Speaker 1: iTunes, comes to Amazon's fire TV thoughts on the Pixel
Speaker 1: four After using it for a week, Verizon gives Disney
Speaker 1: Plus for free surveillance at Outback Steakhouse. Plus Your Tech
Speaker 1: questions Answered. What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This is
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about this
Speaker 1: stuff I think you need to know about happening in
Speaker 1: the tech world. I'm the reporter at KTLA TV in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and joining me as always is producer Megan.
Speaker 2: Hello, Howdy, my.
Speaker 1: Trustee sidekick who has a new way of introing herself
Speaker 1: every day like this. I think every week you should
Speaker 1: just have a different Yeah, I like it. Howdy. She's
Speaker 1: got her cowboy hat on, hair, cowboy boots and it's
Speaker 1: kind of is it stage coach this weekend? Is that
Speaker 1: what's happening?
Speaker 2: Nope?
Speaker 1: No, just just like that.
Speaker 2: Look sometimes it's just the vibe.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you know that I have been struggling. We're
Speaker 1: talking about the Pixel. You know, I been struggling all
Speaker 1: week because I got the Pixel and I have the
Speaker 1: iPhone and I'm really struggling on which one to make
Speaker 1: my device the next year, I know, and I keep
Speaker 1: going back and forth every day. Like some days, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: the Pixel that it's so great. It's it's yeah, it's Google,
Speaker 1: it's so googly. It lets you choose your to fall apply.
Speaker 1: And then I go back to the iPhone. I'm like,
Speaker 1: but everything works so nicely. And iPhone works with my watch,
Speaker 1: it works with my computer. So I don't know every
Speaker 1: I was literally driving to the Apple store yesterday to
Speaker 1: buy you know, so I get these review units from
Speaker 1: the companies that I can keep for a little bit
Speaker 1: of time. But if I really want, you know, the
Speaker 1: phone for me, I go out and buy it. And
Speaker 1: so I have the devices, but they're not mine, right,
Speaker 1: And so this is where it comes in. Like every
Speaker 1: day I'm just like, oh, maybe I just buy the
Speaker 1: Pixel thousand bucks so much cheaper than the iPhone, you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, I but you've bought every iPhone
Speaker 2: that it has ever been, Yeah, right, so it would
Speaker 2: be kind of crazy for you to not buy this iPhone, rightly.
Speaker 1: Did I buy the se I don't think I did.
Speaker 1: The iPhone that was a little one that was like
Speaker 1: the little tiny one.
Speaker 2: I think that doesn't really count.
Speaker 1: But my old phone was kind of like that, like
Speaker 1: I remember it was. I think it was the iPhone
Speaker 1: five before what was the one? I don't know, they
Speaker 1: changed the design, but it was basically like the se was.
Speaker 2: The Okay, well, I think you need to get the
Speaker 2: new iPhone.
Speaker 1: That's my that's your I know, that's your vote, and.
Speaker 2: Then one day you can put them all in like
Speaker 2: a special like museum in your house.
Speaker 1: I know that would be cool. Room. Well, let's start today.
Speaker 1: I'll give you some more of my thoughts on the
Speaker 1: Pixel four and using it, but let's start today with
Speaker 1: something that I find fascinating and I love that this
Speaker 1: is happening. It's good for consumers. Apple TV Plus is
Speaker 1: or the I should say Apple TV app is coming,
Speaker 1: or let me just start over. Apple TV app is
Speaker 1: now available on the fire TV stick and the Fire
Speaker 1: TV Stick four K, which is a huge deal because
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it's not that big of a
Speaker 1: deal anymore, but it's still kind of nice to see
Speaker 1: that if you have and a fire stick, you can
Speaker 1: now get the best of Apple on that fire stick.
Speaker 1: And there's no other way to describe it except it's
Speaker 1: really cool. So for the first time ever, you can
Speaker 1: directly access your iTunes, movies and TV shows and rented
Speaker 1: or purchased through this app, which is available on the
Speaker 1: fire TV stick and the Fire TV Stick four K.
Speaker 1: And the other side of this is that the fire
Speaker 1: sticks are really cheap, and so you're basically getting the
Speaker 1: beauty of an Apple TV in a firestick that's like
Speaker 1: a quarter of the price. Now you're not getting all
Speaker 1: of the apps that Apple TV offers in the Polish
Speaker 1: I think Apple TV is probably the best streaming device
Speaker 1: out there. It's just the most expensive, so most people
Speaker 1: don't gravitate towards it unless you're a diehard Apple person.
Speaker 2: How much is it?
Speaker 1: It's about two hundred dollars, and the fire TV stick
Speaker 1: is closer to like forty, And then you have rokus
Speaker 1: that are closer to you know, good one forty to fifty.
Speaker 1: They're one tops out at ninety nine. So again, do
Speaker 1: I think this is cool? I think it's cool for
Speaker 1: two reasons. Number one, you can access all your old
Speaker 1: you know iTunes stuff. Now, the reason I say that's
Speaker 1: not that big of a deal is because if you
Speaker 1: had movies anywhere, you could already do this. You can
Speaker 1: link up your movies every Anywhere account to your iTunes
Speaker 1: account and then access movies anywhere through your fire TV.
Speaker 1: But the real reason why Apple is doing this, it's
Speaker 1: not because of your iTunes stuff. It's because Apple TV
Speaker 1: Plus is launching on November first, and they want you
Speaker 1: to be able to watch their new shows. Yep, and
Speaker 1: that's why they're doing this. And are you looking forward
Speaker 1: to any show on Apple TV Plus because I am.
Speaker 2: I know you are. I think I'm looking forward to
Speaker 2: the morning show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we gotta watch that. I mean we're in morning
Speaker 1: TV news everywhere. I mean, your grandfather worked in morning
Speaker 1: or he wasn't morning show?
Speaker 2: Was he was?
Speaker 1: It was like the evening.
Speaker 2: News, right yeah?
Speaker 1: Side Yeah, I was gonna say, that's a that's an
Speaker 1: inside baseball term, right right, you've got the morning shift,
Speaker 1: you've got night side. Night side probably works with any job.
