WEBVTT - Amazon Echo home theater setup, best iPhone cleaner & privacy first wireless carrier Phreeli (152, December 13, 2025) 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:06.400 Celebrity impersonation scams drain billions from fans. Well, I didn't 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:09.680 see this one coming. Disney and Open Ai team up 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:14.800 to let fans create AI videos with Disney characters. A 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:18.560 new smart ring turns your finger into a memory button. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.520 Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:27.400 Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. This is the 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:29.680 show where I tech talk about the tech stuff I 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:31.760 think you should know about. It's also the place where 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.240 I answer your questions about technology. I believe that tech 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:39.599 should be interesting, useful, and fun. 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Later, we've got 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.679 Nick Merrill, he's gonna explain he's got a new carrier, 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:27.399 new wireless carrier they just launched. It's called Freely pH 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.280 R E E L I Freely like speak Freely. It's 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:35.440 a privacy first carrier sign up. I think they only 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:39.240 require a ZIP code. That's it. That's interesting. And then 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.760 later on Roberto Baldwin, he is a mobility journalist. He's 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:45.880 going to talk about some of the trends in the 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:51.240 transportation world. Well, I hope you are having a fantastic day. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.279 It is the holiday season. I am doing great wearing 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:59.720 my Windows Ugly Christmas sweater. So if you're tuning in 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:04.120 on the stream, it's not live stream, but on KTLA 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.800 Plus we stream the first ten minutes of the show 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.240 every week. You can download that app just about anywhere. 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.880 You can see what I'm wearing. And it is the 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.360 For a couple of years now, Microsoft has sent me 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.480 their annual Ugly Christmas sweater. I hate to call it 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.040 an ugly Christmas sweater because I think it's great. It's 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.240 got Clippy on it, it's got all their icons from 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.320 over the years. It's so great. Oh, it's a fun one. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.600 It's funny. I get sent so many ugly Christmas sweaters. 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.760 Every party I go to I get to wear one 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:37.000 of them, and it's always a conversation starter. But this 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:42.360 week I went to Amazon Studios. Amazon. It's just truly 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.919 unbelievable what they've done. So when I was in college, 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.880 I interned at these studios. It used to be called 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:55.120 Culver Studios, I believe. And the house you might recognize it, 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.760 I believe. Don't quote me on this. I believe it's 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.840 the house from Gone with the Wind. I'm pretty sure 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.639 that's or it inspired it or something. I should really 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.960 look up this stuff before I let me say Gone. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:15.160 I'm pretty sure. Let's see correct. The famous Tarra mansion 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:17.400 from Gone with the Wind was a temporary set built 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:21.799 on the backlot of Culver Studios. So I interned there. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.520 Back when I was in college, it was Columbia TriStar 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.160 and it was just a regular studio. Now it is Amazon. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.280 It is impressive what they've done with this place. I 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.120 was there for an event. They were showing off their 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.800 new Echo speakers that just came out. There's smaller than before. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.640 There's two of them. They've got the Echo Studio and 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.840 then they've got the Echo dot Max. Now, don't let 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.760 the name of the echo dot max deceive you. It 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.480 is still a very small echo device. And so I 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.920 did a whole demo. We went into a sound studio 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.320 where they had the demo with all these things linked 0:03:57.360 --> 0:03:59.840 up to the fire TV. And I did not know this, 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.400 but you can link up to five of these speakers 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.760 with an Amazon fireTV. Now it has to be very particular. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.080 You have to have one of the recent generation fireTV 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.080 sticks most of them, I think are the four K 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.040 versions in the last couple of years. And also you 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:18.039 can link them up to a fireTV cube and it 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:19.880 has to be a certain generation. I believe it's a 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.880 third generation. But I got through this demo and I'm 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:25.880 sitting there, I'm like, wait a second. You can do 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:30.080 surround sound just by plugging in a couple speakers around 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.400 a room without running all these wires and cables and 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.000 speaker wire and all this stuff. Said, hold on, I 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:39.880 want to try this. And so the programming also included 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:44.760 a fireside chat with OSCAR winning composer Chris Bauers. Young guy, 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:49.040 great guy, very cool. He did the audio for Wild 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.640 Robot or I guess I should say soundtrack for Wild 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:56.640 Robot and also The Last Repair Shop, which I've not seen. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.279 I did see Wild Robot. It was incredible, and he 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.479 just talked about how sound shapes what we see on 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.520 the screen, and how of course, because it was an 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.000 Amazon event and they're promoting this immersive audio, he talked 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:10.000 about how immersive audio is changing storytelling. So he said 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.000 two things that I really like. Number one, he said, 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.279 sound shapes what we see. There's so much about sound 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.040 we don't realize that defines how we experience a story. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.880 And think about that when you're watching a horror movie. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.000 The music, the way the things happen in the background 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.080 or in the corners of the screen, or the jump 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.760 scares that drives the storyline. Just what you hear, what 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.920 they're playing in the background as a character is doing something, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.719 affects not only how you feel about what's happening on screen, 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.040 but how you feel personally. Are you scared, are you tired, 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.920 are you angry? Are you happy? So that was really interesting. 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:45.640 And then the other one was on creativity, which I 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.680 really liked too. He said, I chase the naivete of 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.040 being a kid when you're young. Fear doesn't stop you. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.120 You just try things now. That one really resonated with me, 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.520 because the last time I was at those studios, I 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:02.760 was a college student and I was fearless. I mean, 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:06.000 of course I respected my elders, but I was going 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:09.239 to conquer the world back then. Now I will say, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.800 I'm very happy with what I've done in life, but 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.240 as an adult, I don't take half the risks I 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.839 took as a kid. I call myself a kid, but 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.400 as a college student, I would cold call people, I 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.599 would email people, I would send my resume to jobs 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.760 that I had no reason to be hired for whatsoever. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.680 And nowadays, of course, it's just not that way. And 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.920 so I loved what he said. I chase the naivety 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.760 of being a kid when you're young, Fear doesn't stop you. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.720 You just try things. And I see that in one 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.239 of my kids, actually probably both, but my older kid, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.360 he's fourteen, and he's just ready to take on the world, 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:47.760 kind of like the way I felt when I was 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.120 a kid, where I was going to do better than 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.440 my parents. That's the way he feels about me, which 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.920 is ironic because I feel like I've done pretty decent 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.760 for what I wanted, what I set out to do anyway. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.359 So they showed us, you know, the fireside presentation. Then 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.880 they showed us a clip of a movie with these speakers, 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.680 and it sounded great, and I immediately they sent us 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.240 home with one of the speakers. I connected it to 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.920 my fire Cube, I dusted off the dust, I did 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.920 all the software updates, and I connected this thing and 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:22.440 I was like, oh MG, this sounds incredible. And I 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.640 immediately went on Amazon and ordered three more of the 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.600 speakers to build out the full round. But I made 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.720 a mistake that I did not realize until I got 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.800 the speaker. So I got you know where I live, 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:34.960 you get stuff so quick from Amazon. So it came 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.480 the next day, next morning, basically, and I set them 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.160 all up. And I realized I was not being able 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.800 to set up all four of them together. It just 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.880 would only show me two at a time. And I 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.040 realized I bought two of the big speakers and two 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:49.560 of the small, or I had two of the big 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.160 two of the small. And I looked, of course, typical guy. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.120 I look in the directions afterwards, and it's like, oh no, 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.120 all speakers have to be the same. You have to 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:59.920 buy either four of the big ones or four of 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.560 the small ones. So my little mix and match thing 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.240 did not work. And I didn't realize that until I 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.360 read the help page, which, by the way, read the 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.440 help page in advance before you do something like this. 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.000 So I went back on Amazon. I said, okay, I 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.720 got to order two more of these speakers. Amazon cut 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.440 me off the website literally said sorry, you've reached your 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.080 purchase limit for these speakers. I said, what, So okay, 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.040 So I couldn't order those the big ones. I had 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.280 to order the smaller ones, and I had to order 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:26.760 them in a different color. That's the only way it 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.400 would let me order more. And so now I've got 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:32.199 so many of these speakers at my house. I set 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.480 them up. Last night we watched our first movie. I 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.600 was expecting it to be f one. It was not, 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.880 because we ended up watching a holiday movie. But it 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.079 just sounded great and it was so easy. I'm very impressed. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:43.920 So if you have my thesis here, if you have 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.319 an Amazon fireTV, check the help page. I'll link it 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.800 up on the website. Rich on tech dot tv. If 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.960 you can connect a couple of these echo speakers to 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.040 your device, I'm not kidding. It changes everything. And by 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.560 the way, you get all the benefits of having smart 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.520 speakers in your living room, which I know some people like, 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.520 some people don't. But you know, this morning, I was 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.560 just able to call out what I wanted to listen to, 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.040 ask Alex of questions, all kinds of stuff because these 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.600 speakers are now in my living room. And by the way, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.439 I've had Sonos for many years, and I thought about it. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.480 Sonos has sort of been keeping me from being on 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.840 the cutting edge with all of this smart speaker stuff 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.560 because I've been so invested in what they've done, and 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.360 they've been way behind the eight ball. I guess, okay, 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.440 are you behind the eight ball when you're bad at 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:31.160 something or you're behind Okay, so they're bad. They've been 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.320 bad about the smart speaker stuff. It's just it's not 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.640 very good. So now I feel like I am very much. 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.360 I can't wait to watch more movies. So check it out. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.120 I'll link it up on the website. I also figured 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.199 out fire TV auto plays a whole bunch of ads 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.160 when you first turn on your screen. I don't like that. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.760 You can go into your settings and turn that off. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.560 Did you know that? No, they're not going to advertise 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:58.280 that to you. So go into your settings preferences featured Content, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.360 and you'll see two options to turn off auto auto 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.640 play for video and auto play for audio. You can 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.240 mix and match those two, but I turn them all off. 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.600 So now my screen still shows ads, which, okay, what 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:14.240 are you gonna do? But it's much easier on the 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:15.800 eyes and the ears when you first turn it on 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.160 less Jarring rich on tech dot TV. I'll link up 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.440 all this information there. Rich on tech dot tv eight 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:25.439 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.520 eight eight eight rich one oh one. We are gonna 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:41.960 take your calls right after this. I meant to tell 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.640 you earlier, ran out of time, but I want to 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.320 tell you about the other systems that can do this 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.400 with the speakers. So Apple TV, if you have that, 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:54.600 you can connect home pods, Roku TV, not Roku players, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.520 but Roku TV. They've got these Roku wireless speakers you 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:03.400 can add. And then TCL has this thing called Dolby 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.360 at most flex connect. So that's a new thing that 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.360 I guess more TVs are probably gonna adopt over the years, 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:11.959 but they're the first out of the gate with it. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.000 I love the name of the speakers, z one hundred 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.480 wireless speakers like our station in New York. I love it. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.400 We're not on that station. I mean, we have a station, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.880 a prominent radio station in New York, and I did 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.839 see those at the Denver CDA show and very easy 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:32.280 to set up Google TV streamer. That's Google's version of 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:36.120 all this stuff. I cannot find any documentation that says 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.920 you can add speakers to that. Minus you could add 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.680 Bluetooth speakers, for sure, but I'm not sure that their 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.640 Nest speakers work with it. So anyway, lots of options 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.200 out there other than just getting a third party soundbar 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.280 with all that good stuff. All right, let's go to 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:56.480 Let's go to Brian in Atlanta. Brian, you're on with Rich. 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:58.360 Hey, how you doing? 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.280 I'm doing well? What can I help you with? 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:08.600 I got a new Comcast or Extinity router, and my 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:13.679 old iPads and a couple of old laptops will no 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.800 longer connect, and I'm wondering if there's anything I can do. 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.400 About Ooh, okay, so you're saying the word old. So 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.480 I'm guessing immediately that your Wi Fi router is putting 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.440 out a five gigahertz signal and your your iPads are 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.840 probably on the old two point four, That's what I'm guessing. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:35.560 Yes, the router does both a five and a two 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:36.880 point whatever. 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:41.199 Yeah, okay does Yeah. So when you when you go 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:45.000 on that iPad, do you see well, first off, did 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.480 you use the same SSID, like the same Wi Fi 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:50.559 network name and password on your new router or no? 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.199 Oh boy, I don't know. 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:55.600 Well, like, when you connect on it, is it the 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.000 same whatever your Wi Fi network name was. Is it 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.680 the same as before? Is just something different? 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:05.040 The slower speed is the same, the five G. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:07.719 Has got a new name. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.560 Okay, So it sounds to me like maybe these iPads 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:13.920 are trying to connect to the old network. So you 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:15.920 have to go in there, go in your list of 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.800 networks and delete the old network and then try to 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.280 reconnect them. I think that's going to work. So if 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.160 you go into settings on these I'm doing this on 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.360 the iPhone, but I think it's the same. You go 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.800 to settings, you go to Wi Fi, and then you 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:34.320 go into let's see edit in the upper right hand corner. 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.520 Okay, when I'm on Wi Fi. 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:40.440 You don't have to be on Wi Fi to do 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.840 this just yet. You can just do this on your iPad, 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.120 but just go you know, make sure the WiFi is 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.000 turned on, but just again go to settings Wi Fi 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.679 and then the upper right hand corner. If you're on now, 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.880 it's a little bit different. I'm on iOS twenty six. 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.480 If you're not. If these iPads are running older software, 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.040 there may be a different way to do this. But 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.320 you basically have to find a way to look at 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.480 your saved networks and so on the new iPhone, it 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.240 just says edit or no networks, and then you go 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.680 in there. You'll see a whole list of all the 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:12.839 saved networks. Find your old network and delete it. Press 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:14.880 the little red button and delete it. So I'm looking 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:19.160 at mine. I've got hundreds of networks saved on my iPhone. 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.440 Everything for my barber shop, to Snap when I went 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:28.000 to their offices, to Samsung, to all the very I 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.640 got a lot of stuff. I gotta clean this up. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.480 But I think it's getting confused because it's still trying 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.440 to use the old credentials on the new network that 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.040 might have the same name. So go in there, delete 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:41.120 the saved networks and if I'm just seeing saved Wi Fi. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.240 The new network has a different IP address or what No, I. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.200 Think it's just it might have a different password but 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.280 the same name, and I think it's just messing it up. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.480 And I think in general, if you forget that network, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.720 it's probably going to be better just to do that. Okay, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.360 So I'm looking at the uh yeah on the Wi 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:00.520 Fi on the Apple. Okay, let's see settings Wi Fi. Yeah, 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.320 So that's the thing you need to do. You need 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.280 to find your old network and reset it. Now if 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.000 none of that works, if you can't figure out how 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:10.360 to do that, there's something called the network settings network 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:14.360 settings reset. So if you go on your iPad and 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.520 find that setting, you can reset all of those settings 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.360 and then it'll probably find the new network that way. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:26.640 So I'll tell you where that is. That's under settings General. 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.800 Scroll all the way down where it says transfer or reset. 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.600 You tap that, and then you say, you tap reset 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.600 one more time, and you'll get a whole bunch of 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:41.320 options reset all settings, reset, network settings reset, there's a 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:42.720 whole bunch of other stuff. But you want to do 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:46.040 the reset network settings. That'll clear out all the old 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:49.440 settings on these iPads and then hopefully when you log 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.080 onto your new Wi Fi network or you go to 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.480 attached to it, connect to it, it will find it. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.560 So try that, Brian, let me know, send me an email, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.360 let me know if that works or not. Here's the deal. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:06.000 My recommendation. When you get a new Wi Fi router, 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.280 you know your cable company says, hey, you got an 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.720 old router, you gotta gotta upgrade to a new one. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.440 Use the same network settings that you used on your 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:20.000 old router. That's the SSID, that's your Wi Fi network name, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.400 and then also the password. And the reason why I 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.520 tell you to do that is because when you turn 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.440 on that new router, all your old gadgets will seamlessly 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.760 connect to that new router, that new Wi Fi hotspot 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.640 whatever you call it in your house. So that is 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.960 a little trick. I made that mistake one time, and 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.520 I've got so many smart gadgets in my house, all 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.080 these smart devices that are connected, and I upgraded my 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.440 router and I used a different SSID and a different password, 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:50.520 and guess what, I had to go around the house 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:53.920 for an hour and a half trying to reconnect everything. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:58.160 So if you upgrade your WiFi, use the same Wi 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.120 Fi network name and password exactly as it is on 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.719 your old router and all your gadgets will seamlessly find 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.080 the new router. Good question, Brian eight to eight rich 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.640 one O one eight eight eight seven four to two 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.879 four one zero one. The website for the show is 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:17.680 rich on tech dot tv. While you're there, be sure 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.720 to sign up for my free newsletter. This is show 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.600 episode one fifty two. All the show notes are right there. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:37.720 We'll be back right after this. Instagram this week is 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.639 kind of peeling back the kind of the just letting 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.479 you see your algorithm. This is an interesting new feature 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.880 that basically they say they're letting you choose the topics 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.480 that you want to see more or less of. I 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.880 think this is very basic and water down, but if 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.640 you want to see it, you can open up Instagram, 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:58.320 tap the reels tab at the bottom, and then there's 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.600 a menu icon on the upper right hand looks like 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:03.199 two little hearts with lines, and that will bring up 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.119 what they're calling your algorithm. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:05.239 Now. 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.000 I think they have a lot more data on you 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.439 than what they're revealing here, but it shows you a 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:13.080 couple of topics that you've been into recently, and you 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.200 can go in. You can kind of tweak those, change 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.600 them a little bit. Let me see what mine is 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.240 saying this morning. My algorithm this morning is saying, let's 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:23.280 see here. It's taking a second to come up. Lately, 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.159 you've been into innovation in the tech world, parenting life, 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.719 and Arizona's desert destinations. Okay, whatever that means. I mean 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.280 I did go to Arizona a couple weeks ago. And 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:33.800 then you can add things you want to see more of. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.720 So again, open up Instagram, tap reels at the bottom 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.399 menu icon upper right, and you can see your algorithm. 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:43.480 You can review your topics, add or remove topics to 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:48.160 customize your feed. All right, big, big deal that's happening 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.840 in play right now. Netflix is trying to buy Warner Brothers, 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.159 and then Paramount is kind of squeezing in there as well. 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.159 So here to talk about all of that and what 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.880 it means for us is Peter Kafka, chief correspondent at 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.600 Business Insider. He is the guy you want to follow 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.000 for all of this media information. He knows it all. Peter, 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:09.520 thanks for joining me today. 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:10.920 Thanks for having me Rich. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.320 So let's let's talk about this. So what did you 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.080 think when you saw this news? Was it a surprise? 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:23.119 It was surprising that Netflix won this auction for Paramount, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:27.840 Sorry for Warner Brothers Discovery. Lots of folks, including myself, 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:32.199 assumed the Paramount who started the bidding really earlier this 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:36.440 fall was going to end up winning Warner Brothers Discovery 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:41.280 in large part because David Ellison, who runs Paramount, his father, 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.280 Larry Ellison, is the second richest man in the world 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.320 depending on what day you ask, So they've got essentially 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:48.040 unlimited money. 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:49.520 Way, let me get that right. Hold on the guy, 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.920 the guy who runs Paramount, his dad is the guy 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:57.280 who started Oracle correct. Oh my gosh, wow. Yes. 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.159 So you'll often see headlines saying David Ellison wants to 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.440 do this, or David Ellison wants to do that. It's 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:06.040 really Larry Ellison, his dad, because his dad is bankrolling it. 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.240 In the same way that when I got out of college, 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:12.320 I bought a car, I bought a Toyota tur Cell, 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:13.240 but it was really. 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.400 My parents Toyota turtseell So. 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:16.240 That's what's going on there. 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:18.919 So, in addition to be very rich, Larry Elson is 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:22.600 also a longtime Donald Trump's supporter, and David Elson, who 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:24.919 was not really a Trump supporter but has really become 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:26.840 one in the last year as he's tried to get 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:32.199 this Paramount deal through, has been sort of nakedly sucking 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:37.240 up to Donald Trump, contorting himself to please Donald Trump 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:39.440 in the hopes that won he'd allowed him to buy 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:41.320 a Paramount, and now that he allowed him to buy 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.320 Warner Brothers Discovery. So that's the longest. The short answer is, yeah, 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.160 I thought Paramount would get it, not Netflix. 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.800 So Netflix, Okay, So why does Netflix want this? They've 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:52.160 built this business from scratch, They've got, you know, incredible 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:55.800 market share with their streaming. Everything they've done I think 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:58.960 I believe is uh, you know, it's kind of like 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:01.320 the new way of doing things versus the old way, 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:02.640 which is Warner Brothers. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:06.240 So why do they want this studio? Yeah, it's a 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.640 good question. It's unlike anything Netflix has ever done. They 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:13.960 never do big acquisitions. Really, They've bought almost nothing to date, 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:16.280 and their argument has always been why should we go 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:19.120 buy a media company when we can create our own 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:21.280 media company and take the money we'd use to buy 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:23.520 an HBO or something like that and just put it 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:27.520 into programming. So we don't really know if they're thinking 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:30.080 this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:33.440 a giant movie studio and to own HBO, and it's 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.480 just too good to pass up, or is it. Hey, 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:40.080 our growth is slowing and we have more competition, and 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:42.879 we need something to help differentiate us. It can be 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:46.359 a little bit of both. It's one of the ironies. 0:21:46.520 --> 0:21:49.840 If you're old, you remember in twenty thirteen, when Netflix 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:52.560 was just starting to do its own original programming, it 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.960 did House of Cards, which is deliberately an HBO style show, 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:02.040 and Ted Sarandos, who's now the CEO of Netflix, famously said, 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:05.240 the goal is to become HBO faster. 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:07.040 Than HBO can become us. 