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TuneInPOC
"paul theroux" Discussed on TuneInPOC
"Something interesting? That's a tough one for me to answer, partly because am I, we're based in New York. We're not really a kind of truly inside the beltway kind of institution. The truth is that I think that we're in a moment when, among Republican politicians, there seems to be a suspension of a lot of these domestic policy debates. I think that there are people who are afraid of their own shadow. They feel so deeply insecure and anxious about the base, what does the base actually think. I think there's real uncertainty about that. And I think it stems from the fact that whereas the Democratic Party has these cohesive policy demanders like public sector workers, the Republicans don't really have anchoring groups like that. Their gun rights organizations certainly pro life organizations that in that category, you could debate the defense sector or other sectors where they by necessity play both sides of the street. But it's a big struggle. It means that you don't have something that really Moors the party. So I'm sorry to be evasive, but there are people that I think are bright capable people. I think that I have to be cautious as someone who leads a nonpartisan C three organization. I don't want to be electioneering. You can like people. I've been in 5 O one. You can think some people are doing interesting work. I will say that senator Tom cotton is someone who has talked about crime and urban violence in a way that I think is very farsighted. You know, I'm sure that he would disagree with me on some issues here and there. But I think that he is someone who has a clarity of purpose. And I think that he's the kind of person who does have a long-term orientation. We haven't talked about it for an intense policy because that's not what the Manhattan institute does. But I really believe that he's someone who is farsighted on those issues as well. So he certainly someone that I think is someone with a lot of intellectual heft. And I think that there are many governors who I think have good political instincts, but one thing we do is we really try to focus on people regardless of partisan affiliation who will listen to us on three issues out of ten. And so I don't have a great answer for you on the national scene. Then I think it's a good place to go to what is always our final question, which is what are three books you would recommend to the audience. You know, I'm really struggling Ezra because I want to give you four books. You can give me four. Oh, well, you are fine. We've known each other a long time. David E Bernstein has a book coming out in July called classified the untold story of racial classification in America that I highly recommend. He also has a kind of forward looking agenda about how we ought to think about racial classification going forward. But it's just really a neat treatment of all of the ironies and weirdnesses of how it is we seek to categorize people by race and ethnicity. My brilliant colleague Ralph Manuel has a book coming out in late July called criminal injustice. What the push for decarceration and depleting gets wrong and who it hurts most. In addition to being just a superb writer and thinker and scholar, Ralph is someone who I think writes with great compassion and moral urgency. I need someone that I hope you'll be hearing from in the future. For book number three, I just want to shout out one of my favorite books of all time. Published in 1998 called sir Vidya's shadow by Paul Theroux and it's about his decades long friendship with the novelist essayist memoirist VS naipaul and it's just a really weird strange, incredibly beautiful book. There was a biography of nipal by Patrick French that is sort of more scholarly and aligns and doesn't align it in some interesting ways. But through his book, as someone who has always cared a lot about friendship and the art of friendship and stuff like that, it just is really a beautiful and funny and biting book. And the fourth one, because I'm cheating, is a book by a former housemate of mine, elbridge Colby, called the strategy of denial, which is essentially about this new age of great power competition and the challenge to U.S. global leadership that China poses will be able to do about it, why we ought to prioritize it. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much as rougher letting me squeeze in for. Right, Hans Salam. Thank you very much. The answer client show is produced by any galvin, Jeff gelin, Russia karma, fact checking by Michelle Harris Roland Hugh and Mary march locker, original music by Isaac Jones mixing and engineering by Jeff gel, the audience strategy by Shannon busta. Our executive producers are read Noguchi and special thanks to Kristen Lynn and Christina stimulus..
This Week in Tech
"paul theroux" Discussed on This Week in Tech
"But they did show some interesting gaming options that look pretty good. Triple-A games. Why would Apple care about that? Money. I mean, they have a huge part of the gaming market in mobile. Yeah, yes and no. There are some things that are starting to arrive to middling reception. But I think they're thinking gaming is big. And it's the most important category on the App Store and it's the thing that generates the more money. We should get into that on the computer side as well. But I really think that there are very few people at Apple that understand gaming because you can maybe it's going to happen within two or three years the developers are going to come back. But it really feels like they do it kind of because they have to reluctantly. But it never feels like they're heart is into it. So they have this evil dead the village, which Resident Evil Resident Evil. Yeah, it looks good. Yeah. It looks disappeared. It's on PC. It runs. I'm sure the M1 can run a lot of things. A lot of games. But I think it has to be rewritten to use metal though. I don't imagine you could just take this is too evil. I can't show it. That's disgusting. Yeah, that's a different thing. That's fine. It's evil to the other one. But you know, I'm sure they have, I'm sure if the whatever they're using, in that case, it's Capcom using VRE engine. If they have, they can compare the engine, whatever they do. They have to play the engine metal. So I guess you think that's where they did. That's the message. Remember, this developers conference. So there's a little, it's not really for gamers they're aiming that. They're aiming at developers saying, see, you can do this with metal. I think. I think there are overall message was that just to clarify apple has a bunch of hardcore gamers. All the way up to the executives. They just thought all the money was in casual. And it wasn't worth the effort to pursue a big hardcore gaming thing. But they're turning around on that. And they're hoping that because people are really comfortable with APUs now on Xbox and PlayStation, that the idea of an SOC is going to be appealing to them, especially because now everything runs on the same course. So from iPhone to iPad to Mac, if they get their engines ported over, if they get unreal and they get maybe not unreal, but if they get unity and all those things ported over, it's much easier to get those studios online, especially if Apple is willing to, they took a huge hit when they went with metal instead of with vulkan or something that would be much easier for them. But they wanted to control the entire pipeline. And it cost them several years. But now they're trying to entice people back with these sorts of things. I have a question. I'm wondering if the new interest in gaming and Apple has anything to do with their plan to come out with goggles. And I'm not sure what the goggles is. Oh, yes. Yep. Pretty much so. And so we thought they would at least mention reality OS or something in the keynote, no mention at all of AR. They did the room. So actually, yeah, the room scanner. Yeah. Actually, a friend of mine had a really clever insight. I have to credit him. It's kasim, who's a great journalist here in France, or they're in France. His assessment was that the reality OS was all over the keynote. With bits and pieces that are going to be reused, a couple of examples are on device dictation, which is going to be really important when you interact with iOS 16. Yeah. And so that is going to be really important when you interact with something with device that you don't have touch screen for. The other one is all of the little widgets on the lock screen of the iPhone, which would be perfect for a heads up display like an AR VR headset. If you want to display something other than a game or something like that, if you want to display a kind of information that your iPhone would have, this format seems really perfect for that and you can arrange it, rearrange it because customize it. So I think he has a point there. I think we're starting to see the pieces just like with CarPlay becoming your car is OS, which is crazy. That was to me the most insane in accident. But with that, which is kind of indicating what they developed for the Apple car probably. I think we're starting to see little bits and pieces of reality OS seeped into the current iterations of the other OS. They've always done that. Four K two for Eric had 6 goes to four K, which is rumored to be the exact resolution of the visor. And this new app that they announced, which looks on the surface just to be, oh, it's a digital whiteboard, which made me think, well, why would they even bother? We have a hundred whiteboard apps shared workspace whiteboard apps. But if you take away the whiteboard, those little floating, what's it called front, I can't remember what the name of it is. It's kind of a generic form, something. But the little widgets which could be anything from video to a sticker to post it note to a document. You take away the whiteboard, that's exactly the kind of interface you would have in an augmented all the sharing. So for example, you're in your headset and goes, oh, I want to play with Renee Alex and Andy. And then all of a sudden, that goes to our normal group message chain and we're all playing with you. Yeah. And that was built into apps until this year. Now it's just everywhere. It's in messages. And a number of people say, well, why is Apple care about puff the rod said, nobody ever wants collaboration, all these companies seem to put these collaborative elements in and nobody wants them. And I don't know if that's a Paul Theroux problem. But I don't think it's about collaboration as much as it is about some sort of augmented reality with your shared experience. Shared experience. That's a better word to put it for. And it is really interesting to see Apple put that absolutely everywhere and messages in their eye work. Everything was an API this year, that because sometimes Apple will announce things, and they'll just have it to themselves for a year. And they'll dog food and they'll do all this stuff. But this year, the two things that struck me the most was that almost everything they announced was an instant API. They announced the API along with it. And also they didn't say coming this fall for everything. They said coming later this year, which kind of removes the whole monolithic finish line race to the death. And shows that this is more like a road map of everything you're going to be getting over the course of the year. So I think by the way she quotes to be believed later at some point might be the time when they announce they finally announced the headset if the release is going to happen in Q one, 2023 is multiple rumors. I was told that there were a number of tracks. They didn't maybe talk about it in the keynote, but there were a number of tracks about USD Z and AR and VR and stuff. So there were certainly developers were given information about some sort of augmented reality environment that they might want to pay attention to. You can see them in this community Caldwell wrap up videos, which delight me every day. Just to see serenity up on Apple dot com. I've got this fantasy I have. You probably saw the report of the board of directors getting a demo of the goggles. And I imagine they're seeing something on the goggles and then suddenly they can see each other's faces. Right. You know, that must have been bizarre because it doesn't make any sense why you'd want to see someone's face. Actually, the story reminded me a little bit of that scene where Johnny ive is giving a demo or seeing a demo of the self-driving car and they're having a conversation with Siri and in fact there's someone in the back pretending he's serious. Total fake thing. That's from tip Michael's book, by the way..
