer! Longer, he asks questions the closer we shall get to him, Mr. Dale. Yes, sir. High-five! Nothing longer. Just a little longer. Give me a high-star flag, Mr. Dale. High-high-five! Into the lock! High-high-high! Gun ports open. Help you talk them into giving me a squadron to work with now. I suppose it's a good thing. I've better news than that. The king has agreed to send a fleet across the Atlantic to help speed the finish of the war over there. I didn't mean it. It's what I've worked for ever since I came here. But without your victories, John Paul, my words might have had no effect. You have taught all Europe to respect the American flag. The time will come, Dr. Franklin, when the whole world will respect that flag. Under C.W. Wilkins, United States Navy, awarded a gold star in lieu of the Second Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism and aggressive action against enemy Japanese surface units. Senate William F. Christy, United States Naval Reserve, awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism against enemy forces in Tumagi Harbor. Joseph O. Savage, Boston's major second class, United States Naval Reserve, awarded the Silver Star Medal for a conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity during action against enemy forces. The time will come, Dr. Franklin, when the whole world will respect that flag. Thank you, Ralph Bellamy. Ladies and gentlemen, in a few moments, Mr. Bellamy will return to our microphone. Before we hear from him, we have a story of how chemistry now makes it possible to rivet planes with radio waves. Most war planes have metal bodies, skins, as plane designers call them, that are held on by tiny metal rivets. A single plane needs thousands of rivets, and many of them must be used in tight corners where only one riveter can work and where the rivet can be reached from only one side. Fortunately, when America got into the war and we suddenly had to build planes by the thousands faster than American ingenuity had ever built them before, Dupont had already perfected an ingenious rivet that doesn't need a helper to get at the other end. It's small, as airplane rivets are, smaller than a button. In one end, there is an even smaller explosive charge that's sensitive to heat. When the charge is fired, it expands the end of the rivet and forms a perfect head, shaped like an acorn, which holds the sheets of aluminum tightly together. The advantage of using Dupont explosive rivets in cramped corners is that even a raw recruit in the industrial army, a man or woman new at the job, can set 15 or 20 of them in a minute, as against two to four a minute for what are known as blind rivets. But most amazing of all is the new technique of setting these chemical rivets with radio waves. Until recently, the one device for driving or setting them was an electrically heated iron with a silver alloy tip. With this iron, a workman goes along a roll of rivets and touching them with a heated tip pops them off one after another. This iron was and still is the best method for many types of work. However, for large-scale aircraft production, engineers of the Radio Corporation of America, working in cooperation with Dupont engineers, have developed a radio-frequency rivet detonator. It gets its power from vacuum tubes like those that are transmitting this program to you. With the new device, it is possible to hold a line of rivets in place with adhesive tape and the radio wave will fire the charges one after another without burning the tape that holds the rivets. There's another new use for explosive rivets you'll want to hear about. A plane in North Africa, say, comes down out of the sky after a fight and lands on the desert with bullet holes in the wings. Sometimes just bullet holes, sometimes big rips and gashes where the metal skin has been torn away. Dupont explosive rivets enable the ground crew to do a speedy repair job on the spot. A patch of new metal can be riveted in place in just a few minutes using explosive rivets. Explosive rivets and a part of a technical know-how that develops a new radio-frequency riveting tool are wartime contributions of the experts who bring you in time of peace to plant better things for better living through chemistry. And now, the star of tonight's program, Ralph Bellamy. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I'm happy to have played the great American naval hero John Paul Jones on the night's cavalcade. I think it's interesting and connection without play to note the news item which came out of London last week. According to this report, the women of Yorkshire, England have made an oak plaque together with a copy of the original flag in honor of John Paul Jones which they plan to present to the American naval commander in Europe. It's offered in tribute to the stars and stripes lost in the battle between the Bonhomme Richard and the Therapist. And the inscription concludes with the words, quote, May this emblem ever inspire semen with those virtues of honor displayed by both ship companies that day. Unquote. Thank you. With the approval and cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cavalcade will present next week an original radio play, a case for the FBI. Our star will be Edward G. Robinson. If, like most people, you believe that the FBI is only concerned with the detection of saboteurs and the lining up of criminal gangs, you are in for a surprise. Listen to cavalcade next Monday. Edward G. Robinson is our star in a new radio play, a case for the FBI. The orchestra and musical score on tonight's program were under the direction of Don Burry. This is Clayton Collier sending best wishes from the DuFont Company of Wilmington, Delaware.  And this is the national broadcasting company.


Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Sosman, joined today by Tom Neckio, Fan Duel, who's here to break down the top NBA plays on tonight's Fan Duel slate. What's going on, Tom? I'm doing good. Plenty of value on the board, eight games on the slate. Let's go. Let's get to it. And let's get to the Boston Celtics who really have no players, but maybe tonight they'll actually play. And one of the players that will play is Peyton Pritchard, who's been awesome for Boston lately. He's priced at $5,200 at the Celtics play. Peyton Pritchard is going to be a major, major cog in that offense. Yeah, the Celtics had a somewhat of a de facto buy week and this is gonna be their first game since January 8th now. Now, prior to this, when they were fully healthy, Pritchard was coming off the bench, playing 18, 20, 22 minutes a game, which is good, you know, a solid role player. And now because they're down so many players to the health and safety protocol, he could A, be either in the starting lineup or B, playing increased minutes off the bench, kind of similar to what we saw the Miami Heat do the other day where they were running a seven, eight man rotation. Players were out there playing 30, 35, 40 minutes, which is absolutely amazing. You know, for a player that's $5,055. So that's where Pritchard is tonight. You know, going up against the Magic, it's probably not gonna have the highest overunder. But right now, Orlando allowing 53.01 a fable points per game to opposing point guards. That's the fourth worst in a league. So we're taking all the minutes. We're taking a great salary of 5,200 and we're getting all the value from Pritchard. As Tom said, in de facto by week this past week for the Boston Celtics, let's see if they come out with those fresh legs tonight. Peyton Pritchard priced at $5,200 is going to have a major role. We'll see who else plays for Boston.  