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:08.840 And so for a long time, a lot of us 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.040 thought that Netflix was trying to be HBO because that's 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:13.040 what they said. It turns out Netflix was just trying 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:15.440 to become TV, and that's what they've done. They've become 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:20.119 sort of just everything that's on TV. That said, I 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:23.520 think they could probably still use HBO's higher end content 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:26.360 to help differentiate themselves. So I think on a simple level, 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:27.960 that's what they're looking at, because. 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:30.320 They're gonna get a lot of back catalog of shows 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:32.160 and movies and things like that. Is there stuff they're 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:34.160 not getting like I see on Warner Brothers, they've got 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:37.159 like CNN, Discovery, Food Network, is all that part of this? 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:40.760 Or no, No, Warner Brothers only wants the movie Studio 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.760 and HBO. That's also what Comcast, who is also bidding, wanted. 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:48.120 It's also, frankly what anyone who was looking at at 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:52.439 Warner Brothers Discovery wants. We don't really think Paramount wants 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.480 CNN and those cable channels. The plan their pitch is 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:59.880 to buy them. Our thought, I'm just speaking is sort 0:22:59.880 --> 0:23:02.600 of the conventional wisdom is they they were just doing 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:04.720 that because they thought it'd be a cleaner deal, just 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:07.680 easier to buy all of Warner Brothers Discovery than to 0:23:07.720 --> 0:23:11.399 buy part of it. That's no longer an issue, but 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:13.440 for now they're saying we will buy the whole thing, 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:16.920 including CNN. That's also relevant because Donald Trump has said 0:23:17.000 --> 0:23:20.359 I think CNN should have new owners, which again suggests. 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:21.919 That maybe he will favor that Paramount bid. 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:25.000 So what about consumers and all this? I mean, I 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:27.680 am already paying thirty four dollars a month for Netflix. Yes, 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:30.040 I pay for my mom's Netflix. So that's why I'm 0:23:30.040 --> 0:23:31.760 paying a little bit more than a lot of people. 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:34.080 But what does it mean? I mean, and I'm also 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:36.280 paying for HBO max. Am I going to be a 0:23:36.920 --> 0:23:39.960 cheaper bundle here or are we expecting this to be 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:41.919 more expensive come the future. 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:46.880 I have never seen prices come down for anything anywhere. Ever, 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:50.159 prices are always going to go up. I think is 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:53.440 there potential that there's a Netflix HBO bundle? 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:54.399 I think absolutely. 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:57.960 I think there's an offer at some point where Netflix 0:23:57.960 --> 0:24:01.119 says to its customer, like half or more of HBO 0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:04.680 customers have Netflix, but not all Netflix customers have HBO, 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:07.000 and Netflix could say, hey, if you're already paying sh 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:10.760 for Netflix, instead of paying fifteen or twenty bucks for HBO, 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:11.960 we can sell it to you for. 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:13.199 Eight bucks or ten bucks. 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:15.679 Netflix hasn't come out and said that's what their plan is, 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:18.720 but I wouldn't be surprised if they do that eventually. 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:22.080 Important thing is, even if this deal gets sort of 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:26.359 finalized in the next few weeks, probably months, none of 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:28.600 this is going to happen for at least twelve months, 0:24:28.640 --> 0:24:31.480 really closer to eighteen months, maybe even two years before 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:34.040 any of this actually goes into effect. 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:36.280 What do you make of all the changes we've seen 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:38.159 in streaming. I mean, I get that this is a 0:24:38.240 --> 0:24:41.560 relatively young industry, and we've watched it kind of grow 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:44.679 from the Rokus of the world and the Netflixes of 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:47.879 the world to now you know, Apple TV Studios and 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:52.440 Amazon owns owns MGM. I mean, there's just so much 0:24:52.480 --> 0:24:54.760 going on with these tech companies. What else is going 0:24:54.800 --> 0:24:55.160 to happen? 0:24:55.200 --> 0:24:57.600 Do you think, Well, we assume there's going to be 0:24:57.640 --> 0:25:01.840 more consolidation every All of the big media companies that 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:05.480 own what we would call basic cable stations are all 0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:06.359 trying to get rid of them. 0:25:06.400 --> 0:25:06.920 Warner Bros. 0:25:06.960 --> 0:25:10.600 Discovery is trying to get rid of CNN and Discovery 0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:11.600 and Food Network. 0:25:13.480 --> 0:25:15.199 MTV is shutting down. Is that true? 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:17.760 Don't that part confuses me? I don't think it is 0:25:17.840 --> 0:25:21.160 shutting down. It's it's a brand that is important to Paramount. Still, 0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:25.840 they don't have many brands, but Comcast is handing over 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:28.000 most of their cable channels. They're turning that into a 0:25:28.040 --> 0:25:31.120 new company called versant A and E is dumping theirs. 0:25:31.320 --> 0:25:35.280 So we're seeing the slow death of cable television. That's 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:37.960 not a surprise. Most people listening to this probably don't 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:40.720 pay for cable television. Directly anymore. But still people still 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:43.280 do those businesses still exist, They're going away. They are 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:45.959 going to get replaced with streaming, and there is going 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:47.360 to be more consolidation. 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:51.560 You will see more of this if sports was not 0:25:51.640 --> 0:25:53.880 part of the cable tv package, which right now they're 0:25:53.920 --> 0:25:55.600 still hanging on to that because a lot of the 0:25:55.640 --> 0:25:59.080 cable TV companies own the sports streaming or the sports channels, 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:03.840 would be a much faster kind of downward spiral. I 0:26:03.880 --> 0:26:06.639 think let's talk about this real quick before you go. 0:26:06.920 --> 0:26:09.720 Disney open Ai. Did you see that one coming? I mean, 0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:12.639 this is like, these are two huge companies teaming up 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:15.040 in this one billion dollar at least a billion dollar 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:19.359 agreement where you'll now be able to use Disney characters 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:22.000 to generate AI images and video. 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:25.160 It's a little interesting that open ai got that deal 0:26:25.200 --> 0:26:27.320 done just because open ai has been sort of like 0:26:27.440 --> 0:26:31.480 stumbling around when it comes to intellectual property and Hollywood. 0:26:31.480 --> 0:26:34.879 They came out with this image video generation app earlier 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:37.520 this year called Sora, which was just kind of a 0:26:37.560 --> 0:26:40.119 free for all kind of let you take your friends 0:26:40.119 --> 0:26:44.000 but also people who are actual celebrities and famous people 0:26:44.280 --> 0:26:47.080 and do mashups of videos with them. And didn't really 0:26:47.080 --> 0:26:50.600 get permission for it. They seem to be following the 0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:53.840 you know, ask for forgiveness not permission thing that most 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:56.600 of the big tech guys do. But you have thought 0:26:56.640 --> 0:26:59.800 that they would eventually make some deals. Disney is more 0:26:59.800 --> 0:27:03.440 so because Disney is so protective of their intellectual property, 0:27:03.880 --> 0:27:07.520 and here they're saying to open AI yep, take two 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:12.320 hundred of our famous brands, characters, et cetera, and let 0:27:12.359 --> 0:27:15.840 people do user generated content with them. The upside for 0:27:15.880 --> 0:27:18.680 that is maybe they do cool stuff and people discover people. 0:27:18.840 --> 0:27:21.040 This helps to expose Mickey Mouse to a whole bunch 0:27:21.040 --> 0:27:24.320 of new people. The bad side is who knows what 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:26.240 people are going to make with that user generated content. 0:27:26.280 --> 0:27:26.879 They're supposed to. 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:29.920 Be guardrails against that, but if you've ever gone onto 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:32.720 YouTube or Back of the Day in MySpace or TikTok, 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:34.840 you know there's a real limit to how much policing 0:27:34.880 --> 0:27:37.760 you can do when the users are creating content. 0:27:37.800 --> 0:27:40.760 So that's interesting, all right, Peter Kafka, We're going to 0:27:40.840 --> 0:27:44.160 leave it there, Chief correspondent at Business Insider, Go follow him, 0:27:44.359 --> 0:27:47.360 read his stuff if you're interested in media and technology. 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:50.240 Really great stuff, Peter, Thank you, so much for joining 0:27:50.240 --> 0:27:50.639 me today. 0:27:50.960 --> 0:27:52.040 Thank you, rich Sie. 0:27:52.160 --> 0:27:54.240 All right, coming up, we're going to take some more 0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:56.360 of your calls at Triple eight rich one on one 0:27:56.480 --> 0:27:59.320 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:27:59.440 --> 0:27:59.680 God. 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:02.280 Email from Steve said, thanks a lot, rich I just 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:06.280 ordered four Max speakers and fire TV. It's all your fault, Hey, 0:28:06.280 --> 0:28:08.359 don't blame me. I'm just a messenger back after this. 0:28:16.600 --> 0:28:20.639 Lewis is in Riverside. Lewis you're there, Yeah, I. 0:28:20.760 --> 0:28:23.760 Am rich Okay, here's my question. I have a Moto 0:28:23.880 --> 0:28:28.439 gene stylist five Gen twenty twenty two on the Metro 0:28:28.560 --> 0:28:31.879 PCs network subsidiary, you know, key Mobile. 0:28:32.040 --> 0:28:33.960 Sure, and I don't. 0:28:33.680 --> 0:28:37.120 Have the ability to schedule sending a text message? 0:28:37.560 --> 0:28:37.959 Why not? 0:28:39.960 --> 0:28:44.080 I do not know my friend, you know, different phone, 0:28:44.080 --> 0:28:47.800 different network. I'm he can hit the little three buttons 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:50.720 and it says, you know, in the up right hand corner, 0:28:51.000 --> 0:28:52.200 schedule sending. 0:28:51.840 --> 0:28:52.680 A text message. 0:28:52.800 --> 0:28:56.680 Sure, And I hit that little button and that option 0:28:56.760 --> 0:28:58.920 doesn't come up it. I can add people on a 0:28:58.960 --> 0:29:03.840 text message, different stuff, but not that that's the thing 0:29:03.880 --> 0:29:07.480 I want? And is there a way to add that? 0:29:07.880 --> 0:29:11.040 Or is that not offered on this phone? Or offered 0:29:11.080 --> 0:29:12.600 by metro PCs. 0:29:12.760 --> 0:29:14.960 Well it should be offered. So a couple of things 0:29:15.000 --> 0:29:18.400 to look at. Number one, the messaging app that you're using. 0:29:18.440 --> 0:29:20.760 Do you know what app you're using, or using Motorolas 0:29:20.840 --> 0:29:22.120 or using Google Messages. 0:29:23.240 --> 0:29:25.440 I'm just using whatever came out phone it we have 0:29:25.520 --> 0:29:26.320 to be Motorolas. 0:29:26.400 --> 0:29:29.480 Okay, so download this is this is actually a pretty 0:29:29.520 --> 0:29:32.640 easy fix. You just have to download Google Messages. And 0:29:33.040 --> 0:29:37.640 are you yeah, so Google Messages, you know you're talking. 0:29:37.680 --> 0:29:39.720 Your phone is from twenty twenty two, so they probably, 0:29:40.000 --> 0:29:42.200 you know, Motorola might have had their own messaging app 0:29:42.200 --> 0:29:45.040 that they were using. Almost all of the major providers 0:29:45.040 --> 0:29:48.160 have on Android have switched over to Google Messages because 0:29:48.160 --> 0:29:53.760 it supports what's called RCS. So RCS is Rich Communication Services. 0:29:53.840 --> 0:29:58.400 It basically allows Android users to text with iPhone users 0:29:58.400 --> 0:30:00.920 and each other in a much better way. It's a 0:30:01.000 --> 0:30:06.280 much more modern texting protocol. And so you can send 0:30:06.760 --> 0:30:11.120 through large photos, large videos, you can see typing indicators 0:30:11.160 --> 0:30:13.280 and all that stuff. And part of that is the 0:30:13.320 --> 0:30:16.920 ability to schedule a message as well. So I'm looking 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:20.040 at Google Messages right here on my phone, and it's 0:30:20.080 --> 0:30:23.160 saying that if I want to schedule a message, I 0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:26.200 just dial a number, get into that sort of call 0:30:26.280 --> 0:30:28.840 area or that text area, and there's a plus sign 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:31.800 lower left hand corner, a whole bunch of options, including 0:30:32.200 --> 0:30:34.720 attach a file, location, contacts, and one of them is 0:30:34.840 --> 0:30:38.400 schedule send, and I get the options for later today, 0:30:38.480 --> 0:30:40.760 later tonight, tomorrow, or I can pick a date in time. 0:30:41.160 --> 0:30:46.160 So again to review Lewis Google Messages, look for it 0:30:46.200 --> 0:30:49.720 in the apps in the Google Play Store and you 0:30:49.760 --> 0:30:53.160 can download that. All your text messages will follow over. 0:30:53.360 --> 0:30:55.280 So if you have a whole bunch of texts already 0:30:55.320 --> 0:30:57.880 on your phone, they will all follow over to the 0:30:58.240 --> 0:31:00.680 new app and they'll just be there. And then you 0:31:00.680 --> 0:31:04.040 should make sure that RCS is enabled on your device 0:31:04.520 --> 0:31:07.640 and is enabled on Google Messages. You can go into settings. 0:31:07.640 --> 0:31:10.400 It should automatically kind of activate, but it should be 0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:12.520 activated there in the settings, or you should be able 0:31:12.520 --> 0:31:14.720 to check if it's activated in the settings. And then 0:31:14.760 --> 0:31:18.640 once you've got that, then you can use this feature. Now, 0:31:18.920 --> 0:31:21.680 I know that on iPhone you can only use the 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:25.320 scheduled messaging if you are texting another person on I Message, 0:31:25.800 --> 0:31:28.320 and so that's just a limitation that Apple is built 0:31:28.360 --> 0:31:31.840 into the phone. I don't know why, but it's something 0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:35.400 that you can do with anyone that's using rcs on 0:31:35.560 --> 0:31:39.280 the Android side of things, which includes Android users and 0:31:39.320 --> 0:31:42.600 of course iPhone users as well, because when Apple does things, 0:31:42.760 --> 0:31:45.960 they only do it to favor the people that use iPhones, 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:49.200 and when Google does stuff, they do to favor everyone. 0:31:49.240 --> 0:31:52.040 They don't kind of pick and choose where things work, 0:31:52.200 --> 0:31:53.959 and that's what I really like about how they kind 0:31:54.000 --> 0:31:57.800 of approach things. Apple's great, it's amazing. They do great stuff, 0:31:58.040 --> 0:32:01.880 but ninety nine percent of it is favoring their other products. 0:32:02.240 --> 0:32:04.479 Whereas Google and Android, a lot of people say, oh, 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:06.680 why doesn't Android have this, Why doesn't Google have this? 0:32:06.720 --> 0:32:08.960 Why don't you just build this in They have one 0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:13.400 hundred different vendors, all building their own phones, all making 0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:17.680 slight little tweaks on the software, all different hardware specs, 0:32:18.160 --> 0:32:21.800 and so it's not as easy for Google on Android 0:32:21.880 --> 0:32:24.719 to roll something out to everyone all at once like 0:32:24.760 --> 0:32:27.480 it is on Apple, where they control every single aspect 0:32:27.560 --> 0:32:31.400 of every single phone running iOS. They know exactly how 0:32:31.400 --> 0:32:34.160 to tweak things for iOS because they're the only company, 0:32:34.200 --> 0:32:38.040 they're the only pump place that makes it. So with 0:32:38.160 --> 0:32:41.640 Android it's a lot tougher because a much bigger open ecosystem, 0:32:41.960 --> 0:32:44.600 and that's why we don't always get everything on Android 0:32:45.000 --> 0:32:47.640 first day, you know, like some of these features that 0:32:47.680 --> 0:32:50.040 they roll out, it takes a while. Like they just 0:32:50.080 --> 0:32:53.800 added air drop to the pixel or I guess their 0:32:53.880 --> 0:32:56.360 version of it. It's compatible with air drop, and all 0:32:56.360 --> 0:32:59.160 these Samsung people of course want the same thing, but 0:32:59.200 --> 0:33:01.560 they can't get it first day because now Samsung has 0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:03.960 to go in and like check out one thousand phones 0:33:03.960 --> 0:33:05.320 that they make and figure out how to make this 0:33:05.360 --> 0:33:10.320 work with that. So it's a lot. New gadget this week. 0:33:10.360 --> 0:33:13.320 Gadget of the Week is the Pebble Index oh one. 0:33:13.880 --> 0:33:16.000 This turns your finger into a memory button. It's a 0:33:16.040 --> 0:33:18.840 tiny ring that lets you capture ideas, reminders, and notes 0:33:19.200 --> 0:33:21.600 without pulling out your phone. So it's a small smart ring. 0:33:21.760 --> 0:33:24.080 It's got a physical button in a microphone. You press 0:33:24.080 --> 0:33:25.600 the button, you say what you want, and it's sent 0:33:25.640 --> 0:33:29.600 to your phone and you can capture reminders, notes, calendar items, 0:33:29.640 --> 0:33:33.280 simple actions, no wake words. It's not always listening. It 0:33:33.320 --> 0:33:36.320 only records when the button is pressed. It does work offline. 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:38.360 It is not needed an Internet connection. Nothing's sent to 0:33:38.400 --> 0:33:42.520 the cloud, no paid subscription, battery lasts, about two years. 0:33:43.000 --> 0:33:46.160 Works with iPhone and Android, and if your phone's not 0:33:46.200 --> 0:33:48.600 in nearby, it'll still store about five minutes of audio. 0:33:49.080 --> 0:33:52.200 So it's a ring that makes your finger smart and 0:33:52.480 --> 0:33:54.880 remembers things. I can't wait to get this thing. I 0:33:54.920 --> 0:33:58.719 love taking voice memos. It's seventy five dollars on pre 0:33:58.880 --> 0:34:01.520 order now. The price will write to ninety nine dollars 0:34:01.520 --> 0:34:05.120 when it ships. It's gonna ship March twenty twenty six. 0:34:05.160 --> 0:34:07.760 And again, this is the guy who created the Pebble Watch. 0:34:08.200 --> 0:34:10.399 He also created Beeper, remember that back in the day, 0:34:11.360 --> 0:34:13.760 not the Beeper, but Beeper app. It was like a 0:34:13.760 --> 0:34:16.360 app that would bring all your messaging in line together. 