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Speaker 1: about the Jubilee TV. This is a streaming device designed
Speaker 1: with seniors in mind. The twist is that a caregiver
Speaker 1: can pretty much control the entire TV remotely, so everything
Speaker 1: from the streaming services to the channel to the volume
Speaker 1: to the close captions. It's a whole new concept. We'll
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Speaker 1: of that. Welcome to the show. Just watching the news
Speaker 1: and these NASA astronauts that are stranded in outer space
Speaker 1: pretty wild. I mean they're not calling them stranded, but
Speaker 1: they're pretty much stranded. Their trip was supposed to be
Speaker 1: eight days, they've already spent eighty and now they're gonna
Speaker 1: spend an extra six months. So you're talking an eight
Speaker 1: day trip turned into an eight month trip and they're
Speaker 1: not back yet. By the way, can you imagine now,
Speaker 1: if you're on vacation in Hawaii, sure, bring it on.
Speaker 2: I mean you'd be broke by the end of that time.
Speaker 2: But at least to be fun.
Speaker 1: But you're in space, and I'm sure there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of like hesitation and wondering, like is this all
Speaker 1: gonna work out?
Speaker 2: Let's hope it does.
Speaker 1: Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams, they've already been up there
Speaker 1: for eighty days, and I guess there's some I don't know,
Speaker 1: some sort of failures on this starliner. It's gonna return
Speaker 1: unmanned because of these thruster failures and helium weeks. So
Speaker 1: they're gonna end up using this SpaceX dragon for return.
Speaker 1: SpaceX interesting. Anyway, they'll be coming back in February twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five now, so I hope they packed a lot
Speaker 1: of food for them. I mean, I know the what
Speaker 1: do they drink up their tang remember that? Oh my gosh. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we're thinking of you. Hope you got hope you can
Speaker 1: download Netflix up there. That's all I have to say. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what their situation is, like what are
Speaker 1: the creature comforts when you're in space just floating around?
Speaker 1: And I know it takes a toll on the human
Speaker 1: body as well, So we are thinking of you. And
Speaker 1: it's just I was talking about this with my kids
Speaker 1: the other day, because you know, we were just talking
Speaker 1: about this whole, this situation before we knew what the
Speaker 1: end result was going to be, and it's just like,
Speaker 1: can you imagine being in space for all that time?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I couldn't.
Speaker 1: All right, this week hopped around the nation, thankfully, I
Speaker 1: took transportation that is much more proven, just an airplane.
Speaker 1: I was in Newport Beach and then I went to
Speaker 1: New York City. So in Newport Beach stayed at this
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I mean, you don't realize what these
Speaker 1: car companies do. They They have these trips that these
Speaker 1: journalists go on, and there's pretty much one going on
Speaker 1: anywhere in the world at any given time. They invite
Speaker 1: all these journals lists and they bring them in, they
Speaker 1: put them up at these places. What was a place
Speaker 1: called It's called Pelican Hill Resort, the nicest place I've
Speaker 1: ever been in my entire life. Stayed there for two
Speaker 1: nights part of this Volvo drive Valvo EX ninety. This
Speaker 1: is their new flagship seven seater all electric suv. It's
Speaker 1: got a lot of tech features, got these thor hammer headlights.
Speaker 1: Now I had to look that up because I thought
Speaker 1: it was like a movie marketing thing, but no, it's
Speaker 1: actually just I guess thor is a thing before the movies,
Speaker 1: like from back in the day. And so you know,
Speaker 1: I've got these cool headlights that kind of opening close. Anyway,
Speaker 1: first Volvo car with lidar, So they made a big
Speaker 1: deal out of this. I guess that's why they invited
Speaker 1: me there. But this car is going to collect data
Speaker 1: and it's eventually going to be able to drive itself.
Speaker 1: So right now, when they put this car in the road,
Speaker 1: it's just going to be in a collection phase. So
Speaker 1: anyone who buys this thing is going to be helping
Speaker 1: Volvo train their self driving autonomous driving software. They didn't
Speaker 1: give me a timeline on when this car is going
Speaker 1: to be able to drive itself fully, but they said, yes,
Speaker 1: that is the point. This car will eventually be able
Speaker 1: to drive itself. That's a big deal. So I know
Speaker 1: we heard this week that Ford was pulling back on
Speaker 1: its big electric suv. Talk more about that later in
Speaker 1: the show, but they're moving on with this one. This
Speaker 1: is eighty thousand bucks, gets about three hundred miles on
Speaker 1: a range on a charge, I should say, which was fine,
Speaker 1: but I really think the sweet spot for cars these
Speaker 1: evs is really four hundred miles to not feel that
Speaker 1: range anxiety, because realistically, let's put it this way, when
Speaker 1: you get three hundred miles on an electric car, you're
Speaker 1: really only supposed to charge that to eighty percent. So
Speaker 1: do the math. You're not getting three hundred on a
Speaker 1: full charge. You're really getting less than that. And then
Speaker 1: as soon as you drive that car a little bit,
Speaker 1: even though it says to eighty, it's going to drop
Speaker 1: down to like two seventy two sixty when you start driving.
Speaker 1: So you have to keep all of this in mind,
Speaker 1: and that's why the electric cars are very controversial in
Speaker 1: certain circles. Went to New York City for a company
Speaker 1: called x GMI. This is a smart projector company, and
Speaker 1: I got to say, really really cool stuff they came
Speaker 1: out with. They showed us all these new products, a
Speaker 1: bunch of tech people in attendance. Their whole thing is
Speaker 1: they make these projectors that are really small, portable and bright,
Speaker 1: and the best feature about them is auto keystone. So
Speaker 1: if you've ever set up a projector in your life,
Speaker 1: you know that it's a problem because you have to
Speaker 1: move it, adjust it up and down, get the picture
Speaker 1: just right, you're kind of adjusting the edges. Well, these
Speaker 1: do everything automatically, so not only does it find the
Speaker 1: size of the screen that you're aiming it at and
Speaker 1: adjust to that, but it also straightens the image. And
Speaker 1: so it's just super simple to set up and very portable,
Speaker 1: and the models start around three hundred bucks. But just
Speaker 1: ex Jimmy is the company again, by the way, really
Speaker 1: really nice stuff they're coming out. They super portable projector that.
Speaker 1: Of course, once you see it, you're like, oh, I
Speaker 1: want that in my life. I'm gonna have that my
Speaker 1: suitcase every time I travel so I can just watch
Speaker 1: movies on my hotel room, you know wall.
Speaker 2: But that's a cool thing too. These tech events.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds like you just go and it's
Speaker 1: all fun and games, right, but it really is amazing
Speaker 1: to hang out with all the tech people you know,
Speaker 1: in the same place, from all the different cities in
Speaker 1: the world and just swap stories, talk chat, compare notes.
Speaker 1: I mean everyone at this event, not only the Volvo
Speaker 1: event in Newport Beach, but also in the New York
Speaker 1: City event. Now, the car people I'm not as familiar with.
Speaker 1: I know a bunch of them, but the tech people.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of them, and it's like you
Speaker 1: sit there and you're talking about the latest phones, the
Speaker 1: latest gadgets, what you like, what you don't like, and
Speaker 1: it's stuff like of course you can do it on
Speaker 1: you know, Twitter and stuff, but being in person obviously
Speaker 1: adds a much better layer to things. So and not
Speaker 1: just that, but you also get face to face time
Speaker 1: with the representatives from the companies, and so you learn
Speaker 1: more about this stuff on a level that you're not
Speaker 1: gonna get from a press release. You know, it's it's
Speaker 1: much more intimate, it's much more just per you know,
Speaker 1: just driven by face to face communication, which I know
Speaker 1: is such a weird concept in our world.
Speaker 2: AI.
Speaker 1: Let me talk about AI, because of course I'm always
Speaker 1: using AI in new and different ways. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you about three ways I used AI this week to
Speaker 1: help me find wine that I like on a menu,
Speaker 1: to help me build a salad, and to help me
Speaker 1: find what to order on a menu. I know it
Speaker 1: all sounds very weird, but stick with me. So AI
Speaker 1: in everyday life, wine win. When you are presented with
Speaker 1: a wine menu, if you're drinking wine at a restaurant,
Speaker 1: it is the most complex, like you know, thing you
Speaker 1: could ever imagine, because how do you buy it? Do
Speaker 1: you buy it by price? Do you buy it by
Speaker 1: what you know? Ninety nine percent of the wines on
Speaker 1: that list you're probably never going to recognize, and they're
Speaker 1: all overpriced.
Speaker 2: You don't know you know what you're getting. So here's
Speaker 2: what I did.
Speaker 1: I told the AI that the couple of wines that
Speaker 1: I know I like right like the brand names. And
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, now I'm going to show you a menu,
Speaker 1: tell me which one I should get based on what
Speaker 1: I like. And so I took a picture of the menu.
Speaker 1: You upload it to AI.
Speaker 2: It already knows what you like, and it spits out
Speaker 2: the wines that it things you should order. Brilliant.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to change the way I
Speaker 1: order stuff at restaurants forever, because I'm going to keep
Speaker 1: programming it to get it better and better. And then
Speaker 1: by the way, I can say, give me a bottle,
Speaker 1: you know, under fifty dollars, or give me a glass
Speaker 1: under you know, ten dollars, or give me the cheapest
Speaker 1: wine you think that I'm gonna like on this menu.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is like AI really in use salad,
Speaker 1: I went to a salad place, one of those places
Speaker 1: where you like choose your own salad, and I was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, let me try having my AI build
Speaker 1: a healthy salad. So I uploaded all the ingredients that
Speaker 1: you can choose from and I said, what I like,
Speaker 1: you know, I want high protein, you know whatever, And
Speaker 1: I said, build me a salad. And by the way,
Speaker 1: don't use any of the premium products. You know, like
Speaker 1: you know, you get upsold by like certain things that
Speaker 1: they add your salad that's expensive.
Speaker 2: And sure enough, it picked out the stuff and it
Speaker 2: built the salad.
Speaker 1: It it used kale as the base, which was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I had to like power through a kale salad, but
Speaker 1: it was still I thought it was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: But here's the funniest part. When I went to pick
Speaker 2: up the salad.
Speaker 1: Instead of salmon, which by the way, I did splurge for,
Speaker 1: they put salami. Because I guess nobody's ordering salmon in
Speaker 1: their salad, so they gave me salami, and I said, thankfully.
Speaker 1: I checked the order before I left and they replaced it.
Speaker 2: And then when it comes to the.
Speaker 1: Menu of the restaurant, So if you're looking for certain things,
Speaker 1: let's say you have, you know, sodium issues or cholesterol
Speaker 1: issues or saturated fat. You want heart healthy, same thing.
Speaker 1: You tell AI what you want and then you upload
Speaker 1: the picture of the menu and you say, hey, give
Speaker 1: me my best choices here. You know, maybe you don't
Speaker 1: like fish, maybe you like steak, whatever it is, and
Speaker 1: it will tell you. And the thing about AI, I
Speaker 1: get that a lot of times. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: just making stuff up, so you have to be aware
Speaker 1: of that. But it also is giving you, like really
Speaker 1: good information about the stuff on this menu. It says, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, watch out for that. Like this yesterday it
Speaker 1: was like breakfast and it was like avocado toast, which
Speaker 1: I thought was healthy, and it's like, oh, just got
Speaker 1: to be careful. Sometimes it's got a lot of saturated fat,
Speaker 1: so you got to be careful with how much you
Speaker 1: eat or look at the cream on the side or
Speaker 1: this or that. So I'm not saying you have to
Speaker 1: use this every time. I'm not saying you got to,
Speaker 1: you know, change your whole life. But I just thought
Speaker 1: it was kind of cool. Some new uses of AI
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Speaker 1: You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you
Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Well,
Speaker 1: California became the fifth state that lets you add your
Speaker 1: driver's license to uh your phone. This is actually it's
Speaker 1: interesting because last week I talked about how Apple said
Speaker 1: they were going to do this, but then Android leapfrog them,
Speaker 1: and so if you have an Android phone in California,
Speaker 1: you can now add your state ID or driver's license
Speaker 1: to Google Wallet, but you can't use it for a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: It's mostly TSA checkpoints right now.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: But California joins Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, and Maryland and offering
Speaker 1: this capability. Five hundred thousand folks have already done this
Speaker 1: in California through the DMV's old program, which is m
Speaker 1: what do they call it, my driver's I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's like my driver my digital driver's license or something.
Speaker 1: But now you can add it to your Google Wallet.
Speaker 1: So it's only limited to one point five million people
Speaker 1: at this point because it's a pilot program, so if
Speaker 1: you haven't done it, you can do it. I did
Speaker 1: not do this just yet because I'm kind of you know,
Speaker 1: I've got two phones that I use primarily, an iPhone
Speaker 1: and Android, and so I'm curious if I add it
Speaker 1: to the Android.
Speaker 2: Am I not able to add it to the iPhone?
Speaker 1: But anyway, if you want to do it, just go
Speaker 1: to your Android device, open up Google Wallet and then
Speaker 1: you'll see where it says add to wallet in the
Speaker 1: lower right hand corner, and then you tap ID card
Speaker 1: and then it says fly through TSA and then you'll
Speaker 1: see it says select which state issued your ID Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia,
Speaker 1: and Maryland. So you can if you're in one of
Speaker 1: those five states, add your your card to your phone. Again,
Speaker 1: you can't really use it in many places, but hey,
Speaker 1: this is a start, and I think it's amazing if
Speaker 1: we can actually get to the point where our license
Speaker 1: can be on our phone. It's actually way more private
Speaker 1: than carrying a regular license. So we'll see what happens there.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Richard in my home state of New Jersey.
