1 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 1: Amazon hikes it's prime membership price. Netflix gives users a 2 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: small but useful feature. Who's selling the most tablets, phones, 3 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 1: and chromebooks? The latest numbers are in Plus your tech 4 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: questions answered? What is going on on Rich Jamiro And 5 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 6 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,520 Speaker 1: about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 7 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: It's also the place where I answer the questions you 8 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five 9 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. In case you don't know that, in 10 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 1: case you're just tuning in, I'm broadcasting on Twitter spaces 11 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: as well. Last time I broadcast the whole show on 12 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:50,599 Speaker 1: Twitter Spaces and I didn't realize till the end that 13 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: the microphone is off by default. Now I don't know 14 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: why that would be, but I guess to to save 15 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 1: you any troubles of a mic that you didn't know 16 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: was on. But let me tell you, I hope you 17 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: don't have all your savings in Facebook, Snapchat or bitcoin 18 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,959 Speaker 1: this week, because man, what a rough week for the markets. 19 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: I guess it started last week and it just kind 20 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: of continued. But I personally have not looked at anything 21 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: in the past two weeks. 22 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 2: I don't want to know. I mean, I've got a 23 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 2: long time. 24 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 1: All I have is retirement stuff, So I mean, I'm 25 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: not looking to access any of the savings for a 26 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: very long time, thankfully, But if I did, I'd be 27 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: kind of sad right now. But I'm just not looking 28 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: at anything. I'm just gonna let it ride. Let it 29 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: ride until retirement, and that's it. I'll check it then 30 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: and hopefully some of these things will be figured out 31 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 1: by then. I took the Tesla up to San Francisco 32 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: this week. I shot a bunch of stories up there. 33 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 2: It was great. 34 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: I actually shot an entire vlog about driving the Tesla 35 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 1: to San Francisco. 36 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 2: I think that's the longest I've driven it. 37 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, Vegas was previously the longest, so San Francisco definitely 38 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: the longest. Had to charge I think two times on 39 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: the way up, two times on the way back, and 40 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 1: I got home with less than thirty miles I think 41 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: twenty seven miles on the tank, so to say. And 42 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,799 Speaker 1: it was kind of nerve wracking because it was it 43 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: was really down to the wire and so it worked out. 44 00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:17,519 Speaker 1: I got home, it was all fine. I was a 45 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: little nervous, but a good thing. The last part of 46 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: the trip was downhill. They call it the grapevine here 47 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: in California. It's like, you know this, you weave through 48 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: these mountains, but at the end when you're coming back, 49 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: it's like you're basically going downhill. So I picked up 50 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: a lot of miles going downhill there. 51 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 2: So that's cool. Look for that video soon. 52 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,519 Speaker 1: And last week on the show, I talked about reformatting 53 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 1: my computer. Let's just say that did not work. There's 54 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: some sort of lock on the hard drive on the 55 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: newest MacBook pros that have this like security chip on them, 56 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 1: and then the new I don't have the M one 57 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 1: chip yet, but it's got this T two chip and 58 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: apparently you can't just like reformat it the way you 59 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 1: used to. You have to like go through all these 60 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: hoops to do it. And I remember doing that last time, 61 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 1: but somehow I figured it out. 62 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 2: This time. 63 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,679 Speaker 1: I just didn't feel like figuring it out. It takes 64 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: a really long time. And I was doing it like 65 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: on a Friday afternoon after the podcast, and I was 66 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: sitting there at the table and you know, I'm like, 67 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: I got to format my computer now to my wife, 68 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 1: and you know, we had like two or three hours 69 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: before we are going out for the night. 70 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 2: So it's like, I don't think it's the. 71 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: Right time to try to figure this whole thing out 72 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: right now. So all I did in the meantime was 73 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: switched to Brave the browser. It's a lot faster than Chrome, 74 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: but I'm definitely missing Chrome because there's so many little 75 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: features I use on Chrome that I just I want 76 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: to like Brave and it's cool and it's actually a 77 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: lot faster. 78 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 2: I just can't keep myself to it. 79 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: So I downloaded Chrome again today and eventually I'll get 80 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: back to that, but I haven't installed it yet. Let's 81 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: talk about the big story of the week, the big talker, 82 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: Amazon raising the price of its Prime membership by twenty 83 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: dollars to one hundred and thirty nine a year. So 84 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 1: this is so ironic because just a couple of days 85 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: ago I paid for my Prime membership and it was 86 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: like one hundred and nineteen dollars one hundred and thirty 87 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,880 Speaker 1: with tax, and I tweeted, like, just renewed my Prime membership. 88 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: You know, it's still worth it to me, And the 89 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: next thing, you know, they raised the price, and so 90 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: I spoke too soon. 91 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 2: I guess. But the reality is I. 92 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,160 Speaker 1: Still feel like I get a pretty good value out 93 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: of my one hundred and thirty dollars a year soon 94 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: to be probably one fifty with tax here in California, 95 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: So I think that's probably fine. I think that, you know, 96 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 1: I did a little tweet about the last time they 97 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: raised prices, and so people have been retweeting that and 98 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:48,880 Speaker 1: discussing it, and on my Facebook page especially, a lot 99 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 1: of people have been discussing whether this is worth it. 100 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: So let's just say it started in two thousand and 101 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: six at seventy nine dollars. The first time they raised 102 00:04:56,600 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: the price was in twenty fourteen to ninety nine dollars, 103 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,799 Speaker 1: and they rose it in twenty eighteen to one hundred 104 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: and nineteen, which it's been until twenty twenty two, which 105 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 1: is one hundred and thirty nine. So it looks like 106 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: they're on that cadence. It's getting shorter and shorter, because 107 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: at first it was like six years. Well let's see 108 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: one two, three, four, five, six, seven eight years, nine years, 109 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,719 Speaker 1: ten years. No one two three, four, five, six, seven 110 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 1: eight years, then one two three four years, then one 111 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 1: two three four years. Yeah, so we're on like a 112 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: four year cadence, So I mean and look for one 113 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty nine dollars. I did a bunch of 114 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: orders last year. I put it in my tweet just 115 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: how many orders I did. I can't really find that 116 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 1: tweet right now, but I think it was like one 117 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty. If you go to Amazon dot com 118 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: and then you click returns and orders and then you 119 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: just look at your orders and it s has forty 120 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: six orders placed in the past three months. So I 121 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: just did twenty twenty one and I placed two hundred 122 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: and thirty five orders in twenty twenty one. So one 123 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty divided by two hundred and I say 124 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty five, So that's fifty five cents 125 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 1: shipping for each order. That's that's pretty good. 126 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 2: I'll take that. I'll take that, so fifty five cents. 127 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: So even if it's one fifty divided by two thirty five, 128 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: that's sixty four cents in order for shipping. I'll definitely 129 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: do that. And here's the thing someone asked me on Twitter. 130 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: They said, hey, do you do a lot of like 131 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 1: one item orders? And I said, yeah, I do, because 132 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 1: I said, here's how how Prime actually saves me money. 133 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: When I walk into Target for one thing, which is 134 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: nearly impossible to do, you're going to walk out of 135 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: there spending an extra fifty sixty bucks. That's just me 136 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,520 Speaker 1: so because you, oh this looks really cool. Oh that 137 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: looks cool. Oh I need this. Oh yeah I need that, 138 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: and you walk out and you've spent a bunch of 139 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,880 Speaker 1: extra money. With Amazon, you buy the thing that you need. 140 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 1: So my kid wanted a computer keyboard the other day, 141 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: and I. 142 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 2: Bought the computer keyboard. 143 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: It was fourteen dollars and twenty cents Amazon Basics, and 144 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 1: it was it was there the next day, it arrived 145 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: the next day, and so super simple, super easy. 146 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 2: I didn't spend a lot of money. 