Speaker 1: Overnight is pretty standard, right yeah, totally. Anyway, So if
Speaker 1: you have a fire TV, you can go ahead and
Speaker 1: search for Apple TV. Ironically, who would have thought that
Speaker 1: would have ever happened, Or you can just ask Alexa
Speaker 1: find the Apple TV app and there you go, sign
Speaker 1: in with your iTunes, Apple iCloud account, whatever you call it,
Speaker 1: and there you go. It is The app is available
Speaker 1: right now, fire TV stick second generation and fire TV
Speaker 1: Stick four K, so recent fire TV sticks. It's coming
Speaker 1: soon to the fire TV Cube, the fire TV third
Speaker 1: generation pendant design, and then Toshiba and Insignia Fire TV
Speaker 1: Edition smart TVs. It is not compatible with the first
Speaker 1: and second generation of the Fire TV or the first
Speaker 1: generation fire TV stick. So basically, just search, just search
Speaker 1: your thing and see if it comes up. If it doesn't,
Speaker 1: your thing is not competing.
Speaker 2: I think next.
Speaker 1: I you know, it's funny because I was wondering about that.
Speaker 1: Did they did announce Roku at their event, and so
Speaker 1: they're probably, oh, hold on, it looks like it's already
Speaker 1: available there. Oh cool, cool, Yep, it's already already. Apple
Speaker 1: TV has landed on Roku.
Speaker 2: So that was that today too.
Speaker 1: That was October fifteenth, so a couple days ago. Okay,
Speaker 1: So here's the beauty of Apple. They are pulling out
Speaker 1: all the big guns for this. They're like, look, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be everywhere. We don't care, We're just.
Speaker 2: Gonna be he I mean, they got Jennifer Aniston to
Speaker 2: join Instagram, and she was notorious for not being on
Speaker 2: social media, so they're pushing it.
Speaker 1: They were all right.
Speaker 2: So this next question comes.
Speaker 1: From next question? Do we do a first question?
Speaker 2: Sorry, this first question comes from Jennifer. She writes, Hello, Rich,
Speaker 2: I'm planning on I'm planning to purchase your latest Tips
Speaker 2: for iPhone book for my mom and boyfriend for Christmas,
Speaker 2: as I am not a tech savvy individual. Will there
Speaker 2: be a new update for the book before Christmas? I
Speaker 2: love listening to you on Handle.
Speaker 1: Oh, Bill Handle in the morning. I do KFI on
Speaker 1: Tuesday mornings at eight am with Bill Handle on Wednesday
Speaker 1: mornings at five am with Jennifer Jones Lee, and it's
Speaker 1: always fun. You never know what they're going to say. Well,
Speaker 1: I never know what Handle's going to say. I know
Speaker 1: what Jennifer. Jennifer's you know, she's kind of by the book,
Speaker 1: you know, but Handle, you never know. Yeah, So thanks
Speaker 1: for listening there, but no. The book is called one
Speaker 1: hundred and one iPhone Tips and Tricks Unlocked, the useful,
Speaker 1: time saving and fun features in iOS thirteen. It is
Speaker 1: available right now on Amazon in both paperback and on
Speaker 1: Kindle and also Kindle Unlimited if you have a subscription
Speaker 1: of that it's free to read. And will there be
Speaker 1: an update. No, it's ready to go. It's iOS thirteen.
Speaker 1: I updated it over the summer and it is all
Speaker 1: ready to go. So thank you Jennifer for purchasing this
Speaker 1: for your family. I expect a lot of people will
Speaker 1: do that because it's such an easy gift for the holidays.
Speaker 1: It's like you got an iPhone, you want to know
Speaker 1: more about it, boom by the book. So I do
Speaker 1: appreciate that, and yeah, the updates are there, so I
Speaker 1: think I think you'll find that it's even better than
Speaker 1: the book that I wrote last year, which was pretty good.
Speaker 1: It was tough to top that, yeah, but I think
Speaker 1: I think I did a pretty good job. Let me
Speaker 1: talk about the Pixel four, segueing from Apple back to Google.
Speaker 1: So I've been using the Pixel four for the past week,
Speaker 1: and I have the Pixel four XL and I will
Speaker 1: say it's an amazing phone. It is. I put this
Speaker 1: in my in last week's show the title was Google
Speaker 1: or pixel puts the Smarts in smartphone? And after using
Speaker 1: it for a week, one hundred percent. I mean, I
Speaker 1: was telling Megan this morning, how just simple things like
Speaker 1: this where you know, when I wake up, my alarm
Speaker 1: goes off at an ungodly hour, and you reach over
Speaker 1: to turn off your alarm well with the Pixel because
Speaker 1: it has that motion sense technology where it senses if
Speaker 1: you're nearby it. Actually I keep saying dim, but it is.
Speaker 1: It lowers the volume of the alarm as you put
Speaker 1: your hand over it. It's just such a nice little touch.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, I know that's because it's it's not
Speaker 2: as a is like hearing it. You can like slowly
Speaker 2: love with volume right now.
Speaker 1: I did worry that I would do that and then
Speaker 1: fall back asleep because it right, don't actually turn it off.
Speaker 1: But it's just little things like that, and there's a
Speaker 1: million little things like that on the Pixel Now. I
Speaker 1: watched all the Pixel reviews on YouTube and they all
Speaker 1: came down to the same thing. All the iPhone loving
Speaker 1: YouTubers basically said that this sucks because there's no wide
Speaker 1: angle ultra wide angle lens, which I agree with. I
Speaker 1: think that was a major miss on Google's part and
Speaker 1: it really annoys me that there's no ultra wide angle
Speaker 1: lens and it might be the reason why I don't
Speaker 1: use this phone. The other thing that they got on
Speaker 1: is the battery life, which on the Pixel four is
Speaker 1: apparently terrible on mine, the pixel for Xcel, it's not horrible,
Speaker 1: it's not amazing, it's just fine.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: In fact, if you're in your car for a little
Speaker 1: bit each day, you know, like for me, it's like
Speaker 1: between things, I'm kind of like, when I drive to
Speaker 1: my shoot, I'm in my car for like half an hour. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's enough for me to top off my battery. When
Speaker 1: I drive home a little bit, you know, twenty thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: w whatever, that tops off my battery, depending on how
Speaker 1: far I'm going. So to me, it's not that big
Speaker 1: of a deal.
Speaker 2: Trickle charging, is that what it's called. Yeah, but that's
Speaker 2: meant for like electric cars, Yes, but.
