WEBVTT - Apple and Google upgrade their AI, DROP data removal site & Tesla CD player (157, January 17, 2026) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.840 Why your headphones can be hacked and how to fix that, 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.800 how to claim your twenty dollars credit for the Verizon outage. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.880 An app called are You Dead is going viral plus 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.160 your tech cut questions answered. What's going on. I'm Richdmiro 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.880 and this is Rich on Tech. This is the show 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:19.599 where I talk about the tech stuff I think you 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.320 should know about. It's also the place where I answer 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:27.400 your questions about technology. I believe that tech should be interesting, useful, 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:31.160 and fun. Let's open up those phone lines at triple 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:33.960 eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:36.559 four to two four one zero one. Give me a call. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.800 If you have a question about technology. Email is also open. 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.120 Just go to rich on Tech dot tv and hit contact. 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:44.720 Now. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.120 You know I'm human and I'm not AI because I 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.159 already screwed up in the beginning of the show, so 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.760 you know I'm here, I'm live, I'm with you. We're 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.000 gonna get through this together. We've got great guests this week. 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:59.760 I'm getting so many questions about this one, the California 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.880 Elite Request and opt Out platform. I've got Tom Kemp 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.720 from the California Privacy Protection Agency to talk all about 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:10.400 that and even if you don't live in California, it's 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:13.559 still really interesting what the state is doing to help 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:17.600 residents protect their privacy. It's a pretty interesting platform. Then 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:22.200 we've got YouTuber kit Boga to talk about modern scams. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:26.360 Really interesting takeaways there about what you can do to 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.319 protect yourself from scammers. We all need that advice. And 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.000 then later on we've got Professor Tim Spector, one of 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.199 my new favorites, co founder of this app called Zoe Health. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.360 He's going to talk all about how they're using AI 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.520 and science to score the foods that you eat from 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.600 one to one hundred. Yeah, that's kind of eye opening 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.040 that app. If you haven't downloaded it yet, it's called 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:53.600 Zoe Health. Welcome to the show. Very exciting. This week 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.720 was all about getting back into the swing of things. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.680 Last week I was live from Las Vegas for CS. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.400 It always takes me a long time to recover from 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:06.880 that show, not physically, not you know, I didn't get 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.520 sick like a lot of people. I watched all my 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.520 tech friends post on Instagram how they were sick after 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.760 CS and I don't know what I do but maybe 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.359 because I'm such a germaphobe, but I kind of did 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.840 not get sick, which is a great thing, but it 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.120 still just takes a lot because it's so much all 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.520 at once. Like I'm going through my videos, I'm still 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.040 posting them to my Instagram at rich on Tech, I'm 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.400 still showing them on TV. You get a lot of content. 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.440 And I realize by the way that if you are 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.680 an up and coming tech person, like you want to 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.520 do something on social media or whatever, literally just go 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.360 to there's a tech show every week somewhere, just go 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.080 to them and create content. I could literally do that 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.480 for the rest of my life. Probably. There's so much 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.120 on display at these shows. It's really a lot of fun. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:53.520 I don't know if I'll be able to do that. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.760 I can't go to every show, but there are so many. 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.639 If you want, like a new career, you just want 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:00.200 to be on social media doing videos and stuff in 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:02.440 the tech world, that is a you could easily do it. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.240 You just have to figure out how to monetize, but 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.200 I'm sure you could. This week, I did something a 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.520 little interesting. I took my SIM card out of my 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:13.840 iPhone and I put it back into an Android phone, 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.079 specifically the Samsung Galaxy S twenty five Ultra. Why did 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:18.960 I do this? I don't know. I just like to 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.880 challenge myself, and this was a challenge because number One, 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:23.839 as soon as I start texting people, they say, what's 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:25.920 up with a green bubble? Rich? And I'm like, you know, 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.360 I'm a tech person. You know, I try different things, 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.160 you know, I try to be dynamic in my life. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:33.400 And I'll tell you what happened. I was in Vegas. 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.800 I used the Samsung almost exclusively, and I was like, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.280 this is pretty good. Like I forgot how much I 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.720 like the different things you could do on Android. I said, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:42.280 you know what, I'm just going to go ahead and 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:43.520 put my SIM card in there. 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:43.920 Now. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.120 When I say that, it's a virtual thing. So I 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.240 will tell you I've tried to do this a couple 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.280 times where it actually just my sim, my electronic SIM 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.720 leaves one phone and it goes into never never Land 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.080 and it never arrives on my new phone. So I've 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.160 had this happen several times where I'm just without a 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.160 phone line for like three or four days until I 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.240 can walk into the store and literally ask for help. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.480 And so I really don't do this very often because 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.280 that happens so many times to me in the past that. 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:14.520 I'm just like, okay, But long story short, I really 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.120 like the way you can customize an Android phone. You 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.160 can make it the work the way you want it to. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.400 And I think Apple is caught up in a lot 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.800 of ways with that stuff. But there's still some things 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.840 about Android that just work better. And for me, it's like, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.560 if you are sort of a phone nerd and you 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.240 want to do things exactly the way you want to 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.120 do it, you can do that on Android. To me, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.760 the biggest gap is still voice search. Number one. You 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.920 can easily search voice on Androids so much faster than 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.159 on the iPhone and AI. Obviously we're gonna talk a 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.040 lot about AI, but the iPhone, you know, that's a 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:48.719 laggard in that area anyway. So I'm still trying to 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.240 figure out this whole situation because now I don't have 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.159 like a way to charge everything all at once, my 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.279 watch doesn't really sync with the phone. A lot of 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.040 things I used to do that were easy, just take 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.719 a little extra time. I'm in steps, especially by the way, 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.800 I will tell you, I do think that social media 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.920 content creation and video is still better on the iPhone, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.320 Like hands down, I think that the Samsung does a 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.240 great job, but so many apps are optimized for the 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.479 iPhone that you're like, oh, I could do this on 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.440 the iPhone, I can't do that on Samsung. Why not? 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.360 Why not? Now, I will say, and I've talked about 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.599 this before. This is why I like kind of independent 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.960 third party apps that optimize for everything. But there are 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:30.479 still apps that I have on the iPhone that I 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.760 love that will not come to Android for some reason, 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:37.039 and it really annoys me. What else I will keep 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:38.600 you posted on this. I don't know how long this 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.520 setup is going to last. I'm also not the typical 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.760 phone person, like I will still have my iPhone in 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.960 my backpack because I need it, and I will still 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:49.960 be using it. But it's one of these things where 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.719 I like to see how these different platforms work so 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.560 that I can talk about them more easily on a 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.480 show like this. So when you call in with your issues, 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.520 you know you're trying to decide whether you should switch. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:06.000 I can give you a great opinion on that. Now 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:06.520 let's talk. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:06.880 AI. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.800 I know you're gonna just turn off the radio, don't 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.320 do it. Just hear me out, because this really affects anyone. 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.520 This affects anyone who's using an iPhone or Android. So 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.520 Apple this week effectively admitted that it really can't make 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.719 its own AI fast enough, so it is going to 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:27.120 use get this, Google's Gemini to make Siri smarter. They 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.040 came out with this joint announcement. So I thought was 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.279 kind of funny because it's only posted on Google's website, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.080 like Apple didn't post it on theirs. What I think 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.359 is kind of funny. But basically Apple and Google have 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:41.200 entered into this multi year collaboration where they are gonna 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:45.400 make Siri smarter using Gemini under the hood. What does 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:49.360 that mean. It means that Apple is saying, we can't 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.360 figure this out on our own. Google has clearly figured 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.039 this out. We're going to use their technology. Doesn't mean 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.960 when you call up Siri it's gonna be Gemini. It's 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:02.440 still gonna be Siri, but it's gonna be underlying powered 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.440 by Gemini. What does that mean? Well, we got to 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.880 bring you back to twenty twenty four WWDC. Apple introduced 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.480 this thing called Apple Intelligence and they promised, oh my gosh, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:16.120 Sirih's gonna get so smart. Sirih's gonna understand your emails, 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.320 your photos, your texts, and your notes, all while protecting 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.360 your privacy. All this information on your phone, Siri will 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.360 understand it and pull from that when you ask it 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:28.360 a question. Fast forward two years, none of that has happened. Siri, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.120 in fact has gotten a little bit better, but nothing 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.840 like what we're seeing with chatch Ebt and Gemini. So 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:35.760 clearly it has turned out to be much harder than 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.160 Apple expected to do this. So now they're gonna use 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.120 Gemini as the brain for Siri. So Gemini is gonna 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.840 work behind the scenes. You're still gonna use Siri, and 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.920 Apple says all of their privacy protections will be in place. 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.239 But this is a very practical move because Apple needs 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.280 something that works right now. And hopefully these improvements will 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.160 be on iPhones by the end of the year. And 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.320 I think if they do come to the iPhone, it's 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.600 going to be a big win because so many people 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.600 have so much information stored on their iPhone. They want 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.840 to be able to tap into that with Siri. Hey, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.320 sirih where'd I go on vacation last year? You know, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.560 pull up that calendar event for next week, or give 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.760 me a little a dossier on this person I'm meeting 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.480 with at this meeting, like what do I know about 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.120 them from my past emails? It can pull all that stuff, 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.120 or hey, something as simple as when's my flight next week? 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.800 I mean, those are easy things. So hopefully that should happen. 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.920 And again, Apple has promised this all going to be private, 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.160 so a lot of this computing is going to happen 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.640 on the iPhone itself, and if it can't, they're going 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.320 to use what's called Apple's Private compute servers and they're 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.800 going to use the information, send it there, and then 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.040 as soon as it's all processed by AI, Apple deletes 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:46.160 it after it's sent to your phone. So everything's really 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:47.880 done in a private way. And I do believe that 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.600 because I sat through meetings with Apple where they explain 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:52.120 how that stuff worked and they took a lot of 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.200 engineers to figure that out. Now, Google, this week, not 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.720 to be outdone, made their own announcement called personalized Intelligence 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.800 for Gemini. This is basically the same thing, but if 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.760 you're a Google user, it will now let AI tap 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.559 into your Gmail, your Google photos, your YouTube, your search 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.480 history and more. I got access to this this morning, 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.480 and it is quite wild. I asked it to tell 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.400 me all about myself it gives you, like these little 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:21.720 suggested questions to ask, and it is just insane. Gemini 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.120 knows all about you. It can tell you where you've 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.920 been on vacation, the type of car you drive. It 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.920 can infer things about your career. It said, hey, one 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:32.800 of the questions it suggested, It said, hey, if I'm 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:34.720 not a tech reporter, what else would I be really 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.719 good at? And it looked at all my emails and 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.679 all my documents and all my photos and said, here 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.640 are things that you like, and here are things we 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:45.720 think you'd be good at. That's wild. So it's just 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.000 it's it's the next level of AI being personalized to us. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.319 Now doesn't get everything right. It said, we know you're 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.480 a Jets fan, so you'd like this. I said, well, 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:56.920 that's really my son, and it Google said this in 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.319 their announcement. We're not going to get everything right. Some 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.199 things we're gonna get wrong. We're going to have further 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.040 wrong things. So if it's wrong, just tell us, tell 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.000 Gemini that it's wrong, and it will fix it for 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.320 the next time. But the bigger picture here is that 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:13.439 I know AI can feel a little bit strange and unsettling, 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.680 and like where is this all going? But I think 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:19.520 that when we get access to faster, more relevant answers 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.960 without digging through years of emails and photos, having our 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:28.880 information clearly synthesized by AI and easily accessible is game 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:34.520 changing for all of us. Whether you're on iPhone, Android, Google, Apple, Siri, 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.760 Open AI, with Chat, ebt, it is all happening, and 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.600 I think it's really really useful. So look for that. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.520 Look for that on your phone. You'll get a pop up. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.760 It is opt in on the Google Gemini stuff. So 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.280 if you get a pop up, you want to opt in, 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.240 you want to try it out, go ahead and do that. 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.439 If you don't, just don't opt into it. But I'm 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.520 excited for it. Eight eight eight rich one O one 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.320 eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.560 Coming up? Why is everyone posting about twenty sixteen on 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.880 social media? I'll explain that and much more right here 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:09.880 on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:14.120 Rich Demiro here hanging out with you in twenty sixteen. 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:20.120 Oh just kidding, But why is everyone posting about twenty sixteen? Like, 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.320 think about in your head? Can you remember one thing 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:24.520 about twenty sixteen? 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:24.880 No? 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.160 So, but everyone is hopping on this bandwagon. It's like 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.319 a viral trend on social media. I guess it's been 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.680 ten years since twenty sixteen. But it's not like that 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.679 was like a great year that everyone's like, oh my gosh, 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.400 twenty sixteen was so amazing. No, it's like there's nothing 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:41.960 notable about twenty sixteen except it was ten years ago 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.800 and now people are posting about it, like I don't know, 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.280 Like I look through my pictures, I'm like, there was 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.920 nothing special about twenty sixteen in my photos. But anyway, 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.840 if you noticed, if you're scrolling through social media, everyone 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:59.520 is posting about it, throwing putting these throwback pictures. For 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:03.400 some reason, in the dog gear snapchat filter was popular. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:08.520 There were viral challenges back then. Closer by the Chainsmokers, 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.960 I guess was a popular song back then. I don't know. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.920 I mean, obviously these things all start on TikTok and 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.040 then they just kind of they trickled down into social media. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.599 So I have not posted about that yet. It's just 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.920 too much work. Like I didn't feel like looking through 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.240 my pictures of twenty sixteen to find like ten good ones, 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.920 but I know everyone else has done it, so Anyway, 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.880 if you're wondering why everyone's posting about twenty sixteen, it's 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.800 just fun. That's what they're doing it for. There's no 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.040 specific reason except the fact that people are just being 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.120 nostalgic for a random year that was ten years ago. 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.440 Let's go to Susan in San Jose. Susan, you're on 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:45.880 with Rich. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:49.199 Hey, I remember you from your first day. You your 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.960 personality and information is just fantastic. Your mother must be 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:53.920 very very proud of you. 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.960 Oh thank you. I need to ask her one day. Well, yeah, 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.840 she'd never tell me. Not kidding. What's up? 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.960 I have an eighty eight year old friend hates his iPhone, 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.559 would really like to go back to like a flip 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.160 He just wants phone and text any suggestions on. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:13.080 A flip Yes, there is, so he doesn't. He doesn't 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.240 want a standard smartphone. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.720 He hates it. He has one, He has a great iPhone, 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:18.240 hates it. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.120 Oh wow, he's gonna go from an iPhone to a 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:24.600 flip phone. Okay, Well, I mean I think the standard 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.040 issue here is the Nokia twenty seven to eighty, which 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.480 is about ninety dollars. It is unlocked, which means it's 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:33.319 gonna work with T Mobile. It's gonna work with AT 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.480 and T, it's gonna work with Verizon, it's gonna work 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.000 with all those like you know, smaller Envy and O's 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:42.040 mobile virtual network operators like a US Mobile or a 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.760 Visible something like that. But this is just your standard 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.800 flip phone. I mean, it's not gonna be anything special. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.440 It's just gonna have, you know, some of the modern amenities, 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.200 Like it does have a USB C charge report, it 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:57.640 does have Google Maps for navigation. Let's see what else. 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.760 It's got the flashlight, it's got a little camera, it's 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:01.959 got a a headphone jack. But I don't think it's 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.679 the standard size. But you know, it's one of those 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.080 things where it's just gonna be a flip phone. And 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.000 if you want a phone that you can close when 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:13.040 you're done talking, this is gonna be the other brand 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.360 that people really like for these pretty inexpensive phones. If 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.680 you go on Amazon, there's a ton of them, but 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.760 the TCL they make a bunch of them. They've got 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.120 a Flip three that's just fifty three dollars. I mean, 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.080 that's not a bad deal. But the Nokia twenty seven 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.440 to eighty flip is really the one I think that 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.200 most people are getting, but there's so many of them. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:39.880 There's a website called Dumb Wireless. Dumb Dumbwireless dot com 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.720 met with these two young founders of this website. They said, 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.040 you know, we're just trying to make people less dependent 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.080 on their phones. You know, we're so sick of everyone 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.840 being on their phone all the time. And so they 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.120 put this, put this website together with all of the 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.240 current I guess you call them like light phones, or 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.600 they call them dumb phones. But they've got a whole 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.480 bunch of one here. So maybe your friend and wants 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.960 something that's a little different. They've got Let's see, what 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:07.680 are the other brands here, the AGM M nine, the 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.880 jelly Star, they've got the Sunbeam, the Nokia that I mentioned. 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:14.280 The Barbie Phone is on there. If your friend wants 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:17.120 a Barbie phone. They've got the Punked. I like that one. 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.560 The Punked p U n K T looks really cool, 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.840 but it's so expensive. It's like three hundred dollars. And 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.200 then remember this phone that we're gonna I think we 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.080 talked about it last week, the clicks Communicator. This is 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:31.880 the phone that looks like a BlackBerry, but it's more 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.640 kind of intended to be a secondary phone or for 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.120 people that don't want to be scrolling all day. So 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.440 that's another option right there. So you got a lot 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.440 of options, Susan, I think one of those is going 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:45.160 to work for you for sure. Eight eight eight rich 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.480 one O one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.480 four one zero one. Uh did you speaking of phones? 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.360 Were you affected by this Verizon outage? I was not, 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.120 but I got a bunch of people said they were 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.480 a bunch of family members. Seemed like it was concentrated 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:04.880 on the East host. Happened a couple days ago, early January. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.280 I think it was the fourteenth. It lasted about ten hours, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.440 was resolved by the end of the day. And you know, 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.160 they haven't said, as far as I can tell, what 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.280 caused it, but usually it's like a software update. It 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.800 was not a cybersecurity incident, but a lot of people 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.600 were left without their phones, of Verizon customers, and so 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.280 Verizon said in a tweet, we did not meet the 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.560 standard of excellence. It's pretty rare that they do this. 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.040 But this happened last year too. I don't know if 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.000 you remember that it was a longer outage, for sure, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.520 but they gave customers that were affected a twenty dollars credit, 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:37.640 but they did something that was a little bit like, 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.760 come on Verizon. They didn't make it automatic. So if 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.960 you were affected by this outage, you should get a 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.560 text message that will tell you to open the my 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:49.320 Verizon app and claim this twenty dollars credit. And I 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.840 think it's one credit per account, not per line. And 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.440 if you're a business customer, obviously the stakes are higher. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.440 Verizon's going to be getting in touch with you in 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.800 a different way. So this is more for the consumer 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.680 side of things. But we don't like outages. We rely 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.720 on our phone so much. And Verizon is pretty solid. 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.359 I mean, all the carriers have been pretty solid. But 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.520 when these things happen, they really affect a large swath 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.400 of not only people, but things because so many devices 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.440 and cars and smart gadgets are dependent on these networks. 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.040 But if you want that twenty dollars credit, watch for 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.320 the text, go to the mina Verizon app and you should. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.399 You should have a little banner that says redeem this 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.000 twenty dollars. It would have been nice if it was automatic, 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:32.960 but think about it saves Verizon a lot of money 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:37.120 for people that don't don't submit for the credit there 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.320 all right, coming up, we're gonna talk about California's new 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.199 privacy website. I'll tell you how you can get in 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:46.480 on that. Eighty to eight rich one oh one. Welcome 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.880 back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.080 with you, talking technology triple eight rich one O one 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.280 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:58.040 Back to the phone lines in just a moment. But 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:00.320 if there is one thing that has been light up 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.960 my inbox lately, it is this question, how do I 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.520 get my personal information off the Internet and out of 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.280 the hands of data brokers? And specifically, if you live 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.480 in California, there's a brand new free tool that says 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.880 it will do just that. It's called Drop, Delete, Request 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.800 and Opt Out Platform. Now I went through the process 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:22.680 myself this week. You have to verify your residency, fill 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.760 out some personal information, name, data, birth phone number, and 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:27.960 then they will do the rest. And even if you're 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.159 not in California, you'll probably want to listen to this 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.480 because this is probably going to be replicated by other 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.080 states or even the federal government. So recently I spoke 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:41.280 with the executive director of the California Privacy Protection Agency, 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:46.359 Tom Kemp, to explain all. All right, so this is 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:50.280 such a big topic in our world today, privacy in general. 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.280 You guys just recently launched this new website called DROP. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:56.840 You can tell me what that stands for and what 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.320 it does. But many people, I don't think I've ever 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:03.040 gotten so many emails about a new website in a 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.880 very long time like this one. So people are very 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.640 curious about what it is and what it does. Give 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:12.040 me the high level kind of answer there, Well, that's 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:12.920 exciting to hear. 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:17.520 Yes, DROP stands for the Delete Request and Opt Out Platform. 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:23.040 It's a free tool available from Calprivacy and what it 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:27.600 does it allows Californians to go to our website, verify 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.040 their residency, and make a request to have hundreds of 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:36.600 data brokers delete all their personal information. So it's pretty 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:41.320 amazing that it's basically a one click on stop ability 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:45.960 to have your data deleted from hundreds of entities that 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.199 basically just collect and sell your information behind the scenes. 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:52.160 Yes, to talk about that a little bit. I mean, 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.879 people are sort of aware of this, but we don't 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.520 really know where our information is going. But you're saying 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.320 this stuff is just kind of passed among brokers all day, 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:03.399 every day and sold as well. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.760 Absolutely. I mean, look, we're in a digital economy. Data 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:12.440 is the new oil, and there are hundreds of businesses 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:17.560 whose sole business model is to collect our information, our 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:23.479 personal information like our email address, our phone numbers, our 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:28.120 mailing address, even personal very sensitive personal information such as 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:32.720 health information, what diseases you may have, what are your 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:36.600 political interest et cetera. And what they do is they 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.560 collect it, and they create digital dossiers on each and 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.160 every one of us, and they sell it to anyone 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.640 and everyone with a credit card. But unfortunately, what we're 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:50.000 seeing right now is that bad guys are actually accessing 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:56.120 that information and sending us the spam text targeted phone calls. 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.280 And so what we've seen is this data broken bridge 0:21:00.480 --> 0:21:03.439 industry has led to a lot of identity SAFT, a 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:07.560 lot of identity fraud, UH and other weaponization of our 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:08.440 personal information. 