Speaker 1: Ring adds new security settings you should check right now.
Speaker 1: After the podcast, Google Photos has a major oops, plus
Speaker 1: some Apple Watch tips and tricks. What's going on? This
Speaker 1: is the Rich on Tech podcast where I talk about
Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's
Speaker 1: also the place where I answer the questions that you
Speaker 1: send me. My name is rich Dimiro, the tech reporter
Speaker 1: at KATLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Joining me is
Speaker 1: producer Megan, who just finished watching the Taylor Swift documentary.
Speaker 1: What's up? Megan?
Speaker 2: Just this morning? Not much? Did you watch it?
Speaker 1: I watched twenty minutes of it, so I will try to.
Speaker 1: We've been trying to finish it. Yeah, but I liked
Speaker 1: it for the twenty minutes that we watched. So I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to get through the Morning Show season one.
Speaker 1: It takes me a while to get through things. So
Speaker 1: it usually takes me two nights, two to three nights
Speaker 1: for a movie, yeah, TV series maybe a year and
Speaker 1: then five years. Yeah, it's a while. Book maybe books
Speaker 1: are actually pretty quick, Yeah, usually like a month, because
Speaker 1: I that's that's my priority. I read and I love reading,
Speaker 1: especially now with Libby, the app that gives me the
Speaker 1: free books. So I think we talked about that on
Speaker 1: the podcast, right Libby, we did right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, last week? I think we did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did we? I think we did well. Anyway, if
Speaker 1: you don't have it, download the app Libby so you
Speaker 1: can get free books for your kindle. Have you charged
Speaker 1: your kindle since we talked about that, because I know
Speaker 1: you let it go totally dead for like a couple
Speaker 1: of years.
Speaker 3: You know, I actually bought a kindle because of Libby.
Speaker 3: I didn't have a kindle before. Oh, you gave me
Speaker 3: an old kindle. I gave it to my dad, and
Speaker 3: then I bought myself a new Kindle when you told
Speaker 3: me about Libby, because I was like, I don't want
Speaker 3: to spend money on books anymore.
Speaker 2: Why not just yeah, free the local library. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I've been loving it.
Speaker 1: So you've got you've gotten one delivered to the iPad
Speaker 1: or the I have like eight books on the kindle,
Speaker 1: pretty easy, and it's it's pretty amazing, and I, you know,
Speaker 1: I go back and forth about the whole you know,
Speaker 1: reading on this on the tablet versus reading on the
Speaker 1: printed page. For a while, I was going all books,
Speaker 1: but I realized buying the latest best sellers are very expensive,
Speaker 1: and I love supporting artists and this and that I
Speaker 1: wrote a book, and I love that people you know,
Speaker 1: paid me to you know, get my book. But I
Speaker 1: also offered it for free a lot of different ways.
Speaker 1: So I think there's something for everyone.
Speaker 2: Well, I like.
Speaker 3: The idea of maybe trying starting it on on Libby,
Speaker 3: on your kindle, like getting a book there, and then
Speaker 3: let's say you're like so into it and you're like,
Speaker 3: I love this book, I want to have it.
Speaker 2: Then you can buy it.
Speaker 1: And nobody's doing that, but I would maybe I would test.
Speaker 1: It's test books, testing books. That's interesting. But maybe if
Speaker 1: you love an author, it all depends too. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: going on vacation, you want that physical books that you
Speaker 1: can read it by the pool, whatever it may be. Anyway,
Speaker 1: well I'm glad you're reading again. Let's get to the
Speaker 1: big story of the week. Ring has a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of new controls inside their app. They are calling it
Speaker 1: the Control Center, and if you have a Ring device,
Speaker 1: you should take a look at this immediately. Because Ring's
Speaker 1: been in the news for a lot of stuff, a
Speaker 1: lot of it has been kind of overblown, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, this is a device that is on
Speaker 1: a lot of homes, and this is a company that
Speaker 1: needs to step up when it comes to letting the
Speaker 1: average person make sure that their stuff is secured. So,
Speaker 1: no matter what, we had that whole big thing where
Speaker 1: the people were hacking into the rings or we call
Speaker 1: it hacking, but realistically people are using very weak passwords,
Speaker 1: they weren't protecting their device very much and other people
Speaker 1: were able to get into those. Now they're saying that
Speaker 1: they have this new control center and help you kind
Speaker 1: of see all this stuff in one place, and here's
Speaker 1: the things that you need to look at. Number one,
Speaker 1: you can look and see if you have two factor
Speaker 1: authentication enabled for your Ring account, which you should. Ring
Speaker 1: is outside your front door. You might have one inside
Speaker 1: your house. It's a look into your personal so you
Speaker 1: want to have this secured in a big way. Two
Speaker 1: factor authentication is kind of the best thing we have
Speaker 1: right now. So the control center will tell you if
Speaker 1: that's enabled, if it's not, turn it on. Second thing,
Speaker 1: you can see all of the devices and the third
Speaker 1: party services that are authorized to see your Ring account.
Speaker 1: Let me give you an example. Let's say you had
Speaker 1: an old Android phone and you upgrade it to an
Speaker 1: iPhone last year. That old Android phone might still be
Speaker 1: logged into your account on Ring and even if you
Speaker 1: have it in a drawer somewhere. Probably not the biggest,
Speaker 1: biggest deal, but it's still an open kind of pathway
Speaker 1: into your account that you want to close. So you
Speaker 1: can go through and actually remove all the devices that
Speaker 1: are on your account. And for me, that was about
Speaker 1: eight pages of devices from over the years. I've had
Speaker 1: a RING for five years now, so you have like
Speaker 1: forty it was. Yeah, it test phones all the time,
Speaker 1: so I'm always logging in. Yeah, and of course Ring
Speaker 1: I want to see what's going on, so I removed
Speaker 1: all the old phone. The only thing I don't like
Speaker 1: about this is you can't remove them one by one.
Speaker 1: You have to remove them all, which is fine, you
Speaker 1: just start fresh, and then once you start fresh, you
Speaker 1: have to log in on your main phones again. Okay.
