Hello, hello, hello, I'm Philip Magnus and today I'm here to introduce you the most exciting, the most amazing loot box of video, probably not on the internet, but certainly on my channel. Hello. Um, so... Guess what happened? Heroes 2.0, Heroes of the Storm 2.0, the second version, the second coming is here and it has got plenty of free things for veterans. And that's good. So, I've got 50 epic chests, 5 veteran chests and 5 loot chests. The loot chests are the ones you usually get, so I'll be opening those up first. Look, my first, very first rare. I'm so excited. Oh, so many stickers, lovely. Oh, well, that's nice. Rare Tigers, Prisoner Tigers rather, and of course I can re-roll for 250 gold. But I want, because there's no point. I got a nice rare skin out of this. So it seems only... Normal that I will keep it. Look, my first portrait and uh... What is that? The Hacker skin, lovely. Now, let's see. I really like these tiny quotes. They, I think, give a lot of... Whoa! Unexpected, a lot of personality to my darling little characters. My first Legendary, and it's only my third loot box. Oh my, an Ancient Demonic Hellsteed. I'm certainly not going to go ahead and re-roll that one. That's for sure. I enjoyed that. Oh, he does not fear death. And I even got an Orc portrait to go with the voice line. Neither do I. Oh, Frost Worm Artis. This is, by the way, one of... Actually, one of the two skins I do not have. Well, now one of the six ones I do not have, but that's precisely the point. It's the coolest color in my humble opinion. Make your beat. I mean, Joanna has such an amazing voice actress. Oh, that's another skin I've wanted for a very long time. And yet another one which I like. While I do not play Magistar Sardar, it's a cool skin. Preferably is. All right, so this is starting very well. Shall I open the Veteran Chests? No, no, no, no. I think first I'll go with the Epic Chests. Their drop rate, of course, is a lot better than the usual loot boxes. And I got Shards, which are now the crafting currencies, the new currency in the game. What? Did I really need two voice lines? Well, that's nice. Very nice. As you might have noticed, the cost is a lot higher to re-roll on Epic Chests. Do I have Falsalt? I don't think I have Falsalt, actually. Cool. Oh, my second legendary. Yes. Awesome. And 50 Shards, which will help me craft something cool. Two Epics. All right, both of those I really, really like. A duplicate.  Awesome, awesome. I just got Leoric, pardon. From the Bruises and Tank Bundle. And the Portrait, which I was going to craft. This is my favorite Portrait. It's from Warcraft 3 and Warcraft 3, Frozen Throne. Oh, Zul'jin, nice. And Tyrant Keju. Yeah, a nice try indeed. As you see, a lot of people are using their emotes. I really have a few.  Oh, just the Frozen Throne Artists. Cool, cool, cool. That's my artist's portrait.  But you're an exception. Cool. All right. So, Neon Spectre Nova to go with my new bike, I suppose. Never deal on Amazon. Cool. The X Master skin. And yet another skin I've wanted for a very long time. This is really, I really like this. Getting so many free things. It's true now that the skins, basically the skin doesn't have three colors, but you have to unlock each different color. It's a bit more work, but at least it does not have to cost any actual money. Anyway, you look at it. Kind of awesome. And yet another Frost Worm Artists. Uh, Merky. I've never been one to play with Merky, so I can't exactly lion-sit that I enjoy it, can I? Yeah, I've got that one. But cool. I'll use the Shards to craft something awesome. Maybe one of the new Kerrigan skins. I've got this one as well. It costs it with 10,000 golds, got 20 shots. Oh, I really like the Eliton Pacto. Now we can go ahead and discuss the legendary drop rate, which normally is supposed to be a lot less than mine. But really, I am not complaining. Not even a little bit, because I love legendaries and I'm hoping that I won't ruin the 40-some chests I have left by jinxing it. Now anyway, I believe that some folks have made them out and they mentioned that around 8% of chests contain legendaries. That would probably give you a legendary in every 12 or 13 loot boxes. Nice. Well, I'm not going to use this one, but it is cool. About 23% of chests, normal chests, will hold epics. And obviously the epic chests will hold epics, always, as you have noticed. And I believe that if you use the reroll function, which I haven't really used since there really has been no need for me to reroll, you will get one perhaps in every loot chest if you use reroll a lot. Oh, Anubarak, an answer. Well, let's just say that I'm not pleased with the fact that they did not use Tiv Blum, who originally voiced Anubarak in Hero... pardon, Warcraft 3. I never quite understood why not. They're using some other guy who doesn't sound anywhere near as epic as good old Steve Blum does. Oh, a cloud serpent. The mount I want the most is that cloud mount. Oh, fervent love, goddess Terande. I love how cute this spray is. We're about halfway there. And I'm finally starting to get some duplicates. The Zero Tool Pack 2 is really, really cute. I like it, enjoy it, and love it as such. Chen has never done it for me, personally. War World Sergeant Hammer. Cool. 25 to go. Nice. World of Warcraft, a little portrait, and the icon of Blood Spray. Rogue Nova Zone, cool. We just need a bunch of Amazon-teamed skins. And we need to have a 5 vs 5 Amazon fight fest. Plenty of duplicates here. Should I roll? Actually, let's go ahead and do it. It's a lot of gold, I know, but I'm curious. Nice. Before I had three duplicates, now I only have one. So, you will excuse me if I did not free roll for a thousand gold. Seems like a waste. Woohoo, yet another murky skin that I will never use. Probably. I'm sure if my murky is even past level 5, maybe past level 2, I honestly have no memories of playing with him. More than once or twice, nice. I'm still, I still haven't accepted that Genji is part of this game now. It's cool for me because he was my favorite character. Never watch one of them, anyway. And he fits really well. His skill set, in particular. Shogun Nartanes. Fancy. Let's see then. Anything interesting? Alarak is probably the most gleefully malicious voice actor in the world, voicing him. Hey, a fellsaber. That's awesome. Just wanted to go. Lots of duplicates, but I will not be rerolling anymore. Thank you very much. Sergeant Doomhammer. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. Yeah, as you can see, even though I got quite a few legendaries early on, right now this is like probably the 15th, maybe to further on since I have opened a legendary. And there it is. Oh, an ancient demonic ordeal. Cool, even though I'm not sure that it should be legendary. Since it used to be prized as most epic skins now, but hey, they changed the system around a bit. I don't quite get why, but it's what they do. Nice. Marshall's Outsider is mine. I think I've gotten quite a lot of interesting things. Aw, poor Mojiatus. I really like the fact that this prey is animated. Even if it's basically two frames, it's cool. Very cool. Oh, I'm looking forward. Oh, well, I'm looking forward to opening my five veteran boxes. Chest. I'm very interested to see what they are. Oh, I got the grumpy cooldown skin. As a master skin, it was never impressive, but as a rare skin, it's all right. It's fine. Let's see. Oh, I got Uta again. Well, not again, but I had him before. That's what I meant. Okay, 200 more shots. Cool. All right, let's move on to the big ones. Five veteran chests is all I get. Oh, me, oh my. What an epic portrait. I really like the art style. It's very comic book-ish. Oh, it's Shadow Mystic Kingdom's artist. The one artist skin I never thought I wanted because I didn't. My. That's one of the new colors of the Succubus skin, right? Yay. Oh, wait. Should I reroll? Let's reroll. Feel like getting a certain legendary. Fair enough. All right. All right. That might have been a bit of a waste of my gold, but hey, that's fine. Such an angry orange. The Nimbus cloud exactly what I wanted. Excellent. And it didn't show for some reason. High Templar Zero Tool. Cool. Terran Probius. Well, just my luck. All right, let's reroll again. Bit of a waste of gold. I know. I know. All right. I did not have the butcher. Yes. That is awesome. I'm so happy I spent my gold rerolling on this one chest. Let's see. Give me something good. Oh my. Yes. Excellent. All right. That I would say was pretty damn satisfying. Now, I think that I have quite a lot of shards, so let's go ahead and craft something. Hey, I know. A Kalligan skin. Which one though? Shall we craft the Crimson Cheerleader Kalligan? Well, sure. Let's go ahead and forge it. As you see, they have kind of transferred the costs of dust from Hearthstone, while 1600 being the cost of a legendary skin. 1600 dust is the cost of legendary cards. Which is kind of cool, I guess. I've never really played with Loric, but now that I've got one of the Spacelord skins, I just have to. But really, that's cool. Which one is the new one I have? Yeah. I also got the Magic Princes and the Dark Star Princes, which both of them are cool. I think it was a rather good opening, and I'm going to craft Lil Ragnaros, because he is adorably cute. Or, actually, no. No, I'm not. I know what I will craft. I'll craft the only thing I can. The Abathur Announcer. Because Abathur is just awesome, and his voice is amazing. And seriously, these guys really need to make an Alarak Announcer. It will be so amazing. I have Rhaegar and Nubarak, and now Abathur and Sergeant Hammer as well. And I think this is where I should cut this video short. True, I did not craft Lil Ragnaros, but something tells me that, sooner or later, I will have him. Anyway, thank you guys for watching. This was fun. I really enjoyed opening a bunch of loot boxes and talking about them. See you next time. If you enjoyed this, please like, share, subscribe. Bye!


Sub4Sub is banned on YouTube. I will show you the official YouTube help article that talks about how Sub4Sub is not allowed on the platform in the next video. There's also alcohol. When is it okay to consume alcohol in a YouTube video? Is it even okay? And what kind of metadata abuse can get your channel terminated or YPP suspended? I will show you all that in the next video, but I have a special video right now. I got a new Canon EOS vlogging camera with a Rode microphone. This is the wide angle lens. I can't even use my green screen with this setup. Let me show it to you in action. Hi, freedom family. I'm leaving for Dubai in two days and I have a new vlogging camera. I will show it to you as soon as I find a mirror to stand in. But this is my office where I am doing this video that I will publish before I leave for Dubai and walk with me to my condo where you'll see Eastwood for the last time because I'll be leaving for almost two months to Dubai. So here we are outside Eastwood walking to my condo. This is my first vlog. I'm going to set this to 60 frames per second at 1080p. That's the highest resolution this camera supports. If it's too jerky or some issues, let me know. This is the outside mall where it's under cover where they have concerts, TGI Fridays, Outback and other popular restaurants you may recognize. We are in Metro Manila. This is called Eastwood City and I will be showing you everything using this camera in Dubai so I hope you like the image quality. Let me do a spin. The reason I chose 60 frames per second is it should be a lot smoother, not cinematic like a 24 frames per second setting would give you, there's no blur. And I've also set this camera to auto. As I get to learn the settings with aperture exposure and all that, I may do custom settings but for now everything is set to auto. And here is Denny's. You can compare, this is my cell phone now and here is my vlogging camera set up and we're just passing Denny's. What do you think about the quality difference? Let me try doing a spin here. So this is a standard Samsung S7 cell phone and this is what I used to use when I was vlogging in Vietnam and other places in the world. Do you think this is good enough or is the vlogging camera a lot better? Tell me in the comments below. And here we are at home with my beautiful girls. Here is Evie, say hello. There's our baby girl, Daenerys. Daenerys, can you walk? Show us how you can walk. She is one year and four months old. Sorry, one year and three months old. And she can walk by herself. Let her go, Kira. Let her go. There you go. So we're bringing all three girls with us to Dubai, are you excited to go to Dubai? And we will see you there, freedom family. Bye. Little baby and she's one year old. Daenerys is still growing up. Anything else to say girls? No. Yeah, we saw her walking. She can walk. She can actually tie Daenerys' hair. She looks like a girl. She is a girl. Okay, say bye-bye everybody. Bye. Partner with freedom and join the freedom family so we can all grow together. You get many perks like position music, you also get epidemic sound, a lot of other access to royalty-free videos, sponsorships and many things to help you grow. Just click the links down there in the description below to get involved in our community, our forums, our Discord chat servers, meet our graphics team, meet our community team, all of that on Discord and the forums. What are you waiting for? Get started. And we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family. You are part of it, we are all part of it and we're all growing together. To get more George, click that big F that will subscribe you to Freedom Central, home of the George show. And PewDiePie gave one of you, Freedom Family, a big shout out. Click that video to see the shout out and to see our new 3D sets for you. And click that video to see what YouTube recommends you watch next.


Now, Ethiopia's government has denied reports of a looming famine in the conflict-hate Tigray region. It was reported to a UN report which said that 350,000 people were leaving in famine conditions, a claim which could be described as unsubstantiated. These come after seven months of conflict in northern Ethiopia, where thousands have been killed and many more displaced. Ethiopia says the report and warnings about the famine are untrue. A foreign affairs ministry spokesman said the government was providing food aid to those in need.