Travel with Rick Steves
"paul theroux" Discussed on Travel with Rick Steves
"A retired police chief and occasional Santa's helper from the west of Ireland lets us in on what brand of beer Santa Claus prefers. And we'll hear how Paris retains its style, even when you have to bundle up in the dead of winter. And in just a bit, TV travel presenter Samantha Brown explores what we can expect to get out of our travels even when a pandemic makes us rearrange our plans. It's all in the hour ahead. Our email address is radio at Rick Steves dot com. Let's start today's travel with Rick Steves with novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux. His much heralded writing career since 1967 has taken him on train rides across Africa and Asia to the back roads of the American south. He crafted his latest novel to reflect life around his home base on Oahu's north shore. It's called under the wave at waimea. Paul aloha. A Rick, it's lovely to be here. You could just enjoy life in Hawaii and read your fan mail, but you keep on working, what motivates you? What powers you as you turn 80 years old to keep cranking out novels? I'd say two things. What is a love of travel, curiosity, curiosity, about places. The other is when you get older and you've seen the direction that the world is going. The changes. The only way to verify the true changes in the world, the alteration of this planet is by travel back to a place that you know well. And you know, I like that because you've said that you, instead of seeing new places all the time, you like to go back to the same places because then you can track the trajectory and actually see what's happening, how it's evolving. That's right. And the first trip I took was in December 1963, wasn't a trip it was a commitment I became a peace school volunteer in a small school in Malawi. It was called nyasaland then. So it was Central Africa to get to Central Africa then I flew from New York to Rome, Rome to Libya, Benghazi, Libya, to Nairobi, another flight. Next slide fourth flight Salisbury southern Rhodesia and then the flight to blantyre in NASA land. So it was and it took a week because we stopped we stopped in Rome where overnight in Rome overnight in Nairobi over overnight and it was a long trip..
This Week in Tech
"paul theroux" Discussed on This Week in Tech
"I can say That are saying it brings you closer to the things you love. That's the tagline Oh i love master chief so windows. Eleven came out on october fifth. That was tuesday to i. It wasn't like windows ninety five. Start me up. Wasn't even like windows. Seven there were you know. No parties celebrating the arrival of windows. Eleven kind of and there was no hummingbird might add either Daniel was windows. Eleven a big deal. this week. I know the operating system being updated. I think is just not a big deal anymore. apple kinda proven this point by every year. They do it every year. Oh yeah android got on and on that as well and people are just so used to probably sick of operating system updates that this is not really a big deal net sense now. Were you know windows. Ninety five was big because the computers were still pretty new but that was weird at the point where they're starting to get big and that's right also you know what does any five its core feature was about the internet right and that's where it never so potential round. Is it going to lie to get on the internet easier because it was pretty difficult. Weird that point to get on the internet so it does that quite have that impact after all. It's like you're saying you phones right. We've reached peak operating systems. What are you going to do. It's going to be so different exactly so sure it. The updated the uae. ill looks more modern fresher. They did a lotta optimizations. It's built around more security. Which i think is really a bigger story that people don't like talking about because he's you say that is that the tm requirement that t. pm two point zero requirement or is there other that As well as the modern processors Generation sick execution exploits. The idea here. I would say. Windows has a couple of problems in terms of image right one of them is stability. Another one is security and the other one's complexity so this update addresses all that stuff when it comes to security at it requires a requires modern processors stuff on the motherboard at helps prevent injection between when the operating systems. Actually booting on right boring. And it's a angers people but it's super and four and we're getting two different types of malware and hijack people's computers It's very important for them to address that after all i've seen a lot of google chrome commercials for chromebook where they're like. You don't need a virus scanner thing because it's still it's still fun to go after microsoft for security right Say being when it comes to stability right blue screen. Death is hilarious. Because it's it's a cultural new which is insane but when you look at the numbers between the you know going by mara stops says right that ninety nine percent of the computers with the modern hardware running windows eleven have a crash free experience. And that's the way it should be but that they say ninety nine percent they say what that number was for windows ten. Could it have been ninety nine percent. You could probably wasn't okay. Windows eleven is if you're running on the you know approved recommended hardware. Okay argue it's been stable for a while though windows ten was is i mean the blue screen. Death chair kind of went away right mostly. Yeah it was still kinda there. They were supporting a lot of very old hardware with windows town. Now they're actually making that demarcation. That's one way to get rid of him. Yeah stop supporting. Core demos and i would say also. That's another story this week which was kind of boring because not because there weren't celebrations because i didn't have to write a bunch of stories talking about this is broken crash. This isn't working for people. Sure there's amd story. Oh you know. Three to five percent maybe reduction in performance berry specific applications and may being gaming. And that's going to be fixed in a couple of weeks but that's that's not the same as people's you know computers being wiped or losing Data things being locked out or crashing. Like it's actually been a boring weak in terms of major bugs with windows. Eleven which. I think speaks to all this work. They put into making windows a little bit more modern. That's actually a little surprising because the beta releases were somewhat buggy. I think paul theroux was saying. I'm worried that this is eleven and releases premature but it had a major bug just a couple of weeks ago. That was right took away. People starting the task bar. It's not good right but we haven't seen anything like that This week now. That's good news the tell me they're rising. Tell me about the rise in issue. Who does that affect. So this is very you know. First of all aim be users are still a minority of users general so it's a certain percentage of them and the effect appears to be a three. Maybe three to five percent less than three to five percent reduction and performance in specific applications. Lash some games. Why that's it. Do we know why. Do the els three memory and it has to do with memory architecture. Amd's chips it's going to be dressed in a couple of weeks. Apparently so but is that a security vulnerability. Most people aren't gonna notice it. It's just i think more retarding up kind of bug. It's surprising they missed it during the the beta testing period So i'm sure people will go back and look at what happened. The reason i'm asking is because i run a rising fifty nine hundred on my own computers. I just curious hardcore gamer. Who streams on twitch hold-back. No i notice a little. I don't notice any difference It seems the same. But i'm playing val heim which is consecutive challenging game I stream it on twitch and Thanks to the big twitch breach. I'm streaming to a lot more people than arable. We'll talk about that a little bit. okay so christina. Did you put windows. Eleven on your brand new framework or did you put windows ten. Yeah no. I've.