Speaker 1: It's also good. If you ever gave someone access to
Speaker 1: your account and you kind of forgot about that, they
Speaker 1: can still be looking in, so good get rid of them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The way they want you to share access to your
Speaker 1: account is with a process called shared Users. So, Megan,
Speaker 1: let's say I was going on vacation. I said, hey,
Speaker 1: can you take a look at you know, just keep
Speaker 1: a watch on my house, and I gave you access
Speaker 1: to my account. Normally, I would log in on the
Speaker 1: app on your phone and be like, okay, cool, Well,
Speaker 1: now you can do something called shared users. You could
Speaker 1: always do this for a while, but that's the way
Speaker 1: you want to do it. Got so that way it's
Speaker 1: more controlled and I can take away your privileges from
Speaker 1: my end without going onto your phone and logging in, right, okay.
Speaker 1: Now the big one is something called video request notifications.
Speaker 1: This is something you may or may not understand or
Speaker 1: even be aware of when it comes to RING, but
Speaker 1: they work with law enforcement in very arious places across
Speaker 1: the US so that law enforcement can say, hey, you
Speaker 1: know what, we had a robbery on Main Street, and
Speaker 1: do you mind pinging all those cameras around Main Street
Speaker 1: and asking them if they would give us their video
Speaker 1: so we can take a look and see if we
Speaker 1: get a photo of the person, the perpetrator, or the
Speaker 1: car or the license plate. And so RING will ping
Speaker 1: people on Main Street and say hey, would you mind
Speaker 1: sharing your video with the police, and they would go
Speaker 1: and they would grab your video off the account from
Speaker 1: a certain period of time. Let's say it was from
Speaker 1: one am to two am.
Speaker 2: If you let them.
Speaker 1: If you let them, you would give them that permission. Well,
Speaker 1: in the past you had to just kind of wait
Speaker 1: for the police to ask you for this. Now you
Speaker 1: can say, you know what, I don't even want the
Speaker 1: police to I'm not even in the running for this.
Speaker 1: Just take me out of the running. Just imagine I
Speaker 1: don't have a ring video doorbell. Don't even tell the
Speaker 1: police I do. So that way you can turn this off.
Speaker 1: This is called video request notifications. You can opt out
Speaker 1: of that now, so you can disable that.
Speaker 2: And that's because it's like, I don't want to.
Speaker 1: Do what's that? Yeah, you just don't. Maybe you don't
Speaker 1: trust the police, Maybe you don't trust the society, you're
Speaker 1: an anarchist, you don't like the government. Whatever it is,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but there's reasons. But they're giving you
Speaker 1: that ability. I personally left it on if something happened
Speaker 1: outside my house and I can help with something, fine.
Speaker 1: Now here's when it comes to be a problem. It's
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just this weird thing where you're willing
Speaker 1: to help unless it's something related to you.
Speaker 3: Perhaps so let's say your neighbor's house, yeah.
Speaker 1: Or anything, and all of a sudden they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: can we get and you're like, oh wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2: I can't show you what happened between one am.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not showing you that, okay. So it's interesting.
Speaker 1: It's one of these things where it's good to have
Speaker 1: the ability to turn it on or off. I would
Speaker 1: hope that people would leave it on because it's probably
Speaker 1: in the greater good. But there's also this idea of
Speaker 1: are we building a surveillance society? Right?
Speaker 3: Unknowingly, it reminds me of the surveillance camera and cars everywhere.
Speaker 1: They're everywhere now, well.
Speaker 3: The company we did like two companies last year that
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 2: You have you have a camera in your car.
Speaker 1: I have a a dash cam.
Speaker 2: Right and you're talking about something with you know, if
Speaker 2: you get to.
Speaker 1: An accident, yeh, can that video be subpoena?
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's crazy.
Speaker 1: The idea that we have so many cameras everywhere is
Speaker 1: just becoming more of reality. Like, we have to figure
Speaker 1: out how to deal with all this. There's no easy
Speaker 1: there's no easy solution. Regan By the way, if you
Speaker 1: want to look at your ring stuff on my website,
Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot TV. I do have a blog
Speaker 1: post where I kind of laid out all those things
Speaker 1: I just talked about and explain how to change those
Speaker 1: features and you know, do whatever you need to do
Speaker 1: to make them work for you.
Speaker 2: Cool. I'm going to check it out. Okay.
Speaker 3: So this first question comes from Joe, and Joe wrote
Speaker 3: on Rich's Facebook, which is Facebook dot dot com slash
Speaker 3: rich on Tech. Joe writes, I wanted to get your
Speaker 3: opinion on a new internet provider called Story. Are you
Speaker 3: familiar with this? We just got it installed today and
Speaker 3: so far it's going great.
Speaker 1: I have heard of Story, and this is a wireless
Speaker 1: internet provider, kind of an alternative to the typical internet providers,
Speaker 1: which are your cable company and your phone company. But
Speaker 1: we are seeing more of these wireless providers come along,
Speaker 1: which is a good thing for customers or consumers. I
Speaker 1: guess I should say. This is fifty dollars a month
Speaker 1: for two hundred megabits of service. And what they're doing
Speaker 1: is they have kind of a on one big building
Speaker 1: they have like an antenna and then they'll have a
Speaker 1: small antenna that they put in your house, like this
Speaker 1: little wireless box, a router kind of thing, router slash modem,
Speaker 1: and that receives a signal from the big antenna that
Speaker 1: they put up. So the main downside of this is
Speaker 1: really where it's available. Okay, So if it's available in
Speaker 1: your area, then by all means check it out, and
Speaker 1: you should go to Starre dot com and see pop
Speaker 1: in your address and see if it's available. This can
Speaker 1: help you bypass the cable companies because it's go to
Speaker 1: be a little bit cheaper. Now. I wish it was
Speaker 1: a lot cheaper. For example, I pay seventy dollars a
Speaker 1: month for Spectrum, which is two hundred megabits per second,
Speaker 1: and that's seventy dollars. This is fifty for maybe about
Speaker 1: the same speed. So it would be nice if it
Speaker 1: was way cheaper, like thirty twenty dollars a month. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a lot. It's not that much to have
Speaker 1: you switch because it's a pain to switch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if I was.
Speaker 1: Saving forty a month or fifty a month, sure, but
Speaker 1: twenty a month is kind of like I'll get to that.
