The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Spotify Makes Joe Rogan Podcast Exclusive, Mark Zuckerberg Announces Facebook Shops & More Tech News

Episode Date: May 20, 2020

Spotify Makes Joe Rogan Podcast Exclusive, Mark Zuckerberg Announces Facebook Shops & More Tech News

Hi folks, Chris Voss here from thechrissvossshow.com, thechrissvossshow.com. Hey, coming here with another great podcast. We had some interesting podcasts over the last week or so. We had some pretty good interviews. We've got some political interviews. We're starting to interview some people on both the Chris Voss Show and our The Resistance Radio at theresistanceradio.com. The Resistance Radio at theresistanceradio.com. The Resistance Radio. If you're someone who wants to hear more political stuff,

you can go over to theresistanceradio.com. Check that out. There's book author podcasts. If you just want to listen to authors, people that write great books, there's Chris Voss Gaming. If you want to listen to gaming news and announcements and game coverage, developer interviews. Holy crap, what else is there?

It's all at the CVPN.com, the Chris Voss Podcast Network, a network of nine podcasts. And I guarantee you that if you listen to them, you will be smarter. Not because you listen to them, but maybe you read a book on the side. I'm just kidding. Anyway, let's talk about some of the things that are going on in our world in tech. Coming up, we're actually going to have a candidate for a governorship of one of the states on Friday. There will be some other different interviews.

We've got some great book authors coming up that are going to be on the show. So watch for that. We seem to have a whole bevy of guests. There's a couple shows I have where i've gotten uh quadruple booked so um that's gonna be weird doing four shows in one day at least on the chris foss show and some of its affiliates and syndicates um so there's that so whatever man there's a lot of great content coming so so make sure you subscribe, tune in, and no flipping. No flipping. Who was it that used to say that? It was that wonderful comedian who's passed away recently, I think in the last year or two.

Just an extraordinary comedian. He used to do the, it was the parody of the Johnny Carson show. All right. I don't even remember the thing. So anyway, let's get into some of the tech news a lot of interesting things happening today mark zuckerberg uh announced facebook shops it's a free tool let me add my own editorial to that for now uh that helps businesses easily list products on their facebook page instagram profile stories or in ads keep in mind no one will see those

unless you buy the ads to get people to go to those one thing I'm really sick of it was Facebook is if I just try and post one of my Facebook fan page links to one of my websites like one of these podcast interviews like this podcast that no one will see it it totally buries it literally the algorithm goes fuck you you can't even show your personal close friends your podcast you have to go buy ads asshole if you want to meet your friends totally pisses me off but that's just me uh so anyway he launched this thing called uh shops now keep in mind back in 2009 2010 when everyone was like oh facebook pages are the newest thing

and they're gonna be great and they're free and blah, blah, blah. And it's so awesome. I told everybody, I said, look, you're going to build a house on sand and someday he's going to charge you people a lot of fucking money to access that audience and be like, no, it's going to be a free for all because Mark's such a great fucking guy. And I'm like, you realize why he does this? He's not doing it because he's just like, wow, I'm really charitable now that I'm a billionaire. No, he's doing it for money. He's doing it for money. And you, you, you, I'm pointing to all of you, all of you in the room

are the product. So as you sit there in your Amazon warehouse package box going, why am I tied with this mailing tape? You are the product. You are the meat. You are the cattle going into the slaughter fest going, hmm, I think this place smells like shit. Here's my post. Hang on. They're telling me I need to go up this ramp. Mark's telling me to go up the ramp uh something about uh i don't know he's selling me for something i don't know i don't

know but uh oh look there's a place where i can put my head yeah let me know how that ends um so anyway he's announced facebook shops and it's supposed to make it easier for him to make shit loads of money i mean uh wait i read that wrong uh make it easy for companies to list their products on facebook and instagram so basically he's trying to turn facebook into shopify all righty then well isn't that special i need to learn to do that impression that would have been an impression that was of dana carvey back in the day isn't that special isn't? All right. I won't bore you with practicing that, but I don't know. Maybe Dana Carvey let me borrow it a little bit. Thanks to Dana Carvey. It is so

