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on today's show we deep dive into the green Goblin's favorite new invention the flyboard air we talk about the volocopter and its 18 rotor electric goodness and we also talk about star shot project and whether or not we can reach Alpha Centauri with 20 little spaceships in 20 years also actor Clayton Snyder stops by to talk about his new pilot second star we also do it back at her Hackett would you or would you not buy a portable DNA lab we're gonna answer that question some our daily reader you citizens of the internet welcome to tomorrow daily the best eat talk show well we're knowing we're gonna know more maybe after today's episode we don't really know what's out there they if Stephen Hawking is successful we might find out we are not in fact the best ki talk show in the known universe it could be an alpha so disappointing it's our thing this is amazing geek talk show over an Elfa sorry guys are missing out I'm Ashley schism I'm Geoff kanata let's dip shall we not even dip was dive deep dive right in bed driving this is the deep end headlines there's not a lot of speculation about flyboard this is like right up front we got to talk about fly board air because some people are saying this is fake do you think it's fake well here's the thing if it was just some Rando flying it around I'd be like this is obviously super phony as phony as that skier getting chased by a bear video that's pretty hilarious by those hilarious but also super fake yeah but this guy is the actual it's Franky Zapata this is the guy who invented the water jetpack thing they like which I want to do still want to do haven't done yet you can go to like a resort in the Caribbean you could try it out but yeah so he has this you could see he's got a little controller in his hand I was very dramatic but yeah this controller apparently controls the the turbine yeah but is rad so some people on reddit I love I am a longtime lurker guys on reddit um some people on reddit were saying like oh I don't believe it because he's so steady on it but the thing is is if he's the inventor of it he obviously probably has the most flight time out of anybody you know and it's just like getting on one of the wheelie boards right where electric wheelie board because I won't call it a hover board because this is a hover board where the more you do it the better you get at it right here's why I do think it's real okay it's over water like it to do it fake he's probably gonna have to be hanging from a crane of some kind which is hard to do over water and by that there's really no reason to have them be over water unless it's real if it's real I want to be over water cuz if I fall I'm gonna I want to land in water yeah I'm buying it right now and you know fool me once of course many times but still I want it to be real and I want to try it I want it to be real too a lot of people have said this is the part that kind of they're they want to talk about which is that the takeoff and landing is not really shown all that well like all very clearly or in one shot they kind of cut but I mean listen what's so yeah watch so here he comes and then all of a sudden oh like oh it's a second like yeah that's between those shots so it sort of feels like well maybe there's something there that's a little fishy but you're right he's an inventor of a thing that's an actual thing so why what motivation would he have to do a fake thing right it's not like lexis faking us out with them for the thing don't you understand what the experiment that I just don't understand what the motivation would be here other than gotcha right but who knows I mean it looks litter it is a Green Goblin flight plan yeah I mean I'm really a hoverboard is like a flying board that's like kind of yeah this is not even a hundred oh you're right this is really a board like the name implies the flyboard air it's pretty good so we got a we gotta get a hold these guys and make sure that we can try it cuz I want yeah fly board try it call Frankie we know you're big fan of the show call us up just like you on uh okay so going from one form of aerial transportation to another let's assess the volocopter which is very real yes and has been real for years and years and years this has been a development for I believe six years and so this is in Germany and it took them forever to get all the proper permits to be able to do this yeah they finally did a manned flight so it's a human sized drones drum it's a it's a big giant drone with a cockpit for a person yeah which is the best I think this is awesome and it allows them to fly in a much more agile way than you could with a regular helicopter indeed and that is pretty exciting the idea of being able to have this be you know who knows it could be like a search and rescue vehicle well it could be an uber that I would love an uber and be like oh I'll just super Volo like uber bolo get it game over you know they actually do have Ober helicopters I know they had a chopper where you can take a little tour but I like this is like personal transfer like oh I got to get from the west side to to the valley to Burbank and in 20 minute please Oh call me a chopper but okay so let's discuss what this volocopter is all about because I thought there were some really interesting advancements in technology here that we