Speaker 1: How thieves are using Bluetooth to smash and grab, how
Speaker 1: Amazon reviews are faked, Black Friday resources and your tech
Speaker 1: questions answered.
Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro.
Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk
Speaker 1: about the tech stuff I think you should know about.
Speaker 2: Joining me as always producer Megan, what's up?
Speaker 3: Oh? I love that intro music.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying something new.
Speaker 1: I was doing my friend's podcast and they have the
Speaker 1: same board the film Vault, by the way, and I
Speaker 1: watched them use the board and I was like, I
Speaker 1: am using one fifth of this board and they were
Speaker 1: using all these different features. So I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try something new today. So tell me I
Speaker 1: feel like the music. I mean you did, But as
Speaker 1: our listeners, if you like the music, I think it's fun.
Speaker 2: It's kind of nice, a little different. Maybe I'll change
Speaker 2: it up every time, but I kind of like this
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Speaker 1: It is the eve of the holidays, because Black Friday
Speaker 1: is happening soon. That means Thanksgiving will have happened. Maybe
Speaker 1: by the time you listen to this it will be Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Maybe it is Thanksgiving right now. Who knows in the
Speaker 1: podcast world because you can listen whenever you want. But
Speaker 1: Black Friday is happening, and I'm gonna do some of
Speaker 1: my Black Friday tips for you.
Speaker 2: But I just found this story to be.
Speaker 1: Really interesting this week because people are gonna be shopping
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be leaving their cars in mall parking lots,
Speaker 1: and they're probably gonna be prime targets for theft. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and I, as a tech person, generally leave a lot
Speaker 1: of tech stuff in my cars. I will never do
Speaker 1: that again because of this story from Wired. And the
Speaker 1: story in Wired basically explains that it feels like, wait,
Speaker 1: how do these thieves know that I have a laptop
Speaker 1: in my trunk? Well, it turns out they may be
Speaker 1: using this simplest thing ever, a Bluetooth scanner app. And
Speaker 1: I downloaded one of these on my phone to kind
Speaker 1: of test it out and see what it does. All
Speaker 1: you have to do is install this on your phone,
Speaker 1: and it gives you a list of all the Bluetooth
Speaker 1: devices around you, and not just all the Bluetooth devices.
Speaker 1: You can filter by the type of device you'd like
Speaker 1: to steal or Now. The reason they have these apps
Speaker 1: is purportedly to help you find your lost stuff. So
Speaker 1: let's say you lose your fitbit around the house, your
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, you would have to use this app to
Speaker 1: like show you where it is. You could because the
Speaker 1: apps actually have like things in them that help you.
Speaker 1: It shows you like a heat map, like you're getting hotter,
Speaker 1: you're getting closer. Yeah, And so imagine if you're a thief,
Speaker 1: you can use.
Speaker 3: This to find something gift for a thief.
Speaker 1: Yes, so Wired had some trouble getting, you know, police
Speaker 1: departments to kind of admit that they're noticing this happening.
Speaker 1: They did get one on record to say it, but
Speaker 1: a lot of them were just like, we don't really know,
Speaker 1: but we kind of suspect this is happening. And the
Speaker 1: reality is, I don't think all thieves are using this,
Speaker 1: but probably some of the smarter ones are. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it is something that you should be aware of. And
Speaker 1: so for that reason, yesterday when I went to the gym,
Speaker 1: I had my laptop in my trunk and I realized,
Speaker 1: I said, oh my gosh, I need to practice what
Speaker 1: I preach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so actually brought the laptop into the gym with Mabe.
Speaker 4: I've left my laptop in my car so many times,
Speaker 4: and now I'm never going to.
Speaker 3: Do it again.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's the way to get around it. If
Speaker 1: you don't want to take your laptop in with you
Speaker 1: or your phone, you got to completely turn it off.
Speaker 1: Just putting on airplane mode doesn't necessarily take.
Speaker 2: The Bluetooth off.
Speaker 1: So on the iPhone, especially with the recent software update,
Speaker 1: if you put it into airplane mode, you'll notice. And
Speaker 1: try this on your phone, Swipe down access Control center,
Speaker 1: put it into airplane mode. You'll notice that Bluetooth a
Speaker 1: lot of times and Wi Fi still stays lit up.
Speaker 1: And why Google or sorry, Apple is doing that is
Speaker 1: because let's say you have a Bluetooth pair of headphones
Speaker 1: on you're on the plane, they say, all right, flip
Speaker 1: your plane into airplane mode. They don't want that connection
Speaker 1: to be disrupted, right, so they kind of keep it alive.
Speaker 3: Right, That makes sense?
Speaker 2: Crazy start, That is crazy.
Speaker 1: So it's just wild, and I guess down download one
Speaker 1: of these apps I download. I just just searched Bluetooth
Speaker 1: scander just to see how it works in your house,
Speaker 1: and it's pretty wild. And I even filtered mine here,
Speaker 1: like at the station I filtered for like iPad I
Speaker 1: filtered for computer and it shows you like even the
Speaker 1: name of the device.
Speaker 2: And the reason why.
Speaker 1: Bluetooth does this is because it's helping it. You know,
Speaker 1: that little signal that it's sending out is helping it connect.
Speaker 1: So when you go to connect, it says, like what
Speaker 1: the name of the device is pretty wild?
Speaker 3: It is crazy. It's a good story though.
Speaker 2: It is a good story.
Speaker 1: Now, well we use the new music and now I
Speaker 1: completely forgot what we decided for you.
Speaker 2: Is it this? No? Not that? Not that? This?
Speaker 3: There we go like the mix of those.
Speaker 2: Two a lot. Okay, that was really mess getting a.
Speaker 3: Little ahead of himself with the board.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I promise not to try anything else.
Speaker 2: I can just imagine if you look. We have to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the only time I use this sport is when
Speaker 1: we do the show, like so I only have like
Speaker 1: one minute before one minute.
Speaker 3: After right now, I know?
Speaker 2: All right? Okay, So sister Megan, first question.
Speaker 4: Our first question comes from Angel And by the way,
Speaker 4: if you want to send a question, just go to
Speaker 4: rich on tech dot tv, click the contact section and
Speaker 4: you can submit your question. So Angel asks, so we
Speaker 4: have a Visio smart TV and a much older LGTV
Speaker 4: we anxiously waited for Disney Plus. After buying the three
Speaker 4: year bundle for one hundred and forty dollars, we thought
Speaker 4: it was a great deal. We now see on the
Speaker 4: website that we can't use it on the visio and
Speaker 4: the LGTV isn't smart, so we reached out to Disney.