147 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 1: If I went into any other store for that one 148 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: little thing, I would have spent a lot more. So, Yeah, 149 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 1: Amazon's raising the price. You get a whole bunch of 150 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: stuff for that money. Personally, it's still worth it for me. 151 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: But when you look at these subscriptions as a whole, 152 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: you know, when you look at Amazon and you look 153 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 1: at you know, Hulu, and you look at Netflix, and 154 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: you look at Disney and you look at Spotify and 155 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: you look at YouTube, all these things that I pay 156 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: for when you put them in aggregate, it's still not 157 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: that much money yearly, but you know, or monthly, I 158 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: should say, but it's you know, it all adds up, 159 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: and all of these prices are going up. And it 160 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 1: used to be Cable was so evil. Cable always raises prices. 161 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: But now we're just seeing the same thing with all 162 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: these other services. It's just a dollar here, two dollars there. 163 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: It's not as like a parent as it was with 164 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 1: cable because people just I don't know, they really got 165 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:57,920 Speaker 1: to know their cable bill apparently. So so that's a 166 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 1: big story with Amazon. Still think that Amazon is going 167 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: to it is still going to keep most of the 168 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: people or a majority of people that are on Prime. 169 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: They've got a lot of memberships there. I also wrote 170 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: on my Facebook page how much they made last year 171 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: and let's see what was it? Oh gosh, oh okay, 172 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 1: I can't find it. It's the way that they organize 173 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: things on Facebook. I just can't find. But a lot 174 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: of comments when I asked people if Amazon Prime was 175 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: still worth it to them, and I think a majority 176 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 1: of them said they were annoyed by the up by 177 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: the fee, but they still get a lot of value 178 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: out of it. So that's pretty much where it's at all. Right, 179 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: let's get to the first question of the show. Dominic says, 180 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: what are the best options or apps to use for 181 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: pixelating text on photos when posting pictures on social media? 182 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: Thanks Dominic, this was such a well timed email. 183 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 2: I can't believe it. 184 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: I got this email right as I was scheduling my newsletter, 185 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: which if you haven't subscribed, just go to rich on 186 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: tech dot com dot com and you can subscribe to 187 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:04,800 Speaker 1: my newsletter. 188 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 2: It's free. 189 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 1: And it used to be I was trying to send 190 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:10,439 Speaker 1: out like this big, lofty newsletter at the end of 191 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: every week. 192 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 2: Well guess what. 193 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 1: I gave up after a couple of years because it 194 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,680 Speaker 1: just became too much. And then I thought, well, wait 195 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 1: a second. All these little things pop into my head, 196 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: like ooh, I should share with people how to do 197 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: a speed test. I should share with them how to 198 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: redact a photo. And I said, oh my gosh, I 199 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 1: have the perfect place for this. 200 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:27,719 Speaker 2: Now. 201 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 1: I post a lot of this stuff on social media, 202 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: but it's not always the easiest on social media because 203 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: you're scrolling through whatever. With the newsletter, I can just 204 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: send out something really quick and it's just like one 205 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:40,800 Speaker 1: little tip and it really helps a lot of people. 206 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: And so far I've been keeping myself to this. I 207 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,920 Speaker 1: think I've sent out three newsletters so far in the 208 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: new newsletter system and yeah, one, two, three, and it's 209 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: been you know, January twenty eighth to February fourth, so 210 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:57,880 Speaker 1: it's been pretty good. I thought I was gonna do 211 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: it every day, but I feel like that's way too 212 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: much for people. So I've been doing it kind of like, 213 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 1: you know, every other day, every three days whatever, three 214 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:07,079 Speaker 1: times a week. So that's the cadence. I'm gonna try 215 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: to keep rich on tech dot substack dot com. But 216 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: to answer the question, the tip I shared today is 217 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: a website called Redact dot Photo. Now I've used a 218 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: lot of ways to cover up things in photos over 219 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: the years. This one is definitely the easiest. For a while, 220 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: Skitch was my favorite. That was the ever no app, 221 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: but they've discontinued support for that one. But that was 222 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: pretty good. I actually had an app on my computer 223 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 1: called redacted, but I don't think that's around anymore. And 224 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 1: so now this redact dot photo is super super easy. 225 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 2: You drag and drop a. 226 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,320 Speaker 1: Picture in there, you hover your mouse over the part 227 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,719 Speaker 1: that you want to blur, it blurs it out, and 228 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: the guy who created it or the person who created 229 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: it explains kind of how they do it and why 230 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: it's private, and it's just fantastic. It works perfectly, so 231 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: redact photo if you need to get rid of something 232 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 1: in a picture before you share it on social media, 233 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: and you can even like rotate the blur area or 234 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: expand it. So it makes it really really easy, super simple, 235 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: and it's just one of those things that you just bookmark. 236 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: I think a lot of the tips you're going to 237 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: get through the newsletter are just going to be things 238 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: that you'd bookmark, and like you might not need them 239 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: that day, but you know when you need them, they'll 240 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 1: be there for you. All Right, Another big story of 241 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: the week. I'm not going to spend a lot of 242 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: time on this, but I just thought it was interesting 243 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: and it just goes to show that when you've got 244 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: a dream, or I guess I should say the American 245 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: dream is still alive and very well and it's very 246 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:41,199 Speaker 1: much evidenced by Wardle. So we talked about this story 247 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. This was the word game 248 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 1: that kind of blew up and everyone was playing Josh Wardle. 249 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: So the guy who created is Josh Wardle, but the 250 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: game is Wordle. So w A R D L E 251 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: and the game is w O R D L E. 252 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: So kind of funny there, But you know, everyone started 253 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: playing this game and it's like basically this little game 254 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 1: that gives you six tries to guess a five letter word. Well, 255 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: guess what New York Times is purchasing it to go 256 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: into their game's portfolio. So this software developer out of Brooklyn, 257 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: Josh Wardele, released this game in October twenty twenty one. 258 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: Ninety people were playing it on November first, two months later, 259 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: three hundred thousand people were playing it. And now the 260 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: puzzle has millions of daily players. And he got a 261 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: seven figure buyout from New York Times, which is just unbelievable. 262 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 2: Congrats to you, Josh. That is amazing. 263 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: You came up with a fun game, and New York 264 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: Times says it's going to be free to play for 265 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,840 Speaker 1: new and existing players and no changes will be made 266 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: to the gameplay. At the time it moved to the 267 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 1: New York Times, so they didn't say what's going to 268 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: happen in the future, but who knows. They could do 269 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: different variations on this. But the good news is what 270 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:55,839 Speaker 1: a cool experience. This guy wrote a game that I 271 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 1: think it was for his friends, or maybe it was 272 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: his girlfriend at the beginning or partner. And then next thing, 273 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 1: you know, this thing just blew up and so many 274 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: people started playing it. 275 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 2: New York Times takes notice and isn't that cool? 276 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 1: So this person, just by doing something that was fun 277 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: to them, is now going to be living very comfortably 278 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 1: for hopefully the rest of their life. I did a 279 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,840 Speaker 1: similar story up in San Francisco. I interviewed this developer, 280 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 1: twenty two year old who came up with an app 281 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: and same thing. I mean, this kid, I call him 282 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 1: a kid because he's twenty two, no disrespect there, but 283 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,560 Speaker 1: you know, he's a young, young person and came up 284 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: with an app, actually wrote it to exchange pictures with 285 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: his girlfriend. And now he hasn't been bought out yet. 286 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: But the reality is it's gone so popular that there's 287 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 1: going to be a great ending to this story. 288 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 2: Hopefully. I mean, he's going to get noticed by. 289 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: A Google or an I don't know, an Amazon, or 290 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:57,520 Speaker 1: a Facebook or a Twitter or an apple. I mean, 291 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: who knows the possibilities are unlimited for this guy too. 292 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: So just love doing stories like that because it just 293 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 1: goes to show that when you've got passion and you've 294 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: got drive, it's still a very good indicator of good 295 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: things in life. 296 00:14:15,559 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 2: And I know it's tough. 