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 movies, music, 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, Onhub Router, Google Cardboard, the new Chrome Cast
And I'm kinda 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
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Do you know what Google is?
John: Google?
Linus: 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?
John: You tried very well, and you did what you had to do, you finished it off, it was alright
Uh yeah, I think you guys canceled 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
John: That's pretty good
Linus: Yeah I think so
I'd say that's that's a new invention. Something you'd put in your pocket
Linus: So tell me how you watch TV
Just ordinary, like we are right now
Linus: I'm going to show 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, the red one with the triangle.
And then let's say maybe we want to watch CBC News
There we go. John: Whoa , how how does that just automatically whip up? Linus: That's the internet man
Now what we can do is watch it on here but that is very small right?
John: Yeah
Linus: Okay that's not a lot of fun, so just touch on the the picture, and then do you see that little square in the top there
Okay you want to touch that one, and then you cast to GrandpaCast
John: down here?
Uh, where it says GrandpaCast
So that- John: What?
What we were watching
Wow, I wish I was 25
I could learn sooner
Um, When you rent a movie , how do you go about that?
Pick one out, take it home and use it, take them back when you're finished.
So I'd like to do it more, but uh, you got a lot of little things to do when you get 91
Well it's kind of a hassle to go out to the store, pick it out and bring it home, take it back when you're done
That's right, it is a hassle. Better if something like this would be available, y'know?
So I'm going to show you.. obviously .
So all you gotta do is click on play movie
Play movie right there.
Okay and uh, here 50% off
Wow
Okay so what you do is you scroll with your finger
Yeah
And uh.. or your thumb yeah that works too
And you can see any movie you want
Oh my gosh, The Force Awakens
And then you can rent for $5
$5
Oh yeah it's $6 if you wanna- John: you don't have to go there. Linus: No
John: Well you gotta pick it up of course
Linus: No, you don't have to pick it up
Just click it. Then you click Watch
Yeah, It's already started
Yup, Star Wars
Yep, so that's it, that's renting a movie
And you get the whole movie?
Yeah. The whole movie
That's Great!
Describe for me the place you grew up
Maybe let's pick somewhere that still exists
Broad- Broadview Saskatchewan
Alright there it is that is a little town
Can you tell me the street you grew up on?
Well, there is no street numbers
So check this out, hold this
We're going to visit Broadview
So check this out, you drag your finger around
And you can look around
So, I'm going to show you these little arrows here.
So what those arrows are for is you click them and 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 Broadview
Oh, Isn't that wonderful?
There's a button up here
So if you want to walk down the street..
You find- you see that arrow that goes in front of you?
You line that arrow up with where you want to go, and you press the button
And it moves you down the street
This is- That's wonderful, my gosh
So, y'know, I know Grandma was telling me that you guys don't have enough pictures of the kids
Of the great grand kids, right?
Nope, no we don't, I don't think, we have some
Some
I've got an even better, I've got an even better one for you
Here, just hold it right there, so that's you
And let's see, they should, in theory they should pick up
(John is happy and giggling)
Linus: Hey sweetie, how you doing?
So this is what we look like down here
It's me and Great Grandpa
John: 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?
Got a big room.
There we go, so he sleeps up there
Alright, thank you little man, that was very helpful, you can hang up now
It's Okay, I'll do it
Just like that, video calling
Oh my gosh.
I'm bringing this guy out again
Oh yeah?
Alright, this one I'm going to show you the virtual theater
So watch this
So the idea is like sitting in the movie theater
So basically you can sit in a virtual movie theater
And watch movies on the big screen.
(laughing)
That was 2 kids and a dog
Funny
Pretty unbelievable?
Yeah
Okay Google, What's the weather in Vancouver?
There we go
16. 16 degrees. 39km per hour winds, cloudy and 0% chance of rain
You guys are amazing
To figure this all out
Well we didn't do it
No but
You're- You're transferring
That's great. Linus: Pretty cool huh?
Pretty cool is right
Okay Google
When is it going to rain?
Thursday
See the rain coming down from the clouds there?
Oh, thank you
Thursday will be soon enough
And it won't be too late
Hey, I'm a weather man.
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.
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, it's great. I never realized it was even going on in this world
This kind of stuff
Only that I know that people could talk on the telephone
And etc.
And 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, you're doing pretty good here I think
You did awesome!
Well thanks for having me.
Well don't shake my hand I've told you this before.
Oh, I'm going to shake hands
Still shake hands. You can still shake hands
Thanks again Google Store for making this video possible
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