Up next, one of the guys I haven't liked really since college, I felt like he's always been undervalued, underutilized. And I know I'm on an island with that, but not tonight, I'm not. Because Tom also likes Willie Collie Stein, he's priced at $5,000 for Dallas. Why is tonight the night that people are going to finally get in on Willie Collie Stein? Yeah, and I have to agree with you there. You know, throughout his time in the NBA it seems like he just doesn't get enough playing time. And at least from a fancy perspective, when he's out there, he's actually being really efficient. And that's where we kind of see him with the Mavericks this season. A 0.93 Fandal points per minute right now. And this is when we account for both Dwight Powell and Maxi Cleaver and Josh Richardson and Dorian Finney-Smith out of line and for Mavericks due to health and safety protocols. So they're another team that's dealing with a few players being out. We know that the Mavericks just got Porzingis back. We know that the Mavericks have Bobon behind Willie Collie Stein, but Bobon doesn't play a whole lot of minutes. Porzingis only played 21 minutes in his first game. So frankly, Willie Collie Stein has to be out there and at $5,000 in a game against the Bucs with a 226 point over under. We're getting plenty of production from him. We're getting 23 minutes or more in these recent four games. There's really nothing not to like about Willie Collie Stein at $5,000 tonight. Collie Stein has a little bit of everything, man. And he's gonna get the minutes tonight because there's no one else to get the minutes instead of him. Collie Stein at $5,000 for Dallas is someone that should be out and in your lineups this evening. Finally, we go to Cleveland. Another just totally banged up team. The Cavaliers to injury report is just ridiculous. And tonight at $1,500, one person is going to be out there. It's Chetty Oseman who is obviously very talented and we've seen and used him before.  But tonight without so many Cavs in the lineup, Oseman is very valuable. Exactly. And the Cavaliers are just dealing with normal injuries. It's not helped in safety protocols. They are without Kevin Love, Kevin Porter, Darius Garland, Collin Sexton. They traded away whoever it was, Dante Axum. They waived Javail McGee. So their lineup is actually just a mess right now. And we know Oseman should be out there for plenty of minutes. A 23.6% usage rate is actually pretty solid for a role-player of $5,100. He's only producing .73 Fandal points per minute. But the matchup against the Knicks tonight is not something you have to worry about. They're on 40 Fandal points per game to opposing small forwards.  And that's where we want to take him at $5,100. $5,100 for Chetty Oseman. And again, it's just about the amount of minutes he's going to be out there with so many Cavs banged up on COVID-related, just normal wear and tear related here. Oseman's going to be a primary option in his Cavaliers offense. So take a shot on him, especially at this price tag. That's it for us here at the Fandal Hurry Up time. We appreciate the time. Good luck tonight. Good luck to you. Have a good weekend. All right, you too. Enjoy the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. No hurry up Monday, but we'll be back Tuesday to talk to Davis Matic about next week on the PGA Tour. For Time Back To You, I'm Greg Sosman. Enjoy the game this weekend, everybody. I'll see you back here next week for another edition of the Fandal Hurry Up.


back there as often as I possibly could I'd go back to the place where it happened it was amazing and I could never find this portal back through to it but I didn't even know what I was searching for until years later when I realized what it was well we didn't know it was like going to the grocery store for you and Tyler Kate's thanks for your question says appreciate it says great job James and crew appreciate it an all street cred to T-Jump and Flatterthosie who are indeed linked in the description and bubble gum guns says conspiracy ran by CIA to discredit real conspiracies Oh Flamie O says is space is fake where is heaven and oh we got that did we read this one if space is fake where is heaven and where does Yahweh live is that the one that no you didn't read that one is that the one that prompted you to tell us that you've been to heaven like hundreds of times they said if space is fake where is heaven and where does Yahweh live now I said I might have experienced going to another dimension three times which was absolutely blissful well I don't know if it's actually heaven I believe there's multiple levels of dimensions that we are capable of experiencing and I would think that the one that we think of as heaven is probably just the next one above I reckon there's probably multiple multiple different levels higher in life than you get but as far as Yahweh is concerned I don't believe there is an actual being as such what people like to think of as God why whatever name there's multiple multiple gods that should just higher in life and masters which we can appeal to as teachers which is why the Egyptians had hundreds of gods Yahweh is just one and really I'm not so sure he's one of the better ones to be honest and where he exists I think is mostly in the realms of the imagination just like outer space Experiments of Breivite at chemistry says hey Tom I can tell that your brain hurts after this debate do you need some Vicodin just kidding YouTube nobody's offering controlled substances Tom you ought to respond Yvei I'm sad why aren't you offering controlled substances this one coming in from Perf says Flat Earth Aussie do you have an explanation for planetary retrograde that works on your model because it works perfectly with ours absolutely yeah the wandering stars they move independently they are like lesser gods in a sense you know as the Greeks recognize they they're known by their various names and they actually do move if you plot out their patterns that they move in throughout the year and the years decades and so forth they move in sacred geometric patterns and so of course when you're moving in a spiral sometimes it would appear retrograde other times moving forward so it doesn't mean that we're the ones moving it just means that they're the ones moving independently to the rest of the stars which we see moving in the same fixed sidereal motion you got it and thanks for this one coming in from George R says Flat Earth Aussie are you now or have you ever been a reptilian no I don't believe so does reptilian mean go ahead apparently my mother used to take a bit of pride and been called the dragon lady or something but I think there's something that yeah it was it was a bit of an ongoing jokes but no I'm 100% no reptiles loving me does reptile okay so reptilian means you are a reptile not that you believe in them well that's another topic we can have in case you believe I think they're hybrid or something they're hybrids and they they've got like brainwave patterns that they can use to manipulate themselves into making them appear to you as though they're human being but sometimes those waves get a bit weak and you see them their true reptile form come through sometimes just in their eyes with the splits by the times you see they're full reptilian form but yeah they're um shape shifters in that they manipulate how they appear to you telepathically somehow should have known this one coming in from design design song one says T jump Aussie said diagram diag magnetic was quote anti-gravity unquote why did you not nail him well I think by anti-gravity he means repulsive instead of attractive I don't think he means literally anti-gravity I don't think he meant the word as being literally a force of anti-gravity it's just like it's just a slip of the tongue so just catching them on a slip of the tongue isn't like a main point you got it totally against the use of the word gravity you know like it still has some sort of definition which if you understand the Latin word which I brought up in my introduction comes from the word gravus or gravitas that's where we get the word gravity and it only means weight so it still has some application if you want to use that word this one coming in from perf did I read this flat earth Aussie do you have an explanation for planetary retrograde that works on your oh we got that sorry about that this one coming in from made by Jim Bob says Tom I challenge you to a debate on this channel your firm astronomy is science and one single experiment that demonstrates gravity okay pay me 50 bucks do any debate we love nothing more than when person does a public call out so thanks for that made by Jim Bob and designs on one says oh we got that one Chad Martin says flat earth Aussie what's your opinion on inner earth Agartha yeah I've done a lot of research into that as well that's part of when my journey began probably over 30 years ago when I was reading about hollow earth concepts and I've got no doubt whatsoever that there are other realms deep within the earth I mean we've even got duns which are the deep underground military bases and these things are massive as well these are man made ones so I don't see why they couldn't