Speaker 1: Apple announces the date for its next big iPhone event.
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Speaker 2: Guests on the show.
Speaker 1: This week, we've got UCSF Pediatrics Professor doctor Jason Nagata.
Speaker 1: He's going to discuss all of those recent school smartphone
Speaker 1: bands and the impact on student well being. Plus we've
Speaker 1: got Business Insider they're going to join us to talk
Speaker 1: about mobile carriers Mint Mobile and Tello Mobile, comparing both
Speaker 1: of them, and the TV answer man Philip Swan is
Speaker 1: going to help you select the ideal sports streaming service
Speaker 1: for your needs.
Speaker 2: It is the first week of college football.
Speaker 1: NFL is happening as well, and so you're probably looking
Speaker 1: at some of these streaming services. I'll help you figure
Speaker 1: out or he'll help you figure out which one is
Speaker 1: best for you. This week, Apple sent out invitations for
Speaker 1: its next big iPhone event. This is for the iPhone sixteen,
Speaker 1: happening on September ninth. It's a little bit early this year,
Speaker 1: not too much, but typically they do it on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1: This year it's on a Monday. The reason the big
Speaker 1: presidential debate is on that Tuesday, so they didn't want
Speaker 1: to mess with that. It's September eleventh, on Wednesday, obviously
Speaker 1: not the best day for an event, so Monday it
Speaker 1: is Monday, September ninth. It's funny all of the major
Speaker 1: tech events this year were earlier than originally scheduled or
Speaker 1: originally when they typically are. So Apple's event will be
Speaker 1: up in Cooper, Tino at their headquarters.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll be there.
Speaker 1: What are we expecting to see the iPhone sixteen and sixteen,
Speaker 1: plus the iPhone sixteen Pro and iPhone sixteen Pro Max,
Speaker 1: so four models of the iPhone sixteen. They will all
Speaker 1: have that AI built in. But there's been some talk
Speaker 1: about whether that AI will be available day one or
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to wait a little bit longer for
Speaker 1: that AI to come in a software update, maybe in
Speaker 1: a month after the launch. Also on the docket Apple
Speaker 1: Watch Series ten and then the Apple Watch Ultra three. Now,
Speaker 1: of course this is all rumor and speculation. Apple never
Speaker 1: confirms any thing before the actual event. But the highlights
Speaker 1: of these new phones, as according to the rumor mill
Speaker 1: a new A eighteen chip. We're already up to A
Speaker 1: eighteen plus more RAM than ever eight gigabytes. Apple never
Speaker 1: says how much RAM. They never actually give a lot
Speaker 1: of specs for their phones besides the storage and the processor,
Speaker 1: but these supposedly have more RAM, maybe to handle all
Speaker 1: the AI stuff. A new action button across all of
Speaker 1: the phones. This is a customizable button that you can
Speaker 1: make do anything when you press it. You can make
Speaker 1: it record a voice memo, or activate a smart assistant,
Speaker 1: whatever you want. That's been available on the fifteen Pro models.
Speaker 1: Now that's apparently coming to the whole lineup. Then you've
Speaker 1: got a new capture button. Now, this is interesting. So
Speaker 1: Apple might be going all in on making the iPhone
Speaker 1: a camera, which it already is for many people, but
Speaker 1: the dedicated capture button would be really interesting to have
Speaker 1: on there. So I'm very curious if that's actually going
Speaker 1: to happen, where they would put that and how that
Speaker 1: would work.
Speaker 2: Let's see what else colors.
Speaker 1: I don't really care about the colors, but I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people do, blue, green, pink, white, black.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else. Oh, new larger displays. That's interesting.
Speaker 1: These phones are getting even bigger, six point nine inches
Speaker 1: on the high end. There five X zoom on the
Speaker 1: Pro model, and the Apple Watch may be larger as well,
Speaker 1: larger and thinner. And then, of course, if you're not
Speaker 1: caring about the new iPhones, there will be a brand
Speaker 1: new version of the software that runs on the iPhone
Speaker 1: iOS eighteen. This will be available for the iPhone ten
Speaker 1: R and up, which means if you have a phone
Speaker 1: all the way from back in twenty eighteen, you're still
Speaker 1: going to get a software update. That's pretty incredible. By
Speaker 1: the way the event is called it's glow time. What
Speaker 1: does that mean? Well, I think it means it's the
Speaker 1: It refers to the look of Siri and all this AI.
Speaker 1: Whenever you activate AI on the iPhone. As far as
Speaker 1: I saw in demo that I got back in June,
Speaker 1: it like the whole phone kind of glows, Like the
Speaker 1: screen has this like magical glow to it. So I
Speaker 1: think that's what glow time means. I don't think we're
Speaker 1: gonna see glow in the dark iPhones. Don't think that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. All right, I'm excited for that. I know
Speaker 1: it's a big date for a lot of people to
Speaker 1: either upgrade or get that new software or just see
Speaker 1: what Apple's doing. It's always kind of a big deal
Speaker 1: when it's the number one top tech company in the
Speaker 1: world revealing the new products. No matter what where you
Speaker 1: stand on iPhone, good or bad, it's always a big day. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: AI obviously been the biggest thing on all of the
Speaker 1: new smartphones this year. I told you last week that
Speaker 1: it is propelling sales of smartphones. I've been using the
Speaker 1: Pixel nine Pro and I think it is just absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: I think that that is the phone to be at
Speaker 1: this point with for the average person, Like, if you
Speaker 1: want a smartphone that is not Samsung, that's not Apple,
Speaker 1: the Pixel is the way to go. Is there any
Speaker 1: other choice, by the way, I don't think there is
Speaker 1: at this point. But I think Samsung gets it in
Speaker 1: the hardware. I think Apple gets it in kind of
Speaker 1: the overall accessories and ease of use, and you can
Speaker 1: walk into a store. They've got them everywhere if you
Speaker 1: need help, So I think that's where they get it.
Speaker 1: But Pixel is kind of like this sleeper phone that's
Speaker 1: like it's really good, camera is amazing, the software is
Speaker 1: really really good, it's smart, and it just feels like
Speaker 1: a smartphone. But speaking of AI, California set to maybe
Speaker 1: pass a landmark AI safety bill. This is SB ten
Speaker 1: forty seven, a major AI regulation bill. The main thing
Speaker 1: about this bill is that some lawmakers are trying to
Speaker 1: implement safety measures for AI. So before these advanced AI
Speaker 1: models go out into the world, they have to be
Speaker 1: they have to be vetted, and these companies could be
Speaker 1: held accountable for any mistakes they make. And they would
Speaker 1: also have to have a kill switch, which means they
Speaker 1: can shut them down quickly.
Speaker 2: If something goes wrong. What could possibly go wrong?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, taking over the entire world, trying
Speaker 1: to kill US, bio warfare, election manipulation, I mean AI.
Speaker 2: If you're not playing.
Speaker 1: With it, it is incredible, It is incredibly useful, it
Speaker 1: is incredibly smart, and we are just at the beginning.
Speaker 1: So this bill in California, this wouldn't be for the
Speaker 1: whole US, but because all of these tech companies are
Speaker 1: headquartered in California, this would have nationwide ramifications. So who's
Speaker 1: on the support side. Well, let me tell you who's
Speaker 1: against it? First, Open AI makers of chat, GBT they
Speaker 1: don't like it. Meta makers of Facebook, they don't like it.
Speaker 1: Google makers of Google, they don't like it. Some politicians
Speaker 1: who don't want to stifle innovation. California's Chamber of Commerce
Speaker 1: all against this bill.
Speaker 2: Why don't they like it?
Speaker 1: Well, because it makes things tougher for these companies to
Speaker 1: just do whatever they want to do. Who supports it? Interestingly,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk. Now I mentioned that I just finished reading
Speaker 1: his or listening to his biography by Walter Isaacson and
Speaker 1: Elon Musk For all of the future thinking that he does,
Speaker 1: he is actually very thoughtful about the implications of AI,
Speaker 1: even though he has his own AI in Twitter or
Speaker 1: x whatever it is called Grock. He says that he
Speaker 1: does think that AI could have, you know, some issues,
Speaker 1: some downsides if left unchecked, and so he is supporting
Speaker 1: this bill. He says this should probably happen now. You
Speaker 1: may argue, if you're a cynic, that he wants to
Speaker 1: stifle the innovation of these big companies that are in
Speaker 1: competition with him. So of course he's for this because
Speaker 1: it would slow them down and give him time to
Speaker 1: catch up. But that's a very cynical view of things.
Speaker 1: Anthropic makers of Claude AI, which is my preferred AI,
Speaker 1: known as a more safe and friendly AI, they are
Speaker 1: also supporting this, and I love Anthropic. If you have
Speaker 1: not tried Claude down, download this app to your phone
Speaker 1: right now. Claude AI, make sure you get the official one.
Speaker 1: It is incredible. I use this every day all day long.
Speaker 1: It is just it's not as sexy as the other
Speaker 1: AI's out there. It's Anthropic A N T H R
Speaker 1: O P I C claude C l A U D E.
Speaker 1: So look that up on your phone. It's available for
Speaker 1: iPhone and Android and just get it on your phone again.
Speaker 1: Not as sexy as chat gybt which has become Kleenex.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not Google with their Gemini, it's not Samsung,
Speaker 1: it's not Meta which forces it in your search bar.
Speaker 1: But it's really good, and it's really good at just
Speaker 1: thoughtful answers. Anyway, they are supporting this as well, so
Speaker 1: it's not a done deal yet the governor. It's got
Speaker 1: one more kind of step to go back to the
Speaker 1: Senate before it will go to the Governor's desk. But
Speaker 1: then the governor of California has until late September to
Speaker 1: sign or veto the bill. And the thing that's interesting
Speaker 1: about this is that Governor Newsom here in California has
Speaker 1: not given any sort of like inkling to whether he
Speaker 1: likes this or doesn't like it. And you have to
Speaker 1: think where he's coming from. Obviously, he wants to set
Speaker 1: you know, California likes the regulations, but he also does
Speaker 1: not want to stifle the tech companies that are based
Speaker 1: here and their growth because there are many other states
Speaker 1: and there are many other countries that are ready to
Speaker 1: jump in and say, hey, come on over here, you
Speaker 1: can do all the stuff you want to do over here,
Speaker 1: and you don't have to deal with all those zany
Speaker 1: regulations that California has. So we'll see what happens there,
Speaker 1: but you know, the outcome could set a precedent here
Speaker 1: in the United States. All Right, I've got so much
Speaker 1: more to talk about on the show today.
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about.
Speaker 1: How I switched away from so NOS, why I had
Speaker 1: to actually paid to rent a movie last night, my birthday,
Speaker 1: clearing out voicemails on your phone, this new app that
Speaker 1: I really love, and a.
Speaker 2: Very easy way to use AI.
Speaker 1: It's all coming up right here on rich On Tech
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Speaker 1: eight seven four two four one zero one. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh one. That's
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one. Well,
Speaker 1: it is the start of football season, and uh, whether
Speaker 1: you watch college or NFL something in between. ESPN has
Speaker 1: launched a new feature called where to Watch. This is
Speaker 1: the streaming slash TV database you have been looking for.
Speaker 1: It's really really easy, it's very useful, but basically you
Speaker 1: can see where your games are streaming or playing on
Speaker 1: which TV channel. They've got broadcast networks, cable channels, regional
Speaker 1: sports networks, streaming services, and you can get it from
Speaker 1: the ESPN app or ESPN dot com. Very very simple,
Speaker 1: and if you log into ESPN, you can even set
Speaker 1: your teams that you want to watch and it will
Speaker 1: show you where those are first. Super super easy. They've
Speaker 1: got over two hundred and fifty sources for this. You
Speaker 1: can just go to ESPN dot com slash where to
Speaker 1: watch and it's it's great. It's game game changing, no
Speaker 1: pun intended, but it's great because you can see all
Speaker 1: the dates ahead of you. You can select the teams
Speaker 1: that you want and those will be showed right at
Speaker 1: the top, and it shows you every which way you
Speaker 1: can watch them. So, for instance, Dodgers playing the Diamondbacks today,
Speaker 1: you can watch it on the diamondbackstreaming DBAs dot TV, MLBtv,
Speaker 1: or sportsnet LA. So it gives you all those options. Now,
Speaker 1: I will say that with sports specifically, it is still
Speaker 1: a it's still very confusing whether you can actually access
Speaker 1: those games. For instance, this game is not going to
Speaker 1: be on MLBtv if you are in the LA area,
Speaker 1: as I understand because typically they black out the games
Speaker 1: that are in your local area. This would be on
Speaker 1: sports and at LA, which obviously you would need a
Speaker 1: streaming service or a cable provider that has that channel
Speaker 1: to see it. So we're almost there, but you know
Speaker 1: the idea here, I mean, look at Okay, so there's
Speaker 1: another thing on FM Championship LPGA. You can watch on
Speaker 1: ESPN Golf channel or Peacock. Who would think that Peacock
Speaker 1: would have all this stuff? Since when did Peacock get
Speaker 1: so sporty? But now like half the NBC sports are
Speaker 1: all on Peacock.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it's really handy. ESPN dot com Slash where to watch.