0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:18.920 They still have it, but the people who bought people 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:22.640 who make WordPress, bought it from them anyway. Pebble Index 0:34:22.800 --> 0:34:25.359 zero one. I cannot wait to get that very very 0:34:25.400 --> 0:34:29.399 simple smart ring coming up. Uh Android gets live video 0:34:29.480 --> 0:34:31.319 to nine one one calls. Tell you about that and 0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:40.560 more of your calls. Next. Welcome back to rich on 0:34:40.640 --> 0:34:43.560 Tech Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology 0:34:43.760 --> 0:34:47.799 at triple eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 0:34:47.960 --> 0:34:51.280 seven four to two four one zero one. The website 0:34:51.280 --> 0:34:55.120 for the show is richontech Dot TV. If you're not 0:34:55.160 --> 0:34:57.879 following me on Instagram, I am at Rich on Tech. 0:34:57.920 --> 0:34:58.800 Do you see the theme? 0:34:59.360 --> 0:34:59.560 Yeah? 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:04.320 I think figured it out. This week. Android added live 0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:07.640 video to nine one one calls. Now I say they did, 0:35:07.680 --> 0:35:10.399 but this is rolling out, and in Google's terms, when 0:35:10.400 --> 0:35:12.719 they say rolling out, I'm not kidding. I just got 0:35:12.760 --> 0:35:15.919 access to Gemini on my home speakers and they're rolling 0:35:15.960 --> 0:35:19.120 it out for like months. I saw that feature last year, 0:35:19.560 --> 0:35:21.839 so it takes them a while. And again it goes 0:35:21.880 --> 0:35:23.400 back to what I was saying about all the different 0:35:23.440 --> 0:35:26.800 makes and models of these phones and Android software versions. 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:30.839 But they're doing this through Google Play Services, which very complicated. 0:35:30.880 --> 0:35:35.000 But let me just explain the way an Android phone works. 0:35:35.480 --> 0:35:38.640 There's sort of two levels of updates. You've got the 0:35:38.719 --> 0:35:41.759 updates that the manufacturer makes on their software, that's the 0:35:41.800 --> 0:35:45.319 operating system, and then you've got something called Google Play Services, 0:35:45.680 --> 0:35:48.560 and those are the core updates that Google makes to 0:35:48.760 --> 0:35:52.200 Android itself. Like basically, they could roll out little features 0:35:52.320 --> 0:35:54.839 and push them onto phones no matter who the maker 0:35:54.880 --> 0:35:57.799 of that phone is, you know, within reason. So that's 0:35:57.800 --> 0:36:00.439 what they're doing here with emergency live video. Role out 0:36:00.480 --> 0:36:03.600 allows you to share a live video feed with nine 0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:07.400 one one responders obviously designed to help in medical emergencies. 0:36:07.440 --> 0:36:10.120 They can walk you through CPR. If you're lost, you 0:36:10.120 --> 0:36:12.560 can show them where you are, you're under high stress, 0:36:12.600 --> 0:36:15.400 you're hiding like a hostage situation, you can, you know, 0:36:15.440 --> 0:36:18.480 maybe just show some video and they can help figure 0:36:18.480 --> 0:36:22.120 out where you are or what to do. Responders must 0:36:22.200 --> 0:36:25.640 request the video. You have to approve it. It's all encrypted. 0:36:25.680 --> 0:36:28.160 You can stop it at any time. Apple got this 0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:30.680 feature last year on the iPhone. They call it Apple's 0:36:30.719 --> 0:36:36.200 Emergency SOS Live Video. So this is rolling out. Keep 0:36:36.200 --> 0:36:38.560 in mind all the nine one one dispatch centers, they 0:36:38.560 --> 0:36:42.000 all have varying levels of ability because they all have 0:36:42.040 --> 0:36:45.080 different software, they all run different programs. It's not nine 0:36:45.120 --> 0:36:47.320 on one is not a national thing here in the US, 0:36:47.760 --> 0:36:52.960 so it's individual jurisdictions that run nine one one, and 0:36:53.040 --> 0:36:54.640 so you have to just keep in mind this may 0:36:54.640 --> 0:36:57.560 not be available everywhere and you can't start it anyway. 0:36:57.600 --> 0:36:59.759 They have to ask for it. So if you get that, 0:37:00.320 --> 0:37:01.839 if you ever call nine one one, hopefully you don't 0:37:01.840 --> 0:37:04.600 have to, but if you ever get that, request live video, 0:37:04.680 --> 0:37:09.040 like wait, what is this now? You know? Email from 0:37:09.400 --> 0:37:15.080 Beverly Beverly says information on my Google calendar disappears after 0:37:15.160 --> 0:37:17.440 a few weeks. I feel like I should go back 0:37:17.480 --> 0:37:20.719 to paper. My event history is missing. Is there a 0:37:20.719 --> 0:37:24.360 way to keep everything available? Or is my past gone? Beverly, 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:27.319 no matter how many ghosts you have in your past, 0:37:27.360 --> 0:37:30.120 still never be gone. Those skeletons in the closet are 0:37:30.160 --> 0:37:32.799 following you around everywhere. Now I'm just kidding. We're talking 0:37:32.800 --> 0:37:36.040 about your Google calendar. Here. Here's what happens. I get 0:37:36.040 --> 0:37:39.439 this question. No less than once a week someone says 0:37:39.480 --> 0:37:42.239 my calendar is gone. No, it's not gone. Go to 0:37:42.600 --> 0:37:46.359 If you're using Google Calendar, you can confirm I have 0:37:46.440 --> 0:37:49.080 every single calendar appointment from the beginning of time on 0:37:49.120 --> 0:37:51.919 my calendar. You can go to calendar dot Google dot 0:37:51.960 --> 0:37:55.840 com from a desktop computer and just tap the search 0:37:55.920 --> 0:37:59.239 and search for something from whenever. I mean, I just 0:37:59.280 --> 0:38:02.800 search birthday and I can go back to the beginning 0:38:02.840 --> 0:38:07.080 of time on my calendar whatever, whatever restaurant you go to, 0:38:07.520 --> 0:38:11.319 so it's there. Google does not delete this stuff. They 0:38:11.360 --> 0:38:14.560 do not delete your calendar entries. Now, the app that 0:38:14.640 --> 0:38:18.680 you're using to access your calendar on your phone or 0:38:18.719 --> 0:38:22.640 your computer may not sink all of the calendar entries. 0:38:22.680 --> 0:38:27.080 Why because it's a big project to sink ten years 0:38:27.120 --> 0:38:30.000 worth of calendar entries. So typically they only sink a 0:38:30.000 --> 0:38:32.839 certain amount. Now, if you go on the iPhone, if 0:38:32.840 --> 0:38:35.680 you're using the iPhone calendar, which Beverly maybe you are, 0:38:36.800 --> 0:38:41.600 go to settings Apps Calendar and you'll see where it 0:38:41.640 --> 0:38:42.280 says sink. 0:38:42.480 --> 0:38:42.640 Now. 0:38:42.640 --> 0:38:45.040 I have mindset to all events because I just like 0:38:45.080 --> 0:38:47.960 to roll that way. But typically you can do two 0:38:48.000 --> 0:38:51.839 events or two weeks back, one month back, three months back, 0:38:51.920 --> 0:38:53.480 or six months back. I mean, how many times have 0:38:53.520 --> 0:38:55.439 you had to look at an event more than six 0:38:55.480 --> 0:38:58.040 months back? So I think, Beverly, you got to change 0:38:58.080 --> 0:39:04.520 those settings on your sink. And then on Android, let's 0:39:04.560 --> 0:39:07.040 look at the Google Calendar app. I've not looked at this, 0:39:07.120 --> 0:39:10.719 so I'm going into settings. I'm guessing it's all there. 0:39:10.840 --> 0:39:12.719 Let me see general, let's see is there a way 0:39:12.760 --> 0:39:16.880 to sink a certain amount? Let's see here does not say, 0:39:18.000 --> 0:39:20.919 does not say? Okay, so I don't think they have 0:39:21.080 --> 0:39:26.560 a sink amount on here because it's just Google. I 0:39:26.560 --> 0:39:29.040 think they just pull it from the cloud. Yeah, so 0:39:29.239 --> 0:39:30.880 you don't need to really sink on there. It's just 0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:33.520 gonna automatically come up anyway, whatever app you're using, you 0:39:33.560 --> 0:39:37.200 may just have to sink more time. Let's go to 0:39:37.640 --> 0:39:41.040 DEVN in Las Vegas. Devin, you're on with Rich. 0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:43.680 Hey, what's going on? 0:39:43.840 --> 0:39:44.080 Rich? 0:39:44.120 --> 0:39:48.400 Happy Saturday, my brother. It's always a pleasure to listen 0:39:48.440 --> 0:39:52.480 to the show. Yeah, thank you, Oh oh my pleasure. 0:39:52.560 --> 0:39:55.720 Thank you man. There's so many questions that I didn't 0:39:55.760 --> 0:39:58.360 know I had just by listening that you answered. 0:39:58.440 --> 0:39:59.359 So thank you. 0:39:59.600 --> 0:40:01.080 Oh that's good. I thought you were going to say 0:40:01.080 --> 0:40:05.640 you have more questions after you listen, because that's a problem. 0:40:06.280 --> 0:40:06.440 Rich. 0:40:06.480 --> 0:40:08.120 I love what you talk about, but I don't understand 0:40:08.120 --> 0:40:09.920 any of it. I'm like, well, I'm not doing my 0:40:10.040 --> 0:40:12.440 job right then, No, You're. 0:40:12.200 --> 0:40:15.200 Doing an excellent job, man, And and that's why I'm 0:40:15.239 --> 0:40:17.560 tuned in every Saturday with. 0:40:17.560 --> 0:40:17.959 You, brother. 0:40:18.480 --> 0:40:18.800 Thank you. 0:40:19.200 --> 0:40:22.560 My question here, of course, my question today. So I 0:40:23.400 --> 0:40:26.960 have a project I'm trying to do, probably some maybe 0:40:27.040 --> 0:40:30.480 i'll say, sixty sixty five inch TVs. I want to 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:34.120 buy four of those and put them on the wall 0:40:34.280 --> 0:40:38.840 here and put two side by side and two on top. 0:40:38.719 --> 0:40:39.320 Of each other. 0:40:39.840 --> 0:40:43.000 And my question is if I do that as opposed 0:40:43.040 --> 0:40:45.720 to having all the TVs on at the same time 0:40:46.160 --> 0:40:50.000 and me watching the same game on four different to 0:40:50.080 --> 0:40:53.479 four different sets. Is there a way, Well, I'm sure 0:40:53.480 --> 0:40:57.320 there's a way. How can I make all of those? 0:40:57.719 --> 0:41:00.160 Or is it possible in this case to make all 0:41:00.239 --> 0:41:02.920 one game in this situation instead of playing on all 0:41:02.960 --> 0:41:07.040 four TVs, just be playing as it's just the four 0:41:07.320 --> 0:41:07.920 making one. 0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:10.200 Okay, you want to merge you want to merge the 0:41:10.239 --> 0:41:12.880 four TVs into what's you want to make a video wall? Basically? 0:41:13.680 --> 0:41:14.160 Yes, sir? 0:41:14.239 --> 0:41:16.440 Okay, I mean have you done this before? Have you 0:41:16.480 --> 0:41:18.239 tried this? What's this for? Is it for a bar 0:41:18.520 --> 0:41:19.360 like your house or what? 0:41:20.719 --> 0:41:22.400 No, it's it's just for the house. 0:41:23.160 --> 0:41:26.000 Oh wow, okay, well, I mean it can be done. 0:41:26.160 --> 0:41:28.160 And I saw it's funny you say this because I 0:41:28.160 --> 0:41:30.840 sat and I was mesmerized by a YouTube video about this. 0:41:30.960 --> 0:41:33.120 I watched the whole thing. It was like thirty minutes 0:41:33.480 --> 0:41:35.600 the guy and there's there's so many of them. So 0:41:35.800 --> 0:41:38.040 the best place to look for this is really YouTube. 0:41:38.320 --> 0:41:40.560 They have so many of these people, these YouTubers, they 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:43.839 you know, these DIY people. They change their basement into 0:41:44.160 --> 0:41:46.560 a video wall because you know, you can use it 0:41:46.600 --> 0:41:48.719 for various reasons. You can make you know, like you're 0:41:48.760 --> 0:41:50.880 saying you can watch content on it, but you can 0:41:50.920 --> 0:41:53.760 also make it look like an outdoor windows and things 0:41:53.800 --> 0:41:55.799 like that. So there's a lot you can do with this. 0:41:56.160 --> 0:41:58.640 The main thing is it takes a little bit to 0:41:58.680 --> 0:42:01.560 do this. It's not straight forward. It is not as 0:42:01.600 --> 0:42:05.640 simple as taking the output from your cable box and 0:42:05.719 --> 0:42:08.359 just splitting it four ways and it's all gonna work. No, no, no, 0:42:08.520 --> 0:42:11.600 that would be way too easy. You know, these TVs, 0:42:12.200 --> 0:42:15.719 it's you need number one, you need a video wall 0:42:15.840 --> 0:42:20.239 kind of controller and so it's an HDMI device that's uh, 0:42:20.360 --> 0:42:23.120 some of them, you know. For you you're talking four TVs, 0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:25.560 so a two by two, right, and so you would 0:42:25.560 --> 0:42:28.080 get this little video controller. You'd have to plug your 0:42:28.200 --> 0:42:32.040 HDMI into that, and then the four HDMI cables from there, 0:42:32.160 --> 0:42:35.200 the out you know, the outbound would go into the TVs, 0:42:35.440 --> 0:42:36.960 and then of course you'd have to mount the TVs 0:42:37.000 --> 0:42:38.719 on the wall. You'd have to make sure you want 0:42:38.760 --> 0:42:41.640 ones that are really thin with thin bezels, because you 0:42:41.640 --> 0:42:43.600 know there's gonna be a black bar in between all 0:42:43.640 --> 0:42:46.520 four of them. And then you may depending on how 0:42:46.560 --> 0:42:49.400 the TVs are mounted, some people mount these horizontally. Some 0:42:49.440 --> 0:42:52.640 people mount them vertically to make like a window. You know, 0:42:52.719 --> 0:42:55.520 you can do things like rotate the screen or the picture, 0:42:56.400 --> 0:42:59.799 so there's a lot you can do. It's not necessarily 0:42:59.880 --> 0:43:03.440 a simple thing. So if you want a good DIY project, 0:43:03.760 --> 0:43:07.239 it's fun and I think it'll work. But at the 0:43:07.320 --> 0:43:09.600 end of the day, I've not done this personally, and 0:43:09.680 --> 0:43:12.160 I would also suggest before you embark on this, I 0:43:12.200 --> 0:43:15.760 would take a look at some of the projector screens 0:43:15.800 --> 0:43:18.760 and projectors that they have nowadays, because especially these short 0:43:18.800 --> 0:43:23.200 throw projectors they're called, they sit about a foot from 0:43:23.200 --> 0:43:26.239 the screen, like at the base of the screen, and 0:43:26.280 --> 0:43:28.440 they throw up a one hundred and eight inch picture 0:43:28.560 --> 0:43:32.040 or something or even bigger, so you can get significantly 0:43:32.680 --> 0:43:35.080 and the video quality is so much better than it 0:43:35.120 --> 0:43:37.360 was in the past. So but I think this is 0:43:37.360 --> 0:43:38.840 a fun project. If you want to do it, and 0:43:38.840 --> 0:43:40.480 you want to make this in Las Vegas, sounds like 0:43:40.520 --> 0:43:42.520 a fun thing to do. Just know that you need to, 0:43:42.560 --> 0:43:44.880 you know, definitely need one of those video wall controllers. 0:43:44.920 --> 0:43:47.600 I'm looking on Amazon. They've got a two x two 0:43:47.719 --> 0:43:51.160 four K video wall processor with eleven spice splicing modes 0:43:51.200 --> 0:43:53.879 for one hundred and twenty bucks. Then they've got another 0:43:53.920 --> 0:43:56.040 one for two hundred and sixty nine, same thing two 0:43:56.040 --> 0:43:58.799 by two, So you know, the price varies, and I 0:43:58.800 --> 0:44:01.440 think I would be I would go somewhere in the middle. 0:44:01.680 --> 0:44:03.799 I'm looking at one for fifty nine dollars. If you're 0:44:03.800 --> 0:44:05.799 going to buy four of these TVs you said at 0:44:05.840 --> 0:44:08.560 fifty five sixty five inches and put them on your 0:44:08.560 --> 0:44:11.239 wall and go through all that. I would definitely spend 0:44:11.239 --> 0:44:14.720 a little bit more on this HDMI controller for sure. 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:18.880 And keep in mind, I would test all this stuff 0:44:18.920 --> 0:44:21.359 before you mount it, make sure it works, make sure 0:44:21.360 --> 0:44:23.520 you can get it to work. That's a fun project. 0:44:23.560 --> 0:44:25.879 I mean, I I've actually I love that you're doing 0:44:25.880 --> 0:44:28.200 this because I've always wanted to do one of those windows. 0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:31.640 They it looks like an out window to the outside, 0:44:31.640 --> 0:44:33.839 but it's just really a TV. You know, a lot 0:44:33.880 --> 0:44:36.040 of TV studios use them. I just think that would 0:44:36.040 --> 0:44:38.160 look really cool in the House'd be fun. If I 0:44:38.200 --> 0:44:40.399 ever have a home studio for the radio show, that'd 0:44:40.400 --> 0:44:43.319 be a fun thing to do. Devin, thanks for the call, 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:46.640 appreciate it. Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight 0:44:46.760 --> 0:44:50.719 eight seven four to two four one zero one. I 0:44:50.800 --> 0:44:55.959 saw one of these windows at CES and I'm trying 0:44:55.960 --> 0:44:58.400 to see. Hold on, I'm looking at CS. This is 0:44:58.400 --> 0:45:00.000 how I search for stuff that I've done in the past. 0:45:00.040 --> 0:45:07.960 It just search like CS, Rich Tomuro virtual window. Let's 0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:12.040 see if I can find it. Uh here it is Liquidview. 0:45:12.120 --> 0:45:15.200 That's what it was called. Check out liquid View. Such 0:45:15.239 --> 0:45:18.040 a cool thing and make virtual windows. I'm looking at it. 0:45:18.040 --> 0:45:20.440 It's exactly what you're talking about, except it's just like 0:45:20.480 --> 0:45:24.320 a Oh, it's so cool. Digital windows for windowless rooms. 0:45:24.640 --> 0:45:26.239 And what they do is they take it a step further. 0:45:26.280 --> 0:45:29.160 They don't just sell you the actual screen. They sell 0:45:29.200 --> 0:45:31.280 you the content as well. So they've gone out around 0:45:31.320 --> 0:45:34.319 the world and they've recorded content for like twenty four 0:45:34.360 --> 0:45:37.040 hours in like four K or eight K, and so 0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:39.960 that the sun rises and sets it like it's synced 0:45:40.040 --> 0:45:44.040 with your wherever you live. And that's called Liquidview thoughliquidview 0:45:44.040 --> 0:45:46.399 dot com. I'll link it up on the website, all right, 0:45:46.440 --> 0:45:48.880 eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven 0:45:49.000 --> 0:45:51.600 four to two four one zero one. Remember anything I mentioned, 0:45:51.640 --> 0:45:54.280 It's all on the website. Rich on tech dot tv. 0:45:55.000 --> 0:45:57.520 If you got one of these Aura frames, my favorite 0:45:57.600 --> 0:46:00.000 digital Wi Fi frame, I'll tell you about the great 0:46:00.120 --> 0:46:03.279 new feature it just picked up rich on tech more 0:46:03.320 --> 0:46:12.600 show coming up next eight eight a rich one on 0:46:12.600 --> 0:46:15.160 one eight eight eight seven four two four one zero 0:46:15.160 --> 0:46:19.640 one got a message from Kim says that Lewis called 0:46:19.680 --> 0:46:24.680 back and said, Uh, your scheduling text recommendations worked like 0:46:24.719 --> 0:46:27.000 a champ. Thank you so much and that's why he 0:46:27.120 --> 0:46:29.680 listens to you. Thank you, Lewis. I'm glad it worked 0:46:29.680 --> 0:46:36.799 out for you. Let's go to Mark in uh Saint Petersburg. 0:46:37.080 --> 0:46:40.160 By the way, Adam is in for Bobo today. I 0:46:40.200 --> 0:46:42.239 was giving him the hand signal to give me a ding, 0:46:42.760 --> 0:46:46.799 you know that bell. He said, he doesn't know what 0:46:46.800 --> 0:46:51.759 that signal meant. Mark, welcome to the show. What's up? Oh? 0:46:51.840 --> 0:46:56.239 Thank you rich Patsy Outlea, and I just wanted to 0:46:56.280 --> 0:47:00.600 ask you a question. I have a iPhone and I 0:47:00.640 --> 0:47:02.960 was wanting to try to figure out the easiest way 0:47:03.000 --> 0:47:06.359 to clean out all duplicate files and stuff. But every 0:47:06.360 --> 0:47:10.120 time you get on one, they after three days or 0:47:10.120 --> 0:47:14.640 seven days, they want you to make a subscription. And 0:47:14.760 --> 0:47:17.080 I would like to see if there's like an affordable 0:47:17.080 --> 0:47:19.960 way or one that's more recommended than others or. 0:47:21.360 --> 0:47:21.400 No. 0:47:21.520 --> 0:47:23.640 I get all kind of pop up eds for the 0:47:23.680 --> 0:47:26.040 same type of services. 0:47:26.280 --> 0:47:28.439 Yeah, they're all going to well, okay, so a couple 0:47:28.520 --> 0:47:32.200 things here. Number one, great question mark. Number one, there 0:47:32.400 --> 0:47:37.080 is no cleaner app for the iPhone that does what 0:47:37.320 --> 0:47:41.160 cleaner apps do on Android, or on Windows IT or 0:47:41.200 --> 0:47:43.000 even on the Mac. It just doesn't work that way. 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:47.719 The way that iPhone the operating system is engineered is 0:47:47.840 --> 0:47:52.200 everything is sandboxed, which means apps cannot see data from 0:47:52.200 --> 0:47:56.160 other apps unless Apple specifically allows them to. So there's 0:47:56.200 --> 0:47:58.640 not an app that can just sit there and access 0:47:58.719 --> 0:48:01.600 everything across your phone. That's for security reasons and that's 0:48:01.600 --> 0:48:04.960 just by design. So there's not really an app that says, okay, 0:48:05.040 --> 0:48:08.680 let's run this app and it finds all the gunk 0:48:08.760 --> 0:48:11.160 on your system, the duplicate files, all that stuff. It 0:48:11.200 --> 0:48:14.040 can't do that. There are apps that can do parts 0:48:14.040 --> 0:48:17.960 of that, and there's also some built in tools on 0:48:18.040 --> 0:48:19.839 the iPhone that can do that as well. So let 0:48:19.840 --> 0:48:22.759 me show you a couple of these. Number one, the 0:48:22.800 --> 0:48:26.359 app that I like to clean up the iPhone with 0:48:26.480 --> 0:48:30.280 duplicate photos and things like that is called Clever Cleaner 0:48:30.920 --> 0:48:34.640 c l e v Er Cleaner. Now, if you type 0:48:34.680 --> 0:48:37.520 it into search on your iPhone, you may come up 0:48:37.520 --> 0:48:39.319 with a whole bunch of different random apps that are 0:48:39.320 --> 0:48:41.400 going to try to charge you. This one has no 0:48:41.520 --> 0:48:44.960 ads and it does not charge you at all. Ever, 0:48:46.480 --> 0:48:48.640 Just I'm gonna double check that because the last time 0:48:48.680 --> 0:48:51.319 I looked at it, that's the way it was. So 0:48:51.360 --> 0:48:54.520 if I type in clever Cleaner, you got to be 0:48:54.600 --> 0:48:56.640 sure you're getting the right one too. It's got forty 0:48:56.680 --> 0:49:02.120 two thousand reviews right now now, and it's called clever 0:49:02.200 --> 0:49:06.120 Cleaner AI cleanup app. And I'm scrolling down the way 0:49:06.160 --> 0:49:08.720 I always kind of assess an app is you scroll 0:49:08.800 --> 0:49:11.520 all the way down to the information section. And this 0:49:11.600 --> 0:49:14.120 is great advice for just any app that you're downloading. 