Speaker 1: It works with phones as well. The other thing that
Speaker 1: everyone's saying is that the face unlock is too fast,
Speaker 1: which I would agree with, and it's also too good,
Speaker 1: and it unlocks the phone when your eyes are closed,
Speaker 1: which is very insecure. So on iPhone, the face unlock
Speaker 1: will only unlock if you are looking at your phone. Well,
Speaker 1: there's two ways. Your eyes have to be open, and
Speaker 1: you can also have an option for attention, which means
Speaker 1: if you're not clearly giving your phone your attention, then
Speaker 1: it won't unlock, which is smart for security. This phone
Speaker 1: just doesn't do it. Now. I will say, when I
Speaker 1: had my Halloween little shin dig and I had makeup on,
Speaker 1: I was a Dracula, it did not recognize my face
Speaker 1: and I was like, all of a sudden, I was like,
Speaker 1: my phone just stopped unlocking, and so I thought that
Speaker 1: was really funny. And so again it's weird because it
Speaker 1: unlocks when your eyes are closed. But if you your
Speaker 1: face looks a little different like a dracu.
Speaker 2: If you look like Dracula, right, it's not gonna should
Speaker 2: have shot a video of you trying to unlock your phone.
Speaker 1: Oh, I should have missed opportunities in my.
Speaker 2: Life when I'm at your Halloween shindy, that.
Speaker 1: Would have been good. So bottom line with the Pixel
Speaker 1: four is that it is the best Android phone you
Speaker 1: can get today. There is no doubt about that. I
Speaker 1: have no qualms recommending this phone to anyone who wants
Speaker 1: an Android. Is it better than the iPhone eleven? Pro?
Speaker 1: It is not. And the reason it's not is because
Speaker 1: the as much as I love the Google Smarts, as
Speaker 1: much as I love how great the camera is, the
Speaker 1: iPhone camera at this point has gotten really really good,
Speaker 1: and the Pixel camera is not. I don't it's it's
Speaker 1: above it in certain ways, but not overall, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Like the iPhone camera just gives you
Speaker 1: more flexibility, the apps are better on iPhone, and the
Speaker 1: Pixel has a million little tricks that are really cool.
Speaker 1: But I think one comes down to if you're an
Speaker 1: Android person and you like what Android has to offer,
Speaker 1: which is doesn't give you all Apple stuff shove down
Speaker 1: your throat, then this is a perfect phone for you.
Speaker 1: And that's the bottom line. There's nothing wrong with the device.
Speaker 2: You think it's better than like a Samsung phone.
Speaker 1: I think that these again, the Samsung is closer to
Speaker 1: Apple in the fact that it has more features available,
Speaker 1: like it's kind of like everything is thrown, you know.
Speaker 1: But I think the what I love about the Pixel
Speaker 1: is it's just simple, and it's just there's a there's
Speaker 1: a there's a stillness in the simplicity, right, There's a
Speaker 1: and there's a it just feels like it is doing
Speaker 1: what it needs to do without doing a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of extra stuff, And the Samsung sometimes feel like they're
Speaker 1: doing a whole bunch of extra stuff just to give
Speaker 1: you what you want. Right, and that's kind of like
Speaker 1: the way I feel. So there you have it.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get another question. All right?
Speaker 2: So this next question comes from Lauren. She wrote into
Speaker 2: you on your website, which is Rich on tech dot TV.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is click the contact link
Speaker 2: and you can send Rich your question. So Lauren asks,
Speaker 2: what's your take on using credit dot com to check
Speaker 2: on your credit score for free? Is it that good
Speaker 2: of a website or do you know of a better
Speaker 2: one for free?
Speaker 1: Ooh okay, So I like this question. It's a good one,
Speaker 1: very unique question, Megan good good find. So she asks
Speaker 1: about credit dot com, which I've never heard of. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: so let's see. Credit dot com is get your experience
Speaker 1: credit score for free, and it says no credit card
Speaker 1: required ever, and checking your score won't hurt. So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't have a problem with this credit
Speaker 1: dot com, but I don't know anything about it. I
Speaker 1: don't know who they are, I don't know what their
Speaker 1: deal is, who they're owned by. But I imagine that
Speaker 1: they're trying to eventually sell you something, which is we're
Speaker 1: more than just a free credit score. We can give
Speaker 1: you credit cards, credit reports, credit repair, credit scores, and loans.
Speaker 1: So again, nothing is free, and by putting your information
Speaker 1: in here, you'll get your credit, but it's oh, it's
Speaker 1: experienced credit score by the way, So it's just one
Speaker 1: of the three. So you know, I don't know much
Speaker 1: about them, but I don't I don't think it's necessarily
Speaker 1: a bad thing, but I will tell you I have
Speaker 1: tested other services, and the one I do like the
Speaker 1: best is called wallet Hub. Wallet Hub, and the reason
Speaker 1: I like this is because they are totally free. It's
Speaker 1: a great app. And what I like about them is
Speaker 1: they do offer some level of monitoring. And I remember
Speaker 1: that I was getting a new loan or a new
Speaker 1: credit card or something whatever I did, I open up
Speaker 1: a new account and they were like the first to
Speaker 1: text me and said like, hey, this account was just
Speaker 1: opened or whatever. Someone checked your credit and so I
Speaker 1: thought that was pretty good. Credit karma is also big,
Speaker 1: and let's see what's the other one, credit sesame. So again,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of these things out there. I think
Speaker 1: that the main thing is that you want something that
Speaker 1: does not require a credit card and something that's not
Speaker 1: going to oversell you. But check out wallet Hub. I
Speaker 1: really like that one. You see it advertised on TV
Speaker 1: a lot. Maybe you don't want that one because that
Speaker 1: means if they're advertising on TV, they're spending big dollars,
Speaker 1: which means they want to make big dollars in return. Right,
Speaker 1: you got to be careful.
Speaker 2: Now, you got to be aware.
Speaker 1: And I have one of those in mind, because there's
Speaker 1: a one that's on TV all the time you see
Speaker 1: at the gym. The other place to go is Annual
Speaker 1: Credit Report dot com. And that is the one that
Speaker 1: is officially licensed by the government or whatever you call
Speaker 1: it to give you your free credit report once a
Speaker 1: year from all of the major carriers. So I would
Speaker 1: recommend that you do that once a year. Just download
Speaker 1: your report and just that's it. It's only Annual Credit
Speaker 1: Report dot com.
Speaker 2: When do you check.
Speaker 1: I haven't done that in a long time. To be honest,
Speaker 1: I don't use credit very much, so I don't really
Speaker 1: have a re so you know me. Yeah, So anyway,
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's it. I'm a I'm a cash guy.
Speaker 1: I'm a Dave Ramsey fan, so cash is king to
Speaker 1: me as much as I can do that as much
Speaker 1: to my wife's chagrin. Actually, I just not well be careful.