didn't get to talk about because one you weren't here but also I was and I was all alone so it would be really weird if I was talking about it to myself they designed this with electric motors so it's much quieter than a standard motor it's they said it's ecologically sound they're really big on making sure this is environmentally friendly they said the vulva copter is acoustically much more pleasant due to its design and it's much quieter than conventional helicopters they also are they talk a lot about battery technology development as they've gone through this and they also said it's very simple to fly so apparently well helicopters are notoriously not right a helicopter is trying to flip you over all the time and your job as the pilot is to not let it is to not let it but because this has 18 rotors it's a lot more stable and on top of that it automatically adjusts for turbulence which is really handy and then it's controlled by a single joystick that's it it's it's a simple single joystick that you control your flight for for stalling pitch adjustment glide angle those things that are sort of really difficult to master in a helicopter this they want to make that much easier which I thought was great this thing go very fast um not tear not terribly yet um but they I think now that they have had a man flight go I think that they're they're probably gonna ramp that up pretty pretty well and I would imagine the flight time is not a long time yeah and it you know obviously looks like very small amount of cargo to passengers tops backpack yeah so it's not you know it's not gonna replace any kind of vehicles we have know at the moment but it does have a hold a lot of promise for the future as far as these kinds of multi multi rotor electric vehicle yeah it's pretty cool and as we get further and further into self-driving and autonomous vehicles that also will apply to aerial vehicles as well so instead of you know like some people will still fly single-engine cessnas for fun but if you want to get from point A to point B I'm sure being able to just hire an autonomous robot to take you from you know LA to Palm Springs for the weekend would be a lot cheaper than hiring a pilot to do a Z pretty cool I want to say I wouldn't say they're just cut to the guy like with his cell phone controlling it like I know just like think the joystick does stuff but it's the guy on the side with okay so our last headline story we have talked about a star shot project which you talked about yesterday this is pretty exciting stuff this is this to me is so much science fiction become reality it blows my mind yeah the idea that we could we could explore that far out and go that close to the speed of light you see it's 20% but that's still a hundred million miles an hour ridiculous really fast really really really really I'm the key here is that it's because these are very small spacecraft yeah these are nano they're calling them nano crafts and they're they're teeny tiny rockets and they believe that by using light sail technology which we've talked about before on the show by using light sail technology they can increase the speed at which these nano crafts travel up to 20% of the speed of light the idea here is that you have a solar sail which actually catches a sail photons and uses that to propel it and the only reason that can do that is because the thing is propelling is so ridiculously light small and light that it actually can use light waves to propel it through and it's great it's a cumulative process it's not that it continually needs the same it's like you know some photons give it some give it some thrust there and that continues because it's in space yeah so as they get more and more and more it goes faster faster faster faster my question is like what are they gonna do once they get into Alpha Centauri like what are they they're went oh no moving so fast at some point like well I guess I would imagine a part of that has to do with the light the ground-based light beam er that they're saying that would help get it you know start the journey but the thing is is like this is pretty incredible stuff really heady ideas from Stephen Hawking and Co there Yuri Milner has invested a whole boatload of money into this I don't understand I same thing I brought up yesterday is how are you how are we going to get any information back from this thing because the information is not going to travel at the speeds that the device is traveling so in order to have any kind of even information that it got to where we sent it it's gonna take a ridiculously long time to find out right so I think it would not take a ridiculously long amount of time but obviously I mean when you think about like Mars which is far but not nearly as far as the nearest star system our neighboring star system it takes what how long is it is it 20 one minute sir like that so so for me it's I think it'll take a while to get that information back but if you're sending back something like an image and in light to be a light it might not be that bad or if it's like a laser like I don't know I think I think this is actually part of the part of the process with projects with starship project is they want to work out exactly how they could get this data back they also had said one of the big things they felt confident about was that all of the technology