Well, well, well, well. It's looking to shape up to be a pretty good day as far as a green day and couldn't be happier because I think we deserve it after this market's really been kicking us in the team. But today is looking pretty good. I'm going to try to keep this stream pretty short because in all honesty, everything that we really want to talk about, we talked today over NFA Live with Guy and Ben. And we went over a plethora of different things. We talked about why the market is actually bullish. We talked about our different opinions on as far as like the SEC and why they will or will not approve. And just took a look at most of the things that are going on. So I linked the NFA Live in the description below. So check it out because it was a very, it was a very, very positive show. And if you watched the show before that, as far as like a week ago, very, very bullish or very, very bearish, a little bit negative, some might say. So for this one, we just want to remind everybody that, hey, yeah, the markets was kind of sucking. And this was, of course, very early in the morning. We didn't see the price action that happened today. Yes, the markets very early. Yes, things are chopping sideways a little lower, but good days are on the horizon. And guess what? Those good days are today. Now, just because we're having a little bit of a pump, of course, you guys are all pros. If you're here right now, you're not a tourist. So you know what's going to happen. We're going to have a pump. It's going to be great. It's going to go down. And then, of course, the people that are like, you know what, Yolo, I'm going to go along on this are the ones that get crushed. Maybe I'm wrong this time, but usually we play the odds. It doesn't really happen, regardless of what anybody might think. It usually just goes, you have a pump, and then we get a little bit of a dump, and we move sideways for a bit. And that's the beauty of the bear market. So Bitcoin, of course, the total market cap is doing pretty good. 1.1 trillion now. Finally, just grab another, you know, $50 billion from somewhere. That's great. There's the big winners for the day, Solana of 4.1. Ton coin, 4.7, which now they just flip flop with Tron. And let's see what else, Bitcoin Cash, 4.7. And then Lido Dow, great, Kronos, I guess, so 2.9. Arbitrum, one of the ones that was losing, and one of the ones that I think is going to be great in the next run, 8.7. So I think that's the big winner for the day, except for Ave. So congratulations to everybody who has been going into it. If you want to take profits at this point, maybe something to consider. I'm not a financial advisor. You can do whatever you want to.  And then the question then is why? Well, there's a number of reasons, of course. And of course, really what it comes down to is this. There's more buyers and sellers. That's really what it comes down to. People aren't dumping right now and people are maybe not as not near as afraid in our market. But there was this little piece I thought was pretty interesting. As far as the positivity, Coinbase International gets the green light for futures trading. So Coinbase, we covered this months ago, and we talked about how Coinbase was branching out because they were kind of stuck in the United States. And of course, we've got this guy named Gary Gensler, who just does whatever he wants to. He goes before Congress. They grill the tar out of him.  And now I'm just going to prolong these ETFs.  See you on the next time you drag me into Congress suckers. So this is good. Here's what we got. So this just happened yesterday, I believe. And in its official announcement, Coinbase, the crypto exchange, assert that nearly 75% of the crypto trading volume originates from the derivatives market. And because of their ability to work with the Bermuda Monetary Authority, they have obtained regulatory green lights, bringing the platform to introduce perpetual futures trading options for non-US retail clientele. So that's a pretty big piece of news. I think it's very positive. Maybe this moves out. But if you know, I mean, it says right here, setting 5% of the crypto trading volume is from the derivatives market. It just opens it up for other people. Now, if they come into the United States, sure. But the more that you put in as far as derivatives and the options they have, the more risk that you put into it. I did not play around with derivatives market, but of course, you're welcome to do whatever you want to do. I think this is good. And having said all that, I think everybody's been talking about myself included how awful September is. And just as a quick update, we were at like positive 1.15% for September. And right now we're at 4.46. Now we got two days to go. So I don't want to jinx it, but things are looking pretty good. And then also, just on some positive news, I know some people love Solana. Some people despise Solana. But you can't go against the fact that it is super fast. This is from Chris. I just saw this little post. And it looks like USDC, of course, being on the Solana chain. And you're able to move things around. Look, when I use USDC, and I got to pay somebody, especially on the Ethereum blockchain for USDC, holy smokes, it's low and it's expensive. And for this one, it is fast and it is cheap, 0.01. I mean, for a penny. And of course, you can send whatever you want to. But just look at this, it's confirmed and it's there. That's nice. And that's how blockchain should work. I know some people say, well, it's very controlled. It's very centralized. And it goes down all the time. And it's awful. Look, for this year, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think it's gone down once. And yes, they can say, hey, guys, the chain is down. Could you reboot? Yes, that is true. But I will say this. Solana, I think, is a little bit more decentralized than your local bank. Tell me where I'm wrong. And lastly, we'll get into a little Q&A. I want to make this quick because again, most of the things we talk about, the alpha is right in this show, really good stuff, was I talked about this quickly on NFA Live. I did a video about this. It was the 80-20 rule. And really what it came down to is that in 2017, 20% of all the top 53 cryptos that are out there, only 20% went on to hit their all-time highs. And I said, if you want to gamble around, that's fine. But just know that it's going to be very difficult to hit the all-time highs. And even though you don't hit the all-time highs, here was the all-time lows. And I showed you that, even though like, let's say like IOTA. IOTA, for example, it hit its all-time high in 2017 at five bucks. And then on their 2021 high, here we go. It was $2.50, so roughly half. It couldn't even hit its all-time high. But it didn't matter because if you looked at this, the lows, you still could have done pretty well. Out of the 53, only two, only two didn't have their all-time lows. And this was Veritasium and Salt. So actually, no, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. You still had the all-time lows. So it was just that out of these 53, two didn't have their all-time lows before the Bitcoin having in 2020. So when I did the 80-20 video, little eye-opening, people say, oh, okay, well, looks like that, even if it doesn't hit the all-time highs, maybe I can squeak out some gains. And I wanted to throw this in, but I didn't because it was a long day. It was like over 20 minutes, like 25 minutes. And what I wanted to show you real quick is this has been site in the cryptoverse. This part here is free, the DCA simulation part, just so you know. And I was able to put in XRP Tron Stellar Eos Neo Iota. And those are the ones that didn't hit their all-time high. And I showed you if, well, I didn't show you, I'm going to show you now. If you put in $10 a week, again, very, very conservative, $10 a week from 2018, because everything either bottomed out, they either bottomed out a year after the high in December 2018, or in March of 2020 during the pandemic. So I just said, okay, if I did 2018, everything was going down the tubes. And you invested $10 a week into Bitcoin as a point of reference. And XRP Tron Stellar Eos Neo Iota, which did not hit their all-time highs, how would you have done? Well, if you'd have done it just dollar-cost average, here's the thing, you wouldn't have done too bad. Now, you would have done better if you would have caught on to Dogecoin or Polygon or Solana, sure. But if you're just like, you know what, I'm just going to lower my cost basis. Look at this. For Bitcoin, which did hit its all-time high, so it's, again, just on the level, you would have invested $2,000. You would have gotten 14,000. It's pretty good. Tron didn't hit its all-time highs. You'd still be up 373%. Iota, 246%. XRP, 220%. Stellar 222, blah, blah, blah. Eos, whopping 24% watch out. But the thing was is that this is just dollar-cost averaging, just the basic of basic. But if you did, there's another option for you. And one thing I've talked about just a little bit is as far as dynamic DCA. So over here, I'm trying to confuse it, but okay, you put in $10 every week, right?  That's what if you do that. If you dynamic DCA, you put in $10 a week and go over here, you'd have $72,140. Well, how the heck does that work? It doesn't make any sense. Here's how it is. So dynamic DCA is essentially going into the risk bands. And I talk about this in my video over, you can search for it on YouTube. And I talk about when to buy less or more of Bitcoin and crypto. And I talk about dynamic DCA. Basically, it just goes like this. In the risk bands, which you can find on Ben's site, if you see that as the risks go lower because the price is going lower, less risk, then you put more money into it. The example they give over here would be this, the strategy over time. So as the risk bands go down and the price is going down, instead of putting $10 a week, you put in $20 a week as the price goes down, then $30, then $40, then $50.  It's hard to do this because the price, you're like, what the heck? My portfolio is going down and you wanted me to put more money in.  