Speaker 1: I don't hear. Here's my rule thumb. And I've mentioned
Speaker 1: this before. If my card is leaving my hand, generally,
Speaker 1: I'm giving a credit card. If it's not leaving my hand,
Speaker 1: self service, whatever, swipe, it's my debit card. And I
Speaker 1: just met one of the dads, one of the dads
Speaker 1: that Lindsay was out to dinner with a couple of
Speaker 1: our girlfriends and she's like, oh, Dave Ramsey came up.
Speaker 1: And one of the dads is a huge Dave Ramsey fan,
Speaker 1: one of the husbands, you know, and she's friends with
Speaker 1: the wife. And I was like, Oh, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: so much to talk about. So I saw him out
Speaker 1: on like a weekend, and I was like, we got
Speaker 1: so much to talk about. I'm like beans and rice,
Speaker 1: rice and beans like we were talking about were And
Speaker 1: he's even more hardcore than I am about it, because
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like Dave Ramsey light okay, because if
Speaker 1: you're a true Dave Ramsey fan, you would not have
Speaker 1: a credit card at all.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of Dave Ramsey, so.
Speaker 1: I he was more like in big cities, you don't
Speaker 1: hear about him as much. But when I lived in Shreveport, Louisiana,
Speaker 1: kind of like you know, more middle of the country.
Speaker 1: He's much bigger there. Very it's kind of Christian based
Speaker 1: as well, so there's a little bit of that element
Speaker 1: going on. But I will say he changed my life,
Speaker 1: oh following what he lives by, so good to know.
Speaker 1: And sadly I did not get to meet him when
Speaker 1: I was at the radio hall whatever. Anyway, there's a
Speaker 1: time when I was standing right near him, I didn't
Speaker 1: get to meet him. Oh was that an event? But anyway,
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on to Disney and Verizon. So
Speaker 1: if you are a Verizon customer, you just hit the jackpot.
Speaker 1: You just got twelve months of Disney Plus for free.
Speaker 1: And in case you haven't heard about Disney Plus, it
Speaker 1: is set to launch on November twelfth. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: the new home for all things Disney movies and TV
Speaker 1: shows that includes Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic
Speaker 1: and more. Apparently, Verizon Wireless is kind of like the
Speaker 1: you know partner, the wireless partner on this thing, and
Speaker 1: so you now have access. Here's the catch. You have
Speaker 1: to be on a Verizon unlimited plan. Now I am
Speaker 1: so now I will get Verizon, or I will get
Speaker 1: Apple Music for free from Verizon, which is ten dollars
Speaker 1: a month, and Disney Plus which is six ninety nine
Speaker 1: a month. So I'm getting seventeen dollars a month out
Speaker 1: of my two hundred dollars month a bill that I pay.
Speaker 1: That's amazing getting a seventeen dollars return. So anyway, and
Speaker 1: here's the thing, a lot of people are wondering because
Speaker 1: they signed up for three years of Disney Plus. They prepaid.
Speaker 1: It was one hundred and sixty nine dollars as I
Speaker 1: kind of an early adopter thing, So what's one sixty
Speaker 1: nine divided by thirty six? So that brings it down
Speaker 1: to four to sixty nine a month. So a lot
Speaker 1: of people jumped on that instead of the six ninety nine.
Speaker 1: So they're wondering, Well, wait a second, you told I
Speaker 1: did that before I heard about this Verizon deal. And
Speaker 1: so the good news is my pal over at CNBC,
Speaker 1: Todd Hazelton robotod on Twitter, he tweeted that he did
Speaker 1: talk to Verizon and Disney, and you will be able
Speaker 1: to stack those deals. So if you did buy the
Speaker 1: three years, you can still get the twelve months free
Speaker 1: of Verizon and then your three years will start after that.
Speaker 2: Oh well, there you go.
Speaker 1: Great deal. And I think just to sign up, you'll
Speaker 1: get an email from Verizon, but basically starting November twelve,
Speaker 1: so there's nothing really to worry about right now. But
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, google that or go log
Speaker 1: into your Verizon account and kind of sign up.
Speaker 2: Okay, This next question comes from John. He asks is
Speaker 2: there a way to project Netflix or whatnot to a TV?
Speaker 2: I have a Samsung S nine plus and I have
Speaker 2: an older flat screen TV with no Wi Fi.
Speaker 1: It's so funny questions like this. They seem so complicated.
Speaker 1: But then I'm like wait. So immediately what came to
Speaker 1: mind was chrome cast. I was like, okay, Crome cast
Speaker 1: is like, how much does a chrome cast these days?
Speaker 1: It was like twenty five dollars back in the day.
Speaker 1: Let's see thirty five dollars. So I immediately thought thirty five.
Speaker 1: I was like, Chrome casts. Why would you not? Because
Speaker 1: he says that he's saying that he his TV is
Speaker 1: not a smart TV. There's no Wi Fi. Basically he
Speaker 1: means there's no smart TV. So I was like, well,
Speaker 1: what I mean? Chrome cast, Right, you plug it into
Speaker 1: the back of your TV. Yeah, a Roku. But Roku
Speaker 1: you can't necessarily mirror your TV. He's your phone. He's
Speaker 1: saying he wants to do it from his phone.
Speaker 2: But if he right, which he can, But why doesn't
Speaker 2: he just get a fire TV or a Roku.
Speaker 1: Well he could and comes up Netflix.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like another way.
Speaker 1: But I'm answering his question, which was he basically wants
Speaker 1: to mirror or kind of use his phone to drive
Speaker 1: the experience on the TV. The best way to do
Speaker 1: that is chrome cast. You plug it into the back
Speaker 1: of your TV. It's thirty five dollars, and you connect
Speaker 1: that to your Wi Fi and you'll get everything. I mean.
Speaker 1: Chrome cast has pretty much all the major services supported,
Speaker 1: and again, your phone becomes the remote control for that device.
Speaker 1: Love it or hate it personally, I think it's great
Speaker 1: for certain uses, like if you have a picture on
Speaker 1: your phone you just want to fling it to your TV.
Speaker 1: I call it flinging it, you know, just showing it
Speaker 1: on your TV. That's great. And I do have chrome
Speaker 1: casts in all my TVs in my house, but I
Speaker 1: don't use them for streaming. Ninety nine percent of the time.
Speaker 1: To be honest, the only time I use them for
Speaker 1: streaming is when Google sends me a coupon for a
Speaker 1: ninety nine sent rental and then I'll just rent the
Speaker 1: movie through Google play Store and sling it or Chrome
Speaker 1: cast it to my TV.
Speaker 2: Got it.
Speaker 1: So that's I think the simplest way. Thirty five bucks.
