WEBVTT - Nest Cams Are Less Sneaky + Special Guest: My Boss 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:08.520 Smart ovens with a mind of their own. Google makes 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.200 a big change to one of its nest camps, all 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.120 in the name of privacy. An airline tries VR in 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.920 the Skies. We've got a special guest coming up, my boss, 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:23.560 and as usual, I'm answering your pressing tech questions. What 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.000 is going on? I'm rich Deimiro. This is Rich on Tech. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.080 This is the podcast where I talk about the stuff 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.839 I think you should know about happening in the tech world. Plus, 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.120 like I said, I answer your tech questions, and believe me, 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.159 you are not shy about sending me your questions. But 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.080 I will tell you you are always surprised when I 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:47.120 write you back. Joining me fresh from Hawaii producer Megan Aloha. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.920 Hello, I was gonna say it, but you already did so. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.800 You told me when you were in Hawaii you felt 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.240 like you realized you had an addiction to social media. 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.600 Tell me about that. What made you think that? Well? 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.680 So soh My sister she like from the start of 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.280 the trip, she was like, I'm not going to use 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.240 my phone the entire trip, and she truly barely did. 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.080 Like she went on, and your sister is how old 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:09.800 she is? 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:10.319 Eighteen? 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:10.680 Oh? 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:11.480 That's impressive. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.520 But then there was me and I like noticed that 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.600 I was like so on my phone all the time, 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.399 and she just was like chilling. And it's funny because 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:21.959 at the end of the trip, I was like, so, Katie, like, 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.319 how do you feel, like you know, did that make 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.640 a change for you at all? And she was like, honestly, like, 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:30.440 I'm just like not really obsessed with my phone to 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.160 begin with, so like she didn't, but like I was like, okay, 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.920 so now I I gotta do that. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:40.120 That's amazing. Yeah. So here's the thing. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:43.360 So I've realized, because I do this my wife sometimes, 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.679 that when you don't use your phone as much, you 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.560 actually notice how much someone else is using their phone. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:52.120 So in my house, I try my best not to 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.480 use my phone between five and seven pm. Very tough sometimes, 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.040 but I noticed when I'm not using it, I get 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.520 very angry at the folks around me using their phone. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.160 So is your sister getting angry? 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.400 I think? I mean, I feel like that's totally possible. Yeah, 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.120 she probably just like noticed how often I was on 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:12.000 it because she wasn't on hers. But then again, I 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.760 think that it like, you know, you're on vacation, you're 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:16.960 like in Hawaii and you're like, oh, like, what's this 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.280 person doing? Oh Italy, Well, that's so cool. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:20.720 I don't exactly like enjoy. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.880 You gotta enjoy, So it's tough. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.120 There's no easy answer. There's no easy answer. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:27.400 I was in Vegas over the weekend, by the way, 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.119 after New York, I went to Vegas, and I don't 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:31.919 know why I'm mentioning that. I'm just mentioning it because 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.280 I had the time. It was great, it was fantastic. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.919 And I will say that I was on my phone, 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.880 but not as much you probably saw. I did do 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:44.000 one I love doing I love doing this that you were, well, 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.200 like this the instagrams that I posted like this, I 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.680 love doing this. Sometimes I love doing the standard instagrams, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.720 like I did the flames at Benny Hanna like you. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:51.560 I like that. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:52.120 I like that. 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:53.760 Anyway, all right. 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.200 Let's get into our first story, because enough about us. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:01.760 There is tech news happening, yes, and Google is doing 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.000 something that I got this email yesterday, and I was 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.080 a little taken aback because I'm totally for privacy, but 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.720 at the same time, I do believe that as a consumer, 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.000 we should be in charge of the gadgets that we 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.600 buy and have the most options. So what Google is 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:21.680 doing is they are removing the ability to disable the 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.560 light on your Nest Cam. The light there's always a 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.799 status light on your Nestcam that you can previously turn 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:31.040 off in your settings because, for instance, in my kid's room. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.560 I remember when my kid was little, I put the 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.640 Nestcam in his room and he didn't like the lights 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.960 coming out of it, and so I turned off the 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.880 status light. Now there's other lights, like infra red lights 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.040 that kind of like help illuminate the room in the dark. 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.160 I couldn't really do much about those, and they were 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:46.880 kind of scary, but I played it off to him like, 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:47.920 no big deal. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.040 Those scary red lights like the stars, No biggie. 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.800 So you cannot change turn the light off at this point. 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:58.760 So now the light will be on the whole time. 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.600 And the other thing is they're taking it to another level. 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.680 When someone is actively viewing the video from the camera, 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.920 the light will be blinking. So imagine you're at someone's 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.520 house and you're in their living room and you see 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:12.839 the light blinking on that thing. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.520 You're like, uh, who's watching me right now? 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:17.720 So creepy, but I like it. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:19.839 But it's less creepy than before when you didn't know 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:23.880 if a camera was active. Obviously, anytime a company makes 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.279 a big change like this, and this affects Nest cams, 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:29.960 Nest Hello, and also Drop cams, which are the older 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.640 Nest cams, anytime someone makes a change, people are gonna 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.320 be up in arms. And one of the points I've 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:40.080 read is quite valid. They're saying that potential burglars will 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:43.039 be aware when a camera's active. Maybe you just have 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.839 a nestcam that's old and it's not activated anymore, and 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:47.800 you just have it at your doorway or in your 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.800 house and you're a thief and you come in there 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.080 and you go, a ha, I know this thing's not 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:52.520 working because the status light's not on. 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.880 Yeah. I mean that's a stretch. No, that's a total stretch. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.400 But I'm just saying it's one of the it's a 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.560 concerned So I have a nestcam in a couple of 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.480 my house and last night I told my wife said, oh, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:05.520 do you notice that the light is on? 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.760 And she goes, and I love my wife for the stuff. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:09.320 She goes. I thought it was always on, and I 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:09.640 was like. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.520 Okay, okay, I'm a dead guy, guy, I know. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.320 Oh whoops strong Uh oh there we go. Oh there 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.520 we go. Okay, so I did get it. I'm not 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:21.080 even gonna go ahe no. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.440 Go ahead, So I'm actually going to be reading a 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:30.280 You got an email from someone who started Visible. This 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.279 is from Pamela Sanchez. She said she wanted to switch 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.280 to another cell phone carrier and she's so glad that. 