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Send us a textVideo Version HEREWhen Keith Linder moved into a quiet Washington home, he never expected to become the centre of one of the most bizarre — and controversial — haunting cases in modern history. Known as the Bothell Hell House, this story includes walls marked with strange symbols, objects thrown by unseen hands, chilling whispers, and one man seemingly singled out for torment. Ghost Adventures investigated — which led many to dismiss the case as false. However, a number of noted paranormal researchers studied the home and argued they got it wrong.In this episode of Into the Fog, I revisit the Bothell haunting and uncover new angles that deserve serious attention — from compelling evidence caught on Xbox Kinect, and physical phenomena that left investigators baffled. Was this man are faker, or truly haunted and simply not believed?I present the evidence and leave it to you to decide. Do share your thoughts on this case in the comments. Believers and sceptics are all welcome to participate (just please be respectful of each other). Special thanks to Keith Liinder for the resources and writings that enabled me to create this episode in such detail.  For more on Peter Laws check out:www.patreon.com/peterlawsor www.peterlaws.co.uk

The year is 2006 and Nintendo just announced a new console with a revolutionary controller design. The year is 2012 and Nintendo just announced a new console with a revolutionary controller design. The year is 2017 and Nintendo just announced a new console with a revolutionary controller design. The year is 2025 and Nintendo just announced a new console with a revolutionary controller design. That all begs the question: What game should we remake for the Switch 2? Andrew is bringing rage. Kyle is bringing swords. Matt is bringing bombs? The title of this week's episode was selected by our Patrons in our Discord Community! If you want to help us choose the next one, join our discord, and/or get some bonus content, become part of #ButtThwompNation at patreon.com/debatethiscast! Have you seen out Patreon? patreon.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Instagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Threads? threads.net/debatethiscast Want to send us an email? debatethiscast@gmail.com MERCH! We have that! Right now you can go on the internet and order things that say Debate This! On them! All you need to do is head to MerchThis.net and give us your money! Ever wanted socks with the DT! logo on them? Well now you can get em! One more time that website is MerchThis.net! Properties we talked about this week: Getting Over It With Bennet Foddy, Infinity Blade, Minesweeper, QWOP, Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword, Playstation Eye Toy, Xbox Kinect, Overwatch 2, Fire Emblem, 1 2 Switch, Welcome Tour Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a creative commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at www.ozzed.net!

Intel has made significant strides in the tech industry by launching its next-generation AI chips, the Core Ultra Series 2 processors, designed specifically for commercial artificial intelligence applications. Built on the Arrow Lake architecture, these processors promise a 30% reduction in power usage compared to their predecessors, catering to the growing demand for efficiency in AI workloads. Additionally, a federal judge dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against Intel, which had accused the company of misleading investors about its foundry business. This legal victory alleviates some immediate uncertainties for Intel, although the company still faces ongoing challenges in a competitive market dominated by TSMC and Samsung.Apple is currently embroiled in a legal battle with the UK government over an order that demands access to encrypted iCloud files. The company has appealed to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which may hear the case soon. In response to the order, Apple has paused its Advanced Data Protection Service in the UK, raising concerns about user privacy and security. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is planning to revamp a $42.5 billion internet program aimed at connecting rural Americans to high-speed internet, potentially favoring satellite companies like Starlink over traditional fiber-optic networks.In the realm of managed service providers (MSPs) and small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), several tech upgrades have been announced. GoTo has introduced AI-powered security and translation features for its LogMeIn rescue platform, enhancing customer support capabilities. Adigy has launched Adigy Assist, a tool designed to streamline Mac deployments, while One Password has improved password accessibility based on user location. Additionally, a new Swedish startup, Big Audience Machine, is set to launch an AI-driven content marketing platform tailored for smaller enterprises, allowing them to compete more effectively in the digital landscape.The podcast also discusses a shift in the use of artificial intelligence, with companies increasingly opting for multiple AI models rather than relying on a single solution. This trend reflects a growing understanding of the diverse capabilities required for various tasks. Notably, McDonald's is upgrading its restaurants with AI technology to improve order accuracy and customer experience, while the Xbox Kinect continues to find innovative applications beyond gaming, demonstrating the lasting impact of technology in creative fields. As the market evolves, businesses must adapt to these changes and explore new opportunities for growth and efficiency. Four things to know today 00:00 Intel Scores Legal Win, Launches Next-Gen AI Chips: Is the Tech Giant Finally Getting Back on Track?03:34 Apple vs. the UK, Satellite Broadband Heats Up, and Tariffs Stick Around—Tech Drama You Didn't Know You Needed07:00 From GoTo's Real-Time Translation and Security Enhancements to Reddit's Community Tools—How MSPs and SMBs Can Leverage These New Tech Upgrades10:04 Companies No Longer Trusting ‘One AI to Rule Them All'—Here's Why Shortwave, McDonald's, and Xbox Kinect Matter  Supported by: https://syncromsp.com/  Event: : https://www.nerdiocon.com/ All our Sponsors: https://businessof.tech/sponsors/ Do you want the show on your podcast app or the written versions of the stories? Subscribe to the Business of Tech: https://www.businessof.tech/subscribe/Looking for a link from the stories? The entire script of the show, with links to articles, are posted in each story on https://www.businessof.tech/ Support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/mspradio/ Want to be a guest on Business of Tech: Daily 10-Minute IT Services Insights? Send Dave Sobel a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/businessoftech Want our stuff? Cool Merch? Wear “Why Do We Care?” - Visit https://mspradio.myspreadshop.com Follow us on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28908079/YouTube: https://youtube.com/mspradio/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mspradionews/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mspradio/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@businessoftechBluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/businessof.tech

Τι μπορεί να πάει στραβά, όταν βρίσκεται λόγος να θυμηθούμε το Kinect; Εδώ ανασταίνεται η Acclaim. Μαθημένοι στα περίεργα πια. Get in touch: Email | Twitter Ι Facebook Group Hosted by: Elias Pappas - Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Manos Vezos - The Vez | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Ι Apple Music Transmedia Suikoden: The Anime announced - Gematsu Μ&Α Tencent Tencent acquires additional shares in FromSoftware parent company, Kadokawa Rockstar Games Rockstar Games acquires Video Games Deluxe, now known as Rockstar Australia Monster Hunter Wilds Monster Hunter Wilds is the fastest selling Capcom game ever | VGC Monster Hunter Wilds sales top eight million in three days - Gematsu Αποτελέσματα Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros games revenue dropped 29% during Q4 2024 45 χρόνια Pac-Man "BANDAI NAMCO KICKS-OFF YEAR-LONG CELEBRATION TO COMMEMORATE PAC-MAN'S 45TH ANNIVERSARY" Ανάσταση Acclaim Acclaim relaunches, led by CEO Alex Josef Άνετη η SEGA Sega takes Capcom's crown as Metacritic's highest-rated publisher of 2024 | VGC Sega promises fewer new games but deeper investments in Sonic, Atlus, and Like a Dragon | VGC Sony Report: Sony lays off employees at Visual Arts and PS Studios Malaysia Sony slashes PlayStation VR2 prices worldwide Registration for new Beta Program at PlayStation starts today PlayStation India Hero Project titles Bloody Boots and Lokko announced - Gematsu Προτεραιότητες Match-3 devs blasted for "incredibly harmful" stereotypes and gender-based violence in advertisements Και τώρα Kinect Ghost hunting, pornography and interactive art: the weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect

It's that magical time of year when we revisit The Polar Express for our annual Christmas special. This year, Oscar is brimming with positivity, determined to highlight the joy and wonder of this holiday classic. Meanwhile, Carl is laying down the law: no recycled critiques from previous episodes—it's all about fresh insights and festive banter. Can Oscar keep his cheerful streak alive? Will Carl uncover new mysteries to ponder? Is this the best North Pole? Should we buy an Xbox Kinect? And most importantly, we finally answer the question: Who would watch this?Find us through:Email: askwwwtpodcast@gmail.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whowouldwatchthis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whowouldwatchthis/ TikTok: @podcastwhowouldwatchthis More links: https://linktr.ee/whowouldwatchthis

Suzi and Jason take a nostalgic look at the Atari Jaguar, Xbox Kinect, HDDVD, Pebble Smartwatch, and Sega Saturn, have a chat with toyologist, Pete Jenkinson, about the growing trend of 'kidults', and they also take a first look at the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra! For more information on JBL's Tour Pro 3s: https://bit.ly/3BJrfKZTo get in touch with the Gadget Show Podcast, email: contact@northone.tvA North One ProductionProduced by Ewan Keil & Tom ClintSocial: @TheGadgetShowEmail: contact@northone.tvJoin our Gadget Show Patreon page to get exclusive content, listen ad-free and access to watch recordings in person!Membership Club: patreon.com/thegadgetshow#TheGadgetShow #retro #jbl Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Burnie and Ashley discuss crypto & Tesla rallies, feeling disconnected, the kids are wrong, Spotify recommends, mukbang, ASMR, quackery as a source of comfort, remote healing, bubbles all around, Elon Musk's all-in bets, Rayban (Meta) Smart Glasses, Snapchat, Google Glass, The Red Arrows, To Tariff or Not To Tariff, Amazon driver glasses, Xbox Kinect, mapping data, Raygun retires, Vikings tributes, Paul vs Tyson this weekend, Oasis cancels tickets, and Lockdown Protocol. Support our podcast at: https://www.patreon.com/morningsomewhere For the link dump visit: http://www.morningsomewhere.com

In this newsletter:* Podcast episode with Kristie J. Fisher, PhD, the Sr. Director of Global User Research, PlayStation Studios.* Guide to designing a GenAI product: From vision to content strategy* Poll for the AI communityThe biggest challenge facing AI products isn't whether they would use your product, it's whether you're delivering reasons to convince them to switch from their existing solution. This is extra difficult when leveraging an emerging technology, like GenAI, because of key factors:* GenAI tools ask users to give up control and have faith that the system knows what's right—the exact opposite of what we've been training users to expect from productivity tools* GenAI is still nascent and doesn't always get it right, meaning that in some situations it will deliver an inferior output (and need to be re-prompted)* Users quickly run out of ideas about what to prompt because they don't know what the tech is capable ofSo as much as product teams can focus on the incremental delivery of value to users, those efforts are likely to fail because we're asking users to take a leap of faith. Something that users, especially B2B and enterprise, don't want to do.Thanks for reading Design of AI: News & resources for product teams! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.That's why this week's episode with Kristie J. Fisher, PhD was so fascinating. Having worked on launching new products and features at XBox, Google, and Playstation, she has learned how to dive deeper into the psyche of users and gamers. In there is the secret to making a product enjoyable: defining metrics to ensure a user's time is well spent.When building and researching we must be committed not only to delivering value, but ensuring that the experience is enjoyable and worth changing your workflows for. So when building your GenAI product, always create evaluative metrics for the level of impact. The higher you score, the more likely a switch. It also offers and opportunity to qualitatively investigate where and how the impact is happening so you mine valuable product ideas.

This week's episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, and Sidekick Media Services and listeners like you at www.patreon.com/awesomecastEpisode 700 of Awesome Cast brings an engaging mix of tech news, discussions on the latest gadgets, and some fun nostalgia as we celebrate this milestone episode with hosts Michael Sorg, Dave Podnar, and Katie Dudas. • SpaceX's First Private Spacewalk: Dive into the groundbreaking SpaceX mission, the first private spacewalk in history. We discuss the mission's unique challenges, such as the high-altitude radiation risks and the unconventional approach to depressurization. This mission is pushing the boundaries of private space exploration, but at what cost? • Pumpkin Spice Wars of 2024: Katie Dudas kicks off the fall season with a taste test of the new pumpkin spice Oreos. We also discuss the early release of pumpkin spice products, including Starbucks' surprise launch that scooped Dunkin'. The conversation covers the implications of this seasonal marketing battle and how it affects consumers. • Stream Chat Tool for Multi-Platform Streaming: Discover a handy new tool for streamers, especially those involved in multi-platform streaming. The episode covers the functionality of the Stream Chat tool from Colin Horn, which aggregates chats from Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, and more into a single interface. A must-have for content creators looking to streamline their live interactions. • Mac Whisperer and AI in Podcasting: Michael Sorg shares his experience with Mac Whisperer, an AI tool that transcribes podcast episodes and integrates with ChatGPT to allow for dynamic content querying. This segment explores the future of AI in content creation and podcasting, as well as the practical challenges of integrating new technology into old archives. • Google AI Image Generation: Dave Podnar experiments with Google's new AI image generation tool. Unlike other AI tools, Google's platform offers more realistic and human-like images, sparking a discussion on the ethics and potential risks of advanced AI in visual content creation. • Nostalgic Tech Discussions from 2010: A blast from the past with a deep dive into tech trends from 2010, including the iPhone 4, retina displays, and the rise (and fall) of platforms like Google Wave and Buzz. We also revisit the skepticism around motion-controlled gaming with the launch of Xbox Kinect. • The Evolution of Podcasting: The hosts reflect on the evolution of podcasting from a niche hobby to a mainstream medium. The conversation touches on the impact of platforms like YouTube, Spotify, and the ongoing debate about what truly defines a “podcast” in the modern digital landscape. Links to Mentioned Content: • SpaceX Mission Details: https://www.space.com/spacex-polaris-dawn-to-launch-farthest-human-spaceflight-since-apollo • Pumpkin Spice Oreo Review: https://www.oreo.com/products/10-68z-oreo-pumpkin-spice-12?Size=1+Pack • Stream Chat Tool: streamchat.colinhorn.co.uk • Google AI Image Tool: AITestKitchen.withGoogle.com/tools/imageai • Mac Whisperer: MacWhisper.app • Stream Chat: https://streamchat.colinhorn.co.uk/ • X Premium https://studio.x.com/producer • Meta removing AI Face filters from Facebook and Instagram https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/27/24229643/meta-spark-ar-effects-face-filters-shutdown-tiktok-snapchat • Tune in to stay updated on the latest in tech, gadgets, and geek culture, all while supporting your favorite podcast network! Subscribe to the Podcast: awesomecast.com Sorgatron Media Podcast Network Feed: sorgatronmedia.fireside.fm Join our AwesomeCast Facebook Group to see what we're sharing and to join the discussion! You can support the show at Patreon.com/awesomecast! Special Thanks to kidmental for the new AwesomeCast Sounds! Visit him at www.kidmental.com Join our live show Tuesdays around 7:00 PM EST on AwesomeCast Facebook, Youtube and Sorgatron Media Twitch! AwesomeCast #Episode700 #SpaceX #PrivateSpacewalk #PumpkinSpice #PumpkinSpiceOreos #StreamChat #StreamingTools #MacWhisperer #AI #Podcasting #GoogleAI #ImageGeneration #TechTrends #iPhone4 #RetinaDisplay #XboxKinect #GoogleWave #GoogleBuzz #PodcastEvolution #YouTubeMusic #SocialMediaMarketing

This week's episode brought to you by Slice on Broadway, and Sidekick Media Services and listeners like you at www.patreon.com/awesomecastEpisode 700 of Awesome Cast brings an engaging mix of tech news, discussions on the latest gadgets, and some fun nostalgia as we celebrate this milestone episode with hosts Michael Sorg, Dave Podnar, and Katie Dudas. • SpaceX's First Private Spacewalk: Dive into the groundbreaking SpaceX mission, the first private spacewalk in history. We discuss the mission's unique challenges, such as the high-altitude radiation risks and the unconventional approach to depressurization. This mission is pushing the boundaries of private space exploration, but at what cost? • Pumpkin Spice Wars of 2024: Katie Dudas kicks off the fall season with a taste test of the new pumpkin spice Oreos. We also discuss the early release of pumpkin spice products, including Starbucks' surprise launch that scooped Dunkin'. The conversation covers the implications of this seasonal marketing battle and how it affects consumers. • Stream Chat Tool for Multi-Platform Streaming: Discover a handy new tool for streamers, especially those involved in multi-platform streaming. The episode covers the functionality of the Stream Chat tool from Colin Horn, which aggregates chats from Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, and more into a single interface. A must-have for content creators looking to streamline their live interactions. • Mac Whisperer and AI in Podcasting: Michael Sorg shares his experience with Mac Whisperer, an AI tool that transcribes podcast episodes and integrates with ChatGPT to allow for dynamic content querying. This segment explores the future of AI in content creation and podcasting, as well as the practical challenges of integrating new technology into old archives. • Google AI Image Generation: Dave Podnar experiments with Google's new AI image generation tool. Unlike other AI tools, Google's platform offers more realistic and human-like images, sparking a discussion on the ethics and potential risks of advanced AI in visual content creation. • Nostalgic Tech Discussions from 2010: A blast from the past with a deep dive into tech trends from 2010, including the iPhone 4, retina displays, and the rise (and fall) of platforms like Google Wave and Buzz. We also revisit the skepticism around motion-controlled gaming with the launch of Xbox Kinect. • The Evolution of Podcasting: The hosts reflect on the evolution of podcasting from a niche hobby to a mainstream medium. The conversation touches on the impact of platforms like YouTube, Spotify, and the ongoing debate about what truly defines a “podcast” in the modern digital landscape. Links to Mentioned Content: • SpaceX Mission Details: https://www.space.com/spacex-polaris-dawn-to-launch-farthest-human-spaceflight-since-apollo • Pumpkin Spice Oreo Review: https://www.oreo.com/products/10-68z-oreo-pumpkin-spice-12?Size=1+Pack • Stream Chat Tool: streamchat.colinhorn.co.uk • Google AI Image Tool: AITestKitchen.withGoogle.com/tools/imageai • Mac Whisperer: MacWhisper.app • Stream Chat: https://streamchat.colinhorn.co.uk/ • X Premium https://studio.x.com/producer • Meta removing AI Face filters from Facebook and Instagram https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/27/24229643/meta-spark-ar-effects-face-filters-shutdown-tiktok-snapchat • Tune in to stay updated on the latest in tech, gadgets, and geek culture, all while supporting your favorite podcast network! Subscribe to the Podcast: awesomecast.com Sorgatron Media Podcast Network Feed: sorgatronmedia.fireside.fm Join our AwesomeCast Facebook Group to see what we're sharing and to join the discussion! You can support the show at Patreon.com/awesomecast! Special Thanks to kidmental for the new AwesomeCast Sounds! Visit him at www.kidmental.com Join our live show Tuesdays around 7:00 PM EST on AwesomeCast Facebook, Youtube and Sorgatron Media Twitch! AwesomeCast #Episode700 #SpaceX #PrivateSpacewalk #PumpkinSpice #PumpkinSpiceOreos #StreamChat #StreamingTools #MacWhisperer #AI #Podcasting #GoogleAI #ImageGeneration #TechTrends #iPhone4 #RetinaDisplay #XboxKinect #GoogleWave #GoogleBuzz #PodcastEvolution #YouTubeMusic #SocialMediaMarketing

Unlock the secrets to optimal mobility and injury prevention for those over 50 with Andrew Menter, the visionary CEO of Physmodo. Discover how a simple overhead squat assessment captured through your smartphone can revolutionize fitness routines by measuring and enhancing mobility, stability, posture, and symmetry. Andrew enlightens us on the concept of movement as a vital sign and the paramount importance of addressing asymmetry to stave off injuries. This conversation is brimming with actionable insights for both fitness enthusiasts and professionals eager to maximize their potential and well-being.We also trace the fascinating evolution of motion tracking technology, from the cumbersome days of Xbox Kinect to today's sleek, software-driven solutions. Andrew shares how strategic partnerships with fitness pioneers like TRX and Stretch Lab helped refine Physmodo's cutting-edge technology, making it accessible for fitness chains and small gyms alike. The pandemic-driven shift from a hardware-software hybrid to a purely software approach is particularly noteworthy, demonstrating adaptability and innovation. Tune in to learn how the Physmodo app can be seamlessly integrated into your fitness regime or professional practice, and how it stands to transform the landscape of personal training and health optimization.Online ResourcesPhysmodoAndrew Menter on LinkedInPrime Fit Content – Engage the over-50 market

It's time for an add-on to our episode about add-ons, D-Pads!This week we're wrapping up our look at some of the most iconic gaming peripherals of all time. Sure, no one should set foot on a Tony Hawk Ride skateboard, but that doesn't mean we should toss out every hunk of plastic we've hooked up to our consoles. From the Nintendo Zapper and the Playstation Multitap to the Wii Fit Balance board and the Xbox Kinect, we try to find a tiered slot for a whole new slew of items. Watch our gameplay segments and full video episodes over on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRetrogradePodcast?sub_confirmation=1Join us on Twitter: @RetrogradePod, @RetrogradeAndy, @RetrogradeMikeyTikTok: @RetrogradePodOr on Instagram: @theretrogradepodcast Or visit our website at www.theretrogradepod.com/Questions, Comments, and business inquiries can be sent to theretrogradepodcast@gmail.comShow Notes: https://www.theretrogradepod.com/episodes/greatest-gaming-peripherals-of-all-time-part-2

Ross meets up at CSICon 2023 with Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Chief Investigator Kenny Biddle to talk ghost hunting equipment, photographic manipulation, psychic “detectives”, spooky uses for an Xbox Kinect, responding to paranormal videos on TikTok, and important life lessons from Patrick Swayze. Plus! Hear all about a recent paranormal challenge of a cloud buster in Las Vegas.Articles and links mentioned in this episode:Michigan Nanny Cam ‘Ghost'Missing Oklahoma Teen Not Found by PsychicGhost Hand of 1900The Xbox Kinect and Paranormal InvestigationKennyBiddleCSI on TikTokThe UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You To SeeWe have social media: X! Facebook! 

Prepare yourself for a chilling journey back in time to the bleak night of 10th November 2010, as we share a deeply personal tale of gaming anticipation gone awry. Amidst the bitter cold of Penzance, Cornwall, we braved the elements, fueled by visions of a grand gaming release. Reality, however, was a far cry from our expectations. As winter winds gnawed at our flesh, we found ourselves in an eerily silent queue, the harsh glare of the game store serving as the only company to our deep-seated regret.This is no ordinary gaming adventure; it's a midnight misadventure that continues to haunt us both in our waking hours and in our dreams. Join us as we recount that eerie night, share the lessons we learned from our soul-crushing mistakes, and explore how our gaming experiences shape us. This is a story of bitter disappointments and brutal realities, a rare glimpse into the harsh world of gaming launches. Sometimes, it's the journey, not the destination, that truly counts.Support the showFollow the adventure, support the show, listen with both ears - https://linktr.ee/DesertIslandGamer

In this week's episode we cover: 00:00-Intro 00:50-Recently played games: Resident Evil: Outbreak (PS2), Vampire Night (PS2) 23:20-Putting together a PS1/PS2 CRT TV light gun setup 38:30-The Xbox 360 Live Vision camera 52:40-Xbox Kinect on the Xbox 360 and Xbox One

So you think you can Dance??? Tune in this week with our Dynamic guest Dan Karaty!! There is so much more to him than dance     Dan's career started as a dancer on Broadway and on award show stages with Britney Spears. After transitioning to a choreographer, he worked with Britney Spears, NSYNC, Jessica Simpson, Kylie Minogue, Justin Timberlake and Usher. Although he quickly became known for his work dancing and choreographing for pop music superstars, Karaty broadened his reach with powerful dancing and cutting-edge choreography in commercials and events for iPod, Best Buy, Mattel, Dance Central 2, Miller, Xbox Kinect, IKEA, and many more. In 2005, So You Think You Can Dance debuted in the US with Dan as a judge. After three successful seasons, he took the format to Europe where he became the Simon Cowell of the Netherlands and Belgium leading judging panels for numerous talent shows. Dan, with his effortless cool brand, made his acting debut by starring in Soof, the number one film franchise in Dutch history. Despite keeping his personal life private and his effortless cool brand, Dan took the brave step of sharing with the public his lifelong struggles with anxiety and alcohol. Dan is a doting and devoted father and husband that made mistakes due to his struggles. In addition to releasing another film and returning to the judging panel of Got Talent, in 2022 Dan is launching a podcast exploring recovery, and a book about his life that details his career and struggles.   Instagram: @dankaraty Website: DanKaraty.com

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"Hi, I'm Dan Karaty and I'm an alcoh-… Well, if I'm being honest, it's more complicated than that."Dan's career started as a dancer on Broadway and on award show stages with Britney Spears. After transitioning to a choreographer, he worked with Britney Spears, NSYNC, Jessica Simpson, Kylie Minogue, Justin Timberlake and Usher.Although he quickly became known for his work dancing and choreographing for pop music superstars, Karaty broadened his reach with powerful dancing and cutting-edge choreography in commercials and events for iPod, Best Buy, Mattel, Dance Central 2, Miller, Xbox Kinect, IKEA, and many more."For decades, I avoided in-depth conversations, desperate to keep my personal life private, smiling through the pain for the cameras, but drowning my demons at night. Now I'm opening up, eager to share my adventures, struggles and recovery with whoever listens."Join us this week for an honest and open conversation around the realities of addiction on the big stage. We'll talk about what Dan was like, what happened, and how he survived his dance with the devil to become the productive member of society he is today."If I'm being honest, you need to hear this..."You wont want to miss this one friends as we bow out of the darkness, and step into the light this week right here,On Hard Knox Talks.Buckle up!-------------------------------Check out Dan's website and podcast herehttps://www.dankaraty.com/ Stay up to date on all our upcoming live streams by visiting our website and getting on our email list. While you're there, you can learn more about our sponsors, or check out our shop and pick up some merch! https://www.hardknoxtalks.com/Follow Hard Knox Talks on:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hardknoxtalksYouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@hardknoxtalks9553Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hardknoxtalks/Subscribe to Hard Knox Talks on Apple Podcasts!https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/hard-knox-talks/id1576181296Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/3JakunEh3PCK2M8hMZh80sTwitch TV:https://www.twitch.tv/hardknoxtalks

Dan's career started as a dancer on Broadway and on award show stages with Britney Spears. After transitioning to a choreographer, he worked with Britney Spears, NSYNC, Jessica Simpson, Kylie Minogue, Justin Timberlake and Usher. Although he quickly became known for his work dancing and choreographing for pop music superstars, Karaty broadened his reach with powerful dancing and cutting-edge choreography in commercials and events for iPod, Best Buy, Mattel, Dance Central 2, Miller, Xbox Kinect, IKEA, and many more. In 2005, So You Think You Can Dance debuted in the US with Dan as a judge. After three successful seasons, he took the format to Europe where he became the Simon Cowell of the Netherlands and Belgium leading judging panels for numerous talent shows. Dan, with his effortless cool brand, made his acting debut by starring in Soof, the number one film franchise in Dutch history. Despite keeping his personal life private and his effortless cool brand, Dan took the brave step of sharing with the public his lifelong struggles with anxiety and alcohol. Dan is a doting and devoted father and husband that made mistakes due to his struggles. In addition to releasing another film and returning to the judging panel of Got Talent, in 2022 Dan is launching a podcast – If I'm Being Honest – which will strip away surface facades to deliver the real, in-depth and sometimes ugly truths of his life, and those of his courageous guests; hopefully revealing unique paths to happiness, success, recovery and redemption.

