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welcome YouTube two-hour episode 3 59 we're about to tape a podcast usually we're on Facebook lab but we've decided to make the switch to YouTube hopefully some of our viewers will jump along although we haven't really told anyone yet so probably not so you're here so thanks for being here thanks for being here thanks for checking us out our first Youtube episode i'm here with I as the wolf oh we are that's me we're going to be starting our podcast shortly but I just wanted to run down our list of headlines for you will be talking about Netflix as earnings disappointing earnings and the fact that they blamed us by us being the media for their subscriber woes as well as would we talk about Pokemon go again you can't avoid it can avoid it as well as Leslie Jones and her Twitter account and Leslie Jones is a different pokemon she's not she is the one of the stars of the latest Ghostbusters film and a victim of just a huge amount of Twitter harassment uh yeah I'm really since the movie air premiered was finally the movie did pretty well under the reviews have been okay right have you seen it I haven't seen it yet nor am i but the reviews I think we're you know there were mixed the positive I think there were so many articles explaining how internet movie reviews are broken based on this particular movie because it's it it skews male seem to hate it female seem to love English before it even came out so I haven't seen a lot of yes there was a lot of judgment ahead of time I saw the trailer I wasn't super impressed with the trailer but you know I didn't hate it I wanted to get a shot I still do if I ever actually want to watch movies I would give a shot yeah you don't you're not bitter at all yeah that's that's a new data me so just took quick note please if you have any questions about any of these topics definitely shoot them over comment section our producer Brian will field in the world will answer the questions after the actual podcast taping so what's that brand new i get sorry I'm ready when you guys are all right start the countdown and audio to speed take away the recording in three two welcome to the 359 when we talk about the top tech news of the day and all the crap you want throwing I'm Roger Cheng and with me is esteemed I as the wolf pack tar hello I want to start with Netflix which reported it's worth subscriber gain in three years but they don't blame the price increases that are being rolled out to customers netflix says it's the media's fault what do you think that's a weird excuse that there are other foreigners already excuse now Hastings was saying that in April it trended a netflix price increase and was it was spiking there when people who weren't even subject to the price change we're canceling that seemed to be a part of it n of the press is it or people just freaking out because it's really easier for you got yourself price hike you're like no right but why would you leave it's a dollar increase that's the thing it's like our people for really freaking out over a dollar a month increase well I think it could just be the principle that matter how dare you give me such a cheap commercial free service for nine dollars now it's ten dollars well it's just a note like Amazon Prime broke out their video service for 899 so they're technically their undercutting Netflix the options are not the selection of videos are not the same but you know there's definitely competition out there right yeah there's other services that are vying for your money but I still think that Netflix they've had a very interesting history when it comes to quality of video but the originals that they're coming out with the movies you have original series documentaries that holds that whole slew of of content is so rich then I think they have a pretty good set of content compared to any other online streaming service yeah it looks like this is gonna be a long term affected they warned that the next quarter subscriber growth was still gonna be pretty muted so we'll see there's there's I'm sure there's a lot of confusion out there I mean I got my email notice that my price is going up next month so not gonna make me when you infuriated at yourself because you reported this mr. Pressman I wasn't i wasn't i took it pretty cold lane knowing that you know a new season of ultron it's gonna come out soon I'm gonna want to watch it oh no I could see the backlash because Adam Sandler like oh we're gonna invest in quality contacts sure top backing Adam Sandler more Voltron less Sandler all right next up we want to talk about Pokemon go again you do yeah I do the game is reportedly set to launch in Japan it's its home market finally tomorrow and this comes as the company's market value has doubled since the phone since game is launched and is actually worth more than sony now this games been out for like two weeks now yep and they ran into lots of server issues you saw the are mine half after you talked about that when a hacksaw there's a ddos yeah under the a hack what it wasn't really that effective cuz i was able to play over the weekend look I don't think Pokemon servers but Mongo servers need any more load right doing this is was I thought was complete jerk move I know they want to say that they're claiming that we can show you how to secure your servers right but with Nintendo point care please hire us this is how this is all you said a weird way to get a job but yeah Pokemon go being in Japan I'm sure hopefully they have enough servers to handle that it's been like a phenomenon I'm thinking I've seen anything like this where everybody people