WEBVTT - Google takes on Ring with latest Nest cameras 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:15.280 Google goes after Ring TikTok takes flight plus your tech 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.720 questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro and this 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.279 is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:23.880 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.080 also the place where I answer the questions you send me. 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.280 My name is Rich Dmiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.480 five in Los Angeles. Thanks so much for tuning into 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.400 the show. I gotta say, I don't know what happened 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.080 last week. Was it the title of the show. 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:39.760 I don't know. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:45.479 Most downloads ever for an episode of this show in 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.040 one week, I mean, I don't know. It was double 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.920 what it typically was. So the only change I could 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:56.920 discern is that Facebook's little podcast thing started to kick in, 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.360 where basically I put my RSS feed on to my 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:03.480 Facebook page and every time I publish a new episode, 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.960 Facebook imports it and then lets it be playable through 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:09.600 my Facebook page. And I've got a lot of people 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.440 on my Facebook page, so perhaps that boosted things up, 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.120 but I don't know. So anyway, whatever it is, if 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.560 you're new to the show, welcome, Thank you. We'll see 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.119 if that was just a fluke next week. But I 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.360 enjoyed seeing the increase in numbers. That was kind of fun. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.320 One thing that was kind of ironic about last week 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:34.240 is that I actually did a little experiment. So I 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.480 have been spending a lot of time on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:42.800 all these things, and I decided to try deleting them 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.720 from my phone to see what would happen with my life. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.480 Now I'm on TV, and of course I am in 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.320 the public eye all the time, always the pressure to 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:55.600 post and to kind of share things that are happening 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.120 in my life. And I enjoyed doing it, don't get 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.440 me wrong, but it become a thing where I am, 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.160 you know, always looking at this. I'm always on it. 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:07.680 I'm getting messages twenty four to seven from folks, and 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.640 so I just figured, okay, let me just see what 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.000 life is like without these, and I will tell you, 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:19.400 Oh my gosh, it is very interesting. It is very 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.480 freeing because I did not feel pressure in any way, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.560 shape or form to be on my phone, to check 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.840 my phone, to post on my phone, to check what 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.040 people are saying about what I posted. And it was 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:34.799 very very i don't know, like it made me become 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.440 more in the moment. And I've got them back on 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.640 my phone at this point. But I don't know what 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.600 the solution is because I don't have my notifications turned on. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.600 I'm not sitting there, you know, every time someone texts 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.000 me or tweets me, you know, I don't see that instantly. 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.320 So I'm not really sure what the answer is. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.240 I mean, I guess it's just a way to figure 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:58.440 out how to limit yourself to checking, you know, once 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.640 or twice or three times a day or certain times 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.840 throughout the day. But I just find that these these 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:08.400 programs really really suck you in, and they suck you 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.040 into a world where you are just you know, you're 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.960 keeping up with people, but you're not. You're keeping up 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:18.040 with things, but you're not. And it really is one 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.920 of these things where when I look around at people 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.320 out and about in the world, they are just all 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:29.040 looking at Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok. And it's funny because 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:30.480 when I'm out and about, I always kind of look 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.400 to see what people are doing on their phones. And 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.640 I was at the Santa Cruz Amusement Park. It's called 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.560 the Boardwalk Fun Place by the way. It was really nice, 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.440 but everyone was just kind of on their phones, and 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:43.960 I get it, you're in line, so what are you 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.680 gonna do? But I noticed that Facebook is still king. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.400 I think Facebook and Instagram are still king when it 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:49.920 comes to. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:50.640 All this stuff. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.680 Anyway, I'm not gonna stop posting, I'm not gonna stop 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.000 being there, but I just like to see, you know, 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.880 for my own reasons, how things are and what things 0:03:59.880 --> 0:04:02.400 do and all that good stuff. So it was kind 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.160 of fun to be off for a week and see 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:05.280 how that affected my life. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:06.800 And I will say it. 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.400 Feels positive, but you also feel like you're left out. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.680 And I also did notice me checking other things more. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.720 So I would check LinkedIn more, I would check Google 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.800 News more. And so it's not like it's a zero 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:21.840 sum game where just because you don't have these things, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.320 you're not on your phone, you just I think, gravitate 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:29.200 towards other places. So anyway, let's get to the first 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.760 story of the week. New from Google Nest. They've got 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.720 a couple of new cameras and doorbells, and everything they're 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:37.800 doing is basically. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.080 A direct attack at Ring Ring. 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.400 I always have talked about on the show doing really 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.559 really cool things, really pushing the envelope when it comes 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.680 to home security and all the different things that they 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.600 bundle together. You know, it works with the you know 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.320 alex A, and it works with you know, just so 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.960 many different things. The ecosystem with Ring is is kind 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.800 of like unsurpassed, right, And so I know there's a 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.520 lot to talk about how people some people don't like 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.719 what Ring is doing with privacy, but I don't have 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:09.040 those problems, and I actually really enjoy what I've got 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.479 going on with Ring at my house. So, and I 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.679 also have some of these nestcams too. But the problem 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.360 with the nestcam in the past, and they did address this, 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:22.440 is that they're basically worthless unless you are subscribing to 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.880 their service because the Nest camps only let you live 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.720 stream and they don't record anything unless you pay. Now 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.320 that has changed, not with the old cameras, but with 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.200 the new cameras. So let me just tell you about 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.040 the cameras they've got. So they've got a new Google 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.960 Nest Cam with a battery and this is an indoor, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.479 outdoor battery powered camera that's going to be one hundred 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.360 and eighty dollars. Then they've got the Google Nest doorbell, 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.240 which used to be called the the I think it 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.400 was called the Hello. This is a battery powered doorbell, 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.560 which is also a first that's one hundred and eighty dollars. 