Speaker 3: Of course, they didn't get a response. Are we out
Speaker 3: of luck?
Speaker 4: And then they said, we are old enough that we
Speaker 4: don't watch TV on our phones or laptops, So if
Speaker 4: you have any suggestions that won't cost us more, we'd
Speaker 4: be grateful to hear them.
Speaker 2: What's the person's name again?
Speaker 3: Angel?
Speaker 2: Angel?
Speaker 1: Okay, so good question, and this is why I generally
Speaker 1: recommend getting one of these streaming devices versus the smart TV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and with the exception of the Roku, which I feel
Speaker 1: like they update more than like the rest of them.
Speaker 1: But if you're getting like LG, if you're getting Sony
Speaker 1: even or even Samsung, like, yeah, those platforms are large.
Speaker 1: But I feel like, if I'm an app developer and
Speaker 1: I'm Disney, what am I gonna hit? I'm gonna hit
Speaker 1: the biggest platforms out there, which is comes to mind,
Speaker 1: what number one Roku.
Speaker 3: Apple, TV, Apple TV, Amazon, what's Amazon?
Speaker 2: Amazon Fire?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Amazon fire So those are the top three that
Speaker 1: you are concerned with, because that's what a majority of
Speaker 1: people have.
Speaker 2: They come from the biggest brands.
Speaker 1: After that, you'll say, okay, well, maybe we'll do something
Speaker 1: for LG. They've got a couple of smart TVs out there.
Speaker 2: Visio.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're big. Let's let's do something for them. And
Speaker 1: in this case, you notice Angel that your TV the
Speaker 1: video is kind of out of luck because Video I
Speaker 1: had to come out and say, look, we don't have
Speaker 1: a Disney Plus app and we're not going to have
Speaker 1: one until twenty twenty, which is next year. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a long year. You never they didn't give a date,
Speaker 1: so we have no idea.
Speaker 3: Can they do an Amazon fire Stick?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And that's that's really what I'd recommend in this situation. Now,
Speaker 1: Amazon Firestick is on sale for like twenty five dollars
Speaker 1: during Black Friday. It's so easy, so easy, it's always updated.
Speaker 1: That's what I use.
Speaker 3: Or what about a Roku.
Speaker 1: You can get a Roku. You can get a Roku box.
Speaker 1: You know, you can get a I Actually here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I like the cheaper Amazon Firestick better. Than the Roku box.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna go with Roku, go with the expensive one, okay,
Speaker 1: because Roku what they do is that they're lower end
Speaker 1: models that are cheap. They don't have as many features,
Speaker 1: and I feel like you lose out on some of
Speaker 1: the best features. So if you're gonna go Roku, I
Speaker 1: would rather see you spend the ninety dollars or one
Speaker 1: hundred dollars on one of their high end boxes.
Speaker 4: What are the best features of the Roku well high
Speaker 4: end box.
Speaker 1: A couple of things I love about it is you
Speaker 1: can plug headphones into the remote control.
Speaker 3: Oh see, that's something I don't have.
Speaker 2: Which would be really nice, right, but I can.
Speaker 3: Just switch out the remote maybe you.
Speaker 2: May be able to.
Speaker 1: But then you're spending the extra ten or twenty dollars
Speaker 1: that it would cost you you to just upgrade the box,
Speaker 1: right if you're originally buying that, well.
Speaker 3: I have a TC Sorry I have a different situation.
Speaker 1: But so you know, it's it's one of these things
Speaker 1: where this is why I recommend that you know, and
Speaker 1: you get you just get more stuff with a little
Speaker 1: higher slightly higher priced, whereas if you just want a
Speaker 1: basic streaming stick, I really like the Amazon Fire TV
Speaker 1: stick because it's just simple. Get the four K model.
Speaker 1: Don't get the low end model again because you do
Speaker 1: lose some of those features I like. But anyway, so
Speaker 1: back to your question Angel LG. I don't really see
Speaker 1: much about LG getting a Disney Plus app. Maybe it will,
Speaker 1: but right now, the only smart TVs that it's installed
Speaker 1: on is Android TV devices.
Speaker 2: Oh, they do have LG does have an app. Oh
Speaker 2: so it does say LG.
Speaker 1: But she says she has an older one older, So
Speaker 1: that's why it's not getting it isn't it's not smart.
Speaker 2: It's maybe half smart.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but again, Disney Plus, I will say this has
Speaker 1: been one of the more anticipated streaming services. They did
Speaker 1: a really good job with getting these apps out there.
Speaker 1: They kind of some places they just didn't fire, you know,
Speaker 1: like the I shouldn't have used that because Amazon Fire.
Speaker 1: But that's no pun intended there, because they were on fire.
Speaker 1: They were on it'd be a bad joke. But the
Speaker 1: Visio specifically video does have Chrome Cast installed, but the
Speaker 1: Chrome Cast is not the right version to support Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: So the workaround there is Airplay. If you have it
Speaker 1: available on your video, you can use that for now.
Speaker 1: So anyway, good question and lots of people using Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: I was curious if they're going to have like any
Speaker 1: new movie for the holiday season.
Speaker 2: I know they got that one on there that Yeah,
Speaker 2: have you watched it yet?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'll probably watch that. I'm going to because
Speaker 1: it looks really cute. Yeah, the kids. It seems like
Speaker 1: it's family appropriate. I did yesterday watch the fifth episode
Speaker 1: of the Morning Show.
Speaker 2: On Apple Time.
Speaker 3: I'm caught up to the fourth.
Speaker 1: Oh let me tell you, just have someplace for your
Speaker 1: jaw to drop, because like, don't be near a hard
Speaker 1: surface because.
Speaker 3: It is like crazy, whoa really?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 3: Can you give me a hint?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, crazy things happen, Okay, So lots to catch up
Speaker 1: over Black Friday weekend. Speaking of Black Friday, I know
Speaker 1: it is happening, and hopefully you listen to this before
Speaker 1: it happens. I'm just gonna give you a couple of
Speaker 1: my places that I go as my resources for Black Friday.
