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Speaker 1: What's going on on Rich Damiro And this is Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. Plus I answer
Speaker 1: the questions that you send me. My name is Rich Damiro.
Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Joining me is trustee producer Meghan, who is so glad
Speaker 1: she didn't swap her iPhone for the Samsung Galaxy S
Speaker 1: twenty just yet.
Speaker 2: No, I almost did.
Speaker 1: You were like ready to pull the trigger on that one,
Speaker 1: weren't you.
Speaker 2: That is a funny, funny joke.
Speaker 1: Now, Meghan is one hundred percent iPhone. In fact, she
Speaker 1: judges anyone who does not have an iPhone.
Speaker 2: That's not true. Little just a little judgment.
Speaker 1: If you went out on a date with someone and
Speaker 1: they pulled out not just an android phone, no, an
Speaker 1: Android with a crack screen. What would you do? Oh? Like,
Speaker 1: I imagine all your friends have iPhones.
Speaker 2: Imagine all your friends have iPhones too.
Speaker 1: Actually they all do so except my brother okay, but yeah,
Speaker 1: most of the other everyone. I do have a friend
Speaker 1: that doesn't and it's you know, and I don't judge.
Speaker 2: Do you think it's an l a thing.
Speaker 1: I think it's definitely. It's a it's a pressure thing.
Speaker 1: It's a simplicity thing. Yeah, it's a you know. But
Speaker 1: there are people who like Android and there's no problem
Speaker 1: with it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't have any anything really against it. I don't
Speaker 2: think I would like not date someone just because they
Speaker 2: have an Android, but it would be so mean.
Speaker 1: But like, just imagine texting them would be kind of
Speaker 1: because you know, I messages, I message and you're like, uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you could use Telegram, which is
Speaker 1: what we use here at the tech.
Speaker 2: For Oh, that's true. I'll be like, hey, I know
Speaker 2: this is date number one, but do you mind if
Speaker 2: we text on Telegram and then.
Speaker 1: You can easily block them, which would be you know,
Speaker 1: because it's so easy to block people.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, true.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, let's start with the speaking of Samsung. Let's
Speaker 1: talk with the sam Let's talk about the Galaxy S twenty.
Speaker 1: I've been using this phone for about a week. Remember
Speaker 1: last podcast, I said that I put my sim card
Speaker 1: in the phone. Yeah, well my SIM card is out
Speaker 1: and it's back in my iPhone.
Speaker 2: As you could not you couldn't do the Samsung Life I.
Speaker 1: Okay, number one, Okay, notwithstand. I'll get into like the
Speaker 1: issues with the phone first or I guess second. But
Speaker 1: the first thing is everything in my life had to change,
Speaker 1: everything from the just the way I get stuff from
Speaker 1: my computer or to the phone, from the phone to
Speaker 1: the computer. I message, which was like I wanted to
Speaker 1: text two friends and know we're on this little group
Speaker 1: I message, and I couldn't text them because I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to start a new group with them
Speaker 1: that's now going to show up in green. So that
Speaker 1: was a problem. The earphones, Like I just switched to
Speaker 1: the Samsung Galaxy Buds, but then when I used my computer,
Speaker 1: I switched back to the AirPods because I wanted I
Speaker 1: didn't want to have to pair up something again. Apple
Speaker 1: watched I already mentioned that, Like, so okay, they're not lazy,
Speaker 1: but they're thing there. I understand why people stay in
Speaker 1: their lane because you have all this stuff set up
Speaker 1: and you don't want to change. And yes, you could change,
Speaker 1: and you can swap everything out, but a it's very costly.
Speaker 1: Like for my watch, for instance, I was sitting there going,
Speaker 1: what am I going to do for a watch? Because
Speaker 1: I use my Apple Watch and that required me. I
Speaker 1: was at cost going I'm like, well, maybe I buy
Speaker 1: this Samsung Galaxy Watch, or maybe I get a Fitbit.
Speaker 1: And again I gave away my last fitbit to a friend,
Speaker 1: so I should have kept it because maybe that would
Speaker 1: have made life easier. But anyway, I see all these
Speaker 1: little things. Then I was trying to research different programs
Speaker 1: to use because now the programs I used on my
Speaker 1: iPhone just aren't available on the androids. A lot of
Speaker 1: little things, and I see how people get. I know,
Speaker 1: they call it like lock in, but it's real and
Speaker 1: it doesn't make you lazy or bad or not trying
Speaker 1: to try something new. It's just you know what works
Speaker 1: and you kind of stick to it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, with that all said, I love the Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: S twenty Ultra a lot. There are so many things
Speaker 1: to love about this device. The software is fast, it's smooth,
Speaker 1: the screen is just unbelievable. I bought this little case
Speaker 1: for it from Spegan, which is now my favorite case.
Speaker 1: By the way, I bought it from my iPhone as well.
Speaker 1: Oh cool, it's arriving today. It's called the Spegan Ultra
Speaker 1: Hybrid S. It's a nice case and it's super simple.
Speaker 1: It's only like fifteen bucks on Amazon. But it has
Speaker 1: a kickstand, so I was able to watch movies on
Speaker 1: the plane. Yeah, it's so cool. So you just set
Speaker 1: your phone up, Like, why doesn't every case have this? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I just watched movies on the plane on with
Speaker 1: my phone like sitting up like you know, on its side. Okay,
Speaker 1: other things. Everything about it is really amazing, everything like
Speaker 1: the quality of the software, the speed, the just you know,
Speaker 1: unlocking is a little bit tougher than the iPhone with
Speaker 1: a face ID, right because you have to use your
Speaker 1: fingerprint or you can set up their version of face ID,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't work as well. Okay, you know some
Speaker 1: of the software isn't available, but I love what you
Speaker 1: can do on Android, so I kind of get over
Speaker 1: that because I love having like shortcuts on my screen,
Speaker 1: and I love having the universal search box for Google
Speaker 1: right at the bottom of my screen. I love having
Speaker 1: my Samsung Pay which works with any basically anywhere, even
Speaker 1: if they don't take Apple pay or Google Pay. It
Speaker 1: still works.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 1: It emulates the magnetic strip on a credit card. Oh
Speaker 1: so kind of it kind of I don't know what
Speaker 1: you call emanates it out from your phone, like if
Speaker 1: you just hold it near they're like, oh, sorry, you
Speaker 1: don't take Apple Play. You're like, watch this and it works.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not what you think.
Speaker 1: So that's cool. Now I'm describing a lot of things
Speaker 1: that are available just on Android, but the physical like
Speaker 1: the size of the phone. I'm fine with the feel
Speaker 1: of the phone just everything. Like the quality of the
Speaker 1: device is very high. Now with that said, let me
Speaker 1: get to the biggest problem I found with this phone
Speaker 1: because I went to the New York Toy Fair in
Speaker 1: New York City and I shot my entire story on
Speaker 1: the video camera on this device.