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.240 Then they've got a Google Nest Cam with a floodlight 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.240 which is basically Ring's floodlight cam which they've had forever. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.039 That is two hundred and seventy nine hundred and eighty dollars. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.159 And I'm trying to think how much I paid for 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:07.599 the Nest cam that I got. The are sorry the Yeah, 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.200 the Nest floodlight cam. I think it was two fifty 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.400 but I think they also have a model that's one 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.520 ninety nine now. But anyway, so now Google has their 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.600 answer to that. And then they have the Google Nestcam, 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:20.839 which is kind of their standard camera. That's the wired 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.279 camera for inside, and that's going to be one hundred 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.279 dollars and that's their lowest price ever. But quite honestly, 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.359 you can get a Ring Cam, I think for sixty 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.400 dollars for indoor. Now, there is a difference here the 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:36.359 Ring cams. You know, they let you live stream, but 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.479 they don't record like continuously, so you can get the 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.680 events from them, but you can't get like the last 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.839 three hours and just scroll through like you can with 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:49.160 the Nest cams. So the nestcams now include three hours 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:54.280 of recorded events for free, and that is a big 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.080 change because it used to be had to pay to 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.400 get any sort of recording on the Nest cam. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:06:59.960 So that is it. 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.159 That's a win right there. The other thing is that 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.400 some of these are available now. Basically, the battery powered 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:10.320 nestcam and the doorbell will go on sail August twenty fourth. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.720 The floodlight and the wired indoor cam are coming soon. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:15.920 So what else. 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.680 The other big thing about this is that you know, 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.440 if you have a ring camera, you know that the 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.040 alerts are very very hit or miss. They've gotten pretty 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:28.760 good with emotion alerts, but it does not have any 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.800 idea if it's a person, if it's a package, if 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.440 it's an animal. So for me personally, I'm getting alerts 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.520 all day long, especially in my backyard. Anytime the wind blows, 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:41.760 I get an alert with a tree branch moving in 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.320 front of my camera and that is just no good. 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:47.760 So Google knows this, and they showed me a demo 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:51.160 of their AI that is on camera now, which means 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.320 it's not going off your camera to figure out what's 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.920 happening in the frame and they showed me a little 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.320 clip of a FedEx truck pulling up to the front 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.920 of the house. And as the truck pulls up, the 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.240 machine learning and artificial intelligence knows that that is a 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:11.160 delivery truck. Then it anticipates that it knows someone's going 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.400 to be walking up to your front door, and then 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.640 it knows that a package is going to be dropped off. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:20.640 And so the alerts now can discern between people, animals, vehicles, 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.480 and also packages in the case of the Nest door bell, 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:26.840 And that's a big deal. It may sound like, ah, Rich, 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.000 that's not that big of a deal, but I do 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.320 believe it is because I, you know, I get these alerts, 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.880 especially when you're on vacation of you know, motion at 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:39.079 your cameras with your ring cameras, and they're pretty much 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.040 useless because I'm getting them twenty four to seven all 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:46.080 day long. So because a camera can tell that it's 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.200 an actual person or an animal, or a vehicle or 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.760 a package, that is very helpful. And by the way, 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.480 these are again being processed on device. You do not 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.640 need a subscription for these types of alerts anymore. So 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.760 the most important alerts are actually going to be included 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.240 with these cameras, which is a big deal. Now, the 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.920 other thing that still requires a subscription is the familiar 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:13.920 Faces alerts, and that will require subscription because it does 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.640 use some cloud processing to do that. And that's when 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:20.000 you have you know, you can you can what's the word, 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.200 sort out whether it's actually a friend or a family 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.200 member coming to the door, or a stranger that's coming 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.160 for the first time. Now, there's one more thing that's 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.240 kind of interesting about these new cameras is that they 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:35.920 have local storage fallback. So the Nest doorbell, the nestcams, 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:40.280 and the floodlight will record one hour of events on device. 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:45.080 So that's pretty interesting. And that means that if the 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.560 I guess they've got some internal memory on these things, 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.440 that will help them record to the device if the 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.920 power goes out and you know, if it has a 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.480 battery in it obviously, and so that's a cool feature 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.880 as well, because you don't miss anything in case the 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.719 power goes out. So anyway, cheaper prices, more features, more 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.320 artificial intelligence. That's the story with the new nestcams. And 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.920 I think that it's it's competitive. I think that for 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.920 me personally, Google is just all over the place when 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.199 it comes with their with their gadgets. So I feel 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.760 like Ring is much more focused in here's what we're doing, 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.800 here's what we deliver, Here's you know, our old stuff, 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.040 here's our new stuff. It all works together. Whereas Google, 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:27.800 you know you can invest in this stuff. And I've 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.760 had a nestcam at my house for years now. It's fine, 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.680 But is it my favorite and is it the best? 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:35.200 I don't know. 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.840 I think that my Ring stuff is better. So anyway, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.480 it's a personal choice depending on the ecosystem you're already in. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:49.480 But those are the new the new offerings from Nest. Well, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.320 let's get to the first question from Let's take a 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:57.120 question from Instagram. Marianne via Instagram at richon Tech says, Hey, 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.760 I keep seeing ads for pogo where you get cash 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.000 back for your purchases. Do you know anything about this? 