Speaker 1: Amazon cuts sixteen thousand jobs and closes all of its
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Speaker 1: hit contact guests this week. Okay, we had a little
Speaker 1: up last week with our guest Caleb Dennison, but he
Speaker 1: is back. He is going to explain what to look
Speaker 1: for in a good TV for the Super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: we've got business insiders Julia Pugachevski. She's gonna explain why
Speaker 1: bricking your phone is the new dry January. What does
Speaker 1: that mean? We will find out. Well, I hope you're
Speaker 1: having a fantastic day. We got some big news from
Speaker 1: Amazon this week. Amazon is making some big changes. The
Speaker 1: company is cutting sixteen thousand corporate jobs and shutting down
Speaker 1: all of their Amazon Fresh grocery stores and all of
Speaker 1: their Amazon Go convenience stores. They only had a handful
Speaker 1: of those, but the Amazon Fresh grocery stores, I think
Speaker 1: they had several dozen of those. They closed them all
Speaker 1: over in Europe a couple months ago, and the writing
Speaker 1: was on the wall. Let's start with the job cuts.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: You might be thinking, Rich, this has got to be AI.
Speaker 1: It's always AI right now. Amazon didn't say that directly
Speaker 1: in its letter to employees, but you know, they said
Speaker 1: things like the company needs to strengthen the organization by
Speaker 1: reducing layers, increasing ownership, and removing bureaucracy. Now that happens
Speaker 1: over time. Amazon. Don't forget many years ago at this
Speaker 1: point was a startup, very nimble. They move fast. Now
Speaker 1: they are a huge company. And remember they cut about
Speaker 1: fourteen thousand jobs last October. Context, of course matters here.
Speaker 1: Amazon employees about one point five million people worldwide. Now,
Speaker 1: not all of those people are full time. Obviously, that
Speaker 1: reaches into the you know, the daily hires and things
Speaker 1: like that, but even a cut this big amounts to
Speaker 1: about two percent of its total workforce. Now here's a
Speaker 1: line from the employee letter that stood out to me.
Speaker 1: Every team will continue to evaluate ownership, speed, and capacity
Speaker 1: to invent for customers in a world that's changing faster
Speaker 1: than ever. Now there's your allusion to AI, for sure,
Speaker 1: but that's Amazon in a nutshell. This is a company
Speaker 1: that for years has not been afraid to invent and
Speaker 1: reinvent themselves, and importantly, they're not afraid to move on
Speaker 1: when something does not work. Now, I've been covering Amazon
Speaker 1: and been a customer of Amazon since day one. I
Speaker 1: could remember the early things I ordered from them, and
Speaker 1: I was just in awe of how, you know, I
Speaker 1: grew up with things that you would get delivered. But
Speaker 1: remember it was six to eight weeks. You would literally
Speaker 1: mail in a form with your payment information, and six
Speaker 1: to eight weeks later, after you forgot about ordering that item,
Speaker 1: it would show up on your doorstep. Now, yes, there
Speaker 1: were things where you can call in and you know,
Speaker 1: get to an operator in this and that, But when
Speaker 1: Amazon came out. Not only did they have the website
Speaker 1: with books, but they also had pretty fast delivery. I
Speaker 1: remember joining Amazon Prime back in two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: I was a TV news reporter in Shreveport, Louisiana, and
Speaker 1: the pitch was pretty simple, unlimited two day shipping. I
Speaker 1: didn't think that could ever work, and I told my wife,
Speaker 1: has said a girlfriend back then, I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm going to sign up for this thing. I think
Speaker 1: it was about eighty dollars a year. They're gonna give
Speaker 1: us unlimited two day shipping. And by the way, back
Speaker 1: in the day, you had to pay for shipping, and
Speaker 1: this was all completely free and included. Now I've been
Speaker 1: a member ever since. The price has gone up since then, obviously,
Speaker 1: but they've gotten really good at shipping. Just this week,
Speaker 1: my kid saw a yo yo that his friend had
Speaker 1: at school. He wanted it, and he ordered it on
Speaker 1: Amazon and it was delivered before he woke up in
Speaker 1: the morning. How wild is that now? I think, on
Speaker 1: the flip side, instant gratification for kids these days, you know,
Speaker 1: that's a little that's a whole another topic. But other
Speaker 1: things that Amazon has done has been kind of complicated.
Speaker 1: I was at the launch of the Amazon Fresh stores
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles back in twenty twenty and later the
Speaker 1: Amazon Ghost stores, and I will be honest, from the
Speaker 1: moment I walked into both, I said to myself, I
Speaker 1: don't think this will last. Not because the idea was bad,
Speaker 1: but because grocery is a brutal business, cutthroat, especially in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, where we saw several companies come in and
Speaker 1: go fresh and easy haggins. I think that's how you
Speaker 1: say it. They were from like the Pacific Northwest. They
Speaker 1: were all hype. They literally were in town for maybe
Speaker 1: six months. So Amazon stores tried something new. They had
Speaker 1: a complex system called just Walk Out with these cameras
Speaker 1: in the ceiling. They had sensors everywhere, automatic receipts when
Speaker 1: you walked out. When it worked, it felt pretty cool,
Speaker 1: but the receipts were slow. People had all kinds of
Speaker 1: issues with things they didn't purchase. They had to get
Speaker 1: a refund. Amazon eventually ditched that tech in its own stores,
Speaker 1: but you can still find it in places like airports
Speaker 1: and stadiums. Then there was the dash cart. This was
Speaker 1: a smart shopping cart that tracked items and wager produce automatically,
Speaker 1: but it turned out most people just wanted a cashier,
Speaker 1: and Amazon caved and eventually added self checkout too. So
Speaker 1: now these stores are closing quickly. If you have one
Speaker 1: in your neighborhood, it might be gone by the end
Speaker 1: of the weekend, except in California, where we have stricter
Speaker 1: labor laws, and the stores will close in mid March.
Speaker 1: Now some locations, if you're lucky, are going to become
Speaker 1: a Whole Foods, which Amazon bought, remember, and they're doubling
Speaker 1: down on that brand. That's a tried and true product.
Speaker 1: And if you use Amazon Fresh for delivery, that's not
Speaker 1: going anywhere. But all these closures got me to thinking
Speaker 1: about how many Amazon products I've covered over the years
Speaker 1: that were eventually canceled. The firefhone. This had a three
Speaker 1: D screen but no Google apps. It was dead on arrival.
Speaker 1: I think it lasted maybe six months. The dash wand
Speaker 1: this was a barcode scanner for your house. You would
Speaker 1: scan items that you need to replaced and they would
Speaker 1: order them. That was replaced by the echo speakers. They
Speaker 1: had these things called dash buttons. These you would put
Speaker 1: by your items like detergent or dog food. You would
Speaker 1: press them when you're low and it would reorder that item.
Speaker 1: Those are gone Amazon Style. This was a high tech
Speaker 1: clothing store I went to in Glendale, California. They had
Speaker 1: a Magic closet. It was basically a high tech fitting room.
Speaker 1: You choose things on a screen that you wanted, and
Speaker 1: an associate would slip them into this back door of
Speaker 1: the fitting room, and then you'd open the front door
Speaker 1: and there was the clothes. Voila. That didn't last. Amazon Books,
Speaker 1: Amazon four star, Amazon Echo Glow. That was a toy
Speaker 1: for kids that didn't last. Amazon Halo. This was a
Speaker 1: wristband that tracked your emotions. That didn't last, and now
Speaker 1: Amazon won. This is their Palm scanner that's also being
Speaker 1: phased out due to low use. This isn't a way
Speaker 1: that you can pay using your palm, But let's be honest,
Speaker 1: who wants to hand over your Palm biometrics when Tap
Speaker 1: to pay is already in your pocket. The list goes on,
Speaker 1: but here's the bottom line. Amazon is willing to try
Speaker 1: big ideas, and they're just as willing to walk away
Speaker 1: from them. Now, let's talk about this stuff that's worked
Speaker 1: with Amazon, The Kindle, Blockbuster, Echo Alexa, fire TV, self publishing,
Speaker 1: shipping that keeps getting faster, and now they're doing what's next, robotics, healthcare,
Speaker 1: satellite internet, AI, drone delivery. Remember, some of the biggest
Speaker 1: retail giants in history refuse to adapt. They stuck with
Speaker 1: what they thought worked until it didn't. And now they're
Speaker 1: gone Sears, Circuit City, Toys, r US Radio, Shack, Borders, Blockbuster, BlackBerry.
Speaker 1: They all ignored what was going to happen in the future,
Speaker 1: and they're all gone Amazon, for better or worse. And
Speaker 1: throughout all these job cuts, they keep evolving. Now, if
Speaker 1: you excuse me, I need to go place in order,
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Speaker 1: Sony and TCL deal. We're gonna talk about bricking your smartphone. Yes,
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Speaker 1: uh Midge in Atlanta, Georgia. Midge Jerome with Rich rich.
Speaker 5: It's good to talk to you because I've emailed you
Speaker 5: a bunch of times.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, well, I feel like I recognize the name.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I want to change my Apple email address.
Speaker 5: It's hotmail right now. But when I try to and
Speaker 5: something in my a document, you know, in my notes
Speaker 5: or that new preview thing, sure and try to send it.
Speaker 5: It wants to send to Hotmail, but my main the
Speaker 5: one I don't want to use that anymore because I
Speaker 5: don't use that hotmail anymore. So the one I want
Speaker 5: to change it to is Gmail. I'll try to change it,
Speaker 5: and it says, well, this Gmail accounts already in use. Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: because it's mine, but it won't send to Gmail. You
Speaker 5: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure it out. Okay, So you you
Speaker 1: have an Apple account and your Apple So when you
Speaker 1: go on your settings on your iPhone, yeah, and you
Speaker 1: tap at the top where it says your name, Apple
Speaker 1: account and then it says personal information or actually just
Speaker 1: right on that screen it says Apple account and it
Speaker 1: says your name, and then does it say at hotmail
Speaker 1: dot com at the top?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, So and then you went to the website to
Speaker 1: try to change that. Where did you go to change this?
Speaker 5: Oh? Under, so you can go to where on that page?
Speaker 1: Okay, So you can go to account dot Apple dot
Speaker 1: com on the website. Maybe try it on the website. Now,
Speaker 1: do you think you ever signed up for an Apple
Speaker 1: account using this Gmail? You might have done that.
Speaker 5: Where would I've done that?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. I'm just saying over the years,
Speaker 1: because like you know, I've got a couple of Apple
Speaker 1: accounts over the years.
Speaker 5: But I don't think so okay, the phone forever and
Speaker 5: the same thing forever.
Speaker 1: Okay. So if you haven't and it's saying in use,
Speaker 1: I would try changing it on the website. Go to
Speaker 1: account dot Apple dot com, and you sign in, and
Speaker 1: you go to sign in and security. Okay. I'm doing
Speaker 1: this on my phone on the web as I look, okay,
Speaker 1: here sign in security, and then it says to go
Speaker 1: to email and phone numbers. Okay, uh email, Okay, why
Speaker 1: don't you just do this? Why don't you just add
Speaker 1: the email address?
Speaker 3: That's what I did.
Speaker 5: I tried to add it. Oh my phone, you know
Speaker 5: where it so sign and security. I went there, yep,
Speaker 5: and down at the bottom that says add email and
Speaker 5: phone number.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And I tried to add that email and it won't.
Speaker 5: It's already in use.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's saying it's already in use. Okay, So that
Speaker 1: email address must be somehow associated with a with an
Speaker 1: Apple account, So I would I I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to get in touch with Apple. And and there's
Speaker 1: two things you could do here. First off, you can
Speaker 1: go to the sign in page on you can go
Speaker 1: to the Apple sign in page. Okay, so let's just
Speaker 1: go to iCloud dot com and then you can go
Speaker 1: let's see here sign in and I do this from
Speaker 1: a web browser, and then type in that Gmail address
Speaker 1: and then uh, after you do that, say forgot password.
Speaker 1: So actually, let's go to a Let's go to Apple
Speaker 1: forgot password. Let me see what that website is. So
Speaker 1: there you go. You go to okay, it's I forgot
Speaker 1: dot Apple dot com. I forgot dot Apple dot com.
Speaker 1: What a great website. And then you tap you sign
Speaker 1: in with that email address and tap reset password. And
Speaker 1: then once you do that, I think you're going to
Speaker 1: get an email to that Gmail account and it will
Speaker 1: give you the information on how to reset. That's that's
Speaker 1: my guess. Now it could be that someone else is
Speaker 1: using that Gmail account, but I don't think so because
Speaker 1: they don't have access to it. So those are the
Speaker 1: things that I would do to try to regain access
Speaker 1: to that. And then once you have if you have
Speaker 1: two email addresses and two different accounts, there is a
Speaker 1: way to merge your Apple accounts and I will link
Speaker 1: this up on the website, all these things that I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, there is a way to Apple just introduce
Speaker 1: this merge Apple accounts. They have a special page where
Speaker 1: you can basically migrate your old account to your new account,
Speaker 1: and so once you have control over both of these accounts,
Speaker 1: you can then do the merging. But that's the only
Speaker 1: I mean, the only thing I can think of is
Speaker 1: if it's given you that that message that says, hey,
Speaker 1: this is already in use, then you know, somehow you
Speaker 1: may have signed up for this over the years without
Speaker 1: realizing it, and that's what's happening now. The other thing
Speaker 1: you could do, you said you were scanning stuff in
Speaker 1: the scanning app in preview, and you're sharing it, you know,
Speaker 1: to yourself. You could just I'm just testing this right now.
Speaker 1: If you scan something in the app and you want
Speaker 1: to share it out to a different email address, just
Speaker 1: go ahead and tap the document, tap the share, and
Speaker 1: then go ahead and send it via your email And
Speaker 1: you can put in any email address you want in there.
Speaker 1: So that's another way of just if you want to
Speaker 1: send stuff to yourself. But I think Midge, you got
Speaker 1: to you gotta get some of these things kind of
Speaker 1: cleaned up and figure out why this is saying that.
Speaker 1: So I'll link up all those pages that I mentioned
Speaker 1: on the website. Rich on tech dot TV, thanks for
Speaker 1: the call and thanks for the emails over the years.
