1
00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,720
Speaker 1: New summer travel tools from Google. How to check the

2
00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,880
Speaker 1: battery on your air Tags and passwords might be a

3
00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:20,320
Speaker 1: thing of the past. Oh plus your tech questions answered.

4
00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,000
Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich

5
00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:24,960
Speaker 1: on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech

6
00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,000
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. It's also the

7
00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,280
Speaker 1: place where I answer the questions you send me. Once again,

8
00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,360
Speaker 1: my name is Rich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel

9
00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,280
Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles. What is going on? Welcome to

10
00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:43,720
Speaker 1: the show. Welcome if you're listening on Twitter spaces. Still

11
00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,720
Speaker 1: a lot going on in the tech world just never

12
00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,680
Speaker 1: never ends, huh. But kind of fun stuff, a lot

13
00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,320
Speaker 1: of cool stuff to talk about, like a lot of

14
00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:53,760
Speaker 1: like a lot of like new tools that I want

15
00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,480
Speaker 1: to talk about this week, like just handy, handy stuff.

16
00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,080
Speaker 1: So let me just give you a background on me

17
00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:01,440
Speaker 1: and kind of my philosophy on what I like to

18
00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,880
Speaker 1: talk about both on TV and on this podcast. There

19
00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:08,760
Speaker 1: are so many people out there that love to talk rumors, speculation,

20
00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,880
Speaker 1: hot takes. You know, you can find opinions all over

21
00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:17,480
Speaker 1: the web. But personally, I don't care. I want good information,

22
00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,320
Speaker 1: I want news I can use. I want tools, I

23
00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:22,399
Speaker 1: want tips. I want things that I sit there and

24
00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, Rich, stop talking, because I need to write

25
00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:27,280
Speaker 1: this down. I need to like, hold on, wait what

26
00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,119
Speaker 1: was that app? Hold on? What was that? So ninety

27
00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,320
Speaker 1: nine percent of the people that meet me in real

28
00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:37,000
Speaker 1: life IRL, they they literally, without fail, say hey, Rich,

29
00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,119
Speaker 1: I loved your tip on this, or Rich, I downloaded

30
00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,199
Speaker 1: that app you mentioned, or Rich, I got this phone

31
00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,880
Speaker 1: because of your review. That's the kind of stuff that

32
00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,000
Speaker 1: I want to do. So when you look at technology

33
00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,520
Speaker 1: news on TV, on the web, pretty much anywhere unless

34
00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,000
Speaker 1: you're on these real enthusiast sites, a lot of it

35
00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:56,800
Speaker 1: is just like you know, it's a lot of like

36
00:01:56,840 --> 00:01:59,800
Speaker 1: what what did Elon say today? What is Elon going

37
00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,480
Speaker 1: to do? To Twitter? And everyone has an opinion on

38
00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:05,560
Speaker 1: this stuff, and personally, I think it's fun, and of

39
00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,240
Speaker 1: course you want to look at some of that stuff.

40
00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,840
Speaker 1: Most of the time, I don't, to be honest, you know,

41
00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,800
Speaker 1: even with the Apple roomor stuff. It's like for years

42
00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,480
Speaker 1: on TV, I just didn't cover Apple rumors. I mean,

43
00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:19,880
Speaker 1: anyone can write up an Apple rumor, and now you know,

44
00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,200
Speaker 1: I'll report on some of them and some of the

45
00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,240
Speaker 1: more I guess the more reputable sources. But the reality is,

46
00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:28,960
Speaker 1: like I want to know what new products are out

47
00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,600
Speaker 1: whether I should buy them, what new apps are useful,

48
00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,880
Speaker 1: what new features are out there. Those are the kind

49
00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:36,240
Speaker 1: of things that I think are the most useful. So

50
00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:39,320
Speaker 1: I am in a constant battle with kind of the hype,

51
00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:43,280
Speaker 1: the clickbait, the you know, just anyone and everyone that

52
00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,000
Speaker 1: wants to lead me into this direction of you know,

53
00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,440
Speaker 1: stuff that it's like almost like uh, popcorn. You know.

54
00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:53,440
Speaker 1: It's like it's like you're sitting there with your popcorn

55
00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:56,079
Speaker 1: just eating and like, oh yeah, that's you know, the

56
00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,240
Speaker 1: stuff that makes you angry, the stuff that makes you happy,

57
00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,000
Speaker 1: the stuff that makes you sad. I I've always tried,

58
00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,040
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying look, I mean I try to

59
00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,600
Speaker 1: hold this stuff to a higher standard. It doesn't always happen,

60
00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,000
Speaker 1: but in general, Like if you're wondering why I'm not

61
00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:13,600
Speaker 1: super controversial or why I'm not super edgy, that's the reason.

62
00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,280
Speaker 1: I just want this to be a show and my

63
00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,120
Speaker 1: reports to be a place where you learn cool stuff

64
00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,760
Speaker 1: about technology, you see cool stuff, and you can use

65
00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,040
Speaker 1: the stuff that I talk about. So I could scare

66
00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:27,480
Speaker 1: you every day with privacy stuff. I could make you

67
00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,200
Speaker 1: fear for your you know, security of your phone. I

68
00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,000
Speaker 1: can make you tell you that you need to update

69
00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,720
Speaker 1: Chrome every day. That's just not how I roll. I

70
00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,760
Speaker 1: will tell you when I think there's something that you

71
00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:41,440
Speaker 1: need to know about security, about you know, your privacy,

72
00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,600
Speaker 1: of course I will tell you that stuff, but just

73
00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,960
Speaker 1: kind of making these large giant statements about you know,

74
00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,240
Speaker 1: you should be scared or your location or you know.

75
00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,400
Speaker 1: One of my favorites is like, you know, there's always

76
00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,920
Speaker 1: these roundups of like you know, Android apps that are

77
00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,480
Speaker 1: stealing information on your phone. Nine times out of ten,

78
00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,720
Speaker 1: those apps are sideloaded by a tiny percentage of people

79
00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,320
Speaker 1: in a different country, and they have no bearing on

80
00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,600
Speaker 1: the average person here in the US, which is my

81
00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:13,040
Speaker 1: primary audience. And so it's like, yeah, I'll tell you,

82
00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,120
Speaker 1: like what steps you should take to protect your phone.

83
00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,080
Speaker 1: Like if you're sideloading apps and you even know what

84
00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,400
Speaker 1: that is, you're probably a little tech savva the most

85
00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,120
Speaker 1: people anyway, so you already know what the dangers are

86
00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:26,360
Speaker 1: of sideloading an app, Especially when it comes to the iPhone.

87
00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,640
Speaker 1: You know, there's always you know, is it spying on you?

88
00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,880
Speaker 1: Is that this is that like I'll talk about that stuff,

89
00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:33,599
Speaker 1: but just to put these blanket statements, like the fact

90
00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:35,479
Speaker 1: that you know, you download an app and it's just

91
00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,800
Speaker 1: literally taking over your iPhone and suddenly spying on your

92
00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,280
Speaker 1: every move and using your cameras and this and that,

93
00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,880
Speaker 1: like it generally does not happen. So I'll talk about

94
00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,000
Speaker 1: this stuff, but in general, that's where I'm coming from.

95
00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,440
Speaker 1: I just kind of wanted to get that out there

96
00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:51,120
Speaker 1: so that you understand, if you know, if there's a

97
00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:53,400
Speaker 1: certain story I don't mention, or like a rumor in

98
00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:56,960
Speaker 1: the news that I'm just avoiding, there's a reason behind

99
00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,440
Speaker 1: my madness. There's a reason why I cover this stuff

100
00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,800
Speaker 1: that I do. All right, without further ado, let's get

101
00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,960
Speaker 1: into the first story of the week. Twitter, everyone's favorite

102
00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,520
Speaker 1: topic right now, is testing a new Twitter circle feature.

103
00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,359
Speaker 1: So this is so you can share your tweets with

104
00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,040
Speaker 1: a smaller group of people, and this makes a lot

105
00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,919
Speaker 1: of sense. Instagram has this close Friends feature, which I

106
00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,400
Speaker 1: really like because I've got a lot of followers on

107
00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,640
Speaker 1: Instagram and I love them, but they're not all my

108
00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,560
Speaker 1: family members and close friends, and sometimes I'm just sharing

109
00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,680
Speaker 1: stuff that's a little bit more family oriented or it's

110
00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,599
Speaker 1: not secret, but it's just like you know, maybe it's

111
00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,480
Speaker 1: just more Yeah, it's mostly just family oriented or where

112
00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,560
Speaker 1: I am at a certain place or time that might

113
00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,960
Speaker 1: not need to be public information. So I'll use that

114
00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,159
Speaker 1: close friends feature a lot. You can tell when someone

115
00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,039
Speaker 1: is showing you something on your close friends list because

116
00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,480
Speaker 1: I think there's a little green circle around the story

117
00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,120
Speaker 1: or around the person that's sharing the story, and so

118
00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,280
Speaker 1: you can tell that that's meant for just your eyes

119
00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,320
Speaker 1: and not everyone's eyes. And Twitter kind of testing the

120
00:05:58,320 --> 00:05:59,839
Speaker 1: same thing. You'll be able to share tweets with up

121
00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:02,479
Speaker 1: two one hundred and fifty people in this inner circle,

122
00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:06,200
Speaker 1: and you can change those people at any time. It

123
00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,279
Speaker 1: doesn't I don't. Let's see, does it tell you when

124
00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:13,080
Speaker 1: you're added or deleted from this circle? I don't think so.