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.120 She said, I'm so glad I got to see info 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:44.040 you provided for Visible. Long story short, I switched. I 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.320 have one month with them and no complaints so far. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.599 It's fast, better reception, and most importantly, I am saving money. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.919 So love it. Yeah, I love it. I know. Here's 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:56.240 the thing. 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:01.080 Anytime I do a story on KTLA, there is an 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.080 immediate interest in what I talk about because we reach 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:05.960 a lot of people, and that's fantastic. 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.360 I love that aspect of my job. 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.320 The other side of my job is that I go 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.440 to sleep every single night scared to death that I'm 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.039 gonna say or do something that is in some way 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:16.800 going to harm someone. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:18.280 And that means when I. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.680 Talk about Visible and this forty dollars plan, I have 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.160 done as much homework as I can. I tried it out, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.800 I didn't sign up myself, but I got them to 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:27.920 send me a phone with a SIM. I did all 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.720 the research, I interviewed the CEO twice. As far as 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.960 I can tell, it was great. Yeah, but still you're 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.560 going to have those people. And I got a lot 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.799 of emails from people saying, Rich I couldn't activate my phone. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.440 Rich I had a problem that and all of them. 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.880 Of course, I got in touch with Visible to like 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.240 make sure we resolve them. But at the same time, 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:48.880 I sit there and I go, was it something that 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.200 I did wrong? Ninety nine percent of the time it 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.880 was a small error on someone's part, you know. And 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.640 the other thing about Visible specifically is that they were slammed. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.480 And a lot of these companies that I cover, they 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.400 do get because sometimes it's not just me covering them. 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.840 In the case of Visible, even though we had one 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.680 of the most prominent stories on them, other places cover 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:09.040 them as well because it's a great deal. 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:10.360 So all the tech. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.600 Media is covering them. So I love hearing this email. 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:14.960 That is a good one. And I got a lot 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.280 of positive stuff from the Visible. I got some negative, 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:20.240 but most of those negative things we were able to 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:20.680 work through. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.480 No one told me that it was a scam. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.800 No one said, rich, I signed up for forty bucks 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.800 a month, guess what my bill is eighty? 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:29.040 No one said that. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.440 People said, oh, my phone wasn't activated, or I didn't 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.320 get the SIM card the next day like they said, 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:34.920 or something like that. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:36.400 I don't think anyone actually said that, but. 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.920 Well, it just goes to show how much work and 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.640 effort you put into like these stories like it. You know, 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.840 you want to hear that, but obviously you have to 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.880 like check your facts and make sure it's real. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.160 And legit and not everything's going to be perfect for 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:54.280 everyone totally. Another example was Lumen, Well was a lumin thing. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:56.160 So we did a. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:59.480 Story about the app for people over the age of fifty, 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.720 and you got an email from someone who said that 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:04.600 there are a lot of. 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.360 Like, oh, scam artists exactly. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.600 But that's the reason why we did the story, because 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.200 the whole point of it is that they are trying 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.720 to avoid the scam artists. In fact, I was reading 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.840 another article today about Luman. Someone else wrote an article 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:21.240 very similar to ours, so kind of interesting. This was 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.600 a lot of fun. We went to the first car 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:29.120 vending machine in California, located in Westminster. This is from 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:32.560 a company named Carvana. I've heard of this company. I 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:36.280 considered selling my car to Carvana, and I did not. 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.360 I end up going to CarMax, which now I feel 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.000 so bad and you regret it, yeah, I do. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:40.800 I don't regret it. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.360 I just got seven hundred dollars less by going to Carmacks. Yeah, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:47.360 and instead of Carvana. But I was impatient and I 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.000 just wanted to go there, and it was something that 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.839 I knew. I had done CarMax three times before, so 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.200 I knew what the deal was with CarMax. Carvana seemed 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.120 too good to be true. And so what Carvana does. 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.480 They're online buying and selling website. You can buy cars 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.880 on there in as little as ten minutes. But here's 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.360 what they do that's kind of interesting. They have these 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:11.079 car vending machines in about twenty different cities across America. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.319 And when I've seen the commercials for these things and 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.160 the website all this stuff, I always thought it was 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.280 kind of like, give me a break, Is this real? 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.160 Is this totally a publicity stunt? 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.520 Like do people really put this giant, oversized coin into 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.760 this vending machine and get a car out at the end. Yes, 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.240 they do, and there's good reason for this. The reason 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:34.719 why Carvana does these vending machines is because, think about it, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.120 they're an online website that delivers cars to people's homes. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.200 That's a lot of expense. I was driving back from 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.920 Westminster yesterday. Imagine that they had to do a delivery 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.880 to my place in LA You're talking an hour and 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:50.600 a half to get up there and then an hour 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.959 and a half to get back. So it really does 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:54.920 make sense if I'm sitting there and I go, oh, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.880 I can go to Westminster on a Saturday morning at 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:58.760 nine am and pick up my car with my wife. 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.360 That's kind of fun. And the kid see this giant 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:02.120 machine in action. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:03.400 It's an experience. 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.559 It is what you went up on it before I did, 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:10.680 because I'll admit, since since you know you press played 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.520 on the podcast, I was a little hesitant in going 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:15.840 up in this eight story building. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:16.440 Right. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.439 It's this giant eight story building that holds thirty cars. 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:21.520 It's seventy two feet high, which doesn't sound high at all, 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.800 by the way, No, but but when you're up there, 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:24.560 it did right well. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.559 When we got there, I was like, oh, I wonder 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.720 if we can you know, go up in the you 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.240 know in it and you were like, no, there's no way. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:33.040 That's what I was like. 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.680 The first thing they said, we're gonna go up like 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.240 you guys are going to get to see you know, 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:38.360 the top, and I was. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:39.480 I got so excited. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:40.600 I thought it was so cool. 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.040 There were way too many moving parts for that to 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:44.280 be a safe operation for us. 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.400 Was there so safe though? I thought it was so safe. 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.600 It was basically up and down and it spun around. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.960 but it was really cool. Yeah, I'm glad I went up. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:57.360 I'm glad I went up and four. No, that was 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.040 just for the that was just for the look for 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:00.920 the Facebook thing. I went up all the way when 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:01.640 I did the KTLA. 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:02.600 Okay, okay. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.000 In fact, I was a little mad that they didn't 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.680 put me all the way up for the Facebook live 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.000 thing I did or live to tape. Oh got it, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:10.920 because I couldn't say, hey, can we go up higher? 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:11.880 Or I didn't even think about it. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.120 Probably choose it was really hot too, that it was 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.960 very hot, Yeah, because it's in a glass like but 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:17.520 really cool. 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.920 And I will be honest right now, I'm saving up 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:22.680 for a tesla as we speak. 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.080 Is that a quarter over by? You? Can I have that? Oh? Yeah, here, 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:26.840 thank you. 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.040 I'm saving up for a Tesla as we speak, and 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.160 I will be honest, I think maybe I'll just buy 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.600 it used from Carvana, save a couple thousand bucks, and 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.840 I now that I know the company. Whenever I meet 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.080 someone from a company and I know them and I 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:41.760 get to see them and kind of talk to them 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.080 a little bit off camera, there's either an immediate trust 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.480 I have with them or immediate distrust I have with them. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.400 And this company I got immediate trust. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:50.680 Yeah, who do you not trust? 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.280 I'm not naming names, I'm just giving okay, But there 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.240 are some companies that I've done stories with where I'm like, nope, 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.480 and I'm not going to do business with this company. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.680 I will feature you, but I'll feature it in a 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.400 way that I'm making sure I'm not showing any sort 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.000 of endorsement. Like sometimes you have to cover stuff because 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.040 they're in the news totally. It doesn't mean you have 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.400 to sort of be behind it. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:15.000 Yes, all right. So our next question comes from Lee Mitchell. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.680 My son twenty three and in college, has one of 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.920 these MacBook pros that he bought in twenty seventeen, and 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.000 we would like the information on what he should do 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.480 to get a new battery and if he can or 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:32.520 cannot fly with it. I may have heard on another station, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.960 but I can't. I can't find a link on your site. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.040 Would love to hear and be able to advise him. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:43.760 He's talking about the fifteen inch MacBook Pro battery recall. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.160 This has gotten a lot of publicity because it's funny, 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.240 because it hasn't gotten as much publicity as when the 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:50.640 Galaxy Note happened. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:51.640 Remember what Samsung? 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:56.199 But well, I remember this is a fifteen inch MacBook 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:00.400 Pro battery recall. Apple has determined that some of the 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.760 batteries inside these devices might overheat and pose a fire 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.240 safety risk. They were sold between September twenty fifteen and 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:10.760 February twenty seventeen. That's your first hint if you purchased 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.160 a fifteen inch MacBook, which, by the way, the average person, 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.679 and this is probably why I didn't really highlight this 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.080 in our segments too much. The average person is not 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.880 buying a fifteen inch MacBook Pro. They're mostly buying a 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.320 thirteen inch either a MacBook Air or a MacBook. I 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:26.959 have a thirteen inch by the way. I'd like a 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.160 fifteen inch now because this has gotten too small for 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:29.640 me to edit. 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.280 Yeah, well you can borrow mine. 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:32.800 Yeah, I know you have a better Meghan has a 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:33.640 better computer than I do. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.080 Actually, mine it's Katy. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:36.400 Do you get to take it home at night? 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:36.720 Yes? 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:37.760 Okay, then it's yours. 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.719 I mean, although you well what I was gonna say, 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:43.280 do you have the administrator password? 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:44.880 But I think you might have somehow caught that. 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:46.360 So anyways, moving on. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.680 That's that's the reason why I don't want to in trouble. 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.679 This is why I never want a corporate computer. 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.599 I don't want to be beholding figured. We figured that 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:55.319 you have. 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.200 But I'm just saying, this is why I don't want 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.559 a corporate phone. I don't want a corporate computer. I'm 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:02.720 not being behold into corporate it policy. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:03.040 Yeah. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.320 After you mentioned that to me after I got the computer, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.320 I was like, Okay, I need to get a computer 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:08.959 for myself. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.920 But that's just that's a lot. Don't do that. Don't 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:12.079 do that. It's fine. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.719 So you want to go to the website support dot 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.920 Apple dot com, Slash fifteen Dash inch Dash, smash Book, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.520 MacBook Dash Pro, Dash Battery Dash recall, or just go 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.400 on Google and search MacBook Pro recall. Look for the 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.520 Apple support page and you will find it and just 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.640 pop in the serial number of your device and it 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.479 will tell you immediately if it's eligible. If it's eligible, 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.720 they will tell you how to get a replacement, which 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.640 means that you have to either send your device in 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.680 for repair, or you can just take it into a 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.800 Apple store or an authorized service retailer which now includes 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.360 Best Buy. They say the service might take one to 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.520 two weeks, and I will tell you you may lose 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.840 all your data in this process, depending on what Apple does, 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:54.920 because when you bring your computer in they may say, 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:56.560 you know what, we don't care. We don't feel like 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.080 dissecting this thing and replacing the battery. We're just gonna 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.360 give you a new one or a refurbished So you always, always, 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.200 always when you bring your phone or computer in for service, 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:06.520 want to have a nice backup of that. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:10.680 It's very easy on the Mac. Just use time Machine. Yeah. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.600 No one likes robo calls, Megan. 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:14.680 I love them, you love them. 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:16.800 You like talking. It's the one time you actually talk 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:18.240 to people on your phone. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.280 The first social connection, yea that I get of the day, 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.520 T Mobile and AT and T are putting aside their 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:28.119 differences to start a new type of caller authentication technology 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:29.600 that will work across their networks. 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:33.680 It's called shaken stir, and the bottom line to know 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.360 about this is that if a robo caller initiates a 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.240 call from the AT and T network using a spoof 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.360 phone number, and they try to call a T Mobile 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:46.479 phone or vice versa, the phone will say call unverified. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:49.960 Is it really Are you really going to see that 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:50.840 on a daily basis? 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:51.480 I don't think so. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.360 Number one, I don't think robo callers are using the 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.040 standard ways and means to make phone calls. They're using 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.960 sophisticated computer programs that make billions of calls all at once. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.320 So I guess if you see on verified, that's a 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.840 good thing because you're like, oh, I guess this number 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.120 is not verified. But it could also be coming from Sprint, 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.600 or it could be coming from Verizon, or it could 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:10.760 be coming from a host. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.800 Of other places. So this is a good first step. 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.840 I'm not gonna knock them, but I think that it's 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:16.960 a little bit too early to say all of our 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.560 robocal problems are over. I'm gonna do another quick onefore 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.080 you go into your next one. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:25.160 Just for today. 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:29.480 This one's really scary. Smart ovens. We did a story 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.400 with this oven, this specific oven. We didn't review it, 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.040 but we interviewed the CEO. It's called the June Oven. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.480 And apparently some of these ovens have been turning on 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.280 by themselves in the middle of the night. The Verge 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.880 with the report that says at least three owners have 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.320 noticed these ovens have turned on and. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:48.240 Started to preheat. 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.480 Oh my goodness, and this sounds crazy because okay, so 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.360 one owner's oven turned on around two thirty am and 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:58.080 broiled at four hundred degrees for hours. And the best 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.760 part is they capture this on their nest cam. 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:01.120 Yeah. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.080 I looked for the video. I would love to say, 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.359 because I wanted to put that in the story. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.280 Absolutely see that oven come alive in the middle of 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:08.600 the night. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:10.960 Well, it reminds me of an old movie. There's like 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.119 a movie about like the Little Toaster. There's a Disney 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:16.920 It's a Disney movie, an old movie. 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.720 For Megan, it's like it came out like two years ago. Gosh, 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:21.159 there's an old movie. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.680 It was the live action of Aladdin. Oh yeah, Megan, 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:29.680 that was last summer. The other oven was a let's see, Oh, 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.760 a person roasted potatoes at five pm. 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:33.280 Apparently forgot to take them out. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.480 The brave little toaster came out in nineteen eighty seven. 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.479 Okay, I don't know that, but so the toaster came 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:40.919 on in the middle of the night by himself and 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:42.399 preheated to eight hundred degrees. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.720 Yeah, well, toaster oven very similar gadgets. 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:50.000 Oh my god, that's awesome. Okay, let's see what else. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:54.040 The second guy left potatoes in his oven, and the 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.360 oven came on at one twenty am and baked them 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.679 for four hours and thirty two minutes at one hundred 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.160 and four hundred twenty five degrees. Wow, this guy though 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.280 something else was going on in his house. He was 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:09.159 he was toasting more than than potatoes, because who doesn't 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:10.000 notice their own. 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:10.760 Else was toasting? 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.040 What do you think, I don't know. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:17.280 For four hours and thirty two minutes. Come one who 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.320 doesn't notice their oven on for four hours and thirty 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:19.840 two minutes. 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:21.040 No, that's weird. 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:22.800 Maybe I mean it was at one twenty am, so 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.600 maybe that's why. Yeah, But and then you have another 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.680 one that said this woman found her oven at six 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.639 thirty am, preheating at four hundred degrees and it was 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.160 ready to cook. She had been unplugging her June every 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.160 night because she knew that this was kind of a possibility. 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:39.200 CEO Matt van Horn, who we. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.520 Spoke to at CS, told The Verge that the owners, 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.159 not the oven, are at fault, but just in case, 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:47.000 they have a software update that's going. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:49.080 To help with these misfires. 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.440 But the funny thing about this story, Megan, is that 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.679 whenever I give the example of a smart oven and 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.480 how brilliant I think they would be. Yeah, I love 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.680 the idea of preheating my oven before I get home, 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:04.640 because often I'll make like nuggets for the kids or something, yeah, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.399 or a frozen pizza or yourself or myself, I end 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.000 up eating them. I'm always like, how many nuggets? 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:10.320 Dot? 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:11.120 Dinosaurs? 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:12.760 They do have the dinosaurs right now, but we go 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:14.760 through phases of different types. But the kids seem to 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.480 like the dinosaur. The shape one's the best. Anything that's 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.760 unnatural that's always the best. But I always tell my wife, 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:23.320 I'm like, wouldn't it be so great if I could 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.120 just turn on the oven from my car? 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.000 And you know, when I get home it's done. 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:29.800 I don't know why. I just think that that is 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:32.639 just really strange. But I'm sure that's going to be 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:32.920 a thing. 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:33.960 A thing it already. 0:19:34.040 --> 0:19:36.199 I'm sure they have smart ovens. I mean, like the 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.119 normal ovens. These are small ovens, but I'm sure they 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.879 have big ones. But we also love to turn on 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.520 our air conditioning from remotely, so when you get home, 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:44.760 your house is nice and cool. 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:46.879 Yeah, but the AC is different than like an oven. 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.840 I know, an oven is like a fire awaiting. Yeah, 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:51.480 you want to burn down your house? All right? Sure, 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.760 go ahead, turn on your oven. Let it pre eat, 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:54.600 all right. 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:59.280 So this next question comes from Pam Ashman. Ashman, do 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:03.199 you recommend into a system for converting v HS tapes 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:06.840 to DVD? I am willing to pay money. I should 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:08.640 put three dollars signs, so I don't know if. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:10.200 That means a lot of money. 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:14.000 I will pay a lot of money for ease of process. 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.840 Thanks so much. All tips we used from you have 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:20.440 been so helpful. See that was an exclamation point. 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:21.440 Love that. Yeah. 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:26.040 See it's funny because I will get I will get 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:30.320 really nice emails majority of the time, but every once 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:31.920 in a while I'll just get an email that's. 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.160 Like, f you rich Well, I think that it's usually 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:34.520 from you. 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.399 Yeah, but I think it'd be funny at the end 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.680 of every podcast, maybe we we uh mean one. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:43.600 I don't know if I get that money. I did 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:45.120 get one today that would probably. 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.000 Fit that we can find like a mean thing on 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:50.200 like a review or whatever, like the one that called 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:51.959 me brain dead, like a forum. 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.280 Actually, you know what, we probably can't. That's actually I 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.720 like that we're gonna add we're going to start. I 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:59.639 will tell you. I generally like I like to be 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.280 very positive in my life. Yeah, and I feel like 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.720 by bringing in that negativity or even amplifying it, it's 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:06.680 what's the point. 