have been overall the millions and millions of years of humans and reptilians and all that have existed on the earth if there can't be other places that they've gone to for whatever reason deep underground Agartha is just as possible as any other hollow earth theory really you got it and thanks very much for your question this one coming in from Bobo gum guns as flat earth Aussie do you think that Jeff Bezos faked his space trip they didn't fake anything that they they didn't go very high they didn't go I don't know much about the the Bezos one I think you saw call him I heard about the Virgin Galactic dude he went about 50 miles I think these other ones went about 60 miles and that's I think about the maximum that any man made thrusting object can possibly reach and the air just gets too undense for better word to void of physicality for any sort of vehicle to move through it with the propulsion methods that we currently use it's just not possible to go any higher than that and in the overall scheme of things 60 miles is barely the lacker on lack of layout on a classroom globe you know it's nothing that's not space you got it and the logical hillbilly says I've been to heaven once her name was Maria ah Maria next up Chad Martin thanks for your question says it reminds me when ah I can't remember the character's name Walter Mathow is singing in grumpy or old men one of my favorite movies next Chad Martin says shout out to made by Jim Bob next up design song one says t-jump when he goes on about ludicrous speeds the slam is always relative to what yes a fly on a rocket flies ludicrously to someone why not nail him because he doesn't believe in relative speed so if you say relative he's just gonna say that's not made up words so he's trying to actually explain it to him I don't know what the best way to explain how speed is relative to some force that can actually cause the speed that's why I try to do that in the bank because he did not get it juicy and this one coming in from M to M says all demeters debunk the whole notion of a pressure against a vacuum it's a gradient of pressure from 14.7 pounds per square inch from MSL to almost nothing above 80 kilometers altimeter it measures altitude according to the pressure of the air above it so obviously it would decrease exponentially as you got higher so it would give you actually a false reading which is why I think that the methods we use to measure height are actually usually inaccurate same as I say using radio waves to measure distance in height is highly inaccurate as opposed to measuring distance on the ground which is quite accurate you got it this one coming in from put a foot thanks for your question says question for Flat Earth Ozzy you said that the moon was made on earth who made it I don't know exactly who but as far as I'm concerned it would have taken some people of some great size and with all the readings I've done especially with to do with Agatha and all the other things is I do believe and there's much evidence for it we've had a debate yesterday about the existence of giants and I've also heard things about a certain being who was sentenced to earth leap down inside the earth who was able to bioengineer certain beings of some great massive things say in short giants you got it and with that we do want to say thanks so much folks I'm going to be right back with updates on future juicy debates such as this one and many others you don't want to miss it so stick around and I'll be back in a moment but I want to give a huge thank you to T-Jump and Flat Earth Aussie for this civil fascinating discussion it's been a true pleasure Flat Earth Aussie and T-Jump thanks so much for being with us tonight thanks guys see you later yeah thanks you so much Stoneman thanks James


Breaming. Hey. Oh, hello, everybody. Let me tell you what. I waited until we were on the live stream to embarrass Justin Robert Young. Justin Robert Young, politics, politics, politics is my favorite way to keep up with what's going on, where I can just hear it from someone who gives it an entertaining spin, tells me what I need to know, and then I don't feel bad about the world. Can I, to float some, we've been trying to come up with some one-liners to describe the show? Yeah. So here's just a couple. You guys, let me know which ones you like. Make politics tolerable again. Hey, yeah.  OK, yeah. This one, I don't know. We have a little bit of a difference on language between the two shows, but I'm just here for the poop show. Uh-huh, uh-huh. With the S-word instead, yeah. Exactly.  Oh, that's good. Or scandal, sedition, statistics.  And what was the second one you said?  That one's a little edgier, but I like that one too. Isn't there something you could do off the like triple P theme? Yeah. Sarah, some shows talk about politics. Other shows talk about politics. Some other shows even talk about politics, but only one show talks about all three. That's my point. Yeah, no, that's the tagline to the show. That's the way we end. We end the show. I like to talk about we as if other people do the show, it's literally just me braying like a mule. The other thing I like is your opening tags. I may start taking some tips from that. The pre. Yeah, yeah. The promos for your newsletter and all that. Yeah, you know, I was good for a little bit about recording them, but then I stopped being good about it. Although I'm going to have to record another one because I always forget things. I'm not really good at advertising my own stuff. And I need to remember that I do have a show coming up in on March 1st in San Francisco. So I got to make sure that I get all those details right so people know where to go. Justin, when you were in Japan, you were in the Nagano region, correct? I was. Yes. And some monkeys and, you know, snowing and cold and everything. I've actually been there. I liked it a lot. I thought it was like one of my favorite parts of Japan. Yeah, I love aside from the fact that walking up to go see the snow monkeys, I busted my butt like five times. I slipped and fell on the ice like five times pro tip. If you're not used to walking on ice like many of our northern friends are I, you know, even though I went to school in Syracuse for a couple of years, I've spent the vast majority of my life in Texas, California and Florida, not known for their sheets of ice. They do sell little cleat things that you can like attach on to your shoes that make it easier to walk. But other than that, no, I thought it was great. We had it. We had an amazing time up there. We stayed at the at the Onsen, which is the more traditional Japanese. Hey, Roger. Sorry to interrupt. You don't have me selected or something. I do. I do. I've selected. Sorry, because Justin was talking and on the live stream was just me looking at myself. But yeah, no, I thought it was. I thought it was fantastic. And the snow monkey thing was was amazing. Like I was not prepared for how perfect that actually is. Yeah. Yeah. Totally get it. Yeah. That sounds so jealous. When did you go out there? Uh, 2012. It's been a while. Yeah. It's 130. Really fun though. Okay. All right. Everybody ready? Let's go. Let's do this. Three, two. What's that? You want to give back some value for the value you get out of Daily Tech News Show? No problem. Just head to dailytechnewshow.com slash support to find out how. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, January 18th, 2018 from DTNS headquarters in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Feline. I am Sarah Lane. And from Oakland, California. I'm Justin Robert Young. Also in the house is our producer, Roger Chang. Roger, did you know that we don't have onesies in our DTNS store? But we might soon. You could buy one for me. That would be awesome. I might be able to take advantage of it. Rich Drafilino said. Personally, not my daughter. Not your daughter. You want it full size. Dave Michael said he might not be able to get adult size, but kid size could be coming. And they would say born ready. Get it? Because kids, right? Let's start with a few tech things you should know then. Uber's 8.8 billion deal with SoftBank has closed, meaning that SoftBank is now Uber's biggest shareholder. Rajiv Mishra, who's a board director of SoftBank and now also on the Uber board, told the Financial Times that Uber would have a faster path to profitability if it returned to its core markets in the US, Europe, Latin America, and Australia. Certainly seems to dovetail with them pulling out of Asia. Apple told Mac rumors that a fix is coming next week for the malicious link that can freeze the iOS messages app. Apple CEO Tim Cook also told ABC News that Apple will soon give users a notification when a phone's battery gets to the point that Apple feels slowing down performance will prevent unwanted reboots. It will then allow users to turn off that feature if they like to live dangerously. Just give us the choice, though. Just give us the choice. Let us make the mistake. Intel says in the course of investigating problems with Spectre meltdown patches that were causing reboots in its older Broadwell and Haswell chips, it sort of discovered that it can cause reboots in the newer Skylake and Kaby Lake chips as well. So they're working on that. Engadget says Intel VP Navin Chenoy claims they are very close to identifying the root issue and they expect to have beta microcode devenders for validation by next week.  