to accomplish this already exists or is very close to being created or is in you know in development basically right now so that that to me is super impressive I think they're just these little nano BOTS is just gonna have a little teeny tiny rolled-up piece of paper in them that has a Stephen Hawking phone number just call me just whoever finds it just give us a call you know and then all of a sudden tomorrow what would it be like it wouldn't even be tomorrow daily it would be some other show name some aliens hosting a parallel sort of a star system version of our show and they're like who's this guy Stephen Hawking was the best gig talk show in the universe in the entire universe that's like that maybe we should have some sort of best geek talk show off with them and we find out who truly is I like it yeah I'm willing to fight for the right to that title we're not gonna just be honest go down without a fight why do you think gangs is actually a weapon I don't know if anybody knows he's ready and yeah Jeff will wield lightsaber we'll be fine um bring it on last thing last thing I will say about starship project is they say because of the economies of scale and computer components of the price and everything they said eventually they'll be able to send these Rockets out in a space for just a few hundred thousand dollars Oh chump change yeah I got that in my couch a problem we're gonna take a quick break we'll be back with Clayton Schneider is it oh you're not gonna want to miss this it's a fun interview he's a really great guy super delightful and you might also see Logan in a in a dancing ninjas video maybe oh is it that thing so stick around it's tomorrow Daly our guest this week you might know from Lizzie McGuire he played the beautifully quaffed ethan yes and now he is starring in a beautiful little pilot that you should see online called second star we're very excited to welcome Clayton Snyder here Thank You Clayton for coming thank you guys for having so polite you are thank you yeah so you first of all we I kind of want to just put it out there that you have known producer Logan for a while I have known producer Logan for some time since a guy he is a guy and hi Logan we can't hear him on this show kitchen no we don't we don't like to give him microphone we take make sense I'm doing yeah we've been doing in fact video stuff since since back in high school we we had we had a few called classics I was in the dancing in this video Logan can you pull we don't show it now people will be very upset yeah well I think we'll put that it will put it in post okay all right what you're doing you're doing more video stuff now you you you've been on television and you are all the video stuff you're back with a kind of an interesting new way to get on television right yeah at least the latest thing that's been going on so the Lizzie McGuire soap quaffed what does that mean nice haircut okay feel like quaff is one of those words that like you know what it means but you can't really define it anyway I think in general I didn't mean like I was insulted okay what's cool is that the quad also in the dictionary next to quaffed yeah you just clicked on Wikipedia and that's what came up yes so second star Disney large company different branches including Disney XD and maker studios start of this initiative where maker studios would reach out to creatives who were producing content that might be good people to ask if they wanted to pitch ideas for a show and if they liked it give you a little bit of money give us a proof-of-concept and see where we go from there pretty much this is a way to sort of reach out to people that maybe didn't have an avenue to make stuff already and allow sort of influx of new blood new ideas right exactly yeah so you guys or was it you or you just know sue uh my good friend richard allen is now executive producer so Disney XD through this owns the project technically then it's like we own this if we decide to take it exactly but the contract is actually signed under Disney as a whole so it could still be brought to different branches within the Walt Disney Company yeah so what is the idea that he had that got them to say hey let's make a proof-of-concept well you know there's that tone dick you can have with the Disney shows very light bubbly kind of fun controlled family but what was cool about second star one that it is musically oriented show people loved that and also that it can deal with slightly darker issues that aren't really talked about or put up on TV they're much like you're dealing with three orphans essentially and an older brother that's trying to you know support his family keep it together yeah under the shadow of their grandfather who is this fantastic music producer and you know his father like had dreams excuse me my character Lucas's father had dreams to kind of step into the music scene himself and there was a tragic accident and all sudden weirdest kind of left where we are so in the shadow of a legacy but also not being attached from it and detached from it and trying to figure out where we fit in all this you know can I still pursue my dreams as musician while still trying to support my younger brother and sisters so it's like oh that's a Disney show yeah may be fun with the like you said with the inclusion of music you have this opportunity to really make