0:49:14.440 --> 0:49:17.760 Always scroll down on the app Store and look under information. 0:49:17.840 --> 0:49:23.560 It tells you seller size, category, compatibility an app. It 0:49:23.640 --> 0:49:26.040 also tells you if an app charges you. So I'm 0:49:26.080 --> 0:49:30.000 looking at this other random cleanup app and I scroll down, 0:49:30.120 --> 0:49:33.520 and oh, what does this say in app purchases one 0:49:33.560 --> 0:49:36.719 week seven dollars ninety nine cents, one year twenty nine 0:49:36.800 --> 0:49:39.400 ninety nine. Now, I'm not against paying for ads, especially 0:49:39.520 --> 0:49:42.880 or paying for apps, especially helpful ones, but you have 0:49:42.960 --> 0:49:46.000 to be aware of what you're getting into. Ninety nine 0:49:46.040 --> 0:49:47.800 percent of the apps out there on the App Store. 0:49:48.000 --> 0:49:49.680 They just want you to download their app, and then 0:49:49.680 --> 0:49:51.960 eventually you're gonna try it and you're gonna use it, 0:49:52.000 --> 0:49:54.040 and you're gonna say, oh, I'm running up against this wall. 0:49:54.080 --> 0:49:56.320 I need to pay for this now. So I always 0:49:56.360 --> 0:49:58.920 like to see what I'm what I'm getting myself into 0:49:59.560 --> 0:50:02.480 before I actually download an app. So always when you 0:50:02.600 --> 0:50:05.279 download an app, before you download it, check all the 0:50:05.320 --> 0:50:07.439 way down under information and look for that in app 0:50:07.480 --> 0:50:11.000 purchases area. Nobody looks at that, but it's the best 0:50:11.080 --> 0:50:13.960 thing about the App store is that it shows you that. 0:50:14.400 --> 0:50:18.920 So anyway, Clever Cleaners is from cleverfiles dot com, So 0:50:19.000 --> 0:50:21.200 you can go to that website and that's gonna do 0:50:21.560 --> 0:50:24.279 all the cleanup you need for your photos. And it's 0:50:24.640 --> 0:50:28.480 really good and it's completely free. Like I said, now, 0:50:28.520 --> 0:50:30.839 when it comes to the rest of your iPhone storage, 0:50:31.320 --> 0:50:34.800 you can go to iPhone you can go to General 0:50:35.160 --> 0:50:39.799 set sorry getting ahead of myself, go to Settings, then 0:50:39.840 --> 0:50:43.799 tap General and then tap iPhone Storage and you'll see 0:50:43.800 --> 0:50:47.640 a whole bunch of things under recommendations. And that's where 0:50:47.640 --> 0:50:50.279 you can review your photos and videos. It'll show you 0:50:50.360 --> 0:50:54.720 large photos and videos recently deleted offload unused apps, review 0:50:54.760 --> 0:50:58.239 your downloaded media. Messages in iCloud. You can turn that 0:50:58.320 --> 0:51:01.960 on to save some space, you large attachments in your 0:51:02.080 --> 0:51:06.480 in your messages, optimize storage, you can enable that auto 0:51:06.520 --> 0:51:10.520 delete old conversations, review your TV downloads. Oh, they've added 0:51:10.520 --> 0:51:13.560 a lot to this. So that is really what you 0:51:13.600 --> 0:51:15.839 want to do is Apple will go through and help 0:51:15.880 --> 0:51:18.520 you with all that. And again you go into Settings 0:51:19.239 --> 0:51:23.359 General and then iPhone Storage and then under your recommendations 0:51:23.360 --> 0:51:25.720 tap show wall and I'll give you all the different ways. 0:51:26.360 --> 0:51:27.839 By the way, one of the best ways to clear 0:51:27.920 --> 0:51:30.160 up space on your phone two ways. Number one, delete 0:51:30.160 --> 0:51:33.799 a large video. Number two your podcasts. A lot of 0:51:33.840 --> 0:51:36.600 times it downloads a whole bunch of podcasts just keeps 0:51:36.640 --> 0:51:38.920 them forever. So if you going on a trip or 0:51:38.960 --> 0:51:42.239 something you need to free up some space, quickly check 0:51:42.280 --> 0:51:45.600 your podcast downloads. But those are the ways to do it. 0:51:46.480 --> 0:51:48.880 Mark Those are the ways to get your iPhone cleaned 0:51:48.920 --> 0:51:51.160 up again, not just one app that's going to just 0:51:51.200 --> 0:51:52.840 go through everything and help you do that. Those are 0:51:52.880 --> 0:51:56.879 pretty much scams. Eighty eight rich one O one eight 0:51:56.880 --> 0:51:59.080 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:51:59.120 --> 0:52:02.640 I will link up clever cleaner on the website. Just 0:52:02.680 --> 0:52:05.440 go to rich on Tech dot TV. This is episode 0:52:05.440 --> 0:52:08.800 one two. It's right on the home screen. Or scroll 0:52:08.840 --> 0:52:11.320 down to radio show and you'll see the episodes. Just 0:52:11.400 --> 0:52:14.080 tap one fifty two. All the show notes are there. 0:52:14.200 --> 0:52:15.520 All right, coming up, I'm still going to tell you 0:52:15.560 --> 0:52:18.840 about this Aura feature on the new Aura feature, and 0:52:18.920 --> 0:52:20.600 we'll get to more of your calls right here on 0:52:20.880 --> 0:52:32.759 rich on tech. Okay, this Aura frame one of my 0:52:33.000 --> 0:52:35.440 favorite gifts of the holiday season. If you have not 0:52:35.640 --> 0:52:38.560 gotten one of these, I'm telling you it's a crowd pleaser. 0:52:38.600 --> 0:52:40.319 I saw it at Costco yesterday. I was selling for 0:52:40.360 --> 0:52:42.960 like a hundred bucks. It is such a great thing, 0:52:43.080 --> 0:52:46.680 and I've got one. My family has one, my wife's 0:52:46.680 --> 0:52:49.839 family has one. We love it. But anyway, the neat 0:52:49.880 --> 0:52:51.960 thing about these frames is there's a lot of Wi 0:52:52.000 --> 0:52:54.520 Fi photo frames out there, but the neat thing about 0:52:54.520 --> 0:52:56.560 this one is that the software is really good, the 0:52:56.600 --> 0:52:59.560 design is really good, and you know, it's just simple. 0:52:59.640 --> 0:53:03.600 You can you can email, or you can send a 0:53:03.640 --> 0:53:06.560 photo from your phone right to a family member or 0:53:06.600 --> 0:53:08.720 a friend's frame, you know, with a little bit of setup. 0:53:09.120 --> 0:53:11.520 But now you've got a new feature where you can 0:53:11.560 --> 0:53:15.240 text to a frame, so friends and family can text 0:53:15.239 --> 0:53:18.200 photos directly to your Aura frame or vice versa. So 0:53:18.239 --> 0:53:19.880 that means you don't have to download the app and 0:53:19.920 --> 0:53:22.480 you don't need an Aura account for the sender, so 0:53:22.520 --> 0:53:24.920 that means it's super super easy. So if you have 0:53:24.960 --> 0:53:27.600 like a less tech savvy person in your family, you 0:53:27.600 --> 0:53:29.400 can just say, oh, yeah, here, if you want to 0:53:29.400 --> 0:53:31.200 send you know, you want to text me a picture 0:53:31.239 --> 0:53:34.520 to my frame, here you go. So that's really really cool. 0:53:35.040 --> 0:53:37.640 You can, as the frame owner, can approve the phone numbers. 0:53:37.960 --> 0:53:39.600 So let's say you've got three people you want to 0:53:39.600 --> 0:53:41.759 be able to, you know, that can send photos to 0:53:41.800 --> 0:53:44.640 your frame. You just approve their phone numbers in the app. 0:53:45.320 --> 0:53:47.759 So this is really really cool. You have to go 0:53:47.840 --> 0:53:50.600 into the Aura app as an owner and link your 0:53:50.640 --> 0:53:52.600 own phone number and then you can set it all up. 0:53:53.239 --> 0:53:55.600 But it's a really really neat way to kind of 0:53:56.280 --> 0:53:58.640 it's already easy to add pictures to this frame, but 0:53:58.680 --> 0:54:00.879 now the ability just to text them in, I think 0:54:00.960 --> 0:54:06.319 adds another layer of awesomeness. Let's see here, let's go 0:54:06.360 --> 0:54:10.440 to Stephen in Hawthorn. Steven you're on with. 0:54:10.480 --> 0:54:14.200 Rich, Yes, Rich, thank you, thanks for packing this pall Rich. 0:54:14.239 --> 0:54:19.920 I just had a question about these AirPods Prove three version, okay, 0:54:20.840 --> 0:54:23.279 And the reason why I purchased those is because it 0:54:23.320 --> 0:54:27.919 has a language translation feature. Sure, and I've discovered that 0:54:29.200 --> 0:54:31.560 it only works it apparently it only works with the 0:54:31.640 --> 0:54:32.719 Apple Intelligence. 0:54:33.120 --> 0:54:34.280 Is that true? 0:54:35.360 --> 0:54:35.600 Yes? 0:54:36.239 --> 0:54:36.520 Why? 0:54:36.800 --> 0:54:39.520 Okay? The reason why because I have an old version 0:54:39.560 --> 0:54:41.560 of the iPhone iPhone eleven. 0:54:41.880 --> 0:54:47.120 Oh yeah, you need you need you need an iPhone 0:54:47.200 --> 0:54:50.239 fifteen Pro or later exactly. 0:54:50.520 --> 0:54:53.399 And it makes me think, is it the Apple Intelligence 0:54:53.440 --> 0:54:59.200 that's actually doing the translation rather than the AirPod Yeah. 0:54:59.200 --> 0:55:01.600 Well, it's a little bit of both. I mean they're 0:55:01.680 --> 0:55:04.000 using Look, I mean they need to there's got to 0:55:04.000 --> 0:55:06.400 be a driver for the you know, the translation. I 0:55:06.400 --> 0:55:10.200 think Apple Intelligence is part of that. I think that 0:55:10.560 --> 0:55:12.720 it's just part of what makes it work. I don't 0:55:12.719 --> 0:55:16.120 know exactly how they're doing it, you know, but that's 0:55:16.239 --> 0:55:18.480 that's kind of the way that they position it on 0:55:18.520 --> 0:55:20.880 the website. They say, look, if you want live translation, 0:55:21.440 --> 0:55:24.040 you've got to have the AirPods four with the noise 0:55:24.080 --> 0:55:28.320 cancelation AirPods Pro two or AirPods Pro three, iPhone fifteen 0:55:28.440 --> 0:55:33.120 Pro or later iOS twenty six or later. Apple Intelligence 0:55:33.160 --> 0:55:38.480 turned on Apples, Translate app downloaded, and the latest AirPods firmware, 0:55:38.960 --> 0:55:42.200 So it requires a lot of things. And I would say, Stephen, 0:55:42.239 --> 0:55:43.959 this kind of falls under what I was talking about 0:55:44.000 --> 0:55:46.560 earlier in the show where I didn't read the help 0:55:46.600 --> 0:55:50.560 page before I ordered all the speakers. So it's like, oh, shoot, 0:55:50.600 --> 0:55:54.319 I need that. Oh my gosh. With that said, you know, 0:55:54.360 --> 0:55:57.000 there's also some limitations on the languages too. There's only 0:55:57.040 --> 0:56:00.279 a handful of languages that are supported right now. What 0:56:00.360 --> 0:56:01.880 language were you trying to translate? 0:56:02.640 --> 0:56:06.600 Well, mostly Spanish, you know, okay, pa, you know. 0:56:07.520 --> 0:56:09.600 I mean that's that's a relatively easy one. There's a 0:56:09.640 --> 0:56:12.480 lot of you know, there's a lot of Spanish is 0:56:12.520 --> 0:56:14.839 usually like kind of like in the basics of all 0:56:14.840 --> 0:56:18.799 these translation apps. I think they added Japanese. The one 0:56:18.840 --> 0:56:22.320 that they demoed with me was I think it was Portuguese, 0:56:22.520 --> 0:56:25.359 which was kind of unique. The other thing, there's some 0:56:25.400 --> 0:56:30.120 news this week too that I believe Google I think 0:56:30.160 --> 0:56:32.600 they actually made their translation and this puts a little 0:56:32.600 --> 0:56:35.879 pressure on Apple is I think they made their live 0:56:35.960 --> 0:56:39.960 translate available to any earbuds now. Yeah, so look at this. 0:56:40.560 --> 0:56:44.880 So Google expanded their real time speech translations to any headphones. 0:56:44.960 --> 0:56:47.440 This used to be just a Pixel buds thing, so 0:56:47.520 --> 0:56:50.239 now it's rolling out in beta. All you need is 0:56:50.280 --> 0:56:55.560 a compatible Android phone and Google's Translate app to use 0:56:55.880 --> 0:56:59.560 their live Translate feature, which was pretty amazing. That's pretty impressive. 0:56:59.600 --> 0:57:02.479 So hopefully Apple will follow suit and maybe they'll open 0:57:02.480 --> 0:57:04.319 this up to more stuff. But it sounds like at 0:57:04.320 --> 0:57:06.879 this point you need to use that Apple intelligence. Are 0:57:06.880 --> 0:57:09.279 you willing to update your phone or upgrade your phone 0:57:09.280 --> 0:57:10.080 for this feature or no? 0:57:11.239 --> 0:57:13.480 Yeah, definitely up to upgrade apparently. 0:57:14.040 --> 0:57:17.160 Okay, well, all right, sounds like it sounds like an 0:57:17.240 --> 0:57:19.120 upgrade might be in your future if you really want 0:57:19.120 --> 0:57:23.280 to use that translate Live Translate. It's so funny. I've 0:57:23.280 --> 0:57:25.560 got it on my I've got this on my docket 0:57:25.640 --> 0:57:28.640 of things to do. I get so many calls and 0:57:28.760 --> 0:57:31.840 questions about this live Translate feature. People love this feature. 0:57:31.840 --> 0:57:33.400 I mean, it's amazing because it's going to just kind 0:57:33.400 --> 0:57:37.200 of continue to to, you know, make our world smaller. 0:57:37.680 --> 0:57:39.440 But you've got it on a bunch of devices. So 0:57:39.440 --> 0:57:41.080 you've got it on the pixel buds they were the 0:57:41.120 --> 0:57:43.240 first to have it. Now you've got it on a 0:57:43.280 --> 0:57:46.600 couple models of air pods. AirPods Pro three, AirPods Pro two, 0:57:47.040 --> 0:57:49.440 and the air POD's four, but the higher end, the 0:57:49.440 --> 0:57:52.640 ones that have active noise cancelation. Now Google, oh, you 0:57:52.680 --> 0:57:55.320 also have it on the Meta ray band glasses, so 0:57:55.400 --> 0:57:58.840 you've got it there. There's a device called time Kettle, 0:57:59.200 --> 0:58:01.160 which I'm still waiting for them to send me a 0:58:01.200 --> 0:58:03.600 sample so I can try that. That's a standalone device, 0:58:03.680 --> 0:58:06.560 and they also make earbuds, and then you've got now 0:58:06.640 --> 0:58:09.600 Google expanding it to any earbuds if you have an 0:58:09.600 --> 0:58:13.080 Android phone. That's amazing the fact that you can do 0:58:13.200 --> 0:58:16.640 real time speech translation. And don't forget you also have 0:58:17.560 --> 0:58:20.120 all of the ais that can do this too. So 0:58:20.240 --> 0:58:25.520 you've got Gemini, You've got CHATCHYBT. You flip those into 0:58:25.560 --> 0:58:28.640 the live voice and they can translate anything too. I mean, 0:58:28.840 --> 0:58:31.520 traveling the world and interacting with people that speak a 0:58:31.520 --> 0:58:35.360 different language has gotten so much easier. It's it's quite incredible. 0:58:35.920 --> 0:58:38.560 All right, I think we got our guest here. Let's see. 0:58:39.640 --> 0:58:42.800 I think Nicholas Merrill is on the line. Nick, are 0:58:42.840 --> 0:58:48.000 you there, I'm here, Okay, Welcome to the show. Nick 0:58:48.520 --> 0:58:52.520 Nick is founder of a new privacy first carrier called 0:58:52.640 --> 0:58:56.560 Freely p h R. E E L. I. So the 0:58:56.600 --> 0:58:59.520 big deal about this carrier is that it's a privacy 0:58:59.560 --> 0:59:01.959 first and you only sign up with your ZIP code. 0:59:02.520 --> 0:59:05.680 So it's really nick, why did you come up with this? 0:59:08.280 --> 0:59:09.960 Well, first of all, thank you for having me on 0:59:10.000 --> 0:59:10.360 the show. 0:59:11.760 --> 0:59:15.240 I've been working in the privacy space for a few 0:59:15.280 --> 0:59:21.600 decades now, and basically, I feel like the telecom industry, 0:59:23.080 --> 0:59:25.400 it collects a lot of information about us, and that 0:59:25.520 --> 0:59:28.959 sort of leads to a degradation in our privacy, and 0:59:29.280 --> 0:59:32.280 I feel like it's sort of reached a point where 0:59:32.480 --> 0:59:35.600 people are upset about it and they want a better 0:59:35.600 --> 0:59:38.240 option that doesn't hand over all their info to all 0:59:38.360 --> 0:59:43.880 kinds of third parties. So I've been doing research and 0:59:43.960 --> 0:59:47.080 development on free software for a bunch of years and 0:59:47.160 --> 0:59:51.440 how to make privacy easier. But I understood that to 0:59:51.520 --> 0:59:54.840 most people, it's still feels like a lot of work, 0:59:55.520 --> 0:59:57.000 and it feels like you need to have a lot 0:59:57.040 --> 1:00:00.680 of sort of esoteric knowledge. And we're trying to do 1:00:00.800 --> 1:00:04.040 is build it into the service provider, into the mobile provider, 1:00:04.440 --> 1:00:06.160 so that all you really have to do is switch 1:00:06.240 --> 1:00:10.120 to this company and you get a big privacy game 1:00:10.240 --> 1:00:10.880 just by doing that. 1:00:11.520 --> 1:00:13.440 So the idea is like, if you can only do 1:00:13.520 --> 1:00:14.680 one thing to. 1:00:16.360 --> 1:00:19.000 To sort of advance your mission to get yourself better 1:00:19.040 --> 1:00:21.320 privacy today, switch to freely. 1:00:21.680 --> 1:00:23.680 So why would I want that? Why do I want 1:00:23.720 --> 1:00:25.920 more privacy with my cell phone? Like I you know, 1:00:25.960 --> 1:00:29.160 let's say I'm with one of the big carriers. Why 1:00:29.200 --> 1:00:32.320 do i want more privacy from my cell phone carrier. 1:00:33.760 --> 1:00:36.920 I mean, from what I'm understanding, most people really do. 1:00:38.720 --> 1:00:43.080 Private carriers are essentially selling customer data. 1:00:43.120 --> 1:00:44.080 To data brokers. 1:00:44.400 --> 1:00:47.480 And sometimes it's freeze in advertising, but sometimes it's not. 1:00:47.600 --> 1:00:49.680 Sometimes it ends up in the hands of all kinds 1:00:49.720 --> 1:00:53.960 of scammers, people that do identity theF Like, once the 1:00:54.240 --> 1:00:55.400 information is out. 1:00:55.240 --> 1:00:57.680 There, it's sort of beyond your control. 1:00:58.760 --> 1:01:02.880 When you sign up for typical phone company account, you know, 1:01:02.880 --> 1:01:04.520 you end up having to really give them a lot 1:01:04.520 --> 1:01:06.440 of info, right if they if they run your credit 1:01:06.760 --> 1:01:08.600 you may have to give a driver's license number, a 1:01:08.600 --> 1:01:13.200 social security number, You give them your home address, You 1:01:13.280 --> 1:01:15.120 may give them you know, those. 1:01:14.920 --> 1:01:17.960 Extra security questions like your mother's maiden name. 1:01:18.360 --> 1:01:21.640 Now, when this information ends up getting hacked from the 1:01:21.720 --> 1:01:24.840 phone company or getting stolen, your information is out there 1:01:25.360 --> 1:01:28.640 and like I've experienced it in the past where I 1:01:28.680 --> 1:01:31.280 was using a mainstream phone company and they got hacked, 1:01:31.600 --> 1:01:33.360 and then they said, oh, hey, we'll pay for a 1:01:33.400 --> 1:01:36.320 credit monitoring service for you for six months. But in 1:01:36.360 --> 1:01:38.720 the end, it's sort of like, why do you want 1:01:38.760 --> 1:01:40.960 to put your information out there when you don't have to? 1:01:41.480 --> 1:01:43.920 So you've got all these different plans, you know, ranging 1:01:44.000 --> 1:01:47.920 from twenty five to eighty five dollars a month. What 1:01:48.080 --> 1:01:50.920 about I mean, you're running on a main carrier. I'm guessing. 1:01:50.960 --> 1:01:52.360 Can you say which carrier you're on? 1:01:53.480 --> 1:01:56.520 Yeah, yeah, we're on T mobiles network. 1:01:56.560 --> 1:01:59.040 Okay, so you're on T Mobiles network. I mean they 1:01:59.080 --> 1:02:01.160 were okay with you saying, hey, we're not going to 1:02:01.200 --> 1:02:04.920 collect any data from our customers. We're just going to 1:02:04.960 --> 1:02:07.480 ask for a ZIP code to sign up. I mean, 1:02:07.520 --> 1:02:11.360 why doesn't just T Mobile do that? Then it would 1:02:11.400 --> 1:02:11.840 be nice. 1:02:11.720 --> 1:02:14.520 If they would. I wish they would. I really do think, 1:02:14.600 --> 1:02:17.200 like I say, I'm so old. I remember when you 1:02:17.200 --> 1:02:19.080 could walk up to a payphone and drop a din 1:02:19.320 --> 1:02:21.560 in and make a phone call without having. 1:02:21.440 --> 1:02:22.120 To show ID. 1:02:23.360 --> 1:02:26.920 I really think that the right to communicate should universal 1:02:27.160 --> 1:02:29.480 and you shouldn't have to. 1:02:31.000 --> 1:02:32.080 Hand over all of. 1:02:32.040 --> 1:02:34.520 Your most personal info to a company in order to 1:02:34.720 --> 1:02:37.000 just communicate. It's a it's a thing that we can't 1:02:37.040 --> 1:02:40.240 really almost get away without these days having a cell phone. 1:02:40.320 --> 1:02:44.400 So no, I really wish all the cell phone companies 1:02:44.440 --> 1:02:47.040 would would collect less info. 1:02:47.520 --> 1:02:49.880 Is there a security risk here? I mean the government? 1:02:49.920 --> 1:02:52.880 I mean, I'm sure you know what about the security 1:02:52.880 --> 1:02:54.760 aspect of things, like people have been, you know, buying 1:02:54.800 --> 1:02:58.640 burner phones for a long time. Sure is this similar 1:02:58.640 --> 1:03:00.440 to that? I mean, you're not positioning this says hey, 1:03:00.520 --> 1:03:03.920 do bad things. You're just saying, protect our privacy, But 1:03:04.000 --> 1:03:06.480 I mean, can't Is there an opportunity for people to 1:03:06.560 --> 1:03:10.200 use this for nefarious reasons or is that just everything tech? 1:03:10.960 --> 1:03:13.840 We're saying the exact opposite of that, do not do 1:03:13.920 --> 1:03:16.920 anything wrong on our phone company. We do not want that. 1:03:16.960 --> 1:03:20.280 We don't support that. You know, we're not We're not 1:03:20.320 --> 1:03:23.760 against law enforcement's mission. We want law enforcement to catch 1:03:23.880 --> 1:03:25.480 the bad guys who are doing bad stuff. 1:03:25.520 --> 1:03:28.280 However, we don't think that all. 1:03:28.280 --> 1:03:30.200 Of the rest of us, who are not bad guys 1:03:30.480 --> 1:03:33.600 should have to give up our privacy in order to uh, 1:03:34.080 --> 1:03:37.480 in order to try to deceaver and like, as you noted, 1:03:39.280 --> 1:03:42.160 the option to use a burner phone already existed, So. 1:03:43.680 --> 1:03:44.800 What we're doing. 