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.400 I'm not sure it's safe you link it to all 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:08.360 of your credit and debit cards. The website is earnwipogo 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:13.040 dot com. Yeah, the website seems legitimate. The site and 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.040 the features is not something new. We've seen this many 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:20.600 many times. There's an app folk featured called drop and 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.720 it's very similar and there's so many of these rewards apps, 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.760 and the endgame with all of these apps is basically 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.880 the same. They are taking your data in exchange for 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:35.040 giving you a little bit of rewards. And so, yeah, 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.680 your data is worth a lot of money and these 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:43.160 companies know it, especially as the iPhone and all this 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.920 tracking is kind of cracked down on. That means that 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.440 you handing over your data willingly is going to be 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.040 even more valuable these days. And what kind of data 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.520 are they collecting? Well, this company actually has it on 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.120 their front page and it says, here's what we're collecting. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:05.080 We are collecting your receipts and purchases and that's the 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.240 thing we Oh, they also serve your relevant ads. So 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.280 what they don't do is share your contact information, access 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:15.440 your bank credentials, or withdraw funds. So to make this work, 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:17.480 and the way that a lot of these things work 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:20.480 is that you have to connect your bank account to 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.440 this service. And so once you connect your bank account, 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.480 they go through they see all your transactions. You know, 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.120 they even know how much money you make because they 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.880 see your paychecks. You know, you connect your credit cards, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.920 you can see you know, your transactions there. So what 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:41.080 happens is they get a great idea of just how 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.520 much money you have and where you spend that money, 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.120 and they, you know, the credit card companies know this 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.440 and they share it and aggregate. But for a third 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.880 party company like Pogo to understand that, it's very valuable 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:54.920 so they can sell if they have a lot of people, 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.640 they can sell a lot of information across you know, 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.760 a lot of data across a lot of different people. 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.120 So they know how old you are, how much you make, 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.400 where you spend your money, and that's very valuable, as 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.560 you might expect. And they give you a piece of 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.720 those rewards. How much do they give you? Let's see, Well, 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.120 they give you points and then once you get those points, 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.960 you can redeem them for various rewards cash out via 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.040 Venmo or PayPal when you reach three dollars. So it 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.040 just depends is you know, is it for you? 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:24.640 I don't know. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.560 It depends how much you value your private data. So 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.160 for me personally, I used to be big into these things. 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.200 Now I'm sort of a little bit more locked down 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.720 because you know, why do they need I don't know 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.520 if the rewards of three dollars or five dollars over 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.760 a couple of months is really worth me handing over 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.200 all of my transaction data. So for those reasons, I 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:47.520 kind of got out of these apps. And I think 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.439 there are also a lot of work sometimes because they're 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.120 always bugging you. Some of them ask you to upload receipts. 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.920 This one does not, but in general, you know, they 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.640 might ask you for surveys and this and that. Now 0:13:58.400 --> 0:13:59.880 you can look on the flip side of this and 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.400 basically it's free money for you know, just giving a 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.120 little bit of your transactional data to these companies. So 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:08.640 you might say, hey, rich, you know, that's not that 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.280 big of a deal to me. But either way, most 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.200 of them are legit. I would just be very careful 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.680 when you look at these companies. The only thing about 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.760 Pogo that I don't like is when I look on 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:25.240 their website, I don't see anything about Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:30.320 and their only contact information is support at Earnwithpogo dot Com. 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.160 So I don't like that. So for that reason, I 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.440 personally would not be signing up with this website. Let's 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:41.120 look at drop which is another website that I featured 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.560 on KTLA, and let's see what their website has when 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.200 it comes to you know, the information that I like. 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.960 And so I'm looking at the bottom of their website 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:55.880 and it has Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. It also 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.040 has a fact it also has that do not sell 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.960 my personal information at the bottom. So for this reason, 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.960 I like Drop a lot more if you're going to 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.360 go with one, because it seems a little bit more legit. 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.760 The Pogo one I really do not like at all. Actually, 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.120 they do have a privacy policy, uh and yeah, but 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:16.680 I just I think it's a little lean on, kind 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.080 of like the front facing information. In fact, I don't 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.560 even see a way to I don't even see a 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.480 link to the app before I sign up, and I 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:26.320 don't like that either. 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.040 So for that reason, I'm gonna say no on Pogo. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:30.880 But if you want to take a look at some 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.520 of these other apps, they might work for you as well. 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:39.760 All right, let's get to another question here. Next question 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.560 comes from Patty via Instagram. I'll do a couple of 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.840 Instagram questions takes. It's been a while and since I 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:46.560 was off Instagram, I feel bad that I didn't write 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.640 back to people for a while. Patty says, help, I 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.960 lost my text chain with each of my three kids, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.440 I turned my phone off as that's the only fix 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.480 I know, lol, but it didn't work. They still show 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:02.640 up in group texts, but not individually. They are the 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.400 top three in my contact favorites, but don't know if 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.200 that matters. Sadly, I've lost all of our conversations and 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.880 pictures they've sent. Is there any way to retrieve them? 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.600 I don't know how you lost them? You know this 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.520 is number one. I mean, I'm sorry that you lost 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.400 these text chains. But text messaging. We have placed an 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:28.440 enormous emphasis on the importance of text messaging in our society, 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.200 and I don't really understand it because to me, text 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:36.440 messages are fleeting, they're fast, they're quick, they are you know, 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.080 something that I would not think should stick around forever, 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:43.000 Like my email definitely is like kind of an archive 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.400 of everything over the past ten or fifteen years. And 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.440 so I understand that, but text messaging, in fact, I 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.200 have mindset to expire after a year on my iPhone 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.680 because you know, you keep three years of that stuff 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.560 and it's it's weighing down. If you ever look at 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.240 like this, this storage on your iPhone for text messages, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:00.440 it's enormous. 