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:11.679 I went through it this morning. I signed up. I 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:13.679 was able to verify you based have to verify that 0:21:13.720 --> 0:21:16.919 you're you live in California and you've got you know, 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.000 a phone number and an email address. That's how I 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:20.520 did it. That, I mean, I think that's one of 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:22.400 the ways of doing it. And then you just put 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:24.639 in your information. Now the thing that's interesting and you 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.080 can explain to me, I you know, it asked be yours. 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.720 You know, pretty basic info like your name, your age, data, birth, 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.680 where you live. But then it asks for these identifiers, 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.879 you know, things that identify your phone, your TV, and 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.720 your car like your VIN number. So that was surprising 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:45.399 to me that this goes that deep where these agencies are. 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:48.880 I guess these these data companies use that to track 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:50.360 us absolutely. 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:53.480 Look, I mean there's different categories of data brokers. Probably 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:55.800 the ones that we're most familiar with are the people 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:59.320 search sites. So if you google your name, your address, 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:03.680 or your phone number, or your email address or even 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:06.200 your mailing aggress, all of a sudden you see yourself 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:09.679 pop up on hundreds of websites. If you want to 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:12.600 get removed from those people search sites, that's why you 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:15.640 need to put in your zip code, your email address, 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:18.360 and phone number. Now, it turns out that there are 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:23.040 hundreds of companies that simply track your geolocation and they 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:26.280 sell it. And so there is a mobile advertising ID 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:29.720 that you can also enter the system that can facilitate 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:33.560 deletions from those type of data brokers. And then finally, yes, 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.960 there are people that track your cars and your purchases 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:41.280 of your automobiles, et cetera. And so we also offer 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:43.520 the ability to add your vent. Now, these are all 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:46.440 optional information. If you simply just want to not have 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:49.679 your phone number be sold by anyone, just put your 0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:52.720 phone number in. But we ask for the minimal amount 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:58.800 of information to enable mass deletion of your personal information. 0:22:58.880 --> 0:23:01.200 With these businesses is that you don't have a direct 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.840 relationship with Their business model is to sell your data. 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:06.400 They don't sell you anything. 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:08.480 They sell your data to other entities. 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:11.280 So I think at last count I saw as over 0:23:11.320 --> 0:23:13.840 one hundred and thirty of these data brokers that you're 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:17.480 working with. There's an option to include more as they're 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:20.560 added to the list. When will people start seeing the 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:21.440 results of this? 0:23:21.800 --> 0:23:25.000 Right now? The data brokers have to register with the state. 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:28.959 Last year, over five hundred and forty five data brokers registered. 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:32.320 They have the month of January to register, so that 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:34.520 one hundred and thirty five hundred and forty number is 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:39.159 what's currently in the system right now, But we expect 0:23:39.680 --> 0:23:44.040 by early February they'll be well over five hundred data brokers, 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:47.120 so the deletions don't start kicking in to August, and 0:23:47.160 --> 0:23:49.400 that makes sense. We want the data brokers to register, 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:52.879 we want them to test out the deletion mechanism, et cetera. 0:23:53.200 --> 0:23:56.159 So you're not going to see the full impact of 0:23:56.240 --> 0:24:00.439 the deletions until early fall. But it's it's good to 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:02.440 get it out of the way. And the nice thing 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:04.159 is you can go back to the system. If you 0:24:04.200 --> 0:24:06.639 add a new email address, a new phone number, you 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:09.320 remember an old ZIP code that you lived in, etc. 0:24:09.640 --> 0:24:11.440 You going to go back and add to the system. 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:14.399 But come this fall, the data brokers will have to 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:18.400 access the system and they'll have to match the records 0:24:18.480 --> 0:24:21.320 and do deletions every forty five days. And it's a 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:23.960 permanent deletion, so you don't have to go back and 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:27.520 make requests of these data brokers. It's one and done. 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:30.600 And if you want to exclude specific data brokers, you 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:33.720 can do that, or the default is select all and 0:24:33.800 --> 0:24:36.000 you don't even have to think about it. 0:24:36.040 --> 0:24:38.480 Is there a penalty if you know, I put my 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:40.439 information in there and I still get a call or 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:43.120 the data broker doesn't take my information down. 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:46.320 The fines that these entities could have would be two 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:51.640 hundred dollars per record per day. So if you discover 0:24:52.240 --> 0:24:55.280 that you go to a people search site and your 0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:58.919 information is still there, but they reported back into the 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:02.000 DROP system that the deleted it, but you've found it, 0:25:02.119 --> 0:25:05.760 or you report a complain to us, or we discovered 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:08.840 this is not happening, it's two hundred dollars per day 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:12.920 for your record. We're a dedicated independent agency and we're 0:25:12.960 --> 0:25:17.960 highly focused on ensuring that you and your fellow Californians 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:21.359 are able to take control of your personal information and 0:25:21.480 --> 0:25:25.919 say no to the sale of your and my data 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:29.679 without our input, and that's what we're trying to enable 0:25:29.760 --> 0:25:33.400 here with the DROP system. Do you suspect that other 0:25:33.480 --> 0:25:36.639 states will do this or the federal government will do this? 0:25:36.760 --> 0:25:39.199 And what's your advice for people that are listening that 0:25:39.240 --> 0:25:40.520 are in other states? 0:25:41.040 --> 0:25:42.000 What can they do? 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:43.320 Well? 0:25:43.320 --> 0:25:46.359 They can always move to California, that's one thing, and 0:25:46.400 --> 0:25:51.680 become a resident, but no, Look, it's funny that if 0:25:51.680 --> 0:25:55.240 you look at some of the social media message boards, 0:25:55.359 --> 0:26:01.240 they're lighting up and people are an other states really 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:04.320 want this. This kind of shows the overall pain point 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:09.440 that consumers are experiencing. So next Thanksgiving, when your out 0:26:09.440 --> 0:26:12.639 of town relatives come in and they start dissing California, 0:26:12.800 --> 0:26:15.120 just show them the DROP system and say we've got that. 0:26:15.200 --> 0:26:18.800 They don't so, and we're more unhappy to engage with 0:26:19.280 --> 0:26:23.000 legislators and other people in other states and tell them 0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:25.879 what we're doing right here. But yes, there's definitely California 0:26:26.280 --> 0:26:28.760 envy happening with the DROP system as we speak. 0:26:30.520 --> 0:26:33.200 I like that dig He's like, you know, people want 0:26:33.240 --> 0:26:37.480 California stuff. That was Tom Kemp from the California Privacy 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:40.439 Protection Agency once again. The website. If you live in 0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:44.359 California want your information deleted from these data brokers, you 0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:48.119 can sign up now. It's Privacy dot Ca dot gov 0:26:48.640 --> 0:26:55.000 slash drop. So the website is the drop website delete. 0:26:55.040 --> 0:26:57.440 Let's see what is it called again? So why can't 0:26:57.440 --> 0:27:01.640 I remember this one? Drop? Drop? It is the delete 0:27:01.800 --> 0:27:05.960 request and opt out platform DROP. I'll put a link 0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:08.600 to that on my website. Rich on tech dot tv. 0:27:08.760 --> 0:27:10.840 Keep in mind you sign up now that actual cleanup 0:27:10.840 --> 0:27:13.159 doesn't start until later in the summer, And if you 0:27:13.200 --> 0:27:15.800 don't live in California, there are plenty of paid services 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:19.040 that will do something similar. On the website rich on 0:27:19.320 --> 0:27:21.840 Tech dot TV. All right, let's get back to the 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:24.520 phone lines eight eight eight rich one O one eight 0:27:24.640 --> 0:27:27.960 eight eight seven four to two for one zero one 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:37.520 your calls right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. 0:27:37.640 --> 0:27:41.679 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology triple 0:27:41.720 --> 0:27:44.040 eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four 0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:47.399 to two four one zero one. The website is rich 0:27:47.560 --> 0:27:51.080 on tech dot TV. You hear something, you need some 0:27:51.080 --> 0:27:53.200 more information, just go there. It's right at the top 0:27:53.200 --> 0:27:56.520 of the page. Actually it's not. It says radio show 0:27:56.760 --> 0:28:00.639 and it's episode one fifty seven. So you'll find links 0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:03.040 to everything I talk about right there. So, whether it 0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:06.479 is the flip phone I mentioned, the Verizon outage, that 0:28:06.640 --> 0:28:10.600 new California privacy website, it's all linked up right there. 0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:16.240 Let's go to let's go to Sylvia, line three in 0:28:16.560 --> 0:28:21.280 Marino Valley, California, Sylvia. You're on with rich Yeah. 0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:23.680 Hi, Rich, Hey, thank you for taking my call and 0:28:24.160 --> 0:28:29.080 appreciate you teaching my old brain all kinds of new stuff. 0:28:29.520 --> 0:28:31.280 Well, I'm happy to do that. What can I help 0:28:31.280 --> 0:28:31.560 you with? 0:28:32.359 --> 0:28:38.800 Yeah, So my question is I'm an Apple Watch versus 0:28:38.920 --> 0:28:43.440 a garment or a Galaxy I've been thinking about getting 0:28:43.480 --> 0:28:49.920 Apple Watch for emergency services, all detection, call detect, health info, 0:28:51.360 --> 0:28:55.240 you know, the large screen bright for the size of 0:28:55.280 --> 0:28:59.960 the watch. But I was leaning to Apple and then 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:02.400 and a friend of mine said, no, you need to 0:29:02.480 --> 0:29:06.400 check out Garment. My niece has a Galaxy them she 0:29:06.480 --> 0:29:09.160 really loves, So can you help me out on that place? 0:29:09.360 --> 0:29:10.840 Sure, what kind of phone do you have? 0:29:11.800 --> 0:29:12.160 Apple? 0:29:12.280 --> 0:29:15.000 Okay, Well, then the Galaxy's out of the running here 0:29:15.120 --> 0:29:19.200 because Galaxy only works with Samsung, so that one's out 0:29:19.240 --> 0:29:22.040 of the window. So I would say, I mean, just 0:29:22.240 --> 0:29:24.400 right off the top of my head, unless you are 0:29:24.480 --> 0:29:28.560 an avid hiker or biker or outdoor enthusiasts, the garment 0:29:28.680 --> 0:29:33.080 is really more for those use cases. It's fantastic. People 0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:35.920 love them. I've not personally used one, but I know 0:29:36.040 --> 0:29:38.440 people that have them and they absolutely love them. But 0:29:38.480 --> 0:29:41.960 it is mostly the hikers, the bikers, you know, the 0:29:42.720 --> 0:29:46.560 just kicking always out. Yes, okay, now that's not saying 0:29:46.560 --> 0:29:48.320 the Apple Watch won't do that. The Apple Watch does 0:29:48.360 --> 0:29:50.280 all that stuff, and it does it very well. And 0:29:50.360 --> 0:29:52.280 I love the Apple Watch, even though I'm not wearing 0:29:52.320 --> 0:29:54.800 it right now, because if you heard me earlier, I've 0:29:54.800 --> 0:29:57.160 switched to Android right now, so we're in a pixel watch. 0:29:57.600 --> 0:30:01.240 But the Apple Watch is fantas And here's the deal. 0:30:01.560 --> 0:30:05.360 If you are looking for anything medical or fall related, 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:08.280 this is the watch that you want. It's got great 0:30:08.320 --> 0:30:11.480 fall detection. It was the first to have it. It's 0:30:11.520 --> 0:30:14.160 got car crash detection on it. Although I will say 0:30:14.720 --> 0:30:17.200 when I had my car accident and I was hit hard, 0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:20.440 my Apple Watch did not call for help. It didn't 0:30:20.480 --> 0:30:24.200 even say anything, which I could not believe. Neither did 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:28.120 my iPhone, which I also can't believe. But I've been 0:30:28.160 --> 0:30:30.880 playing football with my kid in the street and I'll, 0:30:31.080 --> 0:30:33.920 you know, catch a big throw and it will say, hey, 0:30:34.160 --> 0:30:36.360 just fall. It felt like you got hurt, and it's like, no, 0:30:36.440 --> 0:30:39.920 I'm okay. So I would say that's what you want. 0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:40.080 Now. 0:30:40.120 --> 0:30:42.640 When it comes to which Apple Watch model to get 0:30:43.200 --> 0:30:48.480 if you want the most robust health tracking features, I 0:30:48.480 --> 0:30:50.160 think for you it comes down to two models, the 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:53.200 Series eleven, which is the newest, and then the se three, 0:30:53.320 --> 0:30:55.240 which is kind of their budget but it's also new. 0:30:56.960 --> 0:31:00.560 These devices pretty much have a lot of the same things. 0:31:00.920 --> 0:31:04.560 The higher end one, which is the eleven, is going 0:31:04.640 --> 0:31:08.200 to give you hypertension notifications. It's going to give you 0:31:08.240 --> 0:31:10.920 the electro cardiographs if you need that, you can you 0:31:10.920 --> 0:31:14.680 can take like a heart reading. Let's see they do 0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:17.160 all the vitals the same. All the emergency stuff is 0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:21.120 the same. Let's see what else do you get. I'm 0:31:21.120 --> 0:31:24.280 trying to see things screen? Right, Yeah, you can get 0:31:24.280 --> 0:31:27.520 a large screen. There's there's different sizes and so they've 0:31:27.560 --> 0:31:31.960 got like, I think forty four millimeter. Let's see, there's 0:31:32.000 --> 0:31:34.320 like I think the largest size. Let's see what the 0:31:34.400 --> 0:31:37.120 size is here. Uh, there's a forty two and a 0:31:37.160 --> 0:31:39.280 forty six millimeter. So I would go with the forty 0:31:39.320 --> 0:31:42.680 six if you want like the largest screen possible. And 0:31:42.680 --> 0:31:44.920 then the other decision you have to make is do 0:31:44.960 --> 0:31:49.200 you want cellular so your phone your watch will work 0:31:49.240 --> 0:31:53.320 no matter what. The only difference is if you want cellular, 0:31:53.360 --> 0:31:54.959 it's going to cost you about one hundred dollars more, 0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:57.720 plus you have to pay monthly. The difference is if 0:31:57.760 --> 0:32:00.480 you walked out of the house without your phone. So 0:32:00.560 --> 0:32:02.480 let's say you went for a walk around your block 0:32:02.600 --> 0:32:05.000 or a walk in your neighborhood and you fell down 0:32:05.080 --> 0:32:07.760 and you couldn't get up right. Your Apple Watch would 0:32:07.840 --> 0:32:10.120 use cellular to call for help, or you could call 0:32:10.200 --> 0:32:13.760 for help if you didn't have cellular, your watch would 0:32:13.800 --> 0:32:15.719 not be able to do that because it needs the 0:32:15.760 --> 0:32:19.400 iPhone as the conduit to go through to make that call. 0:32:19.520 --> 0:32:20.360 Does that make sense? 0:32:21.040 --> 0:32:22.280 It does? It does. 0:32:22.480 --> 0:32:25.360 And I don't know what the radius would be if 0:32:25.960 --> 0:32:30.600 I'm out and about somewhere or home, and let's say 0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:34.320 I'm out in the backyard and I fall. These are 0:32:34.360 --> 0:32:36.800 the stories that I have heard from friends, you know, 0:32:37.640 --> 0:32:40.920 And I don't know how far of a distance it 0:32:40.960 --> 0:32:46.160 could pick up my cell phone service. So I definitely 0:32:46.200 --> 0:32:49.000 want a separate line. I would be willing to pay 0:32:49.040 --> 0:32:49.360 for that. 0:32:49.480 --> 0:32:52.120 And I think, yeah, I think that's a great decision. 0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:54.600 I would tell you in my experience around the house, 0:32:55.120 --> 0:32:58.640 the Apple Watch is really bad about connecting to the 0:32:58.640 --> 0:33:01.640 phone when it's not when it's even a little bit 0:33:01.680 --> 0:33:05.840 further away. So we're talking according to the you know 0:33:05.920 --> 0:33:09.320 the numbers, it's a it's just a couple dozen feet 0:33:09.360 --> 0:33:12.960 because it's bluetooth, right, So it's just the range of Bluetooth. 0:33:13.000 --> 0:33:15.200 Like if you ever had headphones you walk around, you know, 0:33:15.320 --> 0:33:18.240 sometimes they work depending on you know, what the interference 0:33:18.320 --> 0:33:22.280 is nearby, but you can't trust that and so for 0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:24.520 me personally, like I run a lot, I've always had 0:33:24.560 --> 0:33:27.240 a cellular connection on my watch because I love the 0:33:27.320 --> 0:33:29.640 idea that I can just go out and not have 0:33:29.760 --> 0:33:33.000 my phone on me and my watch will still protect 0:33:33.000 --> 0:33:34.560 me or help me if I need it. You know, 0:33:34.720 --> 0:33:36.520 I can still make a phone call. So that's what 0:33:36.560 --> 0:33:39.320 I would do. I think the decision's pretty easy when 0:33:39.360 --> 0:33:42.040 it comes to the SE which is the basic I 0:33:42.080 --> 0:33:45.360 would just look online on the Apple website. They've got 0:33:45.480 --> 0:33:48.520 kind of comparison tool which you can compare the series 0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:51.320 eleven to the SC three. The SE three has gotten 0:33:51.360 --> 0:33:54.680 a lot better. It does a lot. The Series eleven 0:33:54.760 --> 0:33:57.880 comes in a larger screen at this point, and it's 0:33:57.920 --> 0:34:01.000 easier to see from a variety of angles. It's also brighter. 0:34:01.480 --> 0:34:04.560 But you know, parents love the SE three for kids. 0:34:04.600 --> 0:34:06.720 Seniors also love the SC three because it's a little 0:34:06.720 --> 0:34:07.880 bit cheaper, it's a little bit easier. 0:34:07.920 --> 0:34:11.839 So but the eleven is I do know they have 0:34:11.960 --> 0:34:14.600 what an ultra or something? Is that what this is? 0:34:14.600 --> 0:34:17.640 The series eleven is that the top top end of 0:34:17.880 --> 0:34:19.680 the well. 0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:21.759 The ultra is a whole nother one, and I don't 0:34:21.760 --> 0:34:23.680 think you need it. I think that's more for someone 0:34:23.680 --> 0:34:25.839 who is out and about hiking and all that kind 0:34:25.840 --> 0:34:28.520 of stuff. That's more. That's that's more their answer to 0:34:28.560 --> 0:34:30.560 the garment. I don't think you need that. It's got 0:34:30.600 --> 0:34:32.839 a longer battery life, but I think that I think 0:34:32.920 --> 0:34:34.840 for the series for you, I think the series eleven 0:34:34.880 --> 0:34:36.880 would probably be the sweet spot for for all the 0:34:36.920 --> 0:34:37.520 features you want. 0:34:38.120 --> 0:34:38.600 Eleven. 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:44.320 Yeah, okay, that's that rich. Thank you so much. And 0:34:44.440 --> 0:34:48.960 I was literally on my phone, uh, comparing right as 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:51.960 your show came on. So perfect timing. And I'm sure 0:34:51.960 --> 0:34:55.440 there's a lot of seniors listening to this and and 0:34:56.040 --> 0:34:59.239 very grateful, grateful for your knowledge. Much appreciated. 