Speaker 5: Richard drawn with rich Hey, rich Pleasure in an honor
Speaker 5: to speak to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for Colin. What can I help with?
Speaker 5: Okay, here's my scenario. I splurged. I got the lg
Speaker 5: OLED seventy seven inch TV top of the line, went
Speaker 5: for the top of the line with the Sonos the
Speaker 5: Art sound bar, big sub warfare for your speakers. I'm
Speaker 5: almost blind, so when I turn on channel I have
Speaker 5: Exfinity through Comcast, I needed to tell me what's on
Speaker 5: the channel. And it's always done that good. After their
Speaker 5: last update, it comes out so freaking out the whole
Speaker 5: house shape.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 5: I should contact them to adjust it. No idea when
Speaker 5: you're in and if you have any no.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I was just telling my wife last night that I'm
Speaker 1: ready to throw my Sonos system out the window because
Speaker 1: they have ruined it.
Speaker 2: It is actually ruined.
Speaker 1: I've had Sonos for about over I don't know, ten
Speaker 1: years now, and I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2: I'm one of the biggest fans.
Speaker 1: And they ruined the devices with the latest software update.
Speaker 1: This happened maybe a couple months ago, and they came
Speaker 1: out with the new app that changed everything. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've seen the new app, but it's horrible.
Speaker 6: Yes, I have it.
Speaker 5: I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's just terrible.
Speaker 1: And then they said, you know, they came out with
Speaker 1: a blog post with the CEO saying, look, we're going
Speaker 1: to fix this in the next six months. Six months.
Speaker 1: Who can wait six months? So what you're experiencing is
Speaker 1: what I'm experiencing. Nothing is working the way it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be working. I don't know what they did, what
Speaker 1: they changed, but nothing in my house. Last night, I
Speaker 1: turn on music while we were you know, before eating dinner,
Speaker 1: and I went to close out the app, and co course,
Speaker 1: the volume doesn't respond anymore on the app for some
Speaker 1: reason or it's delayed, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I touched something on my phone. The volume went to
Speaker 1: a thousand degrees. So it'splasting through my house. The kids
Speaker 1: start yelling like, Hey.
Speaker 2: What's happening.
Speaker 7: What's happening.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I know, I know, can't turn the volume down.
Speaker 1: So Richard, I think this is a matter of you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to just wait until this app gets better.
Speaker 1: My question is is it the volume just from the TV?
Speaker 1: Is it something that the TV is doing like a
Speaker 1: voice volume? It's doing or something.
Speaker 5: Well, it's just the TV's volume that comes through the
Speaker 5: arc when I'm not watching a regular channel. It's fine
Speaker 5: when I changed the channel, and again when Xfinity tells
Speaker 5: me what it's coming on, that's when it's loud. I
Speaker 5: even contacted, so no, so of course I just got
Speaker 5: to run around.
Speaker 6: Through there in another country.
Speaker 5: But yeah, that you know, it sits and it's frustrating.
Speaker 1: The only thing I can think of, and this is
Speaker 1: what I typically do in a situation like this, is
Speaker 1: go through the like every single setting in the settings
Speaker 1: and see if there's anything specific for because what's happening
Speaker 1: is there's like two you know, in your car when
Speaker 1: you're when you're like listening to music, and then like
Speaker 1: Google Maps pops in and does like the voice Sometimes
Speaker 1: that voice volume is different, like a different level than
Speaker 1: the music volume, and the only time you can adjust
Speaker 1: it is while that music are they sorry, this assistant
Speaker 1: voice is like currently on. So I'm wondering if that's
Speaker 1: the case here, like while this while this Infinity box
Speaker 1: is speaking, maybe there's a way that you can go
Speaker 1: into the app and turn down the volume while that
Speaker 1: box is speaking, and that's separate from the TV volume.
Speaker 1: But that's the only thing I can think of. I
Speaker 1: think that this is just a matter of this entire
Speaker 1: system is just not working right now. And I'm I
Speaker 1: can't tell you how much I went from loving Sonos
Speaker 1: to actually hating them, Like I physically can't stand having
Speaker 1: it in my house anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm so invested in it.
Speaker 1: I've got speakers in every one in my house, in
Speaker 1: every one of my rooms, and I just can't even
Speaker 1: use them like I now have resorted to using like
Speaker 1: my phone, my laptop, my uh you know, I'll just
Speaker 1: use like the Google Home speaker. Not as good as
Speaker 1: the soos. But Richard, I feel your pain. I hope
Speaker 1: that we get a fix here very very soon. Anyway,
Speaker 1: thanks for calling from New Jersey today. Appreciate it. It was
Speaker 1: just there, well in New York. I landed in New
Speaker 1: York though, that counts all right. Coming up, we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell you about the Jubilee TV. This is a new
Speaker 1: set top box design with senior citizens in mind. This
Speaker 1: is rich On Tech.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. We'll get back
Speaker 1: to the phone lines in just a moment, but first
Speaker 1: I'm in Hollywood. Joining me now is CEO and co
Speaker 1: founder of Jubilee TV, A sheish Auger Wall.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining me, Rich, glad to be here.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about what is Jubilee TV.
Speaker 8: Uh Doubi TV is a product that allows families to
Speaker 8: remotely take care and connect with their seniors aging in
Speaker 8: their own home through the device that seniors are most
Speaker 8: familiar with, which is the TV. For seniors, it simplifies
Speaker 8: the TV experience and for families, it allows them to
Speaker 8: use an app that they can see what's on the TV,
Speaker 8: be their tech support, fix anything on the TV, put
Speaker 8: content live stream from their phone, do video calls, and
Speaker 8: even keep a watchful eye on their TV watching habits
Speaker 8: and movement for an extra piece of mind.
Speaker 1: So from what I've seen here, it's basically a box
Speaker 1: kind of like a streaming set top box, but this
Speaker 1: does not actually have streaming capabilities built in.
Speaker 2: You connect your inputs to this box.
Speaker 1: So think about a set top box that has a
Speaker 1: camera on it. It's got some inputs on the back,
Speaker 1: it's got an output and all this stuff kind of
Speaker 1: comes into the box.
Speaker 2: It displays on the TV.
Speaker 1: But the genius part here is that you, as a
Speaker 1: caregiver or a loved one, can.
Speaker 2: Actually not only see what's on their.
Speaker 1: TV screen remotely from your phone, you can also control
Speaker 1: pretty much everything from turning the TV on to the volume,
Speaker 1: changing the channel, and it's all highly personalized. What was
Speaker 1: sort of the reason you came.
Speaker 8: Up with this, Yeah, Rich, Jubilee TV is a very
Speaker 8: personal endeavor for me. I was always a TV guy.
Speaker 8: You know that Apple Harmon made a lot of TV products.
Speaker 8: But during COVID, I felt really disconnected with my parents
Speaker 8: and my in laws, and my thought kept on coming
Speaker 8: back to TV. Why isn't there a device that connects
Speaker 8: my safe place which is the phone, to their safe place,
Speaker 8: which is the TV.
Speaker 9: That was the birth of Jubilee TV.
Speaker 8: And then we went really deep, like we have over
Speaker 8: seventy patterns, We really really you know this product guys
Speaker 8: who want to make product really amazing, and we bridge
Speaker 8: that gap.
Speaker 1: And so you've got this this app for the I
Speaker 1: call the caregiver a loved one's phone where lets you
Speaker 1: not only see what's on their TV screen, but also
Speaker 1: control it has that ever been done before?
Speaker 8: And no, it hasn't been done before, and I think
Speaker 8: it will be a while before somebody else manages to
Speaker 8: capture this because there's so many devices, so many different setups,
Speaker 8: so many different types of TVs. We can go back
Speaker 8: to any TV you want, any device and connect it
Speaker 8: and control it, and there are various control protocols.
Speaker 9: How do you master all of that?
Speaker 8: It took us years after which now we've come to
Speaker 8: a point where it's a very simple app. And somebody
Speaker 8: mentioned simplicity is the key. A very simple big button
Speaker 8: interface for seniors and a simple app that lets you
Speaker 8: do powerful things.
Speaker 1: So the idea being that, let's say you live in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, your mother, father lives in New York, and
Speaker 1: they have a problem with their TV. You know, the
Speaker 1: input has changed, or the Roku box is not showing Netflix,
Speaker 1: it's showing Hulu, and or maybe Hulu got logged out.
Speaker 1: You were able to control and really assist them from
Speaker 1: afar not only physically change the input or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but you.
Speaker 2: Can even type in on screen if you need to.
Speaker 9: Right, yeah, you could do like somebody said, magic on this.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 8: We had one person call and said, my mom called
Speaker 8: and said, my language is Spanish on my set to
Speaker 8: the box?
Speaker 9: How do I change it?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 8: That person would have to fly four hundred miles to
Speaker 8: fix that issue. I'm pretty sure. So is that with
Speaker 8: your box we were just able to change the language
Speaker 8: back to English. So anything you can think, but not
Speaker 8: just fixing TVs. You could put shows you know that
Speaker 8: your mom would want to watch or your parents would
Speaker 8: want to watch. You can make TV really more interesting.
Speaker 8: You could also program it such that at a certain
Speaker 8: time TV turns on and plays.
Speaker 9: The content you want to watch.
Speaker 8: So there's a user whose father just wants to watch
Speaker 8: baseball a local team at the first of the month.
Speaker 8: He programs the box for the rest of the month
Speaker 8: to turn on the TV and watch your favorite show.
Speaker 9: So those moments are really really interesting, you know.
Speaker 8: And TV, now the loudest speaker, the largest becomes a
Speaker 8: very powerful connection surface and.
Speaker 2: It goes much deeper than just TV.
Speaker 1: It's also a way to connect because you have built
Speaker 1: in video calling, you have built in messaging, you have
Speaker 1: built in photo sharing and also video sharing, and like
Speaker 1: you said, the live streaming, So explain some of those
Speaker 1: features as well.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So, once we had built this, you know, as
Speaker 8: you said, very powerful interface where you could see the
Speaker 8: TV and control it. We started to extend that to connection.
Speaker 8: So the first use case was content, which is what
Speaker 8: TV is about. The next one is trying to take
Speaker 8: care of social isolation. Seniors want to age in their
Speaker 8: own home. They often feel isolated. You want to go
Speaker 8: visit them, but you can't as much as you're juggling
Speaker 8: with other responsibilities. So we build this connection layer very
Speaker 8: powerful messaging, reminders, photo sharing, video sharing, video calling that
Speaker 8: allows you to really drop in and seniors to experience
Speaker 8: those moments. So that was the second layer were built in.
Speaker 1: And then there's another layer of kind of safety and security,
Speaker 1: so you can have an activity feed of hey, we
Speaker 1: noticed that something was unusual. You get I guess the
Speaker 1: camera snapshot of things that happen in front of the
Speaker 1: camera on the device, like if someone else is in
Speaker 1: the room. I even saw on the app where it said, hey,
Speaker 1: there are currently two people standing in front of the box.
Speaker 1: So if there's only one person in that house at
Speaker 1: all times and you're like, why is there a second?
Speaker 1: This box can help you uncover those mysteries as well.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Rich, So the third layer of This is what
Speaker 8: we call activity feed.
Speaker 9: You can see patterns evolve.
Speaker 8: If you look at Apple Watch six months later, it
Speaker 8: will say hey, if you observe this pattern with you. Similarly,
Speaker 8: our box takes care of TV watching and camera and
Speaker 8: microphone patterns and analyzes them locally on the box. That
Speaker 8: allows to indicate to families if something is unusual and
Speaker 8: allows you to keep a watchful eye. And Mom didn't
Speaker 8: turn on the TV by ten am, something must be
Speaker 8: wrong because mom always turns on the TV. Mom didn't
Speaker 8: turn off the TV that night, I better watch. So
Speaker 8: all those notifications are super powerful in you trying to
Speaker 8: remotely take care of your loved one, including movement, voice
Speaker 8: in the room, the camera, all then locally, it's an
Speaker 8: extremely powerful Edji box that does this.
Speaker 1: And you also mentioned reminders. So can you have a
Speaker 1: reminder pop up on screen that says, hey, it's ten am.
Speaker 2: Time take this medicine?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 8: So reminders is yet another powerful feature. Because as I mentioned,
Speaker 8: TV is the loudest speaker and the largest screen, and
Speaker 8: we have full control over it. You can choose to
Speaker 8: set reminders and you could even force on those reminders
Speaker 8: that the senior has to acknowledge and takes a picture
Speaker 8: during that right, so you can choose what degree do
Speaker 8: you want to go into. So if mom has to
Speaker 8: take this medicine at ten am, if she misses it
Speaker 8: by twenty minutes, then she's in trouble. You better force
Speaker 8: the reminder and force that that reminder has to be
Speaker 8: dismissed and you get a notification. If that reminder wasn't dismissed,
Speaker 8: then alarm bells can go on. So it really becomes
Speaker 8: a mission critical device at that point.
Speaker 1: It feels like it mixes some other technologies that I've
Speaker 1: played with in the past, like sling box for instance,
Speaker 1: for viewing kind of like the TV screen anywhere in
Speaker 1: the world from your phone, that universal remote aspect. So
Speaker 1: tell me all those things kind of come together in
Speaker 1: this box. How tough was all of that to bring together?