Booty will report to Phil Spencer, who is head of Microsoft's gaming division. That's a, everybody's getting boosted up. Phil Spencer just got boosted up. Now, let's get into some more top stories and jury Nintendo's selling us cardboard. They sure are. Nintendo announced a new product called Labo, which allows users to assemble pre-made cardboard attachments for the Nintendo Switch that can then be used to create remote controlled robots, a small piano, and more. Starting April 20th, blaze it. You'll be able to buy two Labo kits.  Okay, so I didn't totally did not catch the connection between crawling around on the floor with cardboard and toys and put in this thing out at $420. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. And also it listed as $70 here, but on the website it is $69.99. Nice. Very good, very good. What is the significance of Labo? You mean the name? Yeah. You know, what is the significance of Nintendo names? The Wii? I guess the Switch is because you can switch it up from being on the TV and back. That one makes sense. Is it just like laboratory? Yeah, okay. In the lab, you create things. This is a maker toy. And the first thing that I looked at when I saw this is this is for parents who don't necessarily want to buy very expensive prehipsiles for a thing like the Switch, but also are kind of worried that their kids are a little too screen time focused. This is a huge thing with parents these days. And this gives them a little bit of a middle wiggle room. Who knows if it'll work? But the idea that there is a tactile element, there's a creative element, now all of a sudden something that is very plain can become very complicated and then add it on by way of the Switch. Really using the Switch as an accessory to a different maker toy is a fascinating idea. Who knows if it'll be successful, but I think it's definitely Nintendo at its most bold. Let me interject. As a parent, this actually looks incredibly compelling because it takes advantage of existing hardware you have, but it implements it in a way that you're right. I'm not now worried about my kid looking just at a screen in order to manipulate the product. Now it's something that they can touch. Real life, right? No glasses, no nothing. It's an actual real world physical toy that they can deal with. But they can, through their own efforts, manipulate it, and alternate and play with it. And it's kind of cool because typically you would need to buy a separate toy or kit or some sort of Lego minestorm or something to do something equivalent. I think this thing is great. Well, and if you haven't seen the video yet and you're not quite understanding what we're talking about, you kind of have to look at it because I think the one that really got through to me was the piano. So you've got a flat piece of cardboard. You unfold it until it becomes a piano. Then you put the switch in at sort of the top so that the keys can be read by it. You put the microcontrollers instead of on the sides. They go, instead of on the sides of the actual switch console, they go in the sides of the piano and then the movement is read. It's the accelerometer that's going, but it knows kind of what the position is. So when you press the keys, it's like they're playing a piano. It's almost magical if you're not thinking about it too hard. And then there's, you know, the fishing reel allows you to see fish on the screen and pull it up, et cetera, et cetera. Here's the biggest thing. At sub $100, Nintendo, I mean, hey, it's cardboard that they're running out in sheets and poking pre-tear holes in. It's not gonna cost them a lot of money. And at sub $100, I think that they're hoping this is a no-brainer purchase for any kid with the switch. Specifically, if it becomes popular, it's going to be, well, of course, it's under $100. The kid will love it. You can get a bunch of youth out of it. I don't know. There's something about it that says to me like this could be a gigantic hit. I mean, I definitely see a lot of copycat products in the future for phones, for tablets, something where you don't necessarily... Well, I mean, this is a bit of a copycat of the Google Cardboard, right? It's doing a whole lot more with it than Google Cardboard did. But that was kind of the idea of like, we won't do high quality materials, but we'll take advantage of form factor. And that's what Nintendo's playing on.  I think the most valuable aspect is that they can play with it, but they're not playing with the controller. I mean, it really depends on the kid, right?  But there will be a point in time where she start to assemble them like she does with her doll. She'll put them in a row or she'll put them to bed. There are things that you do when you interact with an environment and you understand one causality, right? I do one thing and it affects something else. And I think that's very important. And really, this is in many ways kind of a 21st century adaptation of the whole radio shack, radio kit you used to get for a kid, right? You spent 50 bucks and a kid could take wires and plug them into this giant cardboard box with electrical leads and they could build like a simple radio or a simple metal detector or something like that. You know, the 101 science projects kits that they used to sell. Yeah, and it's $60 is the price of a video game that gives you the video game. This is multiple pieces of software for a little bit more $70 or $80 and you get accessories and you get tactile objects like you're saying, Roger, that they can physically interact with and that are softer when they throw them at you. Yeah. Two things also for people that are not kids. One of the most popular SNES prep styles was the light gun that it's been a huge part of Nintendo stuff. It seems that there's going to be some element of that in the lab, as well as the bass fishing rod and speaking of the Google Cardboard, that robot game is you looking through a Google Cardboard device and then using a backpack to kind of mimic your movement. So, I mean, it's essentially VR, that robot one. Yeah. It is, yeah. All right. On from fun toys to falling prices, the value of Bitcoin has dropped to 50% of its 2017 peak. It's below $10,000. Other cryptocurrencies have also seen dives in their value. Tuesday, Crypto Exchange BitConnect shut down amid accusations of running a Ponzi scheme with their own BCC currency and there are other things undermining confidence in Bitcoin as well. Governments have been taking more adversarial stances against cryptocurrencies. The Verge's Simon Chandler noted the USSEC pressed charges against Plexcore over an ICO. Then a week later, the SEC chairman, Jay Clinton, sorry, Clayton issued a warning on cryptocurrencies saying you should beware. We're not sure these are safe. China has cracked down further on cryptocurrency trading and South Korea has been indicating its government may restrict or even outright ban cryptocurrency trading. Seems like Japan is really the only friendly country out there for cryptocurrencies right now. Hey, look, the days of milk and honey couldn't last forever, at least in this current run. A lot of cryptocurrency true believers will tell you that this is a buying opportunity, possibly one that we will not see again if it's sub $10,000, but obviously just growing pains for what is still at its heart an intensely controversial idea. Money without government will always be something that governments take a skeptical look at. You know, there are a lot of people, certainly people in the tech industry and people that I know who have lost quite a bit of money over the last week and, you know, not a good thing necessarily, but I feel like we're finally getting to the point with cryptocurrency where we're understanding more about it because the, you know, the hysteria has taken a dip.  