magical in SNL. I grew up watching SNL in those days in the seventies too. Those are the glory days of SNL. There's a lot of funny people on there now. Uh, but I segue too much. Um, so anyway, this is going to let people list their business products on Facebook and it's free right now. And, uh, you know what, it's not going to be free in the future. So good luck for that. Make sure you, uh, you cover your margins, get ready for the snap back on that, the trackback, the pullback, the zuckback, and everything else. Once again, always keep in mind, I want Facebook regulated. I want zuck regulated. And I also want him to quit running political ads from lying politicians, just like every other platform has said they will do.

I would like him to start doing that. And he owes us from the 2016 election and the interference of the Russians and everything else. I don't care which side of the political farce you're on. He owes us. He owes us to fucking do the right thing and operate in a manner of integrity and maybe curtail Peter Thiel. That would be nice as well. So what else do we have up on the news? Chris, you sure are talking a lot about Facebook this morning. Well, here you go. Facebook details the AI behind its shopping experiences, accounting for customer traits like body type, skin tone, location, social economic class age and poses wait you'll be able to target people based upon poses what what so like basically the way you pose in your freaking the way you pose in your freaking uh uh i i guess in your pictures or something i don't like what does that mean man

like i don't fucking know this is weird man uh so anyway you'll be able to target people and try and sell stuff maybe this will be good for entrepreneurs are trying to rise up out of this recession and everything else i don't know if it'll be good i don't know if we bad we'll just have to see how the thing spins out according According to The Verge, Microsoft says it's improving its Windows subsystem for Linux, including adding GUI app support, and its terminal command line tool reaches version 1.0. So now you can have Linux on Windows 10 with the big boost of GPU acceleration. There you go. That'll be great for all my developer friends and coding friends. They love that stuff.

They're just going to go crazy with all that goodness. I don't even know what it means, and you know what? I don't care. So there's that. I'm sure it's good for somebody, but it's not for me. It's kind of like, I don't know. It's kind of like, I don't know. It's kind of like tea. I like coffee.

Tea is great for everyone else. Good for them. According to Verge, productivity tool Notion's free tier gets unlimited notes and blocks. I've never even used this or heard of it up until now. So there you go. That's why you do peer releases, people. There's never been a better time to check out the collaborative note-taking app, Notion. The workspace and note-taking app just became more appealing to individual users.

I'm going to give this a try. Notion. And you can take unlimited notes. My note-keeping that I like, I've tried a whole bunch of them. I think it was something called Wondershare or something like that. I started with a W. Tried that for a while. I've tried a whole bunch of them. I think it was something called Wondershare or something like that. I started with a W. Tried that for a while.

I've tried a bunch of different note things. I really just stick to Google Keep. And I like it because I have a lot of phones, a lot of computers. AT&T does a great job of keeping us doing great phones. And so we, the Google Keep, you put something in there,

it's in all your accounts. It's great. It works awesome. It does the job for me. I don't use Teams, so if you use Teams, maybe this would be better. But I'm definitely going to give it a check it out because I always like to try new things, see if I can expand my horizon. According to Google, they have launched chrome 83 wow with updated safety and privacy

settings third-party cookies blocked in incognito mode dns over https support and new dev features so that should be pretty cool in fact uh god i want to update my my thing right now um love me some google chrome i i don't know why anybody would use any other browser. Like seriously, unless you're like old, then you're probably still using Internet Explorer, whatever that new version is of it, which Microsoft Edge. We're in Microsoft Edge. Real edgy. Good luck figuring out how to get the toolbar to work. I still can't get the toolbar to work in Microsoft Edge. According to sources, Facebook will limit offices to 25% occupancy,

