Speaker 1: The last pass hack was worse than initially thought. Sunday
Speaker 1: Ticket going to YouTube, you can bet it won't be free.
Speaker 1: Which smartphone has the best camera in twenty twenty two?
Speaker 1: The answer might surprise you. Plus your tech questions answered?
Speaker 1: What's going on on Rich Demiro And this is Rich
Speaker 1: on Tech. This show where I talk about the tech
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about, and it's where
Speaker 1: I answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech
Speaker 1: reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles and soon
Speaker 1: live on radio stations coast to coast. That is right.
Speaker 1: This is my very last podcast, but also the start
Speaker 1: of something new. I know, this is so wild. I've
Speaker 1: been doing this show for over three hundred episodes since
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, I think it was, and from day one,
Speaker 1: if you've listened to this show since the first day
Speaker 1: I did it, my goal has always been to make
Speaker 1: this a useful show and to answer the questions that
Speaker 1: I get so that everyone else can learn from those questions.
Speaker 1: And a big part of that was always live callers. Now,
Speaker 1: if you were with me in the early days, you
Speaker 1: know that I experimented a lot with a lot of
Speaker 1: different ways to take live callers, but it was always
Speaker 1: a challenge because the technology was tricky. Doing it myself
Speaker 1: was tricky. Screening calls was tricky. Later on, you know,
Speaker 1: I did have a board that would allow me to
Speaker 1: do it, but the problem was, you know, I did
Speaker 1: the show at different times, and so it was tough
Speaker 1: to tell people to call in because I didn't really
Speaker 1: know when I was doing the show, and so it
Speaker 1: was very vexing to get the live callers. And so
Speaker 1: the idea was always like, Wow, if I could do
Speaker 1: this on the radio where people knew that they can
Speaker 1: call in from you know, eleven to two, that would
Speaker 1: be ideal. And so the idea of doing this show
Speaker 1: on the radio has always been a dream. Just doing
Speaker 1: radio in general has always been a dream of mine.
Speaker 1: If you've listened to this, you know that, I mean
Speaker 1: you can just tell because look, I mean, who else,
Speaker 1: Oh wow, this music is still going. Who else would
Speaker 1: use things like this, you know, and like all these
Speaker 1: little sound effects and things.
Speaker 2: I just I love radio. It's just fun to me.
Speaker 1: So the reality is, you know, the story Leo Laporte
Speaker 1: retiring from radio and that opened up a time slot
Speaker 1: and KFI Premiere Networks was kind enough to say, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: do you want to do your podcast on the radio
Speaker 1: and basically take over this time slot? And so I
Speaker 1: said absolutely. So the radio show is going to be
Speaker 1: called Rich on Tech. It's going to be based here
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles at KFI, but it will be heard
Speaker 1: on stations across the nation. Now I don't know what
Speaker 1: all those stations are just yet, because basically they have
Speaker 1: to figure out where that's going to happen. Each station
Speaker 1: has to say, yeah, well run Rich. She sounds pretty good.
Speaker 1: And so I will share more information as I have it.
Speaker 2: I don't have all the answers just yet, believe me.
Speaker 1: And if you've been listening to this podcast and wondering,
Speaker 1: like Rich, what's going on? Why did it take you
Speaker 1: so long to do another one? It is all consuming
Speaker 1: to figure out how to not only negotiate a new show,
Speaker 1: but also navigate the steps involved in creating a new
Speaker 1: radio show. If you've listened to my podcast over the years,
Speaker 1: I think the new show is going to be very,
Speaker 1: very similar. The biggest difference is that we will have
Speaker 1: actual callers. There will be a call screen, or there
Speaker 1: will be people like you can call in. I feel
Speaker 1: like this show is kind of like office hours for me.
Speaker 1: So you know, Saturday mornings eleven or two. You've got
Speaker 1: a problem, you can call Rich. You want a opinion,
Speaker 1: you have a question, just call me and we'll work
Speaker 1: it out. We'll see if I can help you out
Speaker 1: on it. But my plan, like I said earlier, is
Speaker 1: to make this the most useful show to everyone every week.
Speaker 1: I want to make it packed with tech tips, reviews,
Speaker 1: cool new apps, websites, information to keep you safe from
Speaker 1: scams and other online stuff. I had a major scare
Speaker 1: yesterday with my Google account. I don't know what happened,
Speaker 1: but I logged onto a Wi Fi and within minutes
Speaker 1: Google shut down my entire computer. I'm talking Chrome, I'm
Speaker 1: talking every website that is affiliated with Google. It signed
Speaker 1: me out on all of my devices. So if you're
Speaker 1: keeping your password in your Gmail for something, you would
Speaker 1: have a very tough time to recover that password.
Speaker 2: Let's say let's.
Speaker 1: Say you keep I mean, just my point is, there
Speaker 1: is a scenario where Google, if it detects unusual activity
Speaker 1: on your account, will log you out across all of
Speaker 1: your devices everywhere, and you will not have access to anything.
Speaker 1: And if that happens, you better be prepared. I was
Speaker 1: grossly unprepared, and it really took me back and I
Speaker 1: ended up having to spend like ten minutes trying to
Speaker 1: get back into my accounts. Luckily I was able to,
Speaker 1: but man, it was scary. I mean really really scary.
Speaker 1: So back your stuff up, have your passwords. It asked
Speaker 1: me for my you know, backup codes that you originally
Speaker 1: that it originally generated when I first signed up with
Speaker 1: my Google account, like you know, a decade ago. I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't have those. How am I going
Speaker 1: to find those? I was able to recover my account,
Speaker 1: but wow, was that scary. So just just you know,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of stuff that I'll talk about. And
Speaker 1: now that I've experienced that, I have a newfound appreciation
Speaker 1: for just being really really careful with stuff. And oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, that was scary. Anyway, I don't really know
Speaker 1: what happened. Actually, I think it was something on the
Speaker 1: Wi Fi that just kind of Google was like, ah, ah,
Speaker 1: don't we don't like this. They mentioned malware, but I
Speaker 1: don't think my system has malware on it anyway, So
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that kind of stuff. I'm also excited
Speaker 1: to bring on interesting guests. So I'm going to have
Speaker 1: an ever changing array of guests to talk about a
Speaker 1: wide topic of issues. People that are smarter than me
Speaker 1: in a wide variety of topics. I will bring them on,
Speaker 1: i will talk with them. It will be fresh and
Speaker 1: different and new every single week.
Speaker 2: And it's a lot of work.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's you know, just nailing down the guests
Speaker 1: for the first week was tough, but I've got a
Speaker 1: great one and I cannot wait. And I'm also going
Speaker 1: to do I want to do a segment where I
Speaker 1: bring on a smart people and just talk to them
Speaker 1: about stuff and how they run their lives and what
Speaker 1: they do. So it's going to be I think, really
Speaker 1: as long as I enjoy it, that's the main thing.
Speaker 1: If I'm learning, if I'm growing from this show, I
Speaker 1: feel like you will too. And that's kind of the
Speaker 1: idea from it. And again, my biggest secret weapon is
Speaker 1: actually you. So the emails, the messages, the responses I
Speaker 1: get to my TV segments really help me understand what's
Speaker 1: important to you. And so I find that that is
Speaker 1: a wealth of knowledge. I've been doing a couple of
Speaker 1: reels over the past couple of days, and I've just
Speaker 1: been basing them on stuff that people send me, like, hey, Rich,
Speaker 1: how do I do this on my phone? Oh? Here,
Speaker 1: let me make a reel and show everyone else too.
