WEBVTT - Apple launch event is a Prime Day to see new iPhones 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:14.200 Apple sets a date for the iPhone reveal. Amazon sets 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:18.520 a date for Prime Day. Instagram celebrates ten years plus. 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.320 Your tech questions answered? What's going on? My name is 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.160 Rich Dumiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:27.360 where I talk about the tech stuff I think you 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:30.720 should know about. It's also the place where I answer 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:33.800 the questions that you send me. Once again, my name 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.720 is Rich Dumiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:43.880 Los Angeles. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the show. I can't 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:47.519 get over the tech season right now. There is so 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.680 much going on. Every company wants to send me stuff 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.279 to test out, and I just have to hold them 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:55.000 all back because I'm like, look, I gotta do just 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.920 the stuff that I think my audience is interested in 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.280 at this point, because there's just two watch, too many phones, 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:06.119 too many gadgets, too many things, And you know, it's 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.119 just one of these things where I am the editor, 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.679 I'm the filter, and I do try to filter things 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.760 down to just the stuff that I think is the 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.560 most interesting, the most compelling, and the most valuable. I'm 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.960 not always right, but you know, I have to do 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:21.560 my best because I only have so much time and 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:28.440 placements on TV and on you know, the radio and anyway. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.959 So this week bunch of stuff arrived. But the Pixel 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:35.919 four A is in the house, and I have already 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.080 fallen in love with this device. It's a four hundred 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.400 and ninety nine dollars phone. It's got that amazing Google 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.080 camera on it. The other thing, so I'm playing with that. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.840 I'm playing with the Pixel four A, comparing that against 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.960 some of the other phones out there. The other thing 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.440 that I've been playing with, the Google Chrome Cast TV 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.920 is just awesome. I am absolutely loving this thing. It 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.040 is so simple. And it occurred to me why this 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:04.880 is so brilliant, because Google has basically done for streaming 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:09.440 services what they've done for data on the Internet, so 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.840 web pages. So they have gone through and they've scanned 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.760 all the streaming services and they now have made this 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.320 major index on the back end. And so when you 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.919 want to watch a Halloween movie, you just asked the 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.040 Google assistant for Halloween movies and they will show you 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.240 a whole bunch of them. You can narrow down to 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.880 just kids movies, or just slasher movies or thriller movies, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.960 or you know, whatever you're into, and it's the same 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.640 thing as searching on Google and it's like, okay, well 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.560 here it is, and this is the movie you want. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.320 And by the way, it's on HBO Max. So brilliant, 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.560 so awesome. And it really just came to me this 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.800 week as I was using it because I have found 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:49.360 more to watch on Google chrome cast TV. I'm giving 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.040 it the wrong name, by the way, it's Chrome cast 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.800 with Google TV. I've found more to watch on that 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:58.600 device in the past week than I ever have across 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:02.800 any other device. Because the way most other streaming devices 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.360 work is that they're all about the apps, and so 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:09.760 it's like, oh, here's Hulu, here's to be TV, here's YouTube. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.919 Google does not care about any of that. All they 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.160 care about is content, and so it's a really interesting 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.359 kind of flipping of the roles of these streaming devices 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.320 because it feels like the Internet now. So you just 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.800 search for what you want and boom, it's there, and 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:26.520 then you'll figure out if you can stream it for 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.280 free or not. But I thought that was really really neat. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.480 So so that's the chrome Cast TV. Let's get into 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:38.760 the first story of the week, which is Apple finally 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:43.440 announced their iPhone event for October thirteenth, they sent out 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:48.360 an invitation to journalists, including myself called time. Sorry that's 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:54.560 the last one. This one said, Hi Comma Speed, Hi 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.520 Comma Speed. And what is that tagline? You know? Apple 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.600 always sends these things out in kind of a little 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.720 way of giving you a hint as to what's to come. 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:07.000 They're they're so cool over there, They're so creative, and 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.360 they are the best at what they do. Let's be honest, 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.520 But this one is all about high speed, which is 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.480 a nod to five G arriving on the iPhone for 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.719 the first time. And if you've listened to this podcast 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.200 for any length of time. If you haven't, welcome to 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.200 the show. If you have, sorry, sorry that you have 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:25.240 to deal with this show. But no, you'll love it, 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:28.839 and so do I, and I appreciate you. But the 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.480 five G networks are not all there yet, and so 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.919 does that mean you shouldn't get a five G phone? No? 