according to Bloomberg. They're going to put people on shifts, require temperature checks, and masks when it reopens workplaces in July. You know, it just occurred to me, and I've talked about this on the Chris Voss Show numbers of times in the economy and everything else, but about how, you know, the, the

workplace is going to change. Uh, workplaces are going to have to look at their modeling, their business modeling of like, do we really need to have these employees in the office or what can we send them home? Uh, they're probably going to need the money savings for commercial real estate. It's going to affect commercial real estate. One thing I didn't think about though, is what they're talking about is putting people on shifts. They may just start telling people, Hey, uh, you're going to have to become

an afternoon worker and you're going to have to become an overnight worker. And, um, maybe they'll just have to do it that way. I know one of the things that were the big loss in the economy, uh, even here where I am in Utah right now, writing a book was the late night shift. People really got the screws. Uh, and, um, you know, I used to be able to go down to local, you know, they have these things in here called Mavericks that are like seven 11s. They're like the local seven 11 brand. Um, and I used to be able to go there in 24 hours a day. They were always open. There was always this kind of cool, weird old guy there who's always smoking out front and shit. And you're just like, sketchy, but I don't know.

I really want a coconut donut. So, I mean, he's a nice guy. But you know what I mean? He's always that late night dude, that middle of the night 7-Eleven dude, you know? You could kind of go in there. He's always kind of cool, but you wouldn't trust him around your daughters or anything. You know what I mean? I'm just there. He's always kind of cool, but you wouldn't trust him around your daughters or anything. You know what I mean? I'm just kidding.

I'm sure they're nice people. But, you know, I mean, they're just always kind of, they're night people, man. So they're always kind of weird. And I fit in because I'm like that too. I'm a night person. In Vegas, when it gets so freaking hot, I become a vampire. You just live at night. And you can because it's Vegas. You. I become a vampire. You just live at night. And you can because it's Vegas.

You live 24 hours a day. But what's weird is ever since this coronavirus kicked in, a lot of stores closed at 8. Everything shuts down at 8, like the whole fucking town. There's actually a couple places that are still open 24-7, like 7-Eleven and some other places. But I always wondered. I'm like, so were those people fired? Did they have a job or I don't know what happened to those people. I know a lot of stores, they still have stockers showing up at night stocking the store. So there's that, but I,

you know, I'm all for wearing masks. I'm all for being careful. I'm all for slowing up the economy. Can we please get back to having stores open 24-7? Because when you really think about it, if you're forcing everybody to show up between, I don't know when they open, it's like 8 to 8 is when the Walmart's open now. You're forcing everybody to go in all during a smaller compacted time. It doesn't make any fucking sense, man.

So open the stores back up to 24 hours so everyone's not going at the same fucking time and people like me can go in in the middle of the night at 4 fucking a.m and i have to deal with all sorts of people man and i love that because i don't like dealing with all sorts of people when i shop anyway pre-coron. So there's that, uh, getting back to where we were. Um, maybe this is going to happen. Maybe me and, and, and if you really think about one of the things I've talked about on the Chris Voss show a lot in some of the other podcasts is, um, one thing employers are going to have to factor is there's probably going to be a parent that's going to have to be at home in any given employee relationship. That's going to have to be there being the teacher, being the childcare person,

et cetera, et cetera. Um, you know, I, I was, I had a candidate for Utah office, uh, on the resistance radio. And she told me that it's $1,200 a month for daycare for kids. I don't have any kids, so I had no idea. I knew it was expensive, but $1,200 a month? Holy kid, holy. You know how many toys I can buy with $1,200? I could buy like some VR and shit. And I think my vasectomy costed $1,200, and that's why I don't have kids. So anyway, that's an investment that has paid returns

like you have no idea. So anyway, Chris is really segwaying a lot this morning. Is he okay? Or is he just drinking too much death wish coffee and death wish coffee two to three times the caffeine and it tastes great too. Less filling. Um, anyway, uh, so it may be that businesses have to go to a shift schedule because that way, uh, the one, you know, people can take turns watching, teaching and training the kids. Uh, and it may be, they have to do that for commercial real estate purposes, science purposes,