Speaker 1: Because you're talking about controlling a Roku or controlling a
Speaker 1: fire TV stick, controlling different models of television.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Riich, it's it's amazing that you actually got all
Speaker 8: of this because the founding team, and I want to
Speaker 8: give a shout out to Blake Krekorian was a Slingbox
Speaker 8: co founder and two days ago was when he passed
Speaker 8: a few years ago. So and he's one of the
Speaker 8: co founders of this company.
Speaker 9: Or was right.
Speaker 8: So that's how and I made one of the first
Speaker 8: universal remote controls. So that's exactly you see all these
Speaker 8: elements coming in together that made this happen.
Speaker 9: Yes, it was really difficult. It requires a lot of expertise.
Speaker 8: We have over I think now seventy patents on this
Speaker 8: seven years in working.
Speaker 9: Nobody else could do this.
Speaker 8: Everybody thought this is at least four other startups I
Speaker 8: know started tried to do this, failed, gave up and
Speaker 8: never released a product. And so it is really an
Speaker 8: act of love. We are all engineers at heart. You
Speaker 8: want to create great products, great experiences and make an
Speaker 8: impact in this world.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the box is two hundred dollars. Where you
Speaker 1: going to be able to get it? And there is
Speaker 1: a monthly fee, So explain what that is and what
Speaker 1: the value is for that what people get for that fee.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so you buy the box, it's two hundred dollars.
Speaker 8: You can get it on our own site, get Jubilee
Speaker 8: tv dot com, or you can buy it on Amazon
Speaker 8: or best Buy. And then a membership fee is twenty
Speaker 8: nine dollars a month or two sixty nine dollars a year.
Speaker 8: You get sixty days of free trial, so absolutely we
Speaker 8: want you to love it. If you don't love it,
Speaker 8: please return it back to us. It's a product of love.
Speaker 2: Ashiesh Agarwall. Thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 9: Thank you, Rich The pressure is all mine.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The product once again is Jubilee TV. I'll put a
Speaker 1: link to it on my website, rich on tech dot TV.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Mary in San Diego. Mary, you're on
Speaker 2: with Rich. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 12: Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 13: I love your show.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 12: Quick question. I have an iPhone and as somebody mentioned
Speaker 12: that I should have a VPN on my iPhone. Is
Speaker 12: that possible or that's only for the computer? Uh?
Speaker 1: No, you can absolutely have a VPN on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: So it works. Uh, you know, you download the app
Speaker 1: and you basically install it, sign up for a plan,
Speaker 1: and it will it will install and work just like.
Speaker 2: You know, anything else on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit different because it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: built into the settings on the iPhone.
Speaker 2: But you can absolutely have a VPN on the iPhone.
Speaker 1: So things to look for in a VPN, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it depends what you're using it for. But most of
Speaker 1: the experts I speak with say, you want one that
Speaker 1: has a no log policy, doesn't store or sell your
Speaker 1: browsing data independent audit results. So on their website it
Speaker 1: will say, hey, here's how we handle our data. Here's
Speaker 1: someone else that checked it. Out and we check out
Speaker 1: WireGuard protocol. That is a little bit faster of a connection.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds like a funny term, but that's
Speaker 1: something to look for on the website. Make sure it
Speaker 1: works across all your devices. So I know you're talking
Speaker 1: about an iPhone, but you know, see if it works
Speaker 1: on desktop computers as well. Bandwidth is obviously a consideration.
Speaker 1: You want to have unlimited ideally because you want to
Speaker 1: be able to use this as much as you want.
Speaker 1: These things typically cost around five to ten dollars a month.
Speaker 1: There are some free VPNs out there. The one that
Speaker 1: I would recommend if you're looking for a free one
Speaker 1: is Proton pro O t O N and they they
Speaker 1: have a free level of their VPN and it's I
Speaker 1: think it's a little bit limited. You can use it
Speaker 1: on one device, but that is one that you know
Speaker 1: people do trust for the free level of support.
Speaker 2: Does that help?
Speaker 12: Is there another one that you recommend besides Proton one?
Speaker 1: Now, so the the ones that have been recommended in
Speaker 1: the past by experts on this show over and over.
Speaker 1: There's one called IVPN so IVPN, and then MOLEVAD m
Speaker 1: U L l V A D. But you know, there's
Speaker 1: there's many VPNs out there. There's a lot of good ones.
Speaker 1: I think it's a matter of just looking for one
Speaker 1: that fits the pricing that you want and the features
Speaker 1: that you want. So, for instance, this molevad is basically
Speaker 1: five dollars a month forever. Some of them try to
Speaker 1: get you to pay more upfront and you know, maybe
Speaker 1: get you to prepay for like three five years or sorry,
Speaker 1: like three years at once or a year in advance.
Speaker 1: So it just depends on you know, what you want,
Speaker 1: what you're comfortable with, and you know, there you go.
Speaker 12: Okay, I have With that being said, how can I
Speaker 12: find out if somebody had had my iPhone or they
Speaker 12: have access to my iPhone?
Speaker 1: They don't, that's the short answer. Ninety nine per unless
Speaker 1: the person is you know, FBI Special Operations, they do
Speaker 1: not have access to your iPhone. People think that that
Speaker 1: people get access to the iPhone. It's really tough, especially
Speaker 1: remote access. It's just it's nearly impossible. I mean even
Speaker 1: for law enforcement trying to get into people's phones if
Speaker 1: they don't have the code, it is really really tricky.
Speaker 1: The phones are encrypted unless they have you your password
Speaker 1: or you know your login information.
Speaker 2: Or your past code. It's really really tough.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: I'd be more concerned about Instagram listening to your conversations
Speaker 1: because I do see that happen on a daily basis,
Speaker 1: where you mentioned something to a friend and next thing
Speaker 1: you know it is there's an AD on your phone
Speaker 1: for it. So, but Mary, if you're concerned about anything
Speaker 1: like that and you want to be more private on
Speaker 1: your phone, a VPN is fine.
Speaker 2: I think that it depends what you're doing.
Speaker 1: But ninety nine point nine percent of the time, unless
Speaker 1: you're really trying to cover your tracks, there's probably no
Speaker 1: need for a VPN. If you're in a public place,
Speaker 1: you're doing sensitive stuff like checking your email on a
Speaker 1: public network or checking your you know, your banking account,
Speaker 1: stuff like that, you might want to use a VPN.
Speaker 1: But my typical recommendation is that if you're doing anything
Speaker 1: super private on your computer, do it on a cellular
Speaker 1: connection versus a public Wi Fi hotspot connection. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Gary in San Antonio, Texas. Gary, you're on with rich.
Speaker 14: Ty Right, Hi, I got a I got rid of
Speaker 14: my I've one six, got a fifteen plus bro and
Speaker 14: this thing runs hot. I mean, it won't even charge
Speaker 14: all the past eighty percent unless you put it in
Speaker 14: a cool spot, and whether it's sit you know, I was,
Speaker 14: so even getting a charge to one hundred percent, it
Speaker 14: is hard to do. And I'm wondering why it's running
Speaker 14: so hot.
Speaker 1: Well, where where are you charging it? Like, are you
Speaker 1: charging it on the dashboard in your car or is
Speaker 1: this at home plugged in?
Speaker 11: At home plugged in?
Speaker 2: And what charger are you using?
Speaker 1: Using the one that came with it, or using a
Speaker 1: like a third party like when you got like a
Speaker 1: convenience store.
Speaker 14: What No, I didn't get a charger with it, but
Speaker 14: we bought a set of chargers that they're quick chargers, okay.
Speaker 2: And are they high quality?
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, far as I know.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, so when the iPhone fifteen Pro first came out, yes,
Speaker 1: it did run hot and there were some issues, but
Speaker 1: that was fixed within the first couple of months. And
Speaker 1: so you should not be having this phone run hot.
Speaker 1: Now I get it. It is the summer. I had
Speaker 1: my phone in the car charging wirelessly, and yes, it
Speaker 1: does heat up, you know, to a certain extent, depending
Speaker 1: on the weather and the temperature and things like that.
Speaker 1: And you also want to make sure that you're charging
Speaker 1: your phone on a table, not on a bed, not
Speaker 1: on anything that's fabric. You know, you want this phone
Speaker 1: to be able to bathe a little bit, because when
Speaker 1: you do charge a device, it's it's going to pick
Speaker 1: up some heat. Now, a lot of that heat is
Speaker 1: typically dissipated by the plug on the wall versus the phone.
Speaker 1: You know, the phones managed kind of that system. So
Speaker 1: if you're using a charger that's really cheap or something
Speaker 1: that's you know, you know, something that's third party that's
Speaker 1: not very good, it could run hotter and it could
Speaker 1: just not be managing the heat properly.
Speaker 14: So yeah, the sense I bought was Nanima.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I haven't heard of that one, so I
Speaker 1: mean that could be a problem. Is this happening with
Speaker 1: every phone that you charge on this charger or just
Speaker 1: this one?
Speaker 14: I like charge to one and uh, that's the only
Speaker 14: thing I run an iHeart radio like going for seven?
Speaker 1: Okay, are you running something while you're charging it? Are
Speaker 1: you are you running something on the phone? Are you
Speaker 1: streaming it twenty four to seven while you're charging it?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 14: I might have I art running overdoing blue dude.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, I love that you're listening to iHeart all day.
Speaker 2: That's that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, but I think that could be part
Speaker 1: of it. So, you know, phones they do have you know,
Speaker 1: the management in them for heat management, and they have
Speaker 1: gotten better over the years and they do. But if
Speaker 1: you're running something twenty four to seven on it, no
Speaker 1: matter what it is, the phone's going to heat up,
Speaker 1: and so it shouldn't be it shouldn't be hot to
Speaker 1: the touch where it's like unusable. But a small level
Speaker 1: of heat on the phone if you're if you're running
Speaker 1: something on it, if the screen's on all day, if
Speaker 1: you're charging it all day, that definitely is a possibility.
Speaker 1: I personally, if this phone is new, would take it
Speaker 1: to the Apple store just to have them do a
Speaker 1: check up on it. They could run some diagnostics, make
Speaker 1: sure that it's all on the up and up, especially
Speaker 1: while you're in that warranty period.
Speaker 2: Gary, thanks for listening.
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling in from San Antonio eighty eight rich
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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at
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Speaker 1: you reclaim some of your time and purpose in this
Speaker 1: digital world.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, I'm reading a book right now.
Speaker 2: Let's see. It's called The Anxious Generation.
Speaker 1: And I'm a little late on this, but man, I
Speaker 1: want to throw all my tech out the window for
Speaker 1: my kids. It's just all about how kids are inundated
Speaker 1: with technology and they can't stop. You know, their little
Speaker 1: brains are just not programmed to figure out how to
Speaker 1: stop scrolling on Instagram, or how to stop playing video games,
Speaker 1: or how to stop visiting you know, those websites on
Speaker 1: the web. You know what I'm talking about. So really
Speaker 1: eye opening. I'm only halfway through, but I can't. I'm
Speaker 1: like hanging on every word of this book. And I
Speaker 1: tell my kids when I get home, like go outside,
Speaker 1: play with worms like I used to do. Just go
Speaker 1: just get dirt, just go go do something dangerous.
Speaker 2: I don't even care.
Speaker 1: Just go like we did dangerous stuff as kids, Like
Speaker 1: you know, I used to climb fences like you, bobo,
Speaker 1: do you know how to hop a fence?
Speaker 2: Like when I was a kid, it was so dangerous.
Speaker 1: You'd hop a fence and your fear was like getting
Speaker 1: caught on the top or getting your foot caught and falling.
Speaker 2: Do you know how to hop a fence? I got
Speaker 2: your beat.
Speaker 1: I jumped a roof so, oh okay, I have notts
Speaker 1: one that's I don't like heights, so I would not
Speaker 1: be up I went out a roof like once. My dad,
Speaker 1: you know, he runs a roofing company, so he's always
Speaker 1: on roofs. He brought me up once, so I'm just like, nope,
Speaker 1: never mind, don't need to be up here. We had
Speaker 1: back in the day.
Speaker 15: We didn't have video games like online games, so we
Speaker 15: took bikes and went around the neighborhood. It was a
Speaker 15: school by my grandmother's house, and we found it way
Speaker 15: on a roof.
Speaker 2: It was like, y'all, let's jump.
Speaker 15: Okay, what's your jump to from the top of a
Speaker 15: one floor building to the grass?
Speaker 2: Oh wow?
Speaker 15: Yeah, just to see who was all chicken? Yeah it
Speaker 15: was just a chicken chat. Now I look at it
Speaker 15: like I was stupid, but yeah, so fun in a moment,
Speaker 15: but it makes you who you are.
Speaker 1: It makes it makes you who you are nowadays. This
Speaker 1: the thesis of this book, as I'm understanding, is that
Speaker 1: kids don't take any chances because it's all virtual and
Speaker 1: there's no chance. In the virtual world you can do
Speaker 1: whatever you want. You just get another life, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But in real world, if you hop
Speaker 1: that fence or jump that roof and you got hurt,
Speaker 1: you're never gonna do it again.
Speaker 2: You probably never did it again anyway. I never jumped
Speaker 2: off the other roofs. You don't need to.
Speaker 1: He did it once anyway. I'm not saying to jump
Speaker 1: off roofs. Please do not do that anyway. So, uh yeah,
Speaker 1: one of the things, and I'll get to the calls
Speaker 1: in just a moment here.
Speaker 2: One of the things that I was trying to find.
Speaker 1: You know, I travel a lot, and I'm always trying
Speaker 1: to find, like the best restaurant that's close to where
Speaker 1: I'm staying. And so I was going to New York
Speaker 1: City and I wanted a restaurant to meet my family
Speaker 1: at who's from New Jersey, and so there's got to
Speaker 1: be a way, you know.