1:03:46.080 --> 1:03:49.840 Doesn't really get someone more privacy than having a burner phone. 1:03:50.440 --> 1:03:53.760 But what it does is it makes it convenient. 1:03:53.880 --> 1:03:57.040 You know, you could be on auto pay, you have 1:03:57.200 --> 1:03:59.560 all the convenience of using like a regular phone company, 1:03:59.560 --> 1:04:01.919 but with more privacy. So I think the thing is 1:04:01.960 --> 1:04:04.680 if you want to do the whole go to a 1:04:04.720 --> 1:04:07.080 gas station and buy a sin thing and then. 1:04:07.160 --> 1:04:09.400 Top it up in cash. That's that's a lot of work. 1:04:09.200 --> 1:04:12.440 And that's inconvenient and it's not fun. But you know, 1:04:12.560 --> 1:04:15.200 if criminals want to do that, then that's. 1:04:15.000 --> 1:04:15.680 What they're going to do. 1:04:15.760 --> 1:04:19.600 And you know, honestly, if someone's doing something wrong, as 1:04:19.640 --> 1:04:21.480 I said, I hope law enforcement conches for them. But 1:04:21.880 --> 1:04:25.640 what we're out to try to protect the privacy rights 1:04:25.640 --> 1:04:27.960 of the ninety nine point nine percent of people who 1:04:27.960 --> 1:04:29.120 aren't bad guys. 1:04:29.400 --> 1:04:31.320 What about when I put in my credit card? Isn't 1:04:31.360 --> 1:04:32.800 that now I've you know, we've done a lot of 1:04:32.840 --> 1:04:36.080 stories on data and data collection, and as I understand it, 1:04:36.480 --> 1:04:40.760 there's layers of data that these marketing companies and brokers 1:04:40.840 --> 1:04:42.840 just sort of layer together. So if they only have 1:04:43.520 --> 1:04:46.240 my zip code, now they narrow it down to like 1:04:46.440 --> 1:04:48.439 other things that they'll figure out and kind of match 1:04:48.520 --> 1:04:50.720 up about me. So once they have my credit card, 1:04:50.720 --> 1:04:52.400 it's like, okay, well now you've got your credit card 1:04:52.400 --> 1:04:54.480 and your zip code. Now we know who this person is. 1:04:54.560 --> 1:04:56.919 So is that possibility here? 1:04:58.120 --> 1:04:59.960 Oh yeah, I mean, like one. 1:05:00.200 --> 1:05:02.320 I want to make clear we have not solved the 1:05:02.360 --> 1:05:03.320 problem of privacy. 1:05:03.680 --> 1:05:07.200 There's still there's still many aspects of it that remain 1:05:07.320 --> 1:05:11.640 to be worked on. So part of the issue is, 1:05:11.640 --> 1:05:15.440 like I mentioned, for getting privacy really really right, it's hard. 1:05:15.520 --> 1:05:16.439 It takes a lot of work. 1:05:17.040 --> 1:05:19.600 And if I don't know, if you remember those books 1:05:19.640 --> 1:05:22.200 from childhood, they were called Choose your Own Adventure. 1:05:22.320 --> 1:05:24.920 Of course you know they have there's. 1:05:24.800 --> 1:05:26.600 Like decision trees, right, Hey, do you want to go 1:05:26.880 --> 1:05:28.400 down this path or that path? Do you want to 1:05:28.440 --> 1:05:29.800 go behind this door or that door. 1:05:30.360 --> 1:05:33.640 We offer people the option to pay for their phone 1:05:33.640 --> 1:05:36.600 service with cryptocurrency if they want, including some of the 1:05:36.640 --> 1:05:39.160 more private cryptocurrencies like z cash and Monero. 1:05:39.960 --> 1:05:43.880 Now, if you do that, that information doesn't go into 1:05:43.920 --> 1:05:46.920 the credit bureaus, that doesn't go to the data brokers. 1:05:47.480 --> 1:05:52.040 So we're offering the option to have different levels of 1:05:52.080 --> 1:05:57.280 privacy depending on how much work our customers are interested, 1:05:57.360 --> 1:06:01.280 willing and interested to put into the effort. We understand 1:06:01.360 --> 1:06:03.360 that most people are going to use their regular credit 1:06:03.360 --> 1:06:06.000 card with their name on it from their bank because 1:06:06.000 --> 1:06:10.040 that's what's easy. And we we we want to give 1:06:10.560 --> 1:06:13.360 super private options, but we also want to meet regular 1:06:13.400 --> 1:06:17.600 people where they are today, and then you know, there's 1:06:17.640 --> 1:06:23.120 always the option to sort of increase your privacy, you know, 1:06:23.280 --> 1:06:25.720 security as you as you go down the path. 1:06:26.240 --> 1:06:28.680 Well, it's certainly a hot topic and something that I 1:06:28.760 --> 1:06:31.640 think is on top of mind for so many people. 1:06:31.800 --> 1:06:34.240 I hear. I get privacy emails all the time from 1:06:34.280 --> 1:06:37.200 people asking questions about how they can better protect their privacy. 1:06:38.000 --> 1:06:40.880 Nick Merrill, thank you for joining me today with the 1:06:40.920 --> 1:06:45.680 carrier Freely p h R E E l I dot 1:06:45.720 --> 1:06:49.760 com freely cool name cool. Spin on that and I'll 1:06:49.760 --> 1:06:51.640 put the link on the website. Nick, thanks for joining 1:06:51.640 --> 1:06:52.040 me today. 1:06:52.840 --> 1:06:54.800 Thank you so much for your time. Rach I appreciate it. 1:06:54.840 --> 1:06:57.320 All right, looking forward to testing that out. I'm got 1:06:57.480 --> 1:07:00.720 I gotta get a test see how that works. I'm curious. 1:07:00.880 --> 1:07:03.280 All right, eighty eight rich one on one. The lines 1:07:03.360 --> 1:07:06.000 are packed. We will get to some of your some 1:07:06.080 --> 1:07:08.960 more of your calls after this. Plus what can I 1:07:09.000 --> 1:07:14.000 tell you. Oh, I found a uh an Apple Watch 1:07:14.160 --> 1:07:16.400 AI app that you know, you can put little AI 1:07:17.120 --> 1:07:19.040 on your Apple Watch so you can ask it questions. 1:07:19.040 --> 1:07:20.680 I'll tell you about that coming up right here. I'm 1:07:20.720 --> 1:07:32.640 rich on tech Joy in San Diego. Welcome to the show. 1:07:33.760 --> 1:07:36.440 Hi, rich Am I supposed to be on speaker? 1:07:36.520 --> 1:07:37.160 Is it okay? 1:07:37.920 --> 1:07:40.200 I can hear you? Fine, so it's uh, I'll take it. 1:07:40.560 --> 1:07:41.000 What's up? 1:07:41.120 --> 1:07:47.640 Okay? Well, I'm almost embarrassed to ask because I've gotten 1:07:47.680 --> 1:07:54.440 an iPhone fifteen, iPhone, I Pad, I'm AC and I 1:07:54.600 --> 1:07:58.440 Mac is still in the box because I'm so h 1:07:59.600 --> 1:08:04.160 not picking up even on my iPhone, very very very basic. 1:08:04.880 --> 1:08:09.120 And I'm used to being older having a textbook that 1:08:09.200 --> 1:08:11.120 I can go back to. I know I can go 1:08:11.200 --> 1:08:16.519 to Apple support, and someone told me I can simultaneously 1:08:16.800 --> 1:08:20.519 set up the iPad and the iPhone to try to 1:08:20.640 --> 1:08:24.200 learn things. But all of this is like so far 1:08:24.960 --> 1:08:29.000 above my learning capacity right now. And I was wondering 1:08:29.000 --> 1:08:32.560 if you had a suggestion for a textbook. 1:08:34.680 --> 1:08:37.080 Yeah, well, it's funny. I wrote one of these couple 1:08:37.120 --> 1:08:40.040 of years ago. It's not updated anymore, but I did 1:08:40.040 --> 1:08:42.840 write an iPhone because I saw how many questions I 1:08:42.880 --> 1:08:45.920 was getting about iPhones, and so I wrote a book 1:08:45.960 --> 1:08:48.200 called one hundred and one Handy Tech Tips for the iPhone. 1:08:48.240 --> 1:08:51.240 And I'm not kidding. It was incredible. I mean people 1:08:51.240 --> 1:08:54.879 were buying it like crazy because it was just the basics, 1:08:54.880 --> 1:08:57.479 I mean, so simple. I started. The first page was 1:08:57.520 --> 1:08:59.519 like how to take a screenshot, and it's just like 1:08:59.560 --> 1:09:01.439 little things like that, like how to turn your phone on, 1:09:01.520 --> 1:09:04.040 how to turn it off. And people loved it because 1:09:04.080 --> 1:09:06.880 it was just simple. It didn't assume that you knew anything. 1:09:06.960 --> 1:09:08.280 What phone did you switch from? 1:09:10.600 --> 1:09:12.520 I still have my landline? 1:09:13.040 --> 1:09:14.760 Okay, so you switch from landline? Okay. 1:09:14.800 --> 1:09:18.880 Problem is I for the past twenty thirty whatever year 1:09:19.040 --> 1:09:23.559 since I've been retired, I got out of working when 1:09:23.920 --> 1:09:27.400 all the technology started to take hold, and I've never 1:09:27.479 --> 1:09:32.599 had incremental periods of time to learn these little things 1:09:32.640 --> 1:09:37.120 that sort of multiply and exactly what you said. I'm 1:09:37.120 --> 1:09:39.400 going to look up that book because I don't know 1:09:39.400 --> 1:09:41.960 what an icon is, what a widget is, or what 1:09:42.120 --> 1:09:45.519 a green shot is that you just mentioned. 1:09:45.600 --> 1:09:49.320 Okay, so you're really learning, Yeah, you're going for the basics. Well, 1:09:49.360 --> 1:09:52.000 I understand, and I totally you know, you grew up 1:09:52.000 --> 1:09:53.720 in a different time and these are all kind of 1:09:53.760 --> 1:09:55.880 new to you, and it's once you figure it out, 1:09:55.880 --> 1:09:57.200 it's going to be great, and you're going to get 1:09:57.200 --> 1:09:59.680 the hang of it. And believe me, everyone does eventually. 1:09:59.800 --> 1:10:02.040 So oh, what I would say is you already know 1:10:02.080 --> 1:10:04.519 about the Apple website. So Apple does have an official 1:10:04.680 --> 1:10:07.280 Apple Support phone guide, so you can go there iPhone 1:10:07.360 --> 1:10:10.320 user Guide and again, yeah, like your friend said, put 1:10:10.320 --> 1:10:12.320 that on your iPad and then you can follow along 1:10:12.400 --> 1:10:15.440 on your iPhone. That's number one. But I would probably 1:10:15.479 --> 1:10:17.519 buy a book, a couple of books. There's and I 1:10:17.520 --> 1:10:19.360 don't want to I'm not gonna insult you here. I'm 1:10:19.360 --> 1:10:22.040 not gonna but there's an iPhone for seniors for dummies. 1:10:22.760 --> 1:10:26.160 I'd probably recommend something like that because it's paperback, you 1:10:26.160 --> 1:10:29.599 can doubt you can physically hold it and flip through 1:10:29.600 --> 1:10:31.640 it and have your phone in your other hand, and 1:10:31.680 --> 1:10:33.559 you can go through it and learn all the features. 1:10:33.560 --> 1:10:35.479 And I think that's probably going to be one of 1:10:35.520 --> 1:10:37.800 the best ways to learn this. And they've been making 1:10:37.840 --> 1:10:41.040 those those books for a long time. The other thing, 1:10:41.360 --> 1:10:43.919 David Pogue used to make something called the Missing Manual. 1:10:44.360 --> 1:10:46.880 I don't think that's there anymore. I don't think they've 1:10:46.960 --> 1:10:50.040 updated it. It looks like the last time they updated 1:10:50.080 --> 1:10:51.960 it was a couple of years ago. But I think 1:10:52.000 --> 1:10:55.040 the the I hate to even use the term, but 1:10:55.080 --> 1:10:56.600 the Dummies book, I think is going to be the 1:10:56.640 --> 1:10:59.400 best way to learn joy And I'm here for you. 1:10:59.479 --> 1:11:01.280 Sign up for my newsletter. I'll give you the tips, 1:11:01.320 --> 1:11:03.120 the tricks, and I'm always here on email as well. 1:11:03.760 --> 1:11:05.880 Thanks for the call today, Good luck with that. Eighty 1:11:05.920 --> 1:11:08.160 eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four to 1:11:08.200 --> 1:11:17.920 two four one zero one. Welcome back to Rich on Tech. 1:11:18.000 --> 1:11:21.120 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Eight 1:11:21.120 --> 1:11:23.759 eight eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven 1:11:23.880 --> 1:11:27.400 four to two four one zero one. Get a lot 1:11:27.400 --> 1:11:30.840 of feedback about the Amazon Echo speakers and set up 1:11:30.840 --> 1:11:32.800 a lot of questions about that. Clearly I was not 1:11:32.840 --> 1:11:35.679 the only one that didn't realize that you can connect 1:11:35.760 --> 1:11:40.080 those and make a home theater system. Let's see so 1:11:40.080 --> 1:11:40.759 many emails. 1:11:41.400 --> 1:11:41.519 Uh. 1:11:41.720 --> 1:11:43.960 Also, I want to just tell you about my newsletter 1:11:43.960 --> 1:11:46.880 real quick, rich on tech dot TV. If you're not 1:11:46.960 --> 1:11:49.839 signed up for the newsletter, you are doing yourself a disservice. 1:11:49.840 --> 1:11:52.120 And I'll tell you why. It's because everything that I 1:11:52.200 --> 1:11:55.559 mentioned on a weekly basis all the most important stuff 1:11:55.560 --> 1:11:59.480 that comes through my desk. 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And then now if I'm at a 1:12:35.720 --> 1:12:38.720 restaurant and I see a menu, I can literally just 1:12:38.840 --> 1:12:41.720 upload that menu to my chat GBT project and it 1:12:41.760 --> 1:12:44.960 will give me the best wine glass to purchase based 1:12:45.000 --> 1:12:47.280 on all of my tastes. And what's smart about that 1:12:47.720 --> 1:12:49.679 is that number one. I don't know, if you've noticed 1:12:49.720 --> 1:12:51.640 prices of things over the years, they've gone up. And 1:12:51.640 --> 1:12:52.920 so if you're like, hey, I want to spend this 1:12:53.040 --> 1:12:54.680 much on a glass of wine, give me the best 1:12:54.720 --> 1:12:57.799 bang for my buck that'll fit my taste. That's number one. 1:12:58.000 --> 1:12:59.880 Number two, you get a wine list, you have no 1:13:00.280 --> 1:13:03.679 idea what's on. There could be Italian wines, French wines, 1:13:03.760 --> 1:13:07.280 Spanish wines, whatever. You can feed that in and we'll 1:13:07.280 --> 1:13:10.360 still say, okay, here's the wines we've identified that you 1:13:10.400 --> 1:13:12.880 will like based on what you like. So that was fun. 1:13:12.920 --> 1:13:14.439 I spent like an hour doing that, and you could 1:13:14.439 --> 1:13:15.760 easily do it. So I talk about how to do 1:13:15.800 --> 1:13:19.439 that my newsletter. I got the tech Tidbits. Oh, I 1:13:19.479 --> 1:13:23.160 also mentioned this. I'll tell you about this app. But anyway, 1:13:23.200 --> 1:13:25.479 the tech Tidbits, and then people share their emails. There's 1:13:25.479 --> 1:13:27.000 so much in there. Just go to Rich on tech 1:13:27.040 --> 1:13:30.680 dot TV, pop in your email address and you'll get 1:13:30.720 --> 1:13:34.280 this every weekend. And then I'm doing a secondary one 1:13:34.320 --> 1:13:36.360 that's just like Q and A. So all the emails 1:13:36.360 --> 1:13:38.400 I get, I picked like maybe ten each week to 1:13:38.520 --> 1:13:41.519 feature in the the other newsletter. It's like a Q 1:13:41.640 --> 1:13:43.599 and A. And by the way, a picture of Bobo's 1:13:43.600 --> 1:13:45.960 in here. Bobo's not here today, but there's a picture 1:13:46.000 --> 1:13:48.799 of them. Let's see. Alex requested a picture of Bobo, 1:13:48.920 --> 1:13:51.280 so I put them in there. But I told you 1:13:51.320 --> 1:13:55.800 about this app. It's called Chirp c Hirp Chirp, and 1:13:55.880 --> 1:13:59.400 it's an Apple Watch app that adds like a voice 1:13:59.439 --> 1:14:04.120 assistant chirp dot Watch. And there's no there's no proper 1:14:04.439 --> 1:14:07.439 AI assistant on the Apple Watch right now. Don't tell 1:14:07.439 --> 1:14:10.559 me Siri is because that's not true. So if there's 1:14:10.560 --> 1:14:13.600 no like Google Gemini, there's no chatgybt as far as 1:14:13.680 --> 1:14:16.599 I know. But this kind of emulates that. So it's 1:14:16.600 --> 1:14:18.760 a little tiny app. You put it as a complication 1:14:18.880 --> 1:14:21.320 on your screen. You tap it and then it gives 1:14:21.320 --> 1:14:23.240 you an answer. So I can say something like, let 1:14:23.240 --> 1:14:25.559 me try it in lifetime. So I did that. I 1:14:25.600 --> 1:14:28.000 tapped it, and now I just tap press and hold 1:14:28.600 --> 1:14:32.760 and let's see what is the best movie coming out 1:14:32.880 --> 1:14:37.080 next weekend? Now it's sending the info to Google Search. 1:14:37.080 --> 1:14:39.840 It uses Gemini. See if you can do this. I 1:14:39.840 --> 1:14:42.000 have no signal in here. Oh that's great. There we 1:14:42.040 --> 1:14:46.240 go nothing no nothing. What's the best movie at the 1:14:46.240 --> 1:14:50.639 box office right now? SquarePants are some of the bigger ones. 1:14:51.280 --> 1:14:55.000 Is also David and so Five Nights at Freddy's two 1:14:55.040 --> 1:14:57.760 is currently the top earner at the box office, and 1:14:57.880 --> 1:15:01.040 Zotopia two is also doing pretty well. Okay, so there 1:15:01.040 --> 1:15:02.639 you go. You can choose your little voice. I didn't 1:15:02.640 --> 1:15:05.439 even know those movies were out. Wow. Okay, five days 1:15:05.479 --> 1:15:07.799 of Freday's too. I never even saw the first anyway. 1:15:07.840 --> 1:15:10.439 It's called Chirp dot Watch. Check it out. They also make, 1:15:11.040 --> 1:15:14.240 interestingly enough, a tiny little web browser for your Apple 1:15:14.240 --> 1:15:17.280 Watch screen. I know crazy, I'll link it up on 1:15:17.320 --> 1:15:19.040 the website. Rich on tech dot TV. All right, let's 1:15:19.040 --> 1:15:22.360 go to Brad in Los Angeles, line five. Wow, we 1:15:22.400 --> 1:15:26.400 have so many calls. We're using all the lines, Brad, 1:15:26.520 --> 1:15:27.160 you're own with Rich. 1:15:27.200 --> 1:15:30.720 I'm currently I'm currently on an iPhone eight with Verizon, 1:15:31.040 --> 1:15:34.160 and I want to keep the home button. And I've 1:15:34.200 --> 1:15:37.960 been researching and it looks like the iPhone se third 1:15:38.000 --> 1:15:40.559 generation might be my only hope at this point because 1:15:40.560 --> 1:15:43.360 I've aged out on a few apps already that want 1:15:43.360 --> 1:15:46.200 iOS seventeen, which is my eight won't get. 1:15:46.360 --> 1:15:47.439 So what do you think? 1:15:47.800 --> 1:15:50.720 Uh? Yeah, so I'm looking at the list you want. 1:15:50.760 --> 1:15:52.400 You still want the home button? Okay, so the eight 1:15:52.439 --> 1:15:55.200 and the eight plus for the last kind of mainstream 1:15:55.320 --> 1:15:58.599 iPhones to get that. Then you've got, like you said, 1:15:58.600 --> 1:16:01.280 the iPhone sees all three read them, have it. The 1:16:01.320 --> 1:16:06.439 iPhone SC three was last made in twenty twenty two. 1:16:06.640 --> 1:16:08.840 Hold on, I'm checking this on the website and then 1:16:09.040 --> 1:16:12.679 it looks like I got to go to iOS twenty 1:16:12.760 --> 1:16:15.920 six and just see if that's still supported. So at 1:16:15.960 --> 1:16:18.080 the bottom of the iOS website they have all the 1:16:18.080 --> 1:16:20.919 supported models. Let's see if the se three is still supported, 1:16:21.600 --> 1:16:24.439 s oh ow SC two and later. So yes, you're 1:16:24.479 --> 1:16:28.280 in luck, Brad. That's your best bet because you can 1:16:28.360 --> 1:16:33.400 still run the modern operating system, the latest version of 1:16:33.479 --> 1:16:36.600 iOS on there, and so you'll still have access to 1:16:36.600 --> 1:16:39.479 all your apps and it'll work pretty well. Have you 1:16:39.479 --> 1:16:43.439 heard of backmarket dot Com? No, okay, it's a good 1:16:43.439 --> 1:16:48.400 place to buy it. They are a well reputable, refurbished 1:16:48.520 --> 1:16:51.360 sort of you know, gadget place, and they sell all 1:16:51.400 --> 1:16:54.759 kinds of stuff, not just iPhones but everything. iPhone SC 1:16:54.800 --> 1:16:57.320 from twenty twenty two unlocked will run you one hundred 1:16:57.360 --> 1:17:00.240 and thirty eight dollars. How does that sound? 1:17:00.280 --> 1:17:04.360 But listen, what's your astimate on how long the that 1:17:04.479 --> 1:17:08.000 third generation will last? Because I know then Weimo is 1:17:08.000 --> 1:17:10.360 the one that I've been out. It needs the seventeen 1:17:10.439 --> 1:17:13.040 and I think it was LA three eleven one is 1:17:13.520 --> 1:17:16.400 seventeen as well. iOS seventeen. Those they only two so 1:17:16.439 --> 1:17:17.360 far that I've noticed. 1:17:17.439 --> 1:17:20.360 Okay, well with this one, you'll you'll have iOS twenty six, 1:17:20.400 --> 1:17:22.800 which is great, and iOS twenty six, I will tell you, 1:17:23.320 --> 1:17:27.400 will last for at least, let's see, at least two 1:17:27.479 --> 1:17:31.080 more years if you'll have support. So and the reason 1:17:31.240 --> 1:17:34.360 I'm telling you that is because you've got the iPhone 1:17:34.479 --> 1:17:37.519 se second generation and later right now for iOS twenty 1:17:37.560 --> 1:17:40.200 six next year, what Apple usually does is they drop 1:17:40.240 --> 1:17:44.760 support for the last model. So now iOS twenty seven 1:17:45.160 --> 1:17:48.040 will just support the iPhone SE three, and then when 1:17:48.040 --> 1:17:50.960 iOS twenty eight comes out, they'll drop support for that 1:17:51.040 --> 1:17:53.200 iPhone SE three. So I think you have a good 1:17:53.320 --> 1:17:56.479 solid two years of software support. So you got to 1:17:56.479 --> 1:17:58.240 do the math. One hundred and thirty eight dollars for 1:17:58.280 --> 1:18:01.639 two years is that worth it it versus just buying 1:18:02.000 --> 1:18:04.040 a new iPhone that's going to give you another six 1:18:04.120 --> 1:18:06.479 years of use out of it. So do the math. 1:18:06.840 --> 1:18:09.560 But that's that's my thought. 1:18:10.280 --> 1:18:11.839 What's that website back market? 1:18:12.200 --> 1:18:17.479 Backmarket dot com? Yeah, check it out, and you know 1:18:17.520 --> 1:18:19.840 it's a reputable place you can buy it. It's got 1:18:20.240 --> 1:18:22.599 oh that's for fair condition. So if you want excellent 1:18:22.840 --> 1:18:25.400 is one hundred and fifty four dollars. But they inspect everything, 1:18:25.439 --> 1:18:28.120 they refurbish it, they make it really nice. It's a 1:18:28.160 --> 1:18:31.080 good place to buy. People really like it. So why 1:18:31.439 --> 1:18:32.800 you're not ready to give up the home button? 1:18:32.880 --> 1:18:36.240 Huh No, I tried it. Too frustrating for it. 1:18:36.600 --> 1:18:38.559 Okay, you'll get used to it. I know you will, 1:18:38.920 --> 1:18:41.360 but I know it's it's tough to uh. I know 1:18:41.439 --> 1:18:44.800 it's tough sometimes because we get used to things. We 1:18:44.880 --> 1:18:48.360 like things a certain way. And yes, I totally understand that. 1:18:49.240 --> 1:18:53.519 Let's go to Tom in Tustin. Where's Tom? You would 1:18:53.560 --> 1:18:55.960 think it'd be easy to choose the line. That's the 1:18:56.000 --> 1:18:57.799 only thing I have to do is tap the number 1:18:57.800 --> 1:19:01.160 of the line. It is not easy. It's like there's 1:19:01.200 --> 1:19:03.880 so many things blinking and this and that. Tom, you're 1:19:03.880 --> 1:19:04.439 on with Rich? 1:19:05.240 --> 1:19:08.599 Hey, Rich, First of all, thanks for everything you do 1:19:08.680 --> 1:19:10.719 for all of us tech dumbings out there. 