Speaker 1: So anyway, thank you for sticking with me on this podcast.
Speaker 2: It has been an incredible ride.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest challenge with doing this podcast, and
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm going to do a full show here,
Speaker 1: so don't just like tune out. I think the biggest
Speaker 1: challenge with doing the podcast was always the timing of
Speaker 1: the podcast, and towards the end I got it, it
Speaker 1: was Friday mornings basically when I recorded it, but it
Speaker 1: always became an issue of prepping and doing my KTLA
Speaker 1: stuff and also doing the podcast. Now that it is
Speaker 1: a show that's live on the radio at eleven am
Speaker 1: on Saturdays, there's just like there's no avoiding it, like
Speaker 1: that's when it's happening. And so I think men for me,
Speaker 1: that's actually a really good thing because I can plan
Speaker 1: around that. I know, yeah, my weekends are going to
Speaker 1: forever change because of this show, and it's going to
Speaker 1: be tough. You know, I've got a family, I've got kids,
Speaker 1: I've got basketball and baseball games and all kinds of
Speaker 1: other stuff.
Speaker 2: Happening.
Speaker 1: You know, my weekends are no longer mine, and so
Speaker 1: it will be a challenge, but I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be a good thing and I'm very excited to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: So thank you, and I will.
Speaker 1: When it comes to the RSS feed, I know it's
Speaker 1: getting very technical, but when it comes to like the
Speaker 1: feed of this show, I expect to be able to
Speaker 1: just change the feed from whatever it is now to
Speaker 1: the new feed and hopefully that should just carry over
Speaker 1: on your phone or your podcast reader. So we'll see
Speaker 1: if that happens. All right, let's get to the first
Speaker 1: story of the week, Last Pass. Oh my gosh, Last Past.
Speaker 1: They cannot catch a break. So basically, the hack that
Speaker 1: we talked about a couple of weeks ago is much
Speaker 1: worse than they thought. So according to tech Crunch, the
Speaker 1: Last has confirmed that cyber criminals stole its customers encrypted
Speaker 1: password vaults, which store customer passwords and other things. You know,
Speaker 1: you might have notes in there on stuff, and you know,
Speaker 1: different things that you can store in that vault. It's
Speaker 1: like a secure vault. So they updated their blog post
Speaker 1: and they said that the bad actors took a copy
Speaker 1: of customer vault data by using cloud storage keys stolen
Speaker 1: from a Last Pass employee. Oh my gosh. So now
Speaker 1: the good news is these vaults are encrypted and they
Speaker 1: can only be unlocked with the master password. But the
Speaker 1: problem is sometimes people don't use very good master passwords,
Speaker 1: and that means that these hackers can go through and
Speaker 1: use software to try to break in to your your vault,
Speaker 1: and that means they would reveal all of your passwords.
Speaker 1: So the main thing here is that if you have
Speaker 1: last pass and it might be time to think about
Speaker 1: switching over to a new password manager. But I think
Speaker 1: there's some things you can do to lock this down.
Speaker 1: So number one, you got to change your current master password,
Speaker 1: and you want it to be unique and you want
Speaker 1: it to be long, So don't reuse the same password,
Speaker 1: and don't make it simple. You might think, oh, I
Speaker 1: can make it simple because whatever, just don't do that.
Speaker 1: The other thing is that if you think that your
Speaker 1: password is weak and the passwords inside your last Pass
Speaker 1: vault were compromised, you might want to start going on
Speaker 1: the websites that you know, the important ones at least
Speaker 1: and changing those passwords, like you're banking and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: If you're using strong passwords, on those.
Speaker 1: If your vault was cracked, they would still be able
Speaker 1: to get into those, So that's a problem too. And
Speaker 1: the other thing is that if you're using two factor authentication,
Speaker 1: you're actually a lot safer in this scenario, which you
Speaker 1: should be. I talk about this over and over. Please
Speaker 1: use two factor. I know it's not perfect, but it's
Speaker 1: the best we have right now. And so if you're
Speaker 1: using two factor, you're probably safer than the average bear.
Speaker 1: Because let's say that you had a week past word
Speaker 1: on your last past vault. They figured out that password,
Speaker 1: and once they get in, it's going to say, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll give us the two factor, and then they don't
Speaker 1: have that. So you should be okay in that scenario.
Speaker 1: But again, change your master password to something more secure,
Speaker 1: and for any major website that supports it, please use
Speaker 1: two factor. And the safest way is really to use
Speaker 1: one of those authentication apps. But again, look, and I
Speaker 1: don't claim to be an expert in any of this stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of swimming alongside you, and you know, I'm
Speaker 1: doing the best I can with trying to just secure
Speaker 1: this stuff in the means and ways that I have.
Speaker 1: But from everything I've been told number one twelve to
Speaker 1: sixteen characters.
Speaker 2: That's what you want.
Speaker 1: That's the magic number for your generated passwords. You know,
Speaker 1: use a bunch of random digits and numbers and all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And then when it comes to
Speaker 1: two factor, the authentication app is safer than the standard
Speaker 1: you know, texting you a code. And also when it
Speaker 1: comes to those security questions, don't ever give out the
Speaker 1: real answers. The best tip I got was from the
Speaker 1: CEO of Bitwarden. He said, just use your password manager
Speaker 1: to generate random answers and paste those in there. And
Speaker 1: then of course you have to keep those safe so
Speaker 1: that you can get those. So if it's saying your
Speaker 1: favorite place to vacation instead of saying Paris, you know,
Speaker 1: it would be like explanation point x z Y, two
Speaker 1: ampersand whatever. And I know that's very complicated. But with
Speaker 1: a good password manager, you can save all those answers
Speaker 1: and paste them in when you need them. If it
Speaker 1: gives you answers to choose, from which a lot of
Speaker 1: these things do just give the wrong answers, and you know,
Speaker 1: take a screenshot and save that, or save those answers
Speaker 1: that you've given. I know it gets very very tricky
Speaker 1: and complicated, and it takes you forever to log back in,
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you it's worth it. All right, Let's
Speaker 1: get to the first question of the show. Mike says,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, Rich. I'm an avid viewer on KTLA five
Speaker 1: and your web page ever since the twenty dollars wise
Speaker 1: Cam review. I to use my Apple twelve cell phone
Speaker 1: from my home and I'm noticing in the upper right
Speaker 1: hand corner near the battery, I'm getting the SOS in
Speaker 1: upper case, and I'm wondering, what the heck I thought
Speaker 1: it was only on the Apple fourteen SOS availability Mike, Mike,
Speaker 1: great question, and this is actually something I need to
Speaker 1: address in a reels or on an Instagram story because
Speaker 1: it's very confusing. So there's two things we're talking about here.
