Welcome champion to Episode 38 of my podcast. The view from the crow's nest. And I'm excited today. I'm excited because real geeky stuff, total geeky stuff. So I ordered a couple of things on Amazon a little week or two ago and they both came through today and I just love it when things that you get work, and a really cool, so I just got a fire stick, which if you don't know is from Amazon, And it allows you to plug, basically, a little dongle in the back of a TV, so that you can get the apps. So that basically turn TV into a Smart TV and you can get Netflix and Amazon Prime and stuff like that. And it is exciting. When you're in a house where the TVs are quite old there's definitely no smart TVs, and you know we watch stuff occasionally on our phones and stuff like that but they haven't watched a film on TV and, you know, on a TV screen in. Since September last year August last year, when we were in our flat in London. So now that we've got that. What it means is we can steal the TV from the lounge plug that in, put it at the end of our bed in our bedroom and Simona and I can lie in bed and actually watch a film, which is going to be such a treat. So that's one little bit of geekery which I thoroughly liked the second was a surprise that I bought for sumana, though for us. And, and I highly recommend it to all and sundry. We will take photos on our phones. And if you've got an Android phone, the chances are, even if you got an Apple phone chances are that you have them uploaded automatically to Google Photos. So, we have thousands upon thousands of photos on Google Photos, and what happens, they're up there you occasionally go and have a look at a few of them but basically they're kind of. They're like dusted you know you don't you don't look at them again or not for every so often. And years ago we had one of those digital photo frames in our flat which we absolutely loved. But the problem was you had to faff with SD cards to get the photos on the SD cards but then they're always too big for the SD cards in the wrong format and then you had to deliver it in another. And of course, once you plug in an SD card it goes through the photos are on there but it doesn't go through any new ones and etc. So I thought there must be a photo frame digital photo frame that syncs with Google Photos wirelessly. and it turns out, Google makes one called the Google nest hub, not to be confused with the nest hub Maxi, which is I think does video call your stuff. But basically, it's like a touchscreen, Google Assistant device that can control your Google Home stuff so if you have Google Home stuff like you know lights and TV and stuff you can turn them on and off and whatever with the, with this little, it's basically like a tablet, but fixed to a standard, a small seven inch tablet or something like that. And it can do Google Assistant stuff you can talk to it it's got this enough speaker on it you can have it play music and I think you can watch YouTube videos on it and stuff and all well and good, but I bought it because it had this promise that it would sync with whatever albums you wish in Google Photos, and it arrived today, and it works and it works really really well, and it's wonderful to have it on my desk. So at the moment, my desk, I have my laptop, which is the screen on my left, then I have a monitor in the middle of my desk which is quite a bit bigger, and runs off the laptop so I have two screens and now I've got a little Google nest hub or whatever it's called. On the right, so I've got three screens, and it just cycles through, and whatever albums you choose. And that in itself is just wonderful because straight away already today you know we've been stopped and look to some photos as they're going through garage you remember they assaulted you remember that and so I was laughing so I said to Simona that, you know, the real marketing of it is not, it displays photos that the real marketing is, you know, you get to relive memor
