Okay, so Father's Day is coming up and the Google store, that is to say the
online Google store where you buy like hardware, not the Google Play Store
where you buy music, movies, games, etc., contacted me about sending me a
care package to do like a tech for dads
type of feature. But then I'm thinking to myself, Nexus 6P, Huawei Watch, uh,
OnHub router, Google Cardboard, the new chcast, and I'm kind of like, well, I
already have all that stuff, or something very similar. So, I thought to
myself, who's a super cool dad I know
who not only isn't likely to have all that stuff, but has probably never even
heard of Google. And the answer is my
grandpa John, who is 91 years young.
Do you know what Google is? Google.
Okay. So, last time I tried to get you on the internet, that was about 10 years
ago. That didn't go so well, did it? You tried very well. Thank you. And you did
you did what you had to do. You finished it off and it was all right.
Yeah. I think you guys canled the service within about 3 months.
Everything we're going to do today doesn't need the keyboard and doesn't
need a mouse. You can do everything just by touching.
That's pretty good. That's Yeah, I think so. That's I'd say that that's a real
adventure. Something you put in your pocket.
So, tell me how you watch TV. Just ordinary like we are right now.
Mhm. I'm I'm going to show you how we
can use this device and the internet to
actually send a video over to the TV.
So, you slide your finger that way. So, then I want you to click on YouTube.
Any one of these? Uh the the red one with the triangle. Oh, yeah.
And then let's say maybe we want to watch um you know CBC News.
There we go. All right. What?
How? How? How does that just automatically?
That's the internet, man. Now, what we can do
is we could watch it on here, but that's very small, right? Yeah.
Okay. That's not a lot of fun. So, just touch on this touch on the picture and
then do you see that little uh see that little square in the top there?
Yeah. Okay. You want to touch that one and then you cast to grandpa cast
down here. Uh where it says grandpa cast. Yeah.
Boom. So that what what we were watching.
Wow. I wish I was 25.
I could learn sooner. Um when you want to rent a movie, um how
do you go about that? Pick one out, take it home and use it,
take them back when you finish. So, I'd like to do it more, but uh
not a lot of little things we have to do when you get 91.
Well, it's kind of a hassle to go out to the store, pick it out, bring it home.
Yeah, it is. Pick it back when you're done. That's right. It is a hassle. Be better
if something like this would be available, you know.
So, I'm going to show you obviously. Yeah. So, all you got to do is click on
play movie. So, play movie right there.
Okay. And uh here. Sure. Let's 50% off.
Wow. Okay. So, what you do is you you scroll with your finger.
Yeah. And uh or your thumb. Yep. That works too.
Yeah. And you can see any movie you want. Oh my gosh. And Force Awakens.
And then you can rent for five bucks. For five bucks.
Yep. Yeah. Oh, so it's six bucks if you want. You don't have to go there.
No. Well, you got to pick it up, of course.
No, you don't have to pick it up. Just click it.
Just click it now. You click watch. Watch. Right.
Yep. It's already started. Yep. Star Wars.
Yep. Just like that. So, that's it. That's renting a movie.
That's it. And you get the whole movie. Yeah.
Yeah. The whole movie. That's great.
Describe for me the place you grew up. Maybe let's pick somewhere that still
exists. Broad View. Broad View, Saskatchewan.
Broad View. Yeah. All right. There it is. Wow. That is
Broadview, Saskatchewan. Yeah. That is a little town. Can you tell me
the street you grew up on? Well, you lived on there. No street
numbers. So, check this out. Hold this. Yeah.
We're going to go visit Broadview. Oh, yeah. Okay.
So, check this out. You drag your finger around. Yeah. And you can look around. So, I'm
going to show you these little arrows here. Yeah. So, what those arrows are for is you
click them and then you can go down the street.
Is that it right there? I think that's our house. Where's our
house? That's Steve's house there. This is where this comes in.
So, we put the phone inside there. And what you do is you hold it up to
your eyes and you can look around in broad view. Oh, isn't that wonderful?
There's a button up here. Oh, yeah. So, if you want to walk down the street,
you find, you see that arrow that goes in front of you? You You line that arrow
up where you want to go and you press the button and it moves you down the street.
The button is right here. Button's right there. You just press that button down. Yeah. Isn't that wonderful? My gosh.
So, you know, I know grandma was telling
me that you guys don't have enough pictures of the kids of of the great
grandkids, right? No, we don't. I don't think we have some. No,
some I've got an even better uh Look at that. Thank you.
I've got an even better one for you here. Just uh hold it right there.
Oh, so that's you. And let's see. They should uh in theory
they should pick up. I think we have to turn up the volume.
Hi. Isn't that sweet?
Hey sweetie. How you doing? Here we can. So this is what we look
like down here. It's me and great grandpa.
Can you see me? Hey little man. Can you see great
grandpa? Not really close. Not really close. Are you sure? Is that
closer? No, I can't see it.
I'm pretty sure you can, little man. Can you see me? Can you use the camera to
show great grandpa your room? Oh, yeah. Got a big room.
Yeah. Wa. That's close.
There we go. So, he sleeps up there. Oh, he does.
All right. Thank you, little man. That was very helpful. You can uh you can
hang up now. It's okay. I'll do it.
We talk just like that video calling.
Oh my gosh. Isn't that great? Hey,
I'm bringing this guy out again. Oh yeah. Yeah. This is
Sorry. This one I'm going to show you the virtual theater.
So, watch this. So, the idea is it's like sitting in the movie theater.
Yeah. So, basically, you can sit in a virtual
movie theater. Yeah. and watch movies on the big
screen.
I see the kids laugh enjoying themselves.
There's a dog.
Have fun with him.
That was good, kids. Yeah. Dog top of the blanket.
Pretty pretty unbelievable, huh? Yeah.
Okay, Google. What's the weather in Vancouver?
There we go. 16 16° uh 39 km per hour winds, cloudy, and
0% chance of rain.
You guys are amazing to to figure this
all out. Well, we didn't we didn't do it. No, but you're you're transferring.
That's great. Pretty cool, huh? Pretty cool, is right? Okay, Google.
When's it going to rain? When's it going
to rain? Thursday. Thursday.
See the rain coming down from the cloud there? That's it.
Oh, thank you. Thursday will be soon enough. And it
won't be too late.
Hey, I'm a weatherman. What do you want to know?
I asked Google, but I put it in here
like this. Google, what is it? I'll show.
Isn't that great? This is real McCoy.
So, it might not be flying cars, but uh
Well, I never heard. So, this is your first time you ever heard of Google? Pretty much.
Yeah. Just Google on TV. That's all I
heard. So, what do you think of everything I showed you today?
Wow. It's It's great. I I never realized
that was even going on in this world. This kind of stuff. Only I know that
people can can talk on the telephone and
etc. And and and and watch watch the guy
talk. But there's other things here. No
way. I knew about Well, yeah, but you're 91. I mean, let's
go easy on you here. Doing pretty good, I think. Yeah,
you did awesome. Well, thanks for having me. Don't shake my hand. I told you this
before. To shake hands.
Still shake hands. You can still shake hands. Oh, yeah.
Thanks again, Google Store, for making this video possible. If you have a dad
or a grandpa in your life that you want to get some awesome new tech for this
Father's Day, make sure you visit them at the link in the video description.