WEBVTT - iPhone Event Set, Budget Wireless & Streaming Sports 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.680 Apple announces the date for its next big iPhone event. 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.360 I'll tell you what surprises might be in store. Plus 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:10.800 a new tool promises to make finding your favorite sports 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.680 games easier than ever. I'll tell you how it works. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.119 Vinyl record sales are seeing a big boost. I'll break 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:23.400 down the numbers behind this resurgence. Plus your tech questions answered. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.160 What's going on. I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:28.800 on Tech. This is the show where I talk about 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:30.800 the tech stuff I think you should know about. It's 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.879 also the place where I answer your questions about technology. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.880 I believe that tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.440 Let's fire up those phone lines at triple A rich 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.880 one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.040 two four one zero one. Give me a call if 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.280 you have a question about technology again triple a Rich 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.400 one oh one. Email is also an option. Just go 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:59.240 to the website rich on Tech dot tv and hit contact. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:01.120 Guests on the show. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:05.800 This week, we've got UCSF Pediatrics Professor doctor Jason Nagata. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.800 He's going to discuss all of those recent school smartphone 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:13.640 bands and the impact on student well being. Plus we've 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.640 got Business Insider they're going to join us to talk 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:21.039 about mobile carriers Mint Mobile and Tello Mobile, comparing both 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.600 of them, and the TV answer man Philip Swan is 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:28.760 going to help you select the ideal sports streaming service 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:30.000 for your needs. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.480 It is the first week of college football. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.559 NFL is happening as well, and so you're probably looking 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.760 at some of these streaming services. I'll help you figure 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.720 out or he'll help you figure out which one is 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:45.800 best for you. This week, Apple sent out invitations for 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:50.160 its next big iPhone event. This is for the iPhone sixteen, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.600 happening on September ninth. It's a little bit early this year, 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:57.200 not too much, but typically they do it on a Tuesday. 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:00.520 This year it's on a Monday. The reason the big 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.320 presidential debate is on that Tuesday, so they didn't want 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.400 to mess with that. It's September eleventh, on Wednesday, obviously 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.960 not the best day for an event, so Monday it 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:12.760 is Monday, September ninth. It's funny all of the major 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:17.560 tech events this year were earlier than originally scheduled or 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:21.600 originally when they typically are. So Apple's event will be 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.480 up in Cooper, Tino at their headquarters. 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:24.360 Yes, I'll be there. 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.440 What are we expecting to see the iPhone sixteen and sixteen, 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.600 plus the iPhone sixteen Pro and iPhone sixteen Pro Max, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.480 so four models of the iPhone sixteen. They will all 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.760 have that AI built in. But there's been some talk 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.359 about whether that AI will be available day one or 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.080 we're gonna have to wait a little bit longer for 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.960 that AI to come in a software update, maybe in 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.200 a month after the launch. Also on the docket Apple 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:55.840 Watch Series ten and then the Apple Watch Ultra three. Now, 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.960 of course this is all rumor and speculation. Apple never 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:03.640 confirms any thing before the actual event. But the highlights 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.359 of these new phones, as according to the rumor mill 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.680 a new A eighteen chip. We're already up to A 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.519 eighteen plus more RAM than ever eight gigabytes. Apple never 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.800 says how much RAM. They never actually give a lot 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.880 of specs for their phones besides the storage and the processor, 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.080 but these supposedly have more RAM, maybe to handle all 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.160 the AI stuff. A new action button across all of 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.120 the phones. This is a customizable button that you can 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.840 make do anything when you press it. You can make 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:39.400 it record a voice memo, or activate a smart assistant, 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.640 whatever you want. That's been available on the fifteen Pro models. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.240 Now that's apparently coming to the whole lineup. Then you've 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.920 got a new capture button. Now, this is interesting. So 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.760 Apple might be going all in on making the iPhone 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.040 a camera, which it already is for many people, but 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.680 the dedicated capture button would be really interesting to have 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.840 on there. So I'm very curious if that's actually going 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:02.600 to happen, where they would put that and how that 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:03.080 would work. 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:05.760 Let's see what else colors. 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.560 I don't really care about the colors, but I know 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.240 a lot of people do, blue, green, pink, white, black. 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.520 Let's see what else. Oh, new larger displays. That's interesting. 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.359 These phones are getting even bigger, six point nine inches 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.400 on the high end. There five X zoom on the 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:26.039 Pro model, and the Apple Watch may be larger as well, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.560 larger and thinner. And then, of course, if you're not 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.600 caring about the new iPhones, there will be a brand 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.000 new version of the software that runs on the iPhone 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.920 iOS eighteen. This will be available for the iPhone ten 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.560 R and up, which means if you have a phone 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.159 all the way from back in twenty eighteen, you're still 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.040 going to get a software update. That's pretty incredible. By 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.480 the way the event is called it's glow time. What 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.680 does that mean? Well, I think it means it's the 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.000 It refers to the look of Siri and all this AI. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.480 Whenever you activate AI on the iPhone. As far as 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.919 I saw in demo that I got back in June, 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.479 it like the whole phone kind of glows, Like the 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.960 screen has this like magical glow to it. So I 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:11.160 think that's what glow time means. I don't think we're 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.080 gonna see glow in the dark iPhones. Don't think that's 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.880 gonna happen. All right, I'm excited for that. I know 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:18.640 it's a big date for a lot of people to 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.159 either upgrade or get that new software or just see 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:23.640 what Apple's doing. It's always kind of a big deal 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.760 when it's the number one top tech company in the 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.320 world revealing the new products. No matter what where you 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:34.120 stand on iPhone, good or bad, it's always a big day. Meanwhile, 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:38.200 AI obviously been the biggest thing on all of the 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.640 new smartphones this year. I told you last week that 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.120 it is propelling sales of smartphones. I've been using the 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.320 Pixel nine Pro and I think it is just absolutely incredible. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:50.080 I think that that is the phone to be at 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.600 this point with for the average person, Like, if you 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.720 want a smartphone that is not Samsung, that's not Apple, 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:58.720 the Pixel is the way to go. Is there any 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.320 other choice, by the way, I don't think there is 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.279 at this point. But I think Samsung gets it in 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:05.680 the hardware. I think Apple gets it in kind of 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.480 the overall accessories and ease of use, and you can 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.599 walk into a store. They've got them everywhere if you 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.599 need help, So I think that's where they get it. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.880 But Pixel is kind of like this sleeper phone that's 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:20.400 like it's really good, camera is amazing, the software is 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.760 really really good, it's smart, and it just feels like 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:29.880 a smartphone. But speaking of AI, California set to maybe 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:34.200 pass a landmark AI safety bill. This is SB ten 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:38.120 forty seven, a major AI regulation bill. The main thing 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.279 about this bill is that some lawmakers are trying to 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:47.039 implement safety measures for AI. So before these advanced AI 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.160 models go out into the world, they have to be 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.320 they have to be vetted, and these companies could be 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:58.039 held accountable for any mistakes they make. And they would 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.240 also have to have a kill switch, which means they 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:01.600 can shut them down quickly. 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.960 If something goes wrong. What could possibly go wrong? 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.679 Well, I don't know, taking over the entire world, trying 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:12.920 to kill US, bio warfare, election manipulation, I mean AI. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.120 If you're not playing. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.920 With it, it is incredible, It is incredibly useful, it 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.600 is incredibly smart, and we are just at the beginning. 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.040 So this bill in California, this wouldn't be for the 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.400 whole US, but because all of these tech companies are 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:32.360 headquartered in California, this would have nationwide ramifications. So who's 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.040 on the support side. Well, let me tell you who's 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.640 against it? First, Open AI makers of chat, GBT they 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:42.240 don't like it. Meta makers of Facebook, they don't like it. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:48.160 Google makers of Google, they don't like it. Some politicians 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.960 who don't want to stifle innovation. California's Chamber of Commerce 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:53.880 all against this bill. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:55.160 Why don't they like it? 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.120 Well, because it makes things tougher for these companies to 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.400 just do whatever they want to do. Who supports it? Interestingly, 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:07.120 Elon Musk. Now I mentioned that I just finished reading 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:12.200 his or listening to his biography by Walter Isaacson and 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.559 Elon Musk For all of the future thinking that he does, 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:20.760 he is actually very thoughtful about the implications of AI, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.040 even though he has his own AI in Twitter or 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.240 x whatever it is called Grock. He says that he 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.640 does think that AI could have, you know, some issues, 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.720 some downsides if left unchecked, and so he is supporting 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:37.960 this bill. He says this should probably happen now. You 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:42.199 may argue, if you're a cynic, that he wants to 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:44.600 stifle the innovation of these big companies that are in 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.480 competition with him. So of course he's for this because 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.400 it would slow them down and give him time to 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.240 catch up. But that's a very cynical view of things. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.400 Anthropic makers of Claude AI, which is my preferred AI, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.640 known as a more safe and friendly AI, they are 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.600 also supporting this, and I love Anthropic. If you have 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.000 not tried Claude down, download this app to your phone 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.120 right now. Claude AI, make sure you get the official one. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:14.200 It is incredible. I use this every day all day long. 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:16.400 It is just it's not as sexy as the other 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:20.920 AI's out there. It's Anthropic A N T H R 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.800 O P I C claude C l A U D E. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.680 So look that up on your phone. It's available for 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:30.360 iPhone and Android and just get it on your phone again. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.640 Not as sexy as chat gybt which has become Kleenex. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.520 You know, it's not Google with their Gemini, it's not Samsung, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.440 it's not Meta which forces it in your search bar. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.480 But it's really good, and it's really good at just 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:49.840 thoughtful answers. Anyway, they are supporting this as well, so 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.840 it's not a done deal yet the governor. It's got 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.760 one more kind of step to go back to the 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.520 Senate before it will go to the Governor's desk. But 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:00.880 then the governor of California has until late September to 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.240 sign or veto the bill. And the thing that's interesting 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.000 about this is that Governor Newsom here in California has 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.640 not given any sort of like inkling to whether he 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.480 likes this or doesn't like it. And you have to 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.280 think where he's coming from. Obviously, he wants to set 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.000 you know, California likes the regulations, but he also does 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.839 not want to stifle the tech companies that are based 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.200 here and their growth because there are many other states 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.000 and there are many other countries that are ready to 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.200 jump in and say, hey, come on over here, you 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.160 can do all the stuff you want to do over here, 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.240 and you don't have to deal with all those zany 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.200 regulations that California has. So we'll see what happens there, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.439 but you know, the outcome could set a precedent here 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.120 in the United States. All Right, I've got so much 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:44.840 more to talk about on the show today. 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.000 I'm going to talk about. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.720 How I switched away from so NOS, why I had 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:54.040 to actually paid to rent a movie last night, my birthday, 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.960 clearing out voicemails on your phone, this new app that 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.360 I really love, and a. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:00.840 Very easy way to use AI. 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.600 It's all coming up right here on rich On Tech 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:04.720 eight eight to eight rich one on one eight eight 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:09.240 eight seven four two four one zero one. Welcome back 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.880 to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:16.400 talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh one. That's 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:21.040 eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Well, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.400 it is the start of football season, and uh, whether 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:30.480 you watch college or NFL something in between. ESPN has 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.320 launched a new feature called where to Watch. This is 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:38.360 the streaming slash TV database you have been looking for. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:43.679 It's really really easy, it's very useful, but basically you 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.480 can see where your games are streaming or playing on 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.320 which TV channel. They've got broadcast networks, cable channels, regional 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:54.760 sports networks, streaming services, and you can get it from 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.960 the ESPN app or ESPN dot com. Very very simple, 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.120 and if you log into ESPN, you can even set 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.160 your teams that you want to watch and it will 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:08.040 show you where those are first. Super super easy. They've 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.120 got over two hundred and fifty sources for this. You 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.680 can just go to ESPN dot com slash where to 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:18.320 watch and it's it's great. It's game game changing, no 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.040 pun intended, but it's great because you can see all 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.600 the dates ahead of you. You can select the teams 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.320 that you want and those will be showed right at 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.520 the top, and it shows you every which way you 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.520 can watch them. So, for instance, Dodgers playing the Diamondbacks today, 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:36.400 you can watch it on the diamondbackstreaming DBAs dot TV, MLBtv, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.080 or sportsnet LA. So it gives you all those options. Now, 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.920 I will say that with sports specifically, it is still 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.720 a it's still very confusing whether you can actually access 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.199 those games. For instance, this game is not going to 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.360 be on MLBtv if you are in the LA area, 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.120 as I understand because typically they black out the games 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.720 that are in your local area. This would be on 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.280 sports and at LA, which obviously you would need a 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.679 streaming service or a cable provider that has that channel 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.320 to see it. So we're almost there, but you know 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.520 the idea here, I mean, look at Okay, so there's 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:16.560 another thing on FM Championship LPGA. You can watch on 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.120 ESPN Golf channel or Peacock. Who would think that Peacock 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.280 would have all this stuff? Since when did Peacock get 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.440 so sporty? But now like half the NBC sports are 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:27.200 all on Peacock. 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:28.120 Uh. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.760 Anyway, it's really handy. ESPN dot com Slash where to watch. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.480 The other one I like is Fubo. Fubo has something 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:41.480 called Gamefinder, So if you go to Fubo dot tv slash, 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.000 I'll see if you can go directly, Yeah, Fubo dot 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.200 tv Slash Gamefinder. You enter your zip code and that 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:48.880 will tell you where the games are playing as well. 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.800 So really really handy. It'll all be on my website, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:53.960 rich on tech dot tv. If you want a link 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.120 to anything I mentioned here, just hit the light bulb 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.720 icon at the top. Let's go to Jason in a Equipment, Texas. Jason, 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:02.440 You're on with Rich. 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:05.400 Hi. 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:06.120 Hello, Rich? 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:06.880 How are you? 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:08.880 I'm doing excellent? What can I help you with? 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.960 I'm the first time caller and I enjoy your show. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.440 And thank you. 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:20.640 I have a thirteen inch MacBook Pro of twenty nineteen 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:21.920 with the Intel chip. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:22.760 Okay. 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:28.520 I bought it new and bring a twenty twenty, and 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.120 I used it for a few months, and then I 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.880 put it up and didn't use it for probably two 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:39.080 or three years, and then I pulled it out last 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:44.840 year and updated it to the latest version. And the 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.200 battery won't charge anymore. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:55.000 Battery service batteries okay. So what can I help you with? 0:14:56.280 --> 0:15:04.960 I was saying, like, pick them the cock the count 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.200 and it says only. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.640 Fix okay. 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.560 So it sounds like you're trying to figure out what 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.800 to do with this twenty nineteen MacBook Pro that will 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.520 not charge. So you are very correct in going into 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.800 the system information and checking the cycle count and the condition. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.560 This is the health information of the battery. You can 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.720 access this by going to the Apple menu on your 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.640 computer upper left hand corner. You hold down the let's 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:34.720 see is it the option? 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:35.080 Yeah? 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.200 So you hold down option, you tap that Apple and 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.840 it will switch from about this mac to system information. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.120 You tap that, and then the left hand side it 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.560 says power and I can see my battery. I have 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.200 a brand new MacBook air cycle count nine. That means 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.480 I fully charged and discharged this battery nine times, which 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.080 I know it might sound like a lot, but that's 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.960 that's a cycle count is not how many days you've 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.240 had this computer and you've played it in. A cycle 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:02.920 is a little bit more than that, so it's like 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.480 the whole battery, So it's a little bit different than 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.480 just like, oh, I've plugged this in nine times and 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.800 then I've got conditioned normal maximum capacity one hundred percent. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.080 Sounds like your battery is done. It's dead. So you 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.200 can either just leave this computer plugged in all the 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.280 time and use it that way. But keep in mind 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.160 if you unplug it, you're going to lose power instantly, 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.200 so you might want to put something like a ups 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.440 in between your computer and the wall so that way 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:31.960 you have a little bit of time to shut down 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.080 your computer if you yank out the cord. Otherwise, I 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.640 would recommend just bringing this computer in. It's a twenty nineteen, 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.280 You've still got plenty of life left on this computer. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.120 I would bring it into the Apple Store, get a 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.120 quote from them, see how much it'll cost for them 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:47.560 to replace that battery. If you don't want to go there, 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.160 you can go to a local place that will replace 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.240 the battery. That's an authorized reseller, a best buy could 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:54.760 do it. Or you can go to a place like 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.640 you Break I Fix and they will give you a 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.280 free quote on how much it costs to replace the battery. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.520 I'd say if it was about maybe three hundred dollars 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.639 or less, go ahead and do it. Because this is 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.320 a perfectly good computer. It's going to last you another 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.600 I'd say four or five years or so. Thanks for 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.480 the call, Jason, appreciate it. From there in Texas. Coming up, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.639 we're going to talk to doctor Jason Nogada about the 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.800 recent school smartphone bands and the impact on students well being. 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:25.640 This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.880 Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.640 triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.040 seven four to two four one zero one. Give me 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:36.800 a call if you have a question about technology. We've 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.679 got lots to discuss on today's show. We'll get back 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.119 to the phone lines in just a moment. Joining me now, 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:46.760 UCSF Pediatrics Professor doctor Jason Nogada, thanks so much for 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.720 joining me today. Thanks so much for having me. So 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.360 this is an issue that's near and dear to my heart. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.800 I've got two kids, they're both in school. They both 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.280 love their technology because they know who dad is and 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.960 they have a lot of access to it. I'm also 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:04.040 reading that book, The Anxious Generation, and it's making me 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:06.040 think twice about a lot of this stuff and the 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:10.439 manipulation by these social media companies and addicting our children. So, 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.639 first off, I know a lot of schools are starting 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.920 to ban smartphones during the day. 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:16.960 What are your thoughts on that. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.560 Yeah, I think it's a great question, and as you mentioned, 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.840 many more school districts than schools are considering school bands. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.679 I do think it's important to note that phones are 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:27.960 not inherently. 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:28.080 Good or bad. 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.480 There are some health risks that we know about that 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.440 we do want to minimize, but there are also some benefits, 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.879 including communication, socialization that you know children will have to 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.960 learn and to some extent, you know, technology is not 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.400 going to go away, and so in order for our 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:47.640 children to become functioning adults and able to function in society. 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.119 They will have to learn how to use technology and 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:54.320 phones to some extent. I do think that school cell 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.800 phone bands are relatively new, and there's not actually strong 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.520 evidence either way. So I think it is important that 0:18:59.560 --> 0:19:03.360 aso are starting to implement these bands, that we really 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.159 study it rigorously so that we have hard data as 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.840 to whether or not it actually improves academic or health outcomes. 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:10.880 That's so good. I like that. 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.399 That's a good kind of like a nice way to 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:14.880 think about it, because you're right. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.080 I mean, there are so many benefits. 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.879 We were discussing this last night with my kids because 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.359 they have watches, they don't have phones, but you know, 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.160 they can't use them during the day now. And you know, 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.520 my wife was like, well, you can call the school 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.320 if there's an emergency, and I said, well, no parent 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.960 wants to call the school in an emergency. They want 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.000 a direct line to their child. And I think that's 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.240 the biggest kind of flip side that parents, even though 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.639 they know these things could be rough on their kids, 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:40.280 they still want to be able to get in touch 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:41.080 with them during the day. 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:42.680 Yeah. 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.119 Absolutely, I do think that that is one of their drawbacks, 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.200 so that I think there are risks and their benefits. 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.320 And you know, one of the key functions of phones 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.240 is for communication, and so if you want to be 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.879 able to communicate with your child, you know, with phones 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:57.840 being banned during the school day, you won't be able 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:00.360 to directly reach them throughout the day, especially in times 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:01.240 of emergencies. 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:03.560 So I do think that that's one of the drawbacks. 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:08.080 But you know, that being said, because all the kids 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.240 won't have access to phones, you know, none of them 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:13.080 will have they'll all be in the same situation and 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.000 they can all kind of socialize in person. So I 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:17.280 do think that there are some benefits that I'm really 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:22.000 encouraged kids to socialize like in person and also to 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.359 really fully focus on their studies during the in the 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.960 classroom without distractions. And while there's not a lot of data, 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.679 there have been some schools that have found that English 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.320 proficiency even has improved with the implementation of school bands 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:35.720 or school phone bands. 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.920 And I think that's my biggest takeaway is that the 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.520 you know, these phones, like you said, they're not inherently 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.800 good or bad, but there are things that as human 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.440 beings that you know, with a brain and the way 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.879 that we think and do things. These phones attract our 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.480 attention a lot. I mean, you get these notifications throughout 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:57.399 the day, and of course these apps they want you 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:59.479 to be on there because that's their job is to 0:20:59.520 --> 0:21:02.879 get you engaged. And so but kids, I feel like, 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:05.480 are a little bit and adults I see this as 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.280 with as well, is that we're we just can't handle it. 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:11.080 Like we just you get that notification, you're gonna check it. 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:13.200 Like I know, even this morning, I'm on a run 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.040 and I know that my family's just texting back and forth, 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:18.320 but my my watch keeps vibrating and I want to 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:18.760 check it. 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.120 And that's pretty normal, right, It's pretty typical. 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:24.199 Yeah, I mean I do think that, as you mentioned, 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:28.199 the technology is designed to you know, get you engage it, 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:30.959 to use more of it. And so just as you mentioned, 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:34.160 like more notifications you have, you know, you're we're naturally 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:36.879 designed in programmed to want to check it. And with 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:39.119 kids in social media, you know, if they've gotten a 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:41.040 like or a comment, they want to check it right 0:21:41.080 --> 0:21:43.280 away and they want to respond to it. And so 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:46.000 I do think that there are things you know, inherent 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:49.640 and the technology design that are you know, have addictive natures, 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:51.960 and I do think that, you know, for kids and 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:55.439 adults to like, it's really hard to fight that. So 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:57.840 I do think that one, you know, very clear way 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:01.840 of addressing that is to just the devices altogether. And 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:04.119 so I do think that, you know, if during the 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:06.640 school day, kids aren't getting those notifications, then they can 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.480 really be present for the academic work ahead of them. 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:11.320 So that is one of the you know, I guess 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:13.200 the most effective way of getting rid of all those 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:16.719 distractions and notifications is actually to just remove the device. 