Speaker 1: The other one I like is Fubo. Fubo has something
Speaker 1: called Gamefinder, So if you go to Fubo dot tv slash,
Speaker 1: I'll see if you can go directly, Yeah, Fubo dot
Speaker 1: tv Slash Gamefinder. You enter your zip code and that
Speaker 1: will tell you where the games are playing as well.
Speaker 1: So really really handy. It'll all be on my website,
Speaker 1: rich on tech dot tv. If you want a link
Speaker 1: to anything I mentioned here, just hit the light bulb
Speaker 1: icon at the top. Let's go to Jason in a Equipment, Texas. Jason,
Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 5: Hello, Rich?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing excellent? What can I help you with?
Speaker 5: I'm the first time caller and I enjoy your show.
Speaker 2: And thank you.
Speaker 5: I have a thirteen inch MacBook Pro of twenty nineteen
Speaker 5: with the Intel chip.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 5: I bought it new and bring a twenty twenty, and
Speaker 5: I used it for a few months, and then I
Speaker 5: put it up and didn't use it for probably two
Speaker 5: or three years, and then I pulled it out last
Speaker 5: year and updated it to the latest version. And the
Speaker 5: battery won't charge anymore.
Speaker 2: Battery service batteries okay. So what can I help you with?
Speaker 5: I was saying, like, pick them the cock the count
Speaker 5: and it says only.
Speaker 2: Fix okay.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like you're trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: to do with this twenty nineteen MacBook Pro that will
Speaker 1: not charge. So you are very correct in going into
Speaker 1: the system information and checking the cycle count and the condition.
Speaker 1: This is the health information of the battery. You can
Speaker 1: access this by going to the Apple menu on your
Speaker 1: computer upper left hand corner. You hold down the let's
Speaker 1: see is it the option?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So you hold down option, you tap that Apple and
Speaker 1: it will switch from about this mac to system information.
Speaker 1: You tap that, and then the left hand side it
Speaker 1: says power and I can see my battery. I have
Speaker 1: a brand new MacBook air cycle count nine. That means
Speaker 1: I fully charged and discharged this battery nine times, which
Speaker 1: I know it might sound like a lot, but that's
Speaker 1: that's a cycle count is not how many days you've
Speaker 1: had this computer and you've played it in. A cycle
Speaker 1: is a little bit more than that, so it's like
Speaker 1: the whole battery, So it's a little bit different than
Speaker 1: just like, oh, I've plugged this in nine times and
Speaker 1: then I've got conditioned normal maximum capacity one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Sounds like your battery is done. It's dead. So you
Speaker 1: can either just leave this computer plugged in all the
Speaker 1: time and use it that way. But keep in mind
Speaker 1: if you unplug it, you're going to lose power instantly,
Speaker 1: so you might want to put something like a ups
Speaker 1: in between your computer and the wall so that way
Speaker 1: you have a little bit of time to shut down
Speaker 1: your computer if you yank out the cord. Otherwise, I
Speaker 1: would recommend just bringing this computer in. It's a twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: You've still got plenty of life left on this computer.
Speaker 1: I would bring it into the Apple Store, get a
Speaker 1: quote from them, see how much it'll cost for them
Speaker 1: to replace that battery. If you don't want to go there,
Speaker 1: you can go to a local place that will replace
Speaker 1: the battery. That's an authorized reseller, a best buy could
Speaker 1: do it. Or you can go to a place like
Speaker 1: you Break I Fix and they will give you a
Speaker 1: free quote on how much it costs to replace the battery.
Speaker 1: I'd say if it was about maybe three hundred dollars
Speaker 1: or less, go ahead and do it. Because this is
Speaker 1: a perfectly good computer. It's going to last you another
Speaker 1: I'd say four or five years or so. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the call, Jason, appreciate it. From there in Texas. Coming up,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to doctor Jason Nogada about the
Speaker 1: recent school smartphone bands and the impact on students well being.
Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech.
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at
Speaker 1: triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight
Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Give me
Speaker 1: a call if you have a question about technology. We've
Speaker 1: got lots to discuss on today's show. We'll get back
Speaker 1: to the phone lines in just a moment. Joining me now,
Speaker 1: UCSF Pediatrics Professor doctor Jason Nogada, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me today. Thanks so much for having me. So
Speaker 1: this is an issue that's near and dear to my heart.
Speaker 1: I've got two kids, they're both in school. They both
Speaker 1: love their technology because they know who dad is and
Speaker 1: they have a lot of access to it. I'm also
Speaker 1: reading that book, The Anxious Generation, and it's making me
Speaker 1: think twice about a lot of this stuff and the
Speaker 1: manipulation by these social media companies and addicting our children. So,
Speaker 1: first off, I know a lot of schools are starting
Speaker 1: to ban smartphones during the day.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's a great question, and as you mentioned,
Speaker 6: many more school districts than schools are considering school bands.
Speaker 6: I do think it's important to note that phones are
Speaker 6: not inherently.
Speaker 7: Good or bad.
Speaker 6: There are some health risks that we know about that
Speaker 6: we do want to minimize, but there are also some benefits,
Speaker 6: including communication, socialization that you know children will have to
Speaker 6: learn and to some extent, you know, technology is not
Speaker 6: going to go away, and so in order for our
Speaker 6: children to become functioning adults and able to function in society.
Speaker 6: They will have to learn how to use technology and
Speaker 6: phones to some extent. I do think that school cell
Speaker 6: phone bands are relatively new, and there's not actually strong
Speaker 6: evidence either way. So I think it is important that
Speaker 6: aso are starting to implement these bands, that we really
Speaker 6: study it rigorously so that we have hard data as
Speaker 6: to whether or not it actually improves academic or health outcomes.
Speaker 2: That's so good. I like that.
Speaker 1: That's a good kind of like a nice way to
Speaker 1: think about it, because you're right.
Speaker 2: I mean, there are so many benefits.
Speaker 1: We were discussing this last night with my kids because
Speaker 1: they have watches, they don't have phones, but you know,
Speaker 1: they can't use them during the day now. And you know,
Speaker 1: my wife was like, well, you can call the school
Speaker 1: if there's an emergency, and I said, well, no parent
Speaker 1: wants to call the school in an emergency. They want
Speaker 1: a direct line to their child. And I think that's
Speaker 1: the biggest kind of flip side that parents, even though
Speaker 1: they know these things could be rough on their kids,
Speaker 1: they still want to be able to get in touch
Speaker 1: with them during the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I do think that that is one of their drawbacks,
Speaker 6: so that I think there are risks and their benefits.
Speaker 6: And you know, one of the key functions of phones
Speaker 6: is for communication, and so if you want to be
Speaker 6: able to communicate with your child, you know, with phones
Speaker 6: being banned during the school day, you won't be able
Speaker 6: to directly reach them throughout the day, especially in times
Speaker 6: of emergencies.
Speaker 7: So I do think that that's one of the drawbacks.
Speaker 6: But you know, that being said, because all the kids
Speaker 6: won't have access to phones, you know, none of them
Speaker 6: will have they'll all be in the same situation and
Speaker 6: they can all kind of socialize in person. So I
Speaker 6: do think that there are some benefits that I'm really
Speaker 6: encouraged kids to socialize like in person and also to
Speaker 6: really fully focus on their studies during the in the
Speaker 6: classroom without distractions. And while there's not a lot of data,
Speaker 6: there have been some schools that have found that English
Speaker 6: proficiency even has improved with the implementation of school bands
Speaker 6: or school phone bands.
Speaker 1: And I think that's my biggest takeaway is that the
Speaker 1: you know, these phones, like you said, they're not inherently
Speaker 1: good or bad, but there are things that as human
Speaker 1: beings that you know, with a brain and the way
Speaker 1: that we think and do things. These phones attract our
Speaker 1: attention a lot. I mean, you get these notifications throughout
Speaker 1: the day, and of course these apps they want you
Speaker 1: to be on there because that's their job is to
Speaker 1: get you engaged. And so but kids, I feel like,
Speaker 1: are a little bit and adults I see this as
Speaker 1: with as well, is that we're we just can't handle it.
Speaker 2: Like we just you get that notification, you're gonna check it.
Speaker 1: Like I know, even this morning, I'm on a run
Speaker 1: and I know that my family's just texting back and forth,
Speaker 1: but my my watch keeps vibrating and I want to
Speaker 1: check it.
Speaker 2: And that's pretty normal, right, It's pretty typical.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I do think that, as you mentioned,
Speaker 6: the technology is designed to you know, get you engage it,
Speaker 6: to use more of it. And so just as you mentioned,
Speaker 6: like more notifications you have, you know, you're we're naturally
Speaker 6: designed in programmed to want to check it. And with
Speaker 6: kids in social media, you know, if they've gotten a
Speaker 6: like or a comment, they want to check it right
Speaker 6: away and they want to respond to it. And so
Speaker 6: I do think that there are things you know, inherent
Speaker 6: and the technology design that are you know, have addictive natures,
Speaker 6: and I do think that, you know, for kids and
Speaker 6: adults to like, it's really hard to fight that. So
Speaker 6: I do think that one, you know, very clear way
Speaker 6: of addressing that is to just the devices altogether. And
Speaker 6: so I do think that, you know, if during the
Speaker 6: school day, kids aren't getting those notifications, then they can
Speaker 6: really be present for the academic work ahead of them.
Speaker 6: So that is one of the you know, I guess
Speaker 6: the most effective way of getting rid of all those
Speaker 6: distractions and notifications is actually to just remove the device.
Speaker 1: I mean, that may not be the best long term
Speaker 1: because number one, as soon as the kid gets out
Speaker 1: of school, they're back to their phone. So it's like
Speaker 1: this weird and my wife and I have struggled this
Speaker 1: with this with my kids. It's like, do you aban
Speaker 1: the roadblocks during the week and just let them, you know,
Speaker 1: play as much as they want on the weekends. It's like,
Speaker 1: it's this weird thing because I get as an adult,
Speaker 1: you have to learn to like manage your time and
Speaker 1: you have to learn to like manage your attention. Are
Speaker 1: kids just not equipped to do that yet at their age?
Speaker 1: Is that why it's kind of very different? And I know,
Speaker 1: not all adults can do that either easily.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you're absolutely right, And I do think
Speaker 6: that there's not a one size fits all solution, even
Speaker 6: for your own child, because I think actually your child's
Speaker 6: age and development matters a whole lot. I do think
Speaker 6: that as children become teenagers and you know, as you said,
Speaker 6: transition to adults, ideally you want to provide them with
Speaker 6: skills and their own decisions so that when they go off,
Speaker 6: you know, when they move away from home and they're
Speaker 6: working on their own or going to college, they're equipped
Speaker 6: with the skills and the tools to be able to
Speaker 6: balance and manage technology and their own you know, personal life,
Speaker 6: you know, just like we're faced with as adults. So
Speaker 6: I do think the ultimate goal is to get to
Speaker 6: that stage where they can make healthy and good decisions
Speaker 6: that really optimize their tech use while minimizing the risks.
Speaker 6: But I do think that especially for younger children, you know,
Speaker 6: who are really much more dependent on their parents and
Speaker 6: do you know, often do.
Speaker 7: Better with rules.
Speaker 6: I do think that it makes more sense in general
Speaker 6: to have more rules for younger children, who you know,
Speaker 6: may not have the developments to be able to really
Speaker 6: make some of these decisions on their own, just like
Speaker 6: you wouldn't let a five year old, you know, we
Speaker 6: don't let firo's drive cars or do.
Speaker 7: Other things like that.
Speaker 6: I do think that there is potentially a role for
Speaker 6: a graduation and where you know, as kids are getting
Speaker 6: older and able to make more decisions on their own,
Speaker 6: you can provide them with a little bit more autonomy,
Speaker 6: and eventually the goal is to get them to you know,
Speaker 6: be able to function optimally on their own.