This is just what I do. You can do this. And as you go across this and performance, which I'm doing right now, you would have put more money in as the price plummets. So remember the time when it was like $3,000? Yeah, you're putting more money in. Remember when it was $5,000 for Bitcoin? Yeah, you're putting more money in. And it worked out pretty well as time went on and you had roughly 4x of what you could have had. So again, you can read about or read about. You can watch the video itself. You can read over here the questions. Identity is crypto, 100% free website. And then also, if you're looking for the things that I use as far as my strategy to sell and cash out and those kind of things, there's a video there as well. Here's the different indicators I use, PyCycleTop and UPL, the time and risk band we just talked about, MVRVZ score, TRMA, Puell and reserve risk. So you can check that out over there. Or you can search for it one by one on YouTube and that's it. And then also, just so you know, I just discovered this this week. I didn't know this actually existed. So you know, we're always doing these different charts, we're overlaying stuff and blah, blah. If you want to do these things, there's this part over here, you get your dashboard, your charts, your workbench. You can put in any different type of graph and lay it over. And you can just also get to do a search for it, add a metric. So Bitcoin price, you can put in, well, Ben's favorite topic, dominance. And then of course, you can add another metric. Let's put in the macroverse. Let's put in GDP. And then add that. Then of course, it'll be a little goofy, so you can just kind of zoom in if you want to. And then let's add another metric. Let's put in like M2 money supply, my favorite. And then add this. There's a whole host of things you could do. So you can kind of see where what the things are going, what's happening. And then every time that you hear about these, you know, the people on the inside or the economists who say, this is happening, this is happening. You can take a look at this, overlay it, do a workbench, take a look at like the macro factors and just kind of play around with it and see where things are going. So again, when we talk about do your own research, here's one of those steps. And that's it. Lastly, just so you know, most of the stuff I just showed you was free. Some of things are paid. Ben's having a sale until the end of the month. So you got two days. And then lastly, lastly, lastly, I swear this is the last piece. There's something going on with Ripple. And I don't know what it is. But I hear from insiders, which they don't, they're all guessing anyhow. But there's a NYC party going on right now that's hosted by Ripple. And they're going to announce something big. And we don't know if it's something that has to do with the SEC in the court case. We don't know if there's something else going on, or if they're going to talk about their IPO, them going public. I know some people say, well, Rob, the SEC will never let them go public, because that's just they're already suing them for other parts. Yes, that's a different part of the business. So just remember that the SEC at one point, they allowed Coinbase to go public. So it can happen. But if that does happen, things will be quite exciting. If you so choose to, and I'm actually looking at this myself, there was a discussion we had with a company called Linkto. And they were able to talk about how you can invest into some places like like Circle and Misari and one of them being Ripple, even though they weren't public, and you can actually invest them before they go public. Look, if you know anything about investing before things go public, first of all, it's super risky. So again, not a financial advisor. But with no risk, there's no reward. But they talked about how you can invest in a Ripple before it goes public. And they are regulated by the SEC, Linkto. There's a link in the description. You can watch the video. The problem was you had to be a credit investor, which means you had to make a return of $50,000. And that's just for Americans. Globally, it doesn't count. However, good news. You can now potentially invest into Ripple, the non-incredible investor. So again, I linked Linkto in the description. You can check it out. I'm going to talk to them today about it. We'll see how it goes. But just an option and you can pass on it. It's all right. And that's it. So look, thanks so much, everybody, for stopping by. I want to make that fast, but I really didn't. But that was it. So thanks so much, everybody. Like and subscribe.


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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here since I'm a scream six again in this video Feels weird saying that honestly cuz I'm used to saying screen five But jumping into the video that we need to talk about how you can bring Dewey Wiley back in regards to we know in Screen five for those of you who have seen the movie those of you who haven't spoiler alert Dewey Wiley drops dead do drop actually drops He will not be returning as far as like being alive in any capacity I hope they stick to it.  Maybe his death could have been done slightly better.  It wasn't useless. It wasn't it wasn't meaningless it did not do anything that was a Detraction from the overall narrative I think if anything it added a lot of like Amber said it added a lot more stakes And it took risks that you haven't had taken with the screen movie since I would say screen two am I honest opinion so David Arquette though could still return as Dewey Wiley and David Arquette from what I would understand would love to be back as far as what Neve has stated about all of them Wanted to be back is what I took away from she was saying that but I think mostly she was talking about her and Courtney Just my honest opinion But as far as like bringing him back We know at the end of screen 5 Gail had some words about wanting to write a book about them about a man who used to be a Sheriff of this town and Sydney says she would love to read that. So let's say that scream 6 takes place a year or two after screen 5 Mindy Chad Tara Sophomores in college maybe freshman who knows because maybe they you don't have to jump right in the college after high school They could be freshman two years after the events of screen 5 Colleges in a requirement. So so like for any any of any of that stuff They could be sophomores freshman doesn't really matter, but they're in college in between that time. Gail has written a book Dewey is on the cover of said a book We see her talk about the book in this opening. I'm imagining also with her on her morning show we could see her kind of Reminisce about her time with Dewey in New York and while she's talking about it This would be one of the more happy moments while she's talking about it We see it play out in her head and we get to see David Arquette return as Dewey Riley And it's not just some it's it's a flashback, but we're seeing it happen while she's speaking live on her show So like we kind of get to see Dewey play out We get to see this fantasy of their life As it was when they initially got to New York before it fizzled out We get to see glimpses of that while she's on New York while she's on the air in New York on her show Talking about her new book about Dewey Riley the man who used to be the sheriff of Woodsboro and who used to be her husband and how he Was such a great man, etc And how she was so thankful to have spent the amount of time that she did with him When they were married and how she was always thankful for his support and that she will always love him And she will always miss him and she'll always do her best to keep his name and memory of him alive because he was a great man And I'll be a very little emotional opening before we get into what I still would love to see what should be Sam and Tara's mother Get attacked on set of her show Gail show after the studio has been shut down But she goes back in because she forgot something But I think that would be a nice way to get Dewey Riley back into the mix of screen bringing him into scream six Gail could just have some moments where she In between when she's on on the set of the new killings You know, she could just think about Dewey think about doing their time in New York We see another glimpse of their time in New York It doesn't have to be an excessive thing just have Dewey in the film Honestly, probably keep it at one or two moments at best so that way doesn't feel like okay You know, you're showing too much Dewey if you are gonna show this much Dewey Maybe you should have kept him alive like, you know But it's gonna be good enough to see his face on the book cover But I wouldn't mind seeing some flashbacks at least one or two That's just her reflecting on the more positive moments when they actually made it to New York and they were just living their best life Dewey was getting along just fine for those two whole months because I think that's what she said It was for two whole months and then everything started to fizzle out We could just see that a bit in a flashback while she's speaking live on her air live on the air for show Promoting her new book before she brings in Sam and Tara's mother to talk about her relationship to Billy Etc. Then ghostface calls we go from there Scream six plays out how it goes and you know You still get to hear about this book and you see David Arquette's face on the cover of the book And that's how you have Dewey factored in the scream six if Gail actually gets to write that book Which I think would be a great a great thing to have in scream six very sentimental as well and paying respect to the character of Dewey In a nice fitting way So the other thing we need to talk about is someone who could play Tara's dad Because I haven't talked about that yet But a lot of people think in the shout out to UK for bringing this to my attention a lot of people now are thinking It's gonna be this man Freddie Prince Jr. Who if you're familiar with him, you know I know what you did last summer Sarah Michelle Gaelish husband So he's he tweeted out back in January. I've wanted to make another horror movie ever since I know what you did last summer Wrapped never found the right one, but I think this year it's gonna happen so He he was in I still know what you did last summer And he's saying he's wanted to make another horror movie So I think what he means is he wants to go outside of that, of course, obviously But the interesting thing about that is he said he thinks it's gonna happen this year and then of course we find out Scream 6 is shooting this summer Doesn't mean he's in it But the chances are there is a chance that Freddie Prince Jr. Is involved with scream six just throwing it out there Because that is a possibility. I see a lot of people getting behind and wanting to see play out in scream six He could be Tara's dad. He ended up being Tara's dad I was thinking about someone else being Tara's dad But then I realized you know what he could actually be someone else like a Freddie Prince, Jr And it could be anyone it could be Freddie Prince, Jr. Or some other actor I was thinking about someone else who had a different Background but Freddie Prince, Jr. Being Tara's dad I would love to see that or him just being in the movie at all in general That would be great thing to see what his role would be honestly I don't know if it's not Tara's daddy best the best guess I have is just some random guy Who works on campus if if we go back to college, but having him be Tara's dad I think would be a you a very good thing because I think Freddie Prince, Jr. Is a talented actor of Him being in the ghostface reveal would be nice because again in my head I'm seeing Tara's dad as the killer in scream six along with three other people and I just think that would be a nice way to bring him into the fold of scream and Also, I think that this stage that would give us three out of the four school be do cast members in the live action school Be do that have now been featured in scream So that's me that'll be another little trivia for us to jot down in the future if he is in scream six But we'll see who plays Tara's dad and if he's involved in this moving in capacity as the casting announcement starts To roll in before films this summer, but let me know what you guys think about all this down in the comment section below If you have it already, of course, make sure you subscribe turn on postification image video in description I've linked to my social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there, of course So let me know if there's any movies news or reviews you'd like me to cover in the future with all that in my guys I will see you in the next video