Coming up on DTNS, carriage disputes migrate from cable TV to streaming, Europe makes USBC the law, and big companies working to actually make 2FA easier and better for everyone. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, January 31, 2020. Studio Redwood, on top of Eric. And I'm Sarah Lane, and I'm Shannon Morse. Man, I'm drawing the top stories from Cleveland, I'm Len Peralta. And I'm the show's producer. Let me switch myself over here. Roger Chang. We are live from Sarah Lane's Studio Redwood, all three of us, Shannon, Sarah and I. I was coming up for my sister-in-law's birthday and I'm like, well, I'm in the area. I might as well just hang out. So thank you, Sarah, for hosting us. Absolutely. And we had some fun technical issues today, and that's what happens when people make a big old track up to little studio Redwood. I still blame that Baytree. The Baytree has cursed me forever more. It's definitely the Baytree. If you want to hear us explaining, and in fact, doing some live troubleshooting, you have to become a patron and get patreon.com. DTNS for Good Day Internet. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. IBM announced that Arvind Krishna will take over as the company's 10th CEO, replacing Virginia, known as Ginny Romady. The change is effective on April 6th. Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's former CEO, will step up as IBM's president, and Romady became IBM president and CEO on January 1st, 2012. A beta build of Microsoft Edge shows a new adware blocking feature in testing on the browser. This would block things like toolbars and crypto miners. Edge already offers smart screen filter to protect against phishing and malware, and Microsoft has offered similar unwanted app blocking to enterprise customers through Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection. Data from Sensor Tower Store Intelligence shows European mobile consumers spent an estimated $11.2 billion across Apple's App Store and Google Play Store during 2019, an 18.9% year-over-year increase in gross revenue from 2018. European spending accounted for 13.5% of global mobile app revenue in 2019, tolling more than $83 billion. Android Auto now has an option to silence all notifications when a user is driving. In fact, that was a real sticking point for a lot of users up until this point. The toggle is part of Android Auto's latest update. Notifications will still be persistent on an in-car display until they're dismissed, but only when this toggle is activated. The United States FCC says it will take action against an unnamed US wireless carrier over the apparent unauthorized sale of real-time location data from users. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said that the FCC's Enforcement Bureau has concluded that one or more wireless carriers apparently violated federal law. Alright, let's talk a little bit more about those Amazon earnings. We mentioned them on Good Day Internet yesterday, but give us the details, Shannon. Alright, Amazon reported that it earns $6.47 per share on revenue of $87.4 billion, beating analysts' expectations of $86.01 billion in revenue on earnings of $0.04. Amazon Web Services revenue grew 34% on the year to $9.95 billion, but saw revenue growth slow for the sixth consecutive quarter. Subscription revenue actually increased 32% to $5.24 billion. Other revenue, which mostly consists of advertising, increased 41% to $4.78 billion and Amazon announced on its earning call that Prime members now receive free Amazon fresh deliveries. I'm very excited about this, which previously cost $14.99 a month. Amazon also said through public financial documents that its federal income tax expense for the year was more than $1 billion in addition to more than $2 billion in other types of federal taxes. Which is a bit of a pushback towards politicians and researchers claiming that Amazon does not pay any federal income tax. Yeah, and the pushback back on that is going to be, yeah, but you should be paying $3 billion, right? Right, yeah. It'll never be enough. That argument will never end. But yeah, I think they're making a point of saying, look, we do pay taxes to try to combat some of that.  Recently they saw some more profit. So having the expenses go up, but still making $6.47 a share means that Jeff Bezos was right. Give us some time to keep spending money and eventually we'll start breaking it in. And of course, AWS is still strongly in front of Azure. Azure, of course, making leaps and bounds, but AWS certainly strong, although it's starting to reach its saturation point. It's getting more competition from Google and Microsoft there. But overall, a very strong report from Amazon. We've now had strong reports from Apple, from Amazon, from a few others like Tesla. Amazon now in market cap joins the $1 trillion club right next to Apple and Microsoft. While Alphabet, at least it depends on what time you're looking at it. Alphabet seems to be kind of flirting with being out of the trillion and into the trillion. We'll get their earnings next week. It's interesting that Prime members can now receive Amazon fresh deliveries. Now that's only in select market. So it's not just because you're a Prime member, all of a sudden you're going to get groceries delivered to your door. But Amazon kind of being like, you pass that, you know, what is it now? $110 a month or annual? You get all sorts of perks because those subscription numbers, the company, they increase 32%.  As long as they have enough folks who are paying them a certain amount of money each year, it's working. Yeah, bringing in that consistent income while then for the holiday quarter, capitalizing on that to spend more money to do that one day delivery, but that causing more people to shop with them. In a quarter when retail apparently wasn't as strong as people might have hoped it to be, Amazon's quarter was fantastic. And I think one probably leads to the other. Let's talk about Microsoft and bugs, shall we? Microsoft launched a bug bounty program for its Xbox gaming platform. So this is specific to Xbox. Anybody can submit bugs on the Xbox Live network and services with payouts ranging from $500 to $20,000 based on severity, quality of the submission and impact on the Xbox gaming service. So this is a pretty interesting bug bounty program, Shannon. It's not that Microsoft's first, they've obviously had bug bounty programs for Windows and Office and other things for a long time, but going to Xbox and what do you think of the spread of payouts? It makes sense. If you look at the whole spread of payouts as a total, of course they have like remote code executions at the top and those are going to be the most advanced of the different options. And then way down at the bottom, they have spoofing and tampering, which will give you a payout of something between $1,000 to $5,000 depending on the severity. The RCEs, elevation of privilege attacks, those are the kind of things that payout quite a bit more from anywhere between $1,000 to $5,000 for elevation of privileges and then $5,000 to $15,000 for RCEs. I did want to mention too, even though they introduced this bug bounty, that doesn't mean that anybody who's interested in exploiting attack vectors on Xboxes will get payouts. You have to stick within their bug bounty. There are some restrictions. And that's something that's very common and very constant with bug bounties. So for example, with this one, if you're doing phishing or social engineering against Xbox users or if you're doing something like downloading or accessing sensitive Xbox user data, that's still outside of the scope of bug bounty. So you want to make sure that if you're interested in doing this, you're not getting into those kind of things. Yeah, and even though anybody can submit one, you have to have a clear and concise proof of concept. Yes. They're going to need to be able to reproduce the vulnerability themselves before fixing. So it's not like anybody can just kind of come up with something and expect to get paid.  