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:18.800 I mean, that may not be the best long term 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.400 because number one, as soon as the kid gets out 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:23.560 of school, they're back to their phone. So it's like 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:25.760 this weird and my wife and I have struggled this 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:28.159 with this with my kids. It's like, do you aban 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:31.080 the roadblocks during the week and just let them, you know, 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:32.919 play as much as they want on the weekends. It's like, 0:22:33.200 --> 0:22:35.560 it's this weird thing because I get as an adult, 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:37.639 you have to learn to like manage your time and 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:40.040 you have to learn to like manage your attention. Are 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:42.920 kids just not equipped to do that yet at their age? 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:44.840 Is that why it's kind of very different? And I know, 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.040 not all adults can do that either easily. 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:50.920 Yeah, I think you're absolutely right, And I do think 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:53.760 that there's not a one size fits all solution, even 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:56.879 for your own child, because I think actually your child's 0:22:57.000 --> 0:22:59.960 age and development matters a whole lot. I do think 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.680 that as children become teenagers and you know, as you said, 0:23:03.680 --> 0:23:06.480 transition to adults, ideally you want to provide them with 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:10.920 skills and their own decisions so that when they go off, 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:12.600 you know, when they move away from home and they're 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:15.640 working on their own or going to college, they're equipped 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:17.560 with the skills and the tools to be able to 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:22.080 balance and manage technology and their own you know, personal life, 0:23:22.480 --> 0:23:24.840 you know, just like we're faced with as adults. So 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:26.480 I do think the ultimate goal is to get to 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:29.640 that stage where they can make healthy and good decisions 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:32.879 that really optimize their tech use while minimizing the risks. 0:23:33.400 --> 0:23:36.480 But I do think that especially for younger children, you know, 0:23:37.000 --> 0:23:39.239 who are really much more dependent on their parents and 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:41.480 do you know, often do. 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:42.399 Better with rules. 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:45.119 I do think that it makes more sense in general 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:48.520 to have more rules for younger children, who you know, 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:50.880 may not have the developments to be able to really 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:52.399 make some of these decisions on their own, just like 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:54.040 you wouldn't let a five year old, you know, we 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:55.840 don't let firo's drive cars or do. 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:56.439 Other things like that. 0:23:56.480 --> 0:23:58.919 I do think that there is potentially a role for 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:01.760 a graduation and where you know, as kids are getting 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:04.200 older and able to make more decisions on their own, 0:24:04.400 --> 0:24:06.520 you can provide them with a little bit more autonomy, 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:09.639 and eventually the goal is to get them to you know, 0:24:09.680 --> 0:24:11.400 be able to function optimally on their own. 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:15.320 So what should parents know about the effect of these 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:18.000 phones and all these social media apps on their kids 0:24:18.040 --> 0:24:20.439 and give them some advice on how to deal with 0:24:20.480 --> 0:24:20.959 this stuff. 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:24.480 Yeah, I do think that in terms of the potential 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:26.439 health risks, you know, there has been a lot of 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:29.680 research on it, and there are some mixed findings, but overall, 0:24:29.800 --> 0:24:33.280 you know, in some adolescents there are I think one 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:37.919 of the overall there are some like physical health consequences potentially, 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:42.200 I think the most important ones are maybe sleep, physical inactivity, 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:46.040 and potentially nutrition. So in terms of sleep, we already 0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:48.320 know that more than a third of teenagers don't get 0:24:48.440 --> 0:24:51.800 enough sleep, and I do think that phone use and 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:55.480 just device use in general is one really easy behavioral 0:24:55.520 --> 0:24:59.480 strategy to improve sleep. We do know that when kids 0:24:59.560 --> 0:25:02.520 or anyone is on their device right before bedtime, you know, 0:25:02.520 --> 0:25:06.920 it's activating it. You know, really in general makes people 0:25:07.320 --> 0:25:10.800 stay up later, they get poorer quality sleep, and for 0:25:11.200 --> 0:25:14.760 growing children and adolescents, it's so important for their growth 0:25:14.840 --> 0:25:18.479 development and even academic performance. So I do think that 0:25:19.320 --> 0:25:22.600 particularly limiting screen use or phone use right before bedtime 0:25:22.720 --> 0:25:24.639 is a. 0:25:23.720 --> 0:25:24.600 A good strategy. 0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:27.920 And actually kind of similar to the what we said 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:30.920 about having physical devices like away so that you don't 0:25:30.920 --> 0:25:33.920 have my notifications, one of the most effective strategy is 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:36.000 actually to have your phone outside of your bedroom so 0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:39.680 that you know you don't have the you know, you're 0:25:39.680 --> 0:25:41.639 not nice to go check it in the middle of 0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:41.920 the night. 0:25:42.200 --> 0:25:44.440 Yeah, we've all got out where you wake up in 0:25:44.440 --> 0:25:45.919 the middle of the night and what do you do. 0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:47.679 You roll over and you check your phone, like for 0:25:47.720 --> 0:25:48.280 what reason? 0:25:49.280 --> 0:25:51.240 Yeah, exactly, and then you've then all of a sudden 0:25:51.280 --> 0:25:53.440 you see all the messages or notifications that you missed 0:25:53.600 --> 0:25:55.880 or work stuff, and then you know, now you're awake 0:25:55.880 --> 0:25:57.879 again and you're thinking about dealing with that stuff. So 0:25:57.920 --> 0:26:00.600 I do think that having the device is outside of 0:26:00.640 --> 0:26:04.359 the room or completely off, you know, can help kids 0:26:04.400 --> 0:26:06.040 and adults have better sleep. 0:26:07.240 --> 0:26:07.439 You know. 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:12.560 Another potential reason why phones and other screen devices can 0:26:12.720 --> 0:26:15.359 lead to poor health and teenagers is that they're just 0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:16.560 spending a lot of time. 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:18.760 On screens these days. 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:22.240 The average teenager during the pandemic spent eight hours of 0:26:22.280 --> 0:26:25.800 their recreational time, you know, on a device. It's obviously 0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:27.919 lower than that now that we don't have the lockdowns 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:30.040 and social isolation, but it's. 0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:31.159 Still is very high. 0:26:31.400 --> 0:26:33.960 And if you think about you know, teenagers being on 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:36.760 their screens for four to eight hours a day, that's 0:26:36.800 --> 0:26:39.080 four to eight hours in general that they're not you know, 0:26:39.119 --> 0:26:42.639 being physically active or exercising or socializing with people in 0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:44.560 real life. And so I think part of it is 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:46.639 like what else could you be doing with that time 0:26:47.040 --> 0:26:48.600 when you're not in front of the screen, So it's 0:26:48.680 --> 0:26:51.679 kind of displacing other activities that could be good for 0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:55.760 your health. And then I think finally, in terms of nutrition, 0:26:55.800 --> 0:26:58.160 there are studies that show that the more people are 0:26:58.160 --> 0:27:02.480 on screens, especially watching you know, streaming movies or television 0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:05.800 shows or watching television shows, the more likely they are 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:07.320 to overeat while they're distracted. 0:27:07.359 --> 0:27:09.760 So if you're you know, having a meal. While you're 0:27:09.760 --> 0:27:10.720 watching TV. 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:14.040 Or watching Netflix, you're more likely to overeat because you're 0:27:14.119 --> 0:27:17.120 kind of distracted and not paying attention to your hunger cues, 0:27:17.560 --> 0:27:21.480 so you're more likely to gain weights. And actually, we 0:27:21.600 --> 0:27:24.680 recently had a study that showed that over time, young 0:27:24.720 --> 0:27:27.000 adults who had more screen. 0:27:26.720 --> 0:27:29.560 Time thirty years later were actually more likely. 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:33.040 Than to have heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:35.719 and even heart attacks. So I do think that the 0:27:35.720 --> 0:27:38.159 more time that you're on screens, especially if you're sitting 0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:41.680 and sedentary, over time, that can really lead to some 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:43.240 significant health consequences. 0:27:43.560 --> 0:27:44.800 All Right, we're going to leave it there. 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:48.600 UCSF Pediatrics Professor, Doctor Jason Nagatta, thanks so much for 0:27:48.680 --> 0:27:49.240 joining me today. 0:27:49.280 --> 0:27:50.640 I really appreciate the insights. 0:27:51.359 --> 0:27:52.399 Thanks so much for having me. 0:27:52.600 --> 0:27:55.160 All Right, parents, get those kids outside, have them play 0:27:55.200 --> 0:27:58.640 with worms, just to uncover a rock. Just just lift 0:27:58.680 --> 0:28:01.280 a rock and play with the things underneath. You're gonna 0:28:01.280 --> 0:28:04.000 be okay. Get that dirt under your fingernails. I'm telling 0:28:04.080 --> 0:28:06.399 you I did as a kid. I'm fine, and I 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:09.440 love my screens. Eighty eight rich one O one eight 0:28:09.480 --> 0:28:12.880 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:17.200 Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich Demiro here hanging 0:28:17.200 --> 0:28:20.320 out with you, talking technology at Triple A Rich one 0:28:20.359 --> 0:28:23.040 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 0:28:23.080 --> 0:28:25.760 one zero one. Still lots of stories and news to 0:28:25.840 --> 0:28:29.720 get to. Uh tell you about my switch away from 0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:31.080 Sonos this week? 0:28:33.080 --> 0:28:35.880 What else? Oh why I had to rent a movie 0:28:35.960 --> 0:28:37.480 last night? We got a lot to talk about. 0:28:37.480 --> 0:28:41.040 But let's go to the Nette in Los Angeles Thenett, 0:28:41.080 --> 0:28:41.960 you're on with Rich. 0:28:42.880 --> 0:28:47.880 Hi and I mean your advice. I'm trying to decide 0:28:49.000 --> 0:28:52.760 what to purchase between a MacBook are and with empty 0:28:52.880 --> 0:28:56.720 chick or M three chick. Everything is the same, you know, 0:28:56.840 --> 0:29:02.080 the CPU, the storage, the goodbye. The only difference is 0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:07.040 that EMP two chip and M three chip. M two chip. 0:29:07.320 --> 0:29:11.640 Yeah, how much is the price difference on the M 0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:15.480 three chip? I go, I'd go with the M three. 0:29:15.520 --> 0:29:18.280 It's gonna be faster, It's just gonna be slightly faster. 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:20.800 I would say if the difference was like five hundred dollars, 0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:22.760 I would go with the M two. But since you're 0:29:22.760 --> 0:29:24.760 only paying one hundred dollars more to get the latest, 0:29:24.800 --> 0:29:25.760 I have the M three. 0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:28.560 I just got it. It's fine. 0:29:28.680 --> 0:29:31.640 I mean it's not you know my old uh my 0:29:31.800 --> 0:29:34.920 M two Pro was faster, but I think for the 0:29:34.920 --> 0:29:37.080 one hundred dollars, I'd go with the M three, just 0:29:37.080 --> 0:29:39.280 just to be on the current, you know, wave of 0:29:39.320 --> 0:29:43.200 things you get one year newer technology. Again, if it 0:29:43.240 --> 0:29:45.080 was more, if it was three five hundred dollars, i'd 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:47.120 say absolutely go with the M two. You'll be just fine. 0:29:47.240 --> 0:29:49.320 But for a hundred bucks, easy decision, go with the 0:29:49.400 --> 0:29:49.720 M three. 0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:52.600 I know that's what I was thinking when I just 0:29:52.600 --> 0:29:53.600 needed aff confirmation. 0:29:53.960 --> 0:29:55.880 Yep, enjoy the new computer and that I think you're 0:29:55.880 --> 0:29:56.400 gonna love it. 0:29:57.320 --> 0:29:58.200 Thank you so much. 0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:01.040 All Right, have a great day. Let's go to Sorry 0:30:01.040 --> 0:30:01.360 about that. 0:30:01.520 --> 0:30:04.000 Let's a little fast on the trigger there, Let's go 0:30:04.040 --> 0:30:05.800 to Gloria in Oxnard. 0:30:05.800 --> 0:30:08.120 Gloria, you're on with rich Ah. 0:30:07.960 --> 0:30:10.720 Yes, good afternoon. I have a question. 0:30:11.360 --> 0:30:17.120 I would send some legal documents, but on CD disc okay, 0:30:17.360 --> 0:30:22.680 and now I don't have anything. I tried it on 0:30:22.720 --> 0:30:25.400 my CD player that didn't work. But I needed to know, 0:30:25.520 --> 0:30:30.000 could I if I wanted to hear these discs to 0:30:30.080 --> 0:30:31.120 see what's on file? 0:30:31.800 --> 0:30:32.600 What I would saying? 0:30:32.680 --> 0:30:34.080 Could I use a DVD. 0:30:33.880 --> 0:30:37.120 Player like a standalone DVD player? 0:30:37.400 --> 0:30:39.760 Yeah, a little small ones, but no. 0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:43.920 That's not gonna that's not going to work for files. Yeah, 0:30:43.920 --> 0:30:45.680 it's not going to display those because these are these 0:30:45.680 --> 0:30:46.600 are documents on there? 0:30:46.640 --> 0:30:48.240 Are they pictures or what are they? 0:30:48.760 --> 0:30:52.800 No, they're just let's say, gibbis. I don't know whether 0:30:52.800 --> 0:30:54.000 they're documents or not. 0:30:55.400 --> 0:30:55.960 But I know. 0:30:57.680 --> 0:31:01.200 I used to have a DVD player, a small portable 0:31:02.160 --> 0:31:04.560 and I'm fall back and I could hear. 0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:07.560 It's not so much scene. 0:31:07.920 --> 0:31:09.320 I just want to know what's on them. 0:31:09.440 --> 0:31:09.960 Yeah, I would. 0:31:10.000 --> 0:31:12.280 I would find a computer with a with a disk 0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:15.480 drive on it. So you're an Oxnard. 0:31:17.360 --> 0:31:19.600 The problem is I can't afford a computer. 0:31:19.720 --> 0:31:22.120 And no no, not that I'm not saying you got 0:31:22.160 --> 0:31:24.000 to buy a computer. No, no, no, I'm trying to 0:31:24.000 --> 0:31:25.920 figure out a place where you can go where you 0:31:25.960 --> 0:31:28.680 can just so first off, I would tap friends, so, 0:31:29.520 --> 0:31:32.160 you know, head onto your Facebook, your Instagram or your 0:31:32.200 --> 0:31:35.719 social media, say hey, uh, anyone have a computer with 0:31:35.760 --> 0:31:38.840 a with a disk drive a you know, CD or 0:31:39.120 --> 0:31:42.120 DV Just say disk drive and see if anyone's got one. Hey, 0:31:42.160 --> 0:31:44.120 can I come to your house? You put the disc 0:31:44.160 --> 0:31:46.040 in the drive, you copy all that stuff and you 0:31:46.040 --> 0:31:48.920 can upload it to the cloud, to a service if 0:31:48.960 --> 0:31:54.160 you want something that's super easy wormhole dot app and 0:31:54.240 --> 0:31:55.960 you can just drag and drop all the files there. 0:31:56.000 --> 0:31:58.440 It's encrypted, and then you send yourself a link through email. 0:31:58.680 --> 0:32:00.760 You'll have all the files you downloa them. Do you 0:32:00.760 --> 0:32:01.680 have a computer at all? 0:32:03.160 --> 0:32:03.240 No? 0:32:03.480 --> 0:32:05.680 Even if I had a computer, it would be kind 0:32:05.680 --> 0:32:09.440 of difficult for me because I do everything the audible unbeling. 0:32:09.880 --> 0:32:11.120 Oh oh got it? Okay? 0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:14.160 Oh so well, okay, so you're trying to read the 0:32:14.320 --> 0:32:15.520 listen to these documents. 0:32:16.240 --> 0:32:17.640 I just want to listen to those. 0:32:17.720 --> 0:32:18.520 Okay. 0:32:18.560 --> 0:32:20.920 Well, unless they're audio files, you're going to need a 0:32:21.080 --> 0:32:23.240 service to do that. So you've got to get these 0:32:23.280 --> 0:32:26.360 files somehow. And then do you have a smartphone? 0:32:27.560 --> 0:32:27.720 Uh? 0:32:27.920 --> 0:32:29.000 No, I have a flip phone. 0:32:29.040 --> 0:32:29.800 You have a flip phone. 0:32:29.840 --> 0:32:32.840 Okay, Well, you've got to enlist the help of a 0:32:32.880 --> 0:32:36.400 friend or family member or someone that you trust, and 0:32:36.440 --> 0:32:39.000 you got to ask them to get these files into 0:32:40.520 --> 0:32:42.920 you know, onto a flash drive or onto a place 0:32:42.960 --> 0:32:46.240 where you can somehow convert them to listen to them. 0:32:46.840 --> 0:32:47.480 Uh. 0:32:47.520 --> 0:32:52.320 And there's there's some free services Speechify. That's a great 0:32:52.360 --> 0:32:54.480 service that you can listen to these things on. I mean, 0:32:54.480 --> 0:32:56.160 there's so many ways you can I'm sure you know 0:32:56.280 --> 0:32:57.720 you can listen to things online. 0:32:57.840 --> 0:32:59.480 Well, I was going to go to bed By and 0:32:59.600 --> 0:33:01.960 ask on what and take the diff and asked us 0:33:02.000 --> 0:33:04.760 who was the best way I could hear the Well, 0:33:05.640 --> 0:33:06.400 I don't hear them. 0:33:06.560 --> 0:33:08.400 I don't think best Buy is gonna really you know, 0:33:08.400 --> 0:33:10.160 you're gonna you're gonna talk to the geek squad and 0:33:10.160 --> 0:33:12.120 they're gonna, I mean, they may be able to do 0:33:12.160 --> 0:33:15.840 that conversion for you, but I would I would start 0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:18.960 with friends and family. I start with friends and family, 0:33:19.400 --> 0:33:24.520 someone you know and schools like you know, maybe just 0:33:24.920 --> 0:33:26.840 you know, some sort of resource like a group that 0:33:26.880 --> 0:33:29.520 you're in or something, and just see who has you know, 0:33:29.640 --> 0:33:33.600 a friendly helping hand. It's not too tough to to 0:33:33.720 --> 0:33:37.120 transform these into a flash drive or some sort of clouds, 0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:41.400 uh file, get the text, extract that, and then there's 0:33:41.440 --> 0:33:45.160 even ways of converting that into you know, an audible file, 0:33:45.360 --> 0:33:48.280 like a you know, recording that into an audio file. 0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:52.680 I'm trying to remember there was actually a pretty cool 0:33:53.280 --> 0:33:58.680 service that would transform your your text into a podcast, 0:33:59.080 --> 0:34:01.040 and I got to remember I look up what that was. 0:34:01.120 --> 0:34:03.400 But that was pretty neat, and that's one way of 0:34:03.440 --> 0:34:05.160 doing it. But speech a fy, I think is probably 0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:09.319 your best bet. Someone can get these documents into a 0:34:09.560 --> 0:34:11.640 form where you can upload them to speech a fy 0:34:11.760 --> 0:34:13.799 or they can, then you'll be able to listen to 0:34:13.880 --> 0:34:14.760 all of these things. 