Speaker 2: I can't believe you did that.
Speaker 1: And I had my simcard in here for my texts
Speaker 1: and everything. So I was doing everything on this phone,
Speaker 1: making calls, receiving calls, everything, setting my alarm at night.
Speaker 1: I was a little bit concerned because it's been a
Speaker 1: long time since I use bedtime on the iPhone, and
Speaker 1: it's super simple to set my alarm. I just scroll
Speaker 1: a little dial to the time I want to wake up,
Speaker 1: it gently arises me to wake This was a little
Speaker 1: different because it's like, okay, now I'm setting a real alarm.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to go off. So
Speaker 1: I tested a bunch of times. Anyway, all those things,
Speaker 1: one thing, Okay, my biggest issue with the Samsung is
Speaker 1: when I get a notification on the screen. So here's
Speaker 1: a notification, Megan said, Okay, sales is over where we're
Speaker 1: doing the podcast, you said to me, and there's a
Speaker 1: little reply thing I can hit right here, right well.
Speaker 1: On the iPhone, when you hit that reply or touch
Speaker 1: the notification, it immediately brings you into that app from
Speaker 1: the lock screen because it's looked at your face or
Speaker 1: your fingerprint is on there, your thumb is on the
Speaker 1: fingerprint reader, and now it just brings you right in there.
Speaker 1: On Android, that doesn't happen on this device, and so
Speaker 1: you have to kind of tap it once and then
Speaker 1: it's really complicated to explain, but you have to tap
Speaker 1: it once and then it says use biometrics. Okay, so
Speaker 1: I put my face and now it says swiped it open,
Speaker 1: and I swiped open, and it still didn't bring me
Speaker 1: in there. So my point is I can much faster
Speaker 1: reply much faster to notifications on the iPhone for some reason,
Speaker 1: and it's a little thing, but over the day, when
Speaker 1: you're doing one hundred and fifty notifications that you're replying to,
Speaker 1: it all adds up to a lot.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I think that the Android platform is
Speaker 1: totally fine now when it comes to content creation. Here's
Speaker 1: what I noticed, and a lot of other reviewers are
Speaker 1: noticing this as well, But I noticed my phone was
Speaker 1: not focusing. And I've noticed that some of the pictures
Speaker 1: in general on the Samsung device are soft, which means
Speaker 1: when you take a picture, it just looks kind of weird.
Speaker 1: You're like, wait, was that in focus? And especially when
Speaker 1: you're doing video, if you put the video camera up
Speaker 1: to something, it's just not in focus. So when I
Speaker 1: was doing all my interviews and everything for the Toy Fair,
Speaker 1: I kept having to manually tap the screen to focus.
Speaker 1: Now on iPhone that feature is available, I rarely, if ever,
Speaker 1: have to use it.
Speaker 2: It like auto focuses on what you're what you're focusing.
Speaker 1: On, even when you move your phone like quickly, and
Speaker 1: on the Samsung I did not notice that at all.
Speaker 1: It's really bad.
Speaker 2: Like did you notice that last year with the Samsung.
Speaker 1: No, I've never noticed that. In fact, I specifically remember
Speaker 1: when I used to have a Samsung device and this
Speaker 1: guy I was on a shoot out in like Virginia.
Speaker 1: He was like, why do you use Samsung? And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, because it's so much better than the
Speaker 1: iPhone And he's like really, And I'm like, well, take
Speaker 1: a look at this, and I showed him my hand
Speaker 1: and I put my phone, my Samsung, in front of
Speaker 1: it and showed him how quickly it focused. And I
Speaker 1: was like, and look how clear that is and how
Speaker 1: focused it is. Now I move it somewhere else, and
Speaker 1: he's like, oh wow, that's great. And I was like, now,
Speaker 1: look at the iPhone. It didn't focus as fast. iPhones
Speaker 1: come a long way since then, Samsung this one. I
Speaker 1: feel like they took a step back.
Speaker 2: So then there must be a glitch.
Speaker 1: There might be a glitch. According to the Verge, there
Speaker 1: is going to be a software update to improve the camera,
Speaker 1: but they would not acknowledge any specific problem. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing. My idea is that they have had this
Speaker 1: device in production now, like in development now for a year.
Speaker 1: Let's say, you don't have a device in production for
Speaker 1: a year and nobody notices this weird little glitch until
Speaker 1: you give it to people and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, we'll fix that. Rarely happens. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't just fix something like nobody noticed this, nobody used
Speaker 1: the video camera.
Speaker 2: It's the same with sorry, but the foldable screen last year,
Speaker 2: like everyone was like peeling the screen off.
Speaker 1: So sometimes Samsung can't catch break. So at this point
Speaker 1: I cannot recommend the Samsung S twenty Ultra. I don't
Speaker 1: know if this problem is on the other two, the
Speaker 1: two leading up to the phone, the S twenty and
Speaker 1: the S twenty plus, but the Ultra, I will say
Speaker 1: it's kind of a deal breaker. Like I said, I
Speaker 1: had my simcard in this device, and I found myself
Speaker 1: being like I can't wait to get back to the
Speaker 1: iPhone now. Hopefully they fix this. But it's not just
Speaker 1: me that's seeing this. All the reviewers are saying the
Speaker 1: same thing, right, and it's clearly an issue. And I
Speaker 1: don't know how they're going to spin this or try
Speaker 1: to figure this out. But if I bought this phone
Speaker 1: for fourteen hundred dollars and I saw the way it
Speaker 1: was focusing at that toy fair.
Speaker 2: That's insane.
Speaker 1: I'd be really angry. And by the end of the
Speaker 1: toy fair, I ended up using my iPhone to to
Speaker 1: shoot a couple more videos and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy. This thing is amazingly clear and focused
Speaker 1: on everything.
Speaker 2: So I need the new iPhone anyway.
Speaker 1: So there you have it. That's my spiel. I will
Speaker 1: have my Yeah. That's that's it for now. So cool.
Speaker 2: Okay. So this first message comes from Jeanette. She said,
Speaker 2: I just wanted to tell you what an honor it
Speaker 2: was to meet you in person at the Bourbank Airport.
Speaker 2: You were so nice, just like you are on TV.
Speaker 2: Kat A five is the only news I watched. Thank
Speaker 2: you for keeping us informed. We learned so much from you.
Speaker 2: Sorry you missed your meeting and SF have a nice day.
Speaker 1: That is Jeannette, Jeanette, Well, thank you, Jeanette. This is
Speaker 1: a funny thing about being on TV is that you're
Speaker 1: always being watched and judged silently no matter where you are.