125
00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,279
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you can edit your participants at any time.

126
00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:18,719
Speaker 1: So anyway, I mean, look, there's gonna be there's going

127
00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,440
Speaker 1: to be some changes at Twitter over the next six

128
00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,040
Speaker 1: months to a year. Obviously it's got new ownership, so

129
00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,280
Speaker 1: or it's going to have new ownership, so we're gonna

130
00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:28,840
Speaker 1: see a lot of changes. I hope they make it better.

131
00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,680
Speaker 1: I love Twitter, I really do. I've said this on

132
00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,560
Speaker 1: this show before. I think it's a great social network.

133
00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,200
Speaker 1: I think that I mentioned this on Twitter. Actually, how

134
00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:39,680
Speaker 1: Instagram to me has just become a complete mess with

135
00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,000
Speaker 1: all the changes and things that they're doing there trying

136
00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,400
Speaker 1: to really I mean, look, everyone is scared of reals, sorry,

137
00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:51,280
Speaker 1: of TikTok, and so you have the TikTok influence is

138
00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:55,880
Speaker 1: so apparent on Facebook and Instagram it's not even funny.

139
00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,279
Speaker 1: I mean they literally if they could just switch out

140
00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:01,839
Speaker 1: everything in Facebook and Instagram to become reels when you

141
00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,240
Speaker 1: open up the app, they would, But they want to

142
00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,520
Speaker 1: tread carefully because they know that people didn't sign up

143
00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,720
Speaker 1: for that necessarily, and so they they want to make

144
00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,280
Speaker 1: sure that they're not missing out on the bandwagon when

145
00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,200
Speaker 1: it comes to the TikTok style videos. But they also

146
00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,720
Speaker 1: don't want to alienate every single person that's already using

147
00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:21,080
Speaker 1: the app. So, but if you've noticed, you know, there's

148
00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,440
Speaker 1: a bunch maybe not so much on Instagram, on a Facebook,

149
00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:29,280
Speaker 1: but on Instagram, the TikTok influence is just so apparent,

150
00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,520
Speaker 1: and they're doing such a bad job compared to TikTok.

151
00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,400
Speaker 1: When you open up TikTok it opens up full screen

152
00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,400
Speaker 1: into the videos. You flip up and you switch through

153
00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,000
Speaker 1: the videos. It's a very simple experience. Instagram has like

154
00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,920
Speaker 1: one thousand and one ways you can browse Instagram at

155
00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:47,720
Speaker 1: this point, and it's just getting very crowded, very confusing,

156
00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,600
Speaker 1: and I feel like they've lost direction on what they

157
00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,360
Speaker 1: want to be and we'll just see what happens with

158
00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,000
Speaker 1: that whole situation. I mean, they really I think that

159
00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:01,600
Speaker 1: the uh, the one minute short is like literally my

160
00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,440
Speaker 1: favorite storytelling method right now. I used to be a

161
00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:09,560
Speaker 1: guy who literally hated vertical video. I thought it was evil,

162
00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,280
Speaker 1: and now I'm not kidding. I stay up at awake

163
00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,840
Speaker 1: at night just thinking about making reels and one minute

164
00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,400
Speaker 1: really impactful videos for this for these platforms, because it's

165
00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,200
Speaker 1: such a powerful way to reach people. You have one minute.

166
00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,800
Speaker 1: You have to be succinct. I mean, it's all of

167
00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:33,560
Speaker 1: my training in journalism because it combines video, pictures and audio,

168
00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,600
Speaker 1: and I like actually narrating them because that's my world.

169
00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I write packages for a living. That's what

170
00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:41,920
Speaker 1: we call our stories on TV. They're called a package,

171
00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,880
Speaker 1: and they're short. They're only a minute thirty and so

172
00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,160
Speaker 1: real is a minute but it's vertical, so it's a

173
00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,480
Speaker 1: little bit tougher to squeeze in your video in that way,

174
00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:52,560
Speaker 1: but also you have to be really succinct, tell a story,

175
00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:56,040
Speaker 1: capture their attention. I personally am obsessed with it. I

176
00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:01,160
Speaker 1: think it's such a cool genre of video at this point,

177
00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:05,400
Speaker 1: and I'd bet everything it's going to become the only

178
00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,679
Speaker 1: thing on mobile after a couple of years. All right,

179
00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:12,400
Speaker 1: you heard those clacking sounds. That means time for our

180
00:09:12,400 --> 00:09:15,480
Speaker 1: first question. Hello, Rich, I have poor vision. It's very

181
00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,840
Speaker 1: difficult for me to read letters and documents. I only

182
00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,360
Speaker 1: use an iPad for the Internet and communicating. What would

183
00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,280
Speaker 1: be the best way for me to import a document

184
00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,600
Speaker 1: to my iPad and have the screen reader read it

185
00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,280
Speaker 1: to me. I try a scanner called doxy Go, but

186
00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,080
Speaker 1: the iPad would not read the file. I have a

187
00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,480
Speaker 1: first generation ten inch iPad which is running iOS fifteen.

188
00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,720
Speaker 1: Do you have any suggestions? Keep up the good work, Thanks,

189
00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:40,119
Speaker 1: Bob Bob. I think that you just use the scanning,

190
00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,880
Speaker 1: the tech scanning feature that's built into iOS. So if

191
00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,640
Speaker 1: you notice on the notes app, they've actually made it

192
00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:48,640
Speaker 1: a little bit easier to access. So if you go

193
00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,960
Speaker 1: you open notes and you compose a new note. There's

194
00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:54,280
Speaker 1: a little camera icon and when you tap that above

195
00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:58,240
Speaker 1: the keyboard, there's an option for tech scanning, And so

196
00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,040
Speaker 1: you just tap that thing, you know, it opens up

197
00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:03,520
Speaker 1: the camera on your phone. You hold it over some

198
00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,640
Speaker 1: text and literally it doesn't even miss a beat. It

199
00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:10,560
Speaker 1: will scan the text, convert it, you know, from text

200
00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,480
Speaker 1: ocr whatever you call it, and insert that text into

201
00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:17,760
Speaker 1: a document on your phone. And then after you do that,

202
00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,960
Speaker 1: you can use the built in screen reader on iOS.

203
00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,600
Speaker 1: It's under accessibility to speak what you're listen what you're

204
00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,920
Speaker 1: seeing on your screen, so super super easy. All of

205
00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:32,600
Speaker 1: the tools are built into the iPad. Apple has done

206
00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,960
Speaker 1: some really nice things with accessibility and helping you take

207
00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:39,520
Speaker 1: advantage of the things that you know, we take for granted,

208
00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,480
Speaker 1: and that's vision. So I think that they've done a

209
00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,760
Speaker 1: really good job with the importing of text. I think

210
00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:47,960
Speaker 1: they've done a really good job with the speaking of text.

211
00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,559
Speaker 1: And this is the beauty of the iPhone in general,

212
00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,440
Speaker 1: is that there are just so many little features built in.

213
00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:56,920
Speaker 1: It's kind of like an onion. You don't know. If

214
00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:58,840
Speaker 1: you don't need them, you don't even think about them,

215
00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:01,240
Speaker 1: But when you need them, you can use them, and

216
00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:03,880
Speaker 1: Apple has them there for you. So that would be

217
00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:06,480
Speaker 1: my recommendation that one two punch. So again, you take

218
00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,559
Speaker 1: the document, you scan it with the text scan feature,

219
00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,800
Speaker 1: and then use the screen reader to actually have the

220
00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,240
Speaker 1: iPad read it out to you. Great question, Bob, and

221
00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:21,200
Speaker 1: thanks for emailing me. All right, let's get to the

222
00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,439
Speaker 1: next story of the day. Apple, Google and Microsoft are

223
00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,199
Speaker 1: looking to we're going to figure out how to get

224
00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:30,839
Speaker 1: rid of passwords, and we've seen a little progress in

225
00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,240
Speaker 1: this area, but ninety nine percent of the time you

226
00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,360
Speaker 1: still got to use a password to log in. We're

227
00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,720
Speaker 1: seeing more use of those what's called magic links, which

228
00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:41,480
Speaker 1: you put your email address into a website and they

229
00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:43,480
Speaker 1: email you a link and that link takes you to

230
00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,280
Speaker 1: log in. It could be a little complicated on the

231
00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:49,360
Speaker 1: iPhone because of the architecture of the operating system depending

232
00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,440
Speaker 1: on what app you're using for your email, but I

233
00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:55,280
Speaker 1: won't get into that. But this is a good thing.

234
00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,800
Speaker 1: So Microsoft, Google, and Apple have joined the FIDO Alliance.

235
00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:01,400
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with all fight out is

236
00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:05,000
Speaker 1: short for Fast Identity Online, and so what they want

237
00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,720
Speaker 1: to do is help you log into apps and websites

238
00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,240
Speaker 1: with things like fingerprint readers, face scanners, or your phone.

239
00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,880
Speaker 1: Now we already see a level of this on Google

240
00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,880
Speaker 1: and some other apps as well, but a lot of

241
00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,040
Speaker 1: these apps are getting away from the SMS confirmation codes

242
00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:23,680
Speaker 1: to say are you who you say you are, and

243
00:12:23,720 --> 00:12:27,160
Speaker 1: they're switching to at least for Google, when you log

244
00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,680
Speaker 1: into a Google property, it will say okay, now open

245
00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,920
Speaker 1: up your iPhone and open up Gmail and tell us

246
00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:37,400
Speaker 1: you know and click the yes you know confirmation code.