297 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: It's been a really rough two years with the pandemic 298 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 1: and people have been staying home and it just seems 299 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: like there's so much closing in on us. But there 300 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: is a world out there and things will clear up 301 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: at some point and you still can do pretty amazing 302 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 1: things and make some pretty big moves no matter what. 303 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 2: It just takes a lot, believe me. 304 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: It's you know, I get up early every day for 305 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: ten years now working on KTLA and it's there's not an. 306 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:42,960 Speaker 2: Easy day, let's put it that way. 307 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 1: But it's fun, it's enjoyable, it's dynamic, and I do 308 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: love it. And so if you've got all those things going, 309 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: no matter what you're doing in life, it hopefully will work. 310 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,240 Speaker 2: Out and be a good thing. So that's it. This 311 00:14:57,280 --> 00:15:00,480 Speaker 2: is not a motivational podcast, so I. 312 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:02,760 Speaker 1: Could be, because you know, I feel like I'm a 313 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: pretty positive person. I feel like you know, it's just 314 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:08,720 Speaker 1: there's so much to be thankful for in this world, 315 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,600 Speaker 1: and sometimes it's not clearly apparent what the end game 316 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: is for anything we do, and so you really have 317 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: to be on yourself and just kind of that fire 318 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 1: has to come from inside. It's not always someone else's 319 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: that's lighting it for you, all right, Dean says random 320 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: music on my nine S Samsung. I've had issues as 321 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 1: of the past month. My phone all of a sudden 322 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: starts playing a musical tune over and over. I've deleted apps, games, contacts, etc. 323 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,600 Speaker 1: That I've added or added in the past month. I've 324 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: gone to AT and T store. There's no help. I've 325 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: followed YouTube instructions the best I can. Nothing works. There 326 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 1: is no set time. It happens one pm, three am, 327 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: eight pm one am. It's driving me crazy. The only 328 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: way to stop it immediately is to restart my phone. 329 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 1: If I don't, it just keeps playing. If I have 330 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: the volume down, then i've volume. If I have the 331 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: volume down, then I volume down everything I watch. I 332 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: watch you as much as possible, and some of your 333 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: tips have been very helpful. I don't recall you ever 334 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: addressing this problem. 335 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 2: Please. 336 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: I'm begging you help me. Regards Diane from Newbury Park, Dianne, 337 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: I feel for you. I don't know what is going on. 338 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,560 Speaker 1: I mean, this is quite the odd thing, but I 339 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: will say what I think is happening is it's some 340 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: sort of alarm that has been set and the alarm 341 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: it could be an alarm or a timer, and at 342 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: the end of the timer, it's playing this music. And 343 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: the reason I say that is because my kid had 344 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: something similar on his iPad and it was driving him 345 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: nuts because his iPad was making a sound just randomly, 346 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: like all the time, like we'd be sleeping and we'd 347 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: hear his iPad. And it took a while for me, 348 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 1: the tech person, to figure this out. I looked at 349 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: his iPad, I was looking at his alarms, I was 350 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: looking at his things. I was like, there's no alarm set. 351 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:54,520 Speaker 1: And finally I did find I think it was a 352 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: timer that for some reason every time. 353 00:16:58,160 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 2: I don't know. 354 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: It's just finally I got deleted. My kid was like, oh, 355 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: you got it deleted. I thought that was just like 356 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 1: a you know, a part of my iPad forever, and 357 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 1: so I did get it deleted. And I think you 358 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 1: should look in your clock app and your stopwatch app 359 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: and your timer. 360 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 2: And see if it's in any of those. 361 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: Now, notwithstanding any of those things, what I would do 362 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:25,639 Speaker 1: is you can check your reminders as well. It sounds 363 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: like some sort of notification has been programmed to play 364 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:30,480 Speaker 1: a song. 365 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,199 Speaker 2: If I can guess properly, I don't know. 366 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 1: And I'm mentioning this on the podcast because maybe someone 367 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: can chime in on Twitter or on you know, just 368 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,479 Speaker 1: email me hello at rich on tech dot TV what 369 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:43,160 Speaker 1: they think this is now, Dean, If you cannot figure 370 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 1: this out, I don't know why the AT and T 371 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: store couldn't help you. That seems odd. Maybe you just 372 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 1: got someone that wasn't really wasn't really excited to help 373 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,320 Speaker 1: with this issue, because I think that a good tech person, 374 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: any tech person that you know, I think if you 375 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: bring their phone to them, they will look at a 376 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,520 Speaker 1: few of the settings and figure out what's going on 377 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 1: here and why this is happening. Something has got to 378 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: be playing this music on your phone. The other thing 379 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 1: I would do, and this is kind of the nuclear option, 380 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: is just reformat your entire phone so it's a nine 381 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 1: Samsung nine S. 382 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 2: I'm getting. 383 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: I guessing that's an S nine, so Samsung Galaxy S nine, 384 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 1: it's been around for a while. My advice would be 385 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: to format the phone, make sure everything's backed up, any 386 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: of the important stuff at least, I mean you could 387 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: you know, you could probably do without your apps and settings. 388 00:18:33,119 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: Just make sure your photos are backed up, any of 389 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:39,200 Speaker 1: your voice messages or your yeah voice messages, recordings, things 390 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 1: like you might not think of, and then just give 391 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:41,919 Speaker 1: it an old format. 392 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 2: Go into the. 393 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: Settings and do a factory reset and it'll start fresh, 394 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:50,159 Speaker 1: and then you can start over, install the apps that 395 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: you want, that you need, and hopefully you should be fine. 396 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 1: I would recommend something like Google Photos for your photos 397 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: if they're not backed up. There also Samsung Integrate with 398 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: one Drive. You can back up your photos there, or 399 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 1: you can download I Drive photos and you can pay. 400 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: I think it's what is it now, Let's see how 401 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: much it is. It's ninety nine cents for the first 402 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: year of unlimited photo and video storage I Drive Photos, 403 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 1: and then after that it's five bucks a year. So 404 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 1: I would do that and you should be fine, hopefully. 405 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 1: I don't think this phone is like possessed. I think 406 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: there's some sort of explanation for it, and so. 407 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 2: Hopefully that will be uh, that will be sufficient. 408 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: All right, if you have Google Messages and you talk 409 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:37,679 Speaker 1: to someone that's on an iPhone, and I'm not going 410 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 1: to get into the whole I message versus everything else debate, 411 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,800 Speaker 1: but the reality is when someone on I message likes 412 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 1: if you're exchanging texts with them. And this means that 413 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: if you're on an Android and you text someone on 414 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 1: an iPhone and they like your comment or that your 415 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,439 Speaker 1: message or they there's a. 416 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:00,280 Speaker 2: Couple of things they can do. 417 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:03,120 Speaker 1: They can thumbs up, they can thumbs down, they can 418 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 1: heart it, they can haha, they can send an exclamation point, 419 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 1: or they can send a question mark. And when they 420 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: do that, historically you will get a message on your 421 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: Android that says, you know, Rich liked whatever you said, 422 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: and it'll name the message or Rich disliked whatever you said, 423 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,479 Speaker 1: or rich hearted or loved or whatever. So it's kind 424 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,479 Speaker 1: of annoying because it's like this weird thing where your 425 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: phone doesn't really know what to do. On an iPhone, 426 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: if you have I message to I message, you just 427 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 1: see a little thing that says haha or thumbs up 428 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,159 Speaker 1: or whatever. But if you're on Android, it's just like 429 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: it writes out what people are doing, and this can 430 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,120 Speaker 1: get really annoying on group texts when you've got one 431 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 1: person on Android and the restaurant iOS and they'd start 432 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: doing this and it's just like a whole bunch of 433 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 1: messages that are like nonsense. So in all of Google's smarts, 434 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 1: they are now translating what people do on I message 435 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 1: what's called I Message reactions into a reaction in the 436 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,760 Speaker 1: Google Messages app. So there's a couple of caveats here. 437 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,640 Speaker 1: This is not like an official feature through any sort 438 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: of SMS thing. It's just basically Google Messages. When they 439 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,960 Speaker 1: see that someone right, you know, when they see that 440 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:18,640 Speaker 1: syntax of like rich liked whatever, message, they're gonna now 441 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: map it to an emoji. And so nine to five 442 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: Google has the emojis that they map to it, which 443 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: are kind of weird. The heart the heart emoji actually 444 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: converts into let's see the smiling face with hard eyes haha, 445 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 1: is the face with tears of joy. The exclamation marks 446 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: becomes face with open mouth, and the question mark is 447 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:46,719 Speaker 1: thinking face thumbs up thumbs down is the same. So 448 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: it's kind of a weird translation. 