Speaker 1: So number one, you've got to have a barcode scanning
Speaker 1: app on your phone. I know ninety nine percent of
Speaker 1: you are going to just shop on Amazon, but hey,
Speaker 1: you know, like you might go into the store and
Speaker 1: you might see something that you think is a good deal.
Speaker 1: Number One, have the Amazon app on your phone, give
Speaker 1: it a scan with that. But if you want to
Speaker 1: widen your search a little bit, there's an app called
Speaker 1: shop Savvy and you can download their barcode scanner.
Speaker 2: I find it to be the best out there. There
Speaker 2: used to be a bunch of these.
Speaker 1: There's not really that many reliable ones anymore, but shop
Speaker 1: Savvy seems to still be doing it well. Aiming at
Speaker 1: the barcode, it'll scan the price from over five thousand stores. Realistically,
Speaker 1: there's only like five that you care about because you're
Speaker 1: not gonna buy from some random website right, no matter
Speaker 1: how cheap it is. But it does Walmart, it does.
Speaker 1: Amazon does target the thing to watch out for. And
Speaker 1: the thing that's also kind of interesting is that a
Speaker 1: lot of time tis the cheapest price will be at eBay,
Speaker 1: which to some people they may discount that, but I've
Speaker 1: actually started not discounting that and getting some of the
Speaker 1: stuff from eBay that is cheaper as long as it's
Speaker 1: new in the box, and it works out to be fine.
Speaker 1: And you wonder, well, how does someone have a brand
Speaker 1: new Roku Ultra in a box, right, Yeah, well maybe
Speaker 1: they got it as a gift. Maybe they got it
Speaker 1: at a gifting suite, maybe they got it whatever they
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: Who knows. You don't know the person's story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So there are reasons why people have these new things.
Speaker 1: Did they steal it every single time? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but maybe they did. It's hard to steal, so that's
Speaker 1: that's well, maybe they work it like a store and
Speaker 1: they just stole it like straight out.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that would be bad. That's like the worst
Speaker 2: case scenario.
Speaker 3: Crazy.
Speaker 1: Then Google has a new price tracking tool. So if
Speaker 1: you search for an item you want on Google, you
Speaker 1: tap shopping. You tried this yesterday, right, did it work?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And you tap shopping and then it gives you kind
Speaker 1: of like the the product with all the prices and stuff.
Speaker 1: Don't tap where it says compare prices of twenty stores
Speaker 1: because if you tap there where you will not find
Speaker 1: this feature. Just tap like the product image and then
Speaker 1: you look at the product and it says track price
Speaker 1: and if the price goes down. And Google's very good
Speaker 1: about tracking prices because they scan the whole internet like
Speaker 1: every day, you will get an alert that the price
Speaker 1: drop and that's brand new.
Speaker 2: By the way, then this is the super secret way.
Speaker 2: This is very sneaky.
Speaker 1: You can search the ad library at Facebook dot com.
Speaker 1: So let's say you have a favorite brand, right, throw
Speaker 1: brand out there. Oh wow, Like, what are those weird
Speaker 1: clothing brands or makeup brands like Glossier or something.
Speaker 2: Like glass I sell stuff? Ye, stuff?
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know. I justar you talking about them.
Speaker 1: Is it like makeup or close make up?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: So let's say you love Glossier and you always see
Speaker 1: that they sometimes run like little promos in your Instagram
Speaker 1: five dollars off, ten percent off. Well, you can go
Speaker 1: on the Instagram library or Facebook library and see all
Speaker 1: the ads they're running, along with any promo codes.
Speaker 2: Or links they have to special offers. It's very sneaky.
Speaker 1: This was kind of born out of political necessity because
Speaker 1: they want to like be transpar about the political ads
Speaker 1: companies are running. But you can look up any company.
Speaker 1: So go to Facebook dot com slash ad library. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and some companies works. It works better than others. But
Speaker 1: it's really eye opening to see all the ads at
Speaker 1: some of these big.
Speaker 4: Social wild But also it's interesting because there are a
Speaker 4: lot of stores that I thought had.
Speaker 3: Promo codes that have none. I know, is I wonder
Speaker 3: if promo codes are like not.
Speaker 2: I don't think they think.
Speaker 1: I don't think they are anymore because companies can use
Speaker 1: such targeted tracking you deal stuff.
Speaker 4: So there's also did you did you mention? Though there's
Speaker 4: uh like a promo code add on extension?
Speaker 2: Which one? There's like, I mean, there's a couple I don't.
Speaker 3: You've already mentioned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Honey, so I
Speaker 1: don't really recommend it, but you can try it.
Speaker 3: There's Honey, and then there's another key Buy.
Speaker 2: Is the one I keep buy That's that's the one
Speaker 2: I like.
Speaker 1: I find again doesn't surface as many codes, And if
Speaker 1: you're shopping on Amazon, there just aren't that many codes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, But to be honest, I just bought a mattress,
Speaker 1: one of those mattresses in a box, and.
Speaker 3: A Casper No.
Speaker 2: I bought Lisa oh l E E s A.
Speaker 1: So with Lisa and Casper and a lot of these,
Speaker 1: you can actually go into stores to go on them.
Speaker 1: So we went to the Casper store in the mall.
Speaker 1: We laid on the bed, then we went to Macy's
Speaker 1: which has the Lisa mattress in the store, and so
Speaker 1: you can go lay on it and then order it.
Speaker 1: They want you to buy it from Macy's. I just
Speaker 1: went online and sadly audit. But anyway, the promo code
Speaker 1: that I ended up using was cheaper from a random
Speaker 1: website than it was through what Wikibi found. Oh and
Speaker 1: now the promo code for Black Friday is even better,
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of annoying, but anyway, whatever. Anyway, So
Speaker 1: the other place I like to look. Dealnews dot com
Speaker 1: fantastic for finding deals online because they have a team
Speaker 1: of editors that looks through stuff and they give you
Speaker 1: reasons why things are a good deal. And then slick
Speaker 1: deals dot net is a great one. I think it's
Speaker 1: just slick deals. Is it slick deals dot com or
Speaker 1: dot net? I think slick deals dot net. And so
Speaker 1: you go there and they have a lot of great
Speaker 1: deals and those are kind of crowdsourced. So if you
Speaker 1: find deal megan online, you submit it to the website.