247
00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:41,559
Speaker 1: So the idea is that if a hacker was trying

248
00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,240
Speaker 1: to log into your Google account on a computer somewhere,

249
00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:49,360
Speaker 1: they probably don't have your smartphone, and so by saying okay,

250
00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:51,400
Speaker 1: we'll open up the Google app on your smartphone and

251
00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,240
Speaker 1: confirm that it's you, the hacker would be like, ohh

252
00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,840
Speaker 1: foiled again. But you, as a as a person that

253
00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,280
Speaker 1: actually owns that account, could say, oh, yeah, my phone's here.

254
00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:02,520
Speaker 1: Let me open up Gmail and you say, yeah, that's me.

255
00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,959
Speaker 1: You click the confirmation code or the screen or whatever

256
00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,480
Speaker 1: it is. Sometimes it's a button, sometimes it's a number,

257
00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,800
Speaker 1: and you know it confirms it it's you, because it's

258
00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,600
Speaker 1: trying two different ways of making sure it's you. You've

259
00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,920
Speaker 1: got your log in and then also that secondary authentication

260
00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:21,240
Speaker 1: sometimes we call that two factor authentication, but this is

261
00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:24,040
Speaker 1: just a different way. It's not texted to you. It

262
00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,400
Speaker 1: is actually a confirmation screen, so we can see more

263
00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:30,520
Speaker 1: things like that. Like next time you go to Amazon

264
00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:32,760
Speaker 1: on your computer, it might say, hey, open up the

265
00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,679
Speaker 1: Amazon app on your phone and boom, is this you

266
00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:37,440
Speaker 1: trying to log in? You say yes, and it just

267
00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,600
Speaker 1: logs you in without having to use a password. Now

268
00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,120
Speaker 1: does this mean that all passwords are going away forever?

269
00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,920
Speaker 1: Probably not. We're still going to need sort of a

270
00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,200
Speaker 1: master password for things, or you know, a password to

271
00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,559
Speaker 1: get in the first time. I think this is more

272
00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:56,720
Speaker 1: geared towards relogging in or accessing websites on different things.

273
00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:58,720
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I mean it could be you know,

274
00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:00,360
Speaker 1: maybe maybe they'll figure out a way to get rid

275
00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,640
Speaker 1: of the password altogether. I don't know. But the other

276
00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:06,160
Speaker 1: thing that they're doing is they said, according to the

277
00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,520
Speaker 1: cenet article, that they are working on something as soon

278
00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:12,200
Speaker 1: as the end of this year, So we might have

279
00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:15,800
Speaker 1: devices powered by software from Apple, Google, and Microsoft in

280
00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:19,359
Speaker 1: the next year that take advantage of this Fido technology.

281
00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,160
Speaker 1: So kind of cool, very exciting. I did an interview.

282
00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,120
Speaker 1: I'll have this on KTLA soon. But I did an

283
00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,960
Speaker 1: interview with a security expert, really really great interview. You know,

284
00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,600
Speaker 1: I'll be honest. Sometimes I do interviews and they're just

285
00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,400
Speaker 1: not that good. Other times I do interviews and I

286
00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:37,200
Speaker 1: just wish I had kind of a live interview show

287
00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:40,360
Speaker 1: because I want every single thing that person says on

288
00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,200
Speaker 1: TV because it's just so good. And this was an

289
00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:47,640
Speaker 1: example of that. This guy's name was Roger Grimes. He's

290
00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:52,320
Speaker 1: a security expert with oh gosh, what's it NOB four

291
00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,840
Speaker 1: or something like that, but he just the things he

292
00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,440
Speaker 1: was saying were just so great about our passwords and

293
00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:00,040
Speaker 1: how hackers are hacking us. And all I have I

294
00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,640
Speaker 1: have to say is if you are not using strong passwords,

295
00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,240
Speaker 1: strong unique passwords, if you think you're able to make

296
00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:08,600
Speaker 1: up passwords that you know you have the upper hand,

297
00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:12,200
Speaker 1: you don't. These hackers are relentless and they are working

298
00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:17,320
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven to hack our stuff. And if

299
00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,760
Speaker 1: you think you're coming up with these little c passwords,

300
00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:24,480
Speaker 1: I use my dog's name plus twenty plus an explanation point.

301
00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,000
Speaker 1: Now not gonna happen. These guys are cracking. Guys in

302
00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,760
Speaker 1: Galas are cracking I think, he said, eighteen digit codes

303
00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:35,000
Speaker 1: at this point, if they are made by humans, if

304
00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:40,240
Speaker 1: they're randomly generated by a password service like a you know,

305
00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,920
Speaker 1: a last pass or a dash lane or any sort

306
00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,520
Speaker 1: of password generator, he said, eleven characters is kind of

307
00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,360
Speaker 1: the magic spot where they still can't crack that easily

308
00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,560
Speaker 1: or even at all. He said, So the last person

309
00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,080
Speaker 1: I interviewed from Bitwarden, he said, I think sixteen was

310
00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,120
Speaker 1: his magic number. That he said that was overkill, but

311
00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:03,640
Speaker 1: it kind of preps you for the future of how

312
00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,320
Speaker 1: these hackers are getting even more sophisticated. So sixteen, So

313
00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:10,280
Speaker 1: anywhere between eleven and sixteen randomly generated characters are going

314
00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:12,120
Speaker 1: to protect you at this point, plus of course two

315
00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:15,920
Speaker 1: factor authentication. But do it. I'm not kidding. The other

316
00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:17,520
Speaker 1: thing he mentioned that I thought was kind of cool

317
00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,520
Speaker 1: and I had not really thought of this, But something

318
00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:22,840
Speaker 1: you can do is if you can't use a password

319
00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,680
Speaker 1: generator like let's say, for instance, typing logging into your laptop. Now,

320
00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:28,680
Speaker 1: on my laptop, I've got a fingerprint scanner, but there

321
00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,640
Speaker 1: are times that I still need to use my password,

322
00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,560
Speaker 1: and so I'll be honest, it's I shouldn't say this,

323
00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:36,280
Speaker 1: but it's a simpler password because I know I have

324
00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:38,520
Speaker 1: to type it all the time. But he did say

325
00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,800
Speaker 1: that if you want to, you know, have to type

326
00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,200
Speaker 1: something in all the time, use what's called a pass phrase.

327
00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:48,080
Speaker 1: And so you can say something like I always eat

328
00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:52,800
Speaker 1: watermelon in the summer with salt exclamation point, you know,

329
00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:56,040
Speaker 1: something like that, where that's you know, that's really tough

330
00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,680
Speaker 1: for someone to figure out. That's still pretty long and random.

331
00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:01,640
Speaker 1: And so you can try something like a pass phrase

332
00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,040
Speaker 1: if you must use a password that you are creating.

333
00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:08,480
Speaker 1: All right, moving right along here, let's get to the

334
00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,119
Speaker 1: next question of the show. Barry says, hey, Rich, what

335
00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,800
Speaker 1: was the app you talked about for sports card values?

336
00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:17,240
Speaker 1: I may be sitting on a small fortune, thanks Barry. Barry.

337
00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:20,760
Speaker 1: The app is called collects coll X. We featured this

338
00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:24,159
Speaker 1: on KTLA and ooh do we get a response? So,

339
00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,520
Speaker 1: if you're like me, you collected baseball cards when you

340
00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:29,760
Speaker 1: were a kid, and what was the biggest challenge of

341
00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,919
Speaker 1: those cards finding the good ones? Right? You always wondered

342
00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,400
Speaker 1: if you had a really good card in your collection. Now,

343
00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,879
Speaker 1: I grew up at a time before the internet was huge,

344
00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,240
Speaker 1: and so there wasn't like an eBay you could just

345
00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,840
Speaker 1: search on. There were actually guides. I think he called

346
00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,080
Speaker 1: it the Beckett Guide. I kind of remember this. I had,

347
00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,679
Speaker 1: like the pink pages with the little tiny writing and

348
00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:51,520
Speaker 1: the card values in there. But again you had to

349
00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,120
Speaker 1: buy that book. And as a broke kid, I wasn't

350
00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,159
Speaker 1: buying that book. So what did you do? You just

351
00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:58,480
Speaker 1: talked to your friends, Hey, Adam, do you know if

352
00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:00,359
Speaker 1: this card is worth anything? And you'd always have that

353
00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,160
Speaker 1: one friend that could go through your collection and kind

354
00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:04,720
Speaker 1: of size it up and see if you had any

355
00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,760
Speaker 1: good cards in there. Well, now kids today don't need

356
00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,280
Speaker 1: to do any of that. Father and son team out

357
00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:13,880
Speaker 1: of New Jersey came up with this app called collect Colx.

358
00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,000
Speaker 1: You installed on your phone and basically you scan the

359
00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:22,720
Speaker 1: baseball card. It kind of looks for prices on various sites,

360
00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,840
Speaker 1: including eBay and the Beckett Guide and all these different places,

361
00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,840
Speaker 1: aggregates those into an average price, and it tells you

362
00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:34,840
Speaker 1: how much the card is approximately worth. Brilliant IDEA kid

363
00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:37,320
Speaker 1: is ten years old going to do very good things

364
00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,560
Speaker 1: in this life. The dad, I guess, had some background

365
00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:46,159
Speaker 1: in image recognition, so that's the app. Brilliant and I

366
00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,240
Speaker 1: can't wait to go home and scan all my cards

367
00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,680
Speaker 1: in my old binder. I'm also going to do a

368
00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:52,480
Speaker 1: reels about this because I've got to get the SAP

369
00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,919
Speaker 1: out there. It's so cool. Now. On this note, I

370
00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,960
Speaker 1: got an email. Hey, Rich I've been collecting baseball cards

371
00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,560
Speaker 1: my entire life. I saw your segment this morning about collects.