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:07.080 Now. 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:09.320 I don't mind joking about it from time to time 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.640 and saying that, you know whatever, or bringing it up, but. 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:12.879 Like to make it a feature. 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:14.880 I don't know, because then that feels like people are 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.240 inviting You're inviting people to be mean, and I don't 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:18.200 love that people to be mean. 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:22.560 Okay, so the occasionally occasionally maybe we read one. 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:24.320 Let's answer the question anyways. 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:28.000 So I tested two devices. One is the El Gato 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:30.679 Video Capture for Mac. I do think that is the 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:34.119 best Mac captured device out there, possibly the best captured device. 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:35.760 Uh. The other one I. 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:39.600 Tested was the Roxio VHS to DVD three for PC. 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.600 Worked fine, wasn't as smooth as the Elgato, but then again, 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.639 you're doing this on a Mac versus PC, it's a 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:49.639 little bit different. You also need a VCR old school 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:52.600 VCR and you will need a lot of hard drive 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:57.520 on your computer to digitize these and then after you 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.120 do that, I recommend throwing them all into Google Photo 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:02.680 because this is the best part. When I put these 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:04.720 things into Google photos all because I did it, I 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:06.680 went through a phase where I digitized a bunch of tapes. 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:09.800 It was so crazy because it actually pulls the faces 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.680 out of your old videos and now you can group 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:14.560 and like click on my dad and see all the 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:15.880 old videos that he was in. 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:17.560 So it's really cool. 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:19.560 They're applying with like a lot of smarts. The other 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:21.840 thing you can do if you want totally another free 0:22:21.880 --> 0:22:23.960 option and you want to share things more is you 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.159 can upload them to YouTube for free and use the 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:29.240 unlisted option. You could toss them in iCloud if you 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:31.440 have iCloud, but just make sure that you have your 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:34.440 videos backed up before you toss the original tapes, because 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:37.120 once the original tapes are gone, they're gone. The other 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:39.359 thing you can do with vhs to DVDs you can 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:41.919 take them to Costco. They use a service called or 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:45.760 just go to Yes Video. I believe it's Yesvideo dot Com. 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:49.800 They are pretty much the biggest VHS to DVD or 0:22:49.880 --> 0:22:53.359 VHS to digital out there, and you can just either 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:55.480 do it online or go to one of their retailers. 0:22:55.520 --> 0:23:00.240 They pretty much use everyone. I can't recommend like CEA 0:23:00.280 --> 0:23:03.480 box because I did email them and ask them for 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:05.679 a test box so I can send in some stuff 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:07.600 and try it out, and they never really responded in 0:23:07.640 --> 0:23:09.879 a big I don't think they responded at all. So 0:23:09.960 --> 0:23:13.679 whenever that happens as a journalist, I really am worried 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:15.600 about the consumer side of things because if they're not 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:17.840 responding to a journalist, and I've said this before, yea, 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:19.400 what are they doing with consumers? 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:19.919 Yeah? 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:21.680 Now, I like to think maybe they're just too busy 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:24.639 with their customers that you know, they can't respond to me. 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:25.520 But it's weird. 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:28.760 I really need to do this for my parents because 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:31.920 their wedding video. We watched it a couple months ago, 0:23:32.520 --> 0:23:34.719 and some of it you know, was messed up. 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:37.000 Yeah, you should probably do it very soon. It's getting well, 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:38.160 your parents are getting very old. 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:42.800 You're getting very you know, Maggie is not going to 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:43.199 like that. 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:45.159 Maggie, Maggie listens. 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:49.679 No, Maggie is I will I will tell you. Megan's mom. No, 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:52.040 she's a darling. She's very young, and I will tell 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:54.600 you this. Megan plays along with what I do here, 0:23:54.640 --> 0:23:58.040 but her mom takes it. When we did a video, 0:23:58.359 --> 0:24:00.840 look us up. We did a rain video, one of 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:03.119 the first things that Megan and I ever collaborated on together. 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:07.280 And we did it and her mom was around, Yeah right, 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:09.919 and your mom. I said, hey, do you mind just 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:11.919 being in this video real quick? And I didn't give 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:14.240 her almost any direction except I'm gonna come up to 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:16.119 you and do this. And she ran with it and 0:24:16.160 --> 0:24:17.320 it might be the best part. 0:24:17.160 --> 0:24:17.800 Of the whole video. 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:18.640 It's so good. 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:20.280 And I walked past her in the rain and she 0:24:20.400 --> 0:24:22.280 like looks at me and I don't even remember, but 0:24:22.359 --> 0:24:22.880 she did it. 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:25.120 So well, like missed no beat. 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:28.240 Okay, you show me any you show me any parent 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:31.040 that would be that quick thinking on their feet in 0:24:31.080 --> 0:24:34.000 an actress. She was really good and it wasn't even acting. 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:36.119 She was just like she was just smart Maggie. 0:24:36.200 --> 0:24:40.560 Yeah, just being mag just being Mags, Mags. I don't 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:42.040 know if I told you the story Megan, but I 0:24:42.080 --> 0:24:46.680 one time tried out virtual reality on and on an airplane. 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:49.320 Flight get sick. I did not get sick, but I 0:24:49.320 --> 0:24:50.520 could not watch the whole movie. 0:24:51.119 --> 0:24:51.480 Oh yeah. 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:54.320 I wanted to test out because I had a thesis 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:58.160 that watching a movie in VR would be really cool 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:00.840 on a flight, because why not, right, you have this 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:02.280 giant screen in front of you. 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:04.840 Virtually you watch a movie, it's a plane. 0:25:04.960 --> 0:25:06.960 But I was really embarrassed to actually do it on 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:09.080 the plane because I thought people were I thought they're 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:10.760 gonna turn the plane around because they're like, what's this 0:25:10.800 --> 0:25:13.120 weirdo doing with this headset? So I was a little 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:16.840 concerned about that. No one cared. But British Airways is 0:25:16.920 --> 0:25:23.560 going to start introducing three D movies with VR headsets, 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:26.560 so from now until the end of twenty nineteen customers 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:27.800 traveling on select flights. 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:29.480 Oh and oh, you gotta be in. 0:25:29.480 --> 0:25:31.400 First Yeah, I was going to tell you it's first 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:33.520 class since I read this story well earlier. 0:25:33.840 --> 0:25:37.679 Okay, so the common folk can't have VR first class, 0:25:37.680 --> 0:25:38.680 give me a break, number one. 0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:39.720 And they're only doing it for like a month. 0:25:39.840 --> 0:25:41.560 Yeah, if you're in first class, you don't need to 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:44.399 watch a VR movie. You're going to watch that giant 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:46.439 screen that's in front of you, and you're gonna go 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:49.040 to sleep because you have live flat sleeper. This is 0:25:49.240 --> 0:25:51.400 I'm talking for the for the chickens in the back 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:56.320 like me, the cargo that sits in like economy basic. Okay, 0:25:56.320 --> 0:25:59.080 I don't really sit in the economy you you know, 0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:01.119 I did once, but I do say I try to 0:26:01.119 --> 0:26:02.440 get economy. 0:26:02.960 --> 0:26:06.520 But even for that, you need it. Yeah, so I 0:26:06.960 --> 0:26:08.320 know it. Just throw away this story. 0:26:08.480 --> 0:26:11.320 This is I don't even I don't even care because 0:26:11.320 --> 0:26:14.600 you know what, if you're flying first class, flying first 0:26:14.600 --> 0:26:17.399 class to British British Airways to London, you do not 0:26:17.480 --> 0:26:19.560 I don't need to Number one, you're gonna you're gonna 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:21.080 snub your nose at VR. 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:24.040 You'd be like, excuse me, what's that? I didn't use that. 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:27.760 I'm not putting that in my face. It how many 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:30.440 people do? Actually I would do that too, And. 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:32.840 I'm not disgusting. 0:26:32.760 --> 0:26:34.040 Germophobe, but not a snob. 