Windows Weekly
"paul theroux" Discussed on Windows Weekly
"All sound good. Okay well next time you're out here. Last time i went to petaluma i went to lug. Anita's yeah and it was great. It's good in the food was is is quite good now and they have music and yeah. It's a lot of fun. An i got an update on twitter. Okay i'm going to butchers them. I'm so sorry. Abby can can venkatash who is linked to a blogs microsoft dot com blog talking about dynamic refresh rate and these devices and microsoft says. They're working with partners to bring updated drivers that will bring oh dynamic refresh rates software. Oh that's cool. Yep so i guess. The hardware can ha- bear. I guess we'll call it variable refrigerator. Whatever but anyway it's huge. That's great that's really a big deal. Nice to those duos won't have it right so there's no they don't have anything they don't have a ninety five hundred sixty just plain old screen. That's all you deserve. You duo user. I you know i i'm i'm like yours comes when october twenty first. Is that the same for you. for is me. Mary jo yup. That's what that's the first availability. I guess i really hope they give me a review unit. I made a tough play for it yesterday. I almost cried. I tears making bacon or spend money come on microsoft now well in i i they hand pick who they give stuff review two. So if you're not a youtuber forget it is microsoft apples that way. It's all goes to youtubers completely. I mean there is. Zero is absolutely a bigger percentage of youtubers getting this stuff. Oh god yeah. You can everywhere. It's crazy call myself. I'm mary jo instead of just you should have said of. There is an opportunity. Missed that microsoft. I'm an influence her. Come on guys Mary jo foley. That's the. She writes it the meeting her blog. It's all about microsoft dot com. And of course it's more than a blog. It's news news thing that you get all the latest especially enterprise news mary. Jo's got the scoops. Paul theroux dot com here. He's got all scoops to and others other things Full of full of goodness. The only thing it's not full of these days is brad sam's but other than that pastor. Oh now it's paul and the jumpsuit. So that's good that's horrifying. I never know what. I'm going to get when i push press that. No one does mining on my laptop. Let me just. that's a little more comfortable. Yeah there we go. Just dozer wasn't a character. He a character in the matrix. Dozer no no he wasn't it was in. It wasn't a transformers. Thank you should transformer. I don't know. I've forgetting to call you but is that from what's not from those. What's it from. I thought it was from the matrix ghostbusters. Now you're thinking go zor goes. Her wasn't ghostbusters. Goes there because there's a beer you guys. There's also a beer. I don't know do we know benders santa. yeah. I was in a matrix. There was a dozer in the matrix dies in the first movie core spoiler alert. Please kula dude. It's been twenty years. And i still haven't seen the matrix now. Paul's reclining on the lower third..
This Week in Tech
"paul theroux" Discussed on This Week in Tech
"You're a damn July of twenty twenty two. And i've been just looking at all of the excursions. I really wanna go and we invite you know everybody who goes on should come with us on the excursions. Paul theroux will be there too by the way and his wife along with lisa and my wife. Please send me. We're gonna go there you get to you. Take a helicopter to a glacier where you will be met by a dog team. And you get to mush a dog team across the glacier. I mean look if the world's gonna melt at least. I'm going to do this. I so that's all. I'm just saying if you wanna if you wanna chance to glacier kids go to cruise dot twit dot t. the and that's all the plugs for the chips. That long ago really beautiful. It's so beautiful up there actually have actually. I took one of those huddled one of those small little pontoon plans. Which i know. Oh the safest thing in the world but they flew you out over amazing mountains in the middle of nowhere and landed you on a crystal clear lake and got out and just stood on the pontoon edge of the vote. Clear perked water. You know. I suppose i we shouldn't. We should just stay home and not drive our cars and not cook with gas and just like eat broth vegetables that we ourselves but i feel like there's so much stuff to see and i don't wanna ruin it by going to see it. I don't know what to do we. We buy carbon offsets For all of our Trips effect for for the businesses. Well i don't know maybe is that just as sav to my conscience. I hope it's doing some good now. I think i think it matters. I think that real action on climate change has to come from the top. So you know. I think we can admit that no individual can solve or just. Dr blow up this whole situation. I probably shouldn't take a helicopter to glacier. Maybe canceled probably shouldn't do that. It's so beautiful up there. it's i want. I'm really conflicted. Because i love to travel. I want to see it. I don't want to be part of the problem. I mean we do you know. We have solar panels all over our roof. We generate as much bar powers we can. We're getting rid of all the liquid you know. Lpg in the natural gas Stuff in our house drive electric vehicles. But you're right. I mean how much can you do. Especially when brienne is driving are polluting. Porsches all over. Yes nothing i can do about that. You're with me. I'm sure you care a lot. And you wanna save the planet. But i it's it's i feel guilty about it you i really feel. I feel envious that my dad's generation could out and do things like buy. Va car va corvette. No we're to point. I think that like manufacturing emissions play a much larger role in that you know airlines play huge for all. i mean. it's the a lot of stuff but everybody should do their part as best we can. Oh well facebook. Let's talk about facebook. Social more cheerful said flawed data to misinformation readers researchers which on the face of. It seems like if you're going to send information the misinformation researchers should be misinformation. But that's not how it works. More the three years ago Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interact with posts and links on the social network after a lot of criticism So that academics could study misinformation and help facebook handling. They've been using that data for two years for many studies. Turns out according to internal emails and interviews with the researchers the data include interactions with only half of facebook's. Us users the ones who engaged with political pages enough to make their political leanings clear. Not all of them. Even though the company said it was all of them And so researchers are saying things like this undermines trust. We have in facebook and you had trust in facebook. It's just going to say what about that. Yeah facebook says we sincerely apologize for of course they do for the inconveniences may have caused. We'd like to offer as much support as possible. Sincere enough sincerely apologizing. This time we mean it forty seven different projects researchers all of whom basically were told. Yeah the data you got. That wasn't it wasn't good data so anyway. Welcome to the club. Twitter's been trying a lot of interesting things lately. I still don't understand how communities work so you talking about that on one of your other shows whether whether they're trying to shovel the red it model into an app that read it or facebook groups or google circles or you know there are a lot of examples in this. Never seemed like that was what twitter was about. But like i'm all for anything that kind of narrows the audience down because you always have those collisions between aunt bertha into your punk rock friend from college in places like facebook and any anything that allows me to narrow down the people. I'm talking to allow for better conversations. Good but i just don't know if twitter maybe the right it's so crazy. Though like twitter the things people want twitter are so darn like straightforward editor tweets. Yeah releasing to harassment. Report as you know but we got this for you if you're in dogs weather sneakers skin-care astrology. We've got a group for you right. It's it's crazy like do something about the random with eight digits after their name. I've never had a good conversation with eight numbers after their name ever. That's actually like but we should be able to write a regular expression the filters them out seems simple so l. communities. They are trying a little bit to give you more control over who you hear from You can have you. there is a. There's something they're trying They call it a soft block feature. You can remove a follower without une following them needing them or similar to meeting someone if you're removing them. Yeah following them. I guess so now. People who are following. Let's say you've got somebody with eight digits. After his name actually in their example twitter only has three digits after his name but anyway So apparently they're aware of this issue you can and i think he could do this right now. It's certainly on my time line you can. You have to use the official twitter app or not but web page..