cost valuation purposes. It's going to be really hard to survive this economy. I heard this morning that someone was predicting it. The economy might take a 38% hit. I don't know about you people, but that's bigger than the Great Depression. That's fucking painfully huge. And we're talking businesses wiped out, especially when it comes to the main street, because these businesses just don't get restarted up in a heartbeat. These small businesses you know and it takes time and it takes time to recover and they're gonna be underwater with debt people creditors after them leases after them you know they're gonna we're have to go through this whole system of bankruptcies everything else so there's

that that may be our future we may I mean you may have to start being a shift worker to survive in the new economy, um, or this new depression. So whatever, man, uh, I just want people to get back to work and survive.

And I want them to suffer. But, uh, it seems like, uh, I don't know, no one at the top level of government seem to give a shit because they got their money. They're fine.

Uh, according to Axios, the New York times says it will stop using third-party data to target ads in 2021 building a first-party data platform instead starting with 45 proprietary audience segments that's kind of interesting they're going to keep the money for themselves i think that's pretty smart when you ask me uh did you ask me i don't know if you asked me but i'm going to tell you my opinion anyway because that's why you tune into the show. So that's pretty smart.

Maybe more people will do that. And maybe they're just going to start building their own proprietary audience segments. It's kind of interesting how a lot of times I wonder if Trump is run out of office, how the political scale will change. Will people go back to, do you remember before Trump where basically all the news agencies were broke, the TV was broke, the only thing they covered in the news was whatever Kim Kardashian's gum was chewing this week? Kim Kardashian is open mouth chewing Big Red. Everyone go down and buy some Big Red.

You can clearly see her chomping away at it. They're open mouth teeth. Hate people to do that. And I don't know that Kim does that. I'm sure she's a wonderful person. Don't tell her I said that. I don't know why. Like, what is Kim going to do to me?

I don't know. Is she going to come sit on me? I don't know. I can sit on her. I'm bigger than her. My ass is bigger than Kim's. I got you. I got you, Kim. I don't know. I sit on her i'm bigger than her my ass is bigger than kim's i got you i got you kim uh sure she's a nice person according to the verge they do a long ass interview with sundar

pitchway i need to learn this gentleman's uh last name i'm such a horrible person this guy has a great uh success story he grew up in india India sleeping on the floors on the dirt floors poor and broke and now he runs Google and he probably gets paid a lot better than when he used to live in India clearly a wonderful success story so my apologies to him for never getting his name right Pichai Sundar Pichai at least I can do the Sundar part anyways the CEO of Google so you should bow to him. No, I'm just kidding. Anyway, he talks with a great interview with The Verge about diversity,

long-term plans for hardware division, the pandemic's effect on its ad businesses, and more. You might want to give it a read. It's kind of interesting. He's an interesting guy, and since he runs Google, he probably has some pretty good vision, some vision there of what he wants to do and everything else. So I'm going to send that to my little reader program, my tailor program. Get that baby read later on today to me.

According to The Verge, Joe Rogan, you may have heard of him. He used to run that Fear Factor. Was that what it's called? He has the Joe Rogan podcast that people love. It's huge. I'm jealous of it. He's done a great job with it. And he said had 190 million downloads a month in 2019.

Spotify has sat down with him and offered him exclusive deal. His YouTube content will no longer be on YouTube for the podcast. It won't have full episodes. I guess it will probably have snippets or teasers that will basically say, hey, go subscribe to podcasts on Spotify. I think this is pretty brilliant. So let me ask you, is this going to start a new podcast platform wars? Certainly Spotify has done a really good job. We've always been really impressed about how they

support our podcasts. They get them out of all the different podcast platforms that are super big. Let's put it that way. Super big. That's the qualifier. They put us on like right away. Like they have us on faster than anybody in the world. And they are, they were just hungry as shit. So is this going to create some podcast wars? No to Apple or anybody who wants to come throw money at the Chris Voss show network. Chris Voss podcast network. There's nine podcasts over here.