Speaker 1: Let's go to al in Inglewood. Al You're on with Rich.
Speaker 2: Hey, Rich, how are you doing? So?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great? What's going on?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: I have an Apple phone, it's a tweil okay, and
Speaker 3: h and I keep getting some messages that say, do
Speaker 3: I want to my my account or my thing is full?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: And I've clicked on it and they've that they want
Speaker 3: to send me to another thing to say clear your
Speaker 3: email or clear your all the things you saved. And
Speaker 3: I do have an Apple account in the in the.
Speaker 6: Cloud okay that I tell you five nine a month
Speaker 6: for okay?
Speaker 3: And so I just want to know if I click
Speaker 3: on that, will that erase everything? Will to send it
Speaker 3: to the cloud?
Speaker 1: Okay. Well, a couple of things. Number one, you need
Speaker 1: to make sure that these messages you're getting are legitimate.
Speaker 1: That's number one. So if they're if they're popping up
Speaker 1: when you are on Safari and or on Chrome, uh,
Speaker 1: those are usually not legitimate. And so I would be
Speaker 1: very careful, and it sounds like what you want to
Speaker 1: do is delete your history, your cash, and your cookies
Speaker 1: on Safari and that will get rid of any lingering
Speaker 1: websites that are sending you these notifications or pop ups.
Speaker 1: So that's number one, and I'll put the instructions on
Speaker 1: how to do that. Yeah, So you go into your
Speaker 1: Safari settings. Then you go into apps. So you go
Speaker 1: into Settings and then apps and then Safari and you
Speaker 1: scroll all the way downwards. Says clear history and website data.
Speaker 1: I would do that first and see if these clear up,
Speaker 1: because these sound like they're a scam if you ask.
Speaker 3: Me, that's what I'm thinking too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Here, now that's number one. So and then i'd
Speaker 1: restart your phone. I would also delete any apps you
Speaker 1: no longer need or use and make sure all your
Speaker 1: apps are updated. After that, I'd go into your iCloud.
Speaker 1: This is under settings, and you go into you tap
Speaker 1: iCloud up at the top, and then there's a thing
Speaker 1: an option that says storage. And right now I can
Speaker 1: tell you I've got one point four of two terabytes used,
Speaker 1: and then it'll tell you how much you're actually using
Speaker 1: of your legitimate storage Now, if you're truly almost towards
Speaker 1: the end of your storage, you can tap into your
Speaker 1: storage and it will give you some options on how
Speaker 1: to clear it out and clean it up. But I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, al, I think that what you're seeing are
Speaker 1: bogus and I've seen them go around they kind of scan.
Speaker 1: Is it animated when you see this message as it
Speaker 1: say like hey, checking your cloud all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: No, it's not animated.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well I would I would clear the history and
Speaker 1: the cash first, and then i'd look into your storage
Speaker 1: and actually see if you're running up close. If you are,
Speaker 1: I would turn on the feature to optimize your photos
Speaker 1: in the cloud. That's the number one thing to do.
Speaker 1: Or maybe delete a few big videos. This is rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple eight
Speaker 1: Rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Super Bowl is coming up, I know, very exciting for
Speaker 1: a lot of people. TVs that is the time when
Speaker 1: people love to upgrade. The sales are a plenty. And
Speaker 1: here to talk about all of that is Caleb Dennison.
Speaker 1: He reviews TVs at his website on YouTube, Caleb rated Caleb,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: So let's get right into it because I know people
Speaker 1: love this information that you share. You've been reviewing this
Speaker 1: stuff for a long time. But first off, before we
Speaker 1: get into your picks, I want to know what your
Speaker 1: take is on this Sony TCL thing. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a huge shift in the industry.
Speaker 7: It certainly feels like that. Right.
Speaker 8: Let's first of all clarify that it hasn't happened yet, right.
Speaker 8: What's happened is called a memorandum of understanding, which, in
Speaker 8: business speak MoU means that there is an intention to
Speaker 8: make this thing happen.
Speaker 7: But for anybody who hasn't heard.
Speaker 8: It looks like TCL would get about fifty one percent
Speaker 8: so controlling interest in a partnership between TCL and Sony,
Speaker 8: wherein basically TCL would make the Sony TVs. Now you
Speaker 8: have to understand, Sony already has other manufacturers actually putting
Speaker 8: its TVs together, right. It designs them, It spects them out,
Speaker 8: It says we want such and such chip in it,
Speaker 8: and so and forth and this panel and whatever, and
Speaker 8: somebody else puts it together for them.
Speaker 7: Now it would be TCL.
Speaker 8: I'm sure that Sony would use a lot of tcl's
Speaker 8: parts that they supplied, because TCL makes everything that goes
Speaker 8: into their TVs. And you know what, I'll be honest
Speaker 8: with you, it makes a whole lot of sense. The
Speaker 8: Japanese TV makers have been struggling to sell in the
Speaker 8: United States for several years now. Ever since the tsunami
Speaker 8: and the economic crash, it's been tough over here. Panasonic disappeared,
Speaker 8: recently came back. Sony has, you know, been struggling as well.
Speaker 8: They make great TVs, they're just not selling enough of them.
Speaker 8: And I think a partnership with TCL could make things
Speaker 8: a lot better for.
Speaker 7: Both of them.
Speaker 1: Okay, and TCL has been on the flip side. They've
Speaker 1: been killing it, and so is High Sense. I mean,
Speaker 1: these other brands that have come into the US. People
Speaker 1: look at them and they say, why wouldn't I get this?
Speaker 1: I mean, the price is right, features are there, and
Speaker 1: so to have that Sony Bravia name, and you know,
Speaker 1: they're bringing some of their ip to the table of
Speaker 1: how they you know, their secret sauce of the screen
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. I think, you know, people will
Speaker 1: probably be impressed with what they're getting for the price
Speaker 1: at this point.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think TCL is going to help Sony make
Speaker 8: their TVs less expensive and get them distributed less expensive.
Speaker 8: And I think that TCL is going to benefit by
Speaker 8: getting a little bit of the access to Sony's secret sauce,
Speaker 8: like you said, the processing that makes their TVs what
Speaker 8: they are.
Speaker 1: So let's talk CES real quick. What impressed you at
Speaker 1: CS in Las Vegas? Any any big trend you saw
Speaker 1: with TVs.
Speaker 8: Everybody's talking about RGB mini led back lighting. We also
Speaker 8: heard about a super quantum dot or super QD or
Speaker 8: super q let if you want. Basically really ramping up
Speaker 8: the color and the brightness across all of these televisions.
Speaker 8: That was the big improvement. Note that came out as
Speaker 8: cees for me off of the outside of the SPECS
Speaker 8: off paper. Just looking at these TVs, they look so
Speaker 8: so good. And again we're gonna bring up TCL a
Speaker 8: lot today, so just get used to it. They have
Speaker 8: this new SQD or super quantum dot TV that is
Speaker 8: legitimately just flabbergasting to look at. I've got one here
Speaker 8: right now, so I've been able to check it out
Speaker 8: in my own space and mess with the settings myself.
Speaker 8: It's not a controlled demo, and it's still amazing and
Speaker 8: and I mean that's some of the highest praise I
Speaker 8: can give it.
Speaker 1: It's not an ol D, but when I saw it
Speaker 1: side by side an OLED, it seemed almost brighter. And
Speaker 1: just as you know, the whole thing with OLED is
Speaker 1: that the black can be black right like it's like
Speaker 1: completely like the light is like off. I'm not a
Speaker 1: TV expert, but that's like kind of what I understand.
Speaker 1: And that's why people like OLED is always like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, OLED is the best, whereas like a standard panel,
Speaker 1: there's always light in the back of it, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly. Contrast is the easiest thing for us to
Speaker 8: get into. Like our eyes love contrast, and OLED has
Speaker 8: the best contrast there is. The thing is OLED's they
Speaker 8: get very bright, but they don't get as bright as
Speaker 8: these q LED TVs. And and that's the great thing
Speaker 8: about this, this new one from TCL and more TVs
Speaker 8: that we'll see from them down the road. They're getting
Speaker 8: closer and closer to old in terms of the blacks
Speaker 8: and the contrast, to the point where most people are
Speaker 8: gonna want to save money and get a bigger screen
Speaker 8: and still get that amazing black level in contrast.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what features should people be looking for in
Speaker 1: a good set in twenty twenty six?
Speaker 8: Honestly, right now, I think searching for a TV that
Speaker 8: says many led on it is a great indicator of
Speaker 8: good quality. Right It's like the cheat code used to
Speaker 8: be you wanted to find one hundred and twenty hertz TV.
Speaker 8: Well now those are easy to find, and even some
Speaker 8: sixty hurts TVs are pretty decent.
Speaker 7: Now. The real magic is.
Speaker 8: In the backlighting, and if it has mini led backlighting,
Speaker 8: there's a good chance that it's going to be doing
Speaker 8: a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, what about I mean people always put all
Speaker 1: the stock on like brightness? Is that still like don't they?
Speaker 1: Does it go? I know, do they still do that?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 1: Does people still shop by brightness?
Speaker 7: Or no? Less than they used to?
Speaker 8: Less than they used to. TVs across the board have
Speaker 8: gotten so bright that glare and reflections are less and
Speaker 8: less an issue. Now I would say that brightness is
Speaker 8: still important where HDR is concerned. In order to get
Speaker 8: really good quality HDR, I feel like you need to
Speaker 8: have a TV that's doing at least seven hundred or
Speaker 8: eight hundred nits, And if you can find a TV
Speaker 8: manufacturer that claims how much brightness their TV has, you
Speaker 8: could use that number.
Speaker 7: Seven or eight hundred is a great guy to at
Speaker 7: least that.
Speaker 8: Otherwise, HDR doesn't really look like a HDR and that
Speaker 8: means something now because there's so much HDR programming out there.
Speaker 8: The super Bowl is going to be in HDR whether
Speaker 8: you get it you know, via cable or satellite or
Speaker 8: over the air with an antenna. But then of course
Speaker 8: you've got Netflix and Amazon and HBO and Disney, all
Speaker 8: of them have tons and tons of HDR content. So yeah,
Speaker 8: brightness is important, but more for getting the best picture quality,
Speaker 8: not for just you know, blasting you out of your
Speaker 8: seat and your home.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, so that's interesting. This is going to be
Speaker 1: the first time the Super Bowl is in four K
Speaker 1: eighth Wait, that's not it is.
Speaker 7: It'll be the first time it's in four K or HDR.
Speaker 8: It was done in Adobe Vision as a matter of
Speaker 8: fact last year, but that it's going to be deployed
Speaker 8: to so many different depending on how you get it right,
Speaker 8: whether you're watching it on Peacock or you're I think
Speaker 8: is it on NBC this year?
Speaker 1: I'm confused? Hold on, I thought the Super Bowl is
Speaker 1: on Fox last year because they made a big deal
Speaker 1: with two B and now this year it's on NBC
Speaker 1: with Peacock.
Speaker 8: Did I skip a year? I thought it was on
Speaker 8: Peacock last year.
Speaker 1: Okay, may I think it was on to me last
Speaker 1: year because I was I was like so impressed that
Speaker 1: they put it on free. But maybe I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so it's on NBC this year on Peacock
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, and wow, four K HDR that's wild.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: YouTube TV will have it in HDR. Now understand, they
Speaker 8: take it. They recorded at ten ADP and they professionally
Speaker 8: upscale it to four K. But your TV is still
Speaker 8: getting a great four K signal. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 8: the Super Bowl in HDR is just next level. When
Speaker 8: you see the lights gleaming off of their helmets and
Speaker 8: the depth of the green on the field, it's just undeniable.
Speaker 7: It looks so good.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well now I'm excited. Okay, so let's get to
Speaker 1: some of your top picks. I always love getting like
Speaker 1: actual models that you would recommend. What's your let's start
Speaker 1: with the budget pick under five hundred bucks.
Speaker 7: Under five hundred bucks.
Speaker 8: Okay, Look, I think everybody wants to get at least
Speaker 8: a sixty five inch TV now or bigger.
Speaker 7: That's what the numbers say.
Speaker 8: So I'm gonna say, if you're getting a sixty five
Speaker 8: or larger under five hundred dollars, the TV to get
Speaker 8: is the TCLQM five A. There's nothing else I would
Speaker 8: recommend for a sixty five inch at that price level. Now,
Speaker 8: if you were going to get something smaller, like at
Speaker 8: fifty five, you could step up to the QM six
Speaker 8: K maybe, but QM five K is your model for
Speaker 8: a sixty five inch TV at Okay.
Speaker 1: What about the mid range one thousand dollars price point?
Speaker 1: That seems pretty reasonable for a good TV.
Speaker 8: Right, So I would say, well, if you wanted to
Speaker 8: get an eighty five inch at one thousand dollars, that's
Speaker 8: a great blend of size and.
Speaker 7: Price.
Speaker 8: Is the TCL QM six K is right there now
Speaker 8: at one thousand dollars. You could get higher quality TV
Speaker 8: at sixty five inches for one thousand dollars, But if
Speaker 8: you want that blend of price and size, the QM
Speaker 8: six K again from TCL, is a really good one. Also,
Speaker 8: look at the High Sense U six. Both of those
Speaker 8: are going to be great. About one thousand dollars for
Speaker 8: an eighty five incher, which I think satisfies the need
Speaker 8: for the big TV at the Super Bowl, and great
Speaker 8: HDR picture.
Speaker 1: I think two years or three years ago and you
Speaker 1: were on you mentioned High Sense for the first time,
Speaker 1: and I was like, all right, and I looked at
Speaker 1: it and I bought it, and everyone who comes to
Speaker 1: my house loves it. They're like, what what are you
Speaker 1: doing with your TV? I'm like, nothing, It just looks
Speaker 1: as good right out of the box.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 8: I mean, this is a full circle to back to
Speaker 8: what we were talking about earlier. There was a time
Speaker 8: when Samsung and LG were the new kids on the
Speaker 8: block and we're like, who are these guys?
Speaker 7: Right? And now they're dominant in the TV space.