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including to Grosia A. Daniels, Irwin Stur and Ken Hayes. Coming up on DTNS, Shannon Morse busts myths about multi-factor authentication. Hint, you need it. Plus, France tries to combat Amazon's book sales and is podcasting just radio? And if so, does it matter? This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, September 23rd, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. In studio Colorado, I'm Shannon Morse. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland, Ohio, I'm Len Peralta. And I'm the show's producer, Roger J. Ooh, we're just missing someone from the central time zone, where we'd have all the mainland time zones covered. Because we've got Amos producing today, so he's in Alaska, and we need a Hawaiian. Okay. And someone from Newfoundland. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. NVIDIA announced a model called Get 3D that can generate 3D objects like buildings, vehicles, and video game characters at around 20 objects per second using a single GPU. You train the model on the shape you want, like car images or animal images, and then it can generate an unlimited number of variations on that. The shapes are output as a triangle mesh covered with a textured material. They look like cars, but that makes them usable in game engines. 3D modelers, film renders, you can import them right in there. When combined with StyleGAN from NVIDIA, you can use text to apply styles to an object. So for example, if Get 3D outputs a car, you can use StyleGAN to convert it to a burned out car, for example. Right now using a Fitbit device requires a Fitbit account. However, the company announced that at some point in 2023, some uses of Fitbit will require a Google account, or activate newly released Fitbit devices and features. Existing Fitbit accounts will have an option of migrate data to their Google account, and users will be able to continue using non-Google Fitbit accounts until at least early 2025. This is very similar to how Google handled Nest accounts as well. Hopefully it'll be a little smoother than that. I had some bumps in the road personally, but yeah, maybe they learned from that. According to Ucla speed desk data, overall speeds for Starlink satellite internet dropped from Q1 to Q2 this year in every country surveyed, and that might be good news for Starlink, we'll explain. Downloads went down 31% to 62.53 megabits per second, uploads were down 22.5% to 7.24 megabits per second in the US, and Ucla attributed that to growing popularity. There's more people using it, which is flowing down the speeds, and they intend to keep putting up capacity, so hopefully they'll keep up. Hopefully they catch up. TikTok began testing a dislike button on comments way back in April, and is now rolling it out to all users. The button is only used by the algorithm, as it won't be public, and the commenters will not be notified, and other users will not see how many times a comment has been disliked. Instead, it's used as a signal to help flag spam and abuse. You can take back a dislike at any time by tapping the button again. So if you dislike something and no one knows, have you really disliked it? Yeah, it's a conundrum. Philosophical question. It's estimated that only 30% of corporate data is stored in the cloud, which means there's a lot of opportunity for cloud business, and that explains the continued rush of big tech companies to invest in the cloud. Microsoft and Amazon obviously are getting the most press and have the two largest market shares in the world. Google is usually described as trying to catch up, trying to get in that game, but the third biggest cloud provider in the world behind Amazon and Microsoft is Alibaba. Most of Alibaba's business, however, is in mainland China, and it faces some headwinds overseas, as you might have noticed if you follow this show, because there are tensions between the US, Europe and China, and that has driven some potential Alibaba customers away. To counter that trend, Alibaba announced it's going to spend a billion dollars over the next three fiscal years to support its, quote, global partner ecosystem outside of China, and basically, you know, convinced you to buy their service anyway with a little money. Never hurts, right? Alright, let's talk a little more about that book thing going on. France is one of many countries that has problems with the way Amazon does business, among the many problems France has with Amazon. One of them is the way it competes with smaller booksellers. Amazon offers free delivery of books in many markets, and France's booksellers objected to that because they could not afford to eat the cost of postage and still make a profit the way that Amazon eats the cost of postage and makes profit other ways. Reuters says local bookstores typically charge up to seven euros for delivery of a book. The argument was that Amazon was abusing its size to offer a service pretty much at a loss in order to drive competition from the marketplace. So what did they do, Shannon? So back in 2014, France enacted a law requiring all book deliveries in the country to include a delivery fee. Amazon and some of the other vendors like Fnac and Leclerc commenced charging one whole cent for delivery. That's it. In December, France decided to address this workaround, this loophole, passing legislation that required the government to set a minimum fee for book deliveries. On Friday, France announced the minimum fee would be three euros for online book orders of less than 35 euros, and the fee cannot be avoided by customer loyalty programs or ordering books with other items. However, if the cost of the books is in one order is more than 35 euros, then Amazon and others could drop the delivery fee back to one cent if they wish. There is a joint statement from the Culture and Finance Ministries, which says, quote, the three-euro delivery fee is not dissuasive for book buyers and the 35-euro threshold will favor grouped orders, which is virtuous in environmental terms. France will now notify the European Commission of the new law, and it will take effect six months after Europe approves. I'm guessing it sounded better in French. Listen, there's some things to consider here. France already prohibits offering discounts on new books. So keep in mind that the publisher's price is the same price for every store, including Amazon in France. So they're not competing on price because that's the law, at least with new books. Use books are a different thing. Amazon is likely not going to charge more than that three-euro minimum, yet smaller booksellers might have to if they don't want to make a loss. The French Bookstores Association called on the government to lower postage rates in response to this. They're like, look, three euros, that's not enough. You need to make it cheaper to send stuff. Also, the 35-euro cap means that Amazon is now motivated to encourage customers to buy more books in order to get that low delivery fee. They're going to say, like, hey, your book is 20 euros, add 15 more euros of books, and your delivery fee goes down from three euros to one cent. So in the end, you could look at this and maybe expect the effect of this law to raise the prices on books because now, overall, your delivery fee can't be lower than three euros. So that's just going to raise the price in general. Now, I know the ministry said, we don't think that's dissuasive, but it still raises the price. And it could possibly drive higher sales on Amazon if Amazon successfully convinces people to buy more books in each order in order to get that fee down to one cent. So I do think it's pretty interesting, especially the piece where they said they wanted to lower the postage rate, because I know I have some experience here in the US. We have something called media mail rates, which is with USPS, the North American USA Postal Service, and we're able to get very cheap rates whenever shipping things like newspapers, journalism documents, any kind of papers or forms and books as well, and comics too. You can ship media mail. So I know that those are very, very inexpensive. And I wonder if Europe may introduce something like this for smaller businesses so that they could compete with that three euro, because you're right, Amazon is not going to charge anything more than that. And I'm not sure this is going to have the effect that it's meant to, whereas I think the booksellers association has a good point, make it cheaper to sell, and then you don't have to have a minimum law. It just becomes something that booksellers can compete on a little better, because it doesn't cost them as much to send it. Of course, that also can have bad effects on the postal system, right, if they're not making as much money. And it's heavy to move books. So I'm not saying I have the answer. If you do, feedback at DailyTechniqueShow.com. Fulcher's Nicholas Qua has an interesting article up today called podcasting is just radio now. It's been ages since the last blockbuster narrative show. What does that mean for the medium as an art form? It's a well written, well argued article. We'll have a link to the show notes and I highly encourage you to go read it. It starts by referring to the fact that on Monday, you may have heard a judge in Baltimore vacated the murder conviction of the man who was the subject of the 2014 podcast serial. So serial had an effect on this case. And it describes the excitement