And then Microsoft is willing to pay up to $20,000 for severe bugs. We know Google will pay up to $1.5 million. That's true. Although they didn't actually pay anybody for it. Yeah, they didn't pay anybody that at all. Let's see their stadium on the program. Oh gosh, poor stadium. For comparison, right? Because yeah, I think Microsoft has a different rate card for Windows than it does for Xbox for sure. Yeah. The European Parliament voted 582 to 40 in favor of the resolution on a common charger for mobile radio equipment. In other words, mobile phones, but also tablets and basically anything that has a mobile radio modem in it. The European Commission now has until July to adopt an actual law, an act related to the Charger Harmonization Directive from 2014 or introduce a similar legislative measure. The resolution hopes that the adoption of a common charger will cut down on e-waste because you can just keep using your cables over and over and over again and your wall warts and it warrants against fragmentation in the wireless charging space as well. The resolution specifically calls out wireless charging saying many mobile telephones already use wireless charging methods and that fragmentation in this area should be avoided, calls therefore on the commission to take measures to best ensure the interoperability of different wireless chargers with different mobile radio equipment. And that was one of my concerns is like, well, wait, if you require a cable, are you going to write it in a way where wireless charging is left out? Not only that, not only are they including wireless, but they're saying and when wireless is there, we should probably have a standard for that. Let's work against fragmentation of wireless, which actually the Qi charging seems to have kind of taken over that market. So I don't think that is too tall of an order. Apple still is against this though, because they're saying, look, if you make us change to a non lightning charger, then everybody's going to throw away their lightning cables and that's e-waste. But they did have a previous charger before lightning, so they have changed chargers before. This wasn't going to be a first. Yeah, I would like to see everybody use USB-C. I would do and it's happening more and more and in fact, even Apple is doing it with with an iPad. They're not doing it in their phones yet. But I think I think they're resistant because Apple likes to move to something when they know it's perfect for them. They don't like to be told when to do it. And I don't think they've put USB-C in the iPhone yet because they haven't quite figured out how to make it work the way they want it to work to be charitable. And I think the problem with e-waste, it's definitely an issue that we need to solve worldwide. But it's not something that's just specifically aimed at Apple, for example. This is an issue that all companies need to focus on. And there are ways that you can recycle cables that is completely recyclable. However, you have to go through a sustainable way of doing so and go to a company that will recycle those. I believe Best Buy has an e-waste option or recycling option. Yeah, here in the US, that's true. I mean, the idea that wireless charging should be included and should certainly... We're not quite ready for that yet, but it's on the way. I get why the European Parliament, and to a larger extent, the European Commission, is like, okay, let's definitely add this in because we're going to get to that point and we don't want to make wireless charging not the standard. A company like Apple is like, but we want wireless charging to be the only standard. And everybody else is going to see him very arcane with these old cables that we as Apple don't use anymore. So something like this forces Apple to be like, okay, well, we still have to have that connector in this phone that was going to be super sleek and wireless only. Now, I know that that's, again, I'm moving ahead a couple of cycles, but I think that that's what Apple's thinking through themselves. Although, we'd have to wait to see what the European Commission draws up. They could draw this up in a way that says if you have sufficient wireless charging and no cable, that's okay. They could make that okay. And I wonder if Apple would be all right with that or if it's really about the fact that they just don't want... For the devices that are going to still have a lightning cable, because not every device is going to be put out by Apple with only wireless charging, they want to continue to use lightning. They don't want to switch. And when it comes down to it, it's costly for them to do that, unless they're doing it on their own pace and at their own direction. Well, Reuters reports that according to sources, the FBI is investigating the Israeli software company NSO Group for possible attacks against US citizens, companies, as well as gathering intelligence of foreign governments. The investigation reportedly began in 2017 to look into if NSO Group obtained code from US attackers and hackers to crack into smartphones. Facebook filed a lawsuit in October against NSO Group, accusing it of exploiting a flaw in WhatsApp. Sources say that the FBI is now looking into how NSO provides technical support to customers, which could possibly be prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act if they had knowledge of improper use. NSO says that it is not aware of an inquiry and has not been contacted by US law enforcement about such matters. NSO Group sells its products to governments and has previously said that its government customers are the only ones who could use it for attacks. This is very interesting because one would assume that the FBI would also potentially, and we don't know this, but potentially be a customer of NSO Group because that's what NSO Group says they sell to, is government agencies. Yes. And even if the FBI is not, you're right. It could be the NSA, it could be the Department of Justice, it could be the Pentagon, it could be all other parts of the branches. And we know from previous reports and things that have leaked that even if one part of the US government has access to some kind of application that allows them to exploit a vulnerability, that does not necessarily mean that another part of our US government would know about that. So if the FBI had access to something, who's to say that the NSA wanted to or would not. This is pretty interesting too in the fact that they say that government customers are the only ones who could use their exploits for attacks, because we also know that if something exists, if it did get into the wild somehow, and while this is not necessarily a part of the story, that doesn't mean that somebody else could use the same exploit for something. And if they know about that or if they know like they got breached and something got stolen or hackers gained access to their exploits, there's still that potential possibility that they could be prosecuted for something like that too. In the Facebook lawsuit from October, you mentioned Shannon. Okay. Well, if NSO Group did indeed exploit a flaw in WhatsApp, who's to say who else? Did. Exactly. Did or did not. And I think what the FBI, at least in public, is saying is we're looking to see if the NSO Group knowingly allowed its code to be used by criminals. Yes. Right? NSO Group says never. We give it to governments. Governments might give it to criminals, but that's not our problem. And so that's where I think you start to see the gray area of NSO Group saying, sure, government of another country will give you this. Don't tell us what you're using it for. Wink-wink. Wink-wink. And the FBI then go in and say, you knew that that government was going to use it to attack us and win that in a court of law. And that starts to make me think, and again, this is just speculation, wild speculation on my part, that the FBI found out that the NSO Group was selling a vulnerability that they thought they were the only customer of to someone who was using it against someone else and said, you know what? That's not cool at NSO Group. And the NSO Group says, what are you going to do? Sue us. And they did. Yeah. I mean, again, I'm creating regional scenarios. Yes. Right? These are worthy of a thrill. It's plausible, though. I also think the timing is kind of interesting in that we know from the Reuters report that the FBI was talking to Jeff Bezos about his own hack on his phone, which a lot of people are speculating may have to do with the NSO Group as well. The US executive branch, no big fan of Jeff Bezos because he owns the Washington Post. But Jeff Bezos also has most of the money in the world. Yes. When, when sometimes, and again, doesn't mean that he gets to dictate what the FBI is doing or not doing. But it sometimes leads to a little bit more speculation of what kind of influence and power might have come from his camp. And that's another scenario that we can tie this all together is even if forget personal feelings about Bezos, if they find out that, say, Saudi Arabia used code from the NSO Group to attack Jeff Bezos, that would fit the facts in what the FBI is saying they think the NSO Group did. Yeah. Even if they were working with the NSO Group previously. We don't know that that's what they're doing. But of public available facts, that is, again, something that fits the pattern. So we're thinking about. Roku announced that seven apps from Fox will stop working two days before the Super Bowl. That's Super Bowl Sunday, everybody. Fox Sports was previously working to bring 4K HDR streams of the Super Bowl to Roku's streaming sticks, pucks and TVs. Now Roku tells the Verge that its distribution agreement with Fox expired, and therefore it is now forced to remove the apps. Basically, they're out of standstill. That's what Roku says. Roku's tactics are a poorly timed negotiating ploy, fabricating a crisis with no thought for the alarm it generated among its own customers. Those are loaded words at