WEBVTT - Amazon hikes Prime membership prices 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:14.680 Amazon hikes it's prime membership price. Netflix gives users a 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.720 small but useful feature. Who's selling the most tablets, phones, 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:22.959 and chromebooks? The latest numbers are in Plus your tech 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.880 questions answered? What is going on on Rich Jamiro And 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:28.240 This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.520 about the tech stuff I think you should know about. 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:34.360 It's also the place where I answer the questions you 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.120 send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.080 in Los Angeles. In case you don't know that, in 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.560 case you're just tuning in, I'm broadcasting on Twitter spaces 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:48.120 as well. Last time I broadcast the whole show on 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:50.599 Twitter Spaces and I didn't realize till the end that 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:53.840 the microphone is off by default. Now I don't know 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.800 why that would be, but I guess to to save 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.280 you any troubles of a mic that you didn't know 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.760 was on. But let me tell you, I hope you 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.440 don't have all your savings in Facebook, Snapchat or bitcoin 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:07.959 this week, because man, what a rough week for the markets. 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:10.319 I guess it started last week and it just kind 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.360 of continued. But I personally have not looked at anything 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:15.600 in the past two weeks. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:16.920 I don't want to know. I mean, I've got a 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:17.280 long time. 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.440 All I have is retirement stuff, So I mean, I'm 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.640 not looking to access any of the savings for a 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.880 very long time, thankfully, But if I did, I'd be 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.520 kind of sad right now. But I'm just not looking 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.360 at anything. I'm just gonna let it ride. Let it 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.080 ride until retirement, and that's it. I'll check it then 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.120 and hopefully some of these things will be figured out 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.440 by then. I took the Tesla up to San Francisco 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.640 this week. I shot a bunch of stories up there. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:46.480 It was great. 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:51.240 I actually shot an entire vlog about driving the Tesla 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:51.960 to San Francisco. 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.280 I think that's the longest I've driven it. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.320 Yeah, Vegas was previously the longest, so San Francisco definitely 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.680 the longest. Had to charge I think two times on 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.960 the way up, two times on the way back, and 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.000 I got home with less than thirty miles I think 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:10.320 twenty seven miles on the tank, so to say. And 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.799 it was kind of nerve wracking because it was it 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.840 was really down to the wire and so it worked out. 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:17.519 I got home, it was all fine. I was a 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.520 little nervous, but a good thing. The last part of 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.880 the trip was downhill. They call it the grapevine here 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.560 in California. It's like, you know this, you weave through 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.440 these mountains, but at the end when you're coming back, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.720 it's like you're basically going downhill. So I picked up 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:33.600 a lot of miles going downhill there. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.600 So that's cool. Look for that video soon. 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.519 And last week on the show, I talked about reformatting 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:43.200 my computer. Let's just say that did not work. There's 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.200 some sort of lock on the hard drive on the 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.520 newest MacBook pros that have this like security chip on them, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.079 and then the new I don't have the M one 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.480 chip yet, but it's got this T two chip and 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.760 apparently you can't just like reformat it the way you 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:00.240 used to. You have to like go through all these 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.600 hoops to do it. And I remember doing that last time, 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:04.359 but somehow I figured it out. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:04.720 This time. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:06.679 I just didn't feel like figuring it out. It takes 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.240 a really long time. And I was doing it like 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:14.000 on a Friday afternoon after the podcast, and I was 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.080 sitting there at the table and you know, I'm like, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.480 I got to format my computer now to my wife, 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:20.799 and you know, we had like two or three hours 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.160 before we are going out for the night. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:23.560 So it's like, I don't think it's the. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.040 Right time to try to figure this whole thing out 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.320 right now. So all I did in the meantime was 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.240 switched to Brave the browser. It's a lot faster than Chrome, 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.120 but I'm definitely missing Chrome because there's so many little 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.160 features I use on Chrome that I just I want 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:39.960 to like Brave and it's cool and it's actually a 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:40.480 lot faster. 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.560 I just can't keep myself to it. 