What's really going on here?  Not happy that people lost a lot of money, but it was bound to happen. Yeah, and look, if you did not profit take at the point that it was doing what it was doing at the end of last year and validating all of Tom's predictions, then welcome to investment, right? Like that's, that's the idea when it is overperforming at that level of volatility.  You don't need to go. Well, this is what volatility looks like, right? And Bitcoin has died a million deaths. This is not the first time it's crashed. The question people are saying now is, ooh, with governments starting to take note and start to talk against it, will this be the time it can't recover? And who knows? Nobody knows until it either doesn't recover and goes away or recovers and either, you know, bounces back or surpasses its previous highs or doesn't. We don't know what level it's going to reach and it's so volatile because it is unregulated. So there's the one argument that, hey, it's a free and open exchange. It's going to take a while for enough people to use it and enough bad things to happen that the market sort of settles it into a stable pattern or it's going to have to have government regulation to stabilize or it's just going to fall apart and it won't be a thing. Those are kind of the three main possibilities. And if anyone tells you they know which one is going to bear out, they're lying. Nobody knows.  And I want to, you know, convert it into cash dollars. And it's like, it has to go through some wallet where it sits there for 10 days or something like that. And during that time, it might lose all of its value. So it's like, you know, there's something to be said about financial institutions that are regulated and, you know, that's not what happens to you. Well, and maybe it won't need a financial institution, right? I still believe it's possible that if you let it go for 10 years, eventually after enough swings, like a stable market could coalesce around it without intervention, maybe, but also maybe not. And that's, this is a grand experiment here and it's interesting to watch. Well, speaking of experiments, Spotify announced something called Spotlight, which will now include something called Visual Podcasts about news, politics and entertainment available in playlist form and featuring text, video and photos. So for example, if you're listening to a visual podcast, you might be listening to the audio version but get a video pop-up to go alongside it. Partners at launch include BuzzFeed News, Cheddar, Gimlet Media and Genius. And Spotify also has its own original content such as Spotify Singles and Viva Latino. Not familiar with either of those, but they sound interesting. Spotlight is U.S. only for now, but it looks to expand soon. I, you know, I thought the Bloomberg article or maybe it was the TechCrunch article, I can't remember, took the positive spin of saying, hey, you know, podcasting can benefit from more people encouraging its growth. And I don't disagree with that. On the other hand, when your main value is music and you've got a walled garden, you limit the appeal because at least, and maybe I'm just saying this because I'm not part of the network and I'm an independent, but you know, when people ask for versions of Daily Tech, headlines or Daily Tech news show in certain places, I have to say, well, they've got a wall up sometimes. They won't let us in and Spotify is one of them. Ah, the grand chase. How do we make, how do we take the next step in podcasting? And we have long kind of lamented the fact that podcasting is A, hard to, it's annoying to start one. It's annoying for people to find them. It's hard for people to understand them. Some people say it's annoying to listen to them. Many people, yeah, I think it's annoying to listen to them. And look, there's no set UI for how we enjoy them. That's still even very, very varied among the most popular players. The vast majority of podcasts are downloaded through Apple. And then when Apple made Apple music, they decided to not make it a part of it. So it's like, there's a million different reasons why podcasting is in the situation that it's in and is successful almost in spite of itself. Who knows, Spotify has taken it more seriously. They've put a time and effort into promoting it. I don't know if visual podcasts or anything more than all the usual suspects getting paid by a company so they can produce content that will probably not survive once they stop getting paid for it. But who knows, you know- Well, but it's like, okay, think of DTNS, right? It's like, sure, for many people, this is an audio podcast, but we offer video because we know that that's valuable to at least a certain amount of people. So, you know, when you think of it on that sense, it's like Spotify offering this is kind of an extension of what we're all familiar with as well as producers. But also Spotify wants you to do it. But if you want to, that's great. So, you know, in that sense, I applaud this, but yeah, you know, I'm not totally sure how many people will take advantage. Spotify wants you to do a lot more work though. This is not just upload a video podcast. First of all, you have to get into their system somehow. They have to be approved by them. You have to be approved, yeah. Yeah, it's not like iTunes where you just have to submit. No, Spotify has to bless you. And once you're in for this, they want you to create chapters and add things and do work, which I'm not saying is a bad thing, but it's extra above and beyond just streaming the video. Yeah, and right now they are paying people to do the work. We will see whether or not they will want you to do the work if they, or if they see the benefit once that contract. Well, but also, you know, again, to go back to, you know, what the rest of us are doing, I think that if we knew that that work would be well spent and valuable to the audience, we would do it. I just don't know that yet because it's still a young medium. But you could do the, up till now, there are some podcasts that will go to the trouble to do this because they think it's worth it, but most have not found it to be so. We shall see. Here's something that you won't see on YouTube anymore if they have their way. YouTube announced that they will be removing videos and punishing creators who take part in the Tide Pod Challenge. If you are unaware of what the Tide Pod Challenge is, it dares you to eat a pod of concentrated Tide detergent, which you should not do, which is very bad and has led to a spike in calls to the American Association of Poison Control Centers since it became trendy earlier this year. Really, 2018, writing into our lives on a horse called the Tide Pod Challenge. YouTube will issue anyone who posts a Tide Pod Challenge video, one strike, going forward if it is flagged by the community. Do we know if Tide itself has been like, don't do this? No, there's a video on the story from Tide saying, Tide Pods are for doing laundry. That's it. That's it. Nothing else. They even employed New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski to illustrate that message for the young viewers. Look, it's a horrifying idea.  This is dangerous. You almost don't even want to joke about it because there is really nothing funny with putting poison in your body for views. If you want to get into their new partner program, you need watch time. And that's not really going to take all that long. And you might die and not be able to make the 400,000 hours of watch time that you need. Yeah, there was another article kicking around today about, oh, I'm hearing an echo on me. There, it's gone now. All right. There was another article kicking around today about burnout. Burnout in pursuit of views that several YouTube creators have been talking about. And I wonder if this is like a side symptom of it where somebody is like, hey, I've got a funny idea. There's all these crazy YouTube challenges over the year. What if we do like eat a tie pod? Nobody will do that.  