that Nicholas felt when serial debuted. And we had another round of podcasting being discovered at the time. I might call it the true crime era. There have been others in podcasting, the comedian era, the MPR era, the Apple added podcasting to iTunes era, if you go way back. And like at the end of each of those eras, we seem to be having another moment of wondering if podcasting is quote unquote over. Now the article doesn't really say that podcasting is over. It just talks about whether there is any true creativity in podcasting anymore. It mentions that seasonal narrative shows are losing out to cheaper to produce shows, so called always on podcasts, especially interview shows that have valuable back catalogs like Joe Rogan. The article identifies chat casts as the biggest new hits, but then dismisses them as either shallow or something that could be done in any medium like radio. You don't need podcasting to do a daily show that's news about tech. So the question of the article is, where is the creativity? In the end to me, it felt like Nicholas Quad would just really missed that feeling that serial caused when it came along and was wondering if we'll ever see a mass hit like that again, a water cooler hit like serial. I want to bring in Len to talk a little bit because Shannon and Len and I have all been podcasting for more than 10 years in Len's case all the way back to 2005. Len, do you think podcasting is out of ideas because it's popular? No, as a matter of fact, looking at the article, I just felt the only thing I could think of was clickbait, right? I think they're just trying to stir up and because serial is back in the news. Is creativity over? No, of course not. One thing, like you had mentioned, I've been podcasting since 2005. The funny thing is that I still feel that there's a lot of creativity. There's a lot of open area to create. As a matter of fact, I just created a brand new show, which is just like me talking, which is I guess would be considered a chat cast. So no, I don't think it's the creativity is gone. As a matter of fact, one only has to look to this show. Daily Tech News Show is the creative, an outlet and all of Scott Johnson stuff and everybody else's things. So no, I don't think creativity is out the window. Please, Nicholas. He's just stirring up some controversy, according to Len. That's what I think. Yeah, Sharon, what do you think of this? I think it's an interesting perspective and even as a content creator, sometimes I've struggled to come up with creative ideas for new shows that I want to introduce on YouTube. But I often find that the bigger argument here could be maybe podcasting is oversaturated. Maybe they haven't discovered these beautiful creative concepts because they are out there. They're just not as popular as they used to be because there's a lot more of them available now. So of course, your next door neighbor, your coworker are not going to be into the same exact podcast that you are. So you might not have those watch parties like you used to, but there is a lot more saturation. It's a lot easier to get into and it's not as hard for people to develop their own podcast now. We have applications that are available now that you just download and start talking to your phone to create a podcast. It's a lot easier now. And I think that popularity has created a lot more availability. So yeah, we're not going to have the same popularity that we used to. Yeah, one of the threads in this article is that there are so many podcasts out there. And one of the less spoken threads is that there's a lot of people listening to podcasts. It's harder to get attention to a podcast because there are so many.  More people than ever are not only making podcasts but listening to podcasts. And there was someone that they quoted in this article saying that the business of podcast is reaching maturity. And that is the thing that I would note here is that we, as I mentioned earlier, have gone through many cycles where podcasting was great and then podcasting was over. And then podcasting was great and then podcasting was over. And each one of those cycles, the popularity grew and then the popularity waned until the next thing came along. Cereal was one of those cycles. And so I think what's interesting is podcasting isn't over. In fact, Jonathan Kwai isn't even saying it's over. He's saying, gosh, it was such a special time and sort of implies that it was new in 2014, which of course, all three of us know that it was already 11 years old in 2014, but or nine years old in 2014. But 10 years old math is hard. Nine. We'll go with nine. Yeah, but nine sounds good. But but the thing is that we have not seen the drop off the way we did in previous cycles in those first 10 years, right? And and I think podcasting is mature to the point where, like many mature media, it starts to appeal to the widest number of people, which means it appeals a little bit to the lowest common denominator, which means you see these sort of massively popular types of shows that that don't stick out because they're like the reality shows. They're the housewives, the Kardashians, they're massively popular, but they're not critically acclaimed. I don't think that means we won't see more creative uses of podcasting, though. It just just means they're not going to dominate the way serial did when the landscape was a little smaller. Sure. And I have a creative idea. Yeah. 60 second TikTok podcast. Oh, wow. So some sort of audio thing in 60 seconds. Is that what? Yeah, it'll speak to the audiences that can only pay attention to something for like 60 seconds on TikTok, which I'm one of those people. So I'm not dogging on anybody. I'll talk to Rich Strough. We know about getting daily tech headlines down to 60 seconds. Rich, don't worry. I'm not really going to do that. No. Well, folks, if you ever thought about podcasting or anything else you hear about on the show, send us an email. We'd love to hear from your feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Last week, we talked about a breach of Uber's internal IT systems and the fact that it may have been achieved by something called second factor authentication fatigue. This can work when the second factor is say an app on a phone that you just tap yes to authorize a login or no to deny. The attacker can repeatedly send requests in the hopes that the authorized user eventually makes a mistake and taps the wrong button or just gets tired of the prompts and presses yes to make it go away. Multi-factor authentication is not a magic spell that enables perfect security. And a lot of people have pointed to this story and said, well, see why should I bother? But it is still way better than a password without multi-factor authentication. So Shannon put together six myths that we're going to bust about multi-factor authentication. And I will play the part of the whiny user who doesn't want to do it. First, Shannon multi-factor authentication is too expensive. I can't afford that. I already with inflation in this economy, multi-factor authentication come on. Tom, well, I will argue this fact for both businesses as well as users. First off, it is free, completely free if you want to use it in a free way. You can just get two-factor authentication text messages, which you probably already do and you don't even realize that you're getting them. Whenever you authorize a new application on your phone and you sign in, it might need to authorize your phone number and it sends you a six-digit code. That's free and that is two-factor authentication. Applications like Authy, Google Authenticator, all of those are free to download and use. And for businesses, it's very inexpensive to implement two-factor authentication. There are many companies who do it for businesses and set it up for them and then you're good to go. You don't have to do too much managing in order to make two-factor authentication work. And if you really want to upgrade, you could spend $25 and get a hardware key, like the ones that I have here. I have Yubicos all over my desk and these are hardware two-factor authentication keys. They're super cheap and it's the best two-fa version that you can get. All right, fine. It doesn't sound that expensive, but it's complicated. You used the word set up. I ain't got time to go set something up and learn something new. Oh, no. Well, I would argue you could do this on the toilet, but I won't go that deep. Maybe you shouldn't, but you could. Yeah, you probably shouldn't, but yes, you definitely could. Just make sure you wash your hands before you touch your phone because that's gross. But yes, sites offer two-fa.directory is a wonderful website that I recommend that you go to. This website has linked tutorials for all the famous and popular banking, financial, social media websites, every single one you could think of. It has a link to whether or not they accept two-fa and it shows you how to do it. So you can just go through that tutorial and in my experience, most of them take about two to three minutes to set up and that's it. Easy. You're good to go and then you're ready. All right, but it's going to slow me down even if I get it set up. It's inconvenient. It's just a P-I-T-A. So this has everything to do with user sessions and cookies. If you're on a computer that you use all the time or a smartphone that you use all the time, you will probably only have to set up your two-fa code to log in like once and then you're logged in as long as that session remembers you. So if you're ever on a login screen and it says remember me for 30 days, that's a user session and as long as you're logging in on that same computer, it will remember your two-fa login session and you won't have to type it in or you won't have to plug in your hardware key every single time. So for me, it usually happens every 30 days or so that I will have to plug in my hardware key and reauthorize my session, which is for security and it's very convenient. All right, all right, fine. But what if those attackers get a hold of my two-fa code, right? That gives them another thing to steal. That's going to make me a target. That's a really good question, actually. And you know what? If you are using SMS for two-factor authentication codes, there is something called SIM swapping and that does exist. In fact, I did a video on it many, a few years ago discussing how you can protect yourself from SIM swapping where somebody steals your phone number and then they get your two-factor authentication code sent to them over text message. But when you have two-fa setup, it does require additional work for an attacker. And if you aren't the low-hanging fruit, if you're just using username and password, then you're going to be the low-hanging fruit. If you upgrade to something that's a little bit better, even SMS, that's better than nothing.  