0:34:14.800 --> 0:34:17.120 So a library might do it. 0:34:17.160 --> 0:34:19.880 I'm actually looking up the Oxnard Public Library and they 0:34:19.960 --> 0:34:22.439 say that their computers don't have CD drives, so that's 0:34:22.440 --> 0:34:24.799 not a good place to go. But you might want 0:34:24.840 --> 0:34:26.319 to call them. There might be someone that might want 0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:29.279 to help you. There a local university. They may help you. 0:34:30.160 --> 0:34:32.319 But again, I think this is a situation where you've 0:34:32.320 --> 0:34:34.719 got to tap into the friendliness of someone. If that 0:34:34.760 --> 0:34:37.680 doesn't work, then I would just go on Yelp and 0:34:37.880 --> 0:34:40.759 look for a place that does, you know, maybe some 0:34:40.800 --> 0:34:44.279 conversions or an internet cafe near you that someone might 0:34:44.280 --> 0:34:45.719 be able to help you do it that way. But 0:34:45.760 --> 0:34:47.440 those are the best bets that I would think for this. 0:34:47.480 --> 0:34:49.839 It's a kind of a tricky situation, but I think 0:34:49.880 --> 0:34:51.319 those are the best way to do it. I don't 0:34:51.320 --> 0:34:54.040 I wouldn't pay a lot for this, because you know, 0:34:54.320 --> 0:34:57.200 it's just it doesn't sound like it's an easy situation 0:34:57.280 --> 0:34:59.400 because you don't have a computer and you don't have 0:34:59.600 --> 0:35:02.600 a phone, so someone has to help you with this 0:35:02.880 --> 0:35:06.920 that's what I'm hearing here eighty eight rich. 0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:07.319 One O one. 0:35:07.360 --> 0:35:09.759 Thanks for the call today, Gloria eight eight eight rich 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:12.319 one O one eighty eight seven four to two four 0:35:12.360 --> 0:35:16.359 one zero one. The website richon Tech dot TV coming up. 0:35:16.400 --> 0:35:16.879 I'll tell you. 0:35:16.800 --> 0:35:19.279 About my switch away from Sonos this week and when 0:35:19.320 --> 0:35:21.520 I switch to and why I'm kind of loving it. 0:35:21.800 --> 0:35:25.439 You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich 0:35:25.480 --> 0:35:29.120 on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, talking technology. 0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:32.080 The phone line is eight eight eight rich one O 0:35:32.200 --> 0:35:35.560 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:35:35.640 --> 0:35:37.360 zero one. If you want to jump on the line, 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:41.640 ask me a question. Also got lots to talk about, 0:35:42.040 --> 0:35:45.200 lots to discuss. This hour, my guest will be Business 0:35:45.200 --> 0:35:49.839 Insiders Tech and Electronics Senior reporter Antonio villis Boas. He's 0:35:49.920 --> 0:35:54.320 going to compare mobile carriers Mint Mobile and Tello Mobile. 0:35:54.800 --> 0:35:56.759 Maybe you've heard a Mint, maybe you haven't heard of Tello. 0:35:56.880 --> 0:36:00.239 But he's going to compare the pros and cons of each. 0:36:00.360 --> 0:36:02.960 And then later we've got the TV answer man. He's 0:36:02.960 --> 0:36:07.120 gonna talk about selecting the ideal sports streaming service. I 0:36:07.120 --> 0:36:10.120 know I did, I jumped the gun. I guess I 0:36:10.239 --> 0:36:13.320 chose that yesterday should have waited till today. But my 0:36:13.440 --> 0:36:16.440 kid wants to watch the game, so I'll reveal what 0:36:16.520 --> 0:36:20.720 I chose. Something else I did this week, I've gotten 0:36:20.760 --> 0:36:23.000 kind of fed up with my Sons system at home. 0:36:23.600 --> 0:36:26.640 If you've been following the drama, now, don't cry for 0:36:26.680 --> 0:36:29.480 anyone with Sons because this is a very expensive system. 0:36:29.520 --> 0:36:32.560 So you know, I get it. 0:36:32.600 --> 0:36:35.760 I built mine over many years, and so I'm annoyed 0:36:35.800 --> 0:36:38.399 because i loved it for so long. But now I'm 0:36:38.440 --> 0:36:42.279 finding that my new solution is actually way better. So 0:36:42.280 --> 0:36:44.640 so nos if you haven't been following it, they updated 0:36:44.640 --> 0:36:48.440 their app and it just messed up every system nationwide. 0:36:48.960 --> 0:36:51.760 You can't adjust the volume for me. What I've noticed 0:36:51.760 --> 0:36:54.839 with my system is it's just completely unreliable. Number One, 0:36:54.840 --> 0:36:56.440 I have no idea how to use the app anymore. 0:36:56.719 --> 0:36:59.960 I have no idea how to group and ungroup my speakers. 0:37:00.200 --> 0:37:02.080 What's amazing about it is that you can have a 0:37:02.120 --> 0:37:05.560 speaker in every room and you can listen to individual 0:37:06.440 --> 0:37:08.680 services on any of those speakers, or you can group 0:37:08.680 --> 0:37:10.359 them all together, or you can group one or two 0:37:10.400 --> 0:37:13.960 all together or together, and you have a selection of 0:37:14.000 --> 0:37:16.040 every single music service in the world. 0:37:16.200 --> 0:37:17.680 You can all access it through their app. 0:37:17.719 --> 0:37:19.200 Well, they kind of threw all that out the window 0:37:19.560 --> 0:37:22.680 and made it almost impossible to use. You can't group 0:37:22.719 --> 0:37:24.480 an N group. I have no idea. The app is 0:37:24.560 --> 0:37:28.840 so confusing. You try to play something, it takes forever. 0:37:29.840 --> 0:37:31.840 Try to adjust the volume, good luck with that. It 0:37:31.840 --> 0:37:35.400 doesn't work. And so it's just kind of ruined everything. 0:37:35.880 --> 0:37:39.440 And so I've gotten so completely frustrated with this. I 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:42.520 actually pulled out two of my so No speakers in 0:37:42.560 --> 0:37:46.640 my rooms and I replaced them with Amazon Echo speakers. 0:37:47.120 --> 0:37:50.319 And I'm not kidding. It has been amazing. Why am 0:37:50.360 --> 0:37:53.640 I so late? When did Amazon Echo launch? Amazon Echo 0:37:53.960 --> 0:37:59.600 launch date November sixth, twenty fourteen. Okay, I'm just about 0:37:59.640 --> 0:38:01.520 ten years late on the amazingness of this. 0:38:02.239 --> 0:38:02.439 Now. 0:38:02.600 --> 0:38:05.279 Yes, I have had Echo speakers since day one, but 0:38:05.360 --> 0:38:09.040 I always thought they were inferior to Sons because it 0:38:09.200 --> 0:38:12.120 just seemed like a gimmick compared to Sons and the 0:38:12.360 --> 0:38:15.520 beautiful sound quality. But now I'm telling you I plugged 0:38:15.520 --> 0:38:17.160 in this speaker that I must. I must have had 0:38:17.160 --> 0:38:19.200 the speaker for five years. It's like one of the 0:38:19.200 --> 0:38:21.960 old school Echoes. It sounds great and what I love 0:38:22.000 --> 0:38:24.839 about it is the voice control. So now I come 0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:27.320 home and I can immediately start playing a radio station 0:38:27.560 --> 0:38:31.160 or some music just using my voice, and I move 0:38:31.200 --> 0:38:33.000 around to different rooms and I just say what I 0:38:33.040 --> 0:38:34.200 want to listen to in that room? 0:38:34.680 --> 0:38:35.759 Now? Can you group them? 0:38:35.840 --> 0:38:36.000 Yes? 0:38:36.080 --> 0:38:38.400 You can group them. Is it as easy as sons? No, 0:38:38.640 --> 0:38:40.720 because you have to kind of choose the groups in advance. 0:38:41.160 --> 0:38:43.840 But the point is I'm listening to more music faster 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:45.520 than I ever have. And by the way, I can 0:38:45.560 --> 0:38:47.520 adjust the volume. And by the way I can adjust 0:38:47.520 --> 0:38:51.080 the volume just by saying, Alex, ay put the volume up, 0:38:51.080 --> 0:38:53.960 put the volume down, or stop, or play or changes 0:38:54.000 --> 0:38:56.320 to the other room, whatever it is. It's pretty incredible. 0:38:57.480 --> 0:38:57.640 Now. 0:38:57.760 --> 0:38:59.520 Yes, I had to look at the flashing light on 0:38:59.560 --> 0:39:02.360 top of the echo today and I said, okay, Alex, 0:39:02.360 --> 0:39:03.600 say you got me what's. 0:39:03.400 --> 0:39:03.960 On your mind? 0:39:04.000 --> 0:39:05.840 And she's like, oh, I noticed there's two things in 0:39:05.880 --> 0:39:07.799 your Amazon cart. Would you like to order those? I 0:39:07.800 --> 0:39:12.640 can place that order right now. This is kind of 0:39:12.680 --> 0:39:15.239 like the you know, the Nightmare of AI. It's like, oh, 0:39:15.239 --> 0:39:17.160 I didn't think I needed those things, but sure place 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:19.600 that order. It also said the other day, I noticed 0:39:19.600 --> 0:39:22.960 that you're you're based on my timeline, the filter and 0:39:23.000 --> 0:39:25.400 your refrigerator might be up for renewal? Would you like 0:39:25.440 --> 0:39:27.959 to order a new one now? And I'm like, You've 0:39:27.960 --> 0:39:30.440 got to be kidding me. I see why they do this. 0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:32.799 It Also one time I had it plugged in and 0:39:32.800 --> 0:39:34.800 I said, we noticed the ink in your printer is 0:39:34.840 --> 0:39:37.120 getting low. Do you liked us to order that ink cartridge? 0:39:37.200 --> 0:39:40.080 I said, what now you're looking at my ink cartridges? 0:39:40.280 --> 0:39:41.359 What else are you looking at? 0:39:42.440 --> 0:39:42.680 Rich? 0:39:42.719 --> 0:39:45.719 We noticed your sock drawers getting kind of low? Would 0:39:45.719 --> 0:39:49.040 you like to do your laundry anyway? So? 0:39:49.200 --> 0:39:49.719 I love it. 0:39:49.800 --> 0:39:52.279 I've ordered so many of these speakers now. I just 0:39:52.320 --> 0:39:54.520 went on Amazon and I ordered more of these echos. 0:39:55.200 --> 0:39:57.240 So I think I'm gonna end up doing the whole house. 0:39:57.480 --> 0:39:59.520 I will say yes, I'll probably come back to Sono 0:39:59.600 --> 0:40:01.360 to some point, but I'm not sure at this point. 0:40:02.000 --> 0:40:03.920 As long as I can have music in all my rooms, 0:40:04.000 --> 0:40:05.759 even if I have it in what I've realized also 0:40:05.800 --> 0:40:07.960 I probably don't need music in every room unless I'm 0:40:08.000 --> 0:40:10.480 having people over, and then you want music, you know, 0:40:10.560 --> 0:40:12.440 outside inside all these different places. 0:40:12.480 --> 0:40:15.040 But and I love Sonos, Don't get me wrong. 0:40:15.200 --> 0:40:17.560 I have been the biggest proponent of Sonos ever since 0:40:17.600 --> 0:40:19.640 I took the first meeting in Trump Tower in New 0:40:19.719 --> 0:40:21.680 York City. Yes, that's where they did the meeting now 0:40:21.680 --> 0:40:25.920 that I think about it. They were showing off their system. 0:40:26.040 --> 0:40:27.759 I think it was Trump Tower, I'm pretty sure it was, 0:40:28.320 --> 0:40:30.080 or maybe it was Trump. Was there a hotel maybe 0:40:30.120 --> 0:40:33.279 Trump Hotel, I don't know anyway, it was, yeah, I 0:40:33.320 --> 0:40:34.719 know the one in Vegas, but I think there might 0:40:34.719 --> 0:40:36.839 have been one of your anyway, Maybe it wasn't, maybe 0:40:36.840 --> 0:40:38.520 it was near there. But I just remember going to 0:40:38.560 --> 0:40:41.839 this like suite. It was like this beautiful suite and 0:40:41.880 --> 0:40:44.440 they showed me the first Sonos system and I was like, 0:40:44.480 --> 0:40:46.680 you want me to pay how much for what? It 0:40:46.760 --> 0:40:49.200 was like twelve hundred dollars for the speakers and that 0:40:49.200 --> 0:40:54.120 that like included this crazy controller that was proprietary. This 0:40:54.280 --> 0:40:57.400 was before iPads, and I was like, twelve hundred dollars, 0:40:57.640 --> 0:41:01.040 who's buying this? And you know, sure enough, they did 0:41:01.080 --> 0:41:04.560 pretty well. But eventually when the phone became the controller, 0:41:04.680 --> 0:41:08.480 that's what really made so Noos amazing because you could 0:41:08.640 --> 0:41:11.879 now concentrate on buying these super expensive speakers, which yes, 0:41:11.960 --> 0:41:14.400 we're very expensive, but you could use your phone to 0:41:14.400 --> 0:41:17.120 control them and you could buy the speakers one by one, 0:41:17.120 --> 0:41:19.239 and they ended up coming out with cheaper speakers over 0:41:19.280 --> 0:41:21.359 the years, but they're still pretty expensive, like two hundred 0:41:21.400 --> 0:41:22.360 bucks minimum. 0:41:22.400 --> 0:41:22.799 Might say. 0:41:23.520 --> 0:41:25.720 Anyway, I am loving the Echo. If you haven't jumped 0:41:25.719 --> 0:41:28.240 on board, it's great. It works with all your streaming services, 0:41:28.280 --> 0:41:30.360 all the music, all the radio stations. 0:41:30.800 --> 0:41:31.560 Is fantastic. 0:41:32.520 --> 0:41:36.840 Speaking of streaming, last night, we actually had to rent 0:41:37.000 --> 0:41:39.840 pay to rent a movie. My kid wanted to see 0:41:40.239 --> 0:41:44.040 Inside Out two, and so he's been asking and asking 0:41:44.080 --> 0:41:45.560 and asking. We have not been able to make it 0:41:45.600 --> 0:41:47.200 to the movie theater. And then when I went online 0:41:47.200 --> 0:41:49.960 to buy tickets, I was like, hold on eighty bucks 0:41:50.000 --> 0:41:50.839 for four of us to. 0:41:50.800 --> 0:41:51.480 See a movie. 0:41:51.800 --> 0:41:55.440 Nah, I'm just not paying that. And so and then 0:41:55.480 --> 0:41:57.360 you got to pay for the popcorn and all that 0:41:57.400 --> 0:41:58.920 other stuff that you got to get. My kids like 0:41:58.920 --> 0:42:01.360 to get an icy which is like six bucks for 0:42:01.480 --> 0:42:03.360 just pure sugar water that's colored. 0:42:03.440 --> 0:42:04.759 No, we're not doing that. 0:42:05.200 --> 0:42:07.279 So anyway, so I said, you know what, I'll pay 0:42:07.280 --> 0:42:10.440 for the movie on the TV because you can't. This 0:42:10.520 --> 0:42:12.800 is the thing that frustrates me. I subscribe to every 0:42:12.880 --> 0:42:16.759 streaming service, Netflix, Paramount plus Peacock. 0:42:17.920 --> 0:42:19.680 What else is there. I don't know, there's so many 0:42:19.760 --> 0:42:19.960 of them. 0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:21.640 I pay for all of them because I'm like, all right, 0:42:21.680 --> 0:42:23.600 you know, hopefully the movie I want to watch is 0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:25.960 on these things. Well, it turns out Inside Out two 0:42:26.000 --> 0:42:28.480 is not on any of them, especially not Disney Plus. 0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:30.160 So what they do now is they have it in 0:42:30.239 --> 0:42:33.919 the theater, then they have it on streaming, like where 0:42:33.920 --> 0:42:35.839 you can rent it or buy it for a couple 0:42:35.920 --> 0:42:38.680 of months, and then it comes to Disney Plus. So 0:42:38.719 --> 0:42:42.560 the price to rent this movie was what was it, 0:42:42.600 --> 0:42:44.960 twenty five dollars, and the price to buy it was 0:42:45.000 --> 0:42:47.160 thirty So of course what I say, all right, I'll 0:42:47.200 --> 0:42:49.799 just buy it so thirty bucks. Now I ended up 0:42:49.800 --> 0:42:51.640 having a ten dollars credit, so it was really twenty 0:42:51.680 --> 0:42:53.799 dollars on Google Play, and we got to watch it. 0:42:53.800 --> 0:42:55.120 We had a fantastic family night. 0:42:55.160 --> 0:42:58.360 But my point is it's like, here I am paying 0:42:58.400 --> 0:43:01.239 for all these streaming services, and still they managed to 0:43:01.280 --> 0:43:04.040 eke another twenty dollars out of me. It's like they 0:43:04.080 --> 0:43:07.359 will not quit until I don't know, Disney just has 0:43:07.400 --> 0:43:14.320 another theme park somewhere, which I'm sure they're building anyway. 0:43:14.520 --> 0:43:17.479 All right, Why do I digress so much? On the show. 0:43:17.520 --> 0:43:21.120 Oh, we had a question from Gloria in the last segment. 0:43:21.200 --> 0:43:25.280 She was asking about transforming some of her printed material 0:43:25.320 --> 0:43:28.040 into text. And I couldn't remember the name of this service. 0:43:28.120 --> 0:43:31.200 I mentioned Speechify, the other one that's really good. If 0:43:31.239 --> 0:43:33.680 you have not downloaded this app, download it to your phone. 0:43:34.120 --> 0:43:37.680 It's eleven Labs and it's completely free. But you feed 0:43:37.719 --> 0:43:40.640 it any article and it will read you that article 0:43:40.760 --> 0:43:42.880 in a very realistic voice, and you have your choice 0:43:42.880 --> 0:43:46.960 of voices. It's free and it's incredible. It's AI Voice, 0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:49.160 so I know, if you hate AI, don't download it. 0:43:49.200 --> 0:43:53.239 But it's really unbelievable. It's remarkable how good this is. 0:43:53.640 --> 0:43:53.799 Now. 0:43:53.840 --> 0:43:56.680 The only downside to that is when you download an article, 0:43:57.400 --> 0:43:59.840 it's gonna read all the nonsense in the article. At 0:44:00.280 --> 0:44:03.160 to ignore some of that stuff, but articles are littered 0:44:03.200 --> 0:44:05.680 with just nonsense nowadays, with like all this like promotional 0:44:05.719 --> 0:44:07.640 stuff and things like that, so it will read some 0:44:07.760 --> 0:44:09.400 of that, but when you get to the heart of 0:44:09.440 --> 0:44:12.600 the article, it's actually quite incredible. So eleven Labs available 0:44:12.600 --> 0:44:15.080 for iPhone. Don't know if it ever came to Android, 0:44:15.440 --> 0:44:18.560 but let's see is it on Android yet? I don't 0:44:18.600 --> 0:44:20.640 think it is I think it's just on Oh it 0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:23.840 is on Android. Oh, I got to download that on 0:44:23.920 --> 0:44:26.360 iPhone and Android eleven labs. I'll link it up on 0:44:26.400 --> 0:44:28.960 the website. Rich on tech dot tv hit the light bulb. 0:44:29.000 --> 0:44:33.120 This is show number eighty seven, so you can get 0:44:33.120 --> 0:44:35.640 the show notes there. Now, the other one I mentioned 0:44:35.760 --> 0:44:38.040 that can send it to a podcast. You can actually 0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:42.360 create a podcast of articles that will go right to 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:46.160 your phone. This is called listen later dot net. Listen 0:44:46.360 --> 0:44:50.160 later dot net Basically, whenever you come across an article 0:44:50.200 --> 0:44:52.239 that you want to listen to on your phone, you 0:44:52.320 --> 0:44:54.600 just send it to this email address and then it 0:44:54.600 --> 0:44:57.840 gives you a custom podcast and you just feed that 0:44:57.880 --> 0:45:00.080 into the podcast reader on your phone and I and 0:45:00.160 --> 0:45:03.160 listen to these articles. It's pretty good, but the problem 0:45:03.239 --> 0:45:06.160 is it is a little bit pricey. You got to 0:45:06.160 --> 0:45:10.480 buy credits, so, you know, they basically you got to 0:45:10.520 --> 0:45:12.799 pay by you know, you charge up like five, ten, 0:45:12.880 --> 0:45:16.000 twenty dollars, and then each article has like a cost 0:45:16.120 --> 0:45:18.560 associated with it. So if you want something that's completely free, 0:45:19.080 --> 0:45:21.200 go the eleven laps because that one is free. 0:45:21.480 --> 0:45:23.640 It works really well, all. 0:45:23.600 --> 0:45:25.759 Right, eight eight to eight rich one on one eight 0:45:25.840 --> 0:45:28.640 eight eight seven four two four one zero one, the 0:45:28.680 --> 0:45:30.720 website rich On Tech dot TV. 0:45:30.880 --> 0:45:32.800 I see your calls and. 0:45:32.960 --> 0:45:35.799 We will get to them right after this. 0:45:35.880 --> 0:45:39.720 Plus I've got more to talk about and our guests. 0:45:39.760 --> 0:45:42.719 We're going to talk about Mint Mobile versus Tello and 0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:46.759 Samsung and LG Smart TVs. They are at war. I'll 0:45:46.760 --> 0:45:48.560 tell you what they're doing. That's a little bit different 0:45:48.600 --> 0:45:51.680 coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back 0:45:51.680 --> 0:45:54.000 to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, 0:45:54.120 --> 0:45:58.359 talking technology at Triple eight rich one on one eight 0:45:58.400 --> 0:46:01.120 eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. 0:46:01.320 --> 0:46:03.799 James wrote in Hey, Rich, with Echo, you know you 0:46:03.800 --> 0:46:05.960 can set them up automatically to start playing music when 0:46:06.000 --> 0:46:08.120 you walk into a room and turn off automatically when 0:46:08.160 --> 0:46:08.879 you leave the room. 0:46:08.920 --> 0:46:12.080 How neat Jim, Oh, that's cool. I got to do that. 0:46:12.280 --> 0:46:15.319 I've always wanted that with my so nos Steve said, 0:46:15.320 --> 0:46:19.360 Echo isn't stereo. Yeah, I know, I know, I know 0:46:20.239 --> 0:46:22.600 it's not perfect. It is not my sons, believe me. 0:46:22.640 --> 0:46:25.520 It's not my same setup. But I'm just saying for 0:46:25.640 --> 0:46:29.440 now it's working out. And yes I may go back, 0:46:29.520 --> 0:46:33.040 but right now it's working. Let's go to Michael in 0:46:33.520 --> 0:46:34.960 Anaheim Michael. 0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:34.960 You're on. 0:46:35.280 --> 0:46:35.680 What's up? 0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:36.239 Hey, rich? 0:46:36.280 --> 0:46:36.839 How you doing? 0:46:37.040 --> 0:46:38.719 I'm doing excellent. What can I help you with? 0:46:39.040 --> 0:46:39.480 Good to hear? 0:46:39.640 --> 0:46:41.200 Hey, my friend that is hoping you can help me 0:46:41.239 --> 0:46:44.320 out with this annoying problem that I have. So whenever 0:46:44.360 --> 0:46:48.200 I enter my car, the bluetooth automatically connects to the phone, 0:46:48.560 --> 0:46:51.400 but then I don't get any audible alert when I 0:46:51.400 --> 0:46:53.279 get a text message. And so I've been driving for 0:46:53.320 --> 0:46:55.480 half an hour, forty five minutes missions three or four 0:46:55.560 --> 0:46:58.759 text messages. Is there any way that you know of 0:46:58.840 --> 0:47:01.960 to make if the phone's connected to the bluetooth of 0:47:02.040 --> 0:47:05.680 the car, but also get the audible alert of the 0:47:05.719 --> 0:47:08.239 text message. And I'm using Android phone? 0:47:08.280 --> 0:47:09.719 Oh you're on Android? Okay, so. 0:47:11.239 --> 0:47:14.640 Yeah Android, I mean in my car immediately. So I 0:47:14.680 --> 0:47:17.760 was using iPhone and my car would not work. Apparently 0:47:17.760 --> 0:47:20.640 it couldn't get the notifications from the iPhone, but on 0:47:20.719 --> 0:47:24.879 Android it should be able to read those. Okay, are 0:47:24.920 --> 0:47:27.719 you on Uh so, if you're on Android, there's a 0:47:27.840 --> 0:47:30.759 you have to in your assistant. There's a feature that 0:47:30.840 --> 0:47:33.520 says here personal results on your headphones. When your phone 0:47:33.560 --> 0:47:37.799 is locked. You can try turning that on and see 0:47:37.800 --> 0:47:43.120 if that would toggle these notifications to come on. Mine 0:47:43.160 --> 0:47:46.400 is off, so I think that would read the notifications 0:47:46.400 --> 0:47:47.160 from your phone. 0:47:48.000 --> 0:47:51.759 Yeah, and so I mean I'm it's so it would 0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:54.759 say like let's say it's like new message received like 0:47:55.440 --> 0:47:58.799 through like the infotainment system of the car. But like 0:47:58.840 --> 0:48:00.880 as far as they're going to audio alert, I'm not 0:48:00.960 --> 0:48:05.120 getting anything like my alert sound like when I give 0:48:05.160 --> 0:48:07.440 a text message, So if it's not connected to Bluetooth, 0:48:07.760 --> 0:48:09.680 someone sends me a text message that here is a 0:48:09.680 --> 0:48:12.360 little chime. You know, I know I've received the message, 0:48:12.400 --> 0:48:14.560 but if it's connected to Bluetooth, it doesn't make any 0:48:14.600 --> 0:48:18.200 noise at all. And then sometimes you know, if you know, 0:48:18.280 --> 0:48:20.879 I'm not using the Bluetooth part of the car at 0:48:20.880 --> 0:48:23.720 that point, I'm not getting the audible alert. 