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.040 So I downloaded Chrome again today and eventually I'll get 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.600 back to that, but I haven't installed it yet. Let's 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.840 talk about the big story of the week, the big talker, 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.440 Amazon raising the price of its Prime membership by twenty 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.680 dollars to one hundred and thirty nine a year. So 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.240 this is so ironic because just a couple of days 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.880 ago I paid for my Prime membership and it was 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.000 like one hundred and nineteen dollars one hundred and thirty 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.880 with tax, and I tweeted, like, just renewed my Prime membership. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.599 You know, it's still worth it to me, And the 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.599 next thing, you know, they raised the price, and so 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:20.880 I spoke too soon. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.480 I guess. But the reality is I. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:28.160 Still feel like I get a pretty good value out 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.200 of my one hundred and thirty dollars a year soon 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.480 to be probably one fifty with tax here in California, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.880 So I think that's probably fine. I think that, you know, 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.000 I did a little tweet about the last time they 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:45.240 raised prices, and so people have been retweeting that and 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.880 discussing it, and on my Facebook page especially, a lot 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.840 of people have been discussing whether this is worth it. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.240 So let's just say it started in two thousand and 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.560 six at seventy nine dollars. The first time they raised 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.360 the price was in twenty fourteen to ninety nine dollars, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.799 and they rose it in twenty eighteen to one hundred 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.920 and nineteen, which it's been until twenty twenty two, which 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.479 is one hundred and thirty nine. So it looks like 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.520 they're on that cadence. It's getting shorter and shorter, because 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.320 at first it was like six years. Well let's see 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.680 one two, three, four, five, six, seven eight years, nine years, 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.719 ten years. No one two three, four, five, six, seven 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.880 eight years, then one two three four years, then one 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.479 two three four years. Yeah, so we're on like a 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:30.880 four year cadence, So I mean and look for one 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.160 hundred and thirty nine dollars. I did a bunch of 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.200 orders last year. I put it in my tweet just 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.000 how many orders I did. I can't really find that 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.720 tweet right now, but I think it was like one 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.560 hundred and thirty. If you go to Amazon dot com 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.920 and then you click returns and orders and then you 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:48.520 just look at your orders and it s has forty 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.560 six orders placed in the past three months. So I 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:54.120 just did twenty twenty one and I placed two hundred 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.240 and thirty five orders in twenty twenty one. So one 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.400 hundred and thirty divided by two hundred and I say 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.400 two hundred and thirty five, So that's fifty five cents 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.839 shipping for each order. That's that's pretty good. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:13.080 I'll take that. I'll take that, so fifty five cents. 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.080 So even if it's one fifty divided by two thirty five, 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:20.040 that's sixty four cents in order for shipping. I'll definitely 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:21.960 do that. And here's the thing someone asked me on Twitter. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:23.400 They said, hey, do you do a lot of like 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.359 one item orders? And I said, yeah, I do, because 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.599 I said, here's how how Prime actually saves me money. 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.760 When I walk into Target for one thing, which is 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.440 nearly impossible to do, you're going to walk out of 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.320 there spending an extra fifty sixty bucks. That's just me 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.520 so because you, oh this looks really cool. Oh that 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.520 looks cool. Oh I need this. Oh yeah I need that, 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:46.400 and you walk out and you've spent a bunch of 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.880 extra money. With Amazon, you buy the thing that you need. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.240 So my kid wanted a computer keyboard the other day, 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:54.360 and I. 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:55.360 Bought the computer keyboard. 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:59.320 It was fourteen dollars and twenty cents Amazon Basics, and 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.800 it was it was there the next day, it arrived 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:06.200 the next day, and so super simple, super easy. 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:07.160 I didn't spend a lot of money. 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.520 If I went into any other store for that one 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:13.120 little thing, I would have spent a lot more. So, Yeah, 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.080 Amazon's raising the price. You get a whole bunch of 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.480 stuff for that money. Personally, it's still worth it for me. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.440 But when you look at these subscriptions as a whole, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:22.840 you know, when you look at Amazon and you look 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.920 at you know, Hulu, and you look at Netflix, and 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.040 you look at Disney and you look at Spotify and 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.480 you look at YouTube, all these things that I pay 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.760 for when you put them in aggregate, it's still not 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.160 that much money yearly, but you know, or monthly, I 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.560 should say, but it's you know, it all adds up, 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.200 and all of these prices are going up. And it 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.800 used to be Cable was so evil. Cable always raises prices. 