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:36.800 Does that mean you shouldn't be excited for a five 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.479 G phone? No? In fact, I want to switch carriers 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.840 just to go to five G. I'm on Verizon right 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.560 now and I'm kind of looking at a move to 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.839 AT and T or T mo O. Well, just because 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.279 they have five G in a bigger way than Verizon. 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.560 Verizon also is gonna have five G sometime this year, 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.680 so I kind of holding out for what they have 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.359 because I know it's going to be good. But anyway, 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:03.400 I digress the what are we expecting from this event? 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.919 We're expecting apparently, according to nine to five Mac four 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:11.080 different iPhones and iPhone twelve Mini and iPhone twelve six inch, 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.000 iPhone Pro, iPhone Pro Max with the biggest screen, they're 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.279 all gonna have O LED displays, and of course they're 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.360 gonna be faster, they're gonna have better cameras, They're gonna 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.080 already have iOS fourteen on them. So I mean, if 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:25.839 you already have an iPhone with that, it's kind of 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.200 like you have the software. So I mean, you know, 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.000 it's one of these things where it's it's gonna be 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.560 exciting and no matter what, it's funny because whenever I 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:40.080 cover Apple, what happens. I get all the haters coming 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.279 out of the woodwork to you know, oh, well you 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:46.680 do is cover Apple? Why youse such an Apple fanboy? 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.359 And then I post something like the pixel four A 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.960 five G A little first look on my Facebook and 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:58.799 my Instagram and it is crickets. Nobody comments, nobody watches 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.039 the video, so I don't really understand it. Where are 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.480 all the Samsung lovers? Where all the Android lovers? When 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.599 I post something about Android, they're not there. They don't 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.000 say anything. So say something when I post the Android 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.680 stuff or the non Apple stuff. So I know that's 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.200 your care. But when I post the iPhone video on 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.919 next week, not that I have an iPhone, but if 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.479 I get one or whatever I do with the iPhone, 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.640 I know it's gonna be popular. So you know, give 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.120 me a break. I mean, I do. I cover whatever 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.400 is out there that I think most people should know about. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.640 And I think that people should know about the Pixel 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.040 four A five G. When I had the Samsung the 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.080 Friends and Family Edition or whatever it's called, the Fan Edition, 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.200 I talked all about that and I got a lot 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.440 of you know, I got some feedback on it. But again, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.440 if it's iPhone, it's oh, it just blows up and 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:50.560 everyone wants to know. So I get it. iPhone's very popular. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:55.520 But I do try to cover a wide spance of stuff. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:07:01.280 Is that a word spance spans? Let's see, no spans. 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.800 I don't I don't think spans. No, there's no way 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.560 spans is a word. No, I don't think so. Uh okay, 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:13.400 So anyway, the iPhone event is happening on October thirteenth, 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.120 ten am Pacific. You can watch it online, you can 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.240 watch it on all the different you know channels, you 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.200 know YouTube, all that good stuff, or you know, an 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:23.880 Apple device. But uh, the basic thing is going to 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.840 be new iPhones, and then of course there's the rumors 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:32.520 about everything else. You know, new AirPods over the earheadphones, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.000 air tag trackers, which you know, we've heard about these 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:39.960 things for like three years now, a new Apple TV perhaps, 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.480 and of course maybe an update on the Apple Silicon 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.600 for you know, the new Mac computers maybe what else? 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.360 What are they saying? You know, It's one of these 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.920 things where you never know with Apple. I mean, obviously 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.119 the iPhone is the most popular thing that they've got, 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.880 but they use these opportunities to kind of give us 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.560 other other things as well. So I will be watching that, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.400 I will be covering that, and I'm excited, to be honest, 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.840 to be one hundred percent honest, I am more excited 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.120 for the Pixel five than I am the iPhone twelve. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.840 I'll be honest, I think the iPhone is an amazing 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.360 piece of machinery and I love, love, love it. But 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.520 I'm getting a little bored, and so I've already had 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:22.040 iPhone iOS fourteen on my phone. But when I look 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.160 at the pixel software, I feel like it just it's 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:30.160 doing more interesting things for me versus the iPhone, which 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.000 it kind of does what the iPhone has been doing. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.080 It's amazing, it works. I love how it integrates with 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.720 the AirPods and the Apple Watch and the iPhone and 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.560 my messages on my computer. But at the same time, 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.600 I feel like I've been doing that for a while now, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.600 So I don't know. I feel like maybe I'm ready 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.000 for a change. I don't know if I can handle it, though, 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.480 because every time I use an Android, I'm always like 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.439 I'm always feeling like sad about my iPhone. So I 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.440 don't know. Maybe these are just my problems. Maybe this 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:01.240 is just my internal monologue. Let's get some questions, let's 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:06.480 get some other people's problems, right opp Hugo says, I 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.200 need your help asap. I have an iPhone ten and 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.400 money wise, well, I don't want to do an upgrade 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.560 just yet. I've got at and T. I have insurance 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.280 on my phone. All of a sudden, it looks like 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.560 the battery or something got really big inside my phone 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.680 and it popped open. I'm afraid of charging it or 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.559 answering calls it might explode. I checked AT and T 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.920 insurance for replacement shows I have to pay two hundred 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.079 and fifty dollars. I understand if it's my fault or 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:31.920 I dropped it or I broke it. But do you 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.480 know if I can dispute this two fifty or something 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.320 else for something I didn't do. HUGO, do not pay 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.560 the two fifty. In fact, do not pass go. Do 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.600 not go to AT and T on this, go directly 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.240 to Apple. It's an iPhone ten, which has been you know, 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:48.200 a couple of years. But Apple is is pretty particular 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:52.920 about batteries. They kind of carve out special circumstances for 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:55.600 batteries on the phone, and so I do believe that 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.080 if you bring this into an Apple store, they will 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.800 replace the battery for you at a very re reasonable price. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.199 And they may not even replace the battery. They may 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.800 just give you a new phone or a refurbished phone. 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:07.920 But that is the first thing that I would do 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.719 before you go through your insurance because unless you did 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.960 something to this phone to make this battery pop like this, 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.680 which I don't think you did. I think the battery 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.240 is just faulty, and they're going to know that, they're 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:19.680 gonna figure it out, and they're going to give you 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:24.440 a reasonable replacement, something in the under one hundred dollars. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.920 I think the out of battery replacement is something like 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:32.679 eighty bucks. So I would go right to the Apple store, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.599 make an appointment online with the genius, and again, you 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.640 are kind of onto something. I would not make calls 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:40.600 or use this phone right now, and definitely don't charge 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.200 it because when those batteries start to pop, there is 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.360 a chemical issue happening. It's a reaction that's happening inside 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.439 your phone. You do not want to further that or 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.720 be a part of that. So get it, get it 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.720 to a store as soon as possible, stop using it, 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:58.360 and do this today. That's my advice. But let me 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.640 know what happens, because I think that they are going 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:07.400 to be understanding of this issue, and yeah, everything will 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.920 be good, all right. Next story on the list here, 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.439 let's talk about Prime Day on Amazon, because Prime Day 0:11:16.880 --> 0:11:22.480 is the most overhyped non holiday in the world, right, 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.720 I mean, what's up with Prime Day? I didn't even 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.680 shop on the last two Prime Days. I'll be honest, 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.600 this year I might because I've kind of been looking 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:30.719 at some of the I'm gonna go through some of 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:34.200 these things. But this year seems like Amazon maybe they're 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.320 taking mercy on us because they know that they are 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.640 kind of just ruling in our world, especially in the pandemic. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:44.760 Maybe they know that people's budgets aren't as big these days, 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.960 and so they just start giving more deals. But it 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.200 seems like they're doing a good job this year. So 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.960 let's go over Prime Day Real quick starts Tuesday, October 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.640 thirteenth at midnight Pacific. It runs for forty eight hours, 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.120 so it'll run through Wednesday, October fourteenth. If you want 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.840 to get a credit right now, if you buy something 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.200 from a small business on Amazon, you can get a 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.080 ten dollars credit to spend on Prime Day. And the 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.640 way to find that is, let's see, you gotta go 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.120 to like Amazon dot com slash small business. Is that 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.679 what it is Amazon dot com? Or maybe it's shop 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.000 small Let's see. You know, you would think I would 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.880 do my you think i'd do my homework before I 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.920 come onto this podcast, but I don't. So let's see. 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:32.320 I know I've got it somewhere, and let's see where 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.120 is it. Oh my gosh, I have so many here 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:36.200 we go. I have so many different scripts. I write 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.400 for TV radio. You know how many things I'm doing 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.240 at this point, I'm doing TV. So with TV, I'm 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.560 doing KTLA, all the other stations we do. We just 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.839 added like things like Las Vegas, you know, and I 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:47.560 already went over this. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.880 humble brag anymore. So anyway, we're on a lot of places. 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:57.640 Let's see where are we Amazon dot Com, Slash Support 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.880 Small So if you buy something from one of those 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.600 and says you'll get a ten dollars credit. The other 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.600 thing you can do is through October fourteenth, if you 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.000 spend ten dollars at an Amazon Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh, 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.720 Amazon Go or Amazon Grocery, Amazon Books, or an Amazon 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.040 pop up or an Amazon four Star store, you can 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.160 get up to fifty dollars in credit. Oh wow, so 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.160 you can do that a couple of times. Interesting, that's 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.360 why I've gotten that a couple times. I was wondering 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.560 why they kept emailing me ten bucks. I thought it 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.880 was like a problem. I was like, I'll keep taking it, 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:32.240 but I think you're mistaking. So I have Oh gosh, 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.160 I'm trying to figure out where my Amazon like credit 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.640 is because I have like a little let me see, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:42.400 I'm gonna Amazon ten dollars. Let's see. So they gave 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:46.760 me like this reward for shopping at Whole Foods and 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:52.520 how do I see it? Come on, where is it? Man? 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.840 Oh man? They have like this little they have this 0:13:55.880 --> 0:14:00.640 little like web page that you can actually see your 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.000 credits on there, and when I claimed it, I had 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.720 this little thing where it was like ten dollars. So anyway, 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.800 I've got twenty bucks to spend so far, which is 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.360 kind of cool. I don't know where that website is, 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.400 but I wish I did, because you know, the whole 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.840 point of this podcast is to give you news that 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:16.880 you can use. And when I'm sitting here telling you 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:21.160 something and I'm not saying where it is, well that's 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.440 a problem. So anyway, I don't know where it is, 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.040 and it seems like the whatever website they gave me 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.760 where I claim my credit, it's now redirecting somewhere that's 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:33.000 not really working anyway, So that's another way to do it. 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:39.040 Let's see shop with an Alexa on an Echo device 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.320 starting Sunday, October eleventh to get early access to deals, 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:48.320 and that is let's see what's the deals there. You 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.880 have to say, you know, a what are my Prime 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.320 Day deals? And that's where they reserve a lot of deals. 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:57.640 So let's talk about some of these deals. They've got 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:58.960 a lot. I'm just going to go through some of 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:02.760 the early Prime Day deals that Amazon already has announced. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:08.640 Echo Dot third generation nineteen bucks, Fire TV Smart Edition TVs. 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.520 You can get a thirty two inch for one hundred 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.520 and nine dollars, a forty three inch for two oh 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.520 nine seventy five bucks off the euro Mesh Wi Fi system, 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.880 which I'm guessing is the old one, but that's one 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.400 hundred and seventy five bucks. Ring Video, Doorbell second gen 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.680 for seventy dollars. Do you see the trends here? All 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.760 the older stuff, like the last generation stuff, is on sale. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.360 So I'm not saying that they're just trying to like 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.600 clear the warehouses, but you know, let's be honest, the 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.040 new stuff is not as much on sale as the 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.320 old stuff is. So it's just I mean, isn't that 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.640 how it works in general? Fifty dollars off a Kindle 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.400 paper white, that's eighty bucks. This is what I'm interested 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.520 in because my kids are all about their Nintendo Switch. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.160 Save thirty six dollars on a twelve month Nintendo Switch 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.960 Online family membership plus a sand disc one twenty eight 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.160 gig memory card, So I'll definitely be picking up two 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.640 of those thirty three percent off Nintendo Switch titles. I 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.160 just realized when I bought my kid the Switch my 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:06.240 other kid, that you basically have to have two different 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:07.720 You have to buy two copies of the game if 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.600 your kids want to play at the same time. Yes, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:11.760 there's some workarounds, I have not really figured them out 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.760 in an easy way, So that's what I'm sticking to. 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.800 Thirty three percent off of Room Buzz and Yeah, I 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.880 would definitely look into those. Those are awesome. Twenty percent 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.920 off Pumpkin Bakery Soy candles from Amazon, handmade maker Loren 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:30.560 lorenz In Candle Company. I'm loving I went to I went. 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.920 I dragged my wife to what's that place called Bath 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:38.400 and Body Works for some pumpkin candles, and they're really strong. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.000 By the way we've got them. You can only burn 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:41.920 them for like a little bit because it like really 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.000 really fills up your house. But anyway, so I'm obsessed 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:47.000 with those thirty seven percent off Ninja kitchen products. We've 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.560 got one of those and I love it. Oh wait, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.080 is it Ninja or the other one? I think it 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:54.640 is a Ninja. Yeah, it's really great. Thirty five percent 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:56.440 off water pick and I just bought one of those, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.680 a water pick for flossing, and I love that. So 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:01.240 I'm just telling you this stuff that I like that 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:05.400 I've purchased recently that you should get on Prime Day. 