all. No. It's definitely fired there. NFL spokesman Alex Reithmiller tells Fast Company, don't worry, NFL will speed the game through its own free Roku app, although it won't be in 4K. Certainly not as weighty as the last story, but there's a lot of similarities here of, you know, negotiations behind the scenes. Who's blaming who, but we thought that carriage disputes were the provision of cable TV, where, you know, a CBS or a Fox wants more money from the cable TV company. The cable TV company doesn't get it. And so they both blame each other about why the channel isn't available on the cable TV system anymore. That's happened time and time again over the decades. This is one of the first times I've seen this big of a dispute where what it looks like is Roku probably had, and again we're back in speculation territory, probably had a deal with Fox that said, all right, we'll cut, you know, we'll promote your app in our app store above other apps. Maybe we'll give you some free ads. You cut us in with a revenue share or you provide some programming for our free Roku channel. And when that distribution agreement was up for renewal, Fox didn't want to give Roku what it wanted this time around. So Roku said, fine, we'll cut off your app because remember they're not just removing it from the app store because the existing apps would still work. They're stopping the Fox apps, all seven Fox apps from working for any Roku customer. That's really throwing down the gauntlet at Fox. And Fox is like, we're not stopping Roku from letting our apps work. So it's their fault, not ours. That's going to disappoint a lot of customers who are current users of the applications on Roku. Yeah, for folks who have other options, it's sort of like, all right, I'll just use the Fox app somewhere else. But if everything goes through Roku and two days before the Super Bowl, you're like, what? That's, come on. No, that's the way I was going to watch the game. And I care about it. It doesn't mean everybody's going to care about it, but a lot of people do. It might be easy to blame Fox.  And Fox is like, no, we're not. Roku's playing hardball here. The NFL's like, hello. Don't worry. We are the NFL. We don't care about 4K anyway. We want you to watch the game. 4K, sorry. Can't do that, but we will save the day. And it's important to clarify. Yes, these apps are only used by people who have a subscription. Whether it's a over-the-top subscription like YouTube TV or Hulu or it's a traditional cable subscription, that's what these Fox apps are for. But the Super Bowl is available even without that login. That's usually the way it's done. And so this is cutting down on a lot of people who are like, oh, this is how I'll watch it in 4K, even though I don't have a cable subscription at all. Now they'll have to either go to some other situation or subscribe to Hulu Live or YouTube TV or something like that. Hey, folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to DailyTechHeadlines.com. Apple's WebKit team published a proposal on GitHub to standardize the format of one-time passcode sent over SMS. Google is launching an open project to let anybody be able to build their own second-factor dongle. We have two big, near-trillion or over-trillion dollar companies making two-factor authentication easier for everyone. Let's dig into these a little bit. Apple's WebKit team published the proposal that would send a two-line SMS, one for human verification with the code and confirmation of what website sent it. The second line would then have the site URL and the code preceded by a pound sign. The goal here is to have browsers and messaging apps recognize the domain automatically from the message and extract the code to complete the second-factor login without the user needing to interact, preventing them from accidentally putting that code into a phishing website that isn't the proper website. This would make sure it goes to the right website. The proposal claims feedback from Google has been positive on this standard with Google product manager Steven Sonoff and software engineer Sam Gotu. What a great program. Sam Gotu providing feedback in development. So it looks like Apple has got Google at least partially on board for this. This may be something where you say, well, I don't want this. I want to be in control of this. But for more casual users like my mother, for instance, I would absolutely love if she didn't have to worry about being tricked into putting her second-factor code into the wrong site. Yes, there's problems with SMS. We'll get to that. Let's talk about this other project from Google. Google launched an open SK for a rust-based firmware to turn Nordic chip dongles into FIDO, UTF and FIDO 2 compliance security key. So making your own physical key with open source firmware that you didn't have to rely on anybody else for. This is great for developers. Google says Nordic dongles are affordable and support all the FIDO 2 standards like NFC and Bluetooth LE. Google does plan to expand the project to other chips as well, but they're starting with Nordic because of that. While Google advises the project to be used for testing and research purposes at the moment, Cytal Holstead, the director of product management at Nordic, hopes the project will help the industry gain mainstream adoption of security keys, but just making more products available, right? These are both great second-factor stories, right? Yes, yes, they are. You know, I have heard a little bit of an argument from the InfoSet community hearing about this first one with Apple WebKit in the fact that it still relies on SMS. But the problem is a lot of websites have not caught on to physical hardware tokens or app-based one-time passcodes for two-factor authentication. So the fact that we are getting something that can help you protect against phishing attacks or attacks that spoof websites is definitely a nice add-on to two-factor authentication over SMS. Now, it would be great if we didn't have to rely on SMS for this, but some websites again still do. So I like the fact that they are including this for folks who want that convenience of having more security but don't necessarily want to rely on having to copy and paste it into a website, et cetera, et cetera. And then you're relying on the fact that a lot of users may not necessarily check the website's address before they put in that one-time code, and they could potentially get spoofed in that sense. Now, this doesn't protect against SIM swapping either. That would still be an issue. But this does protect against the phishing aspect and the spoofing aspect of websites. On the other hand, you have the Google one with the open-source tool. I personally love this one because this is something that I would potentially use. They're completely open-sourcing this. The Nordic chip, the little physical chip, it's a little USB chip. It's 10 to 20 bucks online. I looked it up super, super inexpensive in Rust to program it. So if you know a little bit of Rust, you could probably program this yourself or just copy and paste their open-source code and compile it for your own uses. I could definitely see hackers using this for all sorts of things. If you run your own server at home, you could implement 2FA on that to log in. Your own private 2FA, yeah. You could use your own private 2FA. So this would be wonderful for folks who don't necessarily want to use a third-party vendor's FIDO2 compliant security device and they want to create their own. They could use a Nordic chip and compile their own two-factor authentication and then they're not relying on any other vendor right there. It's such an interesting platform. I'm kind of surprised it took this long to do some kind of open-source platform for FIDO2 compliant 2FA. But it's wonderful. All my hacker friends are totally going to get on this and Nordics are going to sell out everywhere. You could tell a story here which is SMS second factor is better than no second factor. For a lot of people and because you say a lot of websites only offer it, it's good to have something that prevents at least some of the weaknesses, not all of them but some of them. But what we need is more popularization of hardware dongles which means we need more people to make them to make them more ubiquitous and make them cheaper. And that's what the second project from Google does. Exactly. That's really good. I think some 2FA FIDO compliant physical tokens are still a little bit cost prohibitive to folks. And if this could be something where maybe somebody bulk orders the Nordic products and then gives those away to their friends and family, that could lower the cost of these. Put them in a Hello Kitty case so suddenly people are interested in that. We do have an open source thingiverse 3D printed case as well for this. So I could totally paint it to be Hello Kitty. Or Sailor Moon. Definitely Sailor Moon. Hello Kitty and Sailor Moon, not always on our subreddit. But very infrequently do make it up there and that's if