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:46.400 But now we're just seeing the same thing with all 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.640 these other services. It's just a dollar here, two dollars there. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.840 It's not as like a parent as it was with 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:54.360 cable because people just I don't know, they really got 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.920 to know their cable bill apparently. So so that's a 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.480 big story with Amazon. Still think that Amazon is going 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:03.840 to it is still going to keep most of the 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.920 people or a majority of people that are on Prime. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.200 They've got a lot of memberships there. I also wrote 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:13.960 on my Facebook page how much they made last year 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.840 and let's see what was it? Oh gosh, oh okay, 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.280 I can't find it. It's the way that they organize 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.280 things on Facebook. I just can't find. But a lot 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.200 of comments when I asked people if Amazon Prime was 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.080 still worth it to them, and I think a majority 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:30.960 of them said they were annoyed by the up by 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.360 the fee, but they still get a lot of value 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.760 out of it. So that's pretty much where it's at all. Right, 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.600 let's get to the first question of the show. Dominic says, 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.800 what are the best options or apps to use for 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.640 pixelating text on photos when posting pictures on social media? 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.800 Thanks Dominic, this was such a well timed email. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:51.760 I can't believe it. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:56.560 I got this email right as I was scheduling my newsletter, 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.160 which if you haven't subscribed, just go to rich on 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:04.160 tech dot com dot com and you can subscribe to 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:04.800 my newsletter. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:05.400 It's free. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.560 And it used to be I was trying to send 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.439 out like this big, lofty newsletter at the end of 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:10.920 every week. 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:11.520 Well guess what. 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.040 I gave up after a couple of years because it 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:17.680 just became too much. And then I thought, well, wait 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.400 a second. All these little things pop into my head, 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:21.960 like ooh, I should share with people how to do 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.600 a speed test. I should share with them how to 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.040 redact a photo. And I said, oh my gosh, I 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:27.160 have the perfect place for this. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:27.719 Now. 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.640 I post a lot of this stuff on social media, 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.040 but it's not always the easiest on social media because 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.520 you're scrolling through whatever. With the newsletter, I can just 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.720 send out something really quick and it's just like one 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:40.800 little tip and it really helps a lot of people. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.400 And so far I've been keeping myself to this. I 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.920 think I've sent out three newsletters so far in the 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:53.480 new newsletter system and yeah, one, two, three, and it's 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.240 been you know, January twenty eighth to February fourth, so 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:57.880 it's been pretty good. I thought I was gonna do 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.360 it every day, but I feel like that's way too 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:01.640 much for people. So I've been doing it kind of like, 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.560 you know, every other day, every three days whatever, three 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.079 times a week. So that's the cadence. I'm gonna try 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.480 to keep rich on tech dot substack dot com. But 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.880 to answer the question, the tip I shared today is 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.920 a website called Redact dot Photo. Now I've used a 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:21.160 lot of ways to cover up things in photos over 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.280 the years. This one is definitely the easiest. For a while, 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:27.640 Skitch was my favorite. That was the ever no app, 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.600 but they've discontinued support for that one. But that was 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.800 pretty good. I actually had an app on my computer 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:38.200 called redacted, but I don't think that's around anymore. And 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:42.840 so now this redact dot photo is super super easy. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:44.319 You drag and drop a. 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.320 Picture in there, you hover your mouse over the part 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.719 that you want to blur, it blurs it out, and 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.800 the guy who created it or the person who created 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.720 it explains kind of how they do it and why 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:59.000 it's private, and it's just fantastic. It works perfectly, so 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:03.240 redact photo if you need to get rid of something 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.360 in a picture before you share it on social media, 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.440 and you can even like rotate the blur area or 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.480 expand it. So it makes it really really easy, super simple, 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.040 and it's just one of those things that you just bookmark. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:15.360 I think a lot of the tips you're going to 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.320 get through the newsletter are just going to be things 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.160 that you'd bookmark, and like you might not need them 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.280 that day, but you know when you need them, they'll 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:25.600 be there for you. All Right, Another big story of 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:26.880 the week. I'm not going to spend a lot of 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:28.400 time on this, but I just thought it was interesting 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.120 and it just goes to show that when you've got 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.920 a dream, or I guess I should say the American 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.920 dream is still alive and very well and it's very 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:41.199 much evidenced by Wardle. So we talked about this story 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.520 a couple of weeks ago. This was the word game 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.960 that kind of blew up and everyone was playing Josh Wardle. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.360 So the guy who created is Josh Wardle, but the 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:53.559 game is Wordle. So w A R D L E 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.960 and the game is w O R D L E. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.840 So kind of funny there, But you know, everyone started 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:02.360 playing this game and it's like basically this little game 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.960 that gives you six tries to guess a five letter word. Well, 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.280 guess what New York Times is purchasing it to go 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:12.600 into their game's portfolio. So this software developer out of Brooklyn, 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.480 Josh Wardele, released this game in October twenty twenty one. 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.600 Ninety people were playing it on November first, two months later, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.160 three hundred thousand people were playing it. And now the 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.280 puzzle has millions of daily players. And he got a 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:31.280 seven figure buyout from New York Times, which is just unbelievable. 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.439 Congrats to you, Josh. That is amazing. 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:36.000 You came up with a fun game, and New York 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:37.800 Times says it's going to be free to play for 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.840 new and existing players and no changes will be made 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.680 to the gameplay. At the time it moved to the 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.000 New York Times, so they didn't say what's going to 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.840 happen in the future, but who knows. They could do 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.640 different variations on this. But the good news is what 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.839 a cool experience. This guy wrote a game that I 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:57.560 think it was for his friends, or maybe it was 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.200 his girlfriend at the beginning or partner. And then next thing, 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.240 you know, this thing just blew up and so many 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:05.120 people started playing it. 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.480 New York Times takes notice and isn't that cool? 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.199 So this person, just by doing something that was fun 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.000 to them, is now going to be living very comfortably 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.760 for hopefully the rest of their life. I did a 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.840 similar story up in San Francisco. I interviewed this developer, 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:23.880 twenty two year old who came up with an app 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.360 and same thing. I mean, this kid, I call him 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.560 a kid because he's twenty two, no disrespect there, but 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.560 you know, he's a young, young person and came up 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.680 with an app, actually wrote it to exchange pictures with 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.760 his girlfriend. And now he hasn't been bought out yet. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:45.280 But the reality is it's gone so popular that there's 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.320 going to be a great ending to this story. 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.800 Hopefully. I mean, he's going to get noticed by. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.520 A Google or an I don't know, an Amazon, or 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.520 a Facebook or a Twitter or an apple. I mean, 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.680 who knows the possibilities are unlimited for this guy too. 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:05.400 So just love doing stories like that because it just 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.760 goes to show that when you've got passion and you've 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:14.640 got drive, it's still a very good indicator of good 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:15.520 things in life. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:16.480 And I know it's tough. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.240 It's been a really rough two years with the pandemic 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.720 and people have been staying home and it just seems 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.360 like there's so much closing in on us. But there 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.880 is a world out there and things will clear up 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.000 at some point and you still can do pretty amazing 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.880 things and make some pretty big moves no matter what. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:34.640 It just takes a lot, believe me. 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.600 It's you know, I get up early every day for 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.400 ten years now working on KTLA and it's there's not an. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:42.960 Easy day, let's put it that way. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:47.680 But it's fun, it's enjoyable, it's dynamic, and I do 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.080 love it. And so if you've got all those things going, 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.680 no matter what you're doing in life, it hopefully will work. 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:57.240 Out and be a good thing. So that's it. This 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.480 is not a motivational podcast, so I. 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.760 Could be, because you know, I feel like I'm a 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.480 pretty positive person. I feel like you know, it's just 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.720 there's so much to be thankful for in this world, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.600 and sometimes it's not clearly apparent what the end game 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.800 is for anything we do, and so you really have 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:20.360 to be on yourself and just kind of that fire 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.920 has to come from inside. It's not always someone else's 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.320 that's lighting it for you, all right, Dean says random 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:32.400 music on my nine S Samsung. I've had issues as 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.400 of the past month. My phone all of a sudden 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:39.280 starts playing a musical tune over and over. I've deleted apps, games, contacts, etc. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.600 That I've added or added in the past month. I've 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.240 gone to AT and T store. There's no help. I've 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:48.040 followed YouTube instructions the best I can. Nothing works. There 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.440 is no set time. It happens one pm, three am, 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.800 eight pm one am. It's driving me crazy. The only 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.080 way to stop it immediately is to restart my phone. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:57.880 If I don't, it just keeps playing. If I have 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.880 the volume down, then i've volume. If I have the 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.280 volume down, then I volume down everything I watch. I 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.000 watch you as much as possible, and some of your 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.160 tips have been very helpful. I don't recall you ever 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:09.040 addressing this problem. 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:09.400 Please. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.760 I'm begging you help me. Regards Diane from Newbury Park, Dianne, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.200 I feel for you. I don't know what is going on. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.560 I mean, this is quite the odd thing, but I 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.760 will say what I think is happening is it's some 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.920 sort of alarm that has been set and the alarm 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.840 it could be an alarm or a timer, and at 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:30.840 the end of the timer, it's playing this music. And 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.000 the reason I say that is because my kid had 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.840 something similar on his iPad and it was driving him 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:41.360 nuts because his iPad was making a sound just randomly, 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:43.480 like all the time, like we'd be sleeping and we'd 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.160 hear his iPad. And it took a while for me, 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.880 the tech person, to figure this out. I looked at 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.560 his iPad, I was looking at his alarms, I was 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.560 looking at his things. I was like, there's no alarm set. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.520 And finally I did find I think it was a 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.480 timer that for some reason every time. 0:16:58.160 --> 0:16:58.600 I don't know. 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.280 It's just finally I got deleted. My kid was like, oh, 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:02.760 you got it deleted. I thought that was just like 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.639 a you know, a part of my iPad forever, and 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.760 so I did get it deleted. And I think you 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:13.119 should look in your clock app and your stopwatch app 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:14.280 and your timer. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:15.880 And see if it's in any of those. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:20.280 Now, notwithstanding any of those things, what I would do 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:25.639 is you can check your reminders as well. It sounds 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:30.040 like some sort of notification has been programmed to play 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:30.480 a song. 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.199 If I can guess properly, I don't know. 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.600 And I'm mentioning this on the podcast because maybe someone 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.760 can chime in on Twitter or on you know, just 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.479 email me hello at rich on tech dot TV what 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.160 they think this is now, Dean, If you cannot figure 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:44.680 this out, I don't know why the AT and T 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.840 store couldn't help you. That seems odd. Maybe you just 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:52.600 got someone that wasn't really wasn't really excited to help 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:55.320 with this issue, because I think that a good tech person, 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.760 any tech person that you know, I think if you 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:00.320 bring their phone to them, they will look at a 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.520 few of the settings and figure out what's going on 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.600 here and why this is happening. Something has got to 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.040 be playing this music on your phone. The other thing 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.000 I would do, and this is kind of the nuclear option, 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:14.240 is just reformat your entire phone so it's a nine 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.120 Samsung nine S. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:18.760 I'm getting. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.160 I guessing that's an S nine, so Samsung Galaxy S nine, 0:18:22.200 --> 0:18:25.240 it's been around for a while. My advice would be 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.600 to format the phone, make sure everything's backed up, any 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.320 of the important stuff at least, I mean you could 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.760 you know, you could probably do without your apps and settings. 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.119 Just make sure your photos are backed up, any of 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:39.200 your voice messages or your yeah voice messages, recordings, things 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.160 like you might not think of, and then just give 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:41.919 it an old format. 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:42.359 Go into the. 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.720 Settings and do a factory reset and it'll start fresh, 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.159 and then you can start over, install the apps that 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:54.520 you want, that you need, and hopefully you should be fine. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.120 I would recommend something like Google Photos for your photos 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.280 if they're not backed up. There also Samsung Integrate with 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.280 one Drive. You can back up your photos there, or 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:07.440 you can download I Drive photos and you can pay. 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.520 I think it's what is it now, Let's see how 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:12.800