Speaker 1: And I tell my kids this all the time because
Speaker 1: people come up to me all the time, like literally
Speaker 1: every day every day, no matter even in New York
Speaker 1: at the Toy Fair. Yeah, I was coming out of
Speaker 1: the men's restroom and some guys like, we're jeh on tech,
Speaker 1: what's up? And it's like, now, if I can't if
Speaker 1: I was walking around with like a sour look on
Speaker 1: my face and kind of like angry or treating people
Speaker 1: really rude, it'd be awkward. Yeah, And I don't think
Speaker 1: you should be doing that in general, But being on TV,
Speaker 1: it's like people are watching you, and well, I feel
Speaker 1: like I am who I am most of the time.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not really a different person on TV. Right,
Speaker 1: That's very clear because it's just like I am who
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: That's good.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's like an instances like
Speaker 1: this we were I was in probably one of the
Speaker 1: most frustrated moments of my life where I was trying
Speaker 1: to get up to San Francisco for a meeting with Samsung. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we didn't make it. Our flight was totally delayed,
Speaker 1: and I could have been, like, you know, very angry
Speaker 1: and visibly because I was with my photographer and I
Speaker 1: could have been being rude to the people on the
Speaker 1: podium at Southwest. I could have been really mad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know what, I wasn't and this woman saw
Speaker 1: me at my worst and here's what she said.
Speaker 2: You weren't bad, So anyway I would have been so frustrated.
Speaker 1: It is frustrating. Anyway. It's a weird thing when you're
Speaker 1: on television to I always say this for every person
Speaker 1: that comes up to you and says hello or says
Speaker 1: something or asks for a picture, there's fifty more people
Speaker 1: in that room, probably one other that like also also
Speaker 1: that don't say anything, right, but they do tell their
Speaker 1: friends and they're like, oh, I saw Rich and oh
Speaker 1: my god, what a jerk. He was at the register
Speaker 1: at Ralph's, you know, yeah, at the grocery store here,
Speaker 1: or oh, seems like a nice guy, had a smile
Speaker 1: on his face, he was with his kids, you know,
Speaker 1: his wife. Whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I think that's important. You don't want to
Speaker 2: be a jerk.
Speaker 1: No, I try not to be. Well, thank you, um
Speaker 1: Nest camera outage. This is kind of a big deal
Speaker 1: because a lot of people use Nest cameras, including myself,
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on their home, and this just
Speaker 1: kind of goes to show what could potentially happen when
Speaker 1: we rely on these cameras to secure our homes. These
Speaker 1: cameras are cloud connected. They do a lot of the
Speaker 1: lifting heavy lifting in the cloud. They record everything in
Speaker 1: the cloud. And on Monday, February twenty fourth, from eleven
Speaker 1: to fifty five am until four to twenty Wonder where
Speaker 1: they got that number Pacific time? Noah, Wait what these
Speaker 1: stopped working? So you had a blackout period for cameras
Speaker 1: across the nation that we're using Nest for four plus hours,
Speaker 1: four hours twenty five minutes. Imagine that.
Speaker 2: That's insane.
Speaker 1: Now, not only the cameras not work, they also didn't
Speaker 1: record anything to the cloud during that time, so you had,
Speaker 1: in effect a total blackout of these cameras for four
Speaker 1: plus hours.
Speaker 2: That's infuriating.
Speaker 1: Now, they gave me five bucks as a refund. I
Speaker 1: didn't notice this on my own camera because I wasn't
Speaker 1: like looking at the time. But if something happened at
Speaker 1: your house during that time, I would be so angry.
Speaker 1: Let's say you got a break in during that time.
Speaker 1: Now you have no video the whole point of having
Speaker 1: that cameras. I'm sure there was.
Speaker 2: Wait, so how did that happen?
Speaker 1: They said it was a update to their server caused
Speaker 1: a connectivity issue. I mean, but that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: And as we rely on these cloud things more and more.
Speaker 1: Here's what my thought is. Imagine you're a hacker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you do the biggest hack where you hack the Nest servers.
Speaker 1: You get them to black out for twelve hours, and
Speaker 1: now it's a free for all across the nation.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Or like if someone heard that there was a blackout,
Speaker 2: they could just find a house that has a Nest camera.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, oo, exactly near no one, Well, no one,
Speaker 2: we'll know because what if people don't trace of me?
Speaker 1: They tweet when when something like this happens, no cameras
Speaker 1: are down. Oh, now they search. Maybe someone has a
Speaker 1: search on their Twitter for a safe search that says
Speaker 1: Nest down, and they just wait for a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of those tweets and then they go strike.
Speaker 2: Could they just be saying it's a server thing, that
Speaker 2: they were updating the server.
Speaker 1: I think it probably. I mean, that's kind of a
Speaker 1: catch all for like we made a mistake.
Speaker 2: If I was a security company, I don't, I mean,
Speaker 2: you don't know, lie, But like I feel like they
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to say, you know, we were hacked.
Speaker 1: No, I don't. I don't think in this instance they were,
Speaker 1: but maybe they were. You never know. I mean usually
Speaker 1: they come out and say something big picture and then
Speaker 1: maybe they narrow it down later in a security.
Speaker 2: Block, updating or hacked server.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: All right. This next question comes from Erica, and if
Speaker 2: you want Rich to answer your tech questions, just go
Speaker 2: to his web site rich on tech dot tv and
Speaker 2: hit the contact button. Erica asks, can you please tell
Speaker 2: me what the best anti virus software is?
Speaker 1: Ooh interesting? I get this question so much. People are
Speaker 1: obsessed with antivirus software. And here's my thought on it.
Speaker 1: I think that you should have it number one. If
Speaker 1: you have Windows ten, it's kind of built in. It's
Speaker 1: called Windows Defender, and that's Microsoft's built in virus protection.
Speaker 1: So I would say, make sure that's up to date,
Speaker 1: make sure you haven't disabled that, make sure you haven't
Speaker 1: gotten rid of that. Now after that, I feel like
Speaker 1: a lot of these antivirus softwares are very spammy and
Speaker 1: they kind of bogged down your system. Like let's just
Speaker 1: say the big company out there that you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to mention the name, but there's a big
Speaker 1: company that everyone knows is synonymous with anti virus.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I've had that antivirus before, and I just feel like
Speaker 1: it's a lot going on for nothing, and so people
Speaker 1: turn to these other apps that might maybe use less
Speaker 1: resources on their system. So with all that said, I
Speaker 1: mean to me, on my Mac, I was recommending Silance,
Speaker 1: which we did a story with, which I thought was
Speaker 1: really cool because it was it was sort of immediate
Speaker 1: and it was just a very cool AI powered But
Speaker 1: then BlackBerry bought them, and I'm not sure that they
Speaker 1: even do personal BlackBerry. Yeah, let's see if they even
Speaker 1: do Silence anti virus. Let's see if they do it
Speaker 1: anymore for like consumers. And I thought this was cool
Speaker 1: because they do it in like real time, so uh,
Speaker 1: let's see. Yeah, they do have it, Okay, Silance Smart antivirus.