Speaker 1: Other people say, oh, yeah, it's a good deal, and
Speaker 1: they give it the thumbs up, and that brings it
Speaker 1: to the top. The best deals rise to the top
Speaker 1: and helps everyone out. Oh really cool thing? All right again,
Speaker 1: I totally this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, there.
Speaker 3: We go, there we go.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: Okay, so this next question comes from pacoh Yo, Rich.
Speaker 4: I listened to you on your podcast on and on
Speaker 4: the Tech Guy. I got turned on to Libby by
Speaker 4: a friend and Libby rocks. I have not bought a
Speaker 4: book for a couple of years now.
Speaker 3: Don't let Amazon know.
Speaker 4: I open the app on both my kindle tablet and
Speaker 4: my iPad Mini four. The Los Angeles Public Library is awesome.
Speaker 4: Have you checked out Canopy with a K, the Netflix
Speaker 4: of the lap L streaming movie channel ten free movies
Speaker 4: per month with an extensive movie library.
Speaker 3: Here's the link. Pass on the info on Canopy. Stay safe, Paco,
Speaker 3: stay safe, Stay safe.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm not a question just like no, but
Speaker 1: he's adding, so I shared Libby, which you have tried
Speaker 1: now and you are a believer, right, I'm a believer.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. I got my mother in law on it.
Speaker 1: I'm on it.
Speaker 2: I mean it's I will never buy a book again. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Is it owned by the Los Angeles Public Library?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: So here's the way they do it. The libraries, I
Speaker 1: think have to pay to be a part of this.
Speaker 1: So it's just like like this is like its own company.
Speaker 1: But I think that company goes to the public library
Speaker 1: and says like, hey, we can expand your reach and
Speaker 1: we'll take over all the digital kind of distribution of
Speaker 1: your books. You just let us do that, and I
Speaker 1: guess I'm sure they pay for that. Interesting, but it's
Speaker 1: not just LA Public Library. It's all the different libraries
Speaker 1: in America that want to link up. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: there's other companies that do something similar. But we live
Speaker 1: in La so we're using overdrive or sorry, it used
Speaker 1: to be called overdrive. Canopy is now what Paco is recommending.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking it up and it's the same kind
Speaker 1: of thing. It looks now, this is interesting. It says
Speaker 1: available in participating of public libraries, colleges, and universities. And
Speaker 1: I'm looking on line and here's some of the movies
Speaker 1: that I'm seeing. Chinatown, Captain Fantastic.
Speaker 2: Remember that was a couple of years ago. Moonlight, Okay,
Speaker 2: I can't really I'm trying to like search. Is there
Speaker 2: a way to like search? Not unless you log in?
Speaker 2: It looks like but again, you can get it on
Speaker 2: TV Roku, Chrome Cat.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. You can get it on all your life.
Speaker 1: I need to install this to see.
Speaker 2: But look at that.
Speaker 3: Eighth grade new story on it.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of eighth grade? Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know it's on Amazon Prime.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I watched that. That was kind of sad.
Speaker 2: That was actually sad, that movie, I don't think.
Speaker 3: I watched the first ten minutes and I was like.
Speaker 1: The girl who does like this is too sad the
Speaker 1: YouTube stuff, I think she's like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey guys, oh Olivia Jade, Yeah is that who
Speaker 4: it is? Yeah, she's like watching and there's like Lady
Speaker 4: Bird trying to do her makeup like her, Oh it.
Speaker 2: Is Olivia Jade was in that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sad love Ladybird.
Speaker 2: Ladybird was great anyway, So this looks like a great
Speaker 2: it says.
Speaker 1: It has critically acclaimed movies, documentaries, award winning foreign films,
Speaker 1: and more so. I don't think it's gonna be every
Speaker 1: movie that, like, you know, you have on your wish list,
Speaker 1: but it's going to have enough where it's like another
Speaker 1: place to look for stuff and again free free.
Speaker 2: So sign up.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna download this to my uh firestick and see
Speaker 1: how it works.
Speaker 2: But why not. It looks like it has a lot
Speaker 2: of kids stuff, but cool? Can it be with A K,
Speaker 2: K A N O P Y good?
Speaker 3: So is it?
Speaker 4: Is it? Well, we don't know, but is it this simile?
Speaker 4: Is it the same as like you have to place.
Speaker 2: A hold if it's not about Oh that's see, I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 4: Probably, So that's the thing with Libby is yes, because
Speaker 4: it's the public library. You don't just automatically get to
Speaker 4: read the book, right, there's.
Speaker 1: Not like unlimited copies, just like if you went into
Speaker 1: the library.
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming this is the same exact way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a certain amount of people that can check
Speaker 1: out Lady Bird at one time.
Speaker 2: You put yourself on a list. So again it's not
Speaker 2: like as easy as Netflix or buying something. But again
Speaker 2: free fr ee yeah spells free.
Speaker 1: Oh speaking of free, Okay, tell me if you've heard
Speaker 1: of this, because I actually know all about this before
Speaker 1: I read this BuzzFeed article.
Speaker 3: But okay, it's free.
Speaker 2: Probably they do a really job.
Speaker 1: So you know that there's a bunch of reviews on
Speaker 1: Amazon And when I actually wrote my book, reviews. Reviews
Speaker 1: were really important last year for my book because when
Speaker 1: people saw good reviews it would make them more confident
Speaker 1: in buying it. Yeah, and I did not buy reviews.
Speaker 1: I didn't even ask people to do reviews. I did
Speaker 1: once I saw them coming in and said, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: if you bought it, you know, write a review because
Speaker 1: it helps. But I didn't realize the extent of like,
Speaker 1: if you see zero reviews, you're like.
Speaker 2: Eh, nobody's buying this right.
Speaker 1: Well, companies are very hip to this, And this BuzzFeed
Speaker 1: article by Brian Anselm goes through the process of explaining
Speaker 1: how companies.
Speaker 2: Get bogus reviews. Well, the reviews are real, but here's
Speaker 2: how they do it. Basically, you're Megan.
Speaker 1: You go on a secret Facebook group that has a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of offers. Hey, this new hairbrush will send you.
Speaker 1: They won't send you one for free. You buy this
Speaker 1: hairbrush on Amazon. Once you leave a five star review
Speaker 1: for it, we will reimburse you with a gift card
Speaker 1: in the amount of.
Speaker 2: That hair brush plus plus you get to keep the brush.
Speaker 3: So you get the brush for free and you get
Speaker 3: your money back.