Speaker 1: There you go, easy question, good, good one. So let's
Speaker 1: see speaking of smart TVs, and I'm sure once the
Speaker 1: news gets a wind of this, you'll hear this everywhere
Speaker 1: like the mainstream media kind of thing. But on December first,
Speaker 1: some old models of rokus are losing their ability to
Speaker 1: access Netflix. And before you get all scared, all I'm
Speaker 1: telling you is that it probably does not affect your Roku.
Speaker 1: And these are old school Roku players, Like I'm talking
Speaker 1: the ones that first came out. They could be as
Speaker 1: long as ten years old. Oh wow, So if you
Speaker 1: have a ten year old player, it's probably time to upgrade. Anyway.
Speaker 1: The place I think I would see this coming into
Speaker 1: play is like if you have an airbnb or like
Speaker 1: a basement or a playroom where you kind of grandfathered
Speaker 1: an old player there. That is when you might run
Speaker 1: into a problem because it's not your main TV, but
Speaker 1: it's like your beach house and you have this old
Speaker 1: Roku there that you just brought there, and now it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this doesn't work, and you're wondering why will you heard
Speaker 1: Rich say that some of these are not supported. It's no,
Speaker 1: you know, they're not trying to get you to buy
Speaker 1: a new one. Roku's are so cheap they don't care
Speaker 1: if you buy one. You know, they'd rather give it away.
Speaker 1: They're making money on the ads so and the services
Speaker 1: that you buy through them. So anyway, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to go through all the player names, but it's like
Speaker 1: the Roku twenty fifty X, the twenty one hundred, the
Speaker 1: two thousand C, the Roku HD, Roku SD, Roku x R,
Speaker 1: and Roku x D. I did just go through.
Speaker 2: All the names, cover all your bases. This next question
Speaker 2: comes from Tina. She asks Rich, I really need help
Speaker 2: with making a video with music for my best friend's
Speaker 2: memorial as you passed away last month. I have an
Speaker 2: iPhone ten R. Please give me any tips you can.
Speaker 2: Love Katie lay watch it every day.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. Sorry to hear about your friends, and
Speaker 1: if you are going to embark on making a video.
Speaker 1: It sort of depends. I mean, this is my life,
Speaker 1: this is what I do. I love editing videos on
Speaker 1: my phone, on my computer. My phone is my favorite
Speaker 1: way of doing it if I can. And I'm guessing
Speaker 1: since it's for a memorial, you're going to have a
Speaker 1: combination of primarily pictures and maybe a little maybe a
Speaker 1: couple of video clips set to music. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: guessing that she's looking for. And so I think, look,
Speaker 1: if you are a full time editor or someone with
Speaker 1: a lot of skills when it came to editing, then
Speaker 1: I would say to use Adobe Premiere Rush, and that's
Speaker 1: what I use, and that's going to give you or
Speaker 1: I mean final cut obviously. But she wants it on
Speaker 1: a phone.
Speaker 2: She said, yeah, she's an iPhone ten R.
Speaker 1: So there's a couple of ways. Okay, So if you're
Speaker 1: looking at a phone, I would say, look, if you
Speaker 1: want to have the most control over everything, you probably
Speaker 1: want to use something like Adobe Premier Rush, or you
Speaker 1: can use something like iMovie on the iPhone, which is
Speaker 1: gonna be fine. In both case you're going to get
Speaker 1: a great, polished production.
Speaker 2: And iMovie is free on an iPhone.
Speaker 1: Right, I believe so. I think it used to be
Speaker 1: like five bucks, but I think it's I think it's free. Now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's free. So you can do that,
Speaker 1: but again that's gonna take a lot of kind of
Speaker 1: effort and a lot of figuring out. I think the
Speaker 1: easiest solution for you is a program called Magisto m
Speaker 1: agi Sto, And what they do is that they kind
Speaker 1: of make the video for you. And what they do
Speaker 1: is you kind of give it a whole bunch. You've
Speaker 1: feeded a whole bunch of stuff, You pick what theme
Speaker 1: you want, you pick some music, and it will use
Speaker 1: AI to kind of pick out the best parts of
Speaker 1: those clips and to put them all together. Now, on
Speaker 1: the flip side, if you have Google Photos, you can
Speaker 1: do the same thing. And Google Photos allows you to
Speaker 1: just select a whole bunch of photos and videos and
Speaker 1: or and then just say make a movie. And if
Speaker 1: you want to try doing that, you just literally go
Speaker 1: into Google Photos. So if all your stuff is in
Speaker 1: Google Photos, I would try that first and just go
Speaker 1: into Google Photos, select a whole bunch of photos and
Speaker 1: and then from there, let me just do this on
Speaker 1: my phone, select plus sign and then it says movie,
Speaker 1: and you hit movie and it will create a movie,
Speaker 1: and then you can go through and change the theme
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But I think between those two
Speaker 1: apps you're gonna find that you'll be able to make
Speaker 1: a little memorial. Sorry for you're lost there. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on here to Outback. I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 1: Outback Steakhouse in Portland, Oregon is serving up a side
Speaker 1: of surveillance with their bloomin onions. And this is a
Speaker 1: Wired story on this new service called Prestovision. This is
Speaker 1: a artificial intelligence and machine learning program that is leveraging
Speaker 1: the security systems that are already in a lot of restaurants,
Speaker 1: security camera systems. It sits on top of those systems
Speaker 1: and it analyzes stuff. So the idea here is that
Speaker 1: restaurants already have these surveillance cameras included in the restaurant installed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we just intercept that footage with our software and
Speaker 1: we analyze what's happening in that footage and okay, so
Speaker 1: what can they do for the first at this restaurant
Speaker 1: they're analyzing when they're analyzing the lobby And if you
Speaker 1: have you ever been to an outback no, I haven't. No,
Speaker 1: I love Outback. So at Outback, the main thing that
Speaker 1: happens is it is empty for the entire day until
Speaker 1: rush hour for dinner, and at dinner at five to
Speaker 1: seven pm, boom. You can't get in there every single day.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it works at out Back Steakhouse, okay.
Speaker 1: And so a bunch of people are sitting there waiting
Speaker 1: for tables. And what happens when you go into a
Speaker 1: restaurant and they say, oh, it's going to be an
Speaker 1: hour and a half. Wait, what do you do? You wait? No,
Speaker 1: you walk out the door.
Speaker 2: Now you leave, you leave.