0:34:59.360 --> 0:35:01.880 Thank you, Sylvia, appreciate it, and good luck with the watch. 0:35:01.920 --> 0:35:03.759 I think you'll really enjoy it. I will tell you 0:35:03.800 --> 0:35:06.799 I am missing mine. I really am. I will say 0:35:07.000 --> 0:35:09.840 I've said this before on this show. I actually like 0:35:10.120 --> 0:35:12.440 at this point the Apple Watch more than the iPhone 0:35:12.760 --> 0:35:15.719 because the Apple Watch does everything that I want. I've 0:35:15.719 --> 0:35:19.120 got great apps on there. It does my hike tracking, 0:35:19.200 --> 0:35:21.360 it does my running tracking, I can listen to music 0:35:21.400 --> 0:35:24.240 without my phone. I mean, it just does so many 0:35:24.280 --> 0:35:26.520 things really well. And I think that and I have 0:35:26.560 --> 0:35:28.880 the Ultra and I think it just works really well, 0:35:29.280 --> 0:35:32.839 the software, everything, the hardware. H Okay, I'm switching back 0:35:32.880 --> 0:35:34.520 right now in the commercial break. No, I'm just kidding, 0:35:35.280 --> 0:35:36.960 but I'm wearing the pixel Watch, and I will tell 0:35:36.960 --> 0:35:38.760 you the one thing I love about the pixel Watch 0:35:39.600 --> 0:35:43.920 is the voice to text is unbelievable. Like I'm talking, 0:35:44.080 --> 0:35:47.520 it does not get things wrong. Ever. It also has 0:35:47.600 --> 0:35:50.239 Gemini on it, so you can ask questions on this 0:35:50.360 --> 0:35:52.960 watch that you'd never be able to ask Siri because 0:35:53.000 --> 0:35:55.319 she wouldn't understand them in a million years, and you 0:35:55.320 --> 0:35:58.640 can get an answer. Now are those two things worth 0:35:58.760 --> 0:36:01.560 you know? Switching? I don't know, but I do, I 0:36:01.640 --> 0:36:03.640 you know, And this is why I try different things, 0:36:03.760 --> 0:36:05.960 so that I can compare them and contrast them and 0:36:06.000 --> 0:36:09.439 tell you what the best option, what the high points are, 0:36:09.480 --> 0:36:12.400 the low points, the pros, the cons, all that good stuff. 0:36:12.920 --> 0:36:16.520 So yeah, I'm missing certain features for sure, but I'm 0:36:16.520 --> 0:36:19.359 loving others. Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight 0:36:19.440 --> 0:36:21.840 eight seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up, 0:36:21.840 --> 0:36:24.560 I'll tell you why the FTC is banning GM from 0:36:24.600 --> 0:36:27.240 selling your driver location data for a couple of years. 0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:33.440 That's right here. When rich On Tech returns, welcome back, 0:36:33.480 --> 0:36:35.680 to Rich on tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with 0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:38.839 you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one on one. 0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:42.359 That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:36:42.480 --> 0:36:46.040 zero one. I've been saying those numbers for four years now. Yes, 0:36:46.160 --> 0:36:48.960 this is year number four of this show, if you 0:36:48.960 --> 0:36:53.520 can believe it. I love that. During Okay, last segment, 0:36:53.840 --> 0:36:56.000 I talked about how twenty sixteen, all these people are 0:36:56.040 --> 0:36:59.080 posting bobo. I guess I guess that was the first 0:36:59.080 --> 0:37:01.120 time you heard of it. He just went through his 0:37:01.200 --> 0:37:04.319 camera roll and posted like one hundred pictures from twenty sixteen. 0:37:05.160 --> 0:37:08.240 I'm going through his social media. I am laughing so hard. 0:37:08.400 --> 0:37:10.560 He's like, I'm saying, how like silly that is, And 0:37:10.560 --> 0:37:12.600 he's like, no, it's actually really fun. And so he 0:37:12.640 --> 0:37:15.359 had a lot of things happening in that year. Oh, 0:37:15.360 --> 0:37:17.759 it's way more. I just didn't post everything that. 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:20.359 But you just did that. Yeah, just said you talked 0:37:20.360 --> 0:37:23.120 about it. Yeah I didn't. I noticed it, but I didn't. 0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:25.120 I didn't know it was a trendy thing to do. Okay, 0:37:25.160 --> 0:37:27.080 And I was like, oh, well, now let's you know, yeah, 0:37:27.080 --> 0:37:28.759 just talk about it. We had some great pictures that 0:37:28.800 --> 0:37:38.200 you posted. This new Google Gemini Personalized Intelligence, personal Intelligence. 0:37:38.320 --> 0:37:41.440 I asked it about my notable highlights in twenty sixteen, 0:37:42.000 --> 0:37:45.000 not very notable. I had a family Halloween. Told me 0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:46.839 my one kid was dressed as a skeleton, my other 0:37:46.960 --> 0:37:49.799 was Mickey Mouse. I went to a wedding in October, 0:37:50.000 --> 0:37:53.799 my cousin celebrated my birthday, wrapped up with the New 0:37:53.880 --> 0:37:56.680 Year's celebration in San Diego, went back to the East 0:37:56.680 --> 0:37:59.080 Coast to spend time with my siblings. Me and my 0:37:59.120 --> 0:38:01.200 wife went to a con sure at the Crypto dot 0:38:01.239 --> 0:38:03.839 Com Arena, which was Staple Center back then. 0:38:04.520 --> 0:38:06.920 You can't say that anymore. What good. It's still with 0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:10.880 the Crypto. The other place doesn't exist. They get so 0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:13.799 mad when you bring it up, do they really? I 0:38:13.840 --> 0:38:16.720 just thought it was wild that Staples, like the plasure 0:38:16.800 --> 0:38:19.960 you literally buy like Staples and paper clips, has enough 0:38:19.960 --> 0:38:23.600 money to buy you know, I had the name arena. Yeah, 0:38:23.680 --> 0:38:25.440 I mean it was that was big. I mean I 0:38:25.560 --> 0:38:27.400 was here when they built that. That's aging me a 0:38:27.440 --> 0:38:30.440 little bit, dating me. All right, let's go to be 0:38:30.600 --> 0:38:38.520 here a long time. Forty two years. I've probably been 0:38:38.520 --> 0:38:41.080 in La for I got to add it up probably 0:38:41.120 --> 0:38:43.839 twenty five years. Wow. Yeah, it's been a while. I mean, 0:38:43.840 --> 0:38:47.680 it's been a while. Yeah, but I off and on 0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:49.520 because I left, you know, so I got to add 0:38:49.520 --> 0:38:51.880 it up. But I left. Every time I left for 0:38:51.960 --> 0:38:53.799 like something, I would come back in between. I don't 0:38:53.800 --> 0:38:54.120 know why. 0:38:54.200 --> 0:38:55.600 You know, it popped up in my feet the other 0:38:55.800 --> 0:38:57.319 like literally a day or two ago. 0:38:57.800 --> 0:39:00.920 The picture you on Price is right? Oh, when you 0:39:01.000 --> 0:39:04.120 had the loan Surfer hit. That was a long time 0:39:04.160 --> 0:39:07.000 ago that I will tell you. Being on Price is right. 0:39:07.360 --> 0:39:09.399 I mean, obviously that was really fun back in the day. 0:39:09.400 --> 0:39:11.720 It's funny. My kid loves to watch it. But your 0:39:11.760 --> 0:39:17.000 brain goes to mush. My brain was jello. When Bob Barker, 0:39:17.560 --> 0:39:20.800 that's seat dating myself again. When Bob Barker, when I 0:39:20.880 --> 0:39:22.880 mean he didn't call me down Rod Roddy did. But 0:39:22.960 --> 0:39:25.200 when Bob Barker, you know, said okay, next time I'm 0:39:25.239 --> 0:39:27.839 up for bid, and he said, what's your bid, mister 0:39:27.880 --> 0:39:30.719 DeMuro whatever he said, and I'm not kidding, I could 0:39:30.760 --> 0:39:34.680 not think. There was no brain activity in my head 0:39:34.800 --> 0:39:37.399 at all. I was just like, what is happening right now? 0:39:37.719 --> 0:39:40.480 And I screamed out. The first thing I heard from 0:39:40.520 --> 0:39:43.600 the audience, which was seven hundred dollars for a sewing machine. 0:39:43.640 --> 0:39:45.560 I had no idea how much a sewing machine was. 0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:50.200 Definitely wasn't seven hundred. All right, let's go to h 0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:55.600 Let's go to Walter. Line three. You're on in a 0:39:55.680 --> 0:39:58.839 Temecula Walter. You're on with Rich? Hey, Rich? 0:39:58.880 --> 0:39:59.359 How you doing? 0:39:59.560 --> 0:40:04.359 I'm doing shows content always love it good. 0:40:04.400 --> 0:40:06.640 I'm glad. I'm glad. All my hard work is paying off. 0:40:06.680 --> 0:40:07.040 Thank you? 0:40:07.400 --> 0:40:11.000 Oh man, it is. So here's my question. I currently 0:40:11.040 --> 0:40:15.640 have an HP printer, but I feel that I keep 0:40:15.640 --> 0:40:18.240 buying cartridges all the time, and man, I'm not printing 0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:21.000 that much stuff. And this is just for home use, 0:40:21.480 --> 0:40:25.160 not every day printing. So do you have do you 0:40:25.200 --> 0:40:29.440 recommend any certain printer there'll be more pocket friendly on 0:40:29.520 --> 0:40:32.520 the cartridge side. That'll have to be changing these cartridges 0:40:32.560 --> 0:40:34.600 all the time because then they could get pretty pricey. 0:40:34.680 --> 0:40:37.520 Oh yeah, And it feels like there's a leak sometimes. 0:40:37.560 --> 0:40:40.120 Like I remember when I was using cartridges, I'm like, wait, 0:40:40.200 --> 0:40:43.320 I just replaced this, what is happening? And then it 0:40:43.360 --> 0:40:45.480 would just it just felt like I was spending so 0:40:45.640 --> 0:40:48.840 much on these cartridges, and I you know, I didn't 0:40:48.840 --> 0:40:50.680 really print a lot either. I mean the kids will 0:40:50.680 --> 0:40:53.279 print like color stuff all the time, but like for me, 0:40:53.360 --> 0:40:55.960 I'm mostly printing stuff for this show. I will tell 0:40:55.960 --> 0:40:57.920 you the two printers that I've been testing lately that 0:40:57.920 --> 0:41:00.360 I will tell you I like them both. They're the 0:41:00.400 --> 0:41:03.239 ink tank printers, so you've actually filled them up with 0:41:03.440 --> 0:41:06.719 the liquid ink, which I know sounds messy, but it's 0:41:06.760 --> 0:41:10.240 actually quite an easy process. And I have been using 0:41:10.640 --> 0:41:14.040 both of these probably for the better part of months now, 0:41:14.120 --> 0:41:17.640 and the ink lasts a really long time. It seems 0:41:17.680 --> 0:41:19.880 to be cheaper, and it just seems to be like 0:41:20.160 --> 0:41:22.799 you're more in control with this liquid ink than you 0:41:22.840 --> 0:41:24.960 are with these cartridges that are like I don't know 0:41:24.960 --> 0:41:26.920 if they're printing them or making them out of gold, 0:41:27.280 --> 0:41:32.000 but why are printer ink cartridges so expensive? And then 0:41:32.040 --> 0:41:33.840 if you try to use one that's not the brand, 0:41:34.120 --> 0:41:37.359 your machine is gonna yell at you. It's gonna say, oh, oh, oh, 0:41:37.440 --> 0:41:39.279 you want to put that in here? Oh, just hope 0:41:39.280 --> 0:41:42.800 you don't like warranties. It's like, okay, okay, it's like, 0:41:42.960 --> 0:41:46.880 calm down, little machine. So I will tell you the 0:41:46.880 --> 0:41:49.399 two that I've been testing. Number one is called the 0:41:49.640 --> 0:41:53.839 HP Smart Tank fifty one hundred and I didn't think 0:41:53.840 --> 0:41:56.359 I was gonna like this one. I don't even want 0:41:56.360 --> 0:41:58.600 to be like hateful towards HP, but I was kind 0:41:58.600 --> 0:42:00.920 of like, ah, it's HP. I just switched from their 0:42:00.960 --> 0:42:03.319 printer with all their you know, the cartridges that were 0:42:03.320 --> 0:42:06.600 so expensive, and I was on the subscription program and 0:42:06.719 --> 0:42:08.960 I won't even tell you what I did there that 0:42:09.080 --> 0:42:11.960 was really dumb. But if you need some cartridges for 0:42:12.080 --> 0:42:16.040 this machine, I might have them at home. Anyway. This 0:42:16.120 --> 0:42:18.200 ink tank, the fifty one hundred, has been great. I 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:20.800 love the way it prints. I will say. The only 0:42:20.840 --> 0:42:23.480 thing I don't like about it is the fact that 0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:27.960 the paper is kind of on top. It's like a 0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:30.320 top feeder, which I don't like. I wish it was 0:42:30.360 --> 0:42:33.359 like the on the bottom. And then the other thing 0:42:33.400 --> 0:42:34.920 I don't like is it takes a little bit to 0:42:35.000 --> 0:42:38.000 start up, like just when you first print for the day. 0:42:38.040 --> 0:42:39.680 It takes a little bit to go through some sort 0:42:39.680 --> 0:42:41.600 of routine to print. So that's it. But otherwise I 0:42:41.640 --> 0:42:44.040 really like that and the ink glass fair. The other 0:42:44.080 --> 0:42:45.719 one I like is the Epsen. I know you've heard 0:42:45.760 --> 0:42:49.720 these advertised the Eco tank. The one that I'm testing 0:42:49.760 --> 0:42:53.640 specifically is the ET twenty nine eighty and I think 0:42:53.640 --> 0:42:55.279 that that one's good. It's an all in one. You 0:42:55.320 --> 0:42:57.399 may not need all of that stuff, but this one 0:42:57.440 --> 0:43:00.880 prints really fast. I've had zero problems with it. I 0:43:00.960 --> 0:43:05.200 will say the quality of the print that comes out 0:43:05.440 --> 0:43:08.439 is slightly better on the HP for what it's worth. 0:43:08.760 --> 0:43:11.000 But I will tell you I like both of these equally. 0:43:11.040 --> 0:43:14.200 I like the software a lot on the epsin the screen, 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:16.359 the little like screen that's on it is tough to see, 0:43:16.400 --> 0:43:18.440 but it's not a deal breaker. But I like the 0:43:18.840 --> 0:43:21.040 software that comes with it, like the app and that stuff. 0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:24.720 But those are two solid choices. Go with the ink tank, 0:43:25.440 --> 0:43:27.360 you know, I think that these are just easier to 0:43:27.560 --> 0:43:31.799 use instead of the cartridges. The cartridges are just it's 0:43:31.840 --> 0:43:32.800 the razor principle. 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:33.239 You know. 0:43:33.280 --> 0:43:36.160 You go to Best Buy. You see the stacked up 0:43:36.200 --> 0:43:39.040 to the ceiling on thousands of these printers are fifty dollars. 0:43:39.040 --> 0:43:41.160 You're like, oh cool, I need a new printer. Well, 0:43:41.320 --> 0:43:44.680 you're not thinking about how much the cartridges cost when 0:43:44.680 --> 0:43:47.759 you have to replace them. And so my rule of 0:43:47.800 --> 0:43:50.920 thumb is, if you're buying a printer, take the extra 0:43:51.000 --> 0:43:54.319 ten seconds to figure out how much these cartridges are 0:43:54.360 --> 0:43:56.759 going to cost you after you buy that printer, because 0:43:56.800 --> 0:43:59.080 there are so many of them out there. And again 0:43:59.200 --> 0:44:02.080 it's the razor you're buying. The blades, they're not they're 0:44:02.080 --> 0:44:04.160 not making money on the handle. They're not making money 0:44:04.200 --> 0:44:06.799 on the printer itself. Somehow they're making money on the 0:44:06.840 --> 0:44:12.560 blades and the blades are those cartridges? Great question, Walter 0:44:12.719 --> 0:44:16.680 in Temecula, Thanks for the call today. Let's see here, 0:44:16.800 --> 0:44:20.480 let's go to Let's see Thurman has been waiting patiently 0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:26.239 in Massachusetts. Thurman, you're on with Rich yes An the 0:44:27.080 --> 0:44:28.960 you know what, people listen at all different times, So 0:44:29.120 --> 0:44:31.640 unless you're live, who who, it doesn't even matter. I'm 0:44:31.680 --> 0:44:34.080 live you are, but you know someone may be listening tomorrow, 0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:34.640 so who knows. 0:44:35.320 --> 0:44:39.640 Well. You mentioned a while back the Google Photos magic eraser, 0:44:39.880 --> 0:44:44.799 and I that was great, except that a lot of 0:44:44.880 --> 0:44:48.000 time I've moved a lot of pictures over to my PC, 0:44:48.800 --> 0:44:52.839 uh and they're no longer on the iPhone. So I 0:44:52.880 --> 0:44:56.879 was looking for a photo editor that would work on 0:44:57.000 --> 0:45:00.000 under a Windows PC and I just couldn't find one. 0:45:00.120 --> 0:45:03.680 You can do manual erasing, but that magic eraser, where 0:45:03.840 --> 0:45:07.480 that's you know, outlines of a person that you want 0:45:07.520 --> 0:45:11.160 to get rid of I can't find an app that 0:45:11.280 --> 0:45:12.200 does that on a PC. 0:45:13.239 --> 0:45:16.000 You don't need an app, you just need Gemini. It's 0:45:16.000 --> 0:45:19.040 built in, so you can. You can go to Gemini 0:45:19.120 --> 0:45:22.839 dot Google dot com and or you know, I mean, 0:45:23.880 --> 0:45:26.680 does Google Photos not have it built in on the website. 0:45:27.000 --> 0:45:29.560 No, it doesn't. It doesn't doesn't. It doesn't work on 0:45:29.880 --> 0:45:30.280 a PC. 0:45:30.640 --> 0:45:32.960 Just interesting, Yeah, I guess it doesn't. I'm looking here. 0:45:33.080 --> 0:45:35.799 It doesn't have it there. I think the easiest thing 0:45:35.840 --> 0:45:37.799 to do is go to Gemini dot Google dot com 0:45:37.840 --> 0:45:40.280 and you can try this. Just just take a picture 0:45:40.360 --> 0:45:44.320 and drag it in there and just say remove whatever 0:45:44.360 --> 0:45:47.480 you want, the person, the object, whatever you need changed. 0:45:47.560 --> 0:45:49.799 It will change it and it will keep it the 0:45:49.840 --> 0:45:53.239 rest of the picture intact. And so it's it's really good. 0:45:53.280 --> 0:45:56.399 It's basically using the same exact technology. I actually think 0:45:56.440 --> 0:45:59.560 in some ways this is better. But that's an easy 0:45:59.560 --> 0:46:03.759 way to do it. There's some other there's some other 0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:07.080 like Canva can do this, like Canva can can take 0:46:07.120 --> 0:46:09.320 things out. I'm not sure, lough. I have a paid 0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:11.319 Canva account, so I'm not sure how much they give 0:46:11.360 --> 0:46:13.959 you for free on that. But you can go into 0:46:14.000 --> 0:46:18.680 Canva and they have some good editing tools. Let's see. 0:46:18.760 --> 0:46:21.359 I also have hang on, I've got I'm looking through 0:46:21.400 --> 0:46:25.120 my I'm looking through my bookmarks. Here, I've got a 0:46:25.120 --> 0:46:30.040 whole bunch of bookmarks for photography. Let's see, like web 0:46:30.080 --> 0:46:33.000 based photo editor. The problem is I went through and okay, 0:46:33.000 --> 0:46:36.520 here's one. There's one called okay this, try this one 0:46:36.600 --> 0:46:41.000 clean up dot pictures. So clean up dot pictures. That's 0:46:41.040 --> 0:46:43.440 a website. You can drag a photo in there and 0:46:43.480 --> 0:46:46.560 it will remove things. It's got like a little eraser 0:46:46.600 --> 0:46:49.200 that you can move remove things from there. But I 0:46:49.200 --> 0:46:52.200 think the best is really Gemini. It's so good, it's 0:46:52.239 --> 0:46:55.560 so fast, and I just stopped using anything else because 0:46:55.560 --> 0:46:59.319 it's just so good. But that's an easy one to do, 0:46:59.360 --> 0:47:02.000 and I think they give view at least a free level. 0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:03.719 I think you could do like ten edits for free 0:47:03.800 --> 0:47:06.480 or something like that. It just sort of depends. But 0:47:07.560 --> 0:47:10.040 are you just removing a lot of people from your 0:47:10.040 --> 0:47:10.719 pictures or what? 0:47:11.880 --> 0:47:15.919 Well, you know, average say somebody's they're about usually five 0:47:15.960 --> 0:47:19.040 people standing in front of the room on cathedral. I 0:47:19.120 --> 0:47:19.920 just don't need. 0:47:20.440 --> 0:47:22.680 Okay, so you're getting like other people? Oh it can 0:47:22.719 --> 0:47:26.040 it can easily do that too. Yeah. The other one, 0:47:26.080 --> 0:47:28.840 the other one that people don't really talk about is 0:47:29.320 --> 0:47:31.640 let's see what the website is for this, But it's 0:47:31.719 --> 0:47:36.799 Adobe Express and they've got Adobe Express. You know, a 0:47:36.880 --> 0:47:39.000 Canva has really taken over the world with all these 0:47:39.160 --> 0:47:42.719 editing programs and things. But like Adobe has a free 0:47:42.800 --> 0:47:45.440 level of what's called Adobe Express and they let you 0:47:45.520 --> 0:47:47.320 do a lot of stuff in there too. And Adobe 0:47:47.400 --> 0:47:51.840 obviously is a very smart company when it comes to 0:47:51.880 --> 0:47:54.400 all this stuff, like they've been doing photo editing forever, 0:47:54.760 --> 0:47:56.719 so they have some really good tools there. So I'll 0:47:56.760 --> 0:47:59.520 link that up on the website as well. That's Adobe 0:47:59.560 --> 0:48:02.880 dot com slash Express. But really I think the easiest 0:48:02.880 --> 0:48:05.279 way to remove someone or an object or anything or 0:48:05.360 --> 0:48:08.360 modify picture at this point is Gemini dot Google dot com. 0:48:08.480 --> 0:48:12.120 But Thurman, I will link up all those resources that 0:48:12.120 --> 0:48:14.560 I just mentioned. All right, coming up, I will tell 0:48:14.600 --> 0:48:17.200 you why the FTC is banning GM from selling your 0:48:17.280 --> 0:48:19.640 driver data plus more of your calls at eighty eight 0:48:19.840 --> 0:48:27.520 rich one oh one. This is rich On Tech. Welcome 0:48:27.560 --> 0:48:30.799 back to rich On Tech. Eighty eight rich one oh 0:48:30.800 --> 0:48:33.839 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:48:33.960 --> 0:48:38.959 zero one. So the FTC is banning General motors from 0:48:39.040 --> 0:48:43.680 selling drivers location and behavior data for five years. This 0:48:43.840 --> 0:48:47.800 is because apparently they're subsidiary on Star, which you know, 0:48:47.920 --> 0:48:50.440 is built into a lot of GM cars, collected precise 0:48:50.480 --> 0:48:56.239 location data every few seconds without clear customer consent. The 0:48:56.360 --> 0:48:59.759 data was sold to third parties, including consumer reporting agencies. 0:49:00.360 --> 0:49:02.480 That means insurance companies got a hold of it, and 0:49:02.520 --> 0:49:05.680 for some people it allegedly led to higher insurance rates 0:49:05.760 --> 0:49:08.719 or even denied coverage. Can you imagine that happening. You're like, 0:49:08.719 --> 0:49:11.040 what's going on my insurance? Why does it keep going up? Oh? 0:49:11.440 --> 0:49:17.000 I'm a horrible driver. So now GM must get permission 0:49:17.040 --> 0:49:20.000 before collecting or sharing driver data, and drivers have to 0:49:20.040 --> 0:49:23.320 be able to see, delete, and opt out of that collection. 0:49:23.360 --> 0:49:26.400 They'll also have the ability to turn off precise location tracking. 