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.200 It's too much. So. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.840 I do understand that people like to keep this stuff 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:07.680 and it's kind of a memory and it's a record. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:09.960 But if you're going to do that, I would get 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.800 your core friends to switch to an app like Telegram 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:17.720 Number one. You can back up, you can export, you 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.239 can see all your stuff more easily, and I get it. 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.520 Apple has really doubled down on I Message and messages, 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.120 and there's a reason for that. It's because they want 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.560 to keep you locked into the iPhone. There's no other reason. 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.280 They're not making it better just to make it better. 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.440 They're making it better so that you don't go anywhere else. 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.280 And the problem with that is that I Message is 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.120 terrible when it comes to exporting messages. When it comes 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.280 to your backup, yeah, it's backed up somewhere in iicloud, 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:45.800 But how do you access that backup? 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:46.320 You can't. 0:17:46.680 --> 0:17:48.280 You would think that you would be able to go 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.840 onto iCloud dot com and click I Message and be 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.040 able to search all of your messages. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.280 Right for a keyword or whatever. I can't find a 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:56.920 way to do that. 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.920 So if I can't find it, I'm sure nobody else can. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.359 Now there are apps that will let you kind of 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.920 look into a backup of your iPhone and you could 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:09.239 potentially do that, but for me personally, that was too 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.600 complicated because you have to do a complete backup of 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.639 your iPhone onto your computer and I just don't have 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:16.679 enough room to do that, so I'd have to delete 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.479 all my pictures before I was able to do that. 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.240 So at the end of the day, Patty, I think 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.359 that these are probably gone. You can look into your 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:26.720 iCloud backup and see if you can use one of 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.760 these programs to help you restore it. But the reality 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.040 is these programs are you know you need a full backup. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:35.400 Let me tell you the program that I was testing 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:40.920 that might work. It's called Imazing Imazig, and this will 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.560 let you tap into a backup of your iPhone. The 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:46.520 problem is, you need a backup of your iPhone and 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.800 if you didn't do it before you lost these messages, 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.119 you might not be able to access those again. So 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.679 if there's another way, let me know. If you're listening 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.080 and you say, Rich, here's the easy way. But to 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.560 me personally, I would switch to an app like I 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.320 would switch to Telegram, and that's where I do my messaging, 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.280 and it's fantastic I've got an archive and never expires. 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.440 It works no matter what phone I'm on, it works 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.640 on my desktop, it works on my phone, and with 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:16.040 messages and I message, it's just way too all over 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.880 the place for me, and there's just no there's no standard, right, 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.880 it doesn't, it doesn't. It doesn't adhere to any sort 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.040 of standards for like exporting your messages that I can tell, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.159 And so for that reason, I just don't like it 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:33.000 for my for a long term solution to like recording 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:35.439 and seeing messages. It's fun for just you know, chatting 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.960 back and forth with people, but I don't have any 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.359 sort of indication that I'm ever gonna be able to 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:44.240 search those messages find something I need or see them ever. 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:47.119 Again, let's talk about Apple. 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.320 Speaking of Apple, they've got kind of a controversial plan 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.240 that leaked and I guess they did a blog post 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:57.080 about it. But it's a plan to protect children from 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:03.280 what they call child sexual abuse material. This they abbreviate 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.639 as c SAM and what they you know, if you 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.240 saw the news media account to this, they're saying they're 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:13.960 scanning all the pictures on your iPhone for child pornography 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.639 or anything you know, sexually explicit when it comes to 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:21.560 children and minors. And of course that's you know, a 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:23.560 smart thing for them to do when it comes to 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.960 protecting children. Now, of course this is Apple, and they 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:28.560 had to come up with a way that would protect 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:33.240 people's you know, privacy, the average person's privacy, while also 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.000 making sure that this kind of stuff doesn't happen on 0:20:36.040 --> 0:20:39.280 their devices. And so they've done a couple of smart things, 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.760 and I think that it's being way overblown in the 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.680 privacy aspect, and quite frankly when it comes to this stuff, 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:48.040 I mean, yeah, let's figure out a way to stop 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:52.080 this from happening, because it's it's pretty gruesome. So what 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:54.560 they're going to do. They've got a threefold plan. Number one, 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.840 the Messages app is going to use on device learning 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:03.320 to war and kids about sensitive content. So if someone 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.879 sends them a message that is potentially explicit in nature 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.480 when it comes to a photo, the phone will scan 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:14.080 that and figure that out and say and blur it 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:16.720 and tell the child, Hey, Number one, we think this 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.199 is bad. Number two, we don't think you should open it. 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.960 Number three, you don't have to open it. Number four 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:25.439 we're going to tell your parents too, so that is 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.639 that's one thing they're doing Siri and search. 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:30.359 If you do search for some of. 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.000 These types of things, it's going to stop you in 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.560 your tracks and kind of give you a little check 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:38.480 right there and say, hey, you shouldn't be doing this, 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:40.600 and also we're not going to give you the results 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:41.680 that you are looking for. 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:44.639 Now. The most controversial part is the photos. 