This Week in Tech
"paul theroux" Discussed on This Week in Tech
"Because i know that when a philadelphia tried this that they were immediately sued and and state legislatures across the country started passing bills prohibiting municipal broadband. This is despite those bills. There's seventeen states that currently have passed laws restricting towns and cities from getting into the broadband business or building their own broadband networks or expanding those networks. But i think covert really showcase when you saw toddlers like sitting on the sidewalk outside try and get online for class. There's always been a problem but cova really accelerated. The awareness really is driven action could and so those seventeen states forget it. There's it depends. Each state has a different variation. Sometimes they they'll. It'll be an outright ban on building your local network. And sometimes it'll be worded in a very convoluted way to make it as difficult as possible to raise funds or to expand or you can't market in this zone or you can only if it's like a lot of these networks are built on the back of the local power utility. And so did yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. One of the fastest and cheapest fiber providers in the nation. They get one. Yeah but what a. Let's say you can expand. You can't expand this network outside of the local utility footprint. Some laws will say something like that and there's no real reason for it outside of the fact that the regional telecom monopolies who literally goes trae most of these laws just told the state representatives. They didn't want that to happen. And there's no stuff is super popular. it's bipartisan. There's no excuse for the failure that i've seen the ideological argument. Is that well. You wouldn't want government to compete with private industry but the counter argument is that a lot of these companies have had twenty years to wire these areas and they don't want to because the return on their investment is low but at the same time. They don't want anybody else their own broadband networks because they might want to go back someday. We may say that. Yeah that's a very very cake anita to kind of thing for these company. Oh what a surprise. Yeah just thinking about when. I ran for congress. I got so much about local budgeting like more than i ever would have thought. And i'd like here in data where Friend of the show Paul theroux used to live here too. We cancelled our trail this year. Like just walking trail because cova has destroyed our municipal budget. If you go for poor areas of massachusetts like brockton. I can promise you the brockton tax base is you know gonna let go for a bunch of broadband development right now. So i kind of i. i'm for you. I'm with you in principle also thinking about the people that need it most and thinking about towns like whitman where they're like. Hey we're just gonna have our library open for three days a week because we have no money you know. We're gonna have a four day a week police department and you know i i'm i'm thinking about like. Is that really a feasible thing. All through the united states like coposu's affects our local revenues for years. Yeah it's not like a silver bullet where you could just do this in every nation and there's also like multiple varieties of different types of isp's that are built out of this model. Some will be on the back of the local power. Utility won't use taxpayer money all some. We'll be private private public partnership that just works with local provider like google fiber or somebody to deploy to the area. So it's not all it's not all just tax base driven models. I mean there's a wide variety of models they can here in This little town of pedal them about sixty thousand people. There was a big initiative about five years ago to put in community wifi Initially comcast was going to help but then they bowed out than another provider was going to help. They bowed out that. Put some stuff up but it didn't work it's gone. I think it's just a hard thing to do. And there isn't a lot of support from the incumbents of course so you really have to have a leader A civic leader. Who's going to really push through. Yeah it's like any one of the things the telecom companies do they'll just say that these are automatic tax payer boondoggles and you should never try it. But i mean they're just like any other business plan and they require a good leader and a salad plan and look at look at chatanooga that built its own fiber network when comcast refused to they've been ranked consistently one of the most affordable fastest internet providers in the country. Well the other reason to do it as evidence shows everywhere that Incumbents were challenged by fiber whether it was google fiber or others that prices went down that you know speeds went up and and and even in some communities where there's fiber up to this road you could see. The prices go up as soon as the fiber from the other companies not available. It's like no competition. great. It's the thing the thing the thing that's frustrating is like you know the approach to ban these entirely. We've spent literally about twenty five years where the us ever. Since we broke up ma bell the us telecom policy has basically been to do whatever the dominant regional monopolies. What i mean with some exceptions occasionally net neutrality was an effort to say okay. Maybe we should apply some very basic rules to these companies and anytime anybody tries to do that. The companies get congress to freak out trying. Something different will destroy the internet. You know you know. That's good news. We live in this great country. We have the best internet in the world right incorrect. I'm.
Windows Weekly
"paul theroux" Discussed on Windows Weekly
"It's time i believe we've done everything else. There could be one thing left the back of the book as we call it. Paul theroux kicked it off with his tip of the week. Yeah so as part of the windows. Eleven field guy. That will eventually appear one of the things. I've been trying to figure out is. What are the new indifference keyboard shortcuts in his love because there are some and obviously most of the keyboard shortcuts for previous versions of windows carryover and they added a bunch in windows. Ten as well as you know pretty much carryover so the one for qatada that one's gone anyway So regarding keyboard shortcuts. I think a lot of people might think of these as kind of power user features or something and you know granted. I spent a lot of time with hands on keyboard. I'm writer right. So i want to keep my hands on the keyboard keyboard shortcuts. Allow me to do that. But there's kind of a side angle to this which i wrote a post The other day. And it's something. I also document in windows ten field guide today which is windows ten and windows seven both come with a bunch of stuff cluttering up the task park and if you know the keyboard shortcuts for those things you can just get rid of the icons and save space right. So they're going to be features like you never wanna use if for some reason You know you never gonna use widgets right. You get rid of the witches button. That's fine but even if you wanna use widgets if you want more room for the applications to be penned used the most often you can just get rid of that icon because there is a new keyboard shortcut that launches the widgets interface. Right so the handful that. I am aware of That are new or changed in windows. Eleven include like. Snap layouts right so you know that if you move the most cursor over the maximize or restore window button in the upper right corner you get that little slide down pain. That has the different. Stop lights You can actually bring that up with a keyboard as well With with windows in the front or is focused type windows key plus z. We'll bring up that little many you don't have to use the mouse Windows key plus a in windows ten brings up the action center in windows eleven. That brings up the quick settings which means you can't see notifications anymore which is one of those things that was in the action center in windows ten but as a new keyboard shortcut for that which is windows. Key plus n And then with regards to the buttons in the task part that chat icon for For the teams You know simple interface. Chat window is windows key. Plus see that used to be a cortana shark and then Which is his windows key. Plus w that will bring up widgets. If you want that thing for some reason god help you if you do anyway there might be more I'm gonna keep looking into these things Most of the feedback. I've gotten so far from people has been a collection of keyboard shortcuts. it already exist. You know i'm looking for new ones. But that's probably most of them. I think those are the big ones. So it's good to know..