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:40.680 Okay, so switching gears. This next question is from Louise P. 0:26:41.680 --> 0:26:45.240 For a second, I thought it was Louise, Louise R Louise, 0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:50.960 and I was like, that'd be funny. Hello, Rich and Megan. 0:26:51.600 --> 0:26:56.199 Maybe it's Louise. I know, yeah it is. 0:26:56.720 --> 0:26:56.960 I know. 0:26:57.000 --> 0:26:59.080 Over the past few months, you have mentioned the app 0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:03.560 that Apple home Kit will store video feed from compatible 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:06.800 security style home cameras for about two weeks for free. 0:27:07.240 --> 0:27:10.520 My question is where can I find out what security 0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:14.240 style cameras are compatible for this Home Kit feature and 0:27:14.320 --> 0:27:18.560 our popular brands such as ring Arlow or Nest compatible 0:27:18.600 --> 0:27:22.000 with this service. PS love the podcast and find it 0:27:22.080 --> 0:27:25.560 super informative. Thanks for all that you both do. 0:27:26.240 --> 0:27:28.400 Both. Yeah, and that's so nice. 0:27:28.440 --> 0:27:32.000 I've never seen Megan beaming so much as to right now. 0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:33.880 She's used to me knocking her down. 0:27:34.359 --> 0:27:36.920 Yeah, true facts. 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:42.040 So I would recommend number one tell me this person's 0:27:42.080 --> 0:27:43.120 name again, Luise. 0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:46.359 Oh, I said it like a thousand times see this. 0:27:46.760 --> 0:27:51.000 Yeah, yeah, welcome to Megan's life. I would recommend Luise 0:27:51.160 --> 0:27:53.520 that this actually might be Luise because like he's. 0:27:53.359 --> 0:27:56.480 Really into camera stuff. He might have changed his name, Louise. 0:27:56.520 --> 0:27:59.400 I don't think so. No, that's not him. 0:28:00.119 --> 0:28:03.919 So the Home Kit has been very slow to launch, 0:28:04.280 --> 0:28:06.640 and there are not many things that work with HomeKit. 0:28:07.240 --> 0:28:11.840 As you know, Google and Alexa have absolutely dominated when 0:28:11.880 --> 0:28:17.360 it comes to the smart home. Apple is just not there. 0:28:17.640 --> 0:28:20.320 There are products that work with HomeKit, which is their 0:28:20.440 --> 0:28:25.080 version of Made for Google or Google Assistant, whatever you 0:28:25.119 --> 0:28:26.840 want to call it, but basically people think it either 0:28:26.880 --> 0:28:30.199 works with Google Assistant, it works with Alexa, or to 0:28:30.240 --> 0:28:34.480 a very very very very lesser extent HomeKit. And that's 0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:37.800 not to say that Apple can't come up and do 0:28:37.880 --> 0:28:38.479 better with this. 0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:40.960 I think that they're doing. They took the slower approach. 0:28:41.520 --> 0:28:44.880 You got so many alexas in homes that they had 0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:47.640 a very early headstart, and then when Google came out, 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:50.720 they got so many Google homes and homes that they 0:28:50.760 --> 0:28:53.760 got a headstart. Apple doesn't really have anything for the 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:57.440 home except for the HomePod, and that is not a 0:28:57.480 --> 0:28:59.920 top seller. So people don't have a way to inn 0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:03.000 interact with these things through Siri except on their phone, 0:29:03.040 --> 0:29:07.160 which does work, but it's not as simple as having 0:29:07.200 --> 0:29:10.200 a dedicated speaker. Maybe it's not at the forefront of 0:29:10.240 --> 0:29:12.680 your mind to think like this would be the way 0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:14.680 to do it, but With that said, if you are 0:29:14.680 --> 0:29:16.560 in the Apple ecosystem, you want to use home Kit 0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:18.240 because it works with your phone and it works with 0:29:18.280 --> 0:29:22.840 all your Apple stuff. Long story short, the feature that 0:29:22.960 --> 0:29:27.080 Luis is referring to is Apple kind of put the 0:29:27.080 --> 0:29:31.120 industry on notice when they said, if a camera is 0:29:31.160 --> 0:29:34.160 compatible with home Kit, you will be able to use 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:36.640 this camera to collect clips in the cloud for free, 0:29:37.440 --> 0:29:40.000 and a lot of other cameras don't do that. If 0:29:40.040 --> 0:29:42.640 you buy a Nest camera or even a Ring camera, 0:29:43.240 --> 0:29:46.160 when you activate those cameras, you will get a live 0:29:46.160 --> 0:29:49.640 stream from them, but you will not get clips from 0:29:49.680 --> 0:29:51.160 them recorded necessarily. 0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:52.720 So if you. 0:29:52.760 --> 0:29:54.880 Miss what happened on the camera live, you're not going 0:29:54.920 --> 0:29:57.840 to see it unless you pay. Now, not all cameras 0:29:57.840 --> 0:29:59.520 are like that. The Amazon cloud cams do give you 0:29:59.560 --> 0:30:03.280 fourteen days of storage, so does the wisecam, but I think. 0:30:03.160 --> 0:30:04.840 That apples in the beginning though. 0:30:04.840 --> 0:30:08.960 No, that's included forever. But it's only fourteen days of clips. 0:30:09.000 --> 0:30:11.840 A clip can be only you know, fifteen to twenty seconds. 0:30:12.120 --> 0:30:14.520 If you want the most out of these cameras, you 0:30:14.560 --> 0:30:16.760 probably want to pay for a little bit longer subscription, 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:20.800 you know. Anyway, that's a long answer to tell you 0:30:20.880 --> 0:30:24.160 that there are exactly two cameras that I can see 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:27.360 that are compatible with HomeKit right now, according to Apple's website, 0:30:27.360 --> 0:30:29.120 which by the way, you can go to just go 0:30:29.200 --> 0:30:31.360 to Apple home Kit on their website and it will 0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:35.800 give you all the accessories, which includes cameras, bridges, lights, locks, outlets, 0:30:35.800 --> 0:30:39.720 censor switches, and thermostat. But there are two cameras listed, 0:30:39.760 --> 0:30:41.360 the Logitech Circle two. 0:30:41.920 --> 0:30:45.200 And the r Low Baby. Megan. We have a special 0:30:45.200 --> 0:30:46.320 guest on the show today. 0:30:46.400 --> 0:30:47.840 I know we do. It's so exciting. 0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:52.840 Jason Ball, news director at KTLA and host of the 0:30:52.880 --> 0:30:56.040 News Director's Office podcast, is joining us. 0:30:56.040 --> 0:30:56.840 Welcome to the show. 0:30:57.000 --> 0:31:00.080 Thank you. You guys have a little fancier operation. I 0:31:00.400 --> 0:31:01.320 don't know how that happened. 0:31:02.040 --> 0:31:06.800 Well, you know somehow you. 0:31:05.880 --> 0:31:09.040 Yeah, well you're testing it out, you are testing it eventually. 0:31:09.280 --> 0:31:09.720 This is new. 0:31:09.800 --> 0:31:10.560 Yeah, this is new. 0:31:10.680 --> 0:31:15.080 It's uh, this is you're referring to our road Podcasting Board, 0:31:15.120 --> 0:31:18.080 which is just amazing. This is revolutionized podcasting for a 0:31:18.120 --> 0:31:21.000 lot of podcasters, and it gives you the ability to 0:31:21.080 --> 0:31:23.680 not only have sounds like we do. You can't hear 0:31:23.680 --> 0:31:26.680 them off that phones on. But right now we're doing 0:31:26.720 --> 0:31:29.200 a typewriter, and it also gives you the ability to 0:31:29.240 --> 0:31:31.640 live stream as well and take calls, which is how 0:31:31.880 --> 0:31:35.000 the rich on Tech podcast was originally done, was with 0:31:35.120 --> 0:31:37.640 live callers. Eventually we may bring that back, but we 0:31:37.680 --> 0:31:39.720 love Megan so much that she brings. 0:31:39.520 --> 0:31:40.600 The questions it. 0:31:40.680 --> 0:31:41.560 That's a real star. 0:31:42.440 --> 0:31:45.680 So Jason is news director here at KTLA and runs 0:31:45.720 --> 0:31:48.760 a very large operation here, not just news for KTLA, 0:31:49.280 --> 0:31:53.560 but also you run all of the podcasts for Dine. 0:31:53.840 --> 0:31:54.560 Yes, that's true. 0:31:54.600 --> 0:31:55.520 What's that called. 0:31:55.720 --> 0:31:58.840 Tribune Audio Network, which is I think we have about 0:31:59.040 --> 0:32:02.080 fifty or sixty active podcast right now, so that's pretty 0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:05.920 cool across the forty two TV stations, and they very 0:32:06.240 --> 0:32:07.720 you know that we have a great one out of 0:32:07.800 --> 0:32:10.440 We have two great ones out of Greensboro, North Carolina. 0:32:10.520 --> 0:32:14.320 One is on NASCAR, which is a huge hit. It's 0:32:14.480 --> 0:32:16.520 I don't know that much about NASCAR, but I still 0:32:16.560 --> 0:32:18.520 it's fun to listen to just because they're so excited 0:32:18.560 --> 0:32:21.080 about what they're talking about. So that's really cool. And 0:32:21.120 --> 0:32:25.400 then they have a podcast about this girl who was 0:32:25.440 --> 0:32:27.200 at a track meet and got hit in the head 0:32:27.240 --> 0:32:31.920 by another like rammed another girl in the head and 0:32:31.960 --> 0:32:34.920 she has amnesia every day she thinks the same. It's 0:32:34.920 --> 0:32:37.200 the same that same day. Every day she wakes up 0:32:37.240 --> 0:32:38.960 and has to go through that same day, and it's 0:32:39.360 --> 0:32:44.200 really remarkable. She goes that one's called Caitlin Can't Remember, 0:32:44.720 --> 0:32:46.680 and the other one's called Dirty Air, which is. 0:32:46.680 --> 0:32:47.440 Really dirty air. 0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:50.880 The name of a podcast is always like, you know 0:32:50.920 --> 0:32:52.720 what I mean, the better it is that, you know, 0:32:52.880 --> 0:32:55.440 that could be for anything. Yeah, but I like that 0:32:55.440 --> 0:32:58.280 for NASCAR. Is that referring to like the exhaust or something, 0:32:58.520 --> 0:32:59.280 and then and the dirt? 0:33:00.880 --> 0:33:02.800 But yeah, that's what it's really good. I mean that. 0:33:02.880 --> 0:33:05.840 And that TV station w g HP and North in Greensboro, 0:33:05.920 --> 0:33:08.280 North Carolina, is it is an innovative station anyway. I 0:33:08.280 --> 0:33:10.959 think they're just really great. And then there's a new 0:33:10.960 --> 0:33:13.280 one that just came out two weeks ago, I think 0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:17.120 out of Memphis our station there. It's called Killing, Killing 0:33:17.240 --> 0:33:21.360 lorenzen and it's about an NBA player, Lorenzen Wright, who 0:33:21.560 --> 0:33:24.560 grew up in North Mississippi and Memphis played for the 0:33:24.560 --> 0:33:27.360 Clippers actually for a little bit, and the Grizzlies, and 0:33:27.400 --> 0:33:29.520 he was murdered and this went on for like ten years, 0:33:29.600 --> 0:33:32.400 and they like the case leads back to his ex 0:33:32.440 --> 0:33:35.680 wife and her friend. But it's really great and it's 0:33:35.680 --> 0:33:38.040 doing really well too. It's very interesting they do that, 0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:42.040 you know, that crime that crime drama is always always 0:33:42.080 --> 0:33:43.360 a good hit on the podcast. 0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:46.040 That's what got you into podcasts. Wasn't it Cereal or 0:33:46.160 --> 0:33:46.760 was it what? 0:33:46.760 --> 0:33:48.160 What did you listen to when you were because I 0:33:48.160 --> 0:33:49.720 remember you came to you and you're like, Rich, I'm 0:33:49.720 --> 0:33:50.720 loving podcasts And. 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:54.240 It was actually ninety nine percent invisible. 0:33:54.440 --> 0:33:56.680 Actually you told me about that podcast and I still 0:33:56.680 --> 0:33:58.000 listened to it. 0:33:58.120 --> 0:33:58.840 That Roman Mars. 0:33:59.240 --> 0:34:01.280 Mars's got the great I mean, you guys have great 0:34:01.320 --> 0:34:03.720 voices too, but he's got the coolest voice, like you are, 0:34:03.840 --> 0:34:04.200 no cool. 0:34:04.320 --> 0:34:07.360 We can't stand listening to our own voices, are you kidding? Like, yeah, 0:34:07.360 --> 0:34:09.440 I have a horrible voice. I listen to this on 0:34:09.520 --> 0:34:12.880 repeat in my car every day and I still cringe 0:34:12.920 --> 0:34:15.840 every time. Yeah, I hate twenty four to seven. And Megan, 0:34:15.960 --> 0:34:18.040 she listens you always. You skip my parts and just 0:34:18.080 --> 0:34:18.680 listen to yours. 