And I work for, you know, a couple bucks. So anyway, this might kick off a huge, huge, a huge sort of podcast wars, podcast platforms. Maybe Apple starts scooping people up and everyone's going to, podcasts are the thing. It's just amazing to me still how hot they are, but I appreciate everyone who comes and listens. So there's that. According to Bloomberg, sources say Apple is buying older movies and shows for Apple TV Plus to build a back catalog. As of February, it had around 10 million subscribers, but only half actively use it. So that's pretty interesting.

I've had no interest in joining Apple TV. I'm still trying to get Queeby. In fact, today I was thinking, like, every day I'll be like, I need to go watch something on that Queeby because I got, like, that free test. You know, you get the free thing. You know, like, I really should go use that during the free thing. I am, like, the king. I don't know about you, but I am the freaking king of getting the free trial service and then i'm like okay well i signed up for that i'm gonna

get back to that and then i never get back to it and then i lose the free part and then i'm like hey you know oh what's going on with that free thing i had and then you log in it's like you have expired the free trial now you have to pay and you're like shit i didn't get a chance to try it man it was busy and don't punish me make it hurt i wish companies what they would do is they would monitor usage and they would be like no he clearly didn't check in for this thing so we should at least give him like an extra hour or something so he can get hooked that's what i'd do if i owned a company it was an app like that but But I don't, so then I can't. So then I won't.

So there. According to The Verge, Sony says PlayStation now has 2.2 million subscribers and PlayStation Plus has 41 million subs. The Xbox Game Pass had 10 million subs and Xbox Live had 90 million active users in April. Holy shit. That's a lot of people playing video games like me. I'd do more PC though. I got to tell you, once you go to PC, it's hard to go back to Xbox or PS4. It's just hard. According to the Nikkei Asian Review, Zoom will no longer let individual users sign up for free in China. China.

China. Reportedly due to regulatory requirements. Only paid accounts can host meetings. So screw you China. I guess this is punishment for giving us the coronavirus. I guess. I don't know. I don't care. I love Zoom. We use

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You guys are awesome. So there's that. Moving on. Let's get back to news. According to VentureBeat, Microsoft says it acquired Windows Task Automation Startup Softomotive

for an undisclosed sum, merging its tools with Microsoft's Power Automate. More acquisitions. There you go. Deal Street Asia, Chinese fitness app. Keep raises $80 million in a Series E and a $1 billion valuation by Generation. That's with a J. Capital Management, which is weird because I use Google Keep. There's an issue with the name,

but I guess it's the Chinese fitness app that everyone's into. So good for the Chinese people. Work out since you're stuck in your homes. And you gave us coronavirus. I'm just not being mean to the Chinese. They're wonderful people. But stop doing whatever you're doing that's causing all this stuff. What else do we have?

Lyft partners with anti-sexual violence organization RAINN to provide free rides to individuals who contact RAINN hotline in select undisclosed U.S. cities, according to NBC News. I like this. RAINN is a rape, abuse, and incest national network. It's the largest anti-sexual violence organization. I like this and support this. I've had a lot of ex-girlfriends that after meeting me, they've met crazy guys, or previous to me they met crazy guys,

and the horror stories are awful. And there's no reason for any of it, really. crazy guys or previous to me, they met crazy guys and the horror stories are awful. Um, and, um, there's, there's no reason for any of it really for women to be treated that way or anyone to be treated that way for that matter. Um, so I really support this because right now we're seeing a lot of domestic violence issues coming out of coronavirus lockdown. People are locked in with their abusers. Uh, everyone's unhappy and depressed. I'm sure that doesn't make abusers any better people being locked in a room with them or house with them. I just does not sound like a fun way to go about your life. And I'm sure that, uh, harder times financially and everything else is going to make that even worse as we go through