Speaker 1: So what should parents know about the effect of these
Speaker 1: phones and all these social media apps on their kids
Speaker 1: and give them some advice on how to deal with
Speaker 1: this stuff.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I do think that in terms of the potential
Speaker 6: health risks, you know, there has been a lot of
Speaker 6: research on it, and there are some mixed findings, but overall,
Speaker 6: you know, in some adolescents there are I think one
Speaker 6: of the overall there are some like physical health consequences potentially,
Speaker 6: I think the most important ones are maybe sleep, physical inactivity,
Speaker 6: and potentially nutrition. So in terms of sleep, we already
Speaker 6: know that more than a third of teenagers don't get
Speaker 6: enough sleep, and I do think that phone use and
Speaker 6: just device use in general is one really easy behavioral
Speaker 6: strategy to improve sleep. We do know that when kids
Speaker 6: or anyone is on their device right before bedtime, you know,
Speaker 6: it's activating it. You know, really in general makes people
Speaker 6: stay up later, they get poorer quality sleep, and for
Speaker 6: growing children and adolescents, it's so important for their growth
Speaker 6: development and even academic performance. So I do think that
Speaker 6: particularly limiting screen use or phone use right before bedtime
Speaker 6: is a.
Speaker 7: A good strategy.
Speaker 6: And actually kind of similar to the what we said
Speaker 6: about having physical devices like away so that you don't
Speaker 6: have my notifications, one of the most effective strategy is
Speaker 6: actually to have your phone outside of your bedroom so
Speaker 6: that you know you don't have the you know, you're
Speaker 6: not nice to go check it in the middle of
Speaker 6: the night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've all got out where you wake up in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night and what do you do.
Speaker 1: You roll over and you check your phone, like for
Speaker 1: what reason?
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly, and then you've then all of a sudden
Speaker 6: you see all the messages or notifications that you missed
Speaker 6: or work stuff, and then you know, now you're awake
Speaker 6: again and you're thinking about dealing with that stuff. So
Speaker 6: I do think that having the device is outside of
Speaker 6: the room or completely off, you know, can help kids
Speaker 6: and adults have better sleep.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: Another potential reason why phones and other screen devices can
Speaker 6: lead to poor health and teenagers is that they're just
Speaker 6: spending a lot of time.
Speaker 7: On screens these days.
Speaker 6: The average teenager during the pandemic spent eight hours of
Speaker 6: their recreational time, you know, on a device. It's obviously
Speaker 6: lower than that now that we don't have the lockdowns
Speaker 6: and social isolation, but it's.
Speaker 7: Still is very high.
Speaker 6: And if you think about you know, teenagers being on
Speaker 6: their screens for four to eight hours a day, that's
Speaker 6: four to eight hours in general that they're not you know,
Speaker 6: being physically active or exercising or socializing with people in
Speaker 6: real life. And so I think part of it is
Speaker 6: like what else could you be doing with that time
Speaker 6: when you're not in front of the screen, So it's
Speaker 6: kind of displacing other activities that could be good for
Speaker 6: your health. And then I think finally, in terms of nutrition,
Speaker 6: there are studies that show that the more people are
Speaker 6: on screens, especially watching you know, streaming movies or television
Speaker 6: shows or watching television shows, the more likely they are
Speaker 6: to overeat while they're distracted.
Speaker 7: So if you're you know, having a meal. While you're
Speaker 7: watching TV.
Speaker 6: Or watching Netflix, you're more likely to overeat because you're
Speaker 6: kind of distracted and not paying attention to your hunger cues,
Speaker 6: so you're more likely to gain weights. And actually, we
Speaker 6: recently had a study that showed that over time, young
Speaker 6: adults who had more screen.
Speaker 7: Time thirty years later were actually more likely.
Speaker 6: Than to have heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol,
Speaker 6: and even heart attacks. So I do think that the
Speaker 6: more time that you're on screens, especially if you're sitting
Speaker 6: and sedentary, over time, that can really lead to some
Speaker 6: significant health consequences.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're going to leave it there.
Speaker 1: UCSF Pediatrics Professor, Doctor Jason Nagatta, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: joining me today.
Speaker 2: I really appreciate the insights.
Speaker 7: Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1: All Right, parents, get those kids outside, have them play
Speaker 1: with worms, just to uncover a rock. Just just lift
Speaker 1: a rock and play with the things underneath. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be okay. Get that dirt under your fingernails. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you I did as a kid. I'm fine, and I
Speaker 1: love my screens. Eighty eight rich one O one eight
Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on tech. Rich Demiro here hanging
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at Triple A Rich one
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. Still lots of stories and news to
Speaker 1: get to. Uh tell you about my switch away from
Speaker 1: Sonos this week?
Speaker 2: What else? Oh why I had to rent a movie
Speaker 2: last night? We got a lot to talk about.
Speaker 1: But let's go to the Nette in Los Angeles Thenett,
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.
Speaker 8: Hi and I mean your advice. I'm trying to decide
Speaker 8: what to purchase between a MacBook are and with empty
Speaker 8: chick or M three chick. Everything is the same, you know,
Speaker 8: the CPU, the storage, the goodbye. The only difference is
Speaker 8: that EMP two chip and M three chip. M two chip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how much is the price difference on the M
Speaker 1: three chip? I go, I'd go with the M three.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be faster, It's just gonna be slightly faster.
Speaker 1: I would say if the difference was like five hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: I would go with the M two. But since you're
Speaker 1: only paying one hundred dollars more to get the latest,
Speaker 1: I have the M three.
Speaker 2: I just got it. It's fine.
Speaker 1: I mean it's not you know my old uh my
Speaker 1: M two Pro was faster, but I think for the
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars, I'd go with the M three, just
Speaker 1: just to be on the current, you know, wave of
Speaker 1: things you get one year newer technology. Again, if it
Speaker 1: was more, if it was three five hundred dollars, i'd
Speaker 1: say absolutely go with the M two. You'll be just fine.
Speaker 1: But for a hundred bucks, easy decision, go with the
Speaker 1: M three.
Speaker 8: I know that's what I was thinking when I just
Speaker 8: needed aff confirmation.
Speaker 2: Yep, enjoy the new computer and that I think you're
Speaker 2: gonna love it.
Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: All Right, have a great day. Let's go to Sorry
Speaker 2: about that.
Speaker 1: Let's a little fast on the trigger there, Let's go
Speaker 1: to Gloria in Oxnard.
Speaker 2: Gloria, you're on with rich Ah.
Speaker 5: Yes, good afternoon. I have a question.
Speaker 9: I would send some legal documents, but on CD disc okay,
Speaker 9: and now I don't have anything. I tried it on
Speaker 9: my CD player that didn't work. But I needed to know,
Speaker 9: could I if I wanted to hear these discs to
Speaker 9: see what's on file?
Speaker 3: What I would saying?
Speaker 5: Could I use a DVD.
Speaker 2: Player like a standalone DVD player?
Speaker 9: Yeah, a little small ones, but no.
Speaker 1: That's not gonna that's not going to work for files. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not going to display those because these are these
Speaker 1: are documents on there?
Speaker 2: Are they pictures or what are they?
Speaker 9: No, they're just let's say, gibbis. I don't know whether
Speaker 9: they're documents or not.
Speaker 4: But I know.
Speaker 9: I used to have a DVD player, a small portable
Speaker 9: and I'm fall back and I could hear.
Speaker 5: It's not so much scene.
Speaker 9: I just want to know what's on them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1: I would find a computer with a with a disk
Speaker 1: drive on it. So you're an Oxnard.
Speaker 9: The problem is I can't afford a computer.
Speaker 1: And no no, not that I'm not saying you got
Speaker 1: to buy a computer. No, no, no, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out a place where you can go where you
Speaker 1: can just so first off, I would tap friends, so,
Speaker 1: you know, head onto your Facebook, your Instagram or your
Speaker 1: social media, say hey, uh, anyone have a computer with
Speaker 1: a with a disk drive a you know, CD or
Speaker 1: DV Just say disk drive and see if anyone's got one. Hey,
Speaker 1: can I come to your house? You put the disc
Speaker 1: in the drive, you copy all that stuff and you
Speaker 1: can upload it to the cloud, to a service if
Speaker 1: you want something that's super easy wormhole dot app and
Speaker 1: you can just drag and drop all the files there.
Speaker 1: It's encrypted, and then you send yourself a link through email.
Speaker 1: You'll have all the files you downloa them. Do you
Speaker 1: have a computer at all?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 9: Even if I had a computer, it would be kind
Speaker 9: of difficult for me because I do everything the audible unbeling.
Speaker 2: Oh oh got it? Okay?
Speaker 1: Oh so well, okay, so you're trying to read the
Speaker 1: listen to these documents.
Speaker 5: I just want to listen to those.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, unless they're audio files, you're going to need a
Speaker 1: service to do that. So you've got to get these
Speaker 1: files somehow. And then do you have a smartphone?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 5: No, I have a flip phone.
Speaker 2: You have a flip phone.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you've got to enlist the help of a
Speaker 1: friend or family member or someone that you trust, and
Speaker 1: you got to ask them to get these files into
Speaker 1: you know, onto a flash drive or onto a place
Speaker 1: where you can somehow convert them to listen to them.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And there's there's some free services Speechify. That's a great
Speaker 1: service that you can listen to these things on. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many ways you can I'm sure you know
Speaker 1: you can listen to things online.
Speaker 9: Well, I was going to go to bed By and
Speaker 9: ask on what and take the diff and asked us
Speaker 9: who was the best way I could hear the Well,
Speaker 9: I don't hear them.
Speaker 1: I don't think best Buy is gonna really you know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna talk to the geek squad and
Speaker 1: they're gonna, I mean, they may be able to do
Speaker 1: that conversion for you, but I would I would start
Speaker 1: with friends and family. I start with friends and family,
Speaker 1: someone you know and schools like you know, maybe just
Speaker 1: you know, some sort of resource like a group that
Speaker 1: you're in or something, and just see who has you know,
Speaker 1: a friendly helping hand. It's not too tough to to
Speaker 1: transform these into a flash drive or some sort of clouds,
Speaker 1: uh file, get the text, extract that, and then there's
Speaker 1: even ways of converting that into you know, an audible file,
Speaker 1: like a you know, recording that into an audio file.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember there was actually a pretty cool
Speaker 1: service that would transform your your text into a podcast,
Speaker 1: and I got to remember I look up what that was.
Speaker 1: But that was pretty neat, and that's one way of
Speaker 1: doing it. But speech a fy, I think is probably
Speaker 1: your best bet. Someone can get these documents into a
Speaker 1: form where you can upload them to speech a fy
Speaker 1: or they can, then you'll be able to listen to
Speaker 1: all of these things.
Speaker 2: So a library might do it.
Speaker 1: I'm actually looking up the Oxnard Public Library and they
Speaker 1: say that their computers don't have CD drives, so that's
Speaker 1: not a good place to go. But you might want
Speaker 1: to call them. There might be someone that might want
Speaker 1: to help you. There a local university. They may help you.
Speaker 1: But again, I think this is a situation where you've
Speaker 1: got to tap into the friendliness of someone. If that
Speaker 1: doesn't work, then I would just go on Yelp and
Speaker 1: look for a place that does, you know, maybe some
Speaker 1: conversions or an internet cafe near you that someone might
Speaker 1: be able to help you do it that way. But
Speaker 1: those are the best bets that I would think for this.
Speaker 1: It's a kind of a tricky situation, but I think
Speaker 1: those are the best way to do it. I don't
Speaker 1: I wouldn't pay a lot for this, because you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it doesn't sound like it's an easy situation
Speaker 1: because you don't have a computer and you don't have
Speaker 1: a phone, so someone has to help you with this
Speaker 1: that's what I'm hearing here eighty eight rich.
Speaker 11: One O one.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call today, Gloria eight eight eight rich
Speaker 1: one O one eighty eight seven four to two four
Speaker 1: one zero one. The website richon Tech dot TV coming up.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: About my switch away from Sonos this week and when
Speaker 1: I switch to and why I'm kind of loving it.
Speaker 1: You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich
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Speaker 1: ask me a question. Also got lots to talk about,
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Speaker 1: going to compare mobile carriers Mint Mobile and Tello Mobile.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've heard a Mint, maybe you haven't heard of Tello.
Speaker 1: But he's going to compare the pros and cons of each.
Speaker 1: And then later we've got the TV answer man. He's
Speaker 1: gonna talk about selecting the ideal sports streaming service. I
Speaker 1: know I did, I jumped the gun. I guess I
Speaker 1: chose that yesterday should have waited till today. But my
Speaker 1: kid wants to watch the game, so I'll reveal what
Speaker 1: I chose. Something else I did this week, I've gotten
Speaker 1: kind of fed up with my Sons system at home.
Speaker 1: If you've been following the drama, now, don't cry for
Speaker 1: anyone with Sons because this is a very expensive system.
Speaker 2: So you know, I get it.
Speaker 1: I built mine over many years, and so I'm annoyed
Speaker 1: because i loved it for so long. But now I'm
Speaker 1: finding that my new solution is actually way better. So
Speaker 1: so nos if you haven't been following it, they updated
Speaker 1: their app and it just messed up every system nationwide.