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.200 Thirty percent off a fitbit versa two a versa light. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.439 Those are a good deal. But again, last Year's and 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.320 then Amazon brands all kinds of percentages off on Amazon brands, 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:20.960 so things like Solomo, Happy Belly, Mama Bear, Belisi's skincare, 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.560 and Amazon gift cards. This is interesting. Prime members get 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.200 a ten dollars promotional credit when they purchase an Amazon 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.520 gift card or of forty dollars or more, which I'll 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.440 definitely be doing that. Why not reload your own card 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.480 balance of forty dollars or more. That is perfect one 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.000 per Amazon customer. Definitely doing that. So I mean, why 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.320 not you put forty bucks in your gift card account 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.359 and you get ten extra dollars. Why would you not 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.400 do that? So, I mean, you know you're gonna spend 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.679 money on Amazon, all right. So now some of the 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.960 things that I'll mention on KTLA that I think you 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.800 should be looking at when it comes to Prime Day. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:59.199 I already mentioned Alexa Lightning deals obviously go on the 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.080 app make list now, So start shopping on Amazon now 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.159 and add stuff to your cart. And that way, number one, 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.000 you're buying the stuff that you actually want and not 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.359 just garbage that you're like, oh, this is a good deal. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:12.959 This is ten percent off, like to you know, get 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:14.920 the stuff that you actually need, and if it doesn't 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.040 go on sale, just don't worry about buying it just yet. 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.640 You don't. Not everything goes on sale during Prime Day. 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:23.439 The other place is to look slick deals Wirecutter and 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.680 deal News. They always do a big deal on Prime 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.000 Day because guess what, they get a percentage. So what 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:30.679 they do is they look through all the deals, they 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.679 pick out the best stuff, they link it, they use 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:35.520 their affiliate link from Amazon, and when you shop there, 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.840 they get a little percentage of what you buy, and 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.520 you know a percentage of that sale, and so it 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.920 works out for everyone. They they do their job because 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.240 they're looking for the best stuff. You get the discount. 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:47.480 You don't have to look for all the stuff. They 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:51.600 get a little reward. Amazon Assistant on Chrome you can 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.400 try that. I've not used that, but apparently it compares prices. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.639 Honey is another good one. I've got that installed on 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:59.680 my computer and that will compare prices and it will 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.000 tell you kind of the history of a price as well. 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.600 But if you really want the best price history is 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.679 the website Camel Camel Camel. That will show you the 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:12.560 price history chart for basically everything. All right, have fun 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.879 on Prime Day. I'll probably shop this year for sure. 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:25.760 Let's go to another question. Let's see, let's go to Hovic. 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.760 Hovic says, good morning, I have a question about converting 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.200 DVDs to thumb drive. What are the best options? Thank 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.600 you in advance, and thank you for all the technology 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:39.400 updates and ahead what Okay, maybe I don't know, maybe 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:43.439 I got Hovic's name wrong, but anyway, so uh oh gosh, 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.119 so if you're talking about regular DVDs, you know, like 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:50.320 the Hollywood Studio DVDs, there is not a simple way 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:55.760 to convert those to like thumb drive. Like there's not 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.360 like a simple like oh you know, there you go. 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.600 So there are our programs that will do it. But 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.560 in my experience, it is not an easy process. It's 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.280 not something that is you know, it's not even it's 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.399 actually like a gray process. But you can do it. 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:12.160 I mean, it's your stuff. I mean it's your house. 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:13.919 You can, you know, as long as you're not selling 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.960 this stuff. I think you can make a backup copy 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.600 of it. But the program that will do it is 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.280 handbreak h A N D B R A k E. 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:25.919 And once you download that, I think you need another 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:32.840 program called f f mp mpeg, which or sorry, that's 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.720 that's different. I think that's different. So never mind, don't 0:20:35.720 --> 0:20:37.719 don't listen to me on that one. But I think 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.320 there's another little like plugin you need for handbreak once 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.679 you download it to like make it work, because what 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:44.560 it has to do is it actually has to like 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:49.000 decrypt the disc the DVD. If you're talking about commercial DVDs, 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.720 if you're talking about something that you've burned yourself. It's 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:53.840 super easy. Just put it in a handbreak it'll it'll 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:55.960 do it in seconds. It'll rip it to any format 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:59.399 you want. But I I don't know, I don't know 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:01.240