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:47.400 So if you have photos on your phone and these 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:49.960 photos contain any of this stuff that has been sort 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:56.520 of identified as see SAM, the system will use all 0:21:56.640 --> 0:22:00.439 kinds of advanced cryptography to help limit this spread of 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:05.360 this stuff. Now, Apple can't really do anything from people 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:07.880 doing this on their phone. It's their private device, it's 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:11.840 their private storage. But the part that they're going to 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:13.879 crack down on is when you try to upload this 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:17.720 stuff to iCloud. And Apple basically understands that when you 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:20.680 upload this stuff to iCloud, it's being shared. Whether it's 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:22.640 being shared or not, it doesn't really matter. They don't 0:22:22.680 --> 0:22:25.760 want it to spread, and so they will look at 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:28.879 these images, do a machine learning scan on your phone 0:22:29.280 --> 0:22:32.480 as they're uploaded to iCloud, and anything that is potentially 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:37.840 a problem will be identified and notified. So there are 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.520 some ways that they're going to notify people. Let's see, 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:44.320 so they're going to scan on device, they're going to 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:48.560 compare them against images provided by child safety organizations, and 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:50.920 then there's going to be what's called a voucher that's 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:53.200 uploaded to iCloud along with the image. 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:54.240 And so. 0:22:57.000 --> 0:23:00.600 I mean, there's really it's it's very complicated. Is going 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:04.720 to eventually manually review the image, and then if there's 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.320 a match, they will disable the user's account and send 0:23:07.320 --> 0:23:12.959 a report to the NCMEC, which is the gosh, what 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:16.000 is that? The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:22.000 So again, Apple is dancing here. They promote themselves on privacy, 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:24.439 and you know, you do understand if you're using an iPhone, 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:27.119 everything is very private. But I feel like they've come 0:23:27.200 --> 0:23:30.680 up with a system that takes the public interest into 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:34.160 account by giving up a little bit of that privacy, 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:36.520 especially when you're uploading things to the cloud. So I 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:39.080 think they've done a pretty good job here. It's way 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:42.120 too complicated for me to fully understand. But I think 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:44.240 at the end of the day, what Apple's trying to 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:48.160 do is, you know, anytime it comes to scanning photos 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:50.119 or looking for things in photos, there's going to be 0:23:50.160 --> 0:23:52.680 a bit of controversy, but I think that the way 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:56.040 Apple has decided to do this is a win win 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:59.400 situation because it will stop the spread of a lot 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:06.080 of this material. All right, let's get to another question. 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:08.479 Donna via Instagram. All right, I'll just do a lot 0:24:08.560 --> 0:24:10.360 via Instagram today. We'll start out with those. 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:11.080 She says, just. 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:13.240 Wondering if you can help me on the differences between 0:24:13.280 --> 0:24:16.400 the Apple watches. I have an Apple iPhone eight. I'm 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:19.000 not very tech savvy, nor am I into having the 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:20.639 latest and greatest, but I need to watch and I'm 0:24:20.640 --> 0:24:24.240 thinking about getting an Apple Watch. And honestly, Donna, it's 0:24:24.280 --> 0:24:26.680 been a while since I kind of compared these watches. 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:30.600 And the main thing to know about these watches is 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:34.960 that you have the iPhone S and then the sorry, 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:40.040 the Apple Watch S, and then the Apple Watch six 0:24:40.200 --> 0:24:43.080 is the latest version. Now, the Apple Watch six is 0:24:43.119 --> 0:24:46.399 going to be the one that basically has all the 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:49.280 latest and greatest features, and not just the latest and 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:54.280 greatest features, but also the always on display. And it 0:24:54.320 --> 0:24:57.120 has what's called an altimeter, which means it can show 0:24:57.160 --> 0:25:00.600 you how high you are walking or hi looking at 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:05.200 that you know, exact moment. It also has the let's see, 0:25:05.200 --> 0:25:09.720 it has the blood oxygen level, and it has the 0:25:10.119 --> 0:25:12.760 what it has the EKG as well. Now you can 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:16.959 go for the the SE. I think that one is 0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:20.199 going to be the best solution for you because you 0:25:20.240 --> 0:25:23.600 said you don't need the latest and greatest, and realistically, 0:25:23.680 --> 0:25:26.200 when you're looking at these things, you probably don't need 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:29.359 all those top of the line features. And so again 0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:32.560 let me go over the differences. The blood oxygen sensor 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:36.399 is in the Apple Watch six. The biggest difference is 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:38.640 and this is according to an article I wrote for KTLA, 0:25:39.080 --> 0:25:41.560 the SE does not have the always on display, it 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:44.360 doesn't have the blood oxygen and it doesn't have the ECG. Now, 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:47.280 both watches are going to give you GPS, they're going 0:25:47.320 --> 0:25:49.639 to give you the heart rate sensor, the speaker, the microphone, 0:25:49.680 --> 0:25:52.320 and fall detection. So at the end of the day, 0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:55.000 you're going to save about one hundred and twenty dollars 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:58.159 if not more, by going with the SE. So I 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:01.280 would say the Apple Watch SE is the device that 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:02.680 you should go with. 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:06.760 This is kind of fun. 0:26:07.240 --> 0:26:11.040 Airlines kind of interesting these days if you're keeping track 0:26:11.080 --> 0:26:12.960 of the news. Seems like it's just they're all over 0:26:13.000 --> 0:26:14.639 the place. You know, you've got a lot of people 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:16.320 flying right now, You've got a lot of people who 0:26:16.320 --> 0:26:19.639 haven't flown in a while. I've had no problems on 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:22.399 my flights. I've taken four or five or six of 0:26:22.440 --> 0:26:26.760 them since coronavirus, or probably eight at this point, and 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:29.960 I've had nothing but smooth sailing. So that's the good news. 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:33.800 But the reality is, these things are packed tight. There 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:37.159 are no open seats on flights right now, and flights 0:26:37.160 --> 0:26:40.639 are canceled if there are, and so you got to 0:26:40.640 --> 0:26:42.000 stay safe up there. There's a lot of people, a 0:26:42.000 --> 0:26:43.800 lot of drinking up there. I saw people on my 0:26:43.880 --> 0:26:46.960 last flight bringing their own alcohol onto the plane. So 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:50.119 everyone deals with this kind of stuff differently, and so 0:26:50.160 --> 0:26:53.600 I'm cognizant of that. But also, you know, there used 0:26:53.640 --> 0:26:56.720 to be a certain demeanor that you would have in 0:26:56.760 --> 0:26:58.879 the skies. You know, maybe you were friendly, maybe you 0:26:58.960 --> 0:27:03.200 were respectful of others. Sometimes that is being lost these days, 0:27:03.200 --> 0:27:05.040 and that's being lost in a lot of different places 0:27:05.080 --> 0:27:07.480 across our society. 0:27:07.520 --> 0:27:09.280 And so I don't condone any of that. 0:27:09.920 --> 0:27:12.320 I try to be a nice person no matter what 0:27:12.400 --> 0:27:15.639 the situation is, respectful, but you know, that's the way 0:27:15.680 --> 0:27:18.520 I was raised, so maybe not everyone was raised like that. Anyway, 0:27:19.440 --> 0:27:21.919 I digress. I tell you all that because this is 0:27:22.000 --> 0:27:24.440 kind of fun. But American Airlines, and maybe I said 0:27:24.480 --> 0:27:26.679 all that because maybe this will take people's minds off 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:30.600 of the in flight in the situation the sardines that 0:27:30.640 --> 0:27:33.600 they feel like sometimes on those flights. But American Airlines 0:27:33.640 --> 0:27:37.800 giving passengers free access to TikTok and so you can 0:27:37.840 --> 0:27:40.000 get free in flight access. Of course, this is a 0:27:40.000 --> 0:27:42.320 promotion which means it could go away at any time, 0:27:43.240 --> 0:27:46.159 but as of right now, as of this recording, American 0:27:46.200 --> 0:27:48.240 Airlines is using this to promote the fact that they 0:27:48.240 --> 0:27:51.520 have the fastest Wi Fi on more aircraft than any 0:27:51.520 --> 0:27:54.040 other US carrier. Now I'm not able to test that. 0:27:54.880 --> 0:27:56.960 When I'm on planes, I do not purchase the Wi 0:27:56.960 --> 0:27:59.800 Fi unless I absolutely have to for work, because I 0:27:59.840 --> 0:28:03.800 think it is a complete ripoff to pay fifty dollars 0:28:03.840 --> 0:28:06.320 for a cross country flight or even eight dollars for 0:28:06.400 --> 0:28:09.560 an hour. I know Jet Blue has free Wi Fi. 0:28:09.840 --> 0:28:11.720 I have never flown Jet Blue, so I don't know 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:15.119 anything about that. I'm on United most of the time, 0:28:15.280 --> 0:28:19.160 and the Wi Fi situation has been fine. The times 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:21.159 I've purchased it, but my kids always give me a 0:28:21.160 --> 0:28:23.600 hard time because I will not purchase the unlimited Wi 0:28:23.680 --> 0:28:26.119 Fi for the flight, because I refuse to pay the 0:28:26.160 --> 0:28:28.720 forty eight or fifty bucks for cross country flights some 0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:33.320 typically on So but I do like this, and yeah, 0:28:33.359 --> 0:28:35.919 a lot of these, a lot of these airplanes, they 0:28:35.920 --> 0:28:38.920 will offer certain things for free, like I know that 0:28:40.720 --> 0:28:42.520 what is it Alaska airlines, Like they all give you 0:28:42.560 --> 0:28:44.200 like little certain things for free. 0:28:44.640 --> 0:28:46.680 And so anyway, TikTok is now free on. 