Speaker 1: But I do think this is cool and it's available
Speaker 1: according to their website in La San Francisco, Boston, New
Speaker 1: York City, and Denver. So go to Star dot com.
Speaker 1: See the other one that's available in LA is called
Speaker 1: wander Wa n Oh gosh, is it w I think
Speaker 1: it's w A N d R. I think they leave
Speaker 1: out the e, W A and d R. Let me see,
Speaker 1: hold on, let me get it. It is called wander
Speaker 1: Wa n d ER. So if you're in LA, check
Speaker 1: out wander really Santa Monica. That's kind of where they're available.
Speaker 1: Oh well, that's their website. Wow, okay, I don't like websites.
Speaker 1: I have AutoPlay wander dot net. So if you want
Speaker 1: to check it out now, they are twenty five dollars
Speaker 1: a month.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, how many.
Speaker 1: That I think is fifty down, But fifty is enough
Speaker 1: for most people. Okay, So, but for twenty five dollars
Speaker 1: a month, that sounds a lot cheaper than seventy to me.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, yeah, I'm checking this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, those are your two alternatives. We're seeing T Mobile.
Speaker 1: They have T Mobile ISP, which you can check and
Speaker 1: see if they're available in your area. They're fifty. Verizon
Speaker 1: has five G home Internet, which again all these things
Speaker 1: are available in very small areas because they have to
Speaker 1: put an antenna up in your area with this big service,
Speaker 1: and then it services just a small area around an antenna, right,
Speaker 1: So that's why it's not everywhere all at once. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about kind of the the biggest fear when you
Speaker 1: put your stuff in the cloud. What would that be.
Speaker 1: Let's say you back up all your pictures to the cloud.
Speaker 1: What's your biggest fear with that?
Speaker 2: It getting hacked?
Speaker 1: Yeah, someone else seeing the pictures, so get like just deleted,
Speaker 1: deleted or hacked. Yeah, or basically someone else getting access
Speaker 1: to these pictures is also kind of up there. Well,
Speaker 1: Google Takeout had a little bit of a problem with
Speaker 1: Google Photos. Now I love Google Photos, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan, So to me, this really hurts my
Speaker 1: heart when I see that this happened with Google Photos.
Speaker 1: But some people that try to download their pictures from
Speaker 1: Google Photos apparently got some other people's photos mixed in
Speaker 1: with theirs. Not just photos, it's actually videos.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah. This happened between November twenty first and twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: It was for people that were using Google Takeout, And
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar with Google Takeout. Google has this
Speaker 1: system where you can download the data that Google has
Speaker 1: that you you upload with them. So if you've used
Speaker 1: a service, basically any of their services, you can go
Speaker 1: to this Google Takeout website and say, hey, I want
Speaker 1: an archive all my pictures that I've uploaded in all
Speaker 1: my videos, and they will zip that up into an
Speaker 1: archive and then let you download it. Now, actually downloading
Speaker 1: that is one hundred percent a royal pain because imagine
Speaker 1: I've got a terabyte of photos in my Google Photos
Speaker 1: or whatever. I have, maybe not that much, but the
Speaker 1: reality is to download a file that big, and even
Speaker 1: though they break up the files so that they're easier
Speaker 1: to download, it's gonna take me a week or two
Speaker 1: to download. Yeah, So realistically, I've never done this because
Speaker 1: it's too much. We need a better system and Google,
Speaker 1: I will say, Google Drive lets you sync to other
Speaker 1: devices like a Synology backup or something like eb meeb
Speaker 1: dot com is the website for that device that lets
Speaker 1: you back up your Google Drive. Google Photos, as far
Speaker 1: as I know right now, has no way of letting
Speaker 1: you incrementally back them up to another device. So, like
Speaker 1: we talked about ebe, remember when that thing first came out,
Speaker 1: it's a Wi Fi connected hard drive. When that first
Speaker 1: came out, you were able to think your Google Photos
Speaker 1: to that ebe. Now you can't do that anymore. Google
Speaker 1: Photos kind of cut off everyone all third parties. So
Speaker 1: now when you do Google Photos, everything is in Google
Speaker 1: Photos and that's it. You can't say, hey, I want
Speaker 1: this hard drive to kind of sink all these photos
Speaker 1: every night all twenty four to seven so that I
Speaker 1: always have a copy of to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably coming out with their own version of easy.
Speaker 1: Something there exactly. That leads me to believe that they
Speaker 1: EI are going to do like a marketing thing where
Speaker 1: they're going to say, hey, Western Digital or whoever, you're
Speaker 1: going to have exclusive rights to letting people sink their
Speaker 1: photos to your hard drive. Because think about it, that's
Speaker 1: a pretty lucrative business. Yeah, all the people are using
Speaker 1: Google Photos, say oh, I want that hard drive so
Speaker 1: I can easily have a backup totally say somebody has
Speaker 1: to do this. Google has to do this soon, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you don't want to not have your I mean,
Speaker 1: Google's not going away anytime soon, but it just it
Speaker 1: worries me that my pictures are in a place I
Speaker 1: can't easily download.
Speaker 2: I get questions all the time from my family members.
Speaker 3: About where to put their photos, and it's I just
Speaker 3: feel like it's becoming an issue. Yeah, all my pictures
Speaker 3: are on my computer. My computer is super slow. Now, Like, yep,
Speaker 3: that just shouldn't happen. You shouldn't have to put everything
Speaker 3: on your desktop computer.
Speaker 1: No, and or if you Yeah, I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: people don't really do that anymore. It's all in the cloud. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, so you have Google. You know, You've got
Speaker 1: Google Photos, You've got Microsoft OneDrive, You've got Amazon Photos,
Speaker 1: You've got iCloud. It is very confusing. This entire picture
Speaker 1: thing has caused most people to just declare photo bankruptcy,
Speaker 1: where I don't even want to deal with it. I'll
Speaker 1: just and they're forced to deal with it when they
Speaker 1: have to, which is when they get a new phone,
Speaker 1: when they get a new computer, when something happens or
Speaker 1: something goes wrong. Yeah, and for me, this even happened
Speaker 1: to myself. I was looking for a picture of my
Speaker 1: kid in the hospital when he was born, and I
Speaker 1: couldn't find it. I went to the date of his
Speaker 1: birth and nothing was in there in Google Photos. I'm like, whoa,
Speaker 1: what I had messed up? I had not backed up
Speaker 1: a backup that I thought I backed up, and then
Speaker 1: I had to back up and do it all over again. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was really freaked me out. I was like, how
Speaker 1: am I going to explain this to my wife?