Like, sure. Is that a symptom of that? Well, and this is, I'm trying to think of something like as disgusting as this can't come up with one. But bros, I've seen bros does come to mind, which is, you know, that's five years old now, but it was the idea where it's like, if you present this bad liquor in front of somebody, they have to drink it on the spot. And if they don't, then, you know, I don't know, it would be a laughing stock or whatever. You know, so it's like, yeah, I get that on the surface these sorts of things are fun and everything.  Yeah. Also, I'm allergic to tide. Now, Google's Project Phi mobile service will now cap its data bills at 60 bucks. So you still pay 20 bucks a month for the service. But the way Google Phi has worked up until now is you pay $10 per gigabyte per month, no matter how many gigabytes you use. And you would get refund for any unused data at the end of the month. So if you didn't use the full gigabyte and you paid the 10 bucks, you get a refund for that. Well, Google's going to change it. First of all, they're going to start charging you at the end of the month for what you used, not making you pay at the beginning of the month and then refund you. And as soon as you hit six gigabytes, that's it. They're not going to charge you $10 for seven or eight or nine. In fact, you can go all the way to 15 gigabytes before they'll even do anything like throttle your speed.  This is great. And everybody I know that's on Project Phi really loves it. I think that this is a Google kind of at their best offering a consumer friendly alternative in a traditionally consumer unfriendly field. It feels kind of a downright Google Fiberish. I mean, I'm on an unlimited, which is not really unlimited but unlimited grandfather plan with Verizon which has been hiked up in price quite a bit over the last couple of years for a while. It was holding strong at about 80 bucks a month and I really thought I was getting away with murder. It's a lot more than that now, but something like, hey, considering what I actually am using per month to cap it at 60 with another 10 bucks if I need a little bit more at the same speed sounds really good. I mean, that's a better deal than I had in the first place. It may not be the cheapest unlimited, but it's the most flexible and it's super appealing. The only problem with it is Project FI, you really need to be using a Pixel phone or there's a limited number of phones that it works with. You can put the SIM card in any phone but then it will only use the T-Mobile network and the way it works best is when it's combining T-Mobile Sprint and Wi-Fi altogether. Yeah, no, 60 gigs is great. This is the email or the text message I get from AT&T every month. Your data use has reached in this case the most recent 16.5 gigs if you exceed 22 gigs before your next cycle, you can still use unlimited data however you will have reduced speed. So three times as much as what AT&T futile asks me to stop using data at for which I laugh in their face. Amazon announced the top 20 cities under consideration for its second North American headquarters. I won't name them all but cities include Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Ontario and Washington DC. So the company will now start working directly with those cities on their proposals to figure out which ones make the cut. Amazon expects to make its decision by the end of the year and invest $5 billion in the new headquarters with up to 50,000 high-paying jobs added. Yeah, interesting to know, Toronto the only non-U.S. city they took applications from Mexico, Canada and the U.S. And the rest of these are kind of a list of the biggest metro regions, right? Like Northern Virginia and Montgomery County are both around Washington DC, which also got in there on its own. Yeah, so that's the biggest thing that stood out to me is yeah, Montgomery County, Northern Virginia and Washington DC, which is basically them playing all those state governments and city government of DC against each other to say, well, we could come to this region and it's going to deal with people from your area. Do you want to give us the tax breaks or do you want to see that go to your neighbor? Should we choose you? The other big things that popped out to me are just that, yeah, this is a lot of the biggest metro areas in general. Dallas, I still think is probably one of the most popular ones considering if you look at the most populated cities, both Dallas and Fort Worth are in the top 20. That is very, very big populist area. Yeah. I would put my money on Boston looking at this list. You know, East Coast would make sense because you would think if you're going to build another headquarters, you don't want to necessarily do it on the exact same coast. And the other element of DC is that it's a lot of where internet backbone is. So if there is some... Also, I want to know 50,000 high paying jobs sounds great. What's that mean? Up to 50,000 and high paying according to whom? There are questions. High paying as compared to... Well, we are okay, but you know, yeah. These would be tech jobs in the way that, you know, they are high paying in the way that people in Austin and San Francisco and Portland and Seattle understand. That's a fair point. Amazon's not building a warehouse, right? Yeah, and those jobs tend to be lower paying. Those are the jobs that are controversial a lot of the time. Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes or less, be sure to subscribe to Daily Tech Headlines. You can get it on the Amazon Echo, on the Google Home, and on the Anchor app as well as as an RSS podcast available anywhere that respects the openness of RSS. And you can find that link at dailytechheadlines.com. Hey, is that a mailbag you have there, sir? Actually, it is. So we were talking yesterday. We had somebody write in about the fact that he was having trouble getting Daily Tech Headlines to play on his Google Home, and so we were like, okay, well, what has to happen behind the scenes on our end? Andrew wrote in saying, adding the word podcast at the end of my request actually worked, which is what I had suggested because I was doing the same thing with my Sonos One when I wanted to listen to headlines. Andrew says, it's still kind of weird though because if I want to listen to the regular DTNS show, I don't need to use the word podcast. I guess I need to apologize to Google Assistant for the previous profanity laden attempts. More importantly, after the show today, to a little digging into my Google Home settings, there is a new feature, at least not one that I noticed before, that allows you to pick news briefings from various reports. DTH, Daily Tech Headlines, is listed under English US, but not under English AU, meaning Australia. All right, I'll take a look and see if there's anything we can do about that in our settings to make it easier, but good to know. And settings with the big... Not appropriate science, AI. Good problem solving there, Sarah. Thank you. Speaking of problem solvers, Justin Robert Young is with us every Thursday. Justin, we missed you while you were in Japan. Sounds like you had a good time and let folks know what you're up to. I don't know, since we saw you last. Oh, well, you want to know what, folks? You can go ahead and listen to my Politics Podcast at PoliticsPoliticsPolitics.com and as well as anywhere that you get a podcast. Just go ahead and type in PoliticsPoliticsPolitics. You're gonna see a big cockatiel in a suit. Although that won't be there forever. We're changing the art. Also, if you are in the Bay Area, March 1st at the Piano Fight Theater, 7.30, there is going to be a live show featuring me, a PoliticsPoliticsPolitics live show. We are going to do something that has never been done. We'll do it live right there in the theater. The 2018 Sex Scandals Bracket. So, a certain kind of madness that happens during March. Sure. Legally say because of copyright. Sure. Well, we will have all the famous federal sex scandals separated into various different divisions.  