Speaker 1: You can't adjust the volume for me. What I've noticed
Speaker 1: with my system is it's just completely unreliable. Number One,
Speaker 1: I have no idea how to use the app anymore.
Speaker 1: I have no idea how to group and ungroup my speakers.
Speaker 1: What's amazing about it is that you can have a
Speaker 1: speaker in every room and you can listen to individual
Speaker 1: services on any of those speakers, or you can group
Speaker 1: them all together, or you can group one or two
Speaker 1: all together or together, and you have a selection of
Speaker 1: every single music service in the world.
Speaker 2: You can all access it through their app.
Speaker 1: Well, they kind of threw all that out the window
Speaker 1: and made it almost impossible to use. You can't group
Speaker 1: an N group. I have no idea. The app is
Speaker 1: so confusing. You try to play something, it takes forever.
Speaker 1: Try to adjust the volume, good luck with that. It
Speaker 1: doesn't work. And so it's just kind of ruined everything.
Speaker 1: And so I've gotten so completely frustrated with this. I
Speaker 1: actually pulled out two of my so No speakers in
Speaker 1: my rooms and I replaced them with Amazon Echo speakers.
Speaker 1: And I'm not kidding. It has been amazing. Why am
Speaker 1: I so late? When did Amazon Echo launch? Amazon Echo
Speaker 1: launch date November sixth, twenty fourteen. Okay, I'm just about
Speaker 1: ten years late on the amazingness of this.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Yes, I have had Echo speakers since day one, but
Speaker 1: I always thought they were inferior to Sons because it
Speaker 1: just seemed like a gimmick compared to Sons and the
Speaker 1: beautiful sound quality. But now I'm telling you I plugged
Speaker 1: in this speaker that I must. I must have had
Speaker 1: the speaker for five years. It's like one of the
Speaker 1: old school Echoes. It sounds great and what I love
Speaker 1: about it is the voice control. So now I come
Speaker 1: home and I can immediately start playing a radio station
Speaker 1: or some music just using my voice, and I move
Speaker 1: around to different rooms and I just say what I
Speaker 1: want to listen to in that room?
Speaker 2: Now? Can you group them?
Speaker 12: Yes?
Speaker 1: You can group them. Is it as easy as sons? No,
Speaker 1: because you have to kind of choose the groups in advance.
Speaker 1: But the point is I'm listening to more music faster
Speaker 1: than I ever have. And by the way, I can
Speaker 1: adjust the volume. And by the way I can adjust
Speaker 1: the volume just by saying, Alex, ay put the volume up,
Speaker 1: put the volume down, or stop, or play or changes
Speaker 1: to the other room, whatever it is. It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 1: Yes, I had to look at the flashing light on
Speaker 1: top of the echo today and I said, okay, Alex,
Speaker 1: say you got me what's.
Speaker 11: On your mind?
Speaker 1: And she's like, oh, I noticed there's two things in
Speaker 1: your Amazon cart. Would you like to order those? I
Speaker 1: can place that order right now. This is kind of
Speaker 1: like the you know, the Nightmare of AI. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't think I needed those things, but sure place
Speaker 1: that order. It also said the other day, I noticed
Speaker 1: that you're you're based on my timeline, the filter and
Speaker 1: your refrigerator might be up for renewal? Would you like
Speaker 1: to order a new one now? And I'm like, You've
Speaker 1: got to be kidding me. I see why they do this.
Speaker 1: It Also one time I had it plugged in and
Speaker 1: I said, we noticed the ink in your printer is
Speaker 1: getting low. Do you liked us to order that ink cartridge?
Speaker 1: I said, what now you're looking at my ink cartridges?
Speaker 1: What else are you looking at?
Speaker 2: Rich?
Speaker 1: We noticed your sock drawers getting kind of low? Would
Speaker 1: you like to do your laundry anyway? So?
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I've ordered so many of these speakers now. I just
Speaker 1: went on Amazon and I ordered more of these echos.
Speaker 1: So I think I'm gonna end up doing the whole house.
Speaker 1: I will say yes, I'll probably come back to Sono
Speaker 1: to some point, but I'm not sure at this point.
Speaker 1: As long as I can have music in all my rooms,
Speaker 1: even if I have it in what I've realized also
Speaker 1: I probably don't need music in every room unless I'm
Speaker 1: having people over, and then you want music, you know,
Speaker 1: outside inside all these different places.
Speaker 2: But and I love Sonos, Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: I have been the biggest proponent of Sonos ever since
Speaker 1: I took the first meeting in Trump Tower in New
Speaker 1: York City. Yes, that's where they did the meeting now
Speaker 1: that I think about it. They were showing off their system.
Speaker 1: I think it was Trump Tower, I'm pretty sure it was,
Speaker 1: or maybe it was Trump. Was there a hotel maybe
Speaker 1: Trump Hotel, I don't know anyway, it was, yeah, I
Speaker 1: know the one in Vegas, but I think there might
Speaker 1: have been one of your anyway, Maybe it wasn't, maybe
Speaker 1: it was near there. But I just remember going to
Speaker 1: this like suite. It was like this beautiful suite and
Speaker 1: they showed me the first Sonos system and I was like,
Speaker 1: you want me to pay how much for what? It
Speaker 1: was like twelve hundred dollars for the speakers and that
Speaker 1: that like included this crazy controller that was proprietary. This
Speaker 1: was before iPads, and I was like, twelve hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: who's buying this? And you know, sure enough, they did
Speaker 1: pretty well. But eventually when the phone became the controller,
Speaker 1: that's what really made so Noos amazing because you could
Speaker 1: now concentrate on buying these super expensive speakers, which yes,
Speaker 1: we're very expensive, but you could use your phone to
Speaker 1: control them and you could buy the speakers one by one,
Speaker 1: and they ended up coming out with cheaper speakers over
Speaker 1: the years, but they're still pretty expensive, like two hundred
Speaker 1: bucks minimum.
Speaker 2: Might say.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I am loving the Echo. If you haven't jumped
Speaker 1: on board, it's great. It works with all your streaming services,
Speaker 1: all the music, all the radio stations.
Speaker 2: Is fantastic.
Speaker 1: Speaking of streaming, last night, we actually had to rent
Speaker 1: pay to rent a movie. My kid wanted to see
Speaker 1: Inside Out two, and so he's been asking and asking
Speaker 1: and asking. We have not been able to make it
Speaker 1: to the movie theater. And then when I went online
Speaker 1: to buy tickets, I was like, hold on eighty bucks
Speaker 1: for four of us to.
Speaker 2: See a movie.
Speaker 1: Nah, I'm just not paying that. And so and then
Speaker 1: you got to pay for the popcorn and all that
Speaker 1: other stuff that you got to get. My kids like
Speaker 1: to get an icy which is like six bucks for
Speaker 1: just pure sugar water that's colored.
Speaker 2: No, we're not doing that.
Speaker 1: So anyway, so I said, you know what, I'll pay
Speaker 1: for the movie on the TV because you can't. This
Speaker 1: is the thing that frustrates me. I subscribe to every
Speaker 1: streaming service, Netflix, Paramount plus Peacock.
Speaker 2: What else is there. I don't know, there's so many
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 1: I pay for all of them because I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully the movie I want to watch is
Speaker 1: on these things. Well, it turns out Inside Out two
Speaker 1: is not on any of them, especially not Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: So what they do now is they have it in
Speaker 1: the theater, then they have it on streaming, like where
Speaker 1: you can rent it or buy it for a couple
Speaker 1: of months, and then it comes to Disney Plus. So
Speaker 1: the price to rent this movie was what was it,
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars, and the price to buy it was
Speaker 1: thirty So of course what I say, all right, I'll
Speaker 1: just buy it so thirty bucks. Now I ended up
Speaker 1: having a ten dollars credit, so it was really twenty
Speaker 1: dollars on Google Play, and we got to watch it.
Speaker 2: We had a fantastic family night.
Speaker 1: But my point is it's like, here I am paying
Speaker 1: for all these streaming services, and still they managed to
Speaker 1: eke another twenty dollars out of me. It's like they
Speaker 1: will not quit until I don't know, Disney just has
Speaker 1: another theme park somewhere, which I'm sure they're building anyway.
Speaker 2: All right, Why do I digress so much? On the show.
Speaker 1: Oh, we had a question from Gloria in the last segment.
Speaker 1: She was asking about transforming some of her printed material
Speaker 1: into text. And I couldn't remember the name of this service.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Speechify, the other one that's really good. If
Speaker 1: you have not downloaded this app, download it to your phone.
Speaker 1: It's eleven Labs and it's completely free. But you feed
Speaker 1: it any article and it will read you that article
Speaker 1: in a very realistic voice, and you have your choice
Speaker 1: of voices. It's free and it's incredible. It's AI Voice,
Speaker 1: so I know, if you hate AI, don't download it.
Speaker 1: But it's really unbelievable. It's remarkable how good this is.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The only downside to that is when you download an article,
Speaker 1: it's gonna read all the nonsense in the article. At
Speaker 1: to ignore some of that stuff, but articles are littered
Speaker 1: with just nonsense nowadays, with like all this like promotional
Speaker 1: stuff and things like that, so it will read some
Speaker 1: of that, but when you get to the heart of
Speaker 1: the article, it's actually quite incredible. So eleven Labs available
Speaker 1: for iPhone. Don't know if it ever came to Android,
Speaker 1: but let's see is it on Android yet? I don't
Speaker 1: think it is I think it's just on Oh it
Speaker 1: is on Android. Oh, I got to download that on
Speaker 1: iPhone and Android eleven labs. I'll link it up on
Speaker 1: the website. Rich on tech dot tv hit the light bulb.
Speaker 1: This is show number eighty seven, so you can get
Speaker 1: the show notes there. Now, the other one I mentioned
Speaker 1: that can send it to a podcast. You can actually
Speaker 1: create a podcast of articles that will go right to
Speaker 1: your phone. This is called listen later dot net. Listen
Speaker 1: later dot net Basically, whenever you come across an article
Speaker 1: that you want to listen to on your phone, you
Speaker 1: just send it to this email address and then it
Speaker 1: gives you a custom podcast and you just feed that
Speaker 1: into the podcast reader on your phone and I and
Speaker 1: listen to these articles. It's pretty good, but the problem
Speaker 1: is it is a little bit pricey. You got to
Speaker 1: buy credits, so, you know, they basically you got to
Speaker 1: pay by you know, you charge up like five, ten,
Speaker 1: twenty dollars, and then each article has like a cost
Speaker 1: associated with it. So if you want something that's completely free,
Speaker 1: go the eleven laps because that one is free.
Speaker 2: It works really well, all.
Speaker 1: Right, eight eight to eight rich one on one eight
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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about Mint Mobile versus Tello and
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Speaker 1: coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight rich one on one eight
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Speaker 1: James wrote in Hey, Rich, with Echo, you know you
Speaker 1: can set them up automatically to start playing music when
Speaker 1: you walk into a room and turn off automatically when
Speaker 1: you leave the room.
Speaker 2: How neat Jim, Oh, that's cool. I got to do that.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted that with my so nos Steve said,
Speaker 1: Echo isn't stereo. Yeah, I know, I know, I know
Speaker 1: it's not perfect. It is not my sons, believe me.
Speaker 1: It's not my same setup. But I'm just saying for
Speaker 1: now it's working out. And yes I may go back,
Speaker 1: but right now it's working. Let's go to Michael in
Speaker 1: Anaheim Michael.
Speaker 3: You're on.
Speaker 2: What's up?
Speaker 5: Hey, rich?
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing excellent. What can I help you with?
Speaker 11: Good to hear?
Speaker 3: Hey, my friend that is hoping you can help me
Speaker 3: out with this annoying problem that I have. So whenever
Speaker 3: I enter my car, the bluetooth automatically connects to the phone,
Speaker 3: but then I don't get any audible alert when I
Speaker 3: get a text message. And so I've been driving for
Speaker 3: half an hour, forty five minutes missions three or four
Speaker 3: text messages. Is there any way that you know of
Speaker 3: to make if the phone's connected to the bluetooth of
Speaker 3: the car, but also get the audible alert of the
Speaker 3: text message. And I'm using Android phone?
Speaker 2: Oh you're on Android? Okay, so.
