WEBVTT - Visiting Shanghai for CES Asia 2019 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.039 It's a special edition of the Rich on Tech podcast 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:10.280 direct from China. What's going on? I'm Rich Dmiro here 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.920 in Shanghai for cs Asia, where tech companies are showing 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.960 off their gadgets for a marketplace of over a billion 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.840 people here in this region. And yes, I've got some 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:22.680 thoughts on that show the country at large and lots 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.200 of international lessons learned. We also got to go to 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:27.640 Shanghai Disneyland, so we're going to talk about that and 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:32.120 of course answer your pressing tech questions as always. Joining 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:36.000 me is producer Megan, the driving force behind this trip. Meghan, 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:40.440 Welcome to the show. Me How she she? That's about 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.239 all I've learned so far since I've been here. But 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.480 you really wanted to do this? Why? 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.320 I just I've never been to Asia and it just 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.280 sounded like such a cool opportunity to bring you know, 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.639 the Tech show here and just see, you. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.640 Know how what CS Asia is all about. 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.760 So and on that note, thank you to CES Asia 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.319 for hosting us. They brought us out here to experience 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:08.400 the show. Now. I was actually here for the very 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.520 first show, which was five years ago. I came here 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.759 with my photographer Phil Ega, and it was the inaugural show, 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:18.040 So I mean it was like the first time. I 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.160 didn't know anything about it, and I don't think neither 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.240 either did see Yes Asia, I mean it was a smaller, 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:25.240 much smaller show than it is today. It has definitely grown. 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:30.800 So this year, five or six giant halls of exhibits. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.080 And yeah, there's a lot of random tech accessories. I 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.240 mean that's to be expected because we're in Asia. I 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.560 mean that's this is where they're all made. But they 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.920 had a lot of cartech, they had Ai, they had 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:45.280 five g lots of keynotes from big companies. Huawei gave 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.240 the keynote, which is kind of awkward because you know, 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.800 you've heard Huawei in the news so much. They're they're 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:52.960 facing that major band in the US. I think they're 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.520 already banned at this point, so but I think they're 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.680 fighting it. But my big takeaway from the show, did 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.240 I see one thing that just like blew my mind? 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.480 Not really, but I saw lots of little things and 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.840 a lot of cool stuff too. That all kind of 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.040 makes you realize it is a very big world out there. 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.720 In the US, we're very focused on Apple on Samsung, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.320 but here there are so many people and what I've 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.120 noticed about people in Asia is that there is not 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.120 one theme I see right, except for the fact that 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.160 everyone's on their phone all the time. But they use 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.400 a lot of different tech. Like in the US, it's 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.960 all Apple, it's all Samsung, and you know, a couple 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.399 other brands. But here it is like I was looking 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.840 at people's phones and I couldn't identify what phone models 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:43.520 they were because there's so many different types. So I 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.000 think that's my big takeaway is that really this is 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.960 a huge world. Keep in mind that when you talk 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.680 about tech and you see tech, there are a lot 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:55.560 of different people out there and there's something for everyone. Okay, 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.200 so let me talk about the way this show is 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.800 gonna work, because it's a little different than our previous shows. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.640 Instead of talking about all the tech topics from this week, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.959 I'm going to share my thoughts about this whole experience 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.240 here in China. But we're still going to answer questions. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.240 So in between my thoughts, I'll take a question. And 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.480 I guess now's the perfect time to start with our 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.880 first question, So Megankay take it away. 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:20.120 Okay, so our first question comes from Peggy Lane. Hey, Rich, 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.320 we are very interested in purchasing something that attaches to 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.520 our house as a water meter and alert to you 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.600 when there is a possible leak. I would also like 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.480 to be able to turn off the house water with 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.000 my iPhone. How is the technology advanced in this department? 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:35.800 Any suggestion? 