0:48:24.080 --> 0:48:27.239 Yeah, that's well, the audible alert because the problem is 0:48:27.239 --> 0:48:30.000 your phone's connected to Bluetooth, so all of the audio 0:48:30.080 --> 0:48:33.400 is going through Bluetooth. Now, the good news is you 0:48:33.440 --> 0:48:35.919 have an Android phone, so there are apps that could 0:48:36.160 --> 0:48:39.160 that could help you route some of those things. And 0:48:39.280 --> 0:48:42.640 even I'm looking in the settings of even on the 0:48:42.680 --> 0:48:45.800 Android settings like they're pretty thorough with your audio routing. 0:48:46.560 --> 0:48:50.120 But typically when you are connected to a device, the 0:48:50.239 --> 0:48:53.160 audio is going to go through to that device no 0:48:53.200 --> 0:48:55.920 matter what. It's not going to play your you know, 0:48:55.960 --> 0:48:59.560 your notification sound through your phone and then everything else 0:48:59.600 --> 0:49:03.040 goes through Bluetooth. So what what kind of phone is this? 0:49:03.480 --> 0:49:04.800 Samsung or Apple? 0:49:04.840 --> 0:49:05.120 All right? 0:49:05.280 --> 0:49:09.560 Samshung some Sun GALAT'SY twenty two. 0:49:10.040 --> 0:49:13.360 Okay, maybe, So do you want you just want to 0:49:13.360 --> 0:49:15.120 be able to hear the notification or do you want 0:49:15.120 --> 0:49:16.880 to hear it read to you? 0:49:16.880 --> 0:49:18.200 No, I just want to hear the notification. 0:49:18.400 --> 0:49:20.080 Okay, I don't need it read to me. 0:49:20.120 --> 0:49:21.880 I just need to hear the audible alert. 0:49:22.320 --> 0:49:29.520 Oh okay, in that case, you may okay, you there there. 0:49:29.600 --> 0:49:32.000 So what I would do is okay, so on my car, 0:49:32.040 --> 0:49:34.800 I'm looking at it right now, and mine says media 0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:37.400 audio turned on. I can turn that off, and I 0:49:37.400 --> 0:49:42.000 would imagine that when I get a notification it might 0:49:42.160 --> 0:49:46.080 just trigger on the phone itself versus the car. But again, 0:49:46.120 --> 0:49:47.520 I think this is a matter of you've got to 0:49:47.560 --> 0:49:49.759 look through every single setting on your car and on 0:49:49.800 --> 0:49:52.440 your phone and figure out and if that doesn't work, 0:49:53.360 --> 0:49:55.440 you know, there are third party apps that might be 0:49:55.480 --> 0:49:57.719 able to kind of like handle this. I don't know 0:49:57.760 --> 0:49:59.759 when off the top of my head. But like when 0:49:59.800 --> 0:50:02.719 I I wanted my Samsung screen to light up when 0:50:02.719 --> 0:50:05.520 I got a notification, I literally search for an app 0:50:05.520 --> 0:50:07.480 and I found one that would light up the screen 0:50:07.960 --> 0:50:10.360 when I get a notification. And so that's the beauty 0:50:10.360 --> 0:50:12.839 of Android is that you can change things like that 0:50:13.000 --> 0:50:14.880 versus iPhone doesn't really let you do that kind of 0:50:14.880 --> 0:50:20.480 stuff unless Apple programs it in. So I'm looking at 0:50:20.600 --> 0:50:24.160 there's like an app called Spoken Notifications that may help 0:50:25.000 --> 0:50:27.640 where you can have you know that may it looks 0:50:27.680 --> 0:50:30.920 like that, can you know, give you some notifications. It 0:50:30.920 --> 0:50:32.840 looks a little old and it hasn't been updated in 0:50:32.880 --> 0:50:35.719 a while. Let's see last update in March seventh, twenty 0:50:35.760 --> 0:50:38.720 twenty four. So I might check that and see, because 0:50:38.719 --> 0:50:41.600 that would you can probably program that or a similar 0:50:41.640 --> 0:50:44.399 app to say, hey, when I get a notification, tell 0:50:44.440 --> 0:50:46.440 me through the through the audio, you know. 0:50:47.280 --> 0:50:48.560 And what was the name of that app? 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:56.120 Spoken Notifications by w d WD in Formatica, So you 0:50:56.160 --> 0:50:59.279 know it's it's it's got a one hundred thousand downloads, it's 0:50:59.280 --> 0:51:03.680 got decent review, it was recently update uploaded, updated, So 0:51:03.920 --> 0:51:06.920 you might try something like that, and again it says, 0:51:06.960 --> 0:51:10.319 you know, this app uses the device administrator permission, so 0:51:10.360 --> 0:51:12.359 you have to be you know, whenever you do something 0:51:12.440 --> 0:51:15.360 like this, you do have to be aware of the 0:51:15.400 --> 0:51:18.040 privacy implications of this because this app, you know, you 0:51:18.080 --> 0:51:20.400 got to put a little trust into it. But the 0:51:20.440 --> 0:51:22.719 good news is you're on an Android. There's a way 0:51:22.719 --> 0:51:24.319 to do this, and I think it's going to be 0:51:24.400 --> 0:51:27.960 in your your audio settings, your notification settings, or your 0:51:28.000 --> 0:51:31.239 Bluetooth settings, and somehow you just have to get that 0:51:31.360 --> 0:51:34.399 toggle switch where it's going to route that information through 0:51:34.440 --> 0:51:37.440 your Bluetooth and not through or through your phone and 0:51:37.480 --> 0:51:40.680 not through the Bluetooth. There used to be when I 0:51:40.719 --> 0:51:43.880 was listening to when I had my one of my 0:51:43.920 --> 0:51:46.360 phones connected to my car, I had to toggle a 0:51:46.440 --> 0:51:48.319 switch every time I connected a new phone to my 0:51:48.360 --> 0:51:51.160 car to make sure that the audio routed through the 0:51:51.160 --> 0:51:56.480 bluetooth and not through you know, just nothing. So again, 0:51:56.560 --> 0:51:58.600 that's that's the problem, is that your phone is on 0:51:58.640 --> 0:52:01.160 the Bluetooth and that's that's the issue there. So once 0:52:01.200 --> 0:52:03.560 you get past that, figure out how to get around it, 0:52:03.880 --> 0:52:05.640 you'll be just fine, and I think you will with 0:52:05.680 --> 0:52:08.200 a with an Android phone. The other thing to look 0:52:08.239 --> 0:52:12.080 into is Samsung has an app called routines they have 0:52:12.200 --> 0:52:14.360 like these routines built in. You can maybe use that 0:52:14.480 --> 0:52:18.440 to build a routine that would also alert you when 0:52:18.480 --> 0:52:20.640 you get a notification. I check that first before you 0:52:20.680 --> 0:52:23.040 download any app. All right, Michael, thanks for the call 0:52:23.080 --> 0:52:26.200 today from Anaheim. Appreciate that. Eighty eight rich one oh 0:52:26.239 --> 0:52:29.080 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 0:52:29.200 --> 0:52:32.480 zero one. Coming up, we're going to talk Mint Mobile 0:52:32.960 --> 0:52:35.480 versus Tello Mobile. So if you're looking to save some 0:52:35.560 --> 0:52:38.879 money on your wireless carrier. Got an interesting conversation coming 0:52:38.920 --> 0:52:43.080 up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to 0:52:43.160 --> 0:52:45.640 rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, 0:52:45.760 --> 0:52:49.399 talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh one eighty 0:52:49.480 --> 0:52:53.919 eight seven four to two four one zero one. Got 0:52:53.920 --> 0:52:57.680 a message from my little brother Justin. He's been on 0:52:57.680 --> 0:53:01.920 this show before. My mom spilled coffee on her computer 0:53:02.000 --> 0:53:05.000 this week. Just a reminder, by the way, when you 0:53:05.040 --> 0:53:07.960 have an open coffee cup near your computer keyboard, you 0:53:08.000 --> 0:53:11.360 are going to knock that coffee cup over and spill 0:53:11.400 --> 0:53:14.000 it all over your keyboard. It's guaranteed. It has happened 0:53:14.040 --> 0:53:17.040 to me, it happened to my mom, it's happened to everyone. 0:53:17.640 --> 0:53:20.080 You will knock over your cup of coffee every single time. 0:53:20.440 --> 0:53:23.520 So it happened to her and now her laptop. She 0:53:23.600 --> 0:53:25.640 was all worried about it, and I told her, I said, 0:53:25.680 --> 0:53:27.840 you know, turn it off, air it out, put it 0:53:27.920 --> 0:53:30.080 upside down, let everything kind of come out of it. 0:53:30.560 --> 0:53:33.120 And everything's working according to my brother who went over 0:53:33.200 --> 0:53:36.640 to troubleshoot, but the touch pad is shot. And so 0:53:36.680 --> 0:53:39.960 he told me he disabled the touchpad and plugged in 0:53:39.960 --> 0:53:43.560 an external mouse and voila, it works again. So I said, 0:53:43.600 --> 0:53:48.200 you should be hosting this show. I mean, why not anyway, 0:53:48.480 --> 0:53:51.759 justin thanks for doing that. And just remember if you 0:53:51.800 --> 0:53:54.640 have a coffee cup near your computer, I always put 0:53:54.640 --> 0:53:56.960 it like just outside. Like I look where my hands 0:53:57.040 --> 0:53:59.360 move when I go near the laptop keyboard, and I 0:53:59.360 --> 0:54:02.320 put my coffee cup away like outside of that range, 0:54:02.680 --> 0:54:05.520 because you will knock it over if it's inside that range. 0:54:06.160 --> 0:54:10.280 All right, Joining me now, Antonio, Uh, this is a 0:54:10.320 --> 0:54:14.600 Business Insiders Tech and Electronics Senior reporter Antonio villis Boas. 0:54:15.040 --> 0:54:15.160 Uh. 0:54:15.280 --> 0:54:18.200 He's going to talk about comparing Mint mobile and Tello Mobile. 0:54:18.640 --> 0:54:20.120 Antonio, Welcome to the show. 0:54:20.920 --> 0:54:22.160 Hey Rich, thanks for having me. 0:54:22.360 --> 0:54:24.880 By the way, I gotta say, I love Business Insider 0:54:26.080 --> 0:54:28.440 great publication. I remember, I'm trying to remember what the 0:54:28.520 --> 0:54:31.200 name was it like Silicon Alley Insider or something. 0:54:31.200 --> 0:54:33.240 What was it called before Business Insider? 0:54:34.160 --> 0:54:37.480 Yeah, Chilly com Alley Inside or something like that. Yeah, right, 0:54:37.600 --> 0:54:39.480 that was like then I switched over, then I switched 0:54:39.480 --> 0:54:42.200 again to Insider, and then back to back the Business Insider. 0:54:41.920 --> 0:54:44.399 Anyway, but you know, yeah, I like what you guys 0:54:44.440 --> 0:54:47.880 do there. So let's talk about what made you compare 0:54:47.920 --> 0:54:50.120 these two carriers? What was your thought on what why 0:54:50.239 --> 0:54:51.319 why compare these two? 0:54:52.239 --> 0:54:55.160 Well, you know, I think there's a lot of value 0:54:55.160 --> 0:54:57.920 and in checking out you know, cheaper, less expensive options 0:54:57.920 --> 0:55:02.840 for everyone. And there's also value in sort of showing 0:55:02.960 --> 0:55:06.920 people or revealings that the people a carrier that they 0:55:06.960 --> 0:55:10.360 may not know that much about, like Tello for example. 0:55:10.719 --> 0:55:13.359 I think Mint has some pretty good visibility out there, 0:55:13.400 --> 0:55:15.080 you know a lot of publicity and marketing, you know, 0:55:16.160 --> 0:55:19.239 with Ryan Reynolds on board and et cetera. So you 0:55:19.280 --> 0:55:21.160 know a lot of people think about Mint, but you know, 0:55:21.560 --> 0:55:25.400 maybe for some people just maybe another carrier has you know, 0:55:25.440 --> 0:55:26.360 a better option. 0:55:26.719 --> 0:55:29.799 So with Mint Mobile and Tellomobile. So most people are 0:55:29.840 --> 0:55:33.200 on these big, giant, unlimited plans that are pricey from 0:55:33.239 --> 0:55:35.800 the main carriers, right, which is fine if you're you know, 0:55:35.880 --> 0:55:38.440 business person whatever, you need all that hot spot and stuff, 0:55:38.680 --> 0:55:40.640 but sometimes you don't need as much data. 0:55:40.719 --> 0:55:43.560 Do people use as much data as they think? 0:55:45.120 --> 0:55:48.359 I think, you know, that's going to depend for everybody, man. 0:55:48.400 --> 0:55:50.440 I mean it's so you know, there's so many variables. 0:55:50.480 --> 0:55:52.640 But I think a lot of people might be surprised 0:55:53.160 --> 0:55:55.799 they think they need this big unlimited plan, and you 0:55:55.880 --> 0:55:57.879 might be you know, check out your bill and you'll 0:55:57.880 --> 0:55:59.920 be surprised by kind of how little data you use. 0:56:00.080 --> 0:56:02.480 I use, you know, let's say I think they used 0:56:02.640 --> 0:56:06.080 last I checked, twelve gigabytes. I mean, you know, to 0:56:06.080 --> 0:56:08.920 be fair, I'm not commuting in every day, so I'm 0:56:08.960 --> 0:56:10.480 not you know, on my phone, you know, during rush 0:56:10.520 --> 0:56:14.200 hour or whatever. But still check out your bill and 0:56:14.719 --> 0:56:16.200 see how much you actually use. 0:56:17.520 --> 0:56:18.360 And I think, but it's. 0:56:18.239 --> 0:56:20.520 Good to have. I think people feel a safety net 0:56:20.560 --> 0:56:23.879 with the unlimited plans. You know, you kind of get 0:56:23.880 --> 0:56:25.640 a buffer, you kind of get this feeling you're not 0:56:25.640 --> 0:56:28.399 going to get paid over overages if you go over 0:56:28.440 --> 0:56:30.520 your data limited and that kind of thing. So I 0:56:30.520 --> 0:56:32.239 think that's why a lot of people go towards those 0:56:32.320 --> 0:56:33.080 unlimited plans. 0:56:33.160 --> 0:56:35.600 Yeah, you're just paying more every month for that privilege. 0:56:35.680 --> 0:56:38.880 So yeah, now okay, So so give me kind of 0:56:39.160 --> 0:56:41.680 the skinny on Mint and Tello, Like, what what do 0:56:41.760 --> 0:56:43.719 these offer that the big guys might not. 0:56:45.320 --> 0:56:47.600 I mean, at the end of the day, at lower prices, 0:56:47.640 --> 0:56:52.080 you know, to put it very simply, they they have 0:56:52.239 --> 0:56:55.640 sort of various sort of limited plans, I should say 0:56:55.719 --> 0:56:58.479 very limited. They're they're sort of they let you pick 0:56:58.600 --> 0:57:00.239 how much data you you know, you want on to 0:57:00.320 --> 0:57:02.520 how much according to how much you think you're used. 0:57:03.040 --> 0:57:06.640 So that's basically, you know, the skinny on Mint and Tello. 0:57:07.320 --> 0:57:09.680 So what I like about Tello is that what I 0:57:09.760 --> 0:57:12.160 like about Mint is, you know, obviously they're own by 0:57:12.160 --> 0:57:14.000 T Mobile now, so that's a bit of a change. 0:57:14.280 --> 0:57:16.680 But I like that it's very simple, it works, it's 0:57:16.680 --> 0:57:20.280 on T mobiles network. The pricing plans are pretty easy 0:57:20.280 --> 0:57:23.600 to understand. Obviously if you appreciate their marketing. It's kind 0:57:23.640 --> 0:57:25.240 of fun. You feel like you're on board with like 0:57:25.280 --> 0:57:28.160 a kind of a challenger in the space. 0:57:28.320 --> 0:57:29.720 Right. 0:57:29.760 --> 0:57:31.440 What I like about Tello is that they let you 0:57:31.480 --> 0:57:33.560 customize your plan, So talk about that a little bit. 0:57:33.600 --> 0:57:35.360 You can have like a plan that literally has no 0:57:35.520 --> 0:57:39.280 data and just has like calling and texting, right, yeah, you. 0:57:39.280 --> 0:57:41.880 Saw that, right. I love this about Tello. It's really 0:57:41.960 --> 0:57:44.600 unique in the space. I can't say I've seen it 0:57:45.480 --> 0:57:47.680 from other carriers, but yeah, it's called the bill your 0:57:47.680 --> 0:57:50.959 own Plan, And yeah, you can actually get a plan 0:57:51.000 --> 0:57:55.480 with no data and you know between one hundred I 0:57:55.480 --> 0:57:58.040 think one hundred five hundred unlimited minutes that kind of thing. 0:57:59.080 --> 0:58:01.720 A voice man that is literally voice calls, which is 0:58:01.720 --> 0:58:04.880 funny because we haven't seen a limit on voice calls 0:58:04.880 --> 0:58:09.200 in a while, right, right, so right, yeah, so but 0:58:09.440 --> 0:58:11.240 you know you can customize that, like, you know, I 0:58:11.240 --> 0:58:13.120 don't make that many calls and then maybe I use 0:58:13.160 --> 0:58:15.439 a giga data a month or whatever. I really don't 0:58:15.480 --> 0:58:17.760 use that much. So okay, I'll do that. I'm going 0:58:17.840 --> 0:58:19.640 to do a plan with one giga data. I'm gonna 0:58:19.640 --> 0:58:21.720 do a plan and I'm gonna put one hundred voice 0:58:21.720 --> 0:58:24.200 minutes in there, and you can literally pay. You know, 0:58:25.720 --> 0:58:28.320 it's incredible to think about a single digit phone bill, 0:58:28.360 --> 0:58:30.720 you know, nine dollars per month, which is wild to 0:58:30.720 --> 0:58:32.880 think about today. 0:58:33.320 --> 0:58:34.960 Yeah, I mean, if you have let's say you have 0:58:35.080 --> 0:58:38.000 like a loved one that you are. You know, maybe 0:58:38.000 --> 0:58:39.919 they're they just stay at home, they're on Wi Fi 0:58:39.960 --> 0:58:41.960 all the time. You have an old iPhone or whatever. 0:58:42.440 --> 0:58:44.400 You can give them a plan for like seven bucks 0:58:44.480 --> 0:58:46.960 a month and then you know they're using just Wi 0:58:47.000 --> 0:58:48.720 Fi in the house for the data and then they 0:58:48.760 --> 0:58:50.600 can call and text you, you know, if they want to, 0:58:50.680 --> 0:58:54.360 and yeah, it kind of be a landline. Yeah exactly. 0:58:55.040 --> 0:58:56.920 So how did you test out these services? What did 0:58:56.960 --> 0:58:58.400 you do and what was your findings. 0:58:59.440 --> 0:59:01.080 I mean, I kind of use them as my own, 0:59:02.200 --> 0:59:05.040 like my own services for a while. I did not 0:59:05.120 --> 0:59:07.960 pour my number that is, you know, maybe we'll get 0:59:08.000 --> 0:59:11.120 into that later, but you know, I use them as 0:59:11.160 --> 0:59:15.440 my own. I take them out for. 0:59:14.000 --> 0:59:14.680 A week or two. 0:59:14.960 --> 0:59:18.200 Mostly around the two weeks period, I do speed tests 0:59:18.640 --> 0:59:22.280 at various locations, you know, in town, out more on 0:59:22.360 --> 0:59:25.520 the Boonie, somewhere closer to the city, in the city 0:59:27.160 --> 0:59:29.080 just and you know, I can do the official like 0:59:29.120 --> 0:59:30.960 speed test, and then I just do stuff that everyone 0:59:30.960 --> 0:59:33.640 else does, like you know, scrolling through Instagram or streaming 0:59:33.680 --> 0:59:36.960 YouTube video and music or that kind of thing, making 0:59:36.960 --> 0:59:41.440 phone calls, sending texts, so really just using it kind 0:59:41.440 --> 0:59:42.920 of like how I think anyone else. 0:59:42.800 --> 0:59:46.360 Is and what were your conclusions? What conclusions did you 0:59:46.360 --> 0:59:48.320 come to? Should people switch to these things? 0:59:50.120 --> 0:59:55.880 Well, there that is a question, rich, So you know, 0:59:56.000 --> 0:59:58.000 there can be a lot of merit or a lot 0:59:58.080 --> 1:00:03.040 of good reasons to go to Man and Tello. There's 1:00:03.080 --> 1:00:05.360 a lot of reasons to stick to a major carrier too, 1:00:05.520 --> 1:00:07.840 like T Mobile or Verizon or whoever, or AT and T. 1:00:08.840 --> 1:00:13.720 But yeah, there's like, you know, there's what's the biggest downside. 1:00:13.760 --> 1:00:16.200 What's the biggest downside of switching to something like this? 1:00:17.440 --> 1:00:21.440 So we know the upside is you save a lot 1:00:21.440 --> 1:00:22.760 of money, right. 1:00:22.720 --> 1:00:24.480 Right, that's the that's the upside. 1:00:24.880 --> 1:00:27.000 So okay, you can depend for some people for example, 1:00:27.160 --> 1:00:29.360 like you know, on a major carrier T Mobile or Rizon, 1:00:29.400 --> 1:00:31.120 AT and T, you get a lot more hot spot 1:00:31.200 --> 1:00:35.400 data usually, right, people value that, And that's actually a 1:00:35.400 --> 1:00:37.360 way that carriers make a lot of their money is 1:00:37.520 --> 1:00:41.760 hotspot data. And another upside of going with you know, 1:00:41.800 --> 1:00:45.440 sticking with the major carriers is smart watch and tablet connectivity, 1:00:47.480 --> 1:00:47.840 isn't it? 1:00:48.240 --> 1:00:48.439 Yeah? 1:00:48.520 --> 1:00:53.440 Right, so yeah, meant and Tello, I don't believe have 1:00:53.680 --> 1:00:56.560 a lot of options if any last time I checked 1:00:57.080 --> 1:00:58.320 for smart watch or tablets. 1:00:58.640 --> 1:00:59.400 Now that's if you have. 1:00:59.520 --> 1:01:01.280 Just just to be clear, that's if you have a 1:01:01.400 --> 1:01:05.440 cellular watch, right, so you're your regular Apple watch, if 1:01:05.440 --> 1:01:07.560 it's just connected to your phone, it will work as 1:01:07.560 --> 1:01:09.520 it typically does. But this is for someone who has 1:01:09.560 --> 1:01:12.680 a cellular watch like myself that wants to go on 1:01:12.720 --> 1:01:15.680 a run without their phone and have their texts and 1:01:15.760 --> 1:01:18.600 calls still come through and data. So that's the difference there. 1:01:18.600 --> 1:01:20.520 A lot of these mv and o's do not have that. 1:01:20.680 --> 1:01:22.360 I think the only one I know that does is 1:01:22.800 --> 1:01:25.600 is Visible allows and they actually include that in their 1:01:25.640 --> 1:01:29.120 top in their main plan. Okay, so you have to 1:01:29.160 --> 1:01:32.960 think about that. What about international data international plans? 1:01:33.680 --> 1:01:36.160 Yes, some major carriers or most major carriers have some 1:01:36.200 --> 1:01:38.800 pretty decent you know, international sort of features. 1:01:39.920 --> 1:01:42.120 Usually almost every every carrier. 1:01:41.840 --> 1:01:44.280 Has something from Mexico and Canada, like there's something there 1:01:44.360 --> 1:01:46.880 you can talk, you can call there and call back 1:01:47.360 --> 1:01:50.760 texts and that kind of thing. It's usually okay, but 1:01:50.840 --> 1:01:54.320 you know, and Minton Tello actually have pretty good international 1:01:54.360 --> 1:01:57.400 open Actually sorry I should say Mints does really. 1:01:58.960 --> 1:02:01.040 Uh you know, they have sort of three set. 1:02:00.920 --> 1:02:04.360 Plans for varying amounts of days and data data and 1:02:04.400 --> 1:02:07.560 calls and texts and it's actually pretty good value. And 1:02:07.640 --> 1:02:09.000 I was looking at it myself and I was like, 1:02:09.040 --> 1:02:10.600 maybe for my next chip, this is kind of a 1:02:10.600 --> 1:02:14.720 good thing. Tello has options too. It's kind of like 1:02:15.720 --> 1:02:19.840 a flat rate depending on which country you visit, but 1:02:19.960 --> 1:02:23.240 it can cost the value is not there. That's just saying. 1:02:23.040 --> 1:02:25.400 Interesting there, so that's not good if you travel a lot. 1:02:25.960 --> 1:02:28.600 And finally, customer service, because that's another thing. People like 1:02:28.640 --> 1:02:31.360 to be able to walk into a store and get 1:02:31.360 --> 1:02:33.640 help if they need it, you know, with Verizon, T Mobile, 1:02:33.680 --> 1:02:36.760 AT and T with these two carriers, now Mint, I'm 1:02:36.760 --> 1:02:38.640 not sure with their you know, can you walk into 1:02:38.680 --> 1:02:40.200 a T Mobile store? I don't know because I know 1:02:40.200 --> 1:02:41.760 they're owned by them now, but I don't think that's 1:02:41.840 --> 1:02:44.560 the case. But you have to kind of you're on 1:02:44.600 --> 1:02:45.400 your own, right. 