What's there to say about Paranormal Activity 4? Well... not much really, which is why we mostly talk about friends of the pod Jordan Peterson and Daniel Plainview. We also talk about Xbox Kinect, the new ghostly gimmick this movie introduces. Will they run it into the ground? Yes! And make sure to listen to the end to hear Ben's awful Jonas Mekas impression. 

When an engineer has an idea that could change the world, the world might not immediately be ready for it. That is what Omer Keilaf realised in 2012 when he thought he could revolutionise LiDAR technology while watching an advert for the Xbox Kinect. At that time the world was interested in mobile phone technology,...

In-air gestures have been around for several years, from the Xbox Kinect to some smartphones and automotive. Join Chris and Diana as they discuss the UX of in-air gestures -- the foundational barriers gesture recognition faces, the use cases that consumers want, and issues to consider when designing them. In Condensed Soup, they discuss their favorite experience with in-air gestures. https://www.strategyanalytics.com/access-services/ux-innovation/advanced-hmi-strategies/reports/report-detail/non-touch-gesture-interfaces-consumer-perceptions-and-ux-challenges (SA Research on gestures) Send us your thoughts and comments on in-air gestures or ask us anything by emailing us at UXSoup@strategyanalytics.com. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisschreiner/ (Chris on LinkedIn) https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-cooper-556343135/ (Lisa on LinkedIn) https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-franganillo-luque/ (Diana on LinkedIn) https://sa-ux.com/ (Strategy Analytics UX Innovation Practice)

Tyler and Konnery set up their laptops and deal with the creepy neighbor kid in the first chronologically-advancing installment of the franchise, "Paranormal Activity 4" AKA Para4mal Activity! Together the duo discuss Tiny Tobi, the power of the Xbox Kinect, how to chop red bell peppers, and so much more on this witchy episode of The Friendchise!