something not light-hearted but something really enjoyable something people feel good about after they're done watching it like yeah feel like wow that was a real I don't feel like I just watched the walk yeah but not necessarily like oh my dad is dead but let's play music it's it's it's it's not like ignoring these facts anyway but it's just kind of like that's still that Avenue of expression and how you can still overcome your circumstances by following a certain passion things that give you life it's cool because this idea isn't something that necessarily would have been pitched within Disney you guys have the opportunity to bring it from it outside and have this quite outside the box yeah yes sort of you know almost like a Kickstarter of being able to give it a shot that's a good analogy yeah so uh so we kind of talked about how this is sort of a really non-traditional way of kind of moving this towards television yeah and how you kind of started with you know with Lizzie McGuire and everything that you were doing when you were younger this is kind of a really interesting sort of change of pace for you like could you want to talk a little bit about the differences between what it was like to be on a show like Lizzie McGuire which is obviously a very big very you know well-funded production and then doing something much more indie you know what are obviously there's there are the money differences the big difference but for you as an actor you know what's the thing that you really love about working with an indie as opposed to a big production company or vice-versa yeah it's almost like I like what I'm doing now was what I should have had to been doing then almost but when I was just starting out you know I was one of the lucky ones I was only acting professionally like going out on auditions for like a year and a half before Liz McGuire came around and boom that was kind of the first thing that I really bought it's not happens for everybody yeah that's just like let's make your budget yeah you know like figure self like kick out about what like well it's around that range exactly super easy happy stories that's awesome yeah so it was a really cool opportunity it almost seemed kind of surreal they weren't even sure they're gonna use my character and at that time it's just like there is a Disney show that they're making cold liz mcguire it had thing behind the name whatsoever and for it to have become what it became was pretty amazing and especially for the kind of show that it was because looking back on it it was so successful I think because it dealt with a lot of very real issues that kids in middle school were dealing with but never really had a an outlet to talk about right you know but to answer your question what it's like going from this perspective so I took a good time away from acting to live life to be with my friends that I grew up with that's why your normal go to school to play water polo and you know live that life for a little bit but I knew I wanted to come back so go ahead but to answer your question getting on Liz McGuire I was only acting professionally for like a year and a half like going on auditions meaning and then got the part but back then it was just like there's this new show that's gonna be made for Disney and it didn't have anything behind that then it's a penis pretty big thing yeah yeah yeah because I talked about a lot of you know real issues that kids in middle school dealt with and which is pretty cool and then took some time off to be with friends and go to school and do water polo things and I've been back in it for the past two three years and just kind of it's it's good to have that on your resume you had the experience and you might have some following with that and then just building that network is essentially because with acting you are this product that you're selling and I can't exactly say hey look at what I did because that's a very different product Clayton at 15 then he is at 22 6 7 8 so they're like ok but who are you now so haven't you know been doing a lot of student films a lot of indie films a lot of sketches a lot of Shore it's been a lot of live improv live musical stuff and so many features now and now this is kind of one of the latest things that's come with second star that's cool so you have experience building something into which is super cool and super fun yeah yeah so what's just as an actor what's the what's the dream gig what's the what's the thing that you want to do most oh man if you could be cast in the like the biggest movie you'll ever be in or the biggest TV show like what would it be what would what would that be you could make like an Indiana Jones Jurassic Park Star Wars hybrid somewhere in there into that night yeah so you know like Chris Pratt and we'll work together great he does in fact watch the show okay fantastic I'm sorry guys like I mean like that's like his role on Parks and Rec which is fantastic that was like like the Ethan craft of that show sure and then for him to go off and all sudden be like voice-over for lego movie and star-lord come on pretty pretty good yeah so all this is fun nice and everything but I want to hear about is that water polo stuff you want to hear about a professional water polo player yeah former and still still get in the water yeah but I mean this is this is a thing we