Speaker 1: Yeah Android, I mean in my car immediately. So I
Speaker 1: was using iPhone and my car would not work. Apparently
Speaker 1: it couldn't get the notifications from the iPhone, but on
Speaker 1: Android it should be able to read those. Okay, are
Speaker 1: you on Uh so, if you're on Android, there's a
Speaker 1: you have to in your assistant. There's a feature that
Speaker 1: says here personal results on your headphones. When your phone
Speaker 1: is locked. You can try turning that on and see
Speaker 1: if that would toggle these notifications to come on. Mine
Speaker 1: is off, so I think that would read the notifications
Speaker 1: from your phone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so I mean I'm it's so it would
Speaker 3: say like let's say it's like new message received like
Speaker 3: through like the infotainment system of the car. But like
Speaker 3: as far as they're going to audio alert, I'm not
Speaker 3: getting anything like my alert sound like when I give
Speaker 3: a text message, So if it's not connected to Bluetooth,
Speaker 3: someone sends me a text message that here is a
Speaker 3: little chime. You know, I know I've received the message,
Speaker 3: but if it's connected to Bluetooth, it doesn't make any
Speaker 3: noise at all. And then sometimes you know, if you know,
Speaker 3: I'm not using the Bluetooth part of the car at
Speaker 3: that point, I'm not getting the audible alert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's well, the audible alert because the problem is
Speaker 1: your phone's connected to Bluetooth, so all of the audio
Speaker 1: is going through Bluetooth. Now, the good news is you
Speaker 1: have an Android phone, so there are apps that could
Speaker 1: that could help you route some of those things. And
Speaker 1: even I'm looking in the settings of even on the
Speaker 1: Android settings like they're pretty thorough with your audio routing.
Speaker 1: But typically when you are connected to a device, the
Speaker 1: audio is going to go through to that device no
Speaker 1: matter what. It's not going to play your you know,
Speaker 1: your notification sound through your phone and then everything else
Speaker 1: goes through Bluetooth. So what what kind of phone is this?
Speaker 1: Samsung or Apple?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: Samshung some Sun GALAT'SY twenty two.
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe, So do you want you just want to
Speaker 1: be able to hear the notification or do you want
Speaker 1: to hear it read to you?
Speaker 3: No, I just want to hear the notification.
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't need it read to me.
Speaker 3: I just need to hear the audible alert.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, in that case, you may okay, you there there.
Speaker 1: So what I would do is okay, so on my car,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it right now, and mine says media
Speaker 1: audio turned on. I can turn that off, and I
Speaker 1: would imagine that when I get a notification it might
Speaker 1: just trigger on the phone itself versus the car. But again,
Speaker 1: I think this is a matter of you've got to
Speaker 1: look through every single setting on your car and on
Speaker 1: your phone and figure out and if that doesn't work,
Speaker 1: you know, there are third party apps that might be
Speaker 1: able to kind of like handle this. I don't know
Speaker 1: when off the top of my head. But like when
Speaker 1: I I wanted my Samsung screen to light up when
Speaker 1: I got a notification, I literally search for an app
Speaker 1: and I found one that would light up the screen
Speaker 1: when I get a notification. And so that's the beauty
Speaker 1: of Android is that you can change things like that
Speaker 1: versus iPhone doesn't really let you do that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff unless Apple programs it in. So I'm looking at
Speaker 1: there's like an app called Spoken Notifications that may help
Speaker 1: where you can have you know that may it looks
Speaker 1: like that, can you know, give you some notifications. It
Speaker 1: looks a little old and it hasn't been updated in
Speaker 1: a while. Let's see last update in March seventh, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. So I might check that and see, because
Speaker 1: that would you can probably program that or a similar
Speaker 1: app to say, hey, when I get a notification, tell
Speaker 1: me through the through the audio, you know.
Speaker 3: And what was the name of that app?
Speaker 1: Spoken Notifications by w d WD in Formatica, So you
Speaker 1: know it's it's it's got a one hundred thousand downloads, it's
Speaker 1: got decent review, it was recently update uploaded, updated, So
Speaker 1: you might try something like that, and again it says,
Speaker 1: you know, this app uses the device administrator permission, so
Speaker 1: you have to be you know, whenever you do something
Speaker 1: like this, you do have to be aware of the
Speaker 1: privacy implications of this because this app, you know, you
Speaker 1: got to put a little trust into it. But the
Speaker 1: good news is you're on an Android. There's a way
Speaker 1: to do this, and I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: in your your audio settings, your notification settings, or your
Speaker 1: Bluetooth settings, and somehow you just have to get that
Speaker 1: toggle switch where it's going to route that information through
Speaker 1: your Bluetooth and not through or through your phone and
Speaker 1: not through the Bluetooth. There used to be when I
Speaker 1: was listening to when I had my one of my
Speaker 1: phones connected to my car, I had to toggle a
Speaker 1: switch every time I connected a new phone to my
Speaker 1: car to make sure that the audio routed through the
Speaker 1: bluetooth and not through you know, just nothing. So again,
Speaker 1: that's that's the problem, is that your phone is on
Speaker 1: the Bluetooth and that's that's the issue there. So once
Speaker 1: you get past that, figure out how to get around it,
Speaker 1: you'll be just fine, and I think you will with
Speaker 1: a with an Android phone. The other thing to look
Speaker 1: into is Samsung has an app called routines they have
Speaker 1: like these routines built in. You can maybe use that
Speaker 1: to build a routine that would also alert you when
Speaker 1: you get a notification. I check that first before you
Speaker 1: download any app. All right, Michael, thanks for the call
Speaker 1: today from Anaheim. Appreciate that. Eighty eight rich one oh
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one
Speaker 1: zero one. Coming up, we're going to talk Mint Mobile
Speaker 1: versus Tello Mobile. So if you're looking to save some
Speaker 1: money on your wireless carrier. Got an interesting conversation coming
Speaker 1: up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh one eighty
Speaker 1: eight seven four to two four one zero one. Got
Speaker 1: a message from my little brother Justin. He's been on
Speaker 1: this show before. My mom spilled coffee on her computer
Speaker 1: this week. Just a reminder, by the way, when you
Speaker 1: have an open coffee cup near your computer keyboard, you
Speaker 1: are going to knock that coffee cup over and spill
Speaker 1: it all over your keyboard. It's guaranteed. It has happened
Speaker 1: to me, it happened to my mom, it's happened to everyone.
Speaker 1: You will knock over your cup of coffee every single time.
Speaker 1: So it happened to her and now her laptop. She
Speaker 1: was all worried about it, and I told her, I said,
Speaker 1: you know, turn it off, air it out, put it
Speaker 1: upside down, let everything kind of come out of it.
Speaker 1: And everything's working according to my brother who went over
Speaker 1: to troubleshoot, but the touch pad is shot. And so
Speaker 1: he told me he disabled the touchpad and plugged in
Speaker 1: an external mouse and voila, it works again. So I said,
Speaker 1: you should be hosting this show. I mean, why not anyway,
Speaker 1: justin thanks for doing that. And just remember if you
Speaker 1: have a coffee cup near your computer, I always put
Speaker 1: it like just outside. Like I look where my hands
Speaker 1: move when I go near the laptop keyboard, and I
Speaker 1: put my coffee cup away like outside of that range,
Speaker 1: because you will knock it over if it's inside that range.
Speaker 1: All right, Joining me now, Antonio, Uh, this is a
Speaker 1: Business Insiders Tech and Electronics Senior reporter Antonio villis Boas.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: He's going to talk about comparing Mint mobile and Tello Mobile.
Speaker 2: Antonio, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 13: Hey Rich, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: By the way, I gotta say, I love Business Insider
Speaker 1: great publication. I remember, I'm trying to remember what the
Speaker 1: name was it like Silicon Alley Insider or something.
Speaker 2: What was it called before Business Insider?
Speaker 13: Yeah, Chilly com Alley Inside or something like that. Yeah, right,
Speaker 13: that was like then I switched over, then I switched
Speaker 13: again to Insider, and then back to back the Business Insider.
Speaker 1: Anyway, but you know, yeah, I like what you guys
Speaker 1: do there. So let's talk about what made you compare
Speaker 1: these two carriers? What was your thought on what why
Speaker 1: why compare these two?
Speaker 13: Well, you know, I think there's a lot of value
Speaker 13: and in checking out you know, cheaper, less expensive options
Speaker 13: for everyone. And there's also value in sort of showing
Speaker 13: people or revealings that the people a carrier that they
Speaker 13: may not know that much about, like Tello for example.
Speaker 13: I think Mint has some pretty good visibility out there,
Speaker 13: you know a lot of publicity and marketing, you know,
Speaker 13: with Ryan Reynolds on board and et cetera. So you
Speaker 13: know a lot of people think about Mint, but you know,
Speaker 13: maybe for some people just maybe another carrier has you know,
Speaker 13: a better option.
Speaker 1: So with Mint Mobile and Tellomobile. So most people are
Speaker 1: on these big, giant, unlimited plans that are pricey from
Speaker 1: the main carriers, right, which is fine if you're you know,
Speaker 1: business person whatever, you need all that hot spot and stuff,
Speaker 1: but sometimes you don't need as much data.
Speaker 2: Do people use as much data as they think?
Speaker 13: I think, you know, that's going to depend for everybody, man.
Speaker 13: I mean it's so you know, there's so many variables.
Speaker 13: But I think a lot of people might be surprised
Speaker 13: they think they need this big unlimited plan, and you
Speaker 13: might be you know, check out your bill and you'll
Speaker 13: be surprised by kind of how little data you use.
Speaker 13: I use, you know, let's say I think they used
Speaker 13: last I checked, twelve gigabytes. I mean, you know, to
Speaker 13: be fair, I'm not commuting in every day, so I'm
Speaker 13: not you know, on my phone, you know, during rush
Speaker 13: hour or whatever. But still check out your bill and
Speaker 13: see how much you actually use.
Speaker 2: And I think, but it's.
Speaker 13: Good to have. I think people feel a safety net
Speaker 13: with the unlimited plans. You know, you kind of get
Speaker 13: a buffer, you kind of get this feeling you're not
Speaker 13: going to get paid over overages if you go over
Speaker 13: your data limited and that kind of thing. So I
Speaker 13: think that's why a lot of people go towards those
Speaker 13: unlimited plans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're just paying more every month for that privilege.
Speaker 1: So yeah, now okay, So so give me kind of
Speaker 1: the skinny on Mint and Tello, Like, what what do
Speaker 1: these offer that the big guys might not.
Speaker 13: I mean, at the end of the day, at lower prices,
Speaker 13: you know, to put it very simply, they they have
Speaker 13: sort of various sort of limited plans, I should say
Speaker 13: very limited. They're they're sort of they let you pick
Speaker 13: how much data you you know, you want on to
Speaker 13: how much according to how much you think you're used.
Speaker 13: So that's basically, you know, the skinny on Mint and Tello.
Speaker 1: So what I like about Tello is that what I
Speaker 1: like about Mint is, you know, obviously they're own by
Speaker 1: T Mobile now, so that's a bit of a change.
Speaker 1: But I like that it's very simple, it works, it's
Speaker 1: on T mobiles network. The pricing plans are pretty easy
Speaker 1: to understand. Obviously if you appreciate their marketing. It's kind
Speaker 1: of fun. You feel like you're on board with like
Speaker 1: a kind of a challenger in the space.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: What I like about Tello is that they let you
Speaker 1: customize your plan, So talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 1: You can have like a plan that literally has no
Speaker 1: data and just has like calling and texting, right, yeah, you.
Speaker 13: Saw that, right. I love this about Tello. It's really
Speaker 13: unique in the space. I can't say I've seen it
Speaker 13: from other carriers, but yeah, it's called the bill your
Speaker 13: own Plan, And yeah, you can actually get a plan
Speaker 13: with no data and you know between one hundred I
Speaker 13: think one hundred five hundred unlimited minutes that kind of thing.
Speaker 13: A voice man that is literally voice calls, which is
Speaker 13: funny because we haven't seen a limit on voice calls
Speaker 13: in a while, right, right, so right, yeah, so but
Speaker 13: you know you can customize that, like, you know, I
Speaker 13: don't make that many calls and then maybe I use
Speaker 13: a giga data a month or whatever. I really don't
Speaker 13: use that much. So okay, I'll do that. I'm going
Speaker 13: to do a plan with one giga data. I'm gonna
Speaker 13: do a plan and I'm gonna put one hundred voice
Speaker 13: minutes in there, and you can literally pay. You know,
Speaker 13: it's incredible to think about a single digit phone bill,
Speaker 13: you know, nine dollars per month, which is wild to
Speaker 13: think about today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you have let's say you have
Speaker 1: like a loved one that you are. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: they're they just stay at home, they're on Wi Fi
Speaker 1: all the time. You have an old iPhone or whatever.
Speaker 1: You can give them a plan for like seven bucks
Speaker 1: a month and then you know they're using just Wi
Speaker 1: Fi in the house for the data and then they
Speaker 1: can call and text you, you know, if they want to,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it kind of be a landline. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: So how did you test out these services? What did
Speaker 1: you do and what was your findings.
Speaker 13: I mean, I kind of use them as my own,
Speaker 13: like my own services for a while. I did not
Speaker 13: pour my number that is, you know, maybe we'll get
Speaker 13: into that later, but you know, I use them as
Speaker 13: my own. I take them out for.
