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hey guess what it's time for another episode of 359 podcast and it's a big one it's 150 money Brian and I am here with Roger Cheng Han Fox Rubin and welcoming guests rich nieta hello good morning everybody rich by the way who comes from our San Francisco office and is on his first cnet podcast ever north podcast first pot yes ever ever yeah and congratulations yeah hello 359 I'm happy to be here well do the five people that are watching I was gonna say heaven thank you too generous oh we've got it we've got a busy day as usual we're gonna be talking about Google's intrepid I guess it's alphabets treppe up drone plan may hate that we have to keep saying alphabet is with a clarify that it's google's parent company that always bothers me that's future words i don't need that throwing every time a Google Strohm plan we're gonna be talking about Pokemon go trying to make a comeback it makes ice for the 150th episode we're talking about Pokemon go yeah cuz we spent so much time many we should talk about Samsung but we're not surprisingly i'm the lastly we'll we'll talk about apple music hitting another milestone for subscribers so let's let's get into it as usual you have any questions leave them in the comments section brian will pick out the best and we will answer them or try try try ok let's get this recording underway and here we go in three two welcome to the 359 when we talk about the top tech news of the day and only the crap you want to throw in I'm Roger Tsien I'm Ben Fox ribbon with us we have special guests crack Google and social reporter rich never hey everybody how are you so rich you actually wrote a story about Google's drone efforts today why don't you tell us more about its crazy plan sure so the story is about Google or Google's parent company alphabet thinking about opening it opening up a delivery market place called wing marketplace and they've talked two partners apparently and some of them our our whole dominos tom knows dogs and whole foods so pizza via drone everybody so the idea here is that they don't have to go and build drones do this whole infrastructure Google's going to do it for them and these companies are going to sort of rent the service is that is how it works they didn't even go through that much detail okay save they've they've talked to them apparently this is according to The Wall Street Journal right i mean it feels like a smart plan there's like so all these companies they're not tech companies right like dominos isn't gonna be they're not gonna go invest in drone technology so that's true why i use google as sort of the framework when it is important to mention though that anytime I talk to analysts about drones because I cover amazon so I do look at their eyes runs yeah their eyes well at least over the phone where they're like there's there's so much regulation around there yeah that really doesn't seem very likely in the u.s. maybe it's more possible in other areas well its partner like this is uh this is part of alphabets xunit right which is all about moon shots all right crazy project yeah and this is a crazy project for sure but expecting something like this next year I don't know what do you to note is that Google is already testing out burrito deliveries on Virginia Tech's campus so it's like via drums yes yeah nice delicious which chipotle hahaha excellent all right next up are you still playing pokemon go nope silence well developer niantic is hoping to reignite your interest and it's in lusting a unlikely partner December twelfth it'll actually release a number of new pokemon mhm and that day the same day sprint boost mobile stores and I guess radioshack sprint stores will all become pokey stops and Jim's thrilling right oh my god i deleted oh c'mon go did you really i still have an iphone i I the problem is is that i really don't like it when people are nearly walking into me when they're walking down the street yeah i'm looking at their phones and i didn't want to be that guy anymore I really liked where you then go yeah when I was playing pokemon go on my way to like Grand Central every day I'd be you know swiping and catching pokemon and all that other you know I make fun of Pokemon go cuz it's kind of it has fallen off the top charts but it is still a top 10 grossing game or grossing app and when I was out in LA last week I actually ran into a bunch of who are still playing yeah really i was gonna ask like when's the last time you see me I what have it my wife still actually some plays she's it's not the Phenom it used to she's representing team valor well still uh well done yeah what's up I don't know how she doesn't know how she finds time alright lastly Apple music hit another milestone by surpassing 20 million subscribers that's three million more than it reported in September's a good amount of growth good momentum definitely is further evidence that you know streaming music in this kind of all on demand model it's all the way to go yeah waving I I think that services like this are really going to be what Apple's future is going to be like as people keep holding on to their phones and their tablets and their desktops a lot longer so are you guys either subscribe to music service I don't I subscribe to Spotify okay yeah so I mean I feel like a lot of people do that's still but the number one on-demand streaming service out there it's more than open door actually unveiled the details of Pendor premium its service which is planning to launch early next year for ten dollars a month just like all the others lastly you wanted sorry for more of these stories check is on cnet Roger Cheng I'm Ben Fox Rubin I'm rich neva thanks for listening and we're back hey yeah right wonderful dismount fur also done almost almost a clean one yeah no cough I did no coughs that was good yeah yeah yeahs to our viewers a little bit of context rich was he was had a bit of a coughing fit this morning I was having a little worried he was gonna back you through the pockets but you got it mean if you're clean look at that Bravo sir yeah mm-hmm for first podcast shut up did a shout out to her friend Michael representing Jamaica in the chat today yeah which Michael this is a Michael Forsythe oh hey man we have two regular Michaels and yes I know Michael Forsythe good man uh best best question we've had in the chat in