0:49:27.000 --> 0:49:28.279 This is one of those things that you kind of 0:49:28.280 --> 0:49:31.120 know your car's doing spying on you, but you didn't 0:49:31.280 --> 0:49:34.720 really know until you see a lawsuit like this or whatever. 0:49:34.760 --> 0:49:38.480 This is a settlement come out. But anyway, Yeah, I 0:49:38.520 --> 0:49:41.239 wonder why they love building on Star into so many cars, 0:49:41.320 --> 0:49:43.040 probably making them a lot of money on the back end. 0:49:43.120 --> 0:49:43.319 There. 0:49:43.600 --> 0:49:47.319 All right, let's go to Cheryl in Calabasas. Cheryl hold 0:49:47.360 --> 0:49:49.960 on before we go to Cheryl, hang on, how do 0:49:50.040 --> 0:49:53.920 I put Cheryl back on hold? I got one quick 0:49:53.960 --> 0:49:57.719 comment here from Alex. I just want to bring them on. 0:49:58.000 --> 0:49:59.680 Let's see, can I just do that? Alex? You there? 0:50:01.400 --> 0:50:05.080 Oh no, now I dropped Eryl. Whoops. Okay, and I 0:50:05.080 --> 0:50:07.879 don't hear Alex at all. Alex A you there? No, yes, 0:50:08.239 --> 0:50:09.879 there you are pay well. You have a quick comment 0:50:09.920 --> 0:50:11.200 about the printer situation. 0:50:12.239 --> 0:50:14.600 Yeah, this is something I suggest to a lot of 0:50:15.080 --> 0:50:17.960 at least my friends. If you guys are if somebody's 0:50:17.960 --> 0:50:21.319 at home just printing black and white, you know, text documents, 0:50:21.880 --> 0:50:27.040 paperwork like that. I think laser jet printers are super awesome. 0:50:27.080 --> 0:50:29.680 We have a brother printer. I just use generic laser 0:50:29.760 --> 0:50:32.440 jet cartridges just for printing black and white fixtures. If 0:50:32.440 --> 0:50:35.640 you're printing color, whole another story. What you suggest is 0:50:35.680 --> 0:50:38.160 probably the best way. But for just black and white, 0:50:38.960 --> 0:50:40.440 laser jet I think is the way to go. 0:50:40.680 --> 0:50:43.479 You raise a great point, Alex. This is what I had. 0:50:43.520 --> 0:50:45.880 I had the Brother, the cheap o brother one. It 0:50:45.960 --> 0:50:48.120 was like, I mean, I can give you the number 0:50:48.120 --> 0:50:50.040 I'm seeing on Amazon, but I had one for like 0:50:50.080 --> 0:50:54.560 ten years. It's the Brother hl L two four zero 0:50:54.640 --> 0:50:57.440 five W and it's just a simple compact black and 0:50:57.440 --> 0:50:59.879 white printer. This thing was a workhorse in my house 0:51:00.040 --> 0:51:02.680 for like ten years. I loved it. The cartridges were 0:51:02.680 --> 0:51:05.240 not even that expensive. I think I bought Imitator ones 0:51:05.800 --> 0:51:09.480 and my kids bugged me. They said, why don't we 0:51:09.480 --> 0:51:11.520 have a color printer? I said, because have you seen 0:51:11.560 --> 0:51:13.240 the ink prices? Do you want to go to college? 0:51:14.080 --> 0:51:17.640 I'm not, you know? And so it is. This is 0:51:17.680 --> 0:51:20.440 great and I agree. Thank you for reminding I didn't. 0:51:20.480 --> 0:51:22.359 I didn't know with the with the caller like what 0:51:22.400 --> 0:51:24.680 they wanted, but since they were talking about cartridges, I 0:51:24.680 --> 0:51:27.319 assume they wanted color. But I will remember for next 0:51:27.320 --> 0:51:29.600 time to always recommend this, because yes, you're right. If 0:51:29.600 --> 0:51:31.200 you don't need the color, just go out the black 0:51:31.239 --> 0:51:33.160 and white printer from brother. 0:51:34.320 --> 0:51:34.680 Awesome. 0:51:34.719 --> 0:51:38.160 Thank you all right, Alex, thanks for chiming in with that. Well, 0:51:38.200 --> 0:51:42.440 we lost our other caller, so Kenneth, you missed that. 0:51:42.480 --> 0:51:47.160 All right, let's go to Let's go to Dale in Ontario. Dale. 0:51:47.160 --> 0:51:47.879 You're on with Rich? 0:51:48.560 --> 0:51:50.000 Hey, Rich, thank you for taking my call. 0:51:50.360 --> 0:51:51.200 Yeah, what's up? 0:51:52.760 --> 0:51:56.440 I am? This is a location sharing question. I have 0:51:56.719 --> 0:51:59.399 Android at Galaxy S twenty four Ultra, which I love, 0:51:59.840 --> 0:52:02.640 and I'm using find hub to share my location with 0:52:02.680 --> 0:52:05.680 my brother. Okay my brother. My brother has an Apple 0:52:06.400 --> 0:52:07.600 has an iPhone. 0:52:07.680 --> 0:52:10.879 Well, you can't expect those to work nicely, come on, 0:52:11.480 --> 0:52:12.239 I know, I know. 0:52:12.440 --> 0:52:14.920 That's my question is is that is there an app 0:52:15.040 --> 0:52:17.000 or I mean it's something that we we only do it, 0:52:17.120 --> 0:52:19.160 we only use it every now and then. But is 0:52:19.160 --> 0:52:21.759 there like an app that's free that interer platform? 0:52:22.000 --> 0:52:26.000 Yes, there is, so if you're on the iPhone. Obviously 0:52:26.080 --> 0:52:29.880 everyone's using find my on the iPhone. I didn't know, 0:52:30.000 --> 0:52:32.719 so I know I know about the find what's it? 0:52:32.760 --> 0:52:34.560 What's it called the find app? Right on? 0:52:34.680 --> 0:52:37.360 Ah, well, it's it's fine Hub. It came installed on 0:52:37.400 --> 0:52:37.840 the phone. 0:52:37.920 --> 0:52:40.800 Okay, so that's a Samsung specific app, right. 0:52:41.719 --> 0:52:42.880 I suppose I have no idea. 0:52:43.000 --> 0:52:45.000 This is oh interesting. This is Google Okay, So this 0:52:45.080 --> 0:52:48.120 is Google's app. Okay, So here's what i'd recommend. You know, 0:52:48.160 --> 0:52:51.120 there's so many platforms for sharing location. I think that 0:52:51.200 --> 0:52:53.560 Life three sixty is actually the best when it comes 0:52:53.560 --> 0:52:58.879 to sharing location cross platform Life three sixty, I think 0:52:59.000 --> 0:53:01.720 you know their whole thing, and it's the basis free. 0:53:02.360 --> 0:53:04.040 You don't get you know, if you're just not doing 0:53:04.080 --> 0:53:06.560 a membership plan. They give you basically what you need 0:53:06.719 --> 0:53:09.520 just to see where your other friend is, your family member, 0:53:10.320 --> 0:53:11.960 And I think that's probably the best way to do it. 0:53:11.960 --> 0:53:13.799 Are you using the phone for the location or a 0:53:13.840 --> 0:53:17.600 device the phone? Okay, so that's probably the I think 0:53:17.600 --> 0:53:19.760 that's the easiest way. Is just you could both download 0:53:19.760 --> 0:53:22.480 Life three sixty, sign up for a sign up for that, 0:53:22.600 --> 0:53:25.320 and you can you know, again, it works on iPhone, 0:53:25.360 --> 0:53:28.000 works on Android. That's probably going to be your easiest 0:53:28.000 --> 0:53:29.719 There might be some other ways to do it out there, 0:53:29.719 --> 0:53:31.960 but I just like that because it's clean and that 0:53:32.120 --> 0:53:34.760 is the purpose of that app, and you have clear 0:53:34.840 --> 0:53:37.640 kind of understanding of when it's sharing when it's not 0:53:37.680 --> 0:53:40.520 sharing what you're doing. That's probably the easiest way to 0:53:40.520 --> 0:53:40.719 do it. 0:53:40.800 --> 0:53:42.880 Dale sounds good. Is it free? 0:53:43.040 --> 0:53:43.239 Yeah? 0:53:43.280 --> 0:53:45.480 It is free at the basis free. Like you can 0:53:45.560 --> 0:53:47.279 you can easily see where people are on the map 0:53:47.320 --> 0:53:50.200 for free. There are obviously paid accounts that do more 0:53:50.520 --> 0:53:54.680 like location history alerts when someone arrives or leaves the location. 0:53:55.080 --> 0:53:56.719 But if you just want to see where that other 0:53:56.760 --> 0:53:58.239 person is on a map and you want to share 0:53:58.280 --> 0:54:00.799 that information, Life three sixty is a great way to 0:54:00.840 --> 0:54:02.000 do that cross platform. 0:54:02.080 --> 0:54:04.799 So you are a lifesaver. Thank you so much for 0:54:04.800 --> 0:54:05.200 your help. 0:54:05.239 --> 0:54:06.640 All right, let me know how it works out a 0:54:06.719 --> 0:54:08.880 Dale and ocean side. I think I said Ontario for 0:54:08.880 --> 0:54:13.000 some reason. Alex was in Ontario. Dale is an ocean side. Uh, 0:54:13.040 --> 0:54:16.400 and now we know and we hung up on Cheryl, 0:54:16.640 --> 0:54:20.359 you did, don't say we I did? Sorry, Cheryl, four 0:54:20.440 --> 0:54:22.440 years in, still learning this system. 0:54:22.520 --> 0:54:22.799 All right. 0:54:22.840 --> 0:54:26.839 Coming up, we're gonna talk scams with the YouTuber Kip Boga. 0:54:26.880 --> 0:54:33.239 Scams coming up next. Welcome back to Rich on tech 0:54:33.360 --> 0:54:36.319 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:54:36.360 --> 0:54:39.400 Triple eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven 0:54:39.520 --> 0:54:42.320 four two four one zero one. If you're shy you 0:54:42.320 --> 0:54:44.399 want to submit your question online, you can do that too, 0:54:44.640 --> 0:54:48.000 Rich on tech dot TV. Hit contact. Although this is 0:54:48.040 --> 0:54:50.600 the radio, so no one has to see her face. 0:54:51.800 --> 0:54:54.279 Give me a call, all right. My next guest is 0:54:54.360 --> 0:54:58.920 kit Boga. He is very famous for his YouTube videos 0:54:59.719 --> 0:55:04.080 baically wasting time of scammers. You know, there's so many 0:55:04.120 --> 0:55:07.360 scams out there, and there's a there's this kind of 0:55:07.400 --> 0:55:10.279 almost a cottage industry of people who fight back by 0:55:10.360 --> 0:55:12.879 just wasting the time of these scammers. And then turning 0:55:12.920 --> 0:55:15.719 it into like entertaining videos. Uh kiit poga. Thanks so 0:55:15.800 --> 0:55:16.440 much for joining me. 0:55:17.360 --> 0:55:18.480 Yeah, I'm glad to be here. 0:55:19.000 --> 0:55:20.360 So how did you guts start it in this? 0:55:20.480 --> 0:55:20.520 What? 0:55:21.000 --> 0:55:23.880 What was kind of the why did you start doing this? 0:55:25.000 --> 0:55:25.520 Yeah? 0:55:25.560 --> 0:55:29.360 Well, I'm a software engineer, and eight years ago I 0:55:29.440 --> 0:55:33.280 heard about the tech support scam, the guys who pretend 0:55:33.280 --> 0:55:35.880 to be Microsoft and say that there's hackers onder your computer. 0:55:35.960 --> 0:55:36.960 Are you familiar with that? 0:55:37.520 --> 0:55:38.840 Oh? Yeah, and it's still going on. 0:55:39.840 --> 0:55:43.040 Yes, yes, So I heard about that, and I figured 0:55:43.400 --> 0:55:46.360 if I have never heard of this scam, I'm a 0:55:46.440 --> 0:55:48.960 millennial on the internet all day long, then surely my 0:55:49.000 --> 0:55:52.359 grandparents hadn't heard of it. My mom wouldn't know about it. 0:55:52.880 --> 0:55:54.799 And it kind of hit me in that moment that 0:55:54.880 --> 0:55:58.879 if my grandma or grandpa, who had dementia and Alzheimer's, 0:55:58.920 --> 0:56:01.400 would get a call from someone saying that there were 0:56:01.400 --> 0:56:03.359 hackers on their computer, that they would fall for it. 0:56:03.800 --> 0:56:06.400 And I got this sort of spark of an idea, 0:56:06.440 --> 0:56:09.800 which was if I could spend twenty three minutes on 0:56:09.840 --> 0:56:12.440 the phone with the scammer, that was twenty minutes that 0:56:12.480 --> 0:56:15.760 they weren't talking to someone's grandma and it all blew 0:56:15.840 --> 0:56:16.439 up from there. 0:56:16.840 --> 0:56:19.799 That's wild. I was talking to a colleague the other 0:56:19.840 --> 0:56:21.680 day and he said he almost got scammed with this, 0:56:21.840 --> 0:56:24.520 Like they texted him a code to his Google account 0:56:24.560 --> 0:56:26.120 and then they called him and they said, hey, we 0:56:26.160 --> 0:56:28.080 need you to give me the code, and he kind 0:56:28.080 --> 0:56:30.000 of figured it out a little bit into it, but 0:56:30.200 --> 0:56:32.000 you know, obviously didn't want to lose his account, so 0:56:32.000 --> 0:56:34.760 we At first he didn't know, but when he realized 0:56:34.800 --> 0:56:36.400 he was onto the scam, he said, my goal was 0:56:36.480 --> 0:56:38.359 just to waste their time, and so he took like 0:56:38.760 --> 0:56:41.600 thirty to forty five seconds between each answer when they 0:56:41.600 --> 0:56:43.360 would ask him a question, and the person got so 0:56:43.440 --> 0:56:46.200 frustrated by the end they yelled some swear words at 0:56:46.239 --> 0:56:49.160 him and hung up. Yeah, anyway, so this kind of 0:56:49.200 --> 0:56:53.160 stuff happens. What do you feel like is the current 0:56:53.200 --> 0:56:55.960 state of scams today? People do fall for this stuff. 0:56:56.840 --> 0:57:00.600 Oh yeah, yeah, at an alarming rate, and I think 0:57:00.600 --> 0:57:04.040 it's getting even worse than when I started. And part 0:57:04.040 --> 0:57:08.720 of it is because there you have crime syndicates, organized crime. 0:57:09.239 --> 0:57:12.480 You have it's not just a couple guys in a 0:57:12.520 --> 0:57:14.800 call center or a couple of guys in their house anymore. 0:57:15.200 --> 0:57:17.920 Going after a five hundred dollars gift card I have. 0:57:18.360 --> 0:57:21.080 There there are scammers going after people's four one K. 0:57:21.360 --> 0:57:24.080 There are scammers going after not five hundred dollars, but 0:57:24.160 --> 0:57:27.200 five hundred thousand dollars. I have a lot of friends 0:57:27.200 --> 0:57:30.720 in law enforcement who say that there are like Artels, 0:57:30.720 --> 0:57:34.480 people who used to run drugs, saying, actually, we should 0:57:34.480 --> 0:57:37.040 get in the scam business. It's it's a lot easier 0:57:37.240 --> 0:57:38.920 and we make a lot more money that way. So 0:57:38.920 --> 0:57:41.480 I think I think that's a huge part of the problem. 0:57:41.760 --> 0:57:44.240 And do you think people are ever recovering this money? 0:57:44.320 --> 0:57:46.720 Like once it's gone, If you send money to someone 0:57:46.760 --> 0:57:49.160 that says, hey, send us one hundred thousand dollars, we're 0:57:49.120 --> 0:57:51.400 gonna We're going to refund you the fifty thousand, but 0:57:51.440 --> 0:57:53.440 there's some issues with our accounts and I can't do 0:57:53.520 --> 0:57:56.040 that right now, and I have to wait. Will people 0:57:56.080 --> 0:57:57.880 ever see their money? 0:57:58.040 --> 0:58:00.840 No, it's no. I think it's best to say no. 0:58:02.040 --> 0:58:04.320 There's I think you're describing what I refer to the 0:58:04.360 --> 0:58:07.760 recovery scam, which is maybe really important to talk about. 0:58:07.920 --> 0:58:12.120 But after someone has been scammed, they're often targeted again 0:58:12.480 --> 0:58:15.640 by either the same group of scammers or another group 0:58:16.040 --> 0:58:18.160 that are going to say I'm here with the government 0:58:18.400 --> 0:58:22.880 or I'm an expert cyber criminal or cyber infrasecurity person 0:58:22.920 --> 0:58:24.040 who will get all your money back. 0:58:24.640 --> 0:58:26.840 And it was just not the case. So there's one 0:58:26.920 --> 0:58:30.400 two punch. Yes, it's so sad. So tell me some 0:58:30.440 --> 0:58:32.480 of these scams I mentioned one. You called it the 0:58:32.520 --> 0:58:35.520 recovery scam. Explain that briefly, like, what are you seeing 0:58:35.520 --> 0:58:37.440 out there so people understand. 0:58:37.840 --> 0:58:41.720 Yeah, the recovery is pretty big. The general concept is 0:58:42.120 --> 0:58:46.000 if you post online, in particular saying that you got scammed, 0:58:46.240 --> 0:58:50.600 maybe on Facebook, somewhere on social media, there will be 0:58:50.800 --> 0:58:54.440 scammers who immediately start messaging you or calling you saying 0:58:54.480 --> 0:58:56.400 that they can get your money back. They'll say that 0:58:56.400 --> 0:58:58.880 they're with the government, police, or maybe that there's some 0:58:59.000 --> 0:59:02.480 kind of hacker that can hack the criminals. But it 0:59:02.560 --> 0:59:05.240 is a lie, and it's it's almost all automated. The 0:59:05.280 --> 0:59:08.480 second they see you post on your social media account 0:59:08.520 --> 0:59:11.440 that you got scammed, they're going to immediately send you 0:59:11.520 --> 0:59:14.520 messages saying that they can help you, but they it's 0:59:14.560 --> 0:59:19.040 just scammers. They cannot help you. Another big one I 0:59:19.080 --> 0:59:22.960 see would be investment scams, you know, and it's not 0:59:23.160 --> 0:59:27.280 just like the Ponzi schemes and things of the past, 0:59:27.320 --> 0:59:31.720 but some of these are really elaborate sounding AI technology. 0:59:32.280 --> 0:59:35.360 We can if you put in ten thousand dollars, you're 0:59:35.400 --> 0:59:38.320 going to be able to guarantee a thirty percent return 0:59:38.440 --> 0:59:41.760 year over year and things like that. But it's it 0:59:42.000 --> 0:59:46.600 just immediately gets sucked away by criminal organizations and you 0:59:46.640 --> 0:59:49.320 will never get it back. I would say the third 0:59:49.360 --> 0:59:53.000 big one is tech support related scams. There are still, 0:59:53.080 --> 0:59:57.680 like you said, there's still people every single day, calling, texting, 0:59:57.760 --> 1:00:00.960 emailing that say there's hackers on your computer or that 1:00:01.000 --> 1:00:04.160 there was a charge placed on your bank by by 1:00:04.200 --> 1:00:06.720 someone who's stole on your identity, and they will want 1:00:06.800 --> 1:00:09.000 to try to connect to your computer or your device 1:00:09.520 --> 1:00:12.040 to steal all of your money and to steal your 1:00:12.080 --> 1:00:14.040 whole life. It's it's devastating. 1:00:14.360 --> 1:00:18.040 Now you went so far as to start a software company, 1:00:18.600 --> 1:00:23.760 Sarafsecure dot com, which basically helps people protect themselves, because 1:00:23.760 --> 1:00:25.520 you said, like, and this happens all the time. It's 1:00:25.560 --> 1:00:27.760 remote access to your computer. People email me all the 1:00:27.760 --> 1:00:29.480 time and say, yeah, they made me download this program 1:00:29.600 --> 1:00:31.760 so they can look at something on my computer. So 1:00:32.000 --> 1:00:35.240 you created a software program that actually at its base 1:00:35.480 --> 1:00:39.200 will deny those remote connections. And then it also goes 1:00:39.280 --> 1:00:41.600 further explain what sarah secure is all about. 1:00:42.240 --> 1:00:47.200 Yeah, so that was the number one email that I 1:00:47.240 --> 1:00:50.680 got as well, Fuck, someone has connected to my computer 1:00:50.920 --> 1:00:53.360 or my my family's computer. I don't know what to do. 1:00:54.160 --> 1:00:58.040 And when the scammer connects, even if you hang up 1:00:58.080 --> 1:01:00.439 the phone on them, even like even if you didn't 1:01:00.440 --> 1:01:02.360 give them money and you realized it was a scam, 1:01:02.760 --> 1:01:05.160 they have full access to your computer. They can see 1:01:05.160 --> 1:01:08.200 your webcam, your files, your emails. If you've logged into 1:01:08.200 --> 1:01:10.400 your bank now they can control your bank, they can 1:01:10.400 --> 1:01:13.360 see your passwords. Right, our whole lives are on our computer. 1:01:13.640 --> 1:01:16.480 So scammers aggressively try to gain access to your computer. 1:01:17.240 --> 1:01:20.000 What sarah secure does is it's a free tool to 1:01:20.120 --> 1:01:24.479 remove all of those connections from someone's computer and block them. 1:01:25.040 --> 1:01:28.880 It just was such a devastating problem. Again, I have 1:01:29.320 --> 1:01:32.600 millions of people on YouTube that are commenting, and that 1:01:32.720 --> 1:01:35.400 was the biggest thing we saw, and so we said, well, 1:01:35.880 --> 1:01:38.520 let's solve it. Let's make it harder for stammers to 1:01:38.560 --> 1:01:40.000 be able to attack people this way. 1:01:40.160 --> 1:01:42.520 Can a kid install it on their parents' computer? And 1:01:42.560 --> 1:01:45.360 lock it down so they can't change it. I mean, 1:01:45.400 --> 1:01:47.640 I hate it sounds sad to have to do that, 1:01:47.720 --> 1:01:49.720 but it's like people need to know that. 1:01:50.760 --> 1:01:53.560 Yeah, so we do have a like a family plan 1:01:53.840 --> 1:01:56.480 that's sort of like that the way, so we built 1:01:56.520 --> 1:01:59.800 it with my parents in mind or my grandparents in mind. 1:02:00.040 --> 1:02:02.280 So one way that you could do it is set 1:02:02.280 --> 1:02:05.680 it up and install it on a family member's computer 1:02:06.160 --> 1:02:10.280 with their consent, and then get text alerts or email 1:02:10.480 --> 1:02:13.200 messages when when it looks like they're being scammed as well, 1:02:14.000 --> 1:02:16.080 which has been really powerful. We've had a lot of 1:02:16.080 --> 1:02:18.919 people that have been able to prevent their families from 1:02:18.920 --> 1:02:19.880 getting scammed through that. 1:02:20.880 --> 1:02:23.840 Why do you think that smart people fall for this stuff? 1:02:23.880 --> 1:02:26.680 Because people always think like, oh, it's they don't know 1:02:26.760 --> 1:02:29.280 what they're doing or they're silly, But it's like smart 1:02:29.280 --> 1:02:31.000 people that fall for this stuff. Why do you think 1:02:31.040 --> 1:02:31.240 that is? 1:02:31.240 --> 1:02:35.520 Oh yeah, yeah, Well, some of it's timing, like the 1:02:35.600 --> 1:02:38.120 right place, right time. I'll give you a quick example. 1:02:38.600 --> 1:02:41.480 My mother in law, who knows what I do and 1:02:41.600 --> 1:02:46.320 is well educated on this, she had purchased some some 1:02:46.440 --> 1:02:49.800 kind of workout equipment on Amazon a handful of months ago. 1:02:50.320 --> 1:02:53.840 She got an email a few days later that showed 1:02:53.880 --> 1:02:58.000 a treadmill purchase for you know, two thousand dollars and 1:02:58.040 --> 1:03:01.479 said to call this number if it was a fraudulent order. 1:03:02.000 --> 1:03:04.240 And she called it and they were giving her hard time, 1:03:04.320 --> 1:03:06.560 and she printed the email and brought it over to 1:03:06.600 --> 1:03:08.880 my house and said, I don't understand what's going on. 1:03:08.920 --> 1:03:13.080 I didn't order this treadmill because she had ordered some 1:03:13.280 --> 1:03:16.640 other like adjacent tech or like, yeah, it's similar to 1:03:16.640 --> 1:03:19.280 the fitness She she didn't even realize that it wasn't 1:03:19.320 --> 1:03:22.320 really Amazon and that it was a bunch of scammers. Thankfully, 1:03:22.320 --> 1:03:24.320 she brought it to my house right, but she did 1:03:24.360 --> 1:03:27.560 call them and it was it was just the right time, 1:03:27.760 --> 1:03:30.040 the right place. So I think that's part of it. 1:03:30.360 --> 1:03:33.320 The other, the other hand, is the scammers they like 1:03:33.640 --> 1:03:37.080 make thousands and thousands of phone calls, millions of calls 1:03:37.160 --> 1:03:40.760 every year, and they're perfecting their scripts and their strategies 1:03:40.800 --> 1:03:45.680 to manipulate humans. Basically, like they they know what makes 1:03:45.760 --> 1:03:48.880 us tick, what makes us scared, and what will make 1:03:49.000 --> 1:03:52.160 us fall for their for their scheme essentially. 1:03:52.200 --> 1:03:55.720 So what's the what's the key takeaway? Someone's listening, They're like, well, 1:03:55.720 --> 1:03:58.240 how do I protect myself. I can't you know, I 1:03:58.240 --> 1:04:00.440 can't keep up on every scam that's south because there's 1:04:00.440 --> 1:04:02.800 always new ones. But how what is the key takeaway? 