Speaker 2: Oh no?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So long story short. With the Google Photos stuff,
Speaker 1: it probably didn't affect you, And if it did, you
Speaker 1: got an email from Google and they are telling you
Speaker 1: if you did a takeout export between November twenty first
Speaker 1: and November twenty fifth, you should delete it and ask
Speaker 1: for a new.
Speaker 2: One because one terabyte.
Speaker 1: You may have other people's stuff in there.
Speaker 2: So did you get your pictures? Oh?
Speaker 1: Pp, other people's photos?
Speaker 2: Did you get your picture?
Speaker 1: I did find them? Yeah, okay, good, But now I'm
Speaker 1: worried because I have a lot of random background.
Speaker 2: Do you print any pictures? By the way?
Speaker 1: Sometimes? Okay, sometimes, but very rarely.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I love Google Photos because now if you need
Speaker 1: to print a picture, you can just search in Google
Speaker 1: Photos for whatever you need. Like I'm doing like a
Speaker 1: sunset collage and I can just type in sunsets.
Speaker 2: And you know, no, it's such a cool feature for sure.
Speaker 3: This next question comes from Thomas, and if you want
Speaker 3: to submit your question, just go to riches site rich
Speaker 3: on tech dot tv and hit the contact button to
Speaker 3: send your question. So Thomas writes, I heard your segment
Speaker 3: on KFI with Handle. What is the difference between Libby
Speaker 3: and Overdrive? I have Overdrive on my kindle now and
Speaker 3: your explanation of Libby seems to be the same as Overdrive.
Speaker 1: Well, in fact, good question. So, by the way, if
Speaker 1: you're in the LA area, I'm on KFI AM six
Speaker 1: forty Tuesday mornings at eight am with Bill Handle, Wednesday
Speaker 1: mornings at five point twenty with Jennifer Jones Lee. So
Speaker 1: what is the difference between overdrive and Libby? Well, Libby
Speaker 1: is actually owned by Overdrive. And these are the apps
Speaker 1: we're talking about at the beginning of the show that
Speaker 1: lets you get free books, and it's not just fair Kindle.
Speaker 1: By the way, these let you download. You can read
Speaker 1: them inside the app, you can read them on your iPad,
Speaker 1: you can read them on your computer. Anywhere where you
Speaker 1: can download or access Overdrive or Libby, you have access
Speaker 1: to these apps or these books. So the Overdrive app
Speaker 1: the original one, and you probably have heard of it.
Speaker 1: In fact, a lot of libraries work with Overdrive to
Speaker 1: put their digital collections on Overdrive. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: every library in America doesn't want to create their own
Speaker 1: digital library, so they just say, you know what, we're
Speaker 1: gonna let Overdrive handle the heavy lifting, and yes, we
Speaker 1: have the collections, but you handle all the rights management,
Speaker 1: loading them out, making sure they're collected. Because even though
Speaker 1: it's a library book through Overdrive, it's still dealt with
Speaker 1: the same way as a physical book. You have to
Speaker 1: wait for a copy of it, you get it out
Speaker 1: for a certain amount of time, and you have to
Speaker 1: give it back at the end of that time. So
Speaker 1: Overdrive is just a more thorough version. I think it's
Speaker 1: the original one, and it just has everything all in there,
Speaker 1: so it even has video. Apparently. Libby is just for
Speaker 1: books and just for audiobooks, and it's way simpler and
Speaker 1: it helps you sign up for the library card. I
Speaker 1: haven't used the Overdrive app. I've only used Libby, but
Speaker 1: from what I can see, it seems like they took
Speaker 1: everything they learned about Overdrive the ten years or so
Speaker 1: that it's been available and just kind of distilled it
Speaker 1: down into Libby, which is just simpler, cooler, hip or fresher,
Speaker 1: better interface, and just easier to use.
Speaker 2: How did you come across Libby?
Speaker 1: I saw an article about it, and I was like,
Speaker 1: this is interesting, because whenever I see an article about
Speaker 1: something that seems really cool that I've never heard of,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I gotta investigate this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I saw this Libby thing. I'm like, and I
Speaker 1: knew you could always get I knew, I always knew
Speaker 1: you can get books from your library in digital format,
Speaker 1: but it was to me, it just seemed like it
Speaker 1: was too tough and too complicated, so I never bothered.
Speaker 1: But then when I saw that, I saw the words
Speaker 1: Libby and Kindle and I was like, wait a second,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I never thought about that free and free,
Speaker 1: and that's when I looked it up. And it's like
Speaker 1: after that game over. I've told everyone I know about it,
Speaker 1: and I've talked to a lot of people that read
Speaker 1: a lot and they knew about it, and so it's
Speaker 1: something that's not a secret, but it's really cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, super cool.
Speaker 1: February is Heart month, and if you have your eye
Speaker 1: on an Apple Watch, you might want to upgrade because
Speaker 1: they are. Apple is giving a little bit of extra
Speaker 1: cash for the series two and three, which are perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: But if you want the new features of the Apple
Speaker 1: Watch five, this might be the time to do it.
Speaker 1: Because you're getting one hundred dollars for your old watch
Speaker 1: versus you know, versus seventy or sixty. Wow, so you're
Speaker 1: getting thirty or forty extra dollars, which when you think
Speaker 1: about one hundred, that's that's a big percentage extra. So
Speaker 1: what do you get with the Apple Watch Series five
Speaker 1: over the two or three? Will you get the compass,
Speaker 1: get a larger display, you get a faster processor, you
Speaker 1: get the always on display, which I don't necessarily think
Speaker 1: you need, but you get the heart readings as well.
Speaker 1: So if you're thinking about a new Apple Watch, do
Speaker 1: the trade in now. I will tell you. And I
Speaker 1: don't think this would happen with your Apple Watch. But
Speaker 1: with me. You've probably heard me complain on this podcast
Speaker 1: about my computer that I sent in for trade in.
Speaker 1: I bought my new computer. They said they're going to
Speaker 1: give me six hundred and forty dollars for my old one.