1:02:46.240 --> 1:02:48.439 Yeah, that's kind Yeah, that's a good question about Mint 1:02:48.480 --> 1:02:49.720 and whether you can just go head into a T 1:02:49.880 --> 1:02:52.240 Mobile store. But yeah, that's that's one of the huge 1:02:52.280 --> 1:02:55.280 things about major retailers or major carriers, sorry, is that 1:02:55.320 --> 1:02:57.520 you can go to a physical store. It's kind of 1:02:57.520 --> 1:03:00.960 like why I really like, you know, Apple iPhones, even 1:03:00.960 --> 1:03:03.880 for someone who might like really like Android phones, there's 1:03:03.960 --> 1:03:06.640 something about having a physical store to go to if 1:03:06.640 --> 1:03:10.080 you have a problem. That's just so, you know, really 1:03:10.240 --> 1:03:14.680 reassuring and good to have. But yeah, no, I mean 1:03:14.720 --> 1:03:16.720 in terms of support. Actually, you know, Minton Tello have 1:03:16.760 --> 1:03:18.920 a pretty decent little system going on. You know, they 1:03:18.960 --> 1:03:20.880 have pretty good apps. Mint has a very good app, 1:03:20.920 --> 1:03:24.320 i should say. And you can get in touch with 1:03:24.360 --> 1:03:27.320 someone on the phone pretty easily, which I've tried myself. 1:03:27.640 --> 1:03:29.400 You can do a little chat service so you can 1:03:29.400 --> 1:03:33.800 talk to someone pretty quickly, and actually it's easier. I 1:03:34.000 --> 1:03:36.120 found it easier to get in touch with an actual 1:03:36.120 --> 1:03:39.000 person on Minton Tello than it was through you know, Verizon, 1:03:39.000 --> 1:03:40.640 which is what I'm currently using for now. 1:03:40.880 --> 1:03:43.120 Yeah, but it's getting tougher and tougher on the on 1:03:43.160 --> 1:03:45.840 the traditional carriers to reach someone in person, which is 1:03:45.920 --> 1:03:49.320 kind of funny. Antonio, We're gonna leave it there, Antonio 1:03:49.440 --> 1:03:51.720 villis Boas, thanks so much for joining me today. 1:03:52.280 --> 1:03:52.960 Thank you for having me. 1:03:53.080 --> 1:03:56.480 Rich Tech an electronics senior reporter at Business Insider. I'll 1:03:56.480 --> 1:03:59.160 put a link to his article comparing Mint Mobile and 1:03:59.240 --> 1:04:02.400 Tello Mobile on the website. Rich on tech dot TV 1:04:02.920 --> 1:04:05.400 eight a eight rich one one eight eight eight seven 1:04:05.520 --> 1:04:07.760 four to two four one zero one more rich on Tech, 1:04:07.760 --> 1:04:10.720 more of your calls, and a lot more Right after this, 1:04:13.000 --> 1:04:17.360 Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro. Here lots 1:04:17.360 --> 1:04:23.280 of feedback on the caller who was blind and needed 1:04:23.320 --> 1:04:28.400 some help with transferring documents. Let's see Melody says in 1:04:28.440 --> 1:04:30.320 your show, you were contacted by a caller who was 1:04:30.360 --> 1:04:32.200 trying to get info off a CD didn't have a 1:04:32.240 --> 1:04:37.600 disk drive. Refer her to local Council for the to 1:04:37.640 --> 1:04:39.760 her local Council for the Blind, and they would help 1:04:39.800 --> 1:04:42.120 her resolve her problem. They have multiple resources for her 1:04:42.160 --> 1:04:45.280 to tap into. There you go, Counsel for the Blind. 1:04:45.920 --> 1:04:46.040 Uh. 1:04:46.240 --> 1:04:50.960 And then Teresa says, you can have her reach out 1:04:51.000 --> 1:04:54.000 to the Braille Institute in Santa Barbara. They have very 1:04:54.040 --> 1:04:56.959 significant resources in the tech world for blind people these days. 1:04:56.960 --> 1:05:00.960 There you go, thanks Teresa. Yeah, I mean that's that's 1:05:01.040 --> 1:05:02.240 kind of what I was getting at. It has to 1:05:02.280 --> 1:05:04.800 be some sort of community help because you know, I 1:05:04.840 --> 1:05:06.840 don't You're not going to buy a new computer just 1:05:06.880 --> 1:05:07.400 to do this. 1:05:07.480 --> 1:05:09.640 You gotta you gotta lean on someone. 1:05:09.840 --> 1:05:10.160 Uh. 1:05:10.200 --> 1:05:10.960 Did we just play that? 1:05:12.600 --> 1:05:13.200 Did you play? 1:05:13.280 --> 1:05:13.480 Yeah? 1:05:13.960 --> 1:05:20.680 That's how I said that. That was definitely lean on me. See, 1:05:20.680 --> 1:05:22.600 this is how the brain works. I look like I 1:05:22.600 --> 1:05:24.160 wouldn't have said those words. 1:05:26.400 --> 1:05:30.280 Oh man, okay, Uh let's see Rich Randy said, I 1:05:30.280 --> 1:05:32.880 wonder what took you so long? And using these echoes. 1:05:33.360 --> 1:05:35.640 I have seven of them scattered all over the house. 1:05:35.680 --> 1:05:37.400 I have several groups depending on how I want to 1:05:37.400 --> 1:05:39.480 spread the content and where I have them in sync. 1:05:39.920 --> 1:05:41.800 I'm sure you give them different names like I do, 1:05:41.880 --> 1:05:44.280 so they respond to my command when I'm speaking to another. 1:05:44.680 --> 1:05:46.880 I get clear sound even on the older models, but 1:05:46.920 --> 1:05:49.080 I do know the premium ones are more vibrant, which 1:05:49.120 --> 1:05:52.400 I do not have. Uh yeah, I'm wondering whether you 1:05:52.480 --> 1:05:55.240 bought the more expensive or the very basic. I'm buying 1:05:55.240 --> 1:05:57.760 them all. So I've got they've got like three different levels. 1:05:57.800 --> 1:06:00.280 They've got like the tiny little dots, then and they've 1:06:00.280 --> 1:06:03.000 got the Echo. Then they've got the Echo Premium, and 1:06:03.040 --> 1:06:06.680 they've got that one giant soundbar or sound whatever you 1:06:06.720 --> 1:06:07.200 call it. 1:06:07.200 --> 1:06:08.120 It's like two hundred bucks. 1:06:08.120 --> 1:06:10.280 So I'm gonna eventually get them all, but I'm doing it, 1:06:10.320 --> 1:06:12.960 you know, I do things slow, so I'm getting like 1:06:13.080 --> 1:06:16.280 one every week. Thanks for that, Randy. Let's go to 1:06:16.680 --> 1:06:19.480 John in more Park. John, you're on with Rich. 1:06:20.360 --> 1:06:23.600 Yeah, Hi, Rich, Hi, thank you for taking my call. 1:06:25.200 --> 1:06:29.120 I have I've had for seventeen years. I've had an 1:06:29.160 --> 1:06:34.200 iPhone through AT and t okay, and I've just turned 1:06:34.240 --> 1:06:37.120 eighty one. And I was thinking that in case I 1:06:37.240 --> 1:06:39.880 fall in the shower, I was thinking it might be 1:06:39.880 --> 1:06:43.800 an idea to get some kind of device to protect me. Yeah, 1:06:43.840 --> 1:06:47.560 I was thinking whether a choice between an Apple walch 1:06:48.320 --> 1:06:52.760 versus a metal alert watch. Apparently the two compete. 1:06:52.440 --> 1:06:53.000 With each other. 1:06:53.080 --> 1:06:55.920 One goes through the Apple system, the other goes through 1:06:55.920 --> 1:07:00.280 the Metal Alert system. Do you have an opinion as to, uh, 1:07:00.880 --> 1:07:04.040 which is a better viable choice? 1:07:04.800 --> 1:07:10.280 So the meta alert is that the brand name med alerts. 1:07:10.000 --> 1:07:13.400 A brand name. Okay, yeah, you're about ten different brands 1:07:13.400 --> 1:07:17.560 out there. Met Alert, I think, is the one that's talented. Okay, 1:07:17.680 --> 1:07:22.000 you're so Valley More Park Area. But they're all more 1:07:22.040 --> 1:07:22.920 or less competitive. 1:07:23.320 --> 1:07:26.640 So my my thought on this is if you want 1:07:26.680 --> 1:07:31.480 something that's simple and dedicated and doesn't really now how much. 1:07:31.560 --> 1:07:33.760 See here's the thing. This meta alert watch is about 1:07:33.800 --> 1:07:37.200 three hundred and fifty bucks. How much is the plan? 1:07:37.440 --> 1:07:37.680 Okay? 1:07:38.280 --> 1:07:38.400 Uh? 1:07:38.560 --> 1:07:39.480 After the first year? 1:07:39.520 --> 1:07:42.480 Okay, so the first year is included the four G 1:07:42.720 --> 1:07:45.320 so that's good. After the first year, you have to 1:07:45.440 --> 1:07:47.640 renew for twelve months at seventy five dollars. 1:07:47.640 --> 1:07:48.640 That's a pretty good deal. 1:07:49.960 --> 1:07:52.680 So my thought is that if you just want something 1:07:52.840 --> 1:07:55.240 simple and easy and you don't want to have to 1:07:55.280 --> 1:07:57.840 deal with the whole connection to the Apple iPhone and 1:07:57.880 --> 1:08:00.920 all that stuff, I would say that this meta alert 1:08:00.960 --> 1:08:05.480 looks pretty good. If you want all the extra features 1:08:05.480 --> 1:08:08.400 that you get with an iPhone and an Apple Watch, 1:08:08.640 --> 1:08:12.800 then maybe go with the Apple Watch. The battery life, 1:08:12.880 --> 1:08:15.080 let's see, so the battery life, how long is the 1:08:15.120 --> 1:08:16.000 battery on this thing? 1:08:17.120 --> 1:08:19.479 Oh, up to one hundred hours. That's like four days. 1:08:20.680 --> 1:08:21.240 Let's see. 1:08:21.800 --> 1:08:25.240 Well, I already I already have an iPhone. I've had 1:08:25.280 --> 1:08:27.120 an iPhone for seventeen years. 1:08:27.439 --> 1:08:29.040 Yeah, so I assume I just. 1:08:29.120 --> 1:08:32.280 Buy on my Apple Watch. How much does an Apple Watch? 1:08:32.840 --> 1:08:35.479 The extra got to cost me. 1:08:35.520 --> 1:08:37.320 About three hundred bucks. But here's the thing. 1:08:37.800 --> 1:08:40.840 So with the fall detection on the Apple Watch, if 1:08:40.880 --> 1:08:44.160 you want it to work everywhere you are and anywhere 1:08:44.200 --> 1:08:47.000 you are, even if your phone is not nearby, you 1:08:47.080 --> 1:08:48.880 have to get a cellular Apple Watch, which is a 1:08:48.920 --> 1:08:50.880 little bit more, and then you have to pay ten 1:08:50.920 --> 1:08:53.960 bucks usually ten to twenty dollars a month for that cellular. 1:08:54.640 --> 1:08:57.920 So you have to pay extra for a cellular Apple Watch. 1:08:58.040 --> 1:09:00.839 If okay, so let's just say you're in the shower, 1:09:01.240 --> 1:09:04.120 your iPhone, your you have the Apple Watch on, and 1:09:04.160 --> 1:09:07.479 the iPhone is nearby within range of the Apple Watch. 1:09:07.560 --> 1:09:10.280 If you fell in that shower, your Apple Watch would 1:09:10.320 --> 1:09:13.559 still communicate via bluetooth to your phone and say, okay, 1:09:13.640 --> 1:09:14.639 let's call nine one one. 1:09:15.000 --> 1:09:15.920 Okay, that would work. 1:09:16.560 --> 1:09:18.439 But if your phone was in a different room or 1:09:18.479 --> 1:09:21.080 it was too far away from your Apple Watch, it 1:09:21.120 --> 1:09:23.920 may not make that connection. And that's what I'm concerned about. 1:09:24.240 --> 1:09:26.720 So that's why when you have a cellular Apple Watch, 1:09:26.800 --> 1:09:30.040 if you're specifically using it for sort of the emergency services, 1:09:31.280 --> 1:09:33.559 that's what you want because it's it's gonna work no 1:09:33.560 --> 1:09:36.000 matter what. It's gonna work because it has its own 1:09:36.080 --> 1:09:37.559 connection two nine one one. 1:09:37.880 --> 1:09:39.840 It doesn't that that's what I want. I'll just go 1:09:40.040 --> 1:09:41.760 Can I go to the AT and D store and 1:09:41.840 --> 1:09:44.320 buy a cellular Apple Watch from them? 1:09:44.520 --> 1:09:47.360 Yeah? Yeah, absolutely, and they'll they'll be happy to sell 1:09:47.400 --> 1:09:47.680 you that. 1:09:48.040 --> 1:09:50.040 Oh I don't care about three hundred and fifty dollars. 1:09:50.120 --> 1:09:51.920 That makes yeah difference to me. 1:09:52.360 --> 1:09:54.439 I can afford that now are you do you are 1:09:54.439 --> 1:09:56.800 you like, do you do any fitness stuff? Do you 1:09:56.840 --> 1:09:58.439 walk or any do you do you care about any 1:09:58.439 --> 1:09:59.400 of the fitness. 1:09:59.000 --> 1:10:04.559 Features W I had problems with my knees. Okay, I dive, 1:10:04.800 --> 1:10:06.679 but I don't do a lot of walking. 1:10:06.920 --> 1:10:08.840 Okay, I mean, look the Apple Watch. 1:10:08.880 --> 1:10:10.680 If you get an Apple Watch cellular, you set up 1:10:10.680 --> 1:10:13.120 the fall detection, it's going to do what you need 1:10:13.200 --> 1:10:15.200 to do, and if you ever took a fall, hard fall, 1:10:15.280 --> 1:10:17.280 it's going to dial nine one one. It's not perfect 1:10:18.360 --> 1:10:20.120 it you know, it's not one hundred percent, but you'll 1:10:20.120 --> 1:10:21.600 also be able to set it up where if you 1:10:21.720 --> 1:10:25.920 need emergency medical assistance, you can press the button on 1:10:25.960 --> 1:10:28.200 there five times fast and it will dial nine one 1:10:28.200 --> 1:10:31.360 one for you. You can alert your emergency contacts if 1:10:31.360 --> 1:10:34.000 you need that. It'll monitor your heart rate. If you 1:10:34.040 --> 1:10:36.760 know something goes high low there, you can it'll send 1:10:36.760 --> 1:10:39.439 you a notification. So the Apple Watch is going to 1:10:39.479 --> 1:10:41.519 be if you have an iPhone, you've had it for 1:10:41.520 --> 1:10:44.599 seventeen years, you're pretty familiar with this technology. I think 1:10:44.600 --> 1:10:46.560 that yeah, I think maybe you just go with the 1:10:46.600 --> 1:10:49.560 Apple Watch, and I think you'll find some other benefits 1:10:49.560 --> 1:10:51.479 to the Apple Watch as well that you probably wouldn't 1:10:51.479 --> 1:10:53.360 get from the metal alert device. 1:10:53.960 --> 1:10:56.400 And and I assume the AT and T score, which 1:10:56.439 --> 1:10:58.480 set it all up for me ring the phone. 1:10:58.240 --> 1:10:59.760 And oh yeah, I can stay here. 1:11:00.200 --> 1:11:02.880 They'll they'll take that right, Yeah, they'll take that extra 1:11:02.880 --> 1:11:05.720 step with you. Yeah, go to the AT and T store, 1:11:05.800 --> 1:11:08.840 get the watch, and good thinking. I always wonder about that. 1:11:09.200 --> 1:11:11.000 You know, you're in the shower. In Europe, they've got 1:11:11.040 --> 1:11:13.679 these like pull strings you can pull that'll file for help. 1:11:14.280 --> 1:11:15.840 What would you do if you're alone? You just gotta 1:11:15.960 --> 1:11:17.400 lay there until someone finds you. 1:11:17.680 --> 1:11:22.720 Ugh eighty eight Rich one on one. Welcome back to 1:11:22.840 --> 1:11:25.599 rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you 1:11:25.640 --> 1:11:30.519 for another hour talking technology at eighty eight rich one 1:11:30.560 --> 1:11:33.719 O one eight eight eight seven four to two four 1:11:33.800 --> 1:11:36.240 one zero one. So much to get to this hour. 1:11:37.080 --> 1:11:39.320 We've got the feedback at the end of the show, 1:11:39.439 --> 1:11:42.560 so we'll read your emails that you've sent throughout the 1:11:42.600 --> 1:11:45.639 week about last week's show. We've got the TV answer 1:11:45.680 --> 1:11:48.599 man in the house, Philip Swan is gonna help us 1:11:48.640 --> 1:11:50.960 select the ideal sports streaming service. 1:11:51.680 --> 1:11:51.760 Uh. 1:11:51.840 --> 1:11:55.439 Because it is the season again, you're gonna gonna spend 1:11:55.479 --> 1:11:57.560 a lot of time watching football on TV. Well, I 1:11:57.600 --> 1:11:59.680 don't know my house we are. It's only because my 1:11:59.720 --> 1:12:01.080 kid is into it. I told you I was never 1:12:01.080 --> 1:12:04.120 into sports until my kid became. He put me into 1:12:04.320 --> 1:12:07.160 into basketball and football. I mean yes, throughout college I 1:12:07.200 --> 1:12:08.840 went to all the football games, but I was never 1:12:08.960 --> 1:12:11.360 like a you know, big fan. Now I'm like, I 1:12:11.400 --> 1:12:14.720 know all these teams and all these players. Anyway, it 1:12:14.800 --> 1:12:17.640 is kind of fun. Rich Demiro here hanging out with 1:12:17.680 --> 1:12:20.080 you eighty eight rich one oh one eight eight eight 1:12:20.240 --> 1:12:23.400 seven four to two four one zero one. We got 1:12:23.400 --> 1:12:25.960 the website rich on tech dot TV. If you want 1:12:25.960 --> 1:12:28.840 to email me, get your comments in there. Go to 1:12:28.880 --> 1:12:32.240 the website hit contact. If you want to read or 1:12:32.280 --> 1:12:34.160 get a link to something I mentioned on the show, 1:12:34.200 --> 1:12:37.400 go to the website hit the light bulb, and uh. 1:12:37.600 --> 1:12:39.920 Also sign up for my newsletter while you're there, so 1:12:40.000 --> 1:12:42.559 you pop your email address in and you get my newsletter, 1:12:42.560 --> 1:12:45.360 which is expertly crafted every week by me. 1:12:46.080 --> 1:12:47.400 Spend a lot of time on this thing. 1:12:47.439 --> 1:12:51.360 It's basically like this show, but you know, just helpful 1:12:51.439 --> 1:12:53.800 hints and tips and tricks and all kinds of stuff. 1:12:53.840 --> 1:12:56.960 So here in this week, by the way, there's over 1:12:57.040 --> 1:12:59.920 thirty thousand of you that get the newsletter, so thank 1:12:59.920 --> 1:13:02.760 you for signing up for that growing every week. 1:13:02.800 --> 1:13:03.280 I love it. 1:13:04.160 --> 1:13:07.040 Let's see, so this week I've got some recommendations for 1:13:07.080 --> 1:13:11.000 new Bluetooth audio gear, how to use travel rewards points. 1:13:11.040 --> 1:13:12.640 I tell you how to find the hidden game and 1:13:12.680 --> 1:13:16.200 the Chrome web browser on your phone. How you can 1:13:16.280 --> 1:13:20.800 upload your music to your phone for free. Let's see, 1:13:20.800 --> 1:13:23.000 how to clear out storage on your phone for free, 1:13:23.040 --> 1:13:24.760 and duplicate photos on the iPhone. 1:13:25.640 --> 1:13:26.679 Oh this was interesting. 1:13:26.720 --> 1:13:29.320 So this week was my birthday and a bunch of 1:13:29.320 --> 1:13:32.000 people called me. No one was able to leave a message, 1:13:32.000 --> 1:13:36.479 apparently because my voicemail was full, and I didn't realize 1:13:36.520 --> 1:13:39.559 this until someone told me, and I ended up clearing 1:13:39.560 --> 1:13:42.760 out the voicemail. I had all these voicemails saved on 1:13:42.800 --> 1:13:47.240 my phone for safekeeping, and what were they? All the 1:13:47.240 --> 1:13:49.439 old birthday wishes I had from over the years. So 1:13:49.479 --> 1:13:50.960 I went I started going through these. I have them 1:13:50.960 --> 1:13:53.960 from my guyshold as like twenty eighteen or something. So anyway, 1:13:54.080 --> 1:13:56.160 I go through the steps on how to back up 1:13:56.200 --> 1:13:59.040 all of those voicemails, get them off your voicemail server 1:13:59.240 --> 1:14:01.679 to free them up and have him for safekeeping forever. 1:14:02.720 --> 1:14:05.280 Then I talk about some deals Amazon Prime for students 1:14:05.320 --> 1:14:09.120 six month free trial, the stretching app that I'm absolutely 1:14:09.120 --> 1:14:13.320 loving right now, and then some other deals and things 1:14:13.320 --> 1:14:15.040 that I talk about. The you shamnis. So anyway, Rich 1:14:15.120 --> 1:14:17.640 on tech dot tv, just pop your email address in. 1:14:17.640 --> 1:14:20.439 I don't know if it says subscribe or whatever it says. 1:14:20.520 --> 1:14:22.639 Just pop your email address in. You'll get that newsletter 1:14:22.720 --> 1:14:26.599 every week for free. Thanks for doing that. We got 1:14:26.600 --> 1:14:29.479 an email from Mary. She said, Hey, Rich, we're big fans. 1:14:29.520 --> 1:14:31.679 I get the newsletter and I listen to you every Saturday. 1:14:31.760 --> 1:14:33.880 I hate to be a Karen, But the caller who 1:14:33.960 --> 1:14:36.120 called in because he wasn't getting alerted to his text 1:14:36.160 --> 1:14:38.160 while driving, is it really a good thing to be 1:14:38.200 --> 1:14:44.320 texting and driving? It is illegal, right? I agree, Mary, 1:14:44.479 --> 1:14:46.960 Yes you should not be texting and driving. But here's 1:14:46.960 --> 1:14:49.880 the deal. He wanted to be alerted when he got 1:14:49.880 --> 1:14:51.880 a text, and so yes, that would lead me to 1:14:51.960 --> 1:14:56.240 believe that he wants to hear that text or somehow 1:14:56.280 --> 1:14:57.240 interact with the text. 1:14:57.280 --> 1:14:59.080 Now, I agree. 1:14:59.120 --> 1:15:01.519 I think that these the safest thing with your phone 1:15:01.600 --> 1:15:03.599 is to not be using it at all while you're driving. 1:15:04.120 --> 1:15:07.880 The reality is people do use their phones in safe ways, 1:15:08.240 --> 1:15:11.680 which is CarPlay, Android Auto using your voice. But I 1:15:11.680 --> 1:15:13.840 think that any level of using your phone in the 1:15:13.840 --> 1:15:17.240 car is distracting. And I even find myself I have 1:15:17.360 --> 1:15:19.880 my phone set to do not disturb while driving, and 1:15:19.920 --> 1:15:22.519 I have all notifications sort of turned off, so I 1:15:22.560 --> 1:15:26.000 don't even get tempted by them because here in La, 1:15:26.080 --> 1:15:27.960 I don't know about your town. But what happens is 1:15:28.040 --> 1:15:30.439 not only do I see everyone on their phone while 1:15:30.439 --> 1:15:33.400 they're driving, which it is illegal, but when people come 1:15:33.439 --> 1:15:34.960 to a stop light, what do they do? They pull 1:15:34.960 --> 1:15:37.599 out their phone and then you get that person at 1:15:37.600 --> 1:15:40.639 the stop light that's on their phone. The light changes 1:15:40.680 --> 1:15:44.240 green and they just stopped there. And nine times out 1:15:44.240 --> 1:15:46.639 of ten, what are they doing. They're just checking their Instagram, 1:15:46.720 --> 1:15:49.920 their social media. Please be safe, And you're also distracted 1:15:49.960 --> 1:15:52.479 when you're doing that, you know you're not focusing on 1:15:52.520 --> 1:15:54.679 the task at hand. And I'll be honest, I'm guilty 1:15:54.720 --> 1:15:57.880 of this myself sometimes where I just want to, you know, 1:15:57.960 --> 1:16:00.240 look at my phone or see what's happening right, see 1:16:00.320 --> 1:16:03.000 notification come through on my screen. It lights up, and 1:16:03.040 --> 1:16:04.920 I really have to fight the urge, and I say, 1:16:04.960 --> 1:16:06.280 I don't need to do that. 1:16:06.400 --> 1:16:06.880 Right now. 1:16:07.280 --> 1:16:10.280 I need to focus on driving, keeping myself alive, keeping 1:16:10.280 --> 1:16:12.120 the people around me alive, not crashing. 1:16:12.600 --> 1:16:13.639 And it's it's tough. 1:16:14.400 --> 1:16:17.920 Our phones are very, very distracting in every aspect of 1:16:17.920 --> 1:16:20.800 our lives. You're working, you're trying to write something, you're 1:16:20.800 --> 1:16:23.439 trying to do something. So you get that notification. Next 1:16:23.439 --> 1:16:26.360 thing you know, you're you're off and you check that notification, 1:16:26.439 --> 1:16:28.160 and all of a sudden you start checking other things 1:16:28.160 --> 1:16:28.879 on your phone. 1:16:29.040 --> 1:16:29.760 We all do it. 1:16:31.080 --> 1:16:34.960 Let's go to uh Lonnie in Riverside, Lonnie, you're on 1:16:35.000 --> 1:16:35.679 with rich. 1:16:37.560 --> 1:16:39.479 Hello, Lonnie? Are you there? Did I do? 1:16:39.600 --> 1:16:39.840 Hello? 1:16:40.000 --> 1:16:40.160 One? 1:16:40.200 --> 1:16:45.760 There you are? You're on, You're live on. 1:16:47.240 --> 1:16:49.599 Get a little static in there. I have an issue. 1:16:49.640 --> 1:16:53.120 I have I fourteen and I use that phone quat 1:16:53.439 --> 1:16:57.679 for my driving for the Google Maps. In the last 1:16:57.720 --> 1:17:01.920 couple of weeks, if not keeping up the date, keeping 1:17:02.000 --> 1:17:04.960 up to where I'm I my location, and it keeps 1:17:04.960 --> 1:17:08.439 paying proceed to root, proceed to root. And it just 1:17:08.479 --> 1:17:10.400 happened boom one day I started doing that. 1:17:11.800 --> 1:17:13.040 Okay, it's sun. 1:17:13.760 --> 1:17:18.160 It sounds like you somehow either your phone either stopped 1:17:18.160 --> 1:17:22.400 giving it access to the GPS and that that's my 1:17:22.479 --> 1:17:24.320 initial thoughts. So there's a couple of things you can do. 1:17:24.360 --> 1:17:28.960 First off, you can go to your Yeah, this is 1:17:29.000 --> 1:17:30.400 Google Maps on your iPhone, you. 1:17:30.400 --> 1:17:33.200 Said, right, I mean it's the issue of tucted maps. 1:17:33.200 --> 1:17:34.320 But it's my phone. 