Windows Weekly
"paul theroux" Discussed on Windows Weekly
"Five really helps when now. Back to windows eleven. What would mary jo foley dude. I like this one. That's our question of the day so right now as our listeners and viewers know i've been going out on a limb running windows eleven on one of my machines ben in the dev channel but microsoft gave us a little warning recently. And said we're gonna move the dev channel to start focusing on features which we may or may never ship so it's going to become more unstable so this is me seeing red. Red light flashing new. No no no no. So i moved to the bay the channel this week inside of my insider settings just to make sure that i can stay on windows eleven as continues to evolve up to the point of artem and shipping. That's what you need to do. If you wanna stay on windows eleven you need to get out of the channel right now and go to beta or release pure. What if. I never did it. Should i go to beta now and it would get it or no if you if you go to beta now You're gonna end up in the kind of bleeding edge channel on ford which will be some features. That may make an end someday. Scientific released shell. I won't get anything new. i will give you. You'll just released preview. You'll just get windows eleven. When it's almost ready to roar right okay But beta channels the best. One i think for for most people who want to continue to watch. How does eleven evolves. That's what mary jo foley would do. That's what i would do. Paul theroux completely different. Of course he will. I'm staying in the deb channel. But i agree that this is The smartest thing to do and it's somewhat unique in the insider program bill to go back and forth between beta right so that was the nice thing for yourself to do. It was very good. Yeah they sent notes out to people by email who are in the in the windows. Eleven testing group. And just said hey by the way. If you don't want the instability and like you wanna stay on windows. Eleven get out of the death channel so i i don't know if anybody more instability more to stay in a new canary channel right That's what canary means. It is lynch cutting edge janelle. And you don't care if things were in the coal mine. Sometimes canaries pass out and fall off their perch. They now i saw some reports of people saying they were trying to get out of the channel and they when they went to go to the beta channel. The box was greed out. They couldn't get out. Did you see that person. But actually what is going on here. I don't even have a window insider you don't thing. Oh oh i'm sorry. They moved the channel. You have a special. no no no i had. I had a similar problem. Where i had a i in fact i did it when i was in mexico because i wasn't sure about the second computer so i brought up windows. I i wanted to clean windows. Eleven in a virtual machine. I didn't have the iso's with me at the time. now have public one. But we'll get to that and so install windows ten and then it went up. I went to upgrade. I went to go to the inside of program and the only thing available to be was reached the release channel released preview channel. Which at the time was just for is still today has just for windows. Ten is just for like the next version what his ten and i was like So i look that up and it turns out. This is a weird bug a. Couple registry changes. You can make So if you're not seeing dev and or beta channel and insiders settings You should google that because there's a there's a quick thing you can do. You gotta make a registered change reboot and then they they popped up and that's been working fine for me. So yeah maybe if you want but if you wanna stay on windows ten and test twenty-one h two which is coming out this right you what channel you're supposed to be you can't raise the you can't so this this is Listen no one's gonna say is really confusing if you as an individual right now so you know what. That is what i wanna test. I wanna get twenty one. H two right. You have to roll a computer. That doesn't meet the windows. Eleven hardware requirements. I'm sorry you can't even do that now. You can't because right now if you just joined the inside a program now and your machine doesn't meet the requirements. Microsoft actually will let you in. The only people are testing. That are people who are already in. The insider program were in released preview and their hardwood didn't meet the requirements. Those people that small subset were pushed into twenty one. H two testing the so right now. Released preview is two different things depending on where your system requirements are so. Yeah you can't. I don't i don't believe anyone new can get into that right now. Okay maybe that changes but that's my understanding. That's good enough because i'm new and that out of the back of my mind like yeah. Yes if you don't know where you are look up your windows insider at eleven type in windows insiders. Yeah make sure your way. You wanna be if you're not one update i'm really kind of compelling content not to be tessa twenty one h to just no eleven twenty two. Yeah even twenty two. I don't wanna. I mean there's nothing to test that's the kind of the point to me even with eleven is really meet. There's nothing i need to see. You need some rounded corners. That's what you told her. Don't believe newer is always better. I don't understand your opinion on this. I know i'm unique in that. Regard is that's usually the kids. I don't care what it is. How i get it i want it. I the reason. I decided to test it was. I wanted to see how different ten was from eleven because my readers are it pros and new people. And i. i wanted to see how much when they saw shape. How much do you think they're gonna freak out..
Windows Weekly
"paul theroux" Discussed on Windows Weekly
"A cat a beer that's all we need kinda. Yeah i mean it's not hard to make you gotta get the I want to call it the mother. That's what they call it. Yeah it's like the starter. We blur the of area but Yeah i am much more than a gooey blog accurately. Okay not much. I wonder if there are kombucha cocktails. I bet there you might. As well. I mean they. They make a great mixer we i love danja. And even though it theory is a t you can make it be like grapefruit or anything. I mean it can be like any great Don't think the computer i had was like t now. It doesn't taste like t plane can can be but usually they dose it up with ginger or lemonade lemons or flavors to make it interesting. Yeah but yeah no i I was really tempted to make Mcmahon kabuga it's fairly invi. It's like making beer right. You gotta get a bunch of equipment. Yeah it's not as complicated. There's no temperatures come. Yeah and you don't have to deal with the hop part it's it's yeast and it's bacteria which is like sauerkraut and there's no life. Yes sauerkraut kimchi. Sour dough bread affirm. Beer wine had all alcohol's. It's all fermented a scooby. That's what they call it. Lord louis gobi. Yep that's very this is. That's an acronym for something about oxygen or something. Mary jo foley paul theroux. What a job you guys do. I can never thank you enough for your great contributions. Paul is going to be on a cruise with us if You just get your vaccine please. If we can we'll be going to alaska next july so Next summer It's the twit. The first annual twit crews. I say that even though there may never be a second or third or fourth annual. It's the it's the for well. I don't know the response has been great. So i'm happy about a cruise dot twit dot tv I think we're going to have well over. One hundred twits aboard with stephanie. Paul thurrott leeson leo laporte. We will be aboard. We will have lots of fun to be welcome cocktail party. A farewell cocktail party at which tears will be shed. There will be a a a lecture in between paul nile. I'll do a stephanie. Wants till people we have to you. And i should probably get you know. Think about what we want to do with that. We can have some around with it And then And then i think lisa says we're in take some of the excursions and make him photo walks. Bring your cameras i. It's gonna be a wonderful time because it's a bunch of twit Listeners and that makes this might be good for is at night. I bet you can see a billion stars and you can produce some good astro photography stuff rate. I mean yeah. That's a great idea and of course taking pictures of glaciers they're so beautiful so All of this is available if you want to know more at cruise dot twit dot. Tv do not. I know it's a long way off but with cruises you really book. I've always always book a year ahead of time. Because they fill up fast. And i don't want anybody to say. Oh we wanted to go with there. Weren't any places left so please go to cruise dot twit dot tv. Join me and paul in alaska..
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"paul theroux" Discussed on The Tech Guy
"Maybe we'll just pony up and bring you know. Now i i can bring the whole family. We're going to alaska july next year. Leo laporte the tikka fun you know i think maybe that's what we'll do because i think we'd signed we'd never done it before they didn't know us so i think we sided deal. That maybe wasn't as generous as you know. Because when i was doing those key cruises he'd get a ton extra rooms but we only erica. Yeah holland america. But i think we only got travel so i think we only got one extra. Listen i work with those guys are great. They actually we supposed. My whole family was supposed to go on a on. America alaska cruise last summer. I've done one. I did it before on the oester. Damn this is on the euro. Damn i can't wait. I love holland. America i've never been on hall america and i've never been on a cruise in alaska. I've been to alaska. Multiple began to bring you but So i think we get one extra cabin. We made that mark which was sixty sign ups But i don't think we get even if we get one hundred fifty sign up so we don't work don't don't don't you worry about me because well otherwise you know. Talk to lisa. We'll just bring for. Because i'd love for you in the family to go. I will do it. Yeah yeah so. Thank you So what by the way. I like the plug. That where where do i. Where do i got. Twins cruise dot twit dot tv crews twit dot. Tv all right. I will plug that. Yeah i thought we got an extra one every thirty cabins to Big island hawaii. I was misinformed after. I said that on the air. Lisa said No it's not how it works you. After the i thirty cabins you get one. But it doesn't continue for some reason this kim gone. No one's going. Just me and paul theroux and our arrives. That's it unless unless we can reu. Well i think the theory. I don't know maybe we made a bad deal. Lisa's really good negotiating. I don't i think probably because we'd never done it before so they didn't want to offer us the moon. Maybe we should've said no we. You know we will only do it if we get you know. Get to another cabinet. I think the other thing is they're not sure what demand will be in fact one of the clauses says they can clawback cabins that they have allocated to us but are not yet reserved if they have enough restrictions. Yeah i i suspect. They're just unsure what is going to be like july twenty twenty two is. They're going to be a huge demand or demand. Number one is the airlines and the cruise lines. This week came out in their earnings calls. And both said that bookings are and you know. They can't really be us on this. But they all said that Bookings are really strong. They're not worried about a huge downturn but they are obviously there could be some because of the delta variant. And i i kind of disagree with them. I think there is going to be a bigger downturn than that but let's hope not the Tsa numbers are holding steady. Two point one away. I was so worried. We'd have long lines that they have. They've done a great job. It was and through the tsa both coming and going no no regular. Wow at suppo- at oh and pine there there are private. I think they're the only private security firm. No say they have badges. That look just like uniforms. Be okay out to see that. I haven't been sf oh and over year but Yeah it's a private company under the contract. It was easy peasy..