0:34:18.719 --> 0:34:18.919 Yeah. 0:34:19.160 --> 0:34:23.520 I mean my family, we just constantly are playing our podcast. Yeah, 0:34:23.600 --> 0:34:24.400 that's our music. 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:26.600 No, you pipe it into the house. 0:34:27.440 --> 0:34:27.959 No, I can't. 0:34:27.960 --> 0:34:30.600 I think everyone has an aversion to that. But you know, 0:34:30.760 --> 0:34:35.120 think about sitting across from professional people who have amazing voices. 0:34:35.160 --> 0:34:37.040 It's really is gonna be a little intimidating. 0:34:37.080 --> 0:34:39.279 That's what you do on your show. Yeah, so tell 0:34:39.360 --> 0:34:39.960 us about your show. 0:34:40.040 --> 0:34:43.960 Okay, So actually next week is our hundredth episode, which 0:34:43.960 --> 0:34:47.240 I feel like is a pretty big accomplishment in itself, 0:34:47.440 --> 0:34:50.120 just to be able to do it, and and we do. 0:34:50.440 --> 0:34:52.239 We started out doing one episode a week, and then 0:34:52.280 --> 0:34:54.719 now we we got way ahead, and then I'm like, 0:34:54.840 --> 0:34:56.759 let's just do two a week, not thinking that it's 0:34:56.800 --> 0:34:58.120 actually twice as much work. 0:34:58.280 --> 0:34:59.120 That is a lot of work. 0:34:59.239 --> 0:35:01.960 You're you're in your office and it's actually recorded in 0:35:02.120 --> 0:35:05.680 Jason's office ninety nine percent of the time, and it's 0:35:06.480 --> 0:35:07.799 always someone's always in there. 0:35:07.920 --> 0:35:10.640 Yeah, it's it's been really great. It's been fun to 0:35:10.680 --> 0:35:13.000 talk about. It started out because, you know, there was 0:35:13.040 --> 0:35:17.200 a lot of media bashing in the media, and I'm like, 0:35:17.440 --> 0:35:19.400 we do a lot of really great things and a 0:35:19.480 --> 0:35:22.000 lot of really cool things. We should talk about that. 0:35:22.480 --> 0:35:25.480 And it was also an example to set for the newsroom. 0:35:25.520 --> 0:35:27.440 If you know, if I can do a podcast, you 0:35:27.480 --> 0:35:30.120 can do a podcast. You know, you can find the 0:35:30.120 --> 0:35:32.160 time to do it, but you have to do something 0:35:32.200 --> 0:35:34.560 you're passionate about and I am passionate about this, So 0:35:34.600 --> 0:35:37.880 it's it's been fun to talk to newsmakers and talk 0:35:37.920 --> 0:35:39.760 about the things that they do good. Like the first 0:35:39.760 --> 0:35:42.000 episode was with Megan Henderson and we talked about our 0:35:42.000 --> 0:35:46.399 trips with UNSEF to Africa, and so that's been really great. 0:35:46.600 --> 0:35:50.760 And then we've had some really just amazing non news 0:35:50.760 --> 0:35:53.160 people on it, and people who used to work in 0:35:53.200 --> 0:35:55.720 local news and now do other things and the skills 0:35:55.760 --> 0:36:00.400 that they learn learning that, you know, meeting deadlines, understanding story, 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:03.560 being able to decipher quickly both sides of a story 0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:05.840 or with the three sides of a story, or you 0:36:05.840 --> 0:36:08.600 know all that. So it's been it's been really fun 0:36:08.640 --> 0:36:10.120 to do it and to get it out and to 0:36:10.120 --> 0:36:12.520 share people. And the response has been it's good. We 0:36:12.560 --> 0:36:14.720 get a lot of people like young in the industry 0:36:14.760 --> 0:36:17.600 who want to figure it out. So it's you know, 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:20.399 it's these are people that they look up to, like. 0:36:20.400 --> 0:36:25.120 You Ridge, and it'll tough to believe, but it's funny 0:36:25.120 --> 0:36:27.600 because I remember when I was coming up through the 0:36:27.800 --> 0:36:29.920 Now I'm getting older as the longer I stay here, 0:36:29.960 --> 0:36:31.600 I'm just like Megan calls me old man. 0:36:31.640 --> 0:36:34.360 Now, I mean only on Mondays. 0:36:35.480 --> 0:36:39.399 Monday is on my grumpiest but it's but it's true. 0:36:39.440 --> 0:36:41.520 It's like, you know, we all had these people that 0:36:41.560 --> 0:36:43.600 we looked up to, and back in the day, there 0:36:43.680 --> 0:36:45.200 was no like when I was listening to Casey case 0:36:45.440 --> 0:36:48.040 you didn't hear a behind the scenes podcast with Casey 0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:51.960 talking about how tough it was to become who he was. Nowadays, 0:36:51.960 --> 0:36:54.719 with these podcasts, you can hear that, and it does 0:36:54.760 --> 0:36:58.239 give people more strength and more drive if they want it, 0:36:58.680 --> 0:37:00.560 because they can find these interviews. And I think that's 0:37:00.560 --> 0:37:03.040 what's the best thing about your podcast is that there's 0:37:03.080 --> 0:37:07.000 always little nuggets of information throughout the podcast. I sit 0:37:07.040 --> 0:37:09.520 there and like, like Megan Henderson, for instance, she said 0:37:09.560 --> 0:37:12.200 something that will stick with me forever, and she said 0:37:12.320 --> 0:37:15.160 that you're getting your first job was like going to 0:37:15.200 --> 0:37:18.520 graduate school for journalists. And I said, that is so brilliant, 0:37:18.520 --> 0:37:22.000 because my first job was so miserable if I would 0:37:22.000 --> 0:37:24.279 have thought of it that way, that this is just 0:37:24.360 --> 0:37:26.760 school where I'm getting to do what I did in school, 0:37:26.880 --> 0:37:29.440 but on a daily basis and get paid eight dollars 0:37:29.440 --> 0:37:30.440 and seventeen cents an hour. 0:37:30.680 --> 0:37:33.239 At least you're not paying them like you know, you're 0:37:33.239 --> 0:37:34.480 not gonna be in debt when you get right. 0:37:34.520 --> 0:37:35.919 No, it was still in debt when I got out, 0:37:36.000 --> 0:37:39.080 but it was different, you know, it was my own doing. 0:37:39.120 --> 0:37:41.600 But the point is it those kind of little nuggets 0:37:41.640 --> 0:37:43.239 that you pick up from a show like yours is 0:37:43.280 --> 0:37:43.920 really helpful. 0:37:44.040 --> 0:37:45.400 One of the other things I talk about a lot is, 0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:48.640 particularly on air, is a craft, and you have to 0:37:48.800 --> 0:37:50.759 be good at craft. You have to do it over 0:37:50.800 --> 0:37:53.160 and over and over again. So that first job you 0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:56.200 get should be somewhere where you can do twenty thirty 0:37:56.239 --> 0:37:57.240 live shots a week. 0:37:57.880 --> 0:37:58.719 Be happy if. 0:37:58.600 --> 0:38:00.799 They run your ragged in the field and you're going 0:38:00.800 --> 0:38:03.160 from story to story, because what you learn in six 0:38:03.200 --> 0:38:08.880 months doing that is better than graduate school. It's just 0:38:09.000 --> 0:38:12.399 doing that reps and doing the repetition of practicing every day. 0:38:12.520 --> 0:38:14.759 You get to practice every day on air before you 0:38:14.760 --> 0:38:16.440 come to the Los Angeles, and you know, because you 0:38:16.480 --> 0:38:19.040 want to make your mistakes and learn it. What was 0:38:19.080 --> 0:38:21.600 your station? K T A L K T A L. 0:38:23.920 --> 0:38:26.040 I always said, just switch those last two letters. 0:38:26.560 --> 0:38:29.040 You've seen a lot of people do their first kind 0:38:29.080 --> 0:38:30.920 of on air stuff for you know, like in their 0:38:30.960 --> 0:38:33.280 early part of their stage. Because you catch people early 0:38:33.560 --> 0:38:35.760 and Jason, by the way, has had a great record 0:38:35.800 --> 0:38:36.640 of finding talent. 0:38:37.120 --> 0:38:39.440 It's not a perfect science, that's for sure. You're one 0:38:39.480 --> 0:38:41.359 of the people, one of the few people I've had 0:38:41.360 --> 0:38:43.080 the luck of hiring twice. 0:38:43.440 --> 0:38:45.880 You did hire me twice, and I do thank you 0:38:45.960 --> 0:38:48.600 for that. I remember Jason found me when I was 0:38:48.600 --> 0:38:50.480 working at CNET in New York, and I remember you 0:38:50.480 --> 0:38:51.640 called me up. You're like, can you just do the 0:38:51.680 --> 0:38:53.719 same thing you're doing at SNET here in LA And 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:56.120 I'm like, yes, when can I get out there? 0:38:56.200 --> 0:38:57.160 Yes, I can do that. 0:38:57.440 --> 0:38:57.640 Well. 0:38:57.640 --> 0:38:59.600 That is the other thing too, about picking the station 0:38:59.640 --> 0:39:02.759 you go to work at, because a lot of particularly 0:39:02.760 --> 0:39:06.279 big market stations want to be innovative and want to 0:39:06.320 --> 0:39:09.719 be cool and want to do things differently, but then 0:39:09.800 --> 0:39:10.839 they get a first scare. 0:39:10.960 --> 0:39:13.080 And that's what happened to me at that first place. 0:39:13.200 --> 0:39:15.960 Because it's funny because I always tell people I am 0:39:15.960 --> 0:39:18.600 doing exactly the same thing I've been doing for I 0:39:18.640 --> 0:39:20.120 don't want to say how many years at this point, 0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:21.120 but many years. 0:39:20.880 --> 0:39:22.479 Fifty five still better at it. 0:39:22.680 --> 0:39:25.239 Well, you hopefully get better, but the reality is you're 0:39:25.280 --> 0:39:27.080 still doing the same thing, like what I was doing 0:39:27.120 --> 0:39:29.359 when you hired me at cakel is the same exact 0:39:29.360 --> 0:39:32.440 thing I'm doing here, except it's accepted here and people 0:39:32.520 --> 0:39:35.000 understand it and we actually made good of it, whereas 0:39:35.040 --> 0:39:36.799 there it was kind of like we didn't understand right, 0:39:36.880 --> 0:39:38.880 and that was not your fault, it was other people. 0:39:39.680 --> 0:39:42.760 Yeah, when you left it just see yeah. 0:39:42.840 --> 0:39:45.520 But uh, okay, so you've got the podcast. You've got 0:39:46.320 --> 0:39:49.200 how many you said? With the Tribune Audio Network, I. 0:39:49.160 --> 0:39:51.040 Think we have fifty or sixty active because some of 0:39:51.120 --> 0:39:54.440 them we do seasons with them, like Caately Camember was 0:39:54.440 --> 0:39:56.880 the season. Then well they're going to revisit her in 0:39:56.920 --> 0:39:59.279 a year and see how she's doing on that. But 0:39:59.360 --> 0:40:02.279 the Today's episodes is with with Chip Yos, one of 0:40:02.320 --> 0:40:05.720 the reporters here, and he told me a story about 0:40:06.040 --> 0:40:10.759 me not hiring him, and I don't remember it at all. 0:40:10.800 --> 0:40:14.000 It was so embarrassing, but it was good and they 0:40:14.080 --> 0:40:15.680 got it all worked it the way it should because 0:40:16.000 --> 0:40:18.160 he should be here with us, being a Orange County 0:40:18.160 --> 0:40:20.400 Bureau chief. So it all all worked out. But you 0:40:20.440 --> 0:40:22.880 hear those fun stories about people. 0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:25.359 Get very honest on podcasts for some reason, I don't 0:40:25.400 --> 0:40:26.759 know what the deal is, so much. 0:40:26.719 --> 0:40:28.880 More intimate, I feel like, and maybe it's you're sitting 0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:31.080 around and there's no I don't know that it's the 0:40:31.120 --> 0:40:33.800 camera that's intimidating as much as it is the lights, 0:40:34.520 --> 0:40:38.320 because I always get people. Yeah, I guess it feels 0:40:38.360 --> 0:40:41.320 you know that, you know the cliche of the police 0:40:41.400 --> 0:40:43.480 investigation room where they got the light on you and 0:40:43.520 --> 0:40:44.319 your sweating and. 0:40:44.520 --> 0:40:46.880 Yeah, it's the little beads of sweat. You can see it. 0:40:46.920 --> 0:40:48.640 Like I interview people and I see like the little 0:40:48.680 --> 0:40:50.520 beads of sweat starting. I'm like, oh, this is going 0:40:50.560 --> 0:40:51.919 downhill because they. 0:40:51.840 --> 0:40:54.440 Get Most interviews are like that, because I mean, if 0:40:54.480 --> 0:40:56.839 you're interviewing a co founder, like they are not used 0:40:56.840 --> 0:40:58.920 to being on camera, and the. 0:40:58.840 --> 0:41:00.839 Ones that are really slicky can trusty. 0:41:01.239 --> 0:41:04.480 Yeah, yeah, I always get really nervous. Yeah, going on 0:41:04.680 --> 0:41:07.960 TV or even doing the podcast, I would get really nervous. 