Okay, all right, fine. But we talked about that Uber hack. It's not secure. They can get around it. Why should I bother if people are just going to get around MFA anyway? Good question as well. And yes, there are bypass attacks that have been known to happen. In fact, a couple years ago, the FBI was warning about multi-factor authentication bypass techniques back in 2019 or so. But the thing is MFA is going to be a part of a whole online security hygiene. If you're just using MFA by itself and you don't have like antivirus on your Windows time machine, then you may run into malware and somebody might be able to snoop on your screen. They would still be able to read that code that you're putting in. They'd be able to read your username and password. So obviously, you want to use this with other products as well. Password manager for different passwords, antivirus to protect yourself from online hacks and malware. You want to protect your router with a firewall so that you don't get ran somewhere, etc, etc. So make sure you're like auto updating. Make sure using different passwords everywhere and turn on MFA. All right. So MFA isn't any less secure than a password alone and password and MFA together are more secure because it's two things. It won't really slow me down. It's not that complicated. It's not that expensive. But thank goodness I'm not a target. I don't really need it. Well, Tom, I think you would be a target. Well, I'm totally up.  Anybody could be a target, especially if you make it easy for an attacker to do so. Anybody can be a target if you make it easy enough. And that's the thing to really take away from this. Attacks are so automated, especially now in 2022. It's so easy for somebody to attack thousands of people at the same time with phishing attacks. Social media, malvertising, you even have malware being distributed through advertisements that you see on YouTube. There's all sorts of different ways that attackers can attack thousands of people at the same time. So they may not be targeting you specifically, but you may end up in this big swathe of people that just happenstance to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. But MFA can prevent as much as, and this is a quote from a government affiliate, as much as 80 to 90% of attacks according to experts. And even President Biden is, is behind MFA too. Like he signed in an executive order back in May of this year to require MFA for agencies that work in the government. So it's extremely important to add MFA. I don't care which way you do it. I prefer hardware tokens myself, but anything is better than nothing. Don't let the fact that President Biden ordered it dissuade you though. It's still a really good idea. Multi-factor authentication, as Shannon has just laid out, is an excellent way to provide a roadblock. And I think one of the best points, Shannon, is that they don't have to know who you are for you to be a target, right? It's not like someone sitting there going, I am now going to attack Shannon. It's I am broadcasting to as many places as I can find. And if you happen to be one of those places they can find and there's so many reasons that you could be, you're going to need it. So you want to put roadblocks in the way. Yes, make it as hard as possible. Ah, well, these are these are great explanations. Thank you so much, Shannon, for laying these out. Let's move on to something a little wider though, music. Yeah, let's talk Apple Music. So Apple Music will sponsor the next superb Al, or the Super Bowl, halftime show replacing longtime sponsor Pepsi. Now this will make people wonder if it means Apple is getting close to a deal for NFL Sunday ticket, which leaves direct TV after this season. The New York Times reports that while the NFL has also talked to Google, Amazon and ESPN, Apple is thought to be the most advanced in the most advanced stages of the negotiations. But I have a question for you, Tom. Okay. The real question here is, does this make Apple Music the Pepsi of music services? Yeah. And if so, does that make Spotify the Coke? We've got some competition. And then who's the RC Cola? Who's the president's choice? Yeah, I think this is significant that we're seeing the handover of a sugar water drink to a streaming music service. But it also makes more sense. The halftime show at the Super Bowl is the biggest concert of the year in the United States anyway, or the biggest televised music event of the year. So it makes sense that a music service would sponsor it, right? It does. Yeah. I think it's kind of cool. Yay technology. Indeed. All right. Well, before we go, let's check in with Len Peralta to see what he has been drawing today. Len, what have you drawn for us? Well, of course, we talked about podcasting. I couldn't let that pass. Today's image is I don't know. I guess because this is the way I feel it's not exactly a self portrait. But as an OG podcaster started in 2005, I feel like I would do a podcast about is podcasting over and can't be over. I just published my RSS feed. No, but seriously, what am I doing all this gear? I don't know. I feel like even though I've been around for a while as podcasting, I feel like every time I start, I feel like I'm starting over again. So I don't know. I disagree with Nicholas, unfortunately, but I don't think it's over. So by the way, if you like this image, you can get this image at my online store at monprawlpastore.com or at my patreon, patreon.com forward slash Len. By the way, I am doing commissions for I know it's really super early. We're the first day of fall doing commissions for holiday cards. So come on over to my store and lendprawlpastore.com. Listen, folks, if you're anywhere in the Los Angeles area enjoying the 95 degree weather while sipping your pumpkin spice latte, order a holiday card from Len. It's perfect timing. Come on. It's great. But yeah, podcasting is not done. All right. Shannon, what do you got going on these days? Oh, man. 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Where is Scott? Scott, you notice I don't have my red boots on today. The running joke was that if he didn't deliver this by New Year's Eve of 2018, my red boot was going to be on his backside. So I didn't wear him today. He does have 14 hours. You know, we really have been, all jokes aside, waiting on this for a long time. As Fort Worth has grown and grown and grown, 15th largest in the nation, soon to be 13th in the fourth largest metropolitan region, directly behind Chicago. And we will eclipse Chicago more than likely in the next 10 to 15 years. We need great transit. And we need transit that connects to the airport. A $37 billion economic engine for us at DFW. Dart has been there for some time. This is just a great opportunity for us to move this forward. Trinity Metro has worked so hard. All you board members, would you raise your hands for us? Let's give them a round of applause. Thank you all for your service. The prior board and this board have been committed to this project for some time. We've had a few hiccups, but we've gotten there. A record, 9.1 million visitors come to Fort Worth every year. And this gives them a golden opportunity to take the train and come in. If you could take the dart to Dallas for about five bucks or you had a $70 cab ride if you're a visitor coming in to get to Fort Worth, where were you going to go when you were just a tourist? Now we're on equal footing, and I think that means more and more people will come and visit all of us. It's an exciting time. It's really fun to be here to kick this off at the North Side Station. Community effort, this region is just poised to really take off, is we invest nearly $3 million in this neighborhood. This will be the cornerstone. As transit oriented development comes around it, I'm very excited. But mostly I'm excited about this train and what it brings. The city deserves and will have innovative and progressive transportation. The kind that my grandsons are with me today here at 10 and 11 that in 20 years, no, not that one, these two younger ones, that they can look back and go. Fort Worth was a very innovative city that the Trinity Metro got behind it. This will give us a golden opportunity to look at expanding the rail, potentially going south towards the medical district where there are nearly 40 million jobs in that medical district. What a great way to move people from tourists, to locals who want to get to job, to just those who want to take their weekend. Why? I don't know, but might want to go to Dallas. Or better yet, our Dallas friends who want to come to Fort Worth to eat and see Sundats and experience what we have. It's a great time to be in Fort Worth and it's an exciting time for Trinity Metro to deliver on this rail project. I want to thank all our friends at Trinity Metro, the FTA, the Federal Transit Authority, our Tarrant County, Judge Whitley, you're going to hear from in a few minutes, and certainly the City of Fort Worth for their support of this project. There's just almost too many people to thank. It's my pleasure now to introduce the champion for this region who followed another champion, Salas Pino, who now serves with Trinity Metro. Carlos Flores, where's Carlos? There you are. Carlos has worked long and hard for this region. Carlos, this is a great start for your area. Wow, what an introduction. Another round of applause for Mayor Price. And I want to thank her, and I think all of it should, for her leadership in making this day possible. This is a very exciting day, needless to say, for Fort Worth and District 2. This new station and the text rail service that it's going to provide to Fort Worth, Dallas Airport, that one's for you, Mayor Price. It's just one of the many attributes and advantages that this new service is going to provide to this city and to the greater north side area. In January, the City Council is going to consider a $2.87 million funding to provide the north side its target area for neighborhood improvements. The funding comes from a half-cent allocation of municipal property tax rate to provide capital projects, improve public safety, and attract necessary investment to keep our city growing in the right direction. Now, railroads in their history help build our nation. They also help build our city, and they continue to be a vital part of our local and national economies. So I think it's very interesting that history is relied upon from time to time again, but we have to use history to project our future. Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. And I think that's very appropriate here in this case, because well, ladies and gentlemen, the train of our future has arrived. Tech's Rail is more than just a faster way to get to DFW Airport. It's an investment in our community, and it offers greater connectivity through public transportation. Commuters are going to have opportunities to get to their jobs without using their personal vehicles, and that equates to savings in time, money, and increased productivity. Additionally, visitors will be able to visit you know, various cities here in North Texas, including our very own Fort Worth, and attractions like the historic stockyards. So this Tech's Rail station will also spur transit-oriented development. If you look around this area, you'll see that this was one of the earliest parts of our city. Well, I think it's time that we revisit it and start putting into it some new vision. Their older industrial uses is here that I think can be re-envisioned with this transit-oriented development. Connections between the station, the surrounding neighborhoods, will also be utilized to their fullest potential. Including the stockyards redevelopment, all this will tie in and equate to a wonderful future for the Northside area. So I want to thank Tech's Rail. I want to thank the former and current board members of Trinity Metro, staff, the engineering and the construction teams, and the elected officials who helped move this project and Fort Worth forward into our future. So without further ado, I haven't seen her in the audience yet, but I'd like to introduce, I believe, Nicole Collier, who might be here. I hope so. Nicole, she's going to say a few words for us. So again, thank you very much. This is an exciting time for me, as Council Member for District 2. Nicole? Well, thank you so much. It's such an honor to be here at this momentous occasion. And on behalf of the State of Texas, I want to say congratulations. Congratulations on such a wonderful event. This is such a very special day for Fort Worth, for Tarrant County, to spur this type of economic development right here. And we want to say that we're very proud of what you're doing. Thank you so much for the board members. Thank you so much for the vision that you have had. You know, this is, the Mayor said that this is the top four city, the fastest growing city, one of the top four growing cities. And you're going to take you to the fifth growing, the fifth largest airport in the nation. And that's going to spur more development right here. And it's going to, it's going to be affordable for people. And I really came because I needed nowhere to go to get to the airport on Monday when I go back to the session. So thank you so much for doing this. We're just so proud of everything that you are doing here, right here in our home city of Fort Worth. And I have a pleasure of introducing my next partner that's going to help us do even more, not only for Textrail, but for the city of Fort Worth, for Tarrant County, and all of the people right here in the great state of Texas. So without further ado, I'd like to introduce to you our next Senator-elect for Senate District 10, Ms. Beverly Powell. I'm a latecomer to this party, but no less excited than all of you are today to have this inaugural ride on the Textrail. We are celebrating the next chapter in regional transportation here in Tarrant County. And people across this county are excited about the addition of affordable transportation to and from DFW International Airport. The opening of Textrail is about more than just affordable transportation to the airport. It's about a new commitment to public transportation infrastructure. And it's about ensuring the economic vitality of our region through job creation of both indirect and direct new jobs. It is about our commitment to the future of regional transportation. So this morning, it is my privilege to say congratulations to Trinity Metro and the visionary leaders that are here today that made this possible. I look forward in the future to being a regular rider of the Textrail, but more than that, I look forward to being your partner as we move forward in our future to create new public transportation opportunities for all of our region. Thank you so much Tarrant County and it is my privilege now to introduce to you our judge, our county judge Whitley. Thank you so much. It is a great day to be here and it's a great day to be able to get on the train and go to DFW airport. You know, in 2006, the county passed a bond issue and we had approximately $20 million in there to assist with intersections along the route. We're excited as we've seen this go forward and as we are now going to end, I can think of no better way to end 2018 and to begin 2019 than with this new Textrail. You've heard a lot of things mentioned today. You've heard economic development. You've heard transportation alternatives. I am very excited at what this is going to mean for the future of this area. It's going to give other cities outside of just Fort Worth an opportunity to see development and what that development can occur around one of these rail stops. We're going to be stopping in North Wishing Hills and in Grapevine as we go forward toward the airport. Each one of them have embraced this and are excited about it. We've got a lot of new people that are continuing to come here every year. They are looking for alternatives than just to drive to and from wherever they're going. And I think this is one of the alternatives that everyone is very excited about. So as we get on the train today, I again can't think of a better way for us to end 2018 and to begin 2019 and I want to thank again all those people who have been focused on this project for over a decade and are now seeing it all come to fruition and we're very very excited about it. Thank you all very very much.


This story is a Cuban folktale about a little rooster who's kind of bossy and about how he learns to say please and thank you. So this is our rooster, his name is Gajito, which means rooster in Spanish. Gajito was really, really excited because he was going to go to the wedding of his tío Perico, his uncle Per, he had gotten all dressed up for the occasion, you can even see that he put on his favorite little black bow tie, it was a black tie affair, and he puts on his bow tie and he's ready to go to the wedding and he walks through the forest, so he's walking through the forest and he starts getting kind of hungry, but he's being very careful to not step on any dirt or rocks or anything that can get him dirty because he wants to go to the wedding of his tío Perico and he's got to look his best. But in the middle of the forest, after walking for quite a while, he comes upon, he finds a puddle of a puddle of mud, and not the band, an actual puddle of mud, and in the middle of that puddle of mud he spots his favorite snack, can you guys guess what it is? Yep, he saw a grain of corn, un granito de maíz, so the maíz is right in the middle of that puddle of mud, and he's really really hungry, but he's scared that if he eats the maíz, he's gonna get dirty, so he thinks if I don't peck, I'll lose out on this delicious corn fleck, but if I peck all dirty the beak that's attached to my head, that's attached to my neck, and my elegant outfit, I'll surely wreck. What do I do? To peck or not to peck? What do you guys think he did? You're totally right. I knew you would know. He pecked. He ate that grain of maíz, it was delicious by the way, and he got his beak, his beak cool, all dirty, and now he was really really worried because how could you go to the wedding of your tío perico with a dirty pico? You just can't. Nobody does stuff like that. So he walked through the forest, he kept on walking to see if he could find a friend who could help him out with his problem to clean his pico, and he found his friend Yerba. Yerba is a clump of grass, and he said to Yerba, Yerba, clean my pico so that I can go to the wedding of my tío perico. Did he say please? Did he say por favor? So Yerba said, no, I will not clean your pico so you can go to the wedding of your tío perico. Engajito was like, we'll see about that. So he kept on walking, and he found his friend Chivo.  But once again, he didn't say por favor. So Chivo said, no, I will not eat Yerba, because Yerba won't clean your pico so you can go to the wedding of your tío perico. Engajito kept on walking, and he found another friend. He found Palo.  Did he say por favor?  At this point, Gaido was getting a little frustrated. He was having some emotions, you know? And so he found his friend, Fuego, and he told Fuego, fire.  But he forgot to say please. He forgot to say por favor. So fire.  Gaido was getting really, really angry at this point, and he thought, hmm, maybe my friend Agua will help me out with this. So he went to find his friend Agua, water, and he said, Agua, dow's fire, dow's Fuego. To dow's means to put out, like when you throw water on a fire and it goes psssss, and then there's no more fire. That's to dow's, dowzing something.  At this point he was probably super late. And Agua didn't hear any kind of please or por favor, or hey, could you do me a favor?  And at this point Gaido was thinking maybe I need to try another strategy. You know, maybe I need to go about this in a different way. So he talked to his friend El Sol, the son. And he said Sol, please, por favor, pretty, pretty, please, with a cherry on top and a side of chips. Can you dry up Agua?  And Sol, because Gaido said please, and por favor, was like, yeah, I'll do it. Agua heard this. Agua didn't want to be dried up. So Agua said, I'm sorry, Gaido.  No problem. Fuego heard this. And Fuego went, I don't want to be put out. So Fuego said, Gaido, I'm so sorry. I will burn Palo. Definitely. Palo didn't want to be burned. So Palo said, there's no need for that. I'll beat Chivo. No problem. I'll go do it right now. Chivo heard this and he didn't want to get hit with the Palo. So Chivo said, I'm sorry, Gaido. I'll eat Yerba. No problem. Yerba did not want to get eaten. And when he heard that, was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. There's no reason to get that serious. We don't need to go there. I'll clean your pico so that you can go to the wedding of your tío perico. So Yerba cleans Gaido's pico. And now Gaido is clean and can go to the wedding of his tío perico. But before he left to get to the wedding, he let out a ca-ca-no-no. So that he could give the sun el sol. Gracias. Thank you for getting this whole chain of events in motion so that he could clean his pico and go to the wedding of his tío perico. And now you know why every morning when gallows, roosters, see the sunrise, cuando sale el sol, they let out a ca-ca-no-no-no to thank el sol for helping him clean his pico so he could go to the wedding of his tío perico. And that's the boss. Thank you guys so much for joining me. Gracias por mirarme. Y nos vemos pronto. Si, you guys soon, okay? Take care. Adiós. Bye.