Speaker 2: I used to use YELP. I don't really use yelp
Speaker 2: much anymore.
Speaker 1: But so I was like, Okay, let me figure out
Speaker 1: a way to find like a good restaurant that's close
Speaker 1: to my hotel. So here's what I figured out. Number one,
Speaker 1: you got to go to Google Maps on the desktop.
Speaker 1: This doesn't work as well on the phone, but if
Speaker 1: you go to Google Maps on the desktop, you search
Speaker 1: for where you're staying, so whether that's a hotel, someone's house, whatever,
Speaker 1: and then once you search for that and that pops up,
Speaker 1: you get these things up at the top says nearby hotels.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you need another hotel if you're
Speaker 1: staying at a nearby If you're staying at a hotel, restaurants,
Speaker 1: things to do, bars, coffee, whatever, you tap restaurants and
Speaker 1: that will bring up all the restaurants that are within
Speaker 1: a fifteen minute walking distance of your hotel. And then
Speaker 1: you can go through and further refine so you can
Speaker 1: do the price. You could do one dollar, sign up
Speaker 1: to four. You can do rating, which I would do
Speaker 1: four point five, just to make sure you're getting a
Speaker 1: good place. Cuisine you can choose, you know, for me,
Speaker 1: I wanted something that was Italian, so I just chose
Speaker 1: Italian hours. You want to make sure that it's open,
Speaker 1: you know, during lunch or dinner, whatever you're doing.
Speaker 2: And then you.
Speaker 1: Can sort by you know, you can see all the
Speaker 1: places that are within walking distance to your hotel.
Speaker 2: And it was great.
Speaker 1: So I ended up choosing a restaurant that was like
Speaker 1: literally six hundred feet from my hotel. We went there,
Speaker 1: we had a great time. I'll say the food wasn't
Speaker 1: like the best in the whole world.
Speaker 2: It was fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm very picky about Italian food, but it
Speaker 1: was great. And so now I have my new way.
Speaker 1: Now I do I said, I don't use Yelp, but
Speaker 1: I will cross reference the restaurant on Yelp just to
Speaker 1: be sure that's not getting like two stars or something
Speaker 1: like that. So anyway, try it out. That's my new
Speaker 1: method for finding a restaurant. Let's go to Richard in Menafee, California.
Speaker 2: Richard, you're on with rich.
Speaker 6: Oh rich How you doing good?
Speaker 1: We had lots of rich lots of Richards on this show. Today,
Speaker 1: you're the third Richard on this show. What can I
Speaker 1: help you with?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I need to replace my older LGV sixty phone
Speaker 11: having charging issues with it, and I'm with Verizon and
Speaker 11: they sent me a couple of offers in the last week.
Speaker 11: One was for the Pixel pro XL for three dollars
Speaker 11: and thirty three cents a month. It's like one thousand
Speaker 11: dollars off.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And the other one is for the Samsung S twenty
Speaker 11: four Ultra, which they'll do that one for me for
Speaker 11: seventeen dollars a month. I'm gonna stay with Brydon, so
Speaker 11: I don't care about the payments. So I wanted to
Speaker 11: get your opinion on which would be the better phone.
Speaker 1: So you're talking the new Pixel nine XL, is that right?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh wow?
Speaker 1: These are two These are two of the best phones
Speaker 1: available right now, so and I have lots of thoughts
Speaker 1: on them. So, but my question is what do you
Speaker 1: want out of your phone? Because I have my thoughts
Speaker 1: on which one is better for like the use case.
Speaker 1: Are you like a extreme photographer? Are you just looking
Speaker 1: for the best battery life? Do you want the best software?
Speaker 1: What do you want out of your phone?
Speaker 11: I was into photography for a while, but that seems
Speaker 11: to have dropped off a little bit because that's I
Speaker 11: wanted the S twenty four. The last year for the Zoom,
Speaker 11: but I'm finding out I really don't you a zoom
Speaker 11: that much anymore.
Speaker 1: And the Pixel the nine pros has a five x
Speaker 1: zoom and you can go up to thirty with the
Speaker 1: with their super rezume, so it works really well. Here's
Speaker 1: my thoughts. So I think that the Pixel nine pro
Speaker 1: xcel is a great phone. I think for that three
Speaker 1: dollars a month that you're talking to me, that seems
Speaker 1: like a better value, even though it's not a lot.
Speaker 1: You're only talking fourteen dollars, you know, over time. But
Speaker 1: still I think that the Pixel is the better software
Speaker 1: to me. But I think that the Samsung S twenty
Speaker 1: four Ultra is probably overall the best Android phone out
Speaker 1: there right now because it has it's a powerhouse, you know,
Speaker 1: it's got the best processor, it's got the best screen,
Speaker 1: it's got an excellent camera. I think that I prefer
Speaker 1: the Pixel a little bit more in different ways, but
Speaker 1: it's not as good overall. I think the S twenty
Speaker 1: four Ultra is, like, you know, a better phone like specx. Wise, now,
Speaker 1: I think that the Pixel is litle bit easier to
Speaker 1: hold in your hand. It's a little bit smoother, a
Speaker 1: little bit rounder edges. But you know, and I do
Speaker 1: think I do prefer the Pixel software over the S
Speaker 1: twenty four Ultra software. But I think that these are
Speaker 1: two incredible devices.
Speaker 11: I tend to keep my phone for a pretty long time,
Speaker 11: so I'm thinking about the software updates for the for
Speaker 11: both of the phones, which one will have to because
Speaker 11: wonder them lasts like seven years of updates. Yeah that's
Speaker 11: the Pixel phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Pixel is getting seven years of updates, but
Speaker 1: I believe the S twenty four is also getting uh,
Speaker 1: if not seven, it's getting pretty close to that. It's
Speaker 1: been a it's been a while since I did this.
Speaker 1: This was in January, but yes, S twenty four is
Speaker 1: going to have seven years of updates as well. So
Speaker 1: you know, if I had to choose, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think the battery life is excellent on the Pixel this year.
Speaker 1: I think that the and I've used both of these
Speaker 1: phones extensively, so I mean, I could.
Speaker 2: It's tough.
Speaker 1: It really comes down to like a preference of do
Speaker 1: you like the Pixel software or do you like this
Speaker 1: Amsung software.
Speaker 2: I think that you've.
Speaker 11: Never had the Pixel, so I don't know. My daughter
Speaker 11: has one and she loves the play Well.
Speaker 2: Maybe try the Pixel.
Speaker 1: I mean, just see if you I think that the
Speaker 1: software on the Pixel to me feels very very smart,
Speaker 1: you're also now here's something that might push you over
Speaker 1: the edge. The Pixel is also going to give you
Speaker 1: two terabytes of online storage for a year for free,
Speaker 1: plus their access to their Advanced AI Gemini their Best
Speaker 1: Gemini AI for free for a year, which is a
Speaker 1: twenty dollars a month value.
Speaker 11: That's one thing I'm thinking about exploring is some of
Speaker 11: the stuff that AI has to offer. I haven't done
Speaker 11: it yet, but I'm starting to get tempted to the
Speaker 11: point where I'm going to jump in.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, these are two of the best, and I
Speaker 1: really it's it's just tough. If you want to try
Speaker 1: the Pixel and you want to try that Google software,
Speaker 1: it does have something a little bit special to it
Speaker 1: because it does feel very like advanced. I always call
Speaker 1: the Pixel the smartest smartphone out there, So you know,
Speaker 1: maybe give that one since it is cheaper. I'm surprised
Speaker 1: it's cheaper than the Samsung, but maybe just give that
Speaker 1: a chance and see what you think about it. But
Speaker 1: if your daughter has one, it's also kind of nice
Speaker 1: because if you have any questions you can ask her, hey,
Speaker 1: how do.
Speaker 2: You do this?
Speaker 11: Thanks brother?
Speaker 1: So, yeah, Richard, I think you're gonna be happy with
Speaker 1: either of these devices. They are both really really good phones,
Speaker 1: So thanks for the question. Speaking of smartphones, a new
Speaker 1: bug in the iPhone causes it to crash immediately. This
Speaker 1: is wild. Do not do this at home. I've done this.
Speaker 1: You can look at the video on my Instagram if
Speaker 1: you want to see what happens. But don't do this
Speaker 1: because even though it's not a security issue, and even
Speaker 1: though it doesn't seem to have any lasting repercussions on
Speaker 1: your phone, I would still not do this. But if
Speaker 1: you type, if you go into the app library and
Speaker 1: you type quotation mark quotation mark colon colon, your device
Speaker 1: crashes immediately. Now it's not a full crash, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't like restart your entire phone, but it restarts what's
Speaker 1: called the springboard, and that's basically their equivalent of the
Speaker 1: launcher on the iPhone. So you can type into the
Speaker 1: app library those four little characters, and yes, you will
Speaker 1: crash your phone. Don't do it. It's probably not worth it.
Speaker 1: I do it on my phone because I do it
Speaker 1: in your name. I do it to figure these things
Speaker 1: out and just to see how this stuff happens. Doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like there's any long term effects by doing this.
Speaker 1: But yes, there will be a software update from Apple
Speaker 1: to make sure that this is fixed, and that will
Speaker 1: probably come any day now, because we don't want crashing
Speaker 1: phones just by typing stuff in. How they figure this out?
Speaker 1: Someone just typed a whole bunch of random stuff into
Speaker 1: the phone and figured it out. I guess eighty eight
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Speaker 1: when you just share like useful stuff, like they're like, oh, wow,
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well I do and.
Speaker 1: Every week been doing it for what is this episode
Speaker 1: number eighty six. We've done this eighty six times minus
Speaker 1: some of the days we've had some reruns. So but
Speaker 1: you know, you still get good information unless you listened
Speaker 1: since day one to every single show. Even if you
Speaker 1: heard a rerun, which doesn't happen very often, you'd still
Speaker 1: get good information like this. Another data security incident. Flight Aware,
Speaker 1: an app that I have recommended on this show, says
Speaker 1: they had a data security incident and you'll have to
Speaker 1: reset your password. There was a configuration error on July
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, twenty twenty four, might have exposed users personal information.
Speaker 1: This includes your user ID, password, email address, and other
Speaker 1: account details. All potentially impacted users are required to reset
Speaker 1: their passwords, so the next time you try to log in,
Speaker 1: you'll have to reset your password. But here's the takeaway
Speaker 1: from this is again you cannot use the same password
Speaker 1: for different websites. So something like this website flight Aware,
Speaker 1: you're like, okay, cool, I'll log in with this easy
Speaker 1: password because nobody cares about flight Aware. The problem is
Speaker 1: you might use that password on another website that someone
Speaker 1: does care about. So please use a strong password for
Speaker 1: every website that you go to that you sign up for.
Speaker 1: I know it takes a lot of work. I know
Speaker 1: it takes a little bit more effort, but it will
Speaker 1: pay off in the end because I can tell you
Speaker 1: there are websites where you can go to and I
Speaker 1: can see a list of all of your websites that
Speaker 1: all of your passwords that have been hacked, just right
Speaker 1: on the open web. And so you can see that.
Speaker 1: And if someone, if a hacker gets a hold of that,
Speaker 1: they'll take that password and they will try it in
Speaker 1: a different website. They'll try it in all the popular
Speaker 1: websites until they figure out one that you've reused it
Speaker 1: on and they'll hack you.
Speaker 2: Happens every single day, Believe me. I get the emails.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Joel and riverside. Joel, welcome to the show.
Speaker 16: Hey, how are you doing, Rich?
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. What can I help you?
Speaker 13: Cool?
Speaker 16: I was notified earlier in the year about Google domains
Speaker 16: moving over or migrating to a square space, so the
Speaker 16: web that I did have is no longer. I finally
Speaker 16: got my square space information email about a month or
Speaker 16: two ago. Can I really use AI to try and
Speaker 16: build me a website?
Speaker 2: Absolutely across my feet? Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 1: I mean my kid was building a video game this
Speaker 1: morning with AI. I mean this stuff it's wild. Now
Speaker 1: here's the thing. What what kind of website are we
Speaker 1: talking about? Like, is this like a small business.
Speaker 16: Real basic for yeah, small you know organic micro farm.
Speaker 16: You know it's a little organic farm on two acres.
Speaker 16: Oh wow, And yeah, so you know, I just want
Speaker 16: to to show everyone in regener it is sustainable practices.
Speaker 16: You know, let people know when they could come get
Speaker 16: the fruit. But the main thing is teaching people how
Speaker 16: to grow their own you know, fruit and vegetables without
Speaker 16: any pesticides or herbicides.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's a great That's so what
Speaker 1: I think is is what AI is going to be
Speaker 1: useful for in that aspect is is helping you like
Speaker 1: what you kind of say what you want into the
Speaker 1: AI and it will clean up your text. So if
Speaker 1: you say, like let's say you're doing blog posts about
Speaker 1: this on your website, you can kind of use voice
Speaker 1: to text on your phone and just say like, okay,
Speaker 1: first things first, you don't want to use pesticides, so
Speaker 1: you want to use you know, you want to use
Speaker 1: good organic soil.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is like you just spout
Speaker 1: out all the steps for like step one, step two,
Speaker 1: step three, and then AI will take what you said,
Speaker 1: and you could just say you can pop it into
Speaker 1: AI and say clean this up, and now it will
Speaker 1: say or you can say turn this into a more
Speaker 1: elaborate blog post about this topic, and it will take
Speaker 1: what you said, but it will kind of upon that.