1:19:11.080 --> 1:19:14.080 Oh well, don't call yourself that, but yes, I you know, 1:19:14.120 --> 1:19:16.839 I just try to help. So you know, I understand. 1:19:16.880 --> 1:19:19.240 This is my world. You've got your world, I've got mine. 1:19:20.120 --> 1:19:24.000 This is not really a tech problem. It's an odinity. 1:19:24.080 --> 1:19:28.360 I ran into for Amazon last night. I wanted to 1:19:28.720 --> 1:19:31.400 order a. 1:19:30.240 --> 1:19:31.599 A Gillette. 1:19:33.360 --> 1:19:33.719 Razor. 1:19:33.880 --> 1:19:38.160 Okay, it's a Styler three and one. It's about close 1:19:38.200 --> 1:19:39.120 to thirty bucks. 1:19:39.240 --> 1:19:40.839 Okay. I was gonna say, do you have to mortgage 1:19:40.840 --> 1:19:43.439 your house to do that? Did you have to? I 1:19:43.439 --> 1:19:44.880 was gonna say, do you have to mortgage your house 1:19:44.920 --> 1:19:47.000 to buy this razor? Because they're very expensive. 1:19:46.720 --> 1:19:50.760 Much but it's well, it's electric and yeah, anyhow, sure. 1:19:51.560 --> 1:19:55.560 So I you know, normally, for fast delivery on Amazon, 1:19:56.600 --> 1:19:59.400 and I am an Amazon member, you have to meet 1:19:59.400 --> 1:20:00.880 a twenty five dollar minimum. 1:20:02.080 --> 1:20:02.800 So when I. 1:20:03.000 --> 1:20:07.240 Placed the order, it shifted me over to Amazon Fresh 1:20:08.479 --> 1:20:11.040 and then you have to meet a fifty dollars minimum 1:20:12.200 --> 1:20:16.200 in order to get the rapid delivery, right, So I 1:20:16.240 --> 1:20:18.519 just thought, you know, it was kind of irritating when 1:20:18.520 --> 1:20:21.799 I ran into that. Have you ever heard of that before? 1:20:22.200 --> 1:20:25.479 Yes? And the reason why is because the razor was 1:20:25.560 --> 1:20:28.519 sold by Amazon Fresh and not Amazon. So it's a 1:20:28.520 --> 1:20:32.160 little confusing. And this is actually, I think, getting way better. 1:20:33.120 --> 1:20:38.040 But so the thing was basically whatever specific razor you wanted, 1:20:38.479 --> 1:20:41.200 it was sold by Amazon Fresh and not Amazon. It's 1:20:41.240 --> 1:20:44.600 very confusing of the same company, but for certain products 1:20:44.680 --> 1:20:47.639 they parse it out and they say, okay, this company 1:20:47.640 --> 1:20:49.080 and this happened to me the other day. I wanted 1:20:49.120 --> 1:20:51.519 to buy this product and it was only sold by 1:20:51.560 --> 1:20:54.120 Amazon Fresh, and I had to do a huge order 1:20:54.240 --> 1:20:55.840 just to get it, and so I ended up not 1:20:55.880 --> 1:20:58.960 getting it. But again that's kind of what happens. Oh, 1:20:59.000 --> 1:21:00.559 by the way, I'm looking at this because I looked 1:21:00.600 --> 1:21:04.200 up Gillette. This is so cool. They have Gillette razors 1:21:04.240 --> 1:21:07.760 for all the NFL teams. How cool is that? What 1:21:07.840 --> 1:21:10.080 a good gift. I got to get my kid one 1:21:10.120 --> 1:21:14.559 of these. That is awesome. Wow, look at this they've got. Yeah, 1:21:14.760 --> 1:21:16.439 I'm looking at the forty nine ers right here, but 1:21:16.439 --> 1:21:21.160 they've got Gelette Labs Special, NFL, all these different editions. 1:21:21.160 --> 1:21:25.360 That is so super cool. Anyway, So the thing is 1:21:25.520 --> 1:21:27.640 when you're looking at Amazon, if you don't want that 1:21:27.720 --> 1:21:31.400 to happen in the future, you've got to use the 1:21:31.400 --> 1:21:34.800 the kind of selectors on the side, so it'll say 1:21:34.840 --> 1:21:38.960 like prime delivery overnight by eight am, eleven am, and 1:21:39.000 --> 1:21:41.639 you got to make sometimes it sells, it says the seller, 1:21:42.040 --> 1:21:44.240 and you can choose Amazon. See right now, I can 1:21:44.240 --> 1:21:46.760 see there's a there's a check for Amazon Fresh. So 1:21:46.760 --> 1:21:49.040 if I check Amazon Fresh, I'm only going to see 1:21:49.080 --> 1:21:52.680 stuff that I can get from that store versus Amazon. 1:21:52.840 --> 1:21:56.640 So that is what happened to you. The different the 1:21:56.680 --> 1:21:58.960 thing that Amazon is doing that they've been changing now 1:21:59.040 --> 1:22:01.919 is they're actually in co operating fresh food into standard 1:22:01.960 --> 1:22:05.320 Amazon deliveries. So for instance, I got a delivery last night, 1:22:05.600 --> 1:22:08.240 and my delivery just came in a bag because it's 1:22:08.280 --> 1:22:10.400 not being shipped from anywhere. They're just going into a 1:22:10.400 --> 1:22:13.360 warehouse that's nearby and they're just pulling the two items 1:22:13.360 --> 1:22:15.320 and they're bringing them to me. So it's kind of 1:22:15.320 --> 1:22:17.880 like almost like an Amazon's version of door Dash, and 1:22:17.880 --> 1:22:19.960 we're going to see a lot more of that because 1:22:20.000 --> 1:22:23.000 Amazon is now mixing in fresh items, like we're talking 1:22:23.400 --> 1:22:28.160 milk and fresh food into your traditional Amazon orders, and 1:22:28.160 --> 1:22:29.680 they can't do that by shipping. They're not going to 1:22:29.960 --> 1:22:31.840 put that on a truck to ship to you in 1:22:31.880 --> 1:22:34.439 a box that takes you know, overnight or two days. 1:22:34.560 --> 1:22:39.080 They're just taking it from a smaller warehouse that brings 1:22:39.120 --> 1:22:41.559 it right to you, kind of cutting out the middleman 1:22:41.640 --> 1:22:45.479 of any sort of like delivery time. So anyway, it's 1:22:45.479 --> 1:22:47.519 a really interesting concept, but I think we'll see less 1:22:47.560 --> 1:22:50.160 of this, hopefully, But I get it, Tom. It's frustrating 1:22:50.160 --> 1:22:52.639 when that happens, for sure. All right, eighty to eight 1:22:52.720 --> 1:22:54.880 rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to 1:22:54.920 --> 1:22:58.400 two four one zero one. We got more calls. We 1:22:58.439 --> 1:23:01.000 got to talk about this social media band over in Australia. 1:23:01.800 --> 1:23:04.479 Kids over there must be losing their minds. No more 1:23:04.520 --> 1:23:07.440 social media for them. Probably a good thing for the world. 1:23:07.960 --> 1:23:11.760 Australia probably become the smartest country. Now, all right, more 1:23:11.840 --> 1:23:21.519 rich On Sack coming your way. Right after this, Let's 1:23:21.560 --> 1:23:26.559 go to Frank in Apple Lake, New York. Frank around 1:23:26.600 --> 1:23:28.080 with Rich Hi. 1:23:28.240 --> 1:23:32.080 Rich got a question for you. I'm a senior and 1:23:32.120 --> 1:23:34.439 I happen to have a lot of art writers in 1:23:34.600 --> 1:23:38.559 my fingers, which means that when I'm you know, typing 1:23:39.560 --> 1:23:43.439 on the computer, it's oftentimes the big problem for me, 1:23:45.479 --> 1:23:49.120 is there? So here's my question in this AI age, 1:23:50.080 --> 1:23:56.719 does anybody manufacture a Star Trek voice activated computer where 1:23:56.760 --> 1:24:00.479 I could just say computer, go to E they or 1:24:00.640 --> 1:24:05.080 computer print what's on my screen? Something like that. 1:24:05.720 --> 1:24:08.600 Yeah, I mean that there is something built into Windows 1:24:09.000 --> 1:24:14.759 that is really good. Let's see voice Access Windows eleven, 1:24:15.200 --> 1:24:17.760 so that it's it's I believe this is brand new 1:24:19.160 --> 1:24:23.200 and this lets you control your entire PC with voice 1:24:23.360 --> 1:24:25.880 and I just set it up on my Windows computer here, 1:24:25.920 --> 1:24:31.120 and I'm telling you, Frank, it's very impressive. Like I'm talking, 1:24:31.200 --> 1:24:34.400 I'm looking. It's it's going through like the practice like screens. 1:24:35.000 --> 1:24:37.000 And so here's what I said. I said, voice access 1:24:37.040 --> 1:24:40.200 wake up. That'll turn on your microphone number one. Then 1:24:40.280 --> 1:24:44.599 you can say, uh, click animal friend and it will 1:24:44.880 --> 1:24:47.519 select the box on the screen that says dog or cat, 1:24:47.560 --> 1:24:48.880 and then you can do that and then it says 1:24:49.360 --> 1:24:53.040 click cat and it'll click the cat show numbers. I mean, 1:24:53.040 --> 1:24:56.599 it's it's basically everything you're talking about. This is what 1:24:56.640 --> 1:24:59.040 you want now. You said you have you have some 1:24:59.160 --> 1:25:01.160 decksterity like you can and you can turn on the 1:25:01.200 --> 1:25:03.240 computer and turn it off and like if you needed to, 1:25:03.280 --> 1:25:05.840 like peck a key, you could, right, Yeah, okay, so 1:25:05.920 --> 1:25:08.479 this is mostly just for everything in between. So I 1:25:08.479 --> 1:25:10.519 think this would be a very good thing for you 1:25:10.600 --> 1:25:13.360 to try. Do you have a Windows computer and. 1:25:13.280 --> 1:25:16.479 It's Windows, Well my computer is broken right now, but 1:25:16.520 --> 1:25:18.519 I'm about to get a new one. 1:25:18.640 --> 1:25:20.760 Well I would get a Windows eleven then for sure, 1:25:20.880 --> 1:25:24.280 because yeah, I mean, I'm telling you and I think 1:25:24.320 --> 1:25:27.360 this is a pretty new feature. It's because I remember 1:25:27.360 --> 1:25:30.280 them announcing it and it's yeah, it's it's in the 1:25:30.760 --> 1:25:34.439 new version of Windows, like the latest update. I'm gonna 1:25:34.439 --> 1:25:36.639 link this up on the website because this is incredible 1:25:36.680 --> 1:25:39.800 what they've done. And it's just basically, I mean, I'm 1:25:39.840 --> 1:25:43.960 telling all the things that you can do here. I mean, 1:25:43.960 --> 1:25:45.640 there's just so much you can do. I mean, it 1:25:45.640 --> 1:25:47.639 looks like you can go right to websites, you can 1:25:47.680 --> 1:25:51.559 surf websites. I mean, it's I think that the main 1:25:51.640 --> 1:25:55.280 thing is what you're talking about with Star Trek is 1:25:56.080 --> 1:25:59.840 natural language commands, and I think that these are not 1:26:00.080 --> 1:26:03.080 necessarily natural language just yet. But it does give you 1:26:03.120 --> 1:26:05.600 a full voice access guide which you can just like 1:26:05.640 --> 1:26:10.800 print out. But I think what's going to happen is 1:26:10.840 --> 1:26:13.599 there is a web browser called chat gbt at list 1:26:14.720 --> 1:26:17.000 and chat gbt And have you used any of the 1:26:17.040 --> 1:26:21.920 AI yet at all? Okay, Well, the AI, what you're 1:26:21.960 --> 1:26:25.080 talking about AI is already there. So the idea of 1:26:25.240 --> 1:26:28.760 just telling a computer what you want to do and 1:26:28.800 --> 1:26:32.040 what like, we're already there with chat GBT. So i'd 1:26:32.040 --> 1:26:33.679 recommend what kind of phone do you have a smartphone 1:26:33.720 --> 1:26:37.760 or no? Yeah, okay, download the chat GBT app to 1:26:37.840 --> 1:26:40.240 your phone. Make sure you get the official one. And 1:26:40.280 --> 1:26:45.519 there's a special there's a special let me see where 1:26:45.520 --> 1:26:47.960 it is on here. Go to chat GBT and there's 1:26:47.960 --> 1:26:52.000 a special mode called voice. And I'm not kidding. You 1:26:52.040 --> 1:26:54.000 will not believe how much you can do with just 1:26:54.080 --> 1:26:56.320 that voice. You can just talk back and forth, you 1:26:56.320 --> 1:26:58.840 can do calculations, you can ask things, you can ask 1:26:58.880 --> 1:27:02.720 it to search a website, bringing you back information, brainstorm. 1:27:03.080 --> 1:27:05.960 It is quite incredible, and it's all natural language. And 1:27:06.000 --> 1:27:08.200 by the way, it's I believe it's free. I think 1:27:08.200 --> 1:27:12.479 anyone could access that for free. But I think whereas 1:27:12.520 --> 1:27:15.479 a computer, we're not there. I don't think just yet 1:27:16.160 --> 1:27:18.280 with the computer. But this thing on Windows I think 1:27:18.360 --> 1:27:20.479 is the closest you're going to get. And since you're 1:27:20.479 --> 1:27:22.600 telling me you have, you know, it's more of a 1:27:22.640 --> 1:27:24.519 convenience thing where you don't want to sit there and 1:27:24.560 --> 1:27:27.280 type everything. You want to be able to call out commands. 1:27:27.560 --> 1:27:29.439 I think this is gonna be really a good combination 1:27:29.520 --> 1:27:31.920 for you. Now, the other thing we have, there's a 1:27:31.960 --> 1:27:37.840 program called whisper Flow, and this will also change your life, Frank. 1:27:39.160 --> 1:27:42.080 It's basically a voice dictation app. So when you're sitting 1:27:42.080 --> 1:27:44.040 there trying to do your emails and things like that. 1:27:44.720 --> 1:27:48.400 You can use this whisper Flow and it is going 1:27:48.479 --> 1:27:53.400 to convert what you say into text in probably the 1:27:53.439 --> 1:27:55.680 best way you've ever seen in your life. Like you're 1:27:55.720 --> 1:27:58.360 not going to believe how good it is. And it 1:27:58.400 --> 1:27:59.960 does that with the help of AI on the beat 1:28:00.000 --> 1:28:02.840 back end. But I basically do not type out my 1:28:03.280 --> 1:28:07.000 my anything on my computer anymore, including my newsletter, my emails. 1:28:07.000 --> 1:28:10.200 I do all voice to text because it's gotten so good. 1:28:10.760 --> 1:28:14.960 So again, just to review Windows Voice Access. It's called 1:28:16.040 --> 1:28:21.960 whisper Flow and chat EBT. Download that toolkit and Frank, 1:28:22.000 --> 1:28:24.600 I think it's it's really going to improve things for you. 1:28:25.120 --> 1:28:27.240 And that justn't doesn't just go for Frank, that's for 1:28:27.280 --> 1:28:30.439 anyone you know you're struggling with, you know you want 1:28:30.439 --> 1:28:33.080 to We've got We're almost there. We're almost to the 1:28:33.080 --> 1:28:36.000 point where you can control an entire computer with just 1:28:36.040 --> 1:28:39.680 your voice and in a really good way. Rich on 1:28:39.720 --> 1:28:42.920 tech dot TV. Coming up, we'll talk to uh, let's 1:28:42.920 --> 1:28:45.519 see Roberto. We're going to talk to him about the 1:28:45.600 --> 1:28:49.679 car world, transportation, what's going on there with Rivian and others. 1:28:49.760 --> 1:28:57.639 Coming up right here, I'm Rich on Tech Roberto Baldwin 1:28:57.880 --> 1:29:00.960 is a mobility journalist with sae ME Media Group. We 1:29:00.960 --> 1:29:03.439 met in New York City at a GM event. We 1:29:03.520 --> 1:29:06.040 talked the entire Uber ride to the airport. I figured, 1:29:06.080 --> 1:29:07.280 you know what, I got to bring this guy in 1:29:07.280 --> 1:29:10.880 the show because he knows his stuff about cars. Welcome 1:29:10.880 --> 1:29:14.360 to the show, Roberto, thanks for having me on. Super excited, 1:29:14.560 --> 1:29:18.200 absolutely so. It took me forever to get you on 1:29:18.240 --> 1:29:20.559 this show because you travel so much. What are you 1:29:20.680 --> 1:29:21.519 doing all the time? 1:29:21.960 --> 1:29:27.479 I travel pretty often, mostly with automakers. I went to 1:29:27.520 --> 1:29:30.680 Poland to learn about their supply chain. I went to 1:29:31.640 --> 1:29:35.600 the Alps Austrian and then I went to Germany to 1:29:36.360 --> 1:29:39.599 learn about the new the Mercedes Benz CLA. I went 1:29:39.640 --> 1:29:42.840 to Toyota to talk to them about their proving. It's yeah, 1:29:42.880 --> 1:29:45.679 it's anything automotive. It's a lot, it's a very it's varied. 1:29:45.720 --> 1:29:47.680 It's not just me going and driving cars, which is 1:29:47.720 --> 1:29:50.000 a lot of it. There's a lot of like really 1:29:50.160 --> 1:29:52.799 sort of deep in the weath of the automotive industry. 1:29:52.960 --> 1:29:55.120 You've been covering this stuff for a long time, right. 1:29:55.400 --> 1:29:57.960 Oh yeah, for well over a decade before that, I 1:29:58.000 --> 1:30:00.560 was a tech journalist. But before all that, I was 1:30:00.600 --> 1:30:03.479 a kid in the driveway every Saturday morning with my 1:30:03.600 --> 1:30:08.000 dad being told to go get a ratchet or a wrench, or, 1:30:08.160 --> 1:30:10.000 in the worst case scenario, I hammer. 1:30:10.200 --> 1:30:12.880 Oh wow, So I assume you know how to drive 1:30:12.920 --> 1:30:14.280 stick I do. 1:30:14.360 --> 1:30:16.960 I own a manual super vr Z. 1:30:17.320 --> 1:30:20.639 Oh wow. Okay, I never learned. And my dad also 1:30:21.880 --> 1:30:24.320 like to restore cars too. But when he asked me 1:30:24.360 --> 1:30:26.240 for any sort of like help, like hey, can you 1:30:26.360 --> 1:30:28.519 hold this oil pan or something, I'm just like, no, 1:30:28.640 --> 1:30:29.719 I got to go do something. 1:30:30.680 --> 1:30:30.920 See. 1:30:30.960 --> 1:30:33.680 I tried that, but that wasn't really an option. Unfortunately. 1:30:33.760 --> 1:30:37.000 It was. The hilarious part is I was just as 1:30:37.160 --> 1:30:40.640 uninterested it seems as you were doing it. But then 1:30:40.680 --> 1:30:43.519 as I got older, I found that when I'm working 1:30:43.560 --> 1:30:47.280 on a car, I'm very calm. I'm very relaxed. It's 1:30:47.320 --> 1:30:50.000 such a departure from our very digital world just to 1:30:50.040 --> 1:30:52.640 sit there with a ratchet or a wrench or a 1:30:52.640 --> 1:30:55.719 host clamp or whatever and sort of fix some vehicle. 1:30:55.840 --> 1:30:57.800 Oh one hundred percent. Don't get me wrong. I on 1:30:57.880 --> 1:31:00.879 my street there's a car that's like an old Mustang 1:31:00.960 --> 1:31:02.720 or something that's just sitting in a driveway for like 1:31:02.760 --> 1:31:04.960 ten years now, And every time we walk past that. 1:31:05.040 --> 1:31:06.519 I tell my kids, I go, do you think you 1:31:06.520 --> 1:31:08.360 could see me as like the dad who like restores 1:31:08.400 --> 1:31:11.200 this car? They're like no, but I but I have 1:31:11.280 --> 1:31:12.760 the urge to do it, even though I have no 1:31:12.800 --> 1:31:15.240 idea what I'm doing. All right, let's talk. Let's talk. 1:31:15.400 --> 1:31:17.280 You learned by doing yes, and. 1:31:17.240 --> 1:31:19.160 Now with the Internet, of course, there's so many ways 1:31:19.200 --> 1:31:22.040 of learning. So let's talk about Rivian. They had their 1:31:22.560 --> 1:31:26.200 they had their big autonomy day this week, so give 1:31:26.240 --> 1:31:28.519 me an update on what they announced, Like, was there 1:31:28.600 --> 1:31:31.160 anything that stood out to you about Rivian? And is 1:31:31.200 --> 1:31:33.680 this company like in a good place or should we 1:31:33.720 --> 1:31:34.200 be worried? 1:31:35.479 --> 1:31:36.880 I think they are in a good place. I think 1:31:36.880 --> 1:31:39.439 part of that has to do with Volkswagen had issues 1:31:39.479 --> 1:31:41.800 with their software a couple of years ago. They're in 1:31:41.840 --> 1:31:44.639 car software, the ID four when it launched ID three 1:31:44.680 --> 1:31:46.679 in Europe, when it launched both of those, the software 1:31:46.720 --> 1:31:49.000 is very buggy, very laggy, and it really hurt initial 1:31:49.040 --> 1:31:52.040 sales for those vehicles and maybe long term sales. Rivian, 1:31:52.120 --> 1:31:54.479 on the other hand, they're in car software which really well. 1:31:54.520 --> 1:31:57.920 So Volkswagon has given billions of dollars to Rivian in 1:31:58.040 --> 1:32:00.160 order to help them with their software as a partner, 1:32:00.640 --> 1:32:02.800 and so Ribbon's able to use that money to a 1:32:03.280 --> 1:32:06.200 you know, produce vehicles. B are the R you know, 1:32:06.240 --> 1:32:08.599 the R ones. So we're talking about the R two, 1:32:08.760 --> 1:32:11.639 which is their sort of mid size suv. That's the 1:32:11.680 --> 1:32:16.200 next item coming up from their lineup. But they're also 1:32:16.720 --> 1:32:21.439 looking at enhancing their sort of future of self driving vehicles. 1:32:21.479 --> 1:32:25.320 Their their level their level three vehicles. Level three is 1:32:25.320 --> 1:32:27.760 is hands off and eyes off, so you could be 1:32:27.800 --> 1:32:30.599 reading a book, you could be reading a newspaper. A 1:32:30.600 --> 1:32:33.280 lot of automakers are working towards this right now in 1:32:33.320 --> 1:32:36.360 the United States, only encountering Nevada. Does Mercedes Benz have 1:32:36.479 --> 1:32:40.880 something like this, But on the way they're working on, 1:32:41.479 --> 1:32:45.080 you know, beginning next year with the updated R ones, 1:32:45.640 --> 1:32:49.240 you should be able to hands off but eyes on. 1:32:49.479 --> 1:32:52.120 You're still in charge of everything that happens. Use that 1:32:52.320 --> 1:32:57.559 system on any road, any road with painted lines, so 1:32:57.720 --> 1:33:00.680 you could do it on a dirt road, but on 1:33:00.720 --> 1:33:03.679 a you know, like a country road, on a back road, 1:33:04.280 --> 1:33:08.280 potentially in town. It is sort of a big leap. 1:33:08.400 --> 1:33:11.559 If you know anything about Blue Crewise or Super Crews, 1:33:11.640 --> 1:33:14.720 those both of those systems typically require you to be 1:33:14.800 --> 1:33:18.080 geo fenced onto a highway or a freeway. This goes 1:33:18.200 --> 1:33:22.640 beyond that. That said, it's still a very difficult proposition. 1:33:22.680 --> 1:33:25.479 It's still very difficult for vehicles to understand the road 1:33:25.479 --> 1:33:28.600 contextually the same way that a human does. And you 1:33:28.640 --> 1:33:30.320 still all in charge. So when you come to a 1:33:30.360 --> 1:33:32.400 stop sign, when you come to a stoplight, when you 1:33:32.400 --> 1:33:34.599 come to intersection, you still have to take over and 1:33:34.680 --> 1:33:38.120 do you know, you have to drive while as if 1:33:38.160 --> 1:33:42.320 you're just on a long straightaway, the vehicle for the 1:33:42.360 --> 1:33:44.800 most part should be able to stay in its lane 1:33:44.840 --> 1:33:47.920 without you having to take over control of the storiate. 1:33:48.160 --> 1:33:51.000 Well, how does what Rivin announce compared to what Tesla's 1:33:51.040 --> 1:33:51.639 already doing. 