The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Daily Business & Tech News Aug 4, 2019

Episode Date: August 4, 2019

Daily Business & Tech News Aug 4, 2019

Hi folks, this is Foss here from thechrisfossshow.com. Welcome to the podcast. We certainly appreciate you guys tuning in today. We've got news and business tech and all the things that come with it. And of course, my take on it, which is why you tune in, of course, at all, because you're like, well, I can read the news, Chris, but then I can have you tell it to me. Give me your interesting spin on it. So, thanks for tuning in.

We certainly appreciate you guys being with us this morning of August 4th, 2019. Holy crap. Do you realize that we're like just a few months from Christmas? What is it? September, October, November, December. My God, that's four months. Well, technically five because we're at the beginning of August. So you got to count that.

You got to count every day you can to keep away from Christmas. Five months, people. Holy crap. That means we're on the back half end of this year. And it's on its way to figuring out who we hate and who we love for Christmas and who we actually want to give some crap to in our wonderful consumerism. Interesting day today in the world. I think it goes without mentioning our hearts and thoughts go out to the people of all cities

who are suffering from violent attacks, gun violence um slaughter from multiple gun violence uh over the last 24 hours we had el paso um and then ohio was attacked in mass slaughter um these these uh these weapons that can kill people in seconds even on ohio the cops were on top of the guy in one minute but he managed to kill i believe it was nine people is the count now. Uh, it's still coming in and then, uh, injured about 20. So even though the cops are there, even though Texas is a huge gun state, there are people there with guns, uh, carrying legally. Um, it doesn't make a difference. These people can kill so many people with these weapons so fast. It's not even funny. And that's what they're designed to do.

They're not designed to kill like 20 fucking deer like at once. They're designed to kill humans. That's what they were designed to do with the military aspect to them. So we need to change something in this country. We need to try to change something in this country because nothing's working by not doing anything so get registered to vote if you're a voter and go out and vote make your changes as to what you want to happen because people who don't think it can happen to them will probably be the ones happening next there's been over 240 mass shootings in, I think, as much time

as there have been days in this year. It's really an epidemic. So please vote, get registered to vote, make your vote happen, be open to the chance that even if we changed some laws to a point that would still give people the rights they want to have with guns, but would restrict, um, you know, some of these crazy guns that we have, even if it saved one life, if that life was the life of your child, would it not be worth it? So, uh, anyway, something to consider and certainly, uh, an ugly, uh, news item that we, you know, I think we have to address just from that aspect of it. Moving on, sadly, um, think we have to address just from that aspect of it. Moving on, sadly, we do have to talk about other things in the world.

It's hard to say, well, this isn't quite that important. Everything else kind of pales in its importance. But you tuned in to hear business and news. So let's bring you that after doing our aforementioned commentary uh according to kotaku uh the e3 website leaked personal information including addresses and phone numbers of 2 000 reporters content creators um e3 has removed the file but it's still too late you know once again you've heard me um just, complain, complain about this. This is another issue that needs to get fixed in America.

Not as prevalent as the prior one we discussed. But, geez, I'm so tired of having my info data hacked. These guys at E3 have been real assholes to the Chris Voss show. We've not seen a press badge since 2013. And even then, I think Qualcomm arranged our press badge for us, so that's how we got one.

But they've been total fucking dicks and have totally what's the word I'm using? Looking for... They've tried to make as few presses as possible uh show up to these events this is a real damn shame when these events do this they have so many people paying tens hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend these events and they throttle that's the

word i'm looking for they throttle press so the press can't show up and and cover their stuff it's just a joke and we usually when these companies find out about the throttling, I've had it happen once or twice before. Once they find out about the throttling, uh, they're pretty angry because they realize that they've been wasting a bunch of money. So if you're a person that gets rejected, uh, from these entities, E3, um, South by Southwest has been touch and go over the years, uh, depend upon their employees. Uh, Las Vegas market was one. We just recently came across one of the most unprofessional experiences ever. Um, and, uh, there's a, there's a company that I'd cite that we actually got the vendors after and they raised hell and got the person fired who was causing the problems. Uh, but they've

since fixed the problem. And there's been no problem since. So I'm not going to call them out. They finally got around to it after years of abuse. If you're a show or if you're a conference and you're throttling fucking press that will do coverage. Because you're like, well, you're not just good enough press. You need to wake up what's going on in the world, man. Podcasts are huge people that are uh non-traditional um uh newspaper news reporters and covers reviewers and stuff they're covering this stuff man and if i'm paying a thousand for

your booth uh i'm paying tens of thousands of dollars to fly employees in and have the mana booth. I'm paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for giant displays like, you know, Samsung and Sony and have, you are ripping your fucking customers off. If I'm one of those people, you are not fulfilling your financial fiduciary duty and upholding the best interests of your clients because they are there to get press. And if you're throttling press, then you're ripping off your clients. So keep that in mind if you're a PR agent listening. Anyway, what else do we have? This is sad.