Speaker 1: Number One, with iOS sixteen, Apple changed the way emergency
Speaker 1: services looks on your menu bar. They now put an
Speaker 1: SOS in the upper right hand corner where the signal
Speaker 1: bar used to be. When you don't have a standard signal,
Speaker 1: but you also still have a cellular signal that could
Speaker 1: still be used in case of an emergency, hence the
Speaker 1: SOS and the background on that is Basically, here in
Speaker 1: the US, let's say a Verizon subscriber, you don't have
Speaker 1: a Verizon signal, so typically your show would your phone
Speaker 1: would show no signal. But there's a law in the
Speaker 1: US that says your phone can reach out on any
Speaker 1: carrier network. And in the US we basically have three
Speaker 1: of them. We have Verizon, we have AT and T,
Speaker 1: and we have T Mobile, and to a lesser extent,
Speaker 1: I think there's still a bit of sprint lingering around,
Speaker 1: and so your phone, as long as it can reach
Speaker 1: out to any of those networks, if it has the
Speaker 1: antennas to do that, could call nine on one through
Speaker 1: AT and T, even if you're a Verizon subscriber, And
Speaker 1: not many people realize that, but basically, even an unactivated
Speaker 1: phone that you have in a drawer, as long as it,
Speaker 1: you know, can latch onto a cell signal, it would
Speaker 1: still be able to dial nine one one. So that's
Speaker 1: just the law here in the US. In some countries,
Speaker 1: like I think Japan, doesn't allow phones that are unactivated
Speaker 1: to dial nine on one because that could be an issue.
Speaker 1: So but here in the US that's the way it works.
Speaker 1: So the reality is the SOS means like Hey, your
Speaker 1: phone can still dial nine one one even though you
Speaker 1: don't have a signal from your carrier. Now there's a
Speaker 1: secondary logo, and this is the logo that's reserved for
Speaker 1: the iPhone fourteen and up at this point, which there
Speaker 1: isn't an up but I'm just planning for the future.
Speaker 1: But there's a satellite logo that would sit next to
Speaker 1: that SOS logo, And that satellite logo means that, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't have a cellular signal from anywhere, but you
Speaker 1: do have a satellite signal. You have satellite availability where
Speaker 1: you can aim your phone towards the open sky and
Speaker 1: send a message for help that way. And so I
Speaker 1: agree it's confusing. I feel like there's gonna be some
Speaker 1: more messaging around this and some more explanation. But that's
Speaker 1: the reason why you're seeing SOS on your phone, Mike,
Speaker 1: You're not seeing the satellite on your phone. Only iPhone
Speaker 1: fourteen users would use this would be able to see
Speaker 1: that satellite. And once you see that satellite, that means
Speaker 1: that you don't have a traditional cellular signal, but you
Speaker 1: do have a satellite signal available to you or potentially
Speaker 1: available to you that you could use to send for help.
Speaker 1: So great question, and I'm glad I was able to
Speaker 1: clear that up. But again, you gave me a great
Speaker 1: idea for a new reel. All right, let's talk YouTube
Speaker 1: paying about two billion dollars a year for NFL Sunday Ticket.
Speaker 1: This is something that DirecTV has had for many, many years,
Speaker 1: I think since nineteen ninety four. Whoo. And the reason
Speaker 1: why it worked so well with DirecTV is because once
Speaker 1: they sold you on this satellite system, you were basically
Speaker 1: stuck for a couple of years, and so they would
Speaker 1: get people in, they would luwer them in with this
Speaker 1: NFL Sunday Ticket, and once they installed that satellite on
Speaker 1: your roof and you had a couple of years contract,
Speaker 1: it was a pretty good situation for DirecTV because they
Speaker 1: knew that those customers were not going anywhere anytime soon.
Speaker 1: That's why I think it's so interesting that YouTube is
Speaker 1: paying so much for this on something they're probably not
Speaker 1: going to recoup the costs on. Like, is this thing
Speaker 1: still worth two billion dollars?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure it is.
Speaker 1: But what Sunday Ticket is is basically you will have
Speaker 1: access or subscribers have access to all of the home
Speaker 1: all of the games on Sunday that the NFL is playing,
Speaker 1: except their home team. So if you live in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: you would not have access to the home teams here,
Speaker 1: which are the Rams and the Chargers, so you'd have
Speaker 1: access to all the other games that you want to watch.
Speaker 1: So let's say you move from Philadelphia. You'd still be
Speaker 1: able to watch your home team from there even though
Speaker 1: you live here, which is typically not available.
Speaker 2: But the idea is that you would still.
Speaker 1: Have access to the Rams and the Chargers, just on
Speaker 1: local channels or through ESPN or wherever that game is playing.
Speaker 1: So it's very, very complicated. We're kind of tiptoeing to
Speaker 1: this world where everything is available everywhere, but with sports,
Speaker 1: there's such a large amount of money involved that nobody
Speaker 1: wants wants to be the first to give up everything
Speaker 1: because they know that once they do that, they're never
Speaker 1: going back. But we've seen baseball games going to Apple TV.
Speaker 1: Plus we've seen Thursday Night Football going to Amazon, and
Speaker 1: there's change happening. It's just not happening as fast as
Speaker 1: I'd like to see. But you will be able to
Speaker 1: watch these games on YouTube and YouTube TV. So let
Speaker 1: me explain how that's gonna work Number one YouTube license
Speaker 1: the deal for seven years, so they're gonna be paying
Speaker 1: about two billion dollars a year for seven years. That's
Speaker 1: a lot of cash. But if anyone has it, I
Speaker 1: guess Google does. So they haven't said how much this
Speaker 1: is going to cost, but the previous price was about
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars. They also had a four hundred dollars
Speaker 1: price tag for a separate kind of like even more
Speaker 1: NFL content. But YouTube TV, if you're a subscriber to that,
Speaker 1: that's pretty simple. It's just gonna be an odd on
Speaker 1: like you would, like you would subscribe to NBA League
Speaker 1: Pass or HBO Max or Stars or whatever these things are,
Speaker 1: you would just subscribe to it. It would show up
Speaker 1: on your channels. Now, YouTube has this thing that many
Speaker 1: people don't know about called primetime channels, and so you're
Speaker 1: able to actually subscribe to a whole bunch of premium
Speaker 1: channels through YouTube now as of like last month, and
Speaker 1: so this will be an add on through that.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: You know, you could just basically watch this on your
Speaker 1: regular YouTube app, but it would be a premium offering
Speaker 1: through that. How's this going to work? So let's put
Speaker 1: it this way. According to the Wall Street Journal, YouTube
Speaker 1: has two billion users and five million subscribers for YouTube tv,
Speaker 1: so that's not a lot of people. Direct tv has
Speaker 1: thirteen point five million subscribers, which is a tiny fraction
Speaker 1: of what they used to have Five years ago, they
Speaker 1: had more than twenty million customers. So is there any
Speaker 1: possible way that they could recoup two billion dollars through
Speaker 1: their two billion users and five million subscriber.
Speaker 2: Maybe, especially with the YouTube accounts.
Speaker 1: But I think the biggest thing here that I like
Speaker 1: about this deal is that YouTube is just kind of
Speaker 1: the ideal video player on the Internet. It's just it's
Speaker 1: second only to Netflix.
Speaker 2: Those are the two.
Speaker 1: I would actually argue that YouTube might even be better.
Speaker 1: But YouTube and Netflix are kind of the gold standards
Speaker 1: for video players on the web. And so the fact
Speaker 1: that you'll now be able to access these games so
Speaker 1: simply and through a really clean player that works really
Speaker 1: well on any connection, I think is the big win here.