449 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 2: A little bit. 450 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,840 Speaker 1: It reminds me of that movie Lost in Translation. It's like, 451 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,879 Speaker 1: why can't they just use a heart? Is there no 452 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:59,040 Speaker 1: heart emoji on the Android side of things? So if 453 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 1: you notice that these things are happening, it's because you're 454 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:05,719 Speaker 1: using Google Messages and they're kind of doing a It's 455 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: kind of like a little hack they're doing because it's 456 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 1: not like an official thing. They're just kind of translating 457 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: what's happening. Because iPhone makes it simple from iPhone to iPhone, 458 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,199 Speaker 1: but it's not simple from iPhone to Android. So if 459 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 1: you notice those little reactions happening on your Google Messages app, 460 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: that's what's going on now. Google Messages is not necessarily 461 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 1: a default messaging app on all Androids, but I would 462 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: recommend using it because it's pretty good. I wish that 463 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 1: they would do like a maybe they do at this point, 464 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: But if you have an Android, I would also recommend 465 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,719 Speaker 1: installing the Android one app. 466 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 2: I'm not sure if Android Messages or sorry. 467 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: Google Messages by default backs up to the cloud, but 468 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,480 Speaker 1: it's been a while since I used it, But if 469 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 1: you have Google One, you can now set in there 470 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:51,080 Speaker 1: to back. 471 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 2: Up your SMS messages. 472 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 1: So I would do that because if you switch to 473 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 1: a new Android phone. Your messages will be backed up 474 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,160 Speaker 1: as well and brought back to that new phone. If 475 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: you're on Samsung to Samsung usually when you switch phones, 476 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 1: it's fine because it's backing them up as well. I 477 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: think it's using you used to use the Samsung Cloud 478 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: now I think it's using one drive for all that stuff. 479 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,679 Speaker 1: But anyway, small thing, but good to know about. 480 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 2: All right. 481 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 1: Next question, terroln says, any recommendations on the best in 482 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,119 Speaker 1: printes easiest way to download my one hundred plus CDs 483 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: to my iPhone twelve? 484 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:31,959 Speaker 2: Tia, Oh, Tia. 485 00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: Tia, thanks in advance. I thought Tia was short for Arrelin. 486 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 2: All right. 487 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,919 Speaker 1: I don't always get it right on the podcast, but man, Terylin, 488 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,520 Speaker 1: you're a little late to the party here. 489 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:46,680 Speaker 2: Who still has CDs. 490 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: That are going onto an iPhone twelve? You've got this amazingly, 491 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: you know, new iPhone twelve and you've got one hundred 492 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:55,480 Speaker 1: plus CDs that you're bringing to it. But I understand, 493 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,680 Speaker 1: I get it. You've got your collection, you want to 494 00:23:57,680 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: bring it to your phone. You're not paying for this, 495 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: you're not paying for streaming, So the hundred the easiest 496 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: way to do This is to rip these CDs to 497 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 1: your computer and then to transfer them to your phone. 498 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 2: So there's a couple of ways you can do this. 499 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: As for CD I think the toughest part of the 500 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,120 Speaker 1: process is going to be does your computer still have 501 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 1: a CD what is it? 502 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 2: A CD ROM drive, a DVD. 503 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:24,440 Speaker 1: Drive like a way to rip these Like most computers 504 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: in the past, like whenever, don't have these drives built 505 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: in anymore. 506 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 2: Now. 507 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: I actually purchased the external CD drive from my laptop 508 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: because for you know, once in a while I'll need 509 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:37,359 Speaker 1: to use it for something. 510 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:40,120 Speaker 2: But you know, you can do that if you have. 511 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 1: A computer, maybe like a Windows computer, like a desktop, 512 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: maybe you'll have a CD drive built in. So if 513 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:50,280 Speaker 1: you have a CD drive built in, it's pretty simple. 514 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: You can just use iTunes to do this. And even 515 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 1: with the you know how iTunes is all weird, iTunes 516 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: twelve point twelve on Windows will import songs from CDs 517 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,400 Speaker 1: into iTunes, So all you have to do is open 518 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: up iTunes and then make sure you go into your preferences, 519 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 1: then click general and when a CD is inserted, click 520 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 1: when the CD is inserted, pop up menu and choose 521 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,880 Speaker 1: the option you can do show CD play CD as 522 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: to import or import or import and eject, So I 523 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: would choose the import and eject option. 524 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 2: And so what happens is. 525 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,239 Speaker 1: It will import your CD and then as soon as 526 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 1: it imports it onto your drive. And what I mean 527 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: by import, it will copy the files from that CD, 528 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: all those music files onto your hard drive, and then 529 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,679 Speaker 1: it will eject the CD and get ready for the 530 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: new one. So it takes about ten minutes, Apple says, 531 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 1: I'm reading the Apple support site, takes. 532 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 2: About ten minutes. 533 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: And then once it's done with that, now you can 534 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: put these songs onto your iPhone. And so if you 535 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: want to put them on your iPhone, you're gonna have 536 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: to just use that setting in iTunes to do that 537 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: as well. So pretty simple process. The other thing you 538 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:13,160 Speaker 1: can do is rip them with another piece of software. 539 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 2: Let's see this Windows. 540 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 1: I don't know if Windows ten even has that built in, 541 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 1: but it looks like maybe you can get something in 542 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 1: the Windows Store. Let's see Express CD ripper free. Yeah, 543 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,959 Speaker 1: I mean, it looks like it's available for free. So 544 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: if you do that, you can use that. If you 545 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 1: have a Mac. I'm just assuming you have Windows. If 546 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:40,879 Speaker 1: you have a Mac, computer. It's all the same. You know, 547 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: you can use these similar things. But the other program 548 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: I like, if you already have the files, is called 549 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:53,920 Speaker 1: Walter Walter Pro and this works with any file actually, 550 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,919 Speaker 1: and it's so easy. You can drag and drop to 551 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 1: your iPhone. So it's Walter is from soft O Reno 552 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: and it's really easy for any file. So if you 553 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 1: have any basically anything that you want, you can drag 554 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 1: and drop onto your iPhone. It's kind of a lot 555 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 1: easier than anything else that you've used in the past. 556 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 1: This is videos, this is music files. I think it 557 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,840 Speaker 1: even works with like PDFs and stuff. It just works 558 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: with a whole bunch of stuff. Yeah, any file. Realistically, 559 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,959 Speaker 1: you can use pretty much anything, photos, kindle stuff. I mean, 560 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 1: it's just really really easy. So again it's a Walter 561 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 1: Pro and it's just a simple, easy way. 562 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 2: To drag and drop things onto your iPhone. Good question, great, 563 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 2: great question. 564 00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: All right, speaking of phones, I dc out with their 565 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: quarterly numbers, and I just you know, I'm kind of 566 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: a numbers guy. I just you know, not that I'm 567 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 1: good at math, but I just love like putting things 568 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,960 Speaker 1: into perspective, and I think that sales numbers really help 569 00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,959 Speaker 1: us do that because if you live in the US, 570 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:04,159 Speaker 1: it's a very iPhone slash Apple centric world that we 571 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 1: live in, and when you kind of zoom out to 572 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: the bigger picture of things, you realize that there's a 573 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: lot of other companies out there in the bigger world 574 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: that are making things that people are purchasing. So with 575 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 1: that said, Apple still dominates in a lot of a 576 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,120 Speaker 1: lot of places. But let's look at top five tablet 577 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:26,280 Speaker 1: companies fourth quarter shipments. Apple did seventeen and a half 578 00:28:26,359 --> 00:28:31,160 Speaker 1: million tablets, Samsung was behind them at seven point three. 579 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: Then Amazon was three point six million, so that's a 580 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 1: pretty good number. Three point six million tablets that they sold, 581 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: probably a fire tablets, and Samsung with their tabs, and 582 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 1: then Apple of course with the iPad, they're just killing it. 583 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 1: I mean they're really really doing an amazing job. And 584 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: that's the only tablet I really recommend. Unless you want 585 00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 1: to go super cheapy, then go with the Amazon tablet. 