Speaker 1: So that's the one that I'd still recommend Windows in
Speaker 1: Mac compatible okay. And it's what's cool about it is
Speaker 1: that it's kind of anti virus with a brain, so
Speaker 1: it looks at what's happening on your computer and if
Speaker 1: it notices something that's going on that's bad in real time,
Speaker 1: it'll stop that from happening, which compared to the other
Speaker 1: way most antivirus works. It has a large definition of stuff,
Speaker 1: and any file that you bring onto your system, it
Speaker 1: kind of checks it across that definition and it says, oh,
Speaker 1: this is one of the bad files. This Silence works
Speaker 1: by kind of identifying things in real time that are bad. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. Other than that, I would
Speaker 1: look at something like a vast which I like, and
Speaker 1: then malware bytes I also like. And again, a lot
Speaker 1: of these things they start out free and then they
Speaker 1: want you to be paid. Silence is just totally paid.
Speaker 1: It's forty nine dollars a year for ten devices. I
Speaker 1: think that's well worth it. Yeah, so good question. Speaking
Speaker 1: of security, Firefox continues to kind of push user security.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people are using Firefox these
Speaker 1: days anymore. Remember what it was kind of a popular
Speaker 1: way to surf the internet. A lot of people use
Speaker 1: Chrome nowadays, which has a lot of security built in.
Speaker 1: But when you're using Chrome, a lot of your data
Speaker 1: is being siphoned off to Google because it's owned by Google.
Speaker 1: And why do they want you to use a browsers
Speaker 1: so that they have more of a knowledge of who
Speaker 1: you are and what you're doing. Well, now Firefox is
Speaker 1: doing this new thing called DNS over HTTPS, and this
Speaker 1: gets really techy, really nerdy, But the bottom line, when
Speaker 1: you type in a website into your computer like Yahoo
Speaker 1: dot com, and most websites are encrypted at this point.
Speaker 1: So when you go to Yahoo, everything you do on
Speaker 1: there is now private. Basically most websites. If you look
Speaker 1: there's a little padlock next to the website. That means
Speaker 1: that whatever you type into that website no one can
Speaker 1: really see because it's encrypted. It means it's kind of
Speaker 1: enshrouded in secrecy between your computer and the computer on
Speaker 1: the receiving end. Back in the day, it wasn't, so
Speaker 1: anything you did was just kind of interceptible by anyone. Right,
Speaker 1: long story short, when you type in that Yahoo dot com,
Speaker 1: that first thing you type in your ISP and other people,
Speaker 1: because of the way it's looked up, can see what
Speaker 1: you're typing in. Okay, So even though they can't see
Speaker 1: what happens once you get to that website, like your
Speaker 1: bank website, they can see that you went to your
Speaker 1: bank website. So what Firefox is doing is they are
Speaker 1: actually starting to do these look ups in a secured way.
Speaker 1: So when you type in, you know, Yahoo dot com,
Speaker 1: it needs to convert that into an address like one
Speaker 1: nine two dot zero dot nine dot one. It will
Speaker 1: do that in an encrypted way, which means it's still secret,
Speaker 1: which means that your internet service provider, the person who
Speaker 1: brings the internet into your home, will not be able
Speaker 1: to see a lot of the things that you do
Speaker 1: on the web. Okay, whereas before they could still collect
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of data about people and know that
Speaker 1: they're visiting whatever website, shopping websites, and they can sell
Speaker 1: that data, they can cross reference it, now they no
Speaker 1: longer have. If you're using Firefox, they will basically not
Speaker 1: really see anything that you're doing. So it's like a
Speaker 1: little step of security. Yeah, and now, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people's minds go to kind of dirty or
Speaker 1: things with this stuff, but it's not always for that.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of countries in the world where you're
Speaker 1: not as free as you are in America. So even
Speaker 1: looking up something about a dictator or who knows any
Speaker 1: kind of government stuff may put you in on a
Speaker 1: watch list or whatever. Oh interesting, And so again this
Speaker 1: is all in making life a little bit more private,
Speaker 1: especially in those moments when you may not realize that
Speaker 1: someone has access to this data and Internet service providers
Speaker 1: still have a lot of access to the data and
Speaker 1: the things that are happening in your home with your internet,
Speaker 1: and so by kind of closing some of these little holes,
Speaker 1: it patches some of the privacy leaks out there. And
Speaker 1: again this is something that only Firefox is doing. And
Speaker 1: by the way, I mentioned like kind of the world
Speaker 1: scope of things, this is only turned on by default
Speaker 1: in the US. If you're in a different country using Firefox,
Speaker 1: you have to go into the settings and turn on
Speaker 1: DNS over https. Megan Cool.
Speaker 2: This next question comes from tam Roku versus Firestick question mark,
Speaker 2: what are the advantages and disadvantages of each and which
Speaker 2: is better?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good question. Advantages disadvantages. Okay, So Firestick
Speaker 1: is Amazon, which means number one, they're pushing a lot
Speaker 1: of Amazon stuff. So when you log on to a Firestick,
Speaker 1: it's the whole screen is filled with stuff. Some of
Speaker 1: it is advertising, a lot of it is kind of
Speaker 1: like the new shows on Amazon. A lot of it
Speaker 1: is stuff you've watched before. It's very cluttered, and I
Speaker 1: feel like it is all over the place when it
Speaker 1: comes to the clutter on the screen. And yes, your
Speaker 1: apps and stuff are on there, but there's just a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff going on. And I find that for
Speaker 1: every tile on that screen on my Fire, I am
Speaker 1: clicking almost zero of them, Like they're not really I
Speaker 1: don't want, Like whatever they're surfacing, I'm not using. So
Speaker 1: I'm just going into my Netflix app or I'm going
Speaker 1: into my YouTube app or whatever. I'm not really looking
Speaker 1: at all the other stuff. So if you now on
Speaker 1: the flip side, if you love Amazon and you love
Speaker 1: Amazon shows, this is gonna be your best and watching
Speaker 1: free Amazon stuff, this is gonna be your best way
Speaker 1: of a conduit to those to those properties on the
Speaker 1: flip side. Roku and they've always been like this is
Speaker 1: kind of like the Switzerland, and I've said this before,
Speaker 1: of streaming. They get your apps on screen. Yes, they're
Speaker 1: to advertising, Yes they're pushing their own Roku channel. Yes
Speaker 1: they're trying to get you to sign up for certain
Speaker 1: new apps and channels and stuff. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, Roku is kind of like, if I
Speaker 1: had to describe it, Fire Fire TV is very busy,
Speaker 1: whereas Roku just kind of sits there and waits for
Speaker 1: you to do something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's clean, Yeah, I love Roku and then we
Speaker 2: have fire TV sticks in our house too.