Speaker 1: And if the price is a little bit less, that'll
Speaker 1: be great. But the fact that it's on such a
Speaker 1: platform that's on any device you can ever imagine, I
Speaker 1: think that's the big win here. So we'll say sports
Speaker 1: are a change in that is for sure, all right,
Speaker 1: Benita says, good morning. I have a new iPhone fourteen
Speaker 1: and need to back up my old phone before I change.
Speaker 1: Is there a safe app that deletes duplicate photos I
Speaker 1: can use? I'm afraid of deleting pictures. Thank you sent
Speaker 1: for my iPhone. Absolutely. I got a couple of questions
Speaker 1: about deleting duplicate photos, so I just actually made a
Speaker 1: reel on my Instagram at rich on Tech all about this.
Speaker 1: Two ways you can tackle this problem. Number one, well,
Speaker 1: you kind of said you need to back up your
Speaker 1: old phone before you change. So number one, when you
Speaker 1: switch from iPhone to iPhone, the process is like really
Speaker 1: easy nowadays. It basically uses either your iCloud backup or
Speaker 1: a super fast Wi Fi direct connection to transfer all
Speaker 1: of your data. So it's really simple and it's pretty
Speaker 1: fool proof. But there are issues that happen, so I
Speaker 1: would definitely recommend backing up your phone. Make sure that
Speaker 1: your old iPhone has done a complete backup to iCloud.
Speaker 1: And the way that you can see if that's if
Speaker 1: that has happened is you go into settings on your
Speaker 1: iPhone and then you tap iCloud. Oh wow, what's going
Speaker 1: on there? Okay, then you tap iCloud and then you
Speaker 1: tap uh, let's see do you tap iCloud again, and
Speaker 1: then you can go to device backups. It says iCloud
Speaker 1: backup and it says last successful backup for me was
Speaker 1: yesterday at eight fifteen pm. And so I can see
Speaker 1: all my other devices that I have that have been
Speaker 1: backed up on here as well. And so make sure
Speaker 1: your iPhone is backed up number one. That's first and foremost.
Speaker 1: Then let's get into deleting the duplicate pictures. There's two
Speaker 1: ways you can do this. If you have iOS sixteen
Speaker 1: on your phone, you can tap the photos app. You
Speaker 1: can go into albums, scroll all the way down and
Speaker 1: you'll see under utilities it says duplicates, and you can
Speaker 1: go through and manage your duplicates there. I don't find
Speaker 1: that that's very good at all. It's very very basic
Speaker 1: and it's probably not going to do a very good job.
Speaker 1: So what I would recommend there's an app called Gemini
Speaker 1: Gemni and Gemini sort of works under the freemium model,
Speaker 1: so yes, you will get access to see what this
Speaker 1: app can do, but you might have to pay a
Speaker 1: little bit to actually use it, but it is well
Speaker 1: worth the cash because it is phenomenal. Once it scans
Speaker 1: your library, you can see similar picks, duplicate picks, videos, screenshots, notes,
Speaker 1: other and blurry picks. And then you can go through
Speaker 1: and tap into your similar picks. You can delete the
Speaker 1: ones that are similar. You can go into your duplicates.
Speaker 1: You can merge those or delete the duplicates, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to do.
Speaker 2: You can also go through in.
Speaker 1: The videos and sort by largest videos and delete a
Speaker 1: couple of those, just to free up a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of space immediately on your phone. Again, the app is
Speaker 1: called Gemini. It is the best when it comes to
Speaker 1: finding duplicates and managing your stuff. I think that that
Speaker 1: is the phenomenal best way to do it. Bonita, have
Speaker 1: a great time upgrading your phone. Enjoy the iPhone fourteen.
Speaker 1: It is a fantastic device. All right, Let's talk about
Speaker 1: three smartphone hacks to save you big, big bucks. All right,
Speaker 1: So whenever I see a couple of things happening online,
Speaker 1: I'm always like, all right, I gotta do a story
Speaker 1: about that. So I did this story today on KTLA
Speaker 1: about three tips that I have used myself, but also
Speaker 1: have been justified by other folks who also posted similar tips. So,
Speaker 1: first off, George Campbell, this is a Ramsey Solutions personality.
Speaker 2: You know me. I love Dave Ramsey.
Speaker 1: I love the whole you know, debt free lifestyle, all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And following a lot of what
Speaker 1: Dave says, I can't say I do it perfectly. I
Speaker 1: do have a credit card, I will admit that. But
Speaker 1: I don't try to play the points game as much
Speaker 1: as many people.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: There are so many people that give me a hard
Speaker 1: time because they're like, oh, why aren't you doing that
Speaker 1: for the point And I'm like, ah, because I know
Speaker 1: it's really I get it, and it's just one of
Speaker 1: those things where whatever it is, what it is. But
Speaker 1: I do like Dave Ramsey and I have been listening
Speaker 1: to him and I do feel like he's actually changed
Speaker 1: my financial life, and so I am thankful for that.
Speaker 1: But George is you know, he's got all these you know,
Speaker 1: Dave is going to retire at some point, so he's
Speaker 1: got all these up and comers that are sort of
Speaker 1: taking over and kind of weaving into the show. And
Speaker 1: George Campbell is one of them. And I find him
Speaker 1: to be a really good radio personality and also Instagram
Speaker 1: person and all that good stuff. So he's doing a
Speaker 1: great job over there. Anyway, he posted a tip that
Speaker 1: I really liked. I've known about Google Lens forever, but
Speaker 1: he was saying, basically, if you snap a picture of
Speaker 1: something that you want on Google Lens, you can use
Speaker 1: it to not just check the price, but also find
Speaker 1: that item across various retailers and maybe even cheaper than
Speaker 1: what you would typically pay for that. So let's say
Speaker 1: he gave the example of a pair of boots. You
Speaker 1: see a pair of boots that you love, you take
Speaker 1: a picture of it with the Google lens. It scans
Speaker 1: the Internet and finds those boots across a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of stores. Now, the fancy schmancy boots that sell for
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars may also be selling at Kohl's for
Speaker 1: fifty five dollars because it's not exactly the same boots
Speaker 1: from the designer that you originally wanted, but they're just
Speaker 1: as good, they look just is good, and they're a
Speaker 1: whole lot cheaper. So that's the first tip. Open up
Speaker 1: the Google app on your iPhone, tap the camera icon,
Speaker 1: and scan stuff with Google lens, and this could be anything.
Speaker 1: You can scan a building, you can scan a pair
Speaker 1: of things for shopping. You can scan something that a
Speaker 1: look that you want. You go to someone's house, you
Speaker 1: really like the lamp they have, you can scan that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really quite phenomenal because, let's face it,
Speaker 1: Google has the entire Internet indexed and if something is
Speaker 1: out there, they know where to find it.
Speaker 2: On Android, it's a lot easier.
Speaker 1: You just have to tap the camera search icon or
Speaker 1: the camera icon in the search bar on your home screen.
Speaker 2: And so great tip there.
Speaker 1: I've been using this a lot more ever since I
Speaker 1: saw George feature it, and even though I've been using
Speaker 1: Google Lends forever, I do think it is way more
Speaker 1: powerful than I ever imagined. An app called flip flipp
Speaker 1: This is an app that I use from time to time.
Speaker 1: It's an app that lets you see all the digital
Speaker 1: versions of sale flyers that arrive in your mailbox, so
Speaker 1: you can search through these sale and how is that useful? Well,
Speaker 1: the other day I needed razors and I like the Geelette.