586 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 1: Like if you're only consuming content like watching videos on it, 587 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: then the Amazon ones are fine. But if you're doing 588 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: any sort of like education or playing games, you really 589 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 1: want an iPad. 590 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 2: Because they have the best software. 591 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,640 Speaker 1: So if we look at this by market share, thirty 592 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 1: eight percent for Apple, sixteen percent for Samsung, and then 593 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 1: eight percent for Amazon. 594 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 2: So then we get into the let's see top five. 595 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: Oh that's just hold on, that's just in the US 596 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 1: top five tablet companies worldwide shipments, top five tablet companies, okay, 597 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 1: and then they get into okay, so now let's get 598 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 1: into chromebook So top five market share in Q four 599 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, so ACER with chromebooks and they did 600 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: one point three million, Dell number two at one million, Lenovo, 601 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 1: then Samsung, then HP so Acer is killing it with 602 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,080 Speaker 1: the chromebooks. 603 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 2: That's and then Dell, you know, a little bit after them. 604 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: But it's interesting the chromebook shipments really went down, like 605 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: you're talking. I mean the numbers are way down over 606 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,800 Speaker 1: over year over year, so down forty three percent, down, 607 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,640 Speaker 1: sixty percent, down seventy percent, down, twenty two percent, down 608 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:12,880 Speaker 1: eighty six percent for hp SO overall down sixty three 609 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: percent over last year, so year over year. 610 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 2: So what does that mean. 611 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,400 Speaker 1: It means that during the pandemic, people bought a lot 612 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: of chromebooks, and this last three months of twenty twenty 613 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,959 Speaker 1: one not so much because they they were going back 614 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:26,720 Speaker 1: to school, they're going back to work. They just didn't 615 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: need the chromebooks as much. 616 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 2: I guess that's it. I thought it was gonna be phones. 617 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: But anyway, so all right, we got chromebooks and tablets. 618 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 1: So's the what's the message here? Chromebooks were popular during 619 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: the pandemic and then people, you know, fell off a cliff, 620 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,920 Speaker 1: or the sales fell off a cliff, and when it 621 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 1: comes to tablets, Apple is really really still king. Let's 622 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: get to the next question analyin Amy Lynn. Let's see, 623 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,800 Speaker 1: Amy says cell phone booster. My husband and I both 624 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: have iPhones. He's on Verizon, I'm on AT and T. 625 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:00,720 Speaker 1: Neither of us can talk on the phone due to 626 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 1: poor signal. Would you recommend any cell phone signal that 627 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: does not require an outside antenna. We're in a condominium. 628 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,400 Speaker 1: We can't add any kind of outside equipment. Amy, I 629 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,719 Speaker 1: don't think you need Oh wow, Amy said Tia as well. 630 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,000 Speaker 2: What is up with this? 631 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: I I've never seen Tia more in messages in my life. Okay, Amy, 632 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: I don't think you need a signal booster. So I 633 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: think that all you have to do is turn on 634 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: Wi Fi calling. Uh signal boosters used to be really 635 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: popular back in the day, before the days of Wi 636 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 1: Fi calling, But Wi Fi calling has been around forever. 637 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: It's been perfected. I keep it on on my phone 638 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,320 Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the time, and it's kind of annoying. 639 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: I'll be honest that I'm like, why am I routing 640 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 1: my I've said this before on the podcast, but like, 641 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 1: why am I using my Wi Fi to make phone 642 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: calls in my own house? Like your Verizon you're AT 643 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: and T your two mobile? Yeah, can you figure out 644 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: your networks that it works inside my house? I mean, 645 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: come on, like, I gotta I got to use my 646 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: Wi Fi from my wired connection to make calls at 647 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 1: my house. 648 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 2: Like I get it. 649 00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: I mean houses are you know, they're their own thing. 650 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: You know, if it works, it works, if it doesn't. 651 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: Every carrier is different. Like where my one family member lives. 652 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: You know, they don't get any Verizon inside their house 653 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: at all, But T Mobile works just perfectly, and AT 654 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 1: and T kind of in the middle. And so when 655 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 1: I'm there, I have to have my phone on Wi 656 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: Fi calling no matter what because Verizon has zero signal there. 657 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: Now things have changed a little bit with this whole 658 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: you know, five G, the new network that they're opening 659 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: up the nodes for because a lot of those are 660 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: on telephone poles, so maybe they're closer to houses. I 661 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,080 Speaker 1: don't know, but the reality is amy, I think that 662 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: if you just turn on Wi Fi calling, you should 663 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,560 Speaker 1: be fine. Now, if you're having trouble with Wi Fi calling, 664 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,000 Speaker 1: that's probably a router issue. So I would look at 665 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 1: your router settings. I would make sure the speed that 666 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,920 Speaker 1: you're getting. But to make a phone call, you do 667 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 1: not need a lot of bandwidth. Now, the late and 668 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,800 Speaker 1: see could be a problem if your latency on your 669 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 1: signal on your Wi Fi is not very good, like 670 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 1: if it's really slow to kind of like and latency 671 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: means like when you go to a website like Google 672 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,440 Speaker 1: dot com, how long does it take for that website 673 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,880 Speaker 1: not to load but to basically yeah, I guess it is. 674 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,479 Speaker 1: It's not how to load, but like how long does 675 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 1: it take to show up on your computer? A lot 676 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 1: of that is latency, not speed. So speed sometimes is 677 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 1: really fast, but the latency, like kind of that back 678 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,280 Speaker 1: and forth of when you click to what when something 679 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,000 Speaker 1: actually happens, could be a lot slower. 680 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 2: So if you have latency issues. 681 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, you might have Wi Fi calling issues, but other 682 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: than that, you shouldn't. Now if you really want a 683 00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: signal booster, the only signal booster company that I know 684 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: of that I think you know may work is Wilson amplifiers, 685 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: And so you can get those, but I don't think 686 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: you need that. They're way too expensive, even like the 687 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,800 Speaker 1: cheapest one here is like seventy dollars, sixty dollars. I 688 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: don't think you need that. I think you just turn 689 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 1: on Wi Fi calling and you should be just fine. 690 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 1: All right, let's talk Netflix, everyone's favorite topic. This is 691 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,440 Speaker 1: a very small, but you know, kind of a meaningful 692 00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 1: advancement for the Netflix app on TV. So you know 693 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:17,839 Speaker 1: that row that says continue watching. Have you ever just 694 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,279 Speaker 1: like sampled a show on Netflix and next thing you know, 695 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,640 Speaker 1: it is on your continue watching forever? Because there's no 696 00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 1: way to get it off of there on your TV screen. Now, 697 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: if you want to your mobile device, on your iPhone Android, yeah, 698 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: you can click the three little dots or whatever and 699 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,799 Speaker 1: get rid of it by saying remove from my you know, 700 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: now watching or whatever however. 701 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:39,279 Speaker 2: They say it. 702 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:40,919 Speaker 1: It's always been easy to do it from your phone. 703 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 1: Or mobile, but not from your TV, which is where 704 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,680 Speaker 1: ninety nine point nine percent of people actually manage what's 705 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: going on in their Netflix and watch Netflix. 706 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 2: Well maybe not watch, but anyway. So now on. 707 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 1: Your TV screen, you can remove a TV show or 708 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,240 Speaker 1: movie from your continue watching row. 709 00:34:58,880 --> 00:34:59,880 Speaker 2: With the click of a button. 710 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,440 Speaker 1: All you have to do is click on the show 711 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 1: and then select remove from continue watching on the page options, 712 00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: and if you change your mind, you can undo that 713 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 1: removal by clicking the back arrow. So the bottom line 714 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 1: is that if you you know, if you get if 715 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: you get lurered in by one of these little thumbnails, 716 00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: you know that they constantly change on the Netflix pages, 717 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 1: and you just kind of click something and you know, 718 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,279 Speaker 1: it starts playing and then all of a sudden it's 719 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 1: on your playing list forever or you're continue watching list, 720 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:29,120 Speaker 1: and you're just like. 721 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 2: Oh, I don't didn't even care about that. I just 722 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,000 Speaker 2: I just I just tapped it to see like what 723 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 2: the deal was, and it started. 724 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: Playing and whatever. So now you can finally change that. 725 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 1: It's funny the uh, the Netflix, let's see what I'm 726 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 1: looking at, the top ten they now have like, you know, 727 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:50,280 Speaker 1: their top ten list of everything, and it's kind of funny. 