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:49.680 American airlines for half an hour, and you don't need 0:28:49.720 --> 0:28:52.760 to purchase the in flight Wi Fi to access this. 0:28:52.880 --> 0:28:55.320 I know, Southwest you can access live TV. I think 0:28:55.320 --> 0:28:57.920 it's still for free. They also give you free I 0:28:58.080 --> 0:29:00.880 messaging on your phone. So it's one of these things 0:29:00.880 --> 0:29:05.760 where it definitely benefits you to look up what is 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:08.520 free on the Wi Fi before you take flight, because, 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:11.120 for instance, my mom flew out here on Jet Blue 0:29:11.800 --> 0:29:13.720 and she had no idea that the WiFi was free. 0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:15.600 I said, yeah, we could have been chatting the whole time. 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:18.240 And so just take a look, go to the you know, 0:29:18.280 --> 0:29:21.160 whatever airline you're flying, just search you know, let's say 0:29:21.200 --> 0:29:25.000 Southwest WiFi and just see what the procedures are, because, yeah, 0:29:25.000 --> 0:29:27.760 for the standard Internet, you're typically going to have to 0:29:27.800 --> 0:29:30.720 pay on most of the airlines, but they also offer 0:29:30.760 --> 0:29:32.760 a lot of little things for free. So it might 0:29:32.800 --> 0:29:35.720 be I Message, it could be Facebook Messenger, it could 0:29:35.760 --> 0:29:39.400 be TikTok it could be whatever the other thing is. 0:29:39.440 --> 0:29:44.480 You always want to download that company's app. So whatever 0:29:44.560 --> 0:29:46.560 you know, if you're on United, download the United app, 0:29:46.600 --> 0:29:49.160 download the American Airlines app, download the jet Blue app. 0:29:49.320 --> 0:29:51.240 Because a lot of these planes, if they don't have 0:29:51.400 --> 0:29:55.160 the seatback screens, they will let you stream the stuff 0:29:55.200 --> 0:29:58.160 through your phone using their app. But a lot of 0:29:58.160 --> 0:30:00.280 times you have to have the app before you get 0:30:00.320 --> 0:30:03.120 on the plane because the Wi Fi does not allow 0:30:03.320 --> 0:30:07.640 the app to be downloaded. But I thought this was interesting. 0:30:08.440 --> 0:30:11.040 American says that, so to enable this, you want to 0:30:11.080 --> 0:30:14.640 go to the in flight signal, then you're redirected to 0:30:14.680 --> 0:30:18.040 aainflight dot com and then simply click on the TikTok 0:30:18.120 --> 0:30:20.320 ad for free access to the platform. And if you 0:30:20.320 --> 0:30:22.720 don't have TikTok you can connect to AA in flight 0:30:23.000 --> 0:30:25.400 to download the app without having to pay for Wi Fi. 0:30:25.440 --> 0:30:28.200 And that's actually quite different than the way United says, 0:30:28.560 --> 0:30:30.800 they make you download the app before you take off, 0:30:30.880 --> 0:30:34.040 because once you're in the air, you cannot access the app. Now, 0:30:34.120 --> 0:30:36.840 once you have the app you can download, you can 0:30:37.080 --> 0:30:40.920 access the United website. So if you want to book 0:30:40.920 --> 0:30:43.160 a flight while you're in flight, you're free to do that. 0:30:44.080 --> 0:30:46.400 I've also noticed that some of my notifications come through 0:30:46.440 --> 0:30:47.120 every once in a while. 0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:48.320 I forget what app I was on. 0:30:49.200 --> 0:30:51.560 It was like Apple News or something, but like everything 0:30:51.640 --> 0:30:54.560 was working even though I didn't pay. So there are 0:30:54.600 --> 0:30:57.480 some little things like that anyway, So definitely check the 0:30:58.000 --> 0:31:02.160 inflight Wi Fi situation before you fly. And for me personally, 0:31:02.280 --> 0:31:03.959 I'm trying to stay off a plane as much as 0:31:04.000 --> 0:31:06.320 possible right now because I just, you know, I just 0:31:06.640 --> 0:31:09.160 think there's been too many incidents and people are getting 0:31:09.160 --> 0:31:11.280 a little unruly up there, and so I'm gonna wait 0:31:11.360 --> 0:31:14.600 till things calm down before I get that travel bug 0:31:14.840 --> 0:31:15.360 once again. 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:22.240 Jr. Says, Hey, Rich, you're the best at what you do. 0:31:22.480 --> 0:31:25.400 I've helped, You've helped with questions I've sent you before. 0:31:25.480 --> 0:31:28.440 Here is the latest. I just got this message on 0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:30.640 my iPhone ten R. Have you heard of this any 0:31:30.680 --> 0:31:32.760 ideas on how to delete or stop this I've only 0:31:32.760 --> 0:31:35.440 had the phone for two months. Thanks for everything. He 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:39.640 sent along a screenshot that says, calendar notifications, scan your 0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:43.480 device for viruses today at five twenty pm, security alert, 0:31:43.520 --> 0:31:45.520 you may have a virus on your phone. Scan your 0:31:45.560 --> 0:31:48.160 phone now to fix the problem. And I'm guessing there's 0:31:48.160 --> 0:31:53.120 a link to scan the phone for viruses. Then says calendar, 0:31:53.440 --> 0:31:55.680 do you want to continue receiving notifications? 0:31:55.800 --> 0:31:56.320 Yes? Or no? 0:31:56.640 --> 0:31:59.080 And I'm guessing when you click yes, it gives the 0:31:59.120 --> 0:32:03.800 spammers a access to your calendar. This is called calendar spam. 0:32:03.840 --> 0:32:06.880 It's been going on for a while. It's basically kind 0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:09.600 of the newest scam to hit phones, and. 0:32:11.160 --> 0:32:12.880 It's very very smart. 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:17.840 This is a very smart way of getting spammers and 0:32:18.360 --> 0:32:19.880 scams in front of your face. 0:32:20.440 --> 0:32:21.520 And so how do they do it. 0:32:22.640 --> 0:32:26.400 Well, you could have accidentally subscribed to a spam calendar, 0:32:26.960 --> 0:32:29.920 or you could just have a spammer that is including 0:32:30.400 --> 0:32:34.200 a calendar invite in your email, and those often show 0:32:34.320 --> 0:32:38.360 up on your calendar automatically. So they've gotten very very, 0:32:38.560 --> 0:32:43.000 very very smart about this. So, according to Apple, here's 0:32:43.040 --> 0:32:46.520 how you get rid of this. On iOS fourteen point six, 0:32:46.960 --> 0:32:50.920 you open the calendars app, you tap the unwanted calendar 0:32:50.960 --> 0:32:53.960 event and you say unsubscribed to this calendar at the 0:32:54.000 --> 0:32:58.200 bottom of the screen. Now you can do that. If 0:32:58.240 --> 0:33:01.000 you're in an earlier version of iOS, you can open 0:33:01.000 --> 0:33:03.720 the calendars app at the bottom of the screen, tap calendars, 0:33:03.720 --> 0:33:05.880 look for a calendar you don't recognize, and then tap 0:33:05.920 --> 0:33:06.720 to lete calendar. 0:33:06.760 --> 0:33:08.320 Now that is. 0:33:10.280 --> 0:33:12.440 That is not necessarily going to get rid of all 0:33:12.520 --> 0:33:15.320 this stuff, because these these scammers have gotten so smart 0:33:15.320 --> 0:33:19.560 where they basically include your email a calendar invite in 0:33:19.600 --> 0:33:23.760 your email and that will follow through to especially Gmail 0:33:23.880 --> 0:33:27.280 calendars or Google Calendars, and also if you have that 0:33:27.400 --> 0:33:29.640 linked up, that's going to follow through to your phone 0:33:29.720 --> 0:33:30.120 as well. 0:33:30.160 --> 0:33:31.280 So in that case. 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:37.280 Google calendar spam, you just have to report those basically 0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:40.680 delete them, ignore them, and then you can you know, 0:33:41.280 --> 0:33:47.560 basically block that person from inviting you to things. Now, 0:33:47.640 --> 0:33:50.640 you can also go into your Google Calendar settings and 0:33:50.680 --> 0:33:53.440 there is a way that will take those out of there. 0:33:53.480 --> 0:33:56.320 So if you go into calendar app, you know in 0:33:56.360 --> 0:33:59.360 the web so calendar dot Google dot com, click settings 0:33:59.680 --> 0:34:02.880 and then for event settings, and then there's a setting 0:34:02.960 --> 0:34:06.880 that says automatically add invitations and so that means that 0:34:07.000 --> 0:34:10.160 any invitation you get in your Gmail will not automatically 0:34:10.200 --> 0:34:12.320 follow through to your calendar. Now that's a problem because 0:34:12.360 --> 0:34:15.840 for me personally, I get a lot of legitimate invitations 0:34:15.840 --> 0:34:19.400 from people for meetings and events and things that I 0:34:19.440 --> 0:34:21.480 can't turn this off. And it's been a while since 0:34:21.480 --> 0:34:24.399 I've actually seen one of these calendar spams. But that's 0:34:24.400 --> 0:34:27.160 how you do it, and so you can manually add 0:34:27.160 --> 0:34:28.960 these things to your calendar if you need it. 0:34:29.320 --> 0:34:32.160 But good question, JR. 0:34:33.160 --> 0:34:35.839 It's one of those things where, no matter what, these 0:34:35.880 --> 0:34:38.640 spammers spend all day trying to figure out the best 0:34:38.680 --> 0:34:41.320 ways to attack us, and they do a pretty good job. 0:34:41.400 --> 0:34:44.160 Because you get one of these things in your calendar 0:34:44.200 --> 0:34:46.000 and the first time you see it, you're like, oh wow, okay, 0:34:46.040 --> 0:34:48.040 let me scan, let me scan. That must be a 0:34:48.080 --> 0:34:52.520 notification from Apple, and so you scan. The real scam 0:34:52.560 --> 0:34:57.400 here is that whatever link is in these calendar events 0:34:57.520 --> 0:35:01.400 is the actual problem, the thing that they're trying to 0:35:01.440 --> 0:35:04.399 target you with. So it could be a website that's 0:35:04.440 --> 0:35:06.640 trying to steal your information, you know, trying to get 0:35:06.640 --> 0:35:09.480 you to log in. Whatever it is, don't fall for 0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:12.600 it and always be skeptical. Just that's the bottom line. 0:35:12.640 --> 0:35:15.640 You have to be very, very skeptical no matter what 0:35:15.680 --> 0:35:18.520 you see online. Just be just be on your guard, 0:35:18.640 --> 0:35:20.799 because that's that's the main thing you need to know. 0:35:21.400 --> 0:35:22.160 The crime gap. 