Speaker 1: I know, the top of the line Gelette Profusion five
Speaker 1: blade razors that are so ridiculous. I don't know why
Speaker 1: they're so expensive, but they are and they've been out
Speaker 1: for you know, fifteen years, but they're still really expensive,
Speaker 1: and so, you know, I like to find them. I
Speaker 1: was ordering them on Subscribe and Save on Amazon, but
Speaker 1: then it occurred to me, I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I bet you some of these retailers have these as
Speaker 1: a loss leader in their store to gets you in
Speaker 1: at a cheaper price. And sure enough, I searched to
Speaker 1: Lette on the flip app and it came up with
Speaker 1: a really good deal at CVS. And not only were
Speaker 1: the razors like fifty percent off, but they also had
Speaker 1: like a ten dollars off your razor purchase of like
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars or more. And when I combine those
Speaker 1: two things, I got these razors for like, you know,
Speaker 1: a fraction of the price that I would pay for
Speaker 1: them on Amazon. So I went I drove over to
Speaker 1: cvses you have to go to a local store. They
Speaker 1: also do online deals, but I find that this works
Speaker 1: better for in store deals, and so I went over
Speaker 1: to CVS.
Speaker 2: I went to the cashier.
Speaker 1: I tried not to spend extra money at the store
Speaker 1: as I walked through, because that's the downside of going
Speaker 1: to an in store shopping experience is that you're probably
Speaker 1: going to spend more money on all this stuff they
Speaker 1: try to sell you on whilst you walk through the store. Anyway,
Speaker 1: to do this hack and it worked out great, so
Speaker 1: and I did this twice. I also did it for
Speaker 1: tide pods. My wife wanted to order them on Amazon.
Speaker 1: I said, hey, let me try my little hack on
Speaker 1: flip and see if I can find these in store.
Speaker 1: And sure enough, again as cvs, they were three dollars
Speaker 1: and seventy nine cents. And yes, I did the math.
Speaker 1: I divided up the price by how many you get
Speaker 1: in the pack, and I did that for Amazon and
Speaker 1: a couple other places, and sure enough, it was like
Speaker 1: three dollars seventy nine cents for you know, sixteen of
Speaker 1: these or whatever it was. And it came out the
Speaker 1: price per pod was cheaper than anywhere else I could find.
Speaker 2: And so I did that.
Speaker 1: My wife, of course, rolled her eyes at me, and
Speaker 1: I said, hey, I just saved us like two bucks,
Speaker 1: so and you can save more. You know, you might
Speaker 1: save two, you might save five, you might save ten,
Speaker 1: and you might save one.
Speaker 2: Hundred at at some point. So use this hack.
Speaker 1: Open up the flip app search for the specific brand
Speaker 1: that you want, and it will show you where that
Speaker 1: item is a deal near you. And it's not going
Speaker 1: to work every time, but you know, if you like
Speaker 1: a certain deodorant or a certain razor, or you're looking
Speaker 1: for a certain you know, appliance, like a coffee grinder,
Speaker 1: whatever it is, especially when it's a specific brand name,
Speaker 1: this is a good way to do it. If you
Speaker 1: want to see where your favorite Starbucks coffee is on
Speaker 1: sale whatever retailers near you.
Speaker 2: Just just try it flip flipp all right.
Speaker 1: The final one, and this one I knew about before
Speaker 1: my friend Jennifer Jolly posted about it, but I just
Speaker 1: love it. I almost wanted to keep this one a
Speaker 1: secret because I love it so much. But price matching. Now,
Speaker 1: price matching is not a new concept. My dad was
Speaker 1: doing this back in the day with Crazy at Ease.
Speaker 1: You would get a newspaper, you get the Sunday New
Speaker 1: York Times or whatever the newspaper was. They had all
Speaker 1: the prices listed for all electronics in the back pages
Speaker 1: of this newspaper and it was in tiny, tiny print.
Speaker 1: You would bring it to Crazy Eddies and you say, hey,
Speaker 1: I just found this Oinkyo receiver for ten dollars less
Speaker 1: than what you're selling it for, and they're like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd have to drive into New York City and buy
Speaker 1: it at that retailer, but you know, I'm right here.
Speaker 2: Can you just price match?
Speaker 1: And they'd talk to the manager and they say, all right, fine,
Speaker 1: we'll give you that receiver for eleven dollars off just
Speaker 1: to beat their price, and you'd come home a happy customer.
Speaker 1: You felt like you saved a lot of money and
Speaker 1: it was great. You could do the same thing at
Speaker 1: Target with their app. So if you're inside Target, download
Speaker 1: the Target app, which I highly recommend in general anyway,
Speaker 1: and when you're buying something of any value in their store,
Speaker 1: so we're talking something that's like twenty five dollars and up,
Speaker 1: give it a scan and just scan the barcode on
Speaker 1: that item. It will with the Target app and it
Speaker 1: will show you how much Target is selling that item
Speaker 1: for on its website, and you will be really really
Speaker 1: surprised that a lot of times the Target website is
Speaker 1: cheaper than what the store is offering. And the reason
Speaker 1: for this is that when you're in the store, most
Speaker 1: people are not comparing prices to online. But if you do,
Speaker 1: if you're online, you know Google is indexing all these prices.
Speaker 1: So if you're searching for something online, the Target website
Speaker 1: has to be just as competitive and in line with
Speaker 1: its competitors like Amazon and best Buy and Walmart and
Speaker 1: so a lot of times the prices will be many
Speaker 1: much more dynamic online. But the reality is, if you're
Speaker 1: in Target, they will match their price that they're selling
Speaker 1: it online. They'll match a competitors price as well. But
Speaker 1: the easiest one is just to scan for their own price.
Speaker 1: So Jennifer Jolly posted this hack on her Instagram and
Speaker 1: it was great. She's a Tech Life columnist and she
Speaker 1: does stuff for the Today Show. But I loved it,
Speaker 1: and I use this. The other day I bought a bike.
Speaker 1: I don't think my kid listens to this podcast, so
Speaker 1: I can just say I bought a bike at Target.
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. The bike was three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars on the shelf, and it was one hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty five dollars on their website.
Speaker 2: And I will tell you.
Speaker 1: How I figured out that the bike was even on
Speaker 1: sale at Target. I'll tell you this right now. I
Speaker 1: use the first hack. I scanned the bike with the
Speaker 1: Google Lens app. I was in another store and I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, we're gonna buy my kid a bike.
Speaker 1: Let me just just for fun, let me just scan
Speaker 1: this bike to see what the price is online.
Speaker 2: And I saw a similar bike at Target for one.
Speaker 1: Hundred and sixty five and like, wait a second, let's
Speaker 1: just go to Target and see. And my wife was like,
Speaker 1: you sure this could be off, Like we're right here.
Speaker 1: I said, let's just try it. And we tried it,
Speaker 1: and sure enough, the bike was in stock. It was there.
Speaker 1: I could not believe that this saved us so much money.
Speaker 1: So again, and I've done this a couple of times
Speaker 1: with different things at Target. It works like a charm.
Speaker 2: So definitely do that. And if you want to see
Speaker 2: that story, just go to my website. Rich on tech
Speaker 2: dot tv.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the next question of the podcast.