Speaker 1: And it's a difference. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean like I don't really use those TVs, but
Speaker 2: I don't like I don't really like the look of it,
Speaker 2: Like I think it's it like you said, it's too cluttered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I recently switched to Apple TV, which is when
Speaker 1: you talk about the least of everything, it's there's nothing
Speaker 1: on there, right, no ads, there's no nothing. They don't
Speaker 1: push you to anything. It's just your apps, just like
Speaker 1: the iPhone.
Speaker 2: But it's funny. I had to kind of explain to
Speaker 2: my dad the other day because I was like, Apple
Speaker 2: TV and then there's Apple TV. Plus he was like, wait,
Speaker 2: what that is? And so that's something that's also confusing.
Speaker 2: But Apple TV is very it's like the cleanest.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is the cleanest. It's also the most expensive, right.
Speaker 1: Roku has a price range for everyone. Fire TV stick
Speaker 1: you can, you know, give them out like Halloween candy.
Speaker 1: They're so cheap. Yeah, my choice between those two things,
Speaker 1: i'd probably I think they're both great. It really depends
Speaker 1: what you like. My biggest beef with the Fire TV
Speaker 1: is I can never ever just I just want to
Speaker 1: see what the top movie rentals are. I can never
Speaker 1: find that on my Fire TV. And that's what really
Speaker 1: pushed me over the edge with the Apple is. I'm
Speaker 1: just like, if I can't find this, this is I
Speaker 1: love to just see what the top movies are, and
Speaker 1: on Fire I just can't find it. It's like it's
Speaker 1: just it's there somewhere, but it's like it's like top
Speaker 1: Prime Choice, Top Prime Romantic Choices, top Prime action movies,
Speaker 1: top Prime TV shows. I'm like, just give me movies
Speaker 1: that are people are renting and watching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have a question kind of related to this.
Speaker 2: We've talked a lot about like how you've changed your
Speaker 2: like cable situation. What are you doing right now? Because
Speaker 2: I have an aunt who she's like, all I want
Speaker 2: to watch is The Bachelor, and but I have direct
Speaker 2: TV And I was like, well then you should just
Speaker 2: have Hulu. But then she was like, but you know
Speaker 2: then we want sports occasionally. So what is your what
Speaker 2: are you doing again?
Speaker 1: So what I'm doing is I can tell you two things.
Speaker 1: So number One, I don't watch a lot of TV,
Speaker 1: so I don't need any I've recently canceled my direct
Speaker 1: TV now which was sixty bucks a month. I do
Speaker 1: have a device that allows me. It's called Tableau, which
Speaker 1: allows me to take in an antenna signal. Before I
Speaker 1: was using the Amazon Fire TV recast Tableau, same thing,
Speaker 1: except it works across all the different platforms and it's
Speaker 1: just a little tiny box that you plug your antenna into.
Speaker 1: And now you have an app on your TV screen
Speaker 1: on your Fire or your Apple TV or your Roku
Speaker 1: that lets you access your local channels over the air,
Speaker 1: and you can also record them to if you want.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, it costs five bucks a month if you
Speaker 1: want the program data for a longer period of time.
Speaker 1: I don't need that because I just tune in live.
Speaker 1: So when I was watching like the Grammys Boom, just
Speaker 1: tune in live.
Speaker 2: Right And ABC is an over the channel, So like.
Speaker 1: Ninety nine percent of the time, the stuff you want
Speaker 1: to watch, like the big events are free. Now when
Speaker 1: it comes to sports, that's where things get tricky. So
Speaker 1: with me personally, I watch USC football. I would say
Speaker 1: some of the games are on over the air on
Speaker 1: ABC seven or something like that, or NBC when it's
Speaker 1: Notre Dame a lot of times on ESPN, So how
Speaker 1: do I get ESPN right now? I don't have a solution.
Speaker 1: I haven't. It was past football season when I got
Speaker 1: rid of direct TV now, so this next season will
Speaker 1: be an issue. I don't know what I'm gonna do,
Speaker 1: so that's gonna be a part of it. But I
Speaker 1: would say the other thing you could do. There's a
Speaker 1: service called low cast, And this is what my mom does.
Speaker 1: She went from having Direct TV Now for sixty bucks
Speaker 1: a month to now she pays five dollars a month
Speaker 1: for low cast, and it's if you don't feel like
Speaker 1: putting an antenna on your house, you download this app
Speaker 1: and you donate five dollars a month to them. They
Speaker 1: have an antenna somewhere and then they stream the pannels
Speaker 1: to your TV. Wow. Now the broadcasters don't necessarily like
Speaker 1: that model because they're not necessarily getting paid for that.
Speaker 1: So now they don't get paid for antenna either. And
Speaker 1: the way low cast argues is that, well, we're just
Speaker 1: an extended antenna signal. Right, We're just taking the antenna
Speaker 1: signal from a nice rooftop somewhere and just piping it
Speaker 1: into your TV. Broadcasters like, eh, we don't know if
Speaker 1: that's you know, allowed, So they're kind of operating in
Speaker 1: a gray area. So far, so good. They've been around
Speaker 1: for a bit. But that's another box, Tableau t t
Speaker 1: A b l oh t A.
Speaker 2: So you just need like one tableau box.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it'll service all your TVs. Now there's a
Speaker 1: certain amount you can watch from those. I think it's
Speaker 1: two TVs at once or two channels at once. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a way of doing it. And there's also
Speaker 1: I did when I when I wanted to watch something
Speaker 1: on a channel that I did not get, I did
Speaker 1: subscribe to Fubo TV for one day and I just
Speaker 1: signed up for a free and it got me. I
Speaker 1: think it was the Grammys or something. It was whatever
Speaker 1: whatever I couldn't get on something. I think it was
Speaker 1: a Grammy pre show maybe, and it was on E
Speaker 1: and I didn't have E. So I just signed up
Speaker 1: for a day, got the show, and boom, I was done.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe it was Super Bowl anyway, good question. Speaking
Speaker 1: of streaming TV, Netflix is finally finally showing us the
Speaker 1: most popular TV shows and movies on its Yes, finally,
Speaker 1: it's been so long and I get it Netflix. And
Speaker 1: we've talked about this on the podcast where they'd love
Speaker 1: to be personalized, and they want to make everything perfect
Speaker 1: for you. Sometimes I just want to see what is
Speaker 1: popular across everyone, not just myself. This is kind of
Speaker 1: like a dating app. It's like, now everyone's dating on
Speaker 1: these apps, and you're literally picking the person that's the
Speaker 1: equivalent of you, except either you know, male or female,
Speaker 1: or you know whatever you prefer. But it's just like you,
Speaker 1: except in another human Like, well, I like bagel, so
Speaker 1: they should like bagels. I like romantic comedies.