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:27.640 Citizen has a new offering called Citizen Protect, and I 0:35:27.680 --> 0:35:30.239 have a love hate relationship with Citizen. I've probably talked 0:35:30.280 --> 0:35:32.920 about it on the podcast. I think it's pretty darn cool. 0:35:33.000 --> 0:35:36.880 How you know, they tell you what's happening in your neighborhood, 0:35:36.920 --> 0:35:39.200 and this has been very handy many times now. 0:35:39.200 --> 0:35:40.440 Obviously there's a lot of fluff. 0:35:40.520 --> 0:35:44.600 Obviously, sometimes they kind of pump up the notifications just 0:35:44.640 --> 0:35:46.560 to scare you or just to get you to interact 0:35:46.600 --> 0:35:50.839 with the app. But I do think that overall they 0:35:50.880 --> 0:35:54.920 do a pretty nice job of alerting you to things 0:35:54.920 --> 0:35:57.120 that could be important in your neighborhood and just keeping 0:35:57.120 --> 0:35:59.000 you up to date on what's happened in your neighborhoods. 0:35:59.440 --> 0:36:01.279 As opposed to this is something like Nextdoor that I 0:36:01.360 --> 0:36:05.239 do not like at all. There's a lot of there's 0:36:05.239 --> 0:36:09.480 a lot of speculation, let's call it on Nextdoor about 0:36:09.480 --> 0:36:13.840 what's happening, and I don't think that that's very useful, 0:36:13.920 --> 0:36:18.320 Whereas what Citizen is doing is they are actually listening 0:36:18.360 --> 0:36:22.440 to police scanners in the area and using AI to 0:36:22.480 --> 0:36:26.360 figure out what's happening and then send you notifications based 0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:28.000 on that. Now they could be doing more at this 0:36:28.080 --> 0:36:32.719 point because Citizen has grown a lot in the five 0:36:32.800 --> 0:36:35.560 years since I covered them when they launched. But that 0:36:35.719 --> 0:36:37.319 was the idea back in the days that they would 0:36:37.400 --> 0:36:41.279 use artificial intelligence to listen to police scanners, parse out 0:36:41.320 --> 0:36:44.080 kind of the important stuff, geolocated all and send out 0:36:44.120 --> 0:36:47.200 notifications to the affected users in the area, versus the 0:36:47.239 --> 0:36:50.279 typical way that things work, where you would just see 0:36:50.280 --> 0:36:52.680 something happening in town that's not really near you, so 0:36:52.760 --> 0:36:56.000 it doesn't really affect you as much. Of course, it 0:36:56.040 --> 0:36:58.839 affects you on a certain level, but when it comes 0:36:58.840 --> 0:37:01.360 to your neighborhood, that's really where you're interested. 0:37:01.000 --> 0:37:03.560 In the goings on, especially when it comes to crime. 0:37:04.040 --> 0:37:06.720 So now they have this new service called Citizen Protect, 0:37:07.080 --> 0:37:11.280 and this is on demand personalized protection from their mobile 0:37:11.280 --> 0:37:13.440 app that gives you twenty four to seven access to 0:37:13.680 --> 0:37:17.560 a highly trained team of Protect agents and whenever you 0:37:17.560 --> 0:37:20.160 need one of these agents, you can activate them in 0:37:20.200 --> 0:37:23.360 different ways. So it's twenty dollars a month, which I 0:37:23.400 --> 0:37:25.960 think is way, way, way too much for a service 0:37:26.040 --> 0:37:29.160 like this, But then again, I don't know. Maybe if 0:37:29.160 --> 0:37:31.279 you need it, maybe if you're walking home late at night, 0:37:31.360 --> 0:37:33.120 you'd like to have it. But here's how it works 0:37:33.640 --> 0:37:36.360 several different ways. So you have it on the app. 0:37:37.200 --> 0:37:41.320 You can have emergency responders come to your exact location. 0:37:41.719 --> 0:37:43.759 So if you need help, these agents can get nine 0:37:43.800 --> 0:37:47.160 one one to you because they'll basically call them. They 0:37:47.160 --> 0:37:49.840 can notify your loved ones if you need help. It 0:37:49.880 --> 0:37:52.160 can guide you to a safe place if you're feeling 0:37:52.480 --> 0:37:55.439 unwell or unsafe. They can give you peace of mind. 0:37:55.520 --> 0:37:58.160 So if you just want someone to sort of virtually 0:37:58.239 --> 0:38:01.680 walk with you as you walk home from a dark place, 0:38:01.840 --> 0:38:05.040 they can do that. They can also alert nearby citizen 0:38:05.120 --> 0:38:09.000 users if your situation meets an alert criteria, which is 0:38:10.160 --> 0:38:13.440 you know, they don't describe what that criteria is, but. 0:38:13.960 --> 0:38:15.200 That's the way you do it. 0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:17.120 Now, how do you get these agents? While there's a 0:38:17.160 --> 0:38:19.759 button on the phone, you can connect instantly. There's a 0:38:19.800 --> 0:38:22.480 protect mode if you have that on, you shake your 0:38:22.520 --> 0:38:26.560 phone and you can be connected to an agent. And 0:38:26.600 --> 0:38:30.520 then there's distress detection, and so this is letting your 0:38:30.680 --> 0:38:35.959 letting citizen monitor your the audio from your phone using 0:38:36.040 --> 0:38:39.680 AI and if they notice distress, they will then connect 0:38:39.840 --> 0:38:42.600 you to an agent and if you don't respond within 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:47.080 ten seconds, they'll they'll connect to UH they'll basically send 0:38:47.120 --> 0:38:51.640 emergency help your way. Let's see, it's only available on 0:38:51.680 --> 0:38:53.719 iOS right now, the protect mode, but they will be 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:57.120 adding functionality for Android. Now, this is something that's not 0:38:57.280 --> 0:39:01.279 necessarily new. Now they're using. The AI is kind of new, 0:39:01.320 --> 0:39:03.520 but it's also it's funny because the stuff that I, 0:39:03.640 --> 0:39:05.880 you know, covering this stuff for so long, I've seen 0:39:06.200 --> 0:39:09.400 different iterations of this stuff, so nothing I see is 0:39:09.480 --> 0:39:12.120 completely new all the time. So the AI portion of 0:39:12.160 --> 0:39:15.840 this is something that a company called Deep Centennial or 0:39:15.920 --> 0:39:18.600 is it Deep Sentinel, is using and they are a 0:39:18.640 --> 0:39:21.399 company started by one of the founders of Redfinn and 0:39:21.480 --> 0:39:24.160 they have security cameras they install it your house, and 0:39:24.200 --> 0:39:28.280 they're using AI to monitor what's happening in those security cameras, 0:39:28.360 --> 0:39:30.000 kind of like what I was talking about with Google 0:39:30.120 --> 0:39:32.919 earlier in the podcast, but this is much more real 0:39:33.000 --> 0:39:35.560 time and much more connected to a human being. 0:39:35.680 --> 0:39:36.680 So if the. 0:39:36.640 --> 0:39:40.040 Camera notices that someone is kind of looking suspicious around 0:39:40.040 --> 0:39:43.239 your house checking the windows, it will escalate that to 0:39:43.320 --> 0:39:46.160 a trained agent who will then go on your camera's 0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:49.080 microphone and say or speaker and say, hey, can I 0:39:49.160 --> 0:39:51.560 help you? Why are you looking through the mail? Can 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:54.200 I help you with that? That's a federal crime or whatever. 0:39:54.280 --> 0:39:55.440 I don't know if that is, but you know what 0:39:55.480 --> 0:39:59.719 I mean. Now, this is also something the second side 0:39:59.719 --> 0:40:03.279 of this, the personal agent is something that we saw 0:40:03.320 --> 0:40:06.240 with an app called Bond and we did a story 0:40:06.280 --> 0:40:10.560 on this. It's called the Bond Security App and it 0:40:10.600 --> 0:40:13.840 looks like it's still around, but this is a personal 0:40:13.840 --> 0:40:17.719 security app and same thing where you basically subscribe to 0:40:17.880 --> 0:40:22.720 personal security agents. And so these personal security agents will 0:40:23.360 --> 0:40:26.520 monitor over you, listen to your phone while you're walking, 0:40:26.640 --> 0:40:29.160 or help you out, and then they will actually speak 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:32.879 to someone that might be you know, I don't know, 0:40:33.040 --> 0:40:36.640 intruding on your space or whatever, and they will intervene. 0:40:36.680 --> 0:40:39.040 So again, these are all different ways of kind of 0:40:39.080 --> 0:40:42.080 doing the same thing. But I mark my words right now, 0:40:42.440 --> 0:40:45.560 we are going to see a lot more use of 0:40:45.760 --> 0:40:49.560 artificial intelligence in security because there's no way that if 0:40:49.560 --> 0:40:52.440 you're trying to start a company, you can scale someone 0:40:52.719 --> 0:40:57.360 watching over cameras or phones twenty four to seven. But 0:40:57.480 --> 0:41:00.359 you can have AI listen for certain things that would 0:41:00.560 --> 0:41:04.319 that would reveal distress and that AI can now kick 0:41:04.400 --> 0:41:07.640 that that stream up the ladder, so to say to 0:41:07.760 --> 0:41:11.520 an agent who can then take take control and kind 0:41:11.520 --> 0:41:14.200 of look at what's happening, assess the situation from a 0:41:14.239 --> 0:41:21.200 human standpoint, and figure out what needs to be done. 0:41:23.040 --> 0:41:25.520 All right, let's see what else do we want to 0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:29.320 talk about here, Sandra says, help. I downloaded the latest 0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:32.760 version on my iPhone and I lost one whole page 0:41:32.800 --> 0:41:35.680 of icons for apps that I use. They are there 0:41:35.760 --> 0:41:38.160 because I asked SyRI and she'll open them. The page 0:41:38.200 --> 0:41:41.040 of icons I used all the time. We're on that page. 0:41:41.440 --> 0:41:43.359 Thanks in advance for your help. I know you will 0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:45.040 find the answer. I went on Apple's page and I 0:41:45.080 --> 0:41:49.800 didn't understand what they said. Sandy, Uh, Sandy, Sandra, here's 0:41:49.840 --> 0:41:52.640 the thing. I think what happened is that your your 0:41:52.760 --> 0:41:58.680 layout of your home screen got reset. And I think 0:41:58.719 --> 0:42:00.759 that's what happened. So there's a couple things you can check. 0:42:00.840 --> 0:42:03.840 Number one, you can there's a couple of things I 0:42:03.840 --> 0:42:05.600 would look into. So number one, you can look at 0:42:05.640 --> 0:42:07.959 your home screen and you can swipe to the right, 0:42:08.320 --> 0:42:10.239 and if you swipe to the right, you'll notice there's 0:42:10.239 --> 0:42:13.400 an app library, which is in the latest version. Now, 0:42:13.719 --> 0:42:15.600 if you want to see what's going on, I would 0:42:15.600 --> 0:42:19.320 tap a hold on my screen and now everything's wiggling, 0:42:19.680 --> 0:42:22.040 and if you look down at the center, there's actually 0:42:22.360 --> 0:42:25.200 towards the bottom there's like a little highlighted area with 0:42:25.280 --> 0:42:28.759 some dots. If you tap that, it will actually show 0:42:28.840 --> 0:42:32.480 you all of the home screen pages on your iPhone. 0:42:32.960 --> 0:42:36.120 And I have actually one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 0:42:36.280 --> 0:42:40.000 eight nine home screen pages, but I only show the 0:42:40.040 --> 0:42:43.080 first one, and you have to show one. But I 0:42:43.120 --> 0:42:45.520 think that's the first place to look. And so if 0:42:45.560 --> 0:42:48.200 you look there, you can see if maybe one of 0:42:48.239 --> 0:42:51.279 your home screens has been hidden, and you can tap 0:42:51.320 --> 0:42:53.400 the check mark to bring it back. Now that's the 0:42:53.440 --> 0:42:56.200 one way you can do it. The other way is 0:42:56.239 --> 0:42:59.399 that you can just go into your app library, look 0:42:59.440 --> 0:43:01.200 for the apps you you want, press and hold one 0:43:01.280 --> 0:43:03.640 and drag it onto a new home screen or your 0:43:03.760 --> 0:43:06.680 existing home screen. But those are the two things that 0:43:06.719 --> 0:43:08.759 I think happened. I think you just got reset there. 