728 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:55,440 Speaker 1: So top ten right now on films is The Royal Treatment, 729 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 1: Home Team Munich, Don't Look Up. I watched that, The 730 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:04,200 Speaker 1: Secret Life of That's two, Red Notice, Hotel Transylvania three 731 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 1: and Anyway. There's a couple more, but it's just the 732 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 1: stuff that people will watch Netflix, Like we watched that 733 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,200 Speaker 1: Don't Look Up. It was I mean what I If 734 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,799 Speaker 1: I went to a movie theater and watched that, I'd 735 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,440 Speaker 1: probably be like a little disappointed. But because it's Netflix, 736 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,760 Speaker 1: I'm like, eh, I mean, it's like it's basically free. 737 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 2: Right. 738 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: It's like, I mean, I hate to call Netflix free, 739 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,200 Speaker 1: but it's like it's like running water in your house, 740 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:26,959 Speaker 1: you know, if you're paying for it, it's just there. 741 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 1: It's like anytime you watch something on it, it's a value, 742 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 1: even if it's not that good. You're like, well, I 743 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,719 Speaker 1: got free entertainment, even though it's not free. I mean, 744 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:36,959 Speaker 1: we're paying for this, and now I think I'm paying 745 00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:37,680 Speaker 1: twenty bucks a month. 746 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 2: Didn't they just raise their prices too? So that's a lot. 747 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 1: I mean, it's like twenty dollars a month. It's still okay, 748 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,239 Speaker 1: I say it's a lot, it's still not a lot. 749 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:49,880 Speaker 1: Compared to one movie ticket, especially in Los Angeles. But 750 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,759 Speaker 1: twenty dollars a month, I mean, for the rest of 751 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 1: your life, is is a decent amount of money. Let's see, 752 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 1: let's say I keep Netflix for Let's say I keep 753 00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,439 Speaker 1: Netflix for thirty years. Okay, thirty times twelve is three 754 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: sixty three sixty times twenty. That's only seventy two hundred dollars. 755 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,480 Speaker 1: I mean, that's really not that much. Seventy two hundred 756 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,400 Speaker 1: bucks for like all the entertainment you can imagine for 757 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,160 Speaker 1: thirty years. But the thing is, it's not just Netflix. 758 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,279 Speaker 1: It's a lot of other things too, So I mean 759 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,279 Speaker 1: you add all these things up, and believe me. 760 00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,200 Speaker 2: It's it. Again. 761 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,759 Speaker 1: It doesn't add up to a ton of money, but 762 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,040 Speaker 1: it definitely adds up. And it's like one of these 763 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,880 Speaker 1: things where I'm always angling for, like what's the least 764 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,960 Speaker 1: I can spend every month on recurring subscriptions because the 765 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: moment you get into a recurring subscription, it's tough to 766 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,360 Speaker 1: get out not to cancel. But like in general, it 767 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,480 Speaker 1: becomes a part of your life, like Spotify, Like I 768 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,640 Speaker 1: ran the I ran the idea of canceling Spotify by 769 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,239 Speaker 1: my wife. The other night, She's like, why do you 770 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,120 Speaker 1: always want to make life so complicated? Cancel these things 771 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,240 Speaker 1: that we've gotten used to. And I said, well, because 772 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,680 Speaker 1: we're paying for YouTube music and so why shouldn't we 773 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:52,960 Speaker 1: use that. But the problem is YouTube music is not 774 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,959 Speaker 1: available on the Apple Watch and we use. 775 00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,160 Speaker 2: It for Apple Want and there's a whole big thing. 776 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,160 Speaker 1: Oh, needless to say, IM pain from the month of Spotify. 777 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:06,640 Speaker 1: Spotify survived, but you know, maybe not next time. All right, 778 00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,000 Speaker 1: did I I can't remember what I just did? 779 00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,360 Speaker 2: Did I just do Netflix? I do? I can't remember. 780 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:13,799 Speaker 2: I think we did the cell phone boosters and then 781 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:14,520 Speaker 2: we did Netflix. 782 00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,799 Speaker 1: Okay, So Joseph, hey Rich, we have a challenge I'm 783 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,480 Speaker 1: sure resonates with many. We have about twenty years of 784 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:25,280 Speaker 1: email with our provider, Cox, likely some on the desktop 785 00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: and some still on the Cox server uncertain which is 786 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,319 Speaker 1: where the Coox dot net email addresses are linked with 787 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,839 Speaker 1: numerous accounts and account recovery processes. We are moving out 788 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,279 Speaker 1: of a state. We are moving out of state to 789 00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 1: an area where Cox does not provide service. They only 790 00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:43,160 Speaker 1: provide forwarding for about thirty days and no other options 791 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,600 Speaker 1: to keep the email while setting up a new email 792 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,759 Speaker 1: and forwarding might solve some items, it would be much 793 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,759 Speaker 1: more preferable to keep the Cox email address. Is there 794 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,960 Speaker 1: a way to take the email address with us and 795 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: have it reside on a different hosting service, similar to 796 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,000 Speaker 1: how you can take your phone number to another provider. 797 00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,000 Speaker 1: If so, what would be the least painful and reasonable 798 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,440 Speaker 1: priced way to make this happen taking all of our 799 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,000 Speaker 1: old meal email and keeping access to the account and 800 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:09,520 Speaker 1: keeping the existing email address. Thank you, Joe, Joe, I 801 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,319 Speaker 1: think you're in a pickle here because I'm not really 802 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,719 Speaker 1: sure there is a way to do this, So I 803 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,719 Speaker 1: this is why I don't recommend. This is why I 804 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,719 Speaker 1: recommend that people never ever use the email address that 805 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,280 Speaker 1: comes with their ISP, because chances are you're setting yourself 806 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,760 Speaker 1: up for failure. Now you've had this for twenty years, 807 00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,040 Speaker 1: that's that's pretty wild. 808 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:27,359 Speaker 2: Now. 809 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,880 Speaker 1: When it comes to actually downloading the email, that part's 810 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,520 Speaker 1: pretty easy. You just log in with some sort of 811 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,960 Speaker 1: email app, whether it's on your computer or maybe it's 812 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,880 Speaker 1: a webmail app that will download the emails and that 813 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,520 Speaker 1: and for that you want to use pop three. So 814 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,520 Speaker 1: if you're using SMTP, that's going to be just checking 815 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,200 Speaker 1: the email and or sorry, imapp is going to be 816 00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,120 Speaker 1: checking the email on the server. So if you want 817 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 1: to download your actual emails from Cox and get them 818 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,400 Speaker 1: onto your computer, you got to use pop three and 819 00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,040 Speaker 1: download all those And it depends COS may not. I 820 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,600 Speaker 1: don't know how far back they go, but you want 821 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,319 Speaker 1: to make sure you just download those. So that's that's 822 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,120 Speaker 1: an easier situation. The tougher part is with all these 823 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:12,080 Speaker 1: recovery emails, so you know most of the time you 824 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:12,960 Speaker 1: will be able to. 825 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,759 Speaker 2: Well try to think about that. 826 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,960 Speaker 1: You got to actually go through and get some of 827 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:19,839 Speaker 1: your bigger websites moved over. 828 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:21,080 Speaker 2: So what I would do is open up. 829 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:25,800 Speaker 1: A Gmail and start forwarding the COS to the Gmail 830 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,439 Speaker 1: number one, like, just do that right off the bat, 831 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,800 Speaker 1: and then I would go through your main accounts and 832 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:35,040 Speaker 1: change that email address. It's gonna be tricky because if 833 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,360 Speaker 1: you leave some of these on that account recovery email, 834 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:39,719 Speaker 1: they may have. Some of the bigger websites will have 835 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,800 Speaker 1: other ways to recover, but not often, so I would 836 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 1: I would really try to make sure your main websites banking, 837 00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:52,600 Speaker 1: you know, financial, you know, your other Facebook, social media, 838 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,399 Speaker 1: anything that you access on a regular basis. I would 839 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,760 Speaker 1: switch over that email address immediately. But this is a problem. 840 00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,560 Speaker 1: You know, they may give you a little bit more 841 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,840 Speaker 1: grace period on these things, and you might want to 842 00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,520 Speaker 1: call them and see what their deal is. I don't 843 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,279 Speaker 1: know personally, and maybe they maybe they let you keep 844 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,000 Speaker 1: it forever, maybe they let you pay a dollar a month. 845 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:10,600 Speaker 2: I don't think so. 846 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:12,960 Speaker 1: I think it's just one of these things where the 847 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:17,279 Speaker 1: whole point of these email addresses is to keep to 848 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:18,880 Speaker 1: keep the service sticky. 849 00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:19,399 Speaker 2: And they will. 850 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,400 Speaker 1: That means that, you know, they want to keep you in. 851 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,319 Speaker 1: So if you start signing up with like you know, 852 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,479 Speaker 1: dot att net or you know, bell South or whatever 853 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,600 Speaker 1: these things were back in the day, you know it 854 00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,400 Speaker 1: keeps you on that service because you're like, all my 855 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:32,080 Speaker 1: email's here. 856 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:33,840 Speaker 2: So that's why I'd always. 857 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,600 Speaker 1: Recommend a third party independent email, you know, something like 858 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,080 Speaker 1: a Google, something like a Yahoo. 