The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Disney+ Launch, Youtube Ads, FREE Crypto Startup School & Other Tech News Nov 8, 2019

Episode Date: November 8, 2019

Disney+ Launch, Youtube Ads, FREE Crypto Startup School & Other Tech News Nov 8, 2019

Hi folks, Chris Voss here from thechrisvossshow.com. Thanks for tuning in. We certainly appreciate you guys being here today. Oh my gosh, it's Friday. We made it to another Friday. Holy crap-a-moly. I should make a podcast called that. Holy crap-a-moly podcast.

Would you tune in for that? I don't know. Holy crap-a-moly. Actually, that's not a bad idea. We could have, like, all the crazy stuff that goes on in the world, like a bunch of Florida men's stories and shit like that. Wouldn't that be interesting? Holy crap-a-moly.

What did I say? Holy crap-a-moly podcast. I think the only problem people would have with that is they'd have to be like, how do you spell crap-a-moly? Crap-a-moly. Is that in the Webster Dictionary? I don't know. It's running for president in 2020, I think.

You know, I should buy a shirt. I should just trademark holy, holy-moly, crap-a-moly. Whoever's listening right now is probably doing that right now. I should just trademark it and I should walk around saying, holy crap-a-moly. Whoever's listening right now is probably doing that right now. I should just trademark it and I should walk around saying, holy crap-a-moly for fucking president 2020. Would you vote for that? I don't know, man.

Alright. Enough polling, Chris. Get to the fucking news, you fucking... Sorry. Working on it. It's Friday, man. Come on. Do we have to go all business? We can have some fun let it all hang out it's casual day uh you tune in for this part anyway right tune in what is chris gonna do at the beginning of the show it's kind of like it's kind of like um what's that msnb show where

it starts off every time with something interesting that's what i should do this is a dateline starts out that way no it's not Dateline. It's, I can't remember the show. It's a political show. But he starts it out where he, McLaughlin's some sort of barking line. Today, Bob killed Doug. Tune in.

Coming up, you know, that sort of bit. Anyway, guys, let's get into news. There's some interesting stuff going on in the world today, and we're here to make it even more interesting. According to, this is a rumor that we announced on the Chris Foss show a while ago from some news sources. But now, according to CNBC, Bob Iger says Disney Plus will be on Amazon's Fire TV when it launches on November 12th. So there you go.

I believe Bob Iger is the CEO of Disney, so that should be pretty good. I've got to tell you, my money's on that Disney Plus because it's where all the kids want to watch. So, yeah, where all the parents lose their mind mommy can we watch the one movie for the 5 000 freaking time ah why do you have the gun in your mouth mommy you've seen the like little thing uh evidently disney uh says disney plus is going to launch in the uk france germany italy, and Spain on March 31st. That would be of the 2020 year. And all that good stuff.

Next up on the calendar, TechCrunch, Anderson Andresen Horowitz, if you're familiar with him. He's a big brain guy who started, what was it, Netscape back in the day and a few other companies. He's a huge VC right now in Silicon Valley. And he is launching a free, did you say free, Chris? A free crypto startup school with a seven-week program. Starts on February 2020. And they are going to do this. They announced that a TechCrunch disrupt that the VC firm will run a free crypto startup school. That's going to be kind of interesting. Free school. I wonder how much you have to give away to your future company if you take that course or how that works.

But you may want to look into that. If you're interested, you can see the announcement on TechCrunch.com. Always good reporting over there. Next up, CNN. dot com always good reporting over there uh next up cnn youtube has run the trump ad wrongly accusing of biden of corruption which has been seen 10 million to 30 million times but google says it strives to ensure their ads are honest it's really weird to me like if you lie cheat and steal on ads and deceive people that's bad but if you're a politician it's just like well that's just the way things work

wow okay man whatever dudes i mean pick a team um so they're still working on this this seems to be something that twitter and uh and google are having to deal with, Facebook as well. Just an ongoing shitstorm of whatchamacallit. According to the Wall Street Journal, though, this is interesting, Google has been holding internal meetings on changing its political ad policy, plans to share more information with employees. They are getting a lot of employees at Google now that are really becoming activists, uh, which I mean, you know, I imagine is good. They got a huge amount of employees. They're hugely influential. And, um, you know, sometimes the police kind of hold their

feet to the fire. So, um, I guess what they're doing is they're trying to figure out their ad policy. You know, honestly, I think Twitter and jack were the smartest things and what they did which is saying a lot because that thing is such a fucking clown car uh and always has been the clown car that crashed into success um the um i think i think jack made the smartest move just fucking eject the ads and just say we're not doing them that That's the boom. Done. I'm going to go home. Just drop the mic. Walk off. Jack did.