Speaker 8: Well, DCL and High Sense have been up in comers
Speaker 8: for a few years now, and I feel like they've arrived.
Speaker 7: They're here, they're putting out tier one stuff.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's do the splurge.
Speaker 7: I mean splurge.
Speaker 8: Like, I'll just tell you my favorite TV is the
Speaker 8: Sony Bravia eight Mark two. I know it's an annoying name,
Speaker 8: Bravia eight Mark two, but that is Sony's very best
Speaker 8: o led TV. It only goes up to seventy seven inches,
Speaker 8: which is still a big TV. But the picture is
Speaker 8: absolutely glorious and there's just nothing better on the market
Speaker 8: right now in my opinion.
Speaker 1: And Okay, you said splurge. I mean I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the price. It's still only two thousand dollars. I mean
Speaker 1: only I get it. That's a lot. But I was
Speaker 1: thinking like eight thousand dollars for this TVR Oh.
Speaker 8: Well, sure, like, I mean, if you wanted to spend
Speaker 8: that kind of money. The eighty five inch tcl X
Speaker 8: eleven L that's the super quantum dot ridiculous TV that
Speaker 8: I right behind me that we were talking about earlier.
Speaker 8: That's ten thousand dollars for a ninety eight inch or
Speaker 8: you can get it for eight thousand dollars at the
Speaker 8: eighty five inch level. That is a huge splurge. It
Speaker 8: will absolutely knock your freaking socks off.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 8: Really, it's brand new technology. It just came out. We've
Speaker 8: never seen a new TV come out in January before.
Speaker 8: DCL is kind of the first to do that, so
Speaker 8: that that is another splurge option. But I mean my
Speaker 8: personal favorite TV on the market right now still is
Speaker 8: the Sony Broby eight Mark two old.
Speaker 1: All right, awesome, We're gonna leave it there, Caleb Dennison,
Speaker 1: Can you tell folks how to find you online? What
Speaker 1: should they do?
Speaker 7: Yep?
Speaker 8: Just sir, search klibrated on YouTube c A L E
Speaker 8: b r at E.
Speaker 7: Do you just like it sounds? And you can also
Speaker 7: find me on substack.
Speaker 1: All right? Oh Substack, I love it. I love Substack.
Speaker 1: You know I got my newsletter there. Uh now I
Speaker 1: just subscribe to yours.
Speaker 7: All right, I'm subscribed to yours, man.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Caleb eighty to eight rich one on one
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll do more calls and Samsung's Trifold phone
Speaker 1: is officially on sale. Tell you how much? Coming up next,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology Triple eight rich one O
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one the website. Rich on tech dot TV took
Speaker 1: the break to uh write down everything that Caleb just
Speaker 1: told us. So if you're looking for those TV picks,
Speaker 1: they are all on the website. Rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 1: This is episode one fifty nine. That's right, this is
Speaker 1: your number four of this show. If you can believe it,
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Samsung's Galaxy Z trifold is officially on sale. This is
Speaker 1: the phone that folds twice. It opens up into a
Speaker 1: massive ten inch screen, the largest display ever on a
Speaker 1: Galaxy phone. And it's got a two hundred megapixel camera,
Speaker 1: custom Snapdragon chip and the biggest battery Samsung is put
Speaker 1: into its foldable. It's available now at Samsung Experience stores
Speaker 1: and online. You're ready for the price tag if you're
Speaker 1: doing anything that requires like your brain, just stop. Twenty
Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars for a smartphone with a five hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve gigs of storage, one color, and apparently it's
Speaker 1: already sold out, like apparently people already. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many they made of this phone. But now remember
Speaker 1: if you're into Samsung devices, the new one is coming
Speaker 1: out next month, So in February at least, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be unveiled next month. That's the rumor. We don't know
Speaker 1: for sure. Samsung has not said specifically. I think they're
Speaker 1: getting through the publicity on the trifold. Once that WANs
Speaker 1: then they'll go to the new phone. But there it is.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to David in Claremont, California. David,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich Rich Good afternoon.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 10: I have a question that I'm just struggling with. Tell
Speaker 10: them how to fix it, and I figured if anyone
Speaker 10: knows how to do it.
Speaker 6: It's going to be you.
Speaker 1: Okay, well we'll say so.
Speaker 10: I have this email had for a long time and
Speaker 10: it says that it's full, and a lot of it
Speaker 10: was my pictures. I think it asked me to do
Speaker 10: a takeout through Gmail, and I did, but it still
Speaker 10: shows that it's completely full. I deleted everything from my
Speaker 10: trash to my spams. I mean, everything's gone. I have
Speaker 10: nothing in that Gmail account, but it still reflects as
Speaker 10: it's ninety seven percent full.
Speaker 1: Okay. I think what's happening is that you might not
Speaker 1: have stuff in Gmail, but you might have stuff in
Speaker 1: other areas of Google. So have you been to the
Speaker 1: website one dot Google dot com.
Speaker 10: I'm not sure I have.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you know if you went there, because I
Speaker 1: visited frequently to keep tabs on my storage. But this
Speaker 1: is the best way to see what's going on with
Speaker 1: this account. So go ahead and go to one dot
Speaker 1: Google dot com and you'll see right on the home
Speaker 1: screen if you're paying for Google Storage, it'll tell you, like,
Speaker 1: right now, I can see I've got seventy six percent
Speaker 1: used of my storage, and then I've got it says
Speaker 1: how many devices I've got on there, and then it
Speaker 1: says clean up space. I've got seven hundred and nineteen
Speaker 1: gigabytes that I can clean up. So that's the number
Speaker 1: one place you want to go, because I have a
Speaker 1: feeling that you may have your storage cleaned up on Gmail.
Speaker 1: But if you click into the area where it says storage,
Speaker 1: you will see it breaks it down by service. So
Speaker 1: I'm using four terabytes of five terabytes, and in Google Drive,
Speaker 1: I've got about three hundred gigabytes. In Gmail, I've got
Speaker 1: forty five gigabytes. How do I have forty five gigabytes
Speaker 1: of emails?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 1: Literally, what is an email? Is like one killobyte? Like,
Speaker 1: how do I have forty five gigabytes? It's the attachments? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I go through the attachments and it's like there's
Speaker 1: still not that many. You can only send a twenty
Speaker 1: five megabyte attachment. I think this is just twenty years
Speaker 1: of email that's just like somehow built up.
Speaker 7: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: I don't want to delete any of it though. Google Photos,
Speaker 1: I've got three terabytes, so that's where a lot of
Speaker 1: it is. Family storage. My kids are using up three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty gigabytes. So David, that's your homework assignment.
Speaker 1: You got to go in there and see. Because storage.
Speaker 1: If you're using Gmail, your storage is actually shared across
Speaker 1: all these different Google properties, Google Photos, Google Drive, Recorder, Gmail,
Speaker 1: and so anything that you have stored in Google Photos,
Speaker 1: even if you did a takeout, it's still in there.
Speaker 1: A Google takeout does not get rid of the files.
Speaker 1: It just gives you a copy of them to download.
Speaker 1: So what you'd have to do is, if you want
Speaker 1: to really clear this up, you'd probably be best to
Speaker 1: either tap one of these things. It'll just say clean
Speaker 1: up space, and it gives you suggested ways to do that.
Speaker 1: Large photos and vide large drive files. Emails with large attachments,
Speaker 1: so bobo to your question or your comment. I've got
Speaker 1: seven gigabytes of emails with large attachments, which is not
Speaker 1: that much I mean over twenty years, and then I've
Speaker 1: got files in trash two and forty nine megabytes, So
Speaker 1: I guess that's another big question of is does the
Speaker 1: files in your trash take up the space on Google?
Speaker 1: And it looks like I'm guessing the answer might be yes,
Speaker 1: because why would it say cleanup suggested items and show
Speaker 1: me my trash if that wasn't actively taking up storage.
Speaker 1: So I can try emptying my trash, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to do that right now because I want to
Speaker 1: see But those are the places to look, so go
Speaker 1: into again. It's one. If you've got Google storage and
Speaker 1: you're struggling with your phone saying you're out of storage,
Speaker 1: go to one dot Google dot com and just explore
Speaker 1: that page. They don't really advertise it that much because
Speaker 1: think about it, why would they want to. The more
Speaker 1: you've got in this storage and the more you don't
Speaker 1: understand it, the more you're paying Google. And what's the
Speaker 1: fastest growth area of Google, Amazon and Apple right now?
Speaker 1: It's called services, and that's cloud storage. That's where they're
Speaker 1: making their money. So I know, for me, I'm paying
Speaker 1: you know already I think twenty five dollars a month.
Speaker 1: But Yeah, before we go to break here, Yahoo is back.
Speaker 1: They've got a new AI search tool. It's called Yahoo Scout.
Speaker 1: You can go to scout dot Yahoo dot com. It's
Speaker 1: an AI answer engine, so instead of just like a
Speaker 1: bunch of those blue links, it's going to give you
Speaker 1: direct answers, kind of like you know, all these other
Speaker 1: AI services we're seeing out there. Yahoo says they are
Speaker 1: bringing thirty years of experience with search plus stuff they
Speaker 1: know about you, plus information from across the web, and
Speaker 1: they're going to roll this out to all of their products.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna start seeing Yahoo Scout in Yahoo Mail,
Speaker 1: Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo's Sports, Yahoo's shopping. I know,
Speaker 1: we discount Yahoo because that's a brand that's kind of
Speaker 1: gone away, but they still run some pretty popular properties
Speaker 1: on the web. So be on the lookout for Yahoo
Speaker 1: Scout or go to the website and you can check
Speaker 1: it out yourself. Rich on Tech dot TV eight eight
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. This
Speaker 1: is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at
Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Phone lines are open,
Speaker 1: you've got the feedback, We've got the website. This is
Speaker 1: episode one five nine, so if you're looking for something
Speaker 1: that I mentioned, it's all on the website. There, don't forget.
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Speaker 1: It is free. We're on all the main podcast services,
Speaker 1: so you can listen to whatever you might not catch
Speaker 1: catch the first time around. There's a new air tag
Speaker 1: this week. Apple launched it without a lot of fanfare,
Speaker 1: but you know, you know, how do you improve on
Speaker 1: a device that's already being used by millions of people
Speaker 1: around the world. It's the best selling item finder. Apple
Speaker 1: announce that, and now there's a new version. It's got
Speaker 1: better range and louder sound. So it's got a new
Speaker 1: ultra wide bandschip, letting you use that precision finding from
Speaker 1: up to fifty percent further away. Now this is a
Speaker 1: little confusing for people because there's two ways you can
Speaker 1: use an AirTag. You can just see the location on
Speaker 1: your phone at any time, no matter where it is
Speaker 1: in the world. But you can also use your phone
Speaker 1: if you have a recent model iPhone, to lead you
Speaker 1: right to the air tag. So if it's in your house,
Speaker 1: you lost your keys. You can turn on this precision
Speaker 1: finding mode and your phone will literally direct you left,
Speaker 1: right forward backwards to the device. Now that range is longer.
Speaker 1: In my testing, I was able to find the old
Speaker 1: one up to a range of about fifty feet away.
Speaker 1: With the new one, I was able to go about
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty feet. But I imagine there's lots of
Speaker 1: different reasons why that might be longer, depending what else.
Speaker 1: The speaker is about fifty percent louder, so it makes
Speaker 1: it easier to hear when something's lost nearby, or if
Speaker 1: it's like under a couch cushion. And for the first time,
Speaker 1: you can use precision finding on newer Apple Watches to
Speaker 1: locate the air tag right from your wrist. So if
Speaker 1: you've got your air tag on your keys, you can
Speaker 1: use your Apple Watch to find where your keys are.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I didn't even know this I
Speaker 1: was setting up the new air tag. You know, you
Speaker 1: can edit that like little pop up screen on the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch when you press the flat button. There's like
Speaker 1: the airplane mode, the Wi Fi, the battery percentage. You
Speaker 1: can edit those tiles if you scroll all the way down.
Speaker 1: And now I've set one as the air tag that
Speaker 1: I'm about to let you hear. Okay, so here's the
Speaker 1: audio on the old air tag. The new one sounds
Speaker 1: slightly different. You're ready, So here's the old one. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna press up play sound. Okay, so you're pretty familiar
Speaker 1: with that sound if you've ever used an air tag.
Speaker 1: That's the old one. Now the new one I'm putting
Speaker 1: in this same length away from the mic. Let's hear
Speaker 1: what that one sounds like. Ready, there we go. So
Speaker 1: it's a higher pitch sound, right, and it's also a
Speaker 1: louder sound as well, so you're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: find things easier. Hopefully, design is the same. They didn't
Speaker 1: change that, which thank you Apple for doing that. They
Speaker 1: could have changed it and made accessory makers a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of new money because you would have to buy
Speaker 1: everything new. No old accessory. Existing accessories will still work
Speaker 1: and you don't need to run out and upgrade your
Speaker 1: air attacks. They still work. You can replace the battery
Speaker 1: when they go dead. You just this is moving forward.
Speaker 1: If you want something that's louder, you want something with
Speaker 1: more range, you want to use your Apple Watch on it,
Speaker 1: now you can with the new one. Same price twenty
Speaker 1: nine dollars for the one pack, ninety nine dollars for
Speaker 1: the four pack, same as before. How do you tell
Speaker 1: the difference? There is one way to tell the difference
Speaker 1: on these. My kids are in studio. Can you tell
Speaker 1: the difference on the back? What's the difference I'm showing Parker,
Speaker 1: Can you tell what's the difference? At first glance, I
Speaker 1: will reveal the letters on the old air tag are
Speaker 1: upper lower case. The letters on the new air tag
Speaker 1: are all in upper case. So there's no visible way
Speaker 1: to tell except for that. So now you know, all right,
Speaker 1: Let's go to Beth in Cyprus, California. Beth on line
Speaker 1: four you're on with.
Speaker 9: Rich Her there. I have a credit freeze with experience,
Speaker 9: and I want to temporarily lift it, and so I
Speaker 9: want to know what your thoughts are the safest method
Speaker 9: to lift it because you can't call and do it anymore,
Speaker 9: just online as I understand it, or the mail. And
Speaker 9: I've had numerous data breaches, so I'm really cautious because
Speaker 9: you have to give a lot of precise information.