372
00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,240
Speaker 1: Have you received any input from the app. I've had

373
00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:05,720
Speaker 1: a chance to use it, and I'd like to know

374
00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:08,440
Speaker 1: what I'd like you to know what I think of it.

375
00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,119
Speaker 1: It's easy to use. Just take a picture of the

376
00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:11,880
Speaker 1: front and back of your card. So far, I've done

377
00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,800
Speaker 1: twelve and they are all graded. After scanning the third card,

378
00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,359
Speaker 1: the app slows down and freezes. I think that once

379
00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:19,679
Speaker 1: kinks are worked out, it will not do that. Some

380
00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,720
Speaker 1: of the cards are mislabeled, especially the ones with multiple players.

381
00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,760
Speaker 1: This is easily fixed by editing the picture. The prices

382
00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,159
Speaker 1: seem to be about right, although slightly off, meaning they

383
00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:31,199
Speaker 1: are displaying a lower value than other sites which price cards,

384
00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,760
Speaker 1: but for the most part they are good. Could rather

385
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:35,680
Speaker 1: me not use his full name, which I typically don't

386
00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,360
Speaker 1: do on the show, but he said he would give

387
00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:43,720
Speaker 1: this site a B plus. I'll share this app with

388
00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:46,840
Speaker 1: my friends and family. Thanks for talking about this product.

389
00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:51,040
Speaker 1: So anyway, yeah, there you go. It sounds like a

390
00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,840
Speaker 1: pretty glowing review. And again, you know, I'm pretty early

391
00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,159
Speaker 1: on this app. It's a pretty brand new app. But again,

392
00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:00,320
Speaker 1: this will continue to be evolved and tweak, and I

393
00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,560
Speaker 1: think that it's just one of these things that as

394
00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:05,199
Speaker 1: a kid like, can you I can't imagine having this

395
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 1: as a kid like with all the work I had

396
00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,440
Speaker 1: to do to figure out the price of one baseball card,

397
00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,360
Speaker 1: the fact that you can just scan them and get

398
00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:13,760
Speaker 1: and look, these prices are not gonna be exact. It's

399
00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:15,720
Speaker 1: not gonna be the exact amount you're gonna sell it for,

400
00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,000
Speaker 1: but it's gonna give you a ballpark figure, no pun intended, right,

401
00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,560
Speaker 1: So I think that that's a cool app. C l

402
00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,560
Speaker 1: l x iOS Android download it. They work with all

403
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,800
Speaker 1: sports cards right now, and then Pokemon cards are coming soon.

404
00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:32,480
Speaker 1: All right, on to the next story. Let's talk about

405
00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,879
Speaker 1: summer travel with Google. So, if you've listened to this

406
00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:40,080
Speaker 1: podcast a lot, which sorry if you have, just kidding,

407
00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:43,520
Speaker 1: Why why am I so self deprecating? People love this show?

408
00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 1: I get emails every day. I mean, you know, here's

409
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 1: the deal. I'm on TV, I'm on social media, and

410
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,520
Speaker 1: I'm on this podcast, and I'm on the radio. And

411
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,440
Speaker 1: so among those four things, I will tell you it's

412
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,879
Speaker 1: a pretty equal number of people that come up to

413
00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,560
Speaker 1: me and say in real life, like where they like

414
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:02,600
Speaker 1: hearing me. Like a lot of people like the radio.

415
00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:05,359
Speaker 1: A lot of people email me about the podcast, or

416
00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 1: even in real life like I was at the gym

417
00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 1: the other day and this guy comes up to me

418
00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,200
Speaker 1: and he's like, I'm a big fan of the podcast.

419
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, podcast, That's that's hardcore. Like that's like

420
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,840
Speaker 1: a super fan. Social media, you know, when I meet

421
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:18,879
Speaker 1: kind of like people at the schools and stuff, like

422
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,399
Speaker 1: a lot of it social media, and then of course TV.

423
00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,560
Speaker 1: You know people just kind of baseline when you just

424
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,320
Speaker 1: you know, see it rich. But you know, so there's

425
00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,240
Speaker 1: there's something to be said for all the mediums that

426
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 1: I go to. And so anyway, if you've listened to

427
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 1: this podcast, I don't know why I mentioned that, it's

428
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,600
Speaker 1: just you know, look, you're listening to my show. So

429
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 1: I just sometimes I go off on tangents, but if

430
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 1: you listen to this show, you know, I love Google

431
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,159
Speaker 1: Flights or Google Travel in general. I always I'm on

432
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 1: Google Flights every single day. Every single day I search

433
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,879
Speaker 1: for something on Google Flights. I might be eyeing a trip,

434
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 1: I might be just tracking a price, I might be

435
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 1: just dreaming whatever. But starting today, Google Google Flights has

436
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:02,560
Speaker 1: always been able to track prices. I've got three or

437
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,720
Speaker 1: four airfares being tracked at any given time for future

438
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:09,120
Speaker 1: trips I want to take. But now they have a

439
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,359
Speaker 1: really cool feature. And this makes so much sense because

440
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,520
Speaker 1: Google has so much information. They are the They are

441
00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,919
Speaker 1: just so smart about slicing and dicing data that this

442
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,639
Speaker 1: just makes so much sense. Because Google knows when flights

443
00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,120
Speaker 1: are unusually cheap, well, now they can tell you when

444
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: that happens. So beginning now, you can start tracking prices

445
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: to find deals for any dates, not just specific dates.

446
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:38,840
Speaker 1: So if you want to go to Rome or Tokyo

447
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,879
Speaker 1: or anywhere, just pop that into the calendar, press search,

448
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,679
Speaker 1: and then when you press search, let me do this.

449
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 1: I can actually show you. So when you search the

450
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:54,280
Speaker 1: dates flights, okay, where to let's just say Tokyo to you. Okay,

451
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:58,000
Speaker 1: oh okay, You press search and there's a new little

452
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 1: button button that's called any dates. It's actually a toggle.

453
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 1: You toggle that on and now you'll get emails when

454
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 1: prices are unusually low for those trips. So yeah, there's

455
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 1: always gonna be days that are cheap. But when Google notices, huh,

456
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,880
Speaker 1: this flight typically goes for six hundred dollars right now,

457
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:20,080
Speaker 1: it's three hundred. Let's email Rich. That's what you're gonna get.

458
00:23:20,119 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 1: It's totally brilliant. It's for any dates, so you have

459
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: to be flexible, obviously, but if you are, you can

460
00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,520
Speaker 1: nab some really good prices. Do I have any of

461
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: these tracked yet? I don't think I do. I should

462
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 1: do one right now, because I don't have anything tracked

463
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: at this point. Oh I do. I want to go

464
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:41,200
Speaker 1: to a Raleigh, North Carolina, and I've got that. I've

465
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: got a little alert for that area, EXU. I've always

466
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 1: wanted to visit, so it's been a long time. Last

467
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: time I was there see some family down there, was

468
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: like in the nineties. So I want to see that

469
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 1: place anyway, So I've got that on my little tracker.

470
00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 1: I know it's not the most glamorous place in the world,

471
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,880
Speaker 1: but that's that's where I'm tracking now. I didn't notice

472
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: this is the first time around. But there's also this

473
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 1: new tool which is super super cool if you want

474
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: to drive. And during the pandemic we were driving a lot.

475
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: We still are. When we went on vacation recently, we

476
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: drove to Scottsdale because I just didn't feel like flying,

477
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 1: you know, with a pandemic and you know, it's just

478
00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,639
Speaker 1: everything being so kind of all over the place. I

479
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: was like, ah, it's just easier to drive right now.

480
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 1: It's more, you know, more guaranteed. So we drove to Scottsdale.

481
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: But this is a really cool feature that if you

482
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 1: go to Google dot com slash travel, slash explore. Now

483
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 1: when you look, there's a new kind of icon that

484
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 1: says explore nearby. You'll see it on the map. You

485
00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: tap that and whatever city you are looking from, like

486
00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 1: here in my case it's Los Angeles. It now shows

487
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 1: me all the cool places I can drive to Santa Barbara, Bakersfield, Calico,

488
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: Big Bear, Joshua Tree, San Diego, Laguna Beach, Malibu, Passo

489
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 1: Robles and so these are driving places and it tells

490
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 1: you how far it is to drive three hours uh

491
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: in the case of Passo Robles. So this is another

492
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 1: way to just explore the world around you. Of course,

493
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,959
Speaker 1: all those places I mentioned you've probably heard of if

494
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: you live in Los Angeles, but you know, it's kind

495
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: of neat. Maybe you're in you know, maybe you're in

496
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: a new city like Dallas, Texas for a while. And

497
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: let's see. So if I go Dallas and now I'm

498
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: in Dallas, Texas, Okay, what's going on? Why are you

499
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,239
Speaker 1: not showing me Dallas. Shouldn't you snap to Dallas? There?

500
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,840
Speaker 1: It is explore Nearby, So places I can go from

501
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: there are Wichita Falls, Lake Texoma, Paris, Broken Broken Bow, Jefferson,

502
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: Lake Fork, Tyler, Waco, brown Wood, Fort Worth, Possum Kingdom.