That's the smartest thing to do, man. Just do that, man. I mean, really, let's quit making these stupid fucking ads that are deceptive and let's just judge people on their merits. Ooh, what a concept. I mean, there actually used to be a day in this country where we did that. We didn't have attack ads and crazy political ads and different things like that. They slowly evolved to become that, and we let them. And maybe it's time to put that back in the Pandora's box.

Look, show up for the debate, go to speeches and shake hands, try to impress us on whether or not you should have a job working for us in our country. And if not, we don't want to see your political spin movie trailer ads that just cause fear and havoc and deception and dishonesty and everything else. More and more, as we see the rise of fascist governments in our country and around the world, we need to get back to truth. So that's my thoughts, and I'm sticking to it. Next up, according to 10 U.S. Safety Investigators Report,

there's a dilemma for self-driving cars that it's not saving one innocent victim over another. It's between caution and competitive advantage. So basically what they're saying is it has nothing to do with the trolley problem the advent of self-driving cars provide the decades-old philosophical conundrum known as the trolley problem and basically you know it's is this really gonna save lives with the trolley concept where you know cars will take and follow each other and everything else autonomous vehicles can be programmed policies on such matter. And whether people have to have a choice to decide,

is the car hurling toward a group of five pedestrians, and the only way to save them is to swerve and run over a single pedestrian instead. You have to decide which person gets killed. And they have to program this in the computers. So imagine that. So this is the trolley problem that self-driving cars have to take and face. U.S. investigators for safety also have to do that. And they just are still arguing over this whole concept of what does the car do in that given situation.

It's kind of interesting. I mean, we certainly, our brains have to make the same decisions, but we may not even be as smart as some of these new cars that will come out in identifying the conundrum of that situation. So therein lies that. I hope we resolve it soon because I don't want to be the guy that the automated car goes, don't kill the five people, kill that guy over there.

He looks like he's got it coming anyway. No one's going to miss him. It's Chris Voss. It'll have one of those identification systems like China, where it goes, it'll run an algorithm in like a split second.

It'll be like, we've identified the one person standing to the left who is not part of the five group that we're about to run over, that if we swerve and kill him is Chris Voss. He's single, no kids, has two dogs, lives a very sad life. And the proportion of anyone missing him compared to the people with five, the five people that have families and Joe has got three kids and it'll like solve all of these algorithms like immediately, like when split second and goes,

yeah, Chris is going to fucking die. Ah, shit. Better give me some wife and kids and shit. See if I can save my dick. Or not. Sounds like suicide either way.

I don't know. According to Bloomberg, Alibaba is planning to launch a Hong Kong IPO next week with plans to raise as much as $15 billion. Don't they have enough money? Jesus Christ, how much money does that guy have? What the hell? According to the Economic Times, AngelList launches its VC and angel fund product in India,

which will allow individuals to raise small blind pools of capital and deploy them within 6 to 12 months. India is going to be a huge market if they aren't already, but it's going to be even huger as they become more of a developed country and engage the world with their amount of population. I mean, the only rival, I think, is China when it comes down to it. Just a huge, freaking amount of people and people that want to, you know, become something in the world. So God bless them.

Next up on the news cycle, Bloomberg. Bloomberg. And did you hear Bloomberg that ran, I forget his first name, Michael Bloomberg, that ran for, well, he was a New York mayor for a while. He now is announcing he most likely is running for president. So that should be interesting. But according to that, his, uh,

media outlet internal chats from 2012 and 2013 show the Facebook staff lamented it's unethical practices. It just kills me. As Zuckerberg argued that the company's survival is more important. Wow. New documents show dissent within Facebook's top ranks. Disclosures come as the company faces multi-antitrust probes. Wow.