Speaker 1: How did you do the freeze?
Speaker 9: I did it? Let's see, I'm kind to think I
Speaker 9: did it by calling.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you called them up. Okay. Interesting. So you
Speaker 1: don't have an Experience online account? No, okay, well that
Speaker 1: is the easiest way to do it. I have one.
Speaker 1: I have my credit frozen on there. Actually, let me
Speaker 1: make sure, because I did unfreeze it recently to get something.
Speaker 1: Let's see. So if I go, now, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: They actually kind of trick you a little bit because
Speaker 1: they try to get you to sign up for this,
Speaker 1: like they're yeah, exactly, and then you have to kind
Speaker 1: of look behind that. Okay, so here it is applying
Speaker 1: for credit unfreeze your credit file. So mine actually is
Speaker 1: frozen right now. So yeah, so if you go online, Beth,
Speaker 1: and I know you're a little concerned about the online stuff,
Speaker 1: they won't. Did you call in now? Yeah, here's the
Speaker 1: reason why I think they won't let you do it
Speaker 1: by calling in, because think about it, there's not too
Speaker 1: much identifying information anymore these days, and someone could easily
Speaker 1: call in and just say I'm Beth, and here's all
Speaker 1: my info. Let's say your data was out there in
Speaker 1: a breach, and then they can unfreeze and then get
Speaker 1: more stuff. That's probably why they're doing it. I would say,
Speaker 1: it's relatively safe to do. To sign up on Experience
Speaker 1: dot com, the number one thing you need to do
Speaker 1: is make sure you're on the right website. Their website
Speaker 1: is Experience dot com. Number one. Don't don't go to
Speaker 1: like a you know, imitation website.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: They are going to ask for your social when you join.
Speaker 1: I mean obviously they need that because you're signing up,
Speaker 1: and so I would make sure that you're on a
Speaker 1: web browser that is current. I would make sure that
Speaker 1: you're on Wi Fi that you trust, or you can
Speaker 1: do this from your smartphone on a cellular connection if
Speaker 1: you really want to be private. But those are the things.
Speaker 1: Then sign up obviously with a strong password, unique password,
Speaker 1: and then I would lock down this account if you can.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they do two factor authentication. Let
Speaker 1: me see here. Yeah they do, okay, so I would
Speaker 1: lock lock down with two factor and I just looked
Speaker 1: at my account. I need to do that actually. So
Speaker 1: those are the things to do. And then once you're
Speaker 1: in there, you can do the freeze right from there
Speaker 1: and it should show that you're frozen. Now here's the
Speaker 1: here's the rub here. I I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: gonna let you sign in because your account is froz
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like you may not be
Speaker 1: able to sign up fresh because your account's frozen, so
Speaker 1: that you may run into a scenario where you try
Speaker 1: to log in and they say, sorry, your account was frozen.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna let you log in. But I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that's the case, because you could do other things
Speaker 1: on this website than just unfreeze your account.
Speaker 9: I see, Yeah, because I just want to do it
Speaker 9: temporarily because I because I want to apply for a
Speaker 9: credit card that's has zero interests. Okay, So that's why
Speaker 9: I wanted to do it temporarily. You know, I definitely
Speaker 9: want to put it back on. But the other two
Speaker 9: credit bureaus, I mean I had it with them and
Speaker 9: that you could just call and they took care of it.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, do you know that the
Speaker 1: credit card you're applying for is using Experience as their credit?
Speaker 1: You know that's the credit they check.
Speaker 9: I know they do, because I totally forgot that I
Speaker 9: had that on when I when I applied for that
Speaker 9: at my bank. Yeah, me too, And they said we
Speaker 9: can't get the information because your credits frozen. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 9: I forgot that I had that on because I had
Speaker 9: that on for I.
Speaker 1: Did the same thing. I applied for the Amazon credit
Speaker 1: card during the holidays when it was they were giving
Speaker 1: like two hundred and fifty dollars cash back or something.
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, fine, I'll do that and
Speaker 1: I'll cancel it right away. And sure enough, as soon
Speaker 1: as I submitted my information, it was like, sorry, you're frozen.
Speaker 1: You can't do anything. I was like, oh, And then
Speaker 1: I never got it because I was like, you know what, Okay,
Speaker 1: this was a sign from the gods. I'll just not
Speaker 1: get this card. But yeah, So the main thing to
Speaker 1: do when you go on there after you sign up,
Speaker 1: if you want to unfreeze it, remember to freeze it again.
Speaker 1: You can. Oh, interesting, it says you can schedule a thaw.
Speaker 1: Let's see what that does. Okay, schedule a thaw before
Speaker 1: you apply. So if you do a thaw, which will
Speaker 1: allow access to your experience credit file, and I guess
Speaker 1: maybe they freeze it again. So in case you forget
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Oh yeah, set a date range. Okay. That's
Speaker 1: so you can set a range if you're applying, like
Speaker 1: you go on a bender and just like apply for
Speaker 1: like ten cards at once. You're not gonna do that,
Speaker 1: right best, No.
Speaker 9: No, I'm just doing the one thing I don't need anymore. Now.
Speaker 9: This is just for to the bank and you know,
Speaker 9: for a major project that.
Speaker 12: I want to do.
Speaker 9: Okay, for payments, that's easier.
Speaker 1: Okay. Well, just just know that if you're good, if
Speaker 1: you go to the if you go on there, just
Speaker 1: and this is for everyone you know that's listening, that's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, may do this. Just remember that they have
Speaker 1: like two products. One is like a paid freeze product
Speaker 1: to the other is the actual free security freeze. And
Speaker 1: if you go to the bottom of their website, that's
Speaker 1: where you can see where it actually says security freeze
Speaker 1: and that's the free one.
Speaker 9: So okay, security freeze. Okay, great, Oh.
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, good luck, Beth, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for calling. In eighty eight rich one
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one, Richard writes in from Connecticut, I keep
Speaker 1: seeing ads for a device called blank Player. I'm not
Speaker 1: even gonna give the name of these things that promises
Speaker 1: unlimited entertainment With those subscriptions are monthly fees have you
Speaker 1: heard of it? And is it actually legit? Yes, it's
Speaker 1: called YouTube. No, I know what you're talking about. You're
Speaker 1: talking about a black box.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: There's tons of them on the market. Many of them
Speaker 1: operate in a gray area at best, illegal at worst.
Speaker 1: I cannot recommend these. I know a lot of people
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Speaker 1: that you should get one because A I work in media,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I respect people that are making
Speaker 1: a living selling their movies and music and things like that.
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Speaker 1: pay for those subscriptions like everyone else. Richard eighty eight
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Speaker 6: Hi, I like to show a lot and your website.
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Speaker 7: That's it.
Speaker 6: Got a question for you. I have Facebook. Been on
Speaker 6: Facebook a long time, and about a week ago I
Speaker 6: kept getting notices You're going to be on professional mode
Speaker 6: on the twenty ninth of the month, which was two
Speaker 6: days ago. And two days ago it says you're now
Speaker 6: in professional mode. To keep your public followers, Facebook is
Speaker 6: simplifying settings. Your main profile can no longer have public followers.
Speaker 6: We've turned on professional mode for your profile so you
Speaker 6: can keep followers.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 6: I tried to find information as what it meant. You
Speaker 6: can click here, but it went on and on and
Speaker 6: I could make no sense of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it's very confusing. So do you have a
Speaker 1: large following.
Speaker 6: I have no idea what that means. I'm looking at
Speaker 6: what it rode up because it says now you're on
Speaker 6: professional and it says now I'm a digital creator.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, are you creating?
Speaker 2: All I do is.
Speaker 6: I post things, you know, like a joke or a
Speaker 6: photograph that I may have taken on you know, comment,
Speaker 6: you know, on entering. That's what I do for a day,
Speaker 6: so you know, my photographs or you know, joke's that
Speaker 6: sort of thing.
Speaker 1: So just typical Facebook creator. No, okay, this.
Speaker 6: Is it said you can turn it off, but I
Speaker 6: don't know what it even means. Although if I look
Speaker 6: at the top of the screen on Facebook, yeah, you know,
Speaker 6: you have the three lines and then you'd have the
Speaker 6: house home page this cefter. But now there's an entry
Speaker 6: on the far right of my photograph which i'd had
Speaker 6: in a circle. And when I click on the circle.
Speaker 6: That's what it says. Polls up for six hundred and
Speaker 6: sixty eight followers, two hundred and thirty seven following a
Speaker 6: digital creator and it goes from there. And I have
Speaker 6: no idea what that means.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure why they turned professional mode. The
Speaker 1: only thing I can think of is because you have
Speaker 1: a combination of friends and followers, they kind of merged
Speaker 1: them all into one place. And I think that's what's happening.
Speaker 1: Is professional mode means that I think that you Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm looking up online because my mindsets professional mode
Speaker 1: as well. Now you must have this professional dashboard, which
Speaker 1: gives you. The main thing that this gives you is
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of insights into your account, so you
Speaker 1: can see when people are looking at your stuff, how
Speaker 1: your content did. You might be eligible for like monetization
Speaker 1: things like that. It's odd because it's not like you
Speaker 1: have a huge following. Like this typically happens with people
Speaker 1: that may have reached a limit of like five thousand
Speaker 1: friends on Facebook back in the day, and they would say, oh,
Speaker 1: clearly you're doing something that's more of a public facing account,
Speaker 1: so let's switch this on for various reasons because you
Speaker 1: probably want to see but for you, was there an
Speaker 1: option to turn this off?
Speaker 6: It says yes, but I don't know what. I don't
Speaker 6: know what professional is and it sounded like it would
Speaker 6: delete people from seeing me if I kept it in
Speaker 6: professional mode friends and family.
Speaker 2: That's sort of okay.
Speaker 1: The main thing, I think The main thing that that
Speaker 1: when you have professional mode on that I'm looking for
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at here is says who can follow
Speaker 1: me will be set to public. That means that basically
Speaker 1: anyone can follow you on the on Facebook versus you
Speaker 1: accepting a friend. That's what that's I think the biggest
Speaker 1: difference here.
Speaker 6: That's what professional mode is. Is that what the standard mode is.
Speaker 1: Correct, that's professional mode. So if you're okay with that,
Speaker 1: then I would just leave this on if you you know,
Speaker 1: if you're if you want that feature, but if you don't,
Speaker 1: then you can turn it off. And that means you
Speaker 1: can now say who can follow you is just friends.
Speaker 1: You're not going to lose any followers who are not
Speaker 1: your friends, but you can allow public followers again once
Speaker 1: you turn on professional mode. This all sounds very confusing.
Speaker 6: What's that turn on or turn off professional.
Speaker 1: If you turn it on again, you would have those
Speaker 1: public followers. Basically at this point, anyone can follow you.
Speaker 1: That's that's on Facebook versus you kind of accepting them
Speaker 1: as a friend. That's what it sounds like to me.
Speaker 6: That's a professional mode, is.
Speaker 1: Correct, and you get all those insights.
Speaker 6: Okay, it's just digital creator. I would you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like, are you ready to take
Speaker 1: on a new career as a digital creator?
Speaker 6: But I never knew what. I couldn't find the definition
Speaker 6: for digital creator. I just post photographs that I came.
Speaker 6: For instance, I posted, uh, I joke orange you glad.
Speaker 6: I live in South California and I have family in
Speaker 6: the Midwest, and so on the nineteenth or sixteenth, it
Speaker 6: was eighty.
Speaker 1: Three degrees in yes, and it was freezing.
Speaker 6: And then I had pictures of orange, an orange globe tree.
Speaker 6: So get it altering you, glad.
Speaker 1: I see why you're content creator, Bob. I got a run.
Speaker 1: They're playing me off. Thanks for the call today, rich
Speaker 1: one On one eighty eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hang out with you talking technology at Triple
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one phone lines are open.
Speaker 1: Kim is standing by, uh ready to get you on
Speaker 1: the air here, and we'll get back to those lines
Speaker 1: in just a moment. Kim did mention that the air
Speaker 1: tags are on sale on Amazon for seventy bucks for
Speaker 1: a four pack. And then here's the thing that you
Speaker 1: need to know, because I mentioned that they have new
Speaker 1: air tags, so you're gonna see a delineation first generation
Speaker 1: versus second generation. So the second generation are also at Costco,
Speaker 1: but they're selling for one hundred dollars for a four pack,
Speaker 1: so you're probably gonna see I would say even more
Speaker 1: discounts on the first generation air tags as retailers sort
Speaker 1: of clear them out whatever stock they have. The big
Speaker 1: thing is do you need to get the old or
Speaker 1: the new. If you're interested in that precision feature, like
Speaker 1: if you need that longer range or if you need
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Speaker 1: you don't, the old ones are going to be just fine.
Speaker 1: Everything else is like completely the same, all right. Sharon
Speaker 1: guys on the line. She is an AI expert and
Speaker 1: former Ali Baba strategist and author of the upcoming book,
Speaker 1: How to Do More with Less future Proofing yourself in
Speaker 1: an AI driven economy. That is a hot topic these days. Sharon,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me.
Speaker 13: Hey, Rich, how's it going.
Speaker 1: Everything's good. So this is a very hot topic that
Speaker 1: people are always wondering about. They hear AI, they feel scared,
Speaker 1: they're overwhelmed. So what do you make of the current
Speaker 1: situation with AI and work right now?
Speaker 13: Yeah, I totally echo the fear and anxiety with it.
Speaker 11: The biggest thing is, I think it's really unevenly distributed
Speaker 11: when it comes to the US in.
Speaker 13: General, but just around the world.
Speaker 11: You know, you have founders in San Francisco, for instance.
Speaker 11: You pick anybody off the street if you visit that city,
Speaker 11: they're probably building multi agent systems automating a lot of
Speaker 11: parts of their life. And then you go to another
Speaker 11: city somewhere else. The other day, was on a flight
Speaker 11: and this woman next to me was on a business trip,
Speaker 11: and you know, I was talking about what I do
Speaker 11: in terms of keynoting and talking about AI.