Speaker 2: They should like love bagels.
Speaker 1: I like going to Hawaii, so they should like going
Speaker 1: to Hawaii. I like food at fancy restaurants, so they
Speaker 1: should like you're literally picking the same person, except because
Speaker 1: these little apps let you pick every aspect of the
Speaker 1: person rather than you know, the old days anyway. So
Speaker 1: Netflix to me is kind of like that. It's like,
Speaker 1: we only want to show you what we think you'll
Speaker 1: love because of what you watched before. Well, guess what,
Speaker 1: I'm a dynamic person. I may want to watch some
Speaker 1: random movie like I watched that dumb to All the
Speaker 1: Boys I loved before whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh you did, Yeah it was not very good, started
Speaker 2: it and then I was like, I'm bored.
Speaker 1: Really it was very much sponsored by like Subway. Like
Speaker 1: remember they kept getting like Subway subs.
Speaker 2: In that movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, so those kind of things like I don't. I
Speaker 1: will sample weird things like that every once in a while,
Speaker 1: Like that Cheer show. People are saying, that's very good and.
Speaker 2: Like the old show No cheer.
Speaker 1: Oh it's it's about cheerleading. Yeah it's it's the premise
Speaker 1: is cheerleading, but it's really about like determination and drive
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. So again I might check that out.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Okay, so now you can see top ten lists on Netflix,
Speaker 1: and they're going to show you the top ten most
Speaker 1: popular series and the top ten films when you click
Speaker 1: on the movies and TV show tabs not on your
Speaker 1: home screen, I guess, so you have to go into
Speaker 1: the tab.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And the best part is any show that when you're
Speaker 1: browsing that's into the top ten, it will have a
Speaker 1: little top ten batge so you can see, like this
Speaker 1: is the top ten. And I think that's kind of
Speaker 1: fun rather than they always put these weird things like
Speaker 1: trending on Netflix, popular on Netflix. Just show me the
Speaker 1: top ten, give me the list. I can handle it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can handle it.
Speaker 1: You can't handle the truth.
Speaker 2: Honestly, I don't know if I can handle the truth. Okay,
Speaker 2: this next question comes from Cleveland. Do you know of
Speaker 2: any dashcams that record overnight without being plugged into the
Speaker 2: power outlet of your car. I would like to be
Speaker 2: able to record both facing out and inward if possible.
Speaker 2: The outward facing would be ideal in the event of
Speaker 2: any accident while parked or a theft.
Speaker 1: Well, I would say that a lot of the dash
Speaker 1: cams will do this functionality no matter what. So even
Speaker 1: if a dash cam requires power from your car, uh,
Speaker 1: just look. Okay, So here's what you look for. Look
Speaker 1: for a dash can that has an on board battery.
Speaker 1: And what it does is it will it'll plug into
Speaker 1: your cigarette lighter and it'll be charging this battery on board,
Speaker 1: So most of the time it's powered by your car,
Speaker 1: but when you turn off your car, it will still
Speaker 1: have enough juice in it to roll camera if your
Speaker 1: car is hit. And so that's the other thing you
Speaker 1: need to look for is a g shock sensor. And
Speaker 1: all that looks is for a movement, you know, like
Speaker 1: a boom boom boom like and you can usually set
Speaker 1: the sensitivity for that. So if you want just you know,
Speaker 1: if someone runs a car at the you know, Ralph's
Speaker 1: parking lot, I said Ralphs twice in this podcast, you
Speaker 1: know the grocery store parking lot. If someone runs a
Speaker 1: car into your car, you may not want that to
Speaker 1: trigger a recording, like you're really gonna go after that person.
Speaker 1: I would hunt them down. Now you have a new car,
Speaker 1: do you have that feeling of like there is a
Speaker 1: moment when have you gotten a ding on it yet?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, but you know there's a time Wait.
Speaker 2: That's a lot. I got a tiny, tiny, tiny little ding.
Speaker 1: When I was Isn't that the worst feeling?
Speaker 2: I like almost cried.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just you know what's gonna happen when you
Speaker 1: have a new car, and it's just but it's.
Speaker 2: Like, it's the worst.
Speaker 1: I've had my car for like three years. And at
Speaker 1: this point I don't care anymore because my kids will
Speaker 1: take the door lease. Well I know, but so now
Speaker 1: do you care less because of that?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I care more because I large you at the end.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think they end. Sometimes they don't know,
Speaker 2: but maybe they won't even notice.
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like they have to understand
Speaker 1: when a car is going through normal wear and tear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna get dings throughout three years of a lease, right.
Speaker 1: And I've heard stories from people out of return cars.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they look over them like with a fine tooth comb.
Speaker 1: Other times they don't care, right, And so it just
Speaker 1: kind of depends.
Speaker 2: I guess maybe if you're like gonna lease another car
Speaker 2: from them, Yeah, like.
Speaker 1: Exactly, we'll look the other way, don't.
Speaker 2: Oh, we will look at the like missing tire.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was just gonna say. Did we
Speaker 1: deliver this car with four tires or three? Only three?
Speaker 2: You're getting another porche It's fine.
Speaker 1: Well look the other right. So the couple of things
Speaker 1: you want to look for in your camera is a
Speaker 1: g shock sensor and an onboard battery. With that said,
Speaker 1: the camera that I like is the Vava camera. Via Va,
Speaker 1: I don't believe that it records both the front and
Speaker 1: the back. The other camera to look at is the
Speaker 1: owl cam, And the other one I tried was called
Speaker 1: the Pure Cam, and that one was great. Every quord
Speaker 1: that has all the things I just talked about. What
Speaker 1: it did not do is it did not have good
Speaker 1: software on your iPhone, so it was really poor software,
Speaker 1: and that's what kept me from using that. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this on the podcast before Jiff versus GIF. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think it was this last podcast that we had
Speaker 1: a whole talk about this pronunciation debate, and now it
Speaker 1: might be coming to an end thanks to a marketing
Speaker 1: stunt by Jeff Peanut Butter. Jeff Peanut Butter came out
Speaker 1: with two special jars that help you explain to yourself
Speaker 1: how you should pronounce Jeff versus Giff. Jeff. You know
Speaker 1: the peanut butter. It's always been pronounced Jeff with a
Speaker 1: j if. Giff is written g if. A lot of
Speaker 1: people call it a jiff, but they're saying hard G
Speaker 1: for GIF and soft G for jiff the peanut butter. Okay,
Speaker 1: hard G for the graphic, the leaping animated image, soft
Speaker 1: jay for the peanut butter. So now you care. It
Speaker 1: is actually easy to remember, huh.