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Dan Levitt is the founder and CEO of Long Haul Management. We discuss how Dan paid rent while making only $6,000 a year out of college (many side hustles), beating me in an office rap battle, Disney's big miss in digital music, executive producing one of YouTube's premium original series, and what it's like to represent some of the biggest sports and gamer personalities on the Internet.Subscribe to our newsletter. We explore the intersection of media, technology, and commerce: sign-up linkLearn more about our market research and executive advisory: RockWater websiteFollow The Come Up on Twitter: @TCUpodEmail us: tcupod@wearerockwater.com---Chris Erwin:Hi, I'm Chris Erwin. Welcome to The Come Up, a podcast that interviews entrepreneurs and leaders. Dan Levitt:I chose the safer Disney route. Again, I needed to pay the bills. But I made a promise to myself. Every day, I saw someone else doing what I wanted to do. They were the AbsolutePunks of the world. Or there were other people who turned the music blog into an A&R career, or leveraged it in other ways.I'm good at seeing gaps in the marketplace and where could you go in it. I made a promise. The next time I see it, I'm fucking going for it. Chris Erwin:This week's episode features Dan Levitt, the founder and CEO of Long Haul Management. Dan grew up in Boston with an early love for music and yet-to-be-discovered bands. So, after wrapping a few acts in high school and interning at Philly radio stations during college, he kicked off his career by moving to LA with absolutely no job prospects.But after a few A&R gigs at Columbia Records and Disney, Dan was early to see how digital and YouTube were going to transform the music industry. So, he left traditional media and kicked off his digital career, joining one of the early YouTube multichannel networks, company called Big Frame.We actually worked together there. And in less than nine months, I actually had to lay him off. Dan struck out on his own, positioned himself as the YouTube guy for the music industry and started his own talent shop, Long Haul Management.Some highlights of our chat include how Dan paid rent while making only $6,000 a year when he first moved to LA ... You'll crack up at some of his many side hustles ... when he beat me in an office rap battle, executive producing one of YouTube's premium original series, and what it's like to represent some of the biggest sports and gamer personalities on the internet. All right, let's get to it. Dan, thanks for being and the podcast. Dan Levitt:Thanks for having me. Chris Erwin:Awesome. I believe that you're a fellow East Coaster like myself. So tell me, where did you grow up? Dan Levitt:Sure, I'm from a nice suburb of Boston, Newton, Massachusetts. Literally voted safest city in America back when I was younger. So, nice Jewish suburb of Boston. Chris Erwin:Got it. It's funny. I went to underground at Tufts in Medford/Somerville. I think, while I was there, it was rated one of the most dangerous mafia-driven neighborhoods in the Northeast, or all of the US. So, quite the opposite of you. What was your household like? What were your family and parents doing? Dan Levitt:So, one, my parents are both from South Africa. They moved to the US in, I think, '77. My dad went to school for engineering, and then got a job in Boston, and then eventually started his own software business that really had a bunch of ups and downs. Mostly ups, and then fortunately sold to IBM right before the big bubble burst there. So, the timing was fortunate. Dan Levitt:And then my mom was artist. So, had all kinds of different things she would do in the art space, be it theater, be it actual prints and displays and stuff. Chris Erwin:Okay, very cool. It's funny. I've known you for about a decade and I had no idea your parents were from South Africa. Look, you're an entrepreneur. You've built out an incredible talent management firm. We're going to get to that in a bit. But you have entrepreneurial roots in your family. Dan Levitt:It's interesting now. I remember my dad would come back ... I think maybe at the height, he had 50, 60 people. Maybe more. I remember growing up, he'd come back from work and we'd be watching a Celtics game. It was the most exciting game ever, especially, they were really good back then. Dan Levitt:And he would fall asleep, and I'd be like, "How in the world can you possibly fall asleep during this game?" And now, I'm like, "Yep, I get it." Yeah, I could totally get how you could be so wiped out the day that, no matter what is on TV, you're just out. Dan Levitt:I mean, what was really interesting is, my parents went through a kind of messy divorce. We don't need to get into that but that's a whole fun story. But what's interesting is, when they separated, he stayed with a friend for a bit. And he went from sleeping in the basement of a friend's house to selling his business to IBM in a year. Dan Levitt:There were a lot of times that people told him, because the business had some challenges over the years, there were a lot of people that told him that he should declare bankruptcy with the business. But he stayed with it. And eventually, it worked out for him. I'm sure, hopefully, some of the resiliency I have, learned from him. Chris Erwin:Wow. Awesome. I have to ask. Being from Boston, a lot of media professionals from Boston have a pretty strong Boston identity. I think of Dave Portnoy in Barstool Sports, and Bill Simmons from The Ringer. Do you think of yourself like that, or your total West Coast transplant now? Dan Levitt:It's not just specific to Boston, but especially in the Northeast, there's a certain intensity and, I think, an edge that you can have, where in Boston, in traffic, if someone cuts you off, you scream at each other. And that's just acceptable and that's how you vent, right? Dan Levitt:In LA, it's much different than that. I'm in LA now. On the West Coast, people are more scared of confrontation. If you scream at someone, that's a really big deal. I think there's just a certain firm mentality that you have where it's pretty hard to bother me or get under my skin. Dan Levitt:I have thick skin. I do think part of that is just growing up in a culture where people are so up front with that. I also think, to a certain extent, growing up in cold climate where the weather is pretty brutal, and you just have to plow through it, does give some sort of mental toughness. Chris Erwin:I think that's totally right. I think there's this saying. I hope I'm not butchering it. But it's, "In New York, when people are saying, 'Fuck you,' they're saying, 'Good morning.' In the West Coast, when they say, 'Good morning,' they're saying, 'Fuck you.'" Dan Levitt:Yeah. I mean, but it's more so ... I remember in one of my first PA jobs in LA, I had a disagreement with another PA about the way things should be done. And then later on, I was brought into the office by my supervisor and they're like, "Dan, you were screaming at them. Why?" Dan Levitt:And I was like, "I wasn't screaming at them. I was telling them something they didn't want to hear in a certain tone. If I was screaming at them, they would know. Everybody would know." So, that was really the first ... I just moved to LA and I was like, "Shit, I got to really be cognizant of how I talk to people out here. They're going to think I'm a fucking lunatic," which, to a certain extent, is true. But maybe I need to slow play that a bit. Keep my response- Chris Erwin:It's part of your je ne sais quoi, as they say. Nothing- Dan Levitt:Yeah. I mean, you know me really well. But for people who just meet me, I can be a lot. Chris Erwin:Yeah, so let's actually talk about how you got to where you are today. I think, trying to get a sense of, was there a glimpse in your early days of you entering entertainment, becoming a talent manager? I think about things that you had mentioned that you were looking at unsigned bands in high school in the '90s. Tell me about that. Dan Levitt:My skillset is, I'm really good at seeing patterns and seeing where things are going, right? Before they get there. So, I think that's what I'm best at, be it entertainment or trends. I've done okay in the stock market, investing and stuff. So, specific to your question, yeah. Dan Levitt:My first real strong passion was music. I heard Green Day and it changed my life. And I was like, "This is it." And then I definitely have the personality type where if I'm into something, I'm all the way fucking in. So, if I like Green Day, okay, I need ever record they've ever had. Dan Levitt:So, I started, the mid '90s or so, music was starting to shift to digital, right? So, you used to discover bands on the radio, and then around that time, there started to be primitive websites. Around when Napster first came out, there started to be people who would put MP3s online, right? Dan Levitt:So, now here are these blogs that are hosting MP3s. So, they would be posting bands that would be signed to record labels. And I would like these bands. I'd find then, I'd like them, and then they'd get big a year later. It was like, "Oh, I'm pretty good at knowing which bands are going to be big later." Dan Levitt:And then, one site in particular started focusing on unsigned bands, and I said, "Oh, these unsigned bands are pretty good. I think they're going to make it." And then they would get signed and they would make it. So, I saw, "Hey, I'm pretty good at ... " Dan Levitt:And I started learning more about the industry. And at that point, originally, my job was to, "Hey, I wanted to work as a music direct on the radio helping find the songs." And then I realized, "Hey, actually the best way I can help musicians is to work at a record label." So then, it was my dream to be an A&R guy to sign a band and help them break. Chris Erwin:And any genre focus? What types of music were you listening to? Was it Green Day punk? Stuff like that? Dan Levitt:More like the new metal, like the Korn. I know you're obviously a huge Limp Bizkit fan. That kind of stuff. Chris Erwin:Three Dollar Bill, Y'all Dan Levitt:Sure, exactly, right? Around that time was the Linkin Parks of the world and that kind of stuff. That was really the scene that I was into. I still had an appreciation for more pop music and stuff like that. But really, the rock, I would say, is the genre that I was into and certainly having a great moment then. Dan Levitt:Yeah, so then there were a few sites. And I remember trying to email people, and bands, and managers, and see what I could do. But I was just a kid in high school. Again, this is, I'm downloading songs over a dial-up modem. Chris Erwin:DSL. Dan Levitt:Yeah, exactly. This was not how easy it was today. That was the dream. But I didn't know anyone at entertainment. There was no path to it. I was like, "Could I start my own record label and fund it?" But that seemed so far from being feasible. Chris Erwin:Yeah, were you reaching out to any of these bands direct, or was it, you're just thinking about what you want to do after college? Dan Levitt:Yeah, I had a buddy from summer camp who was, at the same time ... This is the late '90s. He started interning at record labels in New York and started getting a bit of traction. So, we were talking about, "Hey, maybe we should start our own label." And there were one or two bands that we approached. They didn't really respond. It didn't go anywhere. Chris Erwin:Oh, I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall to hear the pitch of you pitching a band in high school to sign with you. Dan Levitt:I forget what the value proposition was, but that band didn't really go anywhere. They probably should've given us a shot. Chris Erwin:You're doing this in high school, and then you end up going to Temple University in Philly. Does the dream start to take form there? What happens? Dan Levitt:No. I wanted to be a bit more conservative. And I was like, "Hey, I know I want to get into entertainment. I know I want to be on the business side. What's interesting to me is the intersection of art and commerce. But these jobs are going to be really hard to get. So, as a background, why don't I get a business degree, just to give me some kind of stability and baseline of knowledge?" Dan Levitt:So, I went to school at Temple. There's all kinds of story. My dorm room burnt down freshman year. Just the craziest shit happened. Chris Erwin:Wait, did you cause that or was it somebody else? Dan Levitt:No, no. Well, it's a point of contention. My roommate was lighting candles for some reason at 10:00 in the morning. But the fire marshal said it was electrical outlet. It's a whole thing. But anyways, went to Temple. Actually, before I left, I interned at a radio station in Boston. Then I interned at radio stations in Philly because that was really the only ... Dan Levitt:There weren't record labels in Boston, at least that I was aware of, in Philly. So, I just interned at radio in hope that I could make my way up there. But then I saw, man, the radio jobs ... I mean, and this was back then. I could only imagine now. Radio's not glamorous at all. It's really bare bones. The budgets are next to nothing. No one leaves these jobs. The jobs didn't pay great. Dan Levitt:So, I realized, "Hey, I thought I wanted to do radio, but this is not for me." And then that was more like, "Okay, I want to work for a record label." That was the dream. Be an A&R guy. Chris Erwin:In graduating Temple, which I think is around 2004, do you go immediately ... Do you have a job lined up? Like you're going to a record label. You're pumped going to the big city? Dan Levitt:I don't know why. I wasn't really actively hustling for a gig. I guess I assumed, "Oh, the college sets up some interviews and stuff." Nothing. So, a couple of my buddies went there. Temple has a really good film program, so most of my friends actually weren't on the business program. They were more on the film side. Dan Levitt:So, a couple of my buddies were moving out to LA to get started in their careers. So, I knew the music industry at that time was really New York or LA. And the last winter in Boston, the high was like eight degrees. I'm not one to complain about the cold, but I was too fucking cold. Dan Levitt:So, I was like, "Do I move to New York with no gig where it's crazy expensive and the weather's brutal, or maybe I should I try LA and see what it's like over there." So, I moved here without any job, and hoping that I'd figure it out. Chris Erwin:So, you're showing up without a lot of savings. No clear job prospects. Moving with a couple friends but don't really know anyone on the West Coast. So, there's a timeline here where it's like, "Hey, I got to figure something out probably in the next couple months," right? Dan Levitt:Totally. Maybe a couple grand. Thankfully, at least rent back then was a lot less than it is now. I think me and my buddies got a house in Glendale ... well, maybe Eagle Rock area or Glassell Park for maybe $1,000 between us three. It was pretty inexpensive. I had some cost but I had a little bit of room to work with there. Chris Erwin:Yeah, so you show up with maybe a couple suitcases. You're in LA. What's your mentality? Are you pumped? Are you excited? Are you also scared? And then what do you start doing to sow your roots? Dan Levitt:Really, it was just like, "Okay, I have a business degree. Surely, I can get an entry-level job somewhere doing marketing." And just nothing. Barely interviews. Fucking nothing. So, I was just like, "All right, let me just ... " Couple of my buddies started PAing, so I did some PA gigs. Dan Levitt:But even in those gigs, you really have to hustle. You have to networks. And the gig ends and then you've got to get another job. And then that one ends. You got to get another job. I didn't really want to jump from job to job. There's late-night shoots. It would mess up my sleep schedule. Dan Levitt:I was a much different person. I was a lot lazier. I didn't think things would come to me. I just thought it would be easier. Chris Erwin:It's funny to hear you say that, because who you are now, who I have seen you evolve from since the Big Frame days in 2013, right? When you left. You are such a go-getter. Eye on the ball. Laser focus. Massive hustler. So, I guess this was an important experience for you to train that muscle and change your mentality. Dan Levitt:For some background, I am not a type ... Now, I'm probably type A, but I promise you, I was not type A. For context, I don't know what my GPA was in high school. Maybe a 2.3. It was not good at all. At all. I was a bad student. For context, in second grade, I already wasn't doing homework just I couldn't be bothered to do it. I could do it. Dan Levitt:I could pass everything and do it well. For some reason, it wasn't interesting to me. Probably wasn't until after I left Big Frame when I really had to figure stuff out for my own. But I had to really flip that switch and become that person. There's some people who just born type A. That's been a constant evolution for me. Chris Erwin:But your first job, you do get an A&R job at Columbia Records, which is part of Sony Music, I think in March 2005. How did that come to be and what was that experience like? Dan Levitt:Oh, this is a great story about how this ends. The buddy I mentioned earlier who was interning at record labels, he was able to move up. I think he was actually probably the youngest A&R guy in Sony history, at least at the time. He helped get John Legend signed and Coheed and Cambria. So, after John- Chris Erwin:Favorite band, Coheed and Cambria. Jersey band in the metalcore punk-ish type scene. Love them. Dan Levitt:Yeah, I think that was one of the first things he got signed. And then after he helped get John Legend signed, who they had passed on maybe five or six times, then they started, "Oh, maybe we should listen to him." He got promoted. At the time, the music industry was really going through an interesting transition. This is 2005. Dan Levitt:So, this is after the height of the boy band and rock. CD sales are declining now, relative to all-time highs. What was happening was, you were seeing a lot of executive turnover. So, a lot of execs who got these amazing lucrative deals in the good old days were getting or not renewed. So, there was a lot of turnover. Dan Levitt:So, what happened was, at that time, most of the A&R people for Columbia Records were in New York. But they needed someone lower level in LA to go see shows for them, especially at that point, the live shows. Especially in rock and other genres is a big part of a band's success. Dan Levitt:They didn't really have anyone lower and my buddy knew that I was still hustling. I'm working retail at that point. I'm working at The Vitamin Shoppe just to pay the bills, right? Because I didn't want the hustle of the random PA gigs. Keep in mind, I'm still applying for marketing jobs at a Nestle's and other more consumer products. Dan Levitt:I'm applying at entertainment too, but everyone is entry ... And this is even worse now. An entry-level job, they want you to have experience. I didn't have any work experience. I had a couple internships. So, I'm just working retail. My buddy is basically able to get me a job working for Columbia Records, but part-time, right? Dan Levitt:So, I'm basically working at The Vitamin Shoppe during the day, and then at night, going out and doing A&R for Columbia Records, albeit, in a part-time capacity. And I'm just fucking praying that no one I know from the music world comes into the store. Dan Levitt:So, it's really a one foot in, one foot out. And I'm basically just trying to do what I can to find the next great act for them to sign. So, that I can get recognized, and that I can do this full-time, and quit the soul-sucking day job. Chris Erwin:How much were you making as an A&R exec at this point? Dan Levitt:I might have been making maybe $125 a week. I think it was definitely between six and seven grand a year. So, not by any means enough to pay the bills, but not terrible, especially back then as a side. Keep in mind, if you look at it from an hourly perspective, I'm not really doing much. Maybe I go to one or two shows a night. Dan Levitt:By the way, I'm on the guest list for shows. I can walk into The Viper Room and the people there know me. I can just go in. So, I'm seeing amazing shows. I'm meeting people in the industry. I'm meeting managers. Meanwhile, anyone I meet, I'm trying to see if I can work with them. Dan Levitt:I'm applying for job after job. Entry-level manager assistant, $24,000. I'm applying. At that point, I have Columbia Records on my resume, and still barely getting bites. Even then, for whatever reason, I wasn't getting the gigs. It was a really, really tough time. Dan Levitt:It's worth noting, this was before the tech started. This was before SoundCloud. This is before some of the first music startups. So, there really wasn't much opportunity to get a gig somewhere. I interviewed at some of the music marketing companies like Streetwise. Dan Levitt:And this is building street teams and digital street teams. I wanted to do all that shit. I had some experience and still couldn't get in. Columbia Records. So one, it's kind of laughable now, but I discovered Arctic Monkeys extremely early. They only had three songs online. No one had heard of them in the US. No sales. Nothing. Dan Levitt:So, I have a bunch of buddies that I would send songs to. This is when The Strokes are first hitting, right? I find them on one of the music blogs that I like. These songs are ... I'm into them but I don't love it. I send it to a bunch of buddies and universally, everyone of them were like, "This is the best thing you've ever sent." Dan Levitt:And I was like, "Really? Wow." So then, I pitched them to Columbia Records and they're, "Oh, this is cool. It's this cool indie rock thing. But it's three guys in the UK. There's no sales. There's no history. It'd be really hard for us to fly them back and forth. But thanks for bringing it up." Dan Levitt:I didn't really know that I had to keep following up. "Hey, there's starting to be some noise." I didn't know. No one taught me how to do A&R or how to pitch, had to follow up. Again, it's not like I'm going into an office. I'm just remote because I still had the day gig. Dan Levitt:So, anyways, eventually there were Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen, a few things that I pitched that ended up hitting eventually. And then it got to the point where Sony Music was having a weekend where they were bringing in ever Sony Music employee to New York to do this whole song and dance about their roster. Dan Levitt:So, I basically request vacation time from my dad gig to go to New York. Again, Columbia Records is paying me $125 a week, but they're flying me to New York and put me up in a fancy hotel. Chris Erwin:It's like half your salary. Dan Levitt:Oh, no, by far, they spent way more on this. I mean, anyways, it was a weekend in Greenwich, Connecticut with the A&R team. So, I get called into the head A&R's office on the Friday. He's like, "Hey, Dan, I have some great news for you. Thanks for everything you've done. We're going to make you full-time. We're just waiting to hear from accounting on how much that's going to be. We'll get back to you." Dan Levitt:And I'm like, "This is what I've been fucking working my whole life for." And then right afterwards, we get on the bus to go to Greenwich, Connecticut. And Columbia had just brought on Steve Lillywhite, the producer who produced all the big U2 records, Dave Matthews. Albums I fucking grew up on. I'm shooting the shit with him now. Dan Levitt:We go to the head of the label's house, and there's all these Korn, and Rage Against the Machine, and all these albums that were so meaningful to me. All the plaques. It was a weekend where I felt like I was one of them now. My whole life, I've been trying to get in, and now I'm finally in. Still today one of the best weekends of my life. Dan Levitt:And then I fly back and it's Monday. And I'm back in the day job. And I'm just waiting for the phone call. I'm just waiting for the phone call about how much more money it's going to be. I'm so fucking ready. I get the call. "Hey, Dan, we have some bad news. We're not going to have room for you anymore. Sorry, but thanks for everything you've done." Chris Erwin:Wow. Just fast like that? Almost no emotion? Just, boom. Dan Levitt:No, no, to his credit, he was really apologetic. But I was fucking shellshocked because the call I got where I thought, "Okay, this is the phone call. I'm about to quit. I'm about to quit day job," was just the carpet ripped out from under me. Dan Levitt:I had the day job but at least I was grinding at night, hoping to get somewhere. Now, that was taken from me. And now I'm like, "Fuck, I'm about to be 25 with a business degree, working retail. This is not how I thought shit was going to go." Dan Levitt:So, it ends up being revealed later on, it wasn't clear at that time, but basically, Columbia Records was bringing on Rick Rubin and he wanted his own people. But it was just a gut shot at the time. Chris Erwin:So, Dan, you get into a few side hustle. And I think one of them culminates in you doing chat room marketing for cream cheese. But tell us a couple highlights here because I think some of these side hustles, like swap meets, is still involved in your life today. Dan Levitt:It's always fun for me, trying to figure out new ways to make money. It's a lot easier now with the internet and stuff. It wasn't back then. I was a big focus group slut. I would do anything. Promote anything. So, I would get really good at filling out focus group surveys. Dan Levitt:I knew how they wanted you to answer, and so I would do ... For example, I've been paid to eat tofu. I've been paid to eat gum. I've been paid to eat McDonald's breakfast sandwiches. I got paid to play a Xbox Kinect before it came out. I've been paid to look at marketing materials. Dan Levitt:I've been paid to play with phones, and gadgets, and look at Cirque du Soleil. All kinds of stuff. Especially in LA, I'm sure this is the case in maybe a lot of big cities, but there's a lot of companies that do focus groups both in person. And I was just a maniac. Dan Levitt:There were a few Twitter accounts that popped up from those. It's like, "Hey, if you're this and you're this, fill it out." So, I would just ... whatever I could to try to get in. Chris Erwin:And this was paying the bills for you, so this was important. Dan Levitt:I think one year, I made maybe eight grand doing it. My first couple years in LA, I might have made only $20, $30 grand, so it was pretty significant. There was a store in LA that, on Sundays, would sell clothes, some vintage, some new, for a dollar. Dan Levitt:I would go and I'd buy most of the men's stuff. I'd list it on eBay. Basically, anything I sold it for was profit. I ended up getting fired from The Vitamin Shoppe. That's not really an interesting story. There was a company doing ... This would be summer 2008. They were doing experimental digital marketing. Dan Levitt:So, they were basically going into chat rooms essentially spamming message points. But then also, you had to have one-on-one conversations with people where you'd have to work in talking points, which was really fucking hard. Especially, how do you work cream cheese into a conversation organically? But I got fucking really good at it. Dan Levitt:So, within two days, I got so good at it that, by the end of the first week, I was promoted to the night shift manager. So, you would drop the campaign talking points into the chat. But really, it was all about these one-on-one conversations because basically, this agency would take those conversations, chop them up, make them clean, and then share it with the brand, and, "Hey, look, we're doing this subtle marketing for you." Chris Erwin:What was one of the lines that was something that you custom crafted that you were known for? Dan Levitt:This is really interesting psychology. What everyone else would do was, they would try to hit up a million people to try to find one, and try to work it in. They would brute force it. I took the opposite approach. I was like, "I'm going to ask other people online about themselves, and then just as conversations go, they'll flip it. And they'll ask me about myself." Dan Levitt:And then I'm like, "Oh, yeah." Put one of the common ... "Oh, what do you do for work?" I'm not going to say the brand's name but it's a city where I went to school. But it's like, "Hey," we couldn't say, "I work at." We had to say, "I work with X cream cheese company." "Oh, really? I love cream cheese. Cool." Dan Levitt:And then it's like, "Oh, what do you use it on?" "Oh, I can use it for cheesecakes or stuff like that." Or there's another site that's harder to use but you could actually see people's images. Think Myspace era. It wasn't Myspace but similar. Dan Levitt:So, I would identify people that I thought, based on physical attributes, might be interested in cream cheese. And I'd just message them and chat with them. But man, that was one of the funnest jobs I ever had, more so because, as a guy, it's not so bad. You're mostly talking to girls. As a girl on the internet trying to talk to guys about cream cheese, the kind of shit that they would hear was just- Chris Erwin:Probably a dark rabbit that we will not go down. So, Dan, then you head to A&R at Disney around September 2008. How did that come to be? Dan Levitt:My roommate used to do HR for Disney, right? So, keep in mind, at that point actually, I'd left the cream cheese job. And I'm working in a movie theater. I'm making $8.50 an hour. I got my side hustles. So, I see a job posting for A&R coordinator. Dan Levitt:I ping my roommate and I'm like, "Hey, do you know the recruiter for this gig?" And he did. It was someone he used to work closely with. So, I was able to customize my resume and it went directly to the recruiter from a friendly ... I remember the weekend I saw the job, I was in Chicago for a wedding. Dan Levitt:And I remember holding back my friend for an hour, so I could tweak it before we went and got pizza. I applied on a Friday. And then I got back and basically, I think that day, the recruiter called. I had a phone interview. And basically, the next Friday, I had a gig. Chris Erwin:Wow. That moved very fast in contrast to your other stuff. Dan Levitt:Unheard of for Disney. And the salary was in the mid-40s. Again, I had a Columbia Records gig, but it paid next to nothing. And now, I have an A&R job at Disney with a real fucking salary and amazing benefits, and it happened so quick. And I had been out here for five years grinding. Just grinding. Chris Erwin:Did you feel you had made it at that point, like, "I've made it. I'm here"? Dan Levitt:It wasn't that I made it. It was that I made it out of retail because to this day, I ... There's absolutely nothing wrong with working retail, I did it forever, but I don't want to do it again. I don't want to interact with the public. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe how fast it happened. And just like that, my whole world changed. Dan Levitt:I was so appreciative and so thankful to have a gig that provided some stability that was in a industry that I wanted. You meet someone, you tell them you work for Disney, it changes the perception of you, right? And certainly for me, who'd been trying to get a real industry gig, it was fun to ... I knew that I had the chops, and it was finally someone recognizing it. Chris Erwin:Hey, listeners, this is Chris Erwin, your host of The Come Up. I have a quick ask for you. If you dig what we're putting down, if you like the show, if you like our guests, it would really mean a lot if you could give us a rating wherever you listen to our show. It helps other people discover our work and it also really supports what we do here. All right, that's it, everybody. Let's get back to the interview. Chris Erwin:After this, you end up going to, call it, the YouTube revolution of Big Frame. So, I'm just curious, while you're at Disney, was there anything about emerging media, digitally native artists that you were focused on during those four years? Trying to sense a through line here. Dan Levitt:After I left the Columbia Records gig or got let go, I saw these people who had these music blogs that were starting to go with their own reputations as tastemakers. So, I thought, "Oh, maybe I should do that for myself. Maybe instead of working for a record label and being a tastemaker, maybe I should do that on my own, with my blog or something." Dan Levitt:But I didn't really have the technical prowess to do the blog stuff. It seems like, "Oh, it should've been easy." Blogs and stuff were not easy back then. So actually, I started doing online video. I bought an HD camera. This must've been very early YouTube days. Dan Levitt:But I actually, with a buddy, recorded some HD music industry podcasts where we talked about music industry news and stuff. But I think I would post it on YouTube, but sadly and stupidly, because YouTube didn't monetize then, I put it on Revver where they did monetize. R-E-V-V-E-R was sort of a YouTube competitor at the time that did monetize. Dan Levitt:And I was like, "Oh, I want to make money doing this," so even though there's more audience on YouTube, I put it there. And nothing happened that I didn't ... It was hard relying on my buddy, who was great to schedule this. I didn't stick with it. So, I didn't stick with it. But I was doing it semi-consistently. Dan Levitt:But then when I got the Disney job, I asked if I could continue doing it, and they were like, "No, you're doing A&R for us. You obviously can't be talking about acts that aren't signed to Disney." So, I put that on the side and then I saw the early podcast boom. Dan Levitt:Again, I'm listening to Bill Simmons. I'm listening to Carolla. Saw the podcast thing happening. So, while I'm at Disney, especially I'm a couple year in, it was a decent job but my department is pretty strict. I wasn't given the freedom that you would think an A&R guy would have. It was a lot more administrative. Dan Levitt:It was a glorified assistant, right? It wasn't an A&R role. They truly did not care about my opinion for acts in my estimation, especially the label side. I worked for the publishing side. I tried to get in with the label guys and it didn't really work. Dan Levitt:A couple years in, I'm starting to think, "Okay, I got to get out of here." This was great, but I'm like, "I'm going to be a 30-year-old A&R guy who's never got anything signed. And if lose this gig ... " And again, this is the industry especially 2008, 2009, 2010, sales are going way down. Dan Levitt:This is when streaming is just starting. So, I'm trying to meet whoever I can, right? So actually, this is when SoundCloud first starts. I was up for a gig there. I had some friends record some messages recommending me. I had a great relationship of amazing songwriters and artists that I was an advocate for, that hadn't really made it or were just starting to. Dan Levitt:I tried to get at SongKit and all these things that were starting. I actually tried to get a job at Spotify. I'm actually one of the first 500 people in the US to have a Spotify account. I had an account for two years before it launched. Chris Erwin:I think what I'm hearing is that you've also applied to every single music company, I think, in the world by this point. Dan Levitt:Yeah, but especially the good ones, right? I loved what SoundCloud was doing. Really at the time, they were so innovative. And they were solving their big problem, which was hosting audio. The role that I wanted was helping artists get on the platform and figure stuff out. Dan Levitt:So, around that time, again, I always believed in YouTube. I was doing it for myself. And then obviously Justin Bieber broke. And I'm looking on YouTube and I'm seeing these kids who are doing mid-tempo acoustic ballads, because that's all they can do, because that's what you do when you start. Dan Levitt:But they were doing covers and building an audience. And I was like, "The originals aren't that good. And I know all these amazing songwriters and producers that right now getting cuts in a major label system, because it's a fixed game, because the heads of the A&R start separate publishing divisions. And those people get the singles." Dan Levitt:So, I was like, "What if I actually brought some artist development into this YouTuber space where these people have done the hardest part. They've built an audience," right? There was one day on Twitter, the YouTube Creators account on Twitter posted that they were having an event at ... This is before the YouTube Space ... at YouTube's offices where they were talking about what makes a video successful on YouTube. I said, "That'll probably be good for me to know." Dan Levitt:I went and Sarah from Big Frame, who we both know well, was on the panel. She was talking about how she started a business and she was managing YouTubers. I was surprised that this was a thing, that there was enough of a business for there to be managers. Dan Levitt:Not only that, really smart ... Sarah is really impressive. I was like, "Wow, this is wild. I had no idea this kind of scene was happening." And then someone else actually asked about music. "What should the labels do?" And she was like, "Oh, the labels have no idea what they're doing at all." Dan Levitt:And then I went up to Sarah afterwards. I was, "Oh, I work for Disney Music." She's like, "Oh, I'm so sorry." I was like, "Oh, no, you have no idea how right you are." Actually, for an anecdote about how truly out of touch, in my experience, they were ... Dan Levitt:So again, through my relationships, I was one of the first 500 in the US to have Spotify. The Spotify had their agreement. They had a few test accounts for people in the industry to get to try it. I had one. I went to the head ... maybe the number two at Disney Music. Dan Levitt:And I was like, "Hey, I got this cool thing, Spotify. Have you seen it? Have you tried it? Do you want an account?" He was like, "Oh yeah, I'm not worried about that. I don't need one." It was so clear to me this was the future and they couldn't be bothered. Dan Levitt:Even, again, I'm still kind of green, right? But I saw that, hey, by the way, when they did the Spotify deal, Universal was distributing Disney, right? Universal got equity. Warner got Equity. Sony got equity. Disney didn't get equity but Universal leveraged the market share for distributing Disney for equity in Spotify. And I asked them, "Why did you do that?" I'm a fucking coordinator and you don't have- Chris Erwin:You're seeing where the industry is headed. And the vision at the top of Disney, or particularly for the Disney Music division, they just don't get it. So, you're like, "They're not going to get it." At your level, you're not going to be able to influence them. Chris Erwin:So, you're saying, again, "I got to make a move. I got to get out of here. The future is changing and I want to be a part of it." Dan Levitt:I think the big thing was, I saw what happened in podcasts. I didn't have to but I chose the safer Disney route, right? Because I needed a gig. I needed to pay the bills. But I made a promise to myself. Every day, I saw someone else doing what I wanted to do. They were the AbsolutePunks of the world, or there were other people who turned the music blog into an A&R career, or leveraged it in other ways with all these podcasts blowing up. ** Dan Levitt:And I promised myself, I was like, "I'm good at seeing gaps in the marketplace and where could you go in it. I made a promise. The next time I see it, I'm fucking going for it." Chris Erwin:I love that. Dan Levitt:That's why, when I met Sarah and I saw ... I was like, "This YouTube thing is fucking next. No one in the music industry realizes it. Let me get in. At worst ... " After that conversation with Sarah ... The follow-up week, we had lunch somewhere. Dan Levitt:And after that conversation, I was like, "Sarah, hire me." She was like, "I can't now but we're doing raise soon. Let's stay in touch." Then afterwards, I was like, "This is fucking it. I fucking know it. I need to get in here no matter what." So, I started being very aggressive. Chris Erwin:This is probably, thinking in a Big Frame timeline, the company was founded in, I think, the second half of 2011. And they officially raised funding from the Google Original Channels program and a seed round, I think, in early 2012. And you come in the second half of 2012. But yeah, Sarah's talking about they had to get funding lined up. I jointed Big Frame, I think, in July of 2012. Dan Levitt:But at this point, after I had lunch with Sarah, I'm like, "Okay, this is it. I need to get into this space," right? So, at the time, there were three companies, right? There was Maker, there was Big Frame, and Full Swing. Those were the three big ones, right? Dan Levitt:When I stepped back, I looked. At the time, Maker was far bigger and the hot company at that point, right? The one that had the most buzz. The one that had the most resources and stuff. So, I decide that I want to ... Sarah's great but let me see if I could get a job at Maker. Dan Levitt:I have a meeting with whoever's running their music dept. And this guy, he was cool. He was okay but did not have the level of sophistication or music knowledge that I had, right? And I think, especially, it's worth considering, at this point, the space is so new, there's no one with Sony and Disney A&R. The level of traditional level of music in the space at all. But I decide I'm going to go for it. Dan Levitt:I meet with him. It's a decent interview. And then I decide I really want to go out of my way to show them that I want this, right? So, at the time, Maker had 100 employees. So, the next day, I send over 100 Krispy Kreme doughnuts to the Maker office with a note, "Let's make sweet music together." Chris Erwin:How did that touch work out for you? Dan Levitt:I got a second interview. Literally, people in Maker are Tweeting about it, right? And I thought, "Look, at worst, it'll be memorable and maybe they'll think about me in the future. And at best, if I get the gig, everyone's going to like me from day one, because I'm the doughnut guy." Dan Levitt:Again, I'm real fucking desperate to get out of Disney at this point. I see the writing on the way, especially, one thing to mention is that at this time, we're talking 2012, the publishing division had merged with the record labels. And essentially, the head of one of the record labels was now the new music group boss. Dan Levitt:I was at Sony after the Sony BMG merger and I saw people getting picked off one by one. And I saw the same thing happening at publishing. I said, "This was a merger, the record side won, and the publishing people are going to go one by one." As soon as I saw the first domino fall, I was fucking on it. So, I definitely feel like there's an ax going over my head slowly descending. Chris Erwin:Yeah, so the timeline is compressing. You got to make moves. Okay, so after Disney, do you then apply to Big Frame? What happens next? Dan Levitt:Yeah, eventually, I end up ... I apply to Big Frame. I meet you. Chris Erwin:You said that you sent a video as part of your application, right? Dan Levitt:Right. Right. There was a job. I think, after Google acquired Next New NOW, they had a strategist role that I applied for that I didn't get. But I knew that, if you looked at my resume, you would see traditional media. I really wanted them to understand that I got digital culture. Dan Levitt:So, I made a video in addition to my resume, a fun video that played on the memes or the trends on YouTube at the time. The video was like, "Hey, I'm a big fan of YouTube. It's not just people doing the cinnamon challenge," and then it cut to me doing that, "or getting hurt," Then to me getting hit by 20 dodge balls from different angles. Chris Erwin:I actually think I vaguely start to remember this now. Dan Levitt:Yeah. Chris Erwin:Oh my God. Dan Levitt:I just knew that, especially having applied for so many gigs at traditional companies and not getting my resume seen, I wanted to make sure that in the future when I applied for a job, I was being extra. I was really going out of my way to show that I was serious about it. And also, especially with digital, that I got it the culture. That I got the space. Dan Levitt:That I'm not some stuffy guy. I really wanted to show that I was a believer in the space and to differentiate myself. Sarah actually told me after I was hired that the video did ease some of her concerns that it was going to be a more stealthy music guy, because especially at that time, the music industry and the MCNs, it was really contentious, right? Dan Levitt:It was Sony and some of the publishers having seen Myspace grow, and build, and get a huge valuation. It was very much a new emerging trend the music industry sees as a threat. And that dates back to sheet music but that's a separate tangent. Chris Erwin:Well, and to be clear, at least from my vantage point, I don't think there was any worry that you were going to be a traditional stuffy music guy, because I remember, I think, this is me and Jason Ziemianski were working on building out the different content verticals for Big Frame. Dan Levitt:Which was so smart to do. Chris Erwin:Yeah, so smart. So, we had Wonderly. We had Forefront. We also had a music vertical. We had an LGBTQ vertical and maybe one or two more. So yeah, we're thinking about music. I remember I'm in the back room. This is when we were on the Sunset Boulevard office, the old National Lampoon building. Chris Erwin:I mean, you come in for an interview and there was a window between the back room and the front. Jason pointing at you and he's like, "That's who you're going to interview. That's Dan." I remember looking at you and I had never seen anyone that looked like you. You were in a shiny silver suit. So, one thing that I thought- Dan Levitt:Yeah, the shiny suits. The famous shiny suit. Chris Erwin:Yeah. One, I thought it was weird because I was like, "Okay, this is digital video. People were a bit more casual. Jeans and T-shirts. He's in a suit. That's kind of weird. But then second, it wasn't just a normal suit. It was just something I'd never seen before." Chris Erwin:And I was like, "All right, this guy's a character." And from where I came from, I was just like ... I'm from traditional East Coast finance. So, I was started to discount you in my head, but also realizing I'm biased. I'm like, "Maybe this is the people that we want. I've never encountered someone like this but maybe this is the thinking and the pedigree that we want." Chris Erwin:So, then I remember sitting with you on the couches in the front. And you're mile-a-minute telling me your story and I'm drinking from a fire hose. I remember peppering you with questions. I don't even know what they were. But fast forward, we end up liking you and we hire you. Chris Erwin:All right, we hire you at Big Frame and this is in October 2012. What do you remember from those early days? What are you working on? Dan Levitt:I just remember being so excited, man. Sarah and you guys believing in me especially. Again, I'm pretty good at knowing where things were going. And just you guys just, "Hey, great. Music is the big thing on YouTube. Dan, figure it out. Figure out the opportunity." Dan Levitt:The belief in me was so amazing. Also, I'm coming from working at four years at Disney where, at least with my direct supervisors, I didn't feel like I was being treated as an adult. Everything was micromanaged. I was essentially chained to my desk. Dan Levitt:And moving into a role where it just felt like anything was possible. I remember getting there and there was really next to no musicians signed at all, right? I think you guys hadn't signed them because you didn't know what to do with them. There were a handful. Dan Levitt:And then I was like, "Hey, I have this idea for a music show." I knew that I would need to get a good song out of each of the talent that we'd had. So, I was like, "Hey, I know all these amazing songwriters and producers who know YouTube is next or I'm telling them. They're excited that I'm making this leap." Dan Levitt:And they're like, "Hey, YouTube's a thing. What should we do?" So, I just remember Sarah and I and you talking about this show idea. And then a week later, we had money from YouTube to do it. So, it was the biggest mind fuck because my entire career, I heard, "No." Literally, my 20s was hearing the word no. Dan Levitt:And literally, I can honestly say in the first month at Big Frame, I did more than in my 10 years at traditional. It was that quick. And I've really only heard, for the most part, heard, "Yes," ever since. But you can do so much more in the space. There aren't the same gatekeepers at Disney. If you try something new and it doesn't work, you lose your job. Chris Erwin:This flip a switch where you're like, "Okay, within the first month at Big Frame, I'm hearing, 'Yes,' and money is behind it"? So, do you start thinking, "Oh, if I'm a go-getter, there's a lot more I can do here"? Dan Levitt:I don't know that it was even that cognizant. It was more that I didn't really know which direction to go in. So, I was like, "Okay, there's a lack of artist development." One, that show ended up taking a lot more time. Chris Erwin:And you did that with Dave Days, right? Dan Levitt:Yeah. Chris Erwin:Called, the Writing Room. Dan Levitt:It's still up on YouTube, I think. It was great and we were all really happy with the songs and the shows, and got into artist development. And then while I was there, I realized, "Hey, before I go out and start signing people, I need to understand how YouTube works, especially in music where SEO is so important," because at the time, it was very much cover songs. Dan Levitt:And some of the biggest creators on the platform were doing cover songs, right? So, I needed to know how SEO worked. There was someone who was working at YouTube who reverse engineered the algorithm, and had done all this A/B testing to figure out how to grow channels. Dan Levitt:It was on the audience-development side, and that was MatPat. He had his channel, which maybe, I think, was a couple hundred thousand subscribers. But I didn't care. No one really cared much or paid much mind about his own channel. Dan Levitt:But he and I very quickly hit it off, because at that time, a lot of the managers, more so than other MCNs ... And the reason why I went with Big Frame, because I did get offers from all three, was, you guys wanted to be more high touch with a smaller roster, right? Dan Levitt:So, at that time, you guys actually were having some of the top talent on the platform sit down with MatPat, or just Mat at that time, who would basically tell them, "Hey, here's what you should be doing," and they wouldn't listen to him. But he was doing those one by one. Chris Erwin:And just to be clear, Matthew Patrick, who's now a huge YouTuber that Dan manages, he was an employee at Big Frame early days. Dan Levitt:He was a co-worker. Now he has maybe just under or close to 30 million across 4 channels, and is just one of the top channels on the platform, especially who's been able to do it for a decade. And has, probably, one of the most challenging formats where every video takes at least 100 or 200 hours in terms of scripting and post. Dan Levitt:It shouldn't work, but through pure determination and really thoughtful approach, it has worked. Anyways, he's working there. And quickly, we hit it off because, instead of just dropping the talent and him saying the same things over to talent that don't listen, I was like, "Hey, tell me. Do a knowledge transfer to me. I want to know this stuff, so that I can tell all my clients and be respectful of his time, and also learn. Dan Levitt:"I'm curious for myself. I want to know, how does SEO work and what are things I can do to grow my clients, so that we're providing value. And then once I know that, cool, let me go out and let me try sign some of the best and brightest." Dan Levitt:I thought that it would take me a while before I permeated, at least the music scene, on YouTube. By two or three months, based off of the work I was doing with one or two artists, I guess I should've went, "They all know each other. They would all collab. They all talk to each other." Dan Levitt:So, in a very short amount of time, I created a great name for myself as someone who's ... especially at that time, with the exception of Big Frame, it was scale, scale, scale. Just sign channels, get them into CMS, Comscore, Comscore. That was not Big Frame's approach. Dan Levitt:So, Big Frame really had a great reputation and I wanted to help further perpetuate that. So, not only was I helping people grow their channels, but I was setting them up with songwriters and producers, helping them figure out the different revenue streams. Dan Levitt:One of the challenges at that time was, the contracts that we had were more, at that time, standard MCN deals that only participated in ad revenue. And for most creators, that's fine, right? Because the ancillary revenues, the merch touring, and brand deals, and stuff were't there, or they were just starting. Dan Levitt:On the music side, especially then when it was confrontational with the publishers, the ad revenue is shared. So, the CPMs and the ad revenue was a lot lower take-home for the artist, and in turn, Big Frame. However, they were making significantly more and a lot more on downloads and streaming. Dan Levitt:So, I noticed, "Hey, I'm giving you advice and I'm helping you grow your channel. But we're only participating in, essentially, the least profitable revenue stream." So, I recognized, "Hey, at least in music, if we're going to be ... " And probably more broadly because we saw at time peak, and some other platforms come up that weren't YouTube. Dan Levitt:Some of the talent was trying to do stuff on their own and sort of getting exploited. And I realized, and I went to Sarah and you and said, "Hey, we might want to think about having our contracts be more robust and 360 if we're going to have this more boutique roster." Chris Erwin:Oh, I remember those conversations where we had, I think, a very short, minimal contract. Only participated in AdSense off of YouTube. Then a lot of push from the team saying, "Hey, we're doing all this work. We're impacting the 360 business of this talent. One, the company needs to get paid for it." Chris Erwin:And also, because you guys were thinking about, as talent managers, "How do you participate? What's your incentive?" Look, contracts is a whole separate thing, because I remember then the contract became like 12 pages. And then people were saying, "This is crazy. You got to make it simpler. No one's going to sign." But that's another tangent. Chris Erwin:Anyway, okay, you identify this. We start to rejigger the business. And yeah, you start building out our music vertical. Dan Levitt:It was going really well. I mean, we were getting the best talent. We just weren't monetizing the way that we wanted yet. And I was waiting on these management contracts to come in, so that we could get that ... Again, that process took longer. We were basically building ... Dan Levitt:We would've had all the best ones, right? Some of them had deals that they signed before that were, "Hey, as soon as this term ends, I'm going to join." Chris Erwin:So, I think this speaks to some mutual challenges, right? And frustration where we're trying to sort out the contracts. We're trying to sort out the business model. We're realizing at Big Frame, the music vertical is not directly making a lot of money relative to the cost that we're putting into it. Chris Erwin:Also, this is a point where I think there is some headwinds facing the MCN industry. We were having some challenges raising the needed capital and floating working capital. So, we had to make some changes. There was a discussion around, "Okay, probably going to have to shut down the music vertical, and we're going to have to let Dan go." Chris Erwin:This is something you and I talk about for the past 10 years. I remember being in the room when that conversation happens, because it was between me, and you, and Jason, I believe. Dan Levitt:I was really the first person let go. It was a growth stage. And then I was probably the first casualty, right? And to your credit, I was not surprised, because maybe a month or so before, you were like, "Hey, Dan, have you actually looked at some of the numbers in terms of what we're paying you and what you're bringing in?" Dan Levitt:Again, that seems blatantly obvious that I should've been but I wasn't. I came from a role that was very administrative and I kept doing what I knew. It wasn't clear to me that, "Oh, I'm actually responsible for ... I should be ... for my own P&L within this larger entity." Chris Erwin:In reflecting on that moment, and I don't actually think I've ever shared this before, but I think there's some realizations where, one, I think I was learning a lot about the digital entertainment industry, right? I had a very traditional background MBA. And there was a lot that I ... Chris Erwin:I knew about business and I knew that revenue had to be more than cost to get the profit. But I think I didn't understand the nuances of how this industry worked, of how you recruit talent, how you invest in a team, and figuring out the right business model. And I think listening to our talent managers, like yourself, could've been something I did with more focus and intent. Chris Erwin:But I think it was a mutual value exchange. We're all learning and I think this helped set up a lot of talent managers for success of thinking about running a sustainable business. Thinking about top line versus bottom line. And I know that there was some conversations where, yeah, I was giving clinics to you and some of the other members of the team like, "Let's sketch out some numbers and see what works here. Chris Erwin:"And it's not working. How do we get there?" And I feel that you've taken that to your new business, which has obviously been paid off in spades for you. Dan Levitt:I think me and the other talent managers there, we kind of went in wide-eyed where we knew the opportunity, and we knew where we saw things were going. But I don't think any of us had run this kind of a business like that or thought through that kind of stuff. Dan Levitt:It's just like you're trying to build the plane while you fly it. The other thing is, you obviously know this and you hear some of the stories from me and other, it's really hard dealing with talent. It's really hard dealing with talent. Especially then, one thing that I don't hear discussed as much, and I think for someone like me, who worked with traditional talent for a while, the digital talent's different, right? Dan Levitt:So, for me, working in music as an A&R guy, if I meet an artist or a musician, at least back then, they've heard, "No," a million times, right? And they understand the value of a team. On the YouTuber side, especially back then, especially early on, but it's still the same now, especially with the new breed of creators who are really fucking savvy, a lot of them don't understand the value of a team. Dan Levitt:They've hit a time when everyone's catering to them, especially the OG YouTubers who got in when you could just have deceptive thumbnails and stuff. They were not as receptive to advice that, potentially, they should've been. So, in addition to figure out how to make a business model of this thing as it's emerging, and especially, music is a lot harder in brand deals than beauty and other verticals, it was challenging. Dan Levitt:And it's compounded by, the job in working with talent is essentially to keep the unaccountable accountable. Chris Erwin:Look, I feel for you guys because I think you're working really hard dating over the past decade to figure out the business models that work for this new talent. And I think that's still happening together. And different from traditional managers, this feeling of you're always on. Chris Erwin:So, the internet doesn't shut off. It's 24/7. And you could be dealing with a brand deal that goes awry on a different timezone. And you're getting up at 4:00 AM. Or there's a YouTube channel take down that's impacting a brand deal, or a video that's meaningful to talent. And that happens at midnight, you got to be on it with a plan, a solution, and a call into the platform. That's unique. Chris Erwin:And look, that's a separate podcast to talk about all those stories. I think the collective Big Frame managers will write a book. But I will the challenge that you guys face in managing digital talent. For me, having run the talent organization and overseeing the talent managers, that's also hard because at the top, we tried to bear the burden of that stress, and give you guys the tools, and empower you. Chris Erwin:You guys demanded a lot because your talent demanded a lot. And it was admittedly hard. But I think it was a beautiful journey to go through together and we learned a lot. Dan Levitt:Yeah, I can't believe it was only eight months. I was only there eight months, which is surprising. But man, in that eight months, the professional development that I had was so far beyond. I remember saying to Steve Raymond, who was the CEO of Big Frame at the time, I remember telling him, "I'll never work for a big company again if I can avoid it." Dan Levitt:I like the startup culture. I like the fact that we're making it up, and we get to try new things, and make mistakes and do stuff. So far, I haven't had to. Chris Erwin:Before we go on and we talk about your transition to Long Haul, I think we'd be remiss if we just didn't tell one story about the upstairs rap battle. This still gets me to this day because you ended up as the winner. It pains me to this day. So, tell the listeners a quick context for our rap battle. Dan Levitt:Yeah, I don't know the origin of it. I think there might have been two. I don't know. I don't remember how it started but I think we were just ... We throw friendly jabs back and forth. And somehow, it cultivated in, "Hey, we're going to do a rap battle." Dan Levitt:I remember spending half the day writing out my stuff. I just remember the whole team was there and they were filming it. We got to find a video of it somewhere. But yeah, there was a rap battle and I was victorious. I know I went at you for ... Dan Levitt:I remember one line. You had a Ford that was giving you a bunch of challenges because all you could afford is a piece-of-shit Ford. That line really, while not being the most creative, really hit with the audience. Chris Erwin:Yeah. I think, in rap battles, you just get a sense, because like you said, everyone was watching. They were filming. Crowd's reacting. And if you track the energy, you just know who's winning. And I remember at the end with that line, the crowd just was like ... Chris Erwin:It just felt like, "All right, Dan has one this." I think we were kind of even throughout throwing these different jabs. I remember working on my script for a couple weeks. I was frustrated because I was like, "That line is ... That's not a special one. He just said Ford and afford in the same sentence." But it didn't matter. It was over. So, look, massive credit for you. Dan Levitt:You're going against a music industry professional. There were no ghostwriters but it's to be expected. So, if Chaz or anybody else wants to come for the throne, they know where I'm at. Chris Erwin:So, Dan, okay, after this let-go moment, what are you thinking about? What's next for you? Dan Levitt:When I took the gig, I knew it was going to be a roller coaster. I knew it was riskier, right? But again, I felt, "At worse, if it doesn't work out, at least I will presumably have positioned myself in the music industry as the YouTube guy. And because I know YouTube is going to be a big thing, I should be okay. I'll figure something out." Dan Levitt:And that's exactly what happened where, as soon as I let go, I hit up all my people. In that eight months, people did start to notice. Some people. I was very fortunate that, within the first month, I got two gigs doing consulting for two different startups that wanted to work with digital creators, particularly musicians, that actually paid more for a lot less work. So, I sailed up for the first time. Dan Levitt:Now, it's like, "Okay. Now, I'm actually making more money than I was at Big Frame and I have way more free time. So, what could I be doing?" And then around that time is when MatPat crossed a million subscribers. We hadn't talked in a while but there was that mutual respect, right? He's noticed that I was doing more for talent and being thoughtful. Chris

On this episode of DustyTalks, Eli, Emma, JP, and I talk about the MCU, remember obscure shows from our childhood, and look back on the Xbox Kinect. Tweet at us using #dustytalks Want to help support our show? Become a monthly supporter over at https://anchor.fm/dustytalks/support YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtU1CXNWmeUM71t41W_6Kzg --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dustytalks/message

00:00:00 - Intro00:02:55 - Ramon being recognized00:03:32 - Saul Saw James Charles on tinder00:07:03 - What does the Crazy Gorila do with all the food in their videos00:11:15 - Virtual Reality is the future00:12:50 - VR technology isn't appreciated enough00:14:02 - Can the PSP make a comeback00:16:39 - Ramon was almost scammed00:17:48 - Saul was catfished and didn't care00:18:55 - La Rosa de Guadalupe has better writers than SNL00:19:42 - Down bad on Crypto00:22:40 - Saul was almost a millionaire00:23:41 - Life will turn virtual00:26:15 - Ghosts killed Xbox Kinect was00:28:20 - VR escape rooms00:31:57 - Being stuck in a fake elevator00:33:29 - Escape rooms are wild00:34:48 - Scariest escape room00:37:55 - The McKinley Manner00:39:14 - Believing in Duendes/ magical creatures00:43:45 - Is fishing fun?00:46:06 - Dolphins are horny animals00:48:20 - Swimming with Dolphins00:53:13 - Meteor that killed dinosaurs landed in Mexico00:56:65 - In charge of pulling the piñata01:00:03 - surviving the jumper as a kid01:03:47 - Donating your clothes to Mexico01:06:01 - You have to be attractive to work retail01:06:47 - Can guys work at Victoria's Secret?01:10:40 - Are nice toes important01:13:02 - Happy ending pedicure01:13:29 - What we look for in a girl01:19:22 - Randomly bumping into Ramon at a basketball game01:22:08 - CDC makes no sense01:29:59 - intermission 01:32:14 - Girls don't poop01:33:16 - Working and going to school while uploading every week01:35:59 - Aaron the mimosa king01:37:43 - Pooping your pants01:42:42 - Bitchassness of the week01:44:50 - The tik tok FYP01:48:22 - Kendal Jenner01:52:20 - Youtube vs tik tok boxing match

This episode we talk about the Kinect and what we thought about the hardware and what we think about its possible future.