859 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:40,759 Speaker 2: I don't know. 860 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:42,839 Speaker 1: Maybe I wouldn't recommend Yahoo so much. I mean, what 861 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,960 Speaker 1: is there? I say, Google and maybe outlook Google. Let's 862 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,439 Speaker 1: see Gmail, I'm going to use my Gmail. I'm gonna 863 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,319 Speaker 1: use my versus operator. So yeah, Gmail, I just type 864 00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:58,040 Speaker 1: into Google Gmail Versus and Outlook. Yeah, I'd recommend that 865 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:03,880 Speaker 1: Yahoo maybe iCloud. That's okay if you're if you're Apple, uh, 866 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,560 Speaker 1: and you know there's other there's other email providers you 867 00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:10,080 Speaker 1: can get. But I think that Gmail is probably gonna 868 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,120 Speaker 1: be the easiest. Outlook is pretty good one. 869 00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:13,600 Speaker 2: Does Outlook get free. 870 00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:18,239 Speaker 1: Outlook Yeah, free personal email and calendar for Microsoft. So 871 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,680 Speaker 1: I would say outlooker or Gmail is probably gonna be 872 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:25,000 Speaker 1: your best bet. Good question there. All right, this is interesting. 873 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,319 Speaker 1: So you know, if you've listened to this podcast, then 874 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,399 Speaker 1: I'm not a huge points person, right, Like I don't. 875 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,480 Speaker 1: I don't And this is kind of like tech but 876 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,440 Speaker 1: also finance a little bit. But you know, I'm not 877 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,160 Speaker 1: like I don't like spend for the points. I you know, 878 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:39,840 Speaker 1: I do have a credit card, but I am a 879 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,480 Speaker 1: big fan of like debit cards because I like to. 880 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,319 Speaker 2: Spend the money and be done with it. 881 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,320 Speaker 1: I don't want to have to look back and every month, 882 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,400 Speaker 1: you know, get this giant credit card bill. I know 883 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:50,960 Speaker 1: a lot of I know this is going against a 884 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,840 Speaker 1: lot of people, uh and how they think because points 885 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:54,480 Speaker 1: points points. 886 00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:54,840 Speaker 2: I get it. 887 00:42:54,840 --> 00:43:00,000 Speaker 1: There's an entire multi billion dollar industry made around points. 888 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,640 Speaker 1: But when it comes to debit cards, which is my preferred, 889 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,080 Speaker 1: the points are not there. And so when I spend 890 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,120 Speaker 1: money on my debit card, which is where I primarily 891 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:09,480 Speaker 1: spend money, it's like, that's it. 892 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,560 Speaker 2: It's done. It's not a big deal. It's not exciting. 893 00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,040 Speaker 1: And part of that is that it keeps you from 894 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,920 Speaker 1: over spending, because when I'm spending money at Target and 895 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,160 Speaker 1: whatever the bill is, if it's not my credit card, 896 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:20,840 Speaker 1: I don't think about it. 897 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,160 Speaker 2: It's like, ah, yeah, sure, swipe. 898 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:24,440 Speaker 1: So swipe, Like the credit card just seems to like 899 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,680 Speaker 1: well back in the day when you swiped, or maybe 900 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:29,920 Speaker 1: even when you tap, it just goes through easier, right, 901 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,880 Speaker 1: It's just like it authorizes faster. There's no signature needed, 902 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,520 Speaker 1: there's no pin. When you use a debit card. It's like, eh, 903 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,400 Speaker 1: debit card's like you're not getting anything in response to it. 904 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,200 Speaker 1: You got to put your pin in all this stuff. 905 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:46,160 Speaker 1: So I stumbled upon this new thing called the point card, 906 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:49,840 Speaker 1: and it's a it's a debit card that gives you points. 907 00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,080 Speaker 1: And so I thought that was pretty interesting. And so 908 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,040 Speaker 1: if you go to point dot app you can check 909 00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,719 Speaker 1: it out. And I know for nine ton percent of people, 910 00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:58,879 Speaker 1: you probably just don't even care, Like you just say, Rich, 911 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,160 Speaker 1: I use my credit card. Fine, I like it, but 912 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,480 Speaker 1: personally I want to be off the credit card. And 913 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,200 Speaker 1: one of the reasons I like the credit card is 914 00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:09,759 Speaker 1: because it protects me for certain purchases, so especially travel purchases, 915 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,360 Speaker 1: rental cards, and so the interesting thing about this point 916 00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,320 Speaker 1: card is that not only does it give you points 917 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,560 Speaker 1: for your you know, debit card usage, but it also 918 00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,560 Speaker 1: gives you protection like a credit card on certain things. 919 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,359 Speaker 1: So you know, you get different different levels of points 920 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,600 Speaker 1: depending on what you're spending money on. And then you 921 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,560 Speaker 1: get like travel protection, you get purchase protection. 922 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,320 Speaker 2: And there's no fees. 923 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,120 Speaker 1: And the other thing that's interesting is that you can 924 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,080 Speaker 1: transfer money from your debit card. 925 00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,280 Speaker 2: To this point card instantly. 926 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:42,680 Speaker 1: So if you've ever used something like a third party 927 00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:45,440 Speaker 1: debit card, it takes like three to five days to 928 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:49,239 Speaker 1: transfer money typically, and so this does it instantly, so 929 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,000 Speaker 1: it's really cool. And for all those things. It does 930 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,200 Speaker 1: charge a monthly fee. That's kind of the only catch 931 00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:56,959 Speaker 1: is that it's either ten bucks a month or ninety 932 00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:57,959 Speaker 1: nine dollars for the year. 933 00:44:58,560 --> 00:44:59,239 Speaker 2: So I don't know. 934 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,960 Speaker 1: I signed up up and I didn't get to the 935 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:03,839 Speaker 1: point where I paid for it yet because you can 936 00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:07,400 Speaker 1: sign up and then decide on the on the and 937 00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:10,120 Speaker 1: so I'm still kind of like, I don't know, So 938 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,480 Speaker 1: it's anyway, I tell you this because if you're if 939 00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,600 Speaker 1: you're looking for a solution, that's a little bit better 940 00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,080 Speaker 1: than a standard debit card, but not so much a 941 00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:18,880 Speaker 1: credit card. And the other thing is you don't need 942 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,719 Speaker 1: a credit check with this, which is kind of cool 943 00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,839 Speaker 1: too because even though they did ask for my social 944 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,160 Speaker 1: Security number, they didn't it wasn't a credit I guess 945 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,920 Speaker 1: they didn't check my credit but I don't know. But anyway, 946 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,640 Speaker 1: it has you know, you can use it with Apple Pay. 947 00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,640 Speaker 1: It's got you know, no no international fees, so if 948 00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,600 Speaker 1: you like use it overseas, you're not gonna pay that. 949 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,000 Speaker 1: You can get two free ATM withdrawals. So it's a 950 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,879 Speaker 1: really cool like way to kind of still be part 951 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,920 Speaker 1: of that points game, but you know, not being in the. 952 00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,719 Speaker 2: Credit card game. So I may switch. We'll see. 953 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,200 Speaker 1: I'm still kind of deciding on this thing, but I 954 00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:51,920 Speaker 1: just thought it was really interesting. It's one of these like, 955 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,120 Speaker 1: you know, tech companies, these like high tech companies that 956 00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,080 Speaker 1: you know are redoing finance. Oh the other thing I 957 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:01,240 Speaker 1: really liked about it is that you get virtual card numbers, 958 00:46:01,239 --> 00:46:04,080 Speaker 1: so you can use those for like purchases that you 959 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,160 Speaker 1: may want to do for like free trials or like 960 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,160 Speaker 1: one off things or sketchy websites. 961 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,840 Speaker 2: And then they also have the app. 962 00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,160 Speaker 1: And this is really cool. I've always wanted this on 963 00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,520 Speaker 1: my debit card. So I use my debit card kind 964 00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,640 Speaker 1: of like a reversed credit card. So I'll put money 965 00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,480 Speaker 1: on the debit card and then spend it, and so 966 00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:22,359 Speaker 1: I always like to know what my balance is because 967 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,400 Speaker 1: that tells me how much I can spend. And so 968 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,080 Speaker 1: this actually puts your current balance right on your home 969 00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,479 Speaker 1: screen of the app, so you can open the app 970 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,279 Speaker 1: and without having to actually log in, you can just 971 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,680 Speaker 1: see what you're or maybe you have to log in. 972 00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:36,080 Speaker 2: I don't know. 973 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,560 Speaker 1: It says it says heads up display, but it just 974 00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,200 Speaker 1: seems like it's like right on the front page of 975 00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,320 Speaker 1: the app. So that makes it really easy too. Anyway, 976 00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:47,880 Speaker 1: Point Card is the website. I'll link it up in 977 00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:55,960 Speaker 1: the show notes. But kind of cool. I know, I'm 978 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,080 Speaker 1: so weird that I don't like to use a credit card. 979 00:46:58,120 --> 00:46:59,640 Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong. I love using my 980 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:00,200 Speaker 1: credit card. 981 00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,320 Speaker 2: I love it but that's why I don't like to 982 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:07,480 Speaker 2: use it, because I just don't. I don't like the 983 00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,680 Speaker 2: idea of the bill, you know what I mean. 984 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,560 Speaker 1: And I got into trouble when I was younger about 985 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,440 Speaker 1: overspending on credit card, so I will never let that 986 00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,880 Speaker 1: happen again, even though I still think I spend too 987 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,680 Speaker 1: much when I'm using a credit card. All right, let's 988 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:26,960 Speaker 1: see Steve says settings on an LGO led TV by coincidence. Sunday, 989 00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,759 Speaker 1: the day before we saw your segment on buying a 990 00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:33,560 Speaker 1: new big screen, we bought a sixty five inch LGC one. 991 00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,960 Speaker 1: Great choice, but OMG, the horrors of going through all 992 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,279 Speaker 1: the settings and options to fine tune the TV. Day 993 00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:42,200 Speaker 1: two of going through them, and we're not close to 994 00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,000 Speaker 1: a picture of perfect TV. There has to be a 995 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,160 Speaker 1: better way. What is out there to help with settings? 