Down Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers in the spoilers, and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Calling William Conrad, the story of the violence that moved West with Young America, and the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, the United States Marshal, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancey job, and it makes a man watchful, and a little lonely. What? Marshal Dillon. Yeah. What's up? You been? Oh, probably wrecked, Marshal. The rheumatism is plaguing me some. No. And by the time of life, a man's got to expect a few miseries. Are you heading for your office, are you? Yeah, sure I am. Well, I just thought maybe we could sit and talk a spell. Oh, come on. I don't get into town too often, Marshal. Yeah, I know that. I just thought we'd sit and talk. Oh, I see. Uh, things all right out the farm? Oh, yes, yes, same as usual. Farming don't change much. You get a good crop one year, and a bad one another, but all evens out in the long run. Yeah, I guess it does.  Thank you, Marshal. Mr. Dillon. Oh, Chester, you know Cyrus here, don't you? Sure. How are you, Mr. Hutton? Fine, fine, Chester. My land, I didn't hardly recognize you at first. We don't see you in town very often. No, the place keeps me pretty well tied down. Have a chair, sir. Oh, thank you, Marshal. Yeah, it seems good to say it. I ain't getting any younger. Oh, I guess none of us are. Mr. Dillon, I fetched the mail up from the depot. Oh. There on your desk. Oh, thanks. Well, there's nothing important to us. Oh, I'll look at it later. Say, I'm getting coffee, haven't I? Well, I got something brewing. Hey, will it be all right if I whittle, Marshal? Oh, sure. Go ahead. Seems to help a man to talk. Whittling and talking just go together somehow. Yeah. What was it you wanted to talk about, sir? Well, nothing exactly. Just talk, sir. Oh, I see. This is going to musk up your floor some. Oh, well, that's all right, Mr. Huggins. I've got to boom it out later, ain't I? That's one thing Bertha never stands for. Bertha figures the barn or out in the yard is a place to whittle. How is Bertha? It's fine. She's fine. We've been together a long time, Marshal, me and Bertha. 37 years we've been married. That's a long time. Yeah, it sure is. Married back in Ohio. Then we went down to East Texas for a while and come on up here later. There have been a lot of changes in them years. No, thanks, Justin. Weren't no town here at all when they first come to dodge just the fort. Then later a trading post. Buried our boy here the second year. Used to grow corn down in the bottom land and sell it to the garrison at the fort. And he's when the Indians didn't get it first. Yes, there has been a lot of changes. Yeah. Sorry, I see you. You didn't come clear into town just to sit and talk about the old days, did you? I don't know what you mean, Marshal. I think you do. 37 years we've been together. Too better and worse. Finest woman that ever lived. Marshal, she left me. She what? Birthday.  Disappeared. Without so much as to buy your knees. Cyrus, that doesn't sound like Bertha. She did. Woke up one morning and she wasn't there. I kept thinking she'd come back, but she... Well, maybe she's visiting one of the neighbors. No, they all have been by the ones she might have. Well, that must be some reason. Cyrus, she just wouldn't leave you. She'll be back. That's what I hoped. It's mighty lonely on the place without Bertha. I couldn't even go on without her. And the neighbors, man, they figured I ought to come tell you about it. So that's what I done. Well, how long has she been gone? Three weeks. Now, just listen a minute. If you will. I've got a little story to tell you. Well, it's not so little. It's sort of a tall tale. It's about Camp Morgan. Ever hear to him? Well, he was one of the legendary heroes of Oklahoma or to be more specific of the oil industry. Seems it was Morgan who first discovered oil in them parts. Now, folks say that old Morgan didn't need divining rods and such to show him where the oil was. He knows, sir, he'd just follow his nose. Why, he'd just snip his way across the field. And when he found the right smell coming up out of the ground, that's where he'd plant his well. Oh, Camp Morgan didn't need any help planting that well either. He knows, sir. He was his own crew, old Morgan was. Camp would dig down as far as he could reach. And he'd unlimber his sharps and shoot a hole through the bottom of the pit and talk about fast why that boy would have his derrick up and his oil tanks build before the oil had time to reach the surface. Oh, he was a gore he was. One time he dug a well so deep that it come out on the other side of the world right into the middle of a rubber plantation. Down around Brazil it was. For days that well spouted pure rubber. Man from Akron, Akron, Ohio, that is, took it off Morgan's hands at a nice little profit for old oil nose. He had, sir, Morgan was tops in the oil field. Never brought in a dry hole but once. Camp wasn't one to lose, though. You can bet your bottom dollar on that. He took that old dry hole, sawed it in the lengths and sold ever last one of them to Kansas farmers for fence post holes. Kind of hard to believe, isn't it? Say, isn't it nice being citizens of a country where you can laugh and talk about things free as a breeze and write and read and worship too? Yes, sir. Maybe you don't think about it much. But you should. Now just take it easy, mister.  No, have a bite now. You'll have to excuse me. I don't be like that, sweetheart. Sorry, but a friend of mine just came in. Well, I'm a friend of yours too, ain't I? That's one way of putting it. See you later, mister. You know, I've been spending good money on you. Evening, lad. How are you kidding? You here to talk, drink and force the law of proposed marriage. What talk will do, I guess? Let's sit down. What have you been for the last two days? Trying to find a woman. Well, in that case, man. Oh, no, no, this is a particular woman. I'm fairly particular at times. Oh, you're not 60 years old, though. It's good of you to know this. Then your name's not Brethren Huggins. Oh, oh, yeah, of course. I heard she disappeared. Yeah, disappeared's right. Chestnut and I have checked every possible way of leaving Dodge City. And as far as we can find out, she's still gotta be here somewhere. But where? We even followed up the chance that she might have hired a wagon or a buggy. Maybe horseback. No, she's 60 years old, kiddie. And she's in bad health, too. Well, doesn't her husband... What's his name? Cyrus. Doesn't he know anything about him? No, just that he woke up one morning and she was gone. That was over three weeks ago. Nobody's seen her since. It's changed. Matt, you don't suppose Cyrus might have... Well... Oh, no, there's no reason to think anything like that. Oh, I guess not. Imagine he's pretty broke up over there. He sure acts like it. You know, kiddie, he seems ten years older. All of a sudden, he talks vague, half-bobby. Well, my golly, a man steps out just long enough to deliver a baby, and he finds somebody trying to steal his girl. Hello, Doc. He's not trying, Doc. Moore's the petty. Oh, and you're not my girl, kiddie. Moore's the petty. Oh, why haven't you ever asked me? Oh, mind if I sit down here, man? Yeah. It seems to me you're already sitting, Doc. Yeah, yeah, so, huh? Well, kiddie, the last thing in the world you need is a broken down little cow town saw-bones. What do I need, Doc? Well, not me. Oh, and not this hard-headed, battered-up excuse for a lawman, either. I thought he was in pretty fair shape. Oh, pretty dope. He's got so many bullets in him.  You don't say. Sure, he'd say anything to keep him buying a beer. Well, I just can't help it, man. Not the way you've been letting my patients disappear on me. Oh, you mean Bertha Huggins? Was she a patient of yours, Doc? You know, come to think of it, kiddie, maybe that's why she ran off. Self-preservation. Oh, she better not have done any running. Not in her condition. Oh, is it bad, Doc? Bad enough. What's wrong with it, Doc? It's easier to say what isn't.  Too many 16-hour workdays, crop failures, too many nights in a wake in Indian country. Well, it's sure no country for a woman, all right. It's no country for a human being. So I think I'll get out of it. I'll just marry Kitty here and go back and live in Boston. Don't tempt me, Doc. You'll never leave Kitty anymore, and I will. We're dark here. Anyway, I don't think I'd be very welcome in Boston. Oh, I'd like to know why not. Thanks, Doc. The beer's on the house, boys. I'll go bring it. What do you think's happened to Mrs. Huggins, man? Beats me, Doc. Not a soul in town has seen her in the last three weeks. I've since the morning Cyrus woke up and found her gone. It seems to me he's acting kind of strange about her. I've already broken up about it naturally. Well, yesterday morning I saw him on the street and I asked him how she was. He said, fine. We then he walked right on down to your office and reported her missing. Well, Cyrus hasn't gotten any younger than that. But I asked him to leave her common scene, man. He said he'd tell her. You know, I've got some medicine from St. Louis that I thought just might help her. Mr. Dillon? Oh, yeah, what is it, sir? Mr. Jonas showed the general's story. He wants you to come over there right away. It's about Mrs. Huggins. What? There's some fellow come in there trying to sell some secondhand clothes and things, and Mr. Jonas recognizes the stuff. It belongs to Mrs. Huggins. Then they're about to stove. He's getting restless till the time keeping him here. Well, I'll see what he's up to. Careful, Marshall. He's wearing a gun under his coat. So am I. Sure, that's any of your business, mister. I'm not Dillon. I'm a U.S. Marshal. Not make you any more sure. I didn't know you was a lawman.  Well, just today, you got no reason to jump in. I haven't yet. What's your name? Hody Peele. Look, I ain't done nothing. You got nothing to worry about. Just stand still, buddy. Here. What'd you take my gun for? I'd say it was both a little trouble.  I'm a law-abiding citizen with a wife and a family. Where are they? We've been camping about five miles up the river. I rode in the town alone. We've been looking for some land to take up. Homestutter.  