bankruptcies, et cetera, et cetera. So be sure to check that out, Support Lift and what they're doing. Maybe go check out RAINN, R-A-I-N-N, their website. I don't have it readily available. I'm sure you can Google it. See if you can support them. But I think it's great. They're providing free rides. I think there's another thing that I've been seeing with, I think it's with 911 operators

or it's with different police departments where there's a code word you can take and give people if you are being abused or if you're in a kidnapping sort of held hostage situation maybe by an abuser not necessarily an official kidnapper both um and you can give them a code word and that code word, like, like you're ordering a pizza from a, I think it's more like ordering a pizza from a police department or something like that. You want pepperoni or something? It's like a code that you can use to get the police to come save you.

Uh, and I'm all for that. So, uh, big, big proponent of that. Uh, Microsoft has announced the fluid framework. It's a new type of office document built around collaborative Lego-like blocks on the web and says it will be open source. Is this going to be the new way we're going to design websites? I don't know. It's a new kind of office document, actually.

Instead of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, the company has created Lego blocks of office content that live on the web. So I don't know. Maybe we will use it to design stuff. We'll see. It'll will use it to design stuff. We'll see. It'll be like front page 2000. Anybody remember that?

Anybody? Anybody? I've got a lot of websites with that back in the day. I remember that was the hottest shit going. You're like, this shit works. Sometimes. According to Rolling Stone, some sex workers on OnlyFans, we talked about this a few weeks ago about how OnlyFans, like with the lockdown, had this huge, huge amount of signups on OnlyFans, we talked about this a few weeks ago, about how OnlyFans, like with the lockdown, had this huge, huge amount of signups on OnlyFans and then a huge amount of subscribers on OnlyFans. Hey, man, when you lock people up in their houses and they can't cruise Tinder for dates anymore, they're going to go for all sorts of different levels of, you know, sexual stuff.

Let's put it that way. So anyway, they say they're being pushed out in favor of mainstream celebrities and influencers. The site is scrutinized among SESTA and FOSTA laws. The site's getting really popular, so prying eyes are starting to come around that are legislative and regulative and saying, what do you got going on over here?

What's going down? We saw Backpage going down. I think Backpage is still going through its court systems. Craigslist got hit with the attorney generals to take the escorts and dating off of their websites. So this may become the new thing. You know, it's interesting to me. I'm a big believer we just need to legalize.

Like some countries have, I mean, whether it's drugs or whether it's sex workers, We just need to legalize, um, like some countries have, I mean, between whether it's drugs or whether it's a sex workers, we need, just need to legalize it. Um, and tax it. I'm all for taxing every tax, everything. That's my policy. Um, and, uh, I mean, we've seen the amount of money that comes from taxing marijuana. Holy crap. I mean, like I remember when the state of Nevada opened up a recreational marijuana, uh, the state of nevada opened up recreational marijuana uh the state like had to double its its license as an output because the demand was so huge and they doubled the projection for their taxes so i'm all for taxing stuff it brings things out in the open puts a light on it uh gets rid of some of the darkness of some of these elements of societies

and industries uh but i know that they're all over Twitter. Like I see them all day long on Twitter promoting themselves. They just moved to another platform. So why don't we just quit kidding ourselves? Because obviously there's a lot of guys at home, a lot of married guys and shit that are Googling this stuff. And why don't we just bring it out in the open and just say hey man let's legalize it let's tax it let's regulate it let's put some controls on it to so we can keep people safe

and move on i mean i know i know whatever people may disagree with me or agree with me on that that's my take on it i mean seriously marriage needs some competition there you go uh keep everybody honest. That's what I like. That's what I like. Keep everyone honest. So anyway, that's my take, and I'm running with it. So be sure to subscribe to chrisfossshow.com.

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