Speaker 1: Send it away email two weeks later saying oh, we're
Speaker 1: not giving you six forty, we're giving you two thirty
Speaker 1: and I said, wait, wait what they said it was bent?
Speaker 1: So I was like, okay, send it back. So they
Speaker 1: sent it back to me. I got it yesterday. I
Speaker 1: finally opened it up and I looked at it. I
Speaker 1: was like, where's this bent? Because my computer was perfect.
Speaker 1: I was so proud of how perfect. I kept this
Speaker 1: computer for three years or two years, whatever I had
Speaker 1: it for, and I finally saw a little tiny where
Speaker 1: I dropped it on my desk, actually only a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago before I returned it. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: side corner was just a little bit bent. In long
Speaker 1: story short, the computer's fine. So now it's for my kids,
Speaker 1: I'm not so I guess my word to the whys
Speaker 1: is just beware that when you get the new Apple
Speaker 1: Watch and you send your old one in for one hundred,
Speaker 1: they could still come back at you and say, now
Speaker 1: we're only giving you fifty because there's a scratch on
Speaker 1: the screen or whatever. They still reserved that right. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the Apple Watch, there are several tips and tricks
Speaker 1: that I shared on my Instagram, so I'll share some
Speaker 1: of them here. So a couple things. Number One, you
Speaker 1: want to squeeze some more battery life out of your watch,
Speaker 1: you can use something called power reserve, So you can
Speaker 1: swipe up from the bottom, tap the battery percentage, and
Speaker 1: then slide the power reserve switch and it turns off
Speaker 1: everything except just the time. So if you're on a
Speaker 1: long plane flight you just want your watch to last.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're on an overnight flight to Tokyo. You want
Speaker 1: your watch to last when you land and you're gonna
Speaker 1: be hitting the ground running in the morning. Put on
Speaker 1: the power reserve. It won't go dead on the flight next. Oh,
Speaker 1: if you want to get out of there, you have
Speaker 1: to press and hold the side button until the Apple
Speaker 1: logo appears. Maybe an app is misbehaving. Did you know
Speaker 1: that you can kind of swipe out an app, just
Speaker 1: like you can on your iPhone. So press the side button,
Speaker 1: find the offending app, and then swipe the app to
Speaker 1: the left. That will reveal a red X. Tap it
Speaker 1: in their cos This is a really cool one that
Speaker 1: I'm not sure a lot of people know. Most of
Speaker 1: the time, when you look at your apps on the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, they're arranged in this sort of bubble grid
Speaker 1: I call it. It's like really weird. I don't even
Speaker 1: know why they chose that, but it's like they're floating around.
Speaker 1: It's really weird. Well, I personally like a grid or
Speaker 1: a list view. So if you go to your bubble
Speaker 1: grid and just kind of press hard on the screen,
Speaker 1: it will say, oh, do you want to change the
Speaker 1: list view, and then you can change them to list
Speaker 1: view and now you can scroll through your apps alphabetically.
Speaker 1: And finally, the other one I like, and this is
Speaker 1: my favorite. You know that you can find your your
Speaker 1: iPhone if you swipe up from the bottom of your
Speaker 1: Apple Watch screen and press the little ping button which
Speaker 1: looks like an iPhone with some waves rating out radiating
Speaker 1: out of it. Well, if you press and hold your
Speaker 1: finger on that little button, your phone will flash and ring.
Speaker 1: So if you're in a dark room, you can actually
Speaker 1: see where your phone is. Oh cool, just kind of fun.
Speaker 1: All of those tips and tricks are on my Instagram
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech or my Facebook page Facebook dot
Speaker 1: com slash.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, then one more Apple question, Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: What is this the Apple podcast? What we the Apple
Speaker 1: bits excel?
Speaker 2: Well, this is an Apple Watch question, so I thought
Speaker 2: might as well, Okay, follow your I'm just kidding, I'm
Speaker 2: just nice. This next question comes from Greg rich when
Speaker 2: you recommend a good Apple Watch case that doesn't get
Speaker 2: all fogged up, the one.
Speaker 1: We have is useless Apple Watch case. I've seen people
Speaker 1: with cases on their Apple Watch and I never understood it.
Speaker 1: And I get it. It's a small little device. You
Speaker 1: think you're gonna be working out, You're gonna be doing things,
Speaker 1: you know, outdoors. You're gonna scratch it, You're gonna hit
Speaker 1: up against the wall. But I've been wearing an Apple
Speaker 1: Watch for a long time and I've never had a
Speaker 1: problem with it at all. I've never scratched it. I
Speaker 1: did drop it on the floor once, on my tile
Speaker 1: floor in the bathroom. Is it marble, no, just kidding?
Speaker 1: Or is it gold or was that the gold plated floor?
Speaker 1: And it did dent the side of it, but it
Speaker 1: was like the back that was over here on the side. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think that is the time when you do
Speaker 1: have to worry about it is when your screen hits
Speaker 1: a hard ground like that, like from a higher elevation,
Speaker 1: like if you put on the countertop and it falls
Speaker 1: onto your kitchen floor, that's probably gonna mess up the
Speaker 1: screen pretty well. Otherwise, I don't really think you need
Speaker 1: a case with your Apple Watch. I feel like it
Speaker 1: takes away from the beauty of it, and it's a
Speaker 1: device that is meant to be used. It's waterproof, it's fine.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be okay in the water for most of
Speaker 1: the generations, except I believe the first one. So you're okay. Now,
Speaker 1: if you really want one, I'd probably go with a
Speaker 1: company like otter Box, or you can go with Spegan.
Speaker 1: Those are two companies that make a lot of cases.
Speaker 1: I've never tested one.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that would look like.
Speaker 1: It's just it's big and gummy and rubbery. That's what
Speaker 1: it looks like. It looks like kind of a big
Speaker 1: gummy rubbery thing on your watch. Like it's kind of
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, especially if you know an Apple Watch can last
Speaker 3: like six months in the ocean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we did a story with that. The guy's Apple
Speaker 1: Watch washed up six months later after he lost it
Speaker 1: in the ocean, and it was fine. But that said,
Speaker 1: I'll give you some of the brands. Catalyst is another one.