Vanessa Larco is a Partner at NEA, a global venture capital firm with a mission to make the world better by helping founders build great companies that improve the way we live, work and play. She joined NEA in 2016 and focuses on enterprise SaaS and consumer investing. She is passionate about well-designed products and services that enable people to be more productive and fulfilled at work and at home. Vanessa has led investments in Cleo, Rocket.Chat, Mejuri, EvidentID, Greenlight Card, Feather, and Lily AI. She is also a board observer at Robinhood, Willow Pump, Forethought AI and OmniSci. Prior to joining NEA, she was the Director of Product Management at Box (NYSE: BOX) where she worked on building the next generation of productivity apps across web and mobile. Her passion for design and analytics stems from her experience in the gaming industry, which includes leading the Speech Recognition Experience team at Xbox Kinect v1, and building a top grossing gaming studio at Disney Social. Vanessa holds a BS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. About Our Partner This episode is brought to you Varia Search. Varia Search is a boutique legal recruiting firm that uses a bespoke approach to fill legal department roles from general counsel to paralegal. They have a particular focus on startups and growing tech companies. They are a boutique firm which allows them to provide individualized, in-depth attention to both their clients and to their searches. They focus solely on placing in-house candidates which allows them to give their clients a bespoke experience in filling their legal needs. Their matchmaking approach ensures that clients are paired with candidates who not only have great credentials but who are also a good cultural fit for a growing company. Learn more at variasearch.com. Some of the Topics Covered by Vanessa Larco in this Episode How Vanessa unexpectedly got into VC Her experience becoming a founder and what she would do differently Vanessa's time working in enterprise software at Box How A/B testing almost got her fired at Box Some important lessons Vanessa took away from working in product management Vanessa's early days at NEA and how she adjusted Vanessa's framework for decision-making as a VC How she approaches mentoring founders Her process for valuating companies at NEA and the importance of founder diversity Deal flow and the areas Vanessa is most excited about right now How Vanessa has seen the VC industry change in recent years Her time management approach of ruthless prioritization The challenge of constant task switching as a VC and how to avoid being transactional Sign up for The Grind, for actionable insights and stories from successful entrepreneurs delivered to your inbox once per week: https://www.justgogrind.com/newsletter/ Listen to all episodes of the Just Go Grind Podcast: https://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/ Follow Justin Gordon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/justingordon212 Follow Justin Gordon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justingordon8/

The Queens talk ghost tech: learn about 19th-century 'ectoplasm', the Xbox Kinect and other gadgets used by ghost hunters, and how Rad got a haunted knee playing Just Dance. Back in the real world, Amanda plans to farm mermaids, Rad explains mesh Wi-Fi and Tegan gets historically sinful.

武藤敬司さんがKinectの発売記念イベントの写真をツイートしていたので、その辺の思い出話

The best and worst of the 1995 episode is all here! From the white, British reincarnation of TLC, to songs so boring we pull out the deep XBOX Kinect knowledge, it's an enthralling installment of the Eurovision Song Contest. There's abuse of plaid, a Kurt Cobain lookalike balladeer, and a man who JUST NEEDS TO SHAVE! It's all here, as we rewind back to the Eurovision Song Contest 1995. You can watch the entire Eurovision 1995 Final here. Timestamps: (coming soon) http://vocabgumbo.com

Infos: - Vive Focus mit XR2 Chip - NVIDIA 3000er ohne Virtual Link - DLSS jetzt auch für VR - Mac Support für Virtual Desktop - Apple Keynote - Facebook Connect - Playstation Showcase Nummer 3 Spieletests: - Dance Collider (PSVR Version) - Yupitergrad (Steam Version) Interview: mit Tom über Oculus Link, Full Body Tracking mit XBox Kinect und Social VR mit VR Chat.

Max and Cassie, our friends from Insanely Haunted podcast, join us in episode 7 for a hysterical second part to our ghost hunting equipment discussion. We debunk the Ovilus 5, infrared and full spectrum photography, and discuss how the Xbox Kinect became a popular tool in the ghost hunting community. Spirit Story Box makes its second appearance, and Paige finds out that the entity haunting her home is named Meagan.  Our guests, Max and Cassie are the hosts of a hilarious podcast where they watch and review the Travel Channel show Ghost Adventures. Check them out at https://insanely-haunted.pinecast.co Hit subscribe to be notified of future episodes, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@SpookySciPod), and Facebook (@SpookyScienceSisters) for even more spooky content!

Max and Cassie, our friends from Insanely Haunted podcast, join us in episode 7 for a hysterical second part to our ghost hunting equipment discussion. We debunk the Ovilus 5, infrared and full spectrum photography, and discuss how the Xbox Kinect became a popular tool in the ghost hunting community. Spirit Story Box makes its second appearance, and Paige finds out that the entity haunting her home is named Meagan. Our guests, Max and Cassie are the hosts of a hilarious podcast where they watch and review the Travel Channel show Ghost Adventures. Check them out at https://insanely-haunted.pinecast.co Hit subscribe to be notified of future episodes, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@SpookySciPod), and Facebook (@SpookyScienceSisters) for even more spooky content!

Season 2 Episode 24 Episode 56   News   The Designer Of The NES Dishes The Dirt On Nintendo's Early Days   7 Sonic The Hedgehog Prototypes 2020 LCL Raspberry Pi GBA Game Console Try This At Home: Build an Atari Star Wars Cockpit Arcade Machine Turbo Petscii Fighter Shantae's Very Rare, Very Expensive Game Boy Color Game Is Getting A Re-Release Nintendo News: The Lion King: A Look Back at the BRUTALLY Difficult '90s Platformer This Super Nintendo Console is Now an Awesome Nintendo Switch Dock The Mario 64 PC port looks like a full-blown remaster with new 4K texture pack This Mario 64 mod uses Xbox Kinect to control Mario with real-life triple jumps The Manual Matters: ‘The Legend of Zelda’ How It Was Meant to Be Played       Topic: Interview w/ Dagen Brock  GS+ Emulator Flapple   Game Club Discussion: Skate Or Die  Donkey Kong Country    New Game Club Games: Short Circuit (Apple II) Montezuma’s Revenge   Music By: I Love Lightning Bugs   Game Club Master List

Can virtual reality make your home gym less boring ... and maybe improve your workouts? In this episode of TechFirst with John Koetsier we chat with Eric Malafeew, former chief architect of Guitar Hero. He's worked on Mars landers and the Xbox Kinect, among other things, and now has VZfit, a VR app that makes workouts feel like a game I’ve been using Beat Saber to get a bit of a workout at home in VR. But according to Malafeew, VZfit can make your workouts better … longer … more frequent ... and more intense without you even really feeling like you're working out. The idea is that you bike on your stationary bike and, thanks to VR, go anywhere in the world … fight tanks … drive Formula 1 ... face off at the OK Corral ... and much more.

GameEnthus Podcast ep406: A Cut Unknown or T9'd   This week Matt(@CooGamesMatt) from Coo Games joins Mike (@AssaultSuit)  and Aaron (@Ind1fference) talk about: Composition, Coo Games, Monopoly, Turbo Grafx 1 6 Mini, Core Grafx Mini, PC Engine Mini, My Life in Gaming, GameSack, Jay & Silent Bob's Reboot, Onward, Bloodshot, Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts, Trolls On Tour, Xbox Kinect, FRU, Commander Cherry, Bloodshot, Jonah Hex, Super Mario Bros. Movie, The Room, Tommy Wiseau, Doom, Doom: Annihilation, Kung Fury, Thunder Rally, Barro, Project Mercury, Totally Reliable Delivery Service, Cosmic Star Heroine, Drawful 2, Cards Against Humanity, Tiny Towns, Scrabble, Spelunky, Shobu, Sheep, Tofu Kingdom, Tabletop Simulator, Animal Crossing, Tabletopia, WarGroove, Tetris 99, PlayingCards.io, Remote Insensitivity, Composition, Dixit, Masters of Charms, Quadropolis, Splendor, Thunder Rally, Sagrada, Secret Neighbor, Biped, BoxVR, Charterstone, Dominion, Machi Koro Legacy, Chariot, Victory Prose, UnPub, Break My Game, Hello Fresh and more.              If you like the show please leave us an itunes, Google, Youtube or Stitcher review, a tweet, an email or a voicemail (202-573-7686).     Show Length: 95 minutes  Direct Download(click on 3 dots to download)      Show Links Follow Matt on Twitter Follow Matt on Instagram CooGames Team GameEnthus on Extra Life   New videos GameEnthus.com   Youtube.com/user/GameEnthus      Community Info   Major Linux and Crew's Notcho Podcast Kiaun's Show The Analog Circle Podcast Gary and Dan's Show TheGamesMenRPG Open Forum Radio SingleSimulcast  Rap Godz theblacktop.tv    Breaks Matt's intro/anecdotes - 2m 29s Mike and Aaron's anecdotes - 15m 22s Games Mike and Matt Played - 43m 42s Games Aaron Played - 59m 12s Other Stuff - 1h 21m Outro - 1h 25m   Music Wu-Tang Clan - Method Man instrumental Metal Gear Solid 2 Theme Raekwon - Glaciers of Ice instrumental Castlevania 64 Theme Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit instrumental GZA/The Genius - Breaker, Breaker instrumental      

I ukens sending har Petter og Johannes fått med seg Magnus som vikar i studio. På plakaten i dag går vi litt i dybden på Bethesda og deres fall fra storheten. I tillegg snakker vi om remakes og remasters, samt den døde og begravede Xbox Kinect.

Anyone who has done any work with artificial intelligence can tell you that collecting enough data to train the AI can be as difficult as building the neural networks themselves. There are some decent libraries for standard data sets but say you needed to train an AI to identify a particular model of a product category. Finding the right images to train the system could be near impossible. To help solve this problem is Mindtech Global.The company specializes in creating synthetic training data to help take an artificial intelligence system from concept to knowledgable. There are all sorts of scenarios where real-world data is not possible. Take, for example, drone data. An airport isn't going to allow an AI creator to fly a drone in their airspace to train what a good or bad drone might look like. By using synthetic data from Mindtech Global, you can still train your system without the need to inconvenience the airport.In addition to difficult or impossible scenarios, there is also a bias in training data. When Project Natal, which became Xbox Kinect, was first demonstrated in 2009, it was done entirely with light-skinned people on stage. This is because the detection algorithms were not able to detect people with darker skin tones. Artificial intelligence systems face similar bias issues because of their training data. Humans tend to teach based on our experiences, which drives an AI to miss things. With the synthetic datasets, we eliminate humanity's tendency towards unconscious bias.Currently, a lot of the bias is detected and solved by humans. For example, if a data scientist notices that systems have issues detecting people wearing backpacks, they will ensure that the dataset will include more images of people wearing backpacks. That means that future training sessions will have improved identification of people with backpacks.To learn more about the Mindtech Global technology or engage their services, check out their website.Interview by Scott Ertz of F5 Live: Refreshing Technology and Christopher Jordan of The Talking Sound.Sponsored by: Get $5 to protect your credit card information online with Privacy. Amazon Prime gives you more than just free shipping. Get free music, TV shows, movies, videogames and more. The most flexible tools for podcasting. Get a 30 day free trial of storage and statistics.

Anyone who has done any work with artificial intelligence can tell you that collecting enough data to train the AI can be as difficult as building the neural networks themselves. There are some decent libraries for standard data sets but say you needed to train an AI to identify a particular model of a product category. Finding the right images to train the system could be near impossible. To help solve this problem is Mindtech Global.The company specializes in creating synthetic training data to help take an artificial intelligence system from concept to knowledgable. There are all sorts of scenarios where real-world data is not possible. Take, for example, drone data. An airport isn't going to allow an AI creator to fly a drone in their airspace to train what a good or bad drone might look like. By using synthetic data from Mindtech Global, you can still train your system without the need to inconvenience the airport.In addition to difficult or impossible scenarios, there is also a bias in training data. When Project Natal, which became Xbox Kinect, was first demonstrated in 2009, it was done entirely with light-skinned people on stage. This is because the detection algorithms were not able to detect people with darker skin tones. Artificial intelligence systems face similar bias issues because of their training data. Humans tend to teach based on our experiences, which drives an AI to miss things. With the synthetic datasets, we eliminate humanity's tendency towards unconscious bias.Currently, a lot of the bias is detected and solved by humans. For example, if a data scientist notices that systems have issues detecting people wearing backpacks, they will ensure that the dataset will include more images of people wearing backpacks. That means that future training sessions will have improved identification of people with backpacks.To learn more about the Mindtech Global technology or engage their services, check out their website.Interview by Scott Ertz of F5 Live: Refreshing Technology and Christopher Jordan of The Talking Sound.Sponsored by: Get $5 to protect your credit card information online with Privacy. Amazon Prime gives you more than just free shipping. Get free music, TV shows, movies, videogames and more. The most flexible tools for podcasting. Get a 30 day free trial of storage and statistics.