don't so much have here in the States but you had actually go overseas to be a professional right yeah so I was I've been playing since I was eight years old and gone from various clubs and four high school team and played for Pepperdine and college hail waves and was about to I did film studies at Pat and then was about to get into acting directing after that didn't have an actual game plan at all it was like yeah let's jump in and because that's what I did before I can do it again like a year and a half and I'm like great going again and then Terry Schroeder you know various time Olympian former Olympic head coach he has like three silver medals and that time current national team head coach is like late now like the we play um you know if you keep improving we got a shot at making the national team it's very soft-spoken gentlemen I'm Harry and I was like okay well I need to either gotta go for that opportunity so I was from there you can't really stay in the States we you you can certainly train like with the national team but if you really want to improve you got to play up as you can imagine guys been part of sports teams like that's how you get better and play against people who are better than you right and hopefully in like a competitive setting like games so we don't have that for that when you're outside of college you know you're just plain against college guys in Europe is there is there is it televised live it's a big it's a thing I got some amazing stadiums over there we had some like over here too but it's not as regular as it is over there because if you think about it this way they're just different avenues like the Eastern Europe its kind of words its strongest so your Serbia your Montenegro Croatia Italy's you play in this place I played in Italy Hungary and Montenegro cool yeah experience yeah it was amazing experience they're very good it's very difficult it's rough right underneath the water people are punching in yes crap what the right doesn't see kind of goes water polo it trained you for Hollywood yes I can I can make it in this town below sea level beatings okay so with second star you guys are it's it's 15 minutes you're incorporating music into this pilot you can see it on second star TV right watch it um so in the in court with incorporating music you also sing apparently people like it okay I've been I've been reading the cotton like comments and people are just say positive things they say nice things how what is it like potentially I mean let's say let's say Disney picks it up to go to series I mean you you are gonna you're gonna be singing a lot I'm all what I was saving for this interview is actually my debut album coming out nicely I'm totally kidding there's not a drop no musics always been actually like a very big part of my life I was in choir when I was a kid and had voice lessons this never really pursued it professionally I was kind of thrown into a lot of stuff and arts and athletics growing up and you know play guitar here and there played out the saxophone briefly little bass guitar and it's always been a sobbing no it's it's it's it's fun and was able to just keep music incorporated through out my life somehow and so it's cool to have an avenue to kind of do that yeah that's sweet so he's saying guys he sings he acts he plays water polo I feel like I'm like selling you to that I don't know so this 15 minute proof of concept is is out now yeah what does it need to be more what do you need to have happen for it's a great question what they should do much bigger so this is a proof of concept and you may have heard of the term pilot so you know it's like the first episode kind of like is this gonna be a thing we'll see people like it so proof of concept is a smaller version of that at a smaller budget so that's essentially what this video is proof of concept so it's like not even a pilot and it's being broadcasted out there to see hey like people do a sim and just one so there are various methods to track the hits of people watching the show or going into the website a website and checking it in or going to the Facebook page and there are eyes on that and there's no quota of like okay soon as it gets X amount of use for X amount of lags or X amount of shares we're gonna take it to network it's just time will tell gets more views check it out essentially the right interest right the right interest from the right amount of people then you're right and also like the demographic will also dependent like will decide what networking gets picked up on she has a pretty vast network exactly whether it's actual joining your ABC or Disney XD network so dependent age range or which gender is more kin to it for whatever reason so I'm gonna do two things wrap this up do I'm gonna go watch that show watch that show and I'm also going to check out and see if I can find any streams of European water polo there's a lot because now I'm very important I want to become where Bo ah I want to be a fan I want to become a fan shower response amazing thank you so much for coming on the show really appreciate second star TV that's where you can find it go do that thing go watch that thing you must do it let's watch that thing it is imminent is an imperative that you watch it thank you so much again for being with us and thank you come back back when your album drops okay all