Speaker 1: And so that's what they're going to start doing. They're
Speaker 1: going to monitor how many customers decide to leave rather
Speaker 1: than wait for a table, and this will help them,
Speaker 1: I don't know, figure out some analytics about that, how
Speaker 1: they can make that system better. Prestovision says it can
Speaker 1: also be used for a lot of other stuff, but
Speaker 1: that they're not doing with this restaurant. But it can
Speaker 1: be used to see if a customer's drink is almost
Speaker 1: empty and needs to be refilled. It can see how
Speaker 1: often servers check on a table. It can be used
Speaker 1: to see all kinds of stuff. I mean, imagine all
Speaker 1: the things you can interpret from seeing what's happening inside
Speaker 1: a restaurant. Yea, it can see how long it takes
Speaker 1: for a server to clear plates off a table after
Speaker 1: a diner has stopped eating. All these things, and so
Speaker 1: imagine you're the manager of this restaurant and you get
Speaker 1: a little report at the end of the day, says
Speaker 1: Megan took seven minutes to clear plates from tables after
Speaker 1: diner's finished, whereas Rich took less than a minute. Who
Speaker 1: do you think's going to get more shifts and more
Speaker 1: tables and a pat on the back?
Speaker 2: Definitely Rich.
Speaker 1: So you can see why not everyone likes this kind
Speaker 1: of big brother intelligence, right right.
Speaker 2: You can also see when people dine in dash.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's I think for the surveillance cameras. I
Speaker 1: think that's why they're there for stuff like that. Yeah. Whatever,
Speaker 1: But this is just adding an extra layer on top.
Speaker 1: And we did a story. I don't think you were
Speaker 1: producer yet, but we did a story. And I think
Speaker 1: the trend that we're seeing is that all these software
Speaker 1: companies that are using AI and artificial intelligence and machine
Speaker 1: learning are saying, huh, there are a lot of security
Speaker 1: cameras already installed all over the place, fast food restaurants, banks, workplaces.
Speaker 1: How can we use that footage, which is normally just
Speaker 1: looked at when something bad happens, like a robbery or
Speaker 1: someone slips and falls and sues. How can we use
Speaker 1: that footage to analyze what's going on at that place
Speaker 1: of business and somehow use it to make more money
Speaker 1: to evaluate the employees. I mean, it's it's getting crazy, yea.
Speaker 1: The cameras are already there. So we did one long
Speaker 1: story short with a it as a security company that
Speaker 1: was using AI to figure out if people like pulled
Speaker 1: a gun out, so their security footage or you know,
Speaker 1: software could immediately were you here at the time? Okay,
Speaker 1: so the mall would be like it would like literally
Speaker 1: text the mall people because now there's people watching all
Speaker 1: the cameras but they can't see everything. But maybe it
Speaker 1: identifies something suspicious. Someone puts something weird in a trash can. Boom,
Speaker 1: it sends an alert to the mall security saying, hey,
Speaker 1: you might want to go check that out right now,
Speaker 1: even before human can notice that. Yeah. So it's fascinating
Speaker 1: and also kind of scary. Surveillance society. It's happening, folks.
Speaker 2: That's frue crazy that we can do this now.
Speaker 1: When there's money and or lives at stake and or efficiencies,
Speaker 1: it will happen, all right.
Speaker 2: This next question comes from Gauge. It's a very simple question.
Speaker 2: He just asks, should I set my Mac to update automatically?
Speaker 1: Very simple question, very simple answer. What do you think?
Speaker 1: My answer is Megan knowing me as.
Speaker 2: Well, Ah, I feel like yes, nope and no? Oh classic?
Speaker 1: How you know I'm a control freak?
Speaker 2: Yes I do?
Speaker 1: Am I not?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Okay, No, I am not letting anyone update any of
Speaker 1: my software without me knowing. Don't ever let anyone update
Speaker 1: your software automatically, and I'll tell you why. A. There
Speaker 1: could be issues. B you're giving up control of your device.
Speaker 1: Let's say a software update comes out and it's horrible.
Speaker 1: Everyone's saying how bad it is. Don't you want to
Speaker 1: waste a month? Two months? Oh? Yeah, my computer is
Speaker 1: sitting here. The Catalina came out two weeks ago for
Speaker 1: Mac os and I'm still not updated because I'm not
Speaker 1: letting it update automatically. Yeah. Maybe Catalina doesn't even do
Speaker 1: that because you know it's such a big update. But
Speaker 1: I have my computer all the time, is bugging me
Speaker 1: to do these updates. Now, I will say, for security reasons,
Speaker 1: always do updates. Don't be one of those people that
Speaker 1: is against updates because I don't want I don't like
Speaker 1: how things change. Everything changes when they do updates. I'm
Speaker 1: getting all these emails about iOS thirteen, how people hate
Speaker 1: this and they hate that. Well, guess what you got
Speaker 1: to move forward with the times right right?
Speaker 2: Isn't that contradictory.
Speaker 1: No, what I'm saying is I want control over when
Speaker 1: I choose to do the update in a timely manner.
Speaker 1: Got it. There are some people that will sit on
Speaker 1: iOS eleven for a year because I don't want I
Speaker 1: was twelve. I've just heard them. It doesn't make their
Speaker 1: phone as good. Yeah, don't do that. Don't be that person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't be that guy.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you are in control. You
Speaker 1: should be in control of your software updates. So very
Speaker 1: simple question, very simple answer. But again that's what you
Speaker 1: want to do. Do the updates on your time when
Speaker 1: you can sit down and nah, you know, and you
Speaker 1: can sit down and update your computer and not just
Speaker 1: wake up and all of a sudden get that message
Speaker 1: that said room your computer was updated overnight. Who wants
Speaker 1: to wake up to that and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: now you're at work and you got to figure out
Speaker 1: all these changes to your computer. Yeah, no, you do
Speaker 1: it at a time when it's good for you. Have
Speaker 1: I ranted enough?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think you're good.
Speaker 1: I like how you got that answer wrong. But if
Speaker 1: you would have thought for like one more second, now
Speaker 1: you went too quick.
Speaker 2: I'm all attired today.
Speaker 1: If you would have thought for one more second, you
Speaker 1: would have gotten the right answer for me, because you
Speaker 1: know me very well. Okay, what should we move on to.
Speaker 2: I'm out of questions, by the way, you're on Well, okay.