Windows Weekly
"paul theroux" Discussed on Windows Weekly
"Might be a good honestly if you ever gets a try feedback makes ipa's but they try all kinds of fun crazy things with them so that they don't just tastes like the ip that. Paul theroux hates tastes. Really good stuff used to really like Wpa from Blue hillsborough right quarterback a couple that you liked. Well the first. Step suppressors on me. Paul next july. Thank you expect. A little numberless sale out of seattle harbor wave goodbye to the space needle and had smell of peanut butter whiskey. Wafting in the air. I hope you will join us in the lounge for the for for stephanie. Herod's cocktail palooza and paul threats whiskey of peanut butter and bitter whiskey nights. It'll be fun. It'll be fine with that tv. For more about the tweet. Alaska cruise coming up. July twenty twenty two paul and i'll be on there This was a fun show. But i missed you guys. I had a good time in hawaii. But i had to say no i. I was watching photos and i. I don't feel like missed. Secretly wanted to actually go to the beach but they're doing a thing about windows sixty five and i just got a next time. I'm bringing cardboard cutouts a you guys put them on the beach and then i won't feel so all alone. We do windows weekly every wednesday morning. Eleven am pacific two pm eastern eighteen hundred. Ut's tell you when because you could watch us to it live now. You're watching the making the show..
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"paul theroux" Discussed on Windows Weekly
"It hurts my eyes. It's like you've upgraded from whatever e. e. g. a. or get new glasses and suddenly everything to clear really looks good then then. Of course mr potato cam paul. Throughout from throughout dot com h. u. r. o. T. dot com but together of image. They make the dynamic duo of microsoft reporting. You know what. You're going to be able to see paul theroux in crystal clear. Perfect perfect representation of authorized us on the twit cruise right. We are announcing we got sixty people to sign up and that meant we get another cabin. Sorry mary jo. That's i think that's it. You know it was okay. I don't think i'm ready for a cruise until next july. It's a year on the screen. I don't play. But i went by in your ready for this. So we We asked. I asked steve gibson and he said his and my wife says under no circumstances. I said okay and de paul. You were second in line Believe it or not you are the number two in seniority here at swim. Used to being number two. That's cool. i know. I i i have no interest in cruises other than alaska this. I've always said this. I've been dying to do this. Exact thing for many years so it's gonna be a lot of fun. We're going on holland america. It's next july a year from now And we invite everybody who listens to the show or listen to any of our podcast and wants to come. We'd love to see you. Listen i'll be going Paulie taking stephanie. I presume or or somebody yeah no. She's she's ready to me. Okay i i didn't want to push Note she's totally on board. I was gonna ask figuratively and literally awesome. I told her if you do this. People will be way more interested in you than me for sure. It's gonna be a lot of fun. We're going to alaska we're gonna see. The glaciers is beautiful. You get to sail around glacier invades. I've done it once before in holland america. So i i'm familiar with that it's gonna be great brenham beautiful ship the eurocom anyway. You want to know more. We'd love to have you with us. Cruise dot twit dot tv. And i think i misspoke previously. I spoke. I thought that every people signed up that we get another host but i the i was told no no. That's that's all our We we can bring we get a total of two cabins And i think mostly they're concerned about selling out because they're getting. We're getting a pretty good deal because you know it. So i think they're just afraid that you know come next july. There's going to be people saying i'll pay twice as much so they don't want to give away too much. But i i'm looking forward to. This goes well. we'll do it again. And of course. Mary jo will invite you Cruise dot twit dot tv. If you want to join paul and me and our spouses. I think a lot of people. More people wanna see stephanie. And lisa than the ones. Yeah i we already know this. You and i will be drinking scotch back wondering what we're wrong but it's okay. I can have a peanut butter whiskey session at some point like you totally elected award for the best peanut butter and jelly cocktail. That would be fun. All right. we'll contact will contact the shift and make sure they make sure star butter whiskey for a large ship went down. I guess they had a lot of this peanut butter whiskey. Captain said was bring me jelly. All right enough enough fooling around This is a serious podcast where we talk about serious issues. And i think we're talking about windows. Eleven still still This one for a while. you don't have it in your notes. But there is a security flaw in there. Oh yeah oh actually the new one. No it should be. There's a new is. Somebody's calling it hive nightmare which i think is not a good name. Actually maybe I wrote about it. I guess i must well. Let's do it right now. Well we got some. We got some. There's so many to stop okay. So i got it i got it i got it. It's in there. It's it's it's under more windows. We'll get there two more windows But first we got another bill. And how many is this three third third. Although you know the last two were just kim about right. So these are minor minor changes. I understand. you talked to mike into installing it. I.
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"paul theroux" Discussed on Tech News Today
"One of the apple world. I clearly am not. I have an ipad that i barely use. We're not going to go there. You're one of that apple world How're you on the apple ecosystem in a game and of things. Yeah well actually i. I will answer that question in a second. But i do want to talk about the larger point if i could because i think that there's a lot of interesting stuff here So we look at the different companies right now that are doing game game streaming and i want to talk about companies Somebody will inevitably reach out and say there's this company that's coming to talk about the big company once you've got xbox what's called a called xbox cloud gaming from microsoft you've got Amazon luna from amazon. And you have Forgetting what the third one is Was sony's darn it. Why can't i think of it Oh an nvidia geforce. Now which are some some kind of big players in the space But with within those think about amazon Where they're not a gaming company but what they are is a backbone of the internet company and they are very good at all sorts of content delivery and streaming and things like that so they realized we can get into the space. Make some money off of it. And i have to tell you i've been using him as on luna It is solid and it works very well may Because i've somehow turned into a game where it's really weird. I am i sitting. I know i don't know me either. But i've been playing assassin's creed valhalla on amazon. Luna on my mac and it's been beautiful and essentially all it is is it's streaming video to your device and videos and active because the stuff's happening away in the cloud right In so even though amazon isn't on its face a gaming company. They pulled it off really. Well we look at net flicks. Who has these incredible algorithms for video compression and who is streaming to more households than you know. Many accompany many a media company and i think that they looked at this and saw. This is an easy win for us. That even though gaming is not on the face of it something that they are into they've already got streaming video down and that's what video games streaming is. It just adds an extra element of your interaction. And so i think this is going to be an easy win for them. As far as apple goes apples gaming is not anything like these and it is Very much still to this day. A more casual perspective. It's it's the games that you get in the apple arcade subscription you download them to your device and in fact that's part of the Okay yeah that's actually part of the benefit that they go four. They say you can play these off line so that you don't need to be connected and it's it's a privacy consideration there to where the games aren't constantly you know paying attention to your activity for but in doing so. It attracts a certain type of developer A certain type of game creator ends a you do get these almost very specific type of games that that aren't these big name triple a. Studio games whereas with these other platforms. Xbox of course is going to get bethesda because you know microsoft are who they are. And you're going to get the standard games that you could play on xbox. Oh it was stadium that i forgot to mention earlier. That's the one that i was thinking. They don't really. This is the same thing. Even though stadium lost i was just talking to paul wrote about this even though stadium. Kind of got rid of some of their own stuff and It seemed like it was going down the drain. What stadium did do is. They've completely drastically changed their Golly now they're bringing in microsoft changing the way that you can make money on the platform. Oh it s friday. Doing it was. It was from thirty percent now to fifteen percent. Yeah i three million for the first three million and then they're also they're doing an affiliate program so if you have a stadium play now button on your site. You can make ten bucks off of each person who subscribes and there's a third thing where people who are streaming the games as part of a subscription as opposed to buying the games and streaming them that will also earned those games game manufacturers Money as well and so what. I think Google is doing with stadium. Is saying we're not interested in creating games ourselves but we can do is make the platform that people use to access the games that they play from steam or from An uber soft plus subscription. Or what have you. So we're happy to be the doorway the portal so to speak to get you to those games but we don't want to worry about making library ourselves so while i think they are stepping away from the studio side of things. I do think that stadium is going to be one of those platforms that lets you access. Same as luna luna is not about creating a bunch of games of their own and is more focused on being a solid platform and in talking to paul theroux. Who's tested all of these He's with me on saying that Amazon's luna is one of the most solid because of the brilliant thing that they've done where the amazon luna controller instead of it being a bluetooth connection to your device or a wired connection to your device which you can do both of those. Yeah so that when you make the controls move than three or device it sends those controls to the server and the server responds changes the video in that way. They've been this beautiful thing of making the controller connect to over wifi so that the controller is sending the signals clouds and so then it it has responsive in a way that you don't get if you have to route through the computer then to the system then back. Those things can both happen at the same time and so you get a much more responsive curtain some sound precisely which is important for any kind of Any kind of especially. I don't play. I don't have an interest in playing shooters or anything like that. But people who play shooters they need. That millisecond lag to not be there and so i can see Because of the way that netflix has has figured out how to on the fly make light. Subtle adjustments to the video to match whatever internet connection. Someone has they may be be able to pull this off even better..