503
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 1: Whatever that is Nackotish. I know how to pronounce that

504
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: because I lived in uh in that area. It looks

505
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: like naa, naaa, naka, goat Godoci's but it's Nacotish. I

506
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: think it's. Oh, maybe it is Nacagosties. Maybe Nacodish was

507
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,920
Speaker 1: in Louisiana. Anyway, uh No, I think Nacodish was in

508
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 1: text I don't know. It's been a while since I

509
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:07,439
Speaker 1: lived there. But anyway, really really cool feature. Check it out.

510
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 1: It's called Explore near by moving right along, let's get

511
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: to the next question. On the podcast, GLORIOA says, Hey, Rich.

512
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: First of all, I appreciate all the new technology you provide,

513
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: always interesting and informative. Here's an issue. My iPhone became disabled.

514
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 1: I got locked out. My password wouldn't work because I

515
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 1: tried too many times. I know you're busy. Long story.

516
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: I didn't have iclouds I don't have my pictures backed up.

517
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: I know it's my fault. Can't blame anyone but myself.

518
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,280
Speaker 1: Went to the Apple store. All they can do is

519
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,520
Speaker 1: give me the answer. They couldn't get my pictures because

520
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,719
Speaker 1: I don't have iCloud. I'm reaching out. I'm begging you

521
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,640
Speaker 1: if you have a solution or know some options. How

522
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: do I get access to my pictures. I still have

523
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:47,919
Speaker 1: the phone, of course, I had to get a new

524
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: phone to start all over. Ugh. I've heard of websites

525
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: that offer to retrieve your pictures, but I haven't done

526
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 1: so I'm hesitant that it could be a scam. Any

527
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,360
Speaker 1: information could be helpful. I know it's a long shot,

528
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: so you can be straight with me, even though it

529
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 1: might hurt. Thank you, Gloria. Well, Gloria I'm going to

530
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 1: be straight with you. You can't. There's just no way

531
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,239
Speaker 1: to get these pictures off this phone. As far as

532
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: I know, these phones are encrypted. If you don't have

533
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: the pass code. I don't think any software that's that's

534
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: for the mere mortal that's not you know, ten thousand

535
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: dollars is going to be able to retrieve pictures off

536
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: this phone and unencrypt them. So I don't know how

537
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,199
Speaker 1: you forgot the password on your phone. I mean, if

538
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,400
Speaker 1: you use your phone every day, I'm kind of how

539
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 1: do you forget that? I don't know. I mean, look,

540
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: there's they're okay, I'll tell you a story. So long

541
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: story short. You know, these companies send me phones to

542
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,679
Speaker 1: test out, and Samsung sent me a phone once. I

543
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: guess I set up the phone in my sleep because

544
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: I set it up and I totally forgot Well then

545
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 1: a week later I was using it for a shoot

546
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,920
Speaker 1: and I'm like literally emailing the Samsung person because I

547
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: turned on the phone in the morning and I can't

548
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 1: you know, early in the morning, we're about to shoot

549
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,679
Speaker 1: this segment and I needed it and I I'm like, wait,

550
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: why is this phone of a passcode on it? I

551
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: didn't set this phone up. I forgot that I set

552
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: the phone up. And so I'm sitting there like typing

553
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: in a million random pass codes, but I know at

554
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,400
Speaker 1: a certain point's gonna lock me out, so I don't

555
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,840
Speaker 1: really want to keep typing them in. So I called

556
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: the Samsung people. I say, hey, why'd you send me

557
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: a phone that's already activated with all of someone's stuff

558
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: on it and passcode and this. And I said, no,

559
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 1: we didn't, and let me check, let me check, let

560
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: me check. And they come back. They said, now that

561
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: phone was not activated when we sent it to you.

562
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: And I said, ah, long story short, I totally forgot

563
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: that I had set up this phone, and so I

564
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: tried a passcode that I typically used for my tester phones.

565
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: That wasn't it. Then finally, after all these thoughts and

566
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: like just going over it in my head, I said,

567
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 1: all right, let me try this. Try to passcode. It worked.

568
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: It was a pass code that I never used. I

569
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: don't know why I used it, if I was trying

570
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,479
Speaker 1: to be different whatever, So anyway, it could have been

571
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: really bad because if I would have locked out everyone

572
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 1: on that phone. Now, yeah, there's you can format the

573
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: phone to factory conditions and get it back to start.

574
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: But you're going to lose everything on that phone. And

575
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: my case didn't matter in this case, Yeah, it matters.

576
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: Your phone is now. I'm confused why you had to

577
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,239
Speaker 1: get a new phone. I thought you could actually just

578
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: if the phone is linked to your account. Yeah, these iPhones,

579
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know the ins and outs. I

580
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 1: know that it once the phone is activated to your account,

581
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: it's extremely tough, if not impossible, for someone else to

582
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: activate that phone, which is why I always say, why

583
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: do people steal iPhones? You can't do anything with it

584
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: if it's already been activated. Now, if they figure out

585
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: your iCloud passwords, sure, but if you don't have the

586
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,560
Speaker 1: pass code and you don't have the iCloud, I don't

587
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: know a way of getting these pictures off the phone.

588
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: I really don't, But this is why. And I don't

589
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: want to harp on this, but I'm not kidding. I

590
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: get these emails every day, at least a couple times

591
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: a week, and it's just someone who's lost their pictures

592
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: because they didn't back them up. And I really I know, Gloria,

593
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: you said that, you know I could be straight with you.

594
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: And just you know, I know it's my fault and

595
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 1: this and that, but like, why are these pictures not

596
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: backed up? There are just too many options to back

597
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: up pictures that they need to be backed up. Every

598
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: single picture should be backed up. Use Google Photos, use iCloud.

599
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,959
Speaker 1: If you don't want to pay for iCloud, maybe you're

600
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: an Amazon Prime member, use the Amazon Photos app. It's

601
00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: free unlimited storage for Prime members. If you don't want

602
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: any of that stuff, you want a third party app,

603
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: use Iedrive Photos ninety nine cents for the first year

604
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: unlimited backups, ten bucks every year after that, ten dollars

605
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 1: a year for peace of mind of all those precious photos.

606
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: This happened to my father. He you know, I set

607
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: up Google Photos on his phone, but on the iPhone,

608
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: you do have to open up Google Photos every once

609
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: in a while for it to be useful, for it

610
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: to actually trigger and back up. Maybe that's changed now.

611
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: I think maybe it activates in the background once in

612
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: a while, But this was at a time when it didn't.

613
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: And I'm telling you it was really sad because my

614
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: dad lost his phone and there goes all the pictures.

615
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: They were all gone and there's nothing I can do

616
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: about it. This is the reason why my mom has

617
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: an Android is because she had an iPhone and she

618
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: was really frustrated that her pictures were not showing up

619
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 1: in Google Photos on her desktop. And I said, Mom,

620
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: you gotta open up Google Photos every once in a

621
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: while for it to start kind of for it to

622
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: trigger and for it to start sinking. Yes, I know

623
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: iCloud has been blessed with background activity on the iPhone.

624
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: I wonder how that works, but yes, iCloud will do

625
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: it all the time. So if you have iCloud, yes,

626
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: your pictures will be backed up. Unless you're not in

627
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: Wi Fi, unless you're you know, not charging whatever's there's

628
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: reasons that you know it won't back up. But most

629
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 1: of the time you're plugging in your phone every night,

630
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: your pictures will be backed up. So I've talked about

631
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: this on the show before. But when I'm on vacation,

632
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: I know it uses a ton of cellular data, but

633
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: I actually switch on my cellular backup for Google Photos

634
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: when I go on vacation because I'm taking so many

635
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: pictures throughout the day that I can't wait until I

636
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,720
Speaker 1: get back into my hotel room to upload those pictures.

637
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: I lost my phone at some point in my trip,

638
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: if it fell off over the side of the boat,

639
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: or if it dropped off the side of a building,

640
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: or if I just you know, lost it down the

641
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: elevator shaft or a grate. There goes all my pictures.

642
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: They're gone, because all those pictures I took in the

643
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,479
Speaker 1: last couple hours would be gone. So for that reason,

644
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: every time I go on vacation, I go into Google Photos,

645
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: I toggle on cellular backup, and I let it use

646
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: all that cellular data. Yes, it uses a lot more battery,

647
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: but at the same time, my photos and videos are

648
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: safe and secure throughout the day, versus waiting until I

649
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: get back to my hotel room, getting back on Wi Fi,

650
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 1: getting back on charging, and having Google Photos flip into action. So, Gloria,

651
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. You know, take it to a data recovery specialist.

652
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: See what they say. You know, go on YELP search

653
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: data recovery, and someone local in your areas. See if

654
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: they can do it. Maybe they know better than I do.

655
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: If they do, let me know. And if you're listening

656
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: to the podcast, you know, a way of getting this

657
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: these photos off this phone that is that is locked

658
00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: and encrypted, let me know, because I don't think that's possible.

659
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: If it was, every law enforcement in America would be

660
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: doing this with phones that they recover. And I know

661
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: that there's things like a great key which can do it,

662
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: but that's like a ten thousand dollars a month device.

663
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: That's not something that the mere mortal can afford to

664
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: have access to or even have access to. So sorry

665
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: about that, but you know, I am. I think the

666
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: takeaway for everyone is that you got to have your

667
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: pictures backed up. That's just the bottom line, all right.