Speaker 1: Well there's more. Let's see Ring. Okay, this is kind
Speaker 1: of fun since Halloween's coming up. Ring and Nest are
Speaker 1: doing fun stuff for Halloween. And we knew this was coming.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you that what they're doing, and I'll
Speaker 1: explain why I like one and not the other. But
Speaker 1: Nest is sort of Google's version of the Ring video
Speaker 1: door bell. It's not as popular, but they have it,
Speaker 1: and you know, people that are in the Google ecosystem
Speaker 1: kind of like it. I do not have one personally,
Speaker 1: but they are doing special chimes and ring tones for Halloween,
Speaker 1: and so you when someone rings the bell, they hear
Speaker 1: a vampire, a monster, haunted house, cackling whatever, or if
Speaker 1: you have a Google Nest speaker or a display like
Speaker 1: one of their Google Nest Max or whatever hub whatever
Speaker 1: they call them, it will also make the sound on that,
Speaker 1: which is really cool. Great love that and this is
Speaker 1: not apparently this is the first time they're doing this,
Speaker 1: but not the last. So it sounds like for the holidays,
Speaker 1: they're also going to do fun stuff like little jingle
Speaker 1: bells or whatever when you ring. So that's it's a
Speaker 1: great use of this technology. Why does your doorbell have
Speaker 1: to sound like a doorbell? Now? Ring who? They have
Speaker 1: obviously the most popular video doorbells out there. They're doing
Speaker 1: something similar. You can change the ring tones on your
Speaker 1: phone and also the chime, and so if you're not
Speaker 1: familiar with ring, or maybe you are, they have this
Speaker 1: thing called the ring chime which plugs into your house.
Speaker 1: When I first got my ring, it was amazing, and
Speaker 1: you know, I got it of course like the first
Speaker 1: out of anyone. So I'm like using this thing and
Speaker 1: the first time we realize is like hold on, if
Speaker 1: a babysitter is in our house and someone rings the doorbell,
Speaker 1: how do they hear it? Because at the beginning, it
Speaker 1: will only rang your phone. Yeah right, and unless you
Speaker 1: were super close to your front door and you could
Speaker 1: hear it outside, you don't hear it. You wouldn't hear it.
Speaker 1: And so this vexed me. I was like, wait, what
Speaker 1: how is this a They It just was a big oversight.
Speaker 1: And so then they came out with the ring chime
Speaker 1: and I was like, ah, that makes sense. You plug
Speaker 1: it in anywhere in your house and when your doorbell rings,
Speaker 1: now the chime makes a sound, yeah, just like a
Speaker 1: classic doorbell now to rings defense. If you had a
Speaker 1: wired doorbell and you wired it that way, it would
Speaker 1: still ring your old chime, right it had in your house,
Speaker 1: but in my house we had a wireless one anyway before.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so the way Ring is doing it is
Speaker 1: you can have Adam's Family or some other funky you know,
Speaker 1: Halloween sounds, but they only ring the chime or your phone.
Speaker 1: Guess who's had a look the person?
Speaker 2: Yeah outside, Yeah, they don't hear it.
Speaker 1: They don't hear it.
Speaker 2: There's like no you know there's no fun, there's.
Speaker 1: No payoff for them. So I think hopefully Ring will
Speaker 1: realize this and get it right for maybe like future.
Speaker 1: But I think the problem is the way the Ring
Speaker 1: doorbell is programmed. They physically can't change the actual you know,
Speaker 1: what you hear outside. But anyway, so there you have that.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else do I want to talk about.
Speaker 1: We can talk about this because we went here together.
Speaker 1: This school that we visited that makes you lock up
Speaker 1: your cell phone at the beginning of the day, and
Speaker 1: it's called Yonder. And maybe you've been to a concert
Speaker 1: that uses these cases. Maybe you've been to a movie
Speaker 1: screening if you're in the Hollywood area. That's the first
Speaker 1: time I encountered it, but I think most people encounter
Speaker 1: it at a concert or some sort of comedy show
Speaker 1: and there it's a case that locks up you put
Speaker 1: your phone in there. So the way it happened to me,
Speaker 1: I went to a Disney screening of I think it
Speaker 1: was Cars three, and immediately I get there and you're
Speaker 1: like walking in, They're like, all, I put your phone
Speaker 1: in this case. I put my phone in the case,
Speaker 1: like they lock it. I'm like, well, what was that? Like? Oh,
Speaker 1: you got to keep you can keep this, but your
Speaker 1: phone is locked up for the whole screening.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what, So did they like grab your phone?
Speaker 1: They didn't grab it, just put the case out and
Speaker 1: they said you got to put your phone in here,
Speaker 1: and I slipped it in. All of a sudden, they
Speaker 1: closed it. I was like, and it happened so fast.
Speaker 1: And this was a couple of years ago. Yeah, never
Speaker 1: heard of this, And I was like, wait, what just happened.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a Faraday cage case which locks
Speaker 1: all signal in and out. So immediately I was freaked out.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, a my phone is
Speaker 1: gonna die. Yeah, because all the signals cut off, so
Speaker 1: it's gonna be searching for a signal this whole movie.
Speaker 1: B Did I turn off the ringer? So if someone
Speaker 1: does call me, is it gonna ring? So? Is this
Speaker 1: I was basically nervous the whole movie. Yeah, And now
Speaker 1: that I know more about yonder, it doesn't do anything
Speaker 1: weird with your signal, So if you do use it,
Speaker 1: you probably want to turn your ringer offs your phone
Speaker 1: because if if your phone rang during that movie, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to turn it off. So We went
Speaker 1: to this school, Riise Koyang High School in the Westlake
Speaker 1: district of Los Angeles, and all the kids there in
Speaker 1: the morning have to lock up their phones.
Speaker 2: I think that that's amazing.
Speaker 1: You like it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna do that to you here when you
Speaker 1: get to KTLA in the mornings.
Speaker 2: So then when you text me, I'll just.
Speaker 1: You can find ever you can find it on your computer.
Speaker 2: Well, then can we lock up your phone too?
Speaker 1: Nope, I need it for my job.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So they gave us. Yonder gave us two cases, two pouches,
Speaker 1: and the little unlocked mechanism, which if you remember, back
Speaker 1: in the day, they used to have these security tags
Speaker 1: on clothes. Are you too young to remember that? You
Speaker 1: ever remember you would buy a piece of clothing, they
Speaker 1: would put it down like there would be like a
Speaker 1: plastic tag on there that they would put on this
Speaker 1: metal thing and it would detach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they still have that.
Speaker 1: They still have that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you don't shop a lot.
Speaker 1: Well no, nowadays A lot of the a lot of
Speaker 1: them are the tags RFID in they build them into
Speaker 1: the price tag or into some sort of even at gap,
Speaker 1: it's just in a in a label sewn into the shirt.