a long time Oh what if a bird grabs your pizza hmm oh yeah oh wow good question like a big bird like a bird of prey like like I'm actually a magic big bird by watching it right just whack that drug that's guy with a baseball well like that's something that that uh in the article mentions Google grappling with which is like how to logistically do it like this the drone land does it like lower the pizza down right when they're doing with the Chipotle yeah I think that they are doing like some sort of like lowering grapples yeah or whatever how does look out how do you by the way how does that work on campus if you're if you're in view your dorm can look can you open your window and like not yet to go down side frankly that you would be but I like in your window I gotta go really likes it like the dining hall ah what about what about snipe drones Michael wants to know if there are gonna be thieves who will build drones specifically to hijack your pizza who hijackers are really really good sounds like a really really bad new movie concept they're gonna know cuz Michaels Cowboys on the bushes trying around a train will build another drone to protect no refrigerant really like this all drove escalation yes that's that's a good point but then you know giant birds will show up and then I'll Jack everything this is just Purvis probably isn't gonna work even though right I kind of personally I even you got past a huge amount of regulatory hurdles which there still are yeah there are a lot of logistical problems I still I i do like personally love the idea of drones like I think it would be really cool in the future if we did do this I think it would change a lot of people's lives yeah and I think like just buying anything online and then getting it literally within half an hour sounds like a fantastic idea so I think it's really cool that Google and Amazon are working on this but like I'm very again personally skeptical i mean i could see this i could see the sound like the burbs or sort of like we're rural areas yeah necessarily a big city right cuz there would be really really difficult to do it in like a major city but but I'm suburbs I could totally see this happening it's definitely one of those like future tech concepts that is out there that could seriously change people's lives right well I think the accessibility implications there yeah they were Google first started out doing this and their focus was disaster relief oh yeah but they scaled back and sin has just okay now so they went for like a noble effort to like pizza how dare you how dare you have a snowball okay it says very noble I'm just waiting for that really really lame movie though where they had like a high-speed drone chase instead of a car chase oh that's the circle budget it's coming out in a couple months oh my god nevermind yeah the circle it's at dave eggers movie Oh Dave Eggers book that they're turning into a movie and toward the end of it you can see this in the trailer so I'm not giving anything away I think about nice two runs chase drones attack a truck so it's like drones chasing a truck it's kind of close I'm picturing something more like will ferrell and i always forget the actor's name but dr. Steve Brule and like a step brother sequel oh yeah and they're just chasing each other with the drugs I drew like their control with the phone right after each other yeah steripen posing I could get you let me let me go on the record saying i would definitely watch yeah we're gonna fry part of that yeah hey a little off topic but somewhat related Robin the chant wants to know what is the best grocery service online or app oh oh there are antal um there's one that I i have used amazon everything fresh prime pantry myself I'm pantry is another one but that it's limited so I mean there's fresh direct with fresh the rack there's peopie we tend to use yeah you use fresh direct yeah good experience so far pretty good I mean the thing that it is fresh directly out for all these incentives or every once in a while Ike free shipping or whatever and we just we don't we're not regular customers we basically wait for like the coupon to show up surely all right now's the time to order and then we like we stock up that might be the best way to make a recommendation is like who's got the best coupons right now but its cycles citrus thing is it's a good question online really hasn't disrupted the grocery market quite yet known fresh direct and pea pod have been around for a while I did not do that um so we'll see if something big changes there I mean like our drones gonna help with that but there aren't that many options like prime fresh amazonfresh isn't it a lot of markets and neither is google expressing some soup yeah let's do it too now right or they partner well there's into the card is it yeah right all right yeah yeah it's the carts another one yeah they're not I don't think there any of them are not maybe instacart is but I don't think I feel like ins card is quazy national like you can find them in a lot of places i don't know i don't use instacart but that's another one so I've only useful prime pantry when there's something exclusive or we're down there like Serge no cooler dunkaroos the kind of stuff you can't find in lowes junk aru's yeah wow I haven't thought about those in years thank you well I thought about surge in the ecto cooler cuz of Brian thank you for that nostalgia bomb yeah God dunkaroos alright switching gears uh talking about music streaming again um personal preference does anybody here use google play no but I know I know go reporter now Spotify user as well so I I really i only download stuff and learn like listen to them like listen to this you don't even stream music do you know i mean like i used to be still visit if you know how Kate I do not know be pretty cool not even my by know that you're like really cool a nice cool you bought album cassettes cool cassettes have made an unfortunate come back have they real really yeah yeah it's a cool collector thing again I'm on top of that space box and they suck their hands down the absolute worst recorded me tomorrow sir it's the first time and recorded audio we took a big step backwards in just a gala do something hitch thing you know what I get absolutely I use Amazon music all the time cuz I yeah yeah yeah I do for uh for kids music right oh my god they're very