Speaker 1: You're not making any money, but you're getting a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of free products.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So this goes.
Speaker 3: On and I'm not surprised.
Speaker 2: I'm not surprised either, but it's kind of sad.
Speaker 4: It's really annoying because I'm always looking at reviews on
Speaker 4: Amazon and sometimes I'm like, this review just like feels fake, right, And.
Speaker 2: They used to so Amazon the way this used to happen.
Speaker 1: So Amazon has banned giving people free products in exchange
Speaker 1: for reviews. So it used to be on Amazon there
Speaker 1: were entire websites dedicated to where you could go on
Speaker 1: and just search for stuff you wanted.
Speaker 2: Let's say you love makeup products. Yeah, bing bing bing
Speaker 2: bing bing, they.
Speaker 1: Send it to your house and all you had to
Speaker 1: do in your review is say, I'm writing this review
Speaker 1: because I got a free product in exchange for their review.
Speaker 2: It didn't cloud my judgment at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, Amazon was like no, no, no, no more, We're not
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 2: So now you can't do that. So these companies have
Speaker 2: found a way around it by private Facebook, private Facebook groups,
Speaker 2: so we're not giving and they don't give you the product
Speaker 2: for free.
Speaker 1: You buy your credit card, which by the way, gives
Speaker 1: that little badge that says verified purchase.
Speaker 2: So it's even more terrible. Yeah, isn't this crazy? So
Speaker 2: you got to read this article in BuzzFeed.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you've ever checked for links
Speaker 1: in the show notes and you found that they weren't there,
Speaker 1: Ray and San Diego really got on me for not
Speaker 1: doing that, and so I said, you know what, I
Speaker 1: was waiting for someone to call me out and they did.
Speaker 2: Ray did, yeah, And so now I put the links in,
Speaker 2: so when you.
Speaker 1: Go to the show notes, you've got all the links
Speaker 1: to everything I mentioned, so you don't have to go
Speaker 1: find this article on BuzzFeed. Ray, Yeah, Ray in San Diego,
Speaker 1: thank you anyway? Crazy Huh, It's just annoying.
Speaker 3: Like how are we supposed to really know?
Speaker 4: I guess everyone has their own opinion, but then there's
Speaker 4: all the fake opinions.
Speaker 1: So it's just like fake pinions, as I call them,
Speaker 1: opinions opinions. So this is why you have to listen
Speaker 1: to someone like me that actually gets stuff.
Speaker 3: Don't to me.
Speaker 2: Well, they listen to.
Speaker 1: You too, But I'm just saying like, this is why reviewers,
Speaker 1: and you know, even INFLA winswers are more important nowadays
Speaker 1: because you feel like you trust them.
Speaker 2: You've gotten to know them through their videos. Right.
Speaker 1: So I just started following this girl named Ali Fedatowski.
Speaker 3: Love her.
Speaker 2: Do you know who it is?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so I knew of her. She was the
Speaker 1: original Bachelorette, right or Bachelor what.
Speaker 2: Do you call it?
Speaker 3: She was on the original She was like number four bachelorette.
Speaker 2: She was on the original show.
Speaker 3: Two thousand and so she was on the Bachelor.
Speaker 4: Oh no, Melissa in the Bachelor. Okay, she and then
Speaker 4: she went on to become the Bachelorette, did she? And
Speaker 4: then she was ONNY for a long time. She was
Speaker 4: a reporter, and I think she might sometimes be okay,
Speaker 4: but well.
Speaker 1: She has a lot of followers, and so her husband
Speaker 1: actually works at the radio station here in LA and
Speaker 1: so anyway, I just was fooking at his stuff and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, well I remember her, like started
Speaker 1: following her.
Speaker 2: She is very into storying her life.
Speaker 3: Oh all bachelorette, Like I know, I know.
Speaker 1: Anyway, So yeah, okay, you did you have a question
Speaker 1: that was we were talking about Libby?
Speaker 3: Well it was it was it was about canopy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my turn.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're let's talk about the new Ford Mustang all
Speaker 1: Electric mock e. For the first time in fifty five years,
Speaker 1: Ford has a new Mustang with an suv. I don't
Speaker 1: know what I think about an suv Mustang, but it
Speaker 1: makes sense because when you think Mustang, what do you think?
Speaker 2: What comes to mind? A horse like power?
Speaker 3: Strong?
Speaker 1: Yes, strong, Like this is like a machine like yes,
Speaker 1: Like you would not think an suv that's electric.
Speaker 2: You might think that's wimpy.
Speaker 1: It's like no, no, no, there's a Mustang power. We mean
Speaker 1: business here, yeah, room room room, right. And so the
Speaker 1: new Ford Mustang E. So I'll give you a little
Speaker 1: inside baseball mock E. So Ford was like, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: do you want to get an early heads up of
Speaker 1: this Mustang? And I'm like, of course I do, right,
Speaker 1: Like this is amazing an electric car from Ford, which
Speaker 1: I think it's their first all electric. Maybe it's not,
Speaker 1: maybe they have another one, maybe they have a whatever, yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's a Mustang whatever. So I and I'm like,
Speaker 1: in the course, and this is totally inside baseball, but
Speaker 1: like you know, they're asking me like, okay, here's your setup,
Speaker 1: you have an interview, you can walk around the car.
Speaker 1: Inside baseball means like this is stuff that I probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't be telling the home listener, but I am because
Speaker 1: it's very much like probably four doesn't want me to
Speaker 1: say this, and it's very much like it's behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: So they negotiate with me back and forth, like hey,
Speaker 1: we'll give you a look at this car before anyone
Speaker 1: else sees it. And I didn't even realize what a
Speaker 1: big deal this was. But my main thing was like
Speaker 1: I want to see I want to take a drive
Speaker 1: in this car.
Speaker 3: Oh, I remember this because seeing a.
Speaker 1: Car is one thing, but like, I'm not Car and
Speaker 1: Driver magazine, Like I don't we're not doing pictures of
Speaker 1: this car for people, Like I want people to see
Speaker 1: what it's like to ride.
Speaker 2: An electric Mustang that's an suv.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so they come back and forth, and so
Speaker 1: finally two things happened to Guy's like, well, when you
Speaker 1: see it, it's gonna be totally i'm uh, disguised, Like
Speaker 1: they put camouflage over it. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: ever seen this driving, but the new cars that like
Speaker 1: all these like editors of like road and track and stuff,
Speaker 1: are driving, Yeah, they cover it up with like these
Speaker 1: weird things you can't tell what the car is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's number one.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's gonna be camouflage and number two,
Speaker 1: we're not doing a test drive.