Speaker 1: Samsung G four Flip is the head line of the
Speaker 1: or this subject line of the email. Hey Rich, I
Speaker 1: just bought the new Flip phone from Samsung, and I
Speaker 1: love it because it's compact and it takes great pictures.
Speaker 1: One of my friends asked me, how long do they
Speaker 1: guarantee the flip to keep working and not break. I
Speaker 1: didn't even bother to ask of the time, because it didn't.
Speaker 2: Occur to me.
Speaker 1: I guess I should have. Do you have the answer?
Speaker 1: Is there someone at Samsung you can ask? Thanks so much, Paula, Well, PAULA,
Speaker 1: great question. I don't have to ask someone at Samsung
Speaker 1: because they put the information online. Excuse me, how many
Speaker 1: times can the By the way, with the new radio show,
Speaker 1: there is a cough button and so I was learning
Speaker 1: the ins and outs of radio, so I can do
Speaker 1: this and there's a little button that I can press
Speaker 1: and it will basically clip out my microphone while I
Speaker 1: can cough. It's like there's actually a cough button, and
Speaker 1: I need it because, as you know if you follow
Speaker 1: me on social media, I recently had COVID and I
Speaker 1: was quite fine during the span of that illness, but
Speaker 1: I did get a fever I got I was really
Speaker 1: sick like the first day, but after that I was
Speaker 1: pretty much okay. I mean, I was sick, but it was,
Speaker 1: you know, it was manageable. I watched a bunch of
Speaker 1: movies and TV shows and just kind of sat on
Speaker 1: the couch and ate a lot of food because it's
Speaker 1: an excuse to do that and drank a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, hydrating liquids. And when I was done with it,
Speaker 1: I had this lingering cough which is still not gone away,
Speaker 1: which is just wild.
Speaker 2: And I was reading about it.
Speaker 1: And basically, your lungs are sort of your your immune
Speaker 1: system and your lungs are sort of inflamed from this illness,
Speaker 1: and so it takes a while for them to kind
Speaker 1: of come back to zero and kind of the place
Speaker 1: that they, you know, are at a daily basis, and
Speaker 1: so it does. I've been coughing like it's just wild anyway,
Speaker 1: So I apologize for that cough. But go to the
Speaker 1: website Samsung dot com says how many times can the
Speaker 1: Galaxy Z fold for and Galaxy Z flip four be
Speaker 1: folded and unfolded? The answer is the lifespan depends on
Speaker 1: how users utilize their devices. However, it's been proven they
Speaker 1: can withstand over two hundred thousand folds before failing. There
Speaker 1: you go, This sequels one hundred folds daily for five years. Now,
Speaker 1: that use case scenario will of course depend on how
Speaker 1: you open and close your phone. I found the phone
Speaker 1: that you purchased, the G four flip Galaxy Flip four
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: An excellent phone.
Speaker 1: In fact, this was one of my favorite phones of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. If you go to my website rich
Speaker 1: on tech dot TV, look up my riches recommended gadgets list,
Speaker 1: which I keep on Amazon. It is on there because
Speaker 1: I love this phone. Now.
Speaker 2: I think the camera is excellent.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it's up to my creator level standards,
Speaker 1: which the iPhone fourteen Pro is pretty much the only
Speaker 1: video camera this year that I think could live up
Speaker 1: to doing what I need to do for Instagram and TV.
Speaker 1: But the Galaxy, both the Fold four and the Flip
Speaker 1: four I was very very impressed with and I loved
Speaker 1: both of those devices, and I am almost ready to
Speaker 1: dive in. The Fold four was a bit bigger for me,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was really cool as a I mean,
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. I just think it needs to
Speaker 1: be thinner when it's folded. The Flip four, I thought
Speaker 1: was absolutely perfect. It just for me personally, I needed
Speaker 1: a better video camera and I just wasn't ready to
Speaker 1: give up some of that some of that for this phone.
Speaker 1: But I think that for the average user, I think
Speaker 1: it is just a great little device, and if you
Speaker 1: want to dive into the whole foldable arena.
Speaker 2: That is a great way to do it. All right,
Speaker 2: we're getting through.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what, let's let's get to this next
Speaker 1: story that I think kind of blends in with that
Speaker 1: or kind of I don't know what the word is
Speaker 1: transitions from what I just was talking about. So, which
Speaker 1: smartphone is the best camera this year? MKBHD? You know
Speaker 1: I'm better as Marquez Brownlee or sorry, Marquez Brownlee, you
Speaker 1: know I'm better as MKBHD. On YouTube, he's one of
Speaker 1: the top tech YouTubers in the world. Every year he
Speaker 1: does this blind camera test with all the top smartphones,
Speaker 1: and this year he put fourteen to them to the test.
Speaker 1: In years past, it wasn't as scientific. This year he
Speaker 1: made it much more scientific, and it was a It
Speaker 1: was a doozy. I actually tried voting in this blind
Speaker 1: camera test and it took so long that I actually
Speaker 1: thought there was a problem. I was like, wait, what
Speaker 1: is going on here? And I guess I should have
Speaker 1: read the directions more. But basically, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: go through how they tested. But they collected over twenty
Speaker 1: one million votes and they kept making you vote until
Speaker 1: you had a basically a scientifically proven favorite, and then
Speaker 1: they stopped your voting, and so it was it was
Speaker 1: really interesting, but they made people vote in best overall,
Speaker 1: best HDR, and best portrait. So let's just get to
Speaker 1: the bottom line. The best phone this year for a
Speaker 1: camera overall is the Google Pixel six A. Notice I
Speaker 1: didn't say the top of the line Google seven or
Speaker 1: seven pro, the six A. This is their budget smartphone,
Speaker 1: and it's the smartphone that I said in my review
Speaker 1: was absolutely fantastic, and I said it was the best
Speaker 1: overall smartphone, budget smartphone for people this year. Combination of
Speaker 1: price and camera, this thing was just phenomenal. And it's cheap.
Speaker 1: I mean when I reviewed it, it was four ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I said, don't buy it if it's less than three
Speaker 1: ninety nine. Let me just get up my Pixel six
Speaker 1: A KTLA. I'm just searching to see. My headline was
Speaker 1: Google's cheapest pixel phone gives a lot for less, and
Speaker 1: I said at the end it was four hundred. It
Speaker 1: was on sale for okay, let's see, it's four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars. That's the main price. Okay, I said,
Speaker 1: don't buy unless it drops to three ninety nine, it
Speaker 1: ended up dropping to three point fifty. Now it's as
Speaker 1: cheap as two ninety nine. So this is this is
Speaker 1: really a fantastic deal. The second phone that the second
Speaker 1: place was Google Pixel seven Pro, and I think the
Speaker 1: reality is you're like, rich, what about the iPhone? What
Speaker 1: about the iPhone? What about the iPhone? So the let's
Speaker 1: see if we go down the list a little bit,
Speaker 1: Samsung S twenty two Ultra got fifth place, and the
Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen Pro got seventh place. The A sus zen
Speaker 1: Phone nine got third place, So again Pixel six A,
Speaker 1: Pixel seven Pro, a sus zen Phone nine, then Galaxy
Speaker 1: S twenty two Ultra fifth place, iPhone fourteen Pro seventh place.
