My 91yr Grandpa Meets Google
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,645 words · ~8 min read
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Okay, so Father's Day is coming up and the Google store, that is to say the
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online Google store where you buy like hardware, not the Google Play Store
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where you buy music, movies, games, etc., contacted me about sending me a
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care package to do like a tech for dads
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type of feature. But then I'm thinking to myself, Nexus 6P, Huawei Watch, uh,
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OnHub router, Google Cardboard, the new chcast, and I'm kind of like, well, I
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already have all that stuff, or something very similar. So, I thought to
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myself, who's a super cool dad I know
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who not only isn't likely to have all that stuff, but has probably never even
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heard of Google. And the answer is my
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grandpa John, who is 91 years young.
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Do you know what Google is? Google.
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Okay. So, last time I tried to get you on the internet, that was about 10 years
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ago. That didn't go so well, did it? You tried very well. Thank you. And you did
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you did what you had to do. You finished it off and it was all right.
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Yeah. I think you guys canled the service within about 3 months.
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Everything we're going to do today doesn't need the keyboard and doesn't
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need a mouse. You can do everything just by touching.
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That's pretty good. That's Yeah, I think so. That's I'd say that that's a real
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adventure. Something you put in your pocket.
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So, tell me how you watch TV. Just ordinary like we are right now.
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Mhm. I'm I'm going to show you how we
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can use this device and the internet to
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actually send a video over to the TV.
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So, you slide your finger that way. So, then I want you to click on YouTube.
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Any one of these? Uh the the red one with the triangle. Oh, yeah.
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And then let's say maybe we want to watch um you know CBC News.
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There we go. All right. What?
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How? How? How does that just automatically?
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That's the internet, man. Now, what we can do
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is we could watch it on here, but that's very small, right? Yeah.
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Okay. That's not a lot of fun. So, just touch on this touch on the picture and
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then do you see that little uh see that little square in the top there?
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Yeah. Okay. You want to touch that one and then you cast to grandpa cast
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down here. Uh where it says grandpa cast. Yeah.
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Boom. So that what what we were watching.
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Wow. I wish I was 25.
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I could learn sooner. Um when you want to rent a movie, um how
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do you go about that? Pick one out, take it home and use it,
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take them back when you finish. So, I'd like to do it more, but uh
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not a lot of little things we have to do when you get 91.
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Well, it's kind of a hassle to go out to the store, pick it out, bring it home.
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Yeah, it is. Pick it back when you're done. That's right. It is a hassle. Be better
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if something like this would be available, you know.
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So, I'm going to show you obviously. Yeah. So, all you got to do is click on
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play movie. So, play movie right there.
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Okay. And uh here. Sure. Let's 50% off.
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Wow. Okay. So, what you do is you you scroll with your finger.
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Yeah. And uh or your thumb. Yep. That works too.
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Yeah. And you can see any movie you want. Oh my gosh. And Force Awakens.
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And then you can rent for five bucks. For five bucks.
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Yep. Yeah. Oh, so it's six bucks if you want. You don't have to go there.
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No. Well, you got to pick it up, of course.
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No, you don't have to pick it up. Just click it.
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Just click it now. You click watch. Watch. Right.
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Yep. It's already started. Yep. Star Wars.
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Yep. Just like that. So, that's it. That's renting a movie.
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That's it. And you get the whole movie. Yeah.
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Yeah. The whole movie. That's great.
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Describe for me the place you grew up. Maybe let's pick somewhere that still
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exists. Broad View. Broad View, Saskatchewan.
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Broad View. Yeah. All right. There it is. Wow. That is
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Broadview, Saskatchewan. Yeah. That is a little town. Can you tell me
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the street you grew up on? Well, you lived on there. No street
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numbers. So, check this out. Hold this. Yeah.
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We're going to go visit Broadview. Oh, yeah. Okay.