1:17:35.280 --> 1:17:37.200 I don't think it's your phone. I think, well, have 1:17:37.320 --> 1:17:39.920 you tried to Have you tried Apple Maps? Does that work? 1:17:41.040 --> 1:17:41.400 I haven't? 1:17:41.479 --> 1:17:43.280 Okay, So first thing I would do just make sure 1:17:43.280 --> 1:17:46.200 the GPS is actually working on your phone. So type 1:17:46.240 --> 1:17:49.000 in maps on your phone. You should have Apple Maps there. 1:17:49.160 --> 1:17:51.479 And you know the thing with any mapping program. So 1:17:51.479 --> 1:17:54.000 there's a couple of things that happen. Number one, your 1:17:54.040 --> 1:17:56.680 phone could get out of sync with the GPS if 1:17:56.680 --> 1:17:59.559 it doesn't have a clear signal. Sometimes it could be laggy. 1:17:59.600 --> 1:18:01.880 Like when I was in New York City. I'm not kidding. 1:18:01.920 --> 1:18:05.439 I was walking and my phone could not get a 1:18:05.479 --> 1:18:08.080 lock on the GPS. I'd never had that happen before, 1:18:08.120 --> 1:18:10.080 and I said, what the heck is going on here? 1:18:10.479 --> 1:18:12.360 And my friend that I was walking with, he's like, oh, 1:18:12.400 --> 1:18:14.680 I've got a Samsung, let me try it online. And 1:18:14.720 --> 1:18:16.639 he was like cause he kept like saying, Rich, what's 1:18:16.680 --> 1:18:18.680 going on? You can't like, you can't follow maps on 1:18:18.680 --> 1:18:20.360 your phone. I said, I've never had this problem in 1:18:20.360 --> 1:18:22.479 my life. I go, I feel like we're in a 1:18:22.520 --> 1:18:25.679 magnetic like black hole here, because it's just my phone 1:18:25.720 --> 1:18:29.120 will not work. And so he took out his phone seriously, 1:18:29.200 --> 1:18:31.400 and within three minutes he was like, Rich, I can't 1:18:31.439 --> 1:18:33.240 get my maps either, Like I don't know what's going 1:18:33.280 --> 1:18:36.639 on anyway, So that could happen. Now, it depends you're 1:18:36.640 --> 1:18:38.800 in Riverside. You know, you're in a car, you got 1:18:38.800 --> 1:18:42.120 wide open spaces. It's you know, that's probably not the issue. 1:18:42.400 --> 1:18:44.280 But the thing is you can tap if you ever 1:18:44.320 --> 1:18:47.000 need to do this, you can tap on the blue 1:18:47.080 --> 1:18:50.160 dot on Google Maps and that will help your phone 1:18:50.160 --> 1:18:52.639 get a lock on GPS. And sometimes it might say, hey, 1:18:52.680 --> 1:18:55.240 can you do a figure eight with your phone, and 1:18:55.280 --> 1:18:58.440 that will help your phone figure out where the GPS 1:18:58.520 --> 1:19:01.040 is and get a better lock on the satellite signals. 1:19:01.360 --> 1:19:04.080 So that's number one. Number two. When you're on your map, 1:19:04.200 --> 1:19:07.360 sometimes you get turned around or you turn off that 1:19:07.400 --> 1:19:10.439 little icon that says follow me, and that is the 1:19:10.680 --> 1:19:12.720 icon in the right side. 1:19:12.439 --> 1:19:12.960 Of your phone. 1:19:13.000 --> 1:19:15.760 It looks like an arrow icon, and so if you 1:19:15.840 --> 1:19:18.800 tap that, if you toggle it, that should also help 1:19:18.840 --> 1:19:20.920 you get a lock on where your directions are and 1:19:20.960 --> 1:19:23.680 where you're heading, and sometimes it'll bring you back to 1:19:23.760 --> 1:19:27.000 like where you are and that will recenter everything. The 1:19:27.040 --> 1:19:30.160 third thing to check is inside your settings. So if 1:19:30.160 --> 1:19:33.280 you go into settings and then go scroll all the 1:19:33.320 --> 1:19:36.080 way down until you see Google Maps, and I'm doing 1:19:36.120 --> 1:19:39.760 this as we speak, and inside Google Maps there is 1:19:39.880 --> 1:19:44.360 location access, and mine says the options are never, ask 1:19:44.520 --> 1:19:47.000 next time or when I share while using the app, 1:19:47.120 --> 1:19:50.040 or always, And then there's a further option that says 1:19:50.080 --> 1:19:53.840 precise location. What you want this to say is while 1:19:53.920 --> 1:19:58.920 using the app and precise location. And so if you want, 1:19:59.120 --> 1:20:01.759 you know, I want Google Maps to always have access 1:20:01.800 --> 1:20:03.720 to your location, even in the background, to get like 1:20:03.760 --> 1:20:06.960 real time traffic updates and stuff, then I would select always. 1:20:07.000 --> 1:20:09.160 But for me, I just need Maps to work when 1:20:09.200 --> 1:20:11.920 I'm actually using the app, So select while using the 1:20:11.920 --> 1:20:15.280 app and precise location. Now, Lannie, if all of those 1:20:15.320 --> 1:20:17.880 things are selected on your phone and Maps is still 1:20:17.880 --> 1:20:21.679 not working, what I would do is delete the Maps 1:20:21.680 --> 1:20:25.599 app from your phone, restart your phone, reinstall it, and 1:20:25.640 --> 1:20:26.439 that should take. 1:20:26.240 --> 1:20:26.680 Care of it. 1:20:26.760 --> 1:20:29.040 But those are the things that I would do to 1:20:29.080 --> 1:20:31.519 make sure it's working. But there's no reason why Google 1:20:31.560 --> 1:20:33.479 Maps would not be working on your phone unless the 1:20:33.520 --> 1:20:35.920 GPS has burned out on your phone. But I think 1:20:35.920 --> 1:20:37.519 you'll be able to figure that out pretty quickly when 1:20:37.560 --> 1:20:44.599 you open up Yeah point, but start, yes, very much. 1:20:44.640 --> 1:20:46.840 Start by checking that Apple Maps. Make sure that works. 1:20:46.880 --> 1:20:49.400 And who knows, maybe when you open Apple Maps you'll say, oh, 1:20:49.520 --> 1:20:51.599 I'm in love with this, I'll just switch to Apple Maps. 1:20:51.600 --> 1:20:52.760 That's what Apple wants you to do. 1:20:53.160 --> 1:20:56.000 I mean, I know people literally that think they're using 1:20:56.000 --> 1:20:59.280 Google Maps and they're actually using Apple Maps. Because you know, 1:20:59.320 --> 1:21:01.519 how do you know that? Unless you're like a tech person, 1:21:01.560 --> 1:21:05.719 you really don't most of the time. Samsung and LG 1:21:06.080 --> 1:21:09.679 News this week for their smart TV Samsung promised five 1:21:09.800 --> 1:21:14.080 years of updates for their web os. They're celebrating let's 1:21:14.080 --> 1:21:16.680 see ten years of webOS. That's their kind of like 1:21:16.760 --> 1:21:20.960 smart TV system. They're doing a whole bunch of discounts 1:21:20.960 --> 1:21:23.920 and things on their smart TVs from twenty eighteen and up. 1:21:24.600 --> 1:21:27.679 Apple Tv three months free trial, Apple Music three months 1:21:27.720 --> 1:21:31.160 free trial paramount plus fifty percent off an annual subscription. 1:21:31.240 --> 1:21:34.559 That's a pretty good deal. Crunchy Roll thirty days free trial. 1:21:35.680 --> 1:21:40.920 webOS will give new TVs five years of updates. Not 1:21:41.080 --> 1:21:43.920 to be outdone, Samsung comes along and says, you know what, 1:21:44.200 --> 1:21:46.280 We'll take your five years and we'll raise you. We'll 1:21:46.320 --> 1:21:49.160 do seven years of updates. So now now we have 1:21:49.240 --> 1:21:54.280 these smart TV wars because people use their their TV 1:21:54.360 --> 1:21:56.679 for the smarts. They download the apps instead of getting 1:21:56.720 --> 1:21:59.760 like a third party Roku or Fire TV stick or 1:21:59.760 --> 1:22:01.600 Apple TV, they just use what's built in. 1:22:01.680 --> 1:22:02.639 I just switched to mine. 1:22:03.000 --> 1:22:04.800 I've got the high sense, and I just switched to 1:22:04.800 --> 1:22:05.880 the Google TV built in. 1:22:05.960 --> 1:22:06.840 It's great. 1:22:08.320 --> 1:22:08.599 Now. 1:22:09.040 --> 1:22:11.519 Anyway, that's a whole nother discussion of whether to use 1:22:11.680 --> 1:22:14.320 the built in or the third party. But anyway, Samsung 1:22:14.360 --> 1:22:17.040 says they're trying to fend off these Chinese manufacturers, the 1:22:17.080 --> 1:22:19.360 tcls of the world in the high sense because people 1:22:19.360 --> 1:22:22.120 are switching to them. And so now they're giving seven 1:22:22.200 --> 1:22:25.280 years of their ties in operating system updates. What they 1:22:25.400 --> 1:22:27.360 used to do is just do a couple of years 1:22:27.400 --> 1:22:31.040 of updates for their security updates. Now they're actually going 1:22:31.080 --> 1:22:34.320 to upgrade that entire operating system, the one that powers 1:22:34.360 --> 1:22:37.679 the smart TVs, because they know that people are using 1:22:37.720 --> 1:22:39.880 their TVs for a long time and they're using that 1:22:39.960 --> 1:22:43.240 TV software and they want to compete against the likes 1:22:43.280 --> 1:22:47.280 of Roku and also Google TV, and also Apple TV 1:22:47.960 --> 1:22:51.559 and what's the other one, Amazon. So it's a lot 1:22:51.560 --> 1:22:54.080 of stuff, a lot of a lot of things happening here. Anyway, 1:22:54.520 --> 1:22:57.760 it's a good thing for consumers. We're getting more updates 1:22:58.280 --> 1:23:01.080 for our gadgets for long. It's a good thing because 1:23:01.120 --> 1:23:03.519 we're keeping them longer. Eight a eight rich one on 1:23:03.520 --> 1:23:06.559 one eight eight eight seven four to two four one 1:23:06.640 --> 1:23:10.120 zero one. Wait, vinyl sales are up. I'll tell you why. 1:23:10.200 --> 1:23:13.720 Coming up here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to 1:23:13.800 --> 1:23:16.240 rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you, 1:23:16.439 --> 1:23:22.639 talking technology. The website for the show richon Tech dot TV. 1:23:22.760 --> 1:23:25.240 If you want to get your your question in your 1:23:25.280 --> 1:23:27.800 email rich on Tech dot tv, hit contact. If you 1:23:27.840 --> 1:23:30.280 want to link to something I mentioned, just hit the 1:23:30.360 --> 1:23:33.320 light bulb icon. This is show number eighty seven. You've 1:23:33.320 --> 1:23:36.040 got all the notes there. And uh if you want 1:23:36.040 --> 1:23:37.800 to sign up for the newsletter, you can do that 1:23:38.000 --> 1:23:38.599 as well. 1:23:39.800 --> 1:23:42.120 Uh ooh see, this is the thing. 1:23:42.160 --> 1:23:44.240 I think I take good notes until I get an 1:23:44.240 --> 1:23:46.240 email like this from Zach. You mentioned you had a 1:23:46.240 --> 1:23:48.400 good stretching app. I'm signed up to rich on Tech 1:23:48.400 --> 1:23:51.760 and I can't find it anywhere. Uh, you gotta tap 1:23:51.800 --> 1:23:54.519 when you go to the website, the main page, it 1:23:54.640 --> 1:23:57.760 is today's newsletter. It says clear phone space, fast and 1:23:57.840 --> 1:24:01.680 save your voicemails. So you can go in there and 1:24:01.720 --> 1:24:04.280 then just search for stretch. 1:24:04.680 --> 1:24:04.960 All right. 1:24:05.040 --> 1:24:07.000 Let's well, I didn't know. Did I not put it 1:24:07.040 --> 1:24:07.280 in there? 1:24:07.320 --> 1:24:07.519 Wait? 1:24:07.560 --> 1:24:08.400 I thought it did. Yeah I did. 1:24:08.439 --> 1:24:12.120 Okay, it's called Bend the Bend. Let's see what the app. 1:24:12.920 --> 1:24:18.160 Get bend dot co. Get Bend dot Co. I paid 1:24:18.240 --> 1:24:20.280 for the year, so I've been I've been telling my 1:24:20.320 --> 1:24:22.000 wife every day. I'm like, you got to get this app. 1:24:22.040 --> 1:24:23.479 You got to get this app. It's so great. I 1:24:23.479 --> 1:24:25.880 love it. It's very simple. But if you're trying to 1:24:25.920 --> 1:24:28.080 stretch more like I am. You know, I'm getting older. 1:24:28.080 --> 1:24:30.400 I got older this week. You gotta stretch like Yet, 1:24:31.000 --> 1:24:33.320 here's the thing that only happens when you get older. 1:24:33.880 --> 1:24:36.439 You move a certain way and next thing you know, 1:24:36.880 --> 1:24:39.240 you've got a crick in your neck. You're like, like, 1:24:39.320 --> 1:24:42.280 one time, I'm not kidding, Bobo. You remember this. 1:24:42.600 --> 1:24:44.320 Remember when I came in here and Bobo looked at 1:24:44.320 --> 1:24:45.559 me and goes, rich, what's what's wrong? 1:24:45.720 --> 1:24:45.920 Yep? 1:24:46.280 --> 1:24:49.080 And I was like, oh, I pulled my back, Like 1:24:49.160 --> 1:24:51.599 I just moved wrong and I pulled my back. 1:24:51.840 --> 1:24:53.559 Have you ever had this happen? Yeah, you're too young. 1:24:53.720 --> 1:24:54.800 Oh no, I've had it happen. 1:24:55.200 --> 1:24:55.800 I've had it up. 1:24:55.880 --> 1:24:58.160 My knee is my thing. My knee is what goes 1:24:58.200 --> 1:25:00.000 out on me. I will literally just be sitting there 1:25:00.200 --> 1:25:02.320 and go to stand up and my knee is buckles. 1:25:02.720 --> 1:25:05.479 Yeah. See, that's that's just weird. It's like the things 1:25:05.479 --> 1:25:06.839 that don't happen when you're a kid. 1:25:06.680 --> 1:25:08.640 And then everybody you're going to the gym too much. 1:25:08.680 --> 1:25:10.920 It has nothing to do with the gym, Yeah, because 1:25:10.920 --> 1:25:12.639 it's not even on a leg day when it happens. 1:25:12.720 --> 1:25:14.920 Yeah. 1:25:15.040 --> 1:25:16.840 Yeah, if it buckles on the leg day, I get it. 1:25:16.840 --> 1:25:19.559 You're like, Okay, I've done too much exactly. Let's go 1:25:19.600 --> 1:25:22.040 to Patty and Van Eyes. Patty, you're on with Rich. 1:25:23.200 --> 1:25:24.360 Hi. 1:25:24.960 --> 1:25:26.080 Nice listening to your show. 1:25:26.240 --> 1:25:26.680 Thank you. 1:25:28.080 --> 1:25:31.000 I was wondering how I can get some original music 1:25:31.120 --> 1:25:34.599 off of my parents old two thousand and two Gateway computer. 1:25:34.880 --> 1:25:36.200 Oh my gosh, Gateway. 1:25:36.920 --> 1:25:40.639 I loved my Gateway computer growing up. Remember, I don't 1:25:40.640 --> 1:25:42.080 know if you remember this, Patty on ho how old 1:25:42.080 --> 1:25:45.480 you are? But they They used to have this the 1:25:45.520 --> 1:25:47.200 cow spots. That was like their big thing. 1:25:48.000 --> 1:25:49.120 That's what it has. 1:25:49.640 --> 1:25:50.519 Yes, Oh my. 1:25:50.479 --> 1:25:53.640 Gosh, I love Gateway Ted. Wait, Oh my gosh. I 1:25:53.720 --> 1:25:56.640 used to wait for the my PC World magazine to 1:25:56.640 --> 1:25:58.479 come in the mail. This is how old it was. 1:25:58.680 --> 1:26:00.439 I told you I was getting older. I used to 1:26:00.479 --> 1:26:02.519 wait for that magazine. In the middle of the magazine, 1:26:02.520 --> 1:26:04.439 they must have bought out all the pages. It was 1:26:04.479 --> 1:26:06.439 so thick you could put you can like, move right 1:26:06.479 --> 1:26:11.920 to it. What horse, Yes, I used to yeah, the mail. 1:26:12.040 --> 1:26:13.880 The male person used to come by horse and drop 1:26:13.920 --> 1:26:16.200 it off of my house, horse and buggy, and it 1:26:16.280 --> 1:26:18.080 was just, oh my gosh. I used to flip right 1:26:18.120 --> 1:26:20.400 to that page that the center of the magazine, and 1:26:20.400 --> 1:26:22.799 they had all these ads for Gateway two thousand. 1:26:22.840 --> 1:26:25.080 Anyway, go ahead, Patty, what's your question? 1:26:25.920 --> 1:26:26.720 And so so I have. 1:26:27.000 --> 1:26:30.599 Original music on there that I want to get off. 1:26:31.240 --> 1:26:34.360 But the computer, because they didn't listen to me, is 1:26:34.479 --> 1:26:38.439 infected with a trojan horse. When you turn the computer on, 1:26:38.600 --> 1:26:42.200 it says it'll clear it, So it clears it and 1:26:42.240 --> 1:26:44.080 then I can listen to the music. But I want 1:26:44.120 --> 1:26:45.680 to I just want to get it off there and 1:26:45.720 --> 1:26:48.519 transfer it and I wonder does that mean that I 1:26:48.520 --> 1:26:51.559 would be transferring that Trojan horse to whatever I put 1:26:51.560 --> 1:26:52.360 the music on. 1:26:53.320 --> 1:26:53.960 Good question. 1:26:55.720 --> 1:26:59.200 Maybe it depends how you know, how far that virus 1:26:59.280 --> 1:27:01.600 is around that come. I yeah, I would definitely be 1:27:01.920 --> 1:27:04.559 be careful. I think what you can do is probably 1:27:04.640 --> 1:27:06.760 boot this computer into a into safe mode. 1:27:06.800 --> 1:27:07.439 Have you heard of that? 1:27:08.160 --> 1:27:08.280 Uh? 1:27:08.360 --> 1:27:08.839 Huh? 1:27:08.880 --> 1:27:10.800 And you know, first off, well, this computer is not 1:27:10.840 --> 1:27:14.080 connected to the internet, is it Okay? So I would 1:27:14.120 --> 1:27:16.320 just boot it into safe mode and then transfer the 1:27:16.320 --> 1:27:19.240 files that way, and then once you get them on 1:27:19.280 --> 1:27:22.840 the new computer, I would maybe transfer one and you know, 1:27:22.880 --> 1:27:25.240 maybe run like a virus check on it, and then 1:27:25.479 --> 1:27:27.320 you know, see where, see where it's at, see if 1:27:27.320 --> 1:27:29.639 it comes up with anything. And then if it doesn't, 1:27:29.880 --> 1:27:31.840 you know, I would transfer them all to a flask 1:27:31.920 --> 1:27:34.760 drive and that should be good. The thing is, if 1:27:34.760 --> 1:27:37.719 you're if you're only like transferring these files like these, 1:27:37.880 --> 1:27:40.680 uh you know, like the main like are they m 1:27:40.720 --> 1:27:41.400 P three's or. 1:27:41.439 --> 1:27:45.519 What I think they're m P three's, it's not a 1:27:47.560 --> 1:27:49.200 a system called fat. 1:27:49.000 --> 1:27:50.360 Noise P H A T. 1:27:50.920 --> 1:27:53.560 I don't know your parents sound cool, I don't know. 1:27:53.720 --> 1:27:58.160 That's if they're they got something fat with a pH 1:27:58.320 --> 1:28:00.680 then they're cool. So uh but yeah, I would I 1:28:00.720 --> 1:28:04.000 would just transfer just the MP three's and once you 1:28:04.080 --> 1:28:05.920 get them, you know, onto a flash drive, I would 1:28:05.960 --> 1:28:08.240 scan that flash drive with the new with the other 1:28:08.320 --> 1:28:11.960 computer and see if anything comes up on the virus checker, 1:28:12.080 --> 1:28:13.840 and then if not, you know, you should be okay. 1:28:15.000 --> 1:28:17.479 But I would also maybe just drag them into the cloud. 1:28:18.120 --> 1:28:21.280 And I think your cloud storage, I mean, it's probably 1:28:21.680 --> 1:28:24.640 the virus is probably not gonna be attached to these 1:28:24.680 --> 1:28:27.400 files unless it's in the file and it's inexecutable. So 1:28:27.439 --> 1:28:29.720 I think you're probably gonna be okay. But I would 1:28:29.720 --> 1:28:32.639 take those steps I mentioned. Thanks for the question, Patty. 1:28:32.920 --> 1:28:35.400 Coming up, we're gonna help you choose the best streaming 1:28:35.479 --> 1:28:39.479 service for sports. Right after this, welcome back to rich 1:28:39.560 --> 1:28:43.280 on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. 1:28:45.479 --> 1:28:49.120 The website for the show rich on Tech dot tv. 1:28:50.240 --> 1:28:52.719 There you can get in touch, look at the links 1:28:52.760 --> 1:28:55.040 that I mentioned and all kinds of stuff. It's all 1:28:55.080 --> 1:28:59.000 on the website right there. Tom Hanks has a warning 1:28:59.200 --> 1:29:02.759 about a generated video ads. He took to his Instagram 1:29:02.920 --> 1:29:06.719 to say, if you saw some videos promoting miracle cures 1:29:06.760 --> 1:29:09.920 and wonder drugs. It's not me, And he said that 1:29:10.160 --> 1:29:11.600 he has nothing to do with these ads or the 1:29:11.640 --> 1:29:14.880 products they're promoting. He did say, and I did not 1:29:15.040 --> 1:29:18.160 know this, that he has type two diabetes and works 1:29:18.200 --> 1:29:20.519 with his doctor for treatment. He does not use all 1:29:20.600 --> 1:29:23.120 these things that they were talking about in these ads. 1:29:23.640 --> 1:29:26.120 So he urged folks not to be fooled or swindled 1:29:26.160 --> 1:29:28.360 and not to lose their money on these fake products. 1:29:28.880 --> 1:29:30.879 It's not the first time he's done this. In October, 1:29:31.000 --> 1:29:36.519 he warned about an AI generated video promoting a dental plan. Man, AI, 1:29:36.760 --> 1:29:40.280 I'm telling you this idea of misinformation thanks to AI 1:29:40.439 --> 1:29:42.920 is going to get worse and worse. I will tell 1:29:42.920 --> 1:29:47.240 you I have the AI image generation on the pixel phone. 1:29:47.880 --> 1:29:50.839 It is absolutely incredible, Like you can generate any picture. 1:29:51.960 --> 1:29:55.920 Well it's not perfect, but it's really really good. And 1:29:56.040 --> 1:29:58.080 when we get to a level of video with this stuff, 1:29:58.200 --> 1:30:00.960 it's going to be like really tough to tell the difference. 1:30:01.479 --> 1:30:03.840 So when something seems too good to be true, this 1:30:03.960 --> 1:30:05.800 is whereas humans we still have to go to that. 1:30:06.680 --> 1:30:09.720 You know that age old adage, if something seems too 1:30:09.760 --> 1:30:12.519 good to be true, it probably is. If someone's sending 1:30:12.520 --> 1:30:15.120 you an email, saying, Hey, give me fifty grand, or 1:30:15.280 --> 1:30:17.320 give me ten grand so I can send you fifty, 1:30:17.760 --> 1:30:20.160 or let me send you fifty so I can set whatever. 1:30:20.680 --> 1:30:23.800 However that scam works, it's a scam. Don't fall for it. 1:30:25.640 --> 1:30:29.120 Just in time for football season, Apple Sports is updating 1:30:29.200 --> 1:30:30.280 their iPhone app. 1:30:30.760 --> 1:30:33.320 So this app launched. I don't if it was earlier 1:30:33.360 --> 1:30:33.720 this year. 1:30:33.800 --> 1:30:34.120 I guess. 1:30:35.040 --> 1:30:38.680 It's a very simple app for the iPhone provides real 1:30:38.760 --> 1:30:42.800 time scores, stats, and more for various sports. They are 1:30:42.880 --> 1:30:45.479 adding new features in time for NFL and college football. 1:30:46.040 --> 1:30:49.000 Enhanced play by play with quick access to scoring drives, 1:30:49.520 --> 1:30:51.760 a dynamic drive tracker so you can see where the 1:30:51.800 --> 1:30:55.519 ball is on the field. You can follow the top 1:30:55.600 --> 1:30:59.080 twenty five college football teams, real time score stats, and 1:30:59.240 --> 1:31:00.439 live betting odds. 1:31:01.200 --> 1:31:03.759 And this is a moment of contention. 1:31:03.920 --> 1:31:06.360 Not everyone likes the betting odds inside this app, so 1:31:06.600 --> 1:31:09.439 you can turn those off if you want. All right, 1:31:09.520 --> 1:31:12.320 looks like our guest is here joining me now? Is 1:31:12.960 --> 1:31:15.000 let's see Hold on, I gotta mute some stuff here 1:31:15.080 --> 1:31:18.200 because I am Let's see there we go. Joining me 1:31:18.280 --> 1:31:22.320 now is the TV answer man Philip Swan. Welcome to 1:31:22.360 --> 1:31:25.959 the show, Philip How are you. I'm doing fantastic. 1:31:27.560 --> 1:31:29.760 I was back to your call, but don't worry about it. 1:31:31.320 --> 1:31:33.320 Yeah, we used to call our guests and now we 1:31:33.439 --> 1:31:35.360 just kind of use Google Meet because it's easier. So 1:31:36.040 --> 1:31:38.439 thanks for joining me no matter what. So I ended 1:31:38.520 --> 1:31:41.400 up selecting my sports streaming service before I spoke to you. 1:31:41.520 --> 1:31:43.800 I hope I made the right decision. So for us, 1:31:45.000 --> 1:31:48.839 first off, let's talk about this idea of the streaming. 