0:41:07.960 --> 0:41:09.839 But that's part of you know, That's the other thing 0:41:09.880 --> 0:41:13.000 about is again practicing your craft. You know, one hundred 0:41:13.040 --> 0:41:15.359 episodes in, I feel like I'm much more I don't 0:41:15.400 --> 0:41:16.960 know if I'm good at it, but I'm much more 0:41:16.960 --> 0:41:22.160 relaxed about doing it. And you figure out for even 0:41:22.239 --> 0:41:24.080 I do this occasionally now we get ten minutes in, 0:41:24.160 --> 0:41:25.400 I'm like, oh my god, what am I going to 0:41:25.440 --> 0:41:27.080 talk to this person about for the next twenty minutes? 0:41:28.520 --> 0:41:31.479 But it always works out fine. I still get that moment, 0:41:31.560 --> 0:41:33.040 that one moment of like panic. 0:41:33.360 --> 0:41:35.279 Yeah, you read a lot of books, don't you. 0:41:35.600 --> 0:41:36.360 I try to. 0:41:36.640 --> 0:41:38.440 It's you know, it's a challenge reading anything. 0:41:38.520 --> 0:41:40.920 Right now, I am reading a couple of things. I 0:41:40.960 --> 0:41:44.600 am reading this book about transition, which I can't remember 0:41:44.640 --> 0:41:46.080 the name of, but I can give you for the notes. 0:41:46.440 --> 0:41:48.759 Since we are about to go through this transition, you know, 0:41:49.120 --> 0:41:50.640 managing transitions, that's hard. 0:41:51.880 --> 0:41:53.760 It has transition somewhere. 0:41:54.200 --> 0:41:56.400 But since our company is being bought by another company 0:41:56.440 --> 0:41:58.439 and we're going to go through transition, so I'm hoping 0:41:58.760 --> 0:42:00.920 I can some of those tools I can used to 0:42:00.920 --> 0:42:04.799 help all of us, you know, get through it. It's 0:42:04.840 --> 0:42:07.640 gonna be fine. But you know, people don't always believe 0:42:07.640 --> 0:42:08.919 you when you don't. It's gonna be fine. 0:42:08.960 --> 0:42:12.959 It's the company I used to work for, right KTL 0:42:13.239 --> 0:42:14.560 was owned by the company. 0:42:14.239 --> 0:42:14.880 That's buying us. 0:42:14.920 --> 0:42:18.200 Now now they're going and it's crazy because it's the 0:42:18.239 --> 0:42:21.440 same people, you know, I remember them coming into our 0:42:21.440 --> 0:42:23.560 newsroom and it's the people have not really changed there. 0:42:23.560 --> 0:42:24.279 So that's a good thing. 0:42:24.680 --> 0:42:28.000 Well, I appreciate that they're broadcasters at their core. They 0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:32.120 started out at one TV station in Scratton, Pennsylvania, so 0:42:32.280 --> 0:42:35.239 I appreciate that they are broadcasters. They are interested in 0:42:35.320 --> 0:42:38.400 the future of broadcasting, as opposed to some of our 0:42:38.480 --> 0:42:41.279 previous owners. So that part, I think is going to 0:42:41.360 --> 0:42:45.040 be good. They understand our business, they care about our business, 0:42:45.719 --> 0:42:47.359 they care about where our business is going. They hear 0:42:47.360 --> 0:42:51.960 about the digital aspects of our business. So I'm hopeful. 0:42:52.600 --> 0:42:55.840 So one hundred episodes that will launch in a week or. 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:57.640 So, Yeah, I think next Thursday's one hundred. 0:42:57.840 --> 0:43:00.760 And is it time to retire now? Or is I keep. 0:43:00.640 --> 0:43:04.680 Waiting for someone to say, okay, enough it's I want 0:43:04.719 --> 0:43:06.719 to stop doing that. But no. 0:43:07.520 --> 0:43:09.480 Have you gotten good feedback though, because it's a it's 0:43:09.520 --> 0:43:12.120 a very inside baseball kind of show that other people 0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:14.160 can appreciate, you know, if you're working at all. But 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:17.440 it is for the media business. It's it's great insider info. 0:43:17.880 --> 0:43:20.440 I mean, everything has been very positive about it. I mean, 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:22.440 the people that we have on the show always have 0:43:22.480 --> 0:43:25.560 a good, great experience. And I was in ABJ last week, 0:43:25.600 --> 0:43:28.400 the National Association for Black Journalists, and I interviewed some 0:43:28.560 --> 0:43:32.200 of our colleagues from our other stations there and it 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:34.840 was great. And one of our colleagues in from Norfolk 0:43:35.600 --> 0:43:38.719 is is actually a past president of the organization. So 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:41.560 we talked about really the importance of these organizations in 0:43:42.640 --> 0:43:46.480 creating and continuing to foster that diversity among our business. 0:43:46.760 --> 0:43:48.160 Is it one of the on air because they have 0:43:48.160 --> 0:43:52.080 a fun podcast out of there off scripted or something? 0:43:52.239 --> 0:43:53.239 Really, I haven't heard that one. 0:43:53.480 --> 0:43:55.600 I think maybe it is that w T k R. 0:43:55.719 --> 0:43:57.719 Yeah, okay, yeah, they have a fun one, but I 0:43:57.760 --> 0:43:59.400 don't maybe it's not under your umbrella. 0:43:59.680 --> 0:44:00.600 You might probably is. 0:44:00.640 --> 0:44:06.160 There's sixty I have to bring them in. I don't 0:44:06.160 --> 0:44:07.000 know all their names. 0:44:07.480 --> 0:44:09.520 The one that came out this week earlier this week 0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:12.560 is Barbara Sciarra, and she's an amazing got ahead an 0:44:12.560 --> 0:44:15.920 amazing career, and she grew up in Pittsburgh, but it 0:44:16.080 --> 0:44:18.560 went to college and Arizona and got her first job 0:44:18.600 --> 0:44:20.879 in Arizona, so in Yuma, so that was a very 0:44:21.160 --> 0:44:23.680 oh no, and Tucson. So that was a big, you know, 0:44:23.760 --> 0:44:26.200 cultural shift for her to go from you know, Philadelphia, 0:44:26.280 --> 0:44:29.600 I mean to Pittsburgh to to Arizona and then ended 0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:33.440 up in having a long, long career in Norfolk. So 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:34.960 she's been she was great and. 0:44:35.000 --> 0:44:38.000 A long career in this business, Megan, it is rare, 0:44:40.200 --> 0:44:43.839 especially in local news. Sometimes you know, it's it's uh 0:44:44.120 --> 0:44:46.319 the ones who make it you know a long time. 0:44:46.320 --> 0:44:47.319 It's always a good thing. 0:44:47.360 --> 0:44:50.839 I think local news has a long longer, maybe even 0:44:50.880 --> 0:44:52.840 than some of the network news in the cable because 0:44:53.080 --> 0:44:55.680 we do serve that local community, and it's it's the 0:44:55.840 --> 0:44:59.000 live newscast, and broadcasting to me is really is about live, 0:44:59.239 --> 0:45:06.000 live events, sporting events. The biggest shows in primetime are those, 0:45:06.120 --> 0:45:09.600 you know, contest shows, the ones that are live where 0:45:09.640 --> 0:45:11.200 you need to watch to find out what happened so 0:45:11.239 --> 0:45:12.759 you can talk about it tomorrow at work or you 0:45:12.800 --> 0:45:14.640 know that sort of thing. And news kind of falls 0:45:14.640 --> 0:45:16.400 into the line too. We have a short shelf life. 0:45:16.440 --> 0:45:18.560 It's not like you're gonna watch past episode. 0:45:18.600 --> 0:45:22.479 You're gonna be jump catching up from last year's nine. 0:45:24.000 --> 0:45:26.200 We don't have a news at nine here, but we should. Yeah, 0:45:27.080 --> 0:45:30.000 we have at nine am. I was thinking nine pm. 0:45:30.080 --> 0:45:31.879 Yeah, we don't have one of those yet. 0:45:32.480 --> 0:45:35.480 Soon four hour. 0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:37.640 All right, that's gonna do it for our show today. 0:45:38.200 --> 0:45:41.160 Jason's podcast is the news director's. 0:45:40.680 --> 0:45:42.360 Office, the news director's office. 0:45:42.400 --> 0:45:46.120 It is available on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts, 0:45:46.200 --> 0:45:48.279 and it's part of the Trubune Audio network, which so 0:45:48.440 --> 0:45:50.319 is this podcast You haven't noticed because we have a 0:45:50.320 --> 0:45:52.560 little chime at the beginning, so that makes it official. 0:45:52.920 --> 0:45:57.920 So we swear a lot less, you're not anyway. We 0:45:57.960 --> 0:46:00.959 did say F on this show. Not just what we said. 0:46:01.200 --> 0:46:03.440 We said F. We said the word the leg What 0:46:03.440 --> 0:46:05.080 would your grandfather's Okay. 0:46:04.800 --> 0:46:07.000 I'm gonna the letter, not going to say any When 0:46:07.000 --> 0:46:07.799 did we say the letter? 0:46:07.920 --> 0:46:09.680 We talk about stand on the show? 0:46:09.880 --> 0:46:12.600 We yeah, we have we No, I don't think we have. 0:46:12.800 --> 0:46:14.960 You need to show a news director's office with Megan 0:46:15.040 --> 0:46:15.839 interviewing about our. 0:46:15.800 --> 0:46:18.960 Grandfather I talked to interesting, It would be interesting. 0:46:19.000 --> 0:46:21.560 Megan has some good roots here at Katla. 0:46:21.680 --> 0:46:22.480 She's a legacy. 0:46:22.960 --> 0:46:23.600 Yeah, I am. 0:46:23.840 --> 0:46:25.640 Her grandfather's picture hangs in my office. 0:46:26.120 --> 0:46:27.640 He has a couple of pictures here. 0:46:27.880 --> 0:46:29.480 Should we say who our grandfather is? 0:46:30.680 --> 0:46:33.719 Yeah, my grandfather's stand Chambers and so he was. 0:46:33.800 --> 0:46:35.719 We started working here the year the TV station went 0:46:35.719 --> 0:46:38.319 on the air, in nineteen forty seven. Yeah, and he ca. 0:46:39.840 --> 0:46:42.840 I know we're over, but there's no over in a podcast. 0:46:42.920 --> 0:46:45.040 This is a great story. When I interviewed for the 0:46:45.080 --> 0:46:47.120 job of the news director at KHLA, I interviewed with 0:46:47.120 --> 0:46:50.319 the corporate guy and I said, because they had laid 0:46:50.320 --> 0:46:52.360 off some of the older reporters there, And I said, 0:46:52.560 --> 0:46:55.520 if firing stand Chambers is the job, I am not 0:46:55.680 --> 0:46:59.799 your guy. I am not going to be the guy. 0:47:00.040 --> 0:47:03.040 You know, the first of all, the nicest man you 0:47:03.080 --> 0:47:05.080 ever want to meet in your life, and such a 0:47:05.080 --> 0:47:07.640 great reporter and such a great storyteller. And then when 0:47:07.680 --> 0:47:09.240 he came to me and tell me he was retiring, 0:47:09.280 --> 0:47:11.440 I said, I don't believe you. Come back tomorrow and 0:47:11.440 --> 0:47:13.319 tell me again. And I had him do it three 0:47:13.320 --> 0:47:14.840 times because I'm like, I am not going to be 0:47:14.880 --> 0:47:18.040 responsible for trying to stand Chambers out of this business. 0:47:18.120 --> 0:47:19.720 Oh gosh, that's amazing. 0:47:19.719 --> 0:47:21.360 But he was a great man, and you know, we 0:47:21.520 --> 0:47:23.400 miss it, and I just feel fortunate that I got 0:47:23.400 --> 0:47:24.840 to work with him a short time, even late in 0:47:24.840 --> 0:47:25.280 his career. 0:47:25.520 --> 0:47:30.480 Yeah, it's definitely really special to be here and somehow 0:47:30.640 --> 0:47:33.719 kind of follow in his footsteps. But you know, so 0:47:33.800 --> 0:47:34.239 we'll see. 0:47:34.320 --> 0:47:36.000 And I like the stories every once in a while 0:47:36.040 --> 0:47:39.080 that Megan will just come up with what do you 0:47:39.120 --> 0:47:41.320 mean just with you know, just talking about him and 0:47:41.480 --> 0:47:43.560 just oh yeah, her family watched a lot of the 0:47:43.600 --> 0:47:46.880 news too, so it's nothing. Missus a beat with the 0:47:47.280 --> 0:47:48.080 mcmonagall family. 0:47:48.120 --> 0:47:52.000 Oh yeah, my mom, she knows everything. She's obsessed with kat. 0:47:52.400 --> 0:47:55.440 Dad not so much. All right, Thanks so much for 0:47:55.520 --> 0:47:58.040 listening to the show. Please subscribe if you haven't done 0:47:58.040 --> 0:47:59.839 so already. All you have to do is search rich 0:47:59.880 --> 0:48:02.040 on Tech in your favorite podcast app. That could be 0:48:02.040 --> 0:48:05.080 Apple Podcasts, pocket Cast, or Overcast. 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That was 0:48:30.680 --> 0:48:31.600 a fun podcast. 0:48:31.920 --> 0:48:34.839 Jason, when do you ever get to interview your boss? 0:48:34.920 --> 0:48:38.279 I mean, that doesn't that didn't happen ever? Five years ago, 0:48:38.440 --> 0:48:42.120 ten years ago. Thanks all right, thanks so much for listening. Jason, 0:48:42.200 --> 0:48:43.399 You're on Twitter. 0:48:43.320 --> 0:48:47.200 Twitter at Jason Arball and on Instagram mister Jason Ball. 0:48:47.280 --> 0:48:48.319 I like Instagram the best. 0:48:48.480 --> 0:48:52.400 Yeah, so we all, Megan, I have a problem. 0:48:52.560 --> 0:48:55.080 You're your producer, producer Megan on Twitter. 0:48:55.239 --> 0:48:57.560 Yeah, Twitter, I'm Rich dmiro Rich on tech dot TV. 0:48:57.680 --> 0:49:00.000 Have a great day. I will talk to you real soon. 0:49:03.120 --> 0:49:04.960 I can mes say