How long have you been camped up there? Around three weeks, I guess. Uh-huh. Come on over here to the counter. All right, Marshall. I don't know what you're thinking, Marshal, but you're wrong. I ain't done nothing. That's the stuff, Mr. Jones. Yeah, that's right, Marshal. Most of the things, like these turtle shell combs and hand mirror and some of the clothes, could be anybody's, but this wool shawl and this needle point shopping satchel, I've seen Miss Huggins in town with these time and time again. So that's what it's about. You're sure, Mr. Jones? Of course I'm sure. She's had them things for years. This stuff was give to us. I didn't steal it. Some farmer stopped us when we drove past his place and give it to us. You know his name? I didn't ask.  That's the Huggins' place, Marshal. He's an old fella. Talked kind of crazy. That was about three weeks ago. We cut off a trail and drove into his pasture to water our team. And he was there by a little spring. Busy digging a hole. We didn't hardly notice him at first. And he took us up to the house and gave us his stuff. Just see a woman around the place. Now just him. It was dirt from head to foot. It's kind of funny that hole he was digging. I remember thinking at the time it looked sort of like a grave. An apple a day keeps the doctor away and it keeps Washington's economy healthy too. Here in apple production, raising one fourth of our nation's supply, the state of Washington could almost be called a gourmet state. For she also leads the west coast in seafood. And her five famous types of salmon lead the world in canned fish commerce. So proud of their salmon are Washingtonians that a visitor to Seattle, the Pearl of the Northwest, can send home an ice-packed Chinook from the Waterfront Fish and Oyster Company. For the first time in the history of the country, the United States and the United States. For the first time in the history of the United States, Washington remains a hometown state with treaty day powwows in January on the Indian reservations. March of ski patrol race in Snoqualmie Pass, the spring festivals of rhododendrons, daffodils and apple blossoms. And, of course, a salmon fishing derby in September. But every month, Washington is the evergreen state. This is quite a surprise, Marshall. Morning, sirs. Hi, Mr. Huggins. Oh, can't complain.  You might be good to see you. Ah, thanks. Come on up to the house and I'll have birthday pictures and coffee. What? Fixed coffee. Sure will. Well, she'd be awful upset if she knew that you stopped buying and didn't even bring you up to the house. Well, but your wife's gone, Mr. Huggins. Gone? Well, that's what you told me a couple of days ago. Oh, you must be mistaken, Marshall.  My birthday wouldn't do a thing like that. We've been together 37 years. Well, then she's here, she's up at the house. No. No, she's not. But you just said... She went to visit her sister in San Antonio. Oh, I see. I forgot about it. Just slipped my mind for a minute. Cyrus, you got a spring over there in the pasture. I'd like to take a look at it. Well, it's just a spring, Marshall. You mind walking over with us? No, I don't mind. Golly, it's funny about me forgetting Bertha went to visit her sister. Yeah. And you say I come into town a few days ago and told you she'd run off? That's right. Golly, it looks like my memory's starting to go on me. Maybe. Funny thing, when something had happened way back, I'd remember it fine. Bertha and me was talking another day about when we first got married. Remembered it just like it was yesterday. And that was 37 years ago. It's funny. Yeah. Things the last three weeks though, they're kind of clouded over for some reason. When did your wife leave Cyrus to go visit her sister? Three weeks ago. Well, here's the spring. Yeah. Let's take a look over here. No, I don't want to. Let's go. All right, Marshall. Did you dig this grave, Cyrus? I don't know what you mean. Wouldn't the headboard read what it says? I don't see it. I don't know what you're talking about. Says Bertha Huggins, beloved wife of Cyrus Huggins. Married 37 years. Bertha's in shanin tone. I don't know why anybody'd put that up. You can't go on living on a dream. You better tell me about it, huh? Well, it was in the night it happened. She was feeling poorly for weeks. That morning when I woke up, she was already gone. Laying there cold. I put her and went out of my mind, Marshall. So you buried her. You gave away her clothes and things, huh? I started pretending, I guess, like she went off some place and was coming back. Pretty soon I started believing it. I had to believe it. I couldn't even think of going about without her. I just couldn't face it. But at the same time I knew, of course, that she Marshall. Yeah. Marshall. She dead. Really dead. And that's the truth. As William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall. The script was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield with editorial supervision by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns were by Ray Kemper featured in the cast were Parley Baer as Chester Howard McNeer as Doc and Georgia Ellis as Kitty George Walsh speaking. Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on Gunsmoke, the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.


Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix. American liberals just spent days raging at CNN for hosting a town hall with Donald Trump like it's the worst thing CNN has ever done. CNN isn't horrible because it platformed Trump. CNN is horrible because it's an imperialist propaganda firm whose whole job is to deceive people into supporting the most depraved agendas of the world's most powerful people. Hosting that town hall was one of the least evil things CNN has done. Liberals shouldn't be upset at CNN for betraying their trust by platforming Trump. They should be upset with themselves for trusting CNN. It's so, so much worse than they're giving it credit for. If you find Elon Musk's hiring of a new Twitter CEO with a background in mainstream media and the World Economic Forum shocking in contradictory, it's probably an indication that your worldview isn't informed by an accurate perception of what's really happening. You probably haven't been thinking accurate thoughts about Musk and you probably haven't been thinking accurate thoughts about the WEF. Nothing about this stands out as surprising for those who see both as figures of status quo global capitalism. In many right-wing circles, Musk's beneficence has been massively overstated and the WEF's nature has been wildly distorted. Really, they're both just garden-variety manifestations of the mundane capitalist dystopia we live in and are deeply invested in maintaining this dystopia. Lately, the WEF has served as an ideological scapegoat for rightists who are critical of the establishment but are ideologically unable to see capitalism's role in this mess. They paint the WEF as some freakish aberration rather than the true face of the capitalism they support. In such circles, the WEF has taken on a narrative role as a villainous antagonist that capitalism supporters can point to and say, look at those freaks, they're ruining the capitalism when in fact the WEF is just the face of what capitalism looks like when it gets to this stage. Musk's new hire isn't an indication that anything has changed or that anything new is happening. What ever happens with Twitter from here on out was the trajectory Twitter was on from the moment Musk bought it. The Biden administration eliminating think tank funding transparency requirements set by the Trump administration is one of the most Biden administration things that has ever happened. Having an ideologically diverse audience has really opened me up to how politically cloistered everyone's used to being these days. People are always expressing surprise at the fact that they agree with me on some things yet disagree with me on others. Either positively like, wow we're not on the same page economically but I love a lot of what you say. Or negatively like, oh my god how can someone be so right about war and authoritarianism but so wrong about capitalism? This wouldn't stand out to them as something surprising or unusual unless it was something they don't normally experience in life. Which is a sign that something is off because agreeing with people sometimes and disagreeing with them other times is the normal state of human interaction. That's what you experience constantly in life if your interactions are allowed to move naturally. That just shows how successful the powerful have been in hurting the populace into ideological echo chambers where propaganda that's custom made for their ideological preferences can be administered to them. We need to fight Russia because Putin's a homophobic Hitler. We need to fight China because the Asian commies are coming for us. We need internet censorship to fight right-wing extremism. We need militarized police to fight thugs, etc. Empire propaganda is tailored for each ideological echo chamber so that it slides in with as little resistance as possible. That's why I consider it a win whenever I can get healthy ideas and information over the echo chamber walls when I've got a bunch of shit libs or rightists in my notifications responding to something I've put out there that means I've been successful in punching holes in the matrix. We're not supposed to agree with every political opinion we're seeing. It isn't natural to agree with any person or political faction all the time. If you find yourself agreeing with your preferred slice of the political spectrum all the time on every issue, that means you've stopped thinking for yourself and are just letting yourself be pulled along by the herd. Disagreement is normal. Universal agreement is a symptom of a debilitating disease. I've never encountered anyone with whom I agree all the time and it would be silly for me to expect to. I agree and disagree on various subjects with the Communists I follow and the Libertarians and everyone else. I've agreed and disagreed with things I've heard from Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald, Alex Jones, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Xi Jinping and you should too. That's normal.