1:04:04.080 --> 1:04:06.840 Yeah, I would say, apart from taking a look at 1:04:06.880 --> 1:04:10.760 serfsecure dot com, the other really big way that I'd 1:04:10.760 --> 1:04:15.000 always tell people is watch out for urgency. Almost every 1:04:15.040 --> 1:04:18.160 scam is going to have a sense of urgency. Whether 1:04:18.200 --> 1:04:21.160 you think that you won one hundred million dollars or 1:04:21.200 --> 1:04:24.200 that you owe a million dollars, they're going to tell 1:04:24.200 --> 1:04:25.920 you have to do it right now. And so you 1:04:25.920 --> 1:04:28.680 almost have to train yourself. Like, if there's a sense 1:04:28.680 --> 1:04:31.560 of panic and someone telling you don't hang up the phone, 1:04:31.640 --> 1:04:33.960 listen to me right now, the best thing to do 1:04:34.040 --> 1:04:36.640 in that case is to hang up the phone. The 1:04:37.000 --> 1:04:39.760 other tip I usually give out is like, it's okay 1:04:39.800 --> 1:04:42.680 to be skeptical. I don't know about you, Rich, but 1:04:42.840 --> 1:04:46.160 like I kind of was raised that being skeptical and 1:04:46.240 --> 1:04:49.840 questioning things almost came across as rude. But I think 1:04:49.880 --> 1:04:53.480 in today's age, especially with how easy it is for 1:04:53.480 --> 1:04:55.360 people to contact you on the Internet or your phone, 1:04:56.080 --> 1:04:59.000 you have to just be in that mindset of being 1:04:59.000 --> 1:05:02.120 a little skeptical when someone calls you to the blue 1:05:02.160 --> 1:05:05.160 and you don't recognize it. Maybe you shouldn't trust them, 1:05:05.360 --> 1:05:07.520 and maybe you shouldn't go along with things. 1:05:07.640 --> 1:05:10.760 You know what. There is one one other scam that 1:05:10.840 --> 1:05:13.240 I figured out because I get a lot of emails 1:05:13.280 --> 1:05:16.120 from people on a daily basis and they're a wide variety, 1:05:16.400 --> 1:05:18.320 and I got one from someone who wanted to give 1:05:18.360 --> 1:05:21.640 away a grand a baby grand piano, and I replied 1:05:21.680 --> 1:05:23.160 and said, you know, I thought they were just asking 1:05:23.200 --> 1:05:25.600 me for help. And I realized after like writing back, 1:05:25.640 --> 1:05:28.080 I was like, oh wait a second, this is a scam. 1:05:28.440 --> 1:05:31.400 So they can come in any way, any shape, any form, 1:05:31.720 --> 1:05:34.439 and you just have to be on guard at all 1:05:34.480 --> 1:05:37.000 times in this day and age. Because I ended up 1:05:37.000 --> 1:05:39.400 getting another email about a grand piano, I was like, Okay, 1:05:39.480 --> 1:05:43.080 here we go. This is another scam anyway, so now 1:05:43.080 --> 1:05:45.440 you can put that on your list. Thanks for joining 1:05:45.440 --> 1:05:47.840 me today, Kip Boga, really appreciate it. I'll put the 1:05:47.880 --> 1:05:51.360 links to the YouTube page. It's a channel is Kip 1:05:51.440 --> 1:05:54.680 Boga Show. And then you've got Seraphsecure dot com. I'll 1:05:54.720 --> 1:05:57.560 link those up on my website. Rich On tech dot tv, 1:05:58.200 --> 1:06:02.160 thanks for being here today. Yeah, absolutely, all right, coming 1:06:02.240 --> 1:06:04.880 up more of your calls eight eight eight rich one 1:06:04.920 --> 1:06:07.480 O one eight eight eight seven four two four one 1:06:07.560 --> 1:06:12.520 zero one. Plus prices are going up again for another 1:06:12.560 --> 1:06:15.240 streaming service. I'll tell you which one coming up next. 1:06:21.160 --> 1:06:25.920 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Kim was commenting call 1:06:26.000 --> 1:06:28.320 screen or Kim about the Apple Watch. She said, when 1:06:28.360 --> 1:06:31.880 she fell off her scooter, her watch went off and 1:06:32.040 --> 1:06:35.400 asked if it needed to call nine one one. So 1:06:36.160 --> 1:06:38.480 there you go. It does work. I mean it really, 1:06:38.520 --> 1:06:40.640 it saved a lot of lives. I mean also the 1:06:41.480 --> 1:06:44.840 high and low heart rate notifications are also really helpful 1:06:44.880 --> 1:06:47.320 for people. Interviewed a guy who literally had to go 1:06:47.360 --> 1:06:50.280 in for like what was it, like a bypass surgery, 1:06:50.280 --> 1:06:52.160 some sort of heart So, oh, you had a pacemaker 1:06:52.200 --> 1:06:55.720 installed because the Apple Watch told him something was wrong. 1:06:56.120 --> 1:06:57.920 I mean, it's really, it's it's changed a lot of 1:06:57.960 --> 1:07:05.160 people's lives. Spotify is increasing prices across all of their plans, 1:07:05.960 --> 1:07:09.520 so that's gonna happen next month, and people are already 1:07:09.520 --> 1:07:12.480 getting emails. Basically, if you're on the individual plan, that'll 1:07:12.480 --> 1:07:15.240 go up to twelve ninety nine, student plan to six 1:07:15.440 --> 1:07:18.880 ninety nine, duo to eighteen ninety nine, Family to twenty 1:07:18.880 --> 1:07:21.120 one ninety nine, So that's like a dollar or two 1:07:21.160 --> 1:07:24.240 per plan. First price hike in the US in about 1:07:24.240 --> 1:07:27.600 a year and a half. Spotify is not blaming inflation 1:07:27.800 --> 1:07:30.560 or rising costs. They say the higher prices reflect the 1:07:30.680 --> 1:07:34.120 value of what they're delivering. So just like this is 1:07:34.160 --> 1:07:37.720 the new law or the new rule, it's like death taxes, 1:07:38.440 --> 1:07:41.160 streaming service prices will go up. That's what we have 1:07:41.280 --> 1:07:45.320 now in this world. Let's go to Jimmy in Los Angeles. Jimmy, 1:07:45.360 --> 1:07:46.800 you're on with Rich. How can I help? 1:07:47.880 --> 1:07:49.320 Good afternoon, mister Rich. 1:07:50.040 --> 1:07:53.600 No, I have a Android cell phone and. 1:07:53.520 --> 1:07:54.560 I look at it sometimes. 1:07:54.600 --> 1:07:57.400 I look at a lot of animal programs or or 1:07:58.040 --> 1:08:00.200 stuff like that, you know, an hour like to know. 1:08:01.040 --> 1:08:03.800 Isn't it a way I can take this cell phone, 1:08:04.400 --> 1:08:07.360 uh and put it on a computer? The movies that 1:08:07.400 --> 1:08:09.440 I watch sometimes, can I put them on a computer 1:08:09.760 --> 1:08:11.160 or burn them into a computer? 1:08:11.840 --> 1:08:14.640 Well? What okay? I mean? Are these on like a 1:08:14.760 --> 1:08:16.120 YouTube type site? 1:08:16.840 --> 1:08:17.320 Yeah? 1:08:17.360 --> 1:08:19.160 Why can't you just watch YouTube on the computer. 1:08:21.920 --> 1:08:24.080 I'd like to have the tape myself so I can 1:08:24.080 --> 1:08:25.320 look at it one hundred times. 1:08:25.400 --> 1:08:27.080 Okay, So you want to, Okay, so you want to 1:08:27.640 --> 1:08:33.880 you want a like a recording of this basically, yes, exactly. Okay, well, 1:08:33.920 --> 1:08:39.000 if it's on YouTube, there's not there There are ways 1:08:39.040 --> 1:08:42.679 of downloading from YouTube, but a I can't truly recommend 1:08:42.720 --> 1:08:46.040 them because it's against their terms. But if it's your 1:08:46.080 --> 1:08:48.400 own if I was talking in terms of your own video, 1:08:49.040 --> 1:08:50.720 so if this was your own video that you were 1:08:50.720 --> 1:08:53.479 downloading from the website, there are some sites. There used 1:08:53.479 --> 1:08:57.280 to be one called Cobalt Tools that doesn't work anymore, 1:08:57.320 --> 1:08:59.559 so that would really that used to be a really 1:08:59.560 --> 1:09:02.720 easy way to download these videos. But the thing is, 1:09:03.360 --> 1:09:06.880 this gets kind of complicated. I mean, I think you 1:09:07.080 --> 1:09:10.960 just bookmark these videos on YouTube, create a playlist that 1:09:11.040 --> 1:09:13.240 you know, it could be private only you see, and 1:09:13.280 --> 1:09:15.240 then you just go to your desktop and see these 1:09:17.120 --> 1:09:20.160 as for like downloading the videos and transferring them to 1:09:20.160 --> 1:09:21.799 your computer, that's just like really complicated. 1:09:21.840 --> 1:09:21.920 There. 1:09:22.120 --> 1:09:25.599 Yes, there are ways of doing this, for sure, you know, 1:09:25.680 --> 1:09:27.400 but I don't think you're gonna find an app in 1:09:27.439 --> 1:09:31.479 the app store on the Android that will let you 1:09:31.600 --> 1:09:34.880 download from YouTube because Google does not allow that in 1:09:34.880 --> 1:09:36.760 they are terms of service. You're not really gonna find 1:09:36.760 --> 1:09:38.960 an app that does that. Now, you may find a 1:09:39.000 --> 1:09:42.120 web site that will let you do that, and you 1:09:42.160 --> 1:09:43.400 might be able to do that, but it's gonna take 1:09:43.439 --> 1:09:45.800 you so long to go through this process. It's you know, 1:09:45.840 --> 1:09:49.000 it's not really worth the time. You could do a 1:09:49.000 --> 1:09:51.719 screen recorder of your phone while you're watching the video 1:09:51.760 --> 1:09:55.960 that's not very clean, but you know, there, I'm really 1:09:56.040 --> 1:09:58.080 at a at a loss here because there are ways 1:09:58.080 --> 1:10:00.160 of doing this, but it's just none of it is clean, 1:10:00.760 --> 1:10:02.960 and you know it's all in the gray area too. 1:10:03.040 --> 1:10:06.040 So there are services. I'm a little bit hesitant to 1:10:06.080 --> 1:10:09.559 recommend them on a radio show like this because you know, 1:10:09.640 --> 1:10:11.320 I just it's just one of those things where you 1:10:11.320 --> 1:10:15.280 may just have to find this yourself. Now, with that said, 1:10:15.320 --> 1:10:18.160 there is there are some legitimate reasons why you might 1:10:18.200 --> 1:10:20.160 want to download your own YouTube videos, and there are 1:10:20.200 --> 1:10:22.519 many tools that will allow you to do that, but 1:10:22.640 --> 1:10:25.080 they are presented in that way, right like I have 1:10:25.120 --> 1:10:27.559 all these videos I uploaded and I want to download them, 1:10:27.640 --> 1:10:29.960 and so okay, these these services can maybe help you 1:10:30.000 --> 1:10:33.320 do that, but I can't really tell you like a simple, 1:10:33.400 --> 1:10:37.280 easy way to get this video from your phone to 1:10:37.400 --> 1:10:42.599 your computer without using a third party app that you 1:10:42.600 --> 1:10:44.759 know you may not even look on the app store, 1:10:44.880 --> 1:10:46.400 like the Google Player or the app store you may 1:10:46.439 --> 1:10:48.720 have to go to like installing a third party app, 1:10:48.720 --> 1:10:51.639 which I can't even you know, that's tricky, So I don't, Jimmy, 1:10:51.640 --> 1:10:54.080 I don't really have a good answer for you. I'm sorry. 1:10:54.240 --> 1:10:56.080 I would just make a playlist on YouTube of the 1:10:56.080 --> 1:10:57.680 stuff you want to watch over and over and just 1:10:57.840 --> 1:11:00.599 go to your desktop and do it that way. Let's 1:11:00.600 --> 1:11:02.719 go to Bob in Pennsylvania. Bob, you're on with Rich 1:11:03.840 --> 1:11:04.479 Iby Rich. 1:11:04.640 --> 1:11:07.920 Thank you very much. Yes, I was calling to see 1:11:07.920 --> 1:11:10.760 if you can answer a question I have about the 1:11:11.400 --> 1:11:15.879 Pruss to talk walkie talkies. One of the brands rapid 1:11:16.000 --> 1:11:20.240 radios is what I hear advertised, okay, and I was 1:11:20.320 --> 1:11:26.679 wondering can you get do you have communication with them 1:11:27.600 --> 1:11:31.559 whenever you're out of cell service or do they need 1:11:31.640 --> 1:11:35.160 cell service to operate? In other words, you're out the 1:11:35.240 --> 1:11:39.000 remote area of the woods. Yeah, no, self service will 1:11:39.040 --> 1:11:40.800 be substitutes. 1:11:41.120 --> 1:11:43.720 Not necessarily. So the way I'm looking at these, I've 1:11:43.760 --> 1:11:47.840 not tested these personally, but I actually I heard about 1:11:47.840 --> 1:11:50.000 these a long time ago because someone told me, like, hey, 1:11:50.040 --> 1:11:52.400 look into them, and it seems like, you know, it 1:11:52.439 --> 1:11:54.679 seems like all the marketing is like, hey, these things 1:11:54.720 --> 1:11:56.800 work anywhere, but it seems like at the end of 1:11:56.840 --> 1:11:59.320 the day it is going over an LTE connection. They 1:11:59.320 --> 1:12:01.320 make it very simil and push to talk, almost like 1:12:01.400 --> 1:12:05.040 Nextel back in the day. But it does say rapid 1:12:05.240 --> 1:12:09.080 Radios nationwide LTE, so that would lead me to believe 1:12:09.160 --> 1:12:11.640 that those are all through LTE. Now, they do have 1:12:11.680 --> 1:12:17.200 one called my Emergency Radio and that is VHF VHF UHF. 1:12:17.720 --> 1:12:21.360 That would would likely work without, you know, a cellular 1:12:21.360 --> 1:12:24.519 connection because it is a traditional walkie talkie. Now how 1:12:24.560 --> 1:12:27.600 far that works, I don't know. You'd have to you know, 1:12:28.040 --> 1:12:30.479 you have to look in their writing. But as far 1:12:30.520 --> 1:12:32.680 as something in the middle of the woods, Bob, do 1:12:32.680 --> 1:12:33.479 you have an iPhone? 1:12:35.479 --> 1:12:37.880 Well, no, it's an Android. 1:12:37.560 --> 1:12:40.200 Okay, Well, you know, depending on the Android, the newer 1:12:40.240 --> 1:12:43.880 ones have satellite connectivity. And if you just want peace 1:12:43.880 --> 1:12:50.600 of mind, you can add starlink. Let's see starlink texting. 1:12:50.680 --> 1:12:53.760 You can add starlink texting nine one one to a 1:12:53.840 --> 1:12:57.160 lot of different smartphones for free from T Mobile. So 1:12:57.200 --> 1:12:58.720 if you just want that peace of mind to be 1:12:58.760 --> 1:13:00.920 able to text nine one one, I'll put a link 1:13:00.920 --> 1:13:04.200 on the website rich on tech dot TV. It's t 1:13:04.400 --> 1:13:07.280 mobile text to nine one one. Anyone can install this 1:13:07.320 --> 1:13:10.120 on their phone four three just for getting in touch 1:13:10.160 --> 1:13:12.559 with nine one one over satellite. It's a great service. 1:13:12.960 --> 1:13:17.559 Rich on Tech dot TV for the link. Welcome back 1:13:17.600 --> 1:13:19.960 to rich on Tech. Rich Tomuro here hanging out with you, 1:13:20.120 --> 1:13:24.280 talking technology at triple eight Rich one oh one eight 1:13:24.320 --> 1:13:27.880 eight A seven four to two four one zero one. 1:13:29.160 --> 1:13:31.720 We'll get to your calls in just a moment. But 1:13:31.880 --> 1:13:35.679 you got to know about this. They security researchers found 1:13:35.680 --> 1:13:40.519 some serious flaws in lots of earbuds and headphones. It's 1:13:40.560 --> 1:13:44.280 all related to this Google Fast Pair feature. So if 1:13:44.280 --> 1:13:46.559 you ever have an Android phone and you've got a 1:13:46.560 --> 1:13:49.320 pair of earbuds and you put them nearby, they sort 1:13:49.320 --> 1:13:50.760 of show up on the screen says, hey do you 1:13:50.760 --> 1:13:53.759 want to pair with these? And so hundreds of millions 1:13:53.760 --> 1:13:56.519 of headphones, earbuds, and speakers use this technology because it's 1:13:56.560 --> 1:13:59.599 really simple and it's really easy. Apple has similar technology 1:13:59.600 --> 1:14:03.160 on their phonees too, So this issue affects devices from 1:14:03.240 --> 1:14:08.320 brands like Sony, JBL, Jabra, Logitech Pixel Buds. People were 1:14:08.360 --> 1:14:10.599 able to connect these things from about fifty feet away. 1:14:10.880 --> 1:14:14.160 The attack is called whisper pair. It lets someone h 1:14:14.240 --> 1:14:18.799 silently hijack your audio device, mess with your sound, injected audio, 1:14:19.040 --> 1:14:24.280 even turn the microphone on and listen. They theoretically could 1:14:24.320 --> 1:14:26.880 track your location too, perhaps, but I would say that's 1:14:26.880 --> 1:14:30.280 probably not as common. But anyway, here's the deal. If 1:14:30.280 --> 1:14:33.320 you have a pair of headphones and you're on Android, 1:14:33.680 --> 1:14:36.040 you've got to update them so that they can't be 1:14:36.200 --> 1:14:39.720 vulnerable to this attack. So Google has issued patches, They're 1:14:39.760 --> 1:14:43.719 working with manufacturers. You can't turn this feature off easily 1:14:43.760 --> 1:14:47.120 at least. So the bottom line is, here's the fix. 1:14:47.720 --> 1:14:50.959 If you have a pair of earbuds and you're on Android, 1:14:51.520 --> 1:14:55.120 download the Companion app for those earbuds. You probably never 1:14:55.160 --> 1:14:58.400 did this before and look in the settings and see 1:14:58.400 --> 1:15:02.000 if there's a firmware update for your earbuds. So basically, 1:15:02.360 --> 1:15:05.519 you have to update the firmware on your earbuds, your speakers, 1:15:05.560 --> 1:15:08.439 and your headphones by downloading the Companion app. So, if 1:15:08.479 --> 1:15:11.840 you have a Sony speaker, Sony earbuds, find the Sony 1:15:11.880 --> 1:15:14.639 app that works with those earbuds in the play Store, 1:15:14.920 --> 1:15:18.720 download it and you know it'll show your earbuds in there, 1:15:18.760 --> 1:15:21.920 and then you would update the software or the firmware 1:15:22.000 --> 1:15:25.080 rather in the setting. Same thing, Jabra, Logitech, whatever you got. 1:15:26.600 --> 1:15:29.880 For instance, I've got a pair of Bows headphones, and 1:15:30.120 --> 1:15:33.479 if I go I've got the Bows app on my phone, 1:15:33.560 --> 1:15:35.280 I can look into the settings and it will say 1:15:35.320 --> 1:15:38.639 if there's a firmware update for these headphones. Similarly, I'm 1:15:38.680 --> 1:15:43.000 testing this little Marshal speaker, which sounds great by the way. 1:15:43.040 --> 1:15:46.599 You know that it goes Marshall amps that speaker. Same thing. 1:15:46.680 --> 1:15:49.479 It's got a companion app. Typically you wouldn't really install 1:15:49.520 --> 1:15:52.400 these companion apps because you're just like, well, my headphones work, 1:15:52.400 --> 1:15:55.080 why would I need that? Hey, let you dial in settings, 1:15:55.160 --> 1:15:58.080 change things good, stuff like that, So definitely do that. 1:15:58.120 --> 1:16:01.200 If you got Android, got an email from Gerald, I've 1:16:01.200 --> 1:16:04.040 got an S twenty five. I cannot separate notification sounds 1:16:04.040 --> 1:16:07.160 from my emails, text ring, or doorbell. I'd like to 1:16:07.160 --> 1:16:11.160 be able to make them sound different. Please help. Well 1:16:11.160 --> 1:16:13.639 this took me a minute to figure out. But if 1:16:13.680 --> 1:16:18.639 you go into your settings on Android on Samsung, rather 1:16:19.160 --> 1:16:24.639 settings Notifications, and then you go into Advanced Settings, you'll 1:16:24.680 --> 1:16:30.280 see manage notification categories for each app, and now you 1:16:30.320 --> 1:16:34.240 should be able to change those notification sounds for each app. 1:16:34.360 --> 1:16:37.439 Let me just confirm that that is the case. So 1:16:37.479 --> 1:16:40.479 I'm gonna go into one of these and let's see. 1:16:40.520 --> 1:16:44.479 Does it give me a hmmm? Still looking for the 1:16:44.600 --> 1:16:46.640 sound here? I don't really it used to be you 1:16:46.640 --> 1:16:50.960 would just go into the into the Okay, hold on, 1:16:51.240 --> 1:16:55.280 is this it notific categories? I got to look at 1:16:55.280 --> 1:16:57.920 this more because it seems like there's got to be 1:16:57.920 --> 1:16:59.640 a way to change the sound for each app. That 1:16:59.640 --> 1:17:01.439 would just makes sense. But I gotta I gotta find 1:17:01.439 --> 1:17:04.360 out how to do that. Let's go to Kathy in 1:17:04.479 --> 1:17:10.040 Los Angeles. Kathy, you're on with RH Hi. Hi, what's up? Hi? 1:17:11.160 --> 1:17:11.680 Okay? Y? 1:17:12.600 --> 1:17:18.200 I did the I phone up? 1:17:18.280 --> 1:17:18.360 Hy? 1:17:19.720 --> 1:17:21.720 You said Hi again? Sorry you said I phone Hi. 1:17:22.360 --> 1:17:27.559 Anyway, I did it yesterday. I have had drop call 1:17:28.600 --> 1:17:31.920 like NonStop, and I'm kind of shocked that I'm still 1:17:32.840 --> 1:17:33.720 online with you. 1:17:33.960 --> 1:17:34.599 We lost you. 1:17:35.720 --> 1:17:37.559 Do you hear me? Hello? 1:17:37.840 --> 1:17:38.160 Yes? 1:17:38.720 --> 1:17:39.160 Do you hear me? 1:17:39.439 --> 1:17:39.759 Yes? 1:17:40.280 --> 1:17:46.639 Okay? Anyway, drop calls after I did the software update? 1:17:48.240 --> 1:17:51.280 So you updated your phone to twenty six, the iOS 1:17:51.320 --> 1:17:54.040 twenty six, the newest one, and now you're dropping calls? 1:17:54.479 --> 1:17:56.040 Yes, yes, yes. 1:17:55.880 --> 1:17:58.200 And it's in places you didn't drop calls before. 1:17:58.600 --> 1:18:01.080 No, I'm sitting in sitting in my living room. 1:18:01.200 --> 1:18:03.360 Okay, what what service do you have? 1:18:04.880 --> 1:18:11.639 HT? Okay, and it's a five G I've phone fourteen Okay. 1:18:11.760 --> 1:18:14.800 I mean, look, there could be a connection between these 1:18:14.840 --> 1:18:18.880 two things. You know, when when software changes, there are 1:18:18.920 --> 1:18:21.000 things that change on the phone, so that that could 1:18:21.040 --> 1:18:25.360 definitely be a problem. It could be also coincidence. Has 1:18:25.360 --> 1:18:27.559 this been happening over and over or just a couple 1:18:27.560 --> 1:18:28.720 of times, or just you. 1:18:28.680 --> 1:18:30.599 Know, it happened all last night? 1:18:30.840 --> 1:18:34.280 Okay, So what I would say, there's a couple of 1:18:34.280 --> 1:18:36.599 things you could do. Number one, you can try restarting 1:18:36.600 --> 1:18:37.960 your phone. That's the simplest way. 1:18:38.240 --> 1:18:38.720 I did that. 1:18:38.760 --> 1:18:43.120 Okay, did that. There's also in the there is a 1:18:43.160 --> 1:18:46.040 way to kind of reset your cellular connection. But the 1:18:46.080 --> 1:18:47.880 problem is if you do that, you're going to be 1:18:47.880 --> 1:18:50.280 resetting all of your Bluetooth and your Wi Fi. So 1:18:50.320 --> 1:18:53.720 it's kind of annoying. But do you want to I'll 1:18:53.720 --> 1:18:56.639 tell you where that is just in case. So if 1:18:56.680 --> 1:18:59.400 you if you go into your settings and then you 1:18:59.439 --> 1:19:02.840 go under general and then scroll all the way down, 1:19:02.840 --> 1:19:06.960 it says transfer or reset phone. I know this is 1:19:07.000 --> 1:19:09.240 scary because we're getting into like erasing stuff, but be 1:19:09.320 --> 1:19:12.240 careful here, don't don't. Don't go through these menus fast. 1:19:12.400 --> 1:19:14.280 That's the last thing you want to do. And then 1:19:14.320 --> 1:19:16.320 there's a button at the bottom that says reset, And 1:19:16.360 --> 1:19:18.719 if you tap that, I know it sounds scary because 1:19:18.760 --> 1:19:21.479 it's saying reset, it doesn't do anything. Then you get 1:19:21.520 --> 1:19:26.000 a whole bunch of secondary options reset, reset all settings, 1:19:26.000 --> 1:19:30.560 reset network settings, delete all e sims, reset keyboard, reset handwriting, 1:19:30.600 --> 1:19:34.320 reset home screen, reset location cancel. So the one that 1:19:34.360 --> 1:19:38.360 I would recommend trying is reset network settings. And if 1:19:38.360 --> 1:19:41.000 you do that, it's basically going to wipe all of 1:19:41.040 --> 1:19:44.120 your network settings clean. That's your Bluetooth, that's your cellular, 1:19:44.160 --> 1:19:46.479 and that's your Wi Fi. And once it does that, 1:19:46.560 --> 1:19:49.320 it's going to handshake with the network again. And maybe 1:19:49.360 --> 1:19:51.639 it's just like whatever it needs to download to sound 1:19:51.680 --> 1:19:55.439 better or stay connected will work. But your phone, the 1:19:56.640 --> 1:19:59.000 hardware on your phone is not changed in any way, 1:19:59.360 --> 1:20:01.720 so you still have the same antenna, you still have 1:20:01.760 --> 1:20:05.720 the same signal that you're getting from the tower. So 1:20:05.840 --> 1:20:09.200 it shouldn't really affect this long term. But there could 1:20:09.240 --> 1:20:12.080 be an issue with this software that you know seemingly 1:20:12.120 --> 1:20:16.040 is effectiveness to me. Yeah, but again, you know, you 1:20:16.040 --> 1:20:17.759 can also give it a little bit of time. Sometimes 1:20:17.800 --> 1:20:20.599 after a software update, your phone also needs to download 1:20:20.640 --> 1:20:23.200 some additional software from the carrier so that you know, 1:20:23.360 --> 1:20:25.519 it does it in the background, So that could be happening. 