Speaker 2: No, I like have a sweater from I don't know,
Speaker 2: like ten years ago that like I can't open because
Speaker 2: if I try to open it up, it would like splatter.
Speaker 1: Oh you stole it.
Speaker 2: No, they'd forgot to take it off. Yeah, I stole it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it has the ink inside. Ye. Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: break it open, like it splatters all over. And so
Speaker 1: the idea is that you would be marked as a criminal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: But the funny thing is Yonder gave us this just
Speaker 1: as a as a loaner unit. So clearly we have
Speaker 1: to give it back. But I don't think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give it back. I think I'm gonna keep it. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna keep this like unlocker mechanism in my backpack
Speaker 1: at all times.
Speaker 2: Yeah you should. So.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if I ever encounter one of these
Speaker 1: like concerts, I can be the only person with my
Speaker 1: phone unlocked.
Speaker 2: And I asked the CEO this question because I got
Speaker 2: to interview him and he and I said, so, like,
Speaker 2: what if you do break it and you're at a
Speaker 2: concert and you're on your phone? And he was like, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: that happens, and people just look at you, and they're
Speaker 2: kind of like, dude, you're totally missing the point, you know,
Speaker 2: And I just what I respect, Like, I think that
Speaker 2: that that's the cool part is we are so obsessed
Speaker 2: with our phones that if let's say an artist wants
Speaker 2: you to use the Yonder pouch like to break it
Speaker 2: just because you want to like take a picture, it's
Speaker 2: kind of pretty lame, you know.
Speaker 1: I agree, as a great point is that the whole,
Speaker 1: the whole point of this is to detach for a
Speaker 1: little bit. And I went, you know, we talked about
Speaker 1: this to Maren Moore Morris concert I went to a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and I didn't have any cell
Speaker 1: phone coverage there, so I basically only took one picture
Speaker 1: the whole night. And I will say it felt kind
Speaker 1: of good. Yeah. Now, when you're the only person not
Speaker 1: taking something, you feel left out. But if everyone is
Speaker 1: in that same boat and it's it's better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: I'm still torn because if I go to an event
Speaker 1: that I'm paying for that I want to have a
Speaker 1: memory from and I want to take a picture, I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, yeah, you're taking that away from me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I get it. You can take pictures when you
Speaker 1: get outside of it whatever. And I do think that
Speaker 1: the amount of people I call it living through their
Speaker 1: cell phone screen at a concert has gotten out of control.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean literally everyone around you is watching
Speaker 1: the concert through their screen. Yeah, especially on the best song.
Speaker 2: It just looks so like when you if you're at
Speaker 2: a concert and you see everyone doing that and you
Speaker 2: just look around, you're kind of like, what what do
Speaker 2: you do? Like you know what I mean, They're not
Speaker 2: paying attention to the performance at all.
Speaker 1: Have you seen the person doing like the Instagram story
Speaker 1: seventy five times to get it right? Or the selfie?
Speaker 2: That's why I can't. I hate watching people take selfies
Speaker 2: because like when they when they take too many, it's like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's so sad, cringe cringey.
Speaker 1: Cringe worthy. My Lindsay who told me. Lindsay I think
Speaker 1: was somewhere and she was at a pool and she
Speaker 1: was like, I'm watching this lady take no less than
Speaker 1: a thousand selfies every position of her face to get
Speaker 1: it just perfect. I forget where she was, but it
Speaker 1: was just.
Speaker 2: No shame in the game.
Speaker 1: Stop. I mean, it's crazy, you know me, I take
Speaker 1: no I take no more. Than a hund you'll take.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, like a five hundred, five hundred, look, I mean,
Speaker 2: and then we go through that, We.
Speaker 1: Print out the contact she this is who he is.
Speaker 1: We go through with the monocle thing, yeah, look through,
Speaker 1: and then we post it to Instagram.
Speaker 2: Photoshop, yeah, any face tune, any wrinkles.
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to sit there and just take
Speaker 1: a thousand. I mean, that would be crazy.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's weird, it's strange.
Speaker 1: All right, that's going to do it for the show.
Speaker 1: We got some housekeeping. I am going to be filling
Speaker 1: in for Leo Laporte over the next two weekends, So
Speaker 1: November ninth and November. Sorry, why am I not going
Speaker 1: in order? November second and November ninth, so Leo is
Speaker 1: on vacation and I will be covering his show. So
Speaker 1: November second and third, November ninth and tenth. You can
Speaker 1: listen on KFI AM six forty in Los Angeles from
Speaker 1: eleven am to two pm on Saturday and Sunday during
Speaker 1: those weekends, or if you live in a different city,
Speaker 1: you can check out tech guy Labs dot com and
Speaker 1: find a station near you. It's syndicated across the country.
Speaker 1: On pretty much every station or somewhere in America, no
Speaker 1: matter where you are. And let's see what else. It's
Speaker 1: always fun to do that. Yeah, it's like this podcast.
Speaker 1: This podcast is like training for that show. Except the
Speaker 1: difference is it's live callers. So if you want to
Speaker 1: call me eighty A eighty A ask Leo during eleven
Speaker 1: to two cific on Saturday and Sunday, November second, third, ninth,
Speaker 1: and ten.
Speaker 2: It's four hours straight.
Speaker 1: Three hours. Yeah, oh my gosh, yeah, three hours straight.
Speaker 1: But here's this little, dirty little secret of radio. And
Speaker 1: I'm only letting you in on this because you know
Speaker 1: you're my friends. But it's only nine minutes at a time.
Speaker 1: Even though it sounds like a long time, it's nine minutes. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you can't talk for nine minutes, yeah, get out
Speaker 1: of the business.
Speaker 2: It's nine minutes. And then it's like you can definitely
Speaker 2: talk for.
Speaker 1: Nine minutes, and then it's like eight minutes of commercial.
Speaker 1: So it's believe me, it's it's not easy, but it's
Speaker 1: definitely not as intimidating as it sounds. Yeah. And when
Speaker 1: they first went John up there, the engineer, when he
Speaker 1: first told me that, I was like, oh my God,
Speaker 1: that's so much easier than thinking about it as three
Speaker 1: hours on the radio, right exactly? All right, Megan, where
Speaker 1: can folks find your lovely little Instagram account and your Twitter?
Speaker 2: Okay? Well my Twitter is at producer Megan. I mean,
Speaker 2: my Instagram's not really connected to work, but Megan mcmonagle is.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's connected to work, all right, Okay, because you
Speaker 1: work here and you've got it.
Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: much for listening. You can watch me on KTLA in
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