right we'll be right back guys but stick around tomorrow daily welcome back everybody ah he's so fun Michael just in case you're wondering we don't just like switch clothes for the interview pre-taped it but i switch clothes every time yeah I've costume changes during every show I'm a prima donna um yeah no he was great so thank you again to Clayton for coming out and chillin with us as he was super fun he's so nice um also dancing ninjas video A+ are you ready to talk about into it let's do it so I saw civil war this week I know I'm so jealous but I'm not gonna talk about that I'm gonna talk about something else I don't want to give it all away my reviews up on Sina comm by the way if anyone wants to read it uh I'm super into Ratchet & Clank oh it's so great me too I'm into that the remake of the ps4 is it's on ps4 now it is so pretty one like the graphics are unbeliev do you remember when the ps2 was coming out and they were like you're gonna have toys story level you've never seen graphics like this well guess what guys you've never seen graphics like this this is and it's they they are pulling from this is like a game wait it's like a game based on the movie that's based on the game right so it is insomniac games that's that is game play that is live gameplay when you saw him running that that's real that is live laughing like a Pixar movie it's it's that good looking at its delightful it is so funny it's it's just as pithy and snarky and ridiculous and funny as it has ever been mr. zerkin is my favorite ever like I mean do you not understand how to die mr. zerkin will teach you anything you know it's the same week the Dark Souls 3 comes out and I you know those games are cool and everything but remember when games would just pure fun yeah that's what this game is guys there's a gun that turns your enemies into 8-bit characters yeah the pixel later and gotta get it there are moments when you'll kill so many things on screen and they all turn into little bits little nuts and bolts everywhere yeah and you're just getting like this cascade this is bolt City because you're it's magnetic and it's just the best thing ever and seriously you guys if you're not playing Ratchet and Clank go get it if you have a ps4 it's worth your what's worth your time boy I certainly certainly second that you're so right on my into it has a little darker tone guys oh my god I feel a Jeff rant coming on I feel the heat flames here's the problem Ashley you know you know we are both super excited about VR yeah you watch this show we talk about VR constantly we're ready for the VR future oh my gosh 2016 it's VR time Jeff excited he pre-ordered both VR heads both oh my god March 28th that's coming out April whatever you don't know yeah oh it's awesome then you're gonna get ready for the guess what guess how many of my two VR headsets have been delivered to me none of them zero of them and I got an email this week from oculus saying by the way my oculus order can't win in 12 minutes after was it just a picture of lucky yeah it's just like double middle fingers they're like you're not looking second can I'm not lucky you never ever get yeah uh telling me that even though I got my order in 12 minutes after it went on sale by by the way I tried to get an even early I was clicking clicking clicking that's as fast as I could do it I'm sure two months after launch is when I should now expect my oculus to arrive which I heard there's some component problems like which is the most vague weird explanation do you think that maybe if you take a pre-order two months before your your thing is supposed to launch that maybe you should check to see if the components are available isn't the whole point of pre-orders to actually know how many people you're going to have to deliver these things to that's the whole point of pre-ordering right Ashley i pre-ordered a car two years in advance yes that is the point and and Andy Lama said oh we got a rethink production cuz cuz Wow did a lot of you guys ordered cars and now we know we know we this cool lead time because it's a pre-order CVS we have now information as to how many we have to deliver now I will freely admit this is the epitome of first word problems and the mean getting upset about not being able to have my new toy is I understand it's petulant and and whatever but still any company the thing is I believe in VR and I want it to succeed and these companies are screwing it up they're not helping you think you make your case right these are already very expensive things and the fact that you can't even deliver us any number of them and guess what guys vive is no better at least at least oculus now has told me when to expect my shipment vive is still like april-ish we think we hope I don't know I you know pre-ordered that the moment it went on sale - it is the fact that both of these companies are having these problems it really is marring what should be a completely transcendent moment in the computer history of computers because these are I was talking to somebody this weekend about it VR is the most magical technological experience I've had since the first moment of using the very first Apple phone like it really is that thing that you always crave with technology we're like oh my gosh this feels like the future and the fact that they're screwing it up this much and making people