you care about stories. Thanks everybody who participate in our subreddits. As you know you can submit stories. You can also vote on other folk stories at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. You can also join in our conversation in our Discord. It's going on 24 seven pate. You can join by linking to a Patreon account at patreon.com. What is in that old mailbag there? Oh Tom, I'm glad you asked. Justin wrote in and he had an interesting thought of how much not having good broadband internet can really bring down a system. Justin works for the state court system in IT and deals with mostly real courts that are on DSL, satellite, mobile hotspots, or maybe even nothing at all. Justin says it makes IT support a nightmare. It takes a very long time to transfer any software that they need. Remote desktop can be a lag nightmare. The other major issues is the courts that require to upload information to the DMV or send over an order of protection to the police and many other important things. A lot of my locations have to drive to the next town just to upload their information. This causes a delay to put people in danger. The US needs to push for better infrastructure and push ISPs go into rural places and get them internet. The world requires internet and the US is far behind in infrastructure. I was saying yesterday that most places in the US have sufficient bandwidth for Netflix and that probably wasn't the reason that Netflix was slowing. But that doesn't mean that there isn't a big problem with infrastructure in the places that don't have them. And I appreciate Justin writing in and sharing his experience about that because it's important to note that most is not all or even all that we need. And there is a gap there that needs to be filled for very important reasons. Yeah, absolutely. That whole idea of driving to the next town to upload something when it comes to the cops. I'm like, is that not a good system? Hey, shout out to our patrons. A very good system indeed at our master and grandmaster levels, including Phillip Les, Frederick Kuebner, and James P. Callison. All right, let's check in with Len Peralta, who has been illustrating today's show. What have you drawn for us, Len?  And we also talked about the Microsoft bug bounty hunter. So I thought only apropos to draw the bug bounty hunter from Microsoft. There he is pulling out. And now if only are the audio issues were sort of like the the bugs, you could just go and squash him when needed to come in and squash that bug.  That bug looks so sad and sorry. Well, you know what? He shouldn't have been around. That's the thing. And he's bringing in like 20 grand for this guy. So, you know, there's always a good thing. So he got it as hip there. Oh, those are a little, what you call it, controllers, right? Because it's a Xbox bug bounty. That's right. Of course. Makes sense. Yeah, if you wanted to see this, you can go right now to my Patreon. Patreon.com forward slash Len. You can always get it at my online store at LenPeraltaStore.com. And by the way, I'm open for commissions too. If anybody wants to hire me for a commission, Valentine's Day is coming up. Some other great, you know, if you have anything else, go to LenPeraltaStore.com and get that started. So. 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This is Dennis McMahon and welcome to Positively Vermont, and we're recording this on the first day of September, September 1, right here in beautiful Vermont, and we're very honored to have with us today an old friend from the world of media and the world of food and entertainment and everything else, and all that goes good with it, and that's Charlie Papillo. And Charlie Papillo is going to tell us about a very unique service that he's performing right now throughout the Green Mountain State called Travels with Charlie. But first of all, Charlie, welcome to Positively Vermont. Well, first, Dennis, let me say what an honor this is, you know, and it's kind of interesting because it's kind of like, you know, you and I are coming full circle now, you know, man, when I think about how my radio career, you know, 20 plus years ago with Ernie Farrar in the morning, then later joined by Lisa Nagel, she was with us for 10 years, great addition to the show, but you were there in the early days and Ernie and I termed you as the executive producer of the Charlie and Ernie show. We used to get these emails, and we didn't even know who you were, you know, we'd get these emails from this Dennis McMahon Esquire, and he'd have show ideas and show, you know, contacts, people to contact all over the world, and you were just a great friend. And, you know, it was a lot of fun doing that show and certainly a lot of fun, you know, having you be part of that show. So to come around now and have you doing the interviewing, interviewing me today, it's a real honor, Dennis, and I'm glad that, you know, things are going well for you with Positively Vermont. That's a great show as well. So I'm honored and happy to be here with you today. Well, thanks very much. And why don't you just start off to tell our viewers a little bit about yourself. Sure. Right up to your, with WVMT and right after that. Give us a little biography. Yeah, absolutely.  I should be bringing you some graft, but with the Zoom thing, we're not able to do that. So, you know, the graft rules have been expelled for today. We ate a lot of donuts in that studio. Plenty of graft that came in.  I knew like Ernie Farrar, I knew when I was 10 years old what I wanted to do. I wanted to be in radio. And I didn't get into radio until my early 40s, I guess mid 40s. I started off before I got into radio. I was a mobile DJ for about 10 or 15 years. I own my own mobile DJ company for, for, you know, a few of those last few 15 years doing that. That, you know, my love was always playing music and being in front of people. And then an opportunity came up at WVMT and that opportunity was they needed an afternoon drive guy to do music. You know, it was an oldie station at the time.  And I got in, you know, I was just so happy and thrilled.  It's what I always wanted to do. Two years after I was hired, as most AM stations had changed in the market, they said, you know, nobody listens to music in mono. We're going to go to talk. And I said, well, that was a short career. I'm going to be, you know, shipping out here. And they said, well, we're going to do a live morning show. We need a host for that. Let's do a national search. And Ernie Farrar, God love him. He said, what are you doing a national search for? You got Charlie Papilla right here. You know, Ernie and I would do about an hour to gather every morning with sort of, you know, he went on until 10, but I would go in at nine to start pulling music. This is back in the day for all this old time, we used to pull the carts. You had to have your music ready. So I would go in and I'd be pulling my carts and Ernie be playing, you know, doing his last hour of his show. He hosted that with Mark Esper in the morning and then his last hours to buy himself. And Ernie would like say something and then he'd open up the mic and throw me in, you know. And we just, like Ernie says, there was this chemistry and we just, we just hit it off. So he suggested the management that they give me a chance. So we went on the air for two weeks and tried it. And man, 20 some odd years later, a lot of ups and downs. But, you know, when we retired, we were on top. We were beating some FM stations.  And people had to name it and they'd, you know, they'd win a prize from Papa Franks and Manuski or something. So it was a lot of fun. You know, fast forward after that 20 years, I also had started a pizza business as you know. And I got many plugs and certainly got a good lift from that radio program, me mentioning pizzapapillo.com. I got to give a blatant plug, Ben, as you know, pizzapapillo.com available for weddings, rehearsal dinners, bar mitzvahs, bot mitzvahs, check it out on the web. That became very successful and reached a point where I said, you know, I think I'm going to just kind of pull back from radio and just do that. And I retired from radio in December of 2018. In January of 2019, I get a phone call from a friend of ours, Brad Berlin. Brad was, you know, Brad very well. Yes. Brad, Brad would like you would occasionally ring me up at the radio station and say, hey, I got a great idea for a guest or somebody's in town. They're looking for some media exposure. Would you be happy to give them the exposure? And I did. So Brad and I go way back as well. And Brad said, I got an idea for a project. I want to know if you're interested. Let's sit down and talk.  I don't want to, you know, be in media anymore or whatever. So he said, well, let's talk. And we did. We sat down, we talked and he said it's a video project. You'd be filming videos and interviewing people much like you do now, but it would be different because obviously it's video. And I thought about it and I said, you know what? I mean, there was a point in my life when I wanted to do TV as well. So I said, this is as close as I'm going to get.  