Speaker 2: I know. I Yeah, it is like j I just
Speaker 2: always called gifts gifts.
Speaker 1: Yeah you did, I But it's funny because of the game.
Speaker 1: The guy who came out with.
Speaker 2: Who right you were telling me this last week.
Speaker 1: Said, Jeff, I remember this is south by Southwest them.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. It stands for, like we said
Speaker 1: last week, graphics interchange format with graph fixedrookok, I don't
Speaker 1: want to get through this, but Griff, long story short,
Speaker 1: the bottles of peanut butter sold out instantly on Amazon.
Speaker 1: They were selling a two pack, you know, the two
Speaker 1: bottles a pair for ten bucks, Okay, And I guess
Speaker 1: people went crazy over these things, and it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: I could see why. Yeah, And they put more on
Speaker 1: Amazon and those sold out in like one minute. So
Speaker 1: I do have a pair of bottles coming to me.
Speaker 1: They're supposed to arrive today. I was hoping they were
Speaker 1: in time for today's TV hits. I didn't get them
Speaker 1: in time, so maybe I'll show them off next week.
Speaker 1: But I like the idea of just having this on
Speaker 1: my desk so I always remember. I'm like Giff, Jiff.
Speaker 1: And again, it's a marketing stunt, but it's kind of fun.
Speaker 2: I like it. It's cute, all right. This next question
Speaker 2: comes from Steve. Except for Alert, the location settings on
Speaker 2: my iPhone apps are set to while I'm using the app.
Speaker 2: But I also know that once I open an app,
Speaker 2: it stays open until I close it individually while it
Speaker 2: is in this state that is open but non current use.
Speaker 2: Is it still reporting my location?
Speaker 1: This is a great question. Yeah, and the short answer
Speaker 1: is yes, but no. And so here's what's happening on you.
Speaker 1: He's talking about the iPhone, right, Yeah, So on the iPhone,
Speaker 1: when you open up an app, when you're using it,
Speaker 1: your anything goes like it. You know, whatever permissions you've
Speaker 1: given it, whether it's your location, microphone camera, whatever, it
Speaker 1: can access those things when it shifts to the background.
Speaker 1: There are two ways it can.
Speaker 2: Be handled, so when you change to another app, you
Speaker 2: still have it.
Speaker 1: Like kind of in your recent apps.
Speaker 2: All my apps open all the time.
Speaker 1: But you're okay, because the way that the iPhone works
Speaker 1: is it puts apps to sleep in the background. Now
Speaker 1: that the time app the time that it takes to
Speaker 1: go to sleep is could be a potential issue. So
Speaker 1: some apps like to stay awake in the background so
Speaker 1: that they can do certain things all the time. So
Speaker 1: like a music streaming app has gotten special permission from
Speaker 1: Apple to stay awake in the background because otherwise it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to stream music. A mapping app has
Speaker 1: special permission to work in the background so that it
Speaker 1: can gather your GPS coordinates and give you directions. Now,
Speaker 1: other apps have firm rules for how long they can
Speaker 1: stay accessing system resources in the background before Apple says
Speaker 1: night night, goodbye, see you later. So the longer. The
Speaker 1: short of it is, if it's not a nefarious app
Speaker 1: that is trying to do something evil and it's been
Speaker 1: coded word, if it's not been coded in an evil way,
Speaker 1: it will eventually go to sleep. And that's why Apple
Speaker 1: always says you do not need to close out your
Speaker 1: recent apps unless they are behaving badly, and then you
Speaker 1: can go ahead and swipe them closed. Otherwise you're doing
Speaker 1: just fine. Your apps in the background should not be
Speaker 1: accessing stuff that they shouldn't be able to access in
Speaker 1: the foreground.
Speaker 2: That answer it, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Now with that said, on Android, whole different story system.
Speaker 1: Our apps can use resources in the background on Android
Speaker 1: much easier than they can on iOS. That's also the
Speaker 1: reason why the battery lasts longer on iOS because basically
Speaker 1: the app that you're using is pretty much the only
Speaker 1: thing that's happening on your phone at that time, Versus Android,
Speaker 1: a lot of things could be happening in the background. Now,
Speaker 1: there's advantages to that on Android, and I'll just go
Speaker 1: into one. One example is Google Photos. So on Android,
Speaker 1: Google Photos can work in the background even if you
Speaker 1: haven't opened the app to upload all your pictures in
Speaker 1: the background. With iOS, it only gets that permission when
Speaker 1: you open up the app, and maybe in the background
Speaker 1: when you have it on a charger and it has
Speaker 1: been properly coded to kind of ping the server and say, hey,
Speaker 1: I've got some pictures here. Can I upload these real quick?
Speaker 1: And your iPhone says, well, you can't use this all night.
Speaker 1: You can't just stay open and transmitting data all night,
Speaker 1: but we'll give you a couple of minutes to kind
Speaker 1: of refresh things. That's called background refresh. Okay, it's very complicated,
Speaker 1: but it's done for a reason. On the iPhone, they've
Speaker 1: optimized the iPhone in such a heavy way to make
Speaker 1: the battery last and also make sure that these apps
Speaker 1: aren't doing things they shouldn't be doing.
Speaker 2: Good to know.
Speaker 1: Uh, okay, oh shoot, we have a couple of things,
Speaker 1: all right, I want to get to Okay, this is
Speaker 1: really interesting. We'll do two more things. Okay, but this
Speaker 1: is really interesting. This director said that on camera you
Speaker 1: won't see bad guys in movies using the iPhone because
Speaker 1: Apple does not allow their products to be portrayed in
Speaker 1: that light. This is knives out director Ryan Johnson in
Speaker 1: an interview with Variety. With an interview with Vanity Fair.
Speaker 3: Another funny thing. I don't know if I should say
Speaker 3: this or not, not because it's like Lasiba's or some
Speaker 3: because it's going to screw me on the next mystery
Speaker 3: movie that I write, but forget, I'll say it's very interesting.
Speaker 3: Apple they let you use iPhones and movies, but in
Speaker 3: the is very pivotal. If you're ever watching a mystery movie,
Speaker 3: bad guys cannot have iPhones on camera. So no, every
Speaker 3: single filmmaker who does a bad guy in their movie
Speaker 3: it's supposed to be a secret wants to murder me.
Speaker 3: Right now, Let's see what Jamie's saying.
Speaker 1: Interesting, interesting, interesting revelation. That's again knives out director Ryan
Speaker 1: Johnson in a YouTube interview for Vanity Fair YouTube video.