cancel their pre-orders and and you know losing you know messing up credit card transactions all this stuff it's so messy and disappointing on every level and that's why I'm into this week I'm into staring at my screen refreshing to hope that they'll be an email saying that things should be arriving and I'm getting the oculars email it's killing me your ended disappointment that's what you're into hey do you know we forgot to do a whole segment of the show what we should do back at our hackett let's do that maybe make me feel better I don't know if there's gonna make you feel better cuz I might start ranting this time so we're gonna talk about bento lab it's got about a week left in their campaign they're on Kickstarter this is a portable DNA lab yeah so we can have DNA tests on the go on the go which is you know I know that when I am out and about there is nothing I want more so many times during the day I'm like god I wish I had a portable DNA lab with me right now and ya know nobody says that nobody says that one of the use cases that they suggest on this this website let's let's discuss here they're like here's what you can do with it you can extract DNA so they got the centrifuge right there they're like you can copy DNA clone stuff on the go oh yeah sure why not and then you can also visualize DNA so they're like really into that too I like that so I never have to eat alone again I can just clone myself and have a lunch buddy who needs children when you could just raise another you I'm saying uh so huh they're already uh okay I'll get to the price in a minute um here's here's of course the number one question is what can I do with a bento lab and they've answered this on their Kickstarter page which I've been terribly fascinating and also ridiculous they said for example you can explore your genetic makeup see if your taste buds detect bitter flavors by testing your variation of the PTC gene like that's fun okay that's kind of like a fun feels like giving a kid like a home microscope to play with sure but for adults uh check if you're built for endurance by testing your variation of the athlete's gene actn three which I clearly do not possess well I've never heard of the athlete gene I'm not built for endurance I played volleyball it's a sprint not a marathon thank you test if you're likely be lactose intolerant explore how blood group genotyping works Wow you know how you can also test if you're lactose intolerant drink some milk have a bite of ice get some cheese there's so many options no but I think I think you know the idea that it's encouraging people to learn more about their genetic makeup maybe it's a good thing fair enough and I think that there are companies you know like 23andme and stuff that have made sort of DNA DNA information really popular it's really hot right now but here's here's where it gets weird guys here's what gets weird gets a little weird you can examine your food at a molecular level test a hamburger to see if it contains horse meat Oh investigate your beer for bacteria that spoil it identify GMOs and learn about genetic engineering then then they talk about X this is where it gets scary I like the idea that you could put a hamburger in there and then the screen it just says horse is 100% ours mate you can characterize biodiversity it says extract ancient DNA from fossils oh sweet all those fossils that I have now finally are useful all the fossils I've laying around yeah test the gender of birds from a feather or spot of blood identify species with DNA barcoding you can also get research done so they asked for over 500 people how they would use Vento lab which I'm assuming these people who made been to lab know a bunch of scientists right like this you would think you would think those I hope they are sighs no I want to ask they go like a soccer mom how are you gonna use a DNA lab right but they said field scientists looking for easy to carry equipment citizen scientist solving social problems mycologist foragers farmers veterinary students designers artists brewers chefs interested in molecular gastronomy bioscience students teachers sharing hands-on practicals that I get and curious folk with an interest in DNA oh that's us we're curious spoke with an interest in DNA that is me are you ready to buy are you in how much how much here's what I will pay for this here's what I will pay you tell me if this is in my price range I would pay a hundred and fifty dollars for this no that can happen how much how what percentage of one will I get about $200 200 $15 you can get an add-on for the kit oh but if you would like a bento lab yeah right now there's classroom bento but if you want the launch special which has already sold out it's $800 woof that's a VR I can't get um hey but you know what they might actually ship this to you before your headsets sad but true these are reusable you can use them as are they or do you use them up like the $800 how many DNA tests do I get for $800 well they have like they have the essential accessories like I loved it I feel like I'm trying to sell something on an infomercial but we see this as an infomercial is be amazing yeah so they're saying it have you always wondered if your hamburger is horse meat horses it has the Bentall lab accessories so power gel they have this gel box at a user handbook but there are also add-on stuff