668
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: I gotta say, sorry to say this, but this Facebook

669
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: or sorry this Facebook. Sorry to say, but this podcast

670
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:42,719
Speaker 1: is going away. Yep, that's what's happening. Going away. Oh sorry,

671
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: just on Facebook. I should probably clarify that no more

672
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: podcasts on Facebook as of June third. This is kind

673
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,080
Speaker 1: of bittersweet for me because quite honestly, I was getting

674
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: really used to a lot of downloads of this podcast.

675
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:03,719
Speaker 1: Once Facebook invited me to the podcast platform on Facebook,

676
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: I immediately put my RSS feed in there, and so every

677
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 1: time I did a show, it would import into the

678
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,600
Speaker 1: native player on Facebook automatically. And I was telling I

679
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: was getting I was getting thousand I mean tens of

680
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: thousands of listens from this or I should say in

681
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: the tens of thousands. So it was a lot, and

682
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: it was like, Wow, I'm now tapping into all these

683
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: people on my Facebook page and they're actually getting a

684
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: little taste in my podcast. Now, not a lot of

685
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: them's took not everyone stuck around, because I clearly noticed

686
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: in the past couple of months that Facebook gave up

687
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: on this because they just stopped pushing that podcast to people.

688
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 1: So let me just quickly explain how Facebook works. Facebook

689
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: is only interested in what Facebook is interested in. So

690
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:53,280
Speaker 1: when you post something like a picture or a video

691
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: or a link or a podcast or a reels, whatever

692
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 1: Facebook is interested in promoting at that time, that's what

693
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 1: gets sent out to your followers. I have eight hundred

694
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:08,720
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand followers on Facebook. I post a link

695
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: from my KTLA website and guess what, A thousand people

696
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: see it. Now do you really think only a thousand

697
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: people that I'm that follow me are interested in my

698
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:23,800
Speaker 1: links from ktla? Probably not, but Facebook is not interested

699
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: in propagating that link. I can post a video that

700
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: I shot on my iPhone of me getting an ice

701
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,280
Speaker 1: cream cone and putting a you know, taking a scoop

702
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: out of that ice cream cone, and it will get

703
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 1: three thousand, four thousand, five thousand, six thousand views. Do

704
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: you think more people are interested in that than the

705
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: article that I crafted on the KTLA website. No. But

706
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: Facebook wants to become a destination for video, and so

707
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: that's why when you natively upload a video to Facebook,

708
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 1: they show it to more people. For a while, podcasts

709
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: was the hot thing. That's what Facebook was all interested in.

710
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: So what were they doing. They were over serving my

711
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: podcast to my followers, and so more people were hearing it,

712
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: more people were seeing it presented on their feed, and

713
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,839
Speaker 1: if they stopped for five seconds to listen to it,

714
00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 1: that counted as a listen. Now that's a whole nother thing.

715
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: Is that really a listen? I don't think so, but

716
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,839
Speaker 1: that's how they were counting it, which boosted my podcast listenership.

717
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: Then when Facebook got bored and tired and realized that

718
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: TikTok is eating their lunch, they said, oh, never mind,

719
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: we'll leave the podcast to everyone else. We'll do reels.

720
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: And now what they're doing is they are over correcting

721
00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: on reels. So I've now had two reels that are

722
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: in the million views club. One of my reels has

723
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: done over three million views, one is on track to

724
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: doing a million views. Are those reels any better than

725
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: this long form podcast where I give a lot of

726
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: information and talk to people about stuff. No, but it's

727
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: what Facebook wants to promote. So after a year, Facebook

728
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,760
Speaker 1: says no more podcasts were done, removing them all together.

729
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: Starting June third, gonna stop its short form audio product

730
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: called soundbites, which I don't even know what that was,

731
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: and it's Central Audio Hub. This is all according to Bloomberg.

732
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: And of course what are they pushing now short form

733
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: videos called reels to compete with TikTok. So anyway, if

734
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: you were one of the few dedicated listeners on Facebook,

735
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: don't be surprised if you no longer see my podcast there.

736
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: The good news is you can use any audio app

737
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: you want to listen to my podcast. It is still

738
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:39,399
Speaker 1: available on all of those apps. All right, let's get

739
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: to the next question of the show. Debbie says, I

740
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 1: have an iPhone eleven with the latest update, I'm no

741
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: longer able to use face ID with a face mask,

742
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: and my Apple Watch it is only available with an

743
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,919
Speaker 1: iPhone twelve. I've been using this feature for the past

744
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: one and a half years, and all of a sudden,

745
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: I cannot use it. I would love for you to

746
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: look into this and why Apple decided to make this change.

747
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Debbie in Temecula, Debbie, Debbie, Debbie.

748
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 1: They didn't change this, So you're actually confusing two things.

749
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: There are two features that allow you to unlock the

750
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: iPhone with face with a face mask. Now. The first

751
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: is the one you're referring to, which has been around

752
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: for a year and a half, and that is the

753
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: ability to unlock the iPhone with an Apple Watch. And

754
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: so they added this feature, which makes a whole lot

755
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: of sense. In fact, I think I talked about it

756
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: on the show before they added it, or mentioned it

757
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 1: in a tweet or something, and I said, you know,

758
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: Android has been doing this forever where if you're wearing

759
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: a Bluetooth device, you can unlock your phone because it

760
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: knows that Bluetooth device is nearby. And Apple took a

761
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: little different approach. It took a little smarter approach. Once

762
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: the watch is put on your wrist and then unlocked

763
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 1: as long as it stays on your wrist. It will

764
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: continue to unlock your phone, and if you're wearing a

765
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: face mask, it will still unlock your phone. And so

766
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: that is a feature that's been around for a year

767
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: and a half. You need the iPhone ten and up

768
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: because it uses face ID to authenticate the fact that

769
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,720
Speaker 1: you are wearing a mask and wearing an Apple Watch,

770
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: and it says, all right, we're gonna trust that this

771
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: is you and here we go. Now. The other feature,

772
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: and the new one that you cannot use, is the

773
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:30,240
Speaker 1: ability to not have an Apple Watch and use face

774
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,760
Speaker 1: ID with a face mask. That's different. So what Apple

775
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: is doing there is all the people that don't have

776
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: an Apple Watch if they have face ID on a

777
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: newer iPhone. You're right, it is the iPhone twelve and up.

778
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,919
Speaker 1: You can still unlock your iPhone with face ID, even

779
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 1: if you're wearing a face mask. And the way they

780
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 1: do this is they look at the nuances in your eyes.

781
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 1: So something about your eyes, whether it's the wrinkles around

782
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: your eyes or whether it's just the shape of the eyes.

783
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're doing, but that's what they're

784
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 1: doing to verify it is who you say you are.

785
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: You're right, that feature is not available to you. The

786
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: Apple Watch unlocked feature is available to you as long

787
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: as you have an Apple Watch and as long as

788
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: you have an iPhone ten and up. So what I

789
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: suspect happened is with this latest software update, it just

790
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: got toggled off and you just have to go back

791
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: into settings and toggle it back on. So what my

792
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: advice would be is to go into Settings, go into

793
00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: face unlock or face ID whatever they call it on there,

794
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 1: and just look for the unlock with Apple Watch, toggle,

795
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: turn it back on. It'll probably verify your face ID

796
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: and then it'll work again. So there you go, super

797
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:39,320
Speaker 1: super easy. All right. So nos one of my favorite gadgets,

798
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 1: but I feel like Sonos is in a very precarious

799
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: position because it's, let's be honest, it's a speaker for

800
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: the well to do. It's not a speaker for the

801
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: average person because people are just not buying these things.

802
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: They're too expensive. So I love Sonos and I've had

803
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: it for a long time. I'm quite invested in the ecosystem.

804
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: I think it's the best whole home audio system, and

805
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: so for that reason, I've taken, you know, ten years

806
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: to build a speaker in every room. Not build I

807
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: mean put a speaker in every room. I didn't do

808
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: it overnight. It took a long time, but I do

809
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: have one in every room, and I absolutely love it

810
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,319
Speaker 1: because I can have the same music in every room.

811
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 1: I can have different music in every room. I can

812
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: you know, I can do basically, It's just an amazing

813
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: synced up audio system. And it also works with my TV.

814
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,880
Speaker 1: So let's say I'm listening to a football game on

815
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: my TV or watching a football game, I can have

816
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: that audio pipe throughout the entire house. So there's just

817
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: so much flexibility. The one thing that Sonos is severely

818
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: lacking in, and this is what tempted me to switch

819
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: to like either the Apple speakers in every room or

820
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:49,720
Speaker 1: the Google speakers in every room, or the Echo speakers

821
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: in every room, which by the way, are a heck

822
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: of a lot cheaper than Sonos and they have voice

823
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 1: built in, and so it'd be a lot easier to

824
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: command your music. But the thing that's not not that

825
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: easy is to group your music. Now, it's gotten better,

826
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: but sons is still kind of the best when it

827
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: comes to grouping and un grouping and having groups. The

828
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: one thing, like I said, they were very bad at

829
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: is voice control. And there's there's voice support built into

830
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: one of my speakers. I can use, you know, the

831
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: Google Assistant or I think maybe the alex A, but

832
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: it's just it's not good and so I've never used it. Well. Now,

833
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 1: according to The Verge, Sonos is prepping to introduce its

834
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 1: own voice assistant in the next few weeks. It's gonna

835
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: let customers control music on all of their speakers. So

836
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: this is gonna run on the S two software and

837
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: let's see, it's going to serve as an alternative to

838
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 1: Amazon alex A and Google Assistant. It's going to work

839
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: with Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, Deezer, and Sonos Radio.