Speaker 1: Catalyst makes a lot of waterproof cases. Otter Box, Pelican,
Speaker 1: they might make a case for the Apple Watch. And
Speaker 1: what's the other one. I really like spec but I
Speaker 1: don't think they make one for the Apple Watch. Let's see,
Speaker 1: maybe they do. Oh, sure enough, they.
Speaker 2: Do, they do.
Speaker 1: So I would look at those those places and speaking
Speaker 1: if you want something that's kind of cheap. But yes,
Speaker 1: Spec Spec makes a candy shell fit, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of like it makes your watch a little I don't know. Okay,
Speaker 1: but it's twenty bucks. If you feel more comfortable having
Speaker 1: that on there, go ahead. Maybe your personal trainer. I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of a lot of the trainers at
Speaker 1: my gym when I do one on one personal training
Speaker 1: every day. Yeah yeah, twice a day.
Speaker 2: When I'm there once a month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so uh, I'm totally kidding, by the way about
Speaker 1: doing it.
Speaker 2: But not the mars every other day.
Speaker 1: But these trainers, they do have little kind of these
Speaker 1: rubber wrappers on their watch because they are bouncing around
Speaker 1: weights and all this stuff. So I could see how
Speaker 1: that could be a problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder what that's like.
Speaker 1: But for me, when I'm just on the peloton, I
Speaker 1: don't really have that issue. Yeah again, joking, all these
Speaker 1: things are.
Speaker 2: Jet Rich does not have a peloton.
Speaker 1: I don't have a peloton.
Speaker 2: He is a personal training.
Speaker 1: I have that thing where like someone does the workout
Speaker 1: for you? Is that a thing? What? No, what's that
Speaker 1: thing where you just like put it on your abs
Speaker 1: and it's just.
Speaker 2: Like it, like, yeah, I need one of those.
Speaker 1: Do you imagine that? I do believe in the future, though,
Speaker 1: they will figure out, we're getting so smart about all
Speaker 1: this stuff, they will figure out a way to like
Speaker 1: work you out without you having to do much like
Speaker 1: you get wherever, yeah, where everyone's just totally lounging around
Speaker 1: watching TV. If I if I had a nickel for
Speaker 1: every Wally reference I got. In my line of work,
Speaker 1: it comes up almost every day everyone I'm interviewing, It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's just Wally. It's all the time.
Speaker 3: I feel like the opposite is kind of happening though,
Speaker 3: because I feel like people are becoming more active interesting.
Speaker 1: I think that maybe it's just I think maybe you are.
Speaker 1: Why are you so appy? Not?
Speaker 2: I just feel like people are more aware of health.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 3: I feel like Wally like obviously people like are not
Speaker 3: healthy in that, which is odd.
Speaker 2: So it's like the opposite's happening.
Speaker 3: It's like people are more aware, especially with like the
Speaker 3: Apple Watch, all the health stats you can get just
Speaker 3: from like looking at your phone totally great.
Speaker 1: So I was at the gym. Seriously, I was at
Speaker 1: the gym, not yesterday, but the day before, and it
Speaker 1: was like one of those days you were just tired,
Speaker 1: you don't really feel like going. But I wanted to
Speaker 1: get my minutes on my watch, so I just did
Speaker 1: the quickest, shortest. It was like a twenty seven minute
Speaker 1: workout from Active and I knew i'd get my minutes
Speaker 1: because I already had like two, or i'd pick up
Speaker 1: the rest throughout the day and sure enough, you know,
Speaker 1: you do your workout, you feel better. But I did
Speaker 1: it just for the ring to be closed on my
Speaker 1: Apple Watch. And then I saw this trainer that I
Speaker 1: know there and she's like, oh, so, like I saw
Speaker 1: you doing that cardio today and I'm like, yep, gotta
Speaker 1: get those minutes. And she's like, hey, that's you know,
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome, good for you.
Speaker 1: So I bought a package of fifteen personal training sessions.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Google Maps. Now, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Google Maps. They turn fifteen. Wow this week, How
Speaker 1: crazy is that? Fifteen? Megan, you were just a you
Speaker 1: were a tiny t what's the equivalent of a lasts
Speaker 1: a last. You were just a tiny lass when Google
Speaker 1: Maps came.
Speaker 2: Out and Scottish references.
Speaker 1: It's so weird to think that before Google Maps we
Speaker 1: had ways of getting around which we're asking people for directions,
Speaker 1: printing out map quest directions, Thomas guide.
Speaker 2: Using your compass?
Speaker 1: Did she?
Speaker 2: Is that just me?
Speaker 1: I don't think people use compasses. Maybe you did, Sunstone.
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever you did. But the reality is
Speaker 1: Google Maps changed everything, and now I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: Has someone ever tried to give you directions lately?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And what do you say? And what do you say
Speaker 1: to them?
Speaker 2: I just go I can't. This is too much information,
Speaker 2: you say, I have my phone. I'm like, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: don't tell me. I don't want to know.
Speaker 1: I'll be fine. Yeah, I will just follow the blue
Speaker 1: line on my phone to my death.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy though, and I can like figure it out,
Speaker 3: like figure out how to get home from someplace.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, I just I'll take this freeway. I
Speaker 2: know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1: I put my Google Maps on. Whether I'm driving to
Speaker 1: work every single morning just to get to work. Yes,
Speaker 1: Now here's why though, because it's the traffic. Yes, it
Speaker 1: is it is. Yes, it has saved me twice where
Speaker 1: it said All of a sudden, I put it on
Speaker 1: and I see it's routing me some weird way, and
Speaker 1: I'm like groggy, and I'm like, oh, give me a break.
Speaker 1: I follow it, and sure enough, there's a huge accident
Speaker 1: on the freeway. It routes me around it, and I
Speaker 1: am like, wow, that was a lifesaver. And that happened
Speaker 1: at least twice in recent memory.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: I also put it every day when I bring my
Speaker 1: kids or when I pick up my kids from school.
Speaker 1: You just never know. We live in Los Angeles. You
Speaker 1: never know there could be something on the streets. And
Speaker 1: what I like to do is I also like to
Speaker 1: be a contributor to the data that these maps apps
Speaker 1: are kind of sucking up from all the phones. So
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, I feel like I'm doing my
Speaker 1: part and like giving them that data from my phone
Speaker 1: of what it looks like on the roads.