Speaker 2: A week or two.
Speaker 13: Mostly around the two weeks period, I do speed tests
Speaker 13: at various locations, you know, in town, out more on
Speaker 13: the Boonie, somewhere closer to the city, in the city
Speaker 13: just and you know, I can do the official like
Speaker 13: speed test, and then I just do stuff that everyone
Speaker 13: else does, like you know, scrolling through Instagram or streaming
Speaker 13: YouTube video and music or that kind of thing, making
Speaker 13: phone calls, sending texts, so really just using it kind
Speaker 13: of like how I think anyone else.
Speaker 1: Is and what were your conclusions? What conclusions did you
Speaker 1: come to? Should people switch to these things?
Speaker 13: Well, there that is a question, rich, So you know,
Speaker 13: there can be a lot of merit or a lot
Speaker 13: of good reasons to go to Man and Tello. There's
Speaker 13: a lot of reasons to stick to a major carrier too,
Speaker 13: like T Mobile or Verizon or whoever, or AT and T.
Speaker 13: But yeah, there's like, you know, there's what's the biggest downside.
Speaker 13: What's the biggest downside of switching to something like this?
Speaker 13: So we know the upside is you save a lot
Speaker 13: of money, right.
Speaker 2: Right, that's the that's the upside.
Speaker 13: So okay, you can depend for some people for example,
Speaker 13: like you know, on a major carrier T Mobile or Rizon,
Speaker 13: AT and T, you get a lot more hot spot
Speaker 13: data usually, right, people value that, And that's actually a
Speaker 13: way that carriers make a lot of their money is
Speaker 13: hotspot data. And another upside of going with you know,
Speaker 13: sticking with the major carriers is smart watch and tablet connectivity,
Speaker 13: isn't it?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 13: Right, so yeah, meant and Tello, I don't believe have
Speaker 13: a lot of options if any last time I checked
Speaker 13: for smart watch or tablets.
Speaker 2: Now that's if you have.
Speaker 1: Just just to be clear, that's if you have a
Speaker 1: cellular watch, right, so you're your regular Apple watch, if
Speaker 1: it's just connected to your phone, it will work as
Speaker 1: it typically does. But this is for someone who has
Speaker 1: a cellular watch like myself that wants to go on
Speaker 1: a run without their phone and have their texts and
Speaker 1: calls still come through and data. So that's the difference there.
Speaker 1: A lot of these mv and o's do not have that.
Speaker 1: I think the only one I know that does is
Speaker 1: is Visible allows and they actually include that in their
Speaker 1: top in their main plan. Okay, so you have to
Speaker 1: think about that. What about international data international plans?
Speaker 13: Yes, some major carriers or most major carriers have some
Speaker 13: pretty decent you know, international sort of features.
Speaker 2: Usually almost every every carrier.
Speaker 13: Has something from Mexico and Canada, like there's something there
Speaker 13: you can talk, you can call there and call back
Speaker 13: texts and that kind of thing. It's usually okay, but
Speaker 13: you know, and Minton Tello actually have pretty good international
Speaker 13: open Actually sorry I should say Mints does really.
Speaker 2: Uh you know, they have sort of three set.
Speaker 13: Plans for varying amounts of days and data data and
Speaker 13: calls and texts and it's actually pretty good value. And
Speaker 13: I was looking at it myself and I was like,
Speaker 13: maybe for my next chip, this is kind of a
Speaker 13: good thing. Tello has options too. It's kind of like
Speaker 13: a flat rate depending on which country you visit, but
Speaker 13: it can cost the value is not there. That's just saying.
Speaker 1: Interesting there, so that's not good if you travel a lot.
Speaker 1: And finally, customer service, because that's another thing. People like
Speaker 1: to be able to walk into a store and get
Speaker 1: help if they need it, you know, with Verizon, T Mobile,
Speaker 1: AT and T with these two carriers, now Mint, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure with their you know, can you walk into
Speaker 1: a T Mobile store? I don't know because I know
Speaker 1: they're owned by them now, but I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the case. But you have to kind of you're on
Speaker 1: your own, right.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's kind Yeah, that's a good question about Mint
Speaker 13: and whether you can just go head into a T
Speaker 13: Mobile store. But yeah, that's that's one of the huge
Speaker 13: things about major retailers or major carriers, sorry, is that
Speaker 13: you can go to a physical store. It's kind of
Speaker 13: like why I really like, you know, Apple iPhones, even
Speaker 13: for someone who might like really like Android phones, there's
Speaker 13: something about having a physical store to go to if
Speaker 13: you have a problem. That's just so, you know, really
Speaker 13: reassuring and good to have. But yeah, no, I mean
Speaker 13: in terms of support. Actually, you know, Minton Tello have
Speaker 13: a pretty decent little system going on. You know, they
Speaker 13: have pretty good apps. Mint has a very good app,
Speaker 13: i should say. And you can get in touch with
Speaker 13: someone on the phone pretty easily, which I've tried myself.
Speaker 13: You can do a little chat service so you can
Speaker 13: talk to someone pretty quickly, and actually it's easier. I
Speaker 13: found it easier to get in touch with an actual
Speaker 13: person on Minton Tello than it was through you know, Verizon,
Speaker 13: which is what I'm currently using for now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's getting tougher and tougher on the on
Speaker 1: the traditional carriers to reach someone in person, which is
Speaker 1: kind of funny. Antonio, We're gonna leave it there, Antonio
Speaker 1: villis Boas, thanks so much for joining me today.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Rich Tech an electronics senior reporter at Business Insider. I'll
Speaker 1: put a link to his article comparing Mint Mobile and
Speaker 1: Tello Mobile on the website. Rich on tech dot TV
Speaker 1: eight a eight rich one one eight eight eight seven
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Speaker 1: of feedback on the caller who was blind and needed
Speaker 1: some help with transferring documents. Let's see Melody says in
Speaker 1: your show, you were contacted by a caller who was
Speaker 1: trying to get info off a CD didn't have a
Speaker 1: disk drive. Refer her to local Council for the to
Speaker 1: her local Council for the Blind, and they would help
Speaker 1: her resolve her problem. They have multiple resources for her
Speaker 1: to tap into. There you go, Counsel for the Blind.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Teresa says, you can have her reach out
Speaker 1: to the Braille Institute in Santa Barbara. They have very
Speaker 1: significant resources in the tech world for blind people these days.
Speaker 1: There you go, thanks Teresa. Yeah, I mean that's that's
Speaker 1: kind of what I was getting at. It has to
Speaker 1: be some sort of community help because you know, I
Speaker 1: don't You're not going to buy a new computer just
Speaker 1: to do this.
Speaker 2: You gotta you gotta lean on someone.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: Did we just play that?
Speaker 4: Did you play?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That's how I said that. That was definitely lean on me. See,
Speaker 2: this is how the brain works. I look like I
Speaker 2: wouldn't have said those words.
Speaker 1: Oh man, okay, Uh let's see Rich Randy said, I
Speaker 1: wonder what took you so long? And using these echoes.
Speaker 1: I have seven of them scattered all over the house.
Speaker 1: I have several groups depending on how I want to
Speaker 1: spread the content and where I have them in sync.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you give them different names like I do,
Speaker 1: so they respond to my command when I'm speaking to another.
Speaker 1: I get clear sound even on the older models, but
Speaker 1: I do know the premium ones are more vibrant, which
Speaker 1: I do not have. Uh yeah, I'm wondering whether you
Speaker 1: bought the more expensive or the very basic. I'm buying
Speaker 1: them all. So I've got they've got like three different levels.
Speaker 1: They've got like the tiny little dots, then and they've
Speaker 1: got the Echo. Then they've got the Echo Premium, and
Speaker 1: they've got that one giant soundbar or sound whatever you
Speaker 1: call it.
Speaker 2: It's like two hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna eventually get them all, but I'm doing it,
Speaker 1: you know, I do things slow, so I'm getting like
Speaker 1: one every week. Thanks for that, Randy. Let's go to
Speaker 1: John in more Park. John, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Hi, Rich, Hi, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 12: I have I've had for seventeen years. I've had an
Speaker 12: iPhone through AT and t okay, and I've just turned
Speaker 12: eighty one. And I was thinking that in case I
Speaker 12: fall in the shower, I was thinking it might be
Speaker 12: an idea to get some kind of device to protect me. Yeah,
Speaker 12: I was thinking whether a choice between an Apple walch
Speaker 12: versus a metal alert watch. Apparently the two compete.
Speaker 11: With each other.
Speaker 12: One goes through the Apple system, the other goes through
Speaker 12: the Metal Alert system. Do you have an opinion as to, uh,
Speaker 12: which is a better viable choice?
Speaker 1: So the meta alert is that the brand name med alerts.
Speaker 12: A brand name. Okay, yeah, you're about ten different brands
Speaker 12: out there. Met Alert, I think, is the one that's talented. Okay,
Speaker 12: you're so Valley More Park Area. But they're all more
Speaker 12: or less competitive.
Speaker 1: So my my thought on this is if you want
Speaker 1: something that's simple and dedicated and doesn't really now how much.
Speaker 1: See here's the thing. This meta alert watch is about
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty bucks. How much is the plan?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: After the first year?
Speaker 1: Okay, so the first year is included the four G
Speaker 1: so that's good. After the first year, you have to
Speaker 1: renew for twelve months at seventy five dollars.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty good deal.
Speaker 1: So my thought is that if you just want something
Speaker 1: simple and easy and you don't want to have to
Speaker 1: deal with the whole connection to the Apple iPhone and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, I would say that this meta alert
Speaker 1: looks pretty good. If you want all the extra features
Speaker 1: that you get with an iPhone and an Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: then maybe go with the Apple Watch. The battery life,
Speaker 1: let's see, so the battery life, how long is the
Speaker 1: battery on this thing?
Speaker 2: Oh, up to one hundred hours. That's like four days.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 12: Well, I already I already have an iPhone. I've had
Speaker 12: an iPhone for seventeen years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I assume I just.
Speaker 12: Buy on my Apple Watch. How much does an Apple Watch?
Speaker 12: The extra got to cost me.
Speaker 2: About three hundred bucks. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: So with the fall detection on the Apple Watch, if
Speaker 1: you want it to work everywhere you are and anywhere
Speaker 1: you are, even if your phone is not nearby, you
Speaker 1: have to get a cellular Apple Watch, which is a
Speaker 1: little bit more, and then you have to pay ten
Speaker 1: bucks usually ten to twenty dollars a month for that cellular.
Speaker 12: So you have to pay extra for a cellular Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: If okay, so let's just say you're in the shower,
Speaker 1: your iPhone, your you have the Apple Watch on, and
Speaker 1: the iPhone is nearby within range of the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: If you fell in that shower, your Apple Watch would
Speaker 1: still communicate via bluetooth to your phone and say, okay,
Speaker 1: let's call nine one one.
Speaker 2: Okay, that would work.
Speaker 1: But if your phone was in a different room or
Speaker 1: it was too far away from your Apple Watch, it
Speaker 1: may not make that connection. And that's what I'm concerned about.
Speaker 1: So that's why when you have a cellular Apple Watch,
Speaker 1: if you're specifically using it for sort of the emergency services,
Speaker 1: that's what you want because it's it's gonna work no
Speaker 1: matter what. It's gonna work because it has its own
Speaker 1: connection two nine one one.
Speaker 12: It doesn't that that's what I want. I'll just go
Speaker 12: Can I go to the AT and D store and
Speaker 12: buy a cellular Apple Watch from them?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, absolutely, and they'll they'll be happy to sell
Speaker 2: you that.
Speaker 12: Oh I don't care about three hundred and fifty dollars.
Speaker 12: That makes yeah difference to me.
Speaker 1: I can afford that now are you do you are
Speaker 1: you like, do you do any fitness stuff? Do you
Speaker 1: walk or any do you do you care about any
Speaker 1: of the fitness.
Speaker 12: Features W I had problems with my knees. Okay, I dive,
Speaker 12: but I don't do a lot of walking.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, look the Apple Watch.
Speaker 1: If you get an Apple Watch cellular, you set up
Speaker 1: the fall detection, it's going to do what you need
Speaker 1: to do, and if you ever took a fall, hard fall,
Speaker 1: it's going to dial nine one one. It's not perfect
Speaker 1: it you know, it's not one hundred percent, but you'll
Speaker 1: also be able to set it up where if you
Speaker 1: need emergency medical assistance, you can press the button on
Speaker 1: there five times fast and it will dial nine one
Speaker 1: one for you. You can alert your emergency contacts if
Speaker 1: you need that. It'll monitor your heart rate. If you
Speaker 1: know something goes high low there, you can it'll send
Speaker 1: you a notification. So the Apple Watch is going to
Speaker 1: be if you have an iPhone, you've had it for
Speaker 1: seventeen years, you're pretty familiar with this technology. I think
Speaker 1: that yeah, I think maybe you just go with the
Speaker 1: Apple Watch, and I think you'll find some other benefits
Speaker 1: to the Apple Watch as well that you probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: get from the metal alert device.