1:20:26.080 --> 1:20:29.920 But in general, I would say, don't do anything right now, 1:20:30.080 --> 1:20:32.000 just kind of monitor this and if you're using your 1:20:32.000 --> 1:20:34.160 phone over the next week and this still keeps happening, 1:20:34.600 --> 1:20:37.000 then I might do the solution that I mentioned and 1:20:37.000 --> 1:20:39.400 see if that helps. But I wouldn't do anything like over, 1:20:39.560 --> 1:20:42.160 you know, just right away, because sometimes these things have 1:20:42.200 --> 1:20:44.800 a way of fixing themselves. It could have been a fluke. 1:20:44.840 --> 1:20:46.120 I mean, it could have been that you updated your 1:20:46.120 --> 1:20:47.840 software and AT and T was working on the pole 1:20:47.840 --> 1:20:50.240 outside your house. I mean, these things happen for sure, 1:20:51.080 --> 1:20:51.479 all right. 1:20:52.240 --> 1:20:55.160 One last question. Sure you have a test lass three? 1:20:55.640 --> 1:20:56.000 Okay? 1:20:56.560 --> 1:21:00.840 And I want to get an external CD players to 1:21:01.000 --> 1:21:03.840 play my CDs. Now, do not make fun of me. 1:21:04.600 --> 1:21:08.000 My kids think I'm a dinosaur, but I would like 1:21:08.120 --> 1:21:14.439 to control it. Like any recommendations on what player to buy. 1:21:15.240 --> 1:21:16.599 I don't even know if you'd be able to connect 1:21:16.640 --> 1:21:19.160 a CD player to a Tesla. How would you connect it? 1:21:19.200 --> 1:21:21.040 I'm wondering, Well, I went online. 1:21:21.120 --> 1:21:22.480 It's like a USB. 1:21:22.520 --> 1:21:25.400 Okay, but I'm I mean, I mean I have a 1:21:25.400 --> 1:21:27.000 Tesla and I'm just trying to figure out if you 1:21:27.000 --> 1:21:29.840 could plug in a USB to the Tesla. I mean, 1:21:29.880 --> 1:21:33.360 I know you, I know that Tesla has USB ports, right, 1:21:33.600 --> 1:21:36.720 but will a CD? Let mean, this is the first 1:21:36.760 --> 1:21:37.120 time here. 1:21:37.160 --> 1:21:39.800 Maybe it's like you have to go into the control 1:21:40.200 --> 1:21:43.440 center and recognize new media. 1:21:45.360 --> 1:21:49.280 Yeah, I mean, hmm, I mean what about okay, what 1:21:49.360 --> 1:21:51.200 about And I'm not even sure that this that you 1:21:51.240 --> 1:21:54.800 can do that? Okay. It says you could theoretically add 1:21:54.840 --> 1:21:57.800 a USB powered CD player through the cars USB port. 1:21:58.360 --> 1:22:00.880 I have not tried that, but if if it works, 1:22:00.960 --> 1:22:03.160 I mean, you could go on Amazon and buy one 1:22:03.160 --> 1:22:05.160 of these CD players and try it and plug it in. 1:22:05.200 --> 1:22:09.160 If it doesn't work, return it. But that is no right, 1:22:09.720 --> 1:22:12.240 that's the first I've heard of that. I mean, let 1:22:12.240 --> 1:22:15.840 me just see this. Okay. So here's a CD player. Yeah, 1:22:15.920 --> 1:22:18.840 I mean it's going to be expensive. I mean there's 1:22:18.840 --> 1:22:21.479 some I'm looking at the prices here. I'd have to 1:22:21.520 --> 1:22:24.920 find one that I know works. This is wild. It's 1:22:25.000 --> 1:22:27.000 kind of expensive. Some of them. It's like one hundred 1:22:27.000 --> 1:22:29.439 dollars and it might you know, don't forget with CDs. 1:22:29.479 --> 1:22:32.000 It might also if the CD player is not high quality, 1:22:32.040 --> 1:22:34.320 you might get jumps during your songs. 1:22:34.880 --> 1:22:35.840 Oh yeah. 1:22:35.880 --> 1:22:39.160 The other thing you could do is a obviously, you 1:22:39.200 --> 1:22:42.160 can play music through your phone through Bluetooth, which it 1:22:42.200 --> 1:22:45.040 sounds like you don't want to do, but that's an 1:22:45.080 --> 1:22:49.760 easy way to do it. You can also use a 1:22:49.880 --> 1:22:51.840 flash drive. You know in your glove compartment, you've got 1:22:51.840 --> 1:22:53.720 a little flash drive in there. You could plug that in. 1:22:54.840 --> 1:22:57.240 But that would mean I need to take my CDs 1:22:57.320 --> 1:22:58.400 and transfer it. 1:22:58.320 --> 1:23:01.920 To Yeah, but that's pretty easy. There's a there's a 1:23:01.920 --> 1:23:06.160 lot of software that will rip CDs, so I mean 1:23:06.200 --> 1:23:08.640 you could get yeah, oh yeah, that would be I 1:23:08.640 --> 1:23:11.280 think that would be your Here's what I'll tell you, Kathy, 1:23:11.360 --> 1:23:12.840 what I think you should do, which I think is 1:23:12.840 --> 1:23:17.080 the absolute simplest solution. Okay, you can take your you 1:23:17.120 --> 1:23:20.840 can take your CDs, you can rip them to the 1:23:21.080 --> 1:23:23.400 to the m P three's and then you go to 1:23:24.080 --> 1:23:27.320 YouTube music. So you go to YouTube dot music dot com. 1:23:27.600 --> 1:23:30.680 You literally drag those files onto that website and they 1:23:30.680 --> 1:23:33.280 will appear on your phone inside the YouTube Music app. 1:23:33.479 --> 1:23:35.679 And then you could just connect that to your car 1:23:35.720 --> 1:23:38.960 and listen on Bluetooth and that's doesn't you know it 1:23:38.960 --> 1:23:41.679 almost doesn't cost you anything to do that, and it's 1:23:41.760 --> 1:23:43.200 you know, you get I think you could store like 1:23:43.200 --> 1:23:45.000 fifty thousand songs and it's your music. 1:23:45.439 --> 1:23:47.480 It seems like time consuming. 1:23:48.240 --> 1:23:50.800 I I agree. But didn't you say you have kids? 1:23:52.680 --> 1:23:55.719 Yeah, they're forty and thirty eight, and they think I'm insane. 1:23:55.960 --> 1:23:59.080 So well, isn't isn't that the role of children? My 1:23:59.160 --> 1:24:01.400 kids are eleven and fourteen and they think I'm insane. 1:24:01.479 --> 1:24:03.200 Yeah, yeah, your kids are young. 1:24:03.320 --> 1:24:05.560 Just wait, and I think my parents are insane. 1:24:05.240 --> 1:24:06.040 If they adore you. 1:24:06.200 --> 1:24:07.240 Just wait, why. 1:24:07.080 --> 1:24:09.519 Don't they throw out the stuff that's expired in their pantry? 1:24:09.640 --> 1:24:12.240 That's insane to me, But this is what parents do. 1:24:14.040 --> 1:24:16.360 But I think, I mean, yes, I would say, look, 1:24:16.400 --> 1:24:18.880 if you want the simple way, try the CD. If 1:24:18.880 --> 1:24:20.760 you just want to do that, I think it's you're 1:24:20.840 --> 1:24:23.160 It's funny. You're driving the most high tech car in 1:24:23.200 --> 1:24:27.840 America and you're going to put a CD player. I 1:24:27.920 --> 1:24:28.200 love it. 1:24:28.240 --> 1:24:31.400 I'm going to be seventy two. I think I've earned 1:24:31.439 --> 1:24:35.080 the right to play my CDs. And I've got some 1:24:35.120 --> 1:24:39.639 really unusual CDs, unusual artists. Sure, which you know it's 1:24:39.680 --> 1:24:41.160 going to be really hard to find it. 1:24:41.320 --> 1:24:42.320 Okay, can burn it. 1:24:42.520 --> 1:24:44.559 I will. I will have to. I will have to 1:24:44.600 --> 1:24:48.320 find a recommendation for a seton player fail you Yeah, absolutely, 1:24:48.600 --> 1:24:51.200 Hello at rich on tech dot TV. We'll keep this going. Uh, 1:24:51.520 --> 1:24:54.439 hello at rich on tech dot TV. That is I mean, 1:24:54.760 --> 1:24:57.519 now I want to try this in my car. It's 1:24:57.520 --> 1:24:59.840 been years since I thought about putting a CD player, 1:25:00.240 --> 1:25:02.639 but now I will try this for sure, and we'll 1:25:02.640 --> 1:25:04.120 have to report back on this. Thanks for the call, 1:25:04.200 --> 1:25:06.800 Kathy eighty eight rich one on one back after this, 1:25:10.240 --> 1:25:13.880 Welcome back to rich on tech. I'm still sitting here 1:25:13.960 --> 1:25:16.679 trying to figure out how to make the notifications different 1:25:16.760 --> 1:25:20.160 for apps individual apps on the Samsung. I think I 1:25:20.280 --> 1:25:22.760 figured it out. Let me see here, Okay, so if 1:25:22.800 --> 1:25:25.880 I go there and then eighty to eight rich one 1:25:25.920 --> 1:25:28.360 oh one eighty eight seven four to two four one 1:25:28.479 --> 1:25:31.240 zero one, okay, so I think I figured it out 1:25:31.720 --> 1:25:33.519 here it is Okay, this is a little weird, and 1:25:33.560 --> 1:25:36.040 maybe I'm going around in circles with this, but it 1:25:36.160 --> 1:25:39.559 seems like you have to do two things to enable 1:25:39.600 --> 1:25:43.360 if you want different apps on your androids, specifically Samsung, 1:25:43.400 --> 1:25:47.320 to make different sounds like maybe you want your you 1:25:47.360 --> 1:25:49.960 know Doorbell to make one sound a text message to 1:25:49.960 --> 1:25:52.519 make another. You can go in and it looks like 1:25:52.560 --> 1:25:56.240 you have to go into settings, Notifications, Advance Settings and 1:25:56.280 --> 1:25:59.479 then tap the option to toggle it on for manage 1:25:59.640 --> 1:26:04.439 notification categories for each app. Seems like that's number one. 1:26:05.120 --> 1:26:08.640 Then you go into apps and then you tap an 1:26:08.640 --> 1:26:13.280 app like I put Airbnb, and I go into notifications 1:26:13.640 --> 1:26:16.280 and now it says categories, it unlocks that, and now 1:26:16.280 --> 1:26:19.000 if I scroll to general, it gives me the option 1:26:19.520 --> 1:26:25.000 to choose a sound for that app, like a specific sound. 1:26:25.600 --> 1:26:27.479 Seems like that's the way to do it. Let me 1:26:27.520 --> 1:26:29.920 just go into sounds real quick, just to make sure 1:26:30.560 --> 1:26:33.479 if there's not like an easier way. Yeah, I think 1:26:33.520 --> 1:26:39.040 that's really it interesting. That's that's a little bit. I 1:26:39.080 --> 1:26:41.320 guess you gotta know what you're doing to do that. 1:26:41.360 --> 1:26:43.240 But I'll put all those instructions on the website. Rich 1:26:43.320 --> 1:26:46.839 on tech dot TV, we got to comment from Stella 1:26:46.920 --> 1:26:49.000 and Redondo. Stella, what's up? 1:26:52.560 --> 1:26:52.680 Uh? 1:26:52.720 --> 1:27:02.920 Oh you there? Stella? Stella? Okay, well Stella, can't I 1:27:02.920 --> 1:27:05.439 guess you know, some people think they're gonna be waiting 1:27:05.439 --> 1:27:08.000 for a long time, and so they put their phone 1:27:08.000 --> 1:27:11.040 on speaker they go, they water the plants. Let's go 1:27:11.120 --> 1:27:15.200 to Joan in San Diego. Joan, you're on with Rich. 1:27:16.600 --> 1:27:16.760 Hi. 1:27:16.880 --> 1:27:18.120 Rich Hi. 1:27:19.600 --> 1:27:25.439 I'm looking well lately with the gold price of gold 1:27:25.479 --> 1:27:30.400 and silver just skyrocketing. I've collected over the years, and 1:27:30.600 --> 1:27:34.719 I'm I'm kind of looking to maybe buy a digital 1:27:35.400 --> 1:27:40.240 met precious metal tech detector. I've tried all the chemical 1:27:40.280 --> 1:27:43.440 types kits and things, and they're just not very reliable. 1:27:44.160 --> 1:27:46.559 And I don't know if they showed any visit the 1:27:46.600 --> 1:27:48.760 tech show. I mean maybe they didn't need to. But 1:27:49.560 --> 1:27:53.120 I called the company in China to get a quote 1:27:53.160 --> 1:27:57.880 on one, and for their lower model, lower end model, 1:27:57.920 --> 1:27:59.400 it was fifteen thousand dollars. 1:27:59.479 --> 1:28:01.960 Oh my god. What what company was that? 1:28:02.640 --> 1:28:05.160 It was v Ran. It's called a vr H five. 1:28:05.400 --> 1:28:08.320 Okay, that sounds uh sounds like you're gonna like take 1:28:08.360 --> 1:28:11.240 over the world with that thing. Yeah, it sounds like 1:28:11.240 --> 1:28:12.320 a superhero movie. 1:28:14.120 --> 1:28:16.720 I've looked at him on Walmart and there you can 1:28:16.800 --> 1:28:20.479 buy something from you know, four hundred to forty three hundred, 1:28:21.160 --> 1:28:25.280 but not a single one has any reviews. Yeah, which 1:28:25.320 --> 1:28:28.360 is odd, and I just feel weird buying something like this, 1:28:29.000 --> 1:28:29.280 you know. 1:28:30.360 --> 1:28:30.720 I don't know. 1:28:30.880 --> 1:28:32.639 I went to the company because they wanted to buy 1:28:32.640 --> 1:28:33.759 directly from the company. 1:28:33.840 --> 1:28:35.120 How much do you want to spend. 1:28:36.840 --> 1:28:39.080 I'd like to spend a I'd like to be under 1:28:39.120 --> 1:28:39.800 a couple grand. 1:28:40.439 --> 1:28:43.920 What about going into a coin shop and asking them 1:28:43.960 --> 1:28:49.000 what they use, Well, that is a great idea. 1:28:49.120 --> 1:28:52.400 I know the two ones in town use chemical because 1:28:52.439 --> 1:28:54.080 I've been in there and watched. 1:28:53.800 --> 1:28:56.040 Them do it, right, But they'll know, they'll know the 1:28:56.120 --> 1:28:58.880 brands to look for, you know, for a consumer. I 1:28:58.880 --> 1:29:01.680 mean I'm just looking online right now, and yeah, you're right. 1:29:01.720 --> 1:29:04.880 I mean, the high end ones are super expensive, and 1:29:04.920 --> 1:29:06.439 of course then you have the ones that are like 1:29:06.800 --> 1:29:09.479 five six hundred dollars, but who knows if they work 1:29:09.520 --> 1:29:13.719 because it's not like Amazon is really selling a large 1:29:13.800 --> 1:29:15.320 number of these, you know what I mean. So it's 1:29:15.360 --> 1:29:18.679 tough to get like a take on. Let me just see, 1:29:18.680 --> 1:29:19.920 like five gold tester. 1:29:20.960 --> 1:29:23.080 It's like buying a metal detector. You know, you get 1:29:23.080 --> 1:29:25.639 a cheap one and you know what it's going to happen, right. 1:29:25.960 --> 1:29:29.439 You know, And even just searching like Amazon for these things, 1:29:30.280 --> 1:29:34.960 there's not really a simple I mean, here's here's one. 1:29:35.560 --> 1:29:37.640 This one's two hundred and fifteen dollars. It has a 1:29:37.680 --> 1:29:39.920 decent amount of reviews, but it's only got three point seven, 1:29:39.960 --> 1:29:42.640 which means probably not very good. But I would, I 1:29:42.680 --> 1:29:45.280 would lean upon one of these shops and just go 1:29:45.320 --> 1:29:46.720 in there and talk to them. It sounds like you 1:29:46.720 --> 1:29:50.240 already know you're familiar with some of them. I would, 1:29:50.640 --> 1:29:52.360 you know, go in and just ask them, say like, hey, 1:29:52.360 --> 1:29:54.200 I'm looking for some of that's under five hundred bucks, 1:29:54.240 --> 1:29:56.479 Like what do you recommend? What brand? Where should I 1:29:56.520 --> 1:29:58.439 be looking here? And they may say, oh, yeah, this 1:29:58.520 --> 1:30:00.680 is the one that all the you know, all the 1:30:00.720 --> 1:30:02.840 people use from Amazon. That's cheap, or they may say, 1:30:02.840 --> 1:30:05.280 oh you're you're it's not even worth buying this unless 1:30:05.320 --> 1:30:08.519 you're gonna spend fifteen thousand dollars, got it? You know 1:30:08.560 --> 1:30:08.880 what I mean? 1:30:08.880 --> 1:30:10.880 Good idea? Yeah, okay, thank you. 1:30:11.080 --> 1:30:13.040 And I'm sure you know I see on your notes 1:30:13.080 --> 1:30:14.800 here you said did you see him at CES? I 1:30:14.880 --> 1:30:17.160 did not. But you know what I'll do next year, Joan, 1:30:17.240 --> 1:30:19.759 I will be on the lookout for a gold Tester. 1:30:20.080 --> 1:30:23.600 But this one on Amazon, this misar m I z 1:30:24.200 --> 1:30:26.840 ar uh. You know, I don't know if you saw 1:30:26.840 --> 1:30:28.640 that one came across, but people seem to like it. 1:30:28.720 --> 1:30:34.519 The problem is let's see thirty day refund replacement. You 1:30:34.640 --> 1:30:36.280 might you know, you might be able to return it, 1:30:36.320 --> 1:30:38.240 but it looks like it's kind of a third party thing, 1:30:38.320 --> 1:30:39.920 so it may not be that easy, so I'd be 1:30:40.000 --> 1:30:40.559 very careful. 1:30:40.560 --> 1:30:40.800 There. 1:30:41.439 --> 1:30:45.720 Good question. Interesting for sure. I love the variations we 1:30:45.800 --> 1:30:48.200 get on this show, get a lot of varied things. 1:30:48.840 --> 1:30:52.080 Rich on tech dot tv is the website coming up. Oh, 1:30:52.120 --> 1:30:54.280 I got a great app. Look for it now on 1:30:54.320 --> 1:30:56.839 your phone. It's called Zoe Health. It's available for iPhone 1:30:56.840 --> 1:30:58.880 and Android. We're gonna talk to one of the co 1:30:58.960 --> 1:31:06.040 founders of that company. Coming up next. Welcome back to 1:31:06.120 --> 1:31:08.160 rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, 1:31:08.200 --> 1:31:12.080 talking technology. The website rich on tech dot tv links 1:31:12.080 --> 1:31:14.679 to everything I talk about there. I was in Trader 1:31:14.760 --> 1:31:18.360 Joe's and I saw a woman scanning food items with 1:31:18.479 --> 1:31:20.120 her phone, and I said, what are you doing there? 1:31:20.439 --> 1:31:21.880 And she goes, Oh, I use this app to tell 1:31:21.920 --> 1:31:23.360 me if this is healthy or not. I said, oh, 1:31:23.360 --> 1:31:26.360 that's interesting, And so she was using the app called Yuka. 1:31:26.960 --> 1:31:29.240 And I did a little research and I found there's 1:31:29.240 --> 1:31:33.200 a whole bunch of these apps. Bobby approved Yuka. There's 1:31:33.200 --> 1:31:35.640 another one called Zoe which I ended up getting in 1:31:35.680 --> 1:31:39.519 touch with them and we talked about Zoe Health, and 1:31:39.560 --> 1:31:41.760 I've grown to really like this app. You basically use 1:31:41.800 --> 1:31:44.040 it to scan food and it gives it a score 1:31:44.080 --> 1:31:46.360 from one to one hundred based on all kinds of stuff. 1:31:46.880 --> 1:31:49.960 And so let's hear from Professor Tim Spector, co founder 1:31:50.000 --> 1:31:54.240 of Zoe, to explain what this is all about. So 1:31:54.720 --> 1:31:56.519 what is Zoe? How do you describe what it is? 1:31:57.080 --> 1:32:01.320 It's a nutrition science company that is really leading the 1:32:01.360 --> 1:32:03.960 revolution in gut health and trying to give people the 1:32:04.000 --> 1:32:08.599 best tools that we can give to improve their choice 1:32:08.600 --> 1:32:09.160 of foods. 1:32:09.840 --> 1:32:12.679 And there's so many apps out there that help with health. 1:32:13.640 --> 1:32:15.160 Do you think that this has been a good thing 1:32:15.200 --> 1:32:18.639 for people, the ability of them to scan things into 1:32:18.960 --> 1:32:20.559 research using their phone. 1:32:21.200 --> 1:32:25.879 I think apps are empowering people to take control against 1:32:25.960 --> 1:32:28.519 all the big food companies that are trying to steer 1:32:28.560 --> 1:32:32.080 them in the wrong direction. So it's really complex nutrition, 1:32:32.240 --> 1:32:35.000 and that's why we need AI and tech tools to 1:32:35.040 --> 1:32:37.960 help everybody make these choices. It's really not that easy. 1:32:38.000 --> 1:32:40.360 And so suddenly we're now in a position where we 1:32:40.400 --> 1:32:43.720 have these tools to help us every day because the 1:32:43.760 --> 1:32:45.920 food choices we make every day of our lives are 1:32:45.920 --> 1:32:48.160 the most important things we can do for our health. 1:32:48.400 --> 1:32:50.799 What are we up against when it comes to these choices. 1:32:51.720 --> 1:32:57.000 We're up against big food and false labeling, false health claims. 1:32:57.720 --> 1:33:05.160 Everybody bombarding people with extra vitamins, extra protein, or new 1:33:05.200 --> 1:33:09.439 added sweeteners, low calorie. All these messages are all false, 1:33:09.520 --> 1:33:11.920 disguising the fact that most of the foods they average 1:33:11.920 --> 1:33:14.800 American is eating are really bad for them, actually making 1:33:14.800 --> 1:33:18.880 them hungrier, making them sicker. So we definitely need tools 1:33:18.920 --> 1:33:22.560 to fight back against these giants and all their propaganda. 1:33:23.120 --> 1:33:25.040 And how do you think Zowe does that? 1:33:26.000 --> 1:33:29.639 Zoe does that by giving people tools based on science. 1:33:29.680 --> 1:33:33.160 We've been doing a hard science for over eight years now, 1:33:33.360 --> 1:33:36.839 looking at three hundred thousand people that have done these tests, 1:33:37.160 --> 1:33:40.519 so we know exactly how people respond to foods. We 1:33:40.680 --> 1:33:42.840 know what the food companies are trying to do, and 1:33:42.880 --> 1:33:46.400 our scientists have really given us the antidote to that 1:33:46.920 --> 1:33:49.920 the food industries scientists who are trying to tempt us 1:33:50.200 --> 1:33:51.120 down the wrong path. 1:33:51.640 --> 1:33:53.759 And what does the app do if I scan a food? 1:33:53.880 --> 1:33:55.439 Tell me what that does? 1:33:56.160 --> 1:34:00.400 The app is able to you to snap a picture 1:34:00.560 --> 1:34:03.519 of any food on your plate or in a store, 1:34:04.000 --> 1:34:07.760 and it will tell you exactly what's in it, the ingredients. 1:34:08.200 --> 1:34:08.880 It tells you. 1:34:10.360 --> 1:34:12.960 How much fiber, how much proteins are there, and it 1:34:13.000 --> 1:34:17.479 will also tell you it's processing risk, so how risky 1:34:18.280 --> 1:34:22.240 the actual chemicals and ingredients and mix are for your health. 