in New York are talking to each other when they're playing like this strange like oh is that is that a Pidgey here I've got 50th at why don't you know the Pidgey no there's definitely that social element where like people are interacting and meeting each other because of pokémons oh it's weird it is it just touching is it I think people are touching that's the problem i think i think pokemon go is just just amazing right now and I don't know you think it's gonna last any further than I don't know like right now it's sort of that that perfect time we've got summer kids are out in school the weather is nice we'll see it once life's storms start hitting it gets colder we'll see if people actually wanna go out and play I lastly lessee Jones one of the stars of Ghostbusters called out Twitter trolls for the disgusting racist and sexist comments that battered her account guys's does Twitter have an obligation to clean up these kinds of attacks my twitter has tools for the users to block people i think that's relatively important and if that you can report users i think that's their duty but i know if twitter can go out on its own play policeman well it's interesting that she she actually actively unblocked it she wanted all these these tweets of show up at her feet to show the public just how bad things have gone and it's it's crazy for looking over the co-sponsors which already had its fair share of negative reaction that she got huge brunt of the day he pretty ugly yeah it's gone really ugly so y know more about these stories check us out on cnet I'm Roger Cheng Amaya's actor thanks for listening and we're cut on the recording alright but we're still love on YouTube awesome all right YouTube you've got any questions time now's the time to ask so we've done 35 seconds of it Oh crud oh it's the quickest thing to say about that man you know I've been I've gotten a couple of nice racial slurs on YouTube yep oh yeah oh yeah and I'm like wow I haven't seen one of those in a while I remember running about Trump's comments about making the iphone here and I started talking about the economics and why that's that's kind of impossible yeah but I remember the Twitter reaction was like oh like you're you're an expert because your brother is back in back in China make these phones like I had some really terrible comments that came in just I feel like that's part of the Twitter culture which is one of the issues that the company has yeah I mean people are gonna say stupid things yep no matter where you are it's just the fact that they have keyboards and there's anonymity and they can hide behind either like a little egg avatar or whatever it is it's it's a real it's a real problem to see that if you know sometimes I see the people who are just flat-out hateful and they're just honest about Italy they're consistent and sometimes I'm like well okay that's impressive that you're consistently hateful but it's it's just the nature of while humans essentially like yeah and you have a tool like the internet it's going going after the worst comment on where they're and because you have that you have that freedom yeah that again I mean I think sometimes we at least I've done this in the past or I'd neglect the positive comments I've seen a really nice things from viewers out there for sure the negative stuff always stands out in your mind right like I can't I can't really recall like the more complimenting comments that I've gone on Twitter but I definitely remember the negative ones well I i think in Leslie Jones this case it's like a perfect storm isn't ghostbusters it's like a beloved franchise right it didn't matter who was in the movie honest yeah yeah it was gonna get a lot of heat no matter what yeah and so the remake issues I haven't seen it I don't know what it's like I'm shirts I hurts okay right I know it didn't outperform secret life of pets which I'm surprised that that in its second week beat ghostbusters I don't know I feel like the buzz for that movie was so high that people were and it's like it's an it's a family film right its moral family film the ghost ball strangers I saw I mean I saw see her life of pets I thought it was like it was all right it wasn't great or anything good to know I'll not to watch it's about six out of ten all right but Louis CK is the lead dog okay Oh ready change his voice they altered it I'm like let's Louie CK he's got a distinct voice why would you do that yeah Louie ck if he wasn't ghostbusters probably watch that I don't know if he is I Brian are there any questions or comments so uh one person just thinks that I as this mustache is sexy thank you there you go I just got some new white hairs in there this week exactly adds to you know then I distinguished yeah you know I've been working on this mustache for a couple years now i'm jealous i can't grow a mustache can physically unable to grow moustache might not be as as full definitely would and this mustache is nowhere near as full as like Brian's mustache is a work of art yeah can we can we get a tag that a sharper look at your mustache Brian cuz that and that thing is awesome look at look at me I cannot do that beautiful I'm jealous I definitely can do you reach the mustache and beard hair the facial hair love portion of the shin pretty sure Bryan's gonna love this conversation um just got a Pokemon go just just curious you know whatever we talked about this earlier there's all the hype about Nintendo and its association with the game but you know it doesn't actually make money directly off Pokemon go right right because the Nintendo is a third partner of the very creatively named Pokemon company right