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"paul theroux" Discussed on Talk with Oliver
"It's a combination of everything and people that listen. This costs could probably agree with that as well. The you know you can't see how bad stuffy sometimes too you're really deeply in it and then it's probably too late. That's the thing is people they just. They call it. People have a dog following matteo. I made realize i follow in their own. Dale why people just follow the system and then the rin and then they can't get out for eighteen years now. that time is too late. Who you are and adrian jihad or they're like twenty years old. You're certainly shaped by your family on you. You know you see a man at a table with his family wearing a A crew neck shah for his daughter's eighth birthday in fucking back in america restrooms somewhere. That's not what they aspire to. Ever be. But also be paul of people that you don't feel this and i don't really feel at the moment but maybe i will one all of you know they won't. There's paul theroux wants this fatherly things people to listen to this costs released in these two mediates talking like being father. I like having a child. Come and tell me how the school days fulfillment in that. And sometimes that fulfillment can even be bigger than wanting to be a crazy singer or a football guy What's interesting about me. is that most people. When they have a great family. They want to continue the generations below right and as you said some people who want a child often didn't have a great fatherhood father figure and he wanted to their kids what they beth baldwin evident to them yes taking naked to football. They imagine that died taken under football experience. As if it's them. But i also know what it's like basically have such a great foundation or family. Everything is done for you but doing this on the table and more my thoughts and everything. I've wanted to growing up stadium ahead which threats was well to live my life in my head because i couldn't live outside because my dad and my mom made decisions and everything that i wasn't free. It's like a doke saying four. Tell me about your turrets. Sisters acce- brain activity stimulating neurons in the brain connect to the face marshals that if you're thinking excessively stimulating face muscles retention and the swearing is the frustration about trying to workout gonna work out. Hang on a minute. How bad was you'll threats if you think about threats you think of swearing and swear loud. Yeah most people most people don't twitch that much. She's mainly swearing in his accessible part. Mike line was. It wasn't even a major way. You were doing it. Yeah but my twitching was like it was like a computer. That's been on all day and is the hard drives rushing never stopped fashion so me was about to because all was trying to constantly work. How wonderful we here. Why get job. Why don't you get a job doesn't fuck make sense. You know i get up. And i appreciate everything and you'll is now under control. I could leave. I meditated right now. I'll be mad. Antique stores Statue lots of money from me. Then i can think in my head. And i'll be tuition the fuck out myself. I'm talking excessively. I'm going into my brain twitching. A little bit blinken runabout base about the brain activity most people. They don't think about new stuff. They go over conversations. If brennan said their palying the brainwash understand if gore. was someone. Go yes. Howdy thanks to me episodes If you could members right and review steve listened. I'll be fantastic and also subscribe so when already anyone you get an education and play. Stay friends on shows about me. Bull costs now. I'll be back later. I have a great day and speeches syrian.
NEWS 88.7
"paul theroux" Discussed on NEWS 88.7
"Guest on travel with Rick Steves. His latest novel is set in the tropical breezes of North Shore Oahu in under the wave at Waimea. He's written more than 30 works of fiction, including Hotel Honolulu and the Mosquito Coast, which was made into a movie in 1986 and is being recreated as a series for Apple TV, starring his nephew, Justin through You can find more of his work at Paul Theroux dot com. So, Paul, you have chosen to spend. I guess you understand. You split your time between Cape Cod and Hawaii and these two worlds. Well, Larry, send us an email from Larry lives in Boston. And he asks, How do you compare the coastal community of Cape Cod to Hawaii? How is the food? Different? The same. The people they may be opposite sides of the world. But beach towns everywhere. Have some commonalities. Do you agree? Uh, so you're in a beach town world. Is it similar to Cape Cod? Is there reason that you're in two beach communities? Yes, There is a reason I grew up outside Boston. I'm a coastal New Englander, and we moved to the cape later in my life. And I think that, uh, living on Cape Cod you're living with With the sea with waves with fishermen. I grew up that way, and what Cape Carter's have in common with Hawaiians is the freedom of the sea. No matter how crowded is on land with, you know one thing and another. You can always escape to the sea. You can swim away. You can paddle away. You can you can. You can even saying the wage and look away. Which is what a lot of people do. They just park the car and look at the water. And there's a Zen like quality to the beauty of the water calmness that you can see. The great difference is that I'm in the Pacific Ocean on a volcanic island. And under Hawaii is a mountain. We're on the top of a mountain below. Hawaii is a substantial volcanic mountain. Cape Cod is a terminal Moraine. A terminal rain is the leading edge of a glacier. So it's sand. It's sand dunes. It's not like the Maine Coast, which is granite. But that's a big difference. So under under Cape Card you find if you dig down, you're just fine Sand and little else. There's no there's no solid rock there. Hawaii is is built on solid rock. Hawaii is is like an indestructible bass. If in the middle of the ocean, it can never be destroyed and in fact it if it grows because of all, KEDO's Cape Cod can be swept away. The coasts changes with every season. So when I go back in June to my house and Cape card, the Contour The sand is different. Paul. One thing I I just think you have a real sense for and it comes across. So vividly narrating is this respect of nature? You were just talking about Cape Cod and these, you know, thunderous mountains in.