Speaker 2: That's great, good for you.
Speaker 1: So Google Maps turning fifteen, you will notice there's a
Speaker 1: brand new icon for the app, and there's some they
Speaker 1: say there's new features. Well, the app is actually getting
Speaker 1: more complicated. I feel like Google Maps has just gotten
Speaker 1: kind of bloated. I think what they're trying to do is,
Speaker 1: since Google Maps is so popular actually on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: like Google needs a way of being a trojan horse
Speaker 1: on your phone an Android, they have free access to everything.
Speaker 1: But what if people use the most on their phone,
Speaker 1: probably Google Maps on the iPhone. So they're thinking, well,
Speaker 1: how many features can we build in to Google Maps
Speaker 1: that kind of still give us data, that kind of
Speaker 1: still give people access to Google products. So here's all
Speaker 1: the things you get now. Five tabs across the bottom.
Speaker 1: Explore which helps you find things nearby, Commute which tells
Speaker 1: you about your route, saved which is a list of
Speaker 1: all your places which I have on Yelp, Contribute which
Speaker 1: lets you share your local knowledge. I'm a big fan
Speaker 1: of sharing pictures on Google Maps. I love doing that.
Speaker 1: I've got like eight million views of my pictures. Whoa
Speaker 1: updates which is a feed of trending spots nearby. So
Speaker 1: it's all those things that are now baked into the
Speaker 1: Google Maps app. But for ninety nine percent of people,
Speaker 1: what are they using Google Maps for? I need directions
Speaker 1: from A to B. That's it. Yeah, Like, when was
Speaker 1: the last time you found a restaurant to go to
Speaker 1: on Google Maps. Never never, I mean me either, No,
Speaker 1: I mean I always go to yelp.
Speaker 2: But is there a way?
Speaker 3: I know, if you're on your desk and you're searching
Speaker 3: on Google Maps, you can like change the time, Like
Speaker 3: if you're leaving, yes, two days at this time and
Speaker 3: you want to get there by two pm?
Speaker 2: Can you do that on the app?
Speaker 1: You can? I actually wrote this down because oh wow,
Speaker 1: you're predicting. I'm actually going to do a little video
Speaker 1: of some Google Maps tips. So I wrote it down already.
Speaker 1: So you're talking about the one that tells you. On
Speaker 1: the desktop, it's super easy. You just say like, oh,
Speaker 1: I want to leave at nine am, and you just
Speaker 1: change a little slider. On mobile, it's not as a parent.
Speaker 1: But if you're on iOS, you have to go to
Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner after you get directions. So
Speaker 1: get directions, okay, Then go to the upper right hand corner.
Speaker 1: There's a little three buttons that's the menu button, and
Speaker 1: you have to choose set a reminder to leave. I know,
Speaker 1: it's weird they hide it beneath that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So even though it says set a reminder to leave,
Speaker 1: you can still talk. You can still scroll through and
Speaker 1: get an idea of the time. So let's say you
Speaker 1: scroll through and you say, I want to be there
Speaker 1: at six pm on Friday night. You set all that
Speaker 1: with the dials, and then it'll say you need to
Speaker 1: leave by five point fifteen and it will tell you that,
Speaker 1: and then you can set a reminder and your phone
Speaker 1: will send you notification, or you can just look at
Speaker 1: that information be like, all right, I got a budget
Speaker 1: about forty five minutes. On Android, once you choose directions,
Speaker 1: you hit the menu button and it says choose set
Speaker 1: depart or arrive time. And once you do that, you
Speaker 1: can choose when you want to leave or arrive. They
Speaker 1: don't have a notification for you on Android built into
Speaker 1: the maps app. I know. It's weird. I think because
Speaker 1: they use it through your calendar, they kind of see
Speaker 1: where you're going and give you notifications. Sometimes it's very
Speaker 1: hit or miss, okay, but that's how you see it
Speaker 1: on Android. It'll give you a range of time that'll
Speaker 1: take to get there, so it is there on the app.
Speaker 1: I just don't understand why they don't make it more prominent,
Speaker 1: and I think they should. And the only reason I
Speaker 1: have that written down. Is because I literally, you know,
Speaker 1: I like to do these little videos for Instagram, these
Speaker 1: sixty second tech tips, and I just was like, oh,
Speaker 1: maps would be kind of a fun one. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot more than meets the eye.
Speaker 3: Okay, This next next question comes from Patty. I downloaded
Speaker 3: a song from iTunes and I would like to use
Speaker 3: it for a ring tone on my iPhone eight plus.
Speaker 2: How do I go about it? I used to try
Speaker 2: to do this all the time when I was younger.
Speaker 1: Remember when ringes were like such a big thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you would buy them for like two dollars, And
Speaker 3: I remember trying to, like I bought a song on
Speaker 3: iTunes and then put it on garage band and tried
Speaker 3: to make it like twenty eight seconds all that.
Speaker 2: It's complicated, but it.
Speaker 1: Is complicated more. But a lot of people don't know.
Speaker 1: For a while, they were selling ring tones in the
Speaker 1: iTunes store. I don't even know if they sell them anymore,
Speaker 1: but I bought a few recently. I wonder if I
Speaker 1: can look back, I might have bought the Nickelback you know,
Speaker 1: like a Nickelback song. Yeah, okay, back in the day.
Speaker 2: Oh, Jason al Dean No that would be now, oh okay.
Speaker 1: Well you know your country music. Huh yeah, Now it
Speaker 1: would be Brett Young.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say Brett Eldridge, isn't he.
Speaker 1: Brett, Yeah he is.
Speaker 2: I just make a name.
Speaker 1: I think Brett Eldridge is. Oh, what the heck was
Speaker 1: that Brett Eldridge? He sings Dan No, I don't know. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that sounds like all the want to be that song
Speaker 1: lose my mind anyway. So I believe in some way
Speaker 1: you can probably get ring tones, maybe from iTunes. Still,
Speaker 1: but there's two ways that I would recommend to do this.