1:31:48.920 --> 1:31:51.160 How where do we stand, Like, you know, the games, 1:31:51.200 --> 1:31:53.000 they're kind of everywhere nowadays. 1:31:54.120 --> 1:31:57.400 They are, I mean, sports streaming right now is so 1:31:57.800 --> 1:32:01.280 byzantine busit team being basically or split in so many 1:32:01.360 --> 1:32:04.240 different ways. It's really hard for people to follow it 1:32:04.960 --> 1:32:07.960 figure out what's on what service and when, and how 1:32:08.080 --> 1:32:09.719 much it cost and how long. 1:32:09.600 --> 1:32:12.160 You should keep these services. So it's a very confusing 1:32:12.280 --> 1:32:13.320 time for a lot of folks. 1:32:13.640 --> 1:32:15.920 And it's so confusing that I mentioned and I'm sure 1:32:15.960 --> 1:32:18.840 you saw this obviously. ESPN this week came out with 1:32:19.000 --> 1:32:22.679 their you know where to watch service, which is great, 1:32:23.760 --> 1:32:26.120 and then you also have Fubo has one, and then 1:32:26.360 --> 1:32:27.840 you know, there's a lot of different places you can 1:32:27.920 --> 1:32:29.840 try to see where the game is on. But it 1:32:29.920 --> 1:32:32.400 still doesn't get around the fact of all of these 1:32:32.520 --> 1:32:35.680 blackouts and you can't necessarily watch every single game, and 1:32:35.920 --> 1:32:37.880 some services have it if it's not on the local 1:32:38.000 --> 1:32:40.519 channel in your area. I mean, it's really Is there 1:32:40.600 --> 1:32:44.080 anything more confusing than finding your sports game on streaming 1:32:44.240 --> 1:32:46.040 or you know, rock Cable? 1:32:47.040 --> 1:32:47.600 Probably not. 1:32:47.840 --> 1:32:50.240 You know, we've had blackouts for a long time, so 1:32:50.360 --> 1:32:54.080 that's not terribly new. But what is new is that 1:32:54.760 --> 1:32:58.920 exclusive rights to a lot of these games now. By example, 1:32:59.040 --> 1:33:02.479 the first week of the Packards and Eagles on Friday 1:33:03.840 --> 1:33:07.519 only on Peacock, not even NBC, So you have to 1:33:07.640 --> 1:33:11.360 get Peacock. Peacock doesn't have a free trial, so you're 1:33:11.360 --> 1:33:13.519 going to have to subscribe for at least a month 1:33:13.920 --> 1:33:16.479 just to watch that one single game if it's important 1:33:16.520 --> 1:33:18.680 to you. So that's the kind of thing that's going on. 1:33:18.960 --> 1:33:21.120 Then a lot of people very frustrated. 1:33:21.200 --> 1:33:22.800 Did you have to get at least a one month 1:33:22.880 --> 1:33:25.479 subscription to something just to watch a single game? 1:33:25.800 --> 1:33:26.000 Yeah? 1:33:26.040 --> 1:33:28.080 And I remember last year the Chiefs game was on 1:33:28.200 --> 1:33:29.920 Peacock and I think it was exclusive. 1:33:30.000 --> 1:33:31.759 And my wife, you know, she was a big. 1:33:31.640 --> 1:33:34.600 Taylor Swift fan of course, traveled over to Kelsey and 1:33:34.760 --> 1:33:36.600 so I was like, wait, you're telling me that this 1:33:36.680 --> 1:33:39.559 game is on Peacock by like by itself, like it's 1:33:39.600 --> 1:33:41.160 nowhere else, And she's like, yeah, I think it is. 1:33:41.240 --> 1:33:43.559 I said, there's no way, and sure enough, I think 1:33:43.600 --> 1:33:44.320 that's what's happening. 1:33:45.360 --> 1:33:45.920 One hundred and. 1:33:46.080 --> 1:33:48.680 Ten million dollars for the rights of that game. And 1:33:49.680 --> 1:33:51.679 obviously they weren't going to give it away easily. 1:33:52.040 --> 1:33:56.280 No, And then you know Netflix has games, this year's 1:33:57.080 --> 1:33:59.680 Prime Video has games. I mean, it's really all over 1:33:59.720 --> 1:34:02.320 the play So what do you think is the best service? 1:34:02.760 --> 1:34:05.200 How do we pick the service to subscribe to for 1:34:05.439 --> 1:34:07.639 these games? Like, you can't just go with like YouTube 1:34:07.800 --> 1:34:10.720 or direct TV or Fubo and get all of them. 1:34:10.800 --> 1:34:12.679 Huh No, you can't. 1:34:12.920 --> 1:34:15.200 And you know, you really couldn't do this before either 1:34:15.240 --> 1:34:18.040 you couldn't get a single cable service or satellite service. 1:34:18.080 --> 1:34:20.360 It would necessarily get you every single game. 1:34:21.080 --> 1:34:23.799 To get every single game, you'd have to, by example, 1:34:23.880 --> 1:34:25.960 in the old days, get Direct TV in the Sunday 1:34:26.040 --> 1:34:28.600 ticket and pay a lot of money to do it. 1:34:28.760 --> 1:34:31.439 So this is kind of a version of that that 1:34:31.680 --> 1:34:34.560 you have to still spend a lot of money to 1:34:34.720 --> 1:34:38.080 if you really want everything. But basically you got to 1:34:38.120 --> 1:34:40.760 kind of break this down in two different ways. You 1:34:40.920 --> 1:34:45.479 have national sports and regional sports. And if you're looking 1:34:45.640 --> 1:34:50.080 basically for national sports, which would be ESPN, you know, 1:34:50.280 --> 1:34:56.720 FS ONE, Fox, CBS, whatever, you can get pretty much 1:34:56.800 --> 1:35:00.840 all of that from YouTube, TV, Direct TVs stream or 1:35:01.000 --> 1:35:02.479 a cable or satellite service. 1:35:03.240 --> 1:35:07.320 But if you're looking for regional sports, or you're looking 1:35:07.400 --> 1:35:11.960 for that exclusive game on Peacock or ESPN plus, that's 1:35:12.080 --> 1:35:14.760 when it gets complicated and can get expensive. 1:35:15.600 --> 1:35:18.840 And by example, right now, I always say when people 1:35:18.960 --> 1:35:22.040 ask me, what's the one sports service or one service 1:35:22.120 --> 1:35:24.960 streaming service? You get to get all sports? And I 1:35:25.080 --> 1:35:28.519 normally say direct TV stream because they have all the 1:35:28.600 --> 1:35:32.920 national sports networks and they have almost every regional sports network. 1:35:32.960 --> 1:35:37.560 But guess what might happen tomorrow? What they might go 1:35:38.000 --> 1:35:40.160 blackout on the Disney Channel. 1:35:40.600 --> 1:35:42.720 Right because that was the thing with Fubo. I was 1:35:42.760 --> 1:35:45.120 looking at Fubo yesterday. They don't have any of the 1:35:45.240 --> 1:35:47.439 Warner channels like Food Network. Not that I want to 1:35:47.479 --> 1:35:49.800 watch that, but my wife. If we're paying eighty bucks 1:35:49.800 --> 1:35:51.479 a month for cable, my wife might be like, oh 1:35:51.560 --> 1:35:52.960 cool and I can watch the Food Network. 1:35:52.960 --> 1:35:54.679 And I'm like, oh, actually, you can't. 1:35:55.360 --> 1:35:57.519 Yeah, if you have Fubo, you're gonna have to get 1:35:58.040 --> 1:36:00.719 Max or you're gonna have to get some other service 1:36:00.840 --> 1:36:07.080 that has the Turner Networks TV may lose ESPN and 1:36:07.160 --> 1:36:10.080 all the Disney channels. And so if that occurs, I 1:36:10.160 --> 1:36:13.679 won't be saying to people anymore, Hey, get direct TV 1:36:13.800 --> 1:36:16.759 stream if you're just interested in national and regional sports. 1:36:17.240 --> 1:36:19.160 Now, how do you know if you need Sunday ticket that? 1:36:19.320 --> 1:36:19.519 If you? 1:36:19.760 --> 1:36:21.479 If you, is it one of those things where like 1:36:21.560 --> 1:36:23.080 you know when you see it, like you just you 1:36:23.200 --> 1:36:25.120 figure it out. Like if you're if you're living in 1:36:25.200 --> 1:36:27.720 Los Angeles and you want to follow the Jets, is 1:36:27.760 --> 1:36:30.000 that when you have to have the Sunday ticket. 1:36:30.760 --> 1:36:32.799 Yes, I've said this for years. 1:36:32.920 --> 1:36:35.880 A Sunday ticket is basically set up for the guy 1:36:36.360 --> 1:36:39.640 or a girl who lives in Chicago and was a 1:36:39.720 --> 1:36:42.679 Dolphins fan and got transplanted for a job or whatever, 1:36:42.840 --> 1:36:45.160 and they boy, they miss their Dolphins and if they 1:36:45.200 --> 1:36:46.920 get the Sunday ticket, they're gonna get it. 1:36:47.000 --> 1:36:48.040 They're gonna get that game. 1:36:48.920 --> 1:36:52.040 There's also, of course, an element for fantasy players and 1:36:52.160 --> 1:36:54.760 gamblers who just simply want to watch a number of 1:36:54.840 --> 1:36:57.120 games because they want to follow how their players do, 1:36:57.360 --> 1:36:59.920 either through uh parlays or their. 1:36:59.800 --> 1:37:03.799 Fancy football teams. And that's a big thing for Sunday tickets, 1:37:03.800 --> 1:37:06.840 a big thing for those folks. So but those are 1:37:07.000 --> 1:37:09.559 kind of the audiences where the Sunday ticket works best. 1:37:10.720 --> 1:37:13.960 And finally, you know, I saw the the only league 1:37:14.040 --> 1:37:16.960 that I know of that's done this is MLS. You know, 1:37:17.080 --> 1:37:19.600 Apple bought the rights to that and they did what 1:37:19.680 --> 1:37:23.920 I've wanted every league to do, which is you buy 1:37:24.000 --> 1:37:26.519 that you know package from Apple, and you get every 1:37:26.640 --> 1:37:29.040 single game. There are no more blockouts. That's just not 1:37:29.160 --> 1:37:32.200 a thing on that service. If you've subscribed, you get everything. 1:37:32.720 --> 1:37:35.160 Will that ever happen with the major leagues like the 1:37:35.360 --> 1:37:38.560 NBA and NFL and you know, I don't know what 1:37:38.640 --> 1:37:40.000 else whatever else there is out there. 1:37:40.760 --> 1:37:44.919 It's what Rob Bamford is really pushing forward Major League Baseball. 1:37:45.160 --> 1:37:47.880 He if he got his Christmas wish this year, it'll 1:37:47.920 --> 1:37:49.000 be the Diamond Sports. 1:37:49.080 --> 1:37:52.040 The owner of the Valley Sports Networks goes bankrupt and 1:37:52.120 --> 1:37:55.800 stays bank well they've already gone bankrupt, but they stay bankrupt, 1:37:56.400 --> 1:37:59.920 and they turned the rights over to the MLB team 1:38:00.160 --> 1:38:01.920 that they have the rights too, and they turn them 1:38:01.960 --> 1:38:04.320 back to the league is man for it wants to 1:38:04.400 --> 1:38:07.960 put together a package that he would sell through MLB 1:38:08.200 --> 1:38:12.960 dot TV that would not have local blackouts, and you know, 1:38:13.040 --> 1:38:16.120 you obviously would have to pay for that luxury, but yeah, 1:38:16.280 --> 1:38:17.280 you would be able to do that. 1:38:17.520 --> 1:38:18.280 That's his wish. 1:38:18.680 --> 1:38:20.560 It would make life a whole lot simpler. And I 1:38:20.640 --> 1:38:23.679 think with you know, with the way that this world 1:38:23.800 --> 1:38:25.840 is going with all the streaming, there's so much money 1:38:26.040 --> 1:38:28.720 like still like there's like by the NFL and all 1:38:28.760 --> 1:38:31.320 these places selling off like a couple of games. They're 1:38:31.360 --> 1:38:33.439 still making a lot of money by doing that. 1:38:33.600 --> 1:38:35.360 Huh. And that's really what it comes down to. 1:38:37.880 --> 1:38:40.519 Yeah, sports continues to be the driver of your ship. 1:38:40.600 --> 1:38:44.320 It's the one thing that the network, since services, can 1:38:44.400 --> 1:38:47.439 guarantee will bring in a big audience. And consequently the 1:38:47.520 --> 1:38:49.720 leaks now they can charge incredible amount of money for 1:38:49.760 --> 1:38:50.160 the rights. 1:38:50.479 --> 1:38:52.519 Well it got me to subscribe to I ended up 1:38:52.560 --> 1:38:55.880 going with YouTube TV for various reasons after a lot 1:38:55.920 --> 1:38:59.400 of kind of thought. I think Fubo is a little 1:38:59.400 --> 1:39:02.440 bit better in LA when when you need the regionals 1:39:02.520 --> 1:39:04.440 like the if you want to watch like the Clippers 1:39:04.479 --> 1:39:05.240 and the sports net. 1:39:05.680 --> 1:39:07.960 You know, rich, what's that. 1:39:09.240 --> 1:39:12.920 Direct TV Stream has a Spectrum Sports net and the 1:39:13.000 --> 1:39:15.200 Lakers channel, so you can watch the Lakers and the 1:39:15.240 --> 1:39:19.080 Dodgers on string direct TV stream not on Yeah. 1:39:19.280 --> 1:39:21.360 I will tell you I did try direct TV stream 1:39:21.439 --> 1:39:24.760 last year and the only the only downside I had 1:39:25.320 --> 1:39:27.360 is that the app looks like it was created by 1:39:27.439 --> 1:39:31.560 people who are not necessarily like you know, like, it 1:39:31.640 --> 1:39:33.400 looked like, I don't know, like you know, how direct TV. 1:39:33.479 --> 1:39:34.240 It's just Direct TV. 1:39:34.400 --> 1:39:34.600 Like I. 1:39:34.720 --> 1:39:36.680 I think it's great with the coverage they have, but 1:39:36.760 --> 1:39:39.360 the app could be better, whereas Fubo and YouTube are 1:39:39.640 --> 1:39:40.639 very very high tech. 1:39:41.160 --> 1:39:43.640 I agree with you, it's clearly done by kind of 1:39:43.720 --> 1:39:48.240 the old school, and in part because they're trying to 1:39:48.280 --> 1:39:52.160 get direct TV satellite audience, which is obviously older to 1:39:52.280 --> 1:39:54.800 come over to TV stream and so they feel more 1:39:54.880 --> 1:39:56.360 comfortable with that old interface. 1:39:56.520 --> 1:39:56.720 Ah. 1:39:56.920 --> 1:39:58.559 There you have it all right. We're gonna leave it there, 1:39:58.760 --> 1:40:01.880 Phillip Swan, thanks so much for joining me. Tvanswerman dot 1:40:02.000 --> 1:40:06.880 com excellent, excellent website. Check it out Tvanswerman dot com. 1:40:07.720 --> 1:40:12.479 Coming up, we're gonna open up the feedbag o their 1:40:12.520 --> 1:40:13.519 worm scrolling out of that. 1:40:15.120 --> 1:40:16.719 You're listening to Rich on Tech. 1:40:17.720 --> 1:40:20.280 Welcome back to Rich on tech Rich DeMuro here with 1:40:20.360 --> 1:40:24.880 my all time favorite wedding song. If I'm not dancing 1:40:25.200 --> 1:40:28.400 when this comes on, oh, you best believe I'll be dancing, 1:40:29.520 --> 1:40:33.080 getting up out of that chair doing that little shuffle 1:40:33.160 --> 1:40:38.120 over the dance floor. You can't see what I'm doing, 1:40:38.680 --> 1:40:40.880 all right. Before we get to the feedbag, the US 1:40:41.080 --> 1:40:48.840 Armored Group, Yeah, Bobo can a modified lucid Air Sapphire 1:40:48.960 --> 1:40:51.120 the world's fastest armored vehicle. 1:40:51.280 --> 1:40:52.960 This is this is impressive. 1:40:53.520 --> 1:40:55.840 US Armor Group has created an armored version of the 1:40:55.920 --> 1:41:00.800 lucid Air Sapphire electric vehicle twelve and thirty four horsepower. 1:41:01.160 --> 1:41:04.320 I'll tell you the price at the end, world's fastest 1:41:04.479 --> 1:41:07.800 armored vehicle. Zero to sixteen under two seconds. Now, I 1:41:07.840 --> 1:41:10.040 will tell you I've been in the Lucid Air and 1:41:10.680 --> 1:41:12.400 I went zero to sixty and I think it was 1:41:12.479 --> 1:41:14.640 like two point five or two point nine seconds. It 1:41:14.880 --> 1:41:19.719 was unbelievable, Like I had a reaction like you would 1:41:19.760 --> 1:41:22.960 not believe. It was pretty wild. So zero to sixteen 1:41:23.040 --> 1:41:23.799 under two seconds. 1:41:23.840 --> 1:41:24.040 Wow. 1:41:24.840 --> 1:41:28.240 Lightweight armor and ballistic windows adds only four hundred pounds 1:41:28.240 --> 1:41:32.400 to the original weight. Security features include bullet bulletproof glass 1:41:32.960 --> 1:41:36.680 capable of stopping a forty four magnum three hundred and 1:41:36.720 --> 1:41:41.240 sixty degree protection plus electric shock door handles and pepper 1:41:41.320 --> 1:41:42.320 spray dispensers. 1:41:42.960 --> 1:41:43.679 This is wild. 1:41:43.760 --> 1:41:46.160 The vehicle gets a four hundred mile range on a charge. 1:41:46.680 --> 1:41:51.360 They also have cybersecurity features protected Wi Fi threat scanning technology. 1:41:52.120 --> 1:41:52.960 Who's this car for? 1:41:53.360 --> 1:41:58.320 Yeah, high, high level executives and heads of state. So 1:41:58.439 --> 1:42:01.240 if you run a company you're making, you know, billions 1:42:01.280 --> 1:42:04.559 of dollars a year. This is what you're being charted 1:42:04.600 --> 1:42:08.479 around in lucid Air Sapphire by the US Armor Group. 1:42:08.680 --> 1:42:12.120 Whoa pretty cool? All right, let's open up the feedbag. 1:42:12.320 --> 1:42:14.559 These are the emails that you send me throughout the week. 1:42:14.680 --> 1:42:17.840 Chris from Madison Rights in I have reservations about storing 1:42:17.920 --> 1:42:21.479 my driver's license on a phone. Digital editing tools could 1:42:21.479 --> 1:42:24.800 be potentially used to alter the photo of information on 1:42:24.840 --> 1:42:27.960 a mobile license. While it's true that physical licenses can 1:42:28.000 --> 1:42:31.120 also be forged, why provide another potential tool for wrongdoing. 1:42:31.560 --> 1:42:35.519 I believe this digital option introduces unnecessary risks. What are 1:42:35.560 --> 1:42:38.519 your thoughts on the security of mobile driver's licenses? They're 1:42:38.520 --> 1:42:42.599 actually way more secure, Chris. I went through a whole 1:42:43.240 --> 1:42:46.160 briefing on these things, and they are way more secure 1:42:46.240 --> 1:42:50.559 than your actual physical license. The information never leaves your phone, 1:42:51.120 --> 1:42:54.559 and it's not exchanged with whoever's checking the license. It's 1:42:54.600 --> 1:42:57.400 actually pretty well done. So I actually think these are 1:42:57.560 --> 1:43:00.880 a great thing, and hopefully more statesp them and hopefully 1:43:00.920 --> 1:43:02.680 we can use them in more ways, like when you 1:43:02.720 --> 1:43:04.680 get pulled over. Not that you ever want to get 1:43:04.800 --> 1:43:07.280 pulled over, but if you ever do, be nice to 1:43:07.320 --> 1:43:11.519 be able to use that as your complete replacement. Gail 1:43:11.600 --> 1:43:14.080 writes in, thanks for discussing the recent massive hack on 1:43:14.160 --> 1:43:17.240 your Saturday broadcast. It motivated me to finally activate two 1:43:17.320 --> 1:43:20.760 factor authentication, starting with my bank account. I must admit 1:43:20.880 --> 1:43:23.240 the process was complicated, but the helpful staff at my 1:43:23.280 --> 1:43:26.080 credit union guided me through it. Now that I understand 1:43:26.120 --> 1:43:28.719 the setup, I feel prepared to implement the security measure 1:43:28.760 --> 1:43:31.600 on my other accounts. Your information really pushed me to 1:43:31.680 --> 1:43:34.280 take this important step in protecting my digital life. Will 1:43:34.320 --> 1:43:36.760 I be tuning into your next show? Definitely? 1:43:37.360 --> 1:43:37.680 Thank you. 1:43:37.800 --> 1:43:41.479 Gail Mark from Saint Augustine writes in I found a 1:43:41.520 --> 1:43:44.519 great solution for my twenty twelve Macmini that wouldn't update 1:43:44.600 --> 1:43:47.559 to a newer Mac OS. I installed Chrome os Flex 1:43:47.600 --> 1:43:50.160 and now it runs like a Chromebook as fast as 1:43:50.200 --> 1:43:52.519 it ever did as a Mac. The software gets monthly 1:43:52.600 --> 1:43:55.160 updates with new features. I can connect my Android phone 1:43:55.439 --> 1:43:58.360 and the latest update even allows installation of Microsoft one 1:43:58.479 --> 1:44:01.679 Drive so I can open documents directly in Word or Excel. 1:44:02.200 --> 1:44:04.320 It's given new life to my old hardware. You should 1:44:04.320 --> 1:44:04.680 try it out. 1:44:04.760 --> 1:44:04.920 Rich. 1:44:05.000 --> 1:44:07.000 Thanks for your show. Thanks for the email. 1:44:07.080 --> 1:44:07.240 Mark. 1:44:07.320 --> 1:44:10.800 We have talked about chromos Flex. I will admit I 1:44:10.880 --> 1:44:13.720 have not personally installed it on a computer, but now 1:44:13.760 --> 1:44:15.720 that you tell me that, actually I will because I 1:44:15.760 --> 1:44:18.519 have an old Mac sitting around that I will test 1:44:18.600 --> 1:44:20.400 it out on the first time I did it or 1:44:20.520 --> 1:44:22.120 tried it was a little bit complicated because it was 1:44:22.200 --> 1:44:22.599 brand new. 1:44:24.720 --> 1:44:25.160 Let's see. 1:44:25.320 --> 1:44:28.280 Mark writes in with a follow up on Hawaiian Airlines 1:44:28.320 --> 1:44:32.200 Starlink Internet. I recently experienced Starlink on a Hawaiian Airlines 1:44:32.240 --> 1:44:35.120 flight and it's impressive. The service works gate to gate, 1:44:35.240 --> 1:44:37.120 unlike other airlines where you have to wait until you 1:44:37.160 --> 1:44:39.840 get airborne. They're rapidly expanding it to their entire fleet. 1:44:40.240 --> 1:44:43.000 It's exciting to see this high quality internet becoming more 1:44:43.080 --> 1:44:47.680 widely available on flights. Absolutely stand Word writes in, I'm 1:44:47.720 --> 1:44:50.160 not impressed with the Tesla cyber truck. In my opinion, 1:44:50.320 --> 1:44:53.880 Rivian trucks are much better looking and nicer overall. I'd 1:44:53.920 --> 1:44:56.639 love to learn more about their underlying structure and design. 1:44:56.680 --> 1:44:59.479 The Rivian has really caught my interest compared to Tesla. 1:45:00.320 --> 1:45:02.559 I think Rivian has given Tesla a run for their money. 1:45:02.600 --> 1:45:05.439 But the problem is those products are very, very expensive, 1:45:05.479 --> 1:45:06.840 and they need to bring the prices down. 1:45:07.120 --> 1:45:08.760 But I love the Rivian one hundred percent. 1:45:10.120 --> 1:45:13.400 Daniel from Rutherford ten writes in, thanks for sharing the 1:45:13.479 --> 1:45:17.280 DNS ad block hack in your recent newsletter. These small 1:45:17.360 --> 1:45:20.240 but impactful tips really do make our lives better. I 1:45:20.360 --> 1:45:25.599 really appreciate you consistently providing such useful information. Well, Daniel, 1:45:25.680 --> 1:45:28.439 I really appreciate you reading the newsletter and getting that tip. Yes, 1:45:28.520 --> 1:45:30.439 I showed folks how you can block ads on your 1:45:30.479 --> 1:45:34.160 Android phone in about ten seconds, just by adding one 1:45:34.560 --> 1:45:37.840 simple little line of code to your phone, and that 1:45:37.960 --> 1:45:39.439 was in my newsletter. If you want to sign up, 1:45:39.520 --> 1:45:43.120 go to the website rich on tech dot TV. If 1:45:43.160 --> 1:45:44.880 you can believe it, I think that's going to do 1:45:44.960 --> 1:45:46.840 it for this episode of the show. Oh my gosh, 1:45:47.200 --> 1:45:49.439 you can find everything I mentioned on my website. Just 1:45:49.479 --> 1:45:52.639 go to rich on Tech dot TV. You can find 1:45:52.720 --> 1:45:56.120 me on social media. I am at rich on Tech. 1:45:56.680 --> 1:45:59.040 You can go to the website for more information about me. 1:45:59.600 --> 1:46:04.559 Next week got a big one former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer. 1:46:05.720 --> 1:46:07.680 She is going to talk about her tech career. She 1:46:07.760 --> 1:46:10.680 started at Google, then went to become Yahoo's CEO, and 1:46:10.760 --> 1:46:12.720 now she's got a new startup. She's going to talk 1:46:12.760 --> 1:46:15.600 all about that. Looking forward to that conversation. Thank you 1:46:15.720 --> 1:46:17.479 so much for listening. There are so many ways you 1:46:17.520 --> 1:46:19.760 can spend your time. I really appreciate you spending it 1:46:19.840 --> 1:46:21.720 right here with me. I did get all of your 1:46:21.760 --> 1:46:24.320 birthday messages. I have not responded to all of them 1:46:24.439 --> 1:46:26.280 just yet. Thank you, thank you, thank you.