Well, everyone else is doing a decade in review, so why not Bob & Kevin! Be sure to like, follow, subscribe or whatever the heck you need to do on your podcast listening platform of choice! Help us kick this show into high gear. Follow us on twitter at https://twitter.com/bobandkevinshow and enjoy the show transcript below from our friends at https://otter.ai/ Kevin 0:00 So we're back Holy crap, it's the year 2020 Bob 0:05 I have so much disappointment about the statement of year 2020 I just can't even not really about the year itself or anything that it may or may not bring but you know there's just a lot of bullshit flying around right now about not just New Year new me. new decade new me whatever they're saying. I have no idea. Kevin 0:24 Yeah, this is the time of year when you start thinking, Man, maybe I should lose some weight. And of course, you know, even if you do lose weight, it finds you because the only thing that really works is changing the whole lifestyle thing like I don't know living to a state with mountains and hiking all the time. Hey, let me tell you that doesn't take off wait either, by the way, damn it. Oh, that stinks. So according to Back to the Future to in 1989 in the year 2015. Not only will the Cubs win the World Series, which was almost accurate as off by like one year, but we'd be flying around in our automobiles, Bob, are we there yet? Bob 1:05 Well, depends which call flying around. Yeah, we have some autonomous features and functionality in some of our vehicles. We even kind of have hovery skate boardy things. Not really though. Kevin 1:23 I don't know. So it's been a few weeks since we had a pod. We've had a few holidays. Today, as I saw on the internet is the Monday-ist Thursday of the entire year, and it certainly felt that way. Bob 1:37 This whole holiday break has been the shittiest shitty of anything. You could just fill in the blank Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Kevin 1:45 but did you acquire or partake in anything? especially notable over the holidays? Bob 1:54 I had two have my three kids home so that was kind of cool. would have been nice to be 3-for-3 Um, didn't really get any tech related gifts were really minimizing the whole Christmas thing. got this cool piece of artwork though, that I was looking at and my kids noticed that I was looking at it and they bought it for me Kevin 2:12 so awesome. So is it hanging in said, domicile, Bob 2:18 it is prominently displayed in the dining area. It is a collection of hand crafted pine trees they are I think they're created with a arc welder to actually cut out the metal and then uses some kind of patina technique to give them a cool bluish green tint. They're pretty awesome. How Kevin 2:42 about you? Um, yeah, so we are highly evolved. People as a couple my wife and I that is we don't buy each other gifts so usually tend to buy the kids some gifts. We've decided to go on a vacation few weeks after the holiday so that was part of their gift and then The fun thing I got to play with over the last week or so is a vinyl cutter that was not a part of Christmas. It was just one of those things sitting in a box that nobody Bob 3:08 I can't believe you had one of those and no one was using it. That's crazy. Kevin 3:12 Well, my wife's very into scrapbooking and she actually bought it for herself. And then once I learned we had set thing in our possession, boom, started using it and I've already made some stickers and tried screen printing with making it a laser cut stencils, some really cool things you can do. Bob 3:32 So I've seen pictures and some of this stuff looks pretty big. What's that? Like? I don't really know much about vinyl cutters and maybe some of our listeners don't. What? Yeah, but I saw his and hers above your bathroom. That's pretty big. Kevin 3:47 Yeah, so out of the box, so I have the cricket or we have I like it's mine now. Okay, we've got That's beautiful. Yeah, we've got the Cricut Explore air. I'm looking at it here it is on my desk. So possession is nine tenths of the law. So, out of the box, it cuts a 12 by 12 piece of vinyl if you want, and then it goes up to 12 by 24. If you buy a optional mat, which I've totally bought, and then really the sky's the limit because if you need something bigger than that, and you're using cricket, he just basically print it in sections and you put it together. Bob 4:26 So you tile it out. Hmm, Kevin 4:27 yeah, so the his and hers that you can find on my Instagram and or my Twitter account. Yeah. You probably won't go look for it. But I'm just saying the his and hers are one piece each and they are fairly large or like, Bob 4:41 Oh, those are 1pm or one piece each. Yep. So they worked probably on the 12 by 24. Kevin 4:46 Yes, that is correct. And I've since printed, some stickers, some JavaScript stickers. It's great for like laptop stuff. I'm showing Bob here some stickers to the camera. I've made one here for one of my kids. gran starion Yep, and I made him a white and black version. I made a an airborne patch because I was in airborne in the army here this is gonna go to my car and if you notice, what Bob can see is that you can have multiple colors which is really cool. You just layer them on there you cut them in you cut you know one color then you cut the other color then you put them on top of each other. It's pretty cool. Bob 5:23 Is any of this computer driven or is this all manual? Kevin 5:27 Well, the cutting in the designing is all computer driven. Bob 5:46 how much is a cricket runya Kevin 5:48 that's a 200 bucks and there's different versions like version one back in the day you got like Nintendo cartridges. were basically you know you had to buy this cartridge from the local craft store. Plug it in like a video game. Then you get to choose, you know, from an enumerated list of things and is kind of shitty after a while because you're like, but I want to print this custom thing. Oh, here comes version two points version 2.0 is like, hey, we've got this app. And all you basically need is a transparent background. png file. And there we go. And then there's a ton of videos on YouTube to kind of get you going. And holy crap. I'm like, pretty excited. I'm not gonna lie. You appear to be having Bob 6:30 fun with it, because I see lots of pictures. And sorry, you answer you said you're integrating that with your screen printing as well. Kevin 6:37 So yeah, I guess I guess I haven't really talked about screen printing on the show. So I do screen printing. It's kind of like my analog hobby when I just want to get away from the digital world. And so there's many ways to screen printing Bobby, you said you use the screen for maybe you still do, but not still, but used to that there's three primary ways and the first way I I learned was you buy this thing called an emulsion sheet which is pre coated and it's sensitive to sunlight. You print something on a transparency, plop it on top, go out in the sun for a minute, and then you wash it out. And it works actually really well. One drawback there is you can't keep tension on it. So you know, it's guys drawbacks, but it's very easy to burn. The second is the traditional way, which is you, you. Grape, I guess is the right or you go a screen, a traditional screen squeegee the screen. Well, Bob 7:33 now before you get to the squeegee, you kind of said that most of you put the emotion on the squeegee to so Kevin 7:39 well that's the thing I've got. It's like it's called a scoop coder. So you scoop code it and then that's like a Bob 7:45 net sloshing around. Kevin 7:46 You've got to do it in a dark room. So I've had to put together a makeshift dark room and a half and I had to buy red lights and everything. And then I had to build and I'm going to show Bob this. I don't know if you can see it right at the end of my desk here right radio. I know right? The end of my desk is it Hey, this houses my undeveloped screens because it's light sensitive. And so I turn all the lights out usually at night time and then I expose them with UV light. So that's method to method three to bring it back to the cricket is to vinyl cut something and then just apply it right to the screen but you do it in reverse and put it on the bottom side. And then you just squeegee it through. Now I think that's brilliant. Now each way actually has their pros and cons. Do you think that the vinyl cut way is like well, why wouldn't you always do that just less mess easy. The drawback is if you have very fine detail, the vinyl cutter isn't the best solution for that. Really? Yes, you'll want to go traditional in the ocean with the UV light or the or the first method. Bob 8:45 Did I see that you did our logo as a final cut as well did and that turned out Kevin 8:49 really freakin well. So if you want like a car sticker. Oh, that's great. Yes. Bob 8:54 Oh shit. Yeah. Did you remake the did you make the audio waves or was that right from the logo? That Kevin 8:59 is right. Right from the audio, I did not remake anything. Bob 9:02 Damn, that did look good. I'm actually if anyone's interested in checking that out. Did you share that on the show Tweeter, Kevin 9:09 I you know, I have no idea anymore. We have so many accounts, both personal and professional podcasting accounts that it's Bob 9:17 really hard to keep track of super, super professional podcasting accounts. So, um, before we get into the meat of the show, this is kind of like a little transitional thing. Speaking of the show social media. One of the show New Year's resolutions that I've made for myself is to try to be more engaged in the marketing of the show. So I want to share with listeners since we're less than 10 minutes in and maybe most of you are still here, our primary platform appears to be looking back at the 2019 stats, Spotify. So if you are on Spotify, please I think they have a follow button and using that follow button actually subscribe to the podcast but then also helps Spotify algorithm determine where to show our podcast is recommended to some folks that may not have heard us in the past couple years. So that's pretty Kevin 10:12 good do that. That'd be very that's a great resolution. I have traditionally stayed away from resolutions but I did give myself some. So a little more personal info about me. I am a arms dealer of Lego so Bob 10:28 You scared the shit out of me for a second. Kevin 10:31 I buy sell Lego and that's kind of a finicky thing because you know, you just got to pick out the right one then you basically turn around keep them for a while and you sell them but what I learned with that experiences Wow, it is really awesome to make money while you sleep. And I've tried six ways from Sunday to to make money in software like an open source projects making this little library that is that is a tough business. So selling frickin Legos has made Like a million times more money than any software gig I've tried to do on the side, just putting that out there. So the problem with Lego is, is, well, eventually you run out of the good stuff. So I've been into woodworking slash screen printing for the last four or five, six months. And that's where my future efforts are going to continue. And I'm going to open up an Etsy store and I'm going to sell a bunch of woodworking stuff. And I like to really bore the shit out of people by posting all my projects that I have on Instagram often Bob 11:35 No, I love it because I'm not as artistic as I used to be. And it's cool to see you making stuff. I mean, I'm, I'm super engaged with all of my friends that do creative things outside of code. Because I don't do that much creatively outside of code. Well, except maybe podcast. Kevin 11:54 I've definitely I'm at peace with the idea that I'm a creative person, but I don't necessarily have to do In the digital realm, and so I really really, really like balancing my digital creativity with analog creativity. So I played music play guitar, I Bob 12:10 I draw I you know, I fabric Kevin does all the show artwork in case anybody didn't know that. Yes, Kevin 12:16 stick figure art is harder than it looks. Bob 12:21 Especially when you have an annoying co host. It's like, Can you make it look like this? Kevin 12:25 Yes. So yeah, the creativity thing. That's kind of my resolution thing, but in so expect more show swag. Bob and Kevin show branded show swag that you probably can't buy because you probably don't want to buy it. But Bob 12:41 I might have but if you're good listeners and drop us some lines on social media, maybe you'll just could Kevin 12:47 Yeah, Bob 12:48 possibly get some and then Kevin 12:50 I've done a lot of signs that. So confession time Kevin really likes Pinterest and from what I understand That's that's, you know, takes a lot of courage sticks, you know, to say that so I really like Pinterest and I steal all my great woodworking ideas from there. There I said it. Bob 13:10 You use it as your creative Muse you don't steal? Yeah, Kevin 13:13 I liked you could be my marketing manager if this ever goes anywhere. Bob 13:18 I like it. I don't think you're going to need one. I think the shop speaks for itself. Well, alright, so we've talked a little bit about some resolutions. And I think that it's a very popular, hip trendy thing for shows like ours to take a look back at the prior year and technology or whatever the topic of conversation is, but since we did turn that big decade clock, I think we turned the decade clock. I think there's debate on that as well. But everyone's saying we turn the decade clock. So I think we're going to take a little bit of a look back at the the decade in tech. Kevin 13:56 Does that sound about right? Yeah. So the other day, I think we'd agreed upon some ground rules on what should we freakin talk about in our New Year's episode? And you didn't follow any of the ground rules? Oh, we'll see. We'll see. So the rules were that we had to come up with the 10 best and 10 worst things and or releases or objects tech related in the last decade. Right. That was kind of the right rules. Bob 14:22 Yeah. And a little glimpse behind the curtain for those of you who listen, and we probably mentioned this before, this show is not highly scripted at all. And when we do come up with topics like this, we don't share like our our conversations during the day get very awkward because we want to talk about this stuff, but we can't. So I have no idea what Kevin's top 10 and top 10 lists are and he has no idea what mine are. But I'm actually pretty excited to see if there's any overlap at all. In which would be even the most entertaining is if I have something on the good list. He has it on the bad. Or vice versa. Like, Kevin 15:03 it's like the naughty and nice list. Bob 15:05 Yes. So So where do we want to start? Let's hear let's just so I did rank Where did you rank yours? I don't know how heavy my writer rank in descending order from 10 to one, I have two honorable mentions in each category. All right, Kevin 15:19 very good. Let's just give me your 10th best technology of the 2010s. Bob 15:25 What should I do my honorable mentions first because they're outside the top 10? Kevin 15:31 Uh, no. Give me Bob 15:33 the Oh, we're going to close out with those after we get the number one. Yes. So we're doing the positive ones first. Kevin 15:39 Let's go back and forth. So we'll do a best one will do this one and then so Okay. Bob 15:45 All right. So this one is going to be my number 10 of the most positive things and tech from the last decade. For me, I said the rise of music subscription services and the end of the CD and Digital piracy era I key cuz full disclosure, I used to sometimes stumble across music that I didn't own prior to the 2010s Kevin 16:11 that's, that's interesting because look, are you including or maybe you don't want to tell me streaming video as well Bob 16:20 and this this is specifically to get it so so I was kind of looking at personal things so as well as like big industries the Kevin 16:28 streaming is huge and it's such a strange concept to no longer have a tangible piece of music like an album if you are does an album even exist anymore. Bob 16:41 Yeah, actually really cool. hipsters will release their albums on vinyl on very limited release, although it has been increasing in popularity again. But this has been a very big conversation in our house over the holidays to with the digital music, because nobody actually owns the music anymore. So David, for the most part, David Neil Kevin 17:00 Also known as at Reverend geek, he was on one of the early Bob and Kevin show, YouTube additions. He tweeted the other day is like, hey, CDs, it's kind of like an offline version of Spotify just laughed my ass off. So, Bob 17:16 but it's not, though, because the CD doesn't know what you want to hear next. Kevin 17:20 There's no algorithm, Bob 17:22 right? There's no algorithm on the disk. Okay, Kevin 17:25 well, you can burn your own playlist. So I guess there's, there's some in there, Bob 17:29 I know. But think about it. So we went through that evolution where you had a bunch of CDs that you purchased at the store, then you digitize those CDs. And then you took those CDs in major own mix CDs. So think about how much waste we've, Kevin 17:46 I don't know, not prevented, but ceased to create because of this movement, but that or do we just move it because now everything's streamed and you have to create the energy to move the bits each and every time Bob 18:00 Yeah, but the internet was gonna do that anyway. But it Kevin 18:03 didn't need to do this. Pick a song over and over and over and over and over and over again and it never downloads anyway, Bob 18:10 that's what bandwidth is about. Alright, so let me throw that was my number 10. What was yours? Kevin 18:15 My number 10 Best thing was the iPad slash smartphone. So I realized that's a very broad category. Bob 18:23 I like where you're going with that though, because phones have basically become iPads lately. Kevin 18:26 Well, the iPad was released in 2010. And full disclosure, I made a lot of fun of it at the time because I'm like, this is stupid. This will never work. There's no keyboard oh my gosh, why would she do there's no apps you know, live to do them. I was wrong. I am raising my hand for the camera here. I was wrong. And then smartphones themselves I worked at a wireless carrier, a Verizon Wireless carrier, and I was a part of the retail side of moving a bunch of smartphones to the public. I realized the iPhone was invested in 2007. But I really don't think it took off until Android was released, which was in that neighborhood. I'd have to have the internet we don't have and can't afford look that up. But I do remember at the time blackberry happened to be king, Bob 19:17 right? Hey, oh, god, you're gonna laugh so hard. This is the best radio ever got. I can't wait, keep going. Kevin 19:23 Well, I was just gonna mention Whatever happened to hard Qwerty keyboards on the phones. Well, they lost to the soft screen. So what do you think? Bob 19:33 Well, I think that that's a great number 10 for the positives. Do you want to hear my number 10 for the negative laid on me. Listeners at home, this is not scripted by number 10 for some of the downside things, I guess this actually could be spent as a positive people who should not have been making phones like Facebook, Amazon, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone Those are all really bad smartphones of the 20. Kevin 20:04 Well, I allow me to split hairs. blackberry was the jam. So if you want a corporate email on your phone, Blackberry was it. I mean, even President Obama was like, give me my crackberry Bob 20:19 it was, but very early on in the 2010s. blackberry was already in the throes of like the death throes the last twitches of life where they came out with their tablet. I can't remember what they called it, but it was you know, they were trying to revive their, their smartphone presence and they just couldn't do it. So I totally Kevin 20:41 missed by I totally missed Windows Phone but I wouldn't say I missed it. Or do miss it. Blackberry. I think they tried to come out with a soft screen again. Bob, Bob's holding up his Bob 20:54 apparently I my windows 8.1 phone that I still have because it runs like a beat Kevin 21:00 So in Facebook, do they actually have a smartphone? Bob 21:04 So Facebook was toying with the idea of a smartphone and what they did instead of making the hardware, they came out with a basically a flavor of Android that they tried to distribute on pre made devices and, like a lot of Facebook things it didn't. Kevin 21:21 While we're talking Facebook up a quick reminder that my particular version of Android cannot uninstall Facebook. I can only disable it. Thanks, Mark, because I didn't need that 300 mega space on my phone anyway, right. Bob 21:36 I'm gonna make a quick prediction here that Facebook is going to come up in this conversation more than what can I do my Kevin 21:41 number 10 then Hell yeah. Number 10. Worst thing the bad thing was the bad yeah, bad things. Facebook acquires Instagram in 2012 Bob 21:53 Wow, that was still that was wet number 10. For you. Wow. It's it's in this list is gonna get into Kevin 22:00 Yeah the list is young. So yeah so in in 2012 I don't know that any of us including the FTC, or whatever government agency overlords you know, mergers and stuff like that. I don't think they necessarily saw future things like surveillance state 2016 election, Cambridge Analytica, yada yada yada in 2012. So yeah, sure, why not? You got money, they, you can buy them great. And nobody really understood how the filter bubbles and how speech was going to be shaped in 2019 2020. Well, pick a year. Bob 22:38 So you're so funny. God, this is the best. I knew this was going to be great. Kevin 22:42 So what do you think? hasman number 10. Bob 22:46 Number. Yeah, that's very interesting that that's your number 10 because you kind of bit off a lot there. So I'm very curious to hear what 931 are for the bad. Well, Kevin 22:57 yeah, I may have tipped my hand a little bit. But let's let's go with your number nine, what's your number nine. Bob 23:02 Okay thing. So number nine positives. It's funny that you said iPad was your number 10. Number nine for me was the Microsoft Surface Book. Because in the surface the surface line of products from Microsoft, very much along the same lines, full functional computing with detachable screens in still very pop powerful graphics processing and overall CPU not just the GPU so I love my Surface Book. I have one personally and one professionally, and they're talking about getting new machines at work. Luckily, we've already run the disclaimer If not, I'll drop it in here as well. But I don't want a new one. I don't want a new machine. I like my surface. Wow. So Microsoft for as much as they struggle. I feel like in various consumer based hardwares and software's windows 10 and Surface line we're pretty big in the 2010s for me so I think so Kevin 24:04 I've never had a surface but here's what grinds my gears with when with with Microsoft Surface before the Microsoft Surface that you're talking about debuted Microsoft had another surface Do you remember that at all? Bob 24:19 Well, I think they have the I would guess they call it the they don't call it the plain vanilla but they do have just the surface period. And it you know, has a type of cover and Nope, nope, nope. Kevin 24:30 Other surface so in 2011 I went to Indianapolis, Indiana to the Gen Con board game convention. Yeah, nerd alert. Bob 24:40 Right. So we need to alert nerd alert drop right. Kevin 24:44 So back then Microsoft had a product called surface but it was a table that was so thick of the screen is the table top and you can put things on it and it would you know like capacitive touch, you would know what's on it and then they would it was really good. Cool, but they totally went away from that. So, Bob 25:03 yeah, I wish I wish they would go back. Maybe they'll bring it back maybe. All right. Are you ready? So that was my nine, number nine positive. So your number nine positive is Kevin 25:12 Azure, AWS slash cloud, the cloud, all the things now this is cloud computing, cloud computing, right? And this is very near and dear to my like, daily professional life, because one of the worst things that I can imagine as a web developer is on premise hosting. You know, yeah, on one hand, you're like, yeah, I have control the box, I can do whatever. But with AWS and Azure, there's this concept of server less, which, by the way, it's still Bob 25:42 a real server, right? It's in a box, which Kevin 25:44 it's terrible naming when they say server lists it, explaining it to non tech people. Oh, so there's no server. No, there is a server, it's just virtualized. Anyway, I digress. So but it's really changed my day to day job. It's really enabled this thing called DevOps automation, and it's really changed. Like the landscape of everyone because it what it does, what it does is it lowers the bar, you know, expose the CD ends to Joe developer, Jane developer. It does all these things. So you mentioned earlier music streaming, I humbly think that the cloud revolution helped enable the streaming revolution. What do you think? Bob 26:23 Oh, I think so much of that is dead on, you know, physical boxes. Don't really, I mean, I'm sure they exist. I'm sure there's tons of them out there still. But yeah, that platform, the whole idea of that distributed computing that is easily accessible and the, you know, the front end that they've given all that stuff with the front end tool, so it's not all command line stuff. Yeah. It's pretty amazing. Kevin 26:50 Yeah. And AWS started because they basically had an internal need and then they just said, Hey, wouldn't be cool if we just sold some of our capacity. I don't know. Azure has a similar history but I thought that is some of the best ways to create tech you know, create a business which is solve a real problem and then see if you can make it generic and or you know, you know, abstracted if you will, so that was mine. Which guy Bob 27:19 so, we're on so my it's my number nine bad one, right? Yes. Okay, so I kind of went off the beaten path a little bit on this one. This is kind of more of a pet peeve than a so my number nine is bad Kickstarter tech launches. And the one that really comes to mind from the 2010s is the the coolest cooler, which was the cooler that was just trying to be way too many things than just a cooler. I think it had streamable music it had multiple USB chargers speakers on board. It had everything Swiss Army knife Kevin 27:58 or cooler Right. Bob 27:59 Yeah. But for a fucking cooler so I think that paved the way for a bunch of people to be like, Hey, I know this crazy thing that's a bunch of things taper to other things and let's start a Kickstarter for it. And that got really annoying. So Kevin 28:15 full disclosure, I think in 2013 or 14 I was part of a Kickstarter campaign totally failed. But that reminds me because this isn't on any of my list. I'm glad you brought this one up. Because Patreon, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, GoFundMe. Those are the ones just off the top my head. Everyone in their brother and sister are holding their hand out going Hey, give me money. Why? Because of an idea. Okay, well, Bob 28:48 or I can't make rent. here's the kicker. Here's a good one for I can't make rent this month. Yeah. Kevin 28:54 Yeah. So I still like being, you know, contributing when I can can do a charity I'm mostly I can contribute my time not so much money. Every time I see a Patreon for somebody I know, we call it the Tupperware problems, like, I gotta buy at least two bowls, you know, a salad bowl with the leg, make sure you get the lids, otherwise, you know, he's gonna be pissed. And you know, I want to be friends still. And so we call it the Tupperware party, Bob and I do and it's really hard because you look, as a creator, we're Bob and I are both creators, we look and go, I look at all these great, you know, people doing great things and getting Patreon. But then it's like the top 1% It feels like that's, that's actually getting somewhere on these platforms. And then there's everyone else. So Kickstarter sells you this dream and with the 1% actually doing it and they collect, you know, the funds underneath as a fee. So I really look at that stuff and go on. That's just, I don't even know what to call it's not really snake oil, but it's definitely like Same shit different, you know method here where, hey, we're just trying to separate people from money, right? Bob 30:06 Well, my boys bless their hearts. They're both big fans of Kickstarter type projects. And they are just now receiving stuff that they invested in when they were in their mid teens. And they're both in their 20s Kevin 30:23 man, also not a super long game. I guess I won't tell you what's not on my list just in case it's still on your list. All right, let me go with my number nine and you'll be like we're What? The Video Game fortnight This is on my negative list. Bob 30:38 Oh, that's so funny. Kevin 30:42 Video Game my mind. So go ahead. So I put fortnite on there. Mostly Bob 30:46 for shit. No, I did put a video game on mine. Well, I'm Kevin 30:51 so fortnite just the way it affects all the kids. All the children in my orbit. my nieces, my nephews, my own kids. These people are dicted listen Like a real drug and on top of that, it pretty much shut down every other video game except for maybe Minecraft and untitled goose game. Alright, so there's like three video games left in the world because of fortnight has just totally come in steamrolled everything. And they have this concept of V bucks, where, you know, the kids are like, Hey, can we get or can we get a gift card for Microsoft so we can apply it to our Xbox so we can basically just give it away. I'm like, Oh my god, this is this is life. And then there's like this internal gambling addiction that they all have, because you can get these llamas and these crates and you get this random thing that comes out. And while I'm on the gambling thing, my girls who don't play fortnight as much they do play fortnight. They have toys like lol dolls are familiar lol dolls. It so so. So if you go to Walmart or any retailer, they'll have them so it's a sealed box opaque. You can't see what's in it. The whole idea is you got to buy it to see what's in it and it plays on these like human emotions. curiosity. Anyway, so number nine is fortnight for me What am I? Bob 32:08 Oh, that is a great so now we're to my number eight. Kevin 32:13 Number eight positive Bob 32:14 number eight positive and I lied and I want to stress again this is not scripted, we did not see each other's list. My number eight positive tech from the 2010s is Minecraft because it's a family focused gaming adventure and you can play it with your kids and actually with my kids, I taught them how to manage their own minecraft server so they weren't out there messing around with the general public so taught them how to give server line commands basically through the through the Minecraft thing so this is so funny that you were fortnight and now I'm on Minecraft so Kevin 32:56 okay so interesting sacred you're picking Minecraft Yes, Minecraft Bob 33:02 positive. Oh, okay. Kevin 33:03 Yeah so Minecraft I think has replaced Lego and a lot of housecalls for sure yeah Bob 33:09 digital Lego without a doubt yeah and when I again Kevin 33:12 another thing I was totally wrong on with Minecraft cuz I see it I'm like what the hell is this shit The graphics are terrible right you know it's very blocky no kids gonna like this right they're just gonna be like oh well you know give me like Call of Duty or something with high end graphics but actually I kind of like Minecraft because it It stimulates creativity and building and whatnot. Bob 33:38 Yep, that's pretty much why I was coming in at number eight for me of the 2010 Alright, so Kevin 33:42 my number eight you'll probably snicker a little bit is crypto slash blockchain. Bob 33:51 So this is your number eight positive Oh, Kevin 33:53 oh, I'm sorry. This is my negative shoot. Bob 33:58 No, that's why Kevin 34:00 I totally messed up. So all right, I'm gonna I'll come back to my number eight positive because I've already tipped my hand. So my number eight negative is crypto blockchain because as of right now, I don't think crypto blockchain has changed the world because that's basically what all the crypto slash blockchain people are saying, Oh, we got a blockchain all the thing it will change the face of insert industry, crypto currency, it will change the face of whatever. I'm still waiting for it to change any part of my life. Bob, what part of your life has it changed? Bob 34:35 Um, I think the only thing that it's really affected is our podcasting because of the Libra kinds of Libra crypto trying to desperately make its way to market. We did do that experiment a couple years back with investing in crypto and tracking the markets. So but that was more just fun. And I Still have not recouped from where we invested. Kevin 35:03 Yeah, you and I totally hit the apex of crypto hey look at all this great stuff happening in crypto let's invest and the good thing I sold out right, I am out for save whatever 15 bucks a Bitcoin was worth a few months ago. Bob 35:19 Yeah, I'm still in. I'm still in. Kevin 35:22 Yeah, we're such suckers, man. Such suckers. Alright, so that was my number eight negative. Do you want me to catch up and just do my number eight positive and then we'll Yeah, we'll just flip it so you do your number a positive so my number eight positive is SpaceX reusable rockets. Wow. So you and I had a live stream of the Falcon Heavy launch which highlighted the landing of the booster rockets and that was in 2017. We had my kids. Bob 35:56 They got two out of three on that one, right? Kevin 35:59 Something like that. But it looked like a frickin science fiction alien invasion movie, which was awesome. Bob 36:07 Suit I got choked up. Kevin 36:09 Oh, me too. And to this day every time they stick the landing, which is it pretty much every Bob 36:14 time now it's regular now. Yeah, Kevin 36:16 that's, that's awesome. I think one of the rockets that went up recently was like its fourth or fifth flight. And that's gotta save money somewhere. And I've heard a lot of people say, Oh, it won't be financially feasible still, you just gotta throw those away and start over. But I think they're starting to prove that wrong. What do you think? Bob 36:35 Yeah, no, I think they're getting financial benefit with the multi launch multi land for sure. That's how they're able to really kind of like supplement the starlink programs. So yeah, the reusable rockets. That's brilliant. Yeah. So and for the most part right now, those are 100%. unmanned trips, right? Kevin 36:55 Yeah. They are testing the ability to send up manned crew and they've had some success recently, because right now we're actually dependent on Russia of all people to send people up the space station. And I will be in Florida in a couple months and trying to catch a falcon nine launch for the starlink program but that's about like thread that needle at this point. Bob 37:21 Right You showed me the schedule it looks like it's not going to happen while you're there. Kevin 37:25 You know, I don't know the schedule enough to know that maybe I'm just looking too far out and they're just gonna fill the schedule or or what have you, but I'm excited. My kids are too They want to see it. Bob 37:35 That would be awesome. Kevin 37:36 Yes. All right. We're up to your number eight. Worst, my number. My number eight bad. Yes. Bob 37:44 This could be a trip down memory lane for some not a positive one. Kevin, did you ever hear of the lytro camera back in the 2010 never heard of it. It is a light Field Camera. And it was supposed to revolutionized digital photography. And it looked like a rectangular tube. But what the camera did it was supposed to capture the infinity of the light that created an image. So you could capture that photograph doing air quotes. And then you could do it ever you wanted to with after that, because it had infinite resolution. That's interesting. So, Kevin 38:28 yeah, it failed, by the way. So have you ever been in photography? Bob 38:33 I yeah, I actually do love photography. And I should love to Kevin 38:37 talk. So when you focus on a certain spot it becomes or there's a certain spot of moving the focal length and you'll hit what's called the hyper focal distance. And everything beyond that point is in focus. It's just like, we can take a picture of a mountain range and it's like, why is that always in vice, the background noise and focus because you've got the focal length, that's the hyperfocal distance, anything in front of You start getting the beaucaire or Boca or however you want to pronounce it. I don't even know what the real word way of pronouncing that is. Bob 39:07 But it's I'm not that big in photography, Kevin 39:09 but to get the subject in focus in the background out of focus. So anyway, blah, blah, blah, blah. Sounds interesting. But you said it totally failed. Bob 39:17 Yeah, first of all, they were super expensive. And the UX, the form factor for the device itself was just very clunky. So, but it was something at the time, I was very into photography and spending money on lenses and things like that, and was very excited about but there was no way I could afford it. When it came out. They came up with a better form factor, but it was still like over 1600 dollars. I think at the time, well, Kevin 39:47 you know what, there's a there's a thing called the iPhone 11. That's got about three cameras on it, and it's a little less than that. So Bob 39:54 right and you can totally adjust that bootcut whatever it is, too. So yeah. Kevin 39:59 Interesting. Bob 40:01 All right, but yeah, so that was yet some of these are very personal to me. So this is pretty fun. Kevin 40:07 I'm glad I didn't bet money if what your number eight was eight would be all right, my number seven positive is 3d printing slash CNC slash vinyl cutting. Bob 40:22 Man, I'm so glad you hit that market too. Kevin 40:24 So 3d printing for me it's very cool. I've seen people make just some ridiculously cool things are basically like hey, yeah, we'll take one of those it's sort of like the the real life replicator from Star Trek shout out to start a supplemental. We need a nice here we need to eventually do this crossover episode Bob 40:43 crossover coming soon. Kevin 40:44 Yes. So that's what I think a 3d printer does. My vinyl cutter is that 2d printer very cool. In I've also seen that they can 3d print organs now which is like totally mind blowing like, hey, can 3d print a new heart and stuff They're printing. Bob 41:00 Yeah, they're printing meat too, which is really weird. Kevin 41:04 So I think 3d printing is still early, but I think it has a lot of promise. I've seen 3d printed houses out of concrete, you know, for in developing countries, just they can just set up a machine and it prints overnight. Yeah, just mind boggling. So what do you think? Bob 41:21 Yeah, I think that that's a really good one. I actually did not touch upon 3d printing. But it's funny that you brought it up because my wife the other day was asking if 3d printers were getting cheaper, and so I thought that was really like that was a bizarre, surreal moment in the baby bar household that she was even considering 3d 3d printing. I like the aspect of 3d printing as well as like printing pieces or tools to do things without having to go to the store to purchase tools. I think that's pretty cool as well. Kevin 41:54 Yeah. Yeah. I played the game civilization quite often. And one of the technologies that you can unlock is called replaceable parts, you know, like preceeds. Like, it's like Civil War era type thing where you could start, you know, fixing things rather than just having to craft it from A to Z every time well give me a couple of these parts, and then we're back to New. So I see the 3d printer is an extension of replaceable parts. And not that I think a hardware store is going to go out of business anytime soon. But when 3d printers become more ubiquitous, that might change. Bob 42:30 Well didn't one of the like space shuttle missions or some space mission space station, maybe even they were able to 3d print a wrench that helped them out in a situation or something like that Kevin 42:42 sounds familiar, but I can't recall the exact one. All right, we got anyway. Yeah, that's a great, well gotta move on. I say what's your number seven positive Bob 42:51 by number seven positive is pretty interesting because I think you've already alluded to this, but number seven positive was cable cutting with streaming services like Sling TV. And we've talked about this on the show several times where I think in the early 2010s when this started to happen, it was meant to be a very positive thing. But now with every service jumping on the streaming subscription bandwagon, really if you add them all back together, it probably costs more than traditional cable Kevin 43:22 and it has the side effect of putting us into an additional filter bubble. We haven't really talked about filter bubbles on this episode just yet, but you know, you're in your platform, you're in your channels and you're you know, you're on Netflix. I cord cut in 2012 off of DirecTV and my wife was pissed she's like, I want my whatever that we remember DVR. I mean, back then, you had to DVR things now. Everything's on demand. I mean, just the world has changed so much. Bob 43:51 Yeah, we need my family off. DVR was a very interesting experience to the cord cutting. So Kevin 43:56 yeah, I like it. I guess now we can transition to My number seven worst and it is crisper. Are you familiar with crisper? Bob 44:07 The DNA editor Kevin 44:08 so I would like to bundle this with DNA testing as well. So there's a Netflix series I forget what it's called, but it follows how crisper works and things like that. And I don't even want to you know, it's not a religious thing and nothing like that. I just think it's a bad idea to fuck with nature, Bob 44:26 right? Oh, I think gene editing is a terrible idea. Kevin 44:29 Yeah, um, the The one thing I think is is way more acceptable is GMOs. You know, if we can make corn feed us more and you know, whatever, that's fine but trying to alter somebody's intellect I color you know, the frick people aren't frickin ecommerce items. I mean, I guess you are in some countries, which is very sad. But so, you know, you don't order your children often many right? Bob 44:57 Yeah, and I can really can't imagine a society where you Would I mean, that's definitely a black mirror up. So Kevin 45:02 for sure, well, I mean, I could definitely, you know, play antagonistic to myself. People would say, Well, Kevin, we can eliminate cancer, we can eliminate whatever, whatever. But you and I are coders what happens when we fix bugs Bob? Bob 45:17 New bugs have Thank you. Kevin 45:20 cancer, but you're gonna create God knows what literally God knows wouldn't be the only one who knows what. And maybe that wipes this all out. Period. Bob 45:28 Right. It's just a cascade of it's just a bit. It's a cascade of bad consequences. Kevin 45:33 Yeah, so. All right, well, so I think the pendulum has now swung your number six. Bob 45:41 Good. Now I think we're on my saddle bag. Right. Kevin 45:44 Say it's good thing. We should call it a good thing. We're calling this out because I can't even count the 10 apparently. Bob 45:49 That's okay. Number seven bad is Google in perpetual beta throughout the 20 times, and then the ultimate bait and switch where free services no longer We're free services. That one's pretty self explanatory. I think we hate all the big tech giants with equal Kevin 46:07 disregard. So I'm familiar with the website, killed by Google. com. Bob 46:14 I'm pretty sure we brought it up. And when you're talking about all the companies Kevin 46:16 are also actually brought this up just for this episode. And I did not know two things on here are actually already scheduled for the X number one is Angular JS be one that is no longer supported, as of one year from now, so in one year for using Angular one dot, whatever, and I realized that's very nerdy and very like specific to coding and I am trying not to go down specific things here. But Angular JS is an older but super popular thing that we used Bob 46:49 to go super stable. Kevin 46:50 Yes, absolutely. I Bob 46:51 don't know why they fucked with the law. Kevin 46:53 Well, reasons right. Then here's the one that I was like. Are you kidding me? Google Hangouts is being Bob 47:01 I did hear that they were sundowning that, but I think they're just giving it a different name to be on it. Kevin 47:06 Yeah, apparently it's going to be called shit. I don't sit here, it's gonna be part of the G Suite. So maybe it's just, they're just not making direct money on because people just use hangouts for random garden variety shit. And that probably costs money. Right? Bob 47:22 Right. And they want to bring it into G Suite because G Suite is not one of their paid things. Yeah, so that's Kevin 47:27 kind of another 12 months according to kill by Google, but killed by Google is kind of a fun website because he just I mean, it's a lot of scrolling a lot of vertical scrolling of Holy shit. All of that is now dead. And while the lay person could probably care less than we do, but Bob and I, you know, when when we're asked to integrate with service x, I don't know about you, Bob. But when it's owned by Google, I go, Oh, well, how long do we even have left with whatever this is, Bob 47:58 right. It's a Total question mark for sure. Kevin 48:01 hate it. And I, you mentioned google maps that totally did a bait and switch on that. I'm trying to get Google out of my life, if you will. I'm actually using DuckDuckGo lot more. And if you do like a search on DuckDuckGo, and like directions, it's actually powered by Apple Maps, which is kind of an interesting twist on things. Oh, boy. Apparently, I don't know if I like that. I haven't really used Apple Maps. I heard it was really bad. And they've made improvements and I'm know apple. Bob 48:36 I think they bought ways one of them bought ways Google or Apple to go. Okay, Google that. Okay. Yeah, Kevin 48:41 that was unceremoniously explained to me the other day when I was like, why is Google Maps and way so similar? Whatever ignorant thing I said. Okay, so, so your number six positive, that's what we're up to. And then I know this is gonna be real nerdy, so I'll try to keep up light for the general listener. hub picks the number one spot over there the decade to become the go to place to dump your source code. Bob 49:08 Now, I think that's a good one. Kevin 49:10 Now, why does that matter? Well, I can tell you it prior to the 2010s. Source Control was very optional. And a lot of people may say, Yeah, right, not where we work. But let me tell you, I worked a lot of places, and it was copy paste, and you do control C, Control V, that's your backup. And they said, you know, it just put the little numbers that Windows does, you know, 123 as you control C, Control V. So GitHub really changed it. There was a bunch of competitors, and there still are subversion, whatnot, and then Microsoft bought them. So that was kind of a big deal that happened recently. And why does this matter? Well, GitHub is very known for open source and basically, the open source revolution. I'm going to try to put that in here as well. It's a big deal for both programmers and non programmers why is it important for non programmers? Because the programmers can bring you things that they couldn't before. What do you think? Bob 50:08 Yeah, and I think it's a great learning tool opportunity for developers and non developers alike. If you're interested in getting into code. GitHub being basically the open source, you know, realm, you can, you can just pick up a lot of great grades. I'm sure you can pick up a lot of garbage too, but there's a lot of good stuff out there. Kevin 50:27 So okay, where does that leave us? Which list are you on? Remember now? Bob 50:32 That was your number six positive so it's time for my number six positive and I think this one will be brief. I think slack is my number six positive and its ability to kind of almost fulfill the Facebook mission of bringing people together without necessarily all the ads in bullshit stuff that I'm sure we'll talk about a little later. Kevin 50:58 So yeah, slack is my number six. Good. So when I worked at the first agency I worked at we were an early adopter of slack. So slack was created in 2012. We start using in 2013. And, and at at the time, it's like, yes, it's cool, but I thought it was just yet another thing that you know, was out there. But it's really changed things because it's dead simple. It's web based. It pretty much killed off things. And it'll probably laugh AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, remember, I mean, you'd have to have all of those installed. Because depending on who you want to talk to, right? Bob 51:34 Yes. Do you remember that one that pulled them all together? I can't think of the name of it now. But there was like a universal chat app that you basically registered all your other accounts through and you could use it Damn it. I can't remember it was called Kevin 51:46 it sounds sketchy price stores your password. Bob 51:49 Yeah, there was all kinds of shitty stuff with that, but it was a trillion trillion Pro. I love to trillion. Alright, so let's see. Where's an hour back to the bad? Right? Okay, so Kevin 52:03 so my number six, and this is going to be specific. But Oracle sued Google because of Android, the API's and aerosol. Yeah. And that's still being litigated. And it's for like billions of dollars and Oracle is one the initial judgment, and Google's appealing. But the real trouble with this isn't the money that's changing hands, because you and I wouldn't say it anyway. It's doesn't have anything to do with us. But it set the precedent that the API signatures I believe, is, and I could have this totally wrong, but the API signature think of the interfaces as copyrightable. Not the implementation, but just having a method named void save or something. Bob 52:42 Yeah, see, that's crap. That's like, I don't know. That's like trademarking toilet paper. Yeah. Kevin 52:48 So, speaking of frivolous patents, I should maybe I put that in that maybe that's the overarching theme here. somebody tried to claim that the shaft car was their patented invention and in fact, I believe they actually got the patent, and Newegg contested it because this guy is like hey, Newegg. And if you're not familiar Newegg. They're like a computer retailer. You owe us a bunch of money because you have a shopping cart completely like was like, you know, you can't patent the mouse click. The shopping cart is obvious. So, patent trolls and whatnot. I just hate that kind of stuff. So we put that in there too. What do you think? Bob 53:29 Well, I think that's great. I yeah, there's so many shitty things that apparently happened in 2010. Kevin 53:34 And we're only halfway done. Bob 53:37 So my number six is going to be super quick because we've already touched on it. My number six of the not so great tech would be the crypto craze. Bitcoin was pre 2010. But a theorem kind of brought wallet, online trading all that kind of good stuff to the forefront because it was something other than just Bitcoin. It's a mess. Kevin 53:57 So that's a good one. I'll just quickly transition to my number five positive and I'll just throw it out there as the gig economy so if you're a god damn magician, car driver whatnot the power is is did you Bob 54:17 say magician? Yeah Kevin 54:18 because the reason I said I'm watching on Netflix it's Bob 54:22 Oh my son watches that one the magician's right Kevin 54:24 well, there's a button no not not that one's on CW but there was one on Netflix. It's called, like, magic for humans or something. And it's like he actually mentioned in there the gig economy, you can basically get anyone to do anything on the internet these days. Whether it's, you know, back in the day when you're growing up, it's like, you can hire a band, you know, you have this like sketchy part of Craigslist. Well, that's come out and they're their apps. I mean, when I was at your there's an app for that when I was at your place, you had like three or four options of people who will bring you food to your house. Yeah, guess how many cats Has well we still have pizza hut and Papa John's that's about it and I don't think this qualifies gig economy, right? Bob 55:07 Nope, not so. Alright, so that was your number five good? Yes. My number five good basically encompasses a lot of stuff we talked about today 4g LTE networks that came of age in the 2000s which made a lot of this digital communication streaming from your phones possible so Kevin 55:30 that figure that was a really big that might be on my list that might be on my list of the a quick one. Okay, so 4g definitely did change it and I'm patiently frickin waiting for 5g because while sometimes I will use my 4g hotspot do work and or do a podcast with you. 5g is where I think I need to be for the whole house because I don't think my 4g phones gonna handle that. Bob 55:57 So now melted. Kevin 55:59 Yes. So that's good. Alright, moving along here. Bob 56:03 Number five bad or five bad net Kevin 56:05 neutrality. So good one net neutrality for the lay person is a topic that came up a couple of years ago, basically the current administration, FCC head said, you know, what, no longer are these protections in place? What protections were they? You say, Kevin? Well, what they are is let's say your internet provider wanted to throttle slow down your Netflix, because you're doing a lot of binge watching or whatever, Bob 56:36 before net neutrality, or because large corporate interest, wanted more bandwidth and paid for it. That's yourself. Kevin 56:42 That's it. So So net neutrality protected us. But those rules got rescinded. And now it is possible that you can be throttled unless you pay to play right. Bob 56:56 Yeah, tinfoil hat guy and me says we've always been throttled. Kevin 56:59 Yeah. How do you check that right? Bob 57:02 Yeah, exactly. All right. I think we're back to the positives. Nope. My number five negative. You've just got the ping pong game all wrong. My number five negative. You've already brought it up. Mine was DNA kits for the masses. Yeah, so don't do it. We don't we Yeah, we don't need to be testing our DNA, who who cares? Who cares where we're from? Who cares what we might die? Well, Kevin 57:24 it's a pseudoscience really Anyway, I've read so many articles were there. Who knows if what the information they're giving you is any were true because you can be, say Jewish as a race or a Jewish as a religion. You can be from the Middle East, but your skin color you know, I mean, there's just so many combinations and it's just doesn't make sense. Plus, the Pentagon just recently put out a warning saying, hey, if your God member you shouldn't be submitting these DNA tests for for security reasons. Bob 57:59 That's got to be One of the biggest red flags I've ever seen it's just such a data grab so gross right all right, all right, so your number four good one he might Kevin 58:09 crap your parents, but I'm gonna loop in AI ml and neural nets. Oh wait Bob 58:16 as a good one Kevin 58:17 toes you're gonna crap your pants. So actually, this one kind of rides the line for me between good and bad and I've got a few of those. So I was watching the YouTube series that I pass along you which is only three to three episodes before YouTube Bob 58:33 I was gonna say it's paywalls right only Kevin 58:35 the first three episodes are free but after that they want money and sorry YouTube, you've already you're already profiting off me somehow someway. But fucking drug dealers. One of the cool things in there was a guy a former Tennessee Titan football player had ALS or has ALS and they use speech recognition type things to help learn how he talks now. Excuse me versus how he used to talk Like press conferences and things like that. And now they can translate him very well. And I was like, that's what ml Bob 59:07 is. Wait, so they can translate him in his own voice basically. Yes. Kevin 59:11 So he's very well, that's beautiful. That's cool. He's very difficult to understand in real life now. But they can, they can go both ways they can, okay, he can say something now, and it can just do text, or they can also replay in his own voice, which is amazing. That's pretty awesome. They also have it where somebody has lost a limb and they have the Luke Skywalker hand where you know, you move these things in your arm and it knows then it learns you as a person on how to move it. Because previous attempts at like limbs, specially hands hands are very complicated is well how do we make this work for everyone? Well, you don't that's the problem. Everyone is wired kind of a little bit differently. And if you leverage machine learning, to kind of figure out you know, the nuances A few and hey, that work that didn't and adjust on the fly. That's great. And so that's where I think it's super. That's great noble, where I'm not so hot on AI and machine learning is like self driving cars. I really think that's just you know, I know. That's just a waste of time. You know, we're, you know, I just read the other day, Tesla hat was involved in another autopilot death, you know, where the car was an autopilot and killed some people. So, of course, yeah, Bob 1:00:30 but still, they've got like, hundreds of thousands to go before that's really an issue. Kevin 1:00:35 Right? I mean, the the easy defense of that is Yeah, and so and so died from dear, you know, crashes and that's human control. So what's your point carry Bob 1:00:46 on? Yeah, on that same day, 3000 people probably got killed by regular people driving. So Kevin 1:00:53 what I'm getting at is, I don't put auto or self driving cars at the top of the machine learning like to do list I put right mbts I put people who have medical, I put that high up. So that's why when I, when I see like, hey, there's this new self driving car and it's blah, blah, blah. I'm like, that's great and all but is that changing humanity? I mean, getting rid of effect. Yes. We're saving you from the tyranny of driving a car. Ooh, you know, that's, that's really not high on my list of things we need. Bob 1:01:26 I'm telling you though, next year when I get my cyber truck, I'm getting it with the autonomous mode. Alright, moving on. That is an upgrade. Kevin 1:01:35 Alright, so we are on Bob's number four positive, Bob 1:01:39 right my number four positive also spooky. You already had it ride sharing gig economy apps, basically, where's my number four. So Oh, the ability to have a system in your pocket where there's thousands of participants where you can pretty much good anything you need on because they're volunteering to be in the system. So Kevin 1:01:58 the only notable thing there is With the gig economy comes the obvious potential exploitation by the overlords running the apps. Yes. Lyft Uber, I think are the two that are considering unionizing or you know, there's there's issues there. And then the other one is with YouTube, YouTube's not really a gig economy unless you look at it through the lens of Well, I'm a performer Raiders Bob 1:02:21 kind of our Yeah, Kevin 1:02:22 so yeah, so there's exploitation potential there. But Bob 1:02:28 what I think the technology to make that open for pretty much anyone to participate in that economy is the bonus part. Maybe the way it's executed is not but the ability the technology is open that door. Kevin 1:02:42 I think that's pretty Yeah. And let me tell you, Airbnb if we're considering that also a gig economy that is a huge huge plus thing I'm, I'm going to Disney World for the second time, or third time with an Airbnb because it's just way better than doing a hotel. So Bob 1:02:58 we always look for the Yes, Airbnb places to quirkier the quirkier the better. Alright, so your to your number four bad Kevin 1:03:09 Cambridge Analytica. That's my number four. Bob 1:03:12 Wow, that's really far out. We thought it'd be higher up. I thought it'd be closer number one Kevin 1:03:20 yeah, it gets pretty crowded here. So Cambridge analytic if you're not very up on that there's a Netflix documentary called I think it's the great hack if I'm, Bob 1:03:31 yeah, okay, I did an episode I Kevin 1:03:32 did an episode on it. And basically, we're all suckers and it will be a component of one of my to a component of two of my top three negatives here in a bit. But Cambridge Analytica basically exposed how much data is the new oil. I'm channeling my inner Bob Baty buyer right there. Bob 1:03:56 That's his data is the new oil that is trading. That's right. Kevin 1:04:00 So I'll just leave it there. I don't have time to explain Cambridge Analytica, I, I don't think you would disagree with you. Maybe you went to high No, Bob 1:04:07 not at all. No, my it's actually higher up on my list, but I don't disagree at all. My number four bad is an old guy rant. It's Instagram, Snapchat and tick tock. I just can't keep up with all this shit anymore. Like I was very active technology dad, and introduce my kids to Facebook and Twitter and kind of introduced them to Instagram and then Snapchat and tick tock all kind of blossomed on the scene in the 2010s. And I just can't keep up with all the different interfaces and what's the expectation how the content supposed to be formulated and delivered. It's just it's too hard. So that was my number four bad. It's just the rise of all these little micro networks. I still don't understand Instagram Stories dependent and people have explained it to me over and over and over. I just don't get it. I consume them pretty regularly because I think they're a good think they're good platform for consumption. But to have to make an Instagram story I struggle. Yeah, the struggle is real as the kids. Kevin 1:05:07 Alright, we're back to the positive right? Bob 1:05:09 Number Three positive for you, Kevin. Number three. Kevin 1:05:13 Actually, this one's a mixed bag too. But it's gonna be like, Oh, I guess that is the thing, hashtags and the like button. Bob 1:05:21 So Oh, that's a continuation of my old guy ran. Yeah. So Kevin 1:05:24 hashtag, you would think that non tech users getting the them to use hashtag would be really difficult. But humans seem to know how to use hashtags nowadays. And the like button while it's positive is is it's a quick feedback. What I don't like about it is the ambiguity of not pushing the button. Does that mean people don't like the post? Or does that mean people haven't seen the post? And that ambiguity is by design, right where it's like, well It's not that people don't like it. Maybe they didn't see it or whatever. What do you think? Bob 1:06:04 Yeah. Well, that I think that not seeing it, especially with all the stupid algorithms that these different networks have. I think that's a big possibility. I'm always, like perplexed by someone will post something that, especially on Twitter, actually Instagram too. So they'll post something that is actually kind of sad and not positive. But you want to show that you support them somehow. But your only option is to like the fact that they put something really sad there. Yeah. So I do like that Facebook has a little bit more wider range of things. But yeah, I do struggle with that a little bit. Kevin 1:06:43 Yeah. Do you think Twitter Instagram will adopt the multiple emoji reaction? Bob 1:06:50 I don't know. Would Facebook come out and say against Twitter like No, we've patented that. Kevin 1:06:56 We've patented the for emoji response or whatever it is now. Bob 1:07:00 That's interesting. And then you'd have to remember what the equivalency is between the platforms. See, that part just pisses me off. Kevin 1:07:06 There's there'll be an app for that. Don't worry, old guy rant continues. All right, your number three positive, Bob 1:07:13 my number three positive. Actually, I struggled putting this as low as number three, I wanted it to be closer to one. But there's so many, I guess I didn't have so many good things. My number three positive was the Apple Watch and fitness trackers in general. Apple Watch kind of came to the largest prominence early in the 2010s. Wit