so it's like you can add on classroom bento it's like you can add on a starter kit it has like that has like ten little experiments that you can do inside the centrifuge like okay so hey guys you're spending about $1,000 just to see if your hamburgers made of course me you know what I say spend that money on better hamburgers spend that money on VR that you're never gonna get shipped to your house yeah that's adjusted yeah that's why I can't afford a bento box anymore cuz I bought two VRS that didn't arrive um I'm of two minds about this okay one I totally see the application like a microscope or some sort of science kit that you would get to to promote learning and curiosity among kids our students last term science lab that be I think that's cool the other side of this is I bet this thing does not work as its limited results yeah very limited sort of like when you get an easy-bake oven right and you're like I'm gonna bake a cake and then you bake this thing and it's not even close to what it looks like on the box much less actually taste or look like a cake yeah and then you're just living with disappointment in your stomach it's that week it's that except DNA but with DNA and the other idea the other thing is like if you're gonna use this as a kid you have to like pick yourself and get blood I don't know I don't like to ask those as asswipe anyway interesting interesting it seems pretty pricey for what it offers it really does so I'm gonna pass on it but hey if you're really into DNA pick up a bento lab you got about a week left if any of you are actually getting the bento lab email please let us know because we want to know if this thing works maybe the classrooms that watch us will get it for their science labs okay you're ready to talk about phone talking with you and wrap this up do it alright Nick sent us an email and I've been writing back and forth with Nick for about a couple days and Nick wrote us and sent us this picture and said for your Landmark Monument theme I thought it only appropriate to take this gorgeous picture the Eiffel Tower on my iPhone six-plus while picnicking with my brother I've been an international business student in Paris for the past three years originally from Chicago and graduating in three weeks you of course have my permission to use this photo and then he sent me another email and said I just wanted to tell you a quick story as we were looking at this beautiful picture he said my best friend referred me to your tomorrow daily podcast last year he was tech obsessed and loved your long shows ever since I've watched every single one of your podcasts last week my best friend my brother father do a gorgeous two-year-old girl Julianne died in a car crash due to snowy conditions and he's he flew in from his study abroad in Paris to come to the funeral services and he said I know this might be asking too much but I wanted to try anyways to honor his memory I hoped you could mention something even all the way at the end of the show just to say a little something for him he started GoFundMe for his his I guess it would be his niece his nieces college fund and funeral expenses for his parents but he says and I thought this was really sweet I wanted to read exactly in his words how much his brother meant to him and and for a fan of the show will do anything for you guys he says Julian Paris was a loving son a mischievous brother loyal friend caring husband and an exemplary father he said just two years ago we went skydiving together and that was one of the only times I've ever seen a mattress actually petrified of doing something crazy I'm gonna miss him and thank you for giving someone as great as him the time to be appreciated so Julian you you will be missed and you are clearly loved by everybody who knew you and thank you Nick for sharing your story with us because obviously it's not easy time for you right now so we at tomorrow Daily are sending our love to you and and if you want to check out the GoFundMe page I will tweet it from my personal account and you can come find me on social media but thank you for in both of those pictures yes our thoughts are with you Nick thank you so much and we appreciate the the beautiful image and the beautiful sentiment as well yeah I thought it was a nice way to kind of end the week if you guys want to send in your photography that has a landmark or a monument and I don't know if anyone's gonna be as good as that beautiful story that was just told but if you'd like to submit your phone tog Rafi please email us tomorrow Tina calm yeah we love getting those and finding out a little story about why you took that picture what device you took it on and also we need to make sure you give us permission use on the show yes and if you want to find us on social media or share the show just head over to tomorrow daily comm and we will be back next week yes we will brand-new docket of weird science fact meeting science fiction of making us so happy you guys it's so good um thank you again to everybody involved with making of this week's show of the long show it was really good one we have so much fun Clayton Snyder thank you for coming on the show Nick thank you for sending in that wonderful story about your brother and we're so sorry to hear about his passing and we will be back next week but until then be good human bye guys you