it's three different members own that but believe Nintendo has a share of niantic which makes the game yeah but niantic was spun off of Google after the whole alphabet thing so there's a whole lot of things that Nintendo's getting indirectly right and for shareholders winder like capitalize on the Pokemon go phenomenally Nintendo is still the best bet but it's just interesting that you know all those in-app purchases that Pokemon go is generating that doesn't go to Nintendo's coffers but they could nintendo could use this kind of leverage in the future to say hey listen we want a cut of this yep in the future maybe they do have I don't know if they have a cut but I don't know there are no terms the deal is not and honestly maybe they do get a cut maybe but that's totally speculative I have no idea right so maybe in the future when they do other mobile games and they work without developers they're gonna be like hey you know we were really important to integral to this game although i don't know how integral they were other than intellectual property I believe that the Niantic folks mentioned Nintendo as a key partner during the initial announcement but that that well yeah that could mean anything right they had ingress which is like the same game right and a lot less users and a lot because it was weird then now it's like yeah it's Pokemon so it's totally cool that I'm like hiding behind this miss van today right at last do you think that Nintendo or niantic or anyone can repeat the successes Pokemon go sort of a one-off it's a one-off there's no way I don't see this is gonna be like oh wow this is gonna be the start of a our games cuz it must be like I was like Pokemon go right and like why I can play pokemon goes who I do this now maybe there'll be a variant like two to three years but like we've seen a lot of the pan games yep words with friends was super hot draw something Angry Birds the original super hot killer app everybody applying it really and I just heard fizzled so yeah cuz if they'd like thousand iterations of it but then again Pokemon in general as a game has survived iterations you're my red pokemon yellow put my fist that is true so if anything is able to survive it iterative changes it be that because everyone's kind of used to it already right right all right let's uh let's wrap things up Brian will ask questions before we go well people would like you to revisit the the price changes in what's happening with Netflix for those who joined Leia just a recap last year Netflix actually put in the price increase for new customers so it's 999 for anyone signing up for the standard plan so the standard plan and which isn't that great actually but it's a zoo screens HD it's three it's Jess two streams HD but for existing Netflix subscribers you were basically grandfathered in at the lower price for about a year and now that it's now that the bad year is sort of ending a lot of people are getting their price increases now and it's getting phased in sort of a slow rollout so some people are already came the price increase I for instance bullhead mom my mine will actually go up in August others will probably go a little later but we're starting to see the impact of it now and you know netflix brands of blends of press but you know it's the subscribers are actually canceling they still have the basic plan which I think's remains unchanged at 799 but it doesn't have HD one stream they have the the Africans a 4k that's the ultra HD and it also has I forget mr. streams all say it like the little box yes even the most mess was $12 that one hasn't change in either the basic it's just this 899 plan movie night unit plan everyone is on yet it's the one that's the most populous but it's also like it's not that I got my increase about last month and I was also like Oh what is this I'm like oh yeah but it's also it's a dollar it's a dollar and I watch enough netflix words yeah little to me yeah so I could spike see people to see the word your price height of the phrase price hike right increase your like y know and they've been trying to massage this you know and it's not really a price increase since we did the price increase last year you guys are grandfathered and you got extra time to save out on that extra dollar but you know for most people their bill will go up a dollar yeah that was odd though you like what you just said like you're like a year of using your old plan price and no but people aren't happy about that maybe they didn't Nick they didn't the same is I don't think a lot people knew they didn't know tell though the headlines start popping up that your your bill specifically you the existing subscriber will pay a dollar more like that's when they start caring right yeah I mean that was everything there's people remember had lines would scream like percentages wise yeah cuz it's a huge percentage jump a dollar an 8a nine dollars huge right but like when you think about your like that's what it was that like a buttered roll Roach coach like that's not that expensive right to get I don't even know what I can get for a dollar a dollar one could get maybe stickers borrow oh maybe I'm really maybe a fun size yeah you're right we're New York oh so like yeah things are a bit more expensive yeah maybe like in Wyoming you can moon alright let's wrap things up reals um you like anything you saw or heard here check us on cnet com our podcast is available on itunes google play music tune in soundcloud and feedburner i just get that right young thank you alright we will see you tomorrow i'll be off but uh Ben Fox Rubin will be here to lead the show so how do then the socks you