Speaker 13: And she said, oh, chat shipt, I've heard of that.
Speaker 11: So it's just it just runs such the gamut, and
Speaker 11: I think.
Speaker 13: For those who are sort of in that AI bubble.
Speaker 11: You know, the algorithm is constantly serving you up things
Speaker 11: that could cause fear and anxiety.
Speaker 13: And then there's so many of us who's just barely
Speaker 13: tried it yet.
Speaker 11: And so hopefully that the new book that I've written
Speaker 11: is it levels the playing field for everyone so that
Speaker 11: it brings everyone in the same conversation at least.
Speaker 1: It is wild because they're like when I go home
Speaker 1: to like, you know, my family, and I say, oh
Speaker 1: at chat Ebt, this Ai, this, Gemini, this Claude that,
Speaker 1: and they're like, wait, hold on, what, Like how do
Speaker 1: I even go to these websites? Right? And so it's
Speaker 1: like there are people that are using this on a
Speaker 1: daily basis and really getting familiar with it, and there
Speaker 1: are people who have not even begun to scratch the
Speaker 1: surface with it. Do you think people should be using
Speaker 1: this to see what it's all about?
Speaker 13: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: You can.
Speaker 11: You know in the future that I predict there's probably
Speaker 11: going to be a decent group of people who's opposed
Speaker 11: to everything.
Speaker 13: That's that's happening in the ANI space.
Speaker 11: Because it will come so fast and it's gonna change
Speaker 11: so many things. So there's going to be a group
Speaker 11: of people that's you know anti AI, there's you're already
Speaker 11: hearing the protests and whatnot that's starting to happen with
Speaker 11: A taking away their jobs and agency. So there will
Speaker 11: be that growing number of people. But at least try
Speaker 11: it to see how and just a nalidate for yourself
Speaker 11: whether it's right for your life. Personally, I think it's
Speaker 11: it's made a huge shift and the way that I work,
Speaker 11: the way that I think about things, the way that
Speaker 11: I live my life. You know, the Internet get paved
Speaker 11: way for this burst of information to just be at
Speaker 11: our fingertips, and I think AI just makes it even
Speaker 11: faster that that information is not just exploded, it's hyper
Speaker 11: exploded in front of us.
Speaker 1: I know people worry that this is going to take
Speaker 1: their jobs. Has that started to happen yet? And do
Speaker 1: you think there are some jobs that are safe from
Speaker 1: AI in the future or is everyone going to be
Speaker 1: affected in some way?
Speaker 13: Everyone is going to be infected. And so I think
Speaker 13: the way that.
Speaker 14: I that I metaphor it is it's similar to you know,
Speaker 14: when the electric motor was created in eighteen nineties and
Speaker 14: when we just when we designed our factories back in
Speaker 14: the day, it was a very vertical design.
Speaker 11: With the steam power in all factories, and then the
Speaker 11: electric motor was created, and then all we did in
Speaker 11: our factories was changed the steam to electric motors without
Speaker 11: ever redesigning the entire factory, so not really designing our
Speaker 11: entire workflow around it. And I think that's what's happening
Speaker 11: with AI. You know, if you've seen the reports of
Speaker 11: MIT says there's an MIT study that says ninety five
Speaker 11: percent of AI projects have failed so far, and so
Speaker 11: we're in that reckoning where there's a lot of things
Speaker 11: that's not working in the ANI space, but that's just
Speaker 11: a temporary hold before things start before product to before
Speaker 11: productivity actually has that uptick. So for the in terms
Speaker 11: of jobs, you see a lot of entry level work
Speaker 11: being displaced right now. So if you are you know,
Speaker 11: maybe twenty two just graduated, the things that you know
Speaker 11: is not really based on experience because you don't have
Speaker 11: experience yet, and so if your job is quite junior,
Speaker 11: that's the exact layer of roles that we're seeing being affected.
Speaker 13: There's a lot of text CEOs that.
Speaker 11: Overblow it a bit, I think, where you know, they're
Speaker 11: saying that unemployment is going to rise to twenty thirty percent.
Speaker 13: I actually don't.
Speaker 11: Think that will happen because I have a lot more
Speaker 11: faith in people in that. You know, because if you
Speaker 11: are displaced from a job, that you're agile enough to
Speaker 11: learn some sort of new skill that that has openings
Speaker 11: and has jobs, and you reorient yourself that way. I
Speaker 11: think there's I think we don't give ourselves enough credit. Also,
Speaker 11: we underestimate our ability to adapt to change. In previous
Speaker 11: times of you know, when the Internet age or when internet,
Speaker 11: when the Internet emerged, jobs were displaced too. We used
Speaker 11: to have a lot of people that were type this,
Speaker 11: and that was their job is to be a type
Speaker 11: this or a secretary of some sort, or like travel
Speaker 11: agent of some sort, where your job was to book tickets,
Speaker 11: book plane tickets for people. And then Expedia I came
Speaker 11: and then we didn't really need those people anymore. So
Speaker 11: I think change is just part of life, and I
Speaker 11: think we don't give ourselves enough credit sometimes with our
Speaker 11: humans natural ability to adapt to change.
Speaker 1: Well, And you mentioned travel. Whenever I travel, I always
Speaker 1: joke with my wife about how many jobs I do
Speaker 1: as I travel, so like it's like you park your
Speaker 1: own car at the parking lot. I mean obviously that's
Speaker 1: pretty standard. But you get there. You like, like at
Speaker 1: one point, I'm like tagging my own baggage. Now, like
Speaker 1: you can literally print out your own tags. You're like
Speaker 1: sticking them to your luggage. You get on the plane,
Speaker 1: you're like literally cleaning You're a little area on the
Speaker 1: plane with that little wipe they give you. So I'm
Speaker 1: like cleaning the plane now I'm not flying the plane. Obviously,
Speaker 1: checking into the hotel. You're doing that from your phone.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just so many things that we've taken
Speaker 1: on the duties for. Like you said, there's people that
Speaker 1: used to do these jobs, but you know, it's not
Speaker 1: as if you go to these places there's no one there,
Speaker 1: there's less people, but there's definitely you know, people have
Speaker 1: been displaced in various ways and they find new things
Speaker 1: to do. I think this analogy you give in the
Speaker 1: book about this this busy bees. If you're drowning in
Speaker 1: meetings notes and repetitive data entry that leaves you burnt
Speaker 1: out by five pm, what's your advice there? That's kind
Speaker 1: of interesting.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So on the book cover, it's a bee, and
Speaker 11: if you know anything about this animal, it's a very
Speaker 11: interesting little bug and so bees, you know, are very
Speaker 11: narrow in the way that they operate, but when they
Speaker 11: come together as a whole hive, they can find the
Speaker 11: next flower to pollinate, they can adjust temperature, they build
Speaker 11: structures that protect themselves.
Speaker 13: And so the whole promise.
Speaker 11: Of the book is it's just like us where you know,
Speaker 11: I went through a traditional four year college and I
Speaker 11: entered the corporate world, climb the corporate ladder, hope for
Speaker 11: a time to fifteen percent salary increase every single.
Speaker 13: Year, and my getting I felt like.
Speaker 1: Which part I never I don't think I've ever seen
Speaker 1: that in my job career.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 13: I was aiming, okay.
Speaker 1: Because every company I've ever worked for they say the
Speaker 1: same thing. They make billions of dollars, and when it
Speaker 1: comes time to do any kind of contract, like we
Speaker 1: have no money, where does all the money go? Anyway?
Speaker 11: I think yeah, and I think I think you know
Speaker 11: a lot of people went that very traditional path and
Speaker 11: started checking those boxes.
Speaker 13: And then one day I just realized that that box
Speaker 13: checking idea.
Speaker 11: Doesn't really farewell, and it doesn't farewell, especially in this
Speaker 11: current age.
Speaker 13: So I felt like a busy bee when I.
Speaker 11: Was working in those roles where my to do lists
Speaker 11: were endless, and it was meeting after meeting, and there
Speaker 11: were so many things. And for anyone that kind of
Speaker 11: works in a corporate space, maybe that you know, like
Speaker 11: are you we needed on this call? Like this whole
Speaker 11: thing is going to take an hour long and you
Speaker 11: want me to spend.
Speaker 13: My entire human hour here with you doing whatever? You're tire?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 11: So I think a lot of us feel that way,
Speaker 11: and that's what leads to the burnout. That's what leads
Speaker 11: to When it's Sunday, why is it that it's Sunday evening?
Speaker 13: We grow because we know that work is going to
Speaker 13: start on Monday. But when it's Friday afternoon, we're so
Speaker 13: happy that the weekends about Like I think.
Speaker 11: That grown and that expression of happiness shouldn't happen in
Speaker 11: those times, Like we should be happy, hopefully throughout the
Speaker 11: whole seven days, and so work shouldn't be something where
Speaker 11: it feels like it's a waste of our time. And
Speaker 11: so that's the whole premise of the book is how
Speaker 11: do you use AI, especially for those who maybe you
Speaker 11: haven't tried it yet or haven't tapped into its potential.
Speaker 11: How do we remove some of that drudgery from our
Speaker 11: work so that we don't have to grown on the
Speaker 11: Sunday evening going into work.
Speaker 13: And so that's why there's a bet on the cover.
Speaker 11: It's the hope is that you can transform yourself from
Speaker 11: a busy beat to it ultimately a bee keeper, so
Speaker 11: a keeper of those AI agents that will work for you,
Speaker 11: that will take some away some of those tasks that
Speaker 11: was meant.
Speaker 13: For a machine to do. Anyway.
Speaker 11: So there's a quote in the book which is spending
Speaker 11: human hours on human necessary tasks because human hours is
Speaker 11: very precious, and so I think too many of us
Speaker 11: spend much time spending our human hours on not human
Speaker 11: necessary things. And that's part of again going back to
Speaker 11: that the factory metaphor, that's redesigning our factory. Because the
Speaker 11: way that we were looked at work previously, it was
Speaker 11: going through a lot of checkboxes. It wasn't thinking more
Speaker 11: strategically about where should I better spend my time on.
Speaker 11: And I think once we start to do that too,
Speaker 11: we start to excavate our own human potential. We can
Speaker 11: realize there's more creative things that actually need our time
Speaker 11: and attention that we can actually make an impact towards
Speaker 11: versus spending our time in something that's not worth.
Speaker 1: All right, good advice. The book is how to do
Speaker 1: More with Less, future proofing yourself and an AI driven economy.
Speaker 1: Sharon Guy, thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 13: Thanks so much.
Speaker 11: Rich.
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Speaker 1: on tech Rich DeMuro. Here, let's go to line three.
Speaker 1: Line three is Bob and Woodland Hills. You're on with Rich.
Speaker 2: Oh well, Rich, thank you so much for taking my call.
Speaker 2: I do enjoy you on Channel five as I watch
Speaker 2: you guys every morning.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I enjoy being there for sure.
Speaker 2: Now you guys do a great job, and I like
Speaker 2: the anchors as well. Sure, I'll try to make this
Speaker 2: a sinct. Here's what my issue is. I at home,
Speaker 2: I have Internet with DSL extremes. So exactly one week ago,
Speaker 2: last Suday night, it goes down on me, and so
Speaker 2: I do all the fixes that we know to do. Right,
Speaker 2: instead of getting the green light, I'm getting a blinking yellow.
Speaker 2: So we disconnect and connect. Wait a couple of minutes,
Speaker 2: you know, do all the obvious things that sure fix it.
Speaker 2: DSL Extreme is not open on the weekend, so I'm
Speaker 2: not happy. I'm watching TV on a out of rabbit
Speaker 2: ears last weekend. But anyway, come Monday morning, I called them.
Speaker 2: They I'm on the phone with them. They tell me
Speaker 2: that everything appears to be fine, the signals coming out.
Speaker 2: I'm but they say they have to contact AT and T. Well,
Speaker 2: fast forward the story. On Wednesday, I get I talked
Speaker 2: to DSL and they tell me that AT and T
Speaker 2: says there's a serious wiring issue at my building and
Speaker 2: it may not be fixed until wait for it, February
Speaker 2: twenty fourth. I'm about I'm going about insane right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, even a minute without internet, I go insane.
Speaker 2: Correct. So now it's been a week. I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: you know, I'm watching TV on rabbit ears. I'm watching
Speaker 2: the Internet on my phone. I mean, it's just you know,
Speaker 2: through cellular data. It's just not it's horrible.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, the question, okay, what do.
Speaker 2: You think, my what do you given that answer that
Speaker 2: there's a wiring issue at my building that AT and
Speaker 2: T has to come out and fix and may take
Speaker 2: till February twenty four. Do I have other options that
Speaker 2: I can I don't understand this stuff very well.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'll tell you what's going on here. So, so
Speaker 1: DSL Extreme does not operate their own infrastructure, So they
Speaker 1: don't That's that's what was revealed to you when they said, hey,
Speaker 1: we got to call AT and T. It's actually a
Speaker 1: problem with their lines. They just ride on top of
Speaker 1: other providers that are in your area, and they service
Speaker 1: a bunch of different areas. So they have partnerships with
Speaker 1: like you know, an AT and T, a Verizon wherever
Speaker 1: they can, wherever they have their service. Their whole deal
Speaker 1: proposition is that I'm guessing you're either getting a better
Speaker 1: price or a better service by using this company. How
Speaker 1: much you paying them a month for your Internet?
Speaker 2: I think it's like sixty.
Speaker 1: Okay, sixty bucks and you're getting them Guessing what speed
Speaker 1: are you getting?
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that to give you.
Speaker 1: Okay, So a couple options. Number one, how much do
Speaker 1: you love DSL Extreme, Like, are you willing to switch?
Speaker 2: And I am I'm ready to switch.
Speaker 1: Okay, So a couple of things you can do. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at providers in your area. So AT and
Speaker 1: T fiber is in your area, that's the network. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing that they're riding on top. Okay, that's the one
Speaker 1: that's having the problem. That's a fantastic network. But it's
Speaker 1: you know, if there's some issue in you're building, maybe
Speaker 1: a rat chewed through a cable or something, they need
Speaker 1: to figure out. Do you have neighbors that have a
Speaker 1: problem too.