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EP165 - Amazon Alexa's David Isbitski David Isbitski (@thedavedev)is the Chief Evangelist for Alexa at Amazon. In this interview, we cover a wide range of topics including the growth of the Alexa platform, the evolution of the developer community, the future of voice, and voice commerce specifically. Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 165 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Friday, February 22, 2019 from the eTail West tradeshow in Palm Desert, CA. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason “Retailgeek” Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this episode is being recorded on Friday February 22nd 2019 live from the etail West Trade Show here in not completely Sunny Palm Desert I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and unfortunately Scott is trapped on an airplane so we are going to make a lot of fun of him and hopefully assign him some action items for after the show, long-time listen to the show will know that if we were to make a word cloud of everything that we’ve said in the hundred and seventy something episodes. Amazon would be the biggest word on that word cloud and Alexa would probably be third I think Star Wars might so I can let you be. David: [1:02] Well that’s good to hear. Jason: [1:03] Be ahead of Alexa, but obviously we talked about a lot on the show so I guess we’re super happy to have on this week’s show is Dave a bitsky who’s the chief of Vangelis for Alexa at Amazon welcome to the show. David: [1:17] Thanks for having me super happy to be here. Jason: [1:19] Yeah so I record a lot of these for my home studio and the first thing I have to do is mute all of my Alexa devices. David: [1:28] Oh yeah I’m the same way yeah in fact even when I’m on stage if I’m Kino to hear something when I say her name there’s still that thread that goes through my head waiting for a response. Jason: [1:42] Oh no it’s something going wrong. David: [1:43] Yeah yeah. Jason: [1:45] So David for a long time with some of the show we always like to start by getting just a little background about the the guests can you tell us a little bit about your backup. David: [1:52] Yeah sure I guess it depends on how far you want to go back. Jason: [1:57] I have your high school records of. David: [1:59] Yeah yeah exactly so I grew up in the 80s in Commodore and this this vision of how, science fiction and Technology was a future rights what do you mention Star Wars growing up on Star Wars and things like, the black hole right and Star Trek and all of that and I just, man I want to be a part of it and I remember speech technology TTS text-to-speech back then be able to do stuff like that I had to do that and. [2:29] I just I was like man when is this going to happen right and I started out any e-commerce 96-97 building. Commerce pipelines actually competing against Amazon was just getting started the time at this company called microwarehouse macwarehouse and then I did web whole rise of the web did want you to. Com Consulting did I, Enterprise gig in a large pharmaceutical company, and that was my me trying management and realized it wasn’t my cup of tea I just I love that I love being, I love traveling talking to people and using new technology which is right and around 2007, October to a Microsoft December roll to I have now there a lot of stuff around games and mobile and worked on Windows phone and Xbox Kinect, and then I joined Amazon, oh gosh 2013 help out with the we are kicking off the Android App Store that we have with the new Kindle Fire tablets did that watch Fire TV is Saint with fire phone and then. I am super fortunate I was Employee one for Alexa skill marketing team around 2014, and now it’s crazy where everything is now in 2019. Jason: [3:45] That’s awesome so I don’t listen to the show will know that Scott and I are two of the four Alexa fire owners so you. David: [3:51] But thank you I still have mine. Jason: [3:52] We sometimes we have our suit we sometimes predict it shall rise again I’m not asking you to. David: [3:59] The dynamic perspective stuff still awesome. Jason: [4:01] Yeah there’s that there’s some cool features so that’s going to be interesting to see if you have a rear job and Amazon you mentioned liking to talk to people I would argue the majority of Amazon employees are not encouraged to talk to her. David: [4:13] Yeah I’m just I’m one of those rare birds where I approved, Alexa’s spokesperson Amazon spokesperson, I’ve been doing it for a long time though I’ve been in very much these Community Building public-facing you know kind of marketing PR working with marketing and PR roles, and there’s always a need for that because you know. I have this belief like large companies we all have processes and there’s so many things that if it falls out of that process gets lost, and I’ve always looked at my job to be the person that’s finding all those anecdotes cuz they’re so important cuz a lot of times there’s signs for things that need to change or that we missed and that we need to do better, and I’ve always I left startup mentality and unfortunate Amazon is just as Perpetual startup mentality it’s not for everyone but it’s it’s Scrappy man it is like and that’s, I love that I love where things aren’t to find you got to figure him out there tough problems you’re constantly inventing things you have to think about the customer problem and dive deep in the stuffing, I’ve just been able to make a job out of that you know it’s it’s funny because funny you ask that I’ve gone on a couple podcast, the past few months cuz that seems to be the big thing is like. Jason: [5:30] I guess to warm up with a couple of those farm system podcast before they come here so that’s all. David: [5:34] Yeah it’s like you got to start thinking about cuz you cuz it’s so all over the place there’s no defined like I went through this. Where I was like, I’m old enough that all of my friends now are turning into CIO CTO xorbee peas and I’m like I’m doing this thing, what is this thing exact but I love it and I would talk to him if you like crazy but we do sucks I would love to do what you do. So it’s like just Embrace what you’re passionate about and get down there and if I like to look at it like if I saw 12 year old me, and he was asking me when all this Tech was going to happen I make it happen for him and keep him happy. Jason: [6:13] I like it I like it I also like your Amiga Roots I actually work for, nor in the. David: [6:17] Oh man we got to talk. Jason: [6:18] Yeah that that text-to-speech engine was called Sam so Sam was the person. David: [6:22] Yeah yeah well I still have it I have I have been working Amiga fully 1000 or 2000 I’ve 600 1200 I still Google Talk. Jason: [6:30] That’s why I sent my nigga 1000 predates, door and it’s actually in the The Tech Museum in San Francisco. David: [6:34] I have never been but I’ve always wanted to go. Jason: [6:39] They’re a couple of those key Engineers one of them is a Google Now RJ Michael. And one of them Jim Mayer Who did all the hardware chips is actually the the Chief Architect behind the Roku. David: [6:53] Yeah yeah. Jason: [6:54] Fancy Nails guys continued. David: [6:56] And Dave Haney is I’ve seen him out in so where I am cuz I’m near Philly there still it’s like in, in like Wall jersey there’s this Tech thing and he comes out there and people talk about forgetting his name but he helped build Amiga 3000 and 4000 and a couple of things like that he’s out there, but a lot of people stayed in the area after Valley Forge after a little. Jason: [7:22] The the USA quarters for, nor was in West Chester Pennsylvania I was based in San Diego and so my boss never trusted that I was working cuz if you’re in Westchester in winter. That you don’t think the young kids in San Diego doing anything years later I visited a client in Westchester and I’m getting at the address to their thing it’s the old commodore. Marker 01 David: [7:42] Yeah well that’s on its QVC or Home Shopping Network is one of those owns that whole campus map. Marker 02 Jason: [7:50] Jumping back to today stopping at appreciate the reminiscing. David: [7:55] We can look forward without looking back. Jason: [7:57] Absolutely you talk a little bit about your role love to hear just a little bit more about your turn trolling as it is it mainly like developer poking focusing is it mainly like consumer adoption. David: [8:06] No we hire teams that are on that now I would say you can think of me as helping incubate new Alexa businesses, so I worked a lot with Alexa for business helping them get started a lot of what I do is helping Brands nowadays to what does it mean in this boy’s first world how do you connect with your customers. How do you build better quality conversations things like that so it’s it’s new areas yeah it’s, the nice thing about having such large teams is once I’ve done something and I can operationalize it it’s not something that I never need to do again and I burnout least called isbitski burn out when I was growing up where, I’m always it’s funny if you look at personality test like if you know anything about the five core traits I have super high in enthusiasm and. Open to new experiences and assertiveness which basically means that even when I was a kid, I would get super excited about something I make all my friends go and follow me and do that thing and then six months later I’d be excited about something else and I feel like we all need to try this now right now Amazon with all the different things that we’re doing now, to be able to do that. Jason: [9:20] That’s awesome couple quick things we want to get out of the way like what’s your personal wake word at home for your Alexa devices. David: [9:26] So it’s always been Alexa I mess around with computer when it was out but by then we already had a relationship with Alexa and it’s interesting here’s a little anecdote Cell 2014 when I would talk about it, and I would talk to press and think everybody would say the Amazon Echo, and then I noticed about six months in people would say Alexa and that wasn’t like anything from that people just started saying Alexa cuz you hadn’t you could say Amazon you can do it was a smart speaker. Now when I talk to people they say our Alexa I don’t know if you picked up on that which is super interesting because it’s become part of the family it’s our Alexa right it’s not Alexa that’s hard Alexa she has her own way of knowing what we like. Jason: [10:05] Indeed she does and I know we we love all our children but do you have a personal favorite Alexa device. David: [10:13] Oh boy well I love the new show at home I would say there’s three I had love the new show Thomas cuz super big screen, and that’s the main one on my desk if anyone is curious I really loved the spots and that’s my kids have enough and I also have one in the den cuz it looks like a clock, you know it’s just a perfect little little size and my third favorite is I have a head for years are Garmin speak which looks like a little tiny Echo dot in my car, and that’s why I listen to podcasts because I have a Honda and so I have Android auto and I have carplay Nike all that but what I find is just saying with voice to go ahead and without having to hold down a button or doing anything and just pause, play the latest episode of and then I mentioned this in the keynote today but you know if you do a lot of trouble and you listen to podcast news in the audio books are sometimes where you’re like, especially stuff I was sometimes it gets deep and you’re like my brain shutting off I just want to play a game, so I play games I played like Westworld and it played Skyrim and I put Jeopardy and a car I think this, I’m a I’m a huge gamer so right by my own gaming rig at home and I have consoles I have Xbox One X and PS4 Pro. [11:31] When I’m in a car and there’s an Alexa skill available I’m surprised how much I’m engaging with that stuff so I think there’s you know it’s it’s, it’s about the situation you’re in right and in continued conversation as fun my kids doing and yeah. Jason: [11:46] I like it I like all those devices I have to say my new favorite though is the Billy Bass. David: [11:51] Yes but I if you look if you go to my Twitter there’s a link to a dead reinvent so that team they weren’t they were going to watch that, and so a Tremont I did a talk and I did the actual unveiling, of the twerking Santa and Bear, I think about like a even a little man with a flag if you need to take your medication use and that’s just a visual for somebody in the home like my parents are old to be able to see that they walk in and they see it you can’t have light but there’s all sorts of things you could do it right, somebody can make that maybe you’re delivering a package again little guy carrying a package or something like that right it’s just it’s integration with his of objects I think it’s pretty neat for notifications that way. Jason: [12:36] The old digital physical things going to continue to be an amazing at Lowe’s, you alerted your talk today so your topic was how to talk to your customers in a voice person world can you give us a little bit of a recap about like what the what the topic was there and what you got. David: [12:52] Yeah you know it’s a sew-in audience like this and with the 25-minute keynote it’s like what do you talk about right and so for me a lot of it ctas and so I always break this down into three things, is there going to be people never heard this they’re going to be people that have a relationship with Alexa already and so. And then maybe people getting gas how do they do this until I always start it off with what does the future look like cuz I’m constantly thinking about that what does it look like 5 years, you know head and why we we look back right so we start off with that kind of paint with a futures. [13:27] Make sure people know that this is Amazon is just part of that, but this whole voice first is huge you need to think of it like the internet even even bigger right it’s it it’s the interface for everything it’s the human technology relationship moving forward, and it makes everything accessible and simple and so I make sure people understand that and then explain some of the Core Concepts because I think even for me when I start my shift same for me cuz I’m stupid everybody should just assume for me the first time I use this is I use voice control before the stuff doesn’t really work right and that’s not what this is this is understanding intention, something called natural language understanding is not TTS it’s not looking at phonemes and actually translating them into the letters right it’s different so getting people to understand that and ways that doesn’t get to computer science he and, try to make myself look smart or anything like that right side motor stand in terms like that and then, third party that is okay well what can I do today and what have you learned. [14:30] Because I get to you lot I have this unique view of the field when I talk to somebody customers I have access to so many teams at Amazon I’m always thinking in this space A lot of times when I meet with people they just, used to freak me out was like what what can I have to offer and they’re like Dave your view the field this you meant just share with us something so you know and so that’s what I try and do as I learn new things and I talked to customers and we’ve released new features based on that feedback I includes those in the Kia Soul a lot of it is this is what customers are saying this is how people are using it today they could be using it differently a year from now and this is what you need to be thinking about and, starting to focus on. Jason: [15:08] Fair enough and so most of the listeners of this show are our brands are retailers like. 4 Brands like how should they be thinking about like is it a no-brainer that they should be building a branded skill is there a different more nuanced way they should be thinking about it. David: [15:23] That’s funny. I always feel like I’m in a Morpheus in The Matrix and they might my Syfy should write my what if I told you what if I told you and you could talk to your customer, everyday in the moment where they are on their own terms. That’s an Alexa skill or Flash briefing or in any pain but that’s what this is doesn’t exist is always been a barrier and so if that interests you it’s about what I like to call meeting your customer in the moment, and it’s your tongue got really like I was growing up in Jersey I had it you know I work two jobs since I was, gosh like 10 with a paper out but I remember one of my favorite jobs work in a movie theater. I can still tell you I would have to say to people would you like to upgrade that to a large popcorn and a large soda for only $0.25 more the big combo special right but it was that up sale in brick and mortar right there and it’s in the moment and that is, completely different than it did not purchase react hit the side button or use your fingerprint or any of that kind of stuff right you’ve already enabled it knows your voice you can set up a pin but it’s seamless and nothing beats time, right and that’s what that’s for Brands is something they just think about is customer in the moment having a conversation with them every day and. [16:48] What would they say if they could talk to you today what brands don’t know other than the help desk tickets right and I’ve seen companies now. Where they are now looking at the Amazon skill reviews as part of their entire ux cycle to know what new features they need to be releasing because it’s the easiest thing that people can just talk you know and so you need to be thinking about those things and then, lastly what I tell them is what is your brand sound like Miami for us you know podcasters and listen to felt like for me I just, I loved one for me audio I love conversation I’m always thinking in those terms but I find most brands it’s still very visual social is visual so it was a bunch of images and video and so what does it mean. [17:34] Do I use Alexis voice do I use my own voice do I have create a new voice of the company, write like Jeopardy skills Alex Trebek that you here right and then we you know based on feedback we provide more and more voices so you can generate through what we have a service and Amazon web services closed poly so I can generate all sorts of voices if I need to do that but that’s another thing that they need to start thinking about in the moment, what do I sound like one of my customers asking for where they want to have an early day so it’s, Newcastle new customer acquisition is not going to be like what you think in Mobile and wet right it’s early like early mobile web days but man if you have an existing customer and they have a device, and I’ve ordered something from you and I can just say reorder, or when is that coming right or check on a status or even games like Destiny made us feel other games and made a scale where you can just say hey what’s my friend score right like you’re just like that it’s interacting again without what I was talking about is it is human, technology that relationship together and that’s really what’s enabling and that’s to me is a couple spaces where it’s just a huge and exciting business brands, Auto Vitaly. Jason: [18:56] It is interesting the likes of the there certain brands that. Needed we have this permission to have a daily conversation with a client because of the nature of the brand in the product or whatever and it seems like it’s a no-brainer for them that they need to have a scale and be there a way to have a. David: [19:14] There’s certainly some of that like the early web days where it was like I have a skill and then you talk to the scales just about the company I mean I was building those websites for Brands back in the early 90s. Jason: [19:23] But if you’re the Weather Channel or something like it would be foolish not to. David: [19:28] Yeah yeah. Jason: [19:29] Have a skill there because again there’s people are going to get up every day and want to know what the weather is and how to get dressed. The children have a little bit with some Scott like it’s just needed to voice we talked a lot about app fatigue on the phone right and if you’re not one of the apps on the front page of the phone you get forgotten pretty quickly. David: [19:46] Yeah. Jason: [19:47] On voice we don’t even get the visual cue so the problem is there to be 300 great skills that I’ve enabled on my Alexa echo system, if I don’t have a daily reason to use them I’m likely to forget a bunch of them exist and so that like so some of these by I probably don’t want a daily relationship with Charmin toilet paper. Sherman still thinking about how are Branch it evolved in a world in which voices are super important in her face like any advice for those cut like I feel like you’re mostly going to interact with Charmander, through the native utterances on the on the Alexa platform is going to be at. David: [20:25] But what’s interesting is like. Why have a mobile app to write like you these are all of it doesn’t change any of those questions what it does changes what’s the relationship of my customer right the demographic of the customer ships, voice, you mean somebody has to understand they have to have a smartphone they have to know how to patch it after I have downloader app get the latest version of your dad if they’re using a web browser they still have to be able to patch the OS on a computer do all those things, in some of these devices you’re talkin like 5 $10 right and it’s always the latest version. There’s never been a technology as a brand where your customer has the latest version of your experience at all times right, cuz even the web I mean man, I spent so many years with all the different web browser differences there is not I’m sorry there is not one version of your and anybody that’s how to program client-side knows that and you know jQuery and other things made things easier but gosh, that is in a nightmare so it’s that except my dad and he said my mom still print out emails. But he’s never did with his money right really gave you really turn on computer my dad, you know he’s a butcher he’s retired now never touch computers life and when we’re hanging out he tells me about songs he pulled out and thinks he’s talked to you with Alexa. [21:44] And that’s when the light bulb went off for me is I’m like this is empowering man like this is like anybody can do this stuff and so maybe toilet paper isn’t important for me and my age but maybe, it is for somebody else that needs to think about stuff that right so it’s that’s what you really need to think about what’s the demographic, your customers if any demographic had access to it cuz there’s kids that are talking to everything now, because they’re used to Alexa right I hear from customers are expected to so when that happens right that opens to meet new possibilities, and so you need to focus on those things and look at existing customers when I like to tell people is. To get to the utility of speed right nothing being speed go look at your mobile app and look at the top 10 things people are doing what are they doing everyday they’re probably doing that one thing everyday cuz it’s fastest on mobile. So if you can make that faster, even if it’s just checking on the status even if it’s just a reorder or maybe it’s getting information we try to do things to make it easier to have conversations and so we have the ability for you to say something like that. [22:57] Alexa how do I remove a grass stain now I may not know what brand but a brand can respond, right cuz that’s a human being to think we may not remember the full invocation or anything like that until we try to do more and more of those things or Alexa play a game and I get some suggestions but it’s about, what you think about this is Alexis going to learn about you what do you what do you like your right and what are what’s, getting reviewed well and things like that so if that’s kind of I think. To me and this is going to sound crazy from a guy that’s spent so many years building app stores across so many platforms, but to me I don’t see that 10-15 years down the road, right cuz I put all the onus on the human being would I see 10-15 years down the road is an AI that knows me intimately that’s already out there, and remembers things so can be like hey Dave and we had a conversation a month ago about XYZ topic I just found some information about that if that’s what we want we never had that and that’s what voice is going to enable imagine trying to do that in a mobile app. Jason: [24:02] Yeah I totally agree I feel like a lot of these things that we have to explicitly enable is apps or skills or whatever like become implicit like apis or capabilities that we just. David: [24:12] I could always do it because for some reason computers, I just nerd it out on them I love them just even in like we talked about it maybe I just spent two hours like making my icons perfect. It was fun, and I used to get upset that I couldn’t share that with people cuz it’s such a joy to me and people like right like they just didn’t like it and so I knew did that was just inherently broken if there’s such that technical divide that something else has to be there right and this is it man this is the. The big enabler. Jason: [24:44] Why don’t you mention the kids screaming at the Alexa ideas funny like two things that come up in my newsfeed a lot lately you are, advice for parents that we need to teach our kids to use politeness with our our Alexa stop Alexa devices because there’s some risk of. That’s raising a less polite culture because kids are used to sharing commands at the other devices and they respond. David: [25:07] My anus is there and this isn’t a belief isn’t that starts with the family what starts with the individual first in the family and then the family. [25:18] These up to the Community Practice Community is a bunch of families and so regardless of what technology was introduced we’ve always had a set family Rules so when. Screen when we first started getting iPads and and the Kindle Fire and things like that we had to set rules around screen time. And some of those rules where you do homework first you do not know when we wake up on the weekend first thing I’m doing is not logging you into these things when we eat dinner as a family for us everybody put phones away. Included, right and so that is in something that comes with the manual for that technology has something you decide as a family and then as a culture so voice for me absolutely was that because when we first got it early days I be playing music and my, so this is 2014 so gosh she was six, and she would run into the room and say Alexa tell me a joke and I be like that’s listening to music so then we had to do a family joke that said you know like this is what’s rude this is not with rude, and you can do stuff like we did hear from families, so we enabled stuff like a follow-up mode so if Alexa does something and you say thank you she’ll say you’re welcome back she recognizes all of those things or whisper so if you a little one at home and you can be like Alexa, quiet and she’ll Whisper back which is a very interesting the first time you hear it cuz it’s so human to do that you know and so you can enable whisper mode. Jason: [26:46] Yeah I know it’s totally totally cool like the other parental thing that’s happened is Amazon has completely wiped out the the female child’s name Alexa. Parents don’t want to name their kid for you no fear of triggering all those devices Olive. David: [27:02] Yeah well I do I talk to families that have names that are similar in that they are all Amazon or Echo. Jason: [27:11] So it might be my family I have a sister-in-law named Alexis which is close enough inside where we’re at Echo family cuz we also for work say Amazon to off. David: [27:21] What’s going to be the new left handed right. Jason: [27:23] Exactly is that at that is exactly what it is so I mentioned the other listeners are retailers, the default position for a retailer is Alexa is the evil, front door of my competitor and I’m desperately rooting for any other artificial intelligence technology to win because when Alexa wins that comes attached to my competitors store, are they. If that’s true that’s fair enough like I mean there’s a lot of competitors in the world is that true or is there a way in which we like Israel and which Walmart should be thinking about how to leverage Alexa or are they right. David: [27:58] They could completely make an Alexa skill it’s open to everybody it’s interesting because even and this is going to be in iOS use Amazon services, was because they weren’t locking into an ecosystem I could use my Amazon video, my Windows device on my Android device on my iPad and I could get my Kindle book on the Kindle I had 10 years ago where I can download it onto my phone audible working across everything so it was always I always viewed Amazon. It always depends on the space that you’re in right so I always do that was on as this Innovative tech company and that that was not locking it is all about giving in the customer choice right and so for me. [28:50] I never looked at it as what you’re you’re saying that’s just a personal on an Amazon note, from day one this is been open everybody don’t charge the idea has been that voice, review is the next big disruption it’s the human. Technology interface so it has to be everywhere so we’re not going to be the one to do that we’ve got to open it up to everybody, and so that’s why you see it in the IQ and I we can make our own Echo, there’s hardware specs to lake house and then you and I can go sell it on Amazon for five bucks and we can make it the retail geek Echo, write and let me know that that Tech and so it’s, that but that benefits everybody because it’s helping customers its helping push it for its I view that the people that aren’t that would say something like that are the people that would say cuz I dealt with this years ago to that would say, that I’m not going to use HTML in the internet because Google Microsoft phones. [29:50] And no they don’t own it it’s the way that human beings are going to talk that’s what this is there’s no single company infected. Jeff has said I completely agree with him is that there’s going to be hundreds of a eyes in real life not just okay I mean Alexa maybe the one, I want you spray but there’s going to be all sorts of him and eventually we’re going to want them although to talk to each other, and that’s what this is this isn’t some smartprix speaker that you can order stuff on although you can this is a new way of human beings interacting with technology and it’s going to be in everything everywhere. Jason: [30:25] It involves the normal Trend like usually these Technologies come about and they start out as like wall Gardens where everyone wants like everything in their own echo system so I got I go to CES every year for 30 years. David: [30:37] My apologies. Jason: [30:38] It’s like I did not say it is a matter of pride, the first year there’s a voice interface for televisions everyone has invented their own voice interface and it only works in their echosystem than they imagined you can buy all the devices in your home from just from LG or Samsung and you know you walk that show three years later and. Frankly like this year there’s an Alexa and a Google logo on every one of those devices and it just. David: [31:00] Customer choice. Jason: [31:03] How to make is a better experience with a customer. David: [31:05] Nothing’s nothing’s in a vacuum all of our lives have multiple endpoints and we just want to simplify that. Jason: [31:11] You talked a little earlier you’re like hey if we looked at that uses on the phone there’s like certain things that would have weight higher usage because they’re just the the low-friction best best things to do in the phone and like there certainly is an analogous twist, her voice and relax all right until we’ve seen some of the surveys and it’s, people overwhelming we are going to use it to play music to get information you know there’s and you probably know the exact list on making it up. David: [31:36] Because we’re at bombers show. Jason: [31:37] Commerce show like we always notice like at the moment Converse is pretty low on those lists like it does not appear. The primary thing very many people are using their device for is to place orders for for stuff and I’m just curious if you have a POV is. David: [31:55] Is Jason: [31:58] You are truly an adoption or is it never likely to be the dominant thing we do the invoice or what your. David: [32:04] It will be the dominant for everything is my opinion but I mean I’m old enough to have heard people say that about the web and mobile as well, and that’s what you want man you want you want it to just you want in those early days where you’re going to see it up Tick and get in cuz that’s when you can build a really strong brand and really strong relationships. It’s early days but there’s nothing like in the moment so I’ll give you an example. If you follow like the thinking of like app store, where you can buy like Jeopardy you can buy extended and you can do more questions and things like the offer that you can do premium subscription answer today. Jason: [32:52] Forgot to take stuff the bus. David: [32:54] Nice nice and you can do the innocent and I think people are familiar with that but people were familiar with that in the beginning I mean I grew up I’d buy go to Electronics Boutique and buy a game and that was it man I wasn’t like I was spending five bucks a week on a skin I just paid one price right and so it’s funny we can get used to it and so there’s that model, but there’s also did integrates with Amazon pay so physical Goods in things like I’ve started seat like you guys have a podcast maybe you have somebody on the podcast that has a product if you had an Alexa skill where people can listen to your podcast right in the middle of it you could say you know for 50% off would you like to purchase this and then you’re getting, physical Goods in you’re getting part of that Amazon affiliate program and things like that right then you have other types of skills that look at it as an endpoint. [33:43] So I do this is It’s At Its if I don’t do it all the time but it’s my it’s my guilty pleasure I love the Domino’s thin-crust Pizza I’ve always have the grown up in Jersey and, so if I’m when I’m not traveling and we calling my house Friday night party table I’ll be like all right Friday night and so as I do is say Alexa, ask Domino’s for my easy order boom it’s already got credit cards not going through Amazon that’s an existing customer relationship, we have something that we call account linking so you don’t even have to go through Amazon use Amazon pay you don’t have to use login with Amazon you can have your own existing customer relationship they see screen it’s like a mobile, analog in a waffle those kind of things so you could use any of those providers or your own so it’s an existing customer through a different endpoint, and I’m surprised even in my own life the use in that and so I think this is my thought. [34:46] Is that nothing as human beings when it comes to technology and this is especially with purchasing beats speed. That’s why I think I shipped it and most people shipped it to mobile. Because I don’t want to go log on to my what the title is a desktop and a laptop and patch and get to the browser and figure it out is in the website and then using them over I mean it’s Common Sense instead of even using the mobile, I just say Alexa ask your brand to order my stuff. [35:17] So what does that look like when people started using that year after year after year was that look like 5 years what does that look like. People who may be caught the people that would call up a number to order stuff right I have I won’t name my in-laws that she is huge QVC Home Shopping Network all of those things. Call the number doesn’t use the app you know and so and she picked up in a wax on her own and I and was telling me about all these skills it was funny, I just want to run away maybe 1,000 scales and I were over 80,000 and. She’s like I brought it to play the Eagles she’s huge Eagles fan and I was like, you know I already I already pulled up every album I know how to search might like I I’ve never had, a relative a family member ever just run with a new piece of technology have you it’s like you literally you go there over the holidays in your patch and stuff and your training and maybe you’re trying to reorder some what are something new cuz what they have is so outdated, the song it’s like it’s an appliance the hardware is the appliance, this day is getting smart and smarter over time said that I think if you just naturally think about human behavior. Write an end how we act and if you make something easier and you give me incentives that’s just naturally the way things are going to go. Jason: [36:45] That’s right I mean I feel like there’s two points and then I would totally agree with theirs. The experience and product are going to get an exponentially better because I just wanted some everything at the magically improves and it’s just better than next day versus like these, product we have to make one go back to the drawing board design version 2 and you know it’s a much longer duration and for sure I have also in my life via in-laws seen the leapfrogging Where do I, there’s a bunch of the user interfaces that are so complicated my relatives are never going to learn them. David: [37:16] But then just let prognose in her faces yeah. Jason: [37:16] I just left brought those interfaces the laptop in the phone and now you know the voice they are they’re totally capable of embracing, the I do and I I’ll be honest I’m nervous about this opinion because I’ve shared it a bunch of times and I have the whole deck of Ono was ever going to buy clothes on the internet no one’s ever going to buy a TV on the internet and like almost any time you hear that. Precondition to no guarantee that’s going to be wrong. David: [37:43] Info. Jason: [37:46] So voice Commerce I have a slightly nuanced guess, I feel like there’s a category of stuff that people probably aren’t going to buy any internet that are high consideration, they require a bunch of complicated brand specific attributes right like so I’m not likely to go hey Alexa order I will leave Urbana leopard skin size medium. Address for 2-day delivery here’s my promo code right like out I probably will never wear in the vernacular to order a dress for the first time with all those custom words in it. But that’s how you know just one chunk of Commerce incident okay I see that Jason but I think all of this like consumables and replenishment and order the peanut butter everyone’s going to do via voice I get that response a lot and I would even say. The easiest stuff I actually think Amazon’s going to figure that out without voice like I feel like you’re just going to send me the Charmin toilet paper, and no I need it before I need it right and so. David: [38:44] Yeah but that’s just making customers lives easier. Jason: [38:47] Which is a good thing so it to me voice is going to fit in this middle Zone which could be a huge chunk but I called the Goldilocks zone. Too complicated to learn how to say and stuff that’s not perfectly predictable what my consumption pattern is right and so are your point like the pizza is. David: [39:06] Make a perfect example in this. Jason: [39:07] Check example in the Starbucks and hey I have family coming over double my peanut butter order all those kinds of things like manicuring aren’t my reoccurring. David: [39:14] Super Bowl commercial with Harrison Ford and so it’s it’s super interesting because it’s, individual based like maybe this was two or three holiday seasons ago we released like what people ordered through Alexa and people were ordering like huge stuff. Like like stuff that was like thousands of dollars I think maybe something was an engine or canoe just like. [39:43] Everybody’s different In-N-Out. And it’s also I talked a little about this on my weasenforth With Friends Podcast is as somebody who’s been gaming for 30 years it’s I buy favorite genre and I still play is massive multiplayer online game. [40:01] But I see with my kids the battery out the fortnite’s right and now they want Apex and there is a genuine General shift. In those patterns with gaming just like there is and how information is shared through social media just like information the and any parents who have teens know this they FaceTime all the time, there’s there’s did the visual seeing each other I’m more comfortable with text the chatting all right so, where’s that how easy is it for me to be in the middle of an Xbox game and or PS4 or whatever and say something like, buy me another skin pi to half up right now, just walking down the street you see you know the pizza boxes people holding it up horizontally they’re talking into it now they’re talking to text you know all of those things occurring is, there’s a study of science with epigenetics we’re with our Behavior actually turns off and on genes, and so over time is people get more and more used to that the Comfort level increases that to me is the most important thing that has happened in voice. In five years is there are people now. [41:21] And I include myself as part of this when I want to use a piece of technology to try to talk to it that’s the first thing that goes through my mind I try to ask Alexa or whatever. I didn’t exist five years ago so that to me is what. [41:37] Stuff gets ordered online because I can see you talk about I remember cuz I where I started out, in e-commerce like I was talking about and this Mac Warehouse might get some of those you know there were $5,000 $6,000 and then it was servers and stuff and so are people going to order that, cuz or they want to talk to somebody and have them walk if it’s a comfort level you know and so I never I think it’s going to be different I think it’s going to fall down into, and I think you’re going to be surprised I think people be surprised where the engagement is like this is one of things I talked about in the keynote is. I had a picture up of both a younger gentleman and an older gentleman and I said I pointed the older gentleman I said that maybe your biggest future customer. That somebody or targeting today. Gagement stare right and so I think you know those people have never had a chance because I think about if I had an opportunity to just order stuff. Cuz they’re come from. Jason: [42:40] The thing that lowered that friction enough that they can finally do it or not. David: [42:43] Wait cuz we’re basing all the data we’re basing all the data on a certain generation of people who were familiar with technology or who ramped up right and you can and so I think all that’s going to change over time. Jason: [42:56] No I told you buy that there’s tons of funny videos on YouTube of the toddler’s to get handed a magazine and they’re like trying to swipe the magazine. David: [43:03] Oh yeah my kids are like that when they are young yet. Jason: [43:05] Magazines just an iPad that’s broken to a toddler right and there’s this clip by using a lot of Dex but you may you may need to steal this but one of the original Star Trek movies they like go back in time. David: [43:15] Scotty computer. Jason: [43:17] And it’s Scotty talking to. David: [43:18] I talked about that yet that was my favorite year. Jason: [43:20] Yeah yeah he just assumed it like a horse weigh. David: [43:23] Computer. Jason: [43:25] And then when he finds out he has to use them at the. I do I’m serious though Fallout like you you mentioned the. Speech interface to the phones and you know that you are and you start to see that here and I definitely see more of that here than I used to in the in the pizza configuration. David: [43:41] What’s our primary Computing device as of right now. Jason: [43:45] Go to Asia and it’s noticeable to me how more frequent it is and so that’s like one of the my curiosity’s is like, man I see people in Shanghai like constantly talking in their phones in here it’s a little bit like I would argue it’s more natural to talk to, an Alexa. Then it is to talk to a Google Android. David: [44:06] It depends man like if I got to go pick my teen up and I see them all waiting they’re all. Jason: [44:15] Talking on there okay. David: [44:16] They’re all on the devices right purses like if I’m hanging out at work or something like that so it’s, I think a lot of that. Related it could be cultural by here you were talking about there too but it all goes down to learn to behavior and so you can’t get to any of that voice, stuff without foil learned behavior, Comfort levels things like that. Jason: [44:39] Part of me in it does just hypothesis I’m wondering if China is just a little earlier adopter a voice because, keyboard input of the simple Chinese is a little more painful than than English and so they’ve gone to voice sooner but in the long run. David: [44:58] It’s painful for everybody it’s so low bandwidth I have this problem where my brain, I think it’s way faster than I can type and I used to like be down on myself I was like I’m just a really horrible writer but I’m good at having conversation right, and I don’t mean that in an egocentric way to I do I mean that, as I don’t need to make fun of myself I have a comfort level it’s natural and so then I started doing I have Office 365 and they one of the new releases they have, dictation and I’ve been using that in my work. And I just. Tons of it’s it looks like I’m writing 15 pages but all’s I did was talk for an hour because it’s finally there and that I met an author he used to, he was one of those the co-creators of the onion it was at the digital Summit I gave in gosh now it sounds like I’m done driving I’ll just go but I was impressed by who he was, and that he had the same problem and he wrote this whole book and he said to me he was like Dave just he should he basically did it on Siri on his phone he had this app on his phone and he wrote the whole book by talking to it and so, voice, your keyboard and typing and mouse and all that it’s so low down with voice is higher bandwidth when we get to spot we’re going to be a little better. Jason: [46:24] So that that’s actually good pivot to our last question cuz we’re coming out on time. The folks jump in the time machine and go to the show 5 years from now and catch you know what we’re all talking about like we do things in a surprise than the most like what’s going to be, the most surprising thing is is it is there going to be an Alexa that plugs in or brain or what you know. David: [46:46] I know gosh I have to I always go way out for me. Jason: [46:51] Okay even go further yeah I’m good with that. David: [46:53] Well I think the way that you can predict the future is to go way out and then you’ve got to pull it back because everything’s done in Milestone so if I was going to say 5 years. I think what we’ll start to see is that. The human isn’t the major driver like technology today is very what I would call a veteran, I have to initiate something as a human being I’m looking for something as a human being I’ve turned something I push a button I’ve done all of those things. I think within five years there going to be a eyes that know us well enough. That it becomes a way to amplify ourselves and what I mean by that is. [47:37] When is has been proven right is that you have to have a conversation about a topic in order to learn how you feel about that topic know to defend your position into this is why you know in groups that you can come up with better ideas because of that process but if I have an AI that I can have a conversation with rise me up like the Star Trek Holodeck, right you can go back and talk with Einstein and Newton and things like that that’s real when we get to that point, that wooden locks in human potential is huge because my biggest problem is like, my OneNote man is like 10,000 different entries right and I’m searching and it’s all these thoughts I’ve had and I Journal a lot and I think about things a lot but I’m like, I just wish my brain could access that better and I think that’s where we’re going to head is there’s going to be a digital self of me it’s going to understand that. And is going to be able to interject on things like I’m working on an idea and it’s like actually Dave five years ago you had a similar idea and by the way you were feeling this way around the time cuz I’ve also found in journaling that I go through, very cyclical emotions based on other things which I wasn’t attending self-awareness is very very key right and. [48:51] Not to get existential or anything like that but I think that’s what AI is going to allow everybody to get more self-aware who they are and the type of questions they answer and everything else is just barfing opinions of everybody else and not listening right and it also allows I think it’s. If we go out more than 5 years it allows Legacy imagine if a hundred years from now you know my, great great great in a kids could talk to me and that’s the reason why I podcast so much as I know there’s going to be the ability for an AI to go through, how I respond in conversation in my thoughts and my experiences there already is some of those kind of experimental Services you can say and just be able to have a conversation with me you know and that’s going to tie us together, you’re feeling the same way that my great-great-great done the same stuff I do you know and so I think that is with all of this is going to be able to, invoice I think voices the beginning of it it’s I like that’s why I like this a conversation in folks on human beings cuz I think voice is, start I think we can we can understand a little bit and we can speak a little bit but we still can’t see we still don’t know feelings, and if there’s so many other things touch there’s so many other things we as human beings just inherently are great at ability to detect emotion in face, I think when we go out 20-30 years that that stuff will also come into play more does that mean right. Jason: [50:21] Visual Commerce you. David: [50:22] You got it dude and yeah and then you got to be careful The Uncanny Valley and things like that with people game freak which to human. Jason: [50:33] I told you I hope that none should I come to pass and that’s going to be a great place to leave it cuz I have burn through are a lot of time as always, questions we can get you on the show feel free to drop us a note on Facebook and we’ll continue the conversation there if you enjoy the show we sure would love it if you jump on iTunes and give us that five star review, David and listeners want to connect with you or or learn more about what you’re up to what’s the like are you. David: [50:54] About what you’re up to what my vanity and my vanity URL is just the Dave Dev so the Dave dtv.com and that’s my Twitter LinkedIn email podcast everything. Jason: [51:07] Awesome if you’re driving don’t write that down I will put it in the show notes and you can you can click on it when you get to your destination David really appreciated talking you thanks very much for taking the time. David: [51:17] Thank you for having me on. Jason: [51:18] Until next time happy commercing.