Speaker 1: And what he's saying is that I think here's what
Speaker 1: he's saying. I'm reading between the lines. He says that
Speaker 1: you can't really have an iPhone in the hands of
Speaker 1: a villain on screen because Apple doesn't like that. I
Speaker 1: think What he is not saying is this is when
Speaker 1: Apple is supplying the phones for the production. If you
Speaker 1: ever watch Modern Family, every device on that show was
Speaker 1: an Apple device. At the end of the show, it
Speaker 1: says promotional consideration provided by Apple, because Apple gave those
Speaker 1: directors a whole bunch of stuff and they were able
Speaker 1: to use them in their show. Along with that whole
Speaker 1: bunch of free stuff to use iPad and tablets and
Speaker 1: you know, imax and all these iPhones in the show.
Speaker 1: They also had a little line in that that said,
Speaker 1: here's how you will not use these products. You're not
Speaker 1: going to show them doing bad things. You're not going
Speaker 1: to show people throwing them and crashing them and you know,
Speaker 1: getting into car accidents using them in the car. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean. There's a whole bunch of regulations
Speaker 1: that come along with these free products. But if you
Speaker 1: and I are doing a music video and we don't
Speaker 1: ask Apple for free phones or permission, we could do
Speaker 1: whatever we want with these phones. So if villain Meghan
Speaker 1: is on screen crushing you know, a character with her
Speaker 1: bare hands, you can have an iPhone and make a
Speaker 1: call after that.
Speaker 2: Villain Meghan.
Speaker 1: Okay, finally, I just want to mention one more thing,
Speaker 1: because I've talked about this before with you, and I
Speaker 1: just think this is super interesting. New York Times did
Speaker 1: a little informal survey of how expensive it is to
Speaker 1: eat using food delivery apps, and it is fascinating because
Speaker 1: I've always had this hypothesis, right, I always call it.
Speaker 1: I call it the most expensive way to eat. In fact,
Speaker 1: I would argue that getting food delivery at this point
Speaker 1: is almost more expensive than going to a restaurant and eating. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because you're paying all these service charges and fees. And
Speaker 1: what people don't even realize is when you look at
Speaker 1: the menu on uber eats.
Speaker 2: Or Postmates, they like it's the they redo the menu
Speaker 2: for the app. So it's like five dollars rice is
Speaker 2: actually now ten dollars rice, so you're paying double exactly.
Speaker 2: Its insane.
Speaker 1: So they looked at grub Hub, door Dash, Postmates, Uber Eats,
Speaker 1: and the restaurant. So for instance, a six inch turkey
Speaker 1: breast sub at Subway, if you got two of them,
Speaker 1: would be twelve dollars and fifty eight cents at the restaurant.
Speaker 1: Get it through uber eats, it's fourteen dollars and seventy
Speaker 1: eight cents on the menu. By the way, this doesn't
Speaker 1: include the extra fees on the menu at Postmates fourteen
Speaker 1: seventy eight, door Dash fourteen seventy eight, grub Hub eleven
Speaker 1: ninety eight. Then you've got your delivery fee anywhere from
Speaker 1: a dollar ninety nine to three one nine. Then you've
Speaker 1: got your service fee. A lot of times they'll say, oh,
Speaker 1: free delivery this, you know on a Tuesday night with
Speaker 1: this code. Well they don't tell you is that you
Speaker 1: still pay a service fee yep, and then you pay
Speaker 1: sales tax, which of course you.
Speaker 2: Pay the party thing on Postmates. I always like, when
Speaker 2: I'm lazy, i might do it, and then I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: it all adds up to the same thing.
Speaker 1: They've created fees so that they can credit you fees.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's like false advertising. They're like, oh, it's
Speaker 2: free this, but yeah. Anyways, so the total.
Speaker 1: Cost for these two subs if you ate them at
Speaker 1: the restaurant thirteen dollars twenty one cents, or I guess
Speaker 1: if you got them at the restaurant, if you pick
Speaker 1: them up. Total costs and Uber each twenty five dollars,
Speaker 1: Postmates twenty two dollars, Door Dash nineteen dollars, grub Hub
Speaker 1: sixteen dollars. Markups range from twenty five percent to ninety
Speaker 1: one percent. Now here's the thing. When you're ordering Postmates
Speaker 1: for twenty one fifty two for two subs, for someone
Speaker 1: to bring it to your house seems pretty reasonable. You're
Speaker 1: not really thinking about the fact that it's thirteen bucks
Speaker 1: if you went and drove there yourself, because all this
Speaker 1: convenience of this person bringing it to your home. But
Speaker 1: that's still a markup of sixty three percent.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: A couple other things about this is that Ubers service
Speaker 1: charges were the most unpredictable. It seemed like grub Hub
Speaker 1: was kind of the cheapest out of these when it
Speaker 1: comes to the markup. And the bottom line is that
Speaker 1: there's not really much you can do about this. If
Speaker 1: you like these delivery apps, you are paying a premium.
Speaker 1: And what I always say, and I've used them, don't
Speaker 1: like I'm not preaching here, but it's almost like there
Speaker 1: are nights when I'm sitting there so ready to order
Speaker 1: one of these apps, one of these food apps, and
Speaker 1: I'm just like, you know what, let me just go
Speaker 1: and just make something myself. Like it's actually cheaper for
Speaker 1: me to go to the grocery store and just buy
Speaker 1: something that I can make that night.
Speaker 2: I was going to Postmates to potle and then I thought, well,
Speaker 2: maybe they have free delivery, like weirdly, and I went
Speaker 2: to their site and they had free delivery and it
Speaker 2: was the same as if I had gone in store.
Speaker 2: So I use their free delivery service.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a lot of these companies right now
Speaker 1: are experimenting with using Postmates and grub Hub and all
Speaker 1: these other things. Yeah, but then they're sort of when
Speaker 1: they get their own thing in place, they're using their
Speaker 1: own delivery, right, So it's we're in a middle time.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Yeah, I thought, look up the New York
Speaker 1: Times article. It's very fascinating. It's kind of eye opening.
Speaker 1: And by the way, my go to simplest thing ever
Speaker 1: is just a protein like a salmon or a chicken
Speaker 1: or a steak. Buy one of those, and then you
Speaker 1: get some rice, and then you buy some veggies. My
Speaker 1: go to is just broccoli and bell pepper.
Speaker 2: Are you saying just to like make your own dinner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you make your own bowl and then you put
Speaker 1: some of that, you put some of that. Karaoke stuff
Speaker 1: on it. I mean it's so easy. I made them
Speaker 1: last night, and it's I mean, a whole family of
Speaker 1: four could eat for like five bucks or ten dollars
Speaker 1: instead of forty dollars.
Speaker 2: You know, it's crazy.
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