Speaker 2: It's funny, I have an ass, but I was wondering that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I said, wow, I wonder if my neighbors have an
Speaker 2: issue too. I have an ass, but I will ask.
Speaker 1: I would do that because otherwise, you know, you want
Speaker 1: to figure out like how you know, I had a
Speaker 1: problem with AT and T and they came out and
Speaker 1: really did a number on my place, and they did
Speaker 1: a great job and they fixed it. I was not
Speaker 1: sure they were going to be able to fix it
Speaker 1: because it's one of these problems that like, we don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on here and so, but they came
Speaker 1: out and they they worked on it, and they figured
Speaker 1: it out, and people had to go up on the
Speaker 1: poll and all this stuff that like I never wanted
Speaker 1: to do. It did not take a month. I will
Speaker 1: tell you that it is actually way faster than I
Speaker 1: thought because I was almost in the same place where
Speaker 1: my internet was going in and out, and so I
Speaker 1: was like kind of going nutty because I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. Every day at three pm my internet
Speaker 1: goes out. How's that happen? They ended up figuring out
Speaker 1: what the problem was, and it's a whole long story,
Speaker 1: but anyway, you also have Spectrum in your area. Those
Speaker 1: are the two wired services that you have. Okay, Spectrum
Speaker 1: can usually come out like pretty quickly, like almost the
Speaker 1: next day or the same day to get you installed
Speaker 1: at and T as well. So I would if I
Speaker 1: were you personally, unless you're in love with this company
Speaker 1: that you're working with, I would I would call up
Speaker 1: Spectrum or go online and see how quick they can
Speaker 1: come to install internet. That's number one. Then you've got
Speaker 1: these wireless providers. So if you want to save a
Speaker 1: ton of money and you have a good signal at
Speaker 1: your place, like from T Mobile or Mint Mobile or Verizon,
Speaker 1: you can switch to home internet and it's significantly cheaper
Speaker 1: than usually the wired internet, and it's you know, depending
Speaker 1: on what you're doing like if you're just doing basic
Speaker 1: stuff like watching TV and surfing the web, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be just fine and you're gonna save a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Who's your cell phone provider?
Speaker 2: My cell phone provider? Mobile?
Speaker 1: Okay, so they have TEA Mobile five. If do you
Speaker 1: get a good signal in your house with T Mobile?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, so that might be an option because they're they
Speaker 1: they have pretty good, like aggressive plans right now, and
Speaker 1: they and this is like self installed, so it's like
Speaker 1: fifty dollars a month for your internet. Oh wow, they've
Speaker 1: raised price a little bit. But yeah, basically you get
Speaker 1: unlimited data and you'd get a discount with your plan,
Speaker 1: so that you know, that'll bring the price down a
Speaker 1: little bit more. But I would look into those two
Speaker 1: things and see, you know, if you want to stick
Speaker 1: with see if you sorry, see if you want to
Speaker 1: stick with this provider, or if you're willing to switch.
Speaker 1: If you're willing to switch, I would just cut ties
Speaker 1: and say I don't want to wait until, you know,
Speaker 1: three more weeks for this, and you can get internet
Speaker 1: installed at your house, you know, as quick as tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Good question, Bob. In the In the meantime, try your
Speaker 1: hot spot on your phone if you have it for
Speaker 1: connecting your devices, that'll at least keep you connected in
Speaker 1: the meantime. Eighty eight rich one oh one back after this,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology, triple eight rich one on
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight rich one on one. If you're
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Speaker 1: a while, because apparently they got some new features that
Speaker 1: are quite helpful. And if you like candy Crush, I
Speaker 1: told you that I love that new ca Andy Crush
Speaker 1: Solitaire game. It's just fun, Like Candy Crush has a
Speaker 1: cool thing going on. They have a new game called
Speaker 1: Crushable and this is kind of a quick once a
Speaker 1: day game instead of like a long ongoing game. And
Speaker 1: it's exclusively on Yahoo Games in the US. One new
Speaker 1: puzzle every day, and the goal is kind of like
Speaker 1: to replace sort of supplement. They notice a lot of
Speaker 1: people are doing like wordle in the morning or a
Speaker 1: quick crossword puzzle or Sodoku. This is kind of along
Speaker 1: those lines where you just you kind of knock it
Speaker 1: out in the morning with your coffee or with your breakfast.
Speaker 1: And it's again at Yahoo Games. It's called Candy Crush Crushable.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Brian and West Hollywood line too. Brian said,
Speaker 1: he sounds like something going on with DSL Extreme as well.
Speaker 12: Brian, I was listening to one of your callers just
Speaker 12: a few minutes ago, and I happen to be a subscriber.
Speaker 12: I was experiencing very similar issues with down load speed
Speaker 12: lower than they supposed to support. So AT and T
Speaker 12: reviewed it and they indicated that the line where I
Speaker 12: am is too far away from their central tower and
Speaker 12: therefore it's not fixable.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting.
Speaker 12: Yeah, they told me that that is an issue, and
Speaker 12: I talked to Dazel Extreme. They offered me an option
Speaker 12: to terminate if I wish to, So that was a
Speaker 12: good choice if I want to. I didn't. As of now,
Speaker 12: I had an opportunity to speak with Spectrum. They have
Speaker 12: a very good program from what I read about them
Speaker 12: on the internet. Whereas a homeowner or apartment renter does
Speaker 12: not have to have a fiber cable, they don't. It's
Speaker 12: not required in order to use Spectrum.
Speaker 1: Well they they they well they have their lines. I
Speaker 1: mean it depends on the type of network you're talking about,
Speaker 1: And there's wireless, there's fiber, and then there's like there's coax.
Speaker 1: Yeah from like which which is what Spectrum uses use.
Speaker 12: I use a wired Ethernet case okay, all right, and
Speaker 12: and Spectrum orfers fiber powered instead of one hundred right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so they do basically their network is fiber,
Speaker 1: but the end line to your house is the standard
Speaker 1: kind of like you know, coax cable that they use
Speaker 1: for that, which is fine. I mean, look, I mean Spectrum,
Speaker 1: they you know, they're local, so they have like a
Speaker 1: great presence in southern California. They run their own network,
Speaker 1: they're easy to get a hold of. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: there's some benefits there, and they're you know, that's their
Speaker 1: main business too, so obviously that's that's a good thing there.
Speaker 1: The only difference is is the speeds when it comes
Speaker 1: to fiber versus standard cable like cable internet from someone
Speaker 1: like Spectrum. Is that with fiber, you're upload and download
Speaker 1: speed the same. So if you have a five hundred
Speaker 1: megabitz connection with AT and T, that's five hundred up
Speaker 1: and down. I think they're slowest is actually one gigabit,
Speaker 1: so that'd be one up and down, Whereas on Spectrum
Speaker 1: these speeds that they advertise, let's say it's five hundred,
Speaker 1: three hundred down, whatever it is, your upload speed is
Speaker 1: usually capped to like thirty five, so your upload is
Speaker 1: significantly slower. Now for ninety nine point nine percent of people,
Speaker 1: that is not an issue. Most people are downloading stuff
Speaker 1: from the Internet instead of uploading stuff to the Internet,
Speaker 1: unless you're in a creator job like myself where I'm
Speaker 1: always exchanging large files and things like that. And in California,
Speaker 1: especially Southern California, a lot of people in the entertainment industry.
Speaker 1: They are uploading, you know, things that they're editing from
Speaker 1: their homes and stuff like that, so fiber would be
Speaker 1: a better choice. And then of course you have wireless internet,
Speaker 1: which is delivered over cellular lines, and that also has
Speaker 1: its advantage that it's easy and it's inexpensive and there's
Speaker 1: no wires. I mean there's a wire from I mean
Speaker 1: really there are no wires because you would just it's
Speaker 1: just a cellular receptor and then it's just beams out
Speaker 1: the signal the Wi Fi in your home. So really
Speaker 1: there's just a plug to plug it in. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the call, Brian. For what it's worth, DSL Extreme does
Speaker 1: have a status page that you can check secure dot
Speaker 1: DSL extreme dot com, Slash support Slash network status and
Speaker 1: they're saying all their services are normal right now, and
Speaker 1: so that must mean that anything that is happening or
Speaker 1: that you're experiencing in the area is due to the
Speaker 1: lines in your local kind of place. And by the way,
Speaker 1: if you want to see the providers, the internet service
Speaker 1: providers in your area, you may not realize that there
Speaker 1: are probably several providers that you can choose from speed
Speaker 1: test runs a great site. If you go to speed
Speaker 1: test dot net, I'm trying to see the direct okay,
Speaker 1: speed test dot net slash performance, speed dot net slash performance.
Speaker 1: You type in your zip code. I'm gonna put in
Speaker 1: a West La zip code. It will tell you all
Speaker 1: of the providers at that zip code, and you may
Speaker 1: realize there are more than you think. So for instance,
Speaker 1: this zip code in West La, I just put in
Speaker 1: You've got Spectrum, You've got Frontier which is soon to
Speaker 1: be Verizon again, Earthlink Fiber, who knew, Storry that's another
Speaker 1: wireless internet that's in certain places, T Mobile Wireless Internet,
Speaker 1: Mint Mobile Wireless Internet, Starlink Satellite Internet at and T
Speaker 1: Internet Air Wireless Internet, Verizon via sat and Husenet. Now
Speaker 1: I wouldn't go with the last two unless you're desperate
Speaker 1: because those are you know, old school kind of satellite technologies.
Speaker 1: But that's a lot of providers, So shop around if
Speaker 1: you and it'll tell you the actual speed of your area.
Speaker 1: This is a great website, so it tells you all
Speaker 1: these different providers and what the actual speeds are that
Speaker 1: people are getting from those providers. So that is a
Speaker 1: really good resource. Speed test dot net slash Performance and
Speaker 1: type in your zip code and you'll see and it'll
Speaker 1: tell you explains everything. The speeds that you're getting historical,
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. I've lived in the LA area for a
Speaker 1: long time and the Internet has changed so much. I
Speaker 1: remember getting my first cable internet line and thinking it
Speaker 1: was the coolest thing ever compared to just standard dial up.
Speaker 1: And I remember bringing my friend into the room and
Speaker 1: I said, check this out. Look at this. This is
Speaker 1: the future of Internet. And I was playing a video.
Speaker 1: It was a music video and I'm not kidding. It
Speaker 1: was the size of a postage stamp on my screen,
Speaker 1: and he was laughing so hard. He's like, that's the future.
Speaker 1: I mean, now we just take for granted you're getting
Speaker 1: all your stuff through the Internet. I mean, it's just wild.
Speaker 1: Samsung is coming out with their new Galaxy S twenty
Speaker 1: six lineup. I mentioned this earlier in the show Coming Out.
Speaker 1: The rumor is the end of February is when they're
Speaker 1: gonna have their event. They usually call them Galaxy Unpacked,
Speaker 1: and they've always done them in like different places around
Speaker 1: the world, so we'll see where that's gonna be. But
Speaker 1: they have a new feature they are promoting they haven't
Speaker 1: revealed exactly how it works or specifics, but it is
Speaker 1: a privacy feature, so it looks like in the videos
Speaker 1: that they've shown off that don't exactly show it on
Speaker 1: the screen. It's almost like one of those privacy screens
Speaker 1: on your phone, but built into the hardware of the phone.
Speaker 1: And not only does it kind of blur out certain
Speaker 1: parts of the screen, but it's like if you get
Speaker 1: a notification, you could say, any notification from telegram. I
Speaker 1: don't want people to be able to see it from
Speaker 1: off angles, and when someone's looking at your phone from
Speaker 1: like the sides, you can't see it. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: really interesting. So I'm not sure how this works. But
Speaker 1: Samsung does say it is a hardware feature. It's not
Speaker 1: just software, so it's built into the display itself. And
Speaker 1: the way to think about it is that people on
Speaker 1: the sides of your phone can't see what you see
Speaker 1: on the screen, and you'll be able to literally customize
Speaker 1: this to your choosing. So if you say, anytime I
Speaker 1: open up YouTube, I don't want people to be able
Speaker 1: to see it. Only you'll be able to see it. Now, again,
Speaker 1: I don't know how this works in real life. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to see this in person, which I will
Speaker 1: be there. But I'm very curious because cell phones have
Speaker 1: become so standardized over the years. They all have the
Speaker 1: same features at this point, so we need something besides
Speaker 1: a foldable that sets them apart. And if Samsung says, hey,
Speaker 1: when you're on your phone in public, on a train
Speaker 1: or at this sports event or whatever, nobody could see
Speaker 1: what you're looking at on your screen without a privacy
Speaker 1: screen protector, that's a pretty cool thing. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: We've got a new voice to text app for Windows.
Speaker 1: Willow Voice is now available on Windows. So you know
Speaker 1: my favorite whisper Flow. I've also talked about type lists.
Speaker 1: Willow Voice now has an app for Windows. So all
Speaker 1: you have to do is speak where you'd normally type,
Speaker 1: and it will turn your voice into clean formatted text.
Speaker 1: It removes filler words, fixes grammar, learns how you write
Speaker 1: over the time. There is a free plan, so no
Speaker 1: credit card required. You get about two thousand free words
Speaker 1: per week to try it out. Then it's about twelve
Speaker 1: dollars a month. But if you have been wanting to
Speaker 1: try this out, I've been talking about this on my
Speaker 1: show for so long. I love it. The only way
Speaker 1: I type now on my computer is with my voice.
Speaker 1: And it's not just voice dictation. It's not the same
Speaker 1: thing that we used to have back in the day
Speaker 1: where it's just transcribing word for word. This is understanding
Speaker 1: what you're saying. So the website is willow Voice dot com.
Speaker 1: Willow Voice dot com. This is Once you try this,
Speaker 1: you will never go back. I'm not kidding. It's so
Speaker 1: much better. W I l l Ow Willow Voice dot com.