In this episode of the Invert the Why Podcast, Retro Dan, Jason Relaxation and Super Simon discuss Retro Pro Wrestling, WWE's finest moments and watching RAW live in Sydney. After an epic RAM, the team look back at some of history's most bat shit crazy gaming peripherals. Stories about gems from Nintendo, Sega, and Sony culminate in an epic Xbox Kinect rant.Invert the Why is a comedic celebration of geek culture. Geeks come in all shapes, specialities, and backgrounds and we aim to learn from them all. Join Retro Dan and Jason Relaxation as they laugh and learn with nerds across Gaming, Tech, Music, The Arts, Sport, Science and Exploration. Kisses.We also now have a store, https://shop.inverty.net. Here you will find all the things Retro Dan, Jason Relaxation, and their guests love and talk about on the Invert The Why Podcast.Shop for retro & gaming apparel, Podcast swag, and of course our unique designs based on the show. Find the perfect gift for yourself, or maybe someone else. Feel good that 10% of revenue (not profit) goes straight to the Melanoma Institute of Australia. If you dont want to buy stuff - maybe make a donation to them instead?Find us on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/5IVIRqB5RBtv5SsBzMsb5w), Itunes (https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/invert-the-why/id1450102751?mt=2), Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqxU0sjDQSr5FHE13VDpxfA), or at our Website (https://inverty.net).