I'm still seeing these reports come across. El Paso, the third mass shooting announced on 8chan shows how its political board deliberately radicalizes mass shooters and gamifies the massacre of innocents this is just this 8chan has got to get shut the fuck down okay i'm sorry i don't care if facebook had the same sort of thing happening we'd be dragging it in front of like legislators this shit has got to stop and these cheap little sites that are just surviving by just promoting hate like gab ai and other places like that they're just becoming these seething cesspools of fucking hate and people that want to be radicalized as mass shooters, gamifying it, making it funny, they got to be shut down. This shit needs to get shut the fuck down.

So I'm all for that. This isn't a matter of free speech. Free speech is your ability to speak out against your government in a public forum. These are not public forums. They are private property forums. Facebook is private property. Twitter is private property and every place else. So I hate these people that I see that are, that are knuckle draggers who come on and go free speech. No, these are private properties. My show is the Chris Voss show. If you step onto my property and start preaching

hate and shit, and I tell you to get the fuck off, you can't go, that's free speech. No, you're on my private fucking property. Now, if you want to go to town hall on public property, or you want to stand in the road outside of my house and scream shit, you can do that because that's public property. That's where your free speech is protected. But your free speech is not protected on private property. In 8chan and 4chan, they are private property. And if they are going to be used for the publication and the thing of the sit, we should have class action fucking lawsuits shutting this thing down.

The FTC should be shutting these fucking sites out. The FCC, whoever oversees them, they should be shutting these sites down and finding out how these people. Because I guarantee you there are emails with the management of these companies that are going back and forth going, what do you think? It looks like a lot of people are dying on our site. Should we try and dial it back? No, man, we need the advertiser dollars fuck it let's roll with it um this is just a travesty and the fact these sites can breathe this hate incest pools is bullshit if these were isis sites

with isis terrorists on them and we also need to reconfigure these murders as white nationalism terrorism. White nationalism needs to become a terrorist recognized group. In Canada, they just recently made this law where white supremacy, white nationalism is a terrorist organization just like ISIS and anything else. What's the difference between ISIS beheading a guy in the East and someone going in and two people going in, actually, in the last 24 hours, killing 29 people, leaving multiple people with probably lifelong injuries and suffering that they may have to be confined to a wheelchair? I mean, life-changing stuff. Not as if someone dies around you, isn't life-changing enough.

So we need to shut down these websites. That's my tech data on that. TechCrunch is reporting data breach. Seller provides evidence that the sneaker marketplace StockX was hacked in May. Says 6.8 million records with contact info and hash passwords are taken again we need to be sending people to prison if you're a security analyst working for these companies and you're found to be liable in failing to protect our data fuck you you get to go to jail that's where I'm

at this is kind of interesting well then, man. Dark, dark, dark podcast. Sorry, guys. But no, I mean, I don't know if you're sick of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of being afraid to get shot in public by white people who look like me. Fat, middle-aged, angry white guys. Or it seems to be like a lot of these kids nowadays, they're from this incel group, where you look at them and you're like, yeah, that's some 20-year-old who can't get laid, and he's a fucking nerd. And instead of, like, I don't know, developing a really cool app, he decides to embrace guns.

So, fuck him. This is out of ZDNet. Out of almost 200,000 extensions available on the Chrome Web Store, 50% of them have fewer than 16 installs and 87% have fewer than 1,000. Only 13 have 10 million plus users. That sounds about right. Sounds like Google needs to kill some of that stuff and crap in there. But I don't know. Is there big money in making apps on the Chrome Store?