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.840 Ooh, that's a really good question, and it's something that 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.680 here's the thing with all this smart home stuff. Once 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.000 you have it, you realize that you can't imagine life 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.720 without it and the smart like okay, so for me, 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:52.840 example of me, for example, I just installed a smart 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.200 lock on my front door, and now that I have it, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.200 I literally can't imagine life without it because I can 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:00.320 see when my door is locked, I can see when 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.960 it's unlocked. I can assign codes to people everyone. I 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.240 don't have to have keys anymore for people. So I've 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.600 given out codes to like so many people because they 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.160 can just like my in laws, they can come in 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.119 when they need to. You can say when you want 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.480 them to have access. So like for instance, with the 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.440 with the cleaning service I have them, they can only 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.000 access it at a certain time, like they come on 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.280 this day from you know, seven to nine. That's it, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.119 you know what I mean. They don't need access twenty 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.320 four to seven. So it's like these little things I 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.840 never thought of, Like here's for the past twenty years, 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:32.960 you know, cleaning service had a key to my house. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.880 This makes so much more sense. So anyway, when it 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.320 comes to the water leaks at your house, and by 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.080 the way, I had this happen at my house, and 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.560 it's not pretty a water leak. I think it cost 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.320 us insurance. I think it was about almost fifty thousand 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.560 dollars for I'm talking one little leak that was from 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.719 the water heater. It exploded basically overnight and got leaked 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.520 into our floor like for about twenty four hours. And 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.000 I thought, no big deal. I just stepped on the 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.479 floor and it was kind of mushy. Oh my gosh. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.159 I had no idea. You have to replace the entire 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.520 wood floor, I mean, the walls. They gotta cut the 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.440 walls up to like you know, so they can replace 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.240 all the everything had to be replaced, mold exactly had 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:12.040 to be dried out for a week. Well not because 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:13.800 we've found it quickly, you know, but they still have 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:15.640 to dry out your house for like a week to 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:16.800 make sure that doesn't get any more. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:17.280 I mean, it was. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.080 Crazy My point is for a little tiny leak, it 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.320 was like so much money. Yeah, and yeah, insurance will 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:24.800 cover a lot of that, but I mean I still 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.000 was out a lot. But anyway, so my point is 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.200 these things are going to become even more crucial because 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.320 how they work is they go on your main pipe 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.080 that brings the water into your house and they sense 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.680 what's happening with that water going through there. So number one, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.680 they can sense like is your toilet leaking because they 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.160 use an algorithm to kind of figure out, like we 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:48.039 we can fingerprint this leak, and we know from the 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.200 other millions of fingerprints that we've taken that this is 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.719 a water leak from the toilet, or this is a 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.880 water leak from the shower, or this is your washing 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.640 machine using too much water. So it's really fascinating what 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.680 they're doing with the fingerprinting of this of the water 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.719 flow in your house. So the two that I would 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.760 probably take a look at. Number one is called flow 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.440 Flo and this is actually owned by Mowen. You've heard 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.000 of them, right, the brand, Yeah, So that's number one. 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.200 The one that I know that I've seen a demo 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.880 of is Finn p h y N And this is 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.400 made by Belkan, which I guess they used to be. 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:26.800 I mean I think they are and. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.560 We saw both of these companies at CES in Vegas. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:31.800 Right and this this is one of those things. But 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.919 it's really expensive. So I think by the time you 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.600 get it installed in everything, you're looking at over one 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.040 thousand dollars, but in my case, for you know, being 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.960 out a couple several thousand dollars with that leak. This 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:45.400 is something that I do want to get and I keep, 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:46.560 but it's like one of those things like do you 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.320 really like you know, you have all these things of 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.080 what you want to spend your money on, like a 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.640 water flow leak detector in your house is not really 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.400 on the top of my list. It's probably last on 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.240 the list, but it is something to look into. So 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.320 I think the technology this is going to be something 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.719 that's on every home in the future, especially when it 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.279 comes to water conservation. So those are the two that 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.280 I look at, Flow and finn and you know, I think, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.480 once you have it, you probably gonna like it. YEA, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:18.360 So good question. Okay, So moving on with China, the 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.680 number one thing that I have noticed about this country 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.160 is the Great Firewall, as they call it right. It 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:30.560 is real. You've experienced it. Connectivity here is such a challenge. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:32.720 And that doesn't mean that there's not Wi Fi. Doesn't 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.720 mean there's not cellular. There's cellular everywhere, there's Wi Fi everywhere, 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.200 but it does not work the way we think about 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.840 it working in America. So everything that we use on 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.960 a daily basis is pretty much blocked. And that includes Facebook, 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:50.320 that includes Instagram, that includes Google, that includes Gmail, that 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.600 includes Google Photos, Google Drive. As you figured out, the 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.320 list just goes on and on, like all this stuff 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:57.200 that you just think. You open up Instagram, it's just 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.720 like sorry, could not connect, and you're like wait, what, Like, no, 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.240 there's Instagram. You send a message to someone on Instagram 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:06.200 doesn't work, nop. So the thing that I found is 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:10.560 twofold number one. If you are using a cellular connection 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.120 from an account from the US, like I have Verizon, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.920 if I'm using that on my phone, even though I'm 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.440 going through China Mobile on my phone because it's roaming, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.760 it still works just fine. So that's number one. But 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.280 on your computer, what do you do right? So right 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.040 now I'm using a hot spot from my phone that 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:28.760 gets expensive. 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:29.840 We just figured it out. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.480 Yeah, which I just figured it out, by the way. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.040 But the other thing I've been doing is using a VPN, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.160 so that has really saved me. But the problem with 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.680 the VPN is it kicks you off every couple of minutes, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:42.160 so it's not like you just log onto your VPN 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.680 and it works the whole time. So it has been 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:48.160 really frustrating. And the other thing I noticed is that 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.360 I always talk about people always asking me, hey, Rich, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.360 how do I roam when I'm in whatever country? And 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.360 a given you, your experience in other countries is a 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.160 lot easier because you do have WiFi. That's that works. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:00.760 Like if you go to Italy, the WiFi is gonna 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.840 let you access all the stuff you normally access right 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.000 so here it's a little more challenging. But what I 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.720 did recognize is I always recommend to go on the 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.600 travel paths or whatever they call it, like international travel whatever. 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.160 It's ten dollars a day usually on AT and T 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.480 and Verius and the two big ones, and that gives 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:18.160 you your plan as normal in any country in the 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.240 world pretty much. So if you use your phone it's 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.240 a ten dollars charge, it works as normal, like you 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.920 can call people, you can use your Internet whatever. But 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.280 what I did not know until this trip is that 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.319 you only get a half a gigabyte of high speed 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.280 data and after that they slow you down to a crawl, 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.640 which is basically unusable. So now I feel like it's 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:42.040 still the easiest way to travel internationally, but that half 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.319 a gig is not enough. I mean, you know, you 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.000 want to upload a couple pictures to Instagram find but 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:48.720 for me, like I was uploading a couple of videos 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:50.520 and stuff to like Facebook, and I want to back 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.760 up my pictures to Google Photos. No dice, because half 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.160 a gig is like nothing. You'll burn through that instantly. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:58.720 And the best part is when you're done with that 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:01.800 half a gig and text you and they say, oh, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:03.760 we notice that you burn through your half a gig. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.800 We're gonna slow you down or reply yes for another 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.080 ten dollars, we'll give you another half a gig. 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:10.640 Yeah, that's how they make the money. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.520 That can add up really fast. Yeah. Serious. Personally, I 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.080 don't know how China survives without Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google. 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.560 Maybe they're better off, because you know, it's a source 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.480 of a lot of discontent in America, you know, like 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.320 people are surfing Instagram all day and they're jealous of 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:31.360 like their friends they see on vacation what's not blocked, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.160 which has been really good? I message, so that's been 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.360 a savior there. And you had an experience with a 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.040 couple of things that were censored, so tell me about that. 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:41.439 Oh so. 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.920 The second day that I was here, I decided to 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:47.800 like turn on the TV and just like see what 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:52.400 was there. And I turned on CNN and I was like, oh, okay, 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.960 see I thought CNN would have been like blocked, and 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:57.079 I was just watching it, and. 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.240 Then suddenly they started CNN was talking. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.719 About Trump, and then I was like, oh, weird, so 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:05.120 they like talk about Trump here. And then suddenly and 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.960 it was like obviously an American CNN because it was 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:12.000 like Cenn anchors. And then within literally thirty seconds, it 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:12.440 just went. 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:15.120 Black because they were talking about something that was happening 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:16.679 in Hong Kong, a protest. 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.720 Yes, exactly, and then it was black for just like 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:19.440 five minutes. 