Speaker 2: I'm like, all right, well talk to me when I
Speaker 2: could do a test drive. Yeah, Like, I don't. I
Speaker 2: get it. You have a great car, but like I
Speaker 2: want to see what it's like as an average person
Speaker 2: to drive this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2: So it didn't work out needless.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, we didn't get that story. They're
Speaker 4: doing this story.
Speaker 1: Ever, So the Mustang mach e U looks like it's
Speaker 1: gonna be available. I don't know either next year or
Speaker 1: the next year, but it's about anywhere from like forty
Speaker 1: five thousand to like sixty thousand dollars. They have so
Speaker 1: many different versions of this thing. It's gonna go about
Speaker 1: three hundred miles on a charge.
Speaker 3: Should we know what it looks like?
Speaker 2: Now we do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks really nice. It's beautiful, But it's just
Speaker 1: one of these things. They're trying to go heads up
Speaker 1: against Tesla, which I think they can. But when you
Speaker 1: think Tesla, if you're gonna now Tesla's Tesla's SUV is
Speaker 1: about eighty thousand, so you're talking you're getting an suv
Speaker 1: for like you know, a third of the price.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry, that's better a.
Speaker 1: Third off, I should say, yeah, so I think that
Speaker 1: they have a chance here. But I personally am not
Speaker 1: buying a brand new Oh it's gonna come out in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, I'm not buying a brand new first generation
Speaker 1: electric car, like nope. Like Tesla's been doing it for
Speaker 1: a little bit. So if I was gonna put eighty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, if I was ever going to do that
Speaker 1: for a car, which I probably never will, but if
Speaker 1: I was ever going to do that, I would put.
Speaker 3: It towards So you're like, it's like eighty percent now
Speaker 3: right now?
Speaker 1: No, I would say in if in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: if I'm ready, when I'm ready to buy my new car,
Speaker 1: which I do think will be electric, I will give
Speaker 1: this a look.
Speaker 3: A Tesla. No, no, the Mustake, the must You'll never
Speaker 3: give Tesla a luck, No.
Speaker 2: I will, but not for eighty grand.
Speaker 1: I'm not spending eighty I would give the Tesla three
Speaker 1: yeah a look, and probably that that one is like
Speaker 1: probably the way I looked at it was like forty
Speaker 1: five to fifty because they say it's like thirty whatever,
Speaker 1: But like when you really add all the stuff you want,
Speaker 1: it's not like any car gets more expensive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, that's it.
Speaker 1: So I think that it's cool that they're doing that,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that Ford is getting on board, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad the whole electric thing is progressing. My concern
Speaker 1: with electric is still it's like I just want to
Speaker 1: be able to get in my car and go, and
Speaker 1: I have a lot of fears with electric, like if
Speaker 1: I have to drive to San Francisco.
Speaker 2: I guess if you're in California, you're fine, but it's
Speaker 2: like if you it's just I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's like a freedom associated with a gas car and
Speaker 1: even a hybrid car.
Speaker 4: Well, because you can always stop and load it in
Speaker 4: five minutes, and don't they have fast charging.
Speaker 2: Do but it still takes a while.
Speaker 4: It's still got to get the cord out exactly. I
Speaker 4: have no idea.
Speaker 1: And the time I took a test drive with the Tesla,
Speaker 1: I drove up to San Francisco and back as a
Speaker 1: proof of concept to like see what it's like. And
Speaker 1: it was fine, but I had to eat lunch both
Speaker 1: there and on the way back, and my lunch was
Speaker 1: like thirty five dollars. Yeah, while I was sitting there
Speaker 1: for half an hour charging it.
Speaker 2: So it's like, we didn't have to have lunch. What
Speaker 2: are you gonna do? Go hungry?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, I had to have lunch, eat.
Speaker 3: A power bar.
Speaker 1: I eat power bars every day of my life. I
Speaker 1: wanted a nice lunch power bar Paris Ranch and that's right.
Speaker 3: Eight pick in and out next time.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of odd. I do I ate the
Speaker 1: charge it in and out, That's what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: had to go to Harris the chargers.
Speaker 2: See this what I'm talking about. And then when you
Speaker 2: stay at your hotel, the hotel I stayed that just
Speaker 2: happened to have charger in and out.
Speaker 4: If you're listening chargers, you need to add a trick
Speaker 4: field vehicle charger.
Speaker 1: So and the time it takes to go through the
Speaker 1: in and out drive through, you would have a half
Speaker 1: an hour to drive.
Speaker 2: Her charger car.
Speaker 3: Geez geez.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time I ever had in and
Speaker 1: out when I came to LA. When I went to
Speaker 1: USC never even heard of it in my life, never
Speaker 1: heard of anything.
Speaker 2: So I didn't even hear of LA. I didn't even
Speaker 2: know what it was. I just came here.
Speaker 3: You didn't even know what like Texas was no.
Speaker 1: Literally I didn't Australia. I'm not kidding. I grew up
Speaker 1: in the biggest bubble in New Jersey. I never knew
Speaker 1: anything outside of the East Coast. The farthest I'd ever
Speaker 1: been in my life was Ohio once, and I didn't
Speaker 1: even know what California was, never heard of it until literally,
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding you had never heard.
Speaker 4: Of California, California, Ia until I got something in the mail.
Speaker 3: Or sorry, seventeen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I saw a little Hollywood sign. Yeah. I
Speaker 2: know it's tough to believe, but like I grew up
Speaker 2: in a bubble.
Speaker 1: It was very much like just we went up to
Speaker 1: Upsot date in New York and I knew about I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure I've heard of Los Angeles, but I
Speaker 1: don't even think I knew.
Speaker 2: Anything about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't sell yourself short.
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding about I did not.
Speaker 1: I never even heard of usc Yeah, I knew there's
Speaker 1: something I knew the world was, and it ended right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's still.
Speaker 1: It ended at the edge of New Jersey. No, I really,
Speaker 1: it's really weird, like.
Speaker 3: The Jersey Shore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what my kids, I mean, I think about
Speaker 1: what they know at eight years old. My kid knows
Speaker 1: Mexico because we've been there. Yeah, they're going to know
Speaker 1: Hawaii because we're going there. He knows Las Vegas but
Speaker 1: in New Jersey.