In this festive episode, we all tell stories of our gaming past including; The sad loss of Chris’s game collection, Matt & Chris’s rocky beginnings,That we were in fact creators of online gaming. Craig pushes the Xbox Kinect to its limits. The origins of Matt’s obsession with maps. Also it’s Matt’s turn to get ripped to pieces instead of Alex (because it’s Christmas).

50 episodes later down our podcast series we go back to the beginning. In the very first recording we talked about Paolo Sorrentino's La Grande Belezza (2013). Now we return to the acclaimed director with his movie Youth (2015), which my mother has been desperate to talk about. In addition we manage to also discuss the first season of his mini-series The Young Pope (2016). We talk about being old and young, beauty, death, music, writing, religion and how the Xbox Kinect works. Spoiler alert: We talk openly about the plot of Youth so watch the film before listening our discussion. If you have not seen The Young Pope, don't worry, we don't spoil plot details about that.

This week Matt and Matt Talk about: The physical distance between Matt and the world's largest ball of twine, Matt was apparently a free style rap artist at one point in his life, Wifi crashes in schools nation wide due to Fortnite Mobile, Overwatch League's super shady code of conduct, Matt goes to Disney 2 days in a row because Florida, Urine, Fortnite Mobile!, Magic The Gathering Arena on PC, Thunder Force 2 on Genesis, Xbox Kinect,  and lots more!VCR Gaming Podcast can be found at:Facebook: facebook.com/vcrgamingTwitter: @VCRGamingButler’s Twitter: @Killabeezz2TZuby’s Twitter: @ZubatronGmail: vcrgamingpodcast@gmail.comiTunes, Google Play, Tunein Radio, Stitcher

Mike and Joe are back to talk about burying Xbox Kinect adapters, measuring nuke button sizes, and our personal favorite games of 2017.

Logan Paul made a big mistake, Hisense and Amazon partnership, Alexa running ads on the echo speaker, Xbox Kinect finally completely over.

Two factor authentication (Authy vs Google Authenticator), Background App Refresh (when to enable), Profiles in IT (Alex Kipman, creator of Xbox Kinect and MS Hololens), cutting the cord (final OTA TV configuration, final OTT content provider, negotiating for Internet-only rate), net neutrality protest (FCC over reach, Google and Facebook vs the ISPs). This show originally aired on Saturday, December 9, 2017, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

Two factor authentication (Authy vs Google Authenticator), Background App Refresh (when to enable), Profiles in IT (Alex Kipman, creator of Xbox Kinect and MS Hololens), cutting the cord (final OTA TV configuration, final OTT content provider, negotiating for Internet-only rate), net neutrality protest (FCC over reach, Google and Facebook vs the ISPs). This show originally aired on Saturday, December 9, 2017, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

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On this week's show, we are giving initial impressions of both Assassin's Creed: Origins and Super Mario Odyssey, Brad's wife tells us why she's excited for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, talking about how amazing a failure the Wii U must have been for the Switch to potentially outsell it in only a year, throw dirt on the grave of the Xbox Kinect, continue the discussion of crappy dudes in gaming, marvel at the feat of a deaf Destiny 2 clan, discuss GameStop's new Pro Gaming Pass program, and break down the Sony PlayStation news from Paris Games Week including the new Spider-Man trailer and the brutally violent The Last of Us 2 trailer which led us to a discussion about hyper-violence in gaming. You can donate to Carrie's Extra Life page here   Use our Amazon page to donate to the show: www.densepixels.com/amazon   Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Dense Pixels   You can now follow us on Twitch! Brad - DensePixelsBrad Terrence - App4RITioN410 Micah - denseblacknerd   Twitter: @DensePixels Facebook: Dense Pixels Podcast Subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music   Headlines   Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp out next month on mobile Nintendo projects the Switch to have outsell the Wii U after one year Kinect is officially dead Pro gamer loses eSports contract after broadcasting physical abuse of his girlfriend A clan of deaf gamers defeat Destiny 2’s Leviathan raid Mass Effect Andromeda’s loose story ends will be tied off...with a novel   Top Stories   GameStop to roll out program that allows unlimited rental of preowned games Sony drops some big announcements at Paris Games Week Guacamelee 2 announced for PS4 Sucker Punch’s new game is a samurai adventure game called Ghost of Tsushima New Spider-Man trailer New brutal trailer for The Last of Us 2 Violence to sell games?!?

Prodigy and Stitch are out this week. The Professor joins us! RIP Robert Guillaume and Fats Domino. This week we talk about the Las Vegas shooters brother, Bow Bergdhal, Trump vs a War Widow, Microsoft stopping production on the Xbox Kinect, iPhone 8 expanding battery, the Pixel 2, Pixel 2 issues, Mr. Robot, Star Trek Discovery, Arrow, The Flash, Ask BthanBTI, Maestros, and more! Sponsors! Loot Crate: Save 10% on any new subscription at www.trylootcrate.com/BthanBTI. Enter promo code: bridge10 for 10% savings. Gamefly: Sign up for a premium FREE 30-Day (1 game out) trial at the following URL: www.gameflyoffer.com/BthanBTI. Come follow us: http://www.beenhadproductions.com/bthanbti SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/bthanbti Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BthanBTI/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bthanbti Twitter: @BthanBTI iTunes: https://itun.es/i6SJ6Pw YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackerThanBlackTimesInfinity

Alex Akers is Vice President for Business Development with HealthCatalyst, a Utah-based, next-generation data, analytics, and decision-support company, committed to being a catalyst for massive, sustained improvements in healthcare outcomes. He has been with HealthCatalyst since 2015, primarily focusing on clients in the southeast. Alex began his career in healthcare consulting, working for KPMG and Accenture in their healthcare strategy practices, and then shifting to revenue cycle reengineering with Stockamp & Associates, where he was a Senior Manager. His passion for technology in healthcare really took off after he joined Microsoft, and was responsible for healthcare strategy in their payer segment, working on projects such as improving care giver collaboration with next generation technology, how to gamify healthcare with Xbox Kinect and consumer engagement. He spent time working with the Microsoft-GE joint venture Caradigm, and worked in sales for their analytics platform. After a stint with a San Francisco company called Grand Rounds, Alex landed at HealthCatalyst, and continues to follow his passion for bringing analytics, evidence, and better care to the US healthcare system. Alex holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters in Public Health (Health Policy) from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and attended Auburn University for his undergraduate degree. He lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife Lauren. 00:00 Evidence-Based Medicine vs. Implementation. 02:20 Only about 49% of Clinicians practice evidence-based medicine. 02:50 The Proximity Effect. 03:20 “How do you, in a Health System, help your physicians scale evidence?” 07:00 The challenges of getting Clinician consensus. 08:45 “What outcome are you striving for?” 10:00 Coaching Patients, and why Physicians don't do more of it. 11:40 Why Clinicians need to drive implementation. 12:35 “Where are the places of variability?” 13:00 How a Health System can implement more evidence-based medicine. 16:00 EP136 David Westfall Bates 18:20 The need and access to ongoing health data. 18:40 Scaling up evidence-based healthcare. 22:00 Seeing at scale and adjusting in real-time. 25:20 The challenges preventing doctors from having real-time access to patient data. 26:25 Data-set distrust among physicians. 29:00 The focus on value driving this change. 29:45 You can learn more at HealthCatalyst.com.

Picture this: lightning strikes your dreamscape one unexpected evening, stirring you from your slumber with the almighty power of a flawless idea — an idea that will improve people's lives and solve society's problems in previously unimagined ways. Bleary-eyed, you type out the concept on your phone and fall back asleep, grinning at your genius. Morning arrives, and with it a sudden, nagging sense of doubt. Though still confident in the life-altering potential of your idea, the reality of the situation is hitting home — how are you actually going to turn this idea into a reality? What form will your product take in the physical world? How will you convince users of its benefits? When can you launch? Enter Vanessa Larco. A Partner at the Silicon Valley-based investment firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Vanessa has a passion for helping founders bring their products to life. Her years of experience in product management — including overseeing web and mobile apps at Box, and contributing to the teams on Xbox Kinect and Surface at Microsoft — have left her with clear eyes on what it takes to transform a concept into a real life, functioning product. Vanessa joins us for a conversation touching on what exactly the role of a Product Manager consists of, and the questions entrepreneurs need to ask themselves to make sure their products will strike the balance between revenue, engagement, and virality. Please enjoy our conversation with Vanessa Larco.

Bonus episode! We felt a little bad about asking you to wait so long for a new episode, and we wanted to find a way to make it up to you. Plus, Ryan’s aunt Lisa had a really cool experience when went back to the Palmer House in early November.This short episode is part spooky, part strange, but mostly magical. We caught some interesting pictures and videos of the moment, so make sure you check these out too. Dancing Ghost VideoThis figure showed up when we started playing the piano in the lobby of the Palmer House Hotel. The program uses infrared and Xbox Kinect to pick up energy signatures. Photos and Video of LisaAfter watching the figure for a while, Lisa (Suzanne's sister) decided to ask it to dance.In the photos and video below, you'll notice a small, blueish orb moving around Lisa. Erik says he apologizes for the vertical video. It was 3 a.m., and he reacted impulsively.

On this week's episode we discuss a recent iOS update which resulted in kids seeing some hardcore pornography, we continue our discussion about the iPhone 7's lack of a headphone jack, and we also talk about a laser built from a PS4 and an XBOX Kinect which can seek and destroy mosquitoes.

In this episode, we are incredibly thrilled and honored to have a renowned social entrepreneur Adnan Mahmud, founder and CEO of LiveStories on Immigration with Tahmina on Desi 1250 am on Tuesday May 10th at 10am PST. Adnan is an exemplary immigrant entrepreneur who will truly inspire you! Thank you to Adnan for taking time out of his busy schedule for joining us!Adnan Adnan Mahmud is the founder and CEO of LiveStories - a Seattle-based startup building data tools for non-data people, simplifying data analysis, visualization, and presentation for everyone. LiveStories is being used by governments and large nonprofits, like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, government of Nigeria, and county health departments in California, to make smarter decisions. Prior to LiveStories, he founded and grew Jolkona.org, a non-profit focused on supporting up-and-coming social entrepreneurs around the world. He also worked 8 years in Microsoft where he managed the two biggest data pipelines for the company, obtaining few patents around data analysis and visualization, and ran incubation projects in Microsoft Research, contributing technologies to major Microsoft products like Office, Windows, XBOX Kinect, and Bing. Adnan is an envoy for US State Department for social entrepreneurship and youth leadership, speaking at university campuses around the world. He has been featured on TEDx, CNN, NPR, and Huffington Post.

This episode contains: Pre-show, Dorst is a germaphobe, Devon is cheap, Devon is forgetful Steven’s mom is not, Devon’s wedding, Dorst tells a story, Wacko of the Week, we used to have good ideas, time traveling, 4th dimension, Florida is weird, how many votes would we get? Dorst drinks beer, Interstellar is sad, Science Faction, Dorst gets mad, Steven laughs and the kid wakes up, murphs, black holes, relativity, Julia, Xbox Kinect, cameras, flip phones, invasion of privacy, self importance, Christmas lights, Oregon people, Amazon Echo, Kinect abilities, people are crazy.

Former Senior Advisor for Digital Media for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Mark DeLoura joins us to talk about educational video games and how the industry can succeed. First, we have to go over the news. Skylanders BattleCast is coming out next year and Simone is really, really... not excited, for once. There's also the Serious Games Showcase and Challenge, which is accepting entries now. Nicole is also really excited about Hearthstone, as usual. Then we get into the meat of discussing games for education, and how the Xbox Kinect deserved better. If you have any questions for us, email them to hello@pixelkin.org! We'd love to answer them on the show

Microsoft blew the doors off their Windows 10 'event' last month with the announcement of their 'Holographic' AR headset, 'Hololens'. Careful to avoid the inevitable Google Glass comparisons, the marketing message demonstrated some interesting use-case scenarios: from minor home plumbing tasks to playing Minecraft like the digital lego it really is. Microsoft's latest tech is easily it's most far fetched since Xbox Kinect. On this week's show we talk about everything that went down in Redmond on January 21st.‘Microsoft Hololens' Revealed, an Untethered See-through AR Headset http://www.roadtovr.com/microsoft-hololens-augemtend-reality-virtual-reality-headset-microsoft-holographic-windows-10/'Hololens' won't be another Google Glass http://mashable.com/2015/01/21/microsoft-hololens-and-google-glass/Minecraft coming to hololens http://vrfocus.com/archives/10868/minecraft-coming-hololens/Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for windows 7/8 http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7866679/windows-10-will-be-a-free-upgrade-for-windows-7-and-8-1-usersMost pointless functionality ever. Stream Xbox One games to your PC (Tablet might be a play against Sony's Remote Play functionality?) http://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-announces-xbox-one-game-streaming-to-windows-pc-and-tablets/Fable Legends will be cross-platform MP on Xbone & PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC-yV9tCTtw&list=WL&index=16&spfreload=1Molyneux hilariously warns Microsoft not to do a Molyneux. Not news, just made me lol. http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-01-22-molyneux-warns-microsoft-dont-overpromise-on-hololensRob @bobirokaPatrick @patrickjkayIain @ebowgbContact us on Email at: notplayingpodcast@gmail.comFollow us on Twitter: @notplayingpodYou can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.ukIf you're listening on iTunes, please give us a review!To Check out other shows in the Collection visit:http://barkerpodcasts.webs.com Including the #NOTwatching Podcast: http://www.spreaker.com/show/the-notwatching-podcast

Our guest this week is Beth Tucker Long, the editor of PHP Architect magazine and respected PHP language trainer. We talk about her role as editor of the top PHP Magazine in the world, her experiences teaching people to code, the best PHP books for beginners, her awesome upcoming MadisonPHP conference, and XBox Kinect paranoia. Check out our sponsors: Roave and WonderNetwork Follow us on Twitter here. Rate us on iTunes here Sign up for our mailing list here Listen Download now (MP3, 25.6MB, 54:58) Links and Notes Transmorphers Hurcules PHP Architect Madison PHP Conference Bill Cosby Snowball bit PHP and MySQL Web Development (Thomson/Welling) Larry Ullman’s books XBox One Kinetic That’s a paddlin'

SAVE PODCASTING! This episode we discuss Adam Carolla's SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND, Playstation 4 worldwide sales, the Xbox Kinect possibly being used by true NSA and British Intelligent Service, as well as the release of Titanfall and Watch Dogs graphic downgrade.

Digital technology is advancing at a rapid rate. From old Nokias to Apple iPhones, we have seen users move from pushing physical buttons to swiping touchscreens. Now, we are beginning to see gestural control take over devices such as gaming consoles (Xbox Kinect and Wii), TVs and cameras – and gesture control is going be the next big thing in terms of interaction. Anyone involved in interaction design or user experience better get ready for the change.

Last week we announced that we are joining the Toadhop Network! But wait… what is that?!? Luckily, Toadhop Program Director Johnny Ice is available to talk to us about all things Toadhop! Who is on the network? When is Geekscape arriving? What times should you listen? Why did they even ask Geekscape to join in the first place!?! The answers are all here! PLUS! A surprise appearance by Toadhop's Crippled Kenny… as he talks about kicking ass on XBox Kinect even though he's in a wheel chair!

Director Timothy Saccenti visits Music Video Land to talk about the jump from photography to film, collaboration, and shooting with your Xbox Kinect. Adam and Doug also talk about how albums fit into the world of music videos.

Tu n'est pas un ananas!Oui! Je suis l'ananas!Trust us, it will make sense! Thanks for your answers to the questions I sent you a few weeks ago. It's just too bad no one else sent you any...By the way scientists have been talking about some interesting and possibly alarming things having to do with immortality for humans, you may want to look into it if you have not already.regards,Mike Question: Are your handles (Zuke, etc) your actual names or handles? I thought they were so ... errr ... off the wall that they had to be handles (eg Neo instead of Mr Anderson).Comments: Have you seen this ... http://www.optimum.net/laptop/Cablevision / Optimum Online is letting me watch TV on my apple iPads or my windows laptops. They don't allow the app to install in desktops. What have they got against desktops?Cheers,RuffHeadlines:So, the only good thing from RIM may not even be from RIM?!France proudly hosts the World’s First Documented Cybernetic Hate CrimeAn executive order could give the government control of the InternetYahoo gets a new CEO (more details)Air Force: N00bs better shut up!Apple gets burnedThe Star Trek comics are now canon. Wait....what? (Oh and TV news)Comicon News:Molly Quinn is super!So much Marvel newsRobert Downey, Jr. knows how to make an entranceNathan Fillion is awesomeFast Lane:Best Buy is now distributing copies of Google Chrome on CD. This should help your parents who can’t download a program used to browse the internet, from the internet.NASA has released a new game for Xbox Kinect that will allow you to live through the terrifying 7-minute descent of their new Martian rover. If that sentence right there isn’t awesome enough for you, check your pulse ‘cause you might be dead.Rotten Tomatoes had to shut down their commenting section on Dark Knight Rises after a couple of reviewers posted less than glowing comments. Fans of the movies immediately started sending death threats, showing just how mature comic book fans are.Rush Limbaugh recently made comments on his show that Dark Knight Rises is a calculated piece of propaganda against Mitt Romney. Pointing out that the villain is named Bane, which he states is an obvious attack on Romney’s venture capital company, Bain. Maybe we should redirect some of those Rotten Tomato members?Windows 8 has an official release date of October 26th. Start prepping your parents now, you’re going to be messing with their computer with the update hits.Talking Point:Constant hero reboots.Zuke’s Favorite: The unboxable unboxing videoZohner’s Favorite: Thomas Jane likes to punishStark’s Favorite: Lady Gaga meets steampunk violinsSchmidty’s Favorite: Written by a Kid See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Modern Warfare 3, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Minecraft, The Walking Dead: Episode 1, Uno and experimental FaceBook gaming.News - Minecraft breaks XBLA sales record, Rumour of open internet browsing coming Xbox 360, Square bringing PS2 games to the PSN, Bioshock Infinite delayed until next year, EA confirm upcoming Dead Space and Need for Speed titles, Blizzard and Valve agree on DOTA trademark, US launching a subscription based Xbox & Kinect bundle and a new Family Guy title announced

Episode 3 in a podcast series hosted by TheWonderWaffle and Shantmaster K, two guys who have "no business" talking about games in which we do our first theme episode, about Mass Effect! Subjects include Mass Effect (of course), Assassin's Creed, and Xbox Kinect. In this episode, we respond to our first listener feedback! Please send thoughts and questions to nobusinesspodcast@gmail.com!

What counts as a PlayStation Vita launch title? Is it any game that released today or in the past week with the Vita First Edition Bundle? What about those games coming next week, with the original, "true" Vita launch? And how about those games available for download? Have no fear! This week's best ever PB & Jason covers all three categories, in vein of previous launch specials, like with the PlayStation Move and the Xbox Kinect. Click through to find the PB & Jason podcast player and download links! Stay tuned to PixlBit over the following weeks for lots of Vita coverage, and remember to catch PB & Jason every week on Wednesdays!

What counts as a PlayStation Vita launch title? Is it any game that released today or in the past week with the Vita First Edition Bundle? What about those games coming next week, with the original, "true" Vita launch? And how about those games available for download? Have no fear! This week's best ever PB & Jason covers all three categories, in vein of previous launch specials, like with the PlayStation Move and the Xbox Kinect. Click through to find the PB & Jason podcast player and download links! Stay tuned to PixlBit over the following weeks for lots of Vita coverage, and remember to catch PB & Jason every week on Wednesdays!

Handige links: Appels en Peren website, Facebook page, Google Plus Page, Inschrijven voor de Appels en Peren nieuwsbrief en onze twitter @appelsperenshow We hebben een introjingle! Zijn we erg blij mee, hij is gemaakt door @clublime. Grote dank aan onze sponsors: NulEuroHosting en Apptips.nl Winnaar van de loting is deze week...: Charis! We mailen je de gegevens! Volgende week nog een laatste kans om mee te dingen naar de gratis domeinnaam en hosting van NulEuroHosting! Weer een bomvolle aflevering over Google Native Client, Gratis Apps en de nadelen ervan, XBox Kinect, AppleTV met Blu-ray overlays, Spotify Beta Apps, Windows 7 Phone op je iPhone, OSX HiDPI, Minecraft Lego en veel veel meer. Links uit de uitzending op onze website

This week's guest, Terrance talks Saints Row, Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3. The guys discuss Avengers news and Xbox Kinect startups. Three movies hit the trailer rundown.

I've got the FIRST LOOK at Microsoft's new XBox Wireless Speed wheel, plus I've tried the new KINECT Sports Season 2 with Voice control, loads of calls this week on Smartphones, iMessage, the Galaxy Note and DVD Ripping

On May 5th, 2011, Engauge hosted DIG Day, it’s second annual new media immersion event.  Ninety of Engauge’s clients and partners attended to gain insight on new technology and get first hand experience with augmented reality, XBOX Kinect hacks, and … Continue reading →

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iPhone vs. DroidX, email delivery lag (caused by client update delay), clean install of Windows with upgrade disk, Profiles in IT (Steve R. Russell, creator of first computer video game Starwars!), Mothers Day tech gifts (iPad, Smartphone, Internet radio receiver, Kindle Wi-Fi, Digital photo frame, Xbox Kinect), XXX domain names go live (will gross $30M for registrar first year), Smartphones serve as digital fingerprint (real time scan of phone used by police when stopping drivers, used by forensics teams during investigations, may require warrant), iPhone hidden tracking file (unencrypted file stores location data with timestamps, consolidated.db stored in hidden subdirectory, Apple silent on purpose), Lyrid meteor show this weekend (expect 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour), Website of the Week (www.singularityhub.com, tracking the pace of accelerating technological advances), Book of the Week (Start with Why, explains why great companies keep innovating, they never lose sight of the reason for their existence).. This show originally aired on Saturday, April 23, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

iPhone vs. DroidX, email delivery lag (caused by client update delay), clean install of Windows with upgrade disk, Profiles in IT (Steve R. Russell, creator of first computer video game Starwars!), Mothers Day tech gifts (iPad, Smartphone, Internet radio receiver, Kindle Wi-Fi, Digital photo frame, Xbox Kinect), XXX domain names go live (will gross $30M for registrar first year), Smartphones serve as digital fingerprint (real time scan of phone used by police when stopping drivers, used by forensics teams during investigations, may require warrant), iPhone hidden tracking file (unencrypted file stores location data with timestamps, consolidated.db stored in hidden subdirectory, Apple silent on purpose), Lyrid meteor show this weekend (expect 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour), Website of the Week (www.singularityhub.com, tracking the pace of accelerating technological advances), Book of the Week (Start with Why, explains why great companies keep innovating, they never lose sight of the reason for their existence).. This show originally aired on Saturday, April 23, 2011, at 9:00 AM EST on WFED (1500 AM).

A team at Sunnybrook has come up with a novel new medical use for the Xbox Kinect

In this week’s episode of BariatricTV we feature a Drop Zone Freak that’s hit the trifecta of post surgery satisfaction. In the Dumping Ground we announce our winners of the BariatricTV Commercial Contest, and then we announce a new contest. Then, in Altered Reality, we take a look at a fun new way to Move Yo Ass with the Xbox Kinect and Dance Central. Finally, we wrap things up in the Freak On segment with a tasty recipe for Spinach Cakes.

Kenneth and Wynn caught up with GitHubber Scott Chacon to talk about Git, distributed version control, and his quest to kill Word as a book authoring tool.

Kenneth and Wynn caught up with GitHubber Scott Chacon to talk about Git, distributed version control, and his quest to kill Word as a book authoring tool.

Christina and Dan talk about the Verizon iPhone, Android tablets, and the future of publishing. They also talk about cord-cutting and a music video made using Xbox Kinect. Recorded live with video.

Las Vegas,Masterbation,XBox Kinect and lots more stuff to get us in trouble