Speaker 1: So you're like, rich, wow, what's the deal here? I
Speaker 1: will tell you, as someone who has used the iPhone
Speaker 1: fourteen Pro for a majority of this year, it takes
Speaker 1: I think, I feel like overall when they're saying overall
Speaker 1: for the Pixel six A, this did not take into
Speaker 1: account video, and so I would say overall, the overall
Speaker 1: best camera system is the iPhone fourteen Pro. For sure.
Speaker 1: I'm I will tell you that I've used it all year.
Speaker 1: It is really something that can't be matched. Things get close,
Speaker 1: but they don't match the ease, the speed, and the
Speaker 1: consistency of the iPhone fourteen Pro. As an overall, I'm
Speaker 1: talking a combination of still pictures and video pictures. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're just talking up pictures or video, sorry, if
Speaker 1: you're just talking pictures, Yes, the Google Pixel six A
Speaker 1: and the seven Pro. I think the reason why these
Speaker 1: get so high in such high marks is because the
Speaker 1: pixel photos just have a certain magical quality to them.
Speaker 1: Like Google does a lot of post processing. They're basically
Speaker 1: editing all your photos for you, and they just know
Speaker 1: how to make them pop and look really really good.
Speaker 1: And I'm talking the shadows, the brightness, the contrast, the details.
Speaker 1: It is all there and it's all really really good. Now,
Speaker 1: the iPhone does a really nice job. The Samsung does
Speaker 1: a really nice job, but there are some hits and
Speaker 1: misses along the way. And I think when you talk
Speaker 1: overall the Pixel seven and the six A, they're just
Speaker 1: using a little bit more AI to kind of like
Speaker 1: smooth things out and edit things. And so I think
Speaker 1: if that was lacking in these phones, they would not
Speaker 1: rate as high. But because they process these pictures in
Speaker 1: such a magical AI way. That's what makes them trend
Speaker 1: so high when it comes to these ratings, and you know,
Speaker 1: I have no complaints. I think that you will be
Speaker 1: happy with the Pixel six A, the Pixel seven, the
Speaker 1: Pixel seven Pro if you're more of a power user
Speaker 1: and you want that zoom. The Samsung S twenty two
Speaker 1: Ultra also I love that phone this year. And the
Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen Pro Max or sorry, just Pro I think
Speaker 1: is also really good. The iPhone fourteen I think is
Speaker 1: just fine. I think that it has an okay camera system.
Speaker 1: If you're going to go iPhone, I'd go with the
Speaker 1: Pro because it really is. It's a little bit more expensive,
Speaker 1: but you're getting really the best that Apple has to offer.
Speaker 1: So there you have it. Those are the best phones
Speaker 1: of the year. But I think I think it really
Speaker 1: comes down to budget and what is most important to you.
Speaker 1: All Right, I want to make sure that I talk
Speaker 1: about all the stories that I mentioned smartphone last past
Speaker 1: Sunday ticket okay.
Speaker 2: Good, good, good good, Okay.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Nike Training Club coming to Netflix. So
Speaker 1: this is Netflix is sort of an entree to on
Speaker 1: demand fitness training. December thirtieth, they're gonna be launching videos
Speaker 1: from Nike Training Club on Netflix just in time for
Speaker 1: your news resolution. I think this is great. They're gonna
Speaker 1: have thirty hours of exercise sessions released in two batches.
Speaker 1: It's all from Nike Training Club. So if you're familiar
Speaker 1: with Nike Training Club and their apps, which I used
Speaker 1: to use religiously when they were kind of the only
Speaker 1: game in town. Now that things like Peloton and Apple
Speaker 1: Fitness Plus have come along, I have not used Nike
Speaker 1: Training in a long time, but it used to be
Speaker 1: my absolute favorite on I'm talking back to the iPod Touch.
Speaker 1: iPod Touch was my favorite to run because it had
Speaker 1: the Nike app and I could run with that on
Speaker 1: this wristband on my shoulder, and I thought it was
Speaker 1: so cool. And then the iPhone came along with that
Speaker 1: same kind of program. I ended up switching to that,
Speaker 1: and then the Nike Band came along. I use that
Speaker 1: at some point. And a little trivia for you, the
Speaker 1: same guy that used to run all the Nike stuff
Speaker 1: now runs Apple Fitness Plus. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: Nike in Apple Fitness Plus. But now they're a little
Speaker 1: bit more competitors because now Nike has gone to Netflix.
Speaker 1: So look, if you subscribe to Netflix. You're you know
Speaker 1: you see this on your home screen.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 1: It may motivate people to do workouts that may not
Speaker 1: have done workouts previously, or may not otherwise do workouts,
Speaker 1: or may not otherwise subscribe to one of the other things.
Speaker 1: And so I think it's a great thing. Do I
Speaker 1: think it's the end all for workouts? No, They've got
Speaker 1: Kickstart Fitness with the Basics, two Week to a Stronger Core,
Speaker 1: Fall in Love with Yoga, Hit Strength, Feel Good Fitness.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a bunch of episodes. They all launch
Speaker 1: December thirtieth, or the first batch. I should if you
Speaker 1: want to search for it, search Nike on Netflix to
Speaker 1: see it. They say it'll work for all fitness levels
Speaker 1: and interests, and it's great. It's included in your subscription.
Speaker 1: I think that's awesome. I think that there's better options
Speaker 1: out there. But I love the fact that this is
Speaker 1: going to push a lot of people to sit there
Speaker 1: and you know, they're tuning in for Bridgerton or whatever
Speaker 1: else is on that top ten list of trash that
Speaker 1: Netflix puts out there. Just kidding, Oh, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: It's a joke. My joke is that people watch anything
Speaker 1: that Netflix puts on their homepage and go ahead and
Speaker 1: challenge me on that, but I know you've done it.
Speaker 1: You see these things, these thumbnails, They are so slick.
Speaker 1: They know exactly who you are and what you like,
Speaker 1: and they engineer those thumbnails to make it look like
Speaker 1: the program.
Speaker 2: Is just for you.
Speaker 1: And so people watch a lot of stuff on Netflix
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't typically watch, and they end up watching
Speaker 1: it because of a lot of reasons. But the reality is,
Speaker 1: if they can apply that same logic to Nike Fitness
Speaker 1: and they'll get people to work out because of it, I'm.
Speaker 2: All for it.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a way I will tell you
Speaker 1: in my experience. I am personally I love I love,
Speaker 1: love love Peloton. I use the cycling classes on Peloton
Speaker 1: on a regular basis, and I use the treadmill running
Speaker 1: classes on Peloton on a regular basis. When it comes
Speaker 1: to Apple Fitness Plus, I think that the classes there
Speaker 1: are excellent, especially when it comes to strength training. I
Speaker 1: think those are amazing. I think that Apple Fitness Plus
Speaker 1: is a little bit more polished when it comes to
Speaker 1: the classes versus Peloton, But I think the Peloton trainers
Speaker 1: and the way they do their classes feel a bit
Speaker 1: more off the cuff compared to kind of the slick
Speaker 1: programming that you get on Apple Fitness Plus.
Speaker 2: But I also like the search function.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I think, I mean I subscribe to both,
Speaker 1: so I use both on a regular basis. I think
Speaker 1: the good for different things. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, if you are moving throughout the week, for
Speaker 1: you know, thirty minutes a day, whatever they want you
Speaker 1: to do, thirty minutes a couple times a week, whatever
Speaker 1: they recommend, absolutely do it. You will always feel.
Speaker 2: Better doing that. I'm a big believer in that.