It's food. It's radio. And it's, it's video now, you know, it's TV basically. So I'm in. Let's do it. And here we are 30 something episodes later. Travels with Charlie. We just shot two yesterday. I think I put on about, I must have driven about six hours yesterday. We had, we did two shoots and man, we've been all over the state. I'm telling you, I'm going to places. I didn't, I was born in Burlington. I'm going to places I didn't even know existed and beautiful places too.  Really. It is, it is. And the one thing that I find, and we've had governor after governor, you know, pound on the desk and saying, we're going to have broadband. We're going to have cell coverage in Vermont. Well, please get it because. You don't have to go very far. And I find out all of a sudden your Google map on your phone just isn't working. I know. I've been down in places on white river and Lake pharmacy and down in Middlebury, even down in Manchester. Yeah.  You need the old paper map to get you there. Exactly. And yeah, Brad's a great friend and he really knows his stuff. And I also understand you have a director, Asher. Chris was our director. So there's, there's the three of us. There's a Asher Chris, the director, Brad Furlan is the executive producer.  And I chime in a little bit.  We've got a great camera crew. We're working with Mondo media. They, you know, something I'm just amazed with. I mean, the professionalism of these guys, they show up. They've got the GoPro. They've got to the steady cam, you know, all the, all the great stuff. Some we've had to shoot via zoom, but, you know, 90% of them have all been with the camera crew out. We just resumed going back out again. So we're having a great time doing that. And we're discussing real issues that affect Vermonters.  I don't want to, it's not a debate. You know, we may get two people from opposite sides of an issue, but it's never been a point.  That's the, you know, that's not what I did. It was always about fair. Yeah. It was almost about entertaining. Let's make it entertaining and people will listen. That's why I love this project because as we call it, it's, it's edutainment. We educate and we entertain at the same time. You know, there's this whole feeling that if you don't keep it entertaining, people are going to tune out. So we do some wacky things.  I've milked the cow. You name it.  So who knows what, you know, what could happen next, but that's the whole point. We keep it interesting. It's not a debate. And we want to make sure that each guest shows their best self estimate number of legislators, leaders in the community, business owners, and they've all been treated fairly. And as they look at it, they see that people enjoy it. Obviously they do. Dennis, I'm amazed every time I take a look at the number of views that we've gotten. And I think the top one or anywhere in the 20, 30,000 range of views, which is simply amazing. We did run with a governor. We did it in a film noir, which, you know, Asher could explain that. He's a movie. I know that format. Yeah. You know what it is.  We shot it in black and white and the governor went along with it. It was, you know, we shot it and 51,000 views. Last time I looked, people have seen that. And by the way, you can see us on Facebook. You can see us on YouTube. It's travels with Charlie. You have to spell it with an IE and you might get some John Steinbeck stuff in there. I think he copyrighted it first, but that's great. We took over. So what's the guiding principles? What is the philosophy behind this? Well, like I said, we want to talk about issues that are really facing Vermonters.  And that's exactly what it is. And as opposed to doing a show in a studio, no disrespect to you, Dennis, what you do, we find that it's, whoops, we're going sideways here. Outside technical stuff. There we go. Yeah. Yeah. We're in the delivery. Right. We put that in the delivery. Exactly. Right. The backyard studio of the pillow industries here.  Where I lost my train of thought here. We're talking about the guiding, the guiding philosophy behind it. Yeah.  And, and as I mentioned, you know, do it, do it in an entertaining way. And I think we've done that as a, a tested to the, you know, the number of people that we've had on the show and the issues that we've discussed. And these are things that are really. Affecting Vermonters. When you think about, you know, the recent compost. The discussion and the debate on, on minimum wage. We did that with a, with a business owner or restaurant owner. The marijuana law, which, you know, the pot bill. And that discussion, which was the first video that we shot. Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman, who's now a candidate for governor.  We shot that one where it was with Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman and retired judge Ben Joseph. Ben, Ben is pretty strict. I mean, Ben doesn't even think alcohol should be legal to be, I'm serious. And you can watch that. It's the first episode. It's still on the, on, on Facebook. And we shot it in a bar. We went to Rossi's Lakeshore Tavern. Thank you, Jimmy Rossi. Another plug to Rossi's Lakeshore Tavern in Colchester. And we shot pool. We shot pool. We shot darts. And we played video games all while we're having this discussion. And it kept things moving. And as you've actually found out that David's a pretty good pool player. He says, I haven't played in 20 years.  He beat Ben at the pool. And then he went on to do the video game. And it's like, wow, you're even good at this. So you find out a lot of things. And I think people kind of, they, they, you know, not that we're trying to have a gotcha moment, but people are relaxed. Guests are relaxed because we're doing it in an atmosphere where it's fun and it's not, we're not trying to have a gotcha moment. You know what I'm saying? Tell us about some of your other favorite episodes that you've had. Well, I got to say, I think my favorite episode probably is the one in Lake Elmore. I, this was, we did, I did it with Chris Bray and Rob Roper. Senator Bray, Rob Roper from the Ethan Allen Institute. And Rob and Chris don't see eye to eye on the plastic band. And, which is great. And they both agreed to come on and do the, do the episode. So, you know, again, kudos to, to Brad and Asher coming up with these ideas that we're going to have the, you know, the monster from the lake, the plastic bag monster. And that, and that's me. I mean, we had a GoPro under the water. They, and Dennis, you know, when I was in radio, it was one take of one take only. I'm finding out with, with video, it's like, okay, we're going to do that again at a different angle or we didn't like the way you did it. I'm actually underwater holding my breath and they're telling me stay under because we want the water smooth.  I'm at the general store in Elmore. And I walk into the store and there's the owner of the store who recently passed away. God bless him and thanks, thanks to him for letting us do this. And there he is in the store and I walk in and he goes, wait a minute, didn't you hear about the band? You can't wear a plastic bag. And then we had this great discussion from that point on. And it was, it was a lot of fun doing. There's another episode that comes to mind. And this is one of my granddaughter, who she's only four years old and she watches the episodes because she likes to see the hijinks. If you don't see him, he shot this at Northwood, Vermont. We had an ambulance on call that day. And I'm in the ambulance laying on the gurney and I'm out. And the two drivers, the ambulance, the EMTs, what a great job they did. They've got the paddles out and they're going, bring them back, bring them back. And they're not really hitting me, but I'm jumping up, I'm jumping up and I don't come to. And finally one of them says, I got it. I know what we need to do. And he goes to the cabinet and he opens it up and he pulls a pizza out and he puts the pizza under my nose. And I wake up and I look into the camera and I go, welcome to another episode of Travels with Charlie, Vermont politics and real life. Was that scripted or was that? It's scripted. I mean, we don't have a, I don't have lines. I just know the general, okay, this is what we're going to do. And this is how we're going to do it. We did a couple of takes with that. That one went well. And, and then it's, it's on to the show. Before we go any further, I've got to mention a big thanks, as you know, on the Charlie and Ernie show on WVMT. My good friend Billy Bratcher of the Starline rhythm boys, he wrote the Charlie and Ernie theme song. Right. And every morning we started that show off, you know, Billy would do gigs with his band, the Starline rhythm boys. And people would ask me, hey, play the Charlie and Ernie song. And we only played it once. I said, you better learn how to do it when you go out. And they did. They played