0:43:09.000 --> 0:43:09.160 Now. 0:43:09.160 --> 0:43:10.640 The other way if you ever want to do this, 0:43:10.680 --> 0:43:13.480 and I've done this before on my phone, is I've 0:43:13.480 --> 0:43:16.960 actually reset my homescreen. I'm only using one page now 0:43:17.280 --> 0:43:18.960 for my home screen, because I find that it's a 0:43:19.000 --> 0:43:21.120 lot easier just to search for apps. So you can 0:43:21.160 --> 0:43:22.920 always pull down from the middle of your screen and 0:43:22.960 --> 0:43:24.560 search for an app if you need it. 0:43:24.719 --> 0:43:26.240 Or you can use. 0:43:26.080 --> 0:43:29.560 Your settings to reset your screen completely. And so if 0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:32.560 you want to do that, go into your Settings General 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:35.439 all the way down, scroll to reset and you'll see 0:43:35.440 --> 0:43:37.960 one that says reset home screen layout. 0:43:38.280 --> 0:43:38.480 Now. 0:43:38.480 --> 0:43:40.640 Before you do this, just beware, it is going to 0:43:40.680 --> 0:43:44.279 reset all of your icons to Apple's defaults, and so 0:43:44.320 --> 0:43:46.640 it'll put all of Apple stuff on the first page, 0:43:46.680 --> 0:43:48.360 and then it will put all of your other apps 0:43:48.400 --> 0:43:51.080 in alphabetical order on the rest of your pages. And 0:43:51.160 --> 0:43:54.120 so that's if you ever want your stuff in alphabetical order. 0:43:54.440 --> 0:43:58.200 Of course, prioritizing apples apps as Apple would do at 0:43:58.200 --> 0:44:00.520 the beginning of the page would be the first page. 0:44:00.520 --> 0:44:02.680 So anyway, those are my solutions. Hopefully one of those 0:44:02.719 --> 0:44:07.560 works for you. And let's talk about Voodoo. Voodoo has 0:44:07.600 --> 0:44:12.080 become Roku's official movie and TV store as Fandango has 0:44:12.200 --> 0:44:15.000 killed off the Fandango brand. This is according to Variety. 0:44:15.000 --> 0:44:18.920 That's the headline from Todd Spangler. So the bottom line 0:44:19.000 --> 0:44:24.120 is that you now have Fandango now gone. If you 0:44:24.160 --> 0:44:26.239 had movies in there, you had a collection, everything's going 0:44:26.280 --> 0:44:26.440 to be. 0:44:26.440 --> 0:44:27.480 Moved over to Voodoo. 0:44:27.880 --> 0:44:29.759 And Voodoo used to be owned by Oh my gosh. 0:44:29.800 --> 0:44:36.400 Voodoo has had quite the quite the uh the last ten, twelve, thirteen, 0:44:36.480 --> 0:44:39.720 fourteen years. So I covered Voodoo when it first started, 0:44:39.760 --> 0:44:42.800 and I'll give you a little history of Voodoo. Voodoo 0:44:42.800 --> 0:44:47.560 when it first started was a The difference in Voodoo 0:44:47.719 --> 0:44:51.000 was that they were downloading. It was a box. It 0:44:51.040 --> 0:44:53.400 was a special box you would get. It was very expensive. 0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:56.120 You would put this on your TV and it worked 0:44:56.120 --> 0:45:00.600 with any Internet connection speed. So the magic, the magic 0:45:00.760 --> 0:45:04.719 sauce of Voodoo was that they would download portions of 0:45:04.840 --> 0:45:08.279 popular movies or eventually movies that it figured you might 0:45:08.320 --> 0:45:11.799 watch to your Voodoo box. And so that way, when 0:45:11.840 --> 0:45:14.800 you press play on a movie that you want to watch, 0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:18.400 it would start faster because some of that movie was 0:45:18.440 --> 0:45:20.919 already on an internal hard drive, and so it would 0:45:20.960 --> 0:45:22.919 work twenty four to seven when you were not using 0:45:22.960 --> 0:45:26.319 the box to download a bunch of stuff. And so 0:45:26.600 --> 0:45:29.440 it would take a slow Internet connection and it wouldn't 0:45:29.440 --> 0:45:33.480 really matter. This was before internet connections got really fast 0:45:33.560 --> 0:45:37.240 and streaming got really good because half of Netflix's business 0:45:37.440 --> 0:45:41.480 is the proprietary way that they can download things super 0:45:41.520 --> 0:45:45.919 super fast or stream them, I should say on any 0:45:45.960 --> 0:45:50.400 Internet connection. That's part of you know, Netflix's little magic 0:45:50.480 --> 0:45:54.480 sauce inside secret sauce, I should say. Anyway, Voodoo ended 0:45:54.560 --> 0:45:58.399 up being purchased by Walmart many years later, and now 0:45:58.480 --> 0:46:04.399 they're purchased apparently by which I didn't know. So yeah, 0:46:04.440 --> 0:46:08.279 I guess NBC bought Voodoo. I had no idea that 0:46:08.320 --> 0:46:10.800 they had purchased them, So yeah, I guess. April twentieth, 0:46:10.880 --> 0:46:15.640 twenty twenty, NBC Fandango acquiring Voodoo from Walmart. 0:46:15.680 --> 0:46:16.880 So they bought Voodoo. 0:46:16.920 --> 0:46:21.520 They figured why would we run two separate movie services, 0:46:22.040 --> 0:46:24.920 and so they went with the Voodoo brand name, which 0:46:25.640 --> 0:46:28.359 I guess that makes more sense. Voodoo is a cooler name. 0:46:28.680 --> 0:46:31.440 And so anyway, all the collections are now in Voodoo. 0:46:31.480 --> 0:46:33.680 Don't be surprised if you see more of Voodoo, because 0:46:33.680 --> 0:46:36.960 that's that's where everything is at this point. So there 0:46:37.000 --> 0:46:39.480 you have it all, right, Before I go, one more 0:46:39.520 --> 0:46:41.360 thing I wanted to talk about. I thought this was 0:46:41.560 --> 0:46:43.600 really really cool and I wanted to share it with you. 0:46:44.160 --> 0:46:49.360 So I love the channels on SiriusXM. I love some 0:46:49.440 --> 0:46:52.040 of my favorite channels there. They just sort of play 0:46:52.040 --> 0:46:54.919 a blend of music that I really don't find anywhere else. 0:46:55.400 --> 0:46:58.920 And even with things like Spotify and you know, iHeart 0:46:58.920 --> 0:47:00.279 and all these different there are some my like at 0:47:00.320 --> 0:47:03.480 iHeart as well, but you know, I really have some 0:47:03.520 --> 0:47:05.680 of my favorites. My my all time favorite is called 0:47:05.760 --> 0:47:09.040 Serious XM Chill, which is channel fifty three. And I've 0:47:09.239 --> 0:47:14.120 never found a playlist that rivals what they do until now. 0:47:14.680 --> 0:47:18.560 And this is a website called xmplaylist dot com and 0:47:18.600 --> 0:47:21.200 a guy named uh, let's see, what's his name, Scott, 0:47:21.960 --> 0:47:25.680 he has, he's got it, he's rigged up. Away that 0:47:25.960 --> 0:47:29.920 listens to it must listen to Serious XM channels twenty 0:47:29.920 --> 0:47:33.879 four to seven and then catalog what they play. So 0:47:33.920 --> 0:47:35.480 you can go to this website and it tells me 0:47:35.560 --> 0:47:39.160 four minutes ago they played Beautiful Mistakes by Maroon five, 0:47:39.600 --> 0:47:42.640 seven minutes ago, it played Deja Vu by Olivia Rodrigo. 0:47:43.200 --> 0:47:46.080 Fifteen minutes ago it played Stay by Justin Bieber and 0:47:46.120 --> 0:47:51.279 the kid Leroy. So now that's cool in itself, but 0:47:51.440 --> 0:47:55.240 they take it a step further and somehow it actually 0:47:55.360 --> 0:47:59.880 makes a playlist on Spotify of the songs that the 0:48:00.000 --> 0:48:04.799 these stations are playing, and it's not fully updated because 0:48:04.800 --> 0:48:06.759 I'm looking at these stations and the last time it 0:48:06.800 --> 0:48:08.759 was updated, oh, it's three days ago. 0:48:08.800 --> 0:48:09.360 Okay, so it was. 0:48:09.360 --> 0:48:12.400 Actually they are updated, so they're regularly updated. 0:48:12.560 --> 0:48:15.200 I mean, I think this is so so cool. 0:48:16.400 --> 0:48:18.879 My mom said, isn't that illegal, because I was playing 0:48:18.880 --> 0:48:20.839 with this last night in the house, and I said, no, 0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:23.120 it's not illegal. I mean, they're not They're not recording 0:48:23.200 --> 0:48:26.440 the songs. They're just basically capturing the data of the 0:48:26.480 --> 0:48:30.920 playlist and then you know, repurposing it. And yeah, you 0:48:30.920 --> 0:48:32.239 can have a problem with that and say, well, don't 0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:34.399 you just subscribe to a Serious XM, which, by the way, 0:48:34.440 --> 0:48:37.440 I do, so I do have a subscription as Serious XM. 0:48:37.719 --> 0:48:38.680 I do have the app. 0:48:38.960 --> 0:48:42.120 But there's just something fun about having a playlist in 0:48:42.200 --> 0:48:46.360 Spotify that kind of mimics what's happening on my favorite channels. 0:48:46.400 --> 0:48:46.600 Now. 0:48:47.080 --> 0:48:50.719 I have tested the Serious XM channel on the Spotify 0:48:50.760 --> 0:48:54.000 playlist and it sounds really good. You don't have the DJs, 0:48:54.040 --> 0:48:56.200 you don't have the you know, the stuff they do 0:48:56.239 --> 0:48:58.680 in the middle, like the stingers and stuff. Some people 0:48:58.719 --> 0:49:00.600 may like that. I kind of like that stuff, but 0:49:00.880 --> 0:49:04.319 you know, you don't get it. The channel I was 0:49:04.320 --> 0:49:06.680 listening to last night in the house is called The Blend, 0:49:07.320 --> 0:49:09.760 and all of a sudden, we're listening and a Christmas 0:49:09.840 --> 0:49:13.680 song comes up, and so that was a big I 0:49:13.680 --> 0:49:15.879 guess these things are not perfect, and I don't know who. 0:49:16.200 --> 0:49:19.040 I think it's all pretty much automated, so I guess 0:49:19.040 --> 0:49:20.879 the song has to take a certain amount of time 0:49:20.880 --> 0:49:24.360 to fall off, and clearly that Christmas song did not 0:49:24.480 --> 0:49:24.919 fall off. 0:49:24.920 --> 0:49:25.880 But that was pretty funny. 0:49:25.880 --> 0:49:28.400 That threw us off for a loop and we were like, Okay, 0:49:28.480 --> 0:49:29.200 well it's not perfect. 0:49:29.239 --> 0:49:29.600 But anyway. 0:49:29.640 --> 0:49:31.120 The website again, if you want to check it out, 0:49:31.239 --> 0:49:34.960 is called xmplaylist dot Com. I think it's really really 0:49:34.960 --> 0:49:38.000 cool and I will continue to explore. But I've got 0:49:38.280 --> 0:49:40.640 on my Sono system. I have all of my favorites 0:49:40.719 --> 0:49:43.600 kind of bookmarks, so I jump around. I love, you know, 0:49:43.680 --> 0:49:45.880 Sirius XM, the coffee House on the weekends. 0:49:46.719 --> 0:49:46.920 You know. 0:49:46.960 --> 0:49:51.880 I love this station on iHeart that's like a light station, 0:49:52.000 --> 0:49:55.360 It's like sunny. There's also another eclectic rock station on 0:49:55.400 --> 0:49:57.080 there that I really like. So there's a lot of 0:49:57.080 --> 0:49:59.960 different stations across all these music services. I feel like 0:50:00.040 --> 0:50:01.919 they all have their pros and cons when it comes 0:50:01.960 --> 0:50:02.200 to that. 0:50:02.280 --> 0:50:06.600 So there's just stuff I like everywhere. Oh listen to 0:50:06.640 --> 0:50:08.239 that sound. You know what that means. 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