Now, are these historical or just this year? Because you could do it either way. Oh, no, no, no. There is one. There is a president, a revered president that is entangled in one of the wildest sex scandals I had ever heard. I did not know it. And I am a freak about this kind of stuff. It will be discussed at length during that show. I guarantee you that the vast majority of the crowd will have no idea that a revered president was wrapped up in something so scandalous. I think I know who you're talking about. Do you? I think. I don't know. We haven't talked about this before, but I think I do. Tell you what. If I had a 2018 prediction, I would. But I'm not going to ruin it for you. So, a piano fight. Piano fight is where you just go ahead and Google that. It is in San Francisco and it is on March 1st, a Thursday. So, a little Thursday afternoon, if you're in the surrounding area, you have plenty of time to get into the city to come see the show. St. David's Day, in case that helps you remember. Hey, thanks everybody who participates in our subreddit. 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Is it a recent post-war World War II president? Uh... I will tell you that he was the president during the 20th century. Oh. So I'm not wrong yet. You're not wrong yet. All right, I'm not wrong yet. It's not... So 20th century, 20th century. Yeah, okay. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the 19... Not Millard Fillmore. The 1900. No, beloved. Oh, no. So not Nixon. Got it. Not Nixon. Did we all like them on their election buttons? Uh... I mean, it's not Dwight Eisenhower. Okay, no. Yeah. All right. Well, first of all, Sarah... I know you have the... Oh, you've got the links. The links are in there. Never mind. Never mind. What do you need? For the soft bank thing. We didn't have a link in the show notes. Oh. Now they're like... I'm sorry. I thought I put it in there. It was like a bunch of links in there now. Well, the one that I pulled from was... That works. Let me throw that in there. Cool. And Roger, what do we call on the show? Now you're playing with power. Cardboard power. Get it. Nintendo-powered cardboard. Almost magical cardboard. Blessed by Spotify. Artscrafts, Nintendo. Bitcoin, a bit down. Spotify builds a wall and makes podcasters pay for it. Sounds funny. What's... Pop-up tech. Get it. Crypto crashes. No UI for podcasts. YouTube turns the tide on tide. $70 cardboard. What is going on on Forbes? Microsoft's booty. Microsoft's booty. Legitimately the man's name. What do you guys like? What do y'all like? I like your playing with power. Cardboard power. Pretty good. Roll tide. Roll tide roll. Why don't you fold your laundry? Don't encourage the kids. We'll make it incredibly eye-catching and appealing. So kids, people think it's like fun. I kind of like now you're playing with power. Cardboard power or card.  Not just Legos. It's a lot of things. Sure. So she's got a real arm on her? Have you... Or still than I would have imagined at this age. She got that 110-mile-an-hour fastball yet? You know, see, I never grew up playing catch or baseball. So it's like... To me. Like, I don't have that reference. Yeah. Okay, but you know much on the... No, I know what you mean, but like... This is the thing, Roger. I'm not expecting you to go, oh, you mean Michael Kopeck. I'm expecting you to go like, ah, no, she's not throwing that fast yet. No time at all. I think she'll ever throw that fast. No, that's why. Ew. You win your athletic references. You win your athletic. They're not references to the Oakland A's. If she does any activities, I want something indoors. I don't want to sit outside when it rains or something. Well, what about swimming? Yeah, like you get often done indoors, but athletic. Yeah, it'll be volleyball. Like just to...  Yeah, they're like, no baseball, no soccer. Nothing that's sitting me, sitting in the sun, second on a water bottle. Basketball's good. That's indoors. Yeah, basketball's good. And I don't know if people do ultimate Frisbeans indoors. What about coding? What about Labo competitions? Those are going to happen. I could totally see it. Yeah, I could do. I mean, that's the other thing about Labo is, man, they can rapid prototype, right? Like, like as fast as they can come up with it and run it off, get it to market. And they can say it's a green product. So what do you do when it breaks? Well, you just turn it into compost. Yeah. Yeah, that was the first thing. The first thing that, like, when I saw it, I'm like, oh, man, this is like Nintendo's play at like Goldie blocks or something like that. Like the feel good way that you can buy your kid a Nintendo, perhaps I'll. Yeah.  It's not an ecosystem, we were saying, although it could become one pretty quickly.  So I know, right? It's like, yeah, it's actually pretty smart.  You know, I'll tell you, if this works out for them, they're going to come out with a board game.  There was a game a long time ago for Milton Bradley called the dark tower. It was kind of like a Dungeons and Dragons style board game. You had a big electronic obelisk tower in the middle and that would tell you what happened to your character.  It would tell you what would happen. You would move your characters along the board. That would be pretty cool. And then they can integrate the AR. Look, I think it's, it's really kind of outside the box thinking for them to create something where their main system is an accent and not the center of it. No, I know it's, it's, I saw it. I just saw it.  This is the most brilliant thing they've done. Yeah. And also it's Nintendo at their best doing something that, hey, Xbox and PlayStation, you can't do this.   What about price though? Like you have to buy a switch and then you got to buy this 70 or 80 dollar thing. Like, no, watch. There's going to be knockoff versions like switch though. Like this is not, this is not equivalent to Lego and and Goldie box in, in, in initial outlay. No, but it is similar to Lego. Mindstorms because mine is not, not just Lego. The great thing is like, you know, it's a toy that's perfect for any age, right?  You can do that. It actually makes it a much more versatile toy. Actually, I think they might not have understood this, but being able to take the game device away from the TV, but still part of the TV when you need it makes it super, super flexible in using it in different, uh, in different forms as we just saw today. It's pretty rare. I actually got to remember to make sure mine's charged for the flight tomorrow. Mm hmm. What do you play on board? Like when you're no longer connected to Wi-Fi? Uh, I'll probably play. I'll bring Mario and Mario Kart or maybe I'll upload the new Zelda, the newer Zelda DLC and play that. Those are the only three games I have though. So. Can you imagine they come out with Mario Kart cardboard kart?  I mean, those real life Mario carts, uh, uh, in, in, where was it? Uh, not Shibuya in a Harajuku, uh, where they're just like riding around with all dressed up like Mario and Bowser and Toad and everything are pretty dope. I'll tell you what, you could network. Ooh, man, that would be cool. You could like sit on the floor and, and do Mario Kart where you were like actually physically growing. Uh, oh, that's cool. Oh yeah, you could, you could put things. Yeah, it would be great. Like if they could come with a series of low cost accessories like the, um, like an Amazon button. Right. But you just put a simple, a simple accelerometer on it and the ID chip. Well, yeah, I mean, look, look at what they're doing with the robot game, right? Like they just have a resistance thing. Uh, and that's what's, uh, signaling to the switch, which is in your face, uh, you know, what, what it's doing, but there's no reason why you couldn't have that exact setup.  What if, you know, if it's meant to sit inside of a box, right? So kids often like to play in big boxes that like, you know, huge ovens or something comes in. What if it's like, you just kid already has a box they want to sit in, pop this thing on the edge and now that box has become their Mario Kart. Yeah. Yeah. Or, and this is a great thing. You could be like, Oh, it's your rocket ship. It's like, you know, whatever you want to do. It's your time machine. And this is, this is, it's really brilliant. The more you look at it, how multifaceted you're accounting office.  