840
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: If you noticed I did not mention the two most

841
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: popular music services out there are sorry at least one,

842
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: Spotify and YouTube Music. So for me this isda because

843
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: I use Spotify and to not be able to do

844
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 1: that is going to be a problem. But you're going

845
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 1: to be able to say hey, Sons and it will

846
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 1: wake up your speaker and play audio. I think that's

847
00:43:17,640 --> 00:43:20,360
Speaker 1: really cool and I can't wait to have this because

848
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: I need it and every day I come home and

849
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: I play one of you know, three or four playlists,

850
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: and they are on different services. Sometimes a're on iHeart,

851
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 1: sometimes are on Spotify, sometimes they're on YouTube Music, and

852
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 1: so sometimes you're on Serious XM. So to be able

853
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: to say, hey, hey, sons, play the Highway on Serious XM,

854
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: that'd be amazing. Now I probably will be able to say,

855
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:47,440
Speaker 1: play the Highway on Serious XM in all my rooms

856
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,919
Speaker 1: and change the volume to twenty percent. You know, That's

857
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: basically what I do every day. So I have to

858
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: kind of like it's just this. It's it's such a

859
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: routine that I can't believe Sonos has not built in

860
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 1: shortcuts that say this Highway on Series XM on all

861
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: these rooms or just these two rooms, and at thirty

862
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: percent volume. Like every day when I come home, I

863
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:08,839
Speaker 1: want to do the same thing. I want to play

864
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: music throughout my house and it's one playlist and it's

865
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 1: just you know, at a certain music volume, not too loud,

866
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: not too soft. And I just have never been able

867
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: to do that, and I would love to be able

868
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: to do that easily, and it sounds like this audio

869
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 1: service will be able to do that. I'm telling you

870
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 1: this all. And I started out by saying Sonos is

871
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: not a speaker system for the average person because this

872
00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,799
Speaker 1: is great, But quite honestly, the speakers from Echo or

873
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: Amazon and Google and even Apple at this point with

874
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: their home Pod Mini are just much more affordable, much easier.

875
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 1: They may not give you the same flexibility, and they

876
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: may not be as robust as a Sonos system, but

877
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: for for ninety nine percent of setups, they're probably going

878
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: to be just fine. With that said, if you want

879
00:44:53,200 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: the best setup, definitely go Sonos. Bill says, hey, Rich,

880
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 1: Verizon five G Home Internet has become available in my area.

881
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 1: I currently have cable modem with Vonage connected to my router.

882
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find out if I can do the

883
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: same with the Verizon five G router they supply I

884
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: can't seem to get an answer from Verizon customer service

885
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: for sell support is decent, but not for five G

886
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: home Internet. Do you know if vontage would work if

887
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: I plug the Vantage box into this five G router?

888
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: Can't find a thing when searching for this answer. That's

889
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 1: probably because it's so new. I said that another question,

890
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: I currently have a TP link Mesh system in my

891
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,160
Speaker 1: house with great coverage. While I get the same coverage

892
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: with what Verizon sends me, I wouldn't be able to

893
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: use the mesh anymore. Well, a couple of things. I

894
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: don't see why vonage would not work unless Verizon specifically

895
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: blocks it. So they may block vontage from working with

896
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: this system. I don't think they do, because it's basically

897
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: just like a regular you know, it's like regular Internet,

898
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 1: except it comes through through five G. So with this

899
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: five G home Internet is is a box. You've probably

900
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: seen them advertised heavily on TV. T Mobile and Verizon

901
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: have them. What it is is imagine the router that

902
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,399
Speaker 1: you are, the modem and router that you get from

903
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: your cable company. Cable guy comes to your house, He

904
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 1: runs the wires, he plugs it in, the Wi Fi

905
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: lights up, it sends a signal throughout your house. Everyone's good,

906
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: but you got to wait at home for a couple

907
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: hours for the cable person to come to your house

908
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: to install it. This is fully through the cellular signals,

909
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: so you will get the box. You sign up Verizon

910
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: or T Mobile, they send you the box to your house.

911
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: You unbox it, you plug it in near a window.

912
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: It grabs a cellular signal from the five G super speedy,

913
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: five G high bandwidth networks that these companies have, and

914
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:41,479
Speaker 1: it takes that signal, it transforms it into a Wi

915
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: Fi signal and sends that Wi Fi signal throughout your house.

916
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: So think of this as basically a giant hotspot for

917
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: your entire house. And it works great. I've tested the

918
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:55,759
Speaker 1: Verizon one. It was fantastic. Not available at my home. Unfortunately,

919
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 1: I don't get a five G signal here sadly, but

920
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: when it does, I probably we'll switch because it's just

921
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: so I love the efficiency of it, the fact that

922
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: you put this thing near a window, it's pulling in

923
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: a signal, nice and clean, no wires, and it then

924
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: boomerangs that signal throughout your house. So I think vontage

925
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: would work. I would say, you know, post it, sorry,

926
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: post it, try it, subscribe, try it, don't cancel your

927
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: other one. Subscribe. I'm sure there's like a thirty day

928
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: window where you can try this thing out, or fifteen days,

929
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 1: plug it in, set it all up. If it doesn't work,

930
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,879
Speaker 1: send it back. The other thing is, I don't see

931
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: why you would not be able to use your TP

932
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: link system. There are two Ethernet ports on the back

933
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,959
Speaker 1: of this thing, so you can plug in your Mesh

934
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: Wi Fi system there and then disable the internal Wi

935
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,399
Speaker 1: Fi on the five G box. I did go into

936
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: the box and look at the settings, and it seemed

937
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,840
Speaker 1: like you had all the pretty standard settings that you

938
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: would get on any router from your cable company. You

939
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: just got to go in type in that like one

940
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: nine to two dot one six eight dot one dot

941
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 1: one or whatever it's called, and that will bring you

942
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: to all the settings. But I was thoroughly, thoroughly impressed

943
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: with this five G home Internet. Verizon also allows you

944
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: to take it wherever you want, so if you have

945
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 1: an RV and you need an address, you got to

946
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,799
Speaker 1: link it up to an address where it's available. But

947
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: if you have an RV and you want internet in

948
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: your RV, you can subscribe to this. It's only fifty

949
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: bucks a month. I think it starts as cheap as

950
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a month. It's very competitive, but highly

951
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: highly recommend it. If your cable company is not very good,

952
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: If you're paying a lot, you're unhappy, don't switch from

953
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: cable just because I'm telling you this is cool. If

954
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: you're paying a decent price with your cable Your service

955
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: is good, your speed is fine, just stick with it.

956
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: But once they stick it to you with the higher price,

957
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: then you can say, well, I've got this other option

958
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: that's only fifty or twenty five dollars a month. I

959
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna switch. And that is the way that

960
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: you get a better deal with your cable company. Then

961
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,720
Speaker 1: you can still stick with them. But if they play hardball,

962
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: you say, all right, fine, let me switch and you

963
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: can order this, make sure it all works, and then

964
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: go ahead and cancel. But these cable companies know they

965
00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: kind of have a lock on things right now, so

966
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: they're not really negotiating very much. But with these new

967
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,799
Speaker 1: systems coming on board, like the T Mobile five G

968
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: and the Verizon five G when you mentioned that, they

969
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: do know that that competition is there. They also know

970
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: that the speed is probably not as fast as what

971
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 1: you're getting. But what I can tell you is that

972
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 1: the speed you're gonna get from these five G services,

973
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: as long as they're like, you know, pretty decent fifty sixty,

974
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: that's gonna be like perfectly fine for anything that you're

975
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: trying to do like watch you know, Netflix, or you know,

976
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: upload download. As long as you're not doing like wild wild,

977
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: you know, video editing from home or things like that

978
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: where you need to exchange big files up and down,

979
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 1: you're gonna be just fine. All right, Bill, let me

980
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:42,360
Speaker 1: know what happens with that. All right? Two stories, aren't no?

981
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,280
Speaker 1: I guess one story. This is a really quick story.

982
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: So maybe let's do a couple in a row here

983
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: Amazon Apple Music is hitting Amazon fireTV. Oh sorry, let

984
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: me just restart there. Apple Music is arriving on Roku devices.

985
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: So if you're an Apple Music subscriber and you had Roku,

986
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 1: that combination was not very good because you weren't able

987
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: to access what you pay for on the Roku. Well

988
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: now you can so Apple Music the app is available

989
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: on Roku devices. All your ninety million songs, all your

990
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,839
Speaker 1: thirty thousand playlists, add free experience if you're a subscriber,

991
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: is all on their Apple Music Radio. It's all there,

992
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 1: So it's there. Not much to say if you want

993
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 1: to subscribe for a free trial ten dollars a month.

994
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: But what's really cool about this? If you had Roku

995
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,640
Speaker 1: and you were frustrated because you weren't able to access

996
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 1: your paid Apple Music subscription. It is now there. Why

997
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 1: wasn't it there yesterday or the day before, the day before. Well,

998
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: let's say it's all about the money. And Roku is

999
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 1: this platform that is pretty smart. They realized early on

1000
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 1: that they are just a conduit to these apps, and

1001
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: so they do negotiate with these apps to get them

1002
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: on their platform, and they say, hey, look, you know,

1003
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 1: if someone signs up through our platform for that ten

1004
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: dollars a month, we want a little cut of that.

1005
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: And so they do get a cut of that money.

1006
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: I'm not saying from specific knowledge. I'm just saying from

1007
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 1: the information that I've learned about Roku over the years.