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech dot tv is a website. I'll put
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Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology triple eight
Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to
Speaker 1: two four one zero one. The website for the show
Speaker 1: is rich on tech dot tv. All the stuff that
Speaker 1: I mentioned is on the show notes. People often ask
Speaker 1: me on a weekly basis, like, hey, how do I
Speaker 1: find what you mentioned on the show. It's all on
Speaker 1: the website rich on Tech dot tv. If you tap radio,
Speaker 1: it will bring you to the show notes for not
Speaker 1: only this show, but every show I've ever done here
Speaker 1: and there's even a little search icon so you can
Speaker 1: search for a keyword something you remember. So I just
Speaker 1: mentioned that really handy website from speed test that's on there.
Speaker 1: The new voice to tech stapp is on there, which
Speaker 1: is Willow. My kid Parker has downloaded it and he's
Speaker 1: testing it as we speak. How's how's it so far?
Speaker 1: So far? So good?
Speaker 4: Well, download process right now is pretty good, smooth UI
Speaker 4: which is like the look of the website. You like that,
Speaker 4: and just how it works right now. Haven't fully tested it,
Speaker 4: but I will report back in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: Okay. See speaking of voice to text, to doist has
Speaker 1: a this is that to do app that a lot
Speaker 1: of people like. They added a feature called Ramble, which
Speaker 1: is actually pretty smart. It's a voice powered kind of
Speaker 1: brain dump for your to do list. So all you
Speaker 1: have to do is like ramble to this thing and say, Hey,
Speaker 1: coming up today, I need to do this, I need
Speaker 1: to take out the trash, I need to remember to
Speaker 1: call my mom. I need to also send that TPS
Speaker 1: report whatever it is, and then it will put it
Speaker 1: all into your tasks in an organized way. So that's
Speaker 1: pretty smart. Again, this is called to doist Ramble. To
Speaker 1: doist Ramble it's really tough to type and talk, by
Speaker 1: the way. And I'm looking at this and yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a new feature that you know AI is I am
Speaker 1: obviously I'm guessing it's AI featured, but I you know,
Speaker 1: this week, and I talk about this in my newsletter,
Speaker 1: I found a new I'm on a quest for the
Speaker 1: perfect note taking app, and so I'm always testing a
Speaker 1: new one upsidy and it's kind of like my go to,
Speaker 1: but I'll be honest, this one I found this week
Speaker 1: is called Craft is actually pretty good and it's got
Speaker 1: this beautiful design. And it's funny because I've downloaded so
Speaker 1: many of these apps over the years. This one, when
Speaker 1: I went to log in, it was like, oh, that
Speaker 1: emails already in use. I'm like, oh, okay, I must
Speaker 1: have logged in and tested this app, and I remembered
Speaker 1: what I didn't like about it. It was because it
Speaker 1: was only on Mac back in the day. But now
Speaker 1: they came out with an Android app as well, so
Speaker 1: it was on Mac and iOS, but it wasn't on Android.
Speaker 1: Now it's on all of them, so now I can
Speaker 1: look at it because, if you know me, a couple
Speaker 1: of things I want out of my note taking app
Speaker 1: has to be cross platform, got to have the ability
Speaker 1: to take nice notes, got to have folders, I got
Speaker 1: to have the ability to print. I want the ability
Speaker 1: to export, and it has to work on all my platforms.
Speaker 1: So this one is pretty good. And what I like
Speaker 1: about it is it integrates not only the calendar but
Speaker 1: also your tasks. And something I also liked about another
Speaker 1: note taping taking app, it actually lets you put notes
Speaker 1: in your days. So let's say, for today, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to take a note and remember something, almost like
Speaker 1: a journal. You can just put that in there and
Speaker 1: it's linked to that day and you can just keep
Speaker 1: flipping between your days, so if you want. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just really well done. So they have a free level,
Speaker 1: the paid levels one hundred dollars, which I always look
Speaker 1: at because I know I'm gonna be paying that in
Speaker 1: the future. So one hundred bucks a year is a
Speaker 1: lot for your notes, but you know, if you're getting
Speaker 1: value out of it. For me, I'm always planning my
Speaker 1: radio show, my TV segments, and my newsletter in this app,
Speaker 1: and this one does a lot, so I'm actually I'm
Speaker 1: kind of sold, but not yet. You know, it takes
Speaker 1: me a while to figure this stuff out to see
Speaker 1: if I actually like it. Vincent in Linnwood writes in
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of chromebooks because they're easy to
Speaker 1: use and usually pretty affordable. I'm seeing some newer models
Speaker 1: advertise for under two hundred dollars, and I'm wondering which
Speaker 1: of the current chromebooks are actually the best bargains right now.
Speaker 1: So Vincent, I would say, yes, two hundred dollars chromebooks exist,
Speaker 1: but I'd say they're best for very light use, so
Speaker 1: we're talking basic web browsing email. I would say, if
Speaker 1: you want to get a chromebook, I would probably look
Speaker 1: at the Chromebook plus models. They're going to cost a
Speaker 1: little bit more, but you're going to get the best performance,
Speaker 1: more memory, bigger screens, or better screens. I should say,
Speaker 1: which I do think makes the difference. The place I
Speaker 1: would say to look is slick Deals. They have a
Speaker 1: laptop section, and if you go in there and you
Speaker 1: type in chromebook, you'll see the different chromebooks that people
Speaker 1: have voted up. So right now, there's a refurbished a
Speaker 1: SUS for one hundred and twenty five dollars typically four
Speaker 1: hundred on eBay. There's another a sous flip ninety dollars
Speaker 1: on eBay. Those are the two that are coming up
Speaker 1: right now. But you can also type in chromebook and
Speaker 1: see But I would go the Chromebook plus. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Parker found one HP fifteen inch Chromebook for eight gigs
Speaker 1: of memory sixty four gigs, one hundred and seventy nine dollars.
Speaker 1: But now see that one doesn't have as many thumbs up.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for stuff that has a lot of thumbs
Speaker 1: up because that means that people on the web have,
Speaker 1: you know, said it's good. Yeah, there's bobo the thumbs up. Oh,
Speaker 1: Tanner wants to read a message. Okay, go ahead, Tanner,
Speaker 1: you can read the one for car message storage. Go ahead, Dennis.
Speaker 15: I keep a two hundred and fifty six gig thumb
Speaker 15: drive plugged into my car to listen to music. But
Speaker 15: I've got more than two terror bytes of music saved
Speaker 15: on my main PC. I want to copy that music
Speaker 15: to a larger external drive, something like one or two terrbytes,
Speaker 15: and plug it into my car's USB port. I tried
Speaker 15: using a WD passport drive, but it didn't work. Is
Speaker 15: there a portable drive that will work reliably in a vehicle?
Speaker 1: Good? Question, Dennis. I think the the reality here is
Speaker 1: that it's not the drive that's not working. It's probably
Speaker 1: not formatted properly for your car. So you need to
Speaker 1: figure out what format your car's USB system supports and
Speaker 1: then format the drive with that with that system. So
Speaker 1: a lot of them are either what's called FAT thirty
Speaker 1: two or x FAT, and also a lot of the
Speaker 1: vehicles are Some vehicles may have a limit to the
Speaker 1: drive size, so if it's like a two terabyte drive,
Speaker 1: your car may not support two terabytes. So what I
Speaker 1: would recommend is going on your manufacturer's website and checking
Speaker 1: to see what the specs are for your car's US
Speaker 1: be poor. So if your drive isn't formatted properly, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna work, or if it's too big, it's not
Speaker 1: gonna work. So those are the two things I would check.
Speaker 1: Great question. All right, Coming up, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: why people are not just ditching their phones in the
Speaker 1: new year, but trying to actively use them less, even
Speaker 1: with a piece of hardware that keeps you from physically
Speaker 1: using your phone. We'll explain coming up next right here
Speaker 1: on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology. You know,
Speaker 1: I love technology, but also you got to take a
Speaker 1: break from this stuff at some point. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite pastimes is just watching how people
Speaker 1: interact with their devices. And I am telling you America
Speaker 1: is addicted. They are. People cannot get enough of their
Speaker 1: screens and it's been an amazing thing. Right, Like this
Speaker 1: little phone can do so many things. You can travel
Speaker 1: around the world with just your smartphone. Well, let me
Speaker 1: think about that. You might need a passport in some
Speaker 1: place anyway, but you get my idea. You could almost
Speaker 1: go anywhere with just your phone and that's it, and
Speaker 1: you'll be fine, like survivor like you'll survive. But the
Speaker 1: problem is it's a flip side of These things also
Speaker 1: keep us scrolling. People are unhappy. It's a whole thing.
Speaker 1: Here to talk about. This is Julia Pugachevski. She is
Speaker 1: the senior health reporter at Business Insider, and recently she
Speaker 1: did a little experiment. She used this device called brick
Speaker 1: to brick her phone. Julia, is that is that what
Speaker 1: it's called? Is it called brick? Yeah? Okay, so welcome
Speaker 1: to the show.
Speaker 13: Thank you so much.
Speaker 16: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for being on. So give me. Let's set
Speaker 1: this up first. Like I just kind of gave my
Speaker 1: soliloquy about all what's happening with our phones? Do you
Speaker 1: agree with all that? Do you think that phones are
Speaker 1: good and bad?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 13: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: What aspect I mean, you know, like I you know,
Speaker 1: it's like it's tough because I want to take a
Speaker 1: break at some point. But there are times when I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: well I need my phone for just about everything.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: Like let's say you're cooking in your kitchen and you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be off my phone. I'm doing something that's physical,
Speaker 1: not you know, virtual, It's like, oh, hold on, I
Speaker 1: gotta ask Google this question. I gotta do that. It's
Speaker 1: like they're so intertwined in our lives now.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Absolutely.
Speaker 16: I think that's been a big reason that I got
Speaker 16: the brick device, because I you know, some people get
Speaker 16: flip phones or they call them phones or phones without
Speaker 16: internet or apps as a way to really set boundaries
Speaker 16: with with being online. But the problem is for depending
Speaker 16: on your profession or your lifestyle, that's a very that
Speaker 16: could be a.
Speaker 13: Very hard change. Because smartphones have maps, or they have.
Speaker 16: You know, you need to two factor authentication like all
Speaker 16: these pieces, you know, ride share apps that you really
Speaker 16: it's hard to live. It's not impossible, but it's quite
Speaker 16: challenging to live life without a smartphone. So but a
Speaker 16: break I found was a very nice in between for that.
Speaker 1: Now, did you do this on your own accord or
Speaker 1: for research or kind of both or what?
Speaker 16: On my own accord? But it was inspired by research.
Speaker 16: I wrote a story about this growing appstinence movement, particularly
Speaker 16: among Gen Zers.
Speaker 13: And some millennials as well.
Speaker 16: And after writing it and speaking to a lot of
Speaker 16: these young people who are really considering stronger boundaries with
Speaker 16: their smartphones with social media, I was looking into waste
Speaker 16: to curb my own social media use. And forget exactly
Speaker 16: how my husband and I both were looking. Actually, I
Speaker 16: think he found brick first and then I immediately bought it,
Speaker 16: So I guess I was kind of an earlier adopter.
Speaker 16: I bought it last year, and yeah, I've been using
Speaker 16: it since and it's been the most effective thing I've
Speaker 16: done for myself personally.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So you wrote an article called Bricking your
Speaker 1: Phone is a New Dry January. Explain what the brick
Speaker 1: is because this is a physical device, Like, how does
Speaker 1: it work?
Speaker 16: Yes, I have it with me. I promise they don't
Speaker 16: pay me. I'm just a big fan. So it's just
Speaker 16: you can stick it on your fridge. It's a little magnet.
Speaker 16: And then there is a separate Brick app that you
Speaker 16: just download on your phone. It's free once you buy
Speaker 16: the Brick device, and you can choose different modes. So
Speaker 16: essentially you can choose which apps you want to block.
Speaker 16: You can set like you have one for walking the
Speaker 16: dog for example, versus one where you're trying to unwind.
Speaker 16: If you want some variety in which apps you're blocking.
Speaker 16: But you know, I block the Internet and email for example,
Speaker 16: And you just take your phone and then you want
Speaker 16: to tap it to the Brick device and then until
Speaker 16: you untap it, all your apps are blocked.
Speaker 13: And there's nothing you can do. It's quite effective.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So people might be listening and saying, well, rich,
Speaker 1: can't you just do that with screen time? What's the
Speaker 1: difference here?
Speaker 16: As someone has used screen time and I've tried, I
Speaker 16: forget which apps before.
Speaker 1: There's opal, there's there's be present, there's freedom. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many like of these apps that like help
Speaker 1: you take control of your phone. But it's very complicated actually,
Speaker 1: like that, you know, setting up these apps, and then
Speaker 1: sometimes you need a you need to use your phone,
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, hold on, I gotta get through this app.
Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a physical kind of solution versus
Speaker 1: the app solution.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think with apps again, I don't I don't
Speaker 16: even remember which ones I've tried, and I know the
Speaker 16: founders had also mentioned this. It's just that it's kind
Speaker 16: of easy to passively bypass those apps. You can quickly.
Speaker 16: Usually they'll have some sort of option, I know, the
Speaker 16: screen time option, you know, that's almost like a reminder,
Speaker 16: but you can easily toggle that off if in the
Speaker 16: split second you decide you want to access TikTok again.
Speaker 16: So it's it's quite easy to not really use it
Speaker 16: then versus the brick.
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 16: I find it personally humiliating to have to go get
Speaker 16: up tap my phone just because I want to check,
Speaker 16: like I want to google an actor's name, you know.
Speaker 16: So for me, that's that's been like a big factor.
Speaker 16: Like there's something about having to physically get up tap
Speaker 16: your phone, both when you're tapping it and untapping it
Speaker 16: that kind of almost snaps you out of that spell
Speaker 16: that you're in when you're on your phone.
Speaker 1: I think, so the brick is a device, and I
Speaker 1: think it's what about sixty dollars something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's a physic device, and you set up on
Speaker 1: your phone. You know this, you know all the comes
Speaker 1: with software. You set up on the phone, and then
Speaker 1: basically you tap the brick to your phone and that
Speaker 1: locks out all your apps that you've predecided I don't
Speaker 1: want to deal with, and then to get back to it,
Speaker 1: you have to tap again or I guess there's a
Speaker 1: timer that runs out or something. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: that works. But I was out at an event and
Speaker 1: this person I was talking with said, oh, I can't
Speaker 1: use my phone right now because it's bricked. And I
Speaker 1: said what, and she said, oh yeah, and I can't
Speaker 1: on brick it unless I tap this device. And I've
Speaker 1: left it at my house, so you can leave. People
Speaker 1: leave this device in other places so they physically can't
Speaker 1: unbrick their phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it's then there's no timer.