Okay, man. Whatever. Facebook. I give up. I don't even know why I still post in there. Oh, my friends are there. Fuck. It's like,

it's like a, it's like a slave system where it's like, you have to be like, when he's there, all my friends are here. I won't leave. It's like, what does that,

what is that called? When you're like kidnapped, but then you fall in love with your kidnappers. I forget what that's called. That's kind of what's going on right now with Facebook and whatever. It's all still there. According to BuzzFeed News, Twitter says it will begin a series of experiments within two weeks

that tweak functions like retweet and reply to promote healthier conversations. Like, what does health mean? Is that like we're all going vegan? I mean, like health is relative. You know, what might be healthy for one crazy person might not be healthy for another. So what they're going to do is try and figure out a way to make their news feeds maybe more healthier and less toxic. Did I say more toxic? Less toxic.

So they're going to try and do that. Good for them. You can read the article on BuzzFeed News. I don't know. Whatever they're going to muck up, they're going to make it worse because it's Twitter. There you go. According to TechCrunch, small satellite startup Kepler provided satellite broadband connectivity to the Arctic

at over 100 megabits per second to a German icebreaker vessel. Good for them. Oh, wow. That came across a satellite? Never before accomplished satellite-based broadband connectivity providing a higher bandwidth to the Arctic. Well, all I know is that if I'm freezing to death dying in the Arctic, I definitely want fast porn download or Netflix. Did I say porn?

I did, didn't I? That came out. Netflix. Netflix and chill. I want to be able to Netflix and chill with the seals. Because that's all there is up there, just freezing cold snow. Next up in crunch-based news, CloudFare in its first earnings report after its IPO announced a quarter three revenue growth of 48 year over year to 73.9 million as a

gap loss increased to 40.9 million from from $38 million in Q3 2008. That sounds like pretty good news to me. We use Cloudflare to give us all sorts of wonderful toys and protection, and it also gives us a secure HTTPS, if you will, on thechrisfossshow.com. So we like Cloudflare. They do a great job. They've got a great plug-in for the WordPress. Be sure to check it out.

Plug. They didn't even pay for that. What the hell? I just ran an ad. I just ran a referral. I like the company. It's really cheap, too. According to The Verge,

some users across all major U.S. carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day, causing distress in some cases. What's up with that? I don't know, man. Moving on. Google contractors recall the often absurd predicament of representing Google like escorting job candidates around the campus well not working for the government according to bloomberg they've got an article on uh the lofty

title that he had called expeditions associate a fun job he got to demo uh google virtual reality gear to young students what is this like influencers are using or whatever? So, fun is fun. Up next, Bloomberg. India passes Indiana. Did I say India? Indiana. Indiana. I mean, technically it's India.

You just add an N-A at the end. Passes a law targeting big tech that exempts sales tax for an unprecedented 50 years to companies that commit $750 million to a data site in the state. Hmm. So basically they passed a law that targets big tech that exempts sales tax for 50 freaking years that commit $750 million to a data center in the site. Hey, I hope it works. I hope it doesn't turn into one of those things like Faraday or who else did that? It was the people, Foxconn, the people who made the thing where they went to that state

somewhere in the middle of the country and they promised they were going to do all this investing and they never did. And meanwhile, they're actually enjoying still their tax deductions because no one has taken them away from them. So that should be interesting. Maybe Indiana can become a very competitive thing according to TechCrunch YouTube is rolled out a new homepage design with larger thumbnails and features like an add to queue option desktop version of

don't recommend channel and more yeah and really to use that don't recommend channel for youtube's bullshit fucking self self-made uh whatever channels i hate all their stupid shows they make i mean they're clearly made for like what here they're up again featured impulse series like i have no idea i think i watched like two minutes of one and went what is this for people of drama and fear like i don't care it's even censored what i don't know man it's like these premium shows they have they got one for dancing it's like i don't even get like if you're into dancing and like freestyle dancing whatever the hell that is high water episode what does that mean you're dancing in the high i don't understand at all man i don't get the dancing shit i mean chicks like

dancing um but yeah i don't know oh here's here's one that self-preserves uh produced i don't know basically what i'm saying is i hate all the self-produced uh youtube content that's my story and i'm sticking with it um uh and all that sort of good stuff so there you go uh should be pretty interesting interesting things going on in the world what's going on in your life uh take a ping me at at chris voss and any of the channels out there or chrisvoss.net and be sure to subscribe to our newest podcast pot biz podcast and we talk about what's going on in the pop business world mostly the aspect of investing stocks uh pot stocks so what the trends are what things are going on in the world with pot legalization and all that sort of good stuff.

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