1008
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: This is why Roku kind of when you see it,

1009
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: it almost feels like a cable company. Every once in

1010
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: a while, they have these big spats with like YouTube

1011
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 1: TV or YouTube or any of these apps that are

1012
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: on there. All of a sudden, they'll be like, well,

1013
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: there's no more YouTube on Roku and they're like, what

1014
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: I thought YouTube could just submit an app to the

1015
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,160
Speaker 1: Roku app Store. Not so fast, you know, they want

1016
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:29,279
Speaker 1: to or YouTube TV whatever. They want to negotiate because

1017
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 1: they know that people are spending money to sign up

1018
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: and so they want a little kickback on that. They

1019
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: want a little cut of that little cut of that action.

1020
00:51:36,440 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 1: They also do ad sales. So if you are let's

1021
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: say Filo, and you are on Roku, and this is

1022
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 1: all just kind of extrapolating the knowledge that as I

1023
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 1: understand it with Roku. But let's say your Filo. You say,

1024
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:52,760
Speaker 1: all right, Filo, we know that you serve up ads

1025
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: on your shows. We want a thirty second AD as

1026
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 1: part of keeping your service on our platform. We want

1027
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: a third second ad every for every one hour watched

1028
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 1: of Filo on Roku. We want thirty seconds given to us.

1029
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: And we could do whatever we want that we can

1030
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: sell it, we can use it to promote our products,

1031
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: whatever we want. We get a thirty second ad inventory

1032
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: and they say all right. And so that way Roku

1033
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,319
Speaker 1: is sort of quote unquote getting paid or they can

1034
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 1: sell that ad time through their own service and make

1035
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,720
Speaker 1: money on this the apps that are that are streaming

1036
00:52:24,760 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: through them. So it's pretty smart. It makes a lot

1037
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 1: of sense. It's not as like Switzerland as you may

1038
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,719
Speaker 1: think or as it may be presented, but you know,

1039
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: it's a pretty thorough service and they're just kind of

1040
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,839
Speaker 1: planning for the future where you know, people buy these

1041
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: boxes once and then they continue to stream on them

1042
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 1: for you know, three five years or you know, something

1043
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:46,919
Speaker 1: like that. All right, we'll get to another question, and

1044
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:49,919
Speaker 1: this is from Kathy. She says, hey, Rich, have any

1045
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,799
Speaker 1: have you had any luck with apps that help you

1046
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: get rid of duplicate photos on your phone? And she

1047
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: sent through a link of a random app I've not

1048
00:52:57,920 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: heard of, But the app that I like is called

1049
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: Gemini gem I Ni Gemini Photos. It is. I think

1050
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 1: it costs a couple of bucks, but it's made by

1051
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: mac Paul, which I really like. They're actually based over

1052
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: in Ukraine, So thoughts and prayers going out to all

1053
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: of their employees over there. You're the access twenty dollars,

1054
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:23,359
Speaker 1: monthly access five dollars, unlimited access sixteen dollars, so they've

1055
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 1: got a couple of different pricing plans to choose from.

1056
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: But yeah, it can remove blurry photos, it can remove

1057
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 1: duplicate photos. Just remember that whenever you are going through

1058
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: your photos, make sure they are backed up first. Again,

1059
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:42,280
Speaker 1: make sure they are backed up. All right, we'll probably

1060
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: end on this how to check your air tags battery

1061
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,839
Speaker 1: level one year after launch. This is an article from

1062
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 1: Apple Insider very timely, if you can believe it. Air

1063
00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 1: tags have been out for about a year and the

1064
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 1: batteries last about a year, which means your air tags

1065
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:58,479
Speaker 1: may be going dead. So if you have these things

1066
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 1: set up, which are just amazing, your iPhone will notify

1067
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: you when the battery is going dead and you can

1068
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: replace that battery. It takes the standard. I think it's

1069
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: like a COO thirty two or whatever it's called. I

1070
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 1: don't what is it. Air tag battery type CR twenty

1071
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 1: thirty two, CR twenty thirty two. So maybe buy a

1072
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: couple of those on Amazon right now or at the

1073
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: local store, just to anticipate some of these going dead.

1074
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 1: So the air tags last for about a year, depending

1075
00:54:31,200 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 1: on how much you're using them. The one year battery

1076
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: life is based on an everyday use of four play

1077
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 1: sound events and one precision finding event per day, so

1078
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 1: if you're not trying to find it on a daily basis,

1079
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 1: these batteries are gonna last longer than a year, probably

1080
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: a year and a half. I've got a bunch of

1081
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 1: these things. I checked all the batteries on mine and

1082
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 1: they are all going strong. They look like they're about

1083
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 1: seventy five percent still full. So how do you do it?

1084
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 1: Open your on your iPhone, open up the find my

1085
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:03,919
Speaker 1: app type items in the bottom row, and then tap

1086
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: on one of the air tags and when you when

1087
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,879
Speaker 1: that pops up, look for the battery icon in the

1088
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:11,919
Speaker 1: top header. It does not show you a percentage, which

1089
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 1: is kind of annoying. I wish it did, but it

1090
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,160
Speaker 1: does show you kind of just a battery icon and

1091
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: how much it's filled up. So it could be a

1092
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: range of like, you know, it could be twenty percent

1093
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:22,680
Speaker 1: taken down, it could be fifty percent. You know, you

1094
00:55:22,760 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 1: just have to use your just use your judgment on

1095
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:29,360
Speaker 1: how much that's actually what it's showing you. But again,

1096
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,120
Speaker 1: maybe have some of these extra batteries on hand now

1097
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:35,399
Speaker 1: knowing that some of these things are going to go dead.

1098
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:39,360
Speaker 1: All right, One more story this I thought was pretty interesting.

1099
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: Amazon is going to introduce virtual product placement. So the

1100
00:55:43,320 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 1: Amazon's got this free v This is their new IMDbTV

1101
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like competing with two B and Pluto,

1102
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: but they've got a bunch of free content on this

1103
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: free V. Fr ee v E used to be called

1104
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:03,720
Speaker 1: IMDb TV. So if you're watching Reacher or Jack Ryan

1105
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 1: or Bosh or Making the Cut or Leverage Redemption, you

1106
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 1: may see products and those shows that have been virtually

1107
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 1: added later. How wild is that now? I think this

1108
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: has been talked about in Hollywood. It's kind of like

1109
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 1: the holy Grail of advertising because think about it. If

1110
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: you are on Let's say you're Seinfeld, you shot this

1111
00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 1: show thirty years ago. Whatever billboards are in that show

1112
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: are highly irrelevant. The products don't look the same. You know,

1113
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: they pull out of Coca Cola. It doesn't, you know,

1114
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: look the same at all. But imagine that you shot

1115
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,279
Speaker 1: this show in a way that that product was a

1116
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,760
Speaker 1: green screen or I don't know how they're doing this exactly,

1117
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: but they maybe they have billboards in the show that

1118
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: are green screens. Maybe they're using products that are coated

1119
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: in green. Whatever it is, you know, they pick up

1120
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: a can of soda, it could be whatever the advertisers

1121
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: want to advertise at that very moment. So these things

1122
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:57,959
Speaker 1: could be inserted on the fly as you're watching the show.

1123
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: And also, by the way, based on who you are,

1124
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: So for me, Rich Demiro, when I'm watching, they may

1125
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 1: advertise a Coke zero because they know that my profile

1126
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: shows and I don't drink sugary sodas. But for you,

1127
00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 1: they may advertise the latest Mountain Dew with extra caffeine

1128
00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: because your your profile says that you love that. So

1129
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:19,480
Speaker 1: I think this is fascinating. I think it's amazing. I

1130
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 1: know it's totally scary, oh my gosh, but it's really cool.

1131
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: And for brands and for you know, making money, these

1132
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 1: shows are free, this is another way to monetize those shows.

1133
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: So pretty, pretty fascinating stuff. I thought that was awesome.

1134
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I'm gonna go scan through some of

1135
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 1: these shows now and see if I can spot the

1136
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: product placements that are put in there virtually, because that

1137
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: is just such a cool concept I am. I am

1138
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: just so like just amazed at stuff like that and

1139
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 1: leave it up to a smart company like Amazon to

1140
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 1: do that. Oh wow, that sound means that's gonna do

1141
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: it for this episode of the show. If you would

1142
00:57:57,640 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 1: like to submit a question for me to answer, just

1143
00:57:59,320 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: go to my Facebook page, Facebook dot com, slash rich

1144
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 1: on Tech hit the big blue send email button, or

1145
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 1: go to rich on Tech dot tv and hit the

1146
00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 1: email icon. If you have not checked out my YouTube lately,

1147
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 1: I'm putting a lot of my shorts there as well,

1148
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 1: So I don't know how you find me on YouTube.

1149
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 1: Just search rich on Tech, I guess, and check out

1150
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 1: some of the shorts. You can find me on all

1151
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 1: social media at rich on Tech. Also, I would love

1152
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 1: it if you would rate and review this podcast. Just

1153
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: go to the listening app of your choice, write a

1154
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: quick line about what you like about this show to

1155
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: help other people understand why they should listen. And no

1156
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,240
Speaker 1: matter where you live in the US, you can download

1157
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: the free KTLA plus app on Apple, TV, fireTV, and Roku.

1158
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: Once you do, scroll to the tech section and watch

1159
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: all of my TV segments on demand. My name is

1160
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 1: rich Demiro. Thanks so much for listening. There are so

1161
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 1: many ways you can spend an hour of your time.

1162
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: I do appreciate you spending it right here with me.

1163
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you real soon.