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Travel To Bulgaria
"Bulgaria is a small and mysterious country. It's one of those lands that Americans just don't visit very much. It's long faced east impact in communist times it was famously subservient to the USSR. But. Of course, there's lots more to see in Bulgaria and you can learn about a fascinating culture. When you go there to Bulgarian guides, joined us in our studio to help give us a better insight and a little better appreciation of the cultural. Bulgaria. We're joined by Stephan Bush job and you're. Stephanie thanks for being here. Thank you our pleasure now. Americans we don't know as much about Bulgaria as we know about Poland or Germany or Italy, or Greece that. It's not in the news it's signing country of about seven million people probably, not not a lot of Bulgarians have emigrated to the United States like Polish people. So many know when I think of Bulgaria I think of a back in the communist times a little country that was more friendly with Moscow, than the other countries in eastern Europe in fact, your leader little sort of an communist dictator two-door shifts of Shipka He. Actually proposed that Bulgaria joined the USSR and become the Sixteenth Republic. Is that true that? Yes that's still in the early nineteen sixties shifts for wanted us to be so close to the Soviets. So he proposed to become the sixteen republic. Why so subservient? The USSR you know because as a small country, we have always tried to find our big brother because you're right there in the middle of the Habsburgs and Russia and and. The meat of all those crossroads and your. Little so easy to gobble up if you're a big giant country absolutely, but fortunately, the Soviets were in the middle of the Cuban missile crisis saw they were busy and they were not interested in having trouble themselves Khrushchev or whoever was the dictator say There's a joke in becan communist time. The biggest animal in the world was the Bulgarian pig because the head was in Bulgarian. The body was in Moscow I. Was that funny. So many years ago he mentioned the pick when you have the body of the pick of the good meat is there. So we produced Oh the good stuff food and it was expected to the Soviet. Union. So practically, this is the reason why still nowadays in Russia they remember all those fruits and very funds legal, Gary, all good stuff that came from Bulgaria. So the big shot in Moscow and wind as well. Of course, all the Bulgarian wine. Oh, the best bogere in one when Russia. Well today you don't have that problem. You've got wonderful traditional food and drink and and Yuri. What is one thing we should remember about the food of Bulgaria when we visit incredibly fresh everything is fresh. What's been out of the garden? What's IT traditional? A traditional meal I I remember some beautiful soups. You must have a salad. You must argue with Salads and a little bit of Brandy. As world it goes with the Salads. We always have the strong alcohol first, and then we go to the wine and then we go to the beer you start with the strong alcohol yes, we do. We do. Why is that Stephan? It is deep tradition. What my parents belief is that when we have a trunk alcohol to open your perceptions the food, this is the best way to taste it when you have a few sips of follow traditional. Brandy. Code. Of Akia. So when I'm cooking, if people have the strong alcohol, I can actually eat my food. It helps it helps a lot. Gary is the only country in the European Union that has this surreal alphabet I was in Bulgaria when you're on May twenty fourth, that's big celebration. Why does Bulgaria have this unique alphabet and what's the cultural background of that? I remember that day because we were actually fuming Bulgaria episode into our in my hometown. So it is really important to understand these different alphabet because this is an alphabet which helped to spread the Christianity because it's surreal religious named after Saint. And who was his side and his brother Metallica's Methodius and Cyril. So they innovated this alphabet so they could write down the holies holy scripture scriptures and people could read them exactly in idea to have the Christianity. Kuo's to the heart close the. So to understand the holy wisdom to understand the words written, what century was that this was in the eight, hundred, eight, hundred, fifty, five,
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Paul Theroux's Mexico Journey
"More than fifty years of writing about his epic journeys in Travel Books and novels. Paul through has recently finished a series of road trips on the back roads of Mexico. He wanted to see for himself who lives there how they live and what's really behind the headlines about a migration crisis from south of the US border and by the way you'll have to pardon my weak voice at the time we recorded our interview. It's better now. Paul theroux welcome Doc Ricketts a pleasure to be with you. You know this is such an exciting adventure you went on and right at the beginning of the book you write the Mexican border in the edge of the known world only shadows and danger beyond it and working figures. Hungry criminal predatory fanged fanatical enemies an ungovernable rabble eager to pounce on the unwary traveller so you decided to travel. Tell us where you went on this trip. And why by the rest of that senators and a Tutti fruity of grizzled gringos accident. So why why. Because I noticed that people were stereotyping Korea Typing Mexicans Mexicans who come across the border why they come that illegal looking for welfare making trouble and I thought one of the reasons as we traveled your a great traveller. Rick is to destroy the stereotype to find out what people are really like. What's this story and we find the come from? All sorts of places is in Mexico they might be billion as they might be millionaires. That might have no money at all. Some people in Mexico have less than the average person in Kenya or Bangladesh Rush. So it's not a simple situation but to see it at its best or to see it most clearly. I thought I WANNA go alone. I want to go on my own car. I WANNA the drive up and down. The border. The border that everybody talks about but no one knows that firsthand as written about much and I want to see it drive along the aboard and then drive deep into Mexico and I thought I bought a car for this purpose secondhand car. That wasn't very notable and off. I went not very noticeable but it had Massachusetts license plates on it. That was a little unfortunate. The police said you know they. They looked at my plates. And then they pull you off the road and they say Whether or Saturday do you know what I can do to you and you say what exactly do you want. And then they say pay me some more Didi. Is that the open. This happens but people say how awful and I think. Yeah how awful but on the plane of snakes is travel book and travelers travel writers. Rav Paul Writers have the last word so I have the last word and that's a side of Mexico. The police are excited. Mexico that exists and as travelers were not looking in for la La land in Orlando. We're looking for the reality. Go south of the border. We're looking to see things as they are the good the bad the ugly the the fun that whatever it is the sunshine the rain you know I was the Peace Corps joined the Peace Corps nineteen sixty three and I went to Central Africa. I didn't know what I was GonNa find was into the wild blue yonder and what I found was not at all what I was expecting. Not at all our guest right now and travel with. Rick Steves is author Paul. He just published an account of his road. Trips from the back roads of Mexico his new book introduces us to the people he met and explains what he learned about life in Mexico far from the comforts of resorts in the safety. Excuse tollways the books called on the plane of snakes. Your book is about the wall and I'm fascinated by walls in my travels. The Berlin Wall the walls between the Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods in Belfast. The wall of between Palestine and Israel and in this wall I remember when I was in the Holy Land on one side. The Wall looked a certain way. And then the other from the other side that looked a lot different tell us about the actual wall standing there especially on the Mexican side looking at it. What's it like where the wall is a big piece of iron mongering That looks like it looks like a prison wall. I mean it looks ah fence it has slats in it. The first one that I saw was in Nogales may be eight years ago or possibly more and it wasn't a wall that you could see through. It was sexually big iron plates steel plates. I guess and there were there. Were Rusty thirty feet high. You couldn't see through. It looked like it didn't look like offense at all actually looked like a wall That's now slats. What is it looked like it? It looks like something that is surmountable. Looks like you could climb over and people do it. Looks like could tunnel under it and people do it also looks very beautiful. It looks like a piece of sculpture by the artist Christo it looks like Krista went to the border and said I'm going to show the world. What a border looks like in metal and so the the fence to steal border fence goes up and down through hill and Dale undulating up? As far as the I can see and you think how amazing but how primitive too because house obviously keep any vote. No when I go as a traveler to these walls the odd thing is I can pass them easily. I can go from Israel to Palestine I in the cold where I could go between East and West. You were south of the wall and you wrote about the women in the diners there that kind of saw you you as a maybe a ticket to the north. It must have been interesting for you to be in these hardscrabble. Little spots in the wall was so close and you could just waltz right back and forth. They couldn't not only that it's only yeah waltzing bank in Nogales Arizona. You visit door in the wall. The first time I saw it there was a turnstile where you're in a street in Arizona. You know with parked in the sunshine. POKKA walk down the end of the street. Go through the door in your in Mexico is your show you I mean I showed by. Id and just by walking through a door. That for travel is such an amazing experience to me. It was an experience of the kind that I'd I'd never had before I've cross borders. You've been through many borders but most borders that are memorable you walk across Kenya Ethiopia China China and Russia Kazakhstan Benetton wherever you know Canada and say but Mexico is it's the wall and also there's another language behind the wall is cuisine beyond the wall and the women that you mentioned some of whom want to go over the wall around it to work in a motel or a hotel in the states Have left children behind husband's behind and the going what I found. Is that coming to make a living