it a couple of times when they were out. So when we started doing this series, you know, two years ago now, there was some discussion about we need a theme song. And as you know, you know, playing music, if you don't own it and it's copyright fees and stuff that you got to pay. So I said, well, my good friend Billy Bratcher wrote a theme song. For the Charlie and Ernie show. Maybe I can get them to do one for our show. And man, Billy is a talented guy. And I'm not saying, I think he wrote it in about 20 minutes. He sends me off this thing. He says, here you go. You know, he's playing it. What do you think? I said, sounds great. All right, I'll get some lyrics. And next thing you know, it's the travels with Charlie. And I end my show saying, I'll see you in my travels. And the name of the song is, you know, I'll see you in my travels. He did a great job with it. I want to thank Billy for doing that. So, you know, you'll hear the music and then the, and then we get right into the show and the show starts and you'll hear the music at the end of the show as well. That's great. Have you had any backfires or anything? Or maybe episodes where people didn't expect it? I wouldn't say backfires. I think the one episode that we shot. And, you know, I'm not afraid to point out when somebody doesn't want to come on the show. Because I think that we treat people fairly. We give you an opportunity to express your point of view. And if you're, well, especially, and I'll, I'll mention it. I mean, it's Perry Freeman, city counselor from Burlington, Vermont. When Perry had called for disarming police officers. I thought that that was, I brought it up to Brad Nash. I said, I think we need to discuss this a little bit further. So the obvious thing to do would be to get Perry on along with a member from law enforcement. And I emailed, I phoned. I tried it every way to get in touch with Perry. And not even a response. So I said, well, I think we need to do the show anyway. So I went to a couple of my friends in law enforcement. Jojo Leahy, who's retired from the Vermont state police. Jojo said I'd be happy to do it. And Jen Morrison, Jen served in Colchester and in Burlington as the chief of police. And she said that she'd be happy to do it. So we had a great discussion with that. It seemed kind of unfair that Perry wasn't there. But as I pointed out, we gave you an opportunity. You could have been here. You didn't want to be here. And no disrespect to police. As everyone knows, I'm a great supporter of the police. And I have many friends and that are involved and still involved in the police departments. I said, what do you think guys? Can we shoot it at a donut shop? And they didn't flinch, they said. Absolutely, let's do it. But I said, you can tape it here. And we did. We taped it in the quality bake shop. And we ate donuts and drank coffee while we had a discussion about disarming police. But it's a great episode for those of you that haven't seen it, you should really watch it. I mean, to listen to two members of law enforcement. One, Jojo, who was actually shot. I mean, he's lucky to be alive. So to hear his story. And to get a personal touch of what it's like to be a police officer. I think sometimes people just take them for granted. I don't know, there's a real. What's happening now across the country to me is just, it's, it's disgusting. I can't stand it. The way that all police officers are being, being defamed and, and being scrutinized to, to put on that badge and to put on your weapon every day and go outside to, to say goodbye to your partner, husband, wife, whatever, whomever, as you leave the house and, and, and may not come home. That's, that's. I think we take that pretty lightly and we shouldn't. They're, they're, they're ready to put their lives on the line for you. Who are you going to call it two in the morning if you're defunding the police department, but that's for another day. I won't get on that today. Or use your time for that today, Dennis. Well, let me ask it September 1 where we got a few months left in 2020, been a tumultuous year. Tell us, if you wouldn't mind what you plan for the rest of the year, maybe some of your episodes. Well, I never really know, you know, I never, you know, we talk about some of the things that we might like to do. And, and a lot of it, I think depends on what's happening in Vermont. So we just kind of wait and see, as you know, the legislative session, this is an unusual one. I mean, they're back in session again. We've got some budget shortfalls that we've got to cover. There's some things that we've already discussed. We discussed the pension plan. We had Wolf, man, I just want to say Alex Wolf. And Dave Coates, you know, discussing the pension plan and the shortfalls that that has. So there's a lot of things going on that's still going to be solved that still need to be brought out. So in a lot of that has to do with what's going on in the legislature, but we'll, we'll see what some of the future shows may be. And as I mentioned, you know, I should still get this idea of getting me on a chairlift on a ski slope. I don't ski. I'm like one of the only Vermonters that doesn't ski. I don't ski and maybe in a hot air balloon. Who knows. That would be fantastic. Let me ask you this. How far just give us some locations where we have only a few minutes left, but where you've been throughout the state? Just some of the physical places. Wow. I've been to, I've been to West Glover. We went to Newberry recently. Rutland. I've done a few things here in Chittenden County. We've been in Williston. We wanted, that was one of the wee episodes that we've, we've shot there at a restaurant and St. Albans. Man, just all over the place. And again, as I mentioned, I've been to so many of these places that I have never been before. And I'm always just impressed when you get there. And it's, it's a small town and it's like, you know, a nice green. And there's the center of town and just real community feel. Civil War Memorial. There's a lot of those around. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Just amazing that the history alone that you can get just by traveling. Just reading the monument. Yeah. We've shot in Battery Park. As a matter of fact, and again, it's certainly a number of monuments there as well. That was the one episode where I took it upon myself to actually light that cannon that many of you see. And unfortunately, I think I hit champ. You'll need to see that episode. And that's one where you'll actually see Brad Furlin, who I think that's his acting debut. And he did a great job. We should get an Oscar for that. That's great. I mean, that's fantastic. And just give us a, we have a minute or so to wrap up just to give it an overall impression. So now what you've got personally out of this, your feelings for the people and the state and the future. Yeah. So I think the one thing that comes out from, you know, doing these videos is the opportunity for people of differing points of view to sit down together.   He is a good guy. There's no good. There's no bad. You can have your own opinions. The fact that we can come together and have a discussion and do it civilly, in my opinion, is great. I think we're doing, we're doing great things. And it's a great service for people to, to see both sides of an issue being presented, presented fairly, and you can make up your own mind on it. We're not making up any minds for anybody. I never did, I never did that. I, you know, I'd give my opinion when I was in radio. I don't give my opinion as much doing this. I try to stay kind of in the middle and let both sides give their opinions, but you can, you can make your own opinion from it. That's great. And what if people want to get in touch with you? How would they get in touch with you? Well, the best way I guess is to go on Facebook, travels with Charlie, you can leave a comment there. And we'd be happy to, to, you know, look for suggestions about places that you'd like to see us shoot or topics that you'd like to see us do, or even guess that you'd love to have, have us do. That's great. Well, it's been a really wonderful talking to you. And it sounds like a very exciting project. And I want to thank Brad for advising me of it and then getting you here on positively Vermont. Well, Dennis, thanks to you for having me and thanks for what you do, you know, positively Vermont. Again, that's another, something that Vermonters and folks here in Chittinette County are, are lucky to, lucky to have you're on channel 17. And, and Chittinette County, people can, can see that. And hopefully we can get this video out through some other aspects as well through our network. So other people can see it as well. I really appreciate having, having you having me on today, Dennis. That's great. Well, great seeing you, Charlie. And thanks for appearing on positively Vermont. This is Dennis McMahon. My guest has been Charlie Papillo talking about his show Travels with Charlie. Thank you for watching.