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So, check this out. You drag your finger around. Yeah. And you can look around. So, I'm
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going to show you these little arrows here. Yeah. So, what those arrows are for is you
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click them and then you can go down the street.
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Is that it right there? I think that's our house. Where's our
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house? That's Steve's house there. This is where this comes in.
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So, we put the phone inside there. And what you do is you hold it up to
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your eyes and you can look around in broad view. Oh, isn't that wonderful?
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There's a button up here. Oh, yeah. So, if you want to walk down the street,
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you find, you see that arrow that goes in front of you? You You line that arrow
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up where you want to go and you press the button and it moves you down the street.
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The button is right here. Button's right there. You just press that button down. Yeah. Isn't that wonderful? My gosh.
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So, you know, I know grandma was telling
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me that you guys don't have enough pictures of the kids of of the great
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grandkids, right? No, we don't. I don't think we have some. No,
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some I've got an even better uh Look at that. Thank you.
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I've got an even better one for you here. Just uh hold it right there.
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Oh, so that's you. And let's see. They should uh in theory
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they should pick up. I think we have to turn up the volume.
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Hi. Isn't that sweet?
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Hey sweetie. How you doing? Here we can. So this is what we look
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like down here. It's me and great grandpa.
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Can you see me? Hey little man. Can you see great
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grandpa? Not really close. Not really close. Are you sure? Is that
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closer? No, I can't see it.
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I'm pretty sure you can, little man. Can you see me? Can you use the camera to
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show great grandpa your room? Oh, yeah. Got a big room.
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Yeah. Wa. That's close.
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There we go. So, he sleeps up there. Oh, he does.
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All right. Thank you, little man. That was very helpful. You can uh you can
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hang up now. It's okay. I'll do it.
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We talk just like that video calling.
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Oh my gosh. Isn't that great? Hey,
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I'm bringing this guy out again. Oh yeah. Yeah. This is
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Sorry. This one I'm going to show you the virtual theater.
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So, watch this. So, the idea is it's like sitting in the movie theater.
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Yeah. So, basically, you can sit in a virtual
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movie theater. Yeah. and watch movies on the big
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screen.
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I see the kids laugh enjoying themselves.
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There's a dog.
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Have fun with him.
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That was good, kids. Yeah. Dog top of the blanket.
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Pretty pretty unbelievable, huh? Yeah.
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Okay, Google. What's the weather in Vancouver?
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There we go. 16 16° uh 39 km per hour winds, cloudy, and
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0% chance of rain.
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You guys are amazing to to figure this
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all out. Well, we didn't we didn't do it. No, but you're you're transferring.
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That's great. Pretty cool, huh? Pretty cool, is right? Okay, Google.
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When's it going to rain? When's it going
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to rain? Thursday. Thursday.
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See the rain coming down from the cloud there? That's it.
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Oh, thank you. Thursday will be soon enough. And it
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won't be too late.
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Hey, I'm a weatherman. What do you want to know?
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I asked Google, but I put it in here
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like this. Google, what is it? I'll show.
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Isn't that great? This is real McCoy.
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So, it might not be flying cars, but uh
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Well, I never heard. So, this is your first time you ever heard of Google? Pretty much.
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Yeah. Just Google on TV. That's all I
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heard. So, what do you think of everything I showed you today?
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Wow. It's It's great. I I never realized
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that was even going on in this world. This kind of stuff. Only I know that
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people can can talk on the telephone and
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etc. And and and and watch watch the guy
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talk. But there's other things here. No
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way. I knew about Well, yeah, but you're 91. I mean, let's
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go easy on you here. Doing pretty good, I think. Yeah,
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you did awesome. Well, thanks for having me. Don't shake my hand. I told you this
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before. To shake hands.
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Still shake hands. You can still shake hands. Oh, yeah.
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Thanks again, Google Store, for making this video possible. If you have a dad
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or a grandpa in your life that you want to get some awesome new tech for this
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Father's Day, make sure you visit them at the link in the video description.