Speaker 1: I am not mister fitness, mister workout, but I do
Speaker 1: like to move because so much of our lives in
Speaker 1: this modern world are sitting and very you know, we go,
Speaker 1: we walk from our house to our car, we get
Speaker 1: in our car, we drive to work, we get to work,
Speaker 1: we sit in a chair at work, we get from work,
Speaker 1: we go to home. It's a lot of like, you know,
Speaker 1: non movement. And unless your job is very physical, you know,
Speaker 1: the modern employee is not moving too much. And so
Speaker 1: I will force myself after work to go to the gym,
Speaker 1: get on that treadmill, even if I'm not feeling it
Speaker 1: just to do those thirty minutes just to move. And
Speaker 1: I have never come out of that gym, or I've
Speaker 1: never come out of my room where I've got a
Speaker 1: workout bike feeling like ugh, I wish I didn't do that.
Speaker 1: I've never felt that way. So when in doubt, try it.
Speaker 1: It makes you feel better, you know. Even today, I
Speaker 1: know I've got a long day ahead, and I just
Speaker 1: know that I will feel better if I somehow get
Speaker 1: my movement in anyway.
Speaker 2: Did they put me on a soapbox here? I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't tell, So that's all right.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Ty says, Hey, Rich, I'm looking to buy
Speaker 1: a MacBook Air. Do you think it's worth it to
Speaker 1: buy the newer M two chip version or just get
Speaker 1: the old M one. I mainly need to do all
Speaker 1: the work on Google apps and drive, so I don't
Speaker 1: need a lot of storage or fancy graphics. Is it
Speaker 1: worth the extra three hundred and fifty dollars? I would
Speaker 1: say it's probably not. Now Apple does this thing where
Speaker 1: their stuff is really good these days, like especially their
Speaker 1: own chips. The M one chip came out and just
Speaker 1: blew away the competition. It's a phenomenal chip. It works
Speaker 1: really well. The MacBook Air got a whole new life
Speaker 1: and it's just great. Then they came out with the
Speaker 1: M two chip later on, but they kept the M
Speaker 1: one chip to make an entry level price point on
Speaker 1: the MacBook Air that's very appealing. And so when shoppers
Speaker 1: go into the Apple Store, it's a little bit complicated
Speaker 1: because they're sitting there going, well, I don't know, do
Speaker 1: I need the M two? Do I need to spend
Speaker 1: all this extra money on this newer computer and this
Speaker 1: newer chip. My advice for most people that are buying
Speaker 1: a MacBook Air probably don't need the newer M two chip.
Speaker 1: If you are just doing basic tasks. I'm talking what
Speaker 1: Tie is saying here, Google apps, Google drive, web browsing,
Speaker 1: a little bit of video editing, a little bit of video,
Speaker 1: you know, photo editing, browsing, just basic basic stuff. Working
Speaker 1: with spreadsheets. Now, if you are doing anything where your
Speaker 1: job relies on content creation or any app that is
Speaker 1: you know, requires a lot of horsepower, then absolutely go
Speaker 1: with the M two. The three hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: will be well spent. I think when it comes to
Speaker 1: any of these computers, the most you can get. To
Speaker 1: make these computers work their best for a long period
Speaker 1: of time is to get the biggest hard drive you
Speaker 1: can afford and the most memory that you can afford.
Speaker 1: Don't discount how important memory is. And I know it's expensive,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, Apple plays these high low games
Speaker 1: where you know you got this great entry level price,
Speaker 1: but you're not getting a lot of specs when it
Speaker 1: comes to your hard drive or your memory, and you've
Speaker 1: got an upgrade and it feels really expensive.
Speaker 2: But I'm telling you that money is well spent.
Speaker 1: So ty, I don't know exactly what you're doing on
Speaker 1: this thing, but it sounds like you don't need the
Speaker 1: fancy graphics or a lot of storage, So go with
Speaker 1: the basic M one. These computers can last a very
Speaker 1: long time. My computer that I have now is from
Speaker 1: I believe, let's see, it's a MacBook sixteen inch. It
Speaker 1: is from twenty nineteen, and I'm holding out.
Speaker 2: I'm holding out hope.
Speaker 1: In early twenty twenty three they will come out with
Speaker 1: the M two MacBook Pro in a sixteen ninch model.
Speaker 1: That is the computer that I want. I did not
Speaker 1: spring for the fourteen inch M to last year or
Speaker 1: this year I should say. And so I'm holding out
Speaker 1: hope that my computer will come along and then I
Speaker 1: will gift this current computer, which is still just perfect,
Speaker 1: to my child. And I've gifted my old MacBooks to
Speaker 1: my children, to my family members. Every one of my
Speaker 1: family basically has an old MacBook that I've given them
Speaker 1: that still worked just fine when I gave it to them,
Speaker 1: even after I'd used it for about two to four years.
Speaker 1: So these things can last a long time if you
Speaker 1: take care of them. So take care of them, all right,
Speaker 1: Let's end on a fun, tasty story. Krispy Kreme CEO
Speaker 1: says robots are going to start working at Krispy Kreme's
Speaker 1: in the next eighteen months. They told this to Yahoo Finance.
Speaker 1: Krispy Kreme, based in North Carolina, said that they are
Speaker 1: going to use these robots to maximize the fresh hub
Speaker 1: and spoke model opportunity in the US. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've noticed, but krispy Kreme does this thing
Speaker 1: where they have Krispy Kreme's in convenience stores, grocery stores,
Speaker 1: quick serve restaurants all over the place. Like they don't
Speaker 1: just have locations. You can get these things everywhere. And
Speaker 1: the more robots that they can employ to get these
Speaker 1: donuts made, the more access points they can.
Speaker 2: Be fresh at.
Speaker 1: And so apparently the automated lines would produce eighteen percent
Speaker 1: of Krispy Kreme donuts within the next eighteen months. They
Speaker 1: are going to spend six million dollars on robots, and
Speaker 1: they expect to recoup two million dollars in savings annually.
Speaker 1: So they're not going to pay for themselves right off
Speaker 1: the bat, but it will help. Now, this was news
Speaker 1: to me in this Yahoo Finance article. I did not
Speaker 1: know that they also own Insomnia Cookies. I did not
Speaker 1: know that, So that's another thing. But they say they stressed,
Speaker 1: like every good company that starts using robots, they stressed
Speaker 1: that Krispy Kreme employees are still at the core of
Speaker 1: the business and the intention here is to cut out
Speaker 1: tedious tasks. I hear that over and over, and I
Speaker 1: hear from you over and over. Why am I trying
Speaker 1: to kill every job in the US with all of
Speaker 1: these robot stories? And I'm just telling you right now,
Speaker 1: I am not the person that kills the robot or
Speaker 1: the human employees' jobs with these robot stories. I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you so you understand where the world is going,
Speaker 1: and I will tell you right now. When it comes
Speaker 1: to food, we're seeing a huge growth in robot automation
Speaker 1: in the most basic job, so just be aware of that.
Speaker 1: It is something you need to be aware of. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, that is going to do it for this
Speaker 1: episode of the show. I can't believe it. Next time
Speaker 1: you hear from me, I will be on the radio.
Speaker 1: I will be talking about CES twenty twenty three, which
Speaker 1: is happening in Las Vegas the first week of January.
Speaker 2: I cannot wait.
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