Speaker 3: But they don't really know, like you know, yeah right, No,
Speaker 3: I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying.
Speaker 2: It's really weird.
Speaker 1: We think back to like what you knew as a
Speaker 1: kid and watching kids grow up and like learn things,
Speaker 1: like my kid will ask me questions in the back
Speaker 1: of the car, like dad, so is this how it works?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: And like you're like, oh, yow, like they really their
Speaker 1: little brains or they don't know.
Speaker 3: No, they don't, they don't. Yeah, all right, all right,
Speaker 3: yeah this is me.
Speaker 4: Next question comes from Jim enjoyed you very much sitting
Speaker 4: in for Leo. Heard you describe your method of scanning
Speaker 4: by phone and saving receipts. Couldn't catch all the details
Speaker 4: and I have an Android phone. Are there details documented anywhere?
Speaker 4: So basically he wants to know, how do you scan?
Speaker 4: Is there a scanner app for an Android phone?
Speaker 2: Oh? Android, okay, I've learner refused on Android or iOS
Speaker 2: so I did talk about on the Leo Show.
Speaker 1: I got a caller and someone asked about, you know,
Speaker 1: going paperless, and I said, I did this a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, I think in twenty seventeen, where I
Speaker 1: decided everything's got to go, and here's what I do.
Speaker 2: So I do a combination of things.
Speaker 1: I mostly use my phone to scan stuff, and so
Speaker 1: I will use either the Google Drive app. If I'm
Speaker 1: on my Android phone, you go into Google Drive, you
Speaker 1: press the plus sign and scan. I think we talked
Speaker 1: about this before. I think we talked about this last
Speaker 1: week and I thought we did, or maybe I've just
Speaker 1: talked about it on the radio so many times that
Speaker 1: like it all blends together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's the main thing.
Speaker 1: If you have Android, okay, and then on Android also
Speaker 1: you can use like the Adobe Scan app, you can
Speaker 1: use the Office Lens app. There's a lot of different apps.
Speaker 1: I found that those two are probably the best that
Speaker 1: give you. On Android, you get a wide range of
Speaker 1: clarity when it comes to the scan of the PDF,
Speaker 1: which is really weird. On Apple, it basically all looks great.
Speaker 1: It's because of the way that Android photo our cameras
Speaker 1: interact with the app. They're not necessarily written perfectly so anyway.
Speaker 2: But I would say that's the way to do it.
Speaker 1: And then the way that I've done it with my
Speaker 1: scanning is for a couple of years, I just did
Speaker 1: everything in Google Drive and just throw it all in there, right,
Speaker 1: and then you can search Google Drive by you know,
Speaker 1: it scans everything in your PDFs for keywords, so you
Speaker 1: can scan like let's say your doctor's name is doctor Smith.
Speaker 1: You can type in Smith and find all the statements
Speaker 1: from doctor Smith, right, And so that's easy. But if
Speaker 1: you want to get a little bit more organized, which
Speaker 1: I found because for the first couple of years I
Speaker 1: didn't do any organization.
Speaker 2: I said, I'll just search for the name.
Speaker 1: But then I realized it's a little bit easier on
Speaker 1: yourself as the years go on to put everything into
Speaker 1: a year folder. So I do twenty nineteen, and then
Speaker 1: I do everything by specific whatever the company or business
Speaker 1: or whatever is, So I don't just do a house
Speaker 1: folder with everything that has to do with my house,
Speaker 1: house insurance, you know, whatever electricity, I do, whatever the
Speaker 1: biller's name is, so like I'll do like LADWP and
Speaker 1: that way. When I want to find that, I go
Speaker 1: Because when you think about your house or apartment, you
Speaker 1: don't think like oh my apartment.
Speaker 2: I know this was my apartment. You think my spectrum bill, right, yeah,
Speaker 2: like be really specific and it just helps.
Speaker 1: Like if you have a doctor, put them by doctor
Speaker 1: for medical. I'll do like you know, rich medical and
Speaker 1: you know, put stuff in there. So like I kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, because I don't have that many things, thank god,
Speaker 1: right now. Maybe as the years go on, all specific
Speaker 1: those out right, but right now I just have a
Speaker 1: general for that. But anyway, so that's the methodology that
Speaker 1: I use. And I find that you can dump everything
Speaker 1: into Google Drive at the base folder, and then on
Speaker 1: a Saturday and Sunday you go through and kind of
Speaker 1: like drag them into the folders that you need to.
Speaker 1: So I have a very specific way of doing it.
Speaker 1: I keep everything not every weekend, probably once a month.
Speaker 1: I go through and actually scan everything in and then
Speaker 1: organize it into folders. Like on a Saturday morning, I
Speaker 1: should be doing this or Friday night, depending on how
Speaker 1: much I got to see.
Speaker 3: That's a big Friday activity for me.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a good Friday night for you.
Speaker 3: Like at like six pm, I'm like that that.
Speaker 2: Don't you have that wine glass that holds a full bottle?
Speaker 3: No, I just that's called a bottle. You mean the bottle,
Speaker 3: the bottle, the.
Speaker 2: Bottle drink from that. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about but before we do this, Okay,
Speaker 1: a website called only on Streaming dot Com and Megan,
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: You'll like this.
Speaker 3: Okay, only free.
Speaker 1: Yes, But here's the thing. So a lot of people
Speaker 1: wonder how you find all these shows. There's so many
Speaker 1: new streaming services, Like we talked about The Morning Show,
Speaker 1: which is only on Apple Tea, and if you go
Speaker 1: on Netflix, they have so much stuff. Like if you
Speaker 1: ever tried to find something on Netflix, and like you
Speaker 1: can literally see a show and let's say you find
Speaker 1: it on the Netflix home screen and you search for
Speaker 1: it on the web and you're like this came out
Speaker 1: like six months ago?
Speaker 2: How did I not know about?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 1: Happens all the time. So this website only on Streaming
Speaker 1: dot Com brand new has current information on upcoming titles
Speaker 1: and current titles from Netflix, Amazon, Disney Plus, Hulu, DC Universe, CBS, YouTube, Crackle,
Speaker 1: Apple TV, and other originals. So this is not cataloging
Speaker 1: everything available, it's just the originals.