I don't know there are a lot of chrome apps that I like but using their high-end by high-end producers buffer Evernote Google Voice Gmail let's see what else is really popular with me Twitter counter really why is that on there that's kind of should go yeah let's see looks like LinkedIn I do love there's one thing I do love if you don't have this get clip horde clip horde clipboard history Pro this thing's pretty cool I love this thing keeps your history of your clipboards if you're doing marketing where you know sending repeating messages to people and stuff this is great for that

grammarly I like grammarly I dark mode HubSpot courses on there so there you go crunch base news we work has required at least six software companies related to real estate possibly to build software stack that it can sell to other real estate companies i gotta tell you those guys at rework man they've really figured out how to make it so that you can um you know use use uh whatchamacallit this so that you can use uh their offices anywhere in the world it's pretty freaking crazy um let's see what else is how companies use AI and customer service to serve clients better. And some find the break point at which their customer

service is so bad that a customer quits. Uh, that should be an interesting conversation. That's in the wall street journal. If you want to check that out, I don't have much to say about that. I do have something interesting though, that I want to talk about this is really interesting to me according to the South China Morning Post camera if that's one of the ones that's just pretty much accepted as being part of the propaganda arm of the Chinese government but they are moving away from QR codes for mobile payments if you know over in China and Asia QR codes are pretty standard operating procedure people love them people use them unlike here in America they're really popular what's interesting is is

they are moving away from the QR codes for mobile payments and increasingly adopting facial recognition payments technology from WeChat Pay and Alipay. Well, you know what that means. Because China is running that facial recognition stuff where, you know, it's basically Big Brother. They can take and tune in, see you on their streets. They know who you are, what you're doing. And then they, you know, they know know your age they know everything about you they have the social cred the social credit sort of stuff and with the social credit they keep track of where you're purchasing alcohol you're buying

all sorts of different things that you might be doing. And they keep track of all that stuff, and then they use it against you. If you have a low credit score rating, you can't travel. You can't go to different places. You can't get on airlines. You can't get on trains and stuff. It's pretty freaking crazy. And so it looks like they're going to be adding that restriction to this soon as well. So there you go.

Pretty interesting. So, yeah, it's just a matter of time, too, until governments catch on as China gets this perfected and China pretty much starts marketing it to other places around the world. I would imagine sometime soon America. We might have the same thing here america what are you going to think of that what do you think of that when everything goes down so uh what are you going to do man what are you going to do looks like parks and associates has announced that 39 percent of u.s broadband homes on a streaming media player up one% since 2018. Roku and Amazon Fire TV own 39% for Roku

and 30% of the market respectively. Wow, I don't know if I've ever met anybody who's got an Amazon Fire TV. Do they really own that much of it, 30%? Holy crap. That's pretty interesting. According to the wall street journal, diabetics in the U S are increasingly using electronic skin patches and smartphones to

better manage their disease through continuous glucose tracking. That's cool. We're starting to use more septum on them. The other big crisis we have with, uh, diabetics is insulin. Insulin has been soaring through the roof, uh, price-wise and making it, I've seen some people have been moving to Canada because they can't afford their medication anymore. And they're moving to Canada because they can more readily, easily get it up there, uh, cheaper, all that sort of good stuff. So that's the sort of world we're coming down to where, um, you know, I'm in the same mindset too, where I'm starting to wonder if my health deteriorates in my old age, if I'm going to have to move to Canada, um, that's starting to become, you know, a possible reality for me where you've got to move to a place

that's, uh, you can be healthier and, and all that jazz. So there's that. Anyway, um, that's kind of a rundown of some of the stuff that's going on in your world at August 4th, 2019. Of course, my take on it as well. You can go ahead and subscribe to the show anywhere. You can go to thecvpn.com or chrisvosspodcastnetworks.com and subscribe to any one of the seven different shows that we have for the Chris Foss Show podcast and everything else. We're going to be going to Cedia fairly soon here, so watch for us at Cedia.

We'll be doing the podcast there to introduce people to different things. And yeah, maybe you'll see us there and we can talk to them. Anyway, looks like we got a call at the end of the show. We'll take the call. It's going to be someone for the Leonard Skinner tickets, I'll bet you. Hello, you're caller number five. You won the Leonard Skinner tickets. What was the name of the plane that went down that killed most of the members of Leonard Skinner?

If you can answer that, you win the tickets. Anyway, that's a horrible, dark ending to the show. There you go, man. The world's going to hell. Love each other, hug each other, and try to make the world a better place by being active in it. Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you next time.