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.760 So it's so crazy that they have it here. But 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.000 yet someone is literally sitting there watching the CNN feed 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.920 for all of China and just like pressing a button too, 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.160 like blackout. Whatever. They don't agree with. I mean, it's 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.520 so crazy. It must be a huge like business here, 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.520 like industry here, like the government doing that. Yeah. And 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.480 then a phone call with your mom something weird happened. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.160 Yeah, So I called my mom and within like ten seconds, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.120 she was like, oh, are you listening to music? And 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.920 I was like no, and she said, oh, well, I 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:49.720 just heard like a Beatles song playing. 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.120 And I was like, well, I'm not listening to any music. 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.360 And she was like, okay, Well it was very clear, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.440 like I could hear a song playing for like three seconds. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.480 It like basically to me, like she couldn't hear me, 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.600 she just heard the song. So like something happened. I 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.000 have no idea. It was really strange. And then like 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.280 throughout the call, I just was like, I feel like 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:09.960 someone's listening. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.439 Yeah, That's the way I felt on all my calls. Yeah, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:16.720 the guy listening probably he probably like was listening to 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:18.520 music in the background and like forgot to mute it 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.160 when he like started listening to you. Actually, Oh my gosh. 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.400 So crazy. It's just such a weird thing. Because yeah, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.320 I'm sure in America they do stuff like that, Like 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.160 I'm sure there's a level of surveillance not on the 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.360 average person, but in general, Like you know, I'm sure 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.920 America does that to certain people and things that are 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.000 being watched. We do have the FBI, but it just 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.520 doesn't feel as in your face as it does here. Yeah, 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.160 all right, another question, Megan, you're up. 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:47.360 Okay. Next question is from Roger Massius. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.000 My kid downloaded some free software and along with it 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.600 a virus that redirects my browser to bing. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:56.280 I noticed during the redirect. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:00.439 Process it tags a site called my Search team to 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.440 get rid of it, and I'm getting really frustrated. Do 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.560 you have any ideas on how to get off how 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:07.560 to get it off my PC? 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.800 Oh gosh, this is the worst. It's funny that this 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.560 still happens because this was such a problem a long 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.800 time ago, but it still happens. So what happened was 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.440 your son probably downloaded some software that had I don't 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.680 know what you call it, like drive by software included. 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:25.599 Like a lot of times you download free software. The 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.280 reason it's free is because they'll get money from a 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.600 company like my Search, and my Search will say, well, 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.199 let's bundle our toolbar in and we'll pay you ten 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.240 dollars every time someone downloads your software. And you're like, okay, cool. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.000 I mean it's just so it comes with that software. 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:42.880 So that's what happened. And it's, by the way, really 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.200 tough to usually get rid of this software because it 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.240 doesn't show up in the uninstalled tool but you know, 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.920 uninstalled panel. It's just not like as legitimate as like 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:52.880 a Google toolbar back in the day or like a 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.720 normal company, So it's just tougher to get off your machine. 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:59.800 So what I'd recommend is malware bytes. So I think 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.480 that malware bytes is you know, it will find this 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.960 stuff on your computer and help you uninstall it. So 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.880 that's the main thing. If that doesn't work, I mean 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.800 I think that'll work. So it should work. And there's 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.000 if you actually search on Google for how to get 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.800 rid of my search dot com redirect, you'll see. It's 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.040 funny because I you know, I help a lot of 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.280 people with their computers, and I can tell whenever someone's 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.280 like I'm having trouble with my computer. If I start 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.680 searching on Google and it goes like some random search, 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:30.680 I'm like, oh, well, first off, you have malware on 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.880 your computer. And this happens all the time, Like people 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.320 don't even realize, like you'll get like these random like 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:39.960 my Way Search. I mean, there's so many random search toolbars. Yeah, 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.880 like engines that are like and they're all just the 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.800 way they make money is they're just hijacking the ad data, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:46.400 so they're trying to get you to click on ads. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.800 They get a little portion of that referral fee, and 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:52.200 then they make money. It's a whole terrible industry. But 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.040 malware bytes I think should get rid of it. They're 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.160 the biggest kind of like anti malware. And it's usually free. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.680 You can download it for free. I'm sure there's some 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.440 paid versions of it, but it's it's usually free and 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.400 it gets good reviews, Like a lot of the tech 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.320 people recommend it because it is pretty legit. So now 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.200 we talked about the bad side of China, which is 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:15.560 the censorship, but I will talk about the benefit of China, 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:19.000 the amazing part of China, which is like the people 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:23.600 here are very kind. I describe them as gentle, like 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.400 they just seem like I mean, we're in a city 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.960 of Shanghai which has I think like twenty four million people, 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.640 and it seems like the people here are just so 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.720 like nice and like not just nice to us, but 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.680 kind to like they're fellow human, which I find really 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.760 interesting because you're in LA and it's like it's every 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.800 man for himself, you know, and especially with the traffic 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.840 and all this stuff. But it's and it's also really clean. 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.440 So the city we were driving and I just could 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.720 not believe, and I remember this from China last time, 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:56.520 they keep this place so clean. It's just unbelievable because 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.160 you're in a big city, but it is pristine and 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.120 you can argue, you know, the government the way it 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.000 is here and all that stuff, but I don't care. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.600 I'm putting all that aside. Like still they have figured 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:11.200 out somehow in twenty nineteen, with twenty four million people 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.760 to keep the streets clean. The flowers were like, I mean, 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.480 I couldn't believe that just a regular street where you're 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:23.600 driving was so nice. Now let's compare that to Los Angeles, 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.720 where I always say that the big city has given 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.760 up on the people because you drive in La even 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.200 Sunset Boulevard, which is a street that is like the 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:35.000 nicest street in the world. I mean, who doesn't know 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.920 Sunset Boulevard or Hollywood Boulevard and you drive down them 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.400 and there's trash, everywhere. I mean, you know the problem 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:42.880 in LA it's really bad. I mean it's trash everywhere. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.640 The streets, you're not maintained, nothing's maintained. And so to 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:51.320 see a city like this that has somehow figured it out. 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.200 And I'm not just singling out LA. I mean New 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.320 York City, same thing, a lot of this. It's just 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:59.480 thirty San Francisco. I don't even want to start on 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.600 that one. And that's like the dirtiest city I've ever 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.639 seen at this point. So what is it about America? 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.240 And again, and you know, don't call me like a 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.440 China lover. I mean, look at Tokyo, Japan, same thing, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.800 huge city it is. I would eat my lunch off 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.680 the streets in Tokyo. It's that clean. For a yeah, 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.399 I wouldn't do that. But my point is, like it's part. 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.679 Of Sunset that I was saying, But there's that one 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.160 part of Sunset, Well that's in West Hollywood, which. 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:27.680 Is part of LA. So like they figured something out. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:30.400 You go to the Hills, Beverly Hills, you go through 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.320 the streets there, they're perfect. You go through West Hollywood, 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.080 they're perfect. You go to Santa Monica. It starts you know. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:37.800 I mean some areas of Santa Monica could be a 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:40.840 little dicey, but it's it's pretty clean compared to its 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:44.520 LA at large, So city of Los Angeles, you know, 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.000 bring your people out here to China and see how 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:49.880 it works in Shanghai. How do they have all these 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.800 people and somehow they keep the place clean because LA 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.040 we can't seem to figure that out, and it'd be 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.240 nice if we could. The other thing I noticed about 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.920 the people here is that everything is mobile, Like everything 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.600 is done on your phone. We can't get I've I've 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:07.680 been talking about QR codes literally for fifteen years talking 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.920 about technology. I still can't get the average person to 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.040 scan a QR code. Here in China, everything is scan 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:17.320 this QR code, you can pay, scan this we Chat 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:19.760 you can do payment. Everything's through we Chat, this app 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:22.919 that's kind of like their messaging app basically, but it 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:27.359 does everything, does everything. So I mean, it's just funny that, 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:34.800 like somehow it's America is very forward facing. Yeah, Like 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.480 we're very old school in a lot of like weird ways, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.160 like with this whole mobile payment thing, like people are 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.439 you know, like mobile payments and tap to pay have 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.840 been a thing in other countries for like years. Yeah, 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:46.960 and like somehow in the US, like people are still 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.679 hesitant to use tap to pay or like mobile payment. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.560 Venmo is taken off, but I'm not a big fan 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:57.760 of that. So right anyway, right, all right, I feel 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.240 I sound like I'm moving to China. 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:00.600 I know you're gonna move. 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.000 I just bought an apartment here, So okay. 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:04.680