Speaker 1: And now you're the person that's the experts, so you're
Speaker 1: going to read it over obviously before you copy and
Speaker 1: paste it onto your website. But it's basically your knowledge
Speaker 1: just kind of cleaned up and put in a way
Speaker 1: that people can understand, and you didn't have to do
Speaker 1: a ton of work to get that to the website.
Speaker 1: So I think that's one way of using it now
Speaker 1: to actually lay out your website. If you're using Squarespace,
Speaker 1: you can use AI. I'm looking at their tools right now.
Speaker 1: They've got a whole blog post on how to build
Speaker 1: their website with AI tools, so they do have them
Speaker 1: built in as well. But again, I think you're going
Speaker 1: to find that you can do a lot with AI
Speaker 1: to make this process a lot easier, a lot simpler,
Speaker 1: and your website's just going to look better and it's
Speaker 1: going to have more information on it, and you're the
Speaker 1: person that's kind of starting that information, but AI is
Speaker 1: just expanding upon all of that.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 16: Okay? So square Space is almost how Google Domains was,
Speaker 16: and I could just go in through there and do everything.
Speaker 16: I don't have to find like a hosting website or anything.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, they do it all. They'll they'll handle
Speaker 1: it all. So once you're transferred over there, they will
Speaker 1: they will handle the hosting and the you know, the
Speaker 1: actual website. You'll have the domain obviously, and then they
Speaker 1: have this thing called Squarespace Blueprint AI that will help
Speaker 1: you create your custom website with your pages, the colors
Speaker 1: you want, the copy you want, and then you can
Speaker 1: even use you know, chat ebt to help write this
Speaker 1: stuff that's coming up on your website or I like
Speaker 1: Claude much better.
Speaker 2: But those are the kind of things that you can do.
Speaker 1: And I think that you're gonna find whenever you built
Speaker 1: this website last, you know, the first time you did it,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a whole lot easier this time
Speaker 1: around because everything is just advanced to a place where
Speaker 1: it's going to take a lot less work to make
Speaker 1: this stuff look a lot prettier, So Joel.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the question today.
Speaker 1: Eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. Coming up, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about some strategies for reclaiming your time
Speaker 1: and purpose in the digital age. That's coming up next
Speaker 1: right here on Rich on Tech on tech, Rich demro
Speaker 1: Oh here hanging out with you, talking technology. The phone
Speaker 1: number is eight eight eight rich one O one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Joining me now, Julio Vincent Gambudo, author of Please Unsubscribe.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: The paperback is Barnes and Noble Pick of the Month,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to talk about this because it seems
Speaker 1: like we are overwhelmed in our digital lives, so I
Speaker 1: want some good information on how to fix that.
Speaker 2: Julia, welcome to the show. Thanks rage, thanks for having me.
Speaker 13: So what made you write this book? You know, it
Speaker 13: kind of all happened. It started during the pandemic. I
Speaker 13: just felt like completely overwhelmed and felt like my life
Speaker 13: had been on autopilot for a long time.
Speaker 7: I was running and running and running all.
Speaker 2: The time, and uh, you know, tech was kind of
Speaker 2: supposed to help, right.
Speaker 13: That was the sexy Seal when we all bought in
Speaker 13: and and I kind of found that it was just
Speaker 13: overwhelming me. So I took the opportunity during the pandemic
Speaker 13: and in the year that's followed to kind of come
Speaker 13: off of as much as I could, so I could
Speaker 13: really determine what was useful and valuable and what wasn't anymore.
Speaker 1: Now, when you say unsubscribe, I mean it sounds like
Speaker 1: you're referring to something like email, But is that just
Speaker 1: a bigger term for like everything online, like you know, Instagram, feed,
Speaker 1: all this stuff that just kind of takes up all
Speaker 1: of our time. Yeah, you know that's the That's the email,
Speaker 1: and the inbox is really the first place that it starts.
Speaker 1: But when I use the word, I really mean it
Speaker 1: at a bunch of different levels, you know.
Speaker 7: I mean it at the surface.
Speaker 13: Level, all the digital nonsense that were sort of consumed
Speaker 13: by all the time. I mean it at a social level,
Speaker 13: right like social media and kind of the people that
Speaker 13: are that are always popping up and sort of demanding attention,
Speaker 13: whether or not those are the people you really want
Speaker 13: to be spending time with. And I mean it at
Speaker 13: a deeper level, which is really kind of just the
Speaker 13: the underlying ideas and notions that we have about who
Speaker 13: we are in the world. Those are subscriptions too. Those
Speaker 13: are things that we're committed to. They are ideas that
Speaker 13: we're committed to. So my writing and my work is
Speaker 13: kind of about those three levels of subscription. What's your background.
Speaker 13: I'm a movie maker. I went to film school. I'm
Speaker 13: an English major. I'm a humanist at heart, right, and
Speaker 13: I spend most of my time making film and TV.
Speaker 13: And so a lot of what the book is is
Speaker 13: is social science. It's certainly opinion, it's some memoir, and
Speaker 13: it's really a mix of all of that.
Speaker 1: Okay, so where do people start? I mean, do you
Speaker 1: start with the email? Because I okay, so I kind
Speaker 1: of do this thing where I'm not spying on people,
Speaker 1: but I kind of like to watch how people use
Speaker 1: their phone in public, Like I'll kind of see like
Speaker 1: what's on their screen, right, And I noticed when people
Speaker 1: scroll through their inbox, it's filled with garbage. I mean
Speaker 1: I'm talking like all like the emails from every place
Speaker 1: you've ever shopped at in your entire life. Right, And
Speaker 1: then they go to Facebook and they go to you know,
Speaker 1: they hop around people just hop around on their phones
Speaker 1: to all these different things and scroll and it just
Speaker 1: by the time you do it, it's like you've just wasted,
Speaker 1: you know, another five to seven minutes of your life.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and those five or seven minutes are not coming back,
Speaker 13: and there are five or seven minutes you're gonna spend
Speaker 13: in an hour from now, and then twice tomorrow and
Speaker 13: three times the next day.
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, the inbox is really important, right.
Speaker 13: The inbox is sort of your mind, and to get
Speaker 13: control over it, you've really got to.
Speaker 7: Be mindful about it and be intentional about it.
Speaker 13: You know, it's a joke at this point that there
Speaker 13: are two types of people in the world, right, people
Speaker 13: who have got zero emails from people who have got
Speaker 13: thirty three thousand. But you know, getting control over that
Speaker 13: and sort of separating yourself and your day to day
Speaker 13: information intake from the barrage of emails and subscription reminders
Speaker 13: and notifications.
Speaker 2: Is really really key.
Speaker 13: So you know, yes, obvious, it's it's obvious here, but
Speaker 13: starting in the inbox is really important. But more important
Speaker 13: than that, I think, is asking two questions, right, asking
Speaker 13: how can I slow this down? And where can I
Speaker 13: put Li's back in. You know, we all write these
Speaker 13: books to give strategies that are practical for readers, and
Speaker 13: I certainly want readers to walk.
Speaker 7: Away with practical strategies.
Speaker 13: But I think if you take a step back, the
Speaker 13: questions to be answered or asking, are you know, how
Speaker 13: do I slow this down? And where do I put
Speaker 13: limits back in? And those are questions that everyone can ask.
Speaker 13: If you're a busy mom, if you're a busy professional,
Speaker 13: if you're.
Speaker 7: Dealing with work nonsense.
Speaker 13: You know that's those have been the two major movements
Speaker 13: in the last ten years. For sure, speed it up
Speaker 13: and remove limits. So how do we put those back in?
Speaker 13: Are important questions to ask.
Speaker 1: So when you know, when you talked about this book,
Speaker 1: when you you kind of did your research for this book,
Speaker 1: and I just talked about, you know, the idea that
Speaker 1: people just scroll, did you find anything concerning any trends
Speaker 1: that you're that you see in your life that you
Speaker 1: kind of you know, made you want to write this
Speaker 1: as well?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 13: You know, for me, well, the most alarming trend in
Speaker 13: the research actually is that eighty four percent of Americans
Speaker 13: overestimate or excuse me, underestimate how much they're paying in
Speaker 13: subscription fees every month, and they underestimate that by about
Speaker 13: one hundred or two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: So if you put that over a year.
Speaker 7: That's about, you know, fifteen hundred two thousand dollars.
Speaker 13: Put that over three hundred million people in the American economy,
Speaker 13: and that's a lot of money that we are sending
Speaker 13: kind of straight up the ladder without really thinking about
Speaker 13: it or being conscious about it. And that was what
Speaker 13: was key for me, was, you know, how can I
Speaker 13: get conscious about the money I'm spending. The pandemics certainly
Speaker 13: the ripped the rugout from under me personally and from
Speaker 13: a lot of people, a lot of small business owners,
Speaker 13: a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of folks who work
Speaker 13: for themselves. And obviously that was four years ago, and
Speaker 13: some people have rebounded and some people have it.
Speaker 7: But becoming conscious about my spending was really really important.
Speaker 13: Becoming conscious about where I'm putting not only my dollars,
Speaker 13: but my time, my energy, my eyeballs, what am I watching,
Speaker 13: where am I giving my attention and my cash was
Speaker 13: was really important.
Speaker 1: And so that was that was pretty eye opening. I
Speaker 1: have a joke about Netflix. They could basically put anything
Speaker 1: on the homepage of Netflix, and it would be like
Speaker 1: the top show the next weekend. Because people will literally watch,
Speaker 1: like there's stuff on Netflix that nobody in their right
Speaker 1: mind would ever watch. But because you're paying that money
Speaker 1: every month and because you log on so much and
Speaker 1: that's the first thing you see, you'll just watch it.
Speaker 1: And it's like these horrible shows that are just not
Speaker 1: even very good. And people are like, I'll put up
Speaker 1: with it. And by the way, when you when you
Speaker 1: were talking about the pandemic and we got all these subscriptions,
Speaker 1: you know, remember that they started at super cheap prices
Speaker 1: and now everything yes, and they continue to go up, so.
Speaker 13: And that's you know, that's part of That's part of
Speaker 13: the conversation here, right, is that that you just get
Speaker 13: an email that that you can reply to, that you
Speaker 13: can negotiate with, that you really can't even respond to
Speaker 13: that basically says, hey, we're changing the terms of service,
Speaker 13: We're changing what you agreed to.
Speaker 7: Sorry, if you would agree or disagree anymore.
Speaker 13: And if you disagree, here's a labyrinth and a maze
Speaker 13: for you to go through to unsubscribe. You know, so
Speaker 13: much of this new initiative, even from the White house
Speaker 13: called time is money is meant to battle that specific thing,
Speaker 13: which is I only clicked once to subscribe, and now
Speaker 13: I've got to find, you know, sort of go through
Speaker 13: this maze to unsubscribe. But I love your Netflix joke
Speaker 13: because I laugh too, and I see it with my
Speaker 13: friends and colleagues in the film and industry, right like,
Speaker 13: this show is number one, and I'm glad it's number one,
Speaker 13: but it's only number one because it's the first thing
Speaker 13: on the screen and it's the only damn thing up there.
Speaker 2: So exactly, I laugh with you on that.
Speaker 1: That's the White House initiative you're talking about about the
Speaker 1: one click, because yes, these companies make it super easy
Speaker 1: to subscribe in a click, and then when you don't,
Speaker 1: you know, when you want to get rid of it,
Speaker 1: it's either hidden now. Not every company is like that,
Speaker 1: Like there are some good sites that you know, make
Speaker 1: things easy to disconnect in this and that. But I
Speaker 1: always recommend when people are signing up for any sort
Speaker 1: of subscription that check the like Google how to cancel
Speaker 1: and see like if it's if it's tricky at all,
Speaker 1: it's going to be tricky when you actually try to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 13: You know what I mean completely right, and I think
Speaker 13: that that's that's what the initiative is. It's about balancing
Speaker 13: the scales and just making it as easy to come
Speaker 13: off of certain things as it is to go on them.
Speaker 13: And you're right, it's not every company, for sure, but
Speaker 13: there are plenty that make it very, very very difficult,
Speaker 13: and they put that friction back in the process. They
Speaker 13: put those pain points back in the process. They want
Speaker 13: to make sure that you sort of have to think twice,
Speaker 13: three times, four times, five times before you actually get
Speaker 13: off of their service. And those are not questions that
Speaker 13: they're asking, you know, when you get onto their service.
Speaker 13: So it's really I think about rebalancing those scales. All right,
Speaker 13: I've got about thirty seconds here. What what what's the
Speaker 13: key takeaway from the book? Like, if someone gets this book,
Speaker 13: what's their key takeaway? What are they going to do?
Speaker 13: Key takeaway is, well, first of all, there's about one
Speaker 13: hundred practical tactical strategies in there for being happy and
Speaker 13: all this chaof But you know, the real takeaway here
Speaker 13: is step back, reevaluate, be intentional, do some deep thinking
Speaker 13: about where you want to put your time, money, cash, eyeballs, attention,
Speaker 13: and then re engage in the world and be a
Speaker 13: part of it in a really beautiful way.
Speaker 7: But definitely take the time out.
Speaker 13: We've been sort of sold this idea that we can't
Speaker 13: step away and we have to be always on and I,
Speaker 13: you know, I reject that, and I'm sort of calling
Speaker 13: for people to take the time they need to reevaluate.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: Julio Vincent Gambudo, filmmaker and author of Please Unsubscribe.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: You can find it, of course wherever you buy books.
Speaker 1: I guess, thanks so much for joining me today. I
Speaker 1: really appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me Rich.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got to remember this stuff. It's easy to
Speaker 2: get on board. It's tough to get off of that
Speaker 2: board sometimes because it's just we're on autopilot. I mean,
Speaker 2: I know, it's this.
Speaker 1: Is why companies, I always say, want access to your
Speaker 1: checking account versus your credit debit card.
Speaker 2: That money comes out not coming back.
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Speaker 2: This is show number eighty six, so you'll find everything
Speaker 2: I mentioned right there. We were just talking.
Speaker 1: About subscriptions, so I meant to actually mention this in
Speaker 1: the last segment, but you know, the subscription services, what
Speaker 1: they're doing right now is they're starting to bundle, just
Speaker 1: like the good old days of cable. And you may
Speaker 1: be thinking, as a consumer, oh my gosh, what a
Speaker 1: great deal. I get to bundle my Disney Plus, my ESPN,
Speaker 1: my Hulu, my you know whatever. And it sounds great
Speaker 1: because you're saving money. But here's what's really happening. You're
Speaker 1: actually going to be spending more over the long term,
Speaker 1: because guess what, when you don't need that Espn Plus,
Speaker 1: you're still going to be paying for it because you're
Speaker 1: not gonna want to cancel your bundle because, by the way,
Speaker 1: the price of the bundle is going to have gone
Speaker 1: up in the time between when you subscribe and the
Speaker 1: time you want to cancel. So these companies are very
Speaker 1: smart at what they're doing. But there is one thing
Speaker 1: you can actually get for free, but it does come
Speaker 1: as sort of a bundle if you're paying for cable.
Speaker 1: So Charter Communications has now linked up with a Paramount
Speaker 1: to offer Paramount Plus Essential at no extra cost if
Speaker 1: you're a Spectrum TV select or a ME Plan Latino customer.
Speaker 1: So if you have one of these two cable plans,
Speaker 1: you can get Paramount Plus Essential for free. Now it's
Speaker 1: not really freakuse you're paying for cable. It's just kind
Speaker 1: of a bonus. Usually that's about eight dollars a month.
Speaker 1: You can activate by going to Spectrum dot com slash
Speaker 1: Paramount Plus on US. Spectrum dot com slash Paramount Plus
Speaker 1: on US. Again, you have to have that Spectrum subscription,
Speaker 1: but hey, you know, you can get this streaming service
Speaker 1: for free and Paramount Plus. It's not one of my favorites,
Speaker 1: like they don't have a ton, but there's always something
Speaker 1: on there that's you know, they've got a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like Paramount Movies. They're also linked up with CBS,
Speaker 1: so there are some CBS shows on there. Oh it
Speaker 1: says CBS, b ET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon and paramount stuff.
Speaker 2: So hey, why not.
Speaker 1: And there's gonna be ads on that, by the way,
Speaker 1: because it's the Paramount plus essential, so that means there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some ads there. Let's see, let's go to uh,
Speaker 1: let's go to Dick in Kettering, Ohio.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 17: Well, thank you, Rich, thank you. I was just towing
Speaker 17: your screener. My friends have gotten I don't know a
Speaker 17: lot about tech. I took a class cell phones and
Speaker 17: I purchased my friends purchased it over like at one
Speaker 17: of the congratus, you know, Rollmart.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he took a class itself a well, for a.
Speaker 17: While there, it wouldn't charge. Then I called up, you know,
Speaker 17: the customer service, and they sent me a new one
Speaker 17: and it's working pretty good. But the only thing they
Speaker 17: say on there, I went, uh, is the internet is
Speaker 17: not working their Wi Fi And my friend thinks I
Speaker 17: need another card, a phone card to pay on it.
Speaker 2: Well, you're so, your WiFi is not working at all.
Speaker 17: No, But the thing of it is, it's one hundred
Speaker 17: percent it's doing good. It has Facebook and I can
Speaker 17: get everything else. But when I make a call, it
Speaker 17: won't call.
Speaker 2: Oh when you make a call, Okay, when.
Speaker 6: I make a call.
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's working good. Now, Okay, maybe I ought to
Speaker 17: get this. I think it's twenty four eighty eight. I'm
Speaker 17: gonna have probably go to Family Mobile to get it.
Speaker 17: And it's just been pumfling because you know, I've had
Speaker 17: it like four months and I've never had my friend
Speaker 17: had one. But it's just puzzling that I've called service,
Speaker 17: you know, the customer service is just you know, it's
Speaker 17: funny that I've had so much trouble with these things.
Speaker 1: Well, it happens. So what can you do on the phone?
Speaker 1: Can you you can access the web, but you can't
Speaker 1: make calls.
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's all. It just says Wi Fi not connected
Speaker 17: and they're not not working and the only thing what
Speaker 17: you call it just doesn't But it's work another way.
Speaker 17: Maybe I just they've got the what is it the card?
Speaker 17: I could probably get maybe a mobile card and then
Speaker 17: they'll have to call that in to activate it.
Speaker 6: Maybe yeah, I would.
Speaker 17: Also I'll get a little phone, you know, like you push.
Speaker 17: My friend might get something like that.
Speaker 2: You know, well if you if you bring it in,
Speaker 2: they're they're probably gonna fix it. What carrier are you on?
Speaker 17: No, they don't want it. Well they told me that
Speaker 17: they don't, and I have a gym City Digital, so
Speaker 17: they told me. My friends told me, I'm going to
Speaker 17: just try the card and then go from there. Maybe
Speaker 17: just get that push button one like a regular landline.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I don't know if I go with the
Speaker 2: online Well, here's the deal.
Speaker 1: So I would recommend before you go into the store,
Speaker 1: whatever you do, there's a there's a setting on the
Speaker 1: Samsung where you can reset the mobile network settings. So
Speaker 1: if you go into settings under reset, there's an option
Speaker 1: that says reset Mobile Network Settings. You tap that and
Speaker 1: it will reset all of the mobile network settings. So
Speaker 1: that will include your Wi Fi, that includes your Bluetooth,
Speaker 1: that includes your cellular and it's gonna take a minute
Speaker 1: for your phone to kind of like figure everything out again,
Speaker 1: but that should fix things. And then you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to reconnect to your Wi Fi and reconnect any Bluetooth devices.
Speaker 1: So those are the things to do for that. That's
Speaker 1: what I'd recommend doing. But otherwise i'd bring it into
Speaker 1: where you got it and see what they say. Especially
Speaker 1: if you're paying for service every month. You don't want
Speaker 1: to be paying for something that you're not actually getting.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Dick in Kettering, Ohio today, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: If you go to Costco you got some oldile electronics
Speaker 1: at home, you actually they actually have a trade in
Speaker 1: program where you you can exchange your old electronics for
Speaker 1: a Costco gift card. So the program's open to Costco
Speaker 1: members and non members. The trade ins are actually all
Speaker 1: facilitated by a third party company called Phobio. I was
Speaker 1: not familiar with this company, but they're kind of a
Speaker 1: recycling company, so I don't You don't even have to
Speaker 1: be a Costco customer to do this, but I guess
Speaker 1: Costco has a deal with them, And usually if Costco
Speaker 1: has a deal with someone, they're sweetening the deal in
Speaker 1: a way. So maybe they're giving you a little bit
Speaker 1: extra for your your purchase it or your trade ins
Speaker 1: or something like that. But you can trade in basically
Speaker 1: all of the electronics you have at home, phones, laptops, tablets,
Speaker 1: smart watches. You can get up to one thousand bucks
Speaker 1: for laptops, everything you know, they'll give you a quote
Speaker 1: before you do this. But the process does happen online.
Speaker 1: You don't actually have to go into a Costco warehouse.
Speaker 1: You basically go into the website. You go to this
Speaker 1: special Costco branded you know, trade in website, and then
Speaker 1: you say what you have. They'll give you that estimate,
Speaker 1: you send it in. They'll give you a box you
Speaker 1: send it in, and then once they get it, they'll
Speaker 1: just make sure everything's on the up and up, and
Speaker 1: if it's good, you'll get your gift card. And it
Speaker 1: takes a couple of weeks. They can send you a
Speaker 1: digital gift card to Costco. But again, if you like
Speaker 1: Costco and you've got the old electronics at home, you
Speaker 1: want to trade them in. I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how this is better than just trading them in. I
Speaker 1: like a website called gizmo Go, And so gizmo Go
Speaker 1: is the website that's I've done a story with them.
Speaker 1: They're here in California and you go to their warehouse
Speaker 1: and oh my gosh, you've never seen more recycled electronics
Speaker 1: in your entire life. And they showed me the whole
Speaker 1: process from start to finish. So if you're looking to
Speaker 1: trade something in. You could just type it in on
Speaker 1: this website. They'll give you a quote instantly, and you've
Speaker 1: got to figure out how to send it in. They
Speaker 1: will give you a box if you need it, but
Speaker 1: you can send it in like iPhone twelve two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty bucks, iPhone eleven two hundred ninety nine dollars,
Speaker 1: Galaxy Note nine one hundred bucks, Amsung, the Watch Series
Speaker 1: seven one hundred and seventy dollars. Trade in those old electronics,
Speaker 1: get them recycled, don't throw them in the trash. Eighty
Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. This is rich on Tech.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you for another hour talking technology at triple
Speaker 1: eight rich one on one. That's eight eight eight seven
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Coming up this hour,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk cyber truck. Have you seen one of
Speaker 1: these things on the road? I know, very polarizing. I'm
Speaker 1: curious to see what our reviewer says about it. Zach
Speaker 1: Dole from US News. We'll talk about his objective assessment
Speaker 1: of this new cyber truck. That'll come up later this
Speaker 1: hour Waimo reached a milestone this week. Waimo is the
Speaker 1: fully autonomous taxi service from Google. That's who owns Weaimo.
Speaker 1: It's really Alphabet. When I say Google, Google, you know,
Speaker 1: they kind of spun off to the parent company, which
Speaker 1: is Alphabet owns all the companies that Google, you know,
Speaker 1: used to own. So it's like it's like Alphabet. You've
Speaker 1: got Google, which is like search and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Weimo deep mind, They've got a whole bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1: But Weimo is their autonomous taxi. They now provide over
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand paid rides per week to the public.
Speaker 1: It's the first fully autonomous ride hailing service to reach
Speaker 1: this level. And they're in Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: I was in one.
Speaker 1: It's very it feels very reassuring, honestly, like it's it's
Speaker 1: better than some of the ubers I've been in. Nothing
Speaker 1: against Uber drivers. I love Uber. I've been an Uber
Speaker 1: person since day one, literally day one in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: Like I remember Uber calling me and saying, Hey, do
Speaker 1: you want to come to this party and we're going
Speaker 1: to send a car for you like a town car.
Speaker 2: Back in the day. It was just like town cars,
Speaker 2: and I said, wait, what what, how is this.
Speaker 1: Going to work because I've I've seen town cars in
Speaker 1: New York City and they're very expensive. No, this is
Speaker 1: for everyone now, and so yes, I've been a big
Speaker 1: fan of Uber since day one, but this is like
Speaker 1: the next level. This is fully autonomous. They're expanding rides
Speaker 1: to the freeways up in San Francisco. And when this
Speaker 1: goes big, like really big, it's going to change things
Speaker 1: once again because think about the efficiencies you have with
Speaker 1: a fully autonomous fleet of cars that's just doing rides
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. Yeah, let's see what else.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Mark Mark and Woodland Hills.
Speaker 7: Mark.
Speaker 2: You're on with Rich?
Speaker 4: Oh great.
Speaker 12: Hey.
Speaker 4: I just want to preface by saying I picked up
Speaker 4: an Uber a UMA and it works great.
Speaker 7: Oh you're very.
Speaker 4: Happy with it. Just the taxes and that's something you
Speaker 4: can't avoid anyway, but it works wonderfully.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I ended up because we got a couple of calls
Speaker 1: about the UMA here, and so I ended up calling
Speaker 1: the company and saying, hey, you know, can you can
Speaker 1: you give me some more info on this because I
Speaker 1: felt like I knew about it, but it had been
Speaker 1: a couple of years since I tested it, and so
Speaker 1: they gat I mean the whole rundown of everything and
Speaker 1: it you know, it's great. I mean you pay basically,
Speaker 1: you buy the box and you pay for the taxes
Speaker 1: each month. And they have different obviously add ons and things.
Speaker 1: But glad you hear it's work. And what can I
Speaker 1: help you with?
Speaker 2: Mark?
Speaker 4: Sorry to digress like that, but my I have some
Speaker 4: very pedestrian needs when it comes to PC. Not on
Speaker 4: my phone. I don't use the phone for that, but
Speaker 4: I need PC video and MP three editing because I
Speaker 4: like to trim down my MP three for my playlist
Speaker 4: sure when I go out cycling and whatnot. And I'm
Speaker 4: looking for something free on PC that I can just
Speaker 4: trim my videos or even download from YouTube if that's possible.
Speaker 2: Super simple.
Speaker 1: So the the free MP three audio editor that you know,
Speaker 1: it's been around forever, open source Audacity.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of that one?
Speaker 1: No? Sure, sure Audacity A U, D A C I
Speaker 1: T Y. And that's kind of like the golden the
Speaker 1: gold standard for something that's free. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: little looks a little old school for my taste, but
Speaker 1: if you want something free, it's it's available. It's easy
Speaker 1: if you're especially if you're just trimming the in and
Speaker 1: the out of the song.
Speaker 2: Totally easy.
Speaker 1: And that's something super simple to do. When it comes
Speaker 1: to videos. A couple other options. Cap cut is is
Speaker 1: one option on the desktop, so you can use that.
Speaker 2: It is full featured.
Speaker 1: It's very simple to trim videos and you can you know,
Speaker 1: you can get you may become an influencer.
Speaker 2: Mark I don't know.
Speaker 4: That's the problem with cap cut is that it's an
Speaker 4: and yeah run Bite Dan. Yeah, I don't fancy using
Speaker 4: their products, and I.
Speaker 1: Agree with that, and so I I would say that,
Speaker 1: and I you know, I would agree with the fact
Speaker 1: that there is concerns about that. So you know, people
Speaker 1: put it on their machine. It's fine whatever. So if
Speaker 1: you don't want something like that. The other free program
Speaker 1: the name is of oh, Adobe Rush. That's the one
Speaker 1: I like, so Adobe Rush. Now Adobe the problem with
Speaker 1: Adobe is that it's a little bulky. So but but
Speaker 1: their premiere Rush, as far as I know, you should
Speaker 1: be able to install and use it for free. You
Speaker 1: just can't use all the fancy features they do want
Speaker 1: you to pay. But it's very simple to use it
Speaker 1: for free. For like the basic things that you're doing.
Speaker 1: Unless yeah, unless they've changed something on there. So but
Speaker 1: as far as I know, you can use it without
Speaker 1: a without a you know, a membership. Now there's other
Speaker 1: programs out there. Some of them are you know, you know,
Speaker 1: there's more expensive than others. They're trying to push you,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of them are also Mac based.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm using. I use Final Cut for everything.
Speaker 1: You can also use quick Time if you're on a
Speaker 1: Mac to just trim a video very easily. But I
Speaker 1: think between those two things, you're gonna find it pretty
Speaker 1: easy to to just clip whatever you need to clip there.
Speaker 1: Now you mentioned downloading from YouTube as well. Nope, I
Speaker 1: think we lost mark okay anyway, so there are two
Speaker 1: tools to download from YouTube. Obviously, when it comes to
Speaker 1: downloading from YouTube, it's really meant for your own personal videos.
Speaker 1: That's kind of like the you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: how I got to dance around that topic. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the deal is with downloading from YouTube.
Speaker 1: But yes, there are many tools that can help you
Speaker 1: download from YouTube. I don't know what the legality is
Speaker 1: or the gray area. I don't know but they're out there.
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Speaker 2: I talk about that as well. This week.
Speaker 1: Ring has a new camera, a new video doorbell. This
Speaker 1: week they launched. It's the latest. It's basically their basic
Speaker 1: video door bell. It's like kind of their most popular one.
Speaker 1: It's the battery door bell. It's one hundred dollars The
Speaker 1: new features include head to toe video. So the original
Speaker 1: rings did not have the head to toe video, which
Speaker 1: means if someone put a package on your doorstep, the
Speaker 1: most important thing porch pirates, you wouldn't necessarily see that
Speaker 1: package getting stolen. Hopefully you don't see that, but you
Speaker 1: know if it did, you'd have that video. So now
Speaker 1: it's one hundred and fifty degrees by one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty degrees lens, so much more of a vertical view
Speaker 1: that you can see everything head to toe. Battery life
Speaker 1: is better up to twenty three percent better with the
Speaker 1: common settings. Obviously, if you're recording longer, or if you
Speaker 1: have more more motion settings that trigger the recordings, that's
Speaker 1: going to take up your battery quicker. But that's another thing.
Speaker 1: They also have this new kind of like push push
Speaker 1: functionality to like replace the battery. So it's a lot
Speaker 1: easier to pop on and off from your wall. So
Speaker 1: if you haven't gone with like the solar attachment, that's
Speaker 1: a lot easier to do. Remember with these with these
Speaker 1: ring doorbells, unless you are paying, it's basically just streaming
Speaker 1: so you can get all the alerts to your phone.
Speaker 1: But unless you pay that five dollars a month. You're
Speaker 1: not going to get the smart alerts they can now
Speaker 1: tell you if it's a package that's being delivered or
Speaker 1: a pet or whatever. They tell you like what's at
Speaker 1: your front door, and the cloud storage. So unless you're
Speaker 1: paying for that, you're only going to get the streaming.
Speaker 1: So realistically, Ring was a brilliant, brilliant business model because
Speaker 1: if you have one of these battery you know, these
Speaker 1: video doorbells, you don't just want to see the video.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it, that's how it started. But
Speaker 1: when you when you think about it, you want a
Speaker 1: recording of that video. And how do you get that recording? Well,
Speaker 1: you have to have that cloud service. I remember, I
Speaker 1: mean this is a long time ago, but I remember
Speaker 1: interviewing Jamie Simmon off, the guy who created this back
Speaker 1: in the day. I'm talking so many years ago, went
Speaker 1: to his little Ring offices. This is way before Amazon
Speaker 1: bought this company for a billion dollars, but I remember
Speaker 1: going to his offices. This guy was a young guy,
Speaker 1: you know, he showing me these cameras and how he
Speaker 1: came up with it, And he said he came up
Speaker 1: with the idea for the Ring camera because he was
Speaker 1: working from home and someone would come to the front
Speaker 1: door and ring the doorbell and he couldn't see who
Speaker 1: it was. And of course intercoms back in the day,
Speaker 1: that was like a common thing. That house not a
Speaker 1: common thing, but houses, some houses had intercom systems. Intercom
Speaker 1: was not video, and so he looked everywhere and he said,
Speaker 1: there's gotta be a video intercom system, right, and there
Speaker 1: just wasn't a mainstream, simple video intercom system. And by
Speaker 1: the way, if you had an intercom system in your house,
Speaker 1: it was expensive, you know, it wasn't cheap. So by
Speaker 1: making this it was called it was it called doorbot.
Speaker 1: Doorbot was the first name for this thing, doorbot. Let
Speaker 1: me let me check that. Yeah, it's called doorbot, And
Speaker 1: they sent me one of the first ones to test
Speaker 1: and I set it up at the house. Well, I
Speaker 1: set up at a friend's house and he didn't like it.
Speaker 1: And here was the problem with the original ring doorbot,
Speaker 1: which it was called doorbot before it was ring. The
Speaker 1: wi fi back in the day at houses was not
Speaker 1: very good and so most people had their WiFi hub
Speaker 1: in the middle of their house and this doorbell would
Speaker 1: be on the outside of their house. So When the
Speaker 1: first people started buying these and setting them up, what
Speaker 1: do you think happened? It wasn't a very good experience
Speaker 1: because your WiFi didn't reach the signal, didn't make it outside,
Speaker 1: and so people would be like, Oh, this thing's not
Speaker 1: very good. And of course WiFi got better over the years.
Speaker 1: People figured out that had to be closer. And they
Speaker 1: also changed the name because Doorbot sounded too robotic, and
Speaker 1: so they changed the name to Ring. Because people hold
Speaker 1: their front door in a very high regard. That's the
Speaker 1: entrance to their house, so it needs to be warm,
Speaker 1: it needs to be inviting, and by doorbot it seemed
Speaker 1: too mechanical, it seemed too robotic, and so people didn't
Speaker 1: really like that name, so they change it to Ring.
Speaker 1: The rest is history. Jamie's doing just fine. Billion dollars Amazon.
Speaker 1: When Amazon comes and says we're gonna buy your company
Speaker 1: for a billion dollars, you'll probably say, yes, I don't
Speaker 1: even think you have a if you have stockholders, I
Speaker 1: don't think you have a question of a voice in
Speaker 1: the matter. Eighty eight rich one On one eight eight
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Craig in Des Moines, Iowa.
Speaker 2: Craig, you're on with Rich. I'm doing great. Hey, how
Speaker 2: are you, Craig?
Speaker 3: Pretty good?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 10: Yet?
Speaker 3: Today I bought them over the ear headphone.
Speaker 10: A wawmark uh thaw handy for one hundred and fifty
Speaker 10: dollars and the pretty I would badly time and they
Speaker 10: have the eagle light on the side. They go make
Speaker 10: it bas here. I want to know how good they
Speaker 10: headphones or do I take them back?
Speaker 2: Well, here's my thought about headphones. Do they sound good
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 10: And they sound excellent to me?
Speaker 2: Well, then that's all that matters.
Speaker 1: I mean to me when I I test a lot
Speaker 1: of headphones, and I know believe me, and you know,
Speaker 1: I've tested skull Candies, you know, this very popular brand.
Speaker 1: They they're definitely you know, on the on the more
Speaker 1: affordable side of things for a lot of them, which
Speaker 1: is nice. But really what it comes down to for
Speaker 1: me when you're reviewing headphones is do they sound good
Speaker 1: to you? And also do they fit in my ears?
Speaker 1: So you said these are over the ear headphones.
Speaker 10: Yeah, because I got a bit in the heel. I've
Speaker 10: had them for a while, which you're very good. I
Speaker 10: think one hundred and eighty dollars. But when I go
Speaker 10: to bed that night and be them in my eel
Speaker 10: so wild with both of them. Uh, they tend to
Speaker 10: hook my eel drums in dry yeah, because it's been.
Speaker 3: Trying of my eel. So I don't don't worry about these.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're kind of pushing on them. You know.
Speaker 1: They also make some speakers that you can put under
Speaker 1: your pillow.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of those?
Speaker 1: And they also make some headphones that are like specifically
Speaker 1: for sleep and you can you know, they're like kind
Speaker 1: of softer. I think the brand is Sleepphones, So you
Speaker 1: might want to check into those because those are Let's
Speaker 1: see how much they they sent me a pair to
Speaker 1: tests a while. Oh, okay, those are kind of expensive.
Speaker 1: Those are uh the one with the cord is forty dollars.
Speaker 1: That's the cheapest they make. But then they also have
Speaker 1: kind of bluetooth versions for anywhere from one hundred to
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty, but those are sleep from Want.
Speaker 3: But how long? How long is woods? On the call, Candy?
Speaker 3: I had the long night?
Speaker 10: Yeah, Cook, I'd wake up in the middle of the
Speaker 10: night and go back to say, you know, one of
Speaker 10: them numbered and I just took them all not too
Speaker 10: long ago and put them on and.
Speaker 2: Tell you and how did they last the whole night.
Speaker 3: All night and half of them all day in the day?
Speaker 7: There you go.
Speaker 1: Now, how do you sleep with? What are you listening
Speaker 1: to while you're sleeping?
Speaker 3: You like that coat the Coast on KFI?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: I need to live. I used to live in Lockdown.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Well, when I was a kid, I used to fall
Speaker 1: asleep to the radio every single night.
Speaker 2: Love Lines.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're familiar with that show, So
Speaker 1: it was it was both stimulating and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they had some interesting conversations on that show.
Speaker 7: But I listened to Zoo remember I'm hitting the three shows.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: Well, it was a it was a popular show where
Speaker 1: I was back in uh in Ze what One Hunter
Speaker 1: in New York.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I always.
Speaker 1: Listened to uh two stuff falling asleep, but I would
Speaker 1: have the speaker near the bed or I had an
Speaker 1: under the pillow kind of thing, but I didn't have
Speaker 1: I didn't wear my ears. But but Craig, I say, look,
Speaker 1: if you're if you're liking the skull candy and you
Speaker 1: think that they are are feeling good and the battery,
Speaker 1: I think forty hours is a pretty decent battery.
Speaker 2: I think stick with them and enjoy. Okay, well, I
Speaker 2: didn't know.
Speaker 10: If they was any good, you know, I mean the
Speaker 10: little high for my budget, I'm just a dishability. You
Speaker 10: would it be called a.
Speaker 1: Well look, I mean there are there are certainly cheaper
Speaker 1: headphones out there, but uh you know, and and these
Speaker 1: are i'd say mid range in the review area. But again,
Speaker 1: and I think it really comes down to what you think.
Speaker 1: And I think that if you're liking them and they
Speaker 1: feel comfortable, I think that's the most important thing because
Speaker 1: you are wearing them at night. So Craig appreciate the
Speaker 1: call today, I really do, and they're Oh, Kim sent
Speaker 1: me a link she looked them up. The name of
Speaker 1: these skull Candy might be the Skull the Crushers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars. So yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: there's so many headphones out there.
Speaker 2: I like the ones.
Speaker 1: I'm actually doing a segment for KTLA on Monday about
Speaker 1: Bluetooth headphones and I'm actually loving the nothing These nothing buds.
Speaker 1: Well it's CMF buds Pro two and they're very inexpensive.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, fifty nine dollars and they're great. They're like
Speaker 1: just simple and the coolest thing about these earbuds is
Speaker 1: the case. They come in fun colors. They have noise cancelation,
Speaker 1: all that good stuff, but the case has this little
Speaker 1: like click wheel on it that you can use to
Speaker 1: adjust the volume while they're in your ear, so it's
Speaker 1: almost like a fidget spinner.
Speaker 2: The case like doubles as a fidget spinner.
Speaker 1: But CMF buds Pro two highly recommended, really really like them.
Speaker 2: Also love the Sonos.
Speaker 1: I mean talk about expensive, and I know I said
Speaker 1: earlier I kind of poop pooed Sonos, but they do
Speaker 1: make a really nice pair of headphones. Now the so
Speaker 1: nos ace they are, I mean, just as good as
Speaker 1: they're speakers. And I can actually just a volume because
Speaker 1: they're on my phone and I use my phone volume,
Speaker 1: not the app eighty eight.
Speaker 2: Rich one oh one.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: Coming up, we're going to talk about the cyber truck.
Speaker 1: We're going to get a review, an objective assessment of
Speaker 1: Tesla's cybertruck. Coming right up on rich on Tech. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out
Speaker 1: with you, talking technology the website for the show richon
Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. If you want links to anything I
Speaker 1: mentioned here, well, you've probably seen this thing barreling down
Speaker 1: the street. I'm sure you've got thoughts. So does our
Speaker 1: next guest, Zach Dole, is the US News and World
Speaker 1: Report vehicle testing editor, and he is checking his preconceptions
Speaker 1: at the door to give us an unbiased look at
Speaker 1: the Tesla cyber truck.
Speaker 2: Zach, welcome to the show.
Speaker 6: Thanks so much for having great to be here.
Speaker 1: So, uh, did you have any preconceived notions before you
Speaker 1: testro of this thing or what?
Speaker 6: I didn't have the highest expectations that, I'll be honest,
Speaker 6: you know, a lot of the earlier Testli models when
Speaker 6: they first came out, maybe there were some some glitchy issues,
Speaker 6: so I kind of expected maybe not the greatest product
Speaker 6: right off the bat, But I've got to say it's
Speaker 6: it's an impressive vehicle for sure.
Speaker 1: Really, so what what makes it impressive? I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's certainly looks very unique. I mean it looks like
Speaker 1: something out of like a you know, dystopian sci fi movie, which,
Speaker 1: of course, I'm sure Elon Musk, you know that's what
Speaker 1: he think about.
Speaker 6: Exactly, Yeah, Blade Runner or something. It's yeah, I mean
Speaker 6: you get the highs and the lows. So this thing
Speaker 6: is so fast, it's so quiet, it's very comfortable. It
Speaker 6: rides on air suspension, so it's it is very easy
Speaker 6: to drive. The steering is a little bit tough to
Speaker 6: get used to. It's steer by wire, so there's no
Speaker 6: mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the front wheels,
Speaker 6: and it can go on a dime. I mean, it's
Speaker 6: it's very responsive. So like from a usability standpoint, you
Speaker 6: could easily use this in a city la for instance,
Speaker 6: and you'll get a lot of looks. I mean, it
Speaker 6: looks like nothing else on the road. But it's a
Speaker 6: very usable vehicle. I would say. The downside is that
Speaker 6: the blind spots are huge.
Speaker 2: I was wondering about that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so there's a tonnel cover, a hard cover for
Speaker 6: the bed. It's a six foot bed, and when it's
Speaker 6: and it's open state, you can see just fine. But
Speaker 6: when it's closed, it completely covers up the back window,
Speaker 6: so you have to use a camera on the center
Speaker 6: screen to see out of the back window, which is
Speaker 6: kind of unusual.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you're driving like you know, like I
Speaker 1: see obviously delivery trucks they have those all the time,
Speaker 1: but like if a regular consumer car, is that is
Speaker 1: that pretty unusual?
Speaker 6: I have never experienced that ever.
Speaker 2: Okay, very unusual. It is unusual.
Speaker 1: Okay, well what about the you mentioned that drive by wire?
Speaker 1: Is that like does the Tesla not do that the
Speaker 1: standard like three model or whatever?
Speaker 2: Do they not do that?
Speaker 6: So they're shifting to that. This is the most extreme
Speaker 6: version of it I've experienced, where just the smallest inputs
Speaker 6: on the steering have really pronounced responses. I mean, this
Speaker 6: thing corners so fast. It's a little jarn to get
Speaker 6: used to, being honest, but once you are used to it,
Speaker 6: it makes turning turning circles smaller than like a sedan,
Speaker 6: you know, like an average compact car.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 6: So yeah, it's it's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2: That's now.
Speaker 1: Now I heard someone said that this does not have
Speaker 1: the self driving yet.
Speaker 2: Is that true?
Speaker 6: I believe they're rolling it out. It's a it comes equipped,
Speaker 6: ready to go, and there's a software over the air
Speaker 6: update where they will roll it out. It may have
Speaker 6: actually just happened or is currently going on.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about charging. What's what's the range on
Speaker 1: this and what's what's the price on this car?
Speaker 6: All right, so this is the interesting part. The price
Speaker 6: I'll start with is kind of a moving target. This
Speaker 6: one stickered at one hundred one thousand dollars that we tested. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so originally this edition, the found Nation series was originally
Speaker 6: around eighty thousand dollars, and then it jumped to one hundred,
Speaker 6: and the Cyberbeast, which was one hundred, had jumped to
Speaker 6: one twenty.
Speaker 1: There's more of a beast than the cyber truck. It's
Speaker 1: like even beast here it is.
Speaker 6: Yes, So the one I drove had six hundred horse power.
Speaker 6: The cyber Beast as eight hundred and forty five.
Speaker 1: Oh, how does that compare to like, I'm not like
Speaker 1: a car person, so how does that compare to like
Speaker 1: a I don't know, like an F one fifty?
Speaker 2: Is that like the same?
Speaker 6: It will blow the doors off pretty much anything on
Speaker 6: the road other than maybe another high powered electric car Tesla.
Speaker 6: It is so fast and it just gets there effortlessly.
Speaker 6: It's I mean, if you've driven a Tesla before, you're like, yeah,
Speaker 6: of course I know this, but these the electric motors
Speaker 6: can put down the power so efficiently. It's it's like
Speaker 6: driving a muscle car when you when you floor it,
Speaker 6: it goes wow.
Speaker 1: Well, so I saw this on display, like I've seen
Speaker 1: him on the roads obviously in the LA area, there's many.
Speaker 1: But I did see this at the Chicago Auto Show
Speaker 1: in person, and I didn't drive it, but I did
Speaker 1: get to go in it, and I was actually quite
Speaker 1: impressed with the fit and sort of finish of it,
Speaker 1: Like it felt like very beefy, you know, like it
Speaker 1: felt like sturdy.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 6: And so absolutely I had the same takeaway the interior.
Speaker 6: It's minimalist, you know, that's kind of Tesla's m O.
Speaker 6: At this point, You've got this big screen in the
Speaker 6: middle and kind of not much else. But but everything
Speaker 6: did feel very well put together. I didn't notice any
Speaker 6: weird build quality issues. It seemed very well sorted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I watched a guy kick it on the side,
Speaker 1: like he literally just went up to it, like like
Speaker 1: just started kicking the door. Because I guess it's you know,
Speaker 1: the the quality is pretty much there for like the
Speaker 1: you know, the whole thing.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 1: Okay, the other thing that I've noticed with this car,
Speaker 1: I've noticed a lot of people put the wraps on
Speaker 1: them to make it different colors and things like that.
Speaker 1: But I've noticed the standard it's kind of like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's stainless steel, whatever the exterior is,
Speaker 1: it gets kind of dirty.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So it's it's kind of interesting they went with
Speaker 6: the stainless steel. You know, it's it might be stainless,
Speaker 6: but it's it's not a no upkeep finish. You have
Speaker 6: to wax it. You have to keep it clean because man,
Speaker 6: it's a smudge magnet.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 6: The one eye Drove was a nearly new model, and
Speaker 6: it already had quite a bit of discoloration on it
Speaker 6: from bug splatter, from fingerprints, near the doors. I don't
Speaker 6: know if there's a solution other than wrapping it or
Speaker 6: you know, keeping the garden hose close by when you
Speaker 6: park it and sprain it off. It's you know, it's
Speaker 6: certainly a unique look. I mean this that's stainless on
Speaker 6: a bright day, it's it sends quite a few reflections around.
Speaker 6: But yeah, it's a it's a smudge magnet for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, So now that you've driven this thing, you've evaluated it.
Speaker 1: Who do you think this is for?
Speaker 6: I think if you're a pickup truck shopper, you might
Speaker 6: find something here to like. I mean, it's certainly fast,
Speaker 6: it can tow eleven thousand pounds, lots of storage space,
Speaker 6: whether up front and back or in this cargo bay
Speaker 6: underneath the trunk. But I see more people if their
Speaker 6: truck shopper is just going for like an F one
Speaker 6: fifty or you know, another traditional full size pickup. I
Speaker 6: wouldn't want to toe something very far with this. You know,
Speaker 6: you're going to make a lot of charging stops. Three
Speaker 6: hundred ish miles of range starts to go down quite
Speaker 6: a bit when you're pulling a heavy trailer. So I
Speaker 6: hope there's this charging station with a big pull around
Speaker 6: area for you. It's kind of a vehicle to be
Speaker 6: seen in. Nothing looks like this. You're going to turn
Speaker 6: so many heads. People will love coming up and talking
Speaker 6: to you. It's certainly very cool and I enjoyed it.
Speaker 2: We love coming up and talking to you.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a very polarizing car, like
Speaker 1: people are either like ready to throw an egg at
Speaker 1: it or they're ready to come up to you and
Speaker 1: ask you about it. What did you find when you
Speaker 1: were driving this?
Speaker 6: I yeah, when I was driving it, I pulled into
Speaker 6: a supercharger station, went to fill up, if you will,
Speaker 6: and it was just like a celebrity came in. I've
Speaker 6: never had this experience before. People like, what is the
Speaker 6: can it?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 6: Everyone wants to talk to you, And I was like,
Speaker 6: it's not mine, it's not mine, but yeah, I mean,
Speaker 6: everybody wants to see what this thing looks like up
Speaker 6: up close and ask asked about it. It's it's like
Speaker 6: celebrity status, something that I haven't experienced.
Speaker 1: I did, I will say when I looked at it
Speaker 1: at the Chicago Auto Show for as like kind of
Speaker 1: weird as it looks on the outside, I was so
Speaker 1: surprised when you get on the inside, it was so beautiful,
Speaker 1: like it like it actually was like really refined, And
Speaker 1: I thought that was like surprising because you just assume
Speaker 1: it's gonna be like this kind of odd interior. But
Speaker 1: it's like a very like nice comfortable interior for this
Speaker 1: truck that looks so unique on the outside.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's perfectly normal inside. I mean, it's kind of
Speaker 6: like any other tussle out there. You know what you're
Speaker 6: gonna get. It's very minimalist. It's it's really nice, and
Speaker 6: once you get used to the large center touch screen,
Speaker 6: it kind of has everything you need. You know, there's
Speaker 6: certainly a large learning curve initially, just like when you
Speaker 6: get a new iPad and you're playing around with that,
Speaker 6: but you get used to it and you find some
Speaker 6: muscle memory. But yeah, overall, I'd say, if you have
Speaker 6: one hundred grand to spend on an electric pickup truck
Speaker 6: that's shaped like a wedge, this is the car for you.
Speaker 1: There you go, Zach, We're gonna leave it there. Zach
Speaker 1: dol from US News and World Report, Thanks so much for.
Speaker 2: Joining me today.
Speaker 6: Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'll put the full review on the website
Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot tv. Coming up up, we are
Speaker 1: going to reach into that feedback and pull out your
Speaker 1: comments right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this song is making me realize. It's the last segment.
Speaker 1: How does three hours go by so fast? I guess
Speaker 1: time does fly when you're having fun. Before we get
Speaker 1: to the feedback, one last story, I wanted to mention Assurant.
Speaker 1: This is the company that does all the trade in stuff.
Speaker 1: They said, the average age of mobile devices turned in
Speaker 1: from trade in or upgrade programs reaches an all time
Speaker 1: high three point seven years. That means people are keeping
Speaker 1: their devices longer, because you know, they're lasting longer. Consumers
Speaker 1: received an estimated eight hundred and twenty nine million dollars
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Speaker 2: That's just one quarter. Wow, that's us a lot.
Speaker 1: iPhone eleven the most frequently traded in device, I, accounting
Speaker 1: for thirty one percent of the top models. Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: S twenty one was the top Android device traded in
Speaker 1: for the fifth consecutive quarter. Average age of iPhones that
Speaker 1: turn in increased to three point eight years, while Android
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Speaker 1: users churn them faster and the iPhone users keep them longer.
Speaker 1: Experts say that the AI is making people, motivating people
Speaker 1: to upgrade their devices, and they're predicting a super cycle
Speaker 1: of upgrades when Apple launches their new AI devices in September.
Speaker 1: Something to watch out for. All right, let's open up
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Speaker 1: full legal name data, birth home address, date where my
Speaker 1: Social Security number was issued, and the age of a
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Speaker 1: I'm concerned about how this data is being used and stored,
Speaker 1: whether it puts me at risk for identity theft. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean eBay, that's a lot of info,
Speaker 1: but it's really full name of data, birth home address.
Speaker 1: I mean, I thought you were going to say social
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Speaker 1: heard you mentioned TVO in the past tense, as though
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Speaker 2: Do you avoid new tvOS?
Speaker 1: I also know that coxwill ston stop supporting cable cards.
Speaker 2: What are my options?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have not used a TVO in many, many years, Thomas,
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Speaker 1: we watched your EV charging video and notice a potential downside.
Speaker 1: Full charges seem to take at least one point five hours.
Speaker 1: This is significantly longer than the twenty minutes we spend
Speaker 1: filling up our hybrid. We're wondering do people just sit
Speaker 1: in their cars during this time or are charging stations
Speaker 1: typically near restaurants. Yes, the charging most people do not
Speaker 1: do a full charge when they're on a road trip.
Speaker 1: They typically charge for fifteen to twenty minutes and then
Speaker 1: move on and then they'll charge for another fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty minutes after that's up, so, you know, like in
Speaker 1: another two hundred miles or so. So and yes, they
Speaker 1: are typically in near restaurants. There's usually a bathroom. That's
Speaker 1: generally how it is. It's not the same as filling up.
Speaker 1: People always compare, you know, filling up an EV to
Speaker 1: filling up gas. It's just not the same process. It's very,
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