996 00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,840 Speaker 1: The YouTube quote unquote experts have too many opinions and 997 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,800 Speaker 1: not enough how to Thanks. 998 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,160 Speaker 2: Steve, well, that's a great TV. 999 00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,560 Speaker 1: When I did my story on the best big screens 1000 00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:58,600 Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl, I recommended the TCL six series 1001 00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:02,160 Speaker 1: and the lg C series and you got the C one. 1002 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,480 Speaker 2: I saw this puppy at at Costco. 1003 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:10,040 Speaker 1: It was eighteen hundred bucks and it's a beautiful, beautiful 1004 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,680 Speaker 1: TV that was for sixty five inch, and the TCL 1005 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:16,400 Speaker 1: series sixth series is like closer to I think eleven 1006 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,160 Speaker 1: hundred bucks for a sixty five inch. The prices are 1007 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,040 Speaker 1: actually up on that one, if you can believe it, 1008 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:25,160 Speaker 1: or all TVs, I guess, but good TV choice and yes, 1009 00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:28,200 Speaker 1: the picture setting is this is an interesting thing about TVs. 1010 00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,520 Speaker 1: When you go to the store and see the TVs 1011 00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,279 Speaker 1: on display, they all look great because they all they 1012 00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:37,600 Speaker 1: do is just pump up every single option brightness, contrast, color, 1013 00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:41,400 Speaker 1: you know, whatever, sharpness, it's all just pumped up. And 1014 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,520 Speaker 1: so when you get at home, clearly you're not going 1015 00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:46,319 Speaker 1: to watch your TV on one thousand percent brightness, and 1016 00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:48,959 Speaker 1: so you have to go through and adjust those settings. Now, 1017 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,759 Speaker 1: it took me a while with my TV and so 1018 00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:53,760 Speaker 1: what I So, I used to work at c NEET 1019 00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,759 Speaker 1: and there's a guy there, David Katzmeyer, who is like 1020 00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,120 Speaker 1: the TV king. He's been there forever. He knows everything 1021 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,880 Speaker 1: about TVs. And when I was there, uh, you know, 1022 00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:04,480 Speaker 1: I was lucky enough when I bought my TV, I 1023 00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,799 Speaker 1: think it was a Visio Plasma TV just to go 1024 00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,319 Speaker 1: to show you how old that was. You know, he 1025 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:14,400 Speaker 1: told me like the exact specifications, like the exact numbers 1026 00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,080 Speaker 1: on how to tune that TV. And he would actually 1027 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:20,120 Speaker 1: do this online for a long time. He would say, Okay, 1028 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,800 Speaker 1: here are the popular TVs, like here's the LG whatever, 1029 00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,200 Speaker 1: and here's how to tune the exact like put your 1030 00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:27,680 Speaker 1: black level at this, put your contrast level at this, 1031 00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:30,399 Speaker 1: put your color level at this, put your you know 1032 00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:34,520 Speaker 1: whatever brightness level at this, and it was amazing. So 1033 00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:38,759 Speaker 1: you'd get this finely tuned TV. So I don't think 1034 00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:42,480 Speaker 1: he does it like that anymore for all, like you know, every. 1035 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:43,800 Speaker 2: Specific TV model. 1036 00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,040 Speaker 1: But I did find an article that he kind of 1037 00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,520 Speaker 1: still gives some like pointers on it, and I think 1038 00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:50,680 Speaker 1: that you can find other websites. So what I would 1039 00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:57,359 Speaker 1: do is I would search lg C one. Let's see 1040 00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:04,000 Speaker 1: picture settings, and you know it's got like yeah, like 1041 00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:08,520 Speaker 1: calibration settings. Oh, here you go, ratings, dot Com, r 1042 00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,880 Speaker 1: T I, n G S they do it, and so 1043 00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:14,520 Speaker 1: general settings they they do all the settings for this. 1044 00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,640 Speaker 1: Motion settings generally, what do they say, motion you should 1045 00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:21,000 Speaker 1: be off? Yep, So motion setting you typically want to 1046 00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:24,000 Speaker 1: have off unless you are watching sports and then I 1047 00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,040 Speaker 1: would put that on. And then another expert I talked 1048 00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:28,920 Speaker 1: to Will Greenwald, who I also worked. 1049 00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,479 Speaker 2: With a c net Now he works at PC mag. 1050 00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,200 Speaker 1: He said that cinema mode is the best kind of 1051 00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:37,239 Speaker 1: generic picture kind of setting if you wanted to use that. 1052 00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,640 Speaker 2: So, you know, cinema mode is kind of the the 1053 00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:41,719 Speaker 2: main one that you want to do. 1054 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:43,400 Speaker 1: So all right, So there you have it. I mean, 1055 00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:44,920 Speaker 1: there's a lot you can do. It depends also on 1056 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:46,880 Speaker 1: what you like. Like on my TV, I had it 1057 00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,200 Speaker 1: on cinema mode for so long, but it's kind of 1058 00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:51,560 Speaker 1: an old TV, so it's getting kind of, you know, 1059 00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:56,160 Speaker 1: kind of older, and so I decided to uh, to 1060 00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,600 Speaker 1: change it to vivid and it's like, whoa, this looks 1061 00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:02,480 Speaker 1: so much better. So anyway, that's that's that, all right. 1062 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,600 Speaker 1: I got time for one more quick little thing and 1063 00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,560 Speaker 1: then we'll go. But if you're in the La area, 1064 00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:11,319 Speaker 1: I'm sure some of you listening are in LA. There's 1065 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,840 Speaker 1: a new website that's really really cool. I've been waiting 1066 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:14,839 Speaker 1: for this to come to LA. 1067 00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:15,439 Speaker 2: For so long. 1068 00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:19,480 Speaker 1: It's called good Eggs and it's a startup. I actually 1069 00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:22,279 Speaker 1: was in the Bay Area for a story one time, 1070 00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,839 Speaker 1: and I saw this van and it was a big 1071 00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:26,160 Speaker 1: van that said Good Eggs on it. 1072 00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:27,920 Speaker 2: I was like, oh my gosh, and it reminded me 1073 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:28,279 Speaker 2: of this. 1074 00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:31,200 Speaker 1: Old service I used to get deliveries from called Milk 1075 00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,480 Speaker 1: and Eggs here in Los Angeles, and it was so 1076 00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,160 Speaker 1: cool because they would deliver like really really fresh stuff 1077 00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,239 Speaker 1: right to your front door. I'd get a delivery on 1078 00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:42,080 Speaker 1: Saturday morning of like, you know, some eggs, some bagels, 1079 00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,400 Speaker 1: some oranges, some bananas, and it was all really fresh, 1080 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:47,600 Speaker 1: because what happens is throughout the week you go and 1081 00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,160 Speaker 1: like whatever you bought at the beginning of the week 1082 00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:50,839 Speaker 1: kind of like dwindles towards the end of the week. 1083 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,200 Speaker 1: And then so it was so nice to wake up 1084 00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,680 Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning with all these like great fresh 1085 00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,080 Speaker 1: options for breakfast. Well that only lasted a little bit, 1086 00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,919 Speaker 1: and so I kind of kept track of this Good 1087 00:51:59,880 --> 00:52:02,359 Speaker 1: Eggs and they said they were coming to LA and 1088 00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:04,720 Speaker 1: by the way, they finally did, and so I actually 1089 00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,920 Speaker 1: did a story with them for KTLA where I went 1090 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,399 Speaker 1: to their warehouse, which is amazing sixty thousand square feet. 1091 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,640 Speaker 1: It's like one giant refrigerator and freezer. 1092 00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:14,280 Speaker 2: It's huge. 1093 00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:16,960 Speaker 1: They've got the best, like coolest stuff. Now, I will 1094 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,439 Speaker 1: tell you right now, this is not inexpensive. 1095 00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:20,600 Speaker 2: You are not buying. 1096 00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,960 Speaker 1: This is not Amazon Prime grocery delivery that's like at 1097 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,600 Speaker 1: your house in two hours. It's like, you know, super 1098 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,000 Speaker 1: good prices this and that. I mean, you're this is 1099 00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:32,879 Speaker 1: a very high quality play. So if you are into 1100 00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:38,240 Speaker 1: like high quality meats, high quality cheeses, high quality prepared stuff, 1101 00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:41,799 Speaker 1: really really fresh produce, this is gonna be something you 1102 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:43,600 Speaker 1: want to check out because I looked at it, and 1103 00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,680 Speaker 1: you know, the prices they're good, you know for someone 1104 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,440 Speaker 1: bringing stuff to your front door. But believe me, there 1105 00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,239 Speaker 1: is definitely you can you can do cheaper, for sure, 1106 00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,440 Speaker 1: one hundred percent. So don't don't come yelling at me 1107 00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:56,120 Speaker 1: if you're like rich, are you kidding me? 1108 00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:57,680 Speaker 2: Like, don't do it then. 1109 00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:01,000 Speaker 1: But for me personally, like I I love the idea 1110 00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,560 Speaker 1: of really really high quality stuff. And I'm not gonna do, 1111 00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,080 Speaker 1: of course, all my shopping here, but I'm definitely gonna 1112 00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:10,680 Speaker 1: try to see how some of these these deliveries are. 1113 00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,000 Speaker 1: I did taste test a couple things that they gave me, 1114 00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:16,840 Speaker 1: and so far, I was very impressed. I tried an orange, 1115 00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,799 Speaker 1: I tried a salad all very very fresh, and so 1116 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:21,200 Speaker 1: check it out. 1117 00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:22,000 Speaker 2: It's called good Eggs. 1118 00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:25,160 Speaker 1: I'll put a link in the in the show notes. 1119 00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,280 Speaker 1: I'm very excited to try it out. So they're delivering 1120 00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,719 Speaker 1: to a lot of Los Angeles, but they tell me 1121 00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,719 Speaker 1: they are going to expand to more areas, so if 1122 00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,640 Speaker 1: they're not in your zip code just yet, they hopefully 1123 00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:40,719 Speaker 1: will expand to more areas soon. Good Eggs again is 1124 00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:44,600 Speaker 1: the website. Gosh, is that really gonna do it? For 1125 00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,920 Speaker 1: this episode of the show. 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