I might my chips faster than yours. I have better graphics. I have this. And really what it came down to is like, how much fun can I have? Well, yeah, the Nintendo tapped out of that game past the stick or like, like, you know, even with GameCube, it was like, no, this is, we're not going to play the, the, the, the, the butter battle book escalation game. Well, what's, what's, but, but what's, what's fascinating is that like, you know, with the exception of the Wii, which really worked. I mean, it kind of, it kind of got to a plateau where it just kind of stopped being that it just felt very gimmicky where all the, where all the non first party games that will rolled out were really just there to take advantage of the idea of the Wii without actually exploiting it. And I think if, if this works and other people can do it as well and, and Nintendo isn't too tight fisted about control. I mean, you could have a whole host of things that, you know, like, um, events totally surrounded where it's not just maybe a video game, but it's like a, like an event, like a, a shared experience where everyone, uh, logs under their switch and they can go visit Mars with the next probe lands. That would have been cool. That would have been cool. Man, it's taken a long time to export today's show, which I assume is because we have so much great information in. Yeah. Hard to squeeze. Good bits. Plus is that new logo? Uh-oh. What? What are you arguing about? Oh, like did the logo cause it to slow down? No, I was trying to say the logo is so awesome. But, uh, no, not too much good for it to handle. Oh, careful. You might think that phrase still trademarked. What? Too much good? Too much good stuff. That was the A and P and remember they used to run those ads. I don't remember that. Too much good stuff. Was there good? I remember that. No, I got you. Yeah, that's right. Right. They're like, is there too much of it? There are OPMs inside of Dodger Stadium. I found that kind of not disingenuous, but weird that they have AMPMs in the stadium. They really just sell the same stuff that all the other I want the 7-Elevens that they get in Japan here. Oh man, wouldn't that be great? Uh, can I ask you guys a question? Yeah. Uh, so we like many of us in the modern era have many cords in not only our living room, but also our studio and try as we might to wrangle them. They kind of have their own way of just constantly being a super mess and we recently had some, uh, the stuff happened in the, in the living room where we had to like take them out of this little nook that we had hidden them in. So I got this idea in the, in the, in the gig economy that we live in. Uh-huh. If I were to look on like task rabbit for a professional cord gather, install it like a cord killer. Yeah. Killer of cord. Like what would I look for? Like what would even be like, like a, a line of work where that would happen beyond like studio engineer? I, what about like a home theater installer? Ooh, maybe that's it. Something like something along those lines. Is that I feel like that's something that I would never think about because I always think of like home theater or television installer as being like just for like total Luddites who have no idea like what a plug is. Right. Right. But they probably are pretty good with the cable management. That, uh, it's certainly good enough to at least ask. Are you trying to manage your cables? I like, so we bought all this cable management stuff. And I was like, man, I would love to just look into like what it would cost to have a professional do this because like I've done it a million times and it always falls apart and I kick it by accident. And I know I'm not doing something right. And I'm sure there's some book on like a thousand ways to properly corral your cords or something that, that I just haven't read, but I don't know. Like, uh, Like what, what cords do you like for mobile? The, it really depends on application. Like, are you talking about the cords to your TV? Are you talking about cords? Every, so imagine just the back of a home theater that has a television, a modem, a, uh, router, an Apple TV, a Roku and a switch on it, right? Then we have to have a hardwired, uh, uh, coax, or not coax, uh, uh, ethernet cord come all the way through the apartment into the studio. So our main PC is hardwired in and not on Wi-Fi. Uh, and then of course there's everything in the studio, which is this gigantic board and all the mic cables and, and all, all that kind of stuff. Hmm. You can email, um, Robert Herron or Patrick. Just ask Robert to do it. He'd do it for you. He does that stuff sort of. It's not a, it's not a widely applicable recommendation, but it might work for Justin. Uh, Patrick is also really big on cord management to Patrick. That's true. Patrick might have some ideas about how to look. We used to do one of those segments every year on Tekzilla.  You guys breaking news. This just in from the DTNS store. It is in fact a born ready onesie. Uh, I was going to say no. She said it was onesie. Okay. There's a DTNS tote bag. Check that out. That's new. Go to the store in style. But he said there was one. Get a tote somewhere around. Everybody does.  If you go to the born ready DTNS shirt, there is now a onesie option for 6, 12, 18 and 24 months and newborn. Oh, look at that. Yeah. Fancy. I mean, you're just lighting money on fire, buying it for a newborn, right? Like that's going to, that'll last like two days. Yeah, seriously. You know what, unless you plan on clothing your child and old newspapers and, you know, blankets, you have to buy clothes or. Oh, sure. Yeah. You should just buy, you know, the, the, the value packet Walmart, right? Like, you know, it's, it's one of those things that are not too pricey actually. Oh, really? Yeah. Like, unless you go for like a designer brand like Juicy or something. So they start charging. Nice work, Dave. Michael. Getting that in the store. That's one of those things where like Rich Stratholino jokingly it's like, Hey, is there a born ready onesie this morning in Slack to me? I'm like, I don't know. There should be. So I'm like, well, that's Dave. I'm like, Dave, never do onesies. He's like, I totally do a onesie. Give me, give me a day and then less than a day. Boom. It's up there. All right. Any final words for the audience? No, you guys are the best. Thank you. Have a lovely Thursday. See you tomorrow. If anyone wants a little onesie, send us your size. We'll think about it. Yeah.


A spectacular conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, presented by Science at NASA. August 2016 is a special month for backyard astronomy. Why? Because on almost any evening in August you can take a tour of the solar system, no telescope required. For most of the month, the five brightest planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, have been splayed across the evening sky, with the moon hopping from one to another and highlighting each one on a different night, while acting as a helpful guide to novice sky watchers. As August comes to a close, however, no guide is needed. Something so eye-catching and beautiful is going to happen, even the least experienced sky watcher can find it without help. On August 27th, Venus and Jupiter will converge in the sunset sky, only about one-fifteenth of a degree apart. To hold a pencil at arm's length, the eraser would cover both planets at once. Two bright planets so close together are practically impossible to miss. Just make sure you have an unobstructed view of the western horizon. The converging planets might even look like they're going to touch. They won't. Venus is 144 million miles away, while Jupiter is more than four times farther. To the human eye, however, the distance between the two will appear breath-takingly small. At closest approach, Venus and Jupiter easily fit within the same binocular or telescopic field of view. If you have a small telescope, take a look. Because Venus is an interior planet, we sometimes see it as a crescent like the moon. But not this time. On August 27th, Venus will be nearly full. You'll see 93% of the cloudy disc of Venus illuminated by the sun. You'll also see the ruddy brown cloud belts of Jupiter and, maybe, the giant planet's largest moons. All of this will be visible, all at once, in the circumference of a single eyepiece. Just remember, though, that the telescope is not required. Venus and Jupiter are bright enough to see with the naked eye, even from light-polluted urban areas. Try to catch them about 30 minutes after sunset, as they will have set by the time the sky fades to completely black. The sight of two planets in conjunction, surrounded by twilight blue, is an extra beautiful sight. August 2016. If you didn't love astronomy at the beginning of the month, you'll love it by the end. For more news about happenings in the night sky, stay tuned to science.nasa.gov.