1:33:52.640 --> 1:33:55.439 So with Rivian's announcing and Tesla's actually already doing this 1:33:55.640 --> 1:33:58.240 as well, is they had their they're building their own silicon, 1:33:59.000 --> 1:34:01.360 which is really actually quite difficult. And when you think 1:34:01.400 --> 1:34:04.160 about your iPhones, all the chips inside of there, they're 1:34:04.160 --> 1:34:06.479 making millions and millions of those phones. You have the 1:34:06.800 --> 1:34:10.040 economics of scale, and the economics that scale comes with 1:34:10.120 --> 1:34:13.599 the ability to find, you know, problems like weird edgu cases. 1:34:14.040 --> 1:34:17.240 For automakers, you're not making millions and millions of vehicles. 1:34:17.760 --> 1:34:20.320 If you're lucky you're selling a million, most likely you're 1:34:20.360 --> 1:34:22.680 selling a couple hundred thousand a year, So they're going 1:34:22.760 --> 1:34:26.639 to have that issue. But one of the really interesting parts, 1:34:26.640 --> 1:34:29.320 and actually probably what everyone should be doing, is they're 1:34:29.320 --> 1:34:32.240 adding LEDR to their vehicles. When they're talking about a 1:34:32.320 --> 1:34:35.400 sort of hands off, eyes off vehicles, so that that 1:34:35.640 --> 1:34:38.639 means they have the redundancy of light ar, radar and 1:34:38.840 --> 1:34:42.639 cameras watching the road. It's that sort of full suite 1:34:42.760 --> 1:34:47.160 that allows if something goes, if one sensor can't figure 1:34:47.160 --> 1:34:48.679 out what's going on in the world, the other two 1:34:48.720 --> 1:34:49.719 can pick up the select. 1:34:49.800 --> 1:34:51.679 This is a really big debate. I mean it's really 1:34:51.720 --> 1:34:54.120 only a debate with Tesla because you know, Elon Musk 1:34:54.120 --> 1:34:56.840 and Tesla they continuously say like, we don't need this, 1:34:56.880 --> 1:34:58.920 we're not building this in but every car maker that 1:34:58.960 --> 1:35:01.559 I've seen is pretty much using it. And I'll be 1:35:01.640 --> 1:35:05.000 honest as someone who has a Tesla, like in the fog, 1:35:05.560 --> 1:35:09.000 I don't trust self driving because it can't see anything 1:35:09.000 --> 1:35:10.960 that I can't see. And so with light R you 1:35:11.000 --> 1:35:13.920 can you can see like two four football fields ahead 1:35:14.439 --> 1:35:17.120 with these you know this laser I get. I don't 1:35:17.120 --> 1:35:18.320 know what is it laser vision? 1:35:18.640 --> 1:35:22.639 It's it's so radar is you know, it's it's radio waves. 1:35:22.640 --> 1:35:25.639 They bounce off something, it sends this, It sends information 1:35:25.800 --> 1:35:28.600 back and the vehicle or whatever you're using, processes of 1:35:28.640 --> 1:35:30.880 that information and tells you, oh, this is so far 1:35:30.920 --> 1:35:33.240 away and it's so big. With light R it's using light. 1:35:33.360 --> 1:35:35.400 So it's lasers, that's what. 1:35:37.000 --> 1:35:37.240 It was. 1:35:37.320 --> 1:35:42.519 Later Okay, I'm just saying that sounds weird, but okay, yeah, 1:35:42.560 --> 1:35:44.240 and so it can it can see things more. And 1:35:44.280 --> 1:35:47.280 I feel like that, I mean, that seems to be 1:35:47.320 --> 1:35:49.080 the way to go. I mean, Tesla's doing a good job, 1:35:49.080 --> 1:35:51.559 but like I feel like for overall, it's like all 1:35:51.600 --> 1:35:53.720 these companies are doing they're all doing light R now 1:35:53.760 --> 1:35:55.720 and they're really pushing to use that. 1:35:56.479 --> 1:35:58.280 Yeah, and I think, you know, one of the issues 1:35:58.320 --> 1:36:01.439 I think Tesla early on, you know, especially with the 1:36:01.479 --> 1:36:05.800 Model three and everything, cost their concerns are really cost base. 1:36:05.840 --> 1:36:07.960 They wouldn't say it. You know, there's no dash cam 1:36:08.160 --> 1:36:10.840 in or I'm sorry, not a dash can dash cluster 1:36:10.920 --> 1:36:12.960 in the Model three and Model why, And they'll tell 1:36:13.000 --> 1:36:15.599 us all day it's a design issue. Really, it's about costs. 1:36:15.680 --> 1:36:19.000 That's a that's an additional screen, that's an additional wine hardness, 1:36:19.120 --> 1:36:21.680 that's additional software and development you have to do. So 1:36:21.720 --> 1:36:25.120 Tesla has always been very cost conscious and light are 1:36:25.439 --> 1:36:27.839 you know, when especially when it first came ten thousand 1:36:27.840 --> 1:36:31.040 dollars per unit, is that's a lot of money. Now 1:36:31.080 --> 1:36:34.000 they're getting down, you know, five hundred dollars, one thousand 1:36:34.040 --> 1:36:36.240 dollars and so the you know, the costs of those 1:36:36.320 --> 1:36:40.360 have come down, and compound that with the fact that 1:36:40.439 --> 1:36:43.879 they really do add an additional it's just this additional 1:36:43.920 --> 1:36:47.120 sense of redundancy. And when it comes to self driving cars, 1:36:47.120 --> 1:36:49.240 the more redundancy you can add to a vehicle, the 1:36:49.360 --> 1:36:52.559 better off your you are. And it's going to make 1:36:52.640 --> 1:36:54.720 you know, like like you said, for you you don't 1:36:54.760 --> 1:36:57.439 trust it because you know, there's other technology out there 1:36:57.439 --> 1:37:00.639 they can do additional information if if if the driver 1:37:00.720 --> 1:37:03.360 doesn't trust it, then what's the point. 1:37:03.600 --> 1:37:06.799 Yeah, yeah, And I think it's mostly just an inclement 1:37:06.920 --> 1:37:09.799 you know, conditions and things like that. But you know, overall, 1:37:09.840 --> 1:37:12.120 it's it's come a long way, I mean a really 1:37:12.160 --> 1:37:14.240 long way on the Tesla for sure. I do want 1:37:14.280 --> 1:37:15.840 to talk about this because I get these questions all 1:37:15.880 --> 1:37:18.599 the time. People say, why can't we get these cheap 1:37:18.720 --> 1:37:21.920 Chinese evs here in the US, I mean over in China, 1:37:22.040 --> 1:37:24.960 don't they have all these like super inexpensive EV's And 1:37:24.960 --> 1:37:26.880 that's just not the case here. What's going on with that? 1:37:28.320 --> 1:37:31.000 So the cheap evs in China has to do with 1:37:31.080 --> 1:37:33.519 a lot of different For one thing, there's a lot 1:37:33.560 --> 1:37:36.719 of incentives that the government has given it to Chinese 1:37:36.720 --> 1:37:40.479 automakers and the Chinese battery manufacturers in order to essentially, 1:37:41.160 --> 1:37:46.439 uh supercharge that industry. Chinese battery technology is lead, you know, 1:37:46.800 --> 1:37:49.720 light years ahead of everyone else right now. But you know, 1:37:49.760 --> 1:37:52.240 they have they've they've gotten a lot of uh, you know, 1:37:52.439 --> 1:37:55.559 influx of money, you know, so incentives from the government. 1:37:55.640 --> 1:37:58.640 So there's that. But the ham alligation is a is 1:37:58.640 --> 1:38:00.840 a weird word, hamuligation, they want to say it out loud, 1:38:01.080 --> 1:38:04.439 but it is creating a vehicle that will meet the 1:38:04.479 --> 1:38:09.520 regulatory rules of a region. So in China, their homoligation, 1:38:09.560 --> 1:38:13.680 their regulatory rules are different than the United States. And 1:38:13.720 --> 1:38:16.920 in China people don't really drive all that last, most 1:38:16.960 --> 1:38:19.840 people are living in cities that there's a lot of congestion. 1:38:20.520 --> 1:38:22.320 It's not the United States, not you know, the big 1:38:22.400 --> 1:38:25.000 highways where people are flying down the road to eighty 1:38:25.080 --> 1:38:28.519 ninety miles an hour. Over here, we have different rules. 1:38:28.520 --> 1:38:30.639 So in order for those really cheap let's say five 1:38:30.720 --> 1:38:34.479 thousand dollars, ten thousand and fifteen thousand dollars evs to 1:38:34.560 --> 1:38:38.080 be built so that they meet the regulatory rules of 1:38:38.120 --> 1:38:41.600 the United States, they're going to be more expensive. There's 1:38:41.800 --> 1:38:45.800 really not much that I think the bid dolphin or 1:38:45.880 --> 1:38:50.000 the seagull is also sold in Mexico and it's like 1:38:50.080 --> 1:38:52.559 five ten thousand dollars more than the Chinese version. 1:38:52.800 --> 1:38:54.439 Ah okay, yeah, so. 1:38:54.479 --> 1:38:57.880 So you know they're in Mexico's f mulligation. Their regulatory 1:38:57.920 --> 1:39:00.200 system isn't quite as strict as the United States. So 1:39:00.200 --> 1:39:02.519 if you bring that car over the United States, you know, 1:39:02.640 --> 1:39:04.599 now you're talking about you know, sometime that's maybe ten 1:39:04.680 --> 1:39:07.719 fifteen being twenty five thousand United States, which is still 1:39:07.720 --> 1:39:10.080 a deal. I mean, that's really like sort of the 1:39:10.120 --> 1:39:14.080 big selling point for the slates. So we are looking 1:39:14.080 --> 1:39:18.679 at potential for less sense of evs. But you can't 1:39:18.680 --> 1:39:20.840 just grab a car from China and bring it over here. 1:39:20.880 --> 1:39:23.080 There's there's so many things that have to happen to 1:39:23.240 --> 1:39:25.360 that vehicle before you can bring it over and then 1:39:25.400 --> 1:39:27.280 of course we have you know, we can get into 1:39:27.320 --> 1:39:31.920 the tariff debate and what that means for bringing vehicles 1:39:31.920 --> 1:39:35.360 into this country, but it really does come down to 1:39:35.400 --> 1:39:39.600 making sure that the vehicle is built safely for the 1:39:39.600 --> 1:39:42.000 region it's going into and in order for those Chinese 1:39:42.040 --> 1:39:44.360 evs that we all see very they are very cheap. 1:39:44.640 --> 1:39:47.639 You're like, why can't I get a fifteen thousand dollars EV. Well, 1:39:47.880 --> 1:39:50.120 because if you bring that car over here and it 1:39:50.160 --> 1:39:52.320 get hits, it gets hit by an F one fifty, 1:39:52.479 --> 1:39:55.439 or if it hits a wall or another car or whatever, 1:39:55.680 --> 1:39:58.639 it's not going to have the same crash worthiness as 1:39:58.680 --> 1:40:01.160 the cars that are built specific for this country. And 1:40:01.320 --> 1:40:02.720 to be on it, you want to be safe when 1:40:02.720 --> 1:40:03.040 you're in. 1:40:03.240 --> 1:40:05.160 Oh, yes you do. As someone who was in an accident 1:40:05.080 --> 1:40:06.960 a couple of months ago, Yes, yes you do. It 1:40:07.040 --> 1:40:10.760 means the world ham alligation new word. Okay, thank you all. 1:40:10.800 --> 1:40:14.639 Add that to the list. Roberto Baldwin, Roberto Baldwin, thanks 1:40:14.680 --> 1:40:17.120 so much for joining me today. Uh what's the best 1:40:17.120 --> 1:40:20.439 way for folks to follow you? Is it on like Instagram? Twitter? 1:40:21.400 --> 1:40:24.639 I am on Instagram and I am on blue sky 1:40:24.880 --> 1:40:25.960 and it's. 1:40:26.120 --> 1:40:28.040 St r g w y s. 1:40:28.160 --> 1:40:30.040 Okay, it looks like stringways. I'll link you up on 1:40:30.080 --> 1:40:32.080 the website. Rich on tech dot tv, thanks so much 1:40:32.080 --> 1:40:34.559 for joining me today. Great conversation. Learned a lot, including 1:40:34.560 --> 1:40:37.599 a new word. Coming up. We are going to open 1:40:37.680 --> 1:40:42.320 up the feedbag rich on tech dot tv. Submit your 1:40:43.160 --> 1:40:46.280 your feedback right now. We've got some of it here. 1:40:46.360 --> 1:40:49.800 We're gonna get some more, I guess right back after this. 1:41:00.520 --> 1:41:05.679 The celebrity impersonation scams billions of dollars. They cost fans 1:41:05.680 --> 1:41:08.800 and estimated five point three billion dollars in twenty twenty five. 1:41:09.600 --> 1:41:13.400 Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish the most targeted artists. 1:41:13.840 --> 1:41:17.439 So here's what happens. Hackers take over verified social media 1:41:17.439 --> 1:41:21.559 accounts and then they push fake tickets, merchandise, crypto and 1:41:21.680 --> 1:41:25.400 all kinds of VIP offers. One in five concert tickets 1:41:25.439 --> 1:41:28.519 sold on social media part of a scam or was fake. 1:41:29.080 --> 1:41:32.719 This comes from Billboard and Spikers. Spikers is a company 1:41:32.720 --> 1:41:35.800 that protects these social media accounts, so it's in their 1:41:35.800 --> 1:41:40.280 best interest to let people know that this happens. Fans 1:41:40.320 --> 1:41:43.080 are often tricked by fake meet and greets, pre sale links, 1:41:43.120 --> 1:41:46.559 giveaways and AI. Of course, as you know, is making 1:41:46.640 --> 1:41:49.080 all this stuff harder to spot. But imagine you know, 1:41:49.120 --> 1:41:50.920 you're a tailor Swift fan. You want to get tickets 1:41:50.960 --> 1:41:53.000 to the concert, and they text you and say, hey, 1:41:53.479 --> 1:41:56.400 we can offer you these tickets. They just came available 1:41:56.680 --> 1:42:00.000 one hundred bucks. Here you go times you know, hundred 1:42:00.280 --> 1:42:03.000 people they text that too. I mean it's really wild, 1:42:03.040 --> 1:42:06.280 So be careful. And like we learned last week, celebrities 1:42:06.320 --> 1:42:07.960 do not want to become your friends. They are not 1:42:08.080 --> 1:42:11.960 texting you. They're not trying to win your love. It's 1:42:12.000 --> 1:42:14.439 a one way street. Let's be real with celebrities. You 1:42:14.520 --> 1:42:17.920 see them, you love them, They're not really loving you back. 1:42:18.000 --> 1:42:19.960 I mean it's great to feel that they do, but 1:42:20.280 --> 1:42:25.719 let's be real. Australia first, I think it's the first 1:42:25.720 --> 1:42:28.800 country in the world to have a social media ban 1:42:29.160 --> 1:42:35.680 for kids under sixteen. They've officially banned TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, snapchat, 1:42:35.960 --> 1:42:40.719 x Reddit, twitch threads and others. Platforms have to remove 1:42:40.880 --> 1:42:44.320 kids that are under sixteen and block new sign ups. Yes, 1:42:45.520 --> 1:42:48.880 this is actually happening in the world. Companies that don't 1:42:49.000 --> 1:42:52.519 can pay fines. Now the government says the ban is 1:42:52.560 --> 1:42:55.280 not perfect on day one. Obviously, there's two sides to this. 1:42:55.360 --> 1:42:58.439 The kids probably don't want it, parents are probably split 1:42:58.479 --> 1:43:02.200 on it. Tech butanies obviously don't want it. But think 1:43:02.200 --> 1:43:05.920 about the addiction and mental health improvements that it will 1:43:05.960 --> 1:43:09.479 have on this country. When no kid has it, you know, 1:43:09.600 --> 1:43:11.840 nobody worries about the other kid having it. But here's 1:43:11.840 --> 1:43:14.240 the thing. I've not been to Australia during this ban. 1:43:15.360 --> 1:43:17.599 I'd be curious to see, like on the ground, what 1:43:17.640 --> 1:43:20.680 it's like like our kids just completely figuring out how 1:43:20.680 --> 1:43:23.439 to get around this, our parents helping them get around it. 1:43:23.560 --> 1:43:26.960 Or is everyone just like, oh cool, we have no 1:43:27.000 --> 1:43:29.759 longer have to worry about this in our lives until 1:43:29.760 --> 1:43:33.160 after sixteen life is better. And yeah, it probably is. 1:43:34.120 --> 1:43:36.719 So we know that kids are really addicted to this stuff. 1:43:36.760 --> 1:43:39.479 Their brains are still forming, and it's probably a good 1:43:39.479 --> 1:43:42.599 thing that Australia took that, even though the tech companies 1:43:42.680 --> 1:43:44.880 do not want that to happen here in the US. 1:43:46.479 --> 1:43:49.599 Let's get to the feedback. John Wrights in, I liked 1:43:49.600 --> 1:43:51.559 your story on the ring Doorbell. I actually bought one 1:43:51.600 --> 1:43:53.479 of the first models and the company invited me to 1:43:53.520 --> 1:43:56.400 their Ring Deep Explorers group to beta test new products. 1:43:56.760 --> 1:43:58.439 It was a blast trying out all the new gear. 1:43:58.479 --> 1:44:02.320 They even gave me professionally monitored devices for life. Oh wow. 1:44:02.800 --> 1:44:05.559 They ended up using one of my suggestions, adding alarm 1:44:05.640 --> 1:44:08.679 profiles so you can switch to preset alerts and device settings. 1:44:08.720 --> 1:44:12.639 It's been a fun ride. Holden in Orange County says 1:44:12.640 --> 1:44:14.519 I first found you because you featured my company on 1:44:14.560 --> 1:44:16.920 your show. But I believe the best part is I 1:44:16.920 --> 1:44:19.040 became a fan. I really enjoy what you do. Your 1:44:19.040 --> 1:44:22.360 stories are interesting, entertaining, and you've saved my bacon more 1:44:22.400 --> 1:44:24.479 than once. A couple months ago, I was in a 1:44:24.520 --> 1:44:26.920 panic about being forced to move my desktop and laptop 1:44:26.920 --> 1:44:30.280 to Windows eleven. Then you did a segment about installing 1:44:30.320 --> 1:44:33.879 Windows security updates. Now I've got an extra year of support. Brilliant. 1:44:34.040 --> 1:44:36.360 Thank you, Holden. Yes, I remember you coming to the 1:44:36.360 --> 1:44:40.400 studio do a story. Diana in California. Thanks for your 1:44:40.400 --> 1:44:42.960 hard work and incredible knowledge. We are blessed. May God 1:44:43.080 --> 1:44:48.439 richly bless your family always. Thank you, Diana. Let's see 1:44:49.200 --> 1:44:52.000 Cammy in California. I really appreciate you. It's amazing what 1:44:52.040 --> 1:44:53.960 you do and you still answer all your emails, not 1:44:54.000 --> 1:44:55.920 all of them, but I do answer a lot. Your 1:44:55.920 --> 1:44:58.280 knowledge is so helpful, and you explain things in a 1:44:58.320 --> 1:45:00.599 way anyone can understand. And on top that, you've got 1:45:00.600 --> 1:45:03.240 a lovely family life. Thank you so much. Tell me 1:45:03.280 --> 1:45:05.080 that my kids are screaming at me because I'm trying 1:45:05.080 --> 1:45:06.880 to take their screen time away, but yes, I do 1:45:06.920 --> 1:45:12.040 appreciate it. Carolyn says, I'm a Substack newsletter subscriber. I 1:45:12.160 --> 1:45:14.840 was delighted when you took over the tech news on KFI. 1:45:14.880 --> 1:45:18.280 You're an everyman nerd in the nicest way. You're down 1:45:18.320 --> 1:45:20.800 to earth and explain things so everyone can understand. Keep 1:45:20.840 --> 1:45:24.320 it up. Thank you, Carolyn. Don we got a lot. 1:45:24.400 --> 1:45:26.400 I think it's just the holiday spirit. So many kind 1:45:26.439 --> 1:45:28.960 words this week. Don says, thank you for trying to 1:45:28.960 --> 1:45:31.000 make tech simple for the rest of us. I always 1:45:31.000 --> 1:45:33.840 appreciate how you break things down, even when topics are 1:45:33.880 --> 1:45:38.519 way beyond my brain. Dust blessings Don and Jules in 1:45:38.600 --> 1:45:40.800 Hawaii says we were on vacation and so you pop 1:45:40.920 --> 1:45:44.320 up on the Hawaii News. Very cool moment. Congratulations on 1:45:44.360 --> 1:45:47.240 your success. Jules. You know I know I'm on in Hawaii. 1:45:47.920 --> 1:45:49.519 I know we're on on TV. I'm not sure on 1:45:49.560 --> 1:45:53.040 the radio, but I always say, like, shouldn't I be 1:45:53.040 --> 1:45:55.040 able to go to Hawaii at any time? And like 1:45:55.120 --> 1:45:57.720 right off that entire trip because I'm on TV there, Yes, 1:45:57.760 --> 1:45:59.840 I would think so. But it's so funny. I don't 1:46:00.000 --> 1:46:01.760 advertise the fact that we're on in a bunch of 1:46:01.800 --> 1:46:04.160 different places, but people always text me when they're in 1:46:04.160 --> 1:46:06.800 their hotel room and they see my TV segment show 1:46:06.880 --> 1:46:09.679 up on their hotel room TV and they're like, Rich, wait, 1:46:09.720 --> 1:46:12.160 what how am I watch? It always throws people for 1:46:12.200 --> 1:46:15.679 a loop. So yes, and then the radio show, obviously 1:46:15.720 --> 1:46:18.240 we're on in different places. People don't take a picture 1:46:18.240 --> 1:46:20.280 of their radio, but they do text me and say 1:46:20.320 --> 1:46:22.000 I was traveling or I was driving through and I 1:46:22.000 --> 1:46:24.599 found you anyway, thank you. No matter how you consume 1:46:24.640 --> 1:46:26.719 this show, that's going to do it. For this episode, 1:46:26.720 --> 1:46:28.559 you can find links to everything I mentioned on my website. 1:46:28.600 --> 1:46:31.080 Go to rich on tech dot tv. I'm on social media. 1:46:31.120 --> 1:46:34.000 Please follow me there at rich on Tech. Next week 1:46:34.040 --> 1:46:36.800 we're going to talk to Matt Mazenko. He is the 1:46:36.880 --> 1:46:39.800 general manager at Nomo Robo. We've talked about them on 1:46:39.840 --> 1:46:42.719 the show. They are the big spam call and text 1:46:42.760 --> 1:46:45.200 blocking app. So he's going to talk about all the 1:46:45.200 --> 1:46:49.000 things that's happening during the holidays with scams. Thank you 1:46:49.080 --> 1:46:51.280 so much for listening. There are so many ways you 1:46:51.280 --> 1:46:53.559 can spend your time. I really do appreciate you spending 1:46:53.560 --> 1:46:55.439 it right here with me. If you want to get 1:46:55.439 --> 1:46:58.439 your feedback in for next week, submit that now at 1:46:58.479 --> 1:47:01.280 the website. Rich on tech dot TV, hit contact and 1:47:01.400 --> 1:47:05.040 I may read your message on the show. One reminder 1:47:05.080 --> 1:47:08.120 before I go, please please don't text and drive. It's 1:47:08.120 --> 1:47:10.000 not just for your safety, but for the safety of 1:47:10.080 --> 1:47:13.280 everyone around you. I know it's tempting you get that 1:47:13.360 --> 1:47:15.760 message it pops up. Turn on the feature on your 1:47:15.760 --> 1:47:18.639 phone where your phone doesn't even ring or doesn't even vibrate, 1:47:18.720 --> 1:47:21.320 or doesn't even do a notification. Put that driving mode on. 1:47:21.760 --> 1:47:24.679 It'll save you. Just I'm telling you from someone who 1:47:24.840 --> 1:47:27.120 had an accent recently. Just you don't want to get 1:47:27.120 --> 1:47:30.000 involved in that. Please. Thanks to everyone who makes the 1:47:30.040 --> 1:47:34.560 show possible. Adam in today for Bobo. Fantastic job. We 1:47:34.680 --> 1:47:36.600 got Kim on the phones. Thank you for dealing with 1:47:36.640 --> 1:47:38.559 all the calls today. My name is rich Demiro. I 1:47:38.640 --> 1:47:40.200 will talk to you real soon.