Speaker 12: And and I assume the AT and T score, which
Speaker 12: set it all up for me ring the phone.
Speaker 5: And oh yeah, I can stay here.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll take that right, Yeah, they'll take that extra
Speaker 1: step with you. Yeah, go to the AT and T store,
Speaker 1: get the watch, and good thinking. I always wonder about that.
Speaker 1: You know, you're in the shower. In Europe, they've got
Speaker 1: these like pull strings you can pull that'll file for help.
Speaker 2: What would you do if you're alone? You just gotta
Speaker 2: lay there until someone finds you.
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Speaker 1: I get the newsletter and I listen to you every Saturday.
Speaker 1: I hate to be a Karen, But the caller who
Speaker 1: called in because he wasn't getting alerted to his text
Speaker 1: while driving, is it really a good thing to be
Speaker 1: texting and driving? It is illegal, right? I agree, Mary,
Speaker 1: Yes you should not be texting and driving. But here's
Speaker 1: the deal. He wanted to be alerted when he got
Speaker 1: a text, and so yes, that would lead me to
Speaker 1: believe that he wants to hear that text or somehow
Speaker 1: interact with the text.
Speaker 2: Now, I agree.
Speaker 1: I think that these the safest thing with your phone
Speaker 1: is to not be using it at all while you're driving.
Speaker 1: The reality is people do use their phones in safe ways,
Speaker 1: which is CarPlay, Android Auto using your voice. But I
Speaker 1: think that any level of using your phone in the
Speaker 1: car is distracting. And I even find myself I have
Speaker 1: my phone set to do not disturb while driving, and
Speaker 1: I have all notifications sort of turned off, so I
Speaker 1: don't even get tempted by them because here in La,
Speaker 1: I don't know about your town. But what happens is
Speaker 1: not only do I see everyone on their phone while
Speaker 1: they're driving, which it is illegal, but when people come
Speaker 1: to a stop light, what do they do? They pull
Speaker 1: out their phone and then you get that person at
Speaker 1: the stop light that's on their phone. The light changes
Speaker 1: green and they just stopped there. And nine times out
Speaker 1: of ten, what are they doing. They're just checking their Instagram,
Speaker 1: their social media. Please be safe, And you're also distracted
Speaker 1: when you're doing that, you know you're not focusing on
Speaker 1: the task at hand. And I'll be honest, I'm guilty
Speaker 1: of this myself sometimes where I just want to, you know,
Speaker 1: look at my phone or see what's happening right, see
Speaker 1: notification come through on my screen. It lights up, and
Speaker 1: I really have to fight the urge, and I say,
Speaker 1: I don't need to do that.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: I need to focus on driving, keeping myself alive, keeping
Speaker 1: the people around me alive, not crashing.
Speaker 2: And it's it's tough.
Speaker 1: Our phones are very, very distracting in every aspect of
Speaker 1: our lives. You're working, you're trying to write something, you're
Speaker 1: trying to do something. So you get that notification. Next
Speaker 1: thing you know, you're you're off and you check that notification,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you start checking other things
Speaker 1: on your phone.
Speaker 2: We all do it.
Speaker 1: Let's go to uh Lonnie in Riverside, Lonnie, you're on
Speaker 1: with rich.
Speaker 2: Hello, Lonnie? Are you there? Did I do?
Speaker 5: Hello?
Speaker 4: One?
Speaker 2: There you are? You're on, You're live on.
Speaker 4: Get a little static in there. I have an issue.
Speaker 4: I have I fourteen and I use that phone quat
Speaker 4: for my driving for the Google Maps. In the last
Speaker 4: couple of weeks, if not keeping up the date, keeping
Speaker 4: up to where I'm I my location, and it keeps
Speaker 4: paying proceed to root, proceed to root. And it just
Speaker 4: happened boom one day I started doing that.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's sun.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you somehow either your phone either stopped
Speaker 1: giving it access to the GPS and that that's my
Speaker 1: initial thoughts. So there's a couple of things you can do.
Speaker 1: First off, you can go to your Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: Google Maps on your iPhone, you.
Speaker 4: Said, right, I mean it's the issue of tucted maps.
Speaker 4: But it's my phone.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's your phone. I think, well, have
Speaker 1: you tried to Have you tried Apple Maps? Does that work?
Speaker 4: I haven't?
Speaker 1: Okay, So first thing I would do just make sure
Speaker 1: the GPS is actually working on your phone. So type
Speaker 1: in maps on your phone. You should have Apple Maps there.
Speaker 1: And you know the thing with any mapping program. So
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things that happen. Number one, your
Speaker 1: phone could get out of sync with the GPS if
Speaker 1: it doesn't have a clear signal. Sometimes it could be laggy.
Speaker 1: Like when I was in New York City. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: I was walking and my phone could not get a
Speaker 1: lock on the GPS. I'd never had that happen before,
Speaker 1: and I said, what the heck is going on here?
Speaker 1: And my friend that I was walking with, he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've got a Samsung, let me try it online. And
Speaker 1: he was like cause he kept like saying, Rich, what's
Speaker 1: going on? You can't like, you can't follow maps on
Speaker 1: your phone. I said, I've never had this problem in
Speaker 1: my life. I go, I feel like we're in a
Speaker 1: magnetic like black hole here, because it's just my phone
Speaker 1: will not work. And so he took out his phone seriously,
Speaker 1: and within three minutes he was like, Rich, I can't
Speaker 1: get my maps either, Like I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: on anyway, So that could happen. Now, it depends you're
Speaker 1: in Riverside. You know, you're in a car, you got
Speaker 1: wide open spaces. It's you know, that's probably not the issue.
Speaker 1: But the thing is you can tap if you ever
Speaker 1: need to do this, you can tap on the blue
Speaker 1: dot on Google Maps and that will help your phone
Speaker 1: get a lock on GPS. And sometimes it might say, hey,
Speaker 1: can you do a figure eight with your phone, and
Speaker 1: that will help your phone figure out where the GPS
Speaker 1: is and get a better lock on the satellite signals.
Speaker 1: So that's number one. Number two. When you're on your map,
Speaker 1: sometimes you get turned around or you turn off that
Speaker 1: little icon that says follow me, and that is the
Speaker 1: icon in the right side.
Speaker 2: Of your phone.
Speaker 1: It looks like an arrow icon, and so if you
Speaker 1: tap that, if you toggle it, that should also help
Speaker 1: you get a lock on where your directions are and
Speaker 1: where you're heading, and sometimes it'll bring you back to
Speaker 1: like where you are and that will recenter everything. The
Speaker 1: third thing to check is inside your settings. So if
Speaker 1: you go into settings and then go scroll all the
Speaker 1: way down until you see Google Maps, and I'm doing
Speaker 1: this as we speak, and inside Google Maps there is
Speaker 1: location access, and mine says the options are never, ask
Speaker 1: next time or when I share while using the app,
Speaker 1: or always, And then there's a further option that says
Speaker 1: precise location. What you want this to say is while
Speaker 1: using the app and precise location. And so if you want,
Speaker 1: you know, I want Google Maps to always have access
Speaker 1: to your location, even in the background, to get like
Speaker 1: real time traffic updates and stuff, then I would select always.
Speaker 1: But for me, I just need Maps to work when
Speaker 1: I'm actually using the app, So select while using the
Speaker 1: app and precise location. Now, Lannie, if all of those
Speaker 1: things are selected on your phone and Maps is still
Speaker 1: not working, what I would do is delete the Maps
Speaker 1: app from your phone, restart your phone, reinstall it, and
Speaker 1: that should take.
Speaker 2: Care of it.
Speaker 1: But those are the things that I would do to
Speaker 1: make sure it's working. But there's no reason why Google
Speaker 1: Maps would not be working on your phone unless the
Speaker 1: GPS has burned out on your phone. But I think
Speaker 1: you'll be able to figure that out pretty quickly when
Speaker 1: you open up Yeah point, but start, yes, very much.
Speaker 1: Start by checking that Apple Maps. Make sure that works.
Speaker 1: And who knows, maybe when you open Apple Maps you'll say, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm in love with this, I'll just switch to Apple Maps.
Speaker 2: That's what Apple wants you to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know people literally that think they're using
Speaker 1: Google Maps and they're actually using Apple Maps. Because you know,
Speaker 1: how do you know that? Unless you're like a tech person,
Speaker 1: you really don't most of the time. Samsung and LG
Speaker 1: News this week for their smart TV Samsung promised five
Speaker 1: years of updates for their web os. They're celebrating let's
Speaker 1: see ten years of webOS. That's their kind of like
Speaker 1: smart TV system. They're doing a whole bunch of discounts
Speaker 1: and things on their smart TVs from twenty eighteen and up.
Speaker 1: Apple Tv three months free trial, Apple Music three months
Speaker 1: free trial paramount plus fifty percent off an annual subscription.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good deal. Crunchy Roll thirty days free trial.
Speaker 1: webOS will give new TVs five years of updates. Not
Speaker 1: to be outdone, Samsung comes along and says, you know what,
Speaker 1: We'll take your five years and we'll raise you. We'll
Speaker 1: do seven years of updates. So now now we have
Speaker 1: these smart TV wars because people use their their TV
Speaker 1: for the smarts. They download the apps instead of getting
Speaker 1: like a third party Roku or Fire TV stick or
Speaker 1: Apple TV, they just use what's built in.
Speaker 2: I just switched to mine.
Speaker 1: I've got the high sense, and I just switched to
Speaker 1: the Google TV built in.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 1: Anyway, that's a whole nother discussion of whether to use
Speaker 1: the built in or the third party. But anyway, Samsung
Speaker 1: says they're trying to fend off these Chinese manufacturers, the
Speaker 1: tcls of the world in the high sense because people
Speaker 1: are switching to them. And so now they're giving seven
Speaker 1: years of their ties in operating system updates. What they
Speaker 1: used to do is just do a couple of years
Speaker 1: of updates for their security updates. Now they're actually going
Speaker 1: to upgrade that entire operating system, the one that powers
Speaker 1: the smart TVs, because they know that people are using
Speaker 1: their TVs for a long time and they're using that
Speaker 1: TV software and they want to compete against the likes
Speaker 1: of Roku and also Google TV, and also Apple TV
Speaker 1: and what's the other one, Amazon. So it's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff, a lot of a lot of things happening here. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's a good thing for consumers. We're getting more updates
Speaker 1: for our gadgets for long. It's a good thing because
Speaker 1: we're keeping them longer. Eight a eight rich one on
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Speaker 1: to Patty and Van Eyes. Patty, you're on with Rich.
Speaker 14: Hi.
Speaker 8: Nice listening to your show.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 14: I was wondering how I can get some original music
Speaker 14: off of my parents old two thousand and two Gateway computer.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Gateway.
Speaker 1: I loved my Gateway computer growing up. Remember, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you remember this, Patty on ho how old
Speaker 1: you are? But they They used to have this the
Speaker 1: cow spots. That was like their big thing.
Speaker 14: That's what it has.
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh my.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I love Gateway Ted. Wait, Oh my gosh. I
Speaker 1: used to wait for the my PC World magazine to
Speaker 1: come in the mail. This is how old it was.
Speaker 1: I told you I was getting older. I used to
Speaker 1: wait for that magazine. In the middle of the magazine,
Speaker 1: they must have bought out all the pages. It was
Speaker 1: so thick you could put you can like, move right
Speaker 1: to it. What horse, Yes, I used to yeah, the mail.
Speaker 1: The male person used to come by horse and drop
Speaker 1: it off of my house, horse and buggy, and it
Speaker 1: was just, oh my gosh. I used to flip right
Speaker 1: to that page that the center of the magazine, and
Speaker 1: they had all these ads for Gateway two thousand.
Speaker 2: Anyway, go ahead, Patty, what's your question?
Speaker 9: And so so I have.
Speaker 14: Original music on there that I want to get off.
Speaker 14: But the computer, because they didn't listen to me, is
Speaker 14: infected with a trojan horse. When you turn the computer on,
Speaker 14: it says it'll clear it, So it clears it and
Speaker 14: then I can listen to the music. But I want
Speaker 14: to I just want to get it off there and
Speaker 14: transfer it and I wonder does that mean that I
Speaker 14: would be transferring that Trojan horse to whatever I put
Speaker 14: the music on.
Speaker 2: Good question.