1:34:22.760 --> 1:34:26.200 Up to now, we've had very broad descriptions of what 1:34:26.400 --> 1:34:30.200 is ultra processed food in court that's sixty percent of 1:34:30.200 --> 1:34:33.600 the American diet, seventy five percent of children's diets. But 1:34:33.680 --> 1:34:36.920 it's too broad. We can't cut out that much food. 1:34:37.000 --> 1:34:39.479 So we've focused on is to sorry and say, what's 1:34:39.520 --> 1:34:42.320 the twenty five percent that's really high risk? So it 1:34:42.320 --> 1:34:45.559 has additives that are bad few, it's hyper palatable, it 1:34:45.640 --> 1:34:49.879 makes you overeat them. They're really soft and easy to digest, 1:34:49.960 --> 1:34:52.800 so you get that burst of energy and carries without 1:34:52.840 --> 1:34:58.040 even thinking about it. And it's these these tricks the 1:34:58.080 --> 1:35:01.960 food companies are doing that we have now logged into 1:35:02.040 --> 1:35:04.160 our app so that when you go to the store 1:35:04.520 --> 1:35:07.760 you can make the smart choice and avoid the very 1:35:07.800 --> 1:35:11.960 worst offenders and sometimes have ultra processed foods that are 1:35:12.000 --> 1:35:13.720 actually reasonably good for you. 1:35:14.080 --> 1:35:15.840 And how does this compare to other apps? Or so 1:35:15.880 --> 1:35:17.800 there's a couple of apps that allow you to scan 1:35:17.880 --> 1:35:20.639 out there. How do you think you're taking an approach 1:35:20.640 --> 1:35:22.479 that might be different from them or is it all 1:35:22.520 --> 1:35:22.880 the same. 1:35:23.200 --> 1:35:26.559 Our approach is different. It's more holistic than the other apps. 1:35:27.960 --> 1:35:30.439 The ones that I know have say a list of 1:35:30.479 --> 1:35:34.120 all the additives in and merely listed them out, so 1:35:34.200 --> 1:35:37.920 you just rank them. If they have an additive, they're 1:35:37.960 --> 1:35:40.160 bad for you and therefore that's the end of it. 1:35:40.400 --> 1:35:43.000 Whereas we know that some of these additives in food 1:35:43.080 --> 1:35:44.640 might actually be good for you, so some of the 1:35:44.640 --> 1:35:47.240 absids might be vomit them in cea for example a 1:35:47.360 --> 1:35:50.240 score by g acid. And so what we've done is 1:35:50.560 --> 1:35:53.760 look to those additives only worried about the ones that 1:35:53.800 --> 1:35:55.640 are bad for health, that have been shown to be 1:35:55.680 --> 1:35:58.200 bad for health. And then we've got these other categories 1:35:58.520 --> 1:36:02.920 like make you overeat and the category density of the food, 1:36:03.280 --> 1:36:06.200 different constituents of the structure of the food. So it's 1:36:06.280 --> 1:36:10.000 much more holistic picture rather than just relying on addatives alone. 1:36:10.360 --> 1:36:14.600 How much of the app is helping you in informing 1:36:14.640 --> 1:36:17.559 you versus selling you? Are we trying? Is the app 1:36:17.680 --> 1:36:20.160 just meant to a vector to get people to buy 1:36:20.200 --> 1:36:24.080 the supplement or is it actually there to help folks. 1:36:24.640 --> 1:36:28.280 The reason it's free is to educate people and to 1:36:28.360 --> 1:36:34.120 help folks and to really move us away from the 1:36:34.160 --> 1:36:38.000 power of the food industry. And that's the predominant use 1:36:38.040 --> 1:36:40.720 of this app. We want to educate America about what 1:36:40.800 --> 1:36:44.400 good food is, how you can use technology to pick it, 1:36:44.760 --> 1:36:47.120 and how you can pick the right foods that help 1:36:47.240 --> 1:36:49.040 you and your gut health. 1:36:49.520 --> 1:36:53.040 How can people rest assured that the information they're seeing 1:36:53.040 --> 1:36:54.840 this app is not biased in any way. 1:36:55.479 --> 1:36:59.559 Zoe is a science led company that's published over seventy 1:36:59.680 --> 1:37:03.880 peer reviewed publications. We recently had our gut Health test 1:37:04.040 --> 1:37:09.519 published in the world's most prestigious journal, Nature, and so 1:37:10.120 --> 1:37:13.600 we have a whole team of scientists working on these projects. 1:37:14.000 --> 1:37:18.840 They come from universities and academia, highly distinguished people, and 1:37:18.960 --> 1:37:23.960 so we are reputation based on our unbiased approach to science. 1:37:24.280 --> 1:37:26.760 If the science tells us something, that's what we put 1:37:26.760 --> 1:37:28.679 in the app. So the cool thing about the app 1:37:28.720 --> 1:37:31.599 is not only does it get you to recognize highly 1:37:31.720 --> 1:37:35.320 risk processed foods, but it also allows you every day 1:37:35.360 --> 1:37:38.519 to take pictures of your meals and you get a 1:37:38.520 --> 1:37:41.800 snapshot of what that's scoring in terms of your general 1:37:41.840 --> 1:37:44.360 health and for your gut health, and you do that 1:37:44.640 --> 1:37:47.599 every day over weeks, you can start tracking things like 1:37:47.600 --> 1:37:52.560 your fiber remounts, your protein levels, and the diversity of 1:37:52.600 --> 1:37:54.280 different plants. Because what we want to do is to 1:37:54.360 --> 1:37:57.800 get Americans to really start thinking about food from point 1:37:57.840 --> 1:37:59.840 of view their gut microbes. That's why we've got to 1:37:59.840 --> 1:38:02.400 try rakka in there that says how many different plants 1:38:02.439 --> 1:38:05.080 you're having over a week, because we want people to 1:38:05.120 --> 1:38:07.920 get to thirty plants a week, and that's what our 1:38:07.960 --> 1:38:11.000 science is telling us is the optimum amount. 1:38:10.680 --> 1:38:11.559 For your gut health. 1:38:11.840 --> 1:38:13.880 We also want people to have more fermented foods, so 1:38:13.920 --> 1:38:16.160 you can track how many of those you're getting. We 1:38:16.200 --> 1:38:20.519 want you have colorful foods, We want people to reduce 1:38:20.560 --> 1:38:22.280 their snacking, all kinds of things. 1:38:22.080 --> 1:38:23.400 That are good for your gut health. 1:38:23.720 --> 1:38:28.439 So all no, it's a multi purpose toolkit really to 1:38:28.520 --> 1:38:30.799 improve your health and make the best food choices. 1:38:31.120 --> 1:38:33.439 And I guess the final question is what's the benefit 1:38:33.479 --> 1:38:35.920 of all this. What's the benefit of improving our health 1:38:36.000 --> 1:38:37.800 or improving the gut in the way we eat. 1:38:38.200 --> 1:38:41.160 We believe that about seventy to eighty percent of all 1:38:41.160 --> 1:38:44.960 the common diseases in America can be prevented if everyone 1:38:45.080 --> 1:38:47.439 was on an optimum diet as opposed to the standard 1:38:47.479 --> 1:38:51.559 American diet. So being able to shift that is really important. 1:38:51.560 --> 1:38:55.080 And in terms of individuals, what that means is if 1:38:55.120 --> 1:38:58.639 you switch to the healthiest diet you can, you will 1:38:58.680 --> 1:39:01.439 gain an extra ten years of healthy life, so that 1:39:01.880 --> 1:39:05.400 you're pushing away those diseases by ten years. So that 1:39:05.439 --> 1:39:08.679 has a huge impact on millions and millions of people. 1:39:09.280 --> 1:39:12.320 There you have it once again. That is Professor Tim Spector, 1:39:12.439 --> 1:39:15.400 co founder of Zoe. The app is called Zoe Health. 1:39:15.479 --> 1:39:19.200 I really enjoy this app. Look for it on iOS 1:39:19.320 --> 1:39:22.280 or Android. It is free to scan foods. I just 1:39:22.320 --> 1:39:25.880 scanned my It was a seaweed snack that got one hundred. 1:39:26.479 --> 1:39:30.840 I scanned Bobo's famous Amos chocolate chip cookies that gets 1:39:30.880 --> 1:39:37.280 a twenty. Enjoy Occasionally he just shrugs. I enjoyed. Right now. 1:39:38.200 --> 1:39:40.800 Feedback coming up next right here on rich on Tech. 1:39:44.240 --> 1:39:47.200 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Two items of note 1:39:47.200 --> 1:39:51.479 before we open up the feedbag man. This show Flew 1:39:51.560 --> 1:39:55.680 by Apple is taking on Adobe for creators. They've got 1:39:55.680 --> 1:39:59.559 a new Apple Creator studio. This is a subscription program 1:39:59.560 --> 1:40:03.080 that bun a lot of their creative apps like Final 1:40:03.120 --> 1:40:07.840 cut Pro, Logic Pro, pixel Mater Pro for one low price. 1:40:07.960 --> 1:40:12.200 It's kind of their answer to Adobe's Creative Cloud. Let's 1:40:12.200 --> 1:40:13.599 see how much is it a month? I think it's 1:40:13.640 --> 1:40:17.879 thirteen dollars a month. Works on Mac and iPad supports 1:40:17.920 --> 1:40:21.120 family sharing, so it depends if you're using this stuff. 1:40:21.360 --> 1:40:24.920 I paid for Final Cut Pro once about I don't know, 1:40:25.000 --> 1:40:27.120 twenty years ago, and I still use it, which is 1:40:27.160 --> 1:40:30.599 just wild, pretty amazing. Anyway. Check it out Apple Creator 1:40:30.640 --> 1:40:33.960 Pro for students only three dollars a month. There's a 1:40:34.000 --> 1:40:37.120 new app in China called Are You Dead, and it 1:40:37.200 --> 1:40:40.760 is topping the charts there. It's very simple. Every day 1:40:40.840 --> 1:40:43.280 you check in by tapping a button on your phone 1:40:43.320 --> 1:40:45.800 to prove that you're alive. If you don't check in 1:40:45.880 --> 1:40:48.160 for a couple days in a row, the Apple automatically 1:40:48.240 --> 1:40:51.599 tell your emergency contacts you might be in trouble. It's 1:40:51.640 --> 1:40:54.479 for young people living alone, it's for elderly people living alone. 1:40:55.120 --> 1:40:57.360 And I know it's got a scary name, but the 1:40:57.640 --> 1:41:01.599 creator told the Financial Times the name are You Dead 1:41:01.680 --> 1:41:04.479 is not intended to be bad. It serves as a 1:41:04.520 --> 1:41:08.800 reminder for us to cherish the present. Okay, I like that. 1:41:09.320 --> 1:41:11.840 Let's open up the feedback. Denise says, I had to 1:41:11.840 --> 1:41:14.640 write you after trying the Zoe app because it's amazing. 1:41:15.080 --> 1:41:17.720 I started scanning items in my pantry. The results were 1:41:17.760 --> 1:41:21.040 eye opening. A mini non scored thirty. That one's out. 1:41:21.120 --> 1:41:24.240 Magic spoon protein granola scored a ninety. That's a keeper. 1:41:24.640 --> 1:41:26.760 I've checked several other items. I love how easy it 1:41:26.800 --> 1:41:29.679 is snap a picture. I'm heading to Sprouts now, can't 1:41:29.680 --> 1:41:32.759 wait to scan more products. You might actually get credit 1:41:32.800 --> 1:41:35.559 for kicking off my weight loss journey. Thanks so much. 1:41:35.640 --> 1:41:39.120 Have a great weekend. Thanks Denise. Raoul Rights. Hey, Rich, 1:41:39.120 --> 1:41:40.920 I want to warn people about a scam my wife 1:41:41.000 --> 1:41:42.600 went through. She got a call that it looked like 1:41:42.600 --> 1:41:45.360 it was from the Sheriff's station. They told her there 1:41:45.400 --> 1:41:47.879 was a warrant for her arrest because she never responded 1:41:47.880 --> 1:41:49.080 to a letter and she had to come to the 1:41:49.080 --> 1:41:51.600 station alone. Before that, they told her to go to 1:41:51.640 --> 1:41:54.160 the bank withdraw five hundred dollars, then go to Walgreens 1:41:54.760 --> 1:41:56.960 and make a payment for a citation, or she would 1:41:57.000 --> 1:41:59.599 go to jail. The scams sounded very real. They had 1:41:59.640 --> 1:42:02.960 all her personal information, even details about her parents. We 1:42:03.000 --> 1:42:05.040 only realized a scam. It was a scam. When the 1:42:05.080 --> 1:42:09.080 call dropped, she called the sheriff station directly. They confirmed 1:42:09.120 --> 1:42:12.120 it was fake. They said, scammers spoof the phone number 1:42:12.160 --> 1:42:13.880 so it looks like police are calling, and this has 1:42:13.880 --> 1:42:16.880 happened before. Unfortunately, that money was our rent. I just 1:42:16.880 --> 1:42:19.759 want to make sure others don't fall for this, Ugh Raoul. 1:42:19.840 --> 1:42:21.640 Sorry to hear that, but I'm glad it didn't go 1:42:21.720 --> 1:42:25.680 further than that. Gary in Denver says, I depend on 1:42:25.680 --> 1:42:28.240 Alexa because of my disability. I was nervous about upgrading 1:42:28.280 --> 1:42:31.280 to Alexa Plus, but I did it. Here's what I've noticed. 1:42:31.600 --> 1:42:35.840 Alexa Plus struggles with location searches. The good news is 1:42:35.920 --> 1:42:40.040 my smart routines mostly work runs my hue Ys switchbought 1:42:40.120 --> 1:42:43.960 Zigbie and Nest devices does well with general questions like 1:42:44.000 --> 1:42:47.080 sports scores, Bible quotes, geography, and US history. The biggest 1:42:47.080 --> 1:42:50.719 surprise was shopping. I tried to order yellow polenta, which 1:42:50.760 --> 1:42:53.640 was out of stock, and Alexa Plus added nine packages 1:42:53.680 --> 1:42:56.320 of a different polenta to my cart without asking. I 1:42:56.320 --> 1:42:59.080 had to remove it manually. You would have been eating 1:42:59.120 --> 1:43:02.479 a lot of polenta. Christine in Los Angeles, I want 1:43:02.479 --> 1:43:04.280 to say thank you. I listened to your weekend show 1:43:04.360 --> 1:43:07.639 every week. Even when I don't fully understand every technical detail, 1:43:07.680 --> 1:43:10.400 you still make learning feel approachable and even fun. That 1:43:10.439 --> 1:43:13.679 really stands out. It makes sense why you're successful and popular. 1:43:13.760 --> 1:43:18.639 Who said I was successful and popular? Despite your busy schedule, 1:43:18.680 --> 1:43:21.200 you always take the time to respond thoughtfully to your listeners, 1:43:21.200 --> 1:43:23.799 and that means a lot. I'm thrilled your show as national. 1:43:23.840 --> 1:43:26.240 We're lucky to have you in here in LA, but 1:43:26.280 --> 1:43:29.120 it's great that people all over the country can benefit. 1:43:29.400 --> 1:43:31.479 I hope you'll share this feedback at the end of 1:43:31.479 --> 1:43:33.879 one of your upcoming shows. Well, I just did Christine 1:43:34.400 --> 1:43:38.600 gold Star for you today, Don writes Rich, Welcome to 1:43:38.640 --> 1:43:41.639 twenty twenty six. Things are changing faster than ever, especially 1:43:41.640 --> 1:43:44.360 for people over fifty who have never worked with technology. 1:43:45.280 --> 1:43:47.479 Even with my background, I still need help. Many of 1:43:47.479 --> 1:43:51.760 my friends are overwhelmed by TVs, appliances, cars, spam scams, 1:43:52.360 --> 1:43:54.200 and they don't even know how much their tech needs are. 1:43:54.280 --> 1:43:57.120 Your newsletter hit on a really important opportunity helping older 1:43:57.160 --> 1:44:01.559 adults keep their world working. There's a real need for 1:44:01.600 --> 1:44:05.080 trustworthy people who can patiently explain tech and state and 1:44:05.160 --> 1:44:07.640 help people stay independant, keep doing what you're doing. We 1:44:07.680 --> 1:44:10.840 really need it. This is along the same lines mister 1:44:10.920 --> 1:44:13.400 Langdon says, I love your showing your newsletters. I especially 1:44:13.400 --> 1:44:16.160 appreciate when you feature products that help people with disabilities. 1:44:16.520 --> 1:44:18.640 Technology could be a double edged sword, but for me, 1:44:18.680 --> 1:44:21.519 it provides real independence, and I don't think people without 1:44:21.520 --> 1:44:24.640 disabilities always realize how much that matters. I'm grateful for 1:44:24.720 --> 1:44:26.639 it and always look forward to the gadgets you talk about. 1:44:26.640 --> 1:44:29.960 Happy New Year. I do think about this and we 1:44:30.000 --> 1:44:32.240 do try to talk about it, and I think that 1:44:32.320 --> 1:44:35.080 technology is doing amazing things and I think it will 1:44:35.080 --> 1:44:39.400 continue to do more. Thank you. Danielle in Southern California 1:44:39.400 --> 1:44:42.200 says rich. My daughter works for a small business in 1:44:42.240 --> 1:44:44.280 southern California and got a text that looked like it 1:44:44.320 --> 1:44:47.240 came from the owner. I told her not to respond 1:44:47.280 --> 1:44:49.080 and check with the boss. Turned out it was fake. 1:44:49.560 --> 1:44:52.000 What's concerning is that several other coworkers got the same 1:44:52.040 --> 1:44:54.800 type of text, all addressed by first name. No one 1:44:54.840 --> 1:44:58.599 can figure out how their cell numbers leaked. Be careful. 1:44:58.720 --> 1:45:02.920 Boss scams are ram Rampant, Bruce, and San Diego. I'm 1:45:02.920 --> 1:45:05.000 a maintenance sky with fuel Rod. I've been listening since 1:45:05.040 --> 1:45:07.880 day one. I know you've got a favorite rechargeable battery. 1:45:07.880 --> 1:45:10.680 I'm not trying to change your mind. I just want 1:45:10.720 --> 1:45:12.439 to mention that we've got some new stuff in our 1:45:12.479 --> 1:45:16.120 fuel rod kiosks. We're in about fifty airports, places like SeaWorld, 1:45:16.240 --> 1:45:21.360 San Diego, Zoo, Disney, and Moore. I love listening every week, Bruce. 1:45:21.400 --> 1:45:23.920 I've seen the fuel rods, but I usually carry my 1:45:23.960 --> 1:45:26.360 own battery, so I don't need one. But it's a 1:45:26.400 --> 1:45:28.920 great thing. I see these things everywhere. They're all over. 1:45:29.160 --> 1:45:32.680 Should never have a dead battery. Gary says, hey, Rich, 1:45:32.720 --> 1:45:35.080 I just noticed your newsletter landed in my junk folder 1:45:35.439 --> 1:45:38.080 for the first time ever. I attached the screenshot so 1:45:38.120 --> 1:45:40.160 you can see what I'm talking about. I believe you. Gary, 1:45:40.479 --> 1:45:41.920 just wanted to give you a heads up. Thanks for 1:45:41.960 --> 1:45:45.240 all you do. Uh oh, I think Gmail decided my 1:45:45.360 --> 1:45:48.080 app is my newsletter's not as good anymore. I gotta 1:45:48.360 --> 1:45:50.439 up the ante. If you haven't subscribed Rich on tech 1:45:50.520 --> 1:45:56.200 dot tv, let's see Oh my gosh, so many this week. 1:45:56.640 --> 1:45:59.320 Michael says, I love your reports, especially the yearly ces 1:45:59.400 --> 1:46:03.120 remotes from Vegas. I'd love you to see your revisit 1:46:03.200 --> 1:46:04.840 some of the things you showed us years ago that 1:46:04.880 --> 1:46:10.320 felt almost impossible, but today we take for granted. Oh, robots, AI, 1:46:10.760 --> 1:46:14.719 instant language translation, voice to text. Yes, all that stuff 1:46:14.760 --> 1:46:20.439 is amazing and it's gotten so good. David says. I 1:46:20.520 --> 1:46:23.120 just read and watched your cspiece about smart rings, really 1:46:23.200 --> 1:46:25.200 enjoyed it. After seeing one of your segments years ago, 1:46:25.240 --> 1:46:28.439 I opened an account with Oh gosh, I can't remember 1:46:28.439 --> 1:46:30.880 how to say this Quantic Bank, and had been wearing 1:46:30.920 --> 1:46:32.840 their pay ring ever since this was a ring that 1:46:32.880 --> 1:46:35.439 you could tap to pay. I barely leave home without it. 1:46:35.479 --> 1:46:38.599 About six months ago, Quantics started recruiting real estate agents 1:46:38.600 --> 1:46:41.559 to become mortgage loan officers. When I spotted their logo 1:46:41.720 --> 1:46:43.759 in an ad, I jumped in. After lots of training 1:46:43.760 --> 1:46:45.600 and background checks, I can now do mortgage loans in 1:46:45.640 --> 1:46:48.439 all fifty states. When people ask about the bank or 1:46:48.479 --> 1:46:50.960 notice the ring, I tell them I first heard about 1:46:51.040 --> 1:46:54.639 Quantic from your show. Thank you so much, David. That's 1:46:54.680 --> 1:46:56.800 cool you're saying I got you a job in some 1:46:57.280 --> 1:47:04.519 interesting way here, Tony. I've been trying to trying out 1:47:04.520 --> 1:47:06.719 a few AI features, and I really like when Google 1:47:06.840 --> 1:47:09.479 uses AI to summarize search results. I also just learned 1:47:09.520 --> 1:47:12.400 how to use AI mode on Google Search to identify photos. 1:47:12.880 --> 1:47:15.439 You tap AI mode, take a picture, hit done, and 1:47:15.479 --> 1:47:17.720 it figures out what you're looking at. I've used it 1:47:17.760 --> 1:47:21.960 to identify European churches, parks from random photos, even buildings 1:47:21.960 --> 1:47:25.639 from brochures. It's been great figuring out from a random 1:47:25.640 --> 1:47:28.920 photo of what it actually shows. Love it, Yes, Tony, 1:47:30.400 --> 1:47:32.400 I was in Costco last night and I used this. 1:47:33.040 --> 1:47:36.519 I took a picture of a wine bottle to get 1:47:36.560 --> 1:47:38.920 the ratings and reviews, and it was like, oh, this 1:47:39.000 --> 1:47:41.000 wine sells for about thirty dollars in Costco, but one 1:47:41.080 --> 1:47:44.559 hundred dollars online. What So I bought a bottle and 1:47:44.600 --> 1:47:47.960 I'm very curious to try it because if that's true, 1:47:48.000 --> 1:47:50.760 I don't know how that's true, but pro tip, do 1:47:50.840 --> 1:47:52.400 I have the name of it? Shoot? I don't know 1:47:52.400 --> 1:47:53.599 if I could tell you the name, because I don't 1:47:53.600 --> 1:47:54.960 even know what it is. I think it was called 1:47:54.960 --> 1:48:02.000 Committee Committee Wine. Maybe that was it. Yeah, Oh yeah, 1:48:02.080 --> 1:48:06.800 voltaor vultou R Cabernet. For some reason, it sells like 1:48:06.960 --> 1:48:09.160 thirty dollars. I don't know. I don't know if that's true, 1:48:09.200 --> 1:48:11.880 but anyway, we'll see. AI could have been wrong on that, 1:48:11.960 --> 1:48:13.880 but I'll just tell my friends I got a really 1:48:13.880 --> 1:48:19.080 good bottle. Let's see. Oh, Ham Radio I mentioned, Gordon 1:48:19.120 --> 1:48:21.000 says during the show you asked about the meaning of 1:48:21.080 --> 1:48:24.160 seven to three that appeared in a listener's email signature. 1:48:24.160 --> 1:48:27.320 It's a long standing Ham Radio term that means best regards. 1:48:27.720 --> 1:48:30.160 I sent you a link explaining its history and usage, 1:48:30.439 --> 1:48:33.000 seventy three. So is this seventy three or seven three? 1:48:33.560 --> 1:48:36.479 It's not six to seven. I know that, PJ. You 1:48:36.560 --> 1:48:39.080 mentioned seventy three on the show. Here's a deeper backstory 1:48:39.080 --> 1:48:42.679 and Ham Radio seventy three is a friendly sign off 1:48:42.680 --> 1:48:45.720 that means best regards. It's so common that Ham's often 1:48:45.800 --> 1:48:48.559 using an emails and even on social media. The reason 1:48:48.680 --> 1:48:50.519 it's a number is it goes all the way back 1:48:50.520 --> 1:48:54.960 to landline telephones in the eighteen hundreds, when operators use 1:48:55.080 --> 1:48:58.160 numbers as shorthand for common phrases to save them time 1:48:58.800 --> 1:49:02.440 and eighteen fifty seven telegraph guide seven to three originally 1:49:02.439 --> 1:49:05.360 meant my love to you, which later evolved into the 1:49:05.400 --> 1:49:09.600 warmer professional sign off Hams used today. PJ. Thanks for 1:49:09.640 --> 1:49:14.280 that history lesson. Uh, Shannon, I just want to say 1:49:14.320 --> 1:49:17.439 you outdid yourself with the CEES videos in your newsletter. 1:49:17.680 --> 1:49:19.800 I shared the links with at least ten friends who 1:49:19.800 --> 1:49:22.559 didn't know about you. I especially love the Michael Jackson 1:49:22.640 --> 1:49:24.639 dancing robot, and the robot has served you a cup 1:49:24.640 --> 1:49:27.000 of coffee. So cool. I can't wait for these kinds 1:49:27.040 --> 1:49:29.200 of devices to actually be available to the public. Thanks 1:49:29.240 --> 1:49:32.240 for being so good at what you do. Thank you, Shannon, 1:49:32.240 --> 1:49:33.960 and I will leave it there. That's gonna do it 1:49:33.960 --> 1:49:35.400 for this episode. You can find links to what I 1:49:35.439 --> 1:49:38.559 mentioned on the website rich on Tech dot TV. Find 1:49:38.560 --> 1:49:40.720 me on social media. I am at rich on Tech. 1:49:40.800 --> 1:49:43.760 Next week we'll have the Computer Exorcist on. Thanks so 1:49:43.800 --> 1:49:45.559 much for listening. There are so many ways you can 1:49:45.600 --> 1:49:47.960 spend your time. I really appreciate you spending it right 1:49:47.960 --> 1:49:51.960 here with me. Please don't drive distracted. Those texts can wait. 1:49:52.000 --> 1:49:54.439 Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. My name 1:49:54.520 --> 1:49:56.880 is rich Demiro. I'll talk to you real soon. 1:50:00.439 --> 1:50:00.599 One