good nice like the very family or it's the only reason why i don't use Spotify scuzz the I'm in the fridge here so I get ads every whatever half hour mm-hmm so they'd like you don't want to play a bunch of kids music on so it's like hey like clubs or something subscribe Spotify whatever like yeah well the thing or try Bobby barman needs to be fire uh fine-tuned a little bit yeah I think it's pot pies that I've been on it for so long then I hey okay all right I pay too yeah and I've got it curated yeah how i like it and it'll be hard i would you be interested like heavy did you ever use pandora mm-hmm so would you be interested like Pandora's pitch when they are launched next year is that this is more personalized you live i guess there's curated recommendations that's something that would interest you or your like not really okay I know I know I know yeah yeah they've got him they've got him basically I mean like it would take a long time for a pen door and actually figure out what it is yeah eggs if it was cheap rich rich I know it's not fortunately the way these deals are struck they're all ten all right ten dollars or more which is why I think it's interesting that Apple reached 20 million subscribers because they came in it a little bit later like a couple yeah well he got exclusives they do have exclusive yeah boss I mean look they had that built-in installed base for a long time that's true the Spotify has branched out to different avenues as well they have video now they do podcasts right they have their own private sessions that they host that they record in house kind of thing excuses live tracks and that kind of thing i use google play myself for my own personal collection so that's where I've clouded my music to keep forever and ever because I've lost more than a few hard drives in my time as well recollecting bye yeah and I like Spotify because that's where I venture around me like oh this is new this is worth subscription price to try something new I'm not going to be out anything here cool i mean if i really really like it i go buy it I know absolutely forbidden right it's crazy buying stuff is forbidden and x minus baseline physical music oh that is like I still do it do it well whatever huh people still do that I'm sure there's billions of dollars or digital music sales I mean knowing I exist I exist if nope if you look at the market share like it turns it is reassuring it's all right past like more people pay for streaming services on-demand streaming services versus individual soundtracks yeah I don't actually like music discovery so I find yeah I did I lie to do I and then I stick with them so it actually makes sense for my life to keep buying single songs but alright we're running out of time but switching gears back to pizza again they want to know how to maintain the temperature of the piece and I got imagine that the drone has a compartment yeah just like you I almost had you up in horn it's gotta remember it's got that specially designed by scar we both remember the oven that keeps the pizza warm I can all I can only imagine like I mean the integrated bag has been around for decades is very easy to have a drone with a built-in sort of insulated case so more importantly more importantly though how do they actually drop off the p there's a thing make a gentle landing on your doorstep or does it air bomb it in with like an inflatable power right so that's what they're deciding it gotta be a gentle landing right I would much rather see like oh just be just fine the sky everywhere than that it's all good night like is everywhere following it is this blouse bomb outside Nancy's here as if coming straight from God that's the dream that this that is pizza speaking of the circle this is our friend Michael Brown speaking of the circle why is Hollywood obsessed with AI or Big Brother attacking civilians uh I mean good movie i make a good movie that's see the terminator like that's an awesome movie I didn't really make a movie where like technology just solves everything because that would be super bored I mean there was like her right and does it hurt I didn't watch that yet Bobby I'm told there's great so let me there are movies that explore if you're gonna fight the system but the electronic system right yeah I think that that's a more compelling narrative that's the thing is this the obligatory part and the podcasts where you talk about Wes world who good point yeah no way yeah why not yeah blessed world West world westworld was a good concept to kind of maybe push that forward and say AI isn't the problem no that's our and that was the best part of the show that it made you sympathetic to the host right right humans are spoilers no spoilers evens are terrible that's not spoiler ok bearish or so yeah and I mean that's that's way a show were flipped the common narrative on it on its head right where you are more sympathetic to the AI the house as opposed to I think it's Michael makes a good point though that um you know kind of the the well has been poisoned a long time ago by Hollywood oh yeah about how AI and robots are bad that was already described to us like what was that 15-20 years ago probably even when I Hollywood books and every every medium is right exactly which is why I think it's funny that now that we have robots the manufacturers go out of their way to make them all look cute and adorable so that people aren't terrified by them so that's that's why we have pepper and you know i right Google's like Google robot car looks like a smiley face at the head right yeah it's two really a lot of attention Google assistant is like the least friend like name wise branding losses yeah it's just so generic that being said if I was murdered by pepper that would be really scary because it would just ice like a girl in my face it would be so fun to watch actually it would strangle me well smiling the whole time alright well that's probably a good place to leave off helen is not a very beloved home except that that perfectly caps off our 150th episode talking about the ends to mine so by fiber rope or more importantly keep your eyes to the sky for forthcoming pizza bombs there you go there you give you like a that you saw her here tricks on cnet our podcast is also available on iTunes tune in stitcher SoundCloud feedburner and google play music we will see you all tomorrow do tomorrow