Speaker 1: Maybe it depends how you know, how far that virus
Speaker 1: is around that come. I yeah, I would definitely be
Speaker 1: be careful. I think what you can do is probably
Speaker 1: boot this computer into a into safe mode.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of that?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 12: Huh?
Speaker 1: And you know, first off, well, this computer is not
Speaker 1: connected to the internet, is it Okay? So I would
Speaker 1: just boot it into safe mode and then transfer the
Speaker 1: files that way, and then once you get them on
Speaker 1: the new computer, I would maybe transfer one and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe run like a virus check on it, and then
Speaker 1: you know, see where, see where it's at, see if
Speaker 1: it comes up with anything. And then if it doesn't,
Speaker 1: you know, I would transfer them all to a flask
Speaker 1: drive and that should be good. The thing is, if
Speaker 1: you're if you're only like transferring these files like these,
Speaker 1: uh you know, like the main like are they m
Speaker 1: P three's or.
Speaker 14: What I think they're m P three's, it's not a
Speaker 14: a system called fat.
Speaker 8: Noise P H A T.
Speaker 1: I don't know your parents sound cool, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's if they're they got something fat with a pH
Speaker 1: then they're cool. So uh but yeah, I would I
Speaker 1: would just transfer just the MP three's and once you
Speaker 1: get them, you know, onto a flash drive, I would
Speaker 1: scan that flash drive with the new with the other
Speaker 1: computer and see if anything comes up on the virus checker,
Speaker 1: and then if not, you know, you should be okay.
Speaker 1: But I would also maybe just drag them into the cloud.
Speaker 1: And I think your cloud storage, I mean, it's probably
Speaker 1: the virus is probably not gonna be attached to these
Speaker 1: files unless it's in the file and it's inexecutable. So
Speaker 1: I think you're probably gonna be okay. But I would
Speaker 1: take those steps I mentioned. Thanks for the question, Patty.
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Speaker 1: Just in time for football season, Apple Sports is updating
Speaker 1: their iPhone app.
Speaker 2: So this app launched. I don't if it was earlier
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 10: I guess.
Speaker 1: It's a very simple app for the iPhone provides real
Speaker 1: time scores, stats, and more for various sports. They are
Speaker 1: adding new features in time for NFL and college football.
Speaker 1: Enhanced play by play with quick access to scoring drives,
Speaker 1: a dynamic drive tracker so you can see where the
Speaker 1: ball is on the field. You can follow the top
Speaker 1: twenty five college football teams, real time score stats, and
Speaker 1: live betting odds.
Speaker 2: And this is a moment of contention.
Speaker 1: Not everyone likes the betting odds inside this app, so
Speaker 1: you can turn those off if you want. All right,
Speaker 1: looks like our guest is here joining me now? Is
Speaker 1: let's see Hold on, I gotta mute some stuff here
Speaker 1: because I am Let's see there we go. Joining me
Speaker 1: now is the TV answer man Philip Swan. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show, Philip How are you. I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 11: I was back to your call, but don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we used to call our guests and now we
Speaker 1: just kind of use Google Meet because it's easier. So
Speaker 1: thanks for joining me no matter what. So I ended
Speaker 1: up selecting my sports streaming service before I spoke to you.
Speaker 1: I hope I made the right decision. So for us,
Speaker 1: first off, let's talk about this idea of the streaming.
Speaker 1: How where do we stand, Like, you know, the games,
Speaker 1: they're kind of everywhere nowadays.
Speaker 10: They are, I mean, sports streaming right now is so
Speaker 10: byzantine busit team being basically or split in so many
Speaker 10: different ways. It's really hard for people to follow it
Speaker 10: figure out what's on what service and when, and how
Speaker 10: much it cost and how long.
Speaker 11: You should keep these services. So it's a very confusing
Speaker 11: time for a lot of folks.
Speaker 1: And it's so confusing that I mentioned and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you saw this obviously. ESPN this week came out with
Speaker 1: their you know where to watch service, which is great,
Speaker 1: and then you also have Fubo has one, and then
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of different places you can
Speaker 1: try to see where the game is on. But it
Speaker 1: still doesn't get around the fact of all of these
Speaker 1: blackouts and you can't necessarily watch every single game, and
Speaker 1: some services have it if it's not on the local
Speaker 1: channel in your area. I mean, it's really Is there
Speaker 1: anything more confusing than finding your sports game on streaming
Speaker 1: or you know, rock Cable?
Speaker 11: Probably not.
Speaker 10: You know, we've had blackouts for a long time, so
Speaker 10: that's not terribly new. But what is new is that
Speaker 10: exclusive rights to a lot of these games now. By example,
Speaker 10: the first week of the Packards and Eagles on Friday
Speaker 10: only on Peacock, not even NBC, So you have to
Speaker 10: get Peacock. Peacock doesn't have a free trial, so you're
Speaker 10: going to have to subscribe for at least a month
Speaker 10: just to watch that one single game if it's important
Speaker 10: to you. So that's the kind of thing that's going on.
Speaker 11: Then a lot of people very frustrated.
Speaker 10: Did you have to get at least a one month
Speaker 10: subscription to something just to watch a single game?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I remember last year the Chiefs game was on
Speaker 1: Peacock and I think it was exclusive.
Speaker 2: And my wife, you know, she was a big.
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift fan of course, traveled over to Kelsey and
Speaker 1: so I was like, wait, you're telling me that this
Speaker 1: game is on Peacock by like by itself, like it's
Speaker 1: nowhere else, And she's like, yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 1: I said, there's no way, and sure enough, I think
Speaker 1: that's what's happening.
Speaker 11: One hundred and.
Speaker 10: Ten million dollars for the rights of that game. And
Speaker 10: obviously they weren't going to give it away easily.
Speaker 1: No, And then you know Netflix has games, this year's
Speaker 1: Prime Video has games. I mean, it's really all over
Speaker 1: the play So what do you think is the best service?
Speaker 1: How do we pick the service to subscribe to for
Speaker 1: these games? Like, you can't just go with like YouTube
Speaker 1: or direct TV or Fubo and get all of them.
Speaker 11: Huh No, you can't.
Speaker 10: And you know, you really couldn't do this before either
Speaker 10: you couldn't get a single cable service or satellite service.
Speaker 11: It would necessarily get you every single game.
Speaker 10: To get every single game, you'd have to, by example,
Speaker 10: in the old days, get Direct TV in the Sunday
Speaker 10: ticket and pay a lot of money to do it.
Speaker 10: So this is kind of a version of that that
Speaker 10: you have to still spend a lot of money to
Speaker 10: if you really want everything. But basically you got to
Speaker 10: kind of break this down in two different ways. You
Speaker 10: have national sports and regional sports. And if you're looking
Speaker 10: basically for national sports, which would be ESPN, you know,
Speaker 10: FS ONE, Fox, CBS, whatever, you can get pretty much
Speaker 10: all of that from YouTube, TV, Direct TVs stream or
Speaker 10: a cable or satellite service.
Speaker 11: But if you're looking for regional sports, or you're looking
Speaker 11: for that exclusive game on Peacock or ESPN plus, that's
Speaker 11: when it gets complicated and can get expensive.
Speaker 10: And by example, right now, I always say when people
Speaker 10: ask me, what's the one sports service or one service
Speaker 10: streaming service? You get to get all sports? And I
Speaker 10: normally say direct TV stream because they have all the
Speaker 10: national sports networks and they have almost every regional sports network.
Speaker 10: But guess what might happen tomorrow? What they might go
Speaker 10: blackout on the Disney Channel.
Speaker 1: Right because that was the thing with Fubo. I was
Speaker 1: looking at Fubo yesterday. They don't have any of the
Speaker 1: Warner channels like Food Network. Not that I want to
Speaker 1: watch that, but my wife. If we're paying eighty bucks
Speaker 1: a month for cable, my wife might be like, oh
Speaker 1: cool and I can watch the Food Network.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, actually, you can't.
Speaker 10: Yeah, if you have Fubo, you're gonna have to get
Speaker 10: Max or you're gonna have to get some other service
Speaker 10: that has the Turner Networks TV may lose ESPN and
Speaker 10: all the Disney channels. And so if that occurs, I
Speaker 10: won't be saying to people anymore, Hey, get direct TV
Speaker 10: stream if you're just interested in national and regional sports.
Speaker 2: Now, how do you know if you need Sunday ticket that?
Speaker 13: If you?
Speaker 1: If you, is it one of those things where like
Speaker 1: you know when you see it, like you just you
Speaker 1: figure it out. Like if you're if you're living in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and you want to follow the Jets, is
Speaker 1: that when you have to have the Sunday ticket.
Speaker 11: Yes, I've said this for years.
Speaker 10: A Sunday ticket is basically set up for the guy
Speaker 10: or a girl who lives in Chicago and was a
Speaker 10: Dolphins fan and got transplanted for a job or whatever,
Speaker 10: and they boy, they miss their Dolphins and if they
Speaker 10: get the Sunday ticket, they're gonna get it.
Speaker 11: They're gonna get that game.
Speaker 10: There's also, of course, an element for fantasy players and
Speaker 10: gamblers who just simply want to watch a number of
Speaker 10: games because they want to follow how their players do,
Speaker 10: either through uh parlays or their.
Speaker 11: Fancy football teams. And that's a big thing for Sunday tickets,
Speaker 11: a big thing for those folks. So but those are
Speaker 11: kind of the audiences where the Sunday ticket works best.
Speaker 1: And finally, you know, I saw the the only league
Speaker 1: that I know of that's done this is MLS. You know,
Speaker 1: Apple bought the rights to that and they did what
Speaker 1: I've wanted every league to do, which is you buy
Speaker 1: that you know package from Apple, and you get every
Speaker 1: single game. There are no more blockouts. That's just not
Speaker 1: a thing on that service. If you've subscribed, you get everything.
Speaker 1: Will that ever happen with the major leagues like the
Speaker 1: NBA and NFL and you know, I don't know what
Speaker 1: else whatever else there is out there.
Speaker 10: It's what Rob Bamford is really pushing forward Major League Baseball.
Speaker 11: He if he got his Christmas wish this year, it'll
Speaker 11: be the Diamond Sports.
Speaker 10: The owner of the Valley Sports Networks goes bankrupt and
Speaker 10: stays bank well they've already gone bankrupt, but they stay bankrupt,
Speaker 10: and they turned the rights over to the MLB team
Speaker 10: that they have the rights too, and they turn them
Speaker 10: back to the league is man for it wants to
Speaker 10: put together a package that he would sell through MLB
Speaker 10: dot TV that would not have local blackouts, and you know,
Speaker 10: you obviously would have to pay for that luxury, but yeah,
Speaker 10: you would be able to do that.
Speaker 11: That's his wish.
Speaker 1: It would make life a whole lot simpler. And I
Speaker 1: think with you know, with the way that this world
Speaker 1: is going with all the streaming, there's so much money
Speaker 1: like still like there's like by the NFL and all
Speaker 1: these places selling off like a couple of games. They're
Speaker 1: still making a lot of money by doing that.
Speaker 2: Huh. And that's really what it comes down to.
Speaker 11: Yeah, sports continues to be the driver of your ship.
Speaker 10: It's the one thing that the network, since services, can
Speaker 10: guarantee will bring in a big audience. And consequently the
Speaker 10: leaks now they can charge incredible amount of money for
Speaker 10: the rights.
Speaker 1: Well it got me to subscribe to I ended up
Speaker 1: going with YouTube TV for various reasons after a lot
Speaker 1: of kind of thought. I think Fubo is a little
Speaker 1: bit better in LA when when you need the regionals
Speaker 1: like the if you want to watch like the Clippers
Speaker 1: and the sports net.
Speaker 2: You know, rich, what's that.
Speaker 11: Direct TV Stream has a Spectrum Sports net and the
Speaker 11: Lakers channel, so you can watch the Lakers and the
Speaker 11: Dodgers on string direct TV stream not on Yeah.
Speaker 1: I will tell you I did try direct TV stream
Speaker 1: last year and the only the only downside I had
Speaker 1: is that the app looks like it was created by
Speaker 1: people who are not necessarily like you know, like, it
Speaker 1: looked like, I don't know, like you know, how direct TV.
Speaker 2: It's just Direct TV.
Speaker 9: Like I.
Speaker 1: I think it's great with the coverage they have, but
Speaker 1: the app could be better, whereas Fubo and YouTube are
Speaker 1: very very high tech.
Speaker 10: I agree with you, it's clearly done by kind of
Speaker 10: the old school, and in part because they're trying to
Speaker 10: get direct TV satellite audience, which is obviously older to
Speaker 10: come over to TV stream and so they feel more
Speaker 10: comfortable with that old interface.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 1: There you have it all right. We're gonna leave it there,
Speaker 1: Phillip Swan, thanks so much for joining me. Tvanswerman dot
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