Speaker 1: If you want to do it the free, simple easy way,
Speaker 1: it's not really simple, I guess I should call it
Speaker 1: the freeway is to download garage band on your iPhone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's very common. It's not easy to do like
Speaker 1: the average person without following some sort of some sort
Speaker 1: of tutorial online. It's not like it says, hey, make
Speaker 1: a ringtone, which they should have as an option.
Speaker 2: Especially by now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just like it's basically a little you're basically it's
Speaker 3: like a little commercial for that song.
Speaker 2: If it plays, you know, exactly.
Speaker 1: So I would recommend if you want to do what's
Speaker 1: the person's same that emailed uh, Patty, Patty, I would
Speaker 1: recommend if you want to do it for free, download
Speaker 1: garage Band to your iPhone. It's a free app. Get
Speaker 1: the song that you want. You can either have it
Speaker 1: on your phone or you can drop it into your
Speaker 1: iCloud files app, and that way you just have it
Speaker 1: access to it, and then just Google garage Band ringtone
Speaker 1: tutorial and just fallow all the steps. I tried it
Speaker 1: this morning. It's a little complicated. You have to basically
Speaker 1: make a little like piano sound or something or any
Speaker 1: other instrument sound, then import the ring the music, and
Speaker 1: then trim the music to thirty seconds or less, and
Speaker 1: then exit out and then share your creation as a
Speaker 1: ring tone. Once you do it, it's not tough. It's
Speaker 1: just a lot of steps.
Speaker 3: Well, so I also just went to sounds on like
Speaker 3: settings through on the iPhone. And if you go to
Speaker 3: ring tone, there's a tone.
Speaker 1: Store there is they still have it.
Speaker 2: So they still have it, and you can buy ring
Speaker 2: tones and they're a dollar twenty nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but nobody wants to spend that on a ringtone.
Speaker 1: So I think that there was a time when people
Speaker 1: were excited about that. Now I feel like people like
Speaker 1: I would like a custom ring tone if I can
Speaker 1: make it for free. But I am surprised that they
Speaker 1: still sell it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: So here's my other option. There's an app if you
Speaker 1: want to make it drop dead simple. There's an app
Speaker 1: called I ring ire I and GG by a company
Speaker 1: named soft soft soft a Reno. There's a soft Reno
Speaker 1: and that is probably the easiest way. They do have
Speaker 1: a free download, so I believe you can try it out,
Speaker 1: maybe make one, see what you think. But this is
Speaker 1: this is the easiest way. You can imagine it's drag
Speaker 1: and drop any song onto this thing. It'll create the
Speaker 1: ring tone, put it on your phone, or you can
Speaker 1: even search for a song that you want and just
Speaker 1: import it that way. I mean, it's really it's easy.
Speaker 1: And let's see how much it is to actually buy it.
Speaker 1: It is? Are you ready? Yeah? Twenty bucks? Oh so
Speaker 1: you can get twenty if you imagine what's twenty divided
Speaker 1: by one one dollar thirty cents. How much do you
Speaker 1: say it was? Yeah, one one thirty, So you can
Speaker 1: if you make fifteen ring tones, you've paid for itself.
Speaker 2: Well, there you go. Did you ever use LimeWire no.
Speaker 1: I never you know, I'm a big like not anti pirrator,
Speaker 1: but I just mean being in the creative business, being
Speaker 1: in the creative space. I never wanted to steal other
Speaker 1: people's content, and I'm not judging people who did. I
Speaker 1: think that was it made the way the things we
Speaker 1: have now are all based on that. Like we might
Speaker 1: not have Netflix if we didn't have LimeWire or exactly yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, or Napster before LimeWire. But it's one of
Speaker 1: these things where I personally just never did it. Of
Speaker 1: course I experimented and saw what was available. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: there's two things I always hated. Number One, I couldn't
Speaker 1: guarantee the quality you download a song. You have no
Speaker 1: idea if it was like some ripped CD, someone did
Speaker 1: it at a lower bitrate or whatever it was. It
Speaker 1: didn't sound good. With movies, I'm not watching a movie
Speaker 1: with someone in the theater in front of me their
Speaker 1: head popping into it, or just all these things. So
Speaker 1: and to me, it's just it's easier to buy it
Speaker 1: or rent it and to just do it the legit way.
Speaker 1: And so that's why anyway.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, I just remember lime Wire was like
Speaker 3: a thing when I was in middle school.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was a big thing. I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: My friend in college, Adam, showed me this tiny clipping
Speaker 1: of a newspaper article. And this was before any peer
Speaker 1: to peer file sharing had started. Now, I believe Napster
Speaker 1: was around, but this was peer to peer. Like Napster
Speaker 1: was just for music, but this kind of opened it
Speaker 1: up to more peer to peer, which you can share anything, PDFs, books, movies, whatever.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And it was a tiny little article. It's like called
Speaker 1: the Oh gosh, was it the new project or GNU
Speaker 1: peer to peer? And it was like it just said
Speaker 1: how it could not be stopped. Oh it was once
Speaker 1: it's once it's there and computers are on board, it
Speaker 1: could never be stopped. Wow. And I just like in
Speaker 1: my little mind back then, it was so like boggle.
Speaker 3: You took like a you like remember like, okay, this moment, Yeah,
Speaker 3: everything's changed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's just like it made so much sense that, yeah,
Speaker 1: these computers, it was decentralized versus something like Netflix. If
Speaker 1: Netflix shuts down, that's it, it goes away. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: these other sites online that are peer to peer sharing,
Speaker 1: you can't shut them down. There's always someone online that's
Speaker 1: gonna have stuff to share, and it just keeps going.
Speaker 2: So it's like the universe.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the kind of like yes, kind
Speaker 1: of like the universe. Wow, that's gonna do it for
Speaker 1: this episode of the show. If you want links to
Speaker 1: anything we talked about, take a look at the show notes.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 1: Just a reminder. Next week is Valentine's Day. Let's get
Speaker 1: those reservations, flowers, candy, all the stuff that.
Speaker 2: Did you get your flowers already?
Speaker 1: I don't do flower well, sometimes you do flowers. If
Speaker 1: you can't do all that stuff, just get your Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime Now account set up. Do you have big plans
Speaker 1: for valance. I'd say no, Okay, you said we're going
Speaker 1: out to dinner, Megan. How can folks find you online?
Speaker 3: I'm on Twitter at producer Meghan if you want to
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