Speaker 16: Also, it's for however long I've I've bricked my phone
Speaker 16: kind of unknowingly because you get used to it for
Speaker 16: two three days before and it just continues working until
Speaker 16: you tap it again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So what do you think your advice for folks
Speaker 1: listening thinking I'm using my phone too much? Maybe they're
Speaker 1: not a gen z or maybe they're like, well, I'm not,
Speaker 1: I'm not you know a young kid that's on TikTok
Speaker 1: too much? Why should I do this? Do you think
Speaker 1: that this applies to everyone or just people that feel
Speaker 1: like they have an issue?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 13: It's tough to say.
Speaker 16: I think for me personally, I know people of all
Speaker 16: ages who struggle with using their phones too much might
Speaker 16: just be different apps, right, Like if you're older, it
Speaker 16: might be YouTube instead of TikTok, for example, or Facebook
Speaker 16: instead of Instagram. But there's similar things they're they're designed
Speaker 16: in similar ways, and it's for you to keep going
Speaker 16: back and to, you know, at the expense of your
Speaker 16: real life relationships and you know, anything else that you
Speaker 16: could be doing with your time. That for me, I
Speaker 16: found it very helpful to Like, I tap my brick
Speaker 16: at night and then I tap it again in the morning,
Speaker 16: so you know, I go to bed without scrolling my phone.
Speaker 16: I read a lot more, I'm more present with my
Speaker 16: husband or with if I'm hanging out with my friends.
Speaker 16: And then in the morning, I I go to the
Speaker 16: gym on time. I used to get to the gym's
Speaker 16: like two seconds to fair if that, or even late.
Speaker 16: And I've never been late because I there's nothing keeping
Speaker 16: me and I'm just up and I'm ready to go.
Speaker 16: And it's just I think it's very hard to realize
Speaker 16: when you're in it how much time social media and
Speaker 16: the Internet and news and everything takes up in your life.
Speaker 1: Like it really is.
Speaker 16: Kind of this perpetual time suck that I think we're
Speaker 16: not always conscious of.
Speaker 1: I was just reading an article about car scrolling. Have
Speaker 1: you heard of this new term?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, And I realize that I am so guilty
Speaker 1: of this. I come home and I sit in my
Speaker 1: car for like a minute or two, and I have
Speaker 1: my you know, my phone is on do not disturb
Speaker 1: when I drive like automatically, so when I you know,
Speaker 1: to be fair. When I get to my driveway and
Speaker 1: I turn off my car, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: notifications that come through and I see them, but I
Speaker 1: sit there and I scroll. But it's it is like
Speaker 1: kind of a spreeing moment because I've got two kids,
Speaker 1: my wife, they're all inside like waiting for me. But
Speaker 1: it's like you feel a little guilty, but you're also like,
Speaker 1: this is me time, Like, but I'm not the only one.
Speaker 1: I just read this article where apparently people do this
Speaker 1: and they sit and they you know, get home from
Speaker 1: work and they scroll on their phone for a little bit.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I think I used to do that.
Speaker 16: I don't drive, but I would come home and my
Speaker 16: friends actually used to make fun of me for this.
Speaker 16: They called it my bench. So I would get home,
Speaker 16: I would just like and have like a little bench
Speaker 16: in the doorway, and I would just sit on this
Speaker 16: bench looking at Instagram and get lost in it for
Speaker 16: twenty minutes. It was just like a known thing. And yeah,
Speaker 16: I'm needless to say, I don't do that anymore. But
Speaker 16: it's funny that I think it's almost like you're transitioning
Speaker 16: from one task to another, and maybe you're resisting it,
Speaker 16: or you know, you come home, you have all these
Speaker 16: other things you have to do, so then it's this
Speaker 16: like a cigarette break.
Speaker 1: I don't know that's exactly what it is. Julia Puchevski,
Speaker 1: We are going to leave it there. Thanks so much,
Speaker 1: for joining me today. Business Inside check her out. She
Speaker 1: writes all about health at Business Insider. By the way,
Speaker 1: I love Business Insider. You guys do a great job.
Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you, thanks for joining uh brick.
Speaker 1: The website is get brick dot app. If you're curious
Speaker 1: about it, get brick dot app. I'll put a link
Speaker 1: on my website. Rich on Tech dot tv coming up.
Speaker 1: It is that time the feedback We're about to open
Speaker 1: it coming up next right here on rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. I remember exactly where
Speaker 1: I was when I heard this song. I was applying
Speaker 1: for a job at Bob's Bob's clothing store. It was
Speaker 1: a it was a chain back on the East Coast,
Speaker 1: and I was applying for a job and the store
Speaker 1: wasn't even built yet, so I was in like some
Speaker 1: you know, temporary place. But this song played on the radio.
Speaker 1: I thought it was so cool. You should tell the
Speaker 1: people what song it is on a podcast roll to me.
Speaker 1: It's by Delemitrie and it was one hit. Wonder I believe.
Speaker 1: I don't think they had another. You know, back in
Speaker 1: the day, you know, you'd buy a whole you'd hear
Speaker 1: a song on the radio. You'd buy the whole CD
Speaker 1: and you'd be like, wait, that's the only good song?
Speaker 1: What I just spent eighteen dollars for this? All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the feedback. These are the comments, the questions,
Speaker 1: the emails that you send me, and yes, you like
Speaker 1: to send me a lot of them. I try to
Speaker 1: reply to a lot of them. I can't get to
Speaker 1: all of them, but sometimes it makes it to the feedback.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it makes it to the show, the newsletter without
Speaker 1: further ado, let's just get right into it. I got
Speaker 1: my two kids here, they each have one to read.
Speaker 1: So you want me to start or Tanner? Tanner wants
Speaker 1: to start, Yeah, you can start, I can start, Okay.
Speaker 1: Ed Ed, listening on WHCU and Ithaca New York, says
Speaker 1: Rich you talked about the privacy risks of TikTok and
Speaker 1: its ties to China, which I agree with, But then
Speaker 1: I heard you recommending TCL TVs, and that made me
Speaker 1: pause since TCL is also a Chinese company. Most smart
Speaker 1: TVs are connected to home networks all the time, so
Speaker 1: I worry about data collection. I personally still with LG
Speaker 1: or Samsung. I know they collect data too, but I'm
Speaker 1: just more comfortable with those brands. Just some food for thought.
Speaker 1: You are right ed. TCL is a Chinese company. I
Speaker 1: am aware of that. You know, the big difference is
Speaker 1: twofold number one. I mean, unless your TV has a
Speaker 1: mic or a camera, which a lot of them do
Speaker 1: you know, those are concerns. But I think for the
Speaker 1: information that TVs are collecting, it's not like your real
Speaker 1: time location per se. But you can also just easy fix.
Speaker 1: By the way, just don't connect it to Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: I know most of them are smart TVs, but just
Speaker 1: if you're worried, like for mine, I just don't have
Speaker 1: my connected to Wi Fi. Tanner, You're up, Kathy.
Speaker 15: I thought I could get AM in my radio.
Speaker 1: I think it's Kathy. Oh, Kathy.
Speaker 15: I thought I couldn't get AM radio in my Tesla,
Speaker 15: including KFI, but I found a workaround. If you tuned
Speaker 15: to Coast H two HD two, it carries the same
Speaker 15: talk programming as KFI. I tried it in my Tesla
Speaker 15: and it works, so I'm still still able to listen
Speaker 15: even with how AM.
Speaker 1: Yes, good job, Kathy. That is a digital radio subchannel.
Speaker 1: So if you have like HD radio in your car,
Speaker 1: A lot of times there's like subchannels and Yes Coast
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles one of three point five they simulcast
Speaker 1: KFI and you actually hear it in HD as well.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad you found that it's a good workaround
Speaker 1: for Tesla not having AM radio. Shame on you, Tesla.
Speaker 1: All right, Parker, you're up.
Speaker 4: Tom from Los Angeles, a KFI AM six forty listener
Speaker 4: writes in, Hey, Rich, I heard you on bill Handle
Speaker 4: talking about how a lot of us are leaving money
Speaker 4: on the table by not comparing Uber and Lyft before
Speaker 4: booking a ride. I tried it and saved over twenty
Speaker 4: dollars by choosing Lyft instead. That meant more money in
Speaker 4: my pocket and more for the driver's tip. Thanks for
Speaker 4: the advice, it really worked.
Speaker 1: Yes, I love it. What was his name again?
Speaker 4: His name was Tom to Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Tom, Great A great point. Yes, I mentioned that if
Speaker 1: you open up Uber and Lyft, you should be checking
Speaker 1: their prices because a lot of times they are different.
Speaker 1: I did this on my trip to Seattle this week,
Speaker 1: and I'm not kidding. It was amazing. It saved me,
Speaker 1: like I think at least twenty or thirty dollars on
Speaker 1: each way and I opened up Uber first, and then
Speaker 1: I opened up Lift and I just said, okay, which
Speaker 1: one's cheaper for the same type of ride, And sure
Speaker 1: enough it was Lift both ways and it was a
Speaker 1: significant difference. So definitely open up both apps. If you
Speaker 1: are taking ride Shairs, go ahead, Tanner, Okay, Leo, oh wait,
Speaker 1: I think it's my turn. Alan in New Jersey. If
Speaker 1: you are someone in your house has trouble hearing the TV,
Speaker 1: I've got a solution that finally worked for me. These
Speaker 1: are the Insignia RF wireless headphones from Best Buy. I
Speaker 1: tried everything before this, including Bluetooth. Most options were clunky
Speaker 1: or had annoying lag. These just work. I now own
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Speaker 1: You control the volume right on the headphones so everyone
Speaker 1: else can keep the TV at a normal level. And
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Speaker 1: The sound stays in sync perfectly. They're usually around ninety dollars.
Speaker 1: I've seen them drop as low as fifty dollars. They've
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Speaker 1: and yes, right now they're ninety nine dollars. The Insignia
Speaker 1: RF wireless over the ear headphones. I'll link them up
Speaker 1: on the website. But watch those price drops. Like Allan said, great,
Speaker 1: great tip, Allen's a lot of people are asking about that.
Speaker 1: All right, Tanner, now your turn, All right.
Speaker 15: Now it's my turn.
Speaker 5: Leo.
Speaker 15: I wanted to add a few notes to your last show,
Speaker 15: especially about watching TV when one person here is hearing impaired. First,
Speaker 15: on TV audio, most TVs only let you use one
Speaker 15: audio output at a time. On my TCLTV, you have
Speaker 15: to choose between the internal speakers HDMI, optical or Bluetooth.
Speaker 15: You usually cannot choose, usually cannot use Bluetooth and TV
Speaker 15: speakers at the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a problem. A lot of people say yeah.
Speaker 15: Because of that, one of the one of the best
Speaker 15: solutions is using a Bluetooth transmitter like the a van
Speaker 15: try you mentioned, plugging it, plugging it into the optical output.
Speaker 15: Thatt's one or two people listen on Bluetooth headphones while
Speaker 15: someone else can still listen through the TV speakers or
Speaker 15: a soundbar. I've also found that unless someone.
Speaker 1: Writing a book here, yeah, keep going, No, we love you, Leo.
Speaker 15: I've also found that unless someone has very severe hearing loss.
Speaker 15: Earbuds can work just as well as hearing aids for
Speaker 15: TV watching. The key is independent volume control. The hearing
Speaker 15: impaired person can turn their earbuds way up while their
Speaker 15: partner listens at a normal volume through the TV bottom line.
Speaker 15: Earbuds or Bluetooth headphones paired through a transmitter are often
Speaker 15: the most simple and flexible solution.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. Leo listens to every show and
Speaker 1: he writes me notes to tell me like what I
Speaker 1: got right, when I got wrong. Not not the Leo
Speaker 1: you're thinking of. It's another it's another Leo, unrelated to
Speaker 1: the previous Leo. Tim writes in I heard you talking
Speaker 1: about power adages. Wanted to share tip for our listeners.
Speaker 1: It really helps have at least one ups battery backup
Speaker 1: plugged in around the house. Even a small one can
Speaker 1: keep phones and other portable devices charged when the power
Speaker 1: goes out. I might be a little over the top,
Speaker 1: but I've got ten of them around my house. If
Speaker 1: the power goes out overnight, I've got lights to turn on,
Speaker 1: and it lets me shut down my computers properly. I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of APC ups units. About every three years.
Speaker 1: I take them to Batteries Plus to replace the batteries
Speaker 1: instead of buying new ones with my account. It costs
Speaker 1: around twenty two dollars each, which is way cheaper than
Speaker 1: replacing the whole ups. Good, good idea ups. But also
Speaker 1: one of these power banks, these giant power banks. All right,
Speaker 1: park weet less than a minute, so you gotta be
Speaker 1: very quick.
Speaker 4: Janis writes in about laptop letters fix, responding to the
Speaker 4: caller whose HP laptop letters disappeared almost immediately. Same thing
Speaker 4: happened to me. I bought stick on letters from Amazon
Speaker 4: and they've been on for months. It's been an awesome
Speaker 4: solution in works.
Speaker 1: All right, there you have it. I'll do one final
Speaker 1: one Joe and Palms, California. I love your newsletters, but
Speaker 1: those early alerts are a little rough. Five in the
Speaker 1: morning is a bit early for me. I'd be happy
Speaker 1: to read it when I actually wake up. Joe, turn
Speaker 1: off your notifications for random emails like mine. Come on,
Speaker 1: everybody has something to read with me. I feel lift out.
Speaker 1: Oh Bobo, we'll give you one next week. I yeah,
Speaker 1: we got to have the whole family do it. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it. For this episode of the show.
Speaker 1: You can find links everything I mentioned on the website
Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot tv. I'm on social media at
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Speaker 1: will join us. Thanks so much for listening. There are
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