Speaker 2: So I'm looking right here. The night before Christmas night
Speaker 2: spelled with the k N. You know, yes, you would.
Speaker 1: Netflix is clearly going after the romantic comedies. Look who
Speaker 1: at stars Emmanuel Chakiri.
Speaker 2: But you won't like this. Who is that the girl
Speaker 2: from Entrage? It isn't that her.
Speaker 1: I didn't really you never watched it was probably a
Speaker 1: little bit before. I'm pretty sure that's Sloan. Let me
Speaker 1: say I think she was. I think that's who it is.
Speaker 1: I just know Ari Gold, Okay, so you know him, right, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: look at that.
Speaker 3: Nice job.
Speaker 2: I don't know many people, but point for you. Okay. Anyway,
Speaker 2: So this is really it's actually a very well done website.
Speaker 2: I hope they can keep it up.
Speaker 1: But they have all of the originals, so you can
Speaker 1: see the originals that just came out, which is really cool.
Speaker 1: There's a crown, and then you've got you can sort,
Speaker 1: so you can do browse all types. So let's say
Speaker 1: I just want to see movies and I just want
Speaker 1: the I like comedies a lot, so I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: put comedies and I'm gonna say go, And now I
Speaker 1: can see all the comedies that just came out on Netflix,
Speaker 1: eighty four of them, and you can sort by release date.
Speaker 2: Or eight ISZ look at this? How great is this?
Speaker 3: Do they have ratings or no?
Speaker 2: When you look inside them?
Speaker 1: Yes so clause TVPG No I mean reviews. Oh sorry,
Speaker 1: I thought you're like, I don't watch any thing, righted?
Speaker 2: Are I don't p for me?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yes they do.
Speaker 1: They give you the IMDb, which I find those not
Speaker 1: to be very good, but they give it to you.
Speaker 1: I would rather see something like a metacritic, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I mean you could see, you know, you
Speaker 1: can get a good idea. Maybe they do have you
Speaker 1: know what, these are probably all so new that they
Speaker 1: probably don't have as many you know, ratings.
Speaker 4: Have you ever watched a movie and then looked it
Speaker 4: up and it had and you loved it and has
Speaker 4: terrible ratings?
Speaker 2: You like?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 3: Give me an example. I'm just curious.
Speaker 2: I like a lot of those dumb comedies like the
Speaker 2: stupid uh like Jonah Hill kind.
Speaker 3: Of stuff, like the oh yeah, step Brothers.
Speaker 2: Yeah I never saw that one actually, but that kind
Speaker 2: of genre of like I just like dumb movies. Yeah,
Speaker 2: basically yeah, his.
Speaker 3: Movies do don't they like? Don't like they're like the
Speaker 3: funniest movies.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of Man, yeah, like something like that. Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to think of a good example. But
Speaker 1: I like those kind of dumb, thoughtless movies on a
Speaker 1: Friday night where I don't don't have to think about
Speaker 1: anything and I can just watch and laugh and it's
Speaker 1: not the best movie in.
Speaker 2: The world, but it's funny and you're like, okay, this
Speaker 2: is yeah, it makes me smile. Yeah, and I look
Speaker 2: them up. I don't. I actually don't go a lot
Speaker 2: by ratings because I just don't care.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 2: Like I'd rather just you know, see the movie and
Speaker 2: just kind of have your own opinion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I'll watch the trailer basically and kind of
Speaker 1: read a little bit about it, and you know, I
Speaker 1: don't go by IMDb for sure. I might look up
Speaker 1: Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes, but like even Rotten Tomatoes, like
Speaker 1: some of these dumb movies.
Speaker 2: Like what was the one Last Year the Christmas movie?
Speaker 2: It was like on Netflix. It was like something with
Speaker 2: Christmas prints, the Christmas Clause or something like that or something.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I'm not big on Christmas movies, so oh you're not.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's an interesting little nugget we got about you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's sad.
Speaker 3: Well, I just haven't watched.
Speaker 2: A little part of you that's kind of dead inside.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I yeah, we can talk about this next week.
Speaker 2: We only have like two minutes left.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just I like them as a kid, and then
Speaker 4: I think I just watched too many. I think I
Speaker 4: was inundated with Christmas movies and so now I'm just like, interesting,
Speaker 4: I just watch horror movies during Okay, Christmas?
Speaker 2: Do you really know I'm giving?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, as I get older, I like
Speaker 1: Christmas movies even more because you've kids.
Speaker 2: May Well, yeah, maybe that's it.
Speaker 1: It's just like the nostalgia of like, I really enjoy
Speaker 1: that holiday season, and like the older you get, the
Speaker 1: like more compact. It feels like there's only twenty two
Speaker 1: days between Thanksgiving and Christmas?
Speaker 3: Sure, which is expressing me out?
Speaker 4: Wait?
Speaker 2: Is that really possible?
Speaker 3: Twenty four can't be twenty two?
Speaker 2: I can't be. Why is there anyway whatever there's Do
Speaker 2: you wish that it's Amber?
Speaker 4: Do you wish that the month of December was a
Speaker 4: longer month, Like if there was any month that could
Speaker 4: be like thirty six days but each December? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Why didn't they make leapier like before Christmas? Yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know, Megan, you know, I don't
Speaker 2: nobody we will never know.
Speaker 3: I'm only ninety two years old.
Speaker 2: What you're only Oh, I'm doing the wrong one. I was.
Speaker 2: I was seeing the music playing us out. Oh cool,
Speaker 2: So that weird?
Speaker 1: Now it can do that, right, that's really cool. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's take the time to thank who needs to be thanked.
Speaker 1: Thanks mom, Thanks to you for listening, including Megan's mom. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: Run it looks like we have to replay the song.
Speaker 2: This is how good we are at this? Wow?
Speaker 1: Can you believe that KFI is going to let me
Speaker 1: host four hours on Black Friday?
Speaker 2: Like doing this kind of antics? I thought so too,
Speaker 2: but clearly they're letting me.
Speaker 1: So, if you're listening to KFI AM six forty in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles on Black Friday, I'll be hosting from ten.
Speaker 2: To two ten to two. I hope they don't listen
